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should probably do crystaline, since an island in the pacific is going to be volcanic in origin.

saw it, loved it. Agree with Scream Man that the story is a bit pretentious but then again, having basically two god characters discuss the state of humanity in "them" terms tends to move in that direction.

The post that I was referring to was pointing out that he thought plastic yellowed more rapidly today than plastic from 20 years ago, it was a joke on quality and declining standards. It was actually told to me, when I spoke about the issue with my Chinese wife who happens to be a materials engineer who has dealt with Chinese factories when she worked for a major sports eye wear company for 5 years and setup factories all over the world, including China. So now it's a prejudice to talk about actual problems happening to actual people? I'm actually speaking from experience. I've stayed with, slept in homes of and ate with farmers and factory workers in China. I've spoken to the uighurs who are watching their culture get systematically destroyed by the Chinese government and I've met with dozens of North Korean refuges who have been taken in and sheltered by loving and caring families all over northern China. I've seen, first hand, small communities and villages completely sundered by having all the young people leave for factory jobs leaving only the old or the very very young. Pointing out and talking about the difficulties that exist in the world isn't racism. Sorry that you think anything other than spouting the same bullshit pro-growth, pro-capitalist propaganda is. The piss poor quality of life for the factory workers, farmers and the working poor in China is a well known tragedy that the US media, corporations worldwide and the Chinese government are all too happy to white wash so that fat Americans can keep buying their cheap crap at walmart and save 25cents on a pair of socks rather than pay a living wage. And how does this relate to yellowing plastic? We've been in a death spiral for a couple of decades now where consumers demand the cheapest possible prices. People don't care about quality as the mentality is to just buy a new one when their -whatever- breaks or the newest -whatever- comes out with an incremental improvement or a flashy new color. This demand for low cost crap gets passed on to retailers who, like wal-mart, look for ever increasing ways to cut costs, including short changing their employees and the communities they live in. They in turn pressure the businesses for cheaper crap who pass it along in where and who they use to manufacture. People like Nike USED to manufacture their crap in South Korea when it was run by hardline military dictators and it was easy to oppress their workers. As education and ideas like workers rights improved and workers in s. korea demanded more money, better and safer working conditions, sometimes through bloody rioting (which I have also been involved with) they picked up and moved to other lesser developed countries. In countries like China and Indonesia. And the story I told of the worker's rights organizer having his knees trashed, that's a TRUE story. But consumers don't care and pro-growth propagandists like you don't either. You've managed to somehow link whitewashing the utter crap of the world with racism. It's no wonder most americans don't treat asians seriously when we talk about racism. Because people like you make it out so that any criticism is racism. The only way to deal with the very real and very troubling issues around the world is to be able to have open and frank discussions about them. And if you're so insecure so that you can't even discuss a well known issue like the spiraling decline in quality in China, a topic that even the Chinese government takes seriously enough to be executing people over, than really, there's no more point in talking with you.

I didn't get to reading your rant till just now, so you'll have to forgive the flashback. Obviously I was making a joke. However the "crap" I put in my brain is called the news. And if you read the news you'd know a bunch of kids died in china and hundreds more were severely sickened, as in dialysis for the rest of their lives sick, due to plastic being put in milk in China. Chinese milk producers putting plastic in milk isn't me being racist, it's them being cheap. If you're too much of a toy fanboy to read the regular news, maybe you should try to broaden your horizons from time to time instead of spouting off like some bratty kid. here, take a page out of your own book and go google "chinese milk scandal" The one in 2008 was hardly the first time this has happened either. Oh, and go google "chinese lead paint scandal" while you're at it.

yeah. that part.

hmm, does the armor hide that divot on the spine of the fuselage where the head sits? Cuz that divot is the deal break for me. I've managed to talk myself into accepting everything else but that.

I want the uber armor... the more crap it has on, the less I'm bothered by the wonky fighter lines that the DX has.

what he said.

There's the big zoom compact camera... those are the p&s cameras with the big 10 or 12x optical zoom lenses attached. Then there's compacts, which are generally small enough for like a coat pocket and then the subcompacts which would fit comfortably in like a shirt or pant pocket. All of the smaller cameras have small sensors and need lots of light though some of the very newest p&s cameras like the lumix lx3 have decent low light picture quality (grainy but decent iso 1600 shots for the lx3). Generally speaking, for a typical p&s camera, I would say that ISO 400 is about as high you would like to go before picture quality starts to suffer. 800 will give you noticeable grain and ISO 1000 and above being pretty awful. And in general, the higher the megapixel the poorer the camera will be in terms of low light conditions. Another challenge with taking low light shots is that the camera will take a long exposure to compensate and since most people hand hold their cameras, these types of shots usually result in blurry pictures just because the shooter's hand is moving slightly. An easy tip is to use a tripod or stabilize the camera and use the timer function to take a jiggle free picture.

I'll be going to go see it tomorrow morning, can't wait!

unless you're specifically trying to play with depth of field, in good sunlight a nicer subcompact camera can take outstanding pictures.

love that last shot of the vf-1s.

seriously, that pose reminds me of the superman sketch in Kingdom Come.

most impressive.

Sorry, ishtar making up music makes much more sense than her mistaking an off the factory floor tourist attraction on a world that's been turned into the "Earth Amusement Park" as some mythical ship. By trying to bring Mac II into the mainstream continuity you've so thoroughly gutted it of any value. It is what is... having it take place in an alternate reality doesn't detract from the story at all while trying to fold it into regular continuity massively changes the story to the point where the characters no longer have the same motivations and come off as just being some deranged lunatics.

but it wouldn't explain why sylvie and hibiki believed ishtar that the the Macross was the Aluce or whatever. She would say, "Omg, this the Deux Ex Machina of legend!" and then Hibiki would say, "Nah, it's just the sdf-3: the giant coincidence"

Yeah, the first few releases couldn't take the FAST packs. Those got re-released as combo packs with the changes and the FAST packs. There was some debate here that yamato should release FAST packs that just came with the appropriate limbs... I think it was just the legs that needed to be retooled and since the ver 1 1/60 vf-1 had removable (and by that I mean you had to take them off to transform it to battroid) many people thought yamato should take advantage of that and just issue replacement legs instead. I honestly didn't expect to see Bandai making a similar mistake.

1/72 yf-21 and the original 1/60 vf-1.

huh... have to rebuy the valk to get the fast packs on? It IS just like yamato 10 years ago... I guess this will be the one I'd get.

Because I have nothing new to add...

yup, looking forward to big junk car robot basketball action!

not talking about how we perceive it, i'm talking about the internal logic of the characters in the show. The big climactic scene between the three principle characters gets short changed by making it something other than the SDF-1 and that's not possible unless it's on earth unless you create another level of conceit that the SDF-1 is on some pan-colony tour.

ugh. I worked in a building where a rat up and died up in the ceiling without anyone noticing.... one day it started raining maggots from between the ceiling tiles...

I love that hikaru has is aiming at the AC vent like he's expecting something bad to fall out of it at any moment.