Seto Kaiba
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Dunno... fold quartz is apparently something the Vajra mine from dead stars and process biomechanically using V-type bacteria. It's possible the New UN Spacy could find a way to refine the raw materials by themselves if they really wanted to.
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Hell if I know... presumably something to do with fold waves or something like that, since fold quartz is what makes the ISC go. The early prototype handled 2G for ~5 seconds... the production model in the VF-25 apparently handles 27.5G for 120 seconds.
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In the YF-24.
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's far as I'm aware, the EX-Gear doesn't actually play any (direct) role in the reduction of g-force loads. It's just a more advanced and precise control system that works by a mixture of conventional controls and monitoring nerve impulses in the pilot's muscles, and combines that with an advanced self-learning feature to memorize the user's habits for precision control. All in all, it's supposed to provide the sensation of "wearing" a variable fighter, while also doubling as an ejection seat and powered suit/EVA equipment. To put it succinctly, if Gundam's your thing it might be easier to think of the military version of EX-Gear as a core fighter you can wear. The only mention of it helping to reduce g loads I can find is that it supposedly automatically changes the angle of the seat to optimize the pilot's g-force resistance. The civilian models (yes, plural) aren't nearly as full-featured, and presumably don't confer all of the benefits of military grade equipment (mostly notably lacking the self-learning function and having shorter operation times). The system that's supposedly responsible for reducing the bulk of the g-force burden on the pilot and the airframe is the Inertia Store Converter, which apparently siphons off excess inertia beyond what the pilot and airframe can stand and converts it into "dimension distortion field energy" before slowly returning it to the plane at manageable (and survivable) levels. It's apparently the more capable cousin of the inertia vector control system used on the Q-Rau and YF-21/VF-22. EX-Gear alone probably wouldn't have done anything for Guld...
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Eh... they sorted that in later generation suits, where the beak of the visor was made from clear plastic or some kind of OTM analogue for same. Either way, the pointy beak of the helmet is supposedly where they house the sensors for the optically-cued targeting system. On examination of a few other sources, I would hazard a guess that the enlarged shoulders and the bulky bits around the lower legs house some of the machinery for the powered motion assist system that the DYRL suit supposedly had, and that subsequent models presumably had as well. That's just me having a shot in the dark though...
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Newbie Questions thread merge, here we come... That's a very good question though... one I don't think we have an answer for. I know in DYRL they're shown glowing in the dark, presumably as some kind of rescue beacon/"watch me for safety" light. On certain fighters (mostly the VF-22 and the Macross II ones) the shoulder pads are used as part of the pilot's restraints, but that doesn't seem to hold true for most designs. On some suits, like the Macross M3 one and the Macross Plus one, they seem to be practically cosmetic (though I would guess they still glow in the dark). I'd guess the small and flat ones on the 2050s era suit are probably attachment points for EX-Gear, but the rest is kind of a mystery... it's also worth nothing that not ever design has them. Most of the ones in Macross 7 don't, nor do the VF-22's suit, the Feios's suit, etc.
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Oh, that? Yeah, that outcome wasn't a surprise. In my experience, most Robotech fans are perfectly happy to accept baseless speculation as though it were fact... so long as it supports whatever crackpot point they think they're proving. Robotech was without an official source of information for so long that most fans don't want to accept the official source because it doesn't agree with the last fifteen years of fanon, pet theories, and utterly baseless speculation. It certainly doesn't help that many Robotech fans are used to American style SF, wherein any materials outside the show itself are "Expanded Universe" and therefore automatically non-canon. They're so used to having no facts to go on that the very idea of being able to back your claims up with documented evidence is practically an alien concept... and having a fan-site base its stats on official stats is essentially an impossibility in Robotech, so I suppose their confusion is understandable. Nah, let's hold off on that until I've invented something really useful... like a way to smite Robotech fans over TCP/IP.
