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Hikaru and Roy knew each other before the war. Hikaru would've stayed a stunt flyer.

Odd. I thought the NX-01 was a very nice-looking ship. Integrating the saucer section like they did gives it a really nice profile. I've never liked the "neck" on the other ship designs, and the Defiant was just too squat for my tastes. The NX-01 is a very nice balance between utilitarian practicality and aesthetics. And the battles were a heck of a lot more interesting than most of the crap in Voyager, in my opinion. Really, what does it matter when it takes place? Be it a classic like "City on the Edge of Forever", or a more modern holodeck romp, some of Star Trek's best stories have taken place in the past. And a phaser beam is the same regardless of when you are. ... And your post borders on illegible. Learn to capitalize and punctuate properly.

Even a small dog is good. By small I mean foot and a half tall. Not teacup poodle. But yah. Dogs are the best security system known to man. If you keep them indoors. Used to have a german shepard/chow. Looked like a wolf. Sweetest thing ever, but she scared the crap out of everyone that didn't know her. Currently have a black lab(mostly) and a terrier(mainly). Between the 2, I've got iron-clad security. The lab is big enough to spook people, and the terrier is mean enough to take a chunk out of their butt while they're watching the lab(but still well-behaved enough to not physically assault people we let in).

I thought the TV instances you mentioned were interesting because they were just simple chance. At least at first, Hikaru COULD have had a relationship. But simple misunderstandings and bad timing drove a wedge between them untill the gap was just too wide to cross.

Me. I thought Perceptor was cool. I R GEEK! But many people liked Soundwave and Blaster. Heck, Soundwave is one of the more popular 'bots. Maybe. If it worked, definitely.

Actually, they don't a lot of times. There's no one Famiclone manufacturer, and every chinese pirate company has their own ROM in the package. ... Personally, I'd get a cart-based Famiclone. With a FC-NES adapter, it becomes a quite servicable and relatively unique NES deck*. And it opens up the possibility(with a quick soldering job to make an adapter) of using any NES accessory instead of just what hte famiclone comes with. *Not one of the lame PS1/N64 case knockoffs. But there's so many diffrent styles out there that it's hard to not find one you like.

Bah. What's the world coming to when even fake weapons aren't usable in self-defense? Actually, the first time my place was robbed(happened twice in the entire time we've been here) they used gloves. And this was before the cop shows. You ust got hit by a higher grade of thief than most poeple. Consider it an honor. A. Good to know the cops appreciate the value of a giant robot. B. To heck with the guys across the street. It's the guy in forensics you need to worry about.

You mean they actually pulled off hat many eps.? Man, I'm so out of the loop...didn't they try to bring the Borg into the series briefly? It was never an attempt to make them a regular villain. The episode was intentionally written to prevent a second contact untill Next Generation. It was just a little sidestory based off the time travel element in First Contact. A "what if the borg had a shuttlecraft out" thing.

More importantly, Gamlin gets Millia's VF-1 blown up. Best Valk ever, up in smoke.

ASS is, well, ass. Anime-in-Action dropped the project. Get Central Anime.

But do you really WANT Macross whored out like Gundam?

I have to disagree, actually. A lot of the early transformers really sucked. The miniature ones like Bumblebee especially. But even the larger ones sometimes... Have you ever LOOKED at Hound? On the other hand, Soundwave, Shockwave, Blaster... there's a lot of good ones too. Though I do find it odd that Graham exempted Masterpiece Prime, but not Jetfire.

So put it in a game machine. Besides which, there's very few games that are well-suited to the technology. At least, on a portable device. Their example of swinging the phone like a glof club comes in very handy for elaboration. You can't SEE while you're swinging.

Max. Because we both wear glasses. I'm so deep...

got pics of the face? You're missing the point. It's just Agent ONE's usual Mac7 bashing.

I thought it was established in-game that THIS was the original and real memory for Cloud? His past unlocked before him when he met Jenova, and Sephiorth mocked him that he thinks he was in SOLDIER all this while when he was actually just a motion-sick grunt following Zack around. Cloud denies it and sulks and attacks Sephiroth...but loses. No, it wasn't established. That's one of many backstories thrown out there, all with an equal amount of support(read: none).

You're not one of the very vocal haters I was speaking of. Not from what I've seen, anyways. I'm just saying that the impression that everyone hates Mac7 is because a very small number of posters(say, five?) insist on professing their undying hatred every time the show's mentioned, even tangentally. And the episode where they're filming the Minmei movie is #11. I don't recall seeing that specific shot in it, but I may well be mistaken.

Hmmm... I wonder why no one ever cosplays as Ishtar. I've seen plenty of Felicia cosplays, and she's every bit as risque.

... 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.