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  2. M'Kyuun
    Lovely little ship- those angles are great, like an extrapolation of the Horton Bros' and Jack Northrop's flying wings. This itself would make for a splendid set, just saying. I'd be in for a couple copies. I'm a big Space fan, too, but I'm waiting for the fervor to die down, or for a double points period, or a visit to my local LEGO Store, whichever comes first. I don't have anywhere to display it, and this is definitely a display piece. I read a review saying that the head doesn't rotate, which would be fair if indeed there was some sort of hidden rocket buried within. However, the review made no mention of said hidden rocket, so it really beggars the question of why they'd leave such an easily accomplished bit of simple articulation out of the build. It's also a bummer that they used two 2x2 slopes with modern computer graphics instead of resurrecting the old CS computer graphics, a move that surely would've made a lot of Space fans giddy. Lastly, and the biggest black eye, they didn't include a proper astrofig. This would've been the perfect opportunity to officially give us the coveted light bley astrofig without resorting to piecing one together from disparate sources. The light bley fig would've been an apropos compliment to the large blue fig, recalling the old blue and grey ships. Just seems a huge missed opportunity to give Space fans an extra bit of Classic Space goodness.
  3. borgified
  4. rsvictor1976
    Is that the 2016 version? I thought it had more highlights? The one I want is the -1.0 2023 version.
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  6. David Hingtgen
    New thought, because RAM is more insane than GPU the more I look: Re-use my existing DDR4 RAM. While there are DDR4+5 combo boards, none have 4 slots for DDR4. (even trying to get up to 64 of DDR4 is ridiculous right now, but I can make due with my current 48) So thinking: get a new DDR4 mobo, and whatever CPU is best to try to weather the RAM storm. Could even be AM4? But would like AM5 for for future-proofing. Seems Intel abandoned DDR4 comparability earlier, but some recent CPU's may still be an option? DDR4+late AM4 won't be a huge upgrade processing wise, but really I need better PCIe+GPU more than anything.
  7. 26662
    Like this one? This thing is ginormous! I saw one online retailer selling it for $1,500!!!! [But they had discounted it to $400. But still!?!?]
  8. davidwhangchoi
    woot has some parts you may be looking for but it may sell it quick. the 5090 sold out as well as the 5060 ti with 16gb ram and 9070 xt, there still a 5070 available, might be useless but doesn't hurt to sort through.
  9. danth
    Oh yeah, I noticed that too. According to the instructions, there is exactly one robot (even though the product description says "robots"), and zero hidden rockets. WTF, Lego?
  10. danth
    I ordered this when I stayed up past midnight this Saturday (or technically Sunday). As a Lego Space fan it was a day 1 purchase. Apparently it went into back order the same day. I ended up also buying the Arcade Machine (40805), the Moon Mission Science Kit (45200, already have Mars Mission), and the Baby Construction Loader (60483, mainly because of the dark orange parts I want to use in a 2024/25 City Space MOC). The Arcade Machine breaks my No Stickers rule but it does have a decent number of large prints. I also splurged on the recent Bricklink Designer Program Alchemist's Shop, because it's just super great. I've also been MOCing myself and designed this little Spaceship (sorry for terrible quality photos):
  11. sketchley
    There is very little information on those short range fleets. Some supposition is that the SDFN class (from Macross F) and Akusho (from Macross 7) may have at one point been involved in those short range fleets. The Battleships Of The Galaxy Book 3: Zentrādi Military Vessels (a fan-made dojinshi) supposed that the Unified Government converted the Zentrādi Kirutora Keruēru into Environment Ships (the Kirutora Keruēru-class Environment Ships), but the write-up indicates they were for the Super Long-range Emigrant Fleets. Nevertheless, it does suggest that other converted Zentrādi ships could have been used in those short range fleets. Those short range fleets also appear to mostly have occurred only during the initial period shortly after the end of the First Interstellar War. The limited materials on them suggest that they started being launched before the completion of the Megaroad-01. So, the supposition that ships used in those fleets later returned to Earth and were repurposed to other roles or fleets makes a lot of sense. Macross Chronicle did have a poetic line about some Super Long-range Emigrant Fleets being fated to spend "half an eternity" looking for a habitable planet. Yeah. The production team really played fast and loose with continuity in that game. I'm glad that they were reined in a lot more with VF-X2!