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Nah... as big a pack of idiots and apefaces as they are, there are other reasons why some Macross shows would be difficult to license and distribute outside of Japan. Likewise, if the property owners for Battletech and MechWarrior stayed away from the "unseen" mecha, HG would have no grounds to complain or interfere. In practical terms, there's nothing stopping distributors outside those regions where HG has trademarks on the Macross name and logo from licensing other Macross shows. There are a few roadblocks related to the cost of licensing the music that make obtaining Macross 7 and likely Macross Frontier as well a tricky and expensive proposition. Since HG has covered the major nations where dubbing and distribution is handled, they've pretty effectively shut out Macross from most countries. Essentially zero... unless Warner decides that Robotech is going to be the next big thing (fat chance, since they seem to be sitting on their hands waiting for the license to expire), that's unlikely to happen.
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He's not the only one... even though he can't post here anymore, MEMO's best buddy Maverick_LSC is still periodically creeping this thread and my profile here to see what I've been saying about Robotech and Harmony Gold, and what I think is a feature on dougbendo's podcast so frequently that there've probably been more Robotech fan podcasts about me than Carl Macek and Tommy Yune put together by now. I'm even a frequent topic for discussion on the other lunatic conspiracy theory podcast run by JuanRT. Seems like I'm the one guy the entire Robotech lunatic fringe is obsessing over. It's like being that fruity f**ker from Twilight, except it's ugly dateless men obsessing over me instead of ugly dateless girls and neglected housewives.
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MEMO is short for MEMO1DOMINION... he's one of thought police/volunteer moderators on robotech.com and the owner/admin of robotechx.com. He's a long-time wanna-be bigshot in the Robotech fandom who has done a lot of backstabbing and taking credit for the handiwork of others to raise his stock in the eyes of Tommy Yune. He's one of the worst of Robotech's die-hard lunatic fringe, and the slanderer-in-chief holding Bendo and JuanRT's strings. He's reportedly doing all this because he thinks if he kisses Tommy's ass hard enough he'll land himself a job at Harmony Gold. Word has it his Robotech obsession was even the reason his wife divorced him...
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The most recent example was February 2010, when Harmony Gold put the screws to the almost-finished Robotech Genesis, a fan-made animated Robotech feature... sent them a cease and desist letter demanding they stop use of the Robotech name and images similar to those in the 1985 Robotech TV series. You can read the piece on Kena Cubed about it here or the RobotechX news piece on it here. Yeah... when UEG first received the cease and desist order, MEMO contacted UEG Productions to claim that I had used my influence at Harmony Gold to have the project shut down for some unclear and petty reason. As soon as the news became public, he changed his story and started claiming that the irregularities in the cease and desist order were because I had faked the documents to trick them into shutting down. Later, I ended up having a chat with UEG's head honcho and he assured me he wasn't buying MEMO's BS for a second, and he filled me in on what really went down.
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Yeah... but unlike the problem children we're "at war" with overseas, this nutjob's grip on reality is so tenuous that he actually thinks his views are that of the majority and that he's a respected and admired spokesman for the entire Robotech fandom. I'd say he just can't tell the difference between "laughing with" and "laughing at", but his problems are deeper than that. I'm no clinical psychologist, but you don't need a Psy.D to see that he's got a massive inferiority complex, that he's trying to compensate for his humiliating minimum wage job and lack of a future by being an internet tough guy, and that he has a penis fixation so pronounced that even Sigmund Freud would've found it excessive. As I see it, his tendency to ignore niceties like spelling and grammar to the winds and typing like someone in dire need of a copy of "English for Dummies" is the least of his problems. Totally... if half the stuff they said about me were true, Robotech wouldn't be in the state it's in today. If I had the kind of clout they say I do, I wouldn't be wasting my time using it to get Harmony Gold's lawyers to put the kibosh on fan films. I'd have long since scuttled the whole worthless franchise and sold the rights to the three original shows off to someone with a working brain. Of course, I'd also have to worry about the upkeep costs and landscaping for my suburban volcano doom fortress and legion of witless minions. If you're really serious about having their behavior examined, I know a guy who could help... he doesn't have his degree yet, but he's a senior level student in a good clinical psychology program.
