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  1. JB0
    The parted-out green one almost looks like Centurions armor, though the robot head belies that notion.
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    I'm gonna throw in a third "looks familiar, can't place it." They do look cool, though.
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    I thought they did a good job editing Walkure out for the official cut of those.
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    Sounds like the thread I was thinking of. I tend to get interested on some little corner of something and just chew on it for a bit. Like a dog with a book. Max and Millia had seven kids, too. Our sample size of two suggests that postwar Earth saw the return of large families.
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    Cloning was discontinued due to birth defects on the rise, I believe. I think I may've typed up a long spiel a while back about how the government would want to encourage procreation and how they could go about it, with tax breaks and government-sponsored childcare and so on. But I don't think there's anything official saying so. But population growth is going to be slow as long as they keep launching colony ships as fast as they can make them.
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    Well, not once our heroes were done...
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    Basara is also a very gifted pilot, if Captain Max's evaluation of his skill is any indication. Canonically, I think they're blowing up an abandoned city, not Macross City.
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    That's why everybody in Goblin Slayer keeps dying, obviously.
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    The biggest is that the cockpit was completely reworked for block five. Block five introduced the DYRL-style cockpit, with the flip-up throttle for mode change instead of three joysticks and a bunch of extra levers poking out in random places. That seems to be the standard control scheme for almost all subsequent VFs. He shouldn't have stolen her plane, then. :P As far as ranking pilots goes, Max did say Basara was almost as good as he was. But then, Max also underestimated his own skill level during the war. Maybe getting hitched to the zentradi ace bombshell after repeatedly equaling or besting her made him re-evaluate his own talents, because he did realize that 7 fleet was better served with him in a fighter jet than on the bridge in moments of dire crisis. ("Hi guys, I'm just gonna blast past all of you with my throttle open to full and nuke Gepelnitch in his eyeball. You can stand back and eat my reactor exhaust. Captain's orders.")
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    Gets to fly a rough approximation of his favorite plane ever. If I recall, the whole point behind the initial "I am going to buy a plane on the black market/get Neumann to smuggle me out parts so I can build one" plan was that he's simply never enjoyed flying a plane as much as he did the cantankerously unstable, pilot-murdering YF-19, and he wanted to do it again. It... says a lot about Isamu. The pilot makes the machine. Max and Millia could've rocked space in a pair of VF-17s, or VF-11s, or shoeboxes with fireworks glued to the back(the rare Super Shoebox configuration). The 22 was just icing on the awesome cake. And then there's Gamlin's performance in Millia's VF-1J. He complained about how slow it was, struggled with the controls, and then got it completely destroyed, without ever firing a shot. NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE.
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    I never said I had great taste in literature when I was younger. Heck, I'm not sure I'd say that now, though I'm more critical than I was twenty years ago.
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    Let me put it this way: at the time, I liked the Sentinels novels, and still felt End of the Circle was indefensible dreck.
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    Didn't Neumann also shake Isamu down for every penny he owned in exchange for all the trouble? Something along the lines of "You are officially my test pilot, evaluating a service extension upgrade. Unofficially, you are going to empty your entire savings account, then cash out your retirement fund, and wire every last cent of it to me for the hassle of creating this ridiculous kludge of an airplane that was custom-crippled with an obsolete and essentially unusable software package.", I believe? This deal only went through because Isamu is the aviation equivalent of Basara.
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    More or less. That you set off my Robotech novel PTSD on accident is actually funnier than an intentional reference. All you need to know about the last book is that EVERYTHING IS MINMAY'S FAULT FOREVER.
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    End of the Circle references should be outlawed as international war crimes.
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    Early access is just putting a label on something the big publishers were already doing. More than one Windows game shipped completely unplayable out of the box. Day-one patches are still commonplace, we just have more universal internet than we did in the 90s, when there was time for Klax. And personally, I think that early access is a disingenuous label for what Star Citizen is, which is a launched game that generates millions of dollars in revenue. But as long as they claim it isn't actually released, they can excuse any broken promises or glitches with the "unfinished preview" excuse. (My favorite massive out-of-box glitch was in Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, in part because it was hilarious and NOT game-ending. The enemy AI would sometimes just fail to properly engage, so they'd take up a "station-keeping at the spawn point" routine. They'd just stand there and hold a pose as you walked up and circled around and pointed and laughed. Then you hit them with the shotgun and sent them flying. At that point they jumped up and dashed back to the spawn point and resumed taking a pose and doing nothing.)
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    Personally, I am somewhere in the middle. The original toys looked frickin' awesome, and the cartoon was a serious disappointment in that regard. ON THE OTHER HAND, most of the original toys featured minimal articulation, to put it nicely, and were hard-pressed to do more than stand straight upright and stick their arm out with a gun in, over, or replacing the hand. This is why Shockwave was the best Transformer. He had two legs, with independent hips and knees, shoulders, and two-axis elbows. Also electronic lights and sound you could use to terrorize your dog and antagonize your sister. Jetfire is first runner-up because he has two legs with hips and knees, two-axis shoulders and elbows, but no electronic lights or sounds. I've owned one piece from the Masterpiece line, MP-01. And while it was lovely in robot mode, and pretty okay in truck mode, it was a completely unfun cheating mess of a transformation that I'd rather not have ever had to deal with. It was also top-heavy and did a forward somersault off my shelf and destroyed a leg when it failed to stick the landing. The matrix of leadership now rests in the tiny clawed hands of Classics Grimlock.
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    Basara's the smartest guy in the franchise, in some respects. Lady M is actually Doctor Chiba. His Minmay obsession went too far, he now dresses in a skirt and insists he IS Minmay. Being as he is undeniably brilliant, his staff runs interference and compromises by referring to him as Lady M to maintain some shred of their dignity, if not his. </personal_canon>
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    Definitely the high point of interstellar civilization right there.
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    WHAT?! RAILGUN THREE?!?! MY FROTHING DESIRE FOR THIS CARTOON INCREASES!!!!
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    In the Star Trek universe, facial hair is an almost 100%-reliable indicator that you are evil. Exceptions include Captain Sisko, and possibly Commander Riker.
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    Mirror Spock alert!
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    Ok, Magna Inventa was on the short list of toys I'm buying instead of toys I'm admiring photos of! ... Oh. He's not really out. His BUTT is out. Frickin' two-box sales.
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    Suddenly, VF-4!?
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    Your daughter is a lady of discerning taste. Zero's way better than X.
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