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I was looking stuff up earlier, and found something no one's mentioning about the drainage pumps that burned out because they were only meant to handle heavy rain. They pumped the water up into Lake Pontchartrain. The same lake that was draining into the city through the levee. New Orleans had NO MECHANISM WHATSOEVER to deal with a failed levee. Their entire disaster management strategy for such an incident consisted of sticking their heads in the sand and pretending it couldn't happen.

I just want to know what they needed the flood equipment for in Iraq. That's all. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow pretty much the length of the country. Huge historical flood plain. Iraq Map Reading in the Geography section it says "Natural hazards: dust storms, sandstorms, floods". 325706[/snapback] Shows what I get for not paying attention in geography... Strange, really, seeing gloods listed alongside sandstorms as a natural hazard.

It's there. I'm looking right at it.

They've actually been predicting something exactly like this for several decades. I think people got complacent. "Well, they've been predicting it since the sixties, and it hasn't happened yet... I think they're just crazy."

Those first 2 pics are of ARMDs, not the Macross.

Short version: HG licensed Macross from Tatsunoko, who recieved international distribution rights from Big West as partial payment for their help in the production of the original TV series. HG claims this license gives them exclusive rights to all Macross products ever, and throws cease&desist letters and/or lawsuits at anyone that dares import a product without their authorization. Excepting Macross 2 and MacPlus, because these were imported before they claimed to have exclusive rights to the entire franchise. And DYRL, which had something like 3 companies do US releases back in the day, and lacks a DVD release because no one's sure who, if anyone, actually still has a license. Big West thinks otherwise, and has yanked one license(for a US release of the Macross 7 Trash manga) because they agreed to pay HG royalties.

I just want to know what they needed the flood equipment for in Iraq. That's all. Made my day, right here.

And from Insert Credit, some meat... "We know everything about the Lindbergh through some evil Famitsu scans, with some of the games referenced in a post below. As Sega told this summer, their new arcade system is not based on any of the next-gen consoles. It's more in the same vein as Taito's Type-X board - it's a PC-based arcade board with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, a NVidia GPU, 1024MB of memory, games on protected DVD-ROMs, USB controllers and a big effort put on its LAN capacities. Whereas rumors presented the Lindbergh as a successor to the Chihiro (which had an XBox-based architecture), Sega's new board is a quite "neutral" system - its NVidia environment perhaps giving the PS3 a slight potential edge for future ports. A new project by Yu Suzuki is also joining Afterburner, Power Smash 3, The House of the Dead 4 and Virtua Fighter 5 in the Lindbergh's line-up. The game, Psy-Phi (pronounced like 'Sci-Fi'), is described as a "versus action-shooting game" apparently using a tactile screen."

Seemed implied. *shrugs* FF6 is an AV masterpiece, and far better written than most RPGs, but I thought 5 was just more fun to play. I like playng around with the character class system they have going in 5, mainly. 4 is indeed a quite nice game. I find FF1, again, just plain fun. And I'm in the minority again, but I don't really like the modern retargetting setup in the battle engine. Seems to remove a lot of the strategy to me. I haven't dealt with the PS1 port of the Wonderswan remake, but I've heard the music. And again with the weird contraryness, but I liked the old NES battle tune beter than the modern high-res sample-based one. Hell, I think the NES has the best rendition of the battle tune to date. I actually like that mechanism. I've heard it collapses in on itself towards the end of the game, though. I've never stayed with the game long enough to get there. Burned out on RPGs at some point, and I've had trouble working up the urge to start in on it again(and more importantly, as soon as I get hit with the RPG urge again I need to finish off Valkyrie Profile's hard mode). Same slump's kept me from finishing up FFTactics. Ah yeah... That one's never quite made it. Seems to be cursed or something. Square was translating it back when it was new. Don't know how far it got, but they killed it when NoA denied them a US license. For whatever reason, they skipped over it to do 4 on the Wonderswan and it didn't get done. I think not having a Wonderswan port is what blocked it for a PS version, since 1 and 2 were mild tweaks to existing ports instead, and 4, 5, and 6 were straight ports(Horrifically so. They're even still using the CD drive like the ROM bus on the SNES, at least in 6. Far too many accesses, including mid-animation ones{First noticed in: Sabin's aura bolt. This also describes exactly how far I made it into the game before I quit and sold it. The extras weren't worth the hassle}, for them to be using it in a proper manner. FF6PS also has MAJOR slowdown problems, because they couldn't be bothered to optimize it. 'S rumored that it's actually an emulation of the SNES, but I don't think that's accurate. </minirant> This is WAY too much text for a parenthetical note. ). With any luck the DS version will actually get finished.

this onlny goes to show that the u.s. military is stretched thin, right? 325561[/snapback] That does raise a question... Why did they bring flood gear to Iraq?

FF 1,4,6, and Tactics.... all your final-fantasy needs met conveniently 325550[/snapback] A. PS1 FF6 sucked big sweaty super monkey balls. B. I prefer 5 to 6. C. I prefer 2j to 1. D. Excepting Tactics, not a one is a native PS game. E. I don't count Tactics. No offense against the game. I actually like it. But it's not a "real" FF any more than Seiken Densetsu 1 is.

