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    Magazines? I got all my tips from my uncle that worked at Nintendo.
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    In fairness, a lot of what Global does is offscreen. It's strongly implied that he is behind a lot of what goes right, and explicitly stated he's behind the move towards making peace with the zentradi(accepting refugees, making a large production out of Max and Millia's wedding). And the fold accident wasn't his fault. That was a side effect of the boobytrap(as was the gravity controller failure). That said, he still saved his ship and the city around it from complete destruction. And he WAS sort of ordered to take an undercrewed and untested ship into combat. Among the things I wish Macross had time for in it's original run, giving Global some development is among them. There's implications he's a lot deeper than the show ever has a chance to show us.
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    Oh, that's hilarious. He doesn't even have two joysticks. He has two THROTTLES. Those are both one-axis inputs as near as I can tell.
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    Oh, I've made encyclopedia volumes of text about things not worth thinking about. You're in good company.
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    In honesty, I don't think motion-tracking is really all that realistic. The vehicle may be humanoid, but it's NOT a human body. The mass distribution is all way off from what your brain expects, and there's no real way to feed information into your inner ear, so your sense of balance is all totally off. Also, it'd be tiring. That said, Frontier DID have motion capture control. FMP is an interesting example, actually. There's a lot of thought put into how an arm slave works. And they take the time to note that the motion capture system they use ISN'T an intuitive and natural control scheme. It takes a lot of training to be any good with an arm slave, and learning to not use natural human movements to control a machine is an important part of it. Yes, a trained pilot can exert amazing levels of control over his machine thanks to the interface, but it takes a lot of experience to get there, and an untrained pilot is a danger to themselves and everyone around them. Also, much of the secondary controls in FMP are relegated to voice commands or automation because the pilot's hands are occupied 100% of the time. Which is a serious drawback to motion-tracking control systems. G Gundam is Dragon Ball Z with robots. It doesn't have to make sense.
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    In fairness, Hikaru's a dumb teenager here. It's more painful in the postwar arc because he's matured a lot and SHOULD know better(though he's STILL a teenager). As far as not getting busted back down to the bottom... It's worth considering that the Macross is in extraordinary circumstances. The majority of the Macross' Valks came from Prometheus, and thus the vast majority of their trained pilots sucked vacuuum after the space fold. They were trapped behind enemy lines with an aircraft carrier full of planes and no men to fly them. And attrition was harsh. They do note in the show that people are being promoted ridiculously fast, and people who ought not be flying at all are being put in a chair and pointed towards the nearest zentradi deployment. They simply needed pilots too much to care about proper training and discipline. From that perspective, I reckon that he had a LOT of leeway that wouldn't be extended to anyone under normal circumstances simply because he knew how to fly, how to fight, and how to survive. There wasn't a replacement pilot available, and they needed him flying more than they needed him behaving. So they just roll their eyes when he talks back to his superiors, turn a blind eye when he wrecks a prototype, and generally dance around the fact that he ought to be grounded for his foolishness, because some 70% of their force shouldn't be flying missions. ... Heck, he's sixteen when he enlists. I'm not entirely sure it was LEGAL for him to be in the military.
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    I think he said "I ship SherylXRanka"
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    Gotta glitch through! YEAH!
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    So Best Buy apparently has the PSTV for twenty bucks. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-ps-tv-hardware-vte1001-multi/6731028.p?id=1219238018522 If anyone needs another box hanging from their television, well, the price is right.
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    As it should. Bad guys always get all the cool stuff.
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    But... Steeljaw wasn't in the Spiderman crossover. I'm confused!
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    I was going to blame the technical limitations that saw a lot of other things watered down in the port from MSX to NES, but it seems like they simply replaced the image of Metal Gear with that of a supercomputer. The actual fight is almost identical. My assumption is that they decided if make the titular mech couldn't be more than simple window dressing, it was better to not include it at all and avoid getting anyone's hopes up. Because you don't FIGHT the Metal Gear in the MSX version. You plant bombs on an unmanned and inactive Metal Gear until it blows up. And somehow, blowing Metal Gear up activates the base's self-destruct sequence. There's at least a degree of logic to the base's computer activating the self-destruct when it explodes(though it really shouldn't take near as many bombs to do). Obviously, they were WRONG, and people wanted to at least SEE the robot they were sent to destroy. But... there's a logic there. Now, of course, Snake's Revenge is a totally different GAME to Metal Gear 2. But they did preserve the presence of a Metal Gear in it! (Sorta. Kinda. Almost. Maybe.)
