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  2. sketchley
    Yeah... Fold speeds are a grey area. The only "official" specifics we have are from material about Macross Plus (the distance and travel time—given as a broad time frame) or the doubly vague "20 years to the centre of the galaxy" from Macross F. While Macross Plus is great for nerding out over, it's also for an 'experimental and disposable' Fold Booster. So, erring on the side of caution, that's on the slower side of the scale and a ship-scale Fold drive ought to be significantly faster and/or traverse greater distances. Then we get statements like the Varōta High Speed Cruiser being able to travel even faster than a "normal" ship-scale Fold Drive... 😵 Ultimately, it seems to boil down to "speed of plot", and probably best not to get too deep in the weeds about. Especially as there are some stories that play fast and loose with the rules (the penultimate story beat in Macross Digital Mission VF-X to name 1 of many...)
  3. azrael
    LTT ran a video last week about a pre-builts from Costco. Some units may not have all the best components but they might be able to get you 80% there and you can upgrade when a good deal comes out. Microcenter and Newegg are running combo deals (CPU+Mobo+RAM) every week. Unfortunately the best time to have picked up a Nvidia card with 16GB VRAM was back in November/December 2025. If you can find a 5070Ti/5060Ti-16GB for a decent price, get it. Stepping down to a 5070 is probably your best option right now. Unfortunately, if you want a decent priced 16GB VRAM card, the Radeon 9070XT is your best sub-$1000 if Nvidia stock is lacking. Crucial P310 are still available. How much longer...🤷‍♂️ Silicon Power is your next best budget option. However, these are DRAM-less options. I'd try to stick to Gen4 drives to keep costs down. RAM....yeah. You'll have to start with 32GB and have to upgrade later. Consider slower RAM to save money. But right now, I'd stick to 32GB and upgrade later. That's the best option. Look at Thermalright Peerless Assassin. It can do just as well as the Noctua D15 at half the cost. You can play with your fan curves to make things quieter. But if you really want silence, then AIO is your better choice. 2 2TB 990 Evos now probably cost as much as a 5070Ti...from back in October.
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  5. borgified
    Teased on Fakebook and Instagram (14 hrs ago) for those that collect 1/6th dollies. 😜
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  7. Seto Kaiba
    That may have more to do with the 55th Fleet doing a lot more exploring and scouting on its way towards the galactic core since their objective was Vajra space for the sake of a fold quartz gold rush. Fold faults may be denser near the core too, which may also account for it. Megaroad-04 crossed the entire galaxy and ended up running into the fold faults surrounding Windermere IV on the far side of the Brisingr globular cluster in 2027, a bit over ten years after departing Earth c.2015/2016. It seems to vary heavily, explicitly dependent on the quality of the fold system (and its fold carbon core), the precision of the fold navigation calculations, and local conditions (e.g. intense gravity fields, fold faults). (For instance, the trip to Gallia IV that would have been almost instantaneous if not for fold faults that turned it into a day-long trip with a week's time loss.) Master File has one of the very few semi-official statements of an actual distance-over-time, with the account of the Spica III incident noting that the ~260 light year distance between Earth and Spica III in the Alpha Virginis system is less than a day's travel time for a high-speed cruiser c.2037. Prior to that, the only other explicit mention of travel time without stops was a speed record for the Eden-Earth run (11.7ly) at 112 minutes from a piece that was done to promote a model kit.
  8. vt102
    Still patiently waiting for that DX VT superostrich review.
  9. vt102
    I love those early Yamatos. Something about that iridescent cockpit.
  10. vt102
    Found my Chara works vol. 1 also.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Nearest Microcenter is hours away, but all of the others look like decent options, will look into them. My case is so old that it's basically jerry-rigged to support USB 3 ports, so if I were to build, I would need to buy that too. Though SSD's+PSU should be usable. ::edit:: googling/looking Is EVERYTHING AIO nowadays? Are they like, 10x more leak-proof than they were a decade ago? Still, I really want air-cooled, for sheer peace of mind. Also---the newest parts of my current PC, are two 990 Evo Plus's, 2TB each. And I think I paid like a third of what they're asking for now. They're pretty new, and could easily save quite a bit of money if I used them in a new build. Will depend on how much a 5070 ti or so goes for, alone. (are there any mobo+RAM+GPU combos out there? Ideal would be 5070ti+64GB). Processor will be "whatever". (I do prefer Gigabyte for both mobo and GPU, but really any of the major ones will do, though I would prefer to avoid Asus mobo---had an issue a while ago I'll never forget)
  12. sketchley
    Expanding on what Seto said: in the initial period, there were 2 types of Emigrant Fleet: close range (within 100 ly of Earth*), and long range. It makes sense that elements of the close range fleets would return to Earth and be reused due to the distances involved (E.g. parts of the fleet that discovered Planet Eden; located a mere 11.7 light years from Earth—about 1 day's travel. Isamu took around 18 hours* with the experimental Fold Booster). To give some numbers on the farthest flung Emigrant Fleets: the Macross F Fleet was described as having taken "20 years" to navigate to the vicinity of the centre of the galaxy, and it would take about half that time (10 years one-way) for a ship to return to Earth. So, I think the NUNS crews and civilians knew that they were on a one-way trip when they launched. The advent of the Super Fold Drive (in Macross F) reduced travel times to 1/10, but that would still take 1 year. Not impossible, but not really feasible. * back of the envelope math. 100 ly takes about 8.33 days to traverse with a standard Fold Drive.
  13. vt102
    I was going through one of my bins and I came across these. I forgot I had them especially that little SD kit. Also came across a box of my 1/144 Chara Works vol. 2 planes. Hopefully the picture size is ok?
  14. davidwhangchoi
    there's some 9800x3d cpu ram mother board combo deals often on newegg and better deals on microcenter if you are local to one with good prices Micro Center: 3-in-1 CPU + Mobo + RAM Deals are Back (e.g., 9800x3D+B650E+32GB combo $680) $679.99 Not what they used to be, but they are including the CL36 G.Skill RAM again in the Micro Center combo bundles again. Full list (several CPU/Mobo/RAM combo options): https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/bundle-and-save.aspx 9800x3D $680 Combo: https://www.microcenter.com/product/5007092/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d,-asus-b650e-e-tuf-gaming-wifi-am5,-gskill-flare-x5-series-32gb-ddr5-6000-kit,-computer-build-bundle 9700X $530 They have some with 16GB also, see full list link. Store: Micro Center 2 pre-builds that are decent price in light of the current market: Skytech Prism 4 Gaming Desktop: R7 9800X3D, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD + Free KMA MSI Force GC30 wireless controller + Resident Evil Requiem + Crimson Desert $2518.99 SPECS: Operating System: Windows 11 Home CPU: AMD R7 9800X3D Graphics: Nvidia RTX 5080 16GB RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000MHZ RGB Case: Prism 4 Black/Wood (Antec C8 Curve Wood) Primary Hard Drive: 1 TB NVMe Gen4 CPU Cooler: 360mm AIO Fans: 10 Motherboard: B650 Power Supply: 850W GOLD ATX 3.0 Warranty: 1-Year Parts, Labor & Shipping Support, Lifetime Technical Support Dimensions: 18.27" x 11.93" x 18.74" https://skytechgaming.com/product...b-32gb-ram eCoupons at checkout: SWARM SMS50 XEN Store: Skytech Gaming pre-build at microcenter 2799 new and (YMMV) 2500 open box depending on location there is currently an open box avail in SoCal: PowerSpec G762 Gaming PC: Ryzen 7 9850X3D, RTX 5080, 64GB DDR5, 2TB SSD $2799.99 (open box 2500) Available In-Store Only; SPECS: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D (4.7GHz) Processor ASRock X870 Pro-A WiFi Motherboard 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Graphics Card 2TB NVMe SSD 2.5GbE LAN, WiFi 7 (802.11be), Bluetooth 5.4 Windows 11 Home
  15. JB0
    I'm incredibly disappointed they didn't do anything to fill the gap in the moon buggy roof. Since you aren't gonna be storing the sword blade there with the upgrade kit, there's no purpose to it and the gap is just unsightly.
  16. jenius

