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Wait just a second. Set Designers and Stuntmen and such are hurt by piracy. Here's how it works: Movie is made. Movie is pirated. Movie is less profitable. Studio makes less movies. Less jobs are available for production staff. I undertstand that. The ads as presented imply that the behind-the-scenes people get an actual cut of the movie profits, that their paycheck is directly, not indirectly, tied to the movie's success. And I should point out that the evidence is that piracy is actually GOOD for sales. At least, it was for the music industry before they declared war on their consumers. Napster hit, sales went up, RIAA started suing the pants off people that downloaded songs, sales went way way down(and what was their PR department thinking when they sued that little girl? Could they have CHOSEN a worse target?). Movie piracy currently takes too long to be worth the effort, as far as I'm concerned. More of the blame for the recent movie slump is placed on instant messenging programs and cellphones than piracy. Here's how it works: Person sees movie. Movie sucks. Person calls friends from the parking lot, says "Don't see this movie, it sucks." Friends don't see movie. In an industry that makes most of it's money in the first week, before word of mouth can spread through traditional means, this is very bad. The truth is, there's just not much out worth watching recently. I've been looking, and the amount of movies interesting me is just really small. The last film I actually WANTED to see was, I think, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. ... Which bombed horribly, thanks in part to what I consider incompetent marketing. They really had no idea what to target, the ads just plain sucked, and most of the people that came expected a completely diffrent kind of film(I suspect I was one of about 5 people there on opening night that even knew who Captain Nemo was, much less some of the other characters).

What bugs me the most about hose anti-piracy ads is the way they try to tie ticket sales to the paycheck of set designers and stuntmen and such. People that are payed a flat rate and get NOTHING from sales. I realize their intent(no one CARES if big fancy actor guy gets 9.9 mill instead of 10, but someone with a "real" job is someone the audience can empathize with), but I see the ads as little more than badly-formulated lies that serve only to insult my intellect.

You should be able to find an Apple II emulator and a ROM dump of Karateka online easily. But why get the Apple 2 version? Karateka was multi-platform, and the Commodore 64 qA FAR superior gaming hardware.

You can't prove that.

Not really that odd when you think about it some. You notice the screen flashes white when you shoot? The gun works on brightness. It doesn't see the duck and background, it sees the bright white areas that replace the duck when you shoot. ... I'm so glad lightguns have evolved to the point where the strobe isn't needed anymore.

Yes, but we are MACROSSWORLD! If it's gonna be 1:1 it darn well better be fully functional. And then we can all get together on the bridge and gripe about how the pinpoint barrier is the wrong shade of green and it's a sorry piece of crap that isn't worth the change in the sofa...

Unless your tape has problems. Someone put a magnet too near mine and it has a few bad spots. Can't bring myself to buy a DVD, though.

I wish people would quit buying options to make movies and just make movies. I wanted to see the Metroid film, but the option expired before they got around to doing it.

The answer is....we just don't know. Well, whatever it was, we know that if Millia knew about it, she'd re-enact the knife fight...only this time probably finishing the job! Yes, but would AnimeFriend have been responsible for drawing it? I love that episode, I really do. But the animation burns my eyes.

I think they should skip the SDF-1 and do the one Macross vehicle to never ever ever see a release in any way, shape, or form. Kaifun's sports car!

I saw it attributed to Perfect Memory elsewhere. And thanks to Myriad for the better screenshot.

It's sort of a hybrid mech. Let me rummage the pics out. A pic of the mech It's still got some notable VF-1 features, like the head and hips. Screen shot, but a bad one. You can see the VF-1A head laser, though.

Modified VF-1. Not really an Orgoid, it just looks similar(but not identical).

Kinda. The story is, Kawamori was working off a pre-production toy (very early in development). He wanted the make GERWALK mode a reality but couldn't figure out how to make it work. Kawamori already intended GERWALK to be implemented but had trouble thinking it through. When he picked up the toy, the legs just dropped down (as they do in GERWALK mode) and next thing you know, we have GERWALK mode. The legs dropped down due to the fact that the legs didn't have a locking mechanism. I thought the story was he had a mech for another series that looked like that, and seeing a VF-1 with it's legs down made him want to put it in Macross. Ah well. Either way.

summary: They botched a VTOL landing and decided it looked useful. ... The real origin isn't much better. As I understand things, it came from a broken VF-1 toy sample.

You notice that when Max and Kakizaki are introduced they make a big deal out of emphasizing that they are, at least on paper, equally skilled? And then how massively diffrent their personalities are? I think Kakizaki was something of a cautionary tale about the dangers of being too arrogant. ... And comic relief. Untill he died.

FREE DANCOUGAR! *starts protesting outside APU's house*

Regarding pilot scale complaints... According to Macross Compendium, Millia stands 8.55 meters tall, anda VF-1 battroid stands 12.68 meters tall. Millia should NOT be as tall as Max's VF-1A. Or even close. If she was, things would be VERY wrong. On the other hand, she SHOULD be a bit taller than she is. But not much. The pic LOOKS about right, but Max's spread legs offset things a little bit. Really, get the facts right BEFORE you complain...

Probably worse, once a month. Oh now there's a pleasant thought, I bet that just totaly sideswiped Max, their first month of marrige... Unless the zentradi genome was tweaked to bypass that phase. Not really a desirable feature in a race of warriors.

As far as you want. It's all about making sure you sure your calculations are correct. If you're off by a bit, you may end up somewhere you shouldn't. Get a piece of paper. Draw 2 points and fold the paper such that the 2 points overlap. That would be a proper calculation. In your two points are not directly overlapping, that would be a improper fold calculation. Usually that doesn't happen unless you've got a really pathetic fold calculating program which misplaces the decimal . Or if you forget to convert between light-terms and light-years. I would assume that most long jumps are done as a series of shorter hops, so that inaccuracies can be corrected before they get too large. If I recall, that's how they found the vessel in the episode where they went to capture the factory satellite, was a course correction defold.

Most of the Zentradi folded out and (presumably) joined other fleets. UN Spacey DID get a sizable donation in the form of Britai's and Lap'Lamiz' fleets. They also got their pick of salvage and any surrendering vessels. Which didn't seem very likely, given they were supposed to automatically fold out with the destruction of their superiors(as Exedol explained) and Minmay drowning out radio communications. They had no chance to take surrender offers. I doubt the zentradi left for other galaxies. The protoculture never FULLY conquered the Milky Way. Odds are they didn't have intergalactic travel when they created the zentradi, and the zentradi don't invent new stuff. They are warriors to the last man, not scientists.

Ummm... Why would a toy based on a non-transformable mecha have a transformation?

Bah. yeah yeah, the info isn't truely accurate, but it at least gives some idea (I can't translate my game manuals, so this will have to do...) I really only kept it for the Magazine picture. I just don't like being wrong. Even partially. It's worse because I have and enjoy Mac 2036.

Heero, Basara, and Keith. Wrong timeline, wrong series, and wrong genre, in that order. Serious consideration of the question: 0.

Thanks. Excuse getting OT, but that Hades fig looks nice. I'll have to check into that series, never heard of it. Same here. The Hades looks a lot like Vavel from Robot Alchemic Drive, too. Wonder if they shared a mecha designer