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Don't let the catchphrase fool you. They've never taken the "in disguise" part seriously.

Please quit humping the fox that humps Australia. That's wrong on so very many levels.

Currently, I use Windows XP Media Center with Seamonkey, AKA real Mozilla. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ In the past I've used Win98 with Mozilla and 2k with both Mozilla and Seamonkey. I hate Firefox, and will likely never use it again. I tried it when Phoenix first came out, after the rename to Firebird, the rename to Firefox, and just a few months ago. The most recent trial died immediatly when ctrl-F failed to bring up an INDUSTRY-STANDARD find box, instead unhiding a crappy toolbar on the bottom that does nothing but add GUI to the find-as-you-type feature. I've got a few spare machines to play with, and a few ideas for OSes to drop on them. Just haven't done it yet.

*shudders* That version of MAME32's hopelessly dated. Delete it. http://mame32qa.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ has the current version. Pr'ly other places too, that DON'T require you to have a FilePlanet account, but I don't care enough to find them. You can't get official MAME to work because it's a command-line program. It should say as much when you run it. If Emuloader isn't showing the games, then they're named wrong, in the wrong place, or bad sets. And I KNOW F5 refreshes Emuloader. You are wrong. 0.106 is the most recent version of MAME32, as well as the most recent version of official MAME.

There's an option somewhere in there to enable gamepad/joystick input somewhere. Since I don't use MAME32, I can't say where. As far as not recognizing the games... did you stick all 3 in the same place? Assuming you got them from a decent site, the zip name should already match, and the internal ROM images should match the current MAME version. If you did, hit F5 to refresh the game list(F5 SHOULD be refresh, anyways). And what version NUMBER is your MAME32? Assuming they do anything normally, it'll be in the right-most menu, under "about." There's absolutely no reason to not be getting sound. And I've seen too many people claiming to have the most recent version that didn't to take your similar claim at face value. No offense intended.

:'( Poor YF-21... the 19 is always picking on him. Won't let him forget he lost Project SuperNova when they were kids. He's so MEAN!

Awesome!

Naw. We didn't have the all-important factor of Grand Theft Auto, which is what REALLY causes kids to snap. Just ask Jack Thompson. I was just old enough to get in on the first wave. Oldest 'bot I still have is Slag, which came out when I was 4.

Perhaps. I'd argue that nitpicking a single word in a question while completely ignoring the question is a bad attitude too. While I may be abrasive, I generally make a point of acknowledging questions when I nitpick them. No. I'm arguing that I asked a question about an oddly-worded sentence and got nothing but a nitpick about my choice of words. If I were in any position to complain about the actual accuracy of the translation, I would never have asked the question because I'd HAVE the original source as well as my own translation. I'd already know what the sentence I asked about was trying to say, and wouldn't be asking for clarification. If I thought I had a better understanding of the material, I'd say so. I don't hide challenges behind question marks. Absolutely none. I don't have the original source either, so it's a moot point. Which is all irrelevant, as I was just asking for confirmation that I read an oddly-worded sentence correctly, not questioning the general accuracy of the translation.

How about a group kick in the nuts? Everyone likes those!

By all means, get the violin. We could use a bit of class in here.

Which is a heck of a lot more informative than "Babysit means you get paid," but STILL arguing semantics. Is it REALLY that hard to answer a question? Maybe even a "Yes, except (semantic bullshit about the definition of babysitting)," so you can pick apart word choice WHILE answering a question? As near as I can tell, you linked excite's translator, then supplied your translation of their translation. If not, I'm not sure why you bothered to paste Excite's translation.

Not a part of the definition, and not even implied in my region. They used what is commonly known as a synonym. And giving an automated translation script credit for intelligent and well-thought-out word selection is questionable at best. Now will you stop picking on my choice of words, and ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION?