*grabs a can of gasoline and some bottles of alcohol* I know how to stop the looting AND start drying the city all at once. Nuke the bowl. Not like there's a lot in there worth saving anyways.

Im sure he has a whole team to pick or wipe his nose. max: oh no exedol has nasal drippage. launch valkrie nose picking squad!!!! 325477[/snapback] Spoiling everyone's fun, but he wasn't stuck. He had an elevator for leaving the bridge, that dropped him straight into the full-scale zentradi section of the ship.

I'd file it as mediocre. Hardly a great game, but far from the worst. 325320[/snapback] I suppose I could give it THAT much credit... it's certainly better than FFIX (but no one seems to hype that one, so I don't really say much about it) 325335[/snapback] Funny, because FF9 was the only PS1 FF I actually liked, and the only one of the 3 I've seen fit to keep around...

Yah. Diffrent situations affect people diffrently. The heroism stories tend to come from rapid events that start without warning and are over in a matter of hours. This one built up over several days, with a mandatory evacuation order issued before the hurricane ever landed. Well... The big one is the economy of lawsuits. But they DO need water, and a way to shed waste heat. The traditional fission power plant uses two sets of heat exchanges. There's a closed loop that goes into the reactor and extracts heat from teh controlled chain reaction in the core. This one is tied to a SECOND loop through a heat exchanger, and that second loop is used to boil water. The steam generated there is used to spin a turbine. It's a lot how coal, oil, and gas plants work, just with a cleaner heat source. Speaking of which... coal power plants release more radioactive material into the atmosphere than nuclear ones. You know, about the water thing, I have two words for you: LAS VEGAS. If they can sustain a place like that (yeah I know about the Hoover dam and all), but still, if they can do that for a show piece, I'm positive that this can be done for something that has practical values. Hell, just put the place up in Area 51. Then make it restricted. Vegas gets it's water from Hoover Dam. Not coincidentally, it gets it's electricity from Hoover Dam too. Once you have a water source you're tapping, it becomes easier to slap a turbine in the pipe and just let falling water spin it than to pump it offsite.

I know some do. Not sure which.

I'd file it as mediocre. Hardly a great game, but far from the worst.

In last week's Business Week, they point out that sentiments on nuclear power is slowly shifting, from 45% in favor to 70% in favor over the last ten years. Of course, none of the utilities want to take the chance on building anything yet. Basically because of all the regulations they have to face, and the lingering bad rep they have to deal with from 3 mile island and Chernobyl. Earliest one probably won't go on line till nearing the end of the decade. I tend to ignore polls, because they're so easily manipulated. You can get whatever result you want on any issue you choose based on how you phrase the question and what order you put the questions. On the average, though, it loks like 95% of the populace doesn't give a flying butt-copulation if they build some reactors. That 5% that does has organized and every time someone tries to build a new nuclear plant, they protest. Then they sue for whatever absurd reason they can think of. It doesn't matter if they win or lose(I don't think they've fielded a case that won yet), or what the majority of the nation thinks of their stance. They just want to drag it out in the courts until the company building the reactor gives up. And 3-Mile Island is hardly worth being scared over. Everything that could go wrong did, and the reactor still wasn't breached. In my opinion, it's a great example of how safe nuclear power is, at least until the reactors we do have degrade beyond their designed life expectancy. Chernobyl... is a chilling reminder of what happens when you don't build proper safety features in. Well... The big one is the economy of lawsuits. But they DO need water, and a way to shed waste heat. The traditional fission power plant uses two sets of heat exchanges. There's a closed loop that goes into the reactor and extracts heat from teh controlled chain reaction in the core. This one is tied to a SECOND loop through a heat exchanger, and that second loop is used to boil water. The steam generated there is used to spin a turbine. It's a lot how coal, oil, and gas plants work, just with a cleaner heat source. Speaking of which... coal power plants release more radioactive material into the atmosphere than nuclear ones. Well, good to see this incident bringing out the best in people 325272[/snapback] The communist crack is nothing more than a joke. One I make far too often.... But their flag IS red...

I have pics!

What a difference an extra kanji makes. It's fixed now. 325268[/snapback] YAY! *goes back to grumbling about might've-been-cancelled games*

Yah. That was the impression I got, that GEpelnitch was a male who had posessed a female body for his use until his personal body was available again.

NUCLEAR POWER! ... Seriously. It's a clean, safe source of energy that a few people with too much cash have made totally unfeasable by suing everyone that tries to build a plant. Not that I want the legal system closed off to people, but it's too easily abused sometimes. Seconded. Seconded. Especially if we take this literally. I enjoy the idea of a bunch of idiots hopping around with a slug lodged in their posterior.

Indeed. We need him to go away, and replace him with someone more militant. Do what we want, or be nuked. 325209[/snapback] Guys, no need to delve into politics here, whether you agree with Bush or not, he has had his share of successes, and failures. What you would constitute as success or failure vary depending on your view, but either way, it's not a great topic to bring up. I thought we were both being flippant and sarcastic... I can't imagine how they COULD be as bad as NO. Everywhere else has drainage.

All how you look at it. Gepelnitch's host body WAS female, even if the character was male.

And here's a resized picture of the bridge that fits on one screen... ... That and board attachments automatically create a thumbnail, further reducing it.