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So back to our mysterious gundam, guess it likely is the next providence, so that should go to Rey, and Luna takes the Impulse. So now everyone has a gundam.

ah ha, so that's rather like command and conquer generals when you play the GLA.

You have that upgrade for angry mob, and when you get it, the voice over says: "AK-47 for everyone" followed by a cheer.

It's kind of similar here: "Gundams for everybody."

No, no, that's not true.

Repeat after me.... Dullindal GOOOOOD. He is just being outpolitiked by his enemies.... blame the liberal press, those bastards.

I agree with Focker.... the jedis are a bunch of snobs.... At least most of the masters. Obi-wan was a bit better in terms of how he acted toward others. My only regret is that no one sliced up Yoda in the end... he got a dose of humility from palpy, and he was still acting like a snob in the end.

Palpy was a little overboard, but then I just think of him as a dirty old man that couldn't get any and so decided to go on a power trip instead. See, if he only had regular access to the playboy channel while he was young, he wouldn't have turned out this way. How sad.

P.S. yes I'm a sith lord, but that's ok, I advocate playboy channel for everyone as a means of destroying the jedi rather than all this annoying mechanisation that Palpy likes so much.

heh heh, except Kiefer's last line made up for the pain of watch Mr. How do I save my own ass.

The writing seem to be on an up and down course these days. Last week good, this week, not so good.... and dammit, i missed the preview. I know old scoop and squat will be back, but I hope they don't make it too improbable.

May be Palmer is the speaker of the house.

But remember what happened to Mike the last time they tried a in house coup?

The Meer one doesn't work as well, but the Shinn one is hilarious.

As for 27

Guess this does indeed cast some solid doubt on the Chairman finally.

I'm still rooting for the chairman. From his view, some evil little bitch has stolen a ZAFT shuttle, and her accomplice did attacked a ZAFT base creating casaulties (to be included later). ZAFT must therefore hunt down the imposter Lacus (after all, if he can create an imposter, why can't anyone else, in fact, since he hasn't heard from the real Lacus for so long, how does he know she is still alive even? In fact, the one on that Orb beach house was rumored to be a fake in the first place, hence the order to assassinate.)

Heh heh, ok, enough twisted logic

Azrael,

That image on the bottom of your last post just seem so... not sure if it's right or wrong....

I didn't know GSD had turned Hentai....

You forgot the best line of the night.

Jack: "oh, here is something for the pain."

BAM, right in the noggin.

Graham, can you let us know about what it's like on the inside? I'm all for new Macross art.

anyone else want to strangle that bee-otch that gave up the football? 

jack did say, they were terrorists, that the football has complete access to all the nuclear devices in the US, and that they would be killed if they were found no matter what.  yet the bitch gives up the football?    i hate stupid amercian bitches.    if i were jack, i would've put one between the eyes and called it day.

It you guys notice the Pages that made up the Play Book were Laminated it wouldnt have gone up in smoke all that easily maybe the Control board would have been smashed but thats neither here nor there.

You know, I have to wonder if the football would contain a anti-tamper self destruct. It would seem logical given its utter importance. Punch in the code wrong twice, and big KABOOM.

That would've been hilarious. Jack would've told camper to try the code again and again, and KABOOM. They die, no codes, and Imhotep goes home mad. But then, that would be too obvious, and Imhotep would've had to move onto plan 7 or 8 of the day.

As for Behrooz... who was that again? I see him taking on the role of Marie in season 2, all but forgotten probably until the very last episode.

Oh man, how the heck do I get a copy of this. I wonder if I can order it on Japan Amazon.com.

Hmm....... More UC Mobile Suits blue Gouf, Rick-Dom and New Justice looks like a VF-1 in fighter mode with the Gunpod under it. Stellar is now Four, so whats next a new Sazabi with Gill as the pilot

Sazabi will have Athrun as pilot... that's obvious.

The good and bad thing about Seed is that they seem to stop doing their own unique MS at all. It's now all a rehash of UC series, but fortunately for them, they have a long list of MS they can rip off without ever coming up with another MS of their own.

