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Could be a low-residue meal. If it's "pure" enough, he might not have any solid waste. Just urine.

I believe you mea "The trailer raped my childhood."

Things aren't always that easy, Skullsixx. Like it or not, businesses are very rarely intrested purely and solely in benefitting the fans. Their main concern is making a living/profit. I thought there was an implied "one of us" in his statement. If WE bought HG, it would cater to the fans. ... At least until catering to the fans ceased to be a viable business model. Then we'd have to start increasing brand awareness(educating the Robotechies), and branching out into other products.

Yah. Week or 2 back. Even the people that like Smallville didn't care. They already did "The Flash" on TV. Linky /tuned in every week. 344994[/snapback] I loved The Flash. Of course, if they did it now it'd be teen angst drama, and thus much less lovable.

Can somebody say, "hypocrite" around here? How do you explain your quoting of Roy's Blues' image of his Motoko figures (1524 x 2032 and nearly 800KB in size) on page 4 of the "Show off your coolest non-Macross toys & models" thread, when the pic was posted on page 1? 344751[/snapback] Was on the same page for me. It was, however, admittedly stupid.

where were you guys when I was selling the two I had oh well... I already told you who got them so you can harass them now 344698[/snapback] Broke. Just like now, actually... so I think I was lying. But I'd drool over it and wish I could afford to buy it!

Gods... if I only played what the media told me was fun, I'd have to throw 95% of my games out, and 100% of my favorites. Quit being a consumer trend whore, play the games you like, and don't pay the media the slightest bit of attention. Hype doesn't make a good game, and only shameless fanboys believe it does. *looks at your avatar* Oh.

YAY!

If they still use transistors. I wouldn't be surprised that whatever technology the machines come up with to replace transistors will be highly resistant to power surges, and generally much better than current digital technology. Maybe. Maybe not. There's limits to what you can filter out in most cases. And a big enough surge will rip through any countermeasures.

You may be interested in this, then... http://agtp.romhack.net/valken.html Patch to take the original japanese game to english without the massive cuts made for the official US release. Sidenote: Konami was merely the US publisher.

As a side note... it's been suggested that taking over the power plants would be a good idea. Power isn't likely to be decentralized, at least not for the heavy stuff like factories and network nodes. Injecting some sags and spikes into the AC would tear some transistors up FAST.

*looks around* ... I'd buy it.

Unless god is interested in his creations' creations. he might leave the tape running to see what happens next, even if his grandkids have already proven to be worthless scum. Unless someone creates a mechanism for transplanting memories. Been done in sci-fi before(in fact, it's a staple of many clone stories). Though there's no really plausable way to do it that we know of, there's also no really plausable way to time-travel, so it balances out. There's a finite number of terminators that can be sent back. At least in the pre-Terminator 1 timeline, Skynet was making a desperate gamble. The tables had turned and humanity was pushing it back. From there it's only a matter of time before someone unplugs Skynet. This was credited to John Conner's leadership, so why not keep him from being born? Of course, it's possible that if not Conner, someone else would've risen to the role. Perhaps one of the aides that were being killed off in T3, perhaps someone that never became noteworthy in the eixsting timeline(s). And there's apparently severe limits on time travel, since Skynet didn't send a team of terminators back at any point in the series. Of course, I seem to recall the humans taking over the time travel facility as Skynet sent the original terminator back in time, which explains the first one. But T2 and T3 mean Skynet had more facilites, built new ones, or never lost them in the new timelines. And we're back to either limited range or massive power usage, which would slow your cycle times down a LOT(not long enough to prevent a counter-strike, but long enough to limit how much mechpower you send back). Things are more difficult post-T2, since the new Skynet is a decentralized network now(I doubt it would give this up and move into a centralized computer, because it makes it far more vulnerable). But each individual instance of the Skynet client is relatively stupid. It's only the network as a whole that is smart. Disconnect a computer from the network, and Skynet as a whole gets dumber. The disconnected computer gets VERY dumb. It will be virtually impossible to totally eradicate this incarnation of Skynet, but humanity knows what to look for and can maintain it at the mild nuisance level. You could inject a virus into the network to destroy it, but it would have to be as adaptive as Skynet itself, which humanity would (understandably) be somewhat hesitant to try. The upside is... If you can isolate a factory from the network, you can seize it for yourself and retool to serve your purposes(if nothing else, you need to wipe the computer to eliminate the currently-running Skynet app). The factory probably deletes hardware plans if it looks like humanity's gonna take over, so don't expect to get anything but what you can feed it. But that's still going through at least the T800 series, and likely more if you can yank samples off the assembly line. Then you can fight fire with fire, and steel with steel. ... This may be why the 'bot in T3 has the capacity to reprogram other terminators. If the resistance is making an army of Arnolds, the ability to "brainwash" them would be a valuable asset. ANYWAYS... once you have the capability to produce mecha, you can use that to reinforce your own forces. Even an older terminator like the Governator is far more effective against Skynet's forces than a human, simply by virtue of increased speed and durability. That boosts your chances at the NEXT facility. And you need another facility, because in the T3 version of the future every last tank, hoverjet, and terminator is part of Skynet's "brain." Seizing or destroying all the factories is the key to victory, though. Deny the capacity to make new parts. You might not be able to destroy Skynet, but you can paralyze it. Remove the arms and legs, and it can't do much. ... Unfortunbately, termiantors can be used to build new factories. But if you can smash and grab faster than they can build, you win eventually.

