Graham

Oh yeah, forgot all about 'Dark Star', great movie. OK it gets added to the list. Man, it must be at least 15 years since I last watched that! Never seen 'Assault on Precinct 13', so can't comment. As for all the other movies, they may have been midly entertaining, but nothing I'd consider buying for my DVD collection and certainly disappointing on the basis of being 'John Carpenter' movies. Always thought Haloween was overrated. Graham

No, John Carpenter used to rock, but it's been a long, long time IMO since he made a decent movie. As far as I'm concerned, the only great movies hes made are: - The Thing Escape from New York Big Trouble in Little China Any more that anybody thinks are worthy to be called 'Great John Carpenter Movies'? Graham

Choosing which gun to buy based on a fictional movie character, is not a terribly good idea, especially if it is for self defense. Personally, I'm not very fond of the PPK. Pros and cons are as follows: - Pros 1) It's slim, thus fairly easy to conceal. 2) It points very well. Cons 1) Very heavy double action trigger pull for the first shot. 2) People with large or meaty hands can suffer from slide bite. 3) Fires a round with marginal stopping power, even using the best JHP rounds. 4) I find reliability to be not too good. Probably the best of the PPK type pistols is the SIG 232, but it is fairly pricy. Personally, even just for or plinking I don't enjoy shooting anything smaller than 9mm. Graham

I just asked my Chinese collegue and he says it's a bit unclear, but it looks like the character for 'Carpenter'. Graham

Here's a very recent pic of my wife and I during our holiday in Phuket (Thailand) last month. Graham

Guys, 4 topics on the new game is too many. There is already a pinned topic specifically for discussing the new PS2 Macross game. If you want to discuss anything about the new game, please post in the pinned topic at the top. I am closing this topic. Graham

4 topics on the new game is too many. There is already a pinned topic specifically for discussing the new PS2 Macross game. If you want to discuss anything about the new game, please post in the pinned topic at the top. I am closing this topic. Graham

4 topics on the new game is too many. There is already a pinned topic specifically for discussing the new PS2 Macross game. Please post in the pinned topic. I am closing this thread. Graham

A few questions: - 1) Are there time limits on every stage, or just some of them? 2) What about the free missions, do they also have time limits? 3) Are the free missions identical to the story mode missions? Graham

You gotta ask yourself one question. Are GITS SAC, Perfect Blue, Jin Roh, Akira, Cowboy Bebop etc so bad that they would be improved upon in any way by turning them into live action? The answer, at least in my book is of course a resounding 'NO'! I have a great respect for anime and the extremely talented people who create it and I have no desire to see their work despoiled by turning it into some bastardised, second rate, hollywood hackjob, live action abomination. Graham

Wicked City? Wicked City is actually one of my favorite animes. Secret agents, cool demons, sexy girls and the hero has a great gun, a custom heavy barrel .454 Casual Super Redhawk. Great anime. The HK live action adaptation with Leon Lai was terrible, the worst part being when the Black Guard (or whatever they called themselves in the HK movie) used their powers to stop the 747 crashing into the bank of China building (IIRC). Michelle Reis was cute as always though. Graham

Yep, being a Dreddhead I did buy it, just for the background info and art. Haven't played it though, neither do I intend to. Graham

What is with this constant desire of some fans to want to make live action versions of anime? I just don't get it. Is anime not good enough or something? Do you honestly feel that anime would be better if it was turned into live action? If that's the case, why bother with watching anime at all, just stick to watching Hollywood movies! I have absolutely no interest in seeing live action versions of any anime. IMO, there are far more high quality animes being made every year in Japan than there are good movies or TV series coming out of the US. I can not think of a single example where a live action adaptation of an anime has been better than the original. Graham

Consider that the damage inflicted on the Earth by the Zentraedi during Space War 1 was by orbital bombardment by conventional weapons only, i.e. beam weapons and also probably conventional missiles. The Zentradi did not posses (nuclear) reaction weaponary. Thus any damage sustained by the Earth was relatively temporary in nature. There should have been no long lasting radioactive contamination I think by the time of Macross Plus (2040), most of the Earth would again be suitable for repopulation and agriculture, either by through natural regrowth and recovery or with the aid of teraforming. Graham

Why does the VF-1S Battroid have a VF-1J head? Graham

Good luck with making the game work, but I have the feeling you are in for a very hard uphill struggle. I'm a very old school table top RPGer. Played from the early-1980s to early 90s. Played mostly Runequest, Call of Cthulu and Traveller. Never into D&D as I couldn't stand the clumsy, unrealistic rules. I've a little bit of experience with the modern D20 system and I've gotta say that it is one of the most unintuitive, overly complicated and unrealistic systems ever designed. It is also unsuitable IMO for Macross style Valk combat. Even the old Palladium games Robotech RPG was terrible for Macross mecha combat. While it was OK if you just wanted to role play a character, it just didn't work well at simulating the fast paced dynamic nature of mecha combat in the Macross universe. Graham

Support Big West and Macross. Buy original, not downloads or bootlegs. Graham

No problems with discussing ammunition. G-

Yay, it's already out here in Hong Kong. That means it's at least a day early. I saw it in several shops during my lunch break today. It's selling for between HK$400 to HK$450 depending on which shop you visit. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry so I only got to watch the opening animation once, but it looked very cool. I really had to struggle with myself not to buy it immediately, but as my wife is going to be buying it for my birthday next week, I managed to control myself. It's gonna be a tough wait for me though. Graham

Guys, discussions on firearms, knives, swords and fantasy weapons in this thread is fine, but please no discussion on how to make napalm, or improvised explosives. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid, but in today's political climate talking about that sort of thing can lead to people getting arrested and the site being closed down. Graham

Yamato have never announced they would release the TV FAST packs by themselves. If any online retailers put them up for preorder,that was their mistake. Graham

Careful... you just started 2 polls , 6 threads and one heart... Well, as long as I didn't stop a heart, that's OK. Note, I only said I'm looking forward to it. I've no idea if one is actually going to be made, although the possibility is probably very high. Graham

Me. Definitely. Not really interested in the 1/55 GBP anymore. I mean if they made it, I'd probably buy one just to be a completist, but what I'm really looking forward to is a set of GBP for the 1/48. That will be awesome. Graham

I think the GBP will actually make the 1/60 more stable, not less so as the armor surrounding the hips should increase stability as it should limit the amount of free rotation of the hip joint. Graham

Yeah, ugly as sin, but tough as a brick sh*t house Graham