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Old combiner type Super Robot Not to mention the unofficial Philippine national hero. Why doesn't Uncle Sam have a super robot? patriotism--;

Well, it's true that two really skinny girls are better (in a manner of speaking) than one really skinny girl, but one hot girl is ALWAYS better than two really skinny girls. ;-) Boobs are better than ribcage. Yes, but think about the damage you could do to Olsen Twins fans by going into vivid detail about alll the lewd, exotic, and banned in 43 states + District of Columbia sex acts you got them to perform.

Almost undoubtedly. ... Though I bet he'd be happier if he could convince Basara that some people need killin'.

An unfortunate flaw in many people's thinking. Also tends to result in an over-anthropomorphization of mech designs. Yet share a remarkably similar design. I don't think I've ever heard people claim to me more maneuverable than any other animals. But we CAN catch cats and dogs. Yes it does. If we weren't tool users with large well-developed brains we couldn't design super-scaled humanoid war machines. This is, of course, why I always point out that a direct control motion-capture device, while SOUNDING like a good idea, isn't really a good idea. For all the apparent similarities, mechs are, by necessity, radically diffrent to humans, and won't move the same. Diffrent relative masses, momenteums, even centers of balance Like that's ever been considered an issue? For real-world functionality, let's be honest. The government pays a thousand bucks for a wrench. Cost is not a signifigant factor. Sort of like a fighter plane, isn't it? Ground unit VS air unit. Apples to oranges. You may have noticed that your bike has several simple machines between your feet and the rear wheel. These serve to massively increase the force you can exert, and sort of throw a monkey wrench in any attempt at direct comparison. Of particular interest is the gear and chain assembly. The large gear attached to the pedals and small gear attached to the wheel greatly amplify the force applied. And the reason ALL bikes made today have it is that when the pedals were directly attached to the wheel, they were very hard devices to use, even with a much larger wheel. Possibly. It depends greatly on the size of the foot(a human with snowshoes can walk on things that a barefoot human can't, because of the increased surface area), as well as the actual mass of the vehicle, which are both unknowns. Assuming all parts increase in mass linearly. Not all parts will need the same degree of mass added. Some will, in fact, make do with much the same amount of matter. Of course, other parts will see benefits from lighter alloys that it wasn't feasable to make them out of before. VOLUME is guaranteed to cube, but mass... that's a lot more debatable. Flip side... if the mud isn't firm enough to get traction, a tank may lack the ground pressure to get THROUGH the mud to the hard ground under it. Especially once it sinks enough that the underbody hits the mud, which further reduces ground pressure. Which one is mired now? Yes. One would assume that any mech used on normal roads would be designed for use on them, meaning low ground pressure. Half the ground pressure. Personally, I see this as more useful for low-profile movement. But wheels in the "butt" and feet. Mech sits down, it's much quieter, and not near as tall. Patently ridiculous. You'll get no argument here. I wouldn't. For all the apparant similarities, mech != human. For one, a mech could be built with proper montain-climbing gear built-in. We have lousy feet for the job, for starters. Flawed comparison. The majority of a mech's mass should be in the LOWER part of the body, in the hips and directly above. Most of the mass on humans is in hte UPPER body. Rough terrain is where the mech starts having advantages. Harder to get a leg stuck than a wheel or tread, because the very nature of legs is such that they lift over and across obstacles. Imagine how little sliding could happen if it had cleats. Wouldn't lower ground pressure make it more difficult to dig in? Of course, with cleats, it matters a lot less. Relative to a 4+ legged vehicle, yes. Relative to a wheeled or tracked vehicle? Likely not. Possibly. If it was properly designed as a dual-mode vehicle, no. If crawling was pinned on at the last minute, sure. Diffrence between a human on all fours and a gorilla on all fours. One of them does it a lot better, and it ain't the human. But both are considered humanoid. Maybe. I think I already addressed mud and ground pressure. Flaw: Assumes human-style head-centric vision. Only a fool would leave all cameras in a head module. A head isn't even a necessary feature, as Macross' destroids show. Personally, I'd have cameras mounted at several strategic points around the body. Including the crotch. Heck, for this sort of work, I'd even have some anti-infantry weapons mounted down there, lewd jokes about the machine gun be damned. I'd also have cameras mounted on the back of the shoulders, and in the butt. Optimally, I'd have a 360-degree sphere of visibility, with enough camera overlap for depth perception(at least in select important areas). Though getting that data fed to the pilot in a comprehensible manner may prove prohibitively difficult. I was under the impression that everything had these sorts of problems. Depending on design and equipment. Depending on design. See: VF-1D. Mind sharing why a humanoid mech can't rotate in place? We ARE running with over-anthropomorpized designs as standard, right? True. The legs are a weak link, especially for this sort of battlefield. *twitches* I HATE hand-held weapons. Massive over-anthropomorphization. But a small camera on the end of the arm sounds like a good idea to me. Honestly, though... remote-piloted vehicles. Drive an RC car with a machine gun around the corner. No one cares if it takes a grenade. Depends on how hard the foot hits. Depends on design. Since we're running with high-visibilty, let's go all out and make a bright, gaudily-colored monstrosity. Who can harbor ill will towards Voltron? Also depends on individual perspective. I'm sure you'll find no argument with the hypothesis that anime fans would be rooting for the side with mechs. ... Well, except the ones that believe mechs are, by default, indestructable killing machines like certain Gundams(*cough*Wing Zero*cough*). That IS a certain segment of the fans, and that one thinks mechs