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Thank you for sharing your deeply profound insights.

But would they have a bunch of people running around wearing t-shirts that said "Kaifun shot first" after the edit?

I don't know about HD-DVD. Just BluRay. Which by some accounts is more processor-intensive when pushed.

Emilia got bigger-ized, customized a QRau with colored smoke jets, and took up singing in the mountains of some backwater mining planet.

But the people on-board didn't know that. I've always wondered how much imported media they had. If Macross were in a real-world setting, the government would probably be beaming selected media to the ship once they found out it was still there. It could be distributed to provide an influx of new media to the population, albeit of a limited selection. Would greatly reduce riot possibilities if nothing else. But Macross isn't in the real world. It's in a world where disco wasn't dead in 2010.

I'm not complaining that the designs are different. Just that they're ugly. I also think the Alternators look funny. But not outright ugly. And yah, the originals benefited greatly from anime magic. But still... The Bayformers have sliding metal plates everywhere... why not add sliding metal plates over the Alternators seats and wheels? That'd spruce up a lot of them. Though they still wouldn't have trunks or back seats. But I doubt there's REALLY room for them in the Bayformers. Hollywood tends to have a poor grasp of physics, even when they claim to be doing it right. As I understand things, the official excuse was supposed to be that they tucked excess mass into a pocket dimension, or something. It just never showed up in the media. Compressing/expanding the structure is problematic because that changes volume, but mass(and thus weight) stay constant. So you either have REALLY light robots, or REALLY heavy guns and tape decks. Since humans could lift Megatron and Soundwave, neither of whom blew away when the wind picked up, mass has to be variable.

Ah. I'd missed that. I was hearing something along the lines of "Nothing but the PS3 supports it right now" with firmware as a potential update. Indeed... Kinda makes you wonder why even bother? Why is a dual-format player "way more expensive"? They're just computers. Heck, the early BluRay players were literally P4 PCs in a pretty box(I'd hope they've moved to Cores now). Both formats use an identical laser wavelength, so the drive mech is the same. And that's the only part that needs changing if your hardware is programmable and has enough power. Aside from the licensing fees, which aren't exactly breaking the bank, and software, which I assume a dual-format company already has for both formats, I don't see any reason for a dual-format player to cost more than a dedicated player for the more expensive side. BluRay players cost more than HD-DVD right now, so... slight premium over BluRay only, to cover the HD-DVD license and cost of a second set of software.

Does the AR+ require you to lodge the CD door switch, so the system doesn't know it's open? If so, I'd recommend unlodging the switch first. If not... save, shut down, boot off disk 2, and hope the game works like I think it does.

Is it? I know they recently had a BluRay release that only works on PS3, because the current standalone players don't support BD-JAVA(which, as the name implies, is a variant of the Java language).

Licensed games tend to oscillate. There were some damn good Atari-era and NES ones. Every once in a while the "genre" gets so bad that developers realize they HAVE to expend effort. Then we get some kickass licensed games, and it starts sliding downhill again.

if I recall, the PS and Saturn versions had different gunpod sounds. I've never played the Saturn one, though.

LG and Samsung BOTH announced dual-format devices last year. Then canceled them for no visible reason. When the media started asking, one of the manufacturers explicitly stated that they didn't make the combo because they couldn't get a license from one of the groups. I THINK it was Samsung, but I can't find the article. They didn't specify which group bounced them, either. It was possible both sides did.

Heh. Good point. :'( Kawamori doesn't love the 1J. I'd be tempted to kludge some up if I had any sort of image editing talent. But I don't, so I won't.

The only one I wasn't sure about was the Armored D, due to the unique cockpit. Could interfere with the GBP if it protrudes too far into the chest. I thought the fact that "super" was a sub-entry under the VF-1S and "armored" was a subentry under 1J implied they only came in those flavors. I was actually just thinking the addition of other animated variants, mainly. I only initially noticed it because I REALLY like the 1J, and Super 1J isn't there. From there it was just thoughts pinballing off each other. That makes sense. Disappointing, but logical. Also logical. Especially given the variety present in the VF-1. It's quite a nice effort. I'm looking forward to the update.

Only some G2 Primes. Prime had multiple G2 toys. Including a reissue of G1 Prime with a black trailer instead of a gray one. And a Hot Wheels-size Italian sportscar.

The GitS:SAC games were made by Cavia, though. Cavia's good at making fun, if technically flawed, games.

That's actually good. It ensures that no matter who wins the format war, your disk is future-proof. Apparently there's gonna be a HD-DVD/BluRay player at CES this year. Guess whoever was throwing a fit decided to knock it off.