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What's your favorite manga series?
Seto Kaiba replied to CrusherJ's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Hm... presently, my favorites are Macross the First, B Gata H Kei, and Trinity Blood. -
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Believe it or not, what you're reading is Bendo on his best behavior and at his most balanced. To him, it probably is... mind you, he's probably spending a substantial percentage of his own income on his Robotech-related activities. I understand he's pushing 30, lives at home with his mother, and works full time as a "sales floor associate" at a BestBuy in Ohio.
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Woah... now that is a new experience, hearing about another site's online drama on MacrossWorld that I'd first heard about ages ago from my father of all people. To be honest, I wasn't aware there was still anything like activity on that site. The few old time Robotech fans I still talk to nowadays usually described RDF HQ as a ghost town, and I see it's not without cause. Looks like that one isolated drama thread is about the only sign that the place hasn't completely dried up and died. There's too much concentrated stupid in that thread for me to consider giving it a thorough read-through though.
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No, I'm not... remember, the super fold booster's main improvement (aside from being able to pass through fold faults) is that it eliminates the disparity between subjective time and objective time. If the time displacement for conventional fold travel was the old 1:240, "a tenth" would have been a dramatic understatement. Luca wasn't talking about a super fold booster when he described the difference between subjective and objective time as a rough 1:7 when he was describing travelling to Gallia IV, he was talking about getting there by conventional fold travel. (and, in the context of Leon's later remarks in that same episode, it would seem the overall travel time in subjective and objective terms is overlong because of the fault surface, not one or the other)
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True... I suppose it would probably be safer to err towards the higher of the estimates to approximate covering that distance in a single fold jump rather than two with downtime in the middle. Still, an approximation is a nice thing to have... True again... 's why I cited increments of ~1000ly for a long-distance trip, since that's the longest known (planned but not executed) fold jump explicitly mentioned in Macross. They were charging up for a substantial period of time just to fold the Frontier that distance... I doubt that any ship could store the necessary amounts of energy to fold tens or hundreds of thousands of light years in a single jump. Huh... oh well. On reflection, the 1:7 figure cited by Luca makes a good deal more sense in the context of his later description of the fold booster as making the galaxy "a tenth" the size it once was. 's still not a bad setup, that'd make the trip from Earth to Eden about two and a half hours subjective, not much different from a bog standard commuter flight. When you can think about it like that, it really gives you a feel for the scale of the thing... Thanks for pointing that out, I completely missed that somehow.
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I didn't... I was trying to err on the side of caution with my estimate of speed. Huh... I'd just gone with the figure I had on hand at the time. I don't recall the Chronicle sheet being all that precise about the time differential between the real time and subjective time, though it has been a while since I reviewed it. I'll go back to check and, if necessary, redo my math. EDIT: On re-examination, Macross Frontier's dialogue seems to posit a difference of 1:7 rather than 1:240, thought a change that significant doesn't make much sense. Gonna try to confirm with other sources... EDIT #2: 'kay... it's confirmed, but the wording isn't exactly clear. Luca attributes the unusually long (7 day) travel time to a large fold fault, but it's unclear whether the fold fault is the reason for the longer subjective AND objective time, or a larger disparity between the two... can you shed any light on this sketchley? Either way, the distance elapsed over objective time hasn't changed, so the drive speed math ought to be sound... it's just the subjective time estimates that need to be recalibrated (possibly).
