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Leader One. They're having fun with their GoBots ownership.

I like a good cutscene too. But I prefer a good game more. A few FMVs are okay, but if you're going to do very many you darn well better have a reason. And they usually don't. I wouldn't strip Lunar 2 of it's FMVs, for example. Yes there's a lot, but the style of the game necessitates them. In general, however, they try to replicate the look of the game-engine characters in the FMV, and when you do that on a modern game system, I prefer something a little less sharp and more matching the "real" characters. Shorter load times are nice too.

Bah. Pre-rendered cutscenes have problems, and I'm glad to see the industry getting away from them. Game engine cutscenes are becoming the preferred type, now that they can get the game engine running as high detail as they can. Saves the disk space for something more useful. We've come a long way since FF7, and an even longer way since Ninja Gaiden.

I weep for you. And strongly recommend you try and stop this now. Your list scares me. *trembles* If it's anything like mine, that would amount to ripping the heart out of a collection and urinating on it's still-warm body. SHE WOULD MAKE YOU SELL A CDX?!?!?!?! Don't give her ideas. Personally, I'd argue that the collections are part of who you are she knew what she was getting when she married you. ... Or start rummaging through her shoes and jewelry and ask her to get it down to just a few items. See how she likes it.

I have the same wall scroll... it's a saturn add too. it says Sega Sata-n on it. HAHA! Glad they didn't try to make any english up for mine.

you would need lots of power to open a rift or else it becomes that free energy theory then half of macross becomes senseless, But once opened, it's stable. And wasn't free energy from a parallel universe the principle behind what became the protodevlin? Remember, the original pinpoint barrier was built around the fold generator's aftermath. The rift wasn't created intentionally, and mankind had no clue how to make one at the time. But the barrier served them through the rest of the series(or at least through to the end of Space War 1). Sure it takes energy to focus the forces in the rift, and they can only be channeled for defensive purposes(currently), but the nature of the PPB system makes it hard to guess at it's overall functionality. It's not even clear if the PPB overloads from total damage, or only immediate damage(IE will a million small shots crack it, or only a single large one?). The omnidirecitonal barrier is total damage, but the PPB and omnidirecitonal barrier are diffrent devices with radically diffrent behaviors. Among other things, PPB disks disperse briefly after taking a hit, while the ODB bubble doesn't. It's hard to project the behavior of one from the other(in the same way you wouldn't predict a laser's behavior from a flashlight). PPBs don't go nuclear when they overload. They just cease to repel. And the omnidirectional barrier overload was so powerful because it released all the energy it had absorbed during the bombardment when it failed,not just because it was a barrier that failed. If it absorbs one laser pointer beam before it overloads, the energy released will be a lot less. No evidence barrier tech can be focused into a beam. And the PPB might have limited energy. We've seen it fail before, when struck with a single exceedingly hard blow. That's an odd assumption. Is it easier to shoot lightning bolts, or to electrify the skin of a vehicle? For weapons purposes, confinement must be mastered before projection is dealt with. And it's possible that the PPB field naturally adheres to objects. I don't think humanity is capable of harnessing it that way. BTW, ion engines(at least as they exist now) are only really useful for long distance trips. Acceleration is slow, but you get a lot more of it than other propulsion technologies. the compendion lists the gunship to displace 2,500,000 tons while rest of the ships under the neo nup is under 100,000 tons; the gun ship would have to be a giant fast pack to perform that unless its using free energy powered thrusters. I was thinking other stuff was similar to the Battle 7. My mistake, clearly. Though the Macross has a similarly large tonnage(18,000,000 standard operating, 22,000,000 standard operating (after 2012 overhaul)), aso do Zentradi vessels(8-9 digits).

Those wallscrolls are nice. Anything with a Monster = win. I've got a poster with the same art as the left one on a less interesting background. Mine was originally an ad for the Saturn DYRL game.

After you've wasted all that time transforming, then sure, it's easier to move an arm than the entire ship. But you could have probably moved the entire ship and got off one or two shots for all the time it takes to transform the damn thing. If you have advance warning, you can initiate transformation well before combat is initiated. And in space you should be able to see the enemy WELL before they close to combat range(provided they don't fold in right on top of you). If they're several lightminutes out when you first see them, you can fire all you want, but you'll never hit them because they started moving around when they saw you to prevent leaving you with a nice clean shot(just like you did). Hmmm... those things DO tend to have a pretty nasty backwash, don't they? I've always sort of wondered what standards the gun arms on the original Macross were built to that the forces they channeled did no damage to them. Chalk it up to a really really good confinement field, I guess. If that IS the reason that the original Macross didn't vaporize it's own gun when it fired, and humanity couldn't make as good a confinement field as the original zentradi/supervision army vessels used on their guns, that'd be a VERY good reason to get it as far from the ship as possible. ... And yes, I'm throwing meaningless technobabble out here. I'm as bad as a Star Trek writer.

I DEMAND A Q-RAU!

Or everyone was massed in the streets around the concert hall(I won't atempt to claim the whole city fit IN it). Most of the dogfight took place well away from the concert.

