Keith

Nah, it'll be a super rock ballad that Aimo is just the bridge to. Man I want tickets to that concert

I'm actually starting to believe Graces faction could be the Protoculture related groupo (instead of the Vajra) in the series. When you look at their crazy level of technology, cyber-conciousness, replacement bodies & the know-how to re-integrate into them, and of course, the dimension eater itself, that just seems a bit too far ahead of what Earth has developed. I'm not going to say SA, since really, their purpose would have been filled with the exiting fo the Protodevelin, and their mission would have been the capture of, not destruction of a human-like race. But at this point, It looks to me like the current state of the Vajra may have been a result of normal members of hte 117th foiling an earlier plot. Current theory is that they are remnats of one side of the Protoculture conflict who see humans as too close to the "lighter" side of the Protoculture, or perhaps just another PC influenced world (lost member of the Stellar Republic) who are some really tweaked mofo's. And really, all they'd have to do is sneak in as a Rogue Zentradi group to go unnoticed. Mind you, all I really have to base this on, aisde from their insane level of technology, is the comment about "500 thousand years of Protoculture history", which could be a translation error. But if that actually is the line, it seems a bit out of place for a normal "bad" human group.

Keep at it, I didn't get in until 2 in the morning when I got in, but it finally happened. The ISP randomizer sure as hell didn't help.

Finally got into the shop last night, and tryed out the new maps this morning. So far my favorite is the coppertown-whatever it is. Kinda like midtown maelstrom, but with a more western ghost town feel. Also a lot more hiding spots. The sewer one is interesting, complete with a couple swimming parts, and virtuous vista seems to be another level right out of the game, and has some nice wide open parts, with lots of tall grass.

He once admitted to me in a PM that he didn't really hate Basara that much, he just enjoyed the game of it.

Not bad at all as far as recap episodes go, though it still doesn't to flying bicycle. Alto is officially the luckiest center of a triangle in anime now with that duet going. I will say this though, if at some point Grace winds up killing Sheryl, I'll never be able to look at Beldandy again! Someone needs to stop her. Also, thought the next ep was titled

I'm just glad I went for knife mastery before they broke it. Considering you had to be smart enough to sneak into stun range before being caught, I don't see any reason to break the auto-lock feature for ground kills. Maybe if we write them enough they'll fix it in the next update....and hopefully voice chat too.

Someday....

I'll be paying for it as soon as I can get into the damned shop. And no, you don't have to buy a new character to change clothes, that will be handled through the rewards shop. Basically, as you play through rounds, you earn points, and those points can be applied to different clothing items at the rewards shop. Assumedly, you should be able to change in and out of items at your leisure once you've purchased them, but I'm not 100% sure on that, since I can't log into the shop to purchase the update.... In general, I like the new upgrades though, its much easier to see your connection status for one, but the knife has been severely gimped. The ability now exists to set up clan games, and assumedly clan vs games, so once we all get together, we'll be able to do that. And woohoo! I'm finally up to level 4!

Why would they disable higher compatability hardware, for lower compatability software? I'd believe downloadable for the low end models, but that's no reason to gimp the higher end models. Now downloadable import compatability is something i'd pay for.

For clues on how likely it is Kawamori will rap up Hikaru, Misa, & Minmay's story with a follow up OVA fo rmore closure see: -Escaflowne -Arjuna -Aquarion -The Daichi's

That sounds like a fat wad of BS to me. Besides, when HG refers to "creators" they're usually referring to Tatsunoko staff who had nothing to do with Macross.

Sony better have something epic lined up for TGS.

Even I've given up on that. and a hardy "boo!" at Bamco for not releasing Katamari & Ace Combat on the PS3.

Definately interesting news, though I wonder how far along they've gone on the PS3 developement side. I'd hate to see FFXIII turn into another xbox MGS2.

The PSP will play PS1 games (via remote play) from the same region that your PS3 is from. -Insert PS1 disc into PS3 -Make sure your PSP is registered for remote play -Connect PSP to PS3 via remote play -Play PS1 game on your PSP -Profit! The only use it has if if you leave the PS1 game in your PS3, leave your PS3 turned on & connected to a network, take your PSP someplace else that has wifi access, and remotely connect to your PS3..I think! With all taht said, I I'd gladly pay $20 dollars for a downloadable patch for the PS3 that lets you play import PS1/PS2 games, but still blocks out pirated games.

Meh, wasn't big on the first one, dont' see myself bothering with this one.

Trying watching it, made it most of the way with 20 minutes left, then stopped pretending to care & watched something else.

That was pretty awesome, if only there were more, and on DVD.

D pad works fine for the battle games, so it should be just as fine for ace frontier. As for the 40 fighters, my guesses would be VF-1A --Cannon Fodder --Max --DYRL Max --DYRL Hikaru --DYRL Kakizaki VF-1J --Full Aarmor --Hikaru --Max --Milia VF-1S --Roy --DYRL Max --DYRL Hikaru VF-11 --VF-11B VF-17 --VF-17S YF-19 VF-19 --VF-19S --VF-19 Kai YF-21 VF-22 --Max --Milia VF-25 --Alto --Ozma A Destroid or two Maybe a couple Varuta mecha Regult Glaug Quadran Rau We'll likely have to wait for the next revision for cooler stuff like Angel Bird varients, Pheyos, VF-9, VF-14, VF-5000, etc.

