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Yeah, I've finished it that way as well. And that applies to most protect missions. I remember one where you had to protect a truck and only pods went after it. There was a point where the the truck was just sitting in front of a power armour, which was apparently oblivious to it. *grins*

Actually, no one's built one since the 70s. Every time it's talked about, the anti-nuclear activists file lawsuits. It fast becomes prohibitively expensive, thus keeping us dependent upon coal, oil, and gas(trivia fact: coal power plants release more radioactive particles into the atmosphere than nuclear plants). And we've got a few valid solutions for disposing of waste. Deleted uranium? Surely you mean depleted uranium. And depleted uranium isn't a waste product. It's the non-radioactive isotope of uranium, which is totally useless in a reactor as well as quite harmless to people(save the usual heavy metal toxicity problems). It's used as a projectile because it's really heavy, which gives it a lot of momenteum, which gives it a lot of energy when it hits something. I THINK you're confusing DU with plutonium, the primary byproduct of uranium fission. Which is a lot like gasoline. Did you know that your premium unleaded was once considered a useless byproduct of kerosene manufacture? Plutonium can run reactors just as well as uranium, it just requires a diffrent design. But since no one's building reactors, there's nothing available to use it. fast breeder reactor but since nobody wants to build one its stays in paper Fast breeder reactor Thanks. Informative, and clears up a few minsconceptions I had. ... I hadn't realized that the byproducts of plutonium fission were so much shorter-lived.

Actually, no one's built one since the 70s. Every time it's talked about, the anti-nuclear activists file lawsuits. It fast becomes prohibitively expensive, thus keeping us dependent upon coal, oil, and gas(trivia fact: coal power plants release more radioactive particles into the atmosphere than nuclear plants). And we've got a few valid solutions for disposing of waste. Deleted uranium? Surely you mean depleted uranium. And depleted uranium isn't a waste product. It's the non-radioactive isotope of uranium, which is totally useless in a reactor as well as quite harmless to people(save the usual heavy metal toxicity problems). It's used as a projectile because it's really heavy, which gives it a lot of momenteum, which gives it a lot of energy when it hits something. I THINK you're confusing DU with plutonium, the primary byproduct of uranium fission. Which is a lot like gasoline. Did you know that your premium unleaded was once considered a useless byproduct of kerosene manufacture? Plutonium can run reactors just as well as uranium, it just requires a diffrent design. But since no one's building reactors, there's nothing available to use it. fast breeder reactor but since nobody wants to build one its stays in paper Fast breeder reactor I thought they had built a few for purposes of making weapons-grade Pu.

I'd pay to see that.

