justvinnie

Of course... if they really do believe they own the movie rights... they shouldn't have a problem forcing BW to hand them over right?

Nope. Just because you own the copyright to something, that doesn't mean you can force someone else to give you access to their copy of it, even if that's the master copy.

But I seem to recall posting a few pages back that the masters of DYRL appear to have been assigned to Tatsunoko. That's based on a machine translation of a court case, though, so I may have been mistaken.

, sorry, that was supposed to be sarcasm...

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Gas is still cheap. Milk and even bottle water costs more than a gallon of gas. People overseas pay almost the same for one liter than we do for a gallon. One gallon is like 3.8 liters. Do the math.

Water is the primary emission from a internal combustion engine? Say what? There are some water vapors but carbon dioxide is the main result. The water you see spitting out of the exhaust in the mornings is result of condensation in the exhaust.

High gas prices is good for a lot of people who work in oil related industries but bad for everyone else. Low gas prices also prevent alternative fuels and more efficient cars from being developed.

Also, one of the biggest problems with alternative fuel is not the technology but the delivery system. There is a huge oil pipeline infrastructure that can't just be switched over to something else.

Actually, the combustion of any organic compound generates CO2 and water depending on the compound. Since gasoline is basically a mix of hydrocarbons, the water is where all the hydrogens go in a balanced reaction.

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Depends on the occassion. When I go to more formal events I always wear pleats and creases. If it seems more casual, no pleats. This applies to both my dress pants and tuxedos. It's kind of a scale of formality thing...

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Pitch Black was extremely lame and I wasted time and money that night. The other option was to go see The Bone Collector. It was not a good movie weekend.

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Speaking of Ms Alba, She, Bruce Willis and a few other celebs are supposed to be here this weekend. I wonder if there presence pertains to this film.

You mean they are coming to Austin just when I'm taking off for vacation? Damn! There's goes my chance of meetting Ms. Alba!

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How can anyone not like Jessica Alba?

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Yes, but the interesting thing here is that HG is claiming to own the copyright on all the characters and elements of DYRL, and apparently copyright on the film itself, as well as the trademark on the title.

Heh, I'd like to see them try and release an offical R1 version. The fact that they don't have the masters makes it a little hard, does it not?

Of course... if they really do believe they own the movie rights... they shouldn't have a problem forcing BW to hand them over right?

vinnie

Trademark does not equal copyright. We've known for some time that HG has trademarked the name Macross. It is surprising that they've also trademarked DYRL. I'm just going to wait and see what happens.

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Hehehe... here everyone is bashing the Protodevilns and it was Miyatake who designed them. The designer of the Macross itself, all of the spaceships, and destroids.

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Imagine a movie theater that served cake. Now that would be cool.

Yes, yes it would be.

Yeah, our local theatre serves sandwiches, pizza, beer and cake. And Spaghetti when they show the old Italian Westerns.

Alamo Drafthouse?

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Proof that the VF-0 does not have a 360 holographic projection like the Yf-19, but monitors like the VF-1.

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While I don't degrade the value of the Compendium, I can't consider it "official" until there is a Big West logo on it stating so. But I will consider it amazingly accurate above other sources.

That will never happen since the Compendium as a website does not belong to Bandai.

I am not dissing Egan Loo's site, it is by far the best unofficial site on the entire web. Without a doubt. It is by far the closest thing to officially sanctioned as any fan-site has gotten as far as I know.

It does have Bandai's sanction which makes it as official enough for me. From the Compendium:

This resource is sanctioned by Bandai Visual and Manga Entertainment, Inc. Further information is available in the Copyright Notice.

But big west has their own Macross site and I think if they wanted to have an "Official Compendium or Database" of somekind, they would do it. However, I think they let the fans compile info and come up with new ideas they may be able to work off of. Not necessarily using an exact idea but shall we say, they like the cranial stimulous. Paramount did the same thing with Star Trek, George Lukas does it with Star Wars, so why should Big West be any different.

Bandai as a company only considers profit. Setting up a compendium for Macross offers them no reward. Having a Macross site, on the other hand, is a marketing device. If some fan wants to set up a compendium though, Bandai won't stop them and if they do a good job, even sanction it. That's the way I see it.

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I like my Georgian accent. Quit knocking on it.

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As far as the Macross Compendium is concerned, while I am thankful for Egan Loo's hard work, it itself is not an "offical" site and while extremely accurate in many ways, a few things have slipped through the cracks now and then. 

Egan Loo's Compendium is about as official as it can get. It has Big West and Studio Nue's sanction. Everything that is found in the Compendium are derived from official sources only.

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EDIT IN: Oh yeah, it is also the only officially recognized depot of info for all things Macross by the creators themselves.

