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My favourite is the VF-4 Lightning III, hands down. Still stoked about getting the toy, just wish I could have gotten two (or three). The timing was terrible.

Other than that, I'd have to say it's a toss-up between the VF-1S Strike, or the VF-0. If there was a VF-0 with Strike packs it would break that tie, but there's not.

Beyond that, hard to say. I do like the VA-3 for being unique. The VF-14 is awesome. I don't think there's a canon VF design I don't like.

I'd love;

VA-3 Invader

VF-11 Jamming Birds

VF-11 Full Armour

VF-1C from Dynamite 7

VF-9 Cutlass

VF-14 Vampire

Battle 7

Battle Frontier

Battle Galaxy

Battle Pod

Of course, with the price of Valks lately due to the dollar to yen issue, I'd be just as happy if Yamato put out stuff I could easily pass on for a while.

I was ready to pull the trigger on two of these, but the website wouldn't accept my credit card for the order. So I tried again for just one, probably the more financially responsible move. It went through, so I'm just getting one, not the two I really wanted.

I hope these things come around again sometime, but at least I got one coming my way.

If Yamato does another wave down the line I probably won't be able to talk myself out of getting another. Definitely won't if it's a new paint scheme.

Huh. NY won't accept my credit card. Weird. Are they still the only ones with a pre-order?

Not really.

That the goo is nanotech is a leap as it is not mentioned at all. Not only do you never see anything assimilated, but as a plot device it never comes up at all. Sure, you could explain it away like that, but it's so far removed from what the movie presents the viewer with that it falls purely into the realm of fan fiction.

Also, if it were a nanotech machine designed to spit out xenomorphs, why wouldn't it just go straight to that from the beginning? You wouldn't need all these contrived, and conflicting, in-between stages.

I need this to live! HOW DO I EXCHANGE MONIES FOR THIS THING I NEED?

What's that? I couldn't hear you under the crushing roar of box office money pouring into Marvel's bank account.

Alright, I'll concede to the fact that the chestburster took time off on its killing spree to scrounge up packed food in the mess hall. Something the whole crew missed or maybe it's as insignificant as taking a dump in space that no one bothered to take account fr it on screen.

I'm saying it is that insignificant, yes.

We know the chestburster was loose on the ship, we don't know how long. When we see it later it's the size of a human adult. We really don't need to see it stealing Cheetos and Pepsi from the ship's pantry to fill in the blank. Maybe it ate something to grow as big as it did, maybe it didn't. The important part is that the movie leaves it as a possibility so you really can't say it's beyond disbelief when we see the adult sized xeno later. Even if it didn't eat anything, the size difference between the chest burster and the adult xenomorph is far less drastic than the squidbaby and the monstrously large tentacle beast that faceraped the engineer.

So what did the c-section alien eat to get to be that size in the sealed off operating room? placenta?

That's a good question, isn't it?

i think you're the one making the assumptions there. Why would it not eat his kills? It prefers processed food? lol.

Um...I never said anything remotely like that.

You stated that the chestburster could not have eaten anything because all of the humans were accounted for.

I pointed out this is a logical fallacy because you are assuming the human crew is the only thing the chestburster could have eaten.

At no point do I so much as imply that it doesn't eat what it kills or that it prefers anything.

Keep taking tallies on my made up fouls on your account. Maybe your fan fiction will have me on time out.

You're the only one writing fanfiction here. Please don't add me as a character!

Sorry gotta call foul on you foul. I stated that logically, there was no one left for him to eat. Every character on the Nostromo was accounted for before he became full size. Stating some ridiculous claim about Ripley's cornholio doesn't support or deconstruct my statement.

You're working under the assumption that Humanmeatcakes are the only things xenomorphs eat. The Alien chestburster was loose with access to the entire ship. We know they had food for the crew aboard. Sorry, but that's two fouls on you.

In Alien the chestburster doesn't eat anything to grow into full size. For some reason that's never been a factor for growth. Actually you never really see a xenomorph eat. They cocoon their victims so it can gestate a new chestburster.

Sorry, gotta call a logical foul on this.

That the movies never show a xenomorph sitting down to a nutritious breakfast to grow big and strong is no evidence whatsoever that they don't eat.

You never see Ripley go to the bathroom through any of the movies she was in, or anyone else for that matter, yet this is no reason to assume that "number 1" and "number 2" have been done away with in the Alien universe.

The little squidbaby from Prometheus bugs me too. No available food source, it remained locked in that tiny medical lab, yet it grew larger than three engineers and a full grown xenomorph and the Prius they all cram into to carpool to work.

That was a minor quibble compared to how overly convoluted the steps from "alien goop" to "proto-xenomorph" was. A part of what grounded the first two Alien movies (haven't seen the third since the 90's so no-comment) was how simple and sensible the xenomorph life cycle was. There was nothing that took you out of the movie going, "Wait, why did it...how did it...what?"

In Prometheus it starts out as a jam, then it's a drink mixer, then it's an eye tentacle, then it's an STD, then it's a snake, then it's a zombie, then its a squidbaby, then it's the squid alien from the end of Watchmen, then it's a toothless xenomorph with no chestburster stage which threatens to gum you to death as it desperately tries to drive home how this is a prequel.

