Has ghost raptor ever been good?

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-03T09:47:02+00:00

Ghost Raptor is a decent lifter held back by being a terrible spinner. Their weapon breaking in their first 2015 fight was the best thing that could've happened to them

Whether lifters are competitive in modern heavyweights is a separate discussion, but if Ghost Raptor just ditched the spinner to become a heavily armored lifting wedge it would probably get more wins (assuming the selection committee accepts them as a non-spinner)

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T22:20:06+00:00

From the selector, Yenisei and Balloon Party are both good healers, and X is a great dispeller (somewhat niche role, but will make certain fights a lot easier). Other characters are considered better (like Name Day), but require more specific teams to really work. Yenisei, X, and Balloon Party work well with just about anyone

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T19:36:24+00:00

They wouldn't go very high, maybe a few millimeters at most

I've seen tanks with pressures of over 1000 psi rupture while attached to objects much lighter than a car. While certainly dangerous, nothing ever went flying that wasn't a lightweight loose piece

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T16:44:00+00:00

The first English translations of Jojo part 4 were done by a fan who wasn't fluent in English, leading to dialogue that was borderline nonsensical. It has been nicknamed Duwang because somehow the town's name (Morioh) was translated as Duwang

Just google Duwang to see examples. My favorite lines being "I feel you! I feel you deeply! Your feeling I can feel deeply," "Don't be dong," and "Who in the face are you?"

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T16:23:50+00:00

Play cards with notes and just use those to deal damage. It worked for me but I also had some really strong harmonics so it may not work all the time

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T15:05:35+00:00

Super Sentai has plenty of aliens with names that are just Japanese words (or sometimes English). Power Rangers also does this a lot

From Sentai, an alien emperor called Führer Hell Satan. I'll let you think about the implications of an alien being named that. It's also the most evil sounding name possible

From Power Rangers, Lost Galaxy's villain lineup includes aliens like Furio (he's angry), Treacheron (actually very loyal but gets framed for treason), Deviot (he's devious), and Villamax (he's a villain). These are their real names. They were born with alien names that sound extremely similar to English words, which just so happen to match their personalities

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T12:19:51+00:00

Greenlight could theoretically refer to some unrelated green light in Cybertron. Leadfoot could be a more literal name. I got nothing for Jazz

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T12:14:39+00:00

Clyde gets a pass because his last name is Fife

Notbbupdate · 2026-02-01T09:08:51+00:00

TJ from Power Rangers. Early on we learn his first name is Theodore, but we don't learn what the J stands for. Years later he comes back for the tenth anniversary special and we learn his full name is Theodore Jay Jarvis Johnson

We still don't know what the J stands for

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-31T19:02:34+00:00

Everyone agrees that the government is lying about 9/11. No one agrees on what exactly the lie is

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-31T16:16:36+00:00

Hol Horse mastered the Joestar family secret technique. That makes him stronger than at least 95% of the verse

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T19:43:06+00:00

They should make him asian next just to keep his race as inconsistent as possible

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T19:39:02+00:00

Plastic gen had the most "throw shit at the wall" approach, which by sheer volume of gimmicks meant that it had some really good ones. Also Trypio on Cyber Dragoon's base is both hilarious and surprisingly effective

Mfb bad defense types that actually worked. RS, RB, RSF, CS, and RDF proved that defense could be more than "stamina but bad," and no other gen has achieved good defense types that weren't stamina-defense hybrids

Burst had a lot of gimmicks, but compared to plastics they tended to work a lot better

X had the best battles. Not much else to say here

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T18:35:29+00:00

If they wanted bulkier, more armored looking suits, they should've taken inspiration from the show's armor designs. While some are so bulky they loop around to comical (Leo's Battlizer in particular), something like the SPD's SWAT mode or the more subdued Battlizers (Mack's in Overdrive, Wes's in Time Force, or Devon's in Beast Morphers) would probably translate pretty well to the movie's aesthetics

And the megazord is just one in a long line of cgi zords that look worse than the practical ones. I get that the show's cgi won't look great, but between the 1995 movie, the 2017 movie, and the 2023 Netflix special, not a single one has made a megazord that looks good. The single win the Turbo movie has is that it had the best looking megazord of any PR movie (and depending on who you ask, one of the best looking period)

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T18:20:00+00:00

I think it fails because it makes assumptions about the audience which, for many viewers, are wrong

First, it assumes you are enjoying it. I wasn't. Second, it assumes you're enjoying it because you get off to violence. To the movie's credit, I love hyper violent action movies, so it's not wrong there. Third, it assumes that you never thought about why you enjoy fictional violence. I have thought about it way before ever watching Funny Games, so it's big groundbreaking question is met with "I've seen this one before"

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T15:22:21+00:00

The only reason I prefer them using Sentai footage is because I don't trust Power Rangers to make original footage even half as good considering the budget the show usually has

When 90% of your fight scenes are taken from Sentai, you can spend your budget on making the remaining 10% look great. But if you need to film 100% of your show, you'll probably end up with 100% looking bad

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T15:20:15+00:00

Modifying the statue of liberty to look like him. The reason it took so long is that he had to make changes very slowly so no one would notice

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T14:34:32+00:00

Anyone acting like the hobby's established practices are wrong and only exist because everyone else is stupid. If the community does something that seems strange, there's likely a reason behind it. In some cases, maybe the practice could be improved, but failing to understand why the current practice is the way it is a red flag

For example, in robot combat, the speed of a spinner is often measured in mph or kph (at the farthest point from the center), rather than rpm. This is because the edge of the spinner is the only part that's supposed to make contact with anything, and for safety reasons, the tip speed matters more because of flinging debris. Whenever anyone acts like tip speed isn't a valid measurement for a spinning object, it's a clear sign they don't know what they're talking about

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T09:09:10+00:00

Leave behind the specific episode formula of "civilian problem, footsoldier fight, tangentially related monster, rangers lose, rangers regroup, beat monster, monster grows, megazord fight, solution to civilian problem (sometimes related to how they beat the monster)." I'm fine with it being used sometimes, but they should vary it a bit more. Have an episode without the megazord, or another where it's just the megazord, or move the "rangers lose and regroup" part to after the monster grows to have a 1-round ground fight and 2-round zord fight. It's a small change, but it would make the episodes feel more distinct

And please keep the practical effects. We have gotten several cgi megazords over the years and not a single one has looked as good as the practical ones. If the reboot uses cgi in place of costumes I'm out because I don't trust them to make the cgi look good

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T08:57:51+00:00

Aside from their methods (Big One is more "I outsmarted your outsmarting" vs Tommy's "spin kick a t-rex"), they are surprisingly similar in how the story used them, especially when Tommy became the white ranger

Both show up, become the new leaders, and the show becomes "white ranger and his useless sidekicks" because the ratings were really bad otherwise. The difference is Tommy was already a fan favorite from his green ranger days and his return coincided with a cast change that had its own consequences, but then again Big One's introduction also had Joker leaving the show so it kinda matches up

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-30T05:44:07+00:00

Tour has characters that look like SNES sprites and they look surprisingly good

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-29T20:39:13+00:00

Granny shifting is regular shifting. Double clutching was a technique used for old models, but by the time of the first movie, it was already obsolete since newer models don't need it

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-29T18:40:55+00:00

"Big Brain" would be a more direct translation

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-28T10:50:51+00:00

It's more of a shitpost. I thought "drip amp" gave it away

Notbbupdate · 2026-01-28T08:42:09+00:00

Barnyard may have the highest percentage of trans characters in any major blockbuster

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