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Ooh yeah, she's a hottie too--but there's something that's just not quite right. Those *ahem* combat uniforms are definitely alluring. But the whole "complete synthetic body" thing is a bit creepy. You gotta wonder: would she feel all cold and plasticy? The tech level in GitS is high enough that they simulate the feel of a real body. At least in the "normal" ones. There's all sorts of specialized and non-humanoid bodies with diffrent design goals than social interaction(pretty sure the cube-bot made it into SAC, for a quick example of one such body). Motoko can't swim, though. Her body's too heavy, due to the design goals of strength and durability(there ARE swimmable bodies, including ones explicitly designed for it). I'd be more worried about her crushing me accidentally. Meh, just get my own mecha body. I'm not a big fan of my current one anyways. ... But then, her's is mil-spec. Can probably tear right through anything I can buy.

Like I said, it's a required suspension of reality for the genre. Maybe a delay would work. A knee button prevents using the system for leg motions.

We spent all our testosterone on mecha. We don't have any left over for women. 'Sides, Belldandy looks pretty darn good too.

Knowing how they work isn't the same as being capable of using them. I'm pretty sure you weren't an immediate automobile master when you first sat behind the wheel. I know I wasn't. And a steering wheel and gas pedal is a LOT simpler than the mess of switches, joysticks, and pedals in a VF-1. Even assuming perfect mastery of motion by description alone, gauging the proper pressure to apply would be VERY difficult. (That's one of the major problems they've had with artificial hands, actually. They need a way for the user to tell how hard he's grabbing an object so he can not crush an egg while still having enough power to get a firm grasp on a heavy object. ) How do you hit the switch to turn it off?

I think you might have to beat Mai into submission. And I dunno about you, but I'm not up to it.

Sorry about that. Forgot a tag while trimming it down. Fixed now. Perhaps. It reads as a simple action. Actually doing it is a tad harder. Hikaru's never operated a VF before in his life. His sum total of experience consists of being shot down in a dog fight and crashing a battroid through a city block before walking it into an apartment. He's only just found out the sticks move the hands at all. Picking Minmay up on the first try without missing totally, slapping her in the face, or crushing her to death should be a rather difficult task, especially without any tactile feedback. Hmmm... Might work. Not as well as it sounds, but possibly good enough. It's really a somewhat limited control scheme for a war machine, though. Head-tracking and eye-tracking are rational additions. It's the most intuitive method of rapidly designating targets using real-world technology. Full-body tracking is much less useful, as there aren't intuitive motions to activate a lot of features, and you'll do something unintended while reaching for the controls to do them.

well how about this.... prehaps there are certain preset motions trigured by gestures that the pilot inputs, if the valk has any desplay screen modes like modern fighter jets im sure there would be a way to start mapping out a new motion, but it might be a little time consuming to do in the middle of a battle 391293[/snapback] It still requires training. Remember a completely untrained Hikaru picking Minmay up with a damaged GERWALK? "Beginner's skill" is a common staple of the genre. And I doubt Max could program a "put on a uniform that doesn't quite fit" routine in a reasonable amount of time. Then the touch where he reached up and pulled the hat down low as a soldier came down the hall... pure improv. It would've worked better if he'd been staying hidden the whole time. Would've been harder to rescue 3 people with a 1-man fighter, but it blew up anyways, so no great loss.

Better yet... WHILE doing her.

But Mountain Dew looks like urine(at least in the bottle). Coke has no urine-colored products. And makes Cherry Coke. 391261[/snapback] *ahem* Mello Yello 391264[/snapback] Coke has no urine-colored products in my area, then.

Millia. She's hot, she's a gamer, she has green hair. Ami from Sailor Moon. Smart, shy, into computers... Aww heck... she's me with boobs.

But Mountain Dew looks like urine(at least in the bottle). Coke has no urine-colored products. And makes Cherry Coke.