Can't see the trailer on the website "Not available in your country", anything actually shown?

I loved this book as a kid, but I've kinda drifted apart from it. Lately I've been thinking more and more that Batman works best when you play up the Lovecraftian bent the whole mythos has.

You've got this guy, sees his parents gunned down in front of him, and years later he starts dressing like a bat and employing vigilante justice. Most of his villains are either clinically insane, the rest are horrific mutants, all of them have backstories which would be perfectly at home within a Lovecraft story. The Batman himself isn't exactly the poster child of sanity.

Batman kinda stands out from the rest of the DC universe like that, but it always gets downplayed for the "grim vigilante crime fighter" angle, which Miller's work exemplifies. It's fun, don't get me wrong, but I find it far less interesting than what they could be doing with the character.

That said, I actually like the art in DKR, for what it is. It fits the mood of Miller's book perfectly. Honestly, the animation shown looks far too clean for Miller's work. They lifted the basic designs, but then gave it a whitewashing. Crisp, perfect linework isn't always a good thing.

Just finished rewatching "GaoGaiGar" and started up "Betterman" for the first time, in between bouts of "Samurai Jack". Rewatched ALL of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" before that.

Not sure what I'll watch next. I never got far in "Eureka 7" so maybe I'll sit down with that.

Also, this isn't the only probe that is out their.

Quoted for truth.

There's a lot of scientists. A lot of them at NASA, a lot in the other various space agencies and companies, a lot of people around the world working on exploring the solar system in a lot of different ways.

We've got probes orbiting the sun. We're regularly sending probes to the moon. China intends to land a probe on the moon's surface soon. We sent probe to Mercury, Cassini's Saturn mission has been amazing, and the fastest probe we've got out there is speeding it's way towards Pluto, which is so small and so far away that the images we currently have of it are just blurry dots.

And lets not lose perspective here, people.

Today NASA has landed a 1-tonne nuclear powered robot with a laser cannon and a jet pack on Mars.

SCIENCE! F*@K YEAH!

I'm also wary of the standing issue ... looking at the pictures, how can we not have doubts?

Maybe it's just me, but given how this very same worry has come up every time we've seen a prototype with a stand since at least when I first joined the forum, around 2001 or whenever, and has pretty much never wound up being an issue, I just find it a bit funny now.

I'll be worried if we see final production models all using stands and not a single image of one without. A partially assembled resin prototype doesn't worry me in the slightest.

No doubt in my mind, if it's priced reasonably enough I'm pre-ordering two.

I intend to get two of these in the VF-X scheme. I'd like to have at least three, tho, but I'd like more paint schemes. A FB2012 version would be ideal, but I'd be perfectly happy with some non-cannon schemes, like a version with the VF-X Ravens VF-11 scheme or something.

This is my favourite Valkyrie design, I could easily convince myself to get more than 4 if they release variants.

That's exactly what a remake of SDF Macross should look like. All they gotta do is use the original soundtrack and voices.

I love the redone 2D stuff. I'm sure they could do much, much better in terms of the CG mecha. Honestly, I'd rather they do hand drawn mecha, but that's becoming a lost art, it looks like.

We can still be happy that something like this even exists, right?

I expect most of us are. I'm eager to start tossing money at this. I intend to get at least one right away, but I really want three, one for each mode. I'd prefer different colour schemes for that, tho. Still, I could easily convince myself to buy two now, and make one my desk version at work once Yamato releases another paint scheme.

Ooo. The Odyssey came out around the time I'd stopped playing. I did the mission that gave you one for free (tho I'm not nearly high enough level to access it). Didn't hear about the Armitage or this new carrier.

Less so interested in the fleet stuff. Mostly because I'm not invested enough to really say I intend to keep playing. The most fun I have with the game is trying to come up with interesting ship names that fit the character limit.

USS Uninvited Guest

USS Another Fine Product

USS Irrational Discourse

USS Big Stick

USS Wrench in Your Plans

USS Happy Accident

USS Horse You Rode In On

USS Voiding Your Warranty

USS Diplomatic Pressure

USS Economic Sanctions

USS Tingling Sensation

USS This May Hurt A Little

And so on.

Hell, I'll be happy to nab some unique repaints later if they release any. Fokker coloured VF-4, Max and Millia VF-4s, SMS VF-4....

Did they ever add any new ship designs? I really couldn't stand most of the ship styles. I finally got myself an Excelsior and pretty much was done with the game. I hate the Next Gen and STO unique ship styles. I understand there's licensing issues to prevent them from getting a lot of the ship designs from the Starfleet Command games or the new movies, but it just seemed like there was a handful of ship designs and a limited number of customization options for each ship class.

Also, did they put the interns on the environments? Every interior in the game seems like it's designed for Zentradi. I feel like an ant whether I'm on my own bridge or at Starbase, or in some civilian freighter that's being raided. I noticed the NPCs tend to float at their work stations, standing or sitting, because everything is so out of scale.

Another visual design quibble, but I noticed even when I made my character 5'9", everyone else in the game towered over me. Is everyone in STO 6'8"?