On the armor... It might make more sense to have the GBP and FAST packs broken off as seperate entries, since they can technically go on any of the VF-1s(maybe not GBP + 1D, but otherwise...). If you want to keep it to animated occurences... you're missing the Super 1J in SDF. Max and Millia flew them at several points. I like the site, though. I'd never noticed the "wedding bands" on the M&M 1J legs before you called it out.

Presumably because the reverse-engineering and refitting of the vessel took long enough and required enough people that having a city nearby became a necessity. What good are pictures? All the cool stuff is inside. Likewise, shooting at it is more of a problem for the people outside than the actual ship. Unless they have something really big, in which case they probably have delivery mechanisms anyways. But you're right. They WERE a lot closer than I remembered. The gun wasn't supposed to be fired, though. The ONLY thing they were going to test on Earth left was the antigravs, which they were pretty sure worked already. Actually, they knew how the power plant worked. They'd already reproduced it, and even miniaturized it. Texas is also a lot bigger than South Ataria Island. Fusion is also much cleaner if it fails. It doesn't make sense to test it on Earth when you know you can get it into space. Even if they were skipping the antigrav tests(and personally, I would have unmounted some of those and tested them offsite well in advance), they had home-grown rocket thrusters. Yes, but you can't go poking at every little hole, or you wind up having to deal with the 500-pound gorillas. 30-foot humans are physically impossible. Not just absurd and implausable. If I'm not mistaken, the ice should've sublimated rather rapidly. If the tuna was close to the periphery of the ice, it should've been released fast. That actually woulda been cool! Though fish aren't as big on empty air pockets as we are. He'd've definitely had some issues with his swim bladder. Not to mention that I'm pretty sure decompression doesn't blow things up like that. Before the fold accident, everyone stupid enough to take a plane off the ship during a fold operation was outdoors(I hope). It's easy to station armed guards at the entrances. If I had to guess, Roy was probably breaking a few regulations just putting Hikaru in the VF-1D, much less depositing him aboard the Macross with his stunt plane. All the retrofitting done after the fold accident... well, engineering was working overtime already with the city reconstruction, space-refits for the Daedalus and Prometheus, etc. What's a few more locked interior doors? Especially since the city was being installed in previously unused space and they were probably adding the doors as they built it. The bigger concern would be some dimwit leaving the door open and exposing the deck to decompression after the fold(though it's probably not standard practice to fold in an atmosphere, so it'd be decompressed to start with). Not some dingbat suiciding by jumping out during a fold. There's actually good reasons to have the door open during a fold. If you're dropping out into a hotspot, you may want your fighters launching as soon as you defold. I was just offering an explanation for the city's presence. Which explains the large # of civilians around.

GERWALK seems to require it. The engine does. The reactor is almost guaranteed to run at a fixed rate. Remember, the fusion reaction doesn't happen IN the engine. It happens outside it, and the heat is transferred into the engine. Indeed they are. Fission happens automatically, fusion has to be forced. On the other hand, fission is far easier to regulate(just stick some neutron-absorbing rods in to slow it down, pull 'em out to speed it up). Fusion is pretty much a fixed-rate reaction, as I understand things.

Ehrgeiz WAS a game. Arcade/PS1 fighting game. Known for having several secret characters taken from FF7. And for sucking royally. http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/12752.html Hardly a complete list, I'm sure.

I thought the series had a good excuse for survival. The zentradi wanted the nukes, so they weren't making an active attempt to destroy the ship. Kamjin excepted, of course.

Same developer that did Ehrgeiz? That doesn't exactly bode well...

You know 1 of those is impossible, right? The DYRL designs hadn't been made yet, and were too complex to animate a weekly TV series with anyways FAST packs from the start completely breaks the TV timeline, and doesn't really make sense in-continuity. The war of the sexes was stupid. WHOOHOO!

I sorta liked Kakizaki's death. The way he died in both cases was such that it wasn't his fault. Heck, he seemed to have gotten over his chronic bullet attraction in the TV series. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Arguably he coulda survived in the TV series if he'd been just a hair faster getting away, but... The thing's over a kilometer long, with a city built around it. I would assume the civilians were kept well away from the actual ship, but there was no way to keep it a truly private affair. Especially since the city only existed because of the restoration of the ship. They showed fairly early that the residents had a bit of an attachment to the thing. Most of the civilians lived there. Only a few were brought in. As far as ready... I believe part of the reason to launch the ship was so they could test it out. They explicitly mentioned they were going to test the main cannon once they left Earth, and I think the fold generators too. They really didn't know if it was ready, because they couldn't or didn't want to use a lot of the hardware while on the ground. And yet he could maneuver, so the rockets must've had some vectoring, or be individually controllable. I dunno about safety interlocks on the doors. Seems easier to just tell people "Don't open the door!", especially since it wasn't intended to be a civilian vessel. Well, yeah. But he was an idiot.