Compendium says Zenmtradi are about 5 times the average human. That's more along the lines of 25-30 feet than 35-40. The 2 zentradi characters with heights listed are Millia and Britai. She's about 28, and he's 44 and a half. He's also notably bigger than the men under his command. VF-1's height in battroid mode is 12.68 meters, which works out to 41.6 feet. One of Robotech's major statistical deviations is that the average zentradi is 40-ish. This comes from assuming Britai is of average height. This makes Max's costuming stunt a lot more workable in Robotech, though the clothes would still hang quite wrong on the battroid's body. I hope you meant depending on the zentradi's height, as all VF-1s are built to the exact same specification. Legs and torso too.But it's a common theme for mech anime, and one of the more common suspensions of reality that come with the genre. A couple of joysticks and foot pedals is enough to create any motion you may need, and to do it intuitively as well. Roboetch's novelizations excuse this with a neural interface(much like MacPlus's YF21 does), but this doesn't fit the animation(and in the Macross universe Plus makes it chronologically impossible).

I've been seeing them around here, too. MS seems to have finally gotten their production up. I haven't really kept score. Partially because I've got a heap of used games. 'S just not worth tracking which ones were mint originally. I prefer top-loaders just because the mechanism is simpler. All other things being equal, a toploader will last longer than a tray or slot mech. ... Of course, the tracking assembly(Sony's machines) and hub motors(Dreamcast) have proven the weak links in recent years, so it doesn't much matter. Pity they can't/won't spend the cash for a high-quality drive mech. At least MS is using standard drives, so it should easy to fix when the optical drive dies(if my assumptions about the drive using standard firmware are correct). Hard drive'll take a bit more work. Yes, I expect an uncommon amount of longevity.

You could actually do a lot to it. And since we're worried about drive noise, you could put the panels directly on the drive. Might cause thermal issues, though.

Blunt is my natural state. I get right to the point and skip the paragraph of fluff surrounding the important sentence. You incorrectly assume it's meant to offend. I did. Waste of words. "Wrong thread" is so much shorter. I'm not offended in the least.

They have... err, ARE... bioweapons!

And he never should've passed for one. Really... wouldn't you guys notice if you walked by someone with his collar pulled up real high, his hat pulled down low, and a big green glass plate where his face should be?

Are you joking? No one's ever really sure. Sidenote: I HAVE gotten injured while picking stuff off of a carpeted floor. Was at school, and somehow a staple had gotten caught in teh carpet, point up.

DYRL was scare-mongering propaganda to get people to support more military spending. Max was a high-ranking military officer and knew a more accurate version of things than the masses. Tada! Instant justification!

"Dinner table". 390948[/snapback] "Unsanitary"?

Only way it'd work is if Max jumped a "high-ranking" zentradi, like Britai. They're about Valk size. It'd still be a pretty bad fit, and probably wouldn't work.

I second the request for wood carpet pics. Not bored, just easily amused. See the Snakes on a Plane thread for the inspiration.

So yeah, which do you like better? I say carpet. It's soft and warm. And you can vacuum it.

That's not a bad idea...

A. Okay I thought I would ask since the people here are actually playing the game I am looking for so I though that wouldnt hurt to ask. No they aren't. Thread's about the PS2 Macross game, not the PS1 games. Not only that, they're talking about ripping FMV sequences from legally purchased copies of the game. No discussion of downloading, modchips, burning, or emulating(in fact, the PS2 has no valid emus yet). Because that would encourage this sort of thing, and it would be better to encourage you to find a proper outlet instead of letting the thing lay around as you bump it with "Does anyone know?" and then later with "Anyone at all?" and finally with "So no one knows how to get PS2 ROMS?". Imagine if you're having an intelligent discussion about comparative theology, and someone jumps in with their favorite "a nun, a priest, and a rabbi" joke. It's totally unrelated and disruptive to the existing conversation. Same concept applies here. I was blunt, not rude. There's a large diffrence. "Where can get ROMS for VFX-1 and VFX-2 for PS1 (or PS2)." As near as I can tell, you are using "ROMS" to mean "downloads of commercial game software." Which means "pirated software." As I said, ROM refers to a specific type of microchip. It doesn't have anything to do with CD games, regardless of whether said games are the original disks, burned copies, or downloads. It is only tangentally related to emulation of cartridge games. The common usage of ROM to describe downloaded cart games comes from a massive misunderstanding of the accurate term "ROM image" by a massive influx of complete idiots that overran the emulation community several years ago.