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I don't see any reason why fold communications would be impeded by being outside the galaxy. Yes, if you're willing to work out the distance-over-time math on your own... I've no idea where they got that 1ly/6min equivalency, because as far as I know it has no basis in canon. Thanks to some helpful info from the Worldguide sheet for Eden in Macross Chronicle that establishes how long it takes to cover the 11.7 light year distance between Eden and Earth (18-24 hours) we can establish a mean fold velocity of approximately 4,884 times the speed of light. With the approximate differential between real time and experienced time stated by Misa in Super Dimension Fortress Macross, we can estimate that the crew would experience roughly 5 minutes and 15 seconds during the 21 hour fold jump. (The velocity derived from distance over time has a pretty wide range, being as fast as 5,698c or as slow as 4,273c, in the interest of expediency, I'm just going to split it down the middle and use 21 hours) Using the above-noted mean velocity of 4,884c for conventional fold travel (11.7ly in 21 hours), it would take over 409 years (real time) of continuous fold travel to cover the 2 million light year distance to Andromeda. If that were done in one continuous fold (certainly impossible, due to the geometric progression of energy consumption) the crew would only experience about 1 year and 257 days as a result of the time differential... barring any fold faults or anything like that. Realistically, they'd probably find it impossible without using a zero-time fold engine. It'd take months between jumps to charge the drive for ~1000ly increments, and probably take centuries to get there even if they had the fuel to pull it off. If they DID use a zero-time fold engine to get there, it'd take the aforementioned ~1.7 years of continuous fold travel to get there.
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Anime mod, looking for resources - willing to share
Seto Kaiba replied to genocyber's topic in Fan Works
I'm more curious as to who they're using as a face for the Dominion of Ishtar up there... it's clearly a Mamoru Nagano design, maybe Mecorr Litra from Five Star Stories? -
Hm... a toss-up between B Gata H Kei, Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, and Seitokai Yakuindomo. Honorable mention to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, since it started airing in '09, but continued into '10. Dishonorable mention to K-On!! and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya for being absolute garbage. To be honest, I don't think there was one... or if there was, it certainly wasn't coming out of Hollywood. In my experience, the best thing on TV these days is the Off button. The best series still airing new material during 2010? Probably Dirty Jobs. Probably Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood... beautifully-designed game engine wasted on an utterly mediocre game. Huh... I'd say the latest iteration of the Zune HD. Don't collect that sort of thing...
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Rough 1-ply nothing... if they handle it the way they handled the Maia Sterling MPC, it'll be a roll of 40 grit sandpaper.
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Eh... I think you're being overly generous. There were reportedly a fair few Robotech fans who were willing to return their Maia MPCs to be exchanged for the "fixed" version with even more manufacturing problems which came from the very same factory as the earlier defective version and which Harmony Gold promised that they wouldn't use. Knowingly purchasing a badly designed and poorly manufactured product just because it's the only one available is NOT the mark of a discerning consumer. If someone's putting out poor quality products, you're not supposed to buy them for shits and giggles. You're supposed to look elsewhere for someone who knows how to make a higher quality product. I really wish the average Robotech fan was as discerning and intelligent as you want them to be. I really do. It would solve a LOT of Robotech's problems. The sad truth is that, based on my own experiences, you often give them far more credit than they deserve. Indeed... in the past year or so, I've seem a marked increase in the exodus of frustrated and betrayed fans looking for something of actual quality instead of more dreary Robotech-as-reimagined-by-Tommy-Yune mess coupled with empty promises.
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Oh, now you've done it... just you watch, a year from now that'll be their next big merchandising innovation: Robotech toilet paper.
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Huh... if this latest Robotech project really is a dub of Love Live Alive, then I can only assume it's some kind of homage to all the other horrible creative decisions they've made in the last 25 years. Kind of a late "25th Anniversary Screw-Up Spectacular". I can't imagine another terribad rewrite would go over very well in this day in age... Granted, the promo art that Tommy was so mad about having leaked via cell phone wouldn't make much sense if the film were Love Live Alive. All the same, when has Harmony Gold ever let good business sense get in the way of jerking fans around and making a quick buck off of their nostalgia-blinded fans? It's entirely possible that Tommy's promo pic was something he did years ago for Shadow Chronicles and never got around to showing. He certainly didn't put much effort into designing a logo for the 25th anniversary...