Terminator's continuity isn't that solid to begin with. John Conner is born because of a predestination paradox. Kyle Reese goes back in time to stop the terminator from killing Sarah Conner, mother of John Conner. In the process, they have sex and he winds up being John conner's father. Meaning that the rebel leader Skynet attempted to prevent was only created BECAUSE the terminator was running around in the past. A predestination paradox requires a rigid and unchangable timeline, at least with regards to the events responsible for the paradox. There is also the perspective to time travel which says that if you change something, the timeline forks, but without destroying the alternate timeline. So we have: Timeline 1: Sarah gets pregnant from some other guy, John is born, apocalypse happens, John is the great leader and the terminator and Kyle are sent back in time. (But in this timeline, neither Kyle nor the Terminator appear in the past.) Timeline 2: Kyle and the terminator appear in 1980-something. "Terminator 1" happens. The future John of this timeline is different from the John who Kyle remembers - but based on things said in T2 this John's history must have been similar, at least including sending Kyle back. Timeline 3: "Terminator 2" - John (son of Kyle) sends back Schwarzenegger to fight Robert Patrick. The result is that the apocalypse doesn't happen. In each case, the people who come from the future change the past - but not their own past, rather they create a new past, sort of like an alternate reality in the "Sliders" vein. The world they came from could still exist, but its connection with the altered world is broken. From this perspective, sending anybody back at all seems a waste of time, in the sense that it won't change one's own world - but there's no way anybody involved would know that unless someone actually succeeded in returning to their own future. (I always liked how "Bill & Ted" and "Back to the Future" played with the notion of time travel paradoxes, though...) 344253[/snapback] Messy. But workable. The branching timelines could ALSO explain why the 'bot in T3 was less advanced than the 'bot in T2. IMO, indestructable liquid metal > liquid metal over a conventional and destructable skeleton. ... And from there you could tap the idea of closely related timelines being able to influence each other(the whole reason a multiverse concept exists), and render Skynet's temporal attacks rational. If the new timeline is close enough to the old one, it could have an impact on the original. I still don't like T2, though.

I would but what is 4chan? Ah Firefly good show better movie. Serenity had to have been the best movie of the summer, since Batman was a remake I think it was the best original summer movie. 343718[/snapback] It's just a fan message board. Upload images or drawings for other fans to enjoy. www.4chan.org 343759[/snapback] And you will never find a more wrteched hive of sucm and villianry.

