Freiflug88

It's generally assumed that most Macross-class ships can recreate the Omni-directional barrier system, but since these ships were in the frontline among friendly ships and energy is directed toward charging the cannons, shields would both lose priority and be too dangerous to use. The only viable substitute is the Pin-Point Barrier System.

I was thinking why not just attach a "Super Pack" upgrade that supplies an auxiliary reactor to power the barrier system while the main reactors powers the beam cannon? I mean its funny that the UN Spacy has no issue mass producing "Super Packs" with reactor engines for Valkyrie cannon fodder, but yet they never seem to consider up-scaling Super Pack to upgrade their expensive Macross-Class ships.

Kamikaze attacks.or not. I always blamed the UN Spacey for things like:

- positioning the majority of their precious artillery ships out in the front-lines in the first plalce

- lack of decent interceptor craft and anit-fighter flack guns

- lack of any barrier system to protect Macross cannons

Dunno, Mikimoto added some new fanservice scenes to Macross the First and those were pretty impressive, the new Minmay is hot. Also, if we only had a preference for classic chracters designs, that would assume the quality of fanservice completely depends on artwork and not writing.

I said "I think alot of us fans just really love Haruhiko Mikmoto's artwork over Risa Ebata's.Hence we tend to defend fanservice with the classic Mikimoto charaters." Nothing about preferring classic character designs over Mikimoto's new artwork in Macross the First.

. Are lame pantsu-jokes for example on the same level as scenes with functional nudity?

No, but not every anime production can depicting the same level of graphic nudity. Just look at how the Frontier movies have more nudity then the entire TV show. Also I think when anime shows only really use pantsu jokes and such only as a lame attempt to compensate for the lack of nudity. .

It was all over for robot anime when the first breast missile was fired in anger.

What are you only into masculine mecha with phallic weaponry or something?

Orbital Zentradi bombardments aren't a problem for me. My tinfoil hat deflects all forms of alien beam weapons.

IMO Macross II works best as an alternate universe where the NUNS didn't follow Global's orders to colonize other worlds. After all its amusing to see how the UN spacey has taken the Zentradi fleet mentality and gone beam cannon crazy at the expense of basic space tactics.

Also is it me or was the UN Spacey fleet actually capable of out-gunning the entire Marduk fleet in a straight up firefight? Cause it looks to me like the UN Spacey had no problem against the Marduk fleet until their main force of Macross Cannons and their flagship Gloria were outflanked and swarmed by hordes of battle pods and mecha.

Neither, both sides were probably funded by evil off-shore bankers.

So personally I would just bunker down into hiding until December 21,2012... then go into space with the returning Mayan space gods

My two cents:

1. I think alot of us fans just really love Haruhiko Mikmoto's artwork over Risa Ebata's. Hence we tend to defend fanservice with the classic Mikimoto charaters in Macross and Gunbuster as "more tastiful" then Frontier's as just another sign of our favoritism IMHO. Not that their is anything wrong with that.

2. Though it would be very in charater. Showing Sheryl Nome strutting around topless in almost every other appearance like Jung would probably scare away alot of the mainstream female fans the new franchise was aiming to acquire.

As for nudity in anime, I do have to wonder if:

1: There aren't a bunch of prudes & women hiding in these forums.

2: Why anyone can find depictions of war/killing ok, but sex not ok.

Didn't the Zendrati-Meltrandi conflict teach you anything? Its always the most sexually repressed and divided cultures that turn in the most violent ones.

Granted modern society has not started segregating genders into separate species...yet. But unfortunately modern society does have an obsession with butchering the majority of genitals in the name of hygienic BS. Which naturally has created a lot of of violent sexually frustrated males and females...

If your interested in playing ME3 multiplayer though then now is actually a good time to buy since the new price has already been lowered from $60-> $40. Otherwise you will probably have to wait until ME3 Muitlplaying starts to die off before they start lowering the price again.

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Whoops never even noticed...

First Four Minutes trailer. NSFW.

Geth SMG is is my new favorite machine gun. As a mini reloadable Geth spitfire it has completely replaced my Revenant. With level 3 ammo and SMG upgrades I have used to mow down "gold" Atlases, Brutes, and Geth Primes on a single clip. Even without any upgrades though its perfect for "shell shocking" Phantom\Geth Hunters when they get too close to comfortably snipe.

The Jusitar bubble can also be used offensively as a trap. Enemies that walk in the bubble take 10% more damage by default. Fully upgraded it will cast warp on them and become biotic detonate-able.

Now if only they would make a Tali figure with a detachable helmet...

Just had to share this hilarious comic about Aliens and Avatar

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/aliens_avatar

... why are we loosing the war against the Reapers again?

Cause Shepard never says things like...

"We will win if we just nuke all the Reapers, in their laser eyes, from orbit"

"Gee the Crucible looks like it fits onto the Citadel. I wonder if the two are related..."

"EDI use the Omega 4 relay protocol data and that Reaper IFF we collected to re-program all Mass Relay traffic with Reaper IFFs into that blackhole."

""Ah yes, Councilors. I have dismissed your claims of authority. I will be leading the galaxy to victory as supreme dictator."

