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Yeah, I know what you mean. What you describe isn't possible TODAY. No, they were hacked. It's the only way for there to have been any translation at all. ... Actaully, I lie. It's possible the original games were like that. A lot of original japanese games have the basic stuff in english. Heck, the FamiCom controls are even labelled in english(actually, all game systems since then have been). Japan's wierd about that for some reason. 413530[/snapback] a lot of mecha games are like that. gundam etc. I have played a good amount of imports. there are a ton of games with english menus etc. macros plus game edition is practiclly english as are others. 413846[/snapback] FamiCom Macross was actually what reminded me of that nonsense. "TO START PUSH" But it was even more prevalent in the NES era, sometimes with humorous results(such as Rally-X's CHARRANGING STAGE, or hte above mentioned Macross title screen). It's bad enough that many 1st-gen NES titles can be found in a version that contains a FamiCom game board and a FC->NES adapter(identifiable by weight. Famicom game+adapter carts are slightly heavier than their NES-native version). Both versions use identical ROMs, so it doesn't matter which you have unless you're looking for an adapter.

You're right, though for diffrent reasons than you think. The sort of cultural contamination seen in SDF Macross had been witnessed before. Bodol's solution, while excessive from our point of view, was the official "cure." They also reduced an Earth-like world to a smoking uninhabitable cinder jsut to make a point while interrogating Hikaru, Misa, and Kakizaki. So at best we were irrelevant, at worst we were viewed as a direct threat to zentradi civilization regardless of our tech level. Killed each other off in civil war. They could actually be doing that anyways. We know their heirarchy ended at the PC, and the PC are gone. Beyond that, we only know that the zentradi were a cohesive force through Bodolza's level, which isn't the top. There were over a thousand such fleets in the zentradi forces, and the connection between them is unknown(as is how many levels are above them). DYRL illustrates just such a situation. While it's status in continuity is that of a movie created within the Macross universe and a grossly inaccurate retelling of Space War 1, there's still the possibility that it draws upon actual Zentradi history(as told by Exedol) for inspiration. We know that they hadn't ACTUALLY degenerated into a war between the sexes, because SDF Macross is currently the official version of events and Lap'Lamiz' forces answered to Bodolza, her Direct-Defense Fleet was viewed with great respect by Britai, and Bodolza considered it bringing in the "big guns." Hardly the way you would treet a traitor force that defected from your mortal enemy, though there IS an implication that females are the elite special forces of zentradi society. But it's possible the zentradi forces DO consist of several independent megafleets roaming through space and locking horns every time they cross paths. That tidbit of history would have inspired the DYRL writers' Zentran/Meltran war, with Earth being tragically caught in the crossfire between 2 fleets. The gender rift was widened in as an artistic measure to emphasize the alien-ness of zentradi society, that men and women had become so far removed that they no longer even recognized each other as the same species, even though in "reality" they just didn't share ships. If it sounds far-fetched, you aren't too familiar with real-world "historical" movies.

I PWNZ DIS N00B BOARD WIF LEET SKILLZ!111

Always a good episode. ... Too bad she didn't shoot back until the very end. A giant data alien battle royale would've been awesome beyond belief.

So the entire franchise is technically impossible. We already KNEW that.

Oh, for pete's sake... Shit. If you're gonna trick the filter, at least do it RIGHT.

Thanks ... I did consider that. The G2 constructicons are the same size as the originals, only yellow in color and would still cost high prices off of eBay. Odd, 'cuz I was given a G1 Devastator gun and it's way too large for my G2 stuff. Ah well. As far as price... guess I wasn't the only one that thought of that.

It's a case-by-case thing. Glasses just fit Yuki so well.

Fine. I want my drug-induced insanity! ... In the game, I mean.

*sighs* I REALLY didn't want this one to end. Sign of a good show, I suppose. *crosses fingers for a season 2* I think it was the latter. They might not have meant it QUITE so literally, though. But Mikuru was working off historical records from the future, so she might've meant it directly. She was just being vague to avoid breaking any rules. And Haruhi gives up on the ponytail totally later(as you can see in the post-Melancholy episodes). Apparently she decided short hair is just plain better. And we definitely need more Yuki. *petitions for a Melancholy of Yuki Nagato series* *kicks Kyon over the glasses thing*

I have an idea... The Constructicons were scaled down and re-issued in the Generation 2 toyline. It won't be quite as imposing as the REAL Devastator, but it'll likely be far cheaper than getting a complete vintage Devastator, and higher quality than the bootleg. Nah, but likely it will be PG-13 at most in the US.There were a number of crazy people who jumped on the Transformers bandwagon (there have been alot since 2004) that demanded that Transformers will suck unless it was rated R18 with explicit human violence. And sex. YES, inappropriate sex in a movie based upon a toyline sold to kids. You know, because all the 'True Fans' are adults now who can handle seeing Spike have sex with his girlfriend. Morons. 413590[/snapback] Spike would NEVER have sex with his girlfriend! We all KNOW he's gay for Bumblebee!

But my point was I want free selection. Hmmm... I wonder if there's any Action Replay codes to use the QRau... Blech. No such luck.

Not really. We're only counting electrical power, but thermodynamics counts all energy. As a more conventional example: By our count, burning coal generates far more energy than we put into it. By thermodynamic's count, it generates far less, with most of it being lost as heat. They're getting really close. I'd bet in the next decade it'll be viable. And actually, there HAS been one totally viable solution. Unfortunately, it was deemed a serious security issue, as the solution involved blowing up a constant supply of fusion weapons in a cavern underground. It worked, but the steady supply of nuclear weapons moving into the facility would've made it far too easy to "lose" a few, so the project was abandoned.

