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Actually, it looks like a tribute to EVERY game's art bungles. The US and european Megaman 2 boxes have the most visible influence after the grid background and title logo from the original US box of legend, since they defined the shape of Megaman.

But you can't "burn" U235. A fission reactor is a far more complex device, requiring careful spacing of the fuel rods, mediators to control the rate of the chain reaction, and a way to dissipate LOTS of heat, which is incredibly difficult in the vacuum of space. They're also a lot less safe if something goes wrong. That's why sci-fi focuses almost exclusively on fusion, and why we haven't tucked a nuclear reactor into anything other than submarines and aircraft carriers.

Same here. I consider the VB to be one of gaming's greatest losses. Especially since it "poisoned the well" for future attempts at 3D gaming. There's 2 big problems I see with the VB. One is pure marketing. The only place they could show off the 3D was in-store kiosks. And good luck convincing someone to adjust the IPD and focus for a kiosk run. Talk about bad first impressions. All the ads in all the 2D media available showcased a "red Gameboy." Then you add the big warning on the box about it not being for children under 7, which was read WAY beyond the intended "little kids haven't finished developing their depth perception" intent and into "OH MY GOD IT MELTS EYEBALLS" realm... That big "7-Up" warning scared a lot of parents away from buying it for ANYONE. And Red Alarm was a lousy demo title. The wire-frame graphics just didn't do it once you got past the "WOW! 3D!" angle. , especially given there weren't any occlusion effects. Wario Land should've been the demo from the start, if you ask me. The other issue, and an actual technical failing, is the 50 Hz flicker. It's bad enough on a CRT(Yes, Europe, I'm making fun of your crappy flickery televisions again) with phosphor decay to cushion it, but the VB didn't even get THAT. Each pixel was illuminated ONLY for it's tiny fraction of a second. Personally, I've found turning the brightness down does wonders for the flicker problem. But it's still a real issue with the hardware. I've probably said some variant of the above a few other times in this thread, but I will continue to preach the Gospel of the Red Gameboy until all the non-believers are converted!

Bit cold for bikinis in February. He should've said it in July.

That's an excellent point. Humanity had been brought to the brink of extinction. It was their solemn duty to create as many offspring as they could to repopulate the Earth AND the colony missions being launched at the same time. And if Max had to get in bed with someone that looked like Millia to do it, then, well... that was a price he was willing to pay for the survival of his species.

*sigh* Not this again... What do you think a thermonuclear reactor runs on? A. Happy thoughts? B. Fairy dust? C. A steady supply of light elements, typically hydrogen or helium, transported as a cryogenic liquid due to volume concerns? If you guessed C, you're right! Fusion reactions have consumables that are "burned." And they transport them in a liquid form because it's the most effective way to carry and supply them. And while space is not relevant to a discussion of aeronautics, a VF in space ALSO has to carry a tank of reaction mass that it can heat and expel out it's engines to generate velocity changes. So it has not one, but TWO liquid fuels! And not only that, one set of fuel lines are CRYOGENIC fuel lines! The thermal wear is going to make maintainence even WORSE. In an atmosphere, of course, it uses air for the propellant, just like a conventional jet engine does, so the only fuel is the nuclear reactant. That is incorrect. The space shuttle is vaguely plane-shaped because it was designed to land on a runway, and thus needs control surfaces. It has atrocious aerodynamics, and falls like a rock. It lands hard, it lands fast, and it CANNOT stay in the air for any real length of time during re-entry. A "needle" rocket is FAR more aerodynamic from a launch perspective. And the classic capsule design is better for re-entry since it allows for a protected heatshield until you actually prepare for re-entry. That's one reason the next-generation CEV is going to be an Apollo-style capsule. But really, mass is a bigger concern than aerodynamics for a rocket launch, as long as you keep it reasonable. Again, wrong. The ISS isn't equipped for construction or launch of anything, nor is it planned to be. Besides which, any fuel on the ISS has to be lifted from Earth. Which means you've ALREADY paid the cost of lifting it up there whether it goes to a hypothetical ISS storage tank or to a rocket engine to move your payload on to it's goal. May as well put it in a rocket engine so your payload gets the benefit of the momenteum from launch. There IS talk of using the proposed LUNAR base for rocket launches, but that's got less to do with atmosphere than it does gravity. And they have to be able to make rocket fuel on the moon for it to be a viable option. Otherwise a launch directly from Earth is cheaper.

