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    I have a theory. What if the pointy thing in the new series logo is actually a stylized A? I figure it's the ensignia of one of those "covert" Valkyrie squadrons that they keep claiming exist that we never see. Angel Team, or Alpha Team, something like that. For narrative interest, it's a disgraced team. A mission went wrong, someone had to take the blame, and they were railroaded by the higher-ups, sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. The first episode, we see them breaking out of a military prison, stealing some Valks, and escaping. The rest of the series has them folding from colony to colony, one step ahead of the authorities, working to clear their name while doing random acts of goodness as mercenaries to make ends meet. Macross A-Team: Coming soon to a television near you.
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    I'd rather they cared enough to fix major bugs before they shipped, especially given both the industry's willingness to take a crap on it's customer base and my personal concerns as a bit of a game historian. I mean, sure, Batman was in a decent enough shape after the launch day patch(except on Windows!), but how many months did it take Ubisoft to get that one Assassin's Creed game into a playable state? My collection's 100% digital, and always has been. But it's spread over several media formats, and I prefer getting my digital data on a disk or embedded in silicon over downloading it from a transient server. Really, that's my biggest problem, the ephemeral nature of it all, and the aggressive way the game industry has moved to make it moreso every year. Not that I don't get cheesed off when I throw a game in and have twenty minutes of install delays and update downloads to wait through before I can get to the process of actually playing it, but that is secondary to the fact that the game is temporary and disposable by design. We live in a world where I can still play Phantasy Star any time I want, but I can't play Phantasy Star Online no matter how badly I want. After Burner will be in circulation decades to come, After Burner Climax can never be played by anyone that hasn't already bought it, and possibly not even by them in the future.
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    I actually remembered the book used a different vehicle for the tour car than the movie. A rare case of me omitting a detail for the sake of simplicity. I'd think that'd be a hard sell, really. Why would they keep the useless engine around after completely reworking the vehicle? It's off-track and running on batteries now?
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    And rural areas where broadband isn't available. Keith, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. The issue is not that it takes so long to download the patches. The issue is that they shipped a game that needs three gigs of updates on day one. The gold standard for shipping should not be "the game boots well enough to download the patches from the internet", it should be "the game exhibits no major flaws."
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    I think the Explorers were converted to run on electric power from the tour track. I know they were in the book. Not that this really helps the matter at all, but...
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    VF-191, then?
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    MP Metroplex or gtfo. In scale.
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    I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me it won't change a thing. Harmony Gold's status quo is grandfathered in. If it weren't for that, it would be a boon, as it seems it would prohibit HG from registering Macross trademarks.
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    And all "wandering" enemies will be raised to level 35 to ensure no one that isn't already overlevelled for a raid can have any fun. (One too many incidents with enemies that simply shouldn't be on the patrol map last night.)
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    He's probably spent his whole life playing Forza and Gran Turismo. All that PSLive practice payed off.
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    There is never more info. This is actually a cleverly-disguised "talk out of your backside" thread to get the noise out of the newbie question thread and somewhere less disruptive. (And I'm aware I'm one of the leading offenders.)
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    Needs more Sharon.
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    It's worth noting that in Macross 7, the VF-17 was also regularly launched from an electromagnetic catapult(read as: rail gun) towards combat, so it was already burning rubber on the space highway before the engines were lit(can I possibly make this metaphor more painful?). That's a significant factor for space combat, and without the EM catapult, it probably WOULD have used some sort of auxillary fuel/thruster assembly.
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    My understanding is that Orion wanted the movie shorter and cheaper. It seems they were trying to become a company that only did serious dramatic films at the time, and Terminator didn't fit with their new image. Cameron told them the movie wasn't finished, and they told him they wouldn't give him another penny, and he'd have to pay for any more shooting himself. I assume they didn't expect Cameron to actually DO it. By the time they got around to the car break-in scene(the final scene filmed), Cameron actually didn't have the cash to acquire a permit for filming on location. So they shot it fast and then got the hell out of Dodge.
