Neo's News - Listener Submitted News Article Thread Mark IV

[Vent Noir]

Fafner: Exodus season 2's 2nd ad streamed

[Rodimus76]

***Robot Apocalypse News Alert***
Apple Car Project 'Titan' Stirs In Shadow Of Google's Self-Driving Efforts:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecroth ... g-efforts/

[Rodimus76]

***Robot Apocalypse News Alert***
Autonomous Drones Build Rope Bridge:

http://geekologie.com/2015/09/the-end-n ... ild-ro.php

[Rodimus76]

***Robot Apocalypse News Alert***
Dog Robot Launches Drone From Its Back:

http://geekologie.com/2015/09/the-end-n ... rone-f.php

[RiderKabuto]

***Robot Apocalypse News Alert***
Day After Employees Vote to Unionize, Target Announces Fleet of Robot Workers.
http://usuncut.com/class-war/target-uni ... t-workers/

Robots are taking our jobs! Just a day after pharmacy workers from a Brooklyn Target store formed a union, the company announced plans to replace employees with robot workers in the near future.

Less than a week later Casey Carl, the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Target announced the company’s plan to develop automation systems and replace workers with robots in their retail locations as part of a new program with Techstars (SKYNET), an industry leader with a reputation for accelerating startups.

[Rodimus76]

Prometheus 2 will officially be called Alien Paradise Lost:

http://geektyrant.com/news/prometheus-2 ... adise-lost

[Vent Noir]

ROBOT APOCALYPSE NEWS!!!

8 reasons why the Tokyo Olympics will be the most futuristic we've ever seen (#1 is "A Village of Robots")

[Vent Noir]

Gundam's Tomino discusses 2d fantasy robot anime plans

Heavy Object anime listed with 24 episodes by French streamer

[bertman4]

Next Macross series title revealed. It will be Macross Δ (pronounced Macross Delta).
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... led/.93355

[The Shade]

Sir Bay News Alert

Indi Wire video: 6 Reasons you should respect Sir Bay

1) Michael Bay is respected by people who actually make movies (as oposed to the critics who hate him)
2) He does things his way, even though he knows people won't like him
3) He's actually a genius who pays meticulous attention to detail
4) He doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk (his determination made Bad Boys 1 possible, and made starts out of its 2 leads)
5) He jump started the careers of the a fore mentioned Will Smith & Martin Lawrence, but also boosted the star power of Nicolas Cage and gave Goof Leboof his big brake.

and the most important:

6) He is a shamelessly copycatted innovator. He camera shooting style has been copied and set the trend for most movies in the last 20 years.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... y-20150925

[Rodimus76]

Ridley Scott explains why Prometheus 2 is now an Alien movie:

http://geektyrant.com/news/ridley-scott ... lien-movie

[RiderKabuto]

***Robot Apocalypse News Alert***

DARPA Demonstrates a remote controlled A-10. Skynet potentially gains control of the only competition for its HK, that is if Terminator Salvation is to be believed.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/09/darpa- ... ntrol.html

DARPA recently demonstrated its Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) prototype system on an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, marking the system’s debut on a U.S. Air Force platform. The tests, which involved 50 successful sorties near Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, showed that a warfighter serving as a joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) on the ground could, in seamless coordination with a pilot, successfully command an airstrike with as few as three clicks on a tablet.

[[Dablackcat]]

Tomino reveals G Reconguista takes place 500 years AFTER Turn A Gundam
https://nekketsunikki.wordpress.com/201 ... er-turn-a/

Tomino revealed on a live-streamed Gundam Café interview back in August 27th 2015 that G Reconguista takes place 500 years after Turn A Gundam.

- This fact seemed to have been kept secret from the show's producer Ogata Naohiro who said in response "This will really mess up the timeline."

- Tomino claims he planned this "from the start" and was backed up on twitter by Yoshida Kenichi (G-Reco's character designer) who said he also knew about the show's place in the timeline.

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Tomino: When speaking from a viewpoint considering Turn A’s “black history”…

Ogata: If you look at it that way, it seems like G Reco takes place 1000 years after UC ended.

Tomino: Yes.

Ogata: So this means Turn A is even further away from G Reco chronologically speaking.  I mean, Turn A feels like a story in a future where UC was a looong time ago.

Tomino: Not really. It seems that way?

Ogata: Yes it does.

Tomino: Eeeeh. That’s weird.

Ogata: It wasn’t supposed to feel that way?

Tomino: I definitely didn’t want it to feel that way.

Ogata: So Turn A is actually before G Reco?

Tomino: Around 500 years before.

Ogata: Around 500 years…

Ishii: Eeeeh… Is there reactions about this? (The producer Ogata was looking at twitter and the net during all the event to check reactions)

Ogata: This will really mess up the timeline.

People laugh in the audience.

**Translator provides explanation & defense for the accuracy of their translation on the page.**

[[Dablackcat]]

'Gundam Extreme Versus Force' Coming To PS Vita With English Localization(via Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder ... alization/

The Asian release of the game will apparently receive a full English localization. Since the Vita is region free, players should be able to import the Asian version.

Before this point all previous Gundam Extreme Versus games have not included english localizations. The closest the game has come to being released in the US was the heavily localized rebrand called "Rise of the Incarnates" released on Steam on July 1, 2015.

[Vent Noir]

Muv-Luv visual novel localization Kickstarter reaches goal

[Vent Noir]

Watch the animated TV spot for Toyota's Gundam-inspired car

[The Shade]

Sir Bay News Alert

Could it be? Sir Bay in talks to direct Transformers 5.

http://www.vcpost.com/articles/95045/20 ... k-ryan.htm

[eanetdude]

Universal Pictures Temporarily Removes PACIFIC RIM 2 From It's Calendar, Promising a More Immersive Experience

In a statement, Universal and Legendary Entertainment, the film’s primary financial backer, says that it is delaying the film’s production and release indefinitely, but wants to use the extra time to ensure that the follow-up is “the vanguard, fully-immersive experience that the franchise deserves.”

Source: Variety

[Rodimus76]

***Sir Bay News Alert***
Michael Bay posts tribute video to talented aerial photographer Alan Purwin:

http://geektyrant.com/news/michael-bay- ... lan-purwin

[Vent Noir]

Crunchyroll to stream Fafner: Exodus Season 2