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Attack of the 50-Foot Woman's Sex Toy! Next time on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Dang. And here I was practicing my musical skills so I could fend off the protodeviln. You crushed my dreams just now. Are you happy? Odd. I was thinking roughly the same thing earlier. Not in regards to this debate, but just in regards to how the show was done. Fire Bomber is scripted as some sort of "grass-roots" band that's all about the music, writes their own songs, ignores their agent's advice, and performs live with no computervoice modulation to keep them on key. But in reality they're as manufactured as everyone else, if not more so(what with being a bunch of cartoon characters overlayed on top of a manufactured band... the mind reels at the strange mobius strip logic here). Tangentally related... I chuckle whenever someone in that show starts singing solo, and all of a sudden there's a full band and backup singers.

Yeah, the announcement of the square button fix came after Kutaragi's infamous speech comparing the PSP to the work of a brilliant architect. Sony is now repairing PSPs in Japan with square button issues, and the US release is supposed to be free of said square button issue. Nice to know. I should keep up closer with the game news... Some people get... shall we say... excited during game play. Personally, I don't think it should BE physically possible to deform to any signifigant degree. But it is(which concerns me), so they need to rework the latch so it doesn't affect the disk drive. And I've heard it varies greatly and that while some units have a pretty good lockdown, others ARE like a bomb ready to go off.

Well, a standard PC case is also HUGE for a game console. Even monstrosities like the 5200 and NeoGeo are dwarfed by it. Sure a decent PC needs the space, but that's mainly because it's upgradable. A console is an all-in-one box and can be made to much tighter space restrictions. You could stuff a mini-ITX system into a console case, but I have a VERY low opinion of the sort of systems that the miniITX form factor gets. Personally, I like the design of the PS2. It looks good, and you can store stuff on it. Favorite is probably the white PS2s they released in Japan. Those were things of beauty. NES is nice for much the same reasons. But I'm finding myself increasingly drawn to various FamiClones, one of which I'm pretty sure will eventually win me over enough to replace my NES in my big stack o' systems. The 5200 is a gigantic chunk of plastic, but it's too dang sexy to hide. Sure it's over a foot square, but it's one of the best-looking giant chunks of plastic I've ever seen.

*winces* GBA Robotech ranks ABOVE something? That makes me sad. Ranking it above Scrambled Valkyrie and FamiCom Macross though? Are you SURE you aren't a Robotech.com troll? </joke>

Yah. Pricing on those things is outrageous. The old LED games are grotesquely overpriced too. On those sorts of things it's all about collecting, not playing. And collectors get insane.

Mac7 is sightly ahead in the timeline. They start building VF-19s and VF-22s onship during the series. Cannon fodder all flies teh VF-11, which is still their primary plane.

*winces* I can only hope that's not a direct port...

It's still nice to have a sexy case on the hardware. ... I love my 5200. Specs are all but unknown. Not that I take them seriously. Sony's known for lying out their butt about those. The CPU is a PowerPC* with 7 extra floating-point units. *This is so insanely funny, given how loudly PS2 fanboys were rambling about how the PS2's proprietary Emotion Engine processor was so much more powerful than the GameCube's "Gecko" PowerPC chip.

No kidding? Strange. And the button fixing comes from 1st-hand accounts? Last I heard SCE's president was insisting the PSP was perfect, no one would tell Michelangelo that God should be a little more to the left, and no changes were going to be made. I would, of course, be pleased to see it fixed. Heard from 1st-hand accounts that the disk cannon feature is still intact. Not sure whether it should be a plus or minus. On the one hand, random ejections. On the other, DISK CANNON, WHOO!

Except UMD movies aren't DVDs. The DVD consortium is irrelevant. It'd be nice if they WERE relevant, as it would mean the PSP would play your existing movies instead of what Sony sells as PSP movies. ... On the other hand, the PSP would be utterly massive for a game system... but there'd be room for the controls(the "square" button on the PSP is mushy and un-sensitive because it overlaps the screen and the reviews I've seen say the controls are too close to the edges of the system to make for comfortable gameplay).

true, but sadly its like the Israelis Vs. Palestinians. We can't share the same land and call it what we want it. *runs into HG's front office with a belt of C4* FOR KAWAMORI! *boom*

nah ps3 will look like a game cube but with a ps logo on it. either that or a even thinner ps2 be like a sheet of paper sticking up. That'd be cool... As a note... Sony ripped off an (unreleased) Atari computer case for the PS2 case. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=270 They even list it as a reference on their case patent application.

Neither, for we are the legendary Racoon Jedi! All the benefits of the dark side with the righteous chewy caramel center goodness of the light side!

the hostile responds of some people here is not very incouraging to people there. Somehow I'm beginning to think that's a good thing in this case. hostility and hate is never good. bad karma. I've heard it can lead to the darkside as well! Graham Bu the dark side is cooler anyways. Light side: jedi mind trick, jumping. Dark side: force choke, lightning, red lightsaber.

*chuckles* GEEK MODE ON! They're controllers. The FamiCom(FamiClone, really) that the image is a photochop of had built-in controller storage.

i am not really sure which is more hated, but if harmony gold ever got the rights to bring macross 7 over to the usa as robotech 7, dear god almighty i would hate to see the threads about that "And good riddance. Robotech is exactly where that piece of crap belongs. Arnold Schwarzenegger could crush Basara with his pinky finger, and all the girly men that liked Macross 7." </AgentONE> *cackles maniacally*

I'd be shocked if they couldn't. ... But this IS Sony. Anyways, this is my favorite artist's rendition of the PS3...

XBox2 is also supposed to be using PowerPC chips(like Nintendo and Sony). And an ATI graphics chipset. So all 3 decks will be ATI/IBM.

2036 is just a fun game. Makes minimal use of transformation, sadly(locked in fighter or GERWALK mode until boss time, when you go to battroid). And I thought the FamiCom game was based on the TV series. Not that it matters.

The SV-51 is a scrawny girlie-man valk that would snap in 2 under the stresses of a more modern valk's performance.

But in macross zero we have a mech that is brain controlled by sara. Wouldn't it be better to have mechs that could learn you, rather than you learning how to control them? Imagine the time you'd save not having to train yourself to use one? At the cost of a limited interface. That's not really doable if the machine learns you, because the machine has to reinterpret your existing movement concepts. They had drones in the original series. You just don't see them much.

And guns. Lots of guns.

Which would be my usual assumption, except for in-the-cockpit views.

Because all his porn is on the old server, and they refuse to move it over.