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I want s-video on my NES! (I am, in fact, being 100% serious here) 346827[/snapback] You win the hardcore award! 346849[/snapback] Nah. The guys adding RGB out are harder-core. Sadly, there's no way to GET s-video from an NES, and I don't have anything that can take RGB at NTSC timings. Mmmm, Berzerk... ... I wonder if a stereo mod is feasable for the 5200. I THINK all 4 of POKEY's voices come out one pin, but I'm not sure. Rats. POKEY's confirmed as a single-channel device. Can't get better than mono out of it. While one COULD build a 6-channel surround sound conversion circuit, the only advantage would be if you put a crossover in the design so your low-frequency stuff went to the subwoofer. ... Well, that and being "in" the sound instead of in front of it. Flashback 2 kthx. The FB1 is an NES with badly-recoded games on it. FB2 is a real 2600. BUT... http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3000_7-6388175.html FB2 is running neck and neck with the 360.

Unless something drastic happens(like my Animeigo disks suddenly split in 2), I'm going with no. I don't care about the dub, and I have no problems with the current subs. I really see no reason to replace my existing set.

I want s-video on my NES! (I am, in fact, being 100% serious here)

On the upside, the director knows how to do a movie with lots of fighting and minimal chitchat.

It was. But the less said about AVP, the better.

ADV got permission to do a dub. And they're redoing the subs. If I recall, they're putting more episodes per disk too.

Always. Having said that, I really dislike the packaging being shown. Let me preface my commentary by saying that I LIKE Animeigo's packaging. The DVD case: There's nothing wrong with the art, but the layout as a whole... IMO, putting solid bars along the top and bottom instead of finding a way to integrate your logo into the design is just The box: Bleh. I don't care WHO did the art, that zentradi clubbing a VF-1 is a lousy spokesperson for the series. And the package reeks of laziness. Failing a single wide piece that could wrap around the box, they could've found some that at least had a similar color scheme. And that reguld pic needs to be moved to the open side, or have some sort of a frame added. Seeing the Earth cut off like that as you round the corner just sucks. The new logo: I dislike it, but understand the logic. The old one, with it's heavy emphasis on the japanese characters, doesn't lend itself well to mass-market. However, I would have liked to see one more similar to the original logo, "ZOMG STAR WARS" accusations be damned(the slant of the original logo really DOPES beg for some scrolling yellow text...). The UN Spacey emblem used in the new logo looks more like an A than an O. I keep reading it as Macrass. NOT a good first impression. I hope the final box at least uses the full text seen on the DVD case instead of the abbreviated one now being shown. Mainly because I want to see the whole title out there. The abbreviated logo also feels a tad off-balance, but that may be due to the shoddy layout on the hopefully-placeholder box. I'm actually leaning toward the layout end, given it doesn't look near as out-of-place on the reguld side as the zentran side. I'm hoping that box is merely a preliminary placeholder, and has no relevance whatsoever on the final product.

Could be a low-residue meal. If it's "pure" enough, he might not have any solid waste. Just urine.

I believe you mea "The trailer raped my childhood."

Things aren't always that easy, Skullsixx. Like it or not, businesses are very rarely intrested purely and solely in benefitting the fans. Their main concern is making a living/profit. I thought there was an implied "one of us" in his statement. If WE bought HG, it would cater to the fans. ... At least until catering to the fans ceased to be a viable business model. Then we'd have to start increasing brand awareness(educating the Robotechies), and branching out into other products.

Yah. Week or 2 back. Even the people that like Smallville didn't care. They already did "The Flash" on TV. Linky /tuned in every week. 344994[/snapback] I loved The Flash. Of course, if they did it now it'd be teen angst drama, and thus much less lovable.

Can somebody say, "hypocrite" around here? How do you explain your quoting of Roy's Blues' image of his Motoko figures (1524 x 2032 and nearly 800KB in size) on page 4 of the "Show off your coolest non-Macross toys & models" thread, when the pic was posted on page 1? 344751[/snapback] Was on the same page for me. It was, however, admittedly stupid.

where were you guys when I was selling the two I had oh well... I already told you who got them so you can harass them now 344698[/snapback] Broke. Just like now, actually... so I think I was lying. But I'd drool over it and wish I could afford to buy it!

Gods... if I only played what the media told me was fun, I'd have to throw 95% of my games out, and 100% of my favorites. Quit being a consumer trend whore, play the games you like, and don't pay the media the slightest bit of attention. Hype doesn't make a good game, and only shameless fanboys believe it does. *looks at your avatar* Oh.

YAY!

If they still use transistors. I wouldn't be surprised that whatever technology the machines come up with to replace transistors will be highly resistant to power surges, and generally much better than current digital technology. Maybe. Maybe not. There's limits to what you can filter out in most cases. And a big enough surge will rip through any countermeasures.

You may be interested in this, then... http://agtp.romhack.net/valken.html Patch to take the original japanese game to english without the massive cuts made for the official US release. Sidenote: Konami was merely the US publisher.

As a side note... it's been suggested that taking over the power plants would be a good idea. Power isn't likely to be decentralized, at least not for the heavy stuff like factories and network nodes. Injecting some sags and spikes into the AC would tear some transistors up FAST.

*looks around* ... I'd buy it.

