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WHOOHOO!!!! I was one of the people figuring it'd be hard to screw up as long as it was 2 hours of giant robots kicking giant robot asses(and if there's one thing Bay does right, it's explosions), but having Prime played by Prime is certainly a good nostalgia move. And lets face it, the movie's driven as much by nostalgia as anything else.

MacrossWorld: Unofficial Pimps of Jessica Biel.

true, but a lower setting would take longer to overload than a higher, though give less protection. 418077[/snapback] That's a shaky assumption. Remember, the shield overload is because it's absorbed more energy than it can contain. I'd expect a low-power shield to overload EASIER since it has weaker confinement forces to start with. On the upside, it doesn't damage everyone around you as badly when it DOES blow, since it's holding less energy to release. On the downside, City 7 is instantaneoulsy stripped of all atmosphere when it blows, regardless of strength. I've also got serious doubts that the barrier system allows variable permeability, regardless of power level.

Really? Where is that stated? I always thought they used OTEC composite ceramics, which would provide the same protection as thicker materials with substantially less weight. They mentioned "Hyper Carbon Steel" in the series, which one could assume is an OTEC alloy. 418032[/snapback] It's pretty obvious from the animation that the Valk is rather lightly armored. No matter what, you have to work around the fact that a large zentradi can rip one apart bare-handed with minimal injury. That means that flesh and blood is stronger than Valk construction, unless the zentradi are actually well-disguised androids. Compendium says nothing about Valkyrie armor. It DOES mention the rudders are made "with honeycomb construction." That's indicative of low-mass design goals, which aligns with the VF's primary purpose as an aerospace fighter. Low mass is far more desirable in planes and space fighters than heavy armor. Also notable is that the destroids are far more massive than VF-1s, despite having far fewer parts to consume mass(no transformation mechanism, no jetpack, no reaction mass tanks, no "spare" parts left over from fighter mode). I'd bet good money that most of the mass diffrence is extra armor. All the Valk really has going for it is the note in the VF-0 entry that technology similar to the VF-0's SWAG "energy converting armor" that triples durability in battroid mode is used on future variable fighters. It's generally assumed this includes the VF-1. If we assume that Hikaru's energy armor generator was damaged in the fight with Bretai(not unlikely given his battroid got impaled on a large quantity of metallic spikes), then the possibility exists that a VF-1 battroid is considerably more durable. And wasn't hypercarbon steel mentioned in relation to the SDF-1's construction, not the Valk's? I don't think I should have to point out that we build aircraft carriers diffrently than we do fighter planes.

Go ninja go ninja go!

Dude, this forum is full of "those guys" that like to talk about this stuff. If you don't care about the topic, don't post . 417864[/snapback] Macross is a fair bit more consistent than Star Trek. We just poke at the places where the physics diverge from reality. 417878[/snapback] i'm biting my lip on that one... cause honestly their fairly the same 417890[/snapback] Trek can't even maintain a cohesive continuity across one series. They contradict themselves every other episode. As far as consistency of a universe goes, they're towards the bottom of the list.

"Just use the keyboard." "How quaint!"

I'll get you next time, Gadget! NEXT TIME!

Dude, this forum is full of "those guys" that like to talk about this stuff. If you don't care about the topic, don't post . 417864[/snapback] Macross is a fair bit more consistent than Star Trek. We just poke at the places where the physics diverge from reality.

What? The "core" bundle is 300. The component-video hard-drive-equipped "premium" version is the 400$ one.

Actually once you get up to it's operating altitudes it can't go much slower than Mach 3. Pilots call it the "coffin corner" your speed is maxed out the air's too thin to go any higher and if you let your speed bleed off you stall, the U-2 actually deals with the same thing (even though it's going slow). It's part of the reason they only let the best pilots fly either plane. I thought it could fly at altitude down in the high 2s also. I knew there was LESS wiggle room, but not that there was NO wiggle room. They sustained for a while during that transformation. And would be used for maneuvering in space anyways(their primary purpose, if I had to bet). But I wasn't thinking just hover on the jets. You'd burn your vernier fuel fast that way. But you've got an atmosphere, albeit a thin one. It's even thicker at low altitudes(which is where the Bye-Bye Mars combat was landing) than the environment the previously mentioned real-world planes operate in. It's not like the wings are doing NOTHING, they just aren't doing quite enough in all probability. So augment the lift fron your wings with a light vernier thrust and voila, you can fly. I'd guess that GERWALK is a lot more effective close to the surface than a jet with vernier assist, but far less effective when airborne(what with GERWALK having basically no aerodynamics). It's supposed to be a ground-effect mode, after all.

