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if I recall, the guy didn't use wires but two flat, unshielded metal bits that ran parallel to complete the circuit.

you make such great mecha porn, how can you even think of giving it up?

oh, that sucks to hear about the job man, the wife's been laid off for 3 months now so I feel your pain. Luckily the 360 is holding up though.

the show keeps getting better. sad that the ratings are so bad. maybe syfy (so lame) will pick it up.

I know the gloss finish is making it easier for the tampo printing to flake off... but damn does it look good.

how dare you compare the glorious people's valkyrie the VF-5000 to the 3000???

what? why?

there's a law maker in Texas who wants asians to adopt "easier" names for "americans"... we haven't learned sh!t. Because, you know, "kim" is so much harder to pronounce than "vujacic"

I agree that the idea of China as a military threat to the United States is pretty far fetched. Especially now when they're so dependent on the US not just to buy their goods but to sell them rice, soy and corn. I'm just saying there are people who have justifiable fears of a modernized chinese military. I'm just saying there's more to the red china scare than actual strategic thinking. A lot of it is the war industry trying to create a new threat to justify their cold war programs and a lot of it has to do with how poorly americans think of asians in general. Don't forget that the democratic party and many labor unions got their start here as anti-chinese movements. And the right wingers like Lou Dobbs, still use ching-chong language as part of their rhetoric with casual disdain. One of our local news stations here in the Bay Area makes it a point to point out any asian connections... when the tanker spilled oil out over the bay, they would continually say, "the KOREAN tank, costco busan..." when the only thing korean about it was that's where the ship was made. And I can rattle off a bunch of recent anti-asian laws passed all over this country. America has a long tradition of demonizing and marginalizing asians. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the hawks are setting up china as the next Big Bad.

well, as long as you have an open mind about it.

I get the general statement regarding China's expansionist tendencies or lack thereof, but I can think of at least 2 cultures in modern China that would disagree pretty vehemently with that. And I'd say that americans are historically programmed to think of china (and asians in general) as either threats or pawns. For example, I've been to some BIG churches where they talk about the Boxer rebellion as some sort of evil anti-western/anti-christian movement... which is a pretty damn jingoistic way to look at it. Anyways, except for that bit about the chinese throwing planks of wood in front of that one naval ship a couple weeks back most of the hand waving is over North Korea right now.

I think I remember the guy used flat wires or something and housed the batteries in the missile pods. It was just the spot lights at the base of the wings not the running lights though, if I'm remembering it correctly.

some guy did it to a 1/48 back when it first came out

hah, that's like predicting the sun will come up tomorrow.

to be fair Fox doesn't know what to do with any of their shows. Even hit shows like House and Bones they shuffle around subject to schedule shenanigans to make room for American Idol.

yeah, but alto is emo like that.

that spoiler sounds like 1 hour of exposition with some violence at the end... sad the show is getting such a weak send off.

oh, suck news. I really enjoy the show and I thought this season was great so far. sadness.

well, maybe in real life but in the show, the VF-0 is described as a test bed either packed or designed to accept goodies.

No comment on the insect like aesthetic but I do want to point out a real life example of an older fighter looking more futuristic than its successors: the f-117. Here's a plane that started life the in the 1970's and it looks so far out that some people think it isn't even possible without help from little grey men. It makes a stark break from the planes that immediately preceded it like the F-14 and F-16, yet the successors, the raptor and JSF are much more generic fighter plane looking and look like the logical follow ups to the F-15 and 16. I accept the in-show reason for the anachronistic look of the vf-0. They were test beds and were loaded with goodies that maybe weren't ready for primetime or were deemed economically unfeasible to put into a mainstream fighter. Real world tech example: OLED verses LCD. OLED is vastly superior to LCD providing far superior pictures yet their use (so far) is mainly restricted to small portable devices. Lots of government expenditures are based around the idea of "good enough". Maybe the VF-0 cost way more to make than the VF-1 and since back then humans didn't have factory satellites and didn't know for certain that the aliens were coming some politician made the decision to go with the cheaper VF-1.

laziness from people best known for recompiling other people's work? eh, pretty much expected.

Aw it's so cute when you're being mean. What's wrong, did you sell your lithium for hooker money again? I would think your mom would be giving you the family discount.

Except for their humping, Taksraven and Yellowlightman were never in the same room. My parents pulled this exact same act for years.

it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.

morally, this is true.