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  1. JB0
    I saw it in this thread, actually. Understandably easy to miss given we're in a megathread. It was sourced from Macross Chronicle originally. It isn't all about raw performance, it is about how it FEELS. Remember that one of the things Isamu wanted was the YF-19's original flight control software... let's ignore that this software was responsible for multiple test-pilot deaths, and deemed so completely unsalvagable that it was thrown out and replaced with a reworked version of the VF-11 code. It offered the feel that Isamu wanted.
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    It is totally official. He gave Neumann his entire UN Spacey retirement fund and his life savings to get a custom VF-19 that is close in configuration to the YF-19 he tested/saved the world with. Because no plane he's been in since has been even remotely as fun to fly. This was after he tried and failed to buy an entire export-restricted VF-19 one piece at a time. He's lucky Neumann noticed before the UNS did. I love Isamu. (Neumann got around the export restriction by declaring Isamu's custom VF-19 to be a testbed for a VF-19 modernization program, and Isamu the test pilot for the program. No, Isamu's not getting a paycheck for his testpilot services.)
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    Yup. I firmly believe he is being 100% truthful when he says luck is one of his skills. He knows fortune smiles upon him, and does crazy things because of it. ... What WAS the official government explanation for what he was doing there, anyways? Or did they just say "this guy saved you all from the crazy computer, please don't ask questions because he can't hear you over ths noise ALL THESE MEDALS MAKE!"
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    Also the fact that he didn't actually set out to stop Sharon Apple, and everyone knew it. He set out to wreck the unveiling and official adoption of the Ghost X9. Presumably by blowing it up and embarrassing everyone talking up how much better than a manned fighter it would be. His greatest skill, luck, dropped something really heroic to blow up into his path and saved his bacon.
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    Which is just so Isamu. Attempt to commit minor treason just so he can fly his favorite plane ever, and then actually get away with it.
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    Under hilariously unique circumstances.
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    Fair enough.
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    Why wait? It has been on sale for years.
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    Not gonna lie, I'd watch it.
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    I think the PS5 looks cool. The XBSX is literally just a gray box. I might pick one up eventually.
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    Transformers X Stealth. Make it happen, Hasbro! *runs away*
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    I thought they were okay. I probably wouldn't have bought them if I hadn't already decided I wanted to attach them to Combiner Wars Sky Lynx. I skipped Grimlock because he was a steaming turd.
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    "A fantastic read. 5 out of 5!" I wonder how much they paid to get that review.
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    No, it can't be! It is merely on hiatus due to the pandemic! I have to know what happens next time in Sad Dana and the 30-Foot Zombies!
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    Didn't ATGames already do that like six times?
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    Sega has you covered on that front. I thought they were shitposting, as they are known to do. But no, they are actually selling a replica screen magnifier to go on their replica Game Gear. Sega gonna Sega.
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    Honestly, I think this is more like the keychain LCD games from the turn of the century than anything else. It isn't meant to be a great game platform, it is a cute little nostalgia piece.
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    Needs a tiny TV tuner cartridge.
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    Or a black wall with purple lightning.
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    Like G Gundam. Best entry in the franchise.
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    Especially when they spent ten of those twenty-six episodes in a holding pattern just twiddling their thumbs instead of advancing or developing anything.
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    Russia's upset that we won't be paying their grasping markups anymore. They liked being the only way to get to space. They shot off a press release wensday complaining about SpaceX and NASA firing rockets off too cheaply, and how they were being forced to reduce Soyuz bills by 30% to compete.
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    It is a step forward from how crappy things have been. We're putting men into orbit instead of asking the russians to put men in orbit for us. I was in kindergarten when Challenger blew up. I was unaware this had happened at the time. It might've affected my desire to be an astronaut.
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    Ground landings are harder, no pun intended. You have narrower re-entry windows to hit a viable landing site, and actually setting down safely is much more complicated. There is no need to take on the added challenge if you don't have to. I'm not sure, but I think there are also weight advantages. You know, I thought the Falcon rockets used a different fuel than the Saturn V, but... nope, they both burn kerosene and liquid oxygen in the first stage. I guess it is just the difference in how much they're burning. The Space Shuttle most of the soot was from the solid rocket boosters. The main engines on the shuttle burned liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, which is VERY clean-burning. But the solid rocket boosters... eeesh. The actual fuel in those was ammonium perchlorate and aluminum powder, but they were about twelve percent synthetic rubber. They were almost literally burning tires. In conclusion: Heck yeah, NASA isn't a bunch of overglorified hitchhikers anymore!
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    Do the planes turn into robots? Because we're dangerously close to the perfect anime.
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