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  1. You say that as if Star Trek has EVER maintained continuity on even a week-to-week basis. Personally, I enjoy Enterprise. It beats the hell out of Voyager, and is one of maybe 4 shows I watch on TV. I never said that Star Trek had smooth continuity, and I did put the word history in quotes; granted that Enterprise has better self-contained continuity then the other incarnations, especially Voyager (it contradicted itself about every other episode). However, there is an established canon that gets repeatedly trampled on Enterprise: the portrayal of the Vulcans (somewhat ameliorated by the "Kir Shara" arc), a Vulcan in Starfleet (Spock was the first), Romulans with cloaking technology (The Federation was unaware of this until "Balance of Terror"), the Tholians (it is implied that the Federation knows nothing of the Tholians until "The Tholian Web"), The Farengi (although not named, it is hard to swallow that they would stay away from all Starfleet contact until TNG), Borg (unknown until TNG), and many other nits to pick. I too watch the show; however, just like TNG, DS9, and Voyager, I can't bring myself to watch any episode more than once...they just aren't that riveting. To be fair, they ignored a lot of the original series stuff for the other serieses as well(I still like the DS9 tribble episode's acknowledgement of the klingon makeup problem). They tend to ignore all series at will, usually. ... Still waiting for the ferengi to bring back their lightning whips. No clue why.
  2. I got it because I was hurting for some scrolling shooter action, and how bad could it possibly be? It was also on sale for 10$... Alas, it's pretty bad. As far as how much suck... I've heard the GBA port of RType 3 is even worse(invisible enemies and really poor hit detection). Pity, because I really wanted that one.
  3. I usually arrange icons around the pic, personally. I've had them all over the place, but I never let Windows arrange the icons anymore. Straight down the left edge just doesn't work for me. Usually small(4- clumps of icons in the corners or along the top/bottom edges. Another advantage is that they're ordered the way I want. ... Flipside to that is it slows down the process of changing backgrounds, since I have to rearrange, then relearn icon locations(I tend to over- or under-snap my trackball for a while after).
  4. Tatsunoko was definately involved as they were handling the animation and much of the writing (at least initially, until Macek/HG grew annoyed with how they were handling the characters and switched to American writers). It's also commoly known that unused designs from Southern Cross were scheduled be used in the Sentienels. But really, I don't it was ever planned to be a sequel to Mospeada or Southern Cross. Carl Macek goes into depth about the creation of the Sentinels in Robotech Art III and as far as I can remember, never mentions plans to use it as a sequel to either of those series. I think the visual similarities between the Sentinels and Southern Cross come more from Tatsunoko's direct involvement; their desire to use unused designs and perhaps viewed it as a spiritual sucessor to Southern Cross. Given how poorly Southern Cross was received, I doubt very much a sequel would have been feasible or even worthwhile. There's a certain justification continuity-wise, too. The forces seen in Sentinels would've been armed with similar equipment to what the Southern Cross forces would've used. Or at least a close relative. SC and Sentinels gear would've evolved from the same root(which was a VF-1? Riiiight...). Of course, later Sentinels stuff should've started shifting towards MOSPEADA style, but... *shrugs*
  5. You say that as if Star Trek has EVER maintained continuity on even a week-to-week basis. Personally, I enjoy Enterprise. It beats the hell out of Voyager, and is one of maybe 4 shows I watch on TV.
  6. At least it played better than RT on GBA . Seriously I'd play the Namco Famicom version (I once had an HK famicom with a 40 game cart with Mac and I liked simply because it's macross.) than TDK's/Lucky Chicken's poor excuse of a Macross GBA game . I'd play just about anything before I'd play the GBA Rawbooteck again. It's just painful.
  7. Corrrection. Video games are currently the single largest and most profitable entertainment industry in the US. Games generate MORE revenue than Hollywood.
  8. Yup. That's him. Not a lot of rabbits that wear pancakes.
  9. Well, I need to update anyways. Most of my books are the old ones, and missing what in some cases are actually pretty important stories like how Keichi got his temple/house. Tey released a trio of volumes to replace the incomplete 1-555-GODDESS. Those are the new 1-3. Wrong Number, Leader of the pack, and Final Exam are the titles. Did you get those 3? 1 of 'em. I thought htey were running through and redoing the whole series. Guess I was mistaken.
  10. Ya know, that rabbit's dead.
  11. Well, I need to update anyways. Most of my books are the old ones, and missing what in some cases are actually pretty important stories like how Keichi got his temple/house.
  12. Keep in mind that it's 5 hours due to SCE restrictions upon developers. Sony refuses to license games that don't get 5 hours of battery life, and explicitly told developers to not use the full power of the system in order to prolong battery life.
  13. Lol... I watched the movie and it hasn't got the slightest resemblance with mario world. Take a body of a man and put a 1:1 scale snake head on it... how cheap Yet Miyamoto co-wrote the movie. I actually enjoyed it, probably because it was so different from the typical Mario world, yet bore a twisted "Through the Looking Glass" type resemblence to it. Plus it was a lot of fun, you could tell the actors were having a good time with their roles. I'm not gonna argue that it's some classic of cinema, but it was a great rainy day flick, totally underserving of most of the trash talk thrown its way. Indeed. It's a fun show. And if it was faithful, people would be complaining about how crappy the writing was, how cliche the stars were, and how lame the set designs were. Game-movie adaptations are a lose-lose situation. If it's faithful, it's poo. If it's not faithful, it's poo. There's no pleasing the target audience.
  14. Ah, DNS error. That was my guess. Nice to see I guessed right.
  15. Thank goodness I never took my collection very far during the first release. Or updated when they re-released with stories they dropped for the first run added back in. Now I can put off buying flipped books instead!
  16. Problem is it's very decentralized. And made in countries with no real copyright enforcement(if the laws even exist). Nintendo HAS started suing importers, but that's about all they can do. In China, they can't fight the Famiclones legally, so they fight economically. They launched a N64-in-a-pad called the IQue that used flash RAM cards. Logic was that they could undercut the pirates by flashing new games onto the cards cheaper than pirates can burn ROMs and solder them onto boards, while offering a superior product. I don't think the IQue made much headway, though.
  17. JB0

