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I can't confirm it, but I've heard they requested he stay away because they couldn't supply proper security. Gross incompetence, near as I can tell.

Actually, it should be ASS-4-million-and-somethign after the Zentradi war. Remember, ASS stands for Alien SpaceShip. Anyways... It's just another abandoned Supervision Army vessel. Probably a gunboat, like the Macross. And probably booby-trapped, like the Macross. And probably folded out to a diffrent location after it was found and ignored, since if I recall they went back to look for it later, but it wasn't there. 325975[/snapback] I know that info I want to know how it would actualy look like and what the hell is it if my info is correct damm Bretai told the crew to ignore it since it will delay the mission damm moron . I just want to know the designs and how did it "booby-trap" thier... 325979[/snapback] Yes... Damn Britai. Damn Britai and his not wanting to die.

Actually, it should be ASS-4-million-and-somethign after the Zentradi war. Remember, ASS stands for Alien SpaceShip. Anyways... It's just another abandoned Supervision Army vessel. Probably a gunboat, like the Macross. And probably booby-trapped, like the Macross. And probably folded out to a diffrent location after it was found and ignored, since if I recall they went back to look for it later, but it wasn't there.

Damn right. If you aren't making them 2/1, you aren't trying. And yes, I DID mean twice life-size.

Yea, I laugh at this too. Like we really need to see that same damn picture a hundred times in the same thread. It appears that I'm not alone with my thoughts... 325919[/snapback] My POV on picture quotes is A. don't quote large pics, and B. keep all the pic quoting to a single page(if it's on the same page, it doesn't take anyone's bandwidth for the extra images). Sidenote: I saw the title and thought this was a complaint about my board-breaking omniquotes.

Remember, Animeigo sublicensed it from HG. No one knows. HG refuses to show anyone their license. It's POSSIBLE that it already has, but we don't know. Just a quick question here, I'm sure there is an answer but I don't know exactly...but if HG cannot show a license, even if they claim they got one, how can they stop Macross merchanising in other states and countries? 325843[/snapback] Well, the thing is that it's never made it through the courts. The only case I know of that even came close was the Battletech suit. They settled out of court, with one of the conditions of the settlement being that they not talk about the case or settlement. So the guys from Fasa are the only people that MIGHT have ever seen the license, and they're legally bound to not speak about it. No one else has ever made it TO the courts. They usually cave when they recieve the first threats, because they can't afford to fight it.

Rising coastlines had nothing to do with New Orleans. NO has been sinking because they've been pumping groundwater out.Also it's debatable whether global warming was relevant at all. It's usually cited because of the extreme # of hurricanes last year, but... there weren't more than usual at that point in the cycle, it was just coinicidence that more than normal landed, and that the prior years had had a freakishly small # of landings. And remember, if the New York Times is taking the conservative side of the argument, then you KNOW it has merit. It IS arguable that global warming is what pushed Katrina up to a Cat5, though. Not provable, but arguable.

Odd. It was on the page for me, just easy to overlook because of how it was sandwiched.

Yah. Their geographical situation leaves them with no natural drainage whatsoever. The pumps were IT. And since they burned out after being run far longer than they were designed for, there's NO water leaving the bowl except for what evaporates out. The only way the city's getting drained at all is if they bring in new pumps and start pumping the water out from dry land. And the sheer amount of water they need to move makes for slow going. Personally, I just don't think it's sane to deal with it. I say just build "New New Orleans" somewhere safe. ... Of course, the entire state of Louisiana has problems long-term(the "taming" of hte Mississippi has left the state totally lacking a way to replenish the massive amount of soil it loses to the ocean each year), but they can at least rebuild somewhere with drainage. But my opinion is moot. They're gonna drain and rebuild on the exact same spot because there's history there, or because they're not going to let a disaster get them down, or because they're stubborn idiots that can't see they're going to be inviting the exact same thing to happen to their great-grandkids by setting the exact same problem situation back up. It happened in 1927(less than 20 years after the basin was initially drained), it happened in 2005, and it WILL happen again. Another large hurricane will come ashore at the right angle, another wet season will flood the Mississippi, the water WILL rise over the levees again, the levees WILL fail again, New Orleans WILL flood again.

Remember, Animeigo sublicensed it from HG. No one knows. HG refuses to show anyone their license. It's POSSIBLE that it already has, but we don't know. Don't worry. Macross Plus made it through unbutchered, and it's commonly regarded as quite good. It will continue to lead people to the one true anime.

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.