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    You type really well for a newborn.
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    It's the hair. How can the embodiment of greed NOT have gold hair?
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    Debatably. There's an argument to be made that atmosphere is explicitly part of a planet.But ejection inside a pressurized space ship behaves as if it were In atmosphere, so it's a moot point.
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    You and me both.
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    But Transformers was awful.
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    Oh, you're saying he's a Spacetrooper!
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    I think it's probably a bad sign. If the fan runs faster than other fans, that'd be a good reason, but I'd be inclined to replace it. But as for the search... try alternate approaches. Search for "hot electric motor" or something.
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    Micheal Bay's Transformers raped my childhood, destroyed my life, and then, when I had nothing left to give, they decapitated my body!
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    I just want to note that Space Brick carrying a Bomb Pop sword is canon for me.
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    Hikaru ejected after Misa shot him down. in the episode before Phantasm and the magic bicycle.
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    He could be reprising his role as Hercules, son of Zeus. THAT would be an interesting zombie movie.
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    They can use a transforming jetplane, they can probably even CALL it a Valkyrie(though they'd want to call it a Veritech™), they just can't use any of the canon Macross designs(not that it stopped the Robotech comic books). And, well... Hollywood was never going to use a canon Macross design anyways. If they use something that looks like it could actually fly, I'll be surprised enough.
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    So you're saying Char should fly a red AT-AT? ... I'd actually pay good money to see that. That's a pretty awesome movie. The video game detailing on the instrument panels were a particularly nice touch.
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    That's awesome. And the little Noise accessory is a nice touch. ... I think they had fun with that whole line. Chris and Tsubasa both have a "coughing up blood" face that seems just a tad out of place on a toy with those proportions. Hibiki gets a berserker face that aaaactually kinda creeps me out. Chris renders best in Nendoroid, though. (and I'm sure it annoys her)
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    This. Hell, given their sterling record adapting AMERICAN franchises.
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    Needs more photovoltaic light&sound!
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    Far as I know, it never got a Windows port.
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    Intentionally. Centauri was rewritten after they got Robert Preston to make it more like his role in Music Man.
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    But you need a separate memcard to do it with a Vita, or a willingness to reformat the existing one.
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    Muramasa, if for some reason you skipped the Wii version. Apparently, Sayonara Umihara Kawase is getting a Vita version. That's a strong argument, too. Yeah, that's the biggest problem with the Vita in general. Stupid expensive proprietary memcards. Hell, Memory Stick was bad enough, but at least large enough to fit a MicroSD adapter into the slot. Personally, I think the Vita should've had HDMI out built in. There's a lot of pins in the charge port on the mark 1, I'm all but certain some of them provide video out. Just no hardware was ever provided to enable it. Failing that... Vita->PS3/4 streaming. Hell, build the Vita chipset INTO the PS4. PS4 already has an ARM coprocessor, splurge a little and make it Vita-compatible. Add a card slot, so you can use Vita memcards and game cards. Streaming is for chumps.
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    Needs more battery-operated light&sound lasers.
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    I suppose that depends on how much you want the ability to play most Vita games on a large screen. It's really fixing a problem that should never have existed, given (most revisions of) the PSP had TV-out, and the Vita had more than enough IO pins for a mini-HDMI connector.
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    And Seth Rogan! I find it interesting that the writer retained the rights. That doesn't sound like Hollywood's usual style.
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    Seconded!
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    Maybe I should, too. But I really don't want to... Keep in mind, though, that "system" does not necessarily mean "discrete hardware unit", though that is the common usage in the modern day. And in the mainframe era, you WOULD have accounting programs and games running alongside each other on the same computer. One person would be running their spreadsheets while someone on the other side of the building was playing Trek on the same computer. The personal computer was just starting to come into it's own. What networking there was was very slow, and typically limited to terminal interactions, which was basically having a keyboard and display screen on a REALLY LONG extension cord. While you could use a PC with terminal emulation software, it was kind of a waste of the PC's power. Mainframe and minicomputer manufacturers didn't really think they were going to be a thing, and were taken somewhat by surprise. Those that made their own PCs intentionally crippled the PCs to protect their more lucrative businesses, completely missing that if they could build it, someone else could too. I know for a fact that IBM and TI did that, and both were completely shocked when their minicomputer businesses were devastated by PCs. Tron did not exist in a vacuum. Many of these ideas were out there already, they just weren't feasible yet. Arthur C. Clarke proposed a global network of communication satellites in 1945, over a decade before Sputnik I. Not in a science-fiction book, but as a direct proposal for postwar uses of WW2 rocket technology. He figured in the far future, maybe half a century, we'd be able to put enough satellite hardware in the air to have full coverage of the entire globe. The geostationary orbit he proposed is now sometimes referred to as a Clarke orbit. That we did not achieve this goal for several decades doesn't mean no one dreamed of it. The same is true of computers. The scene in Tron Legacy where Sam is explaining WiFi to Kevin and he's just "I thought of that back in the 80s!" is not surprising. What would be surprising is if Flynn was the ONLY person thinking of that. But yeah, Win95 really pushed computers into the mainstream. MS launched a HUGE ad campaign, and marketed far outside of traditional computing outlets. It paid off very well for them. Apple borrowed the same play several years later when they launched the iPod, and their marketing outside of the traditional computing outlets that the MP3 player market had been targeting made the iPod a huge success... once they didn't require a Macintosh to use. Yeah. It's a relatively fresh variation on a very old theme. Also, I think the in the human body one was Amazing Voyage. ButIMDB says it was Fantastic Voyage. Yeah, that's pretty much what happens. It's a pretty fun movie.
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