JsARCLIGHT

Old Genie bit it on October 24, 1991... some of his ashes where put into a small capsule and shot into orbit for six years... after which they burned up returning to earth from their deteriorating orbit... apparently along with Star Trek. After his death, many people said that Star Trek "changed" as he was sort of the "driving and controlling force" behind all angles of the property and when his wife got ahold of the rights she pretty much sold them all out like Krusty the Klown. Gene's death spelled the jump in crazy commercialism of Star Trek and the beginning of the end of the property... after all, what would Macross be without Kawamori or Star Wars without King George? Just another mass market cash cow that lost it's soul and eventually withers and dies.

I'd like to but there might be Gundam brand children reading this Gundam thread and my excessive Gundam swearing and threats against Gundam's life might make their ears burn off the sides of their little Gundam heads... ... now I'm going to calm down and go beat up that guy in the Gundam Footy Pajamas that just ran past my now empty office with my official Gundam brand fanboy beating pipe...

It's too late, Star Trek is circling the bowl and no one wants to put their hand in to stop it from going down. IMHO Star Trek died with Gene Roddenberry, everything that has come after has been just the milk of the cash cow. Put a fork in it, it's done.

I think those Gundam DVDs would get clogged in the Gundam Toilet's Gundam U neck and you'd have to use your Gundam Plunger and Gundam Toilet Duck to get them free... ... failing that you call the Gundam Plumber who is UC certified... ... then shoot yourself in the head with Gundam approved ammo out of your functioning RX-78 rifle...

I have always wanted to see a grittier Macross "Side Story" that parallels the first SDF Macross. Perhaps featuring a "nobody" flight group like Blue Squadron or something, a bunch of fresh out of flight school green pilots who fight through the trip back to earth from the botched space fold. This series should be more true to the story of war and loss than the previous sugar coated Macross stories... I would actually like to see the entire "Blue Squadron" get wiped out in the final battle with the Badolza fleet. It would put a lot more importance on the original SDF Macross if we got to see the other people that flew with the "aces" and never made it home. It would go great lengths to putting a more human emotional face on Macross rather than the outrageous circus act it normally is. Kawamori and his gang tried to insert a lot of anti-war sentiment in the shows but it always comes off as stupid or goofy. I would also like to see more "love story" elements than just one "triangle" per show... perhaps the new show could involve the love stories of all the pilots... and how their partners feel when they get told "Tommy never came back from patrol".

Gundam shoes? Meh... I guess this means that Gundam has officially marketed their name to everything. What's next, Gundam breakfast cereal? Gundam toilet paper? Gundam toilet? Fanboys will buy anything... at least they will give the school bullies something to aim the dodgeballs at in gym class.

I have a full set. They are 10 times better than the craptacular VF-1 super un-poseables. If you are Mospeada fan then these guys are a nice addition to your collection. For the record they are not that heavy and standard USPS shipping on them should be less than 6 bucks... anyone charging you more than that is adding weight to the package.

I find that wierd as I tried to register with my AOL account (which had no spam controls active) and it never received the confirmation email but I started a hotmail account and it came in right away... I'm thinking that the problem may be a mixture of things.

I know I have pic of that somewhere at home... give me time.

Cosplayers are just into exhibitionism... Why do I drive a loud, guady gold muscle car? Because it screams "look at me, peasants and get the f**k out of my way while you do it!" I only dress up on holloween, but if I where drunk enough I'd go cosplay... It can't be any worse than my "Evil Jesus" costume from a few years back (for those with poor imaginations I dressed in a black robe with a red sash, had a cigar in my mouth, a UZI in my hands and a poor attitude about things... to top it all off my fiancee wore a black and red "naughty french maid" ourfit, carried an M4 and went as my "hench wench"... classic)

Someone here hasn't seen Macross 7 yet... And if Macross 7 is any indication of what "popularizing" Macross will produce then I have a feeling my old friend the clock tower will be getting a lot of visitswith my other old friend, PSG-1.

Hey, I have that bumper sticker on my rifle case! ... no one gets the humor in it... Oh and Bsu, it's from a Duckman episode right?... which one I can't recall as I didn't watch much Duckman...

I don't know, a card theif getting tagged in the CNS with a 5.56 round and blood spraying all over the stolen cards would have been a hoot... and just a weeeeeee bit over their budget.

Kids? Those guys looked a little too old to be playing collectable cards and airsoft... but ironically they are just old enough to be doing those things if they are still living at home in mom's basement like it appears from that garage scene. ... they need to move up to big boy Playboy playing cards and real guns like the rest of us!

I had the same issue when I first tried to register, I registered as JsARCLIGHT and the confirmation email went off into the ether and never arrived at my mail box. I found out that no emails from this site show up at my AOL account no matter what I do (and my AOL email box has no spam controls turned on that would block them)... which meant my account on here was in perminent limbo because you must register the first email address you give it or it will never leave the "registering" or "validating" mode. So what I had to do was start up a new hotmail account and make a new registration called JsARCLIGHT II... and the registration email for that one came in so I used that account to PM Shawn on here about my problem. Shawn then had the ability to activate my stalled JsARCLIGHT account and delete the alternate one. He did it in like ten seconds. Just PM Shawn, I'm sure he can work it out for you.