The pinpoint barrier's funciton isn't really explained, but we know the barrier isn't powered solely by the ship's intenral power source. It operates with energy from a dimensional rift, at least in the original show. I say all the rules we normally work with go right out the window there. For all we know, alll barrier disks are equal in power, just diffrent size. Which would mean a beam larger than the barrier disk is gonna rip through you from spillover, but other than that anything a battleship can deflect is something a tiny fighterplane can deflect. Heck, smaller disks could be STRONGER because the alien energies are focused more tightly(think about folding a sheet of paper in half a few times and then trying to tear it). I do grant that it's possible smaller barriers are weaker barriers. Just not documented, or even really implied. Not in space. In space, size is everything. The gunship's less massive than other vessels, so it's got less velocity to shed at any given maneuver. If it has any maneuvering capabilities at all(which it does), then the gunship can dance relative to other vessels. Footnote: This is also a justification for the transformation. The Macross can move an arm instead of using propellant to change its angle(a slow and expensive process acording to Newton's 3rd law of motion).

I'm waiting for EA VS MS. The 2 companies we love to hate duking it out for supremacy and GLOABAL DOMINATION!111 Anyawys, I think buying small developers IS the same after you've bought enough of them. And it's not like Maxis and Origin were total unknowns.

There's no really good reason to dock the gunship before firing. It should be capable of autonomous operation for one shot, though I'll grant docking for recharging purposes(if it's powered by supercapacitors instead of an internal generator, it has no way of recharging for a second shot undocked).

Missed the boat on that one. They've been buying smaller developers up for years.

I too own The Sentinels. But I taped mine off the air. No cash version. With vintage ads.

The Battle 7 wasn't something new, it was a complete aberration and an insult to the Macross itself, good thing it was destroyed, too bad they were building another one..bleh.. I have 2 words for you. Daedalus Attack. You are defending a boxing battleship, you really don't have a lot of room here. On the Daedalus attack, the ship was used to put a big hole on the enemy ship, then the forward hatch would open to reveal a bunch of destroids that just blasted the interior of the ship with their ammo, Rationalize all you want. It's still a battleship with melee combat abilities. Now we're getting somewhere... And I agree. A battleship with hands is silly. Having the cannon as a seperate vehicle has some interesting possibilities, though. But really, when you get down to it MOST humanoid vehicles are silly, regardless of how anthropomorphized they are. Transforming ones moreso(though transforming battleships score higher in my book than fighterplanes on the not-silly scale, it doesn't say much). I just get kinda tired of Mac7 bashing sometimes. Especially when it pops up at random for no reason.

Probably the same logic guiding Isamu in Macross Plus. Too many promotions and you wind up behind a desk instead of a flight stick. Also, when you get around major, you're pretty much a supervisor (in the civilian world). From there on, it gets progressively difficult to get higher. You could either impress the brass really badly, suck up to the brass or have political connections. Either way, you're on your way to a desk job. But a major comes pretty close to a desk as is... Maybe that's why Focker maintained his reputation as a devil-may-care psycho who flew dogfights while drunk... Who'd dare promote him to a desk job?

Probably the same logic guiding Isamu in Macross Plus. Too many promotions and you wind up behind a desk instead of a flight stick.

Its more like its paint chipped due to all the movements and entering the atmosphere..... But to be more anal....doesn't the color come from the phase-shift armour and not its actual color? So an actual paint chipping on blue and red wouldn't occur i imagine. It's using the prototype phase poo armor, which is defective.

The Battle 7 wasn't something new, it was a complete aberration and an insult to the Macross itself, good thing it was destroyed, too bad they were building another one..bleh.. I have 2 words for you. Daedalus Attack. You are defending a boxing battleship, you really don't have a lot of room here.

Yah... *listens* Uh-oh... I think he just fired up the dremel...

AKA responsible piracy. Steal only that which isn't available through normal channels.

Which reall ymakes no sense, given a jet engine not only requires air, but sucks it like ... ummm... something that sucks REALLY hard. The exoatmospheric testing could have just entailed test-building the fuselage with the characteristics needed to operate in a vacuum. It may also have meant physically taking a VF-0 into space and seeing if it can operate at least minimally in Gerwalk mode (which appears to use rockets in the backpack). Mmmm... Along the same lines, they may have also just been making sure that their wing design was up to the stresses the verniers were gonna be putting on it.

Okay, ummm.... eww?

Okay, now we've got some other stuff on the list. Mmmm... I think about half my MP3s are untagged. And pr'ly half of those are incomprehensible filenames too. Good thing I don't go for controlled playback. I view those as fluff, and irrelevant, personally. ... I really like that word today. I might get some mileage out of the radio, but it certainly wouldn't be a major factor. Yah. I need to rerip my CDs anyways(low bitrate encodes), and I'm considering moving up to a diffrent codec while I'm at it. ... But I'll likely put it off forever, because it's a pain. /me shrugs. I just think it's a tad over-rated. Like I said, not a bad product, just missing some features I'd expect at that price point. Honestly, I've been drooling voer the iRiver HDD players. Too bad they're iPod Photo level. That adds about a hundred bucks for a feature I don't care about. But the look and feature set are about what I want, and I've heard nothing but good things about them. If they still sold their H100 series, I'd be a very happy camper.