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I'd love to play a kotor based MMO... but with an 18 month running around, I just don't have the type of time and concentration needed to properly party up and raid. And if games like WoW and EQ are anything to judge by, the content for casual non raiders is sadly lacking. I personally don't find grinding and selling mats worth 15 bucks a month. But for the rest of you who'll get to play this game (if there is one) all I can say is I'm pretty jealous!

did it take this long for the season 2 dvds?

haha, I'm right there with you. I've been dreaming of a perfect yf-21 ever since I first saw Mac+.

are you sure? it looks like a korean translation of a japanese show to me.

wolverine = button masher's dream come true. which is probably why x-men vs. street fighter is also my favorite 2D fighting game.

it would have to be a jetfire as well. Even though I knew about Macross my folks weren't well off and couldn't affored the pricier Bandai valks. So when I saw that jetfire was a repaint, I bugged my parents endlessly to get it for me. I got it as a birthday present and I loved the thing. I would fly it around the house doing barrell rolls and waging war against my other robot toys. Eventually I played with it to death. The clips on the arm armor broke off, the rear tail fins snapped off and the whole thing yellowed from being left out in the sun too long. I still loved it though, and left it on my bookshelf, when I went away to university my parents threw it out, thinking it was trash. That ended up being the primary motivation for me to buy my first yamato valk, as a way for me to regain a lost part of my childhood. Maybe one day I'll pony up the money and get a proper replacement for my Jetfire, but then again, sentimentality only goes so far for me.

Have you considered models? Or commissioning them?

no way am I posting my record after yours . that's a pretty awesome record you got there. your k/d ratio is pretty impressive

ah cool, hellboy was a lot of fun and I thought the translation from page to screen was done really well.

that's what I recal, you're a security officer on some ship and there's some crazy AI manipulating aliens.

well, this is the problem you get when you start trying to interpret scenes outside of context. The whole montage, right up to the ending with the yf-19 blowing the holy hell out of the monster was to show the yf-19 kicking butt. That's the short and simple of it. Having an interpretation that contradicts what is obviously and repeatedly shown on screen is certainly not a valid one. Macross Plus may have been vague on somethings, but from the opening sequence, Isamu is shown to be an ace pilot, reckless and daring. Every other scene in the show reinforces this. Guld is shown doing some amazing things and then immediately we are shown isamu doing the same thing in a more extreme or more handicapped way. For instance, guld dodges a myriad missiles, wow guld is great! But then isamu does the same thing, in an older fighter with two big giant rockets strapped to it. The obvious inference is that isamu is not just equal to guld but better. The graph just visually reinforces what the rest of the show was craming down our throats.

oh yeah? well my bestest is any number YOU can think of +1, so there!

it may make sense if it was isolated, but as part of the montage, it's clearly designed to show that the yf-19 team was pulling ahead of the yf-21. Every shot in that montage showed isamu doing everything first and doing it better/ in a more extreme way. Frankly, the simplest explanation is the one to go with when watching visual media and the simplest explanation is that isamu was kicking guld's butt. Besides, even if you want to say it was isamu completing the various tests before guld, all of the yf-19's ready checks were ahead of the yf-21's in the graph. Every single one and 2 or three are completed while NONE of the yf-21's were. Again, the deciding factor is isamu. And yeah, I will argue that isamu was a better pilot than guld, but it's pretty clear that the yf-21/vf-22 was the superior valk.

I was just wondering why people make such a fuss over the 1j being released with the fast packs?

again, why? guld was flying just fine during the dogfight when he was all out raging. It only appears that the BDI needs consistancy not a vulcan. And if being emotionless was so important, why choose a pilot who needed to take pills to calm his nerves? There is simply no on screen evidence to support the claim that the 21 needs an emotionless pilot. Some of guld's best moves happen during the end dog fight between him and isamu where isamu is constantly goading guld and guld becomes increasingly infuriated and frustrated. During the initial high manuvering missile test, guld also displays arrogance and pride, but here also the BDI reads him just fine. Again, the only time the BDI doesn't read guld is when guld's mind becomes fractured and repressed, uncontrolled/unfocused emtions come out. During all of guld's other emotional outbursts, he remains focused to the job and is able to pilot the 21 quite successfully.

modern day planes do have limiters, the B-47 famously had mechanical limiters on the throttle so that pilots wouldn't shake the thing apart while flying.

I didn't get that at all, guld showed plenty of emotion, emotion was not the problem. Certainly when guld and isamu were dogfighting, guld showed just as much emotion as isamu and in the final missile volley against isamu, guld was outright in a fit of rage. I'd just like to point out, that Isamu, on the other hand, was never shown in cockpit as consumed by his emotions as guld. The problems arose when repressed feelings or repressed impluse came bubbling up. The first time when isamu confronted guld and the repressed memories of guld's attempted rape of myung started to surface, and the second time, it was a repressed urge that the BDI system acted upon. Neither of those situations would have happened with isamu who didn't have any repressed emtions/impluses.

no. 2 for me: 1/100 yamato konig POS. no. 3 1/60 yamato vf-1 no. 4 1/60 yamato vf-0s

got my copy at the local target (newark CA) and they had maybe a hundred copies of the deluxe package sitting around... for anyone not able to find one.

but the problem with guld was that he had repressed emotions and thoughts he ccouldn't deal with. Isamu was never shown to have such a problem. Again, I think that isamu would have no problem with the BDI system simply because he's already an instinctive pilot and one who is able to pre-visualize his moves. He's never shown day dreaming during flight nor does he have any repressed emotions/impluses like Guld has. Guld was clearly shown to have a much more fractured and compartmentalized psyche than isamu and yet he was able to pilot the yf-21 just fine.

M&M both flew VF-1Js in SDFM and they both flew with fast packs. There's no reason why any other 1j couldn't fly with fast packs.

Actually, I think isamu would have been just as, if not more successful in the yf-21. Isamu was shown to be able to visualize complex flight moves and aerial acrobatics and translate his mental vision into actual flight with conventional controls. Why wouldn't he be able to do the same directly plugged into the valk? Just because he's wild and reckless doesn't mean he's any less focused than guld.

those are so awesome. I would love to have one walking around the place, picking up odd bits of lint and making and scaring the jebus out of my dog. then the baby would come along and throw it on the ground and yell out, "BALL!"

I would also like to ask yamato to re-think their pricing on the valks. They keep getting more and more expensive but the material quality and fit of the parts don't seem to be getting any better.

nope, watch the scene again, by the time the scene changes, the yf-19 was clearly superior in all categories, despite its uneven performance. The yf-21 WAS more even but didn't approach the scores the yf-19 was achieving. the yf-21's scores were barely in the green while several of the yf-19's scores were at the functional edge of the chart and all scores were clearly in the green. Given how poor the results of the yf-19's scores were pre-isamu and how high they were post, its pretty clear that isamu was the deciding factor in the yf-19's performance