Fear of escalation should be (but I am not sure it really is) an even better reason. Small states may think they have nothing to lose in using nukes to threaten other countries (especially to avoid being nuked), and bigger states may think it is time to take all the pie for themselves. Right. So instead they use cannons capabe of levelling mountains? Escalation doesn't EVEN factor in. Because, for the most part, the nuke is obsolete. A weapon that can destroy several city blocks is overkill when you can reliably target a single hair on an elephant's backside from a hundred miles away. In the era of carpet-bombing, it made a lot of sense. One bomb destroys a city's entire industrial sector, instead of thousands of bombs over many weeks. Now nukes are useless except against heavily fortified targets in isolated areas. Hence the evolution of "bunker buster" nukes(which have the unfortunate side effect of being VERY dirty, since they're naer-surface detonations instead of airbursts or deep underground caverns). And the Cuban Missile Crisis. And many other events through history. Japan was nuked because A. We had a new toy to try out. B. We were hoping we could scare them into surrendering without a full-scale invasion, which would have cost many more lives on both sides. Which we did, even if the emperor did have to smuggle the surrender notice out because his generals were holding him hostage(but he was against the war for some time as I understand it). It is worth noting that it was a huge bluff. We only had 3 nuclear weapons, one was detonated in proof of concept. After Nagasaki, we had nothing left. We were counting on the japanese not wanting a third demonstration. At the time we were unaware of the long-term effects of radiation exposure. We likely never would've done it if we were. There was a propaganda project, I believe it was called "atom for peace". It was meant to be the trojan horse for nuclear weapons by providing what should have been useful civilians employment of nuclear materials. Actually, that was started well after we had a signifigant nuclear stockpile. Your ignorance comes through yet again. Yes, radiation damages healthy cells. But cancerous cells are far more sensitive due to their rapid rate of reproduction. Cells are most in danger during mitosis, which occurs something like 4x as often in cancerous cells as healthy ones. Actually, no one's built one since the 70s. Every time it's talked about, the anti-nuclear activists file lawsuits. It fast becomes prohibitively expensive, thus keeping us dependent upon coal, oil, and gas(trivia fact: coal power plants release more radioactive particles into the atmosphere than nuclear plants). And we've got a few valid solutions for disposing of waste. Deleted uranium? Surely you mean depleted uranium. And depleted uranium isn't a waste product. It's the non-radioactive isotope of uranium, which is totally useless in a reactor as well as quite harmless to people(save the usual heavy metal toxicity problems). It's used as a projectile because it's really heavy, which gives it a lot of momenteum, which gives it a lot of energy when it hits something. I THINK you're confusing DU with plutonium, the primary byproduct of uranium fission. Which is a lot like gasoline. Did you know that your premium unleaded was once considered a useless byproduct of kerosene manufacture? Plutonium can run reactors just as well as uranium, it just requires a diffrent design. But since no one's building reactors, there's nothing available to use it. I think you're confusing it with flourine on the death camp note. Floride IS good for you in small doses. I'm sure it's got nasty side effects in large quantities, but in small doses it's fine. You know sodium explodes when it contacts water? And chlorine is a toxic gas. No vast conspiracy here to talk people into eating explosives and poison gases, though. It is actually required for our survival that we ingest some(in the form of sodium chloride, or table salt). How powerful is a 2050 nuke? 50 megatons can level a city. The russians tested this. Unfortunately, it's too large to be practical. And since you can't make it more powerful except by adding more fuel... But the Macross cannon is still a valid nuke alternative, and fills several roles where a nuke would be desirable. And since every New Macross expedition has a New Macross-class ship, every expidition has a cannon. Earth, of course, has the original. And many zentradi battleships have similar weapons. There's a lot of them out there. Oh, good grief. Not mutually exclusive solutions. Gundam has the GP-02 to prove this(which is a Kawamori design, no less).

I use them for jokes, nothing more. Don't have any on this board.

It's my fault. I started reading it immediatly before they cut it. I can only assume that it was dropped just to spite me. I've been out of the manga loop for quite a while, but I thought I'd heard that Viz had closed down? I think they're still in business. I know they kept working a long time after ceasing Guyver.

I feel obliged to defend the destroids here... Some, like the Spartan, can move quite fast when the need arises. Despite having a lot more armor than a VF-1. It was built with the intent of being able to engage in hand-to-hand combat, which necessitates a certain swiftness. I'd bet a Tomahawk is a fairly swift unit, too. Sure a Monster or a Phalanx is slow, but they aren't front-line combat units. Heck, the Monster can shoot at things that are almost a hundred miles away(160 km, and I assume the range is for a planetary situation, where gravity and wind resistance come into play).

Conventional firearms get hot too. That's why the gatling gun exists, to alleviate the barrel heat problem. A problem exacerbated in space by the lack of conduction and convection of heat away from the barrels by atmosphere... Maybe that's why it's so fat. Gives it room for a cooling system. The VF-1S could be argued to have the same principle in it's head lasers. If you program the computer to rotate the firing order, you have a "gatling" laser turret. I agree with this totally. Diffrent weapons defeat diffrent armors. A weapon-grade laser would chew through modern tank armor like nothing, because it's not built to deal with optical weapons. About the only benefit it has is the front surface is slanted, which makes the impact area larger. But if we mirror the armor, it becomes much more resistant. Even dangerous to the attacker, if the armor is perpendicular to the beam, but that makes it a lot less useful against projectiles. Pretty much. A full burst, at 1200 rounds a minute, rips through your ammo in 10 seconds, if I did the math right. Fire in bursts, and it lasts a lot longer. A half-second burst gets you 20 bursts, with each burst carrying 10 rounds, which is a LOT of damage. Real-world comparison... The modern A-10 has a 30mm gatling(admittedly, it fires at 3900 rounds a minute), and it's used as a tank killer. Carries almost 1200 rounds. Eats it a bit slower than a Valk, but still not a lot for sustained fire. Reading it's designed for 2-second bursts. But Regulds seemed to have no armor to speak of, actually. Cannon fodder in every sense of the word. The classic "blows up if looked at funny" mech. I always thought the disappearing gunpods were animation errors. Ah but it doens't have to shoot them all, maybe setting a few off causes a chain reaction exposion Quite likely, if they're too close to each other or aren't smart enough to dodge explosions, which are pretty non-discriminatory in what they damage. Note that Guld did this with a computer forecasting where every missile would be at every moment in time, so he could choose with 100% certainty spots the missiles couldn't reach before he got there. I don't think it's a very feasable plan for non-BDI planes. ... Never mind that Isamu proceeded to do it in a VF-11. He had more than a few close calls in that stunt, though. Bloopers. Though Macross 7 has a beam converter for gunpods.

