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  2. shazam
  3. davidwhangchoi
    Technical Stuff that i'm very interested in: Positive improvements for some games
  4. Seto Kaiba
    It's a video game, bro... I guarantee you the dev team literally did not care about making anything in true scale. 🤣 What Artdink's dev team did care about was picking a design for the Gefion that plausibly fit with the premise of the game's story. The SMS branch on Uroboros is not there to provide PMC services to Uroboros's government. They're not even really meant to be a combat unit at all. They're a well-funded, but minimally staffed, R&D unit led by an eccentric senior researcher. Their mission is to study the intense and widespread fold fault activity around the planet and work on ways for fold faults to be traversed safely. The minimal staffing and remote location make secrecy easier to maintain. In practical terms, that meant the Gefion needed to be: An escort warship large enough to plausibly hold 3-4 Variable Fighters for the main cast. Small enough to not dominate the area map in any of the game's zones and plausibly be operated by a handful of people. Lacking in offensive power to the point that SMS cannot plausibly overpower the other factions in the game using it. Visually communicate that SMS Uroboros is a small operation lacking the resources of a dedicated combat unit. The Northampton-class was a pretty ideal choice there, since it was a design used in Macross Frontier and its movies, it's a very small and lightly armed stealth warship, and it has been shown to carry ~3 Variable Fighters in normal operating conditions (in Macross 7). They just slapped some catapult decks on the side because that linear catapult launch in the Macross Frontier series is so dang satisfying. The scale's off a bit, sure, and once you've got a dozen or so support characters you start to wonder where they're putting everyone... but that was a lower priority than finding something that fit the bill, looked nice doing it, and worked naturally with the game. The only other pre-existing design that would have fit the bill would be the Valhalla III-type from Macross Digital Mission VF-X... which would've been kind of badass in its own right but the catapult launch on that one would've been much more complex and possibly induce motion sickness. Using one of the larger carrier classes was right out. They're too big, they imply too much power at SMS's disposal, and the player is naturally going to wonder why a ship that was designed to hold multiple squadrons of Variable Fighters only has one other pilot - who is also the ship's captain - aboard at the start of the game.
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  6. sjoebarry
    I’d buy a green instantly
  7. TangledThorns
    I thought it was well made. There is only so much you can do with the PREDATOR and it seems they are pushing it more than ever before. Also, Michael Biehn's age seems to be taking a toll on him as he sounded much older than he really is.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Naturally. Even the very finest actors cannot save a production with a garbage script and lackluster direction. Ms. Ridley herself is not the problem. She can only do her best with what she's given. The problem facing New Jedi Order is that they're trying to sell another movie based on a character whose audience reception hovers somewhere between total ambivalence and general antipathy. The writers of the sequel trilogy did a very poor job with Rey as a character and it's going to be very difficult, potentially impossible, for her to win over the crowd now. The kind of writing that works for stories like Andor doesn't really work for something like a Jedi-centric story. The Jedi and the Sith exist in a simpler, more child-friendly context where morality is reduced to a simple matter of Good vs. Evil, where the villains are melodramatic evil sorcerers and blood knights, and where the Chosen Hero of Destiny saves the day every time. You can't have that AND do grounded, morally complex, realistic writing like Andor's... they're antithecal premises. A lot of classic fantasy stories started out as folk tales... little bits of oral mytho-history, fairy tales, and folkloric explanations for the weirdness of the natural world. They're short and to the point because they exist to teach a simple moral lesson, to teach children what not to do, or just explain weird sh*t that happens naturally. Sequels, prequels, all that hot nonsense has existed for a long time too. One could argue that Homer's Odyssey was a sequel to his Iliad. Those existed more in the realms of complex, bawdy, and bloody mytho-history meant for the theatergoing adult. Commercial sequels... it's hard to say how old those truly are. Shakespeare did at least one, that being Henry IV Part II, but even that wasn't really making stuff up off the cuff to keep a story going past its end. They do imply that the war we see in the OT is only one that's happened, so it's justified even without showing another. I think moving far enough down the timeline that everyone from the originals is long dead would be a good move. They don't want to because they want to lean on all that residual goodwill audiences have for the existing cast. Developing new factions, a new main cast, and new designs all from scratch is a hard and a big investment... something they were burned by in the sequel trilogy. They can try to maintain stasis, much like how The Acolyte looks essentially no different to the "modern day" despite being 100+ years apart, but that's unsatifying in its own way. Kind of a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation IMO... but at this point they have little to lose now that Andor's over and the best they have in the pipe is more unintentionally sexist displays of girl power putting the entire galaxy in danger in Ahsoka season two.
  9. GMK
    Doesn’t look like it. Sprue “MJ” is the Max figure sprue.
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  11. Big s
    That’s interesting, I’d love to hear that they included a Kakizaki figure as well, now I’ll have to check. Although that’s definitely some wishful thinking on my part
  12. Big s
    Fantasies rarely had a sequel because they were usually short stories up til maybe dime novels started and eventually Tolkien wrote a story with sequels and prequels and all kinds of things. The idea of milking a franchise is probably older than what I mentioned. Star Wars implies that there’s more than one just from the title. But in my personal opinion any sequel war would have been more interesting if it was much further in the future and just had side stories or smaller stories between that time. To upset the balance of the force kinda thing shouldn’t have been so immediate after the og trilogy ended.
  13. GMK
    Yeah, it was news to me, too.
  14. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Leon is still supposedly a main character:
  15. JB0
    Best part about every new Styropyro post is it stands as confirmation he hasn't managed to accidentally kill himself. Second-best part is seeing what mad science he's up to this time, and how likely it is to blind someone(or everyone).
  16. sh9000
    Yep it looks excellent.
  17. sh9000
    MS02.
  18. shazam
  19. sh9000
  20. JB0
    My sister's window AC unit has smart appliance wi-fi nonsense. She was like "I am never connecting that to the network. Is there a way to completely disable the radio without breaking the air conditioner?"
  21. sh9000
    Containment.
  22. shazam
  23. sh9000
    Superman.
  24. sh9000
    AX panel.
  25. Thom
    Yeah, the writing could have been far better but I'm still up for seeing her in more SW movies. Get a better story arc and better writers (psst, Andor has some) and she'd be great.
  26. Seto Kaiba
    Oh, absolutely... and that was a cycle LucasFilm and its licensees had already gone through several times over more than twenty years before LucasFilm was acquired by Disney. That was the Star Wars Expanded Universe, where the fighting just never bloody stopped and which was on its seventh galactic government (and the fifth post-Empire one) in 21 years of realtime and about 130 years of in-story time when Disney and LucasFilm decided to pull the plug in the runup to the sequel trilogy. As I understand it, the official Happy Ending Override was Heir to the Empire in '91. Disney LucasFilm is just doing exactly what pre-Disney LucasFilm was already doing... milking the franchise until everything that made it likeable or interesting has run dry.
  27. sh9000
  28. Thom
    I think they started undoing the 'happy ending' with the EU books.
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