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... WHY? What engineer truly believed that a motion sensor was a GOOD FEATURE for a cell phone? This is a classic example of technolgy for the sake of technolgy.

I did. Much of what is "explained" consists of people choosing one possibility over another. Let's take Cloud's past as an example. Tell me what makes one version any more credible than any other. Sure, the whole Cloud and Zack were prisoners and broke out thing was the last version told, and is in a side-quest, but it has no greater or less weight to it than anything else. Ultimately it's just another one of Cloud's known-faulty memories. Leaving us with 3 or 4 origins for the character, and no rational way to choose one. The "explanations" of the plot that I've seen all amount to excellent attempts at fanfictions, but are really lousy at sticking to the facts. The fact that people even feel a need to MAKE plot explanations is an indicator of how poorly written it actually is. FF7 is a GOOD game, as menu-driven RPGs go. I give it that. But it's not a well-written game. It's big claim to fame remains the immense marketing budget that got it(and by extension the genre) the mass attention that prior games like Chrono Trigger, Lunar, Breath of Fire, Phantasy Star, and Secret of Mana failed to recieve. To say nothing of the many games that never got translated because "Americans don't want RPGs"(a fact that was easily countered by citing sales of the few RPGs we DID get, which all had respectable sales #s, if not megahit level, and a large deal of consumer respect).

They do that in M7 because it sucks so bad... By draging old stuff in, it creates the illusion that M7 is just more of the Macross you know and love. Fortunately I was not fooled. Thanks for the heads up. I was considering buying the "grey market" DVDs at the anime store but decided not to. Based on what everyone was saying about M7, I really do not want to waste my money on it. I like Mac7. It's not the greatest show ever, but it's hardly as sucky as some poeple make it out to be. Agent ONE doesn't. That's his choice. I think you'll find a lot of people DO like Mac7, it's just that the few that hate it utterly are by far the most vocal about it. Though I'd recommend downloading fansubs instead of buying bootleg DVDs. http://animesuki.rut.org/series.php/166.html

Great story?!?!?! FF7 was plotholes and duct tape. The story was a disaster.

LISTEN TO MEESA SONGA!

What's the source for the 2% statistic? I prefer the way things are now with manga releases in the US than they were even five years ago. Darkhorse, MegaTokoyo, AnimAmerica and several other sites and company's themselves did a survey as to whether to flopped vs unflopped was a large issue. The MT, Darkhorse, and AniAmerica survey's showed 46% prefered flopped vs 48% prefered UN-flopped. 2% on nearly any consumer product is no where near enough for any major chance, unless their was an increase of profit involved. But then again this IS the disposable generation! The Megatokyo one was really silly. I seem to recall Piro going off at one point about people that kept saying Megatokyo needed to be printed right-to-left. There's a good rant somewhere about how stupid it would be to flip Megatokyo just to make it more japanese and how they were missing the whole point of printing books "backwards" in the first place.

Says the Trekkie. Star Wars > Captain Picard > * You forgot a very important point... JarJar < * StarWars.Quality=StarWars.Quality/JarJar.Suckitude

I feel truly blessed to not think very highly of FF7. It saves me the time of watching trailers, and the cash it'll take to buy the DVD eventually.

See, this wouldn't have happened if you people had all voted for Cobra Commander last November.

"Set up us"

I think it's the opposite of "hung like a horse".

Guess the only channels I need now are 3 and PBS.

The hells?

I like that Macross 2 poster...

That reminds me... how many times has the federation forgot how to track a cloaked vessel? They have so many diffrent ways to see them now hte cloak should be worthless, and yet, they never can find a cloaked ship.

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.

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.

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).

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*

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.

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.

Corrrection. Video games are currently the single largest and most profitable entertainment industry in the US. Games generate MORE revenue than Hollywood.

Yup. That's him. Not a lot of rabbits that wear pancakes.

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.

Ya know, that rabbit's dead.