shouldn't be built because they're dangerous. The tank is the symbol of modern military might. Not of warm fuzzies. Driving a tank down a city street will NOT endear you to the populace. No argument here. *laughs* I'm surprised this one ever even comes up. Cross-sectional area is, of course, not likely to be a mech's strong suit if dropped feet-first. One or more.Short: A mecha doesn’t use air-drop capacity efficiently and thus would waste logistics. *laughs again* A mech could be designed more hydrodynamic than the usual anime depiction. Not that that makes it any less ill-suited to the task. Hmmm... Alvin = Ball? YAY! CIVILIAN USAGE! *laughs until muscles are pulled* Mecha feet vary considerably from human feet. Some flare out, granting them greater surface area than a human in tennis shoes, others have small feet that are more like a human in heels. While a VF-1(my chosen high heels example) will perform painfully badly in ground pressure tests, a Spartan will come up much more favorably, due to the larger contact area(that is quite similar to a tennis-shoe human). And the Zaku that you're using as your demonstration mech has somewhat flared feet, giving it superhuman surface area. For comparison, a 5'6" person, with an average weight of 130 lb, exerts, with the assumed 1 square foot contact area, .9 psi on the ground. And as I want to have some fun with #s... 58.1 tons = 128, 088.6 pounds. Now, if we assume the shod-human-sized contact area of, after scaling up from 5.5 feet to 57.41 feet... roughly 109 square feet... we do indeed get your 8.16 PSI. BUT... assuming our roughly 1/10 scale model has TWO square feet of coverage(which, IMO is fair for Zaku feet), it's only 4.08 PSI. If the Zaku had twice-human proportions for the feet(2x length and width), it would have human-level ground pressure. And with very little sacrifice in anthropomorphization. Also note the Zaku, while a classic anime mech, is somewhat large. 57 feet is a... tall vehicle, to say the least. I think the low end 6 meters/19.7 feet of your mech definition is a more reasonable size. For those not keeping score, this is 2 paragraphs explaining in great detail why Gundam's 120mm machine guns are absurdly ridiculous. Note, however, that the A-10 is quite effective in penetrating armor with a much smaller caliber weapon. Though as I've stated at other times, that's because it's hitting in a more lightly armored area. Also... shaped-charge spitballs should still be quite effective. Rate of fire just gets you a lot more chances to hit. Though multiple hits on the same spot would have a cumulative effect, this is difficult to do in the real world. Indeed. One of the great myths of railguns is that they have no recoil. Or use a denser material. Which shoots low-grade plasma out the back, if I recall. It may be cool enough to just be gas. Note that this is a tradeoff. You lose some kinetic energy that could go to your bullet. ... Of course, you'll lose most of it anways once the bullet leaves the barrel. OMG JOHN WOO TWIN HANDGUNS!111 Okay, returning to reality... This may or may not be a signifigant effect. But personally, I'd be using recoilless weapons exclusively in space if I could. True. Gundam especially has a bad habit of just taking a human weapon and multiplying it's size. If the mech's 10 times larger than the human, then so is the weapon. And it's caliber. Isn't that what a mech sniper rifle IS? But harder to change out. At least, assuming over-anthropomorphization. Exceptions are things like the the Zaku's heat axe. Of course, melee weaponry is just absurd on a modern battlefield. While most Gundam shows have minovsky particle interference as a plot device to make them feasable, that doesn't fly anywhere else. A single gigaton blast would. Broken into thousands of smaller blasts, it's a lot easier. EMP isn't from atmospheric interaction, as I understand things. Could be wrong, though. True. Over-antrhopomorphizing. Mech bodies could easily be set up to rotate 360 like tank turrets. Note the Zentradi are supposed to average 30 feet, not 50. Still silly, but marginally less so. I feel obliged to note that the destroids all came from the Daedalus, and were not originally part of the ship's complement(as it's defensive weapons were intended to come from the 2 ARMDs it would have docked with). Though it's also worth noting that the Macross had an overabundance of empty space, as we know from Hikaru and Minmay's time lost in the ship. It was likely twice as large as it needed to be. You wouldn't get a boom in space. Regardless of velocity, we do have them spec'ed as having a 160 km range. I think you're drifitng a bit. Tomahawk is as headless as every other destroid. Note that this was a jury-rigged attempt to add resources to a vessel that was stranded on the edge of the solar system behind enemy lines, not a planned design feature. Heck, the entire transformation was a jury-rig. Sigh... I SWEAR these tags are all properly opened and closed.

Which just furthers the support behind them using large caliber, low velocity shells which'd pretty much just bounce off a real MBT. But tanks can't get their shells up to speed in anime physics either. Meaning that the mech can run in and pry the door open with it's bare hands.

And here I thought the people PMing you would wind up with exposed mechanical bits. That would've been funnier.

Don't forget the plasma beams!

Sounds good to me. ... And Destroid skills(Monster excepted) would boost VF battroid skills. Especially with the Spartan. Similarly, GBP-1 training would boost destroid skills, especially Spartan.

I don't think the 1/12 Zaku had any leg articulation, so forget sitting poses. Graham *grabs a hacksaw* It will when I'm through!

JBO I agree with you, starting at the Acadamey would be a good idea. lol I be temped to play a Zentradi or at least have one of each toon. Oh yeah... there should be a "fast track"academy for multi-character accounts. So once you've gone through one academy, the others don't duplicate it's content. Going through the full academy every time would get OLD. Why should you learn the interface with your new destroid pilot when you already learned that as a meltran warrior? And again before that as a Valk pilot. And for a second valk pilot, let's just skip the academy segment and drop them straight into the game with their cannon fodder 1A. I LOATHE games that don't let you skip the tutorials/cutscenes on replay.

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.