Akilae

Yep, you see it at the beginning of Ep. 04. Mid-air rearming too!

First of all: w00t! The forums are back!!! Second: During the Great Blackout/Draught/Nothingness/Downtime of 2006, I roamed around and found an article over at the China wiki on the definition of the term "Otaku", in which the contributor said: <Univeral Translator> The term "Otaku" is a Japanese term used to address people in the second-person. Its useage in the anime world most likely arises from the anime "Super Dimentional Fortress Macross", in which the main characters use this phrase when referring to each other. Anime viewers at that time were most likely influenced by this useage and started using the phrase "Otaku" to describe each other. </Universal Translator> Can anybody confirm or deny this? Somehow "Otaku" didn't stand out to me when I was watching Macross... then again, my knowledge of Japanese is limited to "hai" and "iieh", lol.

One of the things TIE Fighter did right was actually making you feel righteous blowing those Rebel scum out of space, something no other Star Wars game has come close to doing. The Empire was never evil! It was merely full of incompetent fools that sullied the Emperor's good name! Played Empire at War recently and I couldn't bring myself to play the Imperial campaign for long... there was an obvious bias against the Empire...

Yes! Get our TIE Fighter on, and some PC Battlezone(Starcraft+MechWarrior = fun?), maybe even some Tyrian or something. 427884[/snapback] There's a mod out there that lets you play the TIE Fighter campaign using the X-Wing Alliance engine called TFTC. So far only two limitations: 1) Original campaign only. 2) Even if they ever expanded the mod to work on the two expansions, the SLAM drive on the missile boat won't work.

A little addition re: anime in Japan. It's popular, but not crazy popular. I know a lot of Japanese people, and anime is usually not a topic that comes up on conversations. Sketchley pretty much nailed it, although from what I gather among my friends, it's not even as popular as Sketch makes it out to be. I think one good indication would be people's reaction to otaku. It's used in a very derogatory way and not something to be associated with if you want a healthy social life. Usually when I mention some anime I watch to some Japanese friends, most of them just nod politely and wait for the conversation to move onto something else. Talk about my Gold Saint and Valkyrie collection emits looks of surprise, in the "What?! You too?!" kind of way. Just to provide a sampling demographic: early 20s, college educated, young professionals, trendy. Addendum 1: The Japanese are REALLY good at providing information in picture form. Not knowing any read form of Japanese, I was able to buy train tickets at a self-service kiosk just by looking at the pictures provided. Anywhere else and I'd be wading through page after page of pure text. I remember a friend in education saying that the most natural form of human learning is through pictures.

I still remember the first time I heard it, literally. My roomie back in college got new Klipsch speakers and used the opening theme from Deus Ex to demo them. Since then I've played it to death. All blades playthrough, none-casualty playthrough, etc.. right now I'm waiting for the HDTP mod to finish (not looking good for them though, might die out...). The second one was just a steaming pile... Ion Storm made so many concessions to put it onto a console that lots of tweaking were needed in the ini files just to get it playable on PC. The unified ammo idea was also dumb... storyline itself might have been nice, but having to wait for an area to load every five steps was just too much.

This'll be interesting.. Yawara isn't all that new, but the prospects of a little girl that could have you on your back in less than a second isn't bad

Same here... although if Touma and Zengar are in it I might reconsider

ach, no!!! It took me forever to get Mink's "hueh!! hueh!!!"" outa my mind after I saw it years ago, now you just had to go and bring it all back

No Bare Knuckle/Streets of Rage either...

I think the anime listed are reflective of the current crop of teens to early twenties anime fans. After all, everything from the 90s are the big name ones that you'd have to be an idiot to not know. Some interesting lack of notables -Lodoss Wars -El Hazard (Tenchi Muoyo is in, can't figure out why this isn't) -Spirited Away (come on, even Steamboy made it!!) -Ninku (As one of my friends likes to say, "Before there was Naruto...")

The Tajou - Debut OVA was a short, sweet piece. The original songs written for it wasn't too bad either. It's also a relatively unknown piece anywhere. BAOH, by the auther of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, isn't too bad. Story of the Seven Cities (rough translation), by the author of LOGH, is more or less LOGH Lite and more action packed, nice when you don't want to wade through 100+ episodes of LOGH. Dunno if Idol Defence Force is anywhere near obscure, for a time the popularity of their songs rivaled that of Goddess Family Club.

hmm... here's a different answer: I'm not totally clear on Star Trek or Star Wars physics, but supposedly, any speed at or faster than the speed of light is subject to time dilation... the concept of Warp should therefore be very problematic for the ST universe (since no time dilation ever occurs in said universe). Folding, on the other hand, is a much more elegant solution. The idea is what you don't need to travel fast at all, just open up a portal (fold space), travel through, and voila! Almost as good as instant transportation. Not a whole lot of science fiction deals with this... Event Horizon was one of the few that did it well (it dealt with opening wormholes, more specifically, what happens when you can't decide where you open a wormhole to?). Homeworld's "gating" technology would be conceptually similar. Hyper/Sub-space is usually used mostly as a flashy term to not deal with time-dilation. I'm sure there's some sort of sound physics theory behind it though.

lol, guys, I don't think the confusion is about time dilation. The Luxion wasn't pulverized... it was sunk and sent into acceleration in subspace. So yes, it still possible for Noriko to board it. I guess what you're thinking is destroyed = atomized.

