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dude, calm down, I'm referring to your own example: So who would have ripped me off then? Santa Claus? Obviously you must be telling me the seller got ripped off, right? Look, we can't see your face or your expressions or the tone of your voice. We can only go by what you write. If you write something to be inflamatory, you can't get angry at us when we read that way and maybe have a reaction thats different from what you intended. Anyways... moving along. I got my order from Kevin today. Box is a little dinged up, but oh well. I like it. The shoulders are pretty scary and I use the same amount of care as when I handle my vf-0 toys. The swing bar latch on the fuselage is a bit tricky to work with. The balance is good, especially when the FAST packs are attached and I like the extram gimble on the strike cannon to allow for the 90 degree angle in battroid. Paint job is great, nice and clean, no sprays or overpaints. I still don't like the proportions in fighter or gerwalk mode... after the 1/48, the nise just feels too short, though it maybe the case that the back of the fighter is actually too long... shrug. Overall, personally, I don't like this new version enough to rebuy any of the 1/48's I own (other than the focker 1s) so I'll probably end up limiting any future purchases to the two seaters and maybe some non canon paint schemes if they ever get around to them.

okay... so how about if FTL travel is possible through jump points, but emerging from the jump point is dependent on the mass of the object coming through. Time for small objects such as fighters is functionally instantaneous but larger ships can take several seconds to minutes for the largest ships like carriers. Jump points can be more or less anywhere but have to be somewhere relatively free of gravitational pull so ships can't just pop into atmosphere for instance and for planets with moon(s), the jump entry point is always the opposite side of the planet from the moon or if multiple moons, the jump entry point needs to be well outside of the well. More developed planets, installations use gravity well generators to force entry points to occur in specific locations, defended by fortified stations. Since capital ships take so long to emerge, they're sitting ducks for the stations so snub fighters are sent in before hand to take out the station or the gravity well generators to allow the capital ships to jump in and do the real damage.

Well, when you say things like so and so got ripped off by a seller... well, those can be fighting words considering how few sellers there are and most of these guys are small time and we actually know them. People like Kevin and Tam and even some of the HK guys post here or communicate with us... so understandably, it can cause people to stand up to defend them. Honestly though, if you use loaded words and phrases, you shouldn't upset when other people call you on them or ask you to explain yourself.

Well, give us more of a frame work... how much of a lower tech level? Is FTL possible? Are we fighting in solar system? Are these warring colony ships? Here's one, colony ships leave an unihabitable earth. The ships travel at slower then light speed and are generational. They're all headed for the same planet, the only habitable planet Earth scientists found before the launch. There's not enough fuel to change course even if a new planet were found. The ship's population quickly sort themselves out by ethnic and religious loyalites... those not loyal are mostly flushed out the air lock. Manufacturing is limited as resources are limited. No one wants to risk using the large ship for combat since they're not designed for it. The colony ships were launched about 3 months apart from each other. The ship that is dead last is the most aggressive and the most interested in ethnic cleansing. The colony ships can produce their own scouting and mining ships. These were intended to capture small asteroids and mine them for metal, water and needed gasses as the colony ships aren't 100% self sufficient and still need to account for the increasing populations. The colonsits use these basic ships to create snub fighters to raid the other colony ships. The smaller ships are able to accelerate faster and thus make up the distance given how slowly the colony ships are moving. The goal of the colonists, survive, protect the colony ship, stop the other relgions from successfully colonizing the new planet and thus establish their long dreamt of theocracy. There are several targets, each other's resource mining ships, manufacturing bays, and eventually capital ship construction ships. Idealy, the colonsits realize that rather than simply destroy each other's colony ship, it would be better to board and cleanse the ship and use it for their own population overflow. Capital ships can be introduced later on, but given their size and lack of manufacturing infrastructure, are expensive and take a long time to build, thus the various factions are hesitent to use them in direct combat. Populations are relatively high and stressing the colony ships ability to support them, so lives are rather cheap, resources and manufacturing is limited, motivation is high.