I actually agree, Sheryl does look a "lot" like Ranka's mother. At this point, I really wouldn't be surprised if she was a clone, one commissioned by Grace or Grace's party, to fill the role Ranka has taken. Regardless, she's still my pick for the winner in the triangle. Sure Ranka's pulled some major Alto points in the last couple episodes, but she hasn't touched Sheryl's "Misa-ness." Speakign of which, did anyone ever find that full Chunky Misa Doujin?.. Considering their ability to communicate with Ranka, and that much of their technology is PC based/incluenced, I really don't understand why the Vajra can't open up a comm channel to the Frontier fleet if they wantt to talk. We know Zentradi translator's exist, so it shouldn't be "too" difficult to exchange enough information for a translator between Vajra & human languages. But awesome explodyness all around this episode. it's going to be hard to top for the final episode big showdown.

Before I read back through the topic, I just finnished watching it, and PIN POINT BARRIER PPPPUUUNNNCCHH!!

What if Grace is like some kinda crazy Miang (Xenogars) type character. Some kinda psycho Protoculture AI remnant that was found with the Vajra.

I reconsile things this way, everything in the TV seires is 100% canon, but the Zentradi there do not represent the whole of Zentradi in the universe. TV, DYRL, & 7 give us plenty of info to wrap everythign into a neat little canon package, with Frontier continuing to solidify it. When you take into account the long history of the Protoculture, and the extended period that they used Zentradi, it's quite easy to accept that different generations of Zentradi had different clothing and or sihp/mecha variations. When looking at the TV seires incarnation of the Bodolza fleet by itself, we're met with the cunnundrum of why male & female Zentradi, though entirely seperate, are still rolled up into one larger fleet, with the only main difference between them being the color of their ships (green & purpole), and the mecha they use (Regult & Quadran Rau). At which point you have to wonder just what the hell the Protoculture were thinking by keeping the genders seperate, but still maintaining them in the same side of their fighting force. DYRL goes to lengths to correct this issue, showing us males & females on opposite ends of a conflict, with dramatically different ship designs, problem being they got complete wardrobe makovers too. In addition to that, the technology used by Bodolza is far more advanced & bio-mechanical. Then 7 comes along, and reconsiles the two issues. From that series we learn that yes, the males & females were used on opposite sides of the Protoculture conflict. But due to severe losses against the PD/SA, the civil war was resolved, and Zentradi fleets were combined to maximize firepower. In this instance, it's easy to see how a female battalian could come under Bodolza's command, and resources would result in male hardwar (capitol ships) would fall into female use, i.e. necessity required it. In different circumstances, such as the Chloe fleet, females would maintain standard issue equipment, i.e. the ship & uniform styles seen in DYRL. As you mentioned, an apparent anomoly in why Milia would hae her classic VF-1J, and TV series style uniform, in addition to Basara being portrayed with a DYRL styled uniform would seem to conflict at first. But then when you take into account that everything (including mecha & unform designs) did happen as of the 2009-2012 era, while mecha & unifrom designs advanced to the DYRL stage by the 2030 era, you have a clear reason of why both styles can appear together. Its the same issue when you look at the Zentradi in Frontier. Some here are shown with TV style unifroms, some shown with DYRL style unifforms, all apparently equipped with male paint varients of Quadran Rau. At first, the whole situation appears to be a contradiction, but when you take into account that the group could easily be combined of two different generations of Zentradi (one decended from an earlier generation that used TV style unifroms, one descended from a later generation that used DYRL style uniforms), and all likely getting provisional mecha allocations of what was available to them at the time, Q-Rau, you have an easy explanation of why things appear as they do. Yes, we all know the designs & concepts shown in DYRL weren't concieved of when the TV series first aired, and yes there was a period where Kawamori did state that both versions were alternate takes on the same universe (which isn't an uncommon practice at all in anime), he also wisely realized that there were plenty of fans of both interpretations, and alienatign either fanbase would be a mistake. That's why I believe when finaly being coerced into continuing the franchise, he took great care in bringing the two canons together in a believable manner. Not an easy thing to do, but I think it worked. So when the question comes up, was Bodolza's ship a giant space turd, or was he a head in a jar in a giant space venus fly trap, the answer is clearly he captained a giant space turd. However, in later years, the U.N. Spacy did come across giant fly traps lead by heads in jars, and with those being the more common of the Zentrradi fleets after SW1, that was the style depicted in DYRL. For all we know, Bodolza had the last giant space turd ship that Earth has seen, and with that being of an older design, it would be the less common type to come across. The same may be true for female lfeets, likely not many remained that had been integraded into male fleets, with the more common rogue type being of the more familiar Meltran DYRL style designs. While we don't have any source clearly stating that the Protoculture made different generations of Zentradi tech, we do have information showing that the Protoculture did seek to escelate their combat ability (Evil), so its not so much of a leap to believe that they'd try to imprve the Zentradi hardware in succesive generations. My long winded point is that there doesn't need to be a fracture between oldschool/newschool Macross fans. Enough care was taken to reconsole the different canons so that we can have sequals like 7 & Frontier that appael to both. But then some people will never be happy, wanting things either one way, or another way. Me, I'm fine believing that the Macross was red white & blue, with the Daedelus & Prometheus until 2012, when it was refitted to be bigger, silver, & had newly built ARMD carriers. I'm also fine believing that the Laplamiz fleet flew in purple Zentradi turds under Bodolza's command, but other "unmixed" Meltran fleets like the Chloe fleet exist out there with pretter more mechanical looking ship designs. But that's me.

Well, if we're lucky, the whole live action movie thing will fall through, HG will finally go bankrupt, Bandai will swoop in and swallow them up, and things can go back to business as usual for Macross fans. Robotech fans won't care, since they're so used to crappy fanfiction by now anyway