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Seconded. Unless you've got a compelling reason not to(like attempting to go total SATA), optical drives are the single most reusable component.

Moremore importantly, when is the original cut that Lucas has promised we'll never see again?

For some reason, I'm getting a weird Last Starfighter prototype vibe from that first pic.

I wasn't really trying to be rude. Sorry I came off that way. I genuinely thought it was an innocent oversight(one that's easy to make, even if you know better). Anyways, confusion cleared. We're all gonna die. Eventually. Resume normal conversation.

There's actually an excuse for this one. Most of the destroids were packed into the Daedalus and got blasted in the initial boarding operation. Certainly they should've brought more VFs in, but...

Right. You're missing the other side of that coin, even though you use it to make your point with Betelgeuse. Since we're looking into the past, we have no way of knowing if a star has actually exploded or not. There is, in fact, no guarantee that WR104's Wolf-Rayet has not ALREADY detonated, possibly a VERY long time ago. If that star explodes today, we won't know for 8 millenia. But if it exploded 8 millenia ago, we'll be finding out any day now. Of course, this is a lot of discussion for a gamma ray burst that only MIGHT be aimed at us.

You've gotten it exactly right, actually. People tend to forget that we don't see things as they happen, because they're used to the incredibly short distances of terrestrial life. It's easy to forget that we're seeing ancient history when we look at the night sky. Heck, you can see the birth of the universe if you know where to look(the blanket microwave background radiation is an almost unimaginably red-shifted Big Bang).

They've even got a Light/Dark side motif going. ... Ps3 is the dark side of gaming? Hmmm...

I thought Kirk was a tad unique among Feddie captains. Weren't most of them supposed to be a bit more... reserved?

My favorite is"gold-plated connectors for superior signal quality" on OPTICAL audio cables. ... And Monster's short-lived PS2 controller extension cord that promised to get the signals from the gamepad to the console faster so that your games would be more responsive. But that's a bit outside the bounds of this thread.

Probably. That seems to be how these things usually work, regardless of company. Can't stop us from dreaming.

And all that is very interesting, but largely irrelevant to a wish fueled by the recent involvement of the design team on the website news posts, an area they have not traditionally had great input on.

In fact, there's a large enough volume of air that it should have a natural rain cycle. NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building is a large enough room to experience natural rain, and a colony ship is, obviously, MUCH larger.

*laughs* Vulcans don't let logic guide their decisions. They use it to JUSTIFY their decisions, which are guided by carefully hidden emotions. Put a bunch of vulcans in a room with a problem, you'll get a bunch of vulcans patiently explaining to each other why their solution is the only logical course of action and their respected comrades are misguided and/or illogical. Sign me up for the romulans. I always thought they always needed more screen time in the later shows.

Hot. That was the first Dresden book I read.

One of the secret ships in Tyrian(type NORTSHIPZ on the titlescreen) had a secondary special weapon(tap the button to change your rear-fire mode to select it) called "SDF Main Gun" and it was a big fat laser of omnipotence. Arguably it was a Robotech reference, but...

In Soviet Russia, Macross watches YOU!

That's pretty nifty. I hope they have a designer provide brief explanations to the photo and documentation teams from now on too. Because really, that stuff is insane.

What he said. Macross doesn't have the monopoly on forward-swept wings.

Well, yeah... it's a gaming blog. Rationality is NOT their standard business.

At least it was a fresh transfer, right? They didn't just upsample the old DVD transfer? But yeah... I was rather disappointed in the DVD. Go to all the effort to create a 6-channel soundtrack out of the stereo, and totally ignore the low film quality. It needed a video remaster more than a surround soundtrack. I guess it's the same on HD, just higher-res.

Ummm... the PS2 Robotech games aren't americanized versions of the J PS2 game. In fact, they predate the J game, were developed by a totally different company, and one of them is MOSPEADA-based. Japan has it's games, we have ours, and never the two shall meet. Except in niche-market import stores on both sides of the pacific. As far as blasphemy goes... The first Robotech game is pretty good, despite it's extremely low flight ceiling. IMO. I never played the second.

Ya know, I STILL haven't played that... *goes to download now*

Well, crap... I was hoping I'd found a way to at least slow the plague, but... back to square one.

Fortunately, this is the GAMECUBE we're talking about here. If anything can save us from Mass Addict, it's the 'Cube... Or possibly the Dreamcast.