I wonder what her "special attack" would be... Glad this game is coming out on the 360, I loved the campy fun of the first red alert game.

you know, its these outrageous claims that somehow bandai can repeal the laws of nature, that they can make everything perfect with no compromises... over and over again, that make people want to post up stuff like how meh they are about this.

well, it seems to me yamato was willing to sacrifice playability and even durability for the sake of being as true as possible to the art where Bandai is putting more of an emphasis on the "toy" qualities, because it's pretty obvious from the 1/72 model that they're perfectly capable of making an line art faithful version of the vf-25

I don't think that was the "twist" at all, it's probably in ME2 where we'll get the big twist that changes everything... since this story was planned as a trilogy to begin with.

meh, I'll wait till it gets released on BD. I'm a fan of the series, but honestly, the last few seasons really took some of the luster off for me. Though, I do have to say, some of my all time favorite x-files episodes (the one with the insurance salesman who saw how people died, I love)had to do with psychics, so who knows.

well, I hope so. The bar was raised pretty high in ME and I have to say, it's been my favorite 360 game so far.

Yeah, so wolverine was born at the end of the 19th century, so he's a little over 100 years old. Which doesn't quite line up with the "classic" feudal period of Japan... but there were still some samurai and what not in the early 1900's so maybe he just found an isolated pocket of samurai... kinda like tom Cruise did (snicker). so the other wolverine origins, like him being an american indian child who was raised by wolves are apparantly false. Not quite, creed might be Dog who is the son of Logan the groundskeeper or creed might be Dog's son since when we see Dog all grown up, he still has the scars from when James (wolverine) slashed his face. I have no idea how or if that figures into the new revelation that Creed and Wolverine aren't humans or mutants at all but that feral-quasi-human-race thingie (apparantly they're called "lupines")... of which apparantly all the "feral" mutants like feral and wildchild and wolfsbane belong to.

Wow... that's a nice case you made for it! I suppose I would too if i had one.

I still wouldn't say I got ripped off, maybe I paid too much but I wasn't ripped off. I paid, what I thought was a fair price and I got the item I was promised. But look, just because you got a better deal then me, doesn't mean I was ripped off. Ripped off comes with all sorts of implied meanings.. it's a loaded word.

The "fatal attractions" series sets up his bone claws and the Wolverine: Origin book gives you his origin story.

No, getting "ripped off" means you don't get what you expected or promised when you put down your money. for instance, you're promised a rolex but get a cheap HK piece of crap, you've been ripped off. You knowingly pay top dollar for the same piece of crap HK knock off, you weren't ripped off, you're just stupid.

Yeah... Loebs done some good stuff, mostly in the past, mostly on Batman... but his recent run at Marvel is just horrible beyond description.

you're making a big assumption that the weight is due solely on the beam weapons... there's a correlation but no evidence of causality. Anyways, you guys are missing one huge advantage a laser main weapon affords... staying power. With unlimited ammunition, a valks time on the battlefield isn't limited to the valk's ability to deliver ordinance but on the pilot's endurance. This makes actions like sending in a squad behind enemy lines much more feasible since they don't have to worry as much about conserving ammunition or attempting to resupply. As for not giving ballistics the benefit of the doubt... who says I'm not? I completely accept the fact that the ammunition in macross can be reconfigured in the span of a couple of days to be able to become 100% effective against armor/materials that they were 0% effective against earlier. I even accept that they have some sort of magic auto calibration system that works 100% of the time they mount and unmount the gunpod (the phantom's gunpod was magnificently inaccurate at first)... remember, given the distances involved, something like .05 degree off alignment could have a HUGE effect on the trajectory of the rounds, spray or no spray... And I still fail to see how any spray at point of origin is going to mean a better chance to hit the target at range, as a tiny deviation at the start of the trajectory would mean that the round travels meters off target. given a valk's ability to remain light weight and carry shield emiiters which have been shown to be energy intensive and be able to use those PPB for extended duration, I see no reason why a similarly lightweight power source couldn't be used for beam weaponry. And who says a laser weapon can't be in the form of a gunpod? All you need is a power coupling in the grip or better, an onboard power source. Also, if you want to talk about versitility, a laser weapon that can dynamically shift its frequency would be very useful for burning down different targets.