    Rez

    I suspect that they'd buy several copies to "document the offenses", then decide it's "the best game ever ohgodYES!".
  18. But... where's Vanessa? She's the bridge bunny to get.
  19. JB0

    Rez

    Ahhh, the infamous Rez article. Sure it's old, but who can complain if it keeps popping up. Shame the Mahoro fanart doesn't show up more often alongside it.
  20. Really? They look like kids to me, about right for the story. Yes, I'm a big fan of Mikimoto, glad to see more of his stuff. Link in LoZ is a really little kid 6yrs old or so. In Zelda2 hes a teen like the drawings. In legend of zelda on NES there is absoloutly nothing to indicate links age in game. Maybe some of the artwork on the box or something, but we all know how innacurate nes box art was back then. My point is that, Links age isn't given. And if you're going off his looks? well he's the same size and shape as just about every other person of his type in the game.. sorry i just hear alot of people claiming they know links age when really, there just isn't enough info given. We still have Zelda 2's insistance tha the just turned 16 at the beginning of the game. And that "many seasons have passed" since Link killed Gannon. So he's not all that old in the first game. 13 at best.
  21. Wellllllll... we haven't seen Milia in it a million times already... But the suit's kinda lame.... But Milia looks better... Okay, diffrent reaction for Milia.
  22. And here's somthing called SRX.....I nto sure what it is but it looks cool. Although the transformation looks like it has alot of parts swapping ala Spawn Interlink 6... SRX is a super robot from Super Robot Wars Alpha. And the parts swapping can be considered faithful to it's origins, as the one in the game had a lot of parts that blew off and flew through the air during formation.
  23. Personally? I think it's a tired and overdone fanart. I second VF19, but without the smiliy.
  24. I was under the impression that pirate series DVDs usually re-encoded the episodes to get more per disk. ... Which means 4 eps a disk is a good sign of legitness, if it's right.
  25. Sweet! Well, Getter 3 looks pretty goofy, but then... Getter 3's ALWAYS looked pretty goofy.
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