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    I just barely dodged being stuck with my high school nom de plume, "Jack Daniels". I thought it was hilarious at the time for some reason.
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    Dark Forces used LucasArts in-house JEDI engine. It is very very far past what Wolfenstein 3D was capable of, and even a good deal ahead of Doom. JEDI is roughly analogous to the BUILD engine used in Duke Nukem 3D, though the two have diffrent strengths and weaknesses.
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    Dark Forces was the bomb. Dear Disney: BRING BACK KYLE KATARN! Sincerely: An old fart.
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    I punched a dinosaur to death once in Star Wars.
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    In before someone gets rid of the dirt and repaints the head for a Leader-1 custom. (Yeah, yeah, wrong jet. I know.)
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    The only FarCry I've played is Blood Dragon.
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    At least they're being honest about their recent work?
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    I hope in true inept fashion, the big unveil is the Back to the Future Transformer that sold out in seconds a week ago.
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    Oooh. That's very tempting.
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    Oh my, that's adorable.
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    I am just assuming this Starscream toy will be slavishly toon-accurate, omitting any detail that would be visually interesting... And that it will nonetheless be based on his appearance in the most toy-accurate episode they can find, so his entire robot torso will just be hangin' out on the underside of the plane like the best toy engineering 1983 had to offer.
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    Don't forget how they were hyping the show as having Star Trek's "first black female captain", the press kept insisting that meant both first black captain and first female captain, the studio did NOTHING to correct that misperception, and Sisko and Janeway fans just seethed in rage(not that either of them was technically first either).
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    I just love this picture. It implies that Menasor doesn't so much transform as he does "dress himself", and it makes me smile to imagine him picking up his shirtsleevebots and putting them on.
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    They copied the X-Wing books, and did it badly.
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    Present company excepted, of course.
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    As I've said before, I didn't really want more George Lucas movies either. But I think the prequel trilogy was better than the sequel trilogy because, as bad as it was, it was the movies someone actually wanted to make. There was a passion there. A gravely misguided passion, but passion nonetheless. The Disney films are the movies that some accountants armed with focus group studies calculated would check all the boxes for a maximal return on investment. The have no heart, no soul. They aren't the movies ANYONE wanted to make.
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    They also had no plan for sequels. They wrote ONE film, with little more guidance than "include some plot hooks we can latch into when we start writing the sequel next year." And no one across the hall in the Marvel Studios division ever leaned out the door and shouted "Hey, writing three movies at the same time makes it a lot easier to generate a coherent narrative." I'm not. My overriding thought coming out of the theater was "That felt more like Star Wars than Star Trek ." Knowing that they were trying to do exactly that leaves me thoroughly unsurprised.
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    They actually flew through a rift in spacetime, arrived hundreds of thousands of years in the past, and became the original founders of the Protoculture empire.
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    Me three. I... Wait, I've been deemed an "essential worker" and I've been too busy and stressed to care about anime and games.
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    I mean, isn't that basically a rule of acquisition already? "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Sounds a lot to me like "The riskier the road, the greater the profit". Nog is a man of two worlds, and I think he can straddle the line between Starfleet-acceptable and Ferengi-approved. Also, how the heck is a Trek licenseholder even ALLOWED to "crowdsource" the design of an Enterprise? I would think CBS or Paramount or Star Trek Licensing LLC or whoever the hell owns the brand these days would be ADAMANT about controlling with the Enterprise looks like.
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    I'm okay with taking parts off or swapping them around sometimes*, but this is a lazy half-butted way to do it. You don't just toss half the friggin' car aside and go "there, transformation finished" *I'm actually harsher on scorpion-tail assemblies that exist only so the part you're swapping is never technically detached. They get in the way and do not meaningfully change the part's relationship with the rest of the toy.
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    A VF-0 with YF-25 engines... that can't be good for the airframe, or anything attached to or contained within it.
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    NO ONE deserves to be Quamzin's boss.
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    I thought Delta was "okay" until the funeral. Until that point I thought they'd overpromised and underdelivered, but it was still kinda interesting. But after that it went into a holding pattern for several episodes, with an episode consisting almost entirely of exposition summarizing the franchise to date(badly), and I just completely lost interest. ... But I still insist that Lady M is Doctor Chiba!
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    I remember watching this show, but all I remember of it is "space elves in spandex".
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