Logan was the name of the groundskeeper who was having an affair with his mom. Logan the groundskeeper looked just like Wolverine btw... so there's speculation that Logan is James' real father... and some people think that Dog, logan's son, is actually sabertooth. The writers aren't saying and I stopped caring. So, after onslaught, a bunch of stuff happens, mostly useless, eventually House of M happens where Wanda goes bonkers and decides to make a perfect world where everyone gets their wish and James ends up with all his memories. There's this mutant girl who realizes it's all an illusion and she and James and and Spidey and some of the more popular mutants wake up and take out Wanda but at the end, Wanda wishes for "no more mutants" and so when reality comes back, like 99% of the world's mutants are gone, just normal humans. James still has his memory. A bunch of stuff happnes and Sabertooth goes apeshit bonkers and kills off feral and almost kills sasquatch and goes on a rampage. Wildchild gets a major upgrade and kicks both their asses. James doesn't care and comes back with deux ex machina sword and cuts sabertooth into pieces... the sword prevents their healing factor from working and is suposedly the one thing that can actually kill these guys. During this arc, it's revealed that Wolverine and Sabertooth are the representatives of dark haired and blonde haired animal warrior human things... and they've been fighting since the dawn of whenever and that, like highlander, there can be only one. You also find out that there's actually some super version of them named Romulus who's like the ultimate version of the "people" that James and Creed belong to.. this Romulus guy was apparantly the *real* baddie behind weapon X (sigh). Other developments, Winter Soldier (bucky) was the guy who actually freed James from Weapon X... despite all of us having read Weapon X where James is responsible for freeing James from Weapon X. Wolverine has a son who's completely nuts. Winter Soldier helps James defeat his son and apparantly his son is going to go get therapy. You also find out that the reason James can't die is that he fights some spirit thing in limbo and if he beats spirit thing, he gets to come back and if he loses, then he dies for sure for sure. Some stuff happens, but the end result is, now if James dies, he really really dies. And supposedly his healing factor isn't as strong now. So there you have it. James isn't really a mutant but the warrior designate of a parallel race of animalistic warrior sapiens, locked in an endless battle since the dawn of time for the "brown haired" side previously aided by some spirit in Limbo. It's amazing... because I think his "real" story is even more stupid than making him a mutant wolverine.

who's arguing? We're just having fun with the giant tangled mess it is.

wolverine's past was revealed to readers as the Origin miniseries.. I wanna say 2002ish, and now Wolverine knows everything thanks to the House of M.

Well, why do electronics get hot? Because of the inefficencies in our conductive elements. the inefficiencies get turned into heat. I'd like to think that given all the other advances that OT allowed, more efficient capacitors/transformers wouldn't be too much of a stretch. And the reason why we even use those is to jump up the energy we have to levels necessary to generate a laser. But given the functionally unlimited amount of energy that a valk's thermonuclear reactor provides... well, that's not much of an issue. As for a lasers environmental durability, much easier to seal a box with no moving parts then it is to seal a system which is inherently open to the environment (casings and exhaust) and again, cartrdiges can jam and or be duds. As for a gunpod and accuracy... again, which is harder, training a pilot to learn how to lead a target (even in the relatively short distances on earth, pilots need to lead a target to allow for the time a bullet needs to travel to its target), account for wind and gravity and the kick from the actual firing of the weapon, or pointing at a target and hitting it instantaneously? Or, if you've ever fired a firearm... which is harder, shinning a flashlight on the target or firing off three rapid fire rounds and getting a tight grouping? Now, try a moving target, what's easier, following a target with a flashlight, or firing the gun and accurately predicting where the target will be a split second after you've fired? The ability to predict where the target will be only increases as distances increase where as the distances would need to be enormously vast in order for lag to play a role when it comes to a laser. And let's talk about the destructive power of a bullet versus a laser. If a bullet hits a flamable chemical, what happens? Nothing, unless there's a spark around, no combustion. You could shoot a gas tank or a chemcial reactant and there would be no effect other than rupturing the tank. You hit that same system with a laser and instant combustion and boom, the ship/missile/whatever goes up from internal secondary explosions. Not to mention the laser warping or simply distintergrating whatver it hits. Whereas with a bullet, there's a great chance that it's not going to hit anything and pass through the target. And beam weapons aren't fictional. We have a variety of beam weapons, we're even mounting them on planes to act as mobile anti missile platforms. So sure, there are drawback to real world lasers. Slow recharge time, enormous energy requirments and rather large mechanisms needed... but we're talking about macross where people not only figured out sustainable fusion (with temperatures higher than the surface of the sun) but decided to stick them in transforming fighters. I don't think expecting them to shrink and perfect lasers is out of the question.

don't forget pollution and ethnic tensions!

nah, he knew he had claws, he and rose took off to live in some mining camp after his pa got murdered and his mom blew her face off with a shot gun and he clawed up dog's face and then killed logan the grounds keeper who was sleeping with his mom. Then he accidentaly killed rose while fighting with grown up dog who was still angry about having big scars across his face and *then* he forgot he had claws.

the only thing that really wrong with the yamato is the hip joint. If bandai could just make that work so that the shuttle mode didn't look like it was about to lose its wings, it would be an instant classic.

oh... that sucks. I was hoping for more freqent releases since they don't need to work on the engine as much between releases.