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That sort of trash talk goes WAY back. The Intellivision/VCS battle was the original system war, and it hasn't stopped since. I didn't buy a PS1 when it came out because Sony didn't stand a chance. Sega and Nintendo were going to thoroughly decimate them. Then the Ultra64(or was it still Project Reality then?) was late and the Saturn bombed(largely due to raging incompentence and an utter lack of software). And I can't count the number of people that were preaching about how shitty the GameBoy was and how the GameGear walked all over it. One faded and died, the other enjoyed a decade of life before it was upgraded. And honestly, the PS3 evaluation is a fair one. Unless something major happens(like Nintendo coming in on time to the next generation, with a good set of launch titles, and several major titles coming right behind it), the PS3 wins by default. PSP is a bit diffrent. Sony is the challenger, not the incumbent, there. And as of yet, has no really compelling reason to buy it. If they can get it out before Nintendo's next handheld, they stand a chance. But if the next GameBoy hits first, Nintendo's monopoly is almost certainly ensured for another generation. And as Nintendo seems to have FINALLY learned their lesson from the Genesis and N64(as well as the scary near-miss of the Wonderswan and NeoGeo Pocket), the GBWhatever will probably be ready to lock gamers in for another round. And won't be a half-assed rush job like some other systems in the line. ... Actually, the Wonderswan and NGP really hurt Sony. If it hadn't been for those 2, we'd probably still be on the original black&white GameBoy hardware, and Sony would have a LOT more room to impress people.

The GBP is designed to transform a fast, lightly armored battroid into a slow, heavily-plated behemoth with more missiles than is healthy..

What's "wrong" with it is"OMG TEH GRAFIX AM TEH SUX DEY AREN'T 3D DER AINT FMV IT IZN'T FIANAL FANTISY!1111111". Do I have a low opinion of a large % of video game players? Very much so. Do they often prove it justified? Yes.

I got the impression they "uploaded" some stuff into the brain when they made the clones. Obviously the extenf they do this is unknown, but It would be logical for someone like Exedol, who seemed to carry the sum total of zentradi knowledge and history in his cranium, to have everything "flashed" into his brain at creation. So that' implies that there's a lot of raw information they can copy into one brain. Whether they can burn in an entire personality is another question altogether. They may only write in knowledge and let the personality develop on it's own. But if they can, then yes, the IQ CAN be replicated. ... Of course, doing that TOO much leaves you with an entire army staffed with the exact same minds in every last ship, mech, and uniform. It makes you predictable, and thus weak. But when you have the overwhelming superiority of #s that the zentradi have, a bit of predictability may be acceptable in favor of keeping your #s high(a flashed personality is faster than developing one on your own).

Seriously!! They even refused to release Metal Slug 3 in the US!!! SOny is going to lose alot of fans for this... and too bad the Xbox controller blows for fighters. I can't seem to see the page.... which version is this? 3rd impact or 2nd or a brand new version? If they want it this way so be it, their DOWNFALL has began because of the rejection of 2D games idiots ! (LET`EM WHO CARES) like this they`ll lose support from their consumers and new ones who wanna buy a PS2. Except it won't. Sony's already pretty sure they can survive on nothing but graphics whores and die-hard fanboys. Sales #s for games and systems supports the theory. The average person buying video games(I refuse to use the term gamer to describe said heathens) doesn't CARE if the game plays like a bag of crap. They just want something that looks pretty and carries a recognized name, be it Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, or EA Sports. They don't really care about the content beause they'll just be randomly mashing buttons once every month or so anyways, and probably never without the aid of a GameShark or Action Replay. But they'll be glad to tell you everything that's wrong with Valkyrie Profile or Metal Slug without ever touching it(perhaps without ever seeing it). And it will come down to "outdated graphics" and "ugly graphics" and "16-bit graphics". But these retards are the majority of the people, and if Sony can tap them(which they have) they can claim to have the vast majority of the video game market(which I suppose is technically true).

But there IS some room for advancement. The spies got a promotion after returning to the fleet with their loot. And Britai's head plate speaks of an injury that someone in his rank shouldn't be in a position to recieve(stray valkyries roaming the halls being very much the exception rather than the rule). So that implies he started on the front lines. Or at the very least as captain of something a bit more prone to getting shot up. As far as the uniform goes... Maybe Max is a tailor and he let the seams out a bit? Doesn't explain why no one noticed a monster like his VF-1 roaming the halls.

With all that extra space you would think you could store a couple more rounds but that would increase the weight significantly. Or am I looking at it wrong? weight, also with that open space it allows for cooling of the barrels. one problem with putting amunition and hot-hot-super-hot barrels in the same confined space... they have a term for it... "cook off" the propellent starts spontaniously ignighting setting off a chain reaction in the amunition storage. Also known as "really exciting". Or "holyshitmygun'sexplodingI'mgonnadie!"

I do that anyways. You don't need an exoskeleton. ... Excuse me, there's some men in pretty white suits that want to take me back to my really neat room with the soft bouncy walls.

Which raises an interesting question... Are zentradi bred for their rank, with higher-ranking positions filled with larger, more authoritative bodies? Do they use the miclone system to adjust size with major promotions? Do they just keep growing through their life and after the ages it takes to rise to a rank like Britai or Bodlozaa's you have amassed quite a large height? Or was it a freakish coincidence that the highest-ranked warriors had the largest bodies?

