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  1. Master Dex
    So, former air force here. Drones is a more common term but UAV is in no way despised and is the correct term. Pilots hate the technology in general but that's just an ego thing.
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    Watch it turns out to be the South Ataria version of RC cola.
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    We're kinda splitting hairs here. You aren't wrong (in fact you are entirely correct) but I don't think that makes my terminology incorrect either, especially as we can't call it magnetic confinement when it isn't. Yeah it isn't the inertial confinement we know of in reality but the principle ends up closer to that I feel in a basic physics sense even if the mechanics are different.
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    Key phrase there is "working." Also VF engines are using a gravity-induced inertial confinement fusion method instead of magnetic field confinement. So it is more like what the National Ignition Facility in California is doing but without all the lasers. If you are asking if the fission jet engine attempts are more like either of those.. they were tested on large planes, not fighter jets. They were tested partly out at Edwards Air Force Base in the 50s, which had a runway leading to a dry lake bed going against the prevailing winds just in case something crashed there... it wouldn't harm anyone. The end result was they technically worked.. but were way too heavy to be usable, and posed a certain risk that made them impractical. But there is nothing dumb about Project Orion... that is still one of the most realistic and plausible concepts for interplanetary space travel... so much so that the Air Force legit designed a space battleship around it, which scared Kennedy so much he put the kibosh on the whole thing... and then later Nuclear treaties with Russia forbid the use of nukes in space so the system could never be built anyway. The math worked though, and it was something that could have easily expanded space travel really fast. On the subject of launching though, most rational people agreed Orion was best as a space propulsion system once already in orbit.. not for ground launch.. and anything would be launched conventionally using it.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Master Dex replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Haven't been watching thread much since VF-4 preorders.. any news on the official release date or is it still just sometime in March? Looking to get an idea of when CDJ is gonna bill me.
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    No it doesn't. Cosmetically, it looks like a VF-25 but with delta wings instead of variable geometry wings. Internally there is a lot of differences though, things we don't know all that much about though. YF-30 introduced the idea of the interchangeable weapon container, and it was technically an offshoot of the YF-24 lineage. Though it is a bigger change than most offshoots.
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    Hope springs eternal I guess. That's fair to say for sure. Basara only contributed in the very end in helping the whales by what Frontier would describe as achieving fold resonance which apparently helps them breed... I guess... But last that Basara is just around for the ride (and Gamlin is only there to find him for Mylene, who has a rather distinct and questionable b plot). Still, it's probably the best Walkure 2: Protoculture Boogaloo can hope to achieve.
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    I actually like Dynamite 7... But it also has better developed characters and a story I at least thought was interesting (and way better music), moreso in the implications than the delivery I suppose. I don't expect this next Walkure movie to do anything as decent.
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    That's believable for sure. They forced him to change his plans for Delta, I can see his hopes for newer ideas being held hostage too.
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    Well.. He's done direct continuations like the multiple Frontier movies. He just doesn't go back to older stories later. I honestly suspect the big wigs here are telling him to do more Delta cause Walkure makes money. If SK actually wants this then he really has sold out.
  11. Master Dex
    The beauty of stock footage! I won't defend it overall but I do associate some songs. Axia is no doubt Kaname's song for the Messer death scene. I also associate Giraffe Blues with the moment Freyja stands up to and wakes up Larazzabal in episode 8. Admittedly the last song is so overused it isn't tied to that but that's what I think of when I hear it (incidentally I prefer Freyja singing it to Mikumo). I also associate Ikenai Borderline to Mikumo though the only moment of worth is the first episode and only cause it was new. Largely past those, I agree with you, not as much to connect to compare to Frontier. Most of the songs are just there.
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    I'd be down for a show like that with some power metal vibe like Babymetal or Galneryus.
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    I never considered that there was master files for other mecha... Books for FMP mecha would be awesome... I mean I'm still a long way from being able to read Japanese but even so..
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    This is probably not news beyond me but I heard recently we're getting a VF-11 master file. Now we wait to find out if it is a proper effort or a half assed version like some recent ones have been I guess.
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    To be fair the show treats that action with the appropriate amount of consequence since it upset the balance of how war in that world worked, plus it took quite a bit of effort and engineering know how to find such unique ways of destroying those monster machines, so most were unsure if it was dumb luck for a bit... until they kept doing it.
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    And really just cause her singing is really loud cause of that Zentran diaphragm. The song energy just made the crops grow, heh.
  17. Master Dex
    Eh who needs topics anymore? Besides we're all having fun with the discourse it seems, and it is still vaguely about Macross, or comes back to it easily enough. So I say it works out in the end.
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    Is relevant a lot but more so lately because there was a remake of the anime recently (though the remake while nicer looking is heavily truncated and is being completed as movies).
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    I really wish I could up vote this more than once cause it perfectly sums up my thoughts and how I've seen things for years. It's also been one of the things that makes me a Star Trek fan and also something I've always liked about Macross as well. There was always a better answer, they just couldn't always see it at first and the urge to pick the tactical option for simplicity is very hard to resist. This is very relevant in any age including today. In my view the worst villains force conflict only because every other attempt failed or they thought it was easier (and ultimately wasn't). This doesn't mean the war was wrong to fight (usually) for the heroes, it just means it was the least ideal outcome since things were so bad it became necessary. I actually think Yang Wen-li from Legends of the Galactic Heroes says it best: "There are few wars between good and evil; most are between one good and another good."
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    They didn't cel-shade much animation back then. I think I know the pic you mean on that site and I think Mr. March (or a contributor to the site) made that image on their own and it was added there. As such there isn't really a repository for that kind of stuff. Though... a lot of the animations from the Macross Pachinko game has a cel-shaded quality to it, and there is no shortage of screens you could take from that I suppose. I might even be able to get a few given enough time (though others could beat me to it probably).
  21. Master Dex
    Thanks guys. The answer was top down inside out, heh. Cool. Also like the information of its usage.
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    I'd bet it's just Roid trying to goad Heinz into helping by lying... cause you point out exactly why it makes no sense. Unrelated, but I really like your Hiragana face avatar... I want to try to pronounce it but I'm not sure what order to say it in, lol.
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    The star singer is a protoculture designed to use songs to affect fold waves. Mikumo is a clone of the Star singer and why Roid used her. It seems it was one of the protoculture's many ways of copying the Vajra which might explain the lack of originally in Roid's final plan. Heinz was the wind singer, a line of Windermerians who had that power too but far less than the star singer ability. I could see Heinz being descended from a line of wind singers (though it seems not all of them are wind singers), due to a vague ancient protoculture connection (Roid certainly would assume it was ordained).
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    I got the impression they just did that to mess with people honestly...
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    I concede on these points. Not that I was trying to fight it. I admit to some ignorance since I can't examine all the supplementary materials like you can. That is why it is nice to have you around, heh. I had forgotten the General Galaxy connect to SV Works too. Another notch of the shady history of that company, heh.. well not SV Works in general.. but their ties through Epsilon who provided to Windermere knowing their plans is the shady bit. I can guess SV Works on it's own, as well as Epsilon in some respects, has at least initial legitimacy before this war. My point mainly being that it seems shady deals an individuals seem to often result from General Galaxy even when they aren't directly involved anymore.
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