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Pure greed... You mean like region-coding, "copy protection" that doesn't stop copying but DOES stop consumers from using their disks freely, 9$ movie tickets, and 20$ DVDs?

It predates IRC, actually. Other common, but wrong, origins: Megatokyo. Starcraft. Any other PC game with netplay. Truthfully, it began as a way for pirates and hackers to talk about their illegal activities without being auto-banned by BBS moderation scripts in teh pre WWW days.

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NEVER!!!!!!!!! Over My dead body I will!!!!!!!! anyway heres some more: Is this supposed to be from some super deformed macross or something? what is that thing infront of the monster's barrel? and whats tha on top of it a zentraedi soldier? That's a VF-1 up front. And Kamjin on top. Hikaru, actually. And he's not running FROM something as much as TO something. Eyepatches and metal plates aren't exactly an original idea.

A. Start with an academy. That gives you room to build your skills. And if its set post-colonization, you can keep the world from getting too crowded. Station people on diffrent planets, and the "hard mode" can station you on a colony ship headed into the unknown. Lot of room for action there. B. I'd be a zentradi. Just so I could frag everyone that made Robotech references, or used "leet speak."

Hey now! Funcoland was a damn fine establishment originally. Let you test games before you bought them, bought back old games, and sold out-of-print stuff. And as far as I know, they were the first to do so, though EB did add these features to their stores later. Now both of them don't let you test games out, try not to carry products for dead systems, and ... well, they buy back games, but for absurdly small amounts of cash/credit.

Examples? It's been my experience, as both an employee and a customer, that both stores average about $5 less than the new for games between $24.99 and $45.99, and $17.99 for a game that'd be $19.99 used. In the long run, Gamestop tends to drop prices faster, EB tends to drop them lower and toss them in that bin that looks like they're trying to do clearance. Besides, last time I checked (which admittedly was a few months ago), you couldn't find a copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 at Gamestop to save your life, but if you did it would be $29.99. EB had plenty... because they wanted $59.99 for it. I don't honestly recall which title it was. It may just have to do with the games I look at, but in my experience the EB games get cheaper faster.

And, of course, the VF-1 is actually named after the XB-70. It wasn't just a freakish coincidence(of which I've seen stranger).

It was a mildly interesting plot element at first. Certainly not enough to be a major factor in anything, but as a subplot it worked nicely. Sisko was running around trying to work with Bajorans that kept looking at him like he was their version of Jesus, and doing his inadequate best to NOT get stuck with the "emissary" label. But towards the end, when they decided to run with it and make ABSOLUTELY SURE that every last viewer knew without a doubt that he WAS Bajoran Jesus, it became a major annoyance.

yeah, cause we americans are the only people obsessed with sports. how about canadians with hockey. japanese and cubans with baseball. and almost everyone else in the world with soccer. As far as I know, we take it to a more extreme level than most other nations. Your joking right? North Americans don't hold a candle to the way other countries obsess over their sports. I think some of the lunacy is attributed to alcohol, unsafe stadium conditions and misplaced nationalism. In Brazil, deranged fans have killed soccer players for losing games. Brawls are regular occurences in soccer matches between rival countries in Europe. I think there was a riot in a soccer match that involved a Nigerian Soccer team that left several dead. The Fan that stabbed Monica Seles was European if I recall. Very well. Delete America from my first post and replace it with "the world" ... Heck, I'll go do it now.

Depends, really. GameStop tends to price REALLY absurdly on the used games. As in I've seen them asking the EXACT SAME price for new and used.

I've had better experiences at EB than GameStop, for what it's worth.

Pic's a bit small for that. I'm all for something a bit more fan-service-y, though.

YES! MORE SPANDEX GIRL!

Also note: It's GERWALK, not gearwalk.

But Kirk flew to the edge of the galaxy under his own power. And made the ENTIRE trip home, without alien tehc or wormholes or anything else.

And more imortantly, who voted Janeway.

Well, 4 OVA eps. at 35 minutes cannot fit into one 115 minute movie. They cut some stuff out, but they also added/replaced a scene or two. The story is the same though. I thought that the OVAs only came out dubbed, while the movie only came out subbed (I am referring to American releases here). So if my memory serves correctly, things should have sounded pretty different between versions, but not because it was redubbed. OVA came out both ways. Movie was japanese only. I thought he meant the original dialouge recording.

So was Janeway. And Sisko, once he got a ship. Heck, Archer doesn't have a counselor either. Picard is the only person that DID have a counselor on the bridge. And that may've just been because of her abilities(let's be honest, where do you think someone that can read minds is more useful?).

Ya know, Mylene isn't a whole lot younger than Hikaru and Minmay.

Yeah but they are only test planes and you might die if something goes wrong. Think of how many people died on the project before Isamu became test pilot? I think the the movie version is better than the ova: More violence and you get to see lucy's titties. jk Characters have a bit more depth. But the OVA has that cool opening battroid fight with the zentradi. They should make a "special edition" movie with extended scenes form the ova imo. -A naked lucy shower scene jk -more of the scene from the start of the ova -Have a better ending : show what happens after the incident: who won the competition? Lucy's boobs DID factor in for me, actually. It made that whole "I don't own you, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Myung" thing make more sense. In the OVA, best guess was that she was some sort of psycho stalker that snuck into his home and deleted his answering machine messages. It also left us with a reason for Isamu to sit there taking Guld's abuse when Guld accused him of not being there for Myung after the fire. If he responded to the message, and got tied up in a high-speed police chase trying to get there, he'd snap back at Guld. But if he ignored the message for some fun in the sack, he's got no defense. While I'm poking holes, as much as I love the testflight sequences, and the bonehead battroid battle, the whole "stick live ammo in the YF-19's gun, then snatch it and shoot Isamu so you can blame him and Yang for attempted murder" routine REALLY tested my ability to suspend disbelief. The movie going straight from Guld crashing Isamu's VF-11 to the hospital just worked better.

Not Sulu?

OMG I VOTEZ TEH JANEWAY CUZ SHE HAS BOOBIES!!11111 ... I scare me sometimes. Seriously, I like Sisko bestest. Kirk is a close second.

I think somewhere in between is best, but of the 2 existing versions of the story, I prefer the movie. And yah, it's an incredible production.

umm...how about the fugly zentran chick from M7? Ver..(something) i know i wouldn't wanna see her in spandex Veffidas. I'd forgotten about her. She's more like a piece of scenery than a character.