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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.

A fan-made logo, but neat nonetheless. 395554[/snapback] I LOVE IT!

*laughs*

I was just saying... moveigoers WILL accept a film with superhuman stunts. The specific speed or "feel" wasn't really factored into that statement. Yeah. Immediatly post-Matrix, it was REALLY bad. If there'd been a 3 Stooges movie made in that time frame, I GUARANTEE that someone would've done a slow-mo camera-spin pie in the face. Fortunately, that trend slacked off fairly fast. That's a matter of personal perspective. Me? I get more worked up about spaceships coasting to a stop than people running along walls. ... Actually, I think I pissed some people off in the theater once. Was watching The Core, and I kept bursting into laughter at totally inappropriate times because it was just so blatantly WRONG. Well, if we're gonna ding the movies for adding stuff that isn't in the game, we can throw out the entire script of every video game movie ever. Yeah... I think they were on the tail-end of the bullet-time trend.

That's what DYRL says. I'm not sure that's in SDF:M. This is something that should have been clarified in Mac Zero but I don't think it was. It's what the official chronology says. http://macross.anime.net/story/chronology/...0000/index.html PC 2870 A Protoculture survey ship stops temporarily on "Earth." By genetically reconstructing the native life, it plots the emergence of a sub-Protoculture adapted to the planetary enivronment, "Humankind," to prepare for future colonization. During its return to its home planet, the survey ship is destroyed by military ships opposed to the Stellar Republic. Records of Earth and Humankind are eventually lost. [PC 2900] That's the Robotech talking. 395141[/snapback] Lets not go there. If not for Robtoech few of us would even know about Macross. 395469[/snapback] So? It's still a plot element added by Robotech that wasn't present at any point in Macross, nor even hinted at in the official backstory.

I would argue that aliens is still horror, but unlike the first which was horror/science fiction, this was horror/science fiction/war. I still consider aliens a horror movie but close to a war movie in that people died, there was no glorifying of death or a "hero". Action to me suggests "stunts". When I think action: I think rambo, diehard, and commando and terminator 2. Action to me suggests lost of gunplay OR stunts. Aliens had lots of gunplay. That'd just be Hollywood drivel. It's quite possible to do an action movie without ripping off Jackie Chan and The Matrix. I clearly use a broader definition of action. I'm still not seeing anything that prevents it from being an action movie, though I AM seeing stuff that prevents it from being a generic drivel action movie. I seem to recall Ripley running into the alien hive alone to rescue Newt, unloading a machine gun, grenade launcher, AND flamethrower into the queen's nursery, then attacking the queen with a forklift and shoving a blowtorch in it's face before throwing it out an airlock. Maybe we watched diffrent versions.

The DS name WAS presented as a dev name for a while. It may not've been the FIRST dev name, but it was A dev name.

I thought it meant ADV was good friends with HG. If I recall, Animeigo was explicitly denied an extension of their sublicense, which is a fairly good indication of favoritism. ... That or I'm just scraping some debris off the rumor mill again.