I was thinking it's because marines are better knwon for on-foot, and the army is better known for runnign poo over in tanks.

But didn't Birds of Prey bomb?

Meh.

You'd be surprised. ... You know, it's not actually POSSIBLE to extrapolate your e-mail address from an IP address. The people extracting and using it are getting it from things like bulk forwards and progams taht look at webpages for e-mail addresses. That's why you see sites where peoply type their address out as "yaddayaddaATsomethingsomethingDOTcom" It confuses the spiders, which don't recognize it as a valid e-mail. Aside from which... EVERY site you visit knows your IP. It's required for the internet to work. AND the spammers aren't the ones passing viruses around. I've also never seen a database of malicious websites. And wouldn't trust the accuracy of one for 5 seconds. Again, there's no substitute for common sense. Least of all firewalls.

John being hunted down by whoever witnessed the t800 from the second movie I suppose. Notice how in the third movie he has to live off the grid? Why is this? Maybe his mom senses he will be in danger from the humans trying to get whatever information they can about what happened to the terminator? It's military hardware that could be used in wars against others. Given that he hacked an atm to get some money, (he uses an atari ) I can see him as being seen as a threat to many companies using this hacking ability, and many people would want to find the kid. (not just terminators) Perhaps the series will cover how his GF's dad began development of those early prototype machines in the third movie before they finally got out of control from the virus? 344054[/snapback] They mentioned in the 3rd movie that neither of the Conners really QUITE believed it was over(remember Sarah's coffin full of guns?). So he stayed out of the records "just in case."

I think we can all agree that Major Kusanagi's body is by far the sexiest mecha ever produced.

There's no comment made about needing a soul. Just organic matter, and presumably anything encased in organic matter. Remember, the flesh of a terminator is living tissue. ... At least it is on the Arnie-bots. They don't even TRY to explain how the liquid-metal ones worked.

For gradeschool kids... Any adult seen by me with a Yugioh deck in his hands, unless he is shoving it down some 10 year old's throat, will be made fun of with loud report. ... and anyway I thought even the gradeschool set was beyond the CCG stuff at this point, aren't they? 343995[/snapback] I know some adult people that are heavily into the Yugioh thing. I let it slide, 'cuz they're good people otherwise. anyways... PROTOCULTURE GO! SHADOW ALPHA, I CHOOSE YOU!

Heh. Yes, but Yugioh and Pokemon resurrected them.

Terminator's continuity isn't that solid to begin with. John Conner is born because of a predestination paradox. Kyle Reese goes back in time to stop the terminator from killing Sarah Conner, mother of John Conner. In the process, they have sex and he winds up being John conner's father. Meaning that the rebel leader Skynet attempted to prevent was only created BECAUSE the terminator was running around in the past. A predestination paradox requires a rigid and unchangable timeline, at least with regards to the events responsible for the paradox. They stop Judgement Day in T2. Which means the future is changable, John Conner's dad was never sent back, the predestination paradox doesn't work, and he doesn't exist. Which means there was never a Kyle Reese chasing a terminator back in time, Sarah Conner never found out about Skynet, John Conner was never born, and Judgement Day wasn't stopped. And we're back at square one with a timeline that has now been bent into a mobius strip of broken causality. Then they do Terminator 3, which says they just moved the date, and didn't cancel the show. Which doesn't do poor John any good, since his dad STILL wasn't sent back in time due to the diffrent timelines. There may be another Kyle Reese, and he may've been sent back in time in his version of the timeline, and may've even fathered a child, but the Kyle that we know won't exist anymore, which means it's impossible for him to go back in time and relay the orginal, now-inaccurate information about Judgement Day to Sarah. If the elements future is changable, predestination paradoxes CANNOT function. And if predestination paradoxes can't work, the foundation of the entire franchise is invalid. The only way for continuity to hold is if T3 is rewritten so Judgement Day happens on the timetable originally laid out by T1. Besides, Terminator 2 was like Aliens. They took a perfectly good sci-fi horror film and stripped out all the scary bits.