Feh, eco terrorists... "They pull a eco-friendly hemp protest sign, you pull a gun... They send one of yours to the junkyard, you send one of them to the morgue. That's the Chicago way."

No army is undefeatable and no soldier is "ultimate", they all have weaknesses. The flaw in the Zentradi design is their lack of culture and their shock when exposed to it. In my book that is one huge freaking weakness... but then again they are a special trooper designed to fight a special enemy: the Supervision Army. I bet if the Zentradi where designed to fight Protoculture they would have been made differently with alternate strengths and weaknesses. ... and in the end the Zentradi had the end all and be all of a seemingly undefeatable army: numbers. If they just didn't freak out when they heard a small japanese girl sing then the macross and earth would have just been another grease stain on their shirt.

Like AgentONE said, everyone has someone better than them. Just because Milia was bested by Max to me doesn't mean bupkis... she got beat by one person... think about the thousands of other people she killed before getting "bested" by Max... notice that she got "bested" not beat, if Max had truly beat her she'd be dead. Same goes for Kamjin, he fought Hikaru to a tie one time... they both got shot up and each lost an arm... but both survived to fight another day. If anything, this argument can prove that Misa in fact beat Hikaru with that hail of missles from the Daedelus so then would that make her superior to Hikaru? And Breetai pretty much shook off Max fairly easily before kicking the bajesus out of Hikaru, so then does that mean Breetai is better than both of them? It all boils down to one thing: in war there are no winners, just survivors. The "aces" as they can be called are the top of the food chain, they survive by their skills... but as Roy Focker so elegantly proves, even the mighty can fall no matter how good they are. Plus, what kind of story can you have if the protagonists are always getting killed by their enemies?

Wow, nice job. Combining my two toy loves: Macross and 12" GI Joe dolls... sweet.

I was off yesterday and caught it. At best it is Samurai Pizza Cats Gundam... at worst it is a big bowl of suck. In any event I'm glad it's on during the day so I won't accidentally channel surf into it and suffer the horrible pain again.

Yikes... this has gone on even longer? I went back and rewatched Macross Pluss this holiday weekend and Keith's "play by play" is accurate, Guld busts in on Isamu and Myung, decks Isamu, bullies up on Myung and then freaks out. No rape. However, I can also somewhat agree with Roy now that the scene was in fact presented in such a loose and "open to interpretation" manner that if you squint your mind hard enough (and forget certain parts of the story) you could actually believe it had the possibility of becoming a rape. But in all likelyhood if you gave that exact same sequence to a jury to convict Guld of rape they'd let him walk in a heartbeat. Guld is a greedy emotional child who lashes out at people at lot in the length of the story, look at how many times he starts a fist fight with Isamu... it is very easy to see him in his younger years doing the exact same thing: solving his problems with his fists. And in response to some other comments in this thread: you cannot judge a culture or society by it's fringe elements. All american teens are not obsessed with sex and all japanese teens are not into indescriminant casual sex, only a very small minority of them are. The whole of Japanese society is very repressed, both emotionally and sexually and that sort of repression generates some very sick fetish materials like the previously discussed "rape porno". But that, again, is a generalization based on a minority within a whole. In the end, all cultures frown on rape in both social and legal terms.

I'm guessing the numbnuts in the civic most likely did not have any insurance, had a bunch of tickets on his or her license or possibly was drunk out of their skull... All in all Vostok I'd be glad to be alive with a battle scar than think about what might have happened if his steering pinions had buckled at that speed. we could be talking to you in the hostpital right now. On the flip side of the coin this anus needs to be shot. There was a time in america when common courtesy and politeness ruled the roads and if someone clipped you they would pull over and exchange information... nowadays you get the finger while they speed off. Makes a man want to load up that shotgun, put on some football pads and bring law and order to the streets.

My guess is that it simply is a matter of different air tactics. Smaller fighters are much more nimble and manuverable than big ones but the big fighters tend to have much more power and can attain faster speeds and have much larger areas of operation. Then again there is the old addage: most technology shrinks with age. The more streamlined and refined something gets, the smaller it gets. Look at cars, they went from being small and clunky to huge and powerful then to small and powerful Valks on the other hand have had changing roles... the original VF-1 series was kind of a ship based short-range interceptor whereas the new VF-19 and VF-22 are long range interdiction fighters designed to fold into enemy space and "take the fight to them", thus they had to be larger. Form follows function, find the function and it will always dictate the form.

the image may have saved itself as an .art or .bmp file accidentally and if you gave it a .jpg tail then it's encoding might be messed up. If you have an art program like draw or photoshop open it in there and save it out as a new .jpg file. Make sure you don't use any weird encoding or it might not be usable. Edit: if you PM me with the whereabouts of the image I'll get it over here for you.

1. Find that avatar 2. Go to a spot on the boards where the av is shown full size 3. Right click on the image and select "Save Picture As" 4. Save the image to your hard drive, name it appropriately (and make sure you save it as a .jpg or .gif or other usable format) 5. Go to your avatar settings on MW and upload the image from your HD as the new avatar.