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    No. I believe it to be an excellent tribute. May the great bird of the galaxy watch over you, good sir.
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    I had some trouble making a choice. The Super 1J and YF-21 gave the Q. Rau a hard fight. And the Stampede, but that really goes without saying. So did the VF-11 MAXL Mylene Custom, but that was my inner troll more than anything else.
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    Truly outrageous.
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    Oh, thank God. I was right, it was all parody of the industry!
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    I considered nominating the Macross Cannon, because overkill is underrated. But it just doesn't have the articulation I needed to call it a mech.
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    And in space, you start flying in a straight line on a constant speed from the moment your power cuts. And you're too hot to be mistaken for debris, so... can you say easy target? Which is WEIRD AS HELL. I just want to note that. I guess with overtechnology, they could have a field generator that dampens the coulomb force that make atomic nucleii repellant instead of any of the conventional ways to overcome that natural repulsion and FORCE a fusion reaction. That'd make "non-fuels" readily fusible, completely screw with the energy output equations that dictate practicality as a fuel... and makes as much sense as anything else. ... It'd also make for some interesting weaponry. Even if it's not a field which can be projected over a long range(an assumption I make for the simple reason that they HAVEN'T), you could stuff all sorts of heavy elements into the reactor, fuse them into super-heavy nucleii. To heck with U-235, you've just built a box full of crap like nobellium, darmstadtium, and the like, with half-lives typically measured in seconds if not picoseconds. All those ridiculously short-lived atoms held together by a single field generator that can be shut off oh... so... easily. The sudden restoration of normal atomic physics would result in a lot of violently unstable atomic nucleii in close proximity to each other(as if anything in this box NEEDS an incentive to fission). So just let nature take it's course, and you've got a super-fission bomb that's INCREDIBLY easy to make.
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    I too loved the terror that flaps in the night. Best dang show Disney ever made.
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    As long as life is still like a hurricane, and there's still race cars, lasers, and aeroplanes, I guess I have no complaints.
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    I care! I have nothing constructive to add, though. ... Not that it's stopped me before. I guess I just have nothing to add, period. But that's not the same as not caring! Those three ARE adorable.
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    Surely ecchi has far less penetration than hentai? ... What? Someone had to say it.
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    They should screw with everyone and do the next preview clip on April first.
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    Fifteen minutes to say "it's an M. Night Shamalama film"?
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    The Macross Quarter. C'mon, you know you wanted to say it too. Also the Q. Rau. I've got a long running affection for the thing.
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    Heat exchanger. Just like a modern fission power plant, that uses a heat exchanger to boil water and spin a turbine, the Valk uses a heat exchanger to pull heat out of the fusion reactor and superheat some form of reaction mass. I suppose electric heaters could also be used, but why? They aren't going near fast enough for a bussard scoop. And even if they were, the huge magnetic field needed would be a hazard to everyone in the area in a dogfight. You have to scour a LOT of space to get a meaningful amount of hydrogen. While I suppose you COULD use onboard hydrogen, it seems like there should be a better option. Like water. It's stable, readily available in large quantities, easy to handle in a broad range of temperatures, and dense. Boil it to steam and spray it out the back. If you do this with the verniers too, you avoid the traditionally nasty substances associated with them*. But I am not a rocket physicist. *Though simplicity dictates that the verniers are PROBABLY still using hydrazine or some overtech monopropellant. Verniers would have to be heated electrically, which will be less efficient than a heat exchanger. And they have to have their own fuel tanks separate from the main engines ANYWAYS, just due to the plumbing problems inherent to a variable fighter. So why rube goldberg it up when you can just fill a tank with hydrazine and spray it across a metal screen? There's something to be said for simplicity, even in a machine as overengineered as a Valkyrie.
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    In fairness, I actually LIKE that Robotech owned that particular animation error and canonized it. Pity they never embraced the Orguss Valk. I have an unhealthy love of that thing.
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    I'll chalk it up as a brilliant parody piece highlighting Holywood's typical style of adaptation. Because it really did feel like something Hollywood would DO, if a major studio ever signed the rights for a big-budget no-holds-barred motion picture.
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    Admit it, you're just worried I'm right.
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    Contents and colors may vary.
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    Barricade, actually. I got 99% of the way there, but could never get his trunk to hook back in properly, and it felt like something was gonna break every time I tried.
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    Don't forget the 1R!!!! Actually, that's my best guess, he saw an animation error and thought it was a legit 1S. Maybe a gimpy 1D, I think there were a few of those in the wedding.
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    But when they tried to remake Alien, we got Prometheus.
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    Maybe... maybe the Aquarion project IS Delta! Think about it... what if the guys in Aquarion were actually the protoculture?
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    To be fair, Scarlett looks good no matter what role she's playing. Let's be honest here. And here we get to the root problem. Holllywood doesn't want to make new properties. They don't want to make anything without a proven track record amd built-in fanbase. Everything has to be a remake, a sequel, or an adaptation. Preferably a sequel to a remake of an adaptation. But at the same time, they want them sanitized, polished, and just like every other big-budget blockbuster, completely devoid of anything that made the original work compelling. And then they tune them for maximum mass-market appeal by matching them to a checklist of "things done in recent blockbusters" that omits points like "compelling original story" and "superb acting", but includes things like "they froze everything and spun the camera around"(I know it's dated, but the number of completely pointless "bullet-time" effects that showed up in the years following the Matrix was just absurd, and really was why I started noticing the checklist in the first place.) They aren't alone in this practice, but... they might be the worst about it.
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    I never viewed them as enjoyable puzzles. I've issued more than one impolite word while studying Hasbro's pathetic excuse for an instruction sheet. Their insistence on a handful of fixed illustation angles, tendency to omit steps, and refusal to include text notes about complex movements or features like lock tabs make the manuals almost worse than nothing at all, and a new Transformer can be downright frustrating. That said...No one wanted the 1-Step Changers. Hasbro took the wrong message and came away with the conclusion that no one wanted to transform their toys instead of "your staff has created an unholy trifecta of complex, counter-intuitive, and poorly documented toys" I've got one from the first movie line that I've got a 0% success rate on robot->vehicle transformation. I've literally NEVER gotten it properly back into vehicle mode.
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    So I just noticed this thread. This is an awesome project. I'd wager he's recording the actual analog audio output of a PC-98. It's low-tech, but it's the easiest way if you have the hardware, and about the only way to guarantee it sounds RIGHT. Especially with that Ryu Umemoto(OMG!!!) credit on the soundtrack, as he tended to push the synthesizer chips they used in those systems pretty hard, and his tracks don't always work right on "compatible" synthesizers(Umemoto was very disappointed they didn't ask him to redo the Yu-No soundtrack for the Saturn port, as they DID simply feed his existing music data through a "compatible" FM synth chip, and it DIDN'T sound right). Emulation of sound hardware is often less than perfect, even on a simple and well-documented platform. And with the deplorable state of japanese computer emulation, I'd have no faith in the final output sounding like it's supposed to. And of course, just extracting the MIDI data(assuming it's in MIDI and not raw YM commands) is worthless since no modern computer comes with any appropriate synthesizer, and MIDI files don't sound the same on different hardware. Perhaps not the most useful of insights, but... that's my bet.
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