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Bill Gates actually owns the inspiration for the Transformers XWing.

The king of braves has... fallen? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want an easy comparison... The GeForce 4 MX is actually a GeForce 2. You'll be replacing it with a low-end GeForce 6(that actually IS a GeForce 6). Suffice it to say that yeah, you're gonna see a good bit of a performance boost.

Again... It's not weight, which makes no sense for a spaceship(as weight is directly dependent on gravity). It's not even mass. Displacement = volume. Which is basically how much space is inside. That can go up REALLY fast with a hollow vehicle. Simplest explanation is the ARMDs are wider and/or deeper than the Daedalus and Prometheus they replaced were, thus making them roomier vehicles. It probably won't cover the whole difference though, since the ARMDs are shorter than the D&P were(pity the Compendium doesn't list the width or volume of the D&P).

The Compendium isn't using the ton as a unit of mass. It's using it as a unit of VOLUME(hence why that measurement is labeled displacement, not mass). The actual mass is FAR lower, if for no other reason than the ship is hollow. Hooray for reused unit names...

If I were Hikaru I'd... kill myself. Of the 2 listed options... Misa. And I'd settle things a LOT faster, even if it DID torpedo the post-war arc.

Ouch... that wasn't even close... Well, at least I can vote Guy without a guilty conscience.

Do you have the ability to screw with post counts? You could start messing with it at random intervals. ... Actually, one board I was on let you have NEGATIVE post counts. That was hilarious.

Immediatly afterwards... She asks Misa to give her a seat on the Megaroad. And it's granted. ... Because Misa's f'ing stupid and hasn't quite figured out that Hikaru has zero willpower. She'll be fighting with the brat until the end of time if she stays in the picture.

This is the key to victory!

I'll do it... but he's getting a Will Knife to the face in the finals.

I've seen that before. Time constraints, if I recall. They just couldn't justifty delaying it for the ending concert. I could be wrong. I know it was time or budget constraints. I give 2012 1 star. Perhaps it works as a way to give the fans material that was abandoned, but as an actual show... There's no new story content in there at all(Minmay leaving on the Megaroad was established in the TV series). And the animation level bounces around so much that it's a rather obvious patchwork. If I want to listen to Minmay singing, I can stick a CD in.

I always wanted a twin.

Does it help at all if I point out that HG gets paid no matter WHO you buy it from? You'll be seeing HG splash screens, complete with "copyright" notices, every time you start a disk up.

That's because he had GUTS!.

MASK crusaders... working all the time... fighting crime... Secret raiders... nahnahnahnahnah... nahnahnah... Hey, I finally forgot the words to that song!

! I used to have that one. It was awesome. They also did a street fighter based on it called Cyberbots. That's where Marvel VS Capcom's Jin came from(KLOV claims Jin was actually the lead from Armored Warriors, but everything else I've seen says he's the son of the lead).

2 possibilities on ROM sets. 1 is you got a "child" ROM set. MAME sets typically only include the ROM images that are actually different for variants of a game, so only one "parent" game works standalone. 2 is that your ROM images are from a different version of MAME than your current one. The MAME team has been known to find missing ROMs they'd simulated in code, or just that they "miswired" everything, and images get added, deleted, and shuffled. It's a pain in the ass, but apps such as ClrMAME Pro can help with it. http://www.clrmame.com/clrmame.htm Darius 2(2-screen version) can. Darius, Darius 2, and Ninja Warriors can beat the pants off of XMen with THREE screens in a row! Taito didn't play games! ... Well, they did, but not when designing them. Or something. Aside from the obvious "Capcom/SNK fighters"? In my current set of MAME games, I'd recommend... *Asteroids. *Missile Command. Star Wars. Tempest. And from companies OTHER than Atari, I'd recommend... Arkanoid series. Armed Police Batrider. *Berzerk. *Bubbles. Darius Gaiden. Dig Dug. Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Elevator Action. *Joust. Jungle Hunt. Macross. Moon Patrol. New Rally-X. Robotron. RType series. Sinistar. Space Dungeon. *Qix. Stars for the top 6 on the list. 'S hardly a comprehensive list, and I skipped some stuff just because I can't remember what it is(or if it's any good... I've got a bunch of scrolling shooters in here that all run together). I tend to occasionally hit a ROM image site, grab a bunch of random games, and add them to the collection. When I just want to play, I usually use a frontend with a random game button, and poke it until I see something good. (Specifically, I use EmuLoader. http://www.mameworld.net/emuloader/ )

I probably am an ass. 'S just one of those things that comes up ALL THE TIME, but seems to have no real merit. Sort of like Flashback 2012(which is a whole 'nother can o' worms). And I just don't see it as a brilliant twist. The TV series also didn't pitch the humans as luckless fools that happened to get caught in the crossfire. They were luckless fools that accidentally started a war by not replacing the computer on a refurbished alien gunship. But the whole setup is skipped in the movie anyways. The breaking of ranks in the final showdown, of course, was originally due to cultural contamination. Which was still present in the movie, and COULD have been developed as the reason for the final battle instead of the existing "Hey, we can get a cheap shot in on the other side!" angle they did use(which isn't without it's merit, as it echoes the post-war TV arc's theme of zentradi unable to give up fighting and adapt to the human way of life). And given the large amount of setup skipped in DYRL, there's no real reason to establish a "why" for the war. In fact, it's fairly unclear why they're shooting at the humans in DYRL to start with, or why they razed the Earth. The zentran/meltran war was, IMO, an incredibly weak plot addition, though. It was ham-handed and really served no purpose other than to give the movie a different story than the TV series(which it was dependent on for plot setup, so contradicting it isn't the greatest of ideas). That or it was an excuse to get more QRaus onscreen... which I have to admit would be a noble cause. Touche is an acknowledgment of defeat. I was conceding the point, as Kaifun's reduced screen time is inarguably an improvement. IMO, the place where the movie REALLY shines(aside from general animation detail) is in it's depictions of life in Macross City. There's a far stronger attempt to illustrate a futuristic setting that's really lacking in the TV series(which leaves you with the feeling that it's the 80s all over again).

AND we'd get more destroids!

Actually, Missile Command's older than I am. Going by age, I should be square in the Nintendo era. By all rights I should have never touched anything from the Atari era. Needless to say, I'm a bit of an anomaly.

Clever? You're joking, right? Look up cliche in a dictionary and it says "war of the sexes." That was one of the WORST plot changes, IMO. But that's present in the original too. Touche.

Yeah... We had sticker sheets interfering with instant gratification. But you can play without stickers. There's simply no way for a kid now to just yank something out of the box and run. Ewww....

I like red, so I've gotten in the habit of bumping the light button each time. And yah, it's pricey. 'Specially on a shelf next to boards that cost 10$. But the cheap keyboards suck, so... I caught mine on sale, so it was more like 45. Still pricey. I know a guy that swears by the old buckling-spring keyboards(they still make them, amazingly). I've got a beat-up one laying around, and it DOES have a nice feel. But they cost something like 100. And DON'T LIGHT UP! ... That and they tend to drive everyone around you insane with clicky noises.

But Hasbro loves them. I dig wire cutters out every time I get a Transformer now. Don't even bother trying to deal with the things in the "normal" manner.