Jump to content

JB0

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    13272

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by JB0

  1. JB0
    That's fair, and it is funny. (And everyone's spent the decades since wondering how robots even have brothers...) I didn't actually mean to be a wet blanket by pointing out the origin. It just happened.
  2. JB0
    In fairness, that wasn't the fandom's idea. It is part of the original toy bios, and I think was referenced in the comics. The weird part is how Top Spin and Twin Twist became brothers. I guess if you're part of a two-man subline people are gonna make reasons up.
  3. JB0
    That's... disappointing. C'mon, Hasbro, you can color-match at least a little better than that.
  4. JB0
    You don't mentioneit in your review, so I assume the yellow paint and plastic match better in person than they do under the camera flash?
  5. JB0
    Destroying them doesn't seem to have been on their mind, if Delta's any indication. Build a battleship that can brainwash a galaxy, decide it is a bad idea, then sink it in fold space and leave the key in plain sight instead of "fill every open space in the thing with reaction weapons and drop the radioactive dust left over down a black hole". I think the protoculture operated under the belief that it was better to have a doomsday weapon and not need one than need a doomsday weapon and not have one.
  6. JB0
    Heads to the toilet shouting "LISTEN TO MY BOWELS!!! No, seriously. I had all-you-can-eat ghost pepper enchiladas last night, and it was a mistake."
  7. JB0
    That does explain nicely why they were wasting time on an uninhabitable ice planet. "Entropy control field" sounds like something that is useful as hell as well as, well, the kind of physics-breaking crap one would need to seal up something like the protodeviln.
  8. JB0
    I suspect the first thing the protoculture remnant would tell them is "Look, when you find an inhospitable planet that seems like it couldn't be trying harder to keep you out if it was designed to, IT IS BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WAS DESIGNED TO SO LEAVE IT ALONE! THE FOLD FAULTS AND TIME RIFTS ARE THERE FOR A GOOD REASON!"
  9. JB0
    I think an armature would only make things worse, personally. It would not have changed the relationship between the trunk and the rest of the toys, and would've made actually maneuvering it into place more difficult. It would actually be exactly the kind of thing I was threatening to start removing the other day, destructively if necessary, as it only thinly disguises something being completely detached and reattached while making the actual process of doing so harder. Would it be better if the trunk was actually related to the rest of the parts around it in both modes? Absolutely, I am 100% for that, and think this was a bit of an engineering failure in that regard(though I recognize the toys are designed to strict material and labor budgets). But sticking it on a scorpion tail and shouting "pay no attention to the legos behind this curtain" doesn't improve life or aesthetics. If the budget for more plastic and hinge pins exists, I'd rather it go into making the trunk fold flat on the back(I say, as if I haven't put it on backwards and flipped it up so his head is hooded by the trunk like he's some sort of Runabout repaint). Tangentally, the trunk is actually a rather beefy piece of plastic. I'm surprised how much is in the block where the pegs all connect, and wonder if there wasn't a more complex plan originally. In less controversial takes, I wish they had printed his autobot logo on the car's roof instead of the hood. That way it would be on his chest in robot mode instead of folded away inside his body.
  10. JB0
    So I found a Cliffjumper on the shelf and figured "Why not?" I wish he could tilt his head back. Big eff-off cannon with a bipod, he should be able to go prone with it. He snaps together impressively well in car mode. Possibly too well, I was uncomfortable with the force I had to put on some parts the first time. But most importantly... He can do this. The bipod makes it look like the cannon is firmly affixed in multiple places instead of loosely affixed one place, and while the back is not really built to BE a titan master seat, it seems to do the job better than most stuff that WAS meant for it. (Weapon fire courtesy of your friendly neighborhood SkyLynx)
  11. JB0
    Ah, but modern valks have inertial dampers, so they can whip the head turret around all they want! The time has come for Mazinger-style head-cockpits to make a comeback!
  12. JB0
    I... kinda want Thunderhowl just for the sword and lightning effect. Okay, I also think he's kinda neat-looking in spite of his flaws. Though his puppy mode seems like they were making an alligator and then changed their mind and threw a wolf head onto a gator.
  13. JB0
    A fantastic actor all around. Most actors would be glad to have a quarter of his career.
  14. JB0
    Are launch games ever worth a damn?
  15. JB0
    And early in Kirk's career some vessels just used lithium crystals!
  16. JB0
    Raytracing will be universal going forward. AMD supports the DirectX 12 Ultimate raytracing implementation, which MS basically copied from the nVidia implementation. Everything SHOULD "just work" on either company's hardware right now, but I would not be surprised if some current games only enable the feature if they see an RTX card. AMD's announced solution for fancy upscaling is called "Super Resolution". It is essentially the same thing as DLSS(not precisely the same implementation, but it uses a similar process to accomplish the same end goal). And I still think that using a neural network to upscale an image is a stupid gimmick that only exists because nVidia had to justify including a huge block of hardware on the RTX2K chips that was useless for graphics rendering.
  17. JB0
    Hopefully, they let Xilinx keep doing what they're doing instead of screwing it up like Intel did with Alterra.
  18. JB0
    BIG NAVI HYPE! I am glad to see AMD's targetting the top end this time.
  19. JB0
    "You can still fight when you're drunk!" "Great. Another graduate of Roy Focker Memorial Combat School."
  20. JB0
    Isn't that just a paler version of the last Counter/Punch? Was hoping it would at least be a partial redesign, like maybe one with ankles. Color me disappointed.
  21. JB0
    That is all I have to contribute.
  22. JB0
    That might go poorly, since the Discovery isn't a Gunstar.
  23. JB0
    Hooray!
  24. JB0
    And I've refrained from grumbling about the robot mode*, because I DO see them putting a lot of effort into achieving a goal there and recognize it is the bot mode a lot of people want. It's not my Starscream, but it is definitely someone's Starscream. The jet is just sad though. It isn't toy-accurate, toon-accurate, or real world-accurate, and it seems to be purely due to lack of care. *Except for the double-canopy. I totally laughed at that. The backpack's completely unnecessary, but so much better than I expected that I'm actually giving TakaraTomy points for it.
  25. JB0
    They could all combine into a Picard-Voltron, with a backbone made of Picards! I'm sorry, I'll see myself out.
×
×
  • Create New...