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Damnb, but Minmay's chest is big in that shot.

And eventually it follows you while making tweeting noises and launching lightsabers at you through an air cannon..

The clip where Hikaru's plane # reverses!

the bartender says "Not you three again!"

Pros: Basara sings better than Minmay. Cons: Minmay doesn't sing every episode.

The fact that there's a club devoted to making R2-D2 clones astounds me.

He's talking about the Saturn/PlayStation game that features very liberal usage of FMV between levels(captured from the movie as well as new animation).

Assuming it's canon, then yes.

That's a diffrent episode(the one where Exedol comnes aboard to negotiate a cease-fire). The DirectX logo is just a yellow X with a bluish circle around it. Though a porn star would probably look a lot better. Can't get a shot of the billboard(lack a PC DVD player), but here's what the directX logo looks like, so you know what you're looking for(it's really hard to miss).

Technically, it was called the "Star Wars Holiday Special" so I didn't feel bad about leaving it out. For all we know, it may have been intended to celbrate Hanukkah, Ramadan, or maybe even Kwanza. That's why I didn't capitalize. I wasn't sure of the real title. Strong are you in the dark side. Evil you are, yes.

What about the Star Wars christmas special? *gets shot by an assassin hired by George Lucas*

I'm dead serious. There's a big rotating DirectX logo, plain as day, on a billboard right smack in the middle of the screen for a few seconds in one episode. I think it was the first one with the spies onboard the Macross, right as they step into the city. But I'm not sure. Okay, found it. Right scene. It's about 6 minutes into episode 13. As our trio of comic relief stares at all the flashing lights, a traffic light changes. After that the camera pans across a row of stores on the street. One of them has a big DirectX logo as a sign.

I should run through the DVDs again and find the big flashing DirectX billboard. Macross City: Powered by Microsoft.

To be fair, the MPCs were designed to compete with the 1/60 Yamato, not the 1/48. Which isn't saying there aren't some problems with the MPCs, but it's not really fair to compare them to a toy that came out that much later.

Tonight it was a fruit basket. What kind of fruits?

I was just saying that relative to other states, Texas is VERY friendly to debtors. I happen to be quite fond of Texas, BTW. Well, aside from the weather in summer.

Or some sort of "programmable" paint. The pilot just has to create a color scheme and feed it into the computer, which realigns the pigments as needed. Intended for stealth purposes(adaptive camoflauge), but the pilots keep defeating the purpose by wiring it up in bright primary colors. The worst part is there's similar products being developed now. Only for "smart" paper instead of fighterplane skin. They're already working on such a system. What I was refering to is different though. It's basically big vinyl apliques that you stick on the plane instead of paint. The idea is that if you ever need to repaint or repair a plane all you do is peel off the old apliques and stick new ones on. Over the long run this actually saves weight (older airplanse can gain several hundred pounds just from new layers of paint over the years). The other advantage is you can come up with new paint schemes out in the field then just print them out on a giant printer and stick them on the plane. Another approach. Likely far more practical, too.

Yep. Just look at the poor reposessor they killed awhile back. Doing nothing but his job and the MURDERER got a pat on the back and was told quote "You proved a point today, they won't be taking our property anymore." Insane indeed. Don't recall the case you're talking about. Knowing how lenient Texas law is about debt, he could have been within his legal rights. At the very least, I'd bet the reposessor was trespassing(since the whole POINT behind the job is they don't want to give it back). Doesn't mean he should have gotten off, just that I understand why (legally) he did. Anyways, the intent of the law is to acknowledge that the police can't be everywhere every time, and the people should have the ability to stop a crime themselves. But like I said, there's a few flaws in the implementation. I would argue, but the one about the eBay motorbike auction ceased being fun the moment eBay deleted the auction.

That picture is photoshopped. Everyone knows that the original Tracks' legs always broke off.

You expect an honest answer? I can almost GUARANTEE he won't say "Nope, this is a 100% illegal product, but we're selling it anyways." They need more than a Nintendo license anyways(as if Nintendo WOULD license their software out for distribution). Each and every title on it has to be licensed from it's creator. And while SNK doesn't care about Iron Tank, Konami will be VERY interested in collecting royalties for Contra. The entire price tag of that thing should be made of licensing fees, in all honesty.

A passenjer jet with support vehicles, a generic-looking spaceship, and... I'm sure the reIS another one, but I can't recall right now.

But it lets Basara LOOK bad-ass while he flies! And isn't that what's REALLY important here?

But I was never in the club to begin with.

Thanks! Since they have been out for some time now why haven't they been stopped then? This isn't the net they are being sold on or China but in gaming stores at the local malls. Well, that requires figuring out who the manufacturer is. And then the manufacturer has to be in a place where you can actually sue them(most bootlegs come from countries that don't give a crap about copyright). Other than that, all they can do is nail distributors. And as none of the game stores in my area carry them, I assume it's something being picked up by the local branches. And Nintendo really doesn't ahve the manpower to be searching every game store in the nation for bootleg NES games, much less every store in general. Last time I saw the bootlegs for sale was at the State Fair of Texas(though I ahven't been looking very hard). Other indicators besides Nintendo's typical corporate behavior as to the questionable legality are the packaging claims. If you get one, you'll find it falls far short of the promised 10trillion games, or whatever # they choose for the day. Honest distributors are few and far between(no suprise, ginve the merchandise they're pushing). 50 is probably an accurate #, but a lot of times the package claims 1000, 10000, or some other silly impressive #, and then has multiple menu entries for each game and if they're creative they have the games start with a wrong pallete so it LOOKS diffrent(and festeringly ugly). To the best of my knowledge the only non-Gameboy portable system that's ACTUALLY legal is the chinese iCue. Nintendo basically shoved an N64 into a Dreamcast controller, and made it use standard SmartMedia cards for games. The intent behind Nintendo's first official release in China is to undercut the pirates. They can ask a buck or 2 to rewrite the flash RAM cards, and it's pure profit. The pirates have to actually manufacture cartridges or CDs, which costs money. All Nintendo's real costs are in the initial hardware purchase. Basically a case of if they can't beat piracy legally, they'll do it economically. The odds of an iCue or similar device ever making it to America are zip, BTW. Just like we never got the FamiCom Disk System or Nintendo Power flash carts(not to be confused with the american magazine of the same name). They don't want cheap games available here.

I've been checking my WalMart since I first saw this thing mentioned. Mine only carries the other bots.