Probably saves Bandai money as they can just use their older modeling molds. heh heh

Nice as that scene is, I would prefer some more variety, through in a few naked Starbucks and Sixes and we got ourselves a party, sorry guys, all for me, lol.

ewwww, don't say naked Starbucks, it's just wrong to want to see Dirk Benedict naked.

Scary.... although if it was Sixes, just let me know how many times and how many ways humanity need to be betrayed.

Priceless but you know Lucas is going to try to appeal to mass audiences, he won't torture the beloved JarJar.

yeah, but how hard would it be to digitally add in Jar Jar to the fight scene between Yoda and the Emperor. Both of them would pick up Jar Jar and throw him and the other guy... or, Jar Jar is sitting in one of those senate booth thingies as he is mercilessly thrown at the emperior by Yoda.

Yoda thinks: "you dumbass prick alien, this is for getting Palpatine the frigging clone army in the first place... you froggy a-hole."

I wish Lucas could do a little fan service by putting in Jar Jar and then having either Vader or the Emperor choke him until stuff comes gushing out of his eyeballs. I bet you'd get a massive cheer if that were put on screens.

Mes can't breathe, mes can't breath.... POP.

whoever suggested Joe's Shanghai place got the name wrong, it's joe's ginger, but he was dead on about the quality of the food. the dumplings are the best that I've tasted in the U.S.

Definitely the place to go for quality Chinese food.

Did they change the name? I know it used to be called Joe's Shanghai a couple years back, and that's what my Zagat calls it. However, it has been a couple years....

it's only a name... it was in the right place, and the food was good. That's all I cared about. I didn't have a quality map of NYC, so stumbled around China town for 20 minutes looking for it. But the good food more than made up for the time I spent looking.

Definitely recommend the place.

whoever suggested Joe's Shanghai place got the name wrong, it's joe's ginger, but he was dead on about the quality of the food. the dumplings are the best that I've tasted in the U.S.

Definitely the place to go for quality Chinese food.

as much as I like to say that anything is possible.  This is a bit too much...  F-117 could've done better dropping bombs on the playboy mansion.  At least that would've pissed off every ordinary American.

Now, had Phoenix been a test version of the F-22, or even the YF-23, then I'd have believed it, and gave this episode props for being original.

I think "Phoenix" was maybe just a call sign, since the aircraft was properly identified as an F-117 this episode. Stealing an F/A-22 from Edwards would have been more believable, but they probably didn't have the right stock footage to use.

I know the call sign part... but it's just so sad, the Raptor would've been a better choice. Nighthawks were made for dropping bombs....

Heck, I would've settled for an F-15 used to escort the president. heh heh

as much as I like to say that anything is possible. This is a bit too much... F-117 could've done better dropping bombs on the playboy mansion. At least that would've pissed off every ordinary American.

Now, had Phoenix been a test version of the F-22, or even the YF-23, then I'd have believed it, and gave this episode props for being original.

OK enough of the teenage girls already. Who's got some of Capt. Ramius?

Oooh, very nice, it's obvious she isn't a natural... ha ha.

Economically feasible?  What does that mean?  Are you saying Orb has a superior economy compared to ZAFT and EA because the latter two do not mass produce transformable MS?  In other words, define the words economically feasible in the context of been able to produce transformable MS compared in relation to ZAFT and EA not mass producing them.

Transformable MS almost never reach mass production due to the costs of the extra mechanisms required for the transformation. Both manufacturing it, and supplying maintenance to it.

Orb, however, has a mass-produced transforming mobilesuit in addition to its Astray units. This suggests that they have superior manufacturing facilities that allow for the manufacture of transforming MS without excessive rises in costs per unit.

Faita, thanks for putting things in such a nice form. You are looking at it from a point of view of practical usage versus functionality. Kind of like having an expensive multirole aircraft capable of bombing and dogfights vs cheaper airplanes designed either specifically for dogfights or for bombing.

Phoenix, in addition to that concept, the issue is also a matter of economics. Superior manufacturing and maintanence capability might in turn mean significantly more expensive and hence not easily mass produced. The problem is you have no idea the expense involved in producing a Murasame vs a Windam.

