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That record perk is card stock and it a good thing it has the Victor logo on it
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Last year that wallet sold for pennies. I was struggling to buy it and sold in seconds. On that "M" sight. Something about it. Tells me it is a perk.
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Of course it will and hundred percent agreed. They got the wrong person to play He Man and other issues
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Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
pengbuzz replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
Okay; thanks for clarifying that. That reminds me... I wonder if Boddole Zer ever did this with any under his command: - Today
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
sh9000 replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
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Your Most Recent General Toy Purchase - 2024 Edition
sh9000 replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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Didn't realize it was probably region locked. I'm using JP postal code since I would go through buyee anyway. Just use 100-0001 postal code. IIRC its just the Tokyo Palace so I could be certain of Tokyo availability and shipping rates that buyee would be covered under as well. It's the default listing. And that's just the cheapest one, but there are tons of "new" sellers well below what you screenshotted as well.
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Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV
nightmareB4macross replied to Urashiman's topic in The Workshop!
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Somehow missed this, & gotta these look fantastic! Am hunting these down now. Always loved the character designs in Ranma 1/2.
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The computer and electronics super geek thread
azrael replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
It earlier this week. It wasn't on my priority list so I missed out on a Beelink Ser9 (had it saved in my cart and checked back when I got home and the price already went up and was out of stock at that price point) and a Dell Pro Micro refurb (was in my cart, went to a meeting and gone after I came back). I also was tracking a Beelink Ser8, but even those disappeared. I see some SSD "deals" that I might act on instead ("Deals" meaning that's the price they were being sold at back in August as opposed to the inflated price they are sold at today). -
🤣 With that blue tape I would have guessed it was Max's Valkyrie, in which case that should probably read "position 639 of the Kama Sutra" 😉
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Nice Job! Is that a custom mix blue, or straight from a jar? Looks perfect.
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Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
JB0 replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
Honestly, it's amazing Mylene DOESN'T get violent with Basara. -
The computer and electronics super geek thread
davidwhangchoi replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
there' still time if you think it's worth the effort to return rebuy, There's holiday extended returns but it's definitely combinable with cashback offers. works for 100% of paypal users. https://slickdeals.net/f/18824500-select-paypal-accounts-one-eligible-purchase-pay-later-with-paypal-get-20-cash-back-up-to-1-250-spent?v=1 https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-paypals-bnpl-20-cash-back-deal-works-on-steam-wallet-frame-gabecube-20-off-usa-only-up-limited-to-1-transaction-now.1359463/ -
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Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
Seto Kaiba replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
It's directly stated multiple times in the Macross Chronicle Mechanic Sheets for Boddole Zer's and Laplamiz's mobile fortresses as well as the Character Sheets for Boddole Zer and for Milia (Laplamiz is an extra note on hers) that Gol Boddole Zer and Moruk Laplamiz are computers that form the core of their respective mobile fortresses. In keeping with their faction's particular aesthetics, Boddole Zer is an "Ultra-large living command computer" while Laplamiz is an "Ultra-large holographic computer". -
The computer and electronics super geek thread
mikeszekely replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
No, first I'm hearing of it. I just used the regular credit card I use for everything. Between that and all-season tires for my Porsche I'll get some points that I'll cash it for gift cards for Christmas. -
The computer and electronics super geek thread
davidwhangchoi replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
hope you took advantage of the 20% off paypal promo. before there was no limit but they changed it to 1 transaction per customer after a whole week went by. -
Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
pengbuzz replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
At the risk of how this may sound Seto: is it official that DYRL Boddole Zer was simply an AI (Macross chronicle or other publication/ source), or is that what you gather from the OVA? Not doubting you or trying to question you; just wanted to know it if was canon. -
Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
Seto Kaiba replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