Shouldn't it be titled "Batman Continues"? Just a thought...

Darn right! Remove the safety laws and let Darwin handle the rest!

Except that aside from DDR, there's not a lot of room in teh market for constant churning out of updates. DDR HAS had "append disks" released before, though. It wouldn't actually be too tough to get the controller from guitar hero to work on any of the PC based macross games. If the guitar is not usb you can use one of those adaptors to make any ps2 controller work on pc (I bought mine at Fry's electronics--called kinky somthing). Then you just map the buttons of the guitar to the game. It would be pretty interesting to try. I'd try it but I don't have guitar hero. If the guitar is USB thats another story. 417788[/snapback] KikiJoy is known for being laggy, though. ... Actually, a lot of PS->USB adapters are.

if they turned it up though that'd drain more power, and if attacked it could overload the system and essentialy shut down the whole shibang no? 417804[/snapback] Stuff flying through it and shooting stuff up the insides isn't exactly good either, though. And low-power or not, a shield can be overloaded.

If Hasbro decides to pick it up and release him under the 20th Anniversary title or so and such there might be hope that it he’ll see an American release. But I don’t think there’s been anything official yet. One good thing that might come out of an American release though is a paint scheme that more closely resembles Starscream’s original colors. One can only hope. 417772[/snapback] I'm betting Hasbro WILL pick him up, and they'll release him in the "normal" paintscheme we know and love from years of animation and merchandising. Also! Found this looking for something earlier. 'S an AMV involving decepticons smashing stuff to some japanese song. The opening sequence was worth a chuckle.

Sure they were. They're designed to keep 1 atmosphere of pressure inside while in a essentially 0 atmosphere environment. It's not a LARGE pressure differential, but it's still there. If nothing else, the contruction of all the vehicle's external seals is shaped around that one assumption. Re-entry is an interesting inversion of the norm. It's also noteworthy that only one face of the vehicle can take the heat and pressure of re-entry. ... Hikaru did re-entry in the 1S. I was wrong about SWAG armor having no established pressure effectiveness. I still have serious doubts about a VF-1's ultimate durability, though. This IS the vehicle that can be torn apart by a bare-handed humanoid. 50-foot or not, Britai is still flesh and blood, and shold've at least cut his hands up pretty bad. Blackbird CAN fly at operating altitude below mach 3. It certainly can't go subsonic at altitude, though. The U2, of course, can ONLY go subsonic. And an absurdly low subsonic at that. Don't forget the effects of g-forces on the pilots. When you go from mach 3 one direction to mach 3 in another direction, it tends to snap you around. Again taking a comparable real-world example, blackbird pilots have been known to crack their helmet visors when an engine stalled out and their head hit something in the cockpit. That's not even a full turn, just a rapid swerve. ... But inertia is one of those things that sci-fi has always had serious trouble with. Or sketched a lot of vernier thruster fire, though GERWALK is definitely the preferred mode for slow-speed combat in that environment, especially given the limited flight capacity of the regults and glaugs. Like I said, DYRL claims they can hover on verniers, so full-spread wings plus some vernier fire should've kept them aloft at much slower speeds than just wings. Verniers are also going to be a major part of maneuverability in a thin atmosphere(and IMO, verniers will be the main part of GERWALK maneuverability in ANY atmosphere). ... But the show was on a tight budget and schedule. So they were pretty limited in what they could do, and you rarely see verniers firing, even in space.

417639[/snapback] Now there's a good balanced character... "Could become invincible by typing IDDQD in Doom if it weren't for the fact that his computer blows up every time he enters the room."

