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    I am positively TREMBLING with excitement! ... Which doesn't say anything good about me.
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    While they can't all be the Jenius clan, I would assume that most couples had at least three, due to societal pressure. Two kids merely maintains the status quo, in a world that's suddenly got an awful lot of elbow room and a government that wants to start sending entire cities full of people out into deep space as soon as possible. It is everyone's patriotic duty to help rebuild the population. Be like the Jeniuses, raise a whole herd of kids!
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    Fair enough. 's been a while, and I didn't recall that the probe was disabling everything in the system. One of the few good explanations for why a wanted criminal can fly into the capital system in an enemy state's fighter. I was exagerating the "timenapping" for comic effect.
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    Personally, the reason my younger self was so excited for new systems was that they enabled so many amazing new things. The last few years have been "more of the same". Sure there's bigger textures and higher defs and more tesselations, but it is all layers of polish, nothing funamentally fresh. You look at a Nintendo game next to a Genesis game, it is immediately obvious what the difference is. You look at a PS3 game next to an XBox One game, it is... not. That's why everyone needs a VR headset. My Rift gave me that new system feeling that I hadn't felt since the Dreamcast. Even if you can't clear the space, a seated VR game with a controller is a whole new world. At least Sony cares about storage speed this time. Maybe they won't hook the SSD up through USB like they did with the PS4. Maybe we'll genuinely get the instant load times they're talking about like it is a new thing(I STILL REMEMBER ROM CASSETTES, SONY!)
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    Tradition set by admiral Kirk when he stole the 1701, took it to a forbidden planet, blew it up, and came home with a timenapped marine biologist and some whales. I mean, I'm surprised he wasn't shot down the instant he showed up in the Sol system in a friggin' Bird of Prey, even granting that Starfleet had other issues at the time.
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    In fairness, Seven DID learn a lot about how to be human from Captain Janeway. That's not the best way to raise a stable and level-headed adult.
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    Or the end of Voyager.
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    Tellin' ya, Lady M is Doctor Chiba. He's gone off the deep end and thinks he IS Minmay.
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    Ordinarily, I'd have something to say about that much junk hanging off the back, but ordinarily they just throw parts back there with little concern for aesthetics. In this case they owned it, and made it look awesome. 'S like Bayformers Crosshairs wearing half his car shell as a trenchcoat, only with more boobs and jetpack.
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    You mean Nicee.
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    Most of the hate comes from HG's war against Macross in the 90s. It is one thing to be an incompetent bunch of hacks, it is another to actively try to crush all attempt by fans to enjoy their interests unmolested. Sending unenforcible legal threats to fan-run businesses didn't do them any favors either.
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    It is kinda funny that this thread resurfaces the same night I start replaying the Warhammer: Space Marine vidya game.
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    Three attempts. The first movie got a sequel involving Galactus and the Silver Surfer. The first movie wasn't great, but wasn't AWFUL either. The second movie and the "new" continuity movie were both trainwrecks made by people that hate fun. But really, the biggest problem the Fantastic Four have in the modern movie environment is that they're kinda "been there, done that". Their powers aren't anything exciting, the idea of a team isn't anything exciting, and any drama they write will ALSO not be anything exciting, because it has all been done in other hero movies in recent history. That their comics predate most of the other characters in the Marvel movies doesn't matter to the public. They're going to be seen as "budget-rate Avengers with a talking rock and a gender-bent version of the mom from The Incredibles."
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    The animation attempt collapsed before they got that far. As I understand things, the TV movie is most of what was drawn.
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    In a way, we are ALL Lady M.
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    That's not from Mac7.
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    I am absolutely 100% joking, although I've never partaken of either. I'm also aware of the infamous halloween radio play that had people convinced an actual invasion was happening. This is the best version just by virtue of chaos caused.
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    Best guess: she dresses all in black, so she's obviously a ninja.
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    Why are they remaking a bad Tom Cruise movie?
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    Wasn't it Fox that had the FF license? No road bumps there. And my understanding is Disney was asking for more money, not Sony.
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    Then you know as much as we do about Lady M's identity, or lack thereof. Apparently the production team never created an identity, despite it being an obvious point of interest.
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    Thirty years later, Genesis still does what Nintendon't. In this case, it is "actually putting out enough of your silly emulator boxes in nostalgic cases that people will see them on store shelves". I literally never saw an NES Classic or SNES Classic in the wild. I saw a full shelf-load of Genesis Minis the other day. So I got one, because it is cute. I rather like the attention to detail on the console design. They molded in the headphone port, and there's even a little flat circle on the back where the real Genesis had a screw hole to lock your Power Base Converter in place and a plastic dome on the bottom where the real Genesis had one. The cartridge door opens, the expansion connector cover comes off, the non-functional volume slider moves. The volume slider is even constructed so that there's a similar resistance to what the real Genesis volume control feels like(I actually thought it would work before I turned the thing on). Sega's always been proud of their history, and it shows. The attention to detail actually makes one inaccuracy somewhat more glaring. The reset button is recessed rather deeply, and it is annoying mostly because of the attention to detail present in every other facet. ... I guess there's some games too. It is a collection of Genesis ROM images and an emulator. What can I say? I wouldn't say the library is the forty best games for the Genesis, or even the forty best-known. What it IS, though, is a great historical sampling. If you wanted to point to a set of games to show how the Genesis' marketing and software evolved over time, you could do far worse, though the lack of a single sports title is notable from this perspective. The menu lets you sort games alphabetically, by genre, or by release date. That's cool to me, particularly in keeping with the sort of historical presentation. No manual scans are present, though, which is a bummer. Interestingly, changing the menu language to japanese doesn't change the game list to the japanese game list, but it DOES change the release date of the games to match the new region, and swaps the ROM images and box art out for region-appropriate ones. This is most obvious if you set the menu to japanese and go looking for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, which is replaced with an unmodified Puyo Puyo. Again, it is a nice touch. There's a new port of Darius developed for this release, which is pretty rad. There's also a new port of Sega's '88 arcade version of Tetris(not to be confused with the '89-developed, unreleased Genesis version). I love that they paid someone to code new software that would've been at home in the system's original library.
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    Makes sense to me.
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    But you cheered when she finally got the flowers to Basara nonetheless.
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    Yup. It was a trainwreck of epicly inept proportions.
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