Well, yeah... that's the kind of design usage you can only really get away with in media being marketed to existing fans. Like the other games, Macross VF-X2's writing assumes the player has done a certain amount of prerequisite reading/watching and is familiar with a lot of the set pieces the game's story is playing with. The main TV series titles are all intended for both new and existing fans, so the creative team pursues a certain "visual clarity" in the proceedings to ensure that each faction is made distinct for the viewer's benefit and that the "hero mecha" are distinct from the cannon fodder as well. That's why we don't see any Zentradi ships among the New UN Forces in the later titles, why Macross Galaxy and Windermere IV use a completely separate set of ship classes from the New UN Forces, and why the VF-19 got the axe as main fighter because it looked too "hero mecha-y".😆 Well, that's not exactly fair... or entirely accurate. Zentradi technology doesn't really need improving in a technological sense. It's not the fanciest or most feature-rich hardware out there but it's not meant to be. The Protoculture equipped the Zentradi with the most rugged, dependable, and economical military hardware they could. Their ships and mecha are basically Ragnarok-proof and will run pretty much forever if not for battle damage. Klan even boasts about this to the Macross Quarter crew at one point. Overtechnology improves Human technology in visible ways because Human technology was hundreds if not thousands of years behind the mass-produced lowest-bidder military hardware the Protoculture designed for their Zentradi forces. About all that Human engineers can do is try to improve on the areas the Protoculture deliberately neglected: safety and survivability. So improvements like the Queadluun-Rher's focus mainly on things like beefing up armor, improving pilot awareness with better sensors and a BDI, and preventing single-point failures with redundant control circuits. I don't think that's necessarily true in most titles. Guld certainly gets hit with that awfully hard but that's his past trauma combined with Isamu being a master button-pusher. Other prominent Zentradi characters are often shown as simply being eccentric. Sylvie is a quarter Meltran and a soldier, but the main focus on her is normally that she's a dutiful soldier (or just really attractive) and it's actually her entirely Human boyfriend Nex Gilbert who's a gung-ho fighter jock. We see several other Zentradi in that OVA who are basically Earth culture otaku. Milia c.2045 is depicted mainly as a stereotypical Japanese middle-aged mom worrying about getting her daughters to wed into good families, gossiping, and the like. Mylene stands out not in being predisposed to violence but in her being the realist opposite Basara's idealism and Veffidas is just there to be weird. Ranka doesn't have a violent bone in her body and the focus on her is her devotion to culture and music, and Richard Bilra's just a train otaku and Minmay fan. Mirage and Ernest Johnson almost fit the bill, but in both cases they stand out because they're rubbish as warriors... Mirage having quit the Spacy because she couldn't live up to the family legacy of Awesomeness and Johnson is presented as a commander who can't seem to win. Outside of the original series where the first-ever generation of Zentradi adapting to Earth's culture struggled, the only time we really see that is with the 33rd Marines in Frontier. Even then, the 33rd Marines are noted to be a unit of problem children that even other Zentradi regard with scorn and whose bad behavior was being exacerbated by a Macross Galaxy-aligned plant. The marine unit in Shalal City can't be blamed for what happened because they fell victim to Var syndrome and had no control of their actions. They were perfectly peaceful and getting by just fine prior to that. As we saw in Frontier, there are some Zentradi who are either more recent inductees into Earth's culture or simply weirdos fetishizing the Zentradi's warrior heritage for their own purposes (like Lyle in Macross: Eternal Love Song). They're basically space versions of swedeaboos who fetishize a wildly inaccurate version of Norse culture for its alleged macho-ness.😆 Given that Exsedol's enhancements are also said to be tied to his genetic makeup and a part of his basic design, it's doubtful that Vrlitwhai's implants are due to injury. Other Zentradi commanders have similar body modifications. They can't all be losing exactly one eye. Like a lot of Macross titles, the Macross II prequel games cut a dash between versions of events. In some of the backgrounds, you can see things like the Macross with its main gun missing ala DYRL? but with the Daedalus and Prometheus attached like in the DYRL? novelization. He was designed and constructed as an integral part of the ship. The DYRL? versions of Boddole Zer and Laplamiz are not really people, per se. In short, they are the self-aware AI computers that were constructed as essential components of their respective mobile fortresses. They exist as both the ship's main computer and the de facto commander of the fleets supporting the mobile fortress. They are the ship's brain and it is their body in a very real sense... to such a degree that destroying them "kills" the ship, as happened to Boddole Zer at the end of DYRL?. -
btw, mine just got delivered today. It's, err, nice? At least in default jet mode with the open intakes. But really rather boring overall, tbh. Maybe the matte-finish that's triggering the meh feeling from me. 🥱
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The computer and electronics super geek thread
mikeszekely replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Whatever you're using it for, hope you find a good deal. I feel like I didn't get the best price I could have if I were a little more proactive earlier, but with NAND prices on the rise I think I still got a better deal that I would if I waited a few more months. I wound up buying a Beelink SER5 with a Ryzen 7 6800U, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD for $380. Like I said, it's going to be a Batocera box, and I'd like it to do up to PS2/Gamecube. 32GB of RAM is probably overkill, but boxes with 1TB SSDs were scarce and M.2 drives are already creeping up enough that if I bought one with 16GB of RAM and bought a 1TB drive separately I'd be paying just as much. -
What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0
Dangard Ace replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Since mecha shows are slim pickings this season I finally started Alma-chan wants to be a family. Surprisingly cute and mostly wholesome. Next up is this weeks episode of I'm gonna punch you in the face! aka My I have a final wish.