Unless god is interested in his creations' creations. he might leave the tape running to see what happens next, even if his grandkids have already proven to be worthless scum. Unless someone creates a mechanism for transplanting memories. Been done in sci-fi before(in fact, it's a staple of many clone stories). Though there's no really plausable way to do it that we know of, there's also no really plausable way to time-travel, so it balances out. There's a finite number of terminators that can be sent back. At least in the pre-Terminator 1 timeline, Skynet was making a desperate gamble. The tables had turned and humanity was pushing it back. From there it's only a matter of time before someone unplugs Skynet. This was credited to John Conner's leadership, so why not keep him from being born? Of course, it's possible that if not Conner, someone else would've risen to the role. Perhaps one of the aides that were being killed off in T3, perhaps someone that never became noteworthy in the eixsting timeline(s). And there's apparently severe limits on time travel, since Skynet didn't send a team of terminators back at any point in the series. Of course, I seem to recall the humans taking over the time travel facility as Skynet sent the original terminator back in time, which explains the first one. But T2 and T3 mean Skynet had more facilites, built new ones, or never lost them in the new timelines. And we're back to either limited range or massive power usage, which would slow your cycle times down a LOT(not long enough to prevent a counter-strike, but long enough to limit how much mechpower you send back). Things are more difficult post-T2, since the new Skynet is a decentralized network now(I doubt it would give this up and move into a centralized computer, because it makes it far more vulnerable). But each individual instance of the Skynet client is relatively stupid. It's only the network as a whole that is smart. Disconnect a computer from the network, and Skynet as a whole gets dumber. The disconnected computer gets VERY dumb. It will be virtually impossible to totally eradicate this incarnation of Skynet, but humanity knows what to look for and can maintain it at the mild nuisance level. You could inject a virus into the network to destroy it, but it would have to be as adaptive as Skynet itself, which humanity would (understandably) be somewhat hesitant to try. The upside is... If you can isolate a factory from the network, you can seize it for yourself and retool to serve your purposes(if nothing else, you need to wipe the computer to eliminate the currently-running Skynet app). The factory probably deletes hardware plans if it looks like humanity's gonna take over, so don't expect to get anything but what you can feed it. But that's still going through at least the T800 series, and likely more if you can yank samples off the assembly line. Then you can fight fire with fire, and steel with steel. ... This may be why the 'bot in T3 has the capacity to reprogram other terminators. If the resistance is making an army of Arnolds, the ability to "brainwash" them would be a valuable asset. ANYWAYS... once you have the capability to produce mecha, you can use that to reinforce your own forces. Even an older terminator like the Governator is far more effective against Skynet's forces than a human, simply by virtue of increased speed and durability. That boosts your chances at the NEXT facility. And you need another facility, because in the T3 version of the future every last tank, hoverjet, and terminator is part of Skynet's "brain." Seizing or destroying all the factories is the key to victory, though. Deny the capacity to make new parts. You might not be able to destroy Skynet, but you can paralyze it. Remove the arms and legs, and it can't do much. ... Unfortunbately, termiantors can be used to build new factories. But if you can smash and grab faster than they can build, you win eventually.

Terminator's continuity isn't that solid to begin with. John Conner is born because of a predestination paradox. Kyle Reese goes back in time to stop the terminator from killing Sarah Conner, mother of John Conner. In the process, they have sex and he winds up being John conner's father. Meaning that the rebel leader Skynet attempted to prevent was only created BECAUSE the terminator was running around in the past. A predestination paradox requires a rigid and unchangable timeline, at least with regards to the events responsible for the paradox. There is also the perspective to time travel which says that if you change something, the timeline forks, but without destroying the alternate timeline. So we have: Timeline 1: Sarah gets pregnant from some other guy, John is born, apocalypse happens, John is the great leader and the terminator and Kyle are sent back in time. (But in this timeline, neither Kyle nor the Terminator appear in the past.) Timeline 2: Kyle and the terminator appear in 1980-something. "Terminator 1" happens. The future John of this timeline is different from the John who Kyle remembers - but based on things said in T2 this John's history must have been similar, at least including sending Kyle back. Timeline 3: "Terminator 2" - John (son of Kyle) sends back Schwarzenegger to fight Robert Patrick. The result is that the apocalypse doesn't happen. In each case, the people who come from the future change the past - but not their own past, rather they create a new past, sort of like an alternate reality in the "Sliders" vein. The world they came from could still exist, but its connection with the altered world is broken. From this perspective, sending anybody back at all seems a waste of time, in the sense that it won't change one's own world - but there's no way anybody involved would know that unless someone actually succeeded in returning to their own future. (I always liked how "Bill & Ted" and "Back to the Future" played with the notion of time travel paradoxes, though...) 344253[/snapback] Messy. But workable. The branching timelines could ALSO explain why the 'bot in T3 was less advanced than the 'bot in T2. IMO, indestructable liquid metal > liquid metal over a conventional and destructable skeleton. ... And from there you could tap the idea of closely related timelines being able to influence each other(the whole reason a multiverse concept exists), and render Skynet's temporal attacks rational. If the new timeline is close enough to the old one, it could have an impact on the original. I still don't like T2, though.

I would but what is 4chan? Ah Firefly good show better movie. Serenity had to have been the best movie of the summer, since Batman was a remake I think it was the best original summer movie. 343718[/snapback] It's just a fan message board. Upload images or drawings for other fans to enjoy. www.4chan.org 343759[/snapback] And you will never find a more wrteched hive of sucm and villianry.

I was thinking it's because marines are better knwon for on-foot, and the army is better known for runnign poo over in tanks.

But didn't Birds of Prey bomb?

Meh.