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  1. Dynaman
    Yes - look at the victory celebration at the end of almost any war (for the winners), WWI and WWII spring readily to mind - the most people killed in conflicts ever, up to that point and the celebrations when they were done were huge.
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    That's easy - when I come here I know I'll be seeing things about the topic at hand, when going to facebook I see a million posts of "look at me fuzzy toes" for every one that is on a topic I am actually interested in. I suppose there may be some kind of filter to keep that from happening, but I can't be arsed to look for it.
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    That is because they break one of Anime's unwritten rules - which paraphrased from my Mekton rulebook gooes. "Anime does not have bug like aliens, because nobody wants to kiss a bug"
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    From the show it is obvious they must "forget" certain defenses over time - it goes without saying that they must have gone up against one of those old Zentradi battle suits before (from the episode where Alto is going through his initiation battle)
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    Heard of it, but never saw it! This was licensed by the toy/model company that used the Robotech name to sell the models - this was before Robotech the series ever existed. (which reminds me, how did HG end up with the Robotech name - never mind, don't really want to know)
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    No - and I just looked for the word Meisa and didn't see anything. (I can't get to youtube here at work either, have to watch that later) Besides - the whole point is to not bother me with facts! I WANT MY YAMATO MOVIE! (even if it turns into a big stinking pile of dog excrement) (side note - I did not like the new Gamilas ship designs seen in the opening battle, but I still want it)
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    The early dialog in the show between Ozma and the NUNS forces doesn't help, Ozma basically calls them incompatent idiots. (At least the subs I watched) Seeing the NUNS forces get trounced lends some creadence to this. What the viewers don't find out till later is that the Vajra very quickly (in BORG like style) adapt defenses to any threat - and by the time of Frontier's start the Vajra had already been up against NUNS equipment before. The SMS can adapt to this, since they get to test new stuff and deploy it without an excess of paperwork, while the NUNS - well...
  8. Dynaman
    To paraphrase Dobert and Teddy Roosevelt "Out! Out!, you Nattering Nabob of Negativity!"
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    Star Blazers website has more info about this movie and the Rebirth movie. The site below also says that the new movie did very well at the Box Office, that it has been set for debut in other countries, and that US distributors are interested in it... http://augustragone.blogspot.com/2010/12/space-battleship-sails-into-world.html
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    Only one disc left (have to keep a better watch on my NetFlix queue). No excuse not to watch the rest then. Seperate note - thanks everyone for the help in tracking down Orguss.
  11. Dynaman
    To take this in another direction. The Soviet policy of sending their "allies" the second rate equipment is more in line with the thread up till now. Russia and the most trusted of the Warsaw Pact countries got the best stuff, on down the line till we have the least reliable countries getting equipment that was only really usable for controlling the local population. This is not just for cynical reasons - you don't want the good stuff being accidently "found" by the werstern allies in a ditch, where they could then research it... On the western allies front, the superpowers once again got the best equipment, down the line till the least economically developed nations had equipment that was, once again, not useful for much more then local population control. Same reason about not wanting it to fall into the other side's hands still applies.
  12. Dynaman
    My earlier posts got conjoined for some reason... What would I need to Google up to find a good sub of the original Orguss?
  13. Dynaman
    Time to add my 2 cents. DYRL (only after watching SDFM though) Two reasons, Misa gets a decent kiss from Hikaru, and the animation is superb. Plus Frontier Zero 7 - could never watch it again, Basara is not my kind of character, and if I want to watch Hanna Barbera characters (which I DON"T) I'll watch Yogi Bear or Squidley Diddly instead... In it's favor - I liked the bits with Max and Millia, and Exedore's head (can't spell his Macross name correctly). II - I only ever saw the dubbed version, which I now know is a crime against humanity, I need to find the subbed version someday.
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    I guess I'll have to watch at least the next disc then, I liked Evangelion - even the last few episodes (both sets no less) Now if you had said it was a train wreck like that last show I tried to watch that would be saying something... (can't even remember the title of that show, which is just as well) All I'll lose from watching the next disc is a Netflix rental, and if I lived through the shame of watching the latest Starship Troopers I can live through this too.
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    On the SciFi front, don't forget that he was the Lead in "Forbidden Planet". That movie's special effects hold up till this day. I loved the Police Academy movies.
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    Watched the first 3 Episodes of "Rin: Daughter of M" (something or other starting with M, can't remember it exactly) I'm impressed with the dubbing on this one, it is excellent - not a clunker in the cast so far. The show is about a pair of immortal women who run a detective agency and a man they pick up. (and that is a lame description, but to say any more gives away too much of the plot). The episodes so far go back and forth, one taking place in 2011 and another taking place in 1991. It has me hooked enough to look forward to seeing where the plot goes from the first three eps. Warning - this is NOT a show for the younger set, I doubt this could even have gotten on Japanese TV (but I've been wrong before). If on US TV it would have to be on one of the pay channels... I'm still looking forward to watching it. I avoid reading any spoilers I can though (already know it deals with dimension hopping...). I know this is mentioned earlier, but who has the best subs for this show again, and what would I need to google up in order to find them?
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    Not always, sometimes a sub has to omit nuance in order make the subs readable in the same time that a character can say things. When there are 2 streams of dialog going at once it gets even more problematic. It is more rare then bad dubs but it does happen. (to see it in action, watch the subtitles on a movie in english, here is a made up example). Dialog - "What do you think you are doing here brother!?" Sub - "Why are you here?"
  18. Dynaman
    They are boxy, but Yuki is lovely, and I ask you, does anything else really matter after that?
  19. Dynaman
    I think I'm having a Flashback... with HG, I've long since taken the stance of "I'll believe it when I see it"
  20. Dynaman
    The movie was terrible, but the miniseries wasn't bad. It only had a SciFi channel budget but it followed the book pretty well.
  21. Dynaman
    A Virus has this nasty habit of mutating into something that could kill the originating species too though, they are hard little buggers to use. If all you want to do is kill the inhabitants of a world then chucking a large rock at it will do the trick nicely. If you want to live on the world afterword - well that pretty much still requires going in and moping up the old fashioned way, but you would first use medium size rocks from space to take out large concentrations of the locals...
  22. Dynaman
    You might like the Vorkosigan novels, although usually something serious is lurking in the subtext the foreground action can be very funny, in addition to being Hyperactive and a hunchback dwarf, Miles also gets the girls (instead of his dashing, charming cousin), and he is nuerotic - saying one thing and thinking something entirely different. Unlike Flashy Miles *IS* a genuine hero though, but he certainly has his faults. If any of that sounds interesting find the Novella "Labyrinth", it is short but brings up all the items I mention above. Interesting take on a "dungeon" adventure too.
  23. Dynaman
    Well, it is hard to go down from where Red Dawn started. Another laughably bad film. At least they tried to make the Helicopters look like Hinds - did a rather decent job of it too.
  24. Dynaman
    Doug is guilty of stealing or knowingly receiving stolen government property. Since he is not a soldier he is also guilty of terrorism (I think), certainly of violent acts against another country... Me, I'd rather watch "Uncommon Valor". It was also silly, but better then the other films of it's kind. (Vietnam grunts - not fighter planes though)
  25. Dynaman
    Another plus for using Kfirs, they are cooler looking then the F5/F20. One of these movies also used barely disguised M113s as soviet equipment, which I found nearly as amusing as the opening scene from Rambo 3(*) (*) - Where the supposedly really really good colonel of special forces goes riding around in the Afghanistan desert with headlights on, I started laughing hysterically...
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