  12. F-ZeroOne
    Something thats been blowing my mind a bit recently is after watching a recent Jeremy Parish video is that the US only had two dedicated video gaming magazines for a period of about four years between 1984 and 1988, and one of those was a self-published newsletter apparently put out by two middle aged women that no-one has ever heard of. From a British perspective, thats... look, magazines were a huge part of the British computer/video gaming background of the 80s. We had "Crash", "ZZAP 64", "Your Sinclair", "Sinclair User", "Amstrad Action", "Computer and Videogames" - and thats just to name the famous ones; there also were the short-lived publications like "Big K" and even odd platforms like the Dragon 32 had their own titles. This continued well into the 16-bit and even 32-bit eras. Now, granted, many of these weren't in the strictest sense absolutely dedicated "videogame" magazines as they were largely covering personal computing and several started out as general computing titles with gaming just part of it but it wasn't too long before games were largely running the show for a lot of them (also, in those days, you needed at least a degree of familiarity with computing to be a gamer, from typing in a "LOAD" command just to start running a game to invoking the mysterious art of the "POKE" if you actually wanted to beat Jet Set F... REAKIN' Willy). The people that wrote for them were in some cases literally school kids and several have commented how they could be treated almost like rock stars when they met their magazines readers.
  13. sh9000
    https://www.target.com/p/-/A-94744409
  14. F-ZeroOne
    But is there an alternate build if you put it together in less than two hours though? 😅
  15. TangledThorns
    Yeah, may go see SCARY MOVIE if its actually funny. The first two films were funny and raunchy af.
  16. grogall
    So the May issue of Hobby Japan will be a special issue on Armoured Trooper V.O.T.O.M.S.. Not sure when the actual release is? via (X) twitter...
  17. TG Remix
    Looking through the character bios in Macross Generation, they seem to expand on them ever so slightly. Passero, the main character, grew up in the Blangongne district (which seems to be a play on Burgundy, it's spelled ブランゴーニュ instead of ブルゴーニ) of Jupiter's satellite city. The wording implies that there seems to be only one of them per planet, so presumably she came from White Flora, the same one Miho Miho came from. Rafale came from District 15 of Jupiter's Miranda settlement, and Liza from District 14, which probably explains where they met each other and became a couple. Although the wording implies it's within the planet's atmosphere, like Mars' HG Wells City. Most amusingly is where Ghana came from, as he's from the Redswood district of Saturn's ring shaped satellite city, even more hilarious that it's the only one we have an inking on how it looks. I keep forgetting the existence of the Stealth Cruisers. It'd probably help if they got an actual name... I did mention the Vandal from VF-X2, but I suppose in the context of the game, it was used by Vinderance instead of the UN/Latence. But in my defense it was one of the doohickeys that Critical Path Corporation made, so every super boss barring the Macross 13 was made by them. This includes the Annabella Lasiodora, which was in both the UN's Ceres Base and Vinderance's home base. So in regards to short range fleets, I'm assuming their ship situation would be different. I'm not sure if it means if they have to build a new fleet from the ground up if they settle on a planet, either relying on Earth's factory satellites or one they happen to find elsewhere, or if their escort fleet would reach the same size as Macross 7's or the Megaroad-01s. In that sense I can also see them being a bit smaller in a general sense, since unless they're not tied to the Central UN, they can just rely on their next door neighbors for help more then somewhere further away. And then there's the Megaroad-01 itself, which reached the center of it in 4 years time. All around it does make it seem like emigrating to other planets a very sporadic process, where some take significantly longer then others to find a suitable planet. While you are absolutely correct, Digital Mission VF-X is also a game that doesn't bother to do anything other then the bare minimum, and even then it's stretching it. Was disappointing to learn that Elysium just has zero explanation on why such a developed colony (4 giant metropolis; and a few military bases that reach similar sizes) was abandoned, amongst other things.
  18. 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...)
  19. 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.
  20. borgified
    Teased on Fakebook and Instagram (14 hrs ago) for those that collect 1/6th dollies. 😜
  21. ImChris5115
  22. 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.
  23. vt102
    Still patiently waiting for that DX VT superostrich review.
  24. vt102
    I love those early Yamatos. Something about that iridescent cockpit.
  25. vt102
    Found my Chara works vol. 1 also.
  26. 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)
  27. 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.
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