Eh? People would complain about seeing Misa's cleavage? Boy there must be some real weirdos out there ... We've already seen Misa's cleavage. We want something new. Like Millia boobies. Seen them, too. Try again Kim, Shammy, and Vanessa?

It's my fault. I started reading it immediatly before they cut it. I can only assume that it was dropped just to spite me.

Yah. Apparently everyone else is paying royalties, but Sony wanted to skip it. Only thing I want to know is... why not sue over the DualShock 1?

Glad to help. Wish I could offer more help. KLOV has a link to the AfterBurner manual, but it's broke, so no good there...

That's what I did too and it seemed to work out much better. In the end I found that I used all modes more or less equally in different situations. I used fighter a bit in ground missions, and all three in aerial levels. I found that the battloid was quite useful in shooting down missiles and quick turns in the dogfights. Just had to make sure to keep your finger on the thrust button so that you weren't hovering. Yah. To heck with flares. Wouldn't have been that bad if they'd told you where he was beforehand. That level as a whole dragged quite a bit. It was like they took 3 seperate levels and glued them all together just because they took place in the same map. I didn't mind the protect/escort mission as much as some, but it was annoying that some levels seemed to require a trick. In the cat's eye mission, for example, if you just flew in circles dropping flares you didn't have to fire a single shot... And if you went hunting, they were going down. Another trick to that one... the fighter pods focus on the cat's eye exclusively, while the other mecha focus on you exclusively. So shoot fighter pods first, and save the hunting for when you can't find one(preferably for powered armor, because they hurt you more than battlepods).

Ah, forgot about archive.org... Let me rummage it back up... I THINK it was www.gundamproject.com... You sound as if those people where lying. Everyone knows it's true. They did rip off Robotech. Harmony Gold could kick Studio Nue's ass anyday. Carl Macek is a genius and Reba West should be nominated for a Grammy for her work in Robotech! The Protoculture is a an alien race? Yeah right... And...uh...HG RULES!!! I'm Joking of course... *cackles* Actually, he says the portable fold generator is so they can bust up enemy bases without lighting the political powder keg that is nukes. Not that they won't use it, just that they have another (very powerful) option now before they get there.

Thats an insult to the muppets. The muppets were cooler and more mature than M7. I am not ashamed to be a fan of the muppets, but M7 fans should be ashamed to be fans of that pride parade of a show. Is Star Trek better? Gubaba DOES look suspiciously like a tribble...

Eh? People would complain about seeing Misa's cleavage? Boy there must be some real weirdos out there ... We've already seen Misa's cleavage. We want something new. Like Millia boobies.

No big deal. Never heard about magnetic fields being involved before. The I-field is the minovsky particle lattice, for the record. Only one I know of went down a few years ago. To be fair, it was actually very intelligent and well thought out. It was just wrong. You didn't come in crying about how the japanese ripped off Robotech or anything like that. That puts you above far too many people immediatly.

He deserves an entire show entirely dedicated to him... they do. every time you see a draino commerical you can see him get uncloged from the sink. Yah. They keep evicting him from his home. It's so sad...

Kombat.