The disk says "asset CD", so I assume it's all media and not the actual game. Music, images, etc.

And give Max a cardboard box with wings and a super soaker. Just to be fair.

Day after their wedding: "I love you. You're on the pill, right?" "Of course. ... What's the pill?"

I still can't believe they're inflicting that art on people. The CD case is awesome, though. That warms my heart so much. Even WITH the lead-in bashing the VB(and being technically inaccurate about it too!)

Sadly, he's not eligible since he isn't native-born. I'd vote for him, too.

I like Relena. She's effing hilarious with her whole death fetish angle.

It seems to me that not ALL of them were expected to die in combat. They have different "classes" of clone, fit to different tasks. You've got the cannon-fodder grunts, sure. And the damn good grunts, like Millia. But you also have archivists like Exedol that were expected to live as walking knowledge repositories, and clearly aren't suited for combat roles. And then there's commanders like Britai. They're "built" to a more durable standard(Britai himself said so after being spaced, and him and Bodolza both tower over the regular rank-and-file zentradi). Presumably because a highly-experienced commander is infinitely more useful than a fresh-from-the-test-tube commander. Britai's plate implies this too. Assuming it was a patch-up after an injury, it means it was worth trying to save his life instead of just finishing the job and popping a new Britai out. If it's an implant that offers him information beyond what he can see and hear, along the lines of the BDI system, it means command zentradi are harder to make, because the implant can't be grown like everything else.

I can get behind this.

Same here. I'm not a fan of battle-damage figures for the most part, and I really only wanted Megatron out of that box anyways. Of course, I have MY Earth Prime transformed into a Reguld right now, so... moot point.

Are they fighting over a Magic deck? Good to see you're making the best of a bad axe with that turret. I need to redo my Prime and photograph him. I have my own theories about the axe.

Wasn't that an optional replacement for a second ammo clip? Meaning only some people would carry it, and usually only for specialized missions. Haruhi knows why Gamlin took one out on every flight.

Given I saw Best Buy giving Casltevania 64 away for free at one point, and I've got a WalMart near me with a copy of Tony Hawk for the N64... Things have changed.

EDF YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God, I love that game. There's such a mishmash of rumor and conflict in that story that it's hard to tell what's actually going on. What I THINK is going on is this: 1. MS has made a better physical d-pad. 2. They've added more contacts/new mechanism, resulting in a 32-way pad, with the compass point contacts being back-compatible for traditional 8-way action. 3. These 2 changes will be added to ALL the new pads, with the premier being on the limited-edition PES pad. Especially since the games they're talking about supporting the new d-pad(PES and SF4) don't really benefit from it OR see a lot of market overlap. One's better played with a thumbstick, the other with an 8-way joystick.

His, ummm, axe becomes the back half of the fire truck. It makes about as good a firetruck as it does an axe.

VF-4.

Or the plate in his head makes him unmiclonable. I think Kawamori said he didn't want to do Misa, Hikaru, and Minmay anymore. Not that he never wanted to see a single original character again. And you forgot Roy's role in Zero.

You said you didn't have an XBox 1. I was saying it wasn't really relevant to JRPGs anyways.

That game has the most unintentionally funny ending ever. "But those who sacrificed themselves for the victory will never return..." until they do, then die again, then come back again, then die again, then rebuild themselves in a cave... with scraps, etc. "How long must he keep on fighting? How long will his pain last?" Megaman? More like Emoman. A dark omen of things to come later. I'm not even making this up. Having said that... I wanna replay X1 now. Just for the music. Damn you. Damn you to Wisconsin.

PS3 ... MIGHT run PS2 titles? And I think you can count the number of JRPGs for the XBox on one hand anyways.