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JB0

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  1. I think it's about making everyone a *Master, so they can assemble some sort of Master force.
  2. They just be chillin' with they cartoons, that's all. Cain't play with toys ALL day. (Though perhaps showing the cartoon on the TV may've been a good idea. )
  3. There may be heavy resistance to any sort of "forced" micloning among large portions of the zentradi populace. They are historically proud of their stature, and there have been historical attempts to limit their size to human-scale. Telling them they can fight, but only if they wanna submit to micloning might be deeply offensive to them. Besides, regults are easy to make. One assumes they remain so even after augmentation to raise their standard of survivability and ease of operation. And, well, millenia of tradition don't die easily. They may fight to protect culture instead of destroy it now, but "if these weapons were good enough for my genetic line's first generation, then by Minmay, they're good enough for me!"
  4. At least we still have a swede with a fake accent! (Please say we still have a swede with a fake accent.)
  5. Nice. I hope they bring the second card over too. ... I wonder if this means that parting the games out individually as downloadable titles didn't do very well... (This is mildly annoying, because I bought the best of those games individually back when it was first up for download)
  6. Gravitational waves produced by the merger of two black holes, incidentally. The process converted three solar masses of matter into energy. That's a LOT of energy to hit spacetime all at once..
  7. So are errors in official translations, sadly. Seen way too many of those done by someone who doesn't care, or has someone above determined to crap the work up.
  8. I've seen two separate fansubs of the episode. One is from people who appeared quite familiar with the franchise, but were having a lot of fun with their subs. The other is from people who were trying to be more "straight", but honestly I was pretty sure they had no familiarity with Macross whatsoever. Just as a side note. I found neither translation to be what I would consider trustworthy.
  9. Okay, that makes sense. ... Is Mars inhabited in the "present-day" Macross universe? Or did they decide finding other habitable planets made terraforming too much of a pain?
  10. It's an express train to comedy, at least for me. (What can I say? Some people just want to watch the world burn.) City 7 was not under-defended. They were faced with an exceptional fighting force. And generally speaking, you DO assign the bulk of your defenses to keeping the enemy OUT of civilian population centers. I don't see you cursing the crew of the SDF-1 Macross for having inadequate defenses to repel Kamjin and Millia's incursions into the city. The VF-27 and VF-171 aren't the same tech level. And the Drakens were clearly superior to the -171s. Who was recalled from the front lines? The VF-31s were a limited special force, and they were engaged with a force that had attacked Walkure, who they were charged with defending. The -171s were not redeployed. Again, you're wrong. It's more the case that if you have a motorboat, why would you take a canoe? They had a Valk that was optimized for aquatic combat, so why use one that wasn't? Yes, if you have a surprise attack, you're more likely to hit someone. That doesn't mean we need transforming tanks, or in any way affect the strengths and weaknesses of the missile cloud.
  11. My impression with the attack on the Mars base staff was that they believed them to be an attack force, and the quiet reconnaissance label they'd assigned to the base was just a cover story. Which, to be fair, makes sense. The most likely target for reconnaissance was on Earth, and if you wanted to assemble a large strike force without intervention from the Anti-UN, you'd do it somewhere they couldn't reach... like Mars. I'm not entirely sure what purpose the martian outpost was actually supposed to serve.
  12. It's probably also notable that the SDF Macross wasn't carrying it's intended armament. If I recall, much of it's defensive weaponry was supposed to come from the ARMDs that it failed to dock with in the first episode, so the surplus of destroids were pressed into service as, effectively, MAKESHIFT defensive weaponry. That said, the ship was plenty big enough to support them. Everyone wants the Aliens Power Loader.
  13. They could make Sven's death trip to the hospital planet have some meaning. Instead of getting wailed on and dropped, he could get captured and turned into a robeast. ... Oooh, he could get brainwashed and replace Yurak partway through. That'd add some melodrama, and a great recurring plot thread, while being completely in character for the franchise.
  14. I hope it isn't. I don't want to wait fifty-one years and two months.
  15. Dictionaries are terrible things, dedicated to sucking the life out of a word and misleading people in proper usage.
  16. As I recall, AKB0048 also had music being illegal. And I didn't watch past the first episode because it was so godawful terrible, mechs or no mechs. What can I say, I just had no interest in watching Revolution X: The Animated Series.
  17. The good ol' sci-fi spacesuit, clinging to every curve since time immemorial.
  18. Fitting for the man who KILLED PRIME! NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET!
  19. Yeah, basically it was a problem with inbreeding, not with cloning PER SE. Since the zentradi, prior to "culturization" weren't breeding, there were no problems with inbreeding.
  20. It is the best approach!
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