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    Even the part about fighting an enemy with culture nearly destroying them? (I do remember the part about orders to not interfere with miclones. Exedol doesn't recognize it as an order, though. Just ancient history, from the era of legendary reaction weapons. )
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    The question might be more accurately ... who WEREN'T they fighting? They aren't picky about who they engage. We know THAT for a fact. Humanity was not the Supervision Army, and they rapidly ascertained that the people of Earth had no connection to the SA. They did not disengage and leave well enough alone. In fact, they repeatedly escalated, eventually to a full fleet deployment. Exedol's counsel against meddling in the affairs of miclones is apparently based on historical fact. Which means they've previously clashed with(and presumably exterminated) at least one other civilization with a society similar to Earth's(presumably at great cost, as his history details the effects of culture shock on zentradi soldiers). We don't know that the planet they destroyed "for" Hikaru, Misa, and Kakizaki was inhabited by sentient life, but we know it was inhabitable, and thus that it did bear life, however primitive. It may be the LEAST picky engagement they've ever been in, and they exterminated the hell out of some algae just to make a point. Or it may be the end of another zentradi campaign, similar to humanity's Space War I. They may have brought their hostages/samples along on a final deployment to crush the home of another space-faring race, just to show how it's done. Given the zentradi's utilitarian nature, I tend to believe the latter. And it's safe to assume that the fall of the protoculture empire did not kill every colony world. How many isolated worlds reverted to relative barbarism, slowly rebuilding their society from the ground up, attaining those first tentative steps into space... only to be reduced to so much glass by a zentradi bombardment? Short version: yes, they did go to war with Melmac, ultimately destroying the planet, and making ALF the first known sequel to Macross. DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNN! Interestingly enough, we also know, from Millia and Chlore's rivalry, that there exists a communications structure ABOVE the fleet level. This is interesting because it implies a COMMAND structure above the fleet level as well. My assumption has long been that Earth was never reported to this command structure by Bodolza, to avoid suspicion that he himself was contaminated by the PROTOCULCHAAA!!.
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    He had my titan in a tight spot too. Took luck to get through to the other side. I spun round the corner wondering how far he'd follow or if I was clear yet.
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    And I decided to stop dicking about with my level 29 huntress for a bit and play with my titan, who I've raised from 4 to 12 over the last couple of days. I'd forgotten that Venus has been completely broken for low-levels since the Vault raid went live. Stupid level ?? vex blasting me as I try to get past the vault I can't enter. Bad enough when it's just the one ?? hulk monstrosity sitting there standing guard. He can be avoided if you remember he's there and don't draw the patrol mission that demands you camp on a pillar directly in front of him for ten seconds. But this time I apparently tried to pass through while a party was trying to open the vault, as the area was SWARMING with ??s, all perfectly willing to give up the defense of the vault for a few seconds to one-shot a passing scrub.
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    Fixed it. BOMBA!
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    Pre-download marketplace. 99.99% of all commercial video games ever released are digital. I'm making a stand here. This is the hill I've chosen to die on. Digital will not become a meaningless buzzword.
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    You know the funniest thing about the Combiner Wars line? How often is Optimus Prime the repaint/remold instead of whatever other truck he shares with? I mean, in this case the mold is BLATANTLY Motormaster first, and they just threw the Prime name on it because red trucks sell.
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    Expected result: Now that the customer has a basic level of protection, the quality of games on offer rises significantly. Actual result: Big publishers become even more leery of porting games to Windows. And do a big dog&pony show about piracy and market shares when the real problem is that they're actually accountable for their failures. Pretty much. The article acts like pre-ordering is a vital necessity of the games industry, but... why does anyone have to preorder anything? Because Colonial Marines made a "real" weapon out of a one-line joke? Because your character wears a custom tattoo? Edit: Actually, it occurs to me that the best part of Steam doing refunds now might be the reduced chance of people buying games and never playing them. Since you have two weeks to decide if it's crap... you gotta fire it up in those two weeks!
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    But EVERY Hollywood fighter comes from Macross Plus!Except the one in Top Gun, of course. That was a blatant VF-1 ripoff if ever I saw one.
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    Well, yeah, but who isn't?
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    I still say it's Macross 3: The Sentinels.
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