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  1. JB0
    Perhaps Kawamori's MOST iconic design, however, is Battle Convoy. Though admittedly he was part of a team, and that one wasn't JUST his in the way the variable fighters are. But the Transformers team may not want to work with him these days, given how upset the fanbase was over MP Starscream. ALSO! Basara Prime should be a headmaster! I want a tiny Basara that becomes a robot head! ... Actually, scratch that. I'd make him a JP-style Powermaster, have him do the Ginrai thing, write lore connecting chokon power to spiritia, and REALLY make a confusing mess of this entire concept.
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    Of course, right now we don't know how the 5070 performs, so we can't really sa* how much of an upgrade it is. We know how nVidia claims it performs, but manufacturer claims in this industry range from "optimistic" to "bald-faced lies". And personally, nVidia leans a bit strongly towards the latter for my tastes. I personally believe their "5070 performs like a 4090" claim is "with the 4090 rendering every frame at 3840x2160 resolution while the 5070 upscales from 1920x1080 and does three frames of motion interpolation for every frame it renders"... or just "4090 DLSS off vs 5070 DLSS Performance" if you'd prefer to conceal the reality with marketing buzzwords.
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    Basara Prime is the obvious marketing decision, but I'm still disappointed given Armada Starscream is RIGHT THERE. He basically already has sound boosters in the design, even!
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    It is weird to me that Flashback 2012 is okay but SDF and DYRL aren't.
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    I think the official answer is overtechnology makes them durable enough that it doesn't matter. Battroid mode in particular is noted to be more durable due to having spare juice from the reactors to power the very hungry energy-converting armor systems that make the machine MUCH more durable. (Historically, this isn't active in fighter mode since the engines are busy throwing the plane forward and have less power available, hence why they can beat on a battroid all day but a fighter folds like paper-mache)
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    I just wish they'd figured out this was d ad two years ago and not spent... however much money and manpower has gone into it since the trouble started.
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    CED is wild tech. But yeah, there's relatively little hardware, and the styluses haven't been made for decades. The format isn't completely unplayable yet, but it is well on its way. YouPotato Technology Connections did a five-part documentary about the format and it's history because there was just slightly too much information to fit into one episode... and slightly too much information to fit into the second episode, and slightly too muck information to fit in the third... and his thirty-minute swim turned into a two-and-a-half-hour deep dive because there was just so much going on. https://youtu.be/PnpX8d8zRIA
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    And what we know of overtech in the setting suggests they can get their propellant very hot indeed.
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    Most of my Quest 3 time is split between Synth Riders(my music game of choice) and Elite: Dangerous via PC linkage. The ability to connect to a PC and play any SteamVR game is not to be underestimated. That said, I'm still mad at Meta for erasing everyone's Rift homes. I had a nice place in cyberspace, and now I'm cyberhomeless.
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    Statistically speaking, they probably teamed up to clown on Starscream.
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    Yeah. The existing Game Metroplex is sort of gangly and lanky. In my mind, Metroplex should be the opposite of that. Maybe a faithful G1 Metroplex is TOO boxy, but... meh. I like what I like.
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    In fairness, Operation Stargazer did show reaction weapons to be extremely powerful. It just... also showed them to be susceptable to teleportation.
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    It really couldn't have been abated to any appreciable degree. The show presents the argument as "opening negotiations before or after demonstrating our military might", but the zentradi didn't want to talk regardless. Evacuation of the Earth was completely beyond humanity's capabilities at the time.
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    Seems like the fuels we look at in modern terrestrial fusion are actually still the most suitable, though. Stars burn a bunch of stuff that is pretty inefficient as a fusion fuel. Not just hard to fuse, but they get less energy out of it too. So it makes sense the usual suspects are still what Macross uses in practice even if they can technically use other fuels. ... And I still wonder what Back to the Future's "Mister Fusion" was ACTUALLY doing.
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    I guess that'd work, but you won't get much hydrogen. 0.5 parts per million hydrogen. As an aside, looking this up led me to looking at stellar evolution, and apparently there's a lot of energy loss due to neutrino production when fusing heavier atoms.
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    It probably wouldn't be worth it. While I can't speak for the colony worlds, Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen. And while nitrogen CAN be fused, it is significantly harder than the traditional hydrogen or helium. On the other hand, it's much easier to get your hands on nitrogen.
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    Fire Guts Truck God Ginrai.
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    Not ONCE have I read this title as anything other than someone swearing at an annoying spectre.
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    They actually did replace stickers with paint and molded detail. Of course, the proportions and deco being the same as the original toys is the whole point. I feel like the concept pitch could be "the toys you thought you had as a kid". They could make them look puffy and unpainted toon-accurate. But then they'd just be yet another way to do the same thing as the MP line and Studio Series. I know they DID the toon-color Missing Link, and also the toon-color G1 reissue, but... I don't understand them.
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    Surprised they ran the Unreal Tournament episode after Epic pulled it from all modern stores. I guess that means we're probably still go for Concord in the back half.
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    Well, if they knew what to sink money into, they wouldn't be having those problems.
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    The car is based heavily on the one Sonic drives in the Sonic & All-Stars racing game trilogy. Miles "Tails" Prowers' airplane prop should stick out his butt. I'm just sayin'.
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    It isn't too different from real-world fighter jets in that regard. The countries that develop them keep the best stuff for themselves. Just ask anyone in NATO whose flag has less than 50 stars what it feels like to fly an F-22. And it makes sense, given the transition from "Earth runs the galaxy" to "the colonies are more or less independent states". While the Sol system is still at the forefront of development and has more resources to work with, the colonies are more allied countries than they are part of one big happy expanded Earth. Occasionally the colonies go to war with each other, and someone wants to make darn sure they don't get ideas about trying that nonsense with the motherland.
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    To clarify, the "retro gaming experience" in the US was mostly "computers are for nerds". Most people just didn't have home video games between the time they liquidated the Ataris, Colecos, and Intellivisions and the time Nintendo rose.
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    Other entries in the modern Chogokin line suggest otherwise. They've even released a Rubix Cube that turns into a robot. Heck, they released a toy of the Chogokin logo that turns into a robot.
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