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  1. JB0
    HAHAHAHAHAHA! Man, the idea that they actually ship Transformers to stores. You're a funny guy.
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    I still can't be bothered to worry about canonicity. Maybe it's my Star Trek background, but I only care if iy's a good story, which canon has nothing to do with.
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    Pretty much all I remember of it is the giant spaceship that had the Voyager probe in it.
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    The shoulder pipe snakes? I have no idea, honestly.
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    And without the X-Wing books, we'd still call every droid by serial number. Seriously, it's rather shocking how fast writers started giving droids nicknames after Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron came out. Overnight EVERY droid got a name.
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    COWABUNGA!
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    Probably turn him into a gun and point him at the dog while making laser noises with my mouth.
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    You should really be sad. There's some great stories in there, and I think they're almost all out of print now. Instead of things like X-Wing: Wraith Squadron, you got... The Phantom Menace.
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    For Link to the Past Link... his eyes are too big and the Master Sword is way off-model. His shield is not so much off-model as it is a completely different thing. Dug the Super Nintendo manual out to prove to myself I wasn't crazy. Then hunted up some scans of the japanese manual to check if this is just an east-side/west-side thing. They use the same art, so... I'm not saying it's a bad figure. I quite like it. I'm just saying that it's not Zelda 3's Link.
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    In fairness, what's he gonna do as a gun? The cartoon went to great lengths to find a reason for someone else to fire him pretty often. That's hard to do in a video game, really.
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    I'm toy-biased, so to me he ALWAYS had little feet.
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    I thought perfect transformation was, by definition, screen-accurate transformation. Which is not to say that I don't like the idea of reworking him so everything is PART of him. Loose parts are lost parts! I'm just not sure how you define "perfect" in this case.
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    This is what they call "damning with faint praise."And worst or not, it's definitely the most tortured production. Cast literaly didn't know what soript they were shooting until the day of the shoot in many scenes.
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    Holo fits a different niche, really. Augmented reality and virtual reality aren't in direct competition, as I see it. Sony has to overcome the Rift hype. Or steal it for themselves. That's their big roadbump.
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    That will depend on what it works with, and how well it does the job. I very rarely commit to buying things sight unseen with no real information to go on. Get back to me once it is actually available and there's some real reviews. While all we have to go on is paid promotional pieces masquerading as journalism and straight-up rewordings of press releases, all I know is Sony wants me to buy it, which is a lot like telling me water is wet. It's true, but not meaningful information. But right now, if I get a VR headset, one for my PC makes more sense.
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    Pretty good movie. Very realistic, for the most part, with a likable star and a good focus on aesthetics and hard science. (The computers are, as always, way too flashy and take a long time to display simple text files because "sweet animation for every letter", and they put the Vehicle Assembly Building in Houston instead of Florida for SOME REASON) Aesthetically speaking, I am particularly fond of the Ares space suits. And the Ares logo, which draws blatant inspiration from NASA's "worm" logo of the 80s(AKA the good logo). The iconic upside-down-V-as-A warms my heart every time I see it. I have not read the book yet, but it is on my short list of things to do.
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    Someone's livin' the dream. Personally, I don't want it without a young Carrie Fisher in it. But to each his own.
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    All makes sense from a professional standpoint. I was looking at it from the home user perspective. I'm curious why not use the integrated graphics. I'd figure most anything that takes out CPU-integral graphics would also take out the CPU itself, so it seems like a winner to me, unless it's for hardware consistency. Or is this a case of "we have a text terminal, graphics are for chumps"? Which is, again, a thing that makes sense. I have had motherboards where PART of the IO chip failed. Actually, I lost the keyboard and mouse ports, but still had everything else. This was a socket 7 board, so that was kind of a catastrophic failure. Didn't matter if the hard drive controller worked fine, I couldn't DO anything with it. And yeah, good luck finding a keyboard interface card to fix THAT.
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    That it sure is a VR headset.
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    Apparently, the Takara MP Shockwave has the barrel combine with the gun mode display stand to form a backpack.
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    Legs are huge. Head is super squat, eye is too small and recessed too far back. It's... pretty wrong. The backpack is WAY too busy. Even ignoring the big transparent purple piece sticking out, it looks like he forgot to put his access plates on when he got up in the morning. The back half of the lasergun mode is wonky as all get-out, and the gun lacks a trigger entirely. While not actually a sculpt issue... dear Primus that purple is a menace. Shockwave is DARK purple, not Barbie Fun House Purple. Note that I am extremely toy-biased on Shockwave's looks.
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    You know, I've thought before it'd be great to make the entire ATX backplane out of little lego blocks. Just run some PCIE lanes back there, and start snapping bricks on. Heck, even shifting to mini-PCIE cards for most purposes would be awesome. There's not really a good reason for us to be using the same expansion card form factor that we used in 1981 for the most part. Actually, we're shifting back towards integrated graphics for everything that isn't a gaming build. Intel builds a quite functional graphics chip into almost every processor they make these days. Incidentally, the reason IBM didn't make heavy use of integrated peripherals originally was reliability concerns with the parts of the era. And, of course, it kind of caused problems because the 5150 only had 5 slots, and any sort of functional machine was using ALL OF THEM. As reliability went up, and component size went down, we started seeing more integral peripherals(starting with serial ports and disk controllers). Now we're at a point where there simply isn't enough IO on offer to hook up everything people want, so you have to choose between more USB3 or more SATA or a second graphics card... you know what, if you have multiple graphics cards you deserve to suffer. Using multiple cards to render one screen is stupid and has been for a long time and you can quote me on that.
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    It's a little odd, but it makes me smile. And we can add Shockwave carrying a laser gun that looks like him to the list.
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    Well, PCIE lanes don't always go to PCIE slots. Interfaces for onboard controllers wire to PCIE, as does an M.2 SSD slot. And I would LOVE to see boards sporting M.2 become the standard.
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    It is. And the obvious solution is to not just add enough PCIE lanes to cover current usage, but to add WAY MORE PCIE lanes. I'm actually serious here. We need motherboards with far more PCIE lanes than they have, though Intel's newest chipsets go someway towards alleviating the situation.
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