    1/55's revisited

    jenius replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    I would sell mine for that much
  17. rsvictor1976
    I ended up going back to Target during my lunch break today and got lucky with finding another Hot Rod. I took it home only discover QC issues with the arm covers/lasers popping off the second you touch them. I went surgical and just took apart both Hot Rods and Frankensteining together a Hot Rod with no defects. I'm just gonna return the one with all the QC issues.
  18. 26662

    1/55's revisited

    26662 replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    Same. I have maybe 4 here at the house in various stages of disassembly and another dozen or so in storage right now. Still an addict. Can’t wait for the “Missing Link” VF-1J release later this year. That said, take a look at this insanity: https://ebay.us/m/QdF2QC
  19. dec0y13
    I would also like to buy the files. (I have my own printers)
  20. Valkyrie Hunter D
    I guess it's just BBTS' markup:
  21. sh9000
    Idk. Mine seems fine. Just saw this pic get posted. Hot Rod needs to convert to Rodimus so that he can store all his sh!t.
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  24. sh9000
    https://skeletron.com/collections/4-red-shadows®-action-figures-faction-4-series https://skeletron.com/collections/retro-o-ring-action-figures-more Red Shadows and Retro-styled.
  25. sh9000
    NECA Aliens Alien Queen.
  26. jenius
    Choosing a notoriously problematically scaled vehicle as the point of reference That Legioss is pretty though!
  27. m0n5t3r
    Floppy left shoulder 1:43 mark - https://youtu.be/qyZlM2CgxJA?t=102&si=-ZmrsO1fikrh8swO
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