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Should be. Otherwise you risk debris flying into your turbines.

Mmmm... I use an SLR. And stripes and reflections both confuse the hell out of auto-focus circuits, for future reference.

Y're sure? I know none of the drones ever actually photographed anything, but I'm pretty sure the only time there was ever any issue with the launch was the crash.

Let's see what I remember... Eyeball = plain ol' TIE fighter. Squint = TIE interceptor. Impstar = Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Vicstar = Victory-class Star Destroyer. Brights = TIE Bomber? I'd guess Cross = TIE Defender, but that's really a shot in the dark. Dunno slim at all.

STAMPEDE! ... C'mon, if Macross is ever gonna compete with Gundam in the mass market, it needs to mount an unholy # of guns on a mech. ... Or maybe I'm just a tad trigger-happy recently.

2 words. Manual focus.

Ah. And it all makes sense now. Again, it all makes sense now. Actually, there was only one accident. The drones never really succeeded, but only one M-21 was ever lost.

Yup. Scounge some old parts up and build an MS-DOS machine. Don't forget the ISA Soundblaster(my machine's major failing right now. SB16 emulation just ain't cuttin' it).

What about X-Wing VS TIE Fighter? I never got that one,(my system was inadequate when it was available), but it looked good.

*chuckles* I love that ad.

Figures. I've been waiting over a decade for them to make this game, and it sucks.

No..its quite relevant actually for comparison purposes. Or you can even say its the block 6 or later machines. the DYRL style controls is more of evolution of the original design. http://www.anime.net/macross/mecha/united_...s/variable/vf1/ Not really. The question has nothing to do with chronology, canon-ity, or anything else. It's just which you like better. I can like one corvette better than another without knowing what year it is. Hell, I can like a corvette better than a mustang without knowing which is which. It REALLY doesn't matter which came first.

Weren't those all CF squadrons?

Or from the fact that they're pretty obviously the same name, minor spelling quiblles aside?

Which has no real relevance on the discussion.

Almost guaranteed a reference.

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Is it the oil yellowing, or the plastic is being damaged by the oil? My experience with yellowing is limited to an SNES deck that was restored with a washcloth with rubbing alcohol splashed on it.

Hikaru's complaints about the sheer # of controls present in the VF-1D makes me lean towards the streamlined DYRL setup automatically.

Or both. Don't forget the DVD format IS capable of branching.

Chek a car with an automatic transmission. There's a lock button to prevent accidentally jostling it out of position. I would assume that VFs have a similar locking mechanism.

It depends, do you mean the one based off a VF-1? Or do you mean the sketch for the VF-11 variant in Macross Design Works? So that's the plane under it! ... What? It's hard to tell when it's buried under guns larger than the plane... I shter ea pic of the VF-1 variant, or just descriptions?

Sounds like Basara's been talking to the fighter designers recently.

Yeah but lacking evidence, is it really any more logical that they would have enough of a vector to descend into the atmosphere instead of just saying in orbit (much less being blasted out of orbit)? And of the ones coming down to atmosphere shoudln't most of these have been in slow decaying orbits instead of meteoric descents? Logic dictates that if something explodes, fragments go in all directions. And logic also dicates that a LOT of those 1.8 million destroyed vessels exploded(about 1 million were vaporized by the grand cannon, leaving 800,000 to be blown up by less unbconventional means). Which means that a lot of fragments DID head towards Earth. And yes, most of them should've taken the long way to get there instead of coming in in a straight line. But then they hit the atmosphere and either burned up or hit something, depending on what angle they hit at and how large they were. Either way, they introduce debris into the air. If they hit the ground they knock dust into the air. If they burn up in the atmosphere, it just means they're now a cloud of dust floating in the air. And dust is our enemy in this scenario.

MORE EWOK CARTOONS!1111 ... Oh gods... what if they make GUNGAN cartoons?