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  2. Black Valkyrie
  3. M'Kyuun
    Man, it figures that the fanstream is on the 10th; I'm getting laser surgery on my eye at the time of the stream. Fortunately, i should be home by the time POs go up.
  4. Big s
    Ok, they don’t really have the same limit after the stuff comes in stock, so the last three were just basic add ons I guess.
  5. Roy Focker
    It was mentioned a few years ago that IOI the makers of Hitman were going to do a James Bond game. I was wondering about its status after the franchise was sold to Amazon. Looks like the game is still going forward. I found their Hitman games to be very fun with the sneaking around or walking around wearing disguises in exotic locations trying to get to your target to very Bond like. Can't wait to play this game.
  6. shazam
  7. Today
  8. PointBlankSniper
    First of all, I double checked google to make sure I'm not tripping: Nyan had all the agency. She choses to cuck, and choses to kill. She decided to run away on foot when the gundam was in her hands, and choses to join a political faction for a scholarship. The only decision Machu makes is to continue to stick her neck into danger for the sake of the story continuing, otherwise, Everything she only ever does involves escaping mortal danger by the guidance of someone else. IBO was not heavy at all. It was absurdly shallow, and I rate it the absolute worst of Gundam. The main story was Mikazuki fights crazy frog guy, and learns from him that he likes killing people. The rest of the story is him living this out by gaslighting Orga into sending all their friends to their death. Everytime Orga tries to give up on their stupid suicide quest, Mika tells him to question himself until he's ready for war again. When Orga gives in and plans to send their friends to their deaths, Mika gasses him up with feigned indifference as support. Any character that comes to their senses and tries breaking away from their suicide quest gets to die first. Rinse and repeat. The underlying story, is Mcgillis wants to be king, so he starts by pissing and killing off his most loyal followers in order destroy his own chances. We are told that to be the boss, you just need to steal the Bael. Had he started with that move, while he was still loved, nobody would have opposed him, and he would have instantly succeeded. To access Bael's hangar, all you need is for Vidar to kick the ceiling in. We also know Gaelio would have unconditionally done that for Mcgillis had he not been betrayed. This could all have been done on day 1 and the whole pointless Tekkadan story could have been avoided. Basically, the plot was a big roundabout nothing burger. My favorite part was when Juilieta debuted by eating a butterfly to show how she was a psychotic genius child. By the end, she became more and more stoned so that a random evil engineer could expose the whole plot to her for no reason, without her interjecting. And then she became a normal person and lived happily ever after with Gaelio. 10/10 consistent and deep character development writing. I'm still wondering what the inspiring speech Kudelia gave to the parliament at the end of s1 entails to this day. All I got was that she made an opening statement, and then the random nobody Ein from ep1 came to be the s1 final boss for no reason so that the writer could skip the speech. Rustal was drummed to be the greatest strategic genius too, but all a saw was the writer recycling Iok's idiotic plan on a greater scale, and then attributing it to Rustal's success. While I'm at it, lets not forget the designated 3 eps of talking heads on panning still backgrounds, into a battle previews, where the battle then happens at the last minute of the ep, and then gets resolved in the opening minute of the next ep, while all the notable choreography was already shown in the previews. Also, most of the fights involve top right entrance, bumping the enemy away towards the left. Almost as stock footage as seed. The show was so predicatble that it was basically clockwork. By the end, it was actually cathartic to watch Julieta and Gaelio put and end to the deplorable trainwreck writing. I couldn't believe how much I ended up liking them for McDuffing up the misserable attempt at reskinning Macbeth in a gundam setting.
  9. Gabe Q
    Ah man! I forgot all about that Kakizaki version. I hope I can find one for a reasonable price! If anyone spots one could you please let us know?
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Call me a huge literary nerd if you want, but the actual literary definition of a main character/protagonist is the character whose actions are central to the plot and move the story forward through their interaction with the antagonist(s) via the story's central conflict. What you're describing there is a POV character. You can have multiple of those, and they need not be the story's main character, but in general at least one of them spends their time in the story observing the main character whose actions move the plot forward. To give a Gundam example, Reconguista in G shows events through the perspective of Bellri Zenam, Luin Lee, Noredo Nug, and others... but it's principally the actions and views of Bellri that move the story forward making him the Main Character. Framing Machu, Shuji, and Nyan as the show's main characters definitely looks like a mistake at the present time. Shuji, I agree, he's a walking plot device not a character. He has no personality. He's had no real character development. What little we've seen of him suggests that he's basically a sockpuppet for the disembodied consciousness inhabiting the Alpha Psycommu of the Red Gundam and getting raptured out of the frigging story two episodes ago didn't really change anything about the story. Nyan, no... if any character is totally lacking in agency it's her. She is just kind of involuntarily caught in Machu's orbit from the get-go because Machu was sharp enough to notice Nyan had slipped the black market installer device into her bag and spot the tracker on it. The only time she ever really takes action is when Machu can't... when Machu's stuck in that locker with Xavier and will miss their Clan Battle while Shuji's sick, or when Machu needs to rob the Pomeranians to fund their escape to Earth. She only goes to Zeon when things go pear-shaped because Xavier insists on it and she only becomes a test pilot for the GFreD because Kycilia insists on it. She only ever reacts to what other characters do around her, never moving on her own. Machu... well... Machu's problem is just a lack of character development that leaves her actions feeling knee-jerk or motivationless a lot of the time. She's making decisions, but because the writers are much more interested with the background drama surrounding the Zabi family power struggle, the choices she makes don't really influence the story in any meaningful way. Not that Komori or Xavier are any better off than Nyan, really. I'd have to disagree with you there. I don't think good Gundam writing is dead. Gundam: Reconguista in G had an unusual story that went in a very different direction from usual Gundam stories, but in many ways it was a refreshing change of pace and it brought some engaging and likeable characters like Bellri. Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin was a retread of old ground, sure, but it had its fair share of extremely powerful moments especially surrounding its depiction of Operation British. I remember watching the episode where Iffish is prepared for the drop over a lunch break at work and being disturbed by it the entire rest of the day because it was such an unflinching display of Zeon's willful malice. Iron-Blooded Orphans was so heavy I completely understand why people dropped it because of its unrelenting grimness, but it had a lot of powerful moments in its writing that I think make it more than worthy to be counted among the great Gundam shows. Hathaway's Flash Part 1 was pretty solid too, just like the novel. The only thing wrong with Cucuruz Doan's Island was that they took a story meant for a 23 minute TV episode and stretched it 5x longer than it was meant to be so it feels thin as a result. I think we've had a couple of lazy titles in the last few years... but nothing that was unfixable with a little polish. The Witch from Mercury's had solid, if unremarkable design works and an interesting premise. Its main flaw was just that its protagonists were so wealthy and so privileged that the writers struggled to come up with believable conflicts for them, ending up repeatingly creating and then breaking arbitrary rules in the setting to inject tension. SEED Freedom was a lazy rehash of Destiny, but even that could've worked if they'd picked a new direction to go in with the characters. Requiem for Vengeance may have been a glorified tech demo, but the only thing really holding its story back was the way that the writers inexplicably decided to awkwardly dance around the fact that Zeon were 100% the Bad Guys in the One Year War. Making Iria Solari a villain protagonist or having her struggle with the demands of country vs. her morals would've made her a much more interesting character. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: Urdr Hunt has the same writing team as the main series, so I have a pretty good feeling about that one.
  11. azrael
    Still gonna wait for Black Friday/holiday bundles. Maybe more brands will release a SDEX cards by the end of the year besides Lexar. Also 1st adopters can work out the kinks. 😘
  12. KOG Water Dragon
    I'm a little worried, no private warehouse notice for the VF-1A Max I pre-ordered yet...
  13. pengbuzz
    Expected nothing, was still disappointed.
  14. mikeszekely
    Alas, no. Though, the can does detach from SS86 Magnus. Maybe I should check if Legacy Prime can pull it... You should be able to open the order from your history and cancel by item (so if you want to cancel the whole order, check all the items). If it won't let you, that means it's processing to ship imminently (at least, from my experience with the US version). Hasbro will sell it on Pulse. I've never been to California, let alone San Diego at Comic Con, but I've had very little trouble getting the SDCC exclusives over the years.
  15. Mog
    So . . . because of all these “cost-saving” measures by Bandai, is it probably a blessing that the prototype TV SDF-1 has become vaporware?
  16. Lolicon
    The whites on some on a number of my Bandai valks that I've had for a long time have either faded or flat out yellowed. When the white fades, it's only really only noticeable next to the painted parts and/or parts that used a slightly different plastic (or placed next to a brand new revival) but it's there. Yamato valks I've had even longer have not really had issues with yellowing at all. Bandai seems to use a cheaper plastic, at least on these older toys. Only time will tell if they improved it on the revivals. Check another box on the "Bandai cuts corners" list.
  17. tekering
    Damn, those details are CRISP! You've really outdone yourself on this beast. So glad I ordered two!
  18. Scyla
    It depends what you have. Some of the MMC figures are crazy expensive, like Commodus.
  19. tekering
    Really? Maybe I should sell mine... 🤔 I'm a greedy SOB. 😉 Have any third-party figures appreciated in value?
  20. Hikuro
    You can transfer your data to the cloud network with or without the switch 2 ahead of time. I already did all my stuff at work and skipped the prompt. Later uploaded my switch data to the cloud and downloaded it later. either way no matter what you do when you transfer it factory resets. But you can still go back to your old switch, download the data and you should be fine.
  21. danth
    I want the Void Rivals, even though I know nothing about them. I just like retro o-ring figures. There's no way I'm going to SDCC though. Not sure how normal people acquire these kind of things besides eBay.
  22. sh9000
    Yes. Preordered Vega at The Chosen Prime.
  23. davidwhangchoi
    Will the white cabby come with a trailer to carry cars?
  24. pengbuzz
    Yup (on all accounts! ) Working on the model as we speak; at least it's keeping my mind off the diabetes diagnosis I got today (organ damage to pancreas amongst other things). Doctor put me on ozempic, so we'll see how that works. (at this rate, I wonder how it is my body still works at all!)
  25. F-ZeroOne
    Heads up for those that have got a Switch 2, according to reports, if you want to transfer the data from an original Switch you have to do it when the 2 prompts you when first started up, you will not get a second opportunity without a factory reset, which will likely lose you the data you were trying to transfer in the first place.
  26. Scyla
    Of course it is Nemesis Prime. That would be awesome but first I need to figure out how to cancel an order with Hasbro Pulse.
  27. Papa Rat
    I see. That’s a bummer. The 1-D is getting reissued. Maybe we see the same with Hayao and having it available for all regions?
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