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    The buzz I’m seeing also says getting caught up by watching Rebels will definitely help understand the backstory of what’s going on. So take that as you will.
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    FYI He went to the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He's just talking about the X-24 in the 1st tweet (or whatever it's called now). 2nd tweet is, obviously, about the X-29. If anyone was looking for Macross news-type stuff from the tweets, there's nothing. Just Kawamori being a tourist. 😝
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    🤨 🙄 This thread is about Disney+ streaming services. How about talking about Disney raising subscription prices by almost 30%. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/disney-to-raise-disney-price-for-ad-free-plan-in-september.html If you can’t find a similar thread, go make a new one.
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    Gotta save money somewhere... VFX is expensive with CGI Gorn. 😁
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    Why not set it whenever they are in the timeline. The present, whenever that may be. And who says they need to be broke? 'Have some imagination. Max Jenius in Macross Delta. The man is in his 70s, flying a YF-29 like he was in his 20s, kicking an entire group of kids flying the new hotness. Granted, a man of his age shouldn't be flying. And he should not be piloting a YF-29 and definitely not like someone 1/3 his age. I'm surprise he didn't go into full cardiac arrest pulling some moves like that as opposed to just clutching his chest.
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    Speaking of the VF-3000, I would like to see a series where the heroes are forced to use older VFs. For. The. Whole. Series. Not a Vanquish-racing situation where pilots intentionally take old VFs and soup 'em up with impossible performance numbers. Not as training vehicles. But use as their primary military vehicles. Like pre-VF-171. To tie to the real world, the US sells F-16 to other countries. The current stock of F-15s are being upgraded to F-15EXs cuz there aren't enough F-22s and F-35s to go around (and other reasons but nevermind that). F/A-18s are still out and about since the F-35 rollout is over-budget and delayed. The F-16 is a 50-year old design and is still seeing combat. The F-15 is 36-pushing-37 years old. The F/A-18E is 28 years old (with the original being 44 years old). All of them are still seeing use in combat. Why can't we have that in a Macross-series? It would be a good way to reuse some old toy molds with only minor tweaks and a new paint job on the merchandise-side. Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island showed us the classics still look good with a bit of detail and some modern touches. Let's see some VF-4s, VF-5000s, VF-14s, VF-11s, proper VF-19s & VF-22s. No VF-1s. 'Seen that twice already. No need to retread on that.
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    FYI, this is fan art created from Rise of the Silver Surfer storyboard art.
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    Fine. Let me settle this for both of you. You're both right and both wrong. Why? When the story says the pilot of the said machine runs out of missiles, they're gonna run outta' missiles. 'Ain't no spec sheet, drawing, or words from a book in the world 'gonna save said pilot. Period. Now drop it or both of you get a vacation.
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    Just remember children, you are arguing about fake specs, for machines that don't exist, from a work of fiction. Calm down.
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    Not necessarily. Writing can take place during production. 'Happens all the time. Example, during production, actors mess-up their lines (hence the famous outakes & blooper reels), so the actor goes up to the director and discusses the dialog. The director says let's shoot it again as is. The director sees and hears it being said during the take and agrees; the dialog, as written, doesn't work. The writer is also on set, sees and hears their script, now being produced in film. Agrees with the director and actor; the dialog doesn't work. So the writer rips out the page and starts rewriting the dialog to better convey the dialog of the scene. Another example. After multiple tries, this one scene doesn't come out right. They'll shoot it later when everyone is happy. Problem is, production has already started. But thanks to the miracle of editing, they can stitch it up in post-production. When the writer and director is happy with the scene on the page, they finally shoot it. Unfortunately, it's been 2..3 weeks since they filmed that whole act of the production. But, thanks to the miracle of editing, they can insert that scene into the act, after the writer worked things out. This is why production slowly starts coming to a halt when the writers went on strike. They can film up to a certain point, but since writing still happens during production, they can only film what's on the page (hence the old adage, "If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage"). After that point, they will have filmed everything on the page and if a portion of the production requires re-writing or to have something new written in, they need writers, who are on strike.
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    Just because someone is gonna write a treatment doesn't mean it's gonna be accepted by the studio nor does it mean it will be good. I prefer to just wait and see.
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    I think the number of years you've had the 2019 revision have probably made up in ROI to invest in the OLED revision. 😁 For me, mine has lived mostly in the dock so I haven't felt the need to get the OLED.
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    Still can’t tell. But it looks like the 1st BD release.
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    It's very hard to tell from that angle. It could be the original BD release or the new BD release here: https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/50390-macross-frontier-blu-ray-box-special-limited-edition-release-on-march-24-2023-jp-release/
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    Lemme me stop you right there. Is there a reason you didn't like it? Without getting political? No? Then just say "I didn't like it" and walk away.
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    The PNY CS900 seems like a good choice for storage. ‘Never used one so I have no basis for comparison. Keep in mind cheap usually means it lacks DRAM cache. That’s fine for a storage drive, but you’ll see some difference if used for a OS/boot drive.
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    North America is not the only market. As I've said, I know for a fact I am not the target demographic for current Macross. I'm fine and happy with that. My expectation is for the franchise to bring in new fans to, as the business-side of me would like, keep that cash-flow going with new fandom and not rely on nostalgia and a stagnant idea base.
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    Ep 7 "Those Old Scientists" dropped early. SSDC folks got to watch it at the convention. It was hilarious. 🤣 Also
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    🤦‍♂️ I know. We literally went over this here:
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    You could try cloning the drives to reflect a better layout (i.e. clone your M.2 drive to a SATA and vice versa to make your M.2 drive as your OS drive). I'd avoid the PCIE Gen 5 drives unless you know your mobo can handle it. Also, many Gen 5 drives come with heatsinks attached so there may be a clearance issue. Gen 5 drives can hit 10 GB/sec reads and near 9.5 GB/sec writes so they can generate a lot of heat. Gen 4 speeds are good enough for most people and most tasks. For OS, a 1TB offers the best size to cost. If you have to go lower, 500/512GB is the smallest size I'd go these days. Since SSDs go on sale quite often, it's hard to judge but my picks for a drive are (in no particular order): Crucial P5 Samsung 980 Pro/EVO WD Black SN850X/SN770 Sabrent Rocket For SATA Crucial MX500/BX500 Samsung 870 Pro/EVO Seagate Barracuda For storage drives, I lean toward greater capacity vs cost, even at the cost of speed. Crucial P2/MX500/BX500 Samsung EVO/QVO WD Black SN770/Blue SA510 Sabrent Rocket Seagate Ironwolf Leven JS600
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    'Not sure how we got into Disney's social & economic choices but tread carefully. My comment was in reference to the fact that even though an article title is a possible Gargoyles movie, it's debunked in the same article and yet we got comments like: "It’s Disney, so I’ll keep my expectations low, really low, really really low" "loved those cartoons as a kid! Hope they do good by it."
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    Yeah. Gotta love 'dem interwebs. Turning maybes into "OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY"RE RE-MAKING MY CHILDHOOD SHOW!!!!!! OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!OMG!!!" We should know. 🙄
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    There's no need for fansubs since it comes with English subs already.
  24. azrael
    "So you want Gundam?" 😁😝
  25. azrael
    So you want Robotech? HEY EVERYONE! ☝️ HE WANTS ROBOTECH! ☝️ 🏃‍♂️💨 *quickly runs away*
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