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    There's no u in froot.
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    Antimatter reaction bombs are later. At Zero's point in the timeline, they're fusion weapons.
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    Shockwave remains so sexy, I still really hope a version in OG toy colors comes out. I really like the new gunbarrel assembly. The sort of flower-blossoming articulation is cool as heck. Ah, so it's an homage to the prototype then? In seriousness, of all the issues that Powermaster Prime had, the big super head that did nothing bugged me more than all the lack of articulation or fists sticking out of the trailer did.
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    It's awesome and manly, but I think his TV series death carries more weight. In fairness, Kakizaki's barely a PERSON in DYRL. In both cases, though, he bites it through no fault of his own. Just wrong place, wrong time. That's DEFINITELY a nice touch. I think they actually reclaimed the reguld that Hikaru, Max, Misa, and Kakizaki stole to escape from the zentradi fleet. It's the only reason I can think of for there to be a reguld parked in the Macross, though that raises the question of how they gained access to it..
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    Any sufficiently high velocity will do it, actually. Black holes are just a really good place to get a really high velocity(provided you don't care about minor details like surviving the experience). Speed on the freeway, you'll live longer. Maybe five seconds total, but longer is longer!
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    Excellent point. I was thinking too much about the base costs and not the human element.
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    Lost Two Years is still on my reading list. I just haven't sat down to do any proper reading in a while.
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    I'm still surprised they haven't tried to remake Titanic yet.
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    Naw, it wasn't the show's word choice. They don't say what it is that I noticed. We were talking about Misa's cleaning and I called it an apartment, then immediately corrected to house as his residence(though small) was an independent, freestanding building. I suppose it's even entirely possible it's just really luxurious barracks. Like I said, there's no shortage of freely-available land in the area. You could make the barracks about as sprawling as you wanted. I just... can't really figure out a scenario where rental properties make sense when there's so much land available. And construction costs should be depressed from a surplus of zentradi laborers. I can't imagine a scenario where a large zentradi DOESN'T make construction cheaper.
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    Got to the end of the world in my rewatch. Zentradi bombardment starts and there's several scenes of the world getting wrecked, including one of a flower shop and a little girl getting vaporized. Having seen that scene a bajillion times in the years since Robotech first aired when I was a wee laddie, I'm more or less unfazed by it. One of the folks I'm watching it with is not particularly familiar with the show, and exclaimed "God DAMN!" when it happened. He was apparently expecting a more sanitized armageddon, as one tends to in these things. Not explicit examples of actual people being wiped from existence. It's good to have a fresh pair of eyes to remind me about some of the things I take for granted. Like exactly how dark that is if you haven't seen it on and off pretty regularly ever since you were old enough to talk. I'm also reminded I really like the post-war arc for the way it shorts out "they all lived happily ever after" and showcases the problems zentradi have integrating into human society. We're only two episodes into it, so we've not yet gotten to the part where Minmay attempts to destroy Hikaru's life. But I've typed a good wall of text about THAT in the past, so it doesn't bear repeating. We DID contemplate the cost of real estate in the post-apocalypse while watching Misa clean Hikaru's house, though(due to an accidental use of the word "apartment"). Figured it ought to be cheap since there's no shortage of available land. While traditional construction resources are in short supply, there's more metal than anyone could want just laying around and the Macross seems able to fabricate a good facsimile of more-conventional materials given how many times they rebuilt Macross City inside the ship. And thus, homeownership should be easily attainable and there's no reason for apartments to exist.
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    Time to get the multimonitor setups rigged again.t I don't care if this Darius game isn't designed for it! It isn't Darius without a ludicrously long display!
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    Not even a zipper there. It's like, the one part of the outfit that ISN'T a zipper, and it'd be a justifiable aesthetic feature there.
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    I did avoid getting too far into the abuse of open-source thing, since it's tangental to the core issues. The GPD kinda reminds me of the Pandora, just without a keyboard and with significantly less-dated hardware. (I'm hoping the successor, Pyra, is far less of a fiasco than the Pandora turned out to be. Because the Pandora was awesome, until everything went wrong. )
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