As already pointed out, in terms of capabilities, a Windam is not too far different from a Murasame, slightly different roles, but similar capabilities. But if a Windam costs half as much to maintain and to service, then Orb's manufacturing ability is suddenly awfully pathetic. At best, you can say you don't know that Orb has superior manufacturing and you don't know the industrial capabilties of EA/PLANT. But you can't jump to the conclusion Orb has superior tech based on the fact they've mass produced Murasame. Keep in mind, they probably don't have the same number of Murasame as EA has Windams or ZAFT has Zakus.

Not nessesarily. The Alliance doesn't need Orb, but it would be an excellent asset, and having it could certainly make life easier. The Alliance doesn't need Orb's resources it wants Orb's resource. And if they can't get it then taking it out would make life easier as well by eliminating a potential threat and denying that resource to the enemy.

They do not contradict and yes you can have both ways. See going after Orb is a win win situation for the Alliance. Orb joins the Alliance, Alliance wins. Orb refuses and gets crushed again, Alliance wins.

We agree that it may be an asset, as in it doesn't hurt to have another ally. But, it's a different track you take depending on whether you get them through diplomacy (getting their assets without losing your own) or getting them through warfare.

The objectives are different:

If you want to have the asset by force, you plan the battle in a way to preserve the asset. It incurs losses on your assault force because you have to physically take and hold an objective.

If you want to take it out, you can stand off bombard without encroachment and having to fight through all the defenses. i.e. reduce losses. If you want to put it in context. They could use nukes. That will wipe out Orb without any losses at all on the part of their conventional military.

It's fundamentally contradictory objectives due to the potential losses in troops. What this means is you have to carefully quantify and analyze the risk vs reward options for launching a full scale invasion.

The middle ground doesn't exist. You can't say, well, we'll try to take it by force, but if it doesn't work, then we'll blow it up. Because at that point, you would've already lost troops trying to take it. What you propose would be militarily wasteful and insane especially when you have the option of blowing it up without losing any conventional forces in the first place.

And the kicker here is, you have no idea how much troops EA would lose in an assault during the GSD time frame. At this point, you would consider EA and ZAFT to be equal. If it turns out you lose an unacceptable amount of conventional forces, then you suddenly put yourself vs your main enemy.

Quick, what's vital in the LA region that a pair of 2000 lb bombs can wreck?

The Playboy Mansion?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

How dare the Mummy strike at the true source of America's greatness... the monthly playmates.

9:17 PM: Fake Pilot:  The jet’s OK to fly…

Chief: What was wrong with it?

Fake Pilot: The BP8 was broken, had to get a replacement.

This just made my day!

So? Does anyone thick that this Stealth Fighter (or is it a Bomber) will be able to go up against AF-1?

I wonder what the HUGE TWIST is gonna be. Another mole?

Wait a minute, if we keep with military realism here. It means a ramming mission for the F-117. F-117 don't carry air to air ordanance. They call it a stealth fighter but it's actually a tactical bomber.

Although you almost think an F-15 with guns and missiles would do better against AF1. But if you'd ram anyway, it doesn't matter.

But may be that's just a big decoy. May be the F-117 is carrying bombs, and they're going to bomb some place... Quick, what's vital in the LA region that a pair of 2000 lb bombs can wreck?

Now where did I say the Murasame was more advanced than the ZAKUs or Windams? I said, the Murasames must be economically feasible otherwise ORB won't have them. EA and ZAFT don't have mass-produced transformable MSs, so that must mean something about the Murasame. (Thank you DarkPhoenix, nice to know some else is paying attention)

So, what you just said is you have no clue what advantage Orb has because of the ability to produce transformable MS. i.e. it can transform, therefore Orb must hold some advantage or it must mean something. But you have no idea what it means. But it must be an advantage because ZAFT and EA don't mass produce transformable MS. Or are you saying it's not an advantage at all to be able to mass produce transformable MS?

Since you are ruling out that Murasames are superior. We can close down that one avenue then. Or did you not mean that? Again. Clarify... superior or not compared to Zakus and Windams?

Economically feasible? What does that mean? Are you saying Orb has a superior economy compared to ZAFT and EA because the latter two do not mass produce transformable MS? In other words, define the words economically feasible in the context of been able to produce transformable MS compared in relation to ZAFT and EA not mass producing them.