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Macross Zero ad of pure awesome. Don't forget Minmay and Misa. Misa sees Minmay shacking up with her boyfriend, after he ditches her on his day off to hang out with Minmay One city-destroying battle later, she invites Minmay along on her colony mission.

Honestly, I suspect the natural life expectancy of a zentradi is probably being determined by humanity. I don't think most of them were expected to live long in their normal lifestyle. Exsedol and Bodolza would be my bets for elderly zentradi, but... they don't seem to have published ages. I'd expect, but this is mostly just wild-ass guessing, that the rank-and-file battle officers have the shortest life expectancies, and that durability and life expectancy goes up as you rise through the castes and experience becomes a more valuable element, with archivists and fleet commanders having the longest lifespans. Britai also seems to have been worth saving instead of recloning. I doubt anyone would've expended that effort on Kamjin or the 3 spies. Especially not on Kamjin, as he seems to be, well, defective. This, of course, assumes the plate in the head is a result of injury, and not a cybernetic tactical data device or some such. Which seems fair for SDF-style characters, given Bodolza doesn't have one and he would have just as much, if not more, need for such a device. Either way, according to the show Britai's built tougher than the rank and file troops, which points towards the value of experience in his position... or just that they don't want commanders dropping dead from injuries in mid-battle. DYRL-style, we get a very different picture. The zentradi have numbers attached to their names that, as I understand it, show what iteration of the clone they are. And the fleet commanders are actually PART of their flagships, and Bad Things happen when they die, indicating that they're intended to last for a LOOOOONG time. And, of course, Bodol in DYRL is established as REALLY old. As to which style is right... Macross 7 has a DYRL-style Exsedol. And many SDF-style zentradi, including a Britai actor with an SDF-style faceplate. Frontier has generally DYRL-style zentradi. In conclusion... ???

Ah, yeah... I forgot the constructicons had so many addon bits. That DOES make them a bit of a pain to engineer.

Since there's not a consistent scale among the Masterpieces... Sure, Longhaul's truck can look dinky next to Prime's. It's not like Starscream's jet dwarfs Prime, or Prime's cab dwarfs Megatron's gun. And we've already got two sizes of robot out(leaders and seekers). What's one more? Certianly Devastator should tower above Prime and Megatron, but... that doesn't mean the individual 'bots have to. Of course, the problem is... at what point does it cease being worth the price and effort?

You're thinking of the OVA. The Mangle movie DVD wasn't dubbed. It was a straight VHS rip. Hard subs and all. That's why I never bought it.

My avatar's sorta based on me. And it'd be really neat if you could export SC4 characters to use as avatars(though there's a whole host of reasons it wouldn't ever happen). ... Of course, I think someone would kill me once the horrors I've created in that were inflicted upon the world. I'm bad about firing it up and trying to make something awful enough that it looks intentional.

Honestly, I feel a lot safer with used disks than used carts. There's no physical contact, so grunge won't rub off. Dust is the most likely problem with optical drives. Hard to keep dust out, especially on more modern systems where you're blowing air through constantly. And dust + grease = fun times. ... Though on my PS1, it was the power board that bit the dust. I think it's a power supply issue, anyways. Amazes me to this day that it wasn't the cheapass drive mech. My XBox(bought used), it was the mechanism that opens and closes the drive door that failed. Plastic tab that locks the door got ground down, it looks like. My used SegaCD? Still running like the day it was made. Something to be said for more expensive components. I'm curious. Did you leave carts in when you weren't playing? That's the only thing I can think of that'd really make a difference, long-term. Because the NES' weak point is the ZIF connector. The pins get bent back and don't make perfect contact anymore. And the lockout chip, based on my experience, is a LOT more sensitive to a poor connection than the ROMs. Hence the frequent flashing title/intro screens.

GBA had bad sound. And not enough buttons. And your choice of dark screen or uncomfortably small. All hail the DS.

What, you were one of those poor souls that BELIEVED the "third pillar" story was more than a loophole to save face if it turned into another Virtual Boy? It was pretty frickin' obvious it was the new GameBoy. Be mad about something more reasonable. Like the stupid N64 killing my SNES.

... I'd buy it.

So... they get this past, then about 12.3 seconds later realize their wives are taken by faster nerds and start pushing to get polygamy laws changed? And you may've beaten me to Sheryl, but I have dibs on Yuki!

I'm fairly skeptical that Nintendo would issue a major revision and not take the opportunity to update it in any meaningful way. So I'm holding out until we see some actual stats. I figure it's got a higher clockspeed at least, and more RAM would be a highly logical update(real RAM, not the flash RAM download storage stuff). Wish Nintendo would just spit out the silly stats that they know the fanboys drool over instead of doing this whole "stats don't matter" crap.

A crown! Him Grimlock laugh at puny bald Starscream. Him Grimlock KING!

I... have no argument whatsoever.

That's just Gamlin rubbing off on you.

How can you go wrong with Sheryl on your food?

His marriage was ALSO falling apart at the time, so that might've interfered with the whole nostalgia angle. And to be fair, Max's "courtship" was farcical to begin with. I'm sure more than once he looked back at how they met and laughed at how dumb he was as a kid, even if it DID work out in the end. Woulda made a great story at parties, though. "So yeah, you know how we were the first inter-racial couple, right. You ever hear how we met? No? Lemme tell ya... I kicked her lovely ass at a video game. She tried to knife me to death later that knight, and I proposed to her on the spot." "Honey, you forgot the dogfights!"

True dat! Rawket lawnchaas in da house! Fo' shizzle. Or something. For some reason, I can't type that class of weapon properly anymore. Every time I try, I hear the Metal Slug powerup voice.

WHOO! Add that to the purchase list. Has there been word on if the DSi has ANY upgrades besides bigger screen and "flash RAM to store downloaded games"? And Chrono Trigger DS bothers me. They added an ending! I HAVE to buy it now, lest my decade-old encyclopedic knowledge of the game cease to be complete! You mean the Rondo of Blood remake? Don't get it for SotN. Get it for Rondo of Blood(you get the original AND remake! How can you go wrong?). The SotN PSPort isn't very good, from what I saw. I've been told the standalone release on the Playstation Store is better.

Integrated hard drive! ONE SYSTEM FITS ALL!

I've got the G2 Prime with teh Pimp My Ride black trailer. It's... enough.

Tangentially related: I REALLY wish the laser rifle was reloadable. It's such an awesome gun for those first 3 seconds... and then it's nothing but dead weight.

Well, according to Global report, the antigrav malfunction was the boobytrap's fault, not the refit's. In other words, it SHOULD have worked. Didn't Global say in the first episodes that it was going to boldly go where no man had gone before? They'd discussed first contact protocols, so they were probably intending to go gleefully gallivanting across the galaxy.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!! I'm mostly through EDF. Cleared it on the first... 3 difficulties, if I recall. Close to the end on Hardest, with a smattering of Inferno stages. I need to get back to Bullet Witch some time. One of many games I liked, but never put the proper time into. Personally, I never saw the huge issues people kept claiming it had. It's not PERFECT, but it's still fun. Of course, it's a cavia game. They're good at making really fun games with glaring flaws. CaptainJistuce I never threw it out here because I don't pay for online play, so it seemed a moot point.

My first thought was "When do you apply the stickers?". So you've got the G1 look down. Seriously, that's pretty cool. And shiny! If it doesn't come out right... chalk it up as practice and grab another one to try again? If they do another with the Ramjet mold, I'll probably snag one and abuse it into a Thrust. No VTOL wings, but... whatever. Or more likely I'll grab one and talk about making a Thrust, but never actually DO it.