"Illusive man, clone a few billion of me and use the salvaged collector base to make me a "Shepard Reaper"... I'll need it for a rock'em sock'em match against Harbinger.

"Garrus and a few Turian commandos will disguise themselves as Marauders use the teleportation tower behind enemy lines completely undetected and open the Citdel arms for us... In the mean time I will help Tali with calibrations in her environ-su... I mean uh engineering bay workspace"

Sorry, was a little busy lately to reply. Basically, my feel is that if you have a Black Widow unlocked, you don't really need a Revenant backup. While sniping CD is not a big issue, CD from objective capping/ medic work is substantial if you pack two heavies.

Was tooling around with the new Batarian Soldier. Quite an interesting build, Melee specialist that's not a Krogan. Nasty Blades, if evolved right.

Yeah the Revenant was too heavy to be practical. Still its fun to mow down enemies with. Especially since most foes turn helplessly paralyzed under the repeated machine gun fire.

Haven't gotten the Batarian yet, but I did get the Geth inflitator. The geth are funt "glass cannons" to play as with a Nova-like melee attack and predator vision that leaves shield strength at 50%.

I am hoping to unlock the Asari Justicar soon though because the bubble barrier ability is really handy for creating a safe zone during Objectives.

Hikaru is a great guy, but for that purpose dump him and replace with Millia.

NO!

1. I am the director and this is my imaginary fan fiction thingamajig.

2. Milia wasn't even on the Megaroad

3, Suggestion noted. Replacing Hikaru with Claudia for threesome scene.

Wow. That's totally unexpected. Any idea how those 2 being in the same room came about?

http://www.myspace.com/mariiijima/photos/444313

Personally if I were Kawamori I would just do a series of "I am on the Megaroad" mockumentary videos produced within the next Macross franchise, but magically sold to real life otaku for a few hundred dollars a piece.

...and it would actually be worth every penny, because it would have the Minmay, Misa, Mecha, and fan fic porn those weirdo Macross fans want to masturabate to..

Like:

- A Hikaru, Misa, Minmay threesome fully animated as a hentai

- Misa/Minmay yuri love scene synced to VF-X-4 combat

- and last, but not least Mimay sending her love child Basara off in a rocket like Kal-El. With the Robotech "superman rip-off" theme of all things playing as background music.

Whoops turns out I forget to actually install the DLC in the first place...

I've fought on Hydra already. It's quite open, quite good for snipers. Conder not yet, but by repute the hacking objective in one particular spot is quite messy.

I'll have to try them out it with my crazy new infiltrator build: Revenant machine gun + Black widow. Recharge rate is slow, but it gives me enough flying lead to pulverize anything near or far.

Do note you still have to unlock the new stuff through in-game purchases. Only the maps are immediately available.

What new maps I have been playing around with random location games and the galaxy map, and all I get are the same old maps.

that may be... but ME3 insanity is definitely easier than ME2's insanity. Fired up ME2 and started a second tour with my Shep... I think I died more times in that first real mission where you run into Tali than I did in my entire ME3 play through.

I think its cause ME3 has:

- faster recharge times if you pack light

- customizable weapons

- More abundant ammo

- ducking and diving to cover is easier

- Better squad AI that can duck for cover without micromanagement

New DLC Patch is out for free with new weapons and goodies for multiplayer. Still no sign of a rumored DLC ending.

Some how I dont like Mumra being so weak against the sword of omens and spirit stone especially when he is at his fortress.

I could be wrong, but I don't believe the fortress itself was ever a source of evil power for Mumra. In the orignial series Mummra seemed to channeled the power of the "ancient spirits of evil" though the 4 evil looking statues that surrounded his purple Lazurus pit.

I'm not surrprised Mum-Rah was week this episode, something seems to be up with him lately, hence the need to recruit more brutal generals. Hopefully this is something that will be addressed in future episodes.

Probably has to do with the fact that it was almost sunrise when Lion-O and Mummra fought. Its well known that Mumra's can't withstand direct sunlight in his true form(s), so perhaps Mumra gets weaker in the daytime.

Alien 3 is one giant headache. There were a lot of people left with questions after viewing it.

How did the egg get on the Sulaco? Its clear that its not the dropship its on, and the queen didn't have time to go anywhere.

How can one facehugger impregnate multiple hosts?

I don't know if its true, but I heard that in the Alien novels Carter, the Weyland exec, hid enough eggs on the Solco to infect everyone except himself. Since this never happened in the movie version it created the huge discontinuity when they adapted Alien 3 to film.

IMO Macross Frontier shed a lot of its old Macross look when they replaced Haruhiko Mikimoto with Risa Ebata. Her artwork is great, but naturally the Gravion Zwei influence doesn't exactly carry the nostalgia of Mikimoto's old Macross works.

i dunno, that worked for DYRL :3

I believe your CDX podcast of Macross Zero/Frontier (can't remember which exactly) said it best that Kawamori is a "George Lucas of anime" that works best as a co-director.

Wanted to share this youtube video by radio host Alex Jones on his take on Prometheus. Its an interesting video if your into secret societies, Mystery religions, the illumanti etc.