All Activity
- Past hour
-
-
I really liked the first film so I'm in.
-
Get it while you can! š
- Today
-
Greetings @everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that I'm planning a re-issue of the 1/350 STARFISH (MOSPEADA Garfish) kit. FEATURES: -waterslide markings -translucent parts (lenses, engine thrusters) -hollowed-construction for easy lighting -fighter bays with hatches that can be posed open or closed -a compliment of three in-scale fighter aircraft -glorious 35.5cm length in 1/350 scale Kit price: $330 Canadian dollars + shipping $369 CAD with shipping* *covers shipping to all Canadian and US contiguous destinations. Hawaii, Puerto Rico and international customers please inquire for exact quote. If interested, just PM me, thanks!
-
Going full Terminator 2 would really, REALLY bad a bad idea. Earth's governments and militaries are under the control of "The Five" megacorporations. It's not until Weyland-Yutani collapses between Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection that the government regains some control. I feel vindicated that someone else noticed this and felt that was unrealistic. š Bangkok at midday, with no traffic on any visible road? Talk about unrealistic. From the dialog, apparently they were supposed to put GPS tags on any survivors they found so follow-on teams could extract them.
-
The computer and electronics super geek thread
mikeszekely replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Seems that early benchmarks on the Xbox Ally X suggest the Z2 Extreme isn't much of an upgrade. Sounds like my ROG Ally X is safe for another year. -
Earth "Military" or government is actually controlled via the 5 Mega-corps in this series. Which is quite interesting as the novels and comics depict things very differently. In the novels up to today, you have the United America's (Us), Union of Progress People (all communist groups like China and Russia), Three World Empire (UK & Japan), Independent Core Systems Colonies/ICSC (Colony worlds), New Albion Protectorate (broken away group from TWE, almost like Australians and New Zelanders) then finally Interstellar Commerce Comission/ICC Which we hear about in ALIENS who take care of all trade and regulation enforcement in space to the colonies and earth. What's odd is NONE of these organizations are even mentioned and are supposed to be the world governments that control yet influenced by the Mega-corporations. In ALIEN: Enemy of my enemy, All of these organizations were supposed to link up on a colonized world to talk about the terroristic attacks brought on by some rogue group who's dropping pathegon bombs on colony worlds. And in the early drafts of ALIEN 3 the UPP play a rather important part of the script. All these organizations are supposed to exist yet never mentioned, they even exist with Amanda being an adult so I can't believe they all just sprouted up over night either. So yeah, I do rather feel Alien Earth is half baked and no one really did their research and no one at Disney/Fox even gave a rats-ass about it.
-
I mostly skipped through here and there, but there are some bizarre engineering choices. One that really stands out is how the hips don't even secure to the nosecone in Battroid.
-
Excellent review as usual. Pretty surprised on the limited range of motion on the lower leg, I can only speculate Sentinel wanted to ensure stability with all the heft, moreso when combined with the Legioss on its lap.
-
I'm looking to build up my cash reserves at the moment and don't have the leeway for another overseas trip this year. But if it was closer like Singapore, I would have been having second thoughts hahaha
-
Not at all, feedback always helps me to get better, so all comments are welcome. I'm just happy someone's looking at them! š
-
It's good that they're releasing Arad's after Mirage's. I really hope they release the other variants too.
-
Makes sense that a viewport screenshot doesn't have all the lighting of a render. I'm just nitpicking, don't take it too seriously lol.
-
Nice Scann, could you share the name of the scann app? Thanks
-
Just about a third of the way though episode 2. There's a few things bug me, some of which have been mentioned by others already. No attempt by Earth's military shown to stop the ship crashing / shoot it down / divert it's course etc. Yes, the ship had to crash to move the story forward, but at least they could have had a short scene referencing this. No evacuation warning shown being given to the population of Bangkok. I'm sure the ship was being tracked and the approximate crash site would have been known. The crashed ship doing increadibly little damage to the city and the building it crashed into. Bangkok having almost no traffic, yeah, no. The Prodigy soldiers were supposed to be on a rescue mission, but were not carrying any sort of rescue gear, not even ropes. Were they supposed to be rescuing survivors with their rifles? š¤£
-
So two things... Alright I'm calling it now....
-
-
Since this is now a thing can we expect
-
I used to work at a distribution center and there was a particular trucking company that came down from British Columbia that had just about every driver with the name Singh. I one day asked if they were related since we had a pre holiday backup and a few of them were hanging around waiting to be let in and none of them knew each other. I had never seen so many people with the same last name in one place, let alone that all worked for the same company and from the same location, yet was surprised that they didnāt know each other. Anyway, Iām sure he did the complex google search of finding the family through searching if they had a child that recently died with that particular name.
-
Yeah, don't expect to get it anywhere near release date. I'm STILL waiting for them to deliver on my original YF-21 kit preorder. Still, $35 isn't too bad, and Bandai's decals have never been worth the paper they're printed on anyway. I'll probably just make a custom scheme for it.
-
Please no. Just... no. The first two were bad enough, and the writer-director is the same hack behind the first one. Just take the pen away from Christophe Gans already.
-
Oh boy, what will I observe in "Observation"? My hope is for a steady improvement in the quality of the writing. My expectation... a lot of faffing about and not a lot else. First big surprise... Interesting if true, as this would concretely explain why animals and particularly cats seem to be much better at detecting the Xenomorph's approach than Humans. If this series were better written, I would suspect that Boy Cavalier's misquotation here is meant to show that even as a genius he is eminently fallible. That was, after all, how they played a similar gaffe in Alien: Covenant when David 8 mistakenly attributes Ozymandias to Lord Byron instead of Percy Shelley. Instead, because this series is a mess and nobody corrects him, I'm just going to assume that the writers used some AI search tool and got hallucinated at because the statement he attributes to Isaac Asimov is actually Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Boy Cavalier is for some reason mightily impressed by his billion dollar AI robot's feat of... adjusting the pitch of a replayed audio file? Show this boy WinAmp plugins or a Gen IV Pokemon game's Pokedex... it'll blow his f***ing mind. Hell, show him the YouTube search results for "Nightcore" and we'll never hear from him again. With this, I come to the realization that I am bored. Deeply and profoundly bored. There is no sense of direction or momentum to this story. This is a horror story with no tension. No menace. No sense of mounting dread. Just a bunch of the freshman year Intro to Philosophy pseduo-profound navel gazing bullsh*t from a double handful of incredibly pretentious characters with some monsters hanging around in the background presumably even more bored than the audience is. Someone really needs to tell Ridley Scott and the others that if they want to do Blade Runner spinoffs they can just DO Blade Runner spinoffs. They don't need to waste everyone's time trying to turn every Alien sequel into a failed soft launch for a Great Value brand version of Blade Runner. The most interesting shot of the episode so far is a random monitor lizard swimming in the foreground. Swimming monitor lizard has my vote for best character. Thanks to Hermit's history lesson we get names for all five of the megacorporations that rule the world: Weyland-Yutani, Prodigy, Threshold, Dynamic, and Lynch. I swear they put more effort into picking and licensing music for the credits than they did into actually writing this. Someone help Noah Hawley, his horror series doesn't know how to horror.
-
Probably a bunch of little things and a butt ton of decals and probably some opening hatches and such
-
Hadnāt heard that one in quite some time honestly. I still feel a bit down about how their breakup went. Thatās why Iāve been kinda thinking theyāre a mix of technological and a bit less biological. Like rather than just a psychic link, more of a sort of wi fi type of thing going on.
-
Itās up for preorder at hlj, not sure when or if youāll get one though
