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  1. Absolutely awesome. I haven't laughed out loud to a online video in a while. Go thing I saw this today and not while I was at work. Thanks man.
  2. As much as it would be nice to see, I don't really have any high hopes about seeing subs on and official R2 release any time soon. With the exception of Ghibli's DVD and a pitiful handful of others (like Patlabor III) the only time I've see English subs on a R2 release here is when their was a preexisting R1 source that they could pull it from. Then it's just extra content without the work. In fact, I'd imagine their overseas licensing agreements stipulate the reciprocal usage in Japan as part of the deal. Still hoping though.
  3. I have a lot of respect for Larry Hama and the stories he managed to tell. I mean, can you imagine trying to beat out a coherent comic plot when Hasbro keeps forcing you to drop in new characters, vehicles and crap practically every issue? While the story arcs did weird out from time to time I still can't believe he kept things as rooted as he did for as long as he did. Remember Chuckles? Man, I'd like to have seen Hama's face when they said he had to write that Hawaiian-shirt wearing dolt into the team, much less Starforce. Plus, while I don't think he had any say in the whole initial "Let's add a ninja to the Cobras," to see how things could have turned out you need to look no further than the TV series to see how lame Storm Shadow could have been. Bah, chalk me up as another who hates the TV. It even poisoned my kid mind against Duke cause everybody knew that Scarlet was Snake-eye's woman. Yeah, the comic up until Serpentor where awesome.
  4. Man, I know I'm in the minority, but I hated the Zhan books as well. I never even finished the second one. There were just too many times I felt like it wasn't "Star Wars." I know that's hard to explain, but I just couldn't imagine them being filmed; Luke disassembling his hand to use the electronics to escape, tying lightsabers to vines and swinging them with the force, or even recovering Luke's lightsaber from Cloud City... yeah right. Actually, the only Star Wars book that I've read and really liked was the Episode III adaption by Stover. I liked it so much in fact that it ruined the movie for me. If Episode III would have been filmed exactly like that book it would have rivaled the original for second place on my list. (as it is Revenge is fourth after the OT) Sorry for the negativity. Bah humbug! Get off my lawn, you stupid kids!
  5. There must have been a lot of this going around, as I entertained the same thoughts while Star Wars still occupied my thoughts in the early 80's. At the very least I assumed that Yoda and Palpatine had reached the level where they didn't need to carry a personal weapon since if confronted by someone with one they could be expected to disarm them without effort, and in the case of old Palpy at least turn it against the owner. Of course that could have been from watching too many martial arts exploitation films on TV at the same age. But I was definitely down with the division between the knights of the order and the masters. While it didn't rape my childhood at all, I just was a bit disappointed that my childhood spun adventures in Star Wars land seemed to hold together better for me (of course there's a bias though ) than the story George finally settled on. Oh well though, that's life.
  6. As for the rape comment I figured I should have spelled it out more, but I like the more direct impact. Of course the level of a crime like the theft of some toy prop is not comparable to that of rape. That should be a no-brainer My point was that the act of blaming the victim of these two crimes is similar. Hope that clears things up. Unless of course you're saying we should only blame the victim for misdemeanors. If so then, well wow... I guess. But to me it just sounds like a "If he wasn't there I wouldn't have hit him" cop out. No matter how unprotected something is does not give anyone the "right" to steal it. Sadly I believe most of America no longer thinks so. Yeah, I know, I know, it's a rough place out in the "real" world. Well, you deserve what you accept I guess.
  7. I'm probably just getting too old, but the whole prevailing attitude in America (as well as my own when I was younger) about if they leave something out it's their fault for having it stolen really gets my goat. It's been something that's been on my mind a lot especially as I'm planning to move back to the US after a long time in Japan. You know, when I first moved here I thought I was so street smart looking at cars with neon-lit Pioneer speakers on display in the back windows of cars thinking, "Naive little kids, try that in America and they'll be gone in one night." But now, I'm 180 degrees the opposite. People should be expected to keep their hands off sh!t that doesn't belong to them, in fact any decently raised human being wouldn't even consider it. Blaming the victim of the theft is like blaming the victim of rape. They both had it coming I guess… Anyhow, I wish Master Replicas the best of luck in getting it back.