Well I hope they spruce it up for the final game. The screenshots show bad anti-aliasing and the textures look abit...uhhh....dated.

I agree. I have no idea what you are talking about, but I do think the graphics looked dated. Too blocky. Also the way that gun is held by the guy is angled awkwardly. In the end it doesn't matter to me much because I don't play console games.

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That's pretty damn cool. I never knew we could post pictures in our profiles. Added mine.

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EDIT IN: Hmmm... post a picture of yourself only and it seems egocentric. Post a picture with a friend and you're just trying to seem less loser like. I'll go for less loser like.

Bah. ADV is just hoping to sell off more copies of thier various iterations of Robotech/OSM DVD's. It's all advertising.

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Cover for Superman/Batman #10

How is it that Batman can have his costume in shreds and not suffer any damage to his skin???

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Sure they were generation spiritia. Their spiritia levels kept rising. However, spiritia isn't just about doing things passionately. It's about the power to touch people through the power of emotions. I believe that t be what anima spiritia tobe. The UN Spacy pilots weren't exactly exuding the kinds of emotions that can touch the Varutua pilots.

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From your current post, I don't think you understand the difference between Spiritia and Anima Spiritia at all. And dude, you made Basara and gang sound god-like; this is something Macross characters are not all about. They are abnomalies yes, but never god-like. And the ones who are abnomalies ie:- Max Jenius, is severely lacking in other aspects of his live.

I do understand the difference of Anima Spiritia and conventional spiritia. I already proven it with the different types of spiritia that the vampires harvest.

Basara IS god-like. They portrayed him as such in M7 since he was the bane of all the protodeviln and he was the only one who could stand up to them. So he sorta fills in the "prophecy" (not really prophecy, but history) of the Anima Spiritia's role in the temple ruins.

Anima Spiritia is more or less like, and nothing more than a PR or streetsmart skills that made a better salesman - something that can be attained and improve upon with practice and experience. All the members of the Jaming birds, have what Basara had. They just lack experience.

I highly doubt that. Jamming birds being able to be trained to become as good as Mylene , Veffidas and Ray is very possible, yes. But they can't be trained into Basara. Like you said. He is an abnormaly. He is Anima Spiritia.

Had Basara not chosen to sing, the protodevlin uprising can still be quelled by ANY other group of special people (and an individual), who had Anima Spiritia. It could even be Bobby. Had he worked harder and was not so concerned with getting his poon, tanged.

Does this mean that you think that the Protoculture created humans as Anima Spiritia to counter the protodeviln uprising? Remember that the Anima Spiritia were created to fight the protodeviln. If timeline serves correct, the protodeviln wars happened long before humans were discovered and then their evolution accelerated by the Protoculture. This proves humans were not the special race, Anima Spiritia that the protoculture created. Yes, sure. ANY other group of special people (and an individual), who had Anima Spiritia can take them on if Basara had chosen not to sing. But you see, the problem here is ONLY BASARA has Anima Spiritia.....at least known to have Anima Spiritia. So as far as we are concerned, only HE can fight the protodeviln. Remember when Basara went off on his own because he didn't know what he was singing for? Mylene, Ray and Veffidas can hardly hold off on their own against the protodeviln. They had strong spiritia....but that alone can't defeat them.....until Basara comes in to save the day.

Basara is not Godlike, I don't even feel they prortray him as such in the series. He's simply determined.

It's not that he holds some mystical force that only the prophesized can have, he simply believes in his ideals. He has coniction, determination, and faith. Anyone else in the Macross universe could attain his musical skill, that's not what the Protedvlin feared, it was why he sung. That's the only thing special about him. Anyone sharing those ideals with his conviction could do what he did.

People like that exist.

i agree.

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Usually new business ventures try to achieve a good public image. This company does it the other way around. Do they believe that bully some unknown and insignificant anime RPG group will help their business? Stupid.

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Unthinkable! It's so sadistic.

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green eyes... sexy.

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FACT: Sound does not travel in space. So Sound Force should have used some kind of transmission rather than speakers. (Hey nobody's perfect)

Hence the use of Speaker Pods in space that only work once it penetrates the enemies ships. The pods seal off its entrance adn presumably t here is either air in the ship or it just uses the structure of the ship to transmit vibrational energy that we can perceive as sound. As for Spiritia, we have no idea what kind of energy it is, and as such there is no presupposition that it cannot exist in a vaccuum.

I was under the understanding that only the Y/VF-19 and Y/Vf-21/22 have active stealth. I don't think the Sv-51 was ever mentioned as having active stealth. We see Guld activated his active stealth in M+ and Isamu goes, "Neat trick". His VF-11B was not able to detect the atice stealth cloaked YF-21. This would lead me to think that active stealth probably does not exist yet, and most probably cannot be detected regardless...

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