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Some people like it, most hate it. According to the poll, less than 50% hate it. Or at least, less than 50% hate it with the blinding fury of a thousand suns that makes all other hatreds trivial. A fulll 27% have no hatred for it. Anyways, like I said, Final Vegeta is "special".

I'll totally agree on the lack of a display unit thing. I've met people who weren't really interested, played with mine or someone else's, then went about trying to coming up with $250 to get their own. People need a chance to see and feel the PSP in person to see what makes it stand apart from previous handhelds. I've seen it. It's pretty. Haven't actually played it, though. The buttons look too close to the edge for my tastes. I think it'd be uncomfortable for extended gaming. I've seen this mentioned as a flaw in at least one hardware review, along with the battery life. But here's the thing... there's NOTHING I WANT FOR IT. Sum total of interest = 1 puzzle game. And I'm not paying 250$ to see if Lumines is worth playing.

lol basara or boxana in some bad dubs is rolling around in his valk with all this fighting we have. My reason I hate Mac7 is the storyline was too slow since it has a pretty large amount of characters they have to develope. If it was live action and not in space it would be a soap opera. As the Battle7 turns, Mylene must choose to love the person who doesn't know she exist or the man her dominating mother has shoved into her face. Will gubaba find out he has legs and arms? And will exodor discover true love being the only full sized zentran on the fleet. *cackles*

Well, you didn't ask me this. . . but the guy's post is deserving of some heavy ridicule. . . or maybe it just deserved to be ignored. I can't decide. If I follow it correctly (and who's to know!). . . it goes something like: Those who hate M7 are engaging in propoganda. The Nazis engaged in propoganda. Here's some quotes from Hitler. The US engages in propoganda and everything it has ever stood against has been a figment of its psychotic populations' imaginations. There is a lot of inequality in the world. The US is a bunch of Nazis. M7 is like the "Real World." Brainwash. Now. . . even if we open our minds very wide and accept that this sorta stuff can be posted here. . . it's still utter BS. We've got a Marxist on our hands who just read Mein Kampf and now thinks everything he sees bears some relation to it and his worldview. H See I don't even read that guy's posts. But yeah, I can't decide... Is his head filled with human feces or dog feces? I am now agreeing with AgentONE. In a Macross 7 thread. The world has now ended.

I wouldn't say that. It just sounds to me like he's been enveloped in a lot of Left-wing rhetoric. To paraphrase one of our former Presidents: "It's not that he's stupid. It's that he knows a lot of things that just aren't so." H I'm not talking solely about his spouting of random conspiracy theories. Even when he's NOT making a ny vaguely political comments he's an idiot.

Ok, that was the most f'd up defense of Macross 7 I've ever read in my life. And people say I come up with weird defenses for the Spartas..... He's really not a very sharp guy. Better off ignoring him. Final Vegeta and Lowviz lurker are the most difficult people to understand on this board. Final Vegeta's not hard to understand. He's just everything one expects from someone with a DBZ screenname(read: stupid).

There was SOME selectiveness, though. Max and Kakizaki both tested well. It just turned out that only one of them was good in a real fight. Kakizaki may've been shaping up to be a decent pilot, but the barrier overload killed him. Not really his fault. To make matters worse, the VF-1 wasn't exactly a great space fighter anyways. It was our first try, and we made a lot of mistakes. Hence the FAST packs. More thrust, more reaction mass, more verniers.

*nods* I went in with the understanding that it was a very "love it or hate it" thing, based on what a few... vocal... people here have to say, as well as reviews scattered about the internet. Random thought... the Valk faces are very Gundam. And more Max and Millia is ALWAYS a good thing. They need to remake the original series, but focus on Max and Millia instead. Added bonus to more Millia: more QRaus. But... he got Millia's VF-1J blown up. I'm pretty sure that's a sin.

Ok, that was the most f'd up defense of Macross 7 I've ever read in my life. And people say I come up with weird defenses for the Spartas..... He's really not a very sharp guy. Better off ignoring him.

I have a question... Why is this concept so hard for people to grasp?

I don't like the existing OVA encode. Way too dark. Millard is black, not invisible.

My sister calls all mechs "Gundams." Even valks. Score tied, 1-1.

I don't hate either, so I voted neither. But I am apathetic towards Macross 2, as opposed to actually LIKING Mac7.

Yah. And I think someone said they can keep selling tehir stuff during appeal. Right. Because god forbid someone try to enforce their patents...

Nice, yes. Realistic, no. If they wanted to do it right, they'd've done it the first time.

It didn't hurt that we were up against what we were pretty sure was battleships, even before we knew what the zentradi were. It's a lot easier to justify the annihilation of a military vessel than a city full of civilians(or even just a small portion of a city full of civilians). Also note we fired nukes at the Zentradi in the opening moments of the attack, before the Macross was off the ground. Zentradi moved in, ARMDs fired nukes. Logic likely being "can't pollute space, and there's no tree-hugging hippies up here to complain even if you could." Only gotta worry about the politics when the people it offends know it happened.

I can hardly stand it either... *barfs*

Yes, Immersion is a big company. That's how they could afford to sue Sony and win in the first place.

I HOPE it's a new series!

Or worse, sony could be forced to stop selling PS2's. That's a solution Sony doesn't want. And Immersion is likely not going to turn down a large license check.

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).