Of course. Remember, this is the root that everything else is based on. Even MSIE borrowed a lot of look and feel from Netscape Navigator, and Mozilla Suite was the next generation of Netscape. Seamonkey is just Mozilla Suite after the Mozilla Foundation terminated their namesake and forbade anyone continue it under the old name. Remember, Seamonkey is an unofficial project(though Mozilla Foundation HAS provided an infrastructure for it's development, and it WAS a Mozilla product as the Mozilla Suite, it's not considered one anymore). But yeah. Mozilla Foundation seems to believe they should focus on one or 2 products to the exclusion of all else. As soon as they shifted their focus from Mozilla to Firefox and Thunderbird, Mozilla almost totally disappeared from the Mozilla website well before it was killed. And while they have other products, mentioning them would take time away from pimping Firefox and Thunderbird.

The problem is making a fusion reactor WORK. Fission is easy, but fusion is a lot more difficult. To date, there are no successful fusion power plants, though they have a few that hypothetically would have surpassed break-even if they'd actually been equipped to generate electricity(break-even is the point where you get as much usable energy out of the reactor as you put into starting and sustaining the fusion reaction).

But the pickles were only in the original series and DYRL. I R CONFUZZLED!

Yeah, I know what you mean. What you describe isn't possible TODAY. No, they were hacked. It's the only way for there to have been any translation at all. ... Actaully, I lie. It's possible the original games were like that. A lot of original japanese games have the basic stuff in english. Heck, the FamiCom controls are even labelled in english(actually, all game systems since then have been). Japan's wierd about that for some reason.

No fun at all. Just take my post as a joke, like it was intended.

They're doing another OG series? Fun.

They were promising translations? That's funny. 413350[/snapback] No, they weren't. Then why did you throw in that they didn't translate it? I know the NES is radically diffrent in design from the FamiCom. I know about copiers too. I also know the diffrence between ROMs and ROM images. The FamiCom also had an official disk drive that was discontinued largely because pirates had adopted it as their preferred format. I call bulllshit here. Even today there's no way to do an auto-translator. Not even for even just menus. You were playing hacked ROM images and didn't know it. There's a lot more in a FamiCom->SNES adapter than remapping cartridge pins. While the SNES was undoubtedly designed with backwards-compatibility in mind, the final result was NOT compatible. The "adapters" contain an entire NES clone inside them, and use the SNES solely for controller input. The Sega Genesis, however, WAS backwards-compatible. Aside from making SMS carts connectable, all the Power Base Converter had to do was tell the Genesis it was in 8-bit mode instead of 16-bit mode.

Indeed. Melt down is a fission-exclusive effect. You'd get a nice fireball out of a fusion reactor, but nothing really explosive since there's not enough fuel in the reactor for a weapons-grade reaction or enough pressure to sustain fusion once it ruptures. Yup. A. Valks use fusion. A clean fusion reaction, no less. There's nothing to decontaminate. B. A damaged fusion reactor likely WILL explode, just not in the sort of detonation that even a small nuclear bomb provides. Expect something more akin to a damaged blowtorch. C. The VF-1's reactor generates 650 megawatts plus engine thrust per engine, and it has 2(the compendium entry implies each engine has it's own reactor). That's 1300 megawatts per VF, which is comparable to modern real-world nuclear power plants. Fission and fusion are fundamentally diffrent technologies to start with, though. Most notably, fusion doesn't require a large mass of highly radioactive substances and many fusion reactions don't leave signifigant radioactive substances behind(but even the dirtiest fusion reactions are far cleaner than fission reactions). There's a disturbingly prominent confusion surrounding fission and fusion as well as weapons and generators that rears it's head every time this subject comes up. In short: Fission is dirty. Fusion isn't. Generators don't blow up like bombs because they're built to create a sustained and controlled reaction instead of a single violent uncontrolled burst of supreme power.

But in the cartoon series later they established that a "dead" transformer COULD be rebuilt(and very very early in the comic books). Thus, Optimus Prime returned from the grave in an attempt to regain supreme leadership of children's television... I mean of the noble Autobot warriors. They're symbols that carry no meaning except to the autobots and decepticons. Why hide them? Mirage had optical camoflauge, though! Yes! Awesome action sequences are a must!

Here's the problem. It's based on an H game. But there's no sex. They only even come close once. There's barely even any nudity. There you have it, the Y chromosome review of Fate.

But it HAS an anime series. 2, actually. They recently did an OVA based on OG, and there's also a TV series about Cybuster. Sadly, no one has yet gotten the raw testicular fortitude needed to deal with the licensing mess for a anime crossover Super Robot War anime.

Because a breached reactor actually isn't anything like a bomb. Beyond that... In space scenes, spherical explosions are correct for ANY detonation other than a shaped charge. Any deviation from spherical is a result of an uneven explosion or atmospheric interference. Of course, nukes are still really hot, and should probably be white instead of orange, even without an atmosphere to incandesce. In an atmosphere, the famous mushroom cloud is an artifact of the size of the explosion, not an inherent property of a nuclear detonation. The detonation superheats a very large quantity of air, which rises rapidly, then spreads out as it cools down. Even if they DID explode like a bomb, the VF and Destroid generators just aren't big enough to cause a mushroom cloud.