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Saw an Ultra Magnus/Skywarp package. I picked it up, just because I like how Skywarp looks. I was tempted to leave some twist ties wrapped around Magnus after I got him loose. The clipped remnants were hanging in such a way that it looked like he'd ripped them apart while breaking out of a prison or something. But then they started falling off. I may do it on my next 'bot. This concludes today's episode of "Fun With the Box in Spite of Hasbro." Seriously, how about they use a third the twist ties and put the money they save into more paint apps?

I thought the monsters had a 100% survival ratio. They only had 3 of them in the first place, and I'm pretty sure they hauled more than one out for the final battle against the bodol fleet.

Well, that depends... will I be assigned to one of the 3 destroids that get blown up AGAIN AND AGAIN every time the zentradi attack the ship? Seriously, it depends on WHICH destroid. I'd take a Monster assignment in a heartbeat. They aren't even deployed most of the time, and they have enough armor to withstand more of a beating than just about anything else. But if it's a Defender, I'm placing better odds on the Valk.

I'm leaning towards the latter, personally. But quit being unfun.

Fine... buy whoever bought the mold after they folded. I know they survived for some time, as I saw a toy catalog in the late 90s with a version of the 'bot. Original phallic trigger version, no less.

Oh, c'mon Hasbro... just buy the damn company already!

Well, it's not exactly strange for a panorama camera. 9" isn't an odd frame width for professional applications. It captures enough detail that you can do a lot of serious studying of the image. And let's be honest, if you're gonna be one of only a dozen people to walk the moon, you want the best damn pictures you can take. But yeah, the camera was expensive. Pretty much everything we send into space is.

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/ )