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    The question might be more accurately ... who WEREN'T they fighting? They aren't picky about who they engage. We know THAT for a fact. Humanity was not the Supervision Army, and they rapidly ascertained that the people of Earth had no connection to the SA. They did not disengage and leave well enough alone. In fact, they repeatedly escalated, eventually to a full fleet deployment. Exedol's counsel against meddling in the affairs of miclones is apparently based on historical fact. Which means they've previously clashed with(and presumably exterminated) at least one other civilization with a society similar to Earth's(presumably at great cost, as his history details the effects of culture shock on zentradi soldiers). We don't know that the planet they destroyed "for" Hikaru, Misa, and Kakizaki was inhabited by sentient life, but we know it was inhabitable, and thus that it did bear life, however primitive. It may be the LEAST picky engagement they've ever been in, and they exterminated the hell out of some algae just to make a point. Or it may be the end of another zentradi campaign, similar to humanity's Space War I. They may have brought their hostages/samples along on a final deployment to crush the home of another space-faring race, just to show how it's done. Given the zentradi's utilitarian nature, I tend to believe the latter. And it's safe to assume that the fall of the protoculture empire did not kill every colony world. How many isolated worlds reverted to relative barbarism, slowly rebuilding their society from the ground up, attaining those first tentative steps into space... only to be reduced to so much glass by a zentradi bombardment? Short version: yes, they did go to war with Melmac, ultimately destroying the planet, and making ALF the first known sequel to Macross. DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNN! Interestingly enough, we also know, from Millia and Chlore's rivalry, that there exists a communications structure ABOVE the fleet level. This is interesting because it implies a COMMAND structure above the fleet level as well. My assumption has long been that Earth was never reported to this command structure by Bodolza, to avoid suspicion that he himself was contaminated by the PROTOCULCHAAA!!.
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    He had my titan in a tight spot too. Took luck to get through to the other side. I spun round the corner wondering how far he'd follow or if I was clear yet.
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    And I decided to stop dicking about with my level 29 huntress for a bit and play with my titan, who I've raised from 4 to 12 over the last couple of days. I'd forgotten that Venus has been completely broken for low-levels since the Vault raid went live. Stupid level ?? vex blasting me as I try to get past the vault I can't enter. Bad enough when it's just the one ?? hulk monstrosity sitting there standing guard. He can be avoided if you remember he's there and don't draw the patrol mission that demands you camp on a pillar directly in front of him for ten seconds. But this time I apparently tried to pass through while a party was trying to open the vault, as the area was SWARMING with ??s, all perfectly willing to give up the defense of the vault for a few seconds to one-shot a passing scrub.
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    Fixed it. BOMBA!
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    Pre-download marketplace. 99.99% of all commercial video games ever released are digital. I'm making a stand here. This is the hill I've chosen to die on. Digital will not become a meaningless buzzword.
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    You know the funniest thing about the Combiner Wars line? How often is Optimus Prime the repaint/remold instead of whatever other truck he shares with? I mean, in this case the mold is BLATANTLY Motormaster first, and they just threw the Prime name on it because red trucks sell.
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    Expected result: Now that the customer has a basic level of protection, the quality of games on offer rises significantly. Actual result: Big publishers become even more leery of porting games to Windows. And do a big dog&pony show about piracy and market shares when the real problem is that they're actually accountable for their failures. Pretty much. The article acts like pre-ordering is a vital necessity of the games industry, but... why does anyone have to preorder anything? Because Colonial Marines made a "real" weapon out of a one-line joke? Because your character wears a custom tattoo? Edit: Actually, it occurs to me that the best part of Steam doing refunds now might be the reduced chance of people buying games and never playing them. Since you have two weeks to decide if it's crap... you gotta fire it up in those two weeks!
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    But EVERY Hollywood fighter comes from Macross Plus!Except the one in Top Gun, of course. That was a blatant VF-1 ripoff if ever I saw one.
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    Well, yeah, but who isn't?
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    I still say it's Macross 3: The Sentinels.
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    I see what you did there. Now back to sleep or I'm telling mom about your Playboys!
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    I'm still wondering why astromech droids are removable components instead of integrated into the ship where they can be placed behind thick armor instead of sticking their tinfoil heads out into a raging dogfight.
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    Yeah, the continuing lack of Shin Great is a shin heartbreak.
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    That wall o' VF-1 is awesome.
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    And it needs a functional hyperdrive motivator unit too.
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    I... missed that one totally. I meant Sharon Apple.
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    And since it won't work in space, it's not really viable for a Valk. Two problems... 1. It has to be directional, so the Valk needs a lot of small antennae for the cancellation mechanism. And with a small antenna fighting a large antenna, you're gonna have to make up the difference with raw power. 2. While it's true that this works well for modern RADAR systems, the future RADAR systems of Macross are vastly more powerful, and almost certainly far better at filtering out noise while still picking up attenuated signals. So you still need a butt-ton of power.
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    Well, it can't end worse than the LAST robot singer in Macross did.
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    Last time I saw someone stocking at my pathetic excuse for a MalWart, I made an idle comment about the slim pickings, and they blamed scalpers. Stores can order as much as they want, Hasbro can ship as much as they want, but as long as it all winds up on eBay anyways...
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    +1 awesome votes
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    Oh, they put it back in "print"? I'm pleasantly surprised. Oh, that's the plan. It's not a viable long-term solution, though, because I don't have the gear for a proper reflow. That procedure is just a stopgap measure. (The nitpicker in me insists on noting that isn't reballing either, which would require more equipment, the removal of the chips in question, and fresh solder applications.) Thanks.
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    That air-trucking is hilarious, and somehow both wrong and right at the same time. Okay, just don't come crying to me when they're shattered. Nintendo's still trying to figure out what went wrong with Metroid Prime. It was supposed to be another bad 3D transition game and it wound up so wildly popular they had to take it out of print while people were still buying it up left and right. Yes, you can't find Metroid Prime Trilogy because Nintendo deliberately took it out of print to STOP YOU FROM BUYING IT. In non-E3 news, my PS3 died tonight. I'm upset. And angry. (Mostly angry at Europe. Stupid lead-free solder mandates.) Now I have to A. buy a new system(because Sony charges the cost of a new system for out-of-warranty repairs), B. figure out how to get this one booting long enough to transfer my data over(apparently you can do things with a blowdryer), and C. get my friggin' game out of the drive(really, Sony? You can't add a forced eject to your failure state?). As opposed to my 360's Crimson Pacman incident where I extracted the hard drive and game, sent it to MS at no cost, then got online and changed ownership of all the data on my drive to the new deck once I received it. Never mind that half of that was because MS was staring down the barrel of a class-action lawsuit over Crimson Pacman issues.
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    Also, it's a stupidly easy feature to add.
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    The VF-1 has some number of attitude thrusters that are rarely illustrated, just because without them it can't maneuver in space.The best example is the VTOL thrusters on the trainer in DYRL.
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    Of course you are. Nintendo hates Metroid. They want it dead.
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