There's no gravity in space, thus no need for wing lift. On Mars, a naked valk weighs upwards of 10,000 lbs. 417666[/snapback] But it establishes signifigant thrust levels, as they can make very tight maneuvers in space, where thrust is the only way to do anything.. Also, asuming DYRL is accurate in this respect, they can do a grounded fighter->GERWALK transformation by hovering on verniers, so the verniers could also be used to augment the wing's meager lift. But the VF-1 is officially capable of Blackbird-style performance.Well in excess of mach 3 at 30,000 meters. At that altitude, the Earth's atmosphere is thinner than Mars'. So it's not an issue, because we have a real-world plane from the cold war that could fly on Mars, assuming there's oxygen. yes but that an unarmored transport, the valks are nicely armoured and can take some seriuos pounding, so i doubt a few bits of extra pressure is gonna hurt them 417722[/snapback] It's still a totally diffrent issue. A submarine is heavily armored and airtight, but I wouldn't count on it lasting 10 seconds in outer space. It's designed for external pressures, not internal ones. That was the point the professor was making, and it's just as valid to a heavily-armed battleship as it is to a naked transport.And Valks are designed to be light. Most of their armor is via overtech energy fields.We don't really know how those respond to pressure at all.

Not so much a soap bubble, as an omni-directional barrier toned down a bit to let slow moving solid objects through. I always thought it was some sort of lightweight transparent material, like overtech plexiglas, and they blasted holes in it to enter/exit. If it was just a barrier, you'd think they'd just turn it up it to real barrier levels instead of lowering a defensive shell. Lot faster in an emergency. Being permeable to matter also presents atmospheric problems. A long-range colony ship can't afford a constant atmospheric leak, not even a small one. To say nothing of what happens if you lose power...

Awww... that's just Famicom, not Super FamiCom. I was hoping for a minute I'd missed a classic TF game, and there was still a chance of one not sucking. *watches video anyways* That one used to be legendary in the emu community. The guy that did the translation patch wasn't sure he got everything because he couldn't figure out how to beat it, nor could his beta testers. Or the general public for that matter. The legend died because the game sucked too badly to sustain anything. Awww... they don't run through after Magnus upgrades to "RODIMUS COMVOY". And they aren't using the translation patch, so I have no f'ing idea what they're saying. But yeah, that BLUE DECEPTICON LOGO was a really scary boss, huh?

Do I know my mecha or what? I love Big G, but the Genesic version is just too overdone for my tastes.

supposedly all the "next gen" systems aren't encoded game wise (360 included) i dunno for sure as i haven't tried my 360 yet, but i do know the PSP plays games from anywhere (as i actually have a JP game or two working on my american PSP, no mods required), and only the movies are encoded by region. personly i skipped all problems with this by buying a used Japanese PS2 while i was stationed there figured why not... 417577[/snapback] 360 IS region-coded. I've heard jack-squat about the Wii's regions. PS3 is the only home system I've seen claimed as region-free.

Damn... I was planning on going Mirage hunting this weekend, too. ... Are we sure he isn't just using his cloaking device?

Check up on qi (chi), 　気,　or 氣. You can start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi (haven't read it all, don't know how accurate it is, or isn't.) From it, you can kind of get an idea of the origins of the concept of 'the Force,' as well as some of the greater-than-human powers that some martial artists posses. Keep in mind that this is the cultural background or basis that spiritia exists in... but also strongly keep in mind that spiritia is not qi; and the two are different (I will admit that this is more an opinion than fact - based on what I know of both qi and spiritia. Similar but disimilar.) Thank you! I had a sort of vague notion of the term, but wasn't quite sure exactly what it entailed. I'm sure you know how that goes. And I will keep in mind that Wikipedia gets iffy sometimes(and that it's rather prone to vandalism, so even if the article is NORMALLY right it can be wrong NOW). I've seen both cases in action before. If I'm not mistaken(and I can't imagine there's very many pink firetrucks in all of anime), you're describing AnRyu and KouRyu. Those 2 are HyoRyu and EnRyu's "sisters" from Gaogaigar Final. http://www.goshouworld.com/GaoGaiGar/mecha_attack.htm Is that them?