Quiet you're giving them more ideas to screw the paying audience. It's too late. Some companies already put unskippable movie trailers on theirs. My sister's Bruce Almighty disk is like that.

You miss the point. SCEA(as it's just the american branch policy) doesn't CARE if the game's good. They're catering to the graphics whores. The people that think FMV makes a game good, that a flashy bad game is better than a subdued great game, that buy every new sports game release and have about 12 copys of EA Football with mildly diffrent team rosters and nothing else, et cetera.

Actually, that's a stellar example of animation problems. Along with the nose lasers, and the 3-lasered variant(Robotech's YF-1R), and so on. The average Zentradi was always intended to be shorter than the battroid. Britai was intended to be an unusually large Zentradi.

What's it matter? Joysticks are better anyways. ... Of course, Hori makes those too, as I recall. Often with special game-specific artwork.

I am Ray.

You're quoting Robotech specs,which are WAY off-base. They assume Britai is normal, when he's big for a zentradi. The QRau, and the Millia figure inside it, are EXACTLY right compared to the 1/60 Yamato VF-1. Check macross.anime.net. Specifically, Millia's height in the characters section, the QRau's height in the mecha section, and the VF-1 battroid height in the mecha section.

The movie industry doesn't get any money from the drinks and snacks. Only the theatres do. The movie company gets the all the money for the ticket sales for the first one or two weeks and then the theatre chain gets a cut of the admission fee after that. The percentage of the theatre's cut goes up as the weeks go by. That's why the movie studios push the opening weekend so much, to make sure they get a majority of the money being made and that's why the theatres charge so much for food and drinks. So here's another guilt trip...when you sneak in food you're actually stealing from the employees that work at the theatre you go to... That's the only reason I ever buy drinks at all. The prices are completely absurd.

Darn... If you used tighter beams, you can partially equalize the power disparity, since the guy looking for you is on a wide scan and you already KNOW where he is, because he's advertising the fact to everyone. But those have to be far more precise... If you can get your profile low enough, then everything else starts getting in the way. If you can take your return down to a speck of dust's, then the air itself will cloud out your radar signature. Or does dust not have a radar signature? Just started thinking about wavelengths. It could be that it's only intended to defeat fighter and missile radar systems. But that's not as useful... Too bad you don't still have the VF-1 laser turret. You could just lock on and drop a couple megajoules of photons into the other guy's radar. Best countermeasures available right there.

Actually, the concept works now. It's just a matter of getting the hardware in place. You just have to emit an inverse radar wave to reduce or eliminate the original one. Optimally, you match ampitudes of the reflected wave, rendering your plane totally invisible to radar at minimal power(since your plane's already absorbed a lot of the power). A VF's internal fusion generator gives it the power, it just needs the equipment to measure incoming waves and emit counter-waves.

Wait just a second. Set Designers and Stuntmen and such are hurt by piracy. Here's how it works: Movie is made. Movie is pirated. Movie is less profitable. Studio makes less movies. Less jobs are available for production staff. I undertstand that. The ads as presented imply that the behind-the-scenes people get an actual cut of the movie profits, that their paycheck is directly, not indirectly, tied to the movie's success. And I should point out that the evidence is that piracy is actually GOOD for sales. At least, it was for the music industry before they declared war on their consumers. Napster hit, sales went up, RIAA started suing the pants off people that downloaded songs, sales went way way down(and what was their PR department thinking when they sued that little girl? Could they have CHOSEN a worse target?). Movie piracy currently takes too long to be worth the effort, as far as I'm concerned. More of the blame for the recent movie slump is placed on instant messenging programs and cellphones than piracy. Here's how it works: Person sees movie. Movie sucks. Person calls friends from the parking lot, says "Don't see this movie, it sucks." Friends don't see movie. In an industry that makes most of it's money in the first week, before word of mouth can spread through traditional means, this is very bad. The truth is, there's just not much out worth watching recently. I've been looking, and the amount of movies interesting me is just really small. The last film I actually WANTED to see was, I think, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. ... Which bombed horribly, thanks in part to what I consider incompetent marketing. They really had no idea what to target, the ads just plain sucked, and most of the people that came expected a completely diffrent kind of film(I suspect I was one of about 5 people there on opening night that even knew who Captain Nemo was, much less some of the other characters).

What bugs me the most about hose anti-piracy ads is the way they try to tie ticket sales to the paycheck of set designers and stuntmen and such. People that are payed a flat rate and get NOTHING from sales. I realize their intent(no one CARES if big fancy actor guy gets 9.9 mill instead of 10, but someone with a "real" job is someone the audience can empathize with), but I see the ads as little more than badly-formulated lies that serve only to insult my intellect.

You should be able to find an Apple II emulator and a ROM dump of Karateka online easily. But why get the Apple 2 version? Karateka was multi-platform, and the Commodore 64 qA FAR superior gaming hardware.

You can't prove that.

Not really that odd when you think about it some. You notice the screen flashes white when you shoot? The gun works on brightness. It doesn't see the duck and background, it sees the bright white areas that replace the duck when you shoot. ... I'm so glad lightguns have evolved to the point where the strobe isn't needed anymore.

Yes, but we are MACROSSWORLD! If it's gonna be 1:1 it darn well better be fully functional. And then we can all get together on the bridge and gripe about how the pinpoint barrier is the wrong shade of green and it's a sorry piece of crap that isn't worth the change in the sofa...

Unless your tape has problems. Someone put a magnet too near mine and it has a few bad spots. Can't bring myself to buy a DVD, though.