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  1. JB0
    I object. That's not science-fiction.
  2. JB0
    IN FAIRNESS, Trek is rarely consistent on an episode-to-episode basis. There's just DEGREES of wrongness. But yeah, beaming halfway across the galaxy is a special kind of special. That's worse than the Borg Queen was. (And no, there was nothing good about the Borg Queen. She completely shat on the ENTIRE POINT of the Borg.)
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    Gradius was terrible. Gradius V fixed the biggest problems. Speed powerups in that range from just fast enough to survive to just slow enough you won't careen all over the map before you crash into a wall. As opposed to "literally too slow to survive" and "almost literally too fast to control". And options maintain onscreen for recollection from a same-spot respawn, just like they did in Salamander, which was WAY BETTER than Gradius in every way. So of course people hated Gradius V because there weren't moai heads in it. Meanwhile, R-Type just gave you a user-controlled throttle and called it a day. Because that made SENSE. But the Gradius powerup system is a sacred and inviolable game mechanism that can never be altered in even the smallest of ways. Except when needed to shoehorn it into games that weren't even designed for it because you decided to ruin Salamander. But Contra's cool.
  4. JB0
    On the subject of JJ Abrams and Star Trek... While watching Star Trek: The Movie(not to be confused with Star Trek: The Motion Picture), I kept thinking "He would REALLY rather be doing Star Wars." While watching Star Trek: Into Darkness, I kept thinking "Wow, this is hilariously badly-written."
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    I quite like the pixellated Iga look. He makes a rather dashing vampiric european noble for a japanese guy.
  6. JB0
    Qo'noS, you p'tahk! My targ speaks better klingon than you!
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    Aaaaaactually, the first died, we got a replacement on clearance. Now the second is dead, but this time I can rebuild it. I have the technology.
  8. JB0
    Presumably. Given they DON'T need air. But I seriously can't think of a reason they couldn't use water for propulsion.
  9. JB0
    It was the Max. I need to work on my Advantage. It's broke, but they're simple electronics.
  10. JB0
    Actually... the VF-0 doesn't have a fusion turbine. It ALLEGEDLY uses jets.
  11. JB0
    Ah. They pr'ly all use the same guts.
  12. JB0
    It does XInput? I couldn't find any word on that.
  13. JB0
    Oh my. They've expanded their line a LOT since I last saw them. That Family Computer-styled joystick is seriously hot.
  14. JB0
    I was thinking she surprise-headshotted him because she knew she couldn't take him, but I think I like your interpretation better.
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    It'd be, to my understanding, drastically and startlingly different. While gravity is no longer a major concern, neither is drag. This has very significant effects on how your vehicle handles. Constant thrust no longer equals constant speed. It now equals constant acceleration. If you want to turn, it's not enough to get your vessel pointed the right way and let nature take it's course. You have to use thrust to cancel out the old flight vector as well as get you going on the new one, so you have to overturn sort-of. It's not intuitive, but it's how it works. Basically, go play Asteroids for an hour or two, and you'll have a much better feel for it. And it's the most fun you can have while studying physics. And if your engines die, you can't try to glide home unpowered. You simply cease to be the master of your fate. Also, while not related to actually FLYING, on a clear day you can see for miles. Hundreds of thousands of miles. And it's ALWAYS a clear day. No horizon, no clouds. There's not near as many places to HIDE, but there's a lot more places to BE. That's GOTTA affect combat. Macross typically animates planes in space as flying very similar to planes in atmosphere(engines burning constantly to maintain speed, sweeping banked turns, et cetera), but that's more because it LOOKS right than because it IS right.
  16. JB0
    Armageddon was fun. Stupid fun, but fun.
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    And let's be honest here: Armageddon was a movie ABOUT an explosion. Small wonder Micheal Bay directed it.
  18. JB0
    Then either I'm a liar or Basara is only the SECOND-best pilot in the franchise. All I'm saying is there has to be a reason Millia chose to kill Kakizaki with her first shot.
  19. JB0
    Only the greatest pilot of the franchise!
  20. JB0
    Also, I just realized this is your first post. Welcome to the board, hope we haven't scared you away already.
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    "Because overtech" IS a frustrating answer, but it's not one we need to trot out here. Attitude control thrusters are homegrown terran know-how that actually exist right now, though not typically on airplanes. The VF-1 is studded with enough of them to orient freely in space, and at least some thrusters are capable of lifting the plane from a standstill on the ground at roughly 1G. One assumes they are adequate to compensate for the lack of elevators. Ye olde space-age technology saves the day!
  22. JB0
    What about this guy? In all seriousness, I generally prefer the TV series aesthetically, but DYRL is definitely more realistic, both in terms of paint and mechanics(read as: hands).
  23. JB0
    Don't be silly. He's CLEARLY a droid trooper. Probably began life as a protocol droid.
  24. JB0
    You're just jealous of Basara's game.
  25. JB0
    BUMP!
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