I totally get what you're saying and agree that parents know their kids best and are ultimately the ones who have to make that decision. Here's the thing that pisses me off the most, though: critics of violent/graphic video games long to take that decision out of parents' hands and force some kind of…

They're military aircraft, sure, but the interiors of the presidential fleet are not like all other military versions of the same model aircraft. They've definitely been pimped out to be executive corporate interiors complete with soundproofing, comfy leather seats, plush carpeting, the whole nine yards. Plus other,…

S'cool, man. I'm sure if someone came around and called an M2 Bradley or Warrior IFV a "tank" you'd understand the distinction between form and function. :)

The term "aircraft carrier" is as much a definition of a warship's role than anything else. Sure, the Izumo is technically an aircraft carrier because it carries aircraft (primarily helicopters), but how it will be used is what distinguishes it from being the "aircraft carrier" image that comes to most people's minds.

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Actually, the term "destroyer" evolved from shortening their original classification as "torpedo boat destroyers" at the end of the 19th Century. Relatively fast and nimble torpedo boats were threats to the dreadnoughts and early battleships of the day and destroyers were developed as platforms to counter them. …

Nope.

Some guy in Tennessee has beat you to it.

While I do not know this for certain, my best guess is that the aerostat might be considered in technical terms a component of an area-wide air defense system, like a radar array, and not an aircraft, which would put it under the purview of the Army's air defense branch. It would be similar to the search radar…

Agreed. Also, with all those surplus crabs right off the bat, you could make some early trade deals. Later on, with the seaport improvement, all those crabs will eventually generate production.

It was once said that GRRM's A Tale of Fire and Ice was unfilmable. As a movie franchise, no, but we know now that, with great production and cast, Game of Thrones works very well as an HBO series. That is what I hoped would happen with WWZ, but we got this instead.

Not at first, no, assuming the price never goes down. The MS fanatics and early adopters will buy the bulk of the Xbox Ones to start, then some time in the spring of 2014 there will be a price drop and it'll be more appealing to the general consumer.

Who has what exclusives is such a nebulous subject. Forget whether or not exclusives eventually are ported over to other platforms; it's all so very subjective. What qualifies as a "good" title to one person doesn't necessarily mean it will be palatable to the next person. To me, in the end, what we gamers want is…

I count twice here.

Shazam is available, but you won't even need an app for the song recognition you're looking for. It's built into the search feature along with a location scout and QR code/bar code reader.

I agree. Where is the great Mechwarrior film? Palladium is sitting on a gold mine with their RIFTS IP.

Yeah, this complaint has me scratching my head. My boss bought a Lumia 920 and he let me hold it. It's not substantially heavier than my own Lumia 900 even though it is significantly larger, dimensionally. I'd hazard a guess that the polycarbonate unibody gives the handset such a sturdy, solid "feel" that someone…

The art can't be as bad as the Comico adaptation of the original saga or the graphic novel... can it? I hate to say it, but some of that was pretty amateurish.

I think I totally missed out on the Malcontent Uprisings comics, which disappoints me. I understand that time period was a really formative time for Max and Miriya's characters, who I loved. Did you ever delve into Palladium's Robotech RPG and related sourcebooks? If not, there's a TON of useful source material in…

It's too bad "Robotech II: The Sentinels" didn't get beyond the first four or so episodes before the project was canned. Sure, Harmony Gold managed to glom what work was completed into one extended episode and give fans at least something, but it left so much hanging. The series started with the Rick/Lisa wedding…

Also, when the Marines first entered Hadley's Hope and were sweeping the rooms in twos, there was a dramatic build-up when Hudson and Dietrich (Vasquez's smartgun bro) picked up movement and it turned out to be a hamster running in its wheel.