I think the main draw of Gunbuster is the heavy drama. Sure we have a huge robot with frickin laser beams on its head and kicking the crap out of space monsters, but we also have a touching story of a young woman and her inner struggles... oh, and the story is really done in a more cohesive form than the drug-inspired ending of Eva. At least Gunbuster got grayscale stillframes, lol. It's something we don't get a lot of these days. Makoto Shinkai (Kumo no mukou and VOADS) and Nagano (FSS) come close though, Makoto Shinkai for a similarly touching story and Nagano for the massive scale that everything takes place at.

ech... don't get me started on Accounting, it's even worse... after working at an accounting firm and seeing all the creative ways to play with costs, I think Physics has more rigid laws.. Just went through Gunbuster again, and I caught portions of the soundtrack that were obviously inspired by other famous pieces... Rocky and Hallelujia being the two prime suspects that stand out right now.

She's not going back 10 years, so nothing wrong there... Slightly OT, but since we're going into astrophysics here... :-p One of my ol Physics profs once commented that while "time travel" itself might not be possible, it's feasable if we change our concept of time travel and apply some Einstein. Using layman's terms: If we assume that all time travel is is the desire to observe what happened in the past, all we would need to do is travel faster than the speed of light, speed away from the object we seek to observe, stop, turn around, and we would be able to observe events as they unfold. So theoretically, if we wanted to observe the Romans being decimated at Cannae, we simply need to plot out how far out we need to travel away from Earth. Really simple conceptually. Now, whether time REALLY goes in only one direction... hehe, there's something for the Physics majors among us to answer

Yeah, but I think some of the small hardware design details are still from the manufacturer, such as the aforementioned storage bins, seat design, etc...

Boeings for me... for some reason all the Airbus planes I've flown in have been cramped to hell (knees touching the front cramped, my last trip a month ago left me circling over Hong Kong for five hours in an Airbus...) and have poor luggage space under the seats (there's always this box or some other thing in the way for some reason). On the other hand, Airbus planes are the only ones I've flown in that have personal entertainment and the occasional power outlet in economy. I'd still rather fly Boeing.

uhh... cause in my circle nobody knows it as LOGH? Most of the Asian anime sites I hang out on refer to it as DLDS, and after 10+ years of discussing plot points, it comes out more natural? It was a jest, and in poor humour, I recognize that and apologize.

Not even that... a lot of the battles in DLDS (I refuse to call it by any other name, lol) are mind games, and unless you want voiceover commentaries or somebody doing the "OMG!!! He.... *blah blah goes on to describe what he does while being destroyed*...", it won't really work. Not to mention the uniforms... the wavy golden hair.... the beret... I just smell a very bad sci-fi B movie....

http://www.nitroplus.co.jp/pc/lineup/into_08/index.html You guessed right, it's an H-Game.

Are we talking about JPop songs adapted as Anime OP/EDs, original pieces, or actual scores? 1. "Tell Me Why" by PEN PALS (Berserk) 2. "Forces" by Susumu Hirasawa (Berserk) 3. "Gatts" by Susumu Hirasawa (Berserk) 4. "Bandiria (Physical Navigation Version)" by Susumu Hirasawa (Detonator Orgun) 5. "Climas Hope" by Susumu Hirasawa (Detonator Orgun) 6. "Inner Light" by Shocking Lemon (Hajime no Ippo) 7. "Selenite" by RURUTIA (Karas) 8. "Cloud Age Symphony" by Shuntaro Okino (Last Exile) 9. "Cyborg Mermaid" by Kaori Akima (Battle Angel) 10. "Yuusha oh Tanjou!!" by Masaaki Endou (GaoGaiGar) 11. "Just Friends" by Chisa Yokoyama (Unkai no Meikyuu Zeguy) 12. "Thanatos - If I Can't Be Yours" by Sagisu Shiro (Evangelion) 13. "Komm, susser tod" (Evangelion) 14. The songs in Suzumiya Haruhi 15. Anime songs by Yumi Matsuzawa seem to be nice, e.g. SNOW, Chikyuugi, etc... 16. Can't forget about the rather prolific singing careers of Megumi Hayashibara and Masami Okui, far too many to list. Scores: 1. "Kumonomukou, Yakousokunobashou" by Tenmon 2. "PATLABOR 2 Sound Renewal" by Kenji Kawai

What?! Hold on... CG to painted toy in just a few months? Yamato sure is moving fast on this one...

whoa, finally got around to seeing this... I gotta say, Gunbuster has aged VERY well compared to some other 80s anime in my collection... very strong EVA vibes though. Does anybody know why the last episode was drawn in widescreen and grayscale?