  8. Plus, remember that if you're looking for Macross in the karaoke book, that you need to be under the ã¡ã‚‡ã† section of the anime section, as it's 超時空è¦å¡žãƒžã‚¯ãƒ­ã‚¹ and not just マクロス. Otherwise you'll just get stuck with Macross II songs.
  9. Is it just me or was there a serious downgrade in appearance in between the prototypes and the newest pictures? I might have bought the prototypes, but not the ones they are pushing now. Oh well, more money saved.
  10. Don't hold your breath. Before April it was February. And I'd wager before that it was Christmas 2006. Still... it's getting closer. Hope it'll be worth it, but then again, I'm not holding my breath for that either.
  11. How true Mr. March, how true. I've been lurking in this topic for a while, especially as I still drag out the old Enemy Unknown beast once and a while to play through it again (much like Wasteland or the Zelda on the NES), but I wanted to add this... Brief X-com history: I literally almost flunk out of college due to the first game, which, after coming back from Japan, my cousin mails to me without note or explanation. I had seen it in the stores, but the box was so uninteresting, and I was already content with my Civilization, X-wing, Pirates Gold triforce, that I didn't need a new game. But X-com knocked my socks off and came just a hairs berth away from unseating Wasteland as my all time favorite game. Finish the mars mission, got off the expulsion list and awaited a sequel. Terror from the Deep comes out, spiffy new CD format allows for "wows" during the opening movie (graphics we laugh at no though) and then ... TFTD pisses me off. Blatant rip-off is so appropriate. Hmm, lets see, change the color pallet, replace the art work and go. So, let me get this straight, my guys are underwater, WALKING across the ocean floor to travel?!? I shoot holes in the side of ships and the water stays outside?!? Agh! Although some things were fun, the oil rig missions were fun, there was an awesome gun for sniping if I recall correctly. Nothing like sneaking up to the top level (5th level?) of an oil rig and raining death down on anything that moves. But the game still pissed me off. Apocalypse was a different game altogether. After all these years no one seems able to recapture that original X-com magic. Sad, but I guess that's why it's a classic. Anyhow, back to lurk mode.
  12. While Nine inch Nails does trend towards metal sometimes, it's always be more of an industrial band. This release especially more so than some of the ones before. So if you are looking for a old school heavy metal headbanging album, I think you might be disappointed. Having said that however, I think it's an awesome album. Easily the best album for me from Trent since Pretty Hate Machine. (I'd have Broken at #2 if we're counting all releases) BTW, Graham, if you are looking for a more heavy, close to metal sound, Broken might be the place to start.
  13. A little bit off the "Who's the 100" thread, but having just finished my Hi-Nu this Friday, I can't help but be a little disappointed. The Nu and the Hi-Nu are two of my all time favorite MS's, but I really felt some things were lacking. The Funnels are the source of my main frustration now, as their connection-point to the body is weak and they fall off with the slightest movement (I'll have to put pegs in there to help them stay on I guess). The clear plastic mounts for them are too weak to support the weight as well. So if you do mount them in flight on the stand, they'll last for about a day so so before the start to droop, and after 48 hours I have two that are almost touching the ground. Again, no big problem, as I can get sturdier replacements, but still, I really feel like why should I have to. The big problem though was the kit was just not that much fun to build. Maybe it's because I was just in a bad funk, or, more likely, it has to do with it coming right after I built the Mk II ver 2. Now that was a fun kit! Looking back at how the old Mk. II was built, I was in constant amazement at how much it had improved. I didn't feel that at all with the Hi-Nu. Don't get me wrong, there are improvements over the regular Nu, but it just didn't do it. In a way, I really wish they would have made the PG Nu first, as all the MG kit ver 2.0's that have come after the PG have had significant improvements over the original MG. *sigh* just venting I guess, as I would by it again anyhow. Still... Hope you guys feel different.
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