Personally, I've never had either device hurt my fingers, with rare exceptions(Sony-brand PS1 d-pads spring to mind, as do TI-brand 99/4a joysticks). On D-pad intensive games like sidescrollers, the Dual Shocks still destroy my thumbs. The downside of arcade sticks is that it costs a fair amount of money to get a decent one, and to most people it's just not worth it. On the other hand, a nice Sega Saturn controller for the PS2 costs about $30 and is probably the best balance. I'm using the afore-mentioned Soul Caliber 2 stick. Not the best stick ever, but good enough. I think I paid 20$ for it, admittedly not when it was new. ... I still find the PS Saturn pad incredibly ironic.

True. But nuking batlteships in space, or dropping tactical nukes on major military installations(provided they were clean devices), would be an acceptable usage in a society that doesn't view nuke as a dirty word. Depends entirely on the culture. You could be fighting a race that doesn't care if you kill civilians, or even thinks it's a good tactic. Aliens are, well, alien. They don't think like us. Again, maybe. Hypothetically, we could do clean weapons. Fusion weaponry is far less dirty than fission weaponry by default. And if you can get rid of the fission initiator, and use the right fuel mixture, it's a perfectly clean nuclear weapon. Well, in space combat it doesn't much matter HOW you punch a hole in the ship, as much as it does that you holed the ship. If stuff like the Macross cannon is fair game, fusion weaponry shouldn't be shunned. Of course, I think the Macross cannon is more powerful than any nuke... that would be a better reason than politics to not use nukes. Don't have to run fighters in or worry about the missile being intercepted, no negative PR, and it's more powerful anyways. True. Very true. I suspect humanity would view genocide in a very dim light, though, regardless of how it was done. I was thinking more in terms of space combat between fleets, really. Situations where environmental and civilian population impact aren't relevant factors. Or because there was no risk of environmental contamination. The first strike against the zentradi was in outer space, so contamination wasn't an issue. And it was kept secret from civilians, so they didn't even have to worry about public relations. Just offending their enemy, who was more impressed than offended. The final battle of space war 1 was a last-ditch attempt. To heck with public relations, let's unload several thousand nukes into this fool and see what happens. Again, it's space combat, so who cares about the nonexistent environment? I've not seen all of Macross 7, so I'm not entirely sure how the nukes were used in that situation, though given teh nature of the foe, it may've been a case of "nothing ELSE kills these guys, let's try the nukes before they eat our brains." A valid point. But when peace fails, and you're in a situation where there's no environment or civilians to worry about, nuke 'em all and to heck with PR. Good point. ACK! RAW-BOOT-ECK NAME! ACK! Kakizaki got killed in an atmosphere. And it wasn't exactly a planned overload. ... I wonder how well the blast would travel in space anyways. We've never seen, likely never will. I'm sad now. Another good point. Doubly so if you have to get the arming codes from headquarters instead of the ship's captain carrying them.

Who plays fighters with a pad anyways? Suck it up and drop a couple bucks on a joystick. Heck, SC2 generated an XCube 2 stick with SC2 artwork on it. Oh I can name a genrous number of people who do play with a pad buddy. A whole generous number who've been playing a pad since Street Fighter II. If my opinion irks you so much, then why don't you drop a couple bucks on a joystick and buy one for me, you just might change it to an opinion you like. *blinks* Ooookay then... Personally, I've never had either device hurt my fingers, with rare exceptions(Sony-brand PS1 d-pads spring to mind, as do TI-brand 99/4a joysticks).

I'm with Max on this. The Xbox controller is fine for fighting games. If you gotta play on the PS2, get that Logitech Cordless Action controller. Joysticks for fighting games might sim the arcade experience better, but who goes to arcades anymore? Personally, I think arcade sticks are unwieldy. I think joysticks are just plain better. I've done side-by-side comparisons, and I play better with a stick than with a pad in most cases.

http://dweeb.net/afterburner/ssrfix After Burner 1, but pr'ly relevant to the AB2 hardware. Instructions to fix lock on and danger lights that refuse to, well, light. You may have better luck asking around at an arcade-oriented message board, such as forum.arcadecontrols.com The site's primary focus is MAME cabs, but there's a very good amount of "real" arcade machine knowledge there.