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Which is what I was saying. Marketing, not the mecha designers, is responsible for the absurdly out-of-proportion weaponry. The mech designers just make the best mech they can within the confines of the license. Goes all the way back to the original. The plan was white powered armor, and marketing demanded brightly-colored mecha.

I was under the impression it had more to do with marketing being responsible for making the weapon calibers up than any real problem with the designers(not that some of them AREN'T clearly insane anyways). Even Kawamori's own Gundams(he's listed as the designer of the GP-01 and GP-02) have the weapon size issues. And as you said, he knows his stuff.

Also ROFL-worthy.

Not as good to hear as "Kutaragi's whacked, we're selling this thing for *reasonable sum here*" but it beats the hell out of "not for households."

One good Azumanga aniGIF deserves another.

If sheer stupidity were enough to guarantee a cinematic failure, theaters would be a LOT emptier.

Because you're a masochist?

HAHAHAHAHA!

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NOT Gamlin? I think that's the first time someone's said that.

Depends on the model. The Compendium has 3 diffrent Varauta VFs. A VF-14 knockoff, a VA-14 clone, and a VAB-2D compatible. http://macross.anime.net/mecha/index.html They're at the half-way mark.

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I agree with you JBO. However, my point is that the character Basara is not believable. I've seen enough loons that I'd believe someone like Basara is out there. He's not NORMAL by any stretch of the imagination, but he's not supposed to be anyways. I don't recall him ever asking FOR clearance. Basara seems to have gotten a lot of leeway because he was part of a project the captain was interested in. They mentioned at one point that the area Basara lived in wasn't exactly supposed to be on the ship to start with, but that excuse seemed pretty weak given everyone knew where it was anyways. HAHAHA! Ace pilots like Capt. J.D. McConnell Jr. (16 kills) and Maj. J Jabara (15 kills), of Korean War/Mig alley fame, survived by shooting down their opponents before they were shot down. As did the other 37 American aces of Korea. A total of 792 MIG-15s were shot down, for only a loss of 78 F-86 sabers. If shooting has nothing to do with flying in a aerial battlespace, than explain why so many planes get shot down? Diffrent facets of the argument here. Being able to shoot someone has nothing to do with skill as a pilot, but it has a LOT to do with skill as a combat pilot. And Basara IS a combat pilot. It's debatable how much shooting he does, since it's all non-lethal projectiles.

Oddly enough, I was messing with the PC version the other day. Appears to have some nasty bugs in the 3D acceleration code. From what I can tell , it worked with DirectX 5, DX6 broke it, they patched it to fix that, and either DX7 broke it again or the DX6 fixes didn't work right. Should work nicely in software rendering, though. I need to sit down and test that.

Wasn't that supposed to be the same year that the Moon was blasted out of Earth's orbit by a massive nuclear explosion condemning all 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha to an uncertain future? And the Macross was gonna crash and end World War 3, too. 1999 was a busy year of non-events. Heh.

C:\yaddayadda\bookmarks.html is my homepage. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php is my first bookmark, though.

I quiot believing all the end of hte world prophecies after we failed to get in the Crystalis war back in 1999.

It's after 10 sets of quote tags. For future reference.

Basara DID fire live ammo a few times. Perhaps not often enough, but he DID do it when he felt it was necessary. He just didn't feel it was necessary as often as everyone else did. It's not covered why, but (if I may be allowed to pull stuff out of my ass for a moment)this may have been due in part to Minmay's idolization post-war. She's been pitched as more or less single-handedly saving the world with her singing, and it's quite likely more than a few people have gotten sucked up in the mythology and forgotten the reality of dogfights, missile clouds, and particle beams.

And then there was Macross 7, where everyone ejected and got their souls eaten... Yah, if the battroid falls down, ejecting will get messy, unless there's a provision for popping the canopy and blasting out(then you only have to worry about the back). Same applies to a GERWALK that takes a tumble, though. In space, of course, it doesn't matter your orientation. Hikaru almost died quite a few times. VF-1D got clipped in the initial zentradi assault, self-destruct of the zentradi recon vessel, Britai kicking his ass into some spikes(a brown Valk woulda just blowed up there), the whiffed Daedalus attack(by far his closest call in terms of injuries sustained), and twice in the final battle of Space War 1(zentradi missiles took off the arms, and debris from Grand Cannon collapse shattered the canopy).

On the other hand...

Big problem I see with these shows is that who you are matters. If you get shot and don't have a name, you explode. Doesn't matter where you were hit If you get shot and have a name, odds are pretty good you'll come out all right. Your vehicle may be damaged, but it still works. Worst-case, it's non-functional, but also non-volatile.

*shudders* That's bad lighting for anything.