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*cackles maniacally* Man, that made my week.

I feel obliged to point out that the 1980 blast was as bad as it was primarily because it erupted on the side instead of out the top. If it'd gone straight up like it's supposed to, it would've been just a nifty postcard picture.

FAMICOM! Honestly, while I DO like the Famicom game, I have to second the vote for console DYRL. Also worth mentioning are Scrambled Valkyrie on the Super FamiCom, the DYRL arcade game, and the PCEngine's Macross 2036 . Not that they're winning any points for anime faithfulness, but they're dang fun games. ... Though of the 3, only Scrambled Valkyrie gives you free-form transformation.

Oh, get a changer. My DVD player takes 5 disks. If I can watch 5 disks in one sitting then something is very wrong.

Static. I think it's dead, Jim. CNN has nothing. Who needs major news organizations when we've got MacrossWorld?

Cliff notes.

Macross 7 is genreally a love it or hate it show. People have very strong opinions about it. The "hate its" are just a lot louder, as is usual. not louder just more of them No, definitely louder.

Macross 7 is genreally a love it or hate it show. People have very strong opinions about it. The "hate its" are just a lot louder, as is usual.

HAHA!

Kamjin wins!

That's more in line with strategies I heard, which boiled down to spend the first round dodging and make up for it later when he slows down enough that you have an opening to hit him. Okay, I must be smoking something then. Maybe I'm confusing my memories with the fact that if you let Tyson smoosh you around and knock you down a few times while trying to get hits in, things will get much harder. But if you stay mostly fresh, you have a much better chance down the line as he slows down. Or something. -Al *shrugs* I played the game once, a long time ago. Had no idea what the controls did, lost to Glass Joe while trying to figure it out. Turned me off the game rather quickly.

Some of them, anyways. There should be ones up top and on the sides too, since they're the only way to change orientation in space.

Wow, thats the oposite of reality... Tyson in real life always had to put fools away quick because he didn't have the stamina that other fighters had. That's more in line with strategies I heard, which boiled down to spend the first round dodging and make up for it later when he slows down enough that you have an opening to hit him. ... Of course, the one I heard the most was "enter a secret code and Luigi jumps out of the audience and shoots Tyson."

Didn't see this earlier. The VF-1 allows battroid ejection. Head pops off and the pilot is launched out of the "neck". Hikaru did this once in the TV series. Then Britai snatched him out of the air.

That's XBox. PS2 lacks a coherent online system. Assuming you can tell from the outside world, it's up to the individual game servr maintainers to block or not. I haven't connected my PS2 online before so I don't know first hand but my DMS3 instruction sheet says its stealth mode is for this purpose. ie. it is possible for servers to detect the chip in your system and block you. Okay. Some games detect and block it, then. The XBox is well-known for this, though. MS' XBox Live service looks for mod chips when you log on, and permanently bans your 'Box if it sees one. When you first want to go online with the PS2, you have to run the startup CD to create a network configuration (that later gets saved to a Memory Card). If the mod chip is not in stealth mode, you'll get errors if you try to auto detect your network settings. One your network configuration is complete, it's up to the individual game servers. M'kay. Haven't heard much about this aspect of things before. Honestly, it doesn't make sense for the modchip to NOT operate in stealth mode. It shouldn't be active except during initial boot. Once the region check is cleared, it SHOULD go to sleep. Why they don't START with this design feature is anyone's guess.

A launching arm is fine for space and looks the coolest visually, but a catapault assisted launch would still be prefered even in space as it gives the Valk some free starting velocity and saves valuable reaction mass (fuel), which is limited in space. Remember it's only in an atmosphere that a Valk can extract fuel (hydrogen?) from the air, thus allowing virtually unlimited range. In space the Valk's fuel supply is limited to what it can carry in internal tanks, FAST Packs or drop tanks. Hydrogen would go into the fusion reactor. It's not used directly in the propulsion of the plane. It's A fuel, but not the important one for this discussion, which is confused by the fact that in space, a Valk has two "fuels, " both of which have "react" in the name. What's used as "reaction mass" in an atmosphere is heated and compressed air sucked in from the intakes, just like a more conventional jet. The big diffrence between a Valk and a modern jet while operating in an atmosphere(aside from the laser cannons and transformation...) is that they use a heat exchanger from the reactor to heat the "combustion chamber" instead of burning jet fuel. It's only in space that a valk needs signifigant reaction mass onboard. But it needs reactor fuel onboard in all situations, as I would be very surprised if it can extract any signifigant amount of hydrogen from the atmosphere.

Yeah....it had a thunderbolt underneath, probably just a stylised version of it. It's also a pretty weak skull.

I'VE GOT IT! They snap off and can be assembled into a snorkel for underwater usage!

That's XBox. PS2 lacks a coherent online system. Assuming you can tell from the outside world, it's up to the individual game servr maintainers to block or not. I haven't connected my PS2 online before so I don't know first hand but my DMS3 instruction sheet says its stealth mode is for this purpose. ie. it is possible for servers to detect the chip in your system and block you. Okay. Some games detect and block it, then. The XBox is well-known for this, though. MS' XBox Live service looks for mod chips when you log on, and permanently bans your 'Box if it sees one.

In the TV series he did. ... Not that it would've made things any better for him. Did he? hmm... I dont remember that. The barrier explosion took long enough to rip through his valk that he had plenty of time to yank the lever. Which would've just gotten him fried marginally faster.

That's XBox. PS2 lacks a coherent online system. Assuming you can tell from the outside world, it's up to the individual game servr maintainers to block or not.

In the TV series he did. ... Not that it would've made things any better for him.

Ah, the Gundam girl... one of the great modern art forms. As far as his go... I like the Zeta Plus. Not excessively bulked up like some of the others. http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~amis/b-11.htm

And here I thought I'd heard of every media there was...

If I recall, CDs and DVDs are officially immune to moisture. Aside from scratching/cracking, the only natural thing I know of that can damage them is a particular strain of fungus in Belize that eats the disk. Actually, CD/DVD are susceptible to damage by moisture/humidity. If you get a CD/DVD that is scratched deep enough (It usually happens on the label side more so than the data side) But a scratch that reaches the data layer can allow moisture and oxygen to exasberate damage to the data layer and the adhesive that holds the disc togehter. Delamination and oxidation are two of the long term problems that occur with mistreated discs. Again, these are very extreme examples I am referring to and I know I'm suggesting overly precautious measures (removing inserts). But, part of what I do is archiving so it has become more of a habit than a nuisance for me personally. Ah, if the disk is scratched badly. That explains it. I was assuming disks in fairly good shape. And http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_328113.html?menu= The CD-eating fungus. I ASSUME it can eat DVDs also due to similar construction. Not mentioned in that article, but the part that bothered me most about it is that Philips(crators of the CD format) denied it happened. They insisted it wasn't possible, the disk was clearly mistreated, a properly-cared-for CD is invincible, and that anyone claiming fungus ate their disk was a liar. ... More interesting is the fact that sci-fi author Larry Niven predicted it would happen. A tangental bit of information in the Ringworld series mentions that Earth evolved a bacteria that ate some forms of plastic, forcing people to abandon plastic grocery bags.