My parents were rather good about things, and as a general rule, any toy I didn't break, lose, or actively choose to get rid of is still around here somewhere. EXCEPTION! I had a box full of Robotech toys. Not a large box, but a box anyways. Die-cast Spartan, various action figures, the infamous VF-1 for the action figures, some bioroid hover platforms, and my most recent acquisition... an Invid Shock Trooper with an arm that kept falling out of it's socket. Mom deemed the Shock Trooper broken and needed to be thrown out. I insisted that the arm was SUPPOSED to be removable, to simulate battle damage. Partially because the arms had ALWAYS been removable and that one had just grown much looser since I'd initially gotten it, partially because the shock trooper was a pimpin' piece of purple plastic and the Robotech toys weren't available anymore. We argued back and forth for a while, then she made me throw out THE ENTIRE BOX. I had to carry my beloved plastic box into the kitchen and dump the contents into the trashcan. All of it, gone in an instant. Those were my favorite toys at the time, too. Many years later I found Max and Zor figures that had escaped the purge by being lost somewhere. Max still had his helmet, and Zor had his gun... Well, someone's gun, anyways. They're all that remains of my once-treasured collection. No Rick, no generic zentradi, no destroid, nothing. Dammit, I liked that destroid. Mom insists that she never would've made me throw the whole box out, and I MUST have misunderstood her. I'm not gonna argue the point wtih her, but I think she just lost her temper. Beyond that one nasty scar, things were pretty good. Dad glued my Max joke machine's chest hinges back together a few times(this was before the purge). Ditto for Shockwave's left shoulder. Both eventually went in the trash because there wasn't a good surface left to glue. They bought Tracks multiple times because his hip sucked and his legs kept breaking off. I think there was some replacing of rubber bands in Robotech figures. Or gluing of waists. Either way...

In my mind, babysitting covers both paid and unpaid forms of supervision. So now that we have that technicality out of the way, have I, in fact, parsed it correctly? Did Vanessa enter into a long-term monogamous relationship with Loli and grow human-zentran hybrids within her uterus, which Warera monitored after they were extruded from her body? And which one was Loli, anyways?

Bring it on, EPIDERMIS! 402912[/snapback] I'll poke you in the homunculus! 403356[/snapback] Quit masticating around!

If by "a little light on the paint apps" you mean "completely devoid of paint", you do recall correctly. 403258[/snapback] Hmm, really? I thought they had painted faces and hands at least? I mean a light spackle of tan on the face and hands, nothing detailed. I must be mistaking them with maybe some of my G.U.T.S. figures that i had... hmm but those were bigger i think... GUTS! 403279[/snapback] You are mistaking them. I've still got mine somewhere, and they've got as much paint on them as the day they were unboxed. I might still have manuals even.

I'm having a bit of trouble parsing that. Is it saying Vanessa and Lori got married, and Warer babysat?

I can't speak for Phalanx, but I was joking, and thought it was blatantly obvious. Oddly, characters is a major gripe I have with Wing. They're all cookie-cutter stereotypes with no development whatsoever.

If by "a little light on the paint apps" you mean "completely devoid of paint", you do recall correctly.

I had a friend with the jet and helicotper, if I recall.

Well, F-15s also don't have giant freaking laser cannons attached to their sides. I'd say this is somewhat different than swapping parts on real world jets. 403236[/snapback] They also don't fold into giant robots bent on interstellar domination.

! I FORGOT! I wanted XPanders toys. They were these miltary-ish vehicles, and you tripped a button or switch that released a clip, and they folded out into a gun platform or seomthing. I got a jeep and a 3-wheeled motorbike thing, but the line died before I could get anything else.

*shudders at the thought of ANY Toonami being considered "old-school"* Let's see... The die-cast lion Voltron set. I never got past Yellow and Green. And they broke. Sky Lynx. Saw it on a shelf, thought it looked awesome. Didn't get it. Optimus Prime. I got PowerMaster Prime, and then the Gen2 reissue, but it wasn't the same. Mainly because I was a heck of a lot older, and a hell of a lot less forgiving of a toy with such limited articulation. Jetfire. I got one from a friend much later, but it looks like he lost a duel with Starscream. His armor's broken, his gun is gone, and there's some nasty gouges in the nose like a dog chewed on it. Pretty much anything from MASK. I wanted MASK toys, but I wanted Transformers more. The "SDF-1" toy. How could anyone NOT want it? An NES. I got one eventually. From my cousin after the PS and Saturn came out. And just to scrape the barrel a little... a BioDread Strike Fighter. Captain Power was one of the few shows where I really wanted the badguys. That's probably all the signifigant stuff.

It WAS a good line. But still no "wockawockawocka."