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Arcade joypad is an oxymoron, unless you're playing on a Nintendo Super System cabinet. But I AM baffled as to how you can get any reasonable reaction time out of an analog flight stick. Arcade games tend to assume you have a digital joystick, and a rather tight one at that. But then, I'm baffled as to how anyone can think a gamepad is a better weapon than a joystick too.

It's a word in the english language. Canon means it's the "real" story. In Macross, as well as any other franchise, canon stories are the ones that make the actual timeline. Non-canon stories "never happened." Except in Star Wars, where non-canon stories happened as long as the canon stories don't contradict them.

*laughs* Liner-note-wise, that's proper. All 9 disks should've come in the same kind of case, thoug(unless by "looks diffrent" you mean that the art is white instead of a random color). I think it's on their webpage in 2 places, as well as at the end of the disk 8 liner notes. Hence the laughter.

They tried to run Mobile Suit Gundam right after they got sick of repeating Gundam Wing. People had aneurisms and they canned it before they finished the run.

Odd, because I hate the A head. 'S all J all the time here. Wasn't that done in Mac 7 already??? Everything else was... Nope. They added colored smoke streams to one in The Galaxy Is Calling Me, though. Well, it WAS a half-assed jury rig. Was a better design than the flying green things. I don't think I saw ANYONE fielding particularly good space combat vehicle. ... I take it back. The QRau and FAST-pack'ed VF-1 were decently loaded with verniers.

Somewhat ironic that that Lucas quote came out while he was insisting the original version of Star Wars didn't exist and it was Special Edition or nothing. He DID lie. My VHS remasters clearly say it's the last time Star Wars will EVER be available in it's original form. He's ruined their value now. The bastard. Actually, what they WANTED was for this to be the original DVD release, with both the original AND Special Edition in the same package. Instead, we got a THIRD version.

You could download rips from the LaserDisk remaster now, and they'd be better than your VHS copies. But yeah...it'll be nice to have it on DVD. I'vd got the pan+scan VHS remaster, and it's starting to look a tad ratty. "Each original theatrical version will feature Dolby 2.0 Surround sound..." *laughs* On the upside, they aren't doing the remix idiocy. On teh downside, they're calling a stereo mix "surround sound."

It is a little-known fact that Roy's preferred beverage was fresh lava, and that he crapped granite.

They all use the same basic technique. They load a bunch of samples into the PS sound hardware, and then load some "sheet music." Same premise as the SNES and later MIDI hardware(sample-based MIDI first hit the PC with the Gravis UltraSound and Creative AWE boards, if anyone remembers the DOS days). Uematsu's FF compositions all have a "synth" feel because they're all based on the original FF1 music, which was ... NOT sample-based. All his recent FF work is trying to rehash NES music while "punching it up" with more instruments(or instruments period). And the funny thing is... that music sounded pretty good on the NES. It's only stale when you try and fit it to a paradigm it was never designed for. It's a lot like playing techno music with a classical orchestra. * As for what he can do when he's free of that legacy... he contributed part of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack, but without knowing which tunes specifically, it's hard to say. I don't know of anything post-NES that I can point to and say "Uematsu did this." *This has been one of my long-running complaints with the series. They simply refused to adapt for a very long time, so they were selling a game designed around the constraints of the NES through to the end of the PS1's life. FFX was the beginning of the end of that, and FF12 seems to have blown it entirely away(or 11, if you count it. It's certainly a new take on things).

Yeah... Lap'Lamiz calls Bodolzaa to end the silly peace treaty shenanigans, then brags to Britai. And he laughs in her face about how mind-numbingly stupid she is. Or something to that effect.

Because it sells. Thanks for making my point. FF8... *shudders* Wow. I am in awe of your amazing wit. I am interested in FF12. Which is something I hadn't expected to ever say about an FF game. Squeenix is trying something new for a change, and it looks like it should be fun.

I could be wrong, but I dont' recall any dialogue to that specific affect.... It's in there. Bodolzaa only came over because his underlings were all contaminated by culture. That's also why Britai, Lap'lamiz, and Kamjin(maybe) joined forces with us to defeat Bodolzaa. He was going to kill them all anyways, so they had nothing to lose. But their original interest at the beginning of the show that kept them from the Macross to smitherens and getting on with life was that we had reaction weaponry. They wanted them for themselves, so capturing the Macross seemed like a good idea. So our weapons DID gain their attention, but it was to capture, not destroy. Except the Grand Cannon was activated AFTER the orbital bombardment, and took them by complete surprise. They didn't know it was there when they opened fire.

And people wonder why we mock the show.

And I keep seeing PC and going "Why are we talking about personal computers now?"

Magic batteries. Seriously... something about putting flower of life seed pods in a stasis field and the seeds get pissed because they can't germinate and dump lots of energy while trying to break loose. And magic waves that let mecha transform, along with a lot of other wierd voodoo effects. That's what the novels said, anyways. I'm pretty sure the seeds in stasis part was from the cartoon, and the magic waves are novel-exclusive.

Schadenwawa?

AtariAge.com. Only other forum I'm active on anymore.

Yeah. And hid the last protoculture matrix aboard it. Or something. Then rammed it into the Earth to restore the flower of life to... It's homeworld? Or just another world it could live on? I sold my novels many moons ago. The cartoon had it as a special ship(Hey, we can fold within an atmosphere!), and I THINK they had something about us having a protoculture generator. Again, it's been a while. Last time I saw it was during Cartoon Network's first run. And having content chopped out and then a whole third of the series dropped doesn't exactly help(I was only watching FOR the MOSPEADA portion, too...)

SUSPENSE! That's the genre! Sort of like horror, but not as "bad." More people live, the bad guy isn't quite as scary, etc. And yeah, those Macross DVDs are awesome. I set my box on top of an altar I carved out of obsidian, and I worship it nightly.

I doubt it. What you COULD do, though, is edit your HOSTS file so that calls to MacrossWorld.com are translated to the appropriate IP on your computer, and DNS servers never enter into the equation.

That's absurd. As long as a mod isn't abusing his powers, he shouldn't have to change his personality. If they DID have to, they'd probably all create dummy accounts for mod purposes. Who can watch the mods when no one even knows who they are?

And its not even in Robotech itself, but in the novels. The Tv series is pretty clear, thanks to flashbacks, that the SDF-1 is just a ship of the line. 395624[/snapback] There were statements in Robotech to the effect that it wasn't entirely standard-fare as well. RT has a few continuity goofs in it beyond the infamous invisible SDF-2.

If Konami makes Macross Gear, I will give them my first, second, and third-born. Poltical incorrectness is always a fine goal to shoot for.

I never really counted Jurassic Park as a horror movie, either. You make some good arguments, though. How about we file it in a hybrid action-horror genre? I still think it's easily filed as action, but it DOES have more horror elements than I was initially giving it credit for.