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  1. aurance
    Hah. Yes, for the second time, based solely on the initial question “bang for the buck,” depends on how much buck and what you want the bang to be.
  2. aurance
    Exactly. This isn’t stellar writing. But that’s one of the reasons why we don’t take it as real life with logical consequences. So ignoring writing intent and just trying to extrapolate without it leads to not a whole lot more than cliched pot shots and then in a circle right back to “it’s bad writing”.
  3. aurance
    Amusingly this kind of narrative intention vs exacting extrapolation of on-screen events always reminds me of what some people say about The Return of the Jedi, that the Rebels are careless a-holes who blew up a moon in low orbit of Ewok’s home, causing them all to die. No, guys, Rebels are heroes and Ewoks are fine, because RotJ was not written as a holocaust drama, just as Delta was not written as a slapstick satire of corporate ineptitude.
  4. aurance
    I don’t agree with this, because: 1) they are not the same writers, and 2) even still, writing quality and attention to detail can depend largely depend on pressure, motivation, and payment. It’s fun to extrapolate “facts” based on sloppy writing but at some level of that the answers become arbitrary and make less and less sense.
  5. aurance
    Again, all of that is contingent on price and job. Also, putting aside the pretty obvious real world narrative intentions that ameliorate your admittedly comical comparison, Xaos simply cannot exist for long as a company if they continuously suck at everything in the way that you imply. Regardless of how you (we) feel about it Delta wasn’t written to be a farce, and Xaos is supposed to take the role of cool heroes in an action anime and presumably there’s stuff behind the scenes to justify that tone. Funny list though.
  6. aurance
    That would depend on the job, and perhaps more importantly what their pay rate is.
  7. aurance
    Duct tape
  8. aurance
    If anyone’s seen Delta movie 2, do you know what the Kairos AX’s thermometer cannon does compared to, say, its gunpod?
  9. aurance
    Yep. My point being if you had the tech to create an exact duplicate of yourself down to age, you’d most likely be able to generate any age you want to give yourself younger bodies, another sci-fi trope. Macross skips that though, which is interesting. Just big or small.
  10. aurance
    I can tell you as a former (cancer) molecular biologist that what’s happening in micloning isn’t cloning in any modern sense. I don’t think you can match the age of one body to another by telomere length (assuming this is causative and not just a marker of biological age, which is not at all certain) in all cells without some sort of incredibly high resolution magi-tech scanning and printing, and at that point I would assume this tech could make your other host body whatever age you want. So yeah, this is pretty anime fantasy.
  11. aurance
    This overlapping still seems to appear sometimes as if the ship is traveling through some hyperspace-like medium, not a Battlestar Galactica style transposition, which is what I would more expect it to be from your description. (Mac Plus Isamu with fold booster, Sheryl's ship in MacFront, etc)
  12. aurance
    You just remove two screws on the feet and it comes apart, that’s all. No nasty surprises.
  13. aurance
    I opened it up. It’s interesting, the ball joint is metal but the socket has plastic lining that presumably helps with the grip and friction. The Pledge should adhere to the plastic bits so hopefully it’ll go smoothly.
  14. aurance
    Yeah this is just Pledge, I have a big bottle of the stuff and it works well (for plastic joints anyway). I was wondering if anyone had any experience disassembling the feet and any potential issues. I guess I'll just try it.
  15. aurance
    Has anyone tried disassembling VF-25 / 29 / 30 / 31 ankles to tighten up the ball joints? They’re okay but a bit more loose than I would prefer, making balancing tricky. Any tips?
  16. aurance
    Public shoutout to pengbuzz again… second time you’ve rescued my valks from a sad life of staring at the wall in shame. 😝😝 Thank you for your craftsmanship and good humor!
  17. aurance
    Yes. All I’m saying is that the transformation does not plausibly seem to be a requirement of the power rerouting (at least any longer) per se, rather that the rerouting and transformation happen as a necessity of those other advantages that Seto mentioned, for both capital ships and fighters.
  18. aurance
    That doesn’t sound right. Presumably the ships could redirect power at will regardless of shape (unlike SDF-1 where the actual machinery was damaged/missing). Seto’s answers seem much more plausible.
  19. aurance
    Yep, the transformation of all of those are almost identical. (AX has flip out arm covers that the others don’t.) So it’s pretty much personal preference.
  20. aurance
    I wonder if this has drones or missiles in the leg bays. Presumably missiles because no charger? Could be wrong.
  21. aurance
    You’re a true craftsman!
  22. aurance
    You’re the best pengbuzz 🎉
  23. aurance
    And then on Xmas he’ll show up at each one of our houses and replace all our furniture with YF-21 boxes
  24. aurance
    I’m excited to get a new -29 with all the structural improvements to the toy.
  25. aurance
    Pics…
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