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- Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:36 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Gundam Thunderbolt Anime Thread Mk I
- Replies: 264
- Views: 95194
Re: The Official Gundam Thunderbolt Anime Thread Mk I
I felt about like that for the first half or so, but I thought the second half did a great job of humanizing the characters. Io at first just comes off as a raging psychopath a la Yazan or Ali, and Daryl seems like a standard "I will protect my friends!!" shonen protagonist, but things go ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2017 12:35 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: OYW MS questions
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14371
Re: OYW MS questions
Zeon's amphibious mobile suits used open-cycle water-cooled reactors (ie, they just ran seawater through the system to cool it down, then dumped the now-heated seawater out behind them), which is what allowed them to make the reactor strong enough to power beam weapons without e-caps. But it also me...
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:45 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: A bunch of assorted Gundam UC questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5162
Re: A bunch of assorted Gundam UC questions
We never get much detail on the organization of the Federation government, as far as I'm aware. The main governing body seems to be the Federation Assembly (Char gives his big speech to them in Zeta, and they declare the Titans outlaws), which is a parliament-style body, but if there's any head exec...
- Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:58 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk III
- Replies: 683
- Views: 199898
Re: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk
I sitll believe it would either need another season or an OVA to wrap things up nicely. The Remaining episoded cannot cover all the ground they have shaken so far. There are 10+ episodes left. I'm not sure if they're doing a full 52, but even if they skip episodes for the two weeks we just missed, ...
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:13 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: OYW MS questions
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14371
Re: OYW MS questions
I'm trying, but I don't think I can recall any occasion on which a Zaku destroyed a GM in the animation. I think I've seen them kill more Gundams than GMs! :-) -- Mark I can think of at least one -- there's a rather infamous gif of a Zaku destroying a GM by kicking a Ball into it , though admittedl...
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 4:03 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Mecha Thread Mk II
- Replies: 605
- Views: 240282
Re: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Mecha Thread Mk
As I recall, no one possesses the technological know-how to synchronize even a double reactor setup anymore, which is why they can't produce any new Gundam frames -- I'm extremely skeptical of their ability to throw a third reactor into an existing dual-reactor setup and actually have it function pr...
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 12:15 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk III
- Replies: 683
- Views: 199898
Re: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk
If not, that leaves us with the odd interpretation that the limiter system is part of the cockpit AV system itself, and thus part of those mobile workers, which is of course ridiculous. Why is that ridiculous? That's exactly how I read the explanation. The Gundams spotted the mobile armor and kicke...
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 11:50 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: RCX-76 Guncannon: Why did it suck so bad?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23560
Re: RCX-76 Guncannon: Why did it suck so bad?
"The Guncannon lost because the Zaku had better mobility" is a fair point, but the question wasn't "why did the Guncannon lose", but "what makes it a walking tank instead of a real mobile suit". Drawing arbitrary lines and saying "you must have this level of mobili...
- Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:18 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: RCX-76 Guncannon: Why did it suck so bad?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23560
Re: RCX-76 Guncannon: Why did it suck so bad?
I think you're sort of missing the point, Zeonista. The question is why the Guncannon was just a "walking Guntank" instead of a "real mobile suit". The answer seems to be that there was no real major qualitative technical difference between the Guncannon and the Zaku, and the rea...
- Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:13 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Mysterious Alloy - Universal Duralumin and Zeonium
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4934
Re: Mysterious Alloy - Universal Duralumin and Zeonium
It's one of the myriad different print sources for technical information about Gundam stuff. Here's some details.
- Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:18 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: question regarding rau le creuset piloting a MS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4051
Re: question regarding rau le creuset piloting a MS
Rau being a Coordinator at Al da Flaga's orders doesn't really make any sense, though. The whole reason he had Rau created in the first place was because he wanted an exact genetic duplicate of himself. He disliked Mu, his own son, because half of Mu's genes belonged to someone else (his mother). Wi...
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:27 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk III
- Replies: 683
- Views: 199898
Re: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk
Mika's record in battle puts Amuro/Kira/Heero/Setsuna to shame Uh, I think that's a bit of hyperbole there. Kira, Heero, and Setsuna all literally take on armies by themselves and win. Mika's fights in IBO are way less lopsided. Yeah, Mika is a beast in combat by IBO standards, but he doesn't have ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:04 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Universal Century population?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6456
Re: Universal Century population?
Usually the population distribution is a bell shaped curve, with more in the middle ...no, that's not how population distribution works. Everyone who is middle aged was young before that, so you can't have fewer young people than middle aged people unless your population is in the process of crashi...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:14 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk III
- Replies: 683
- Views: 199898
Re: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk
I don't think it's been explicitly mentioned, but it makes sense. The Earth Branch was supposed to train and advise Arbrau, not do their fighting for them. They had enough personnel and hardware to whip Arbrau into shape, but not to fight a war by themselves -- but the conflict with the SAU started ...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:07 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Universal Century population?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6456
Re: Universal Century population?
Well, let's do some back-of-the-napkin math on that. Out of 6.5 billion people, half of them will be men, so they can't give birth and we can ignore them. That leaves 3.25 billion. Some of those will be either too young or too old to have kids; let's take a wild guess and say that the ages of popula...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 5:04 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Assisted Technologies for Human Adaptation to Space?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3371
Re: Assisted Technologies for Human Adaptation to Space?
Yeah, the whole point of Island 3 colonies (the type seen in the Universal Century) is that the living environment is extremely similar to conditions on Earth. Same level of apparent gravity, same general atmospheric makeup (if not quite equal to full sea level pressure, but not unreasonably thin, e...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:53 pm
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Universal Century population?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6456
Re: Universal Century population?
I actually have a thread on this subject from back on Gundam Evolution (timestamps put it at 2008 -- time flies!) that covers things pretty well. I'll just quote Mark's comments from that one: I think the easiest solution, quite frankly, is to cut out the historical population figures from the timel...
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:04 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk III
- Replies: 683
- Views: 199898
Re: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk
I mean the dude has no personality, 30 episodes in. Other silent types (Heero, Setsuna etc) have already gotten developed character arcs by this point, and we know why they fight. You don't have to like Mika, but I don't think you can legitimately claim that he has no character development or that ...
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:52 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: New AOZ Re-Boot MS: Gaza A and AMX-008M GaZowmn Marine Type
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4018
Re: New AOZ Re-Boot MS: Gaza A and AMX-008M GaZowmn Marine T
we do need to remember that by Chars neo-zeon the movement had no government body funding Military R&D. The Sweetwater movement was mainly running on funds Char had stashed during the past 3 wars including some gold he stole from the Zabi's. That's an interesting claim, which I've never heard b...
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:37 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk III
- Replies: 683
- Views: 199898
Re: The Official Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Anime Thread Mk
Nope, he's not the head of the family. One of the old timers at the Seven Stars meeting in episode 26 is his father, so Gaelio is not in a position of power yet. Huh, I missed that. Then what was even the point of trying to kill Gaelio, if it didn't mean that control of the Bauduin family fell to h...