Mr March
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No problem. When I get home later today I'll build a high resolution picture of the top half of the SDF-1 Macross Attack Mode at about 2,000 x 2,000 pixels. I hope you don't mind but the SDF-1 Macross I'll be giving you is a brand new scan and stylized coloring scheme that I've already built for the next update of my website.
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Giant Bomb has an excellent Quick Look at the new upcoming X-COM Enemy Within DLC. http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-ex-xcom-enemy-within/2300-8002/ Definitely purchasing this one.
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Hey TheElf, I have a high resolution version of my SDF-1 Macross you're using for your background. If you're interested, just let me know the size you need and I'll host the file for you. Oh, and your picture is amazing btw
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Yeah, I have a friend that is the same way. He becomes nauseous from 3D movies and First Person Shooters. Not to worry, the film will still be amazing in 2D, it's just that the 3D is done very well and adds more to the film.
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Saw the film late last night but was too tired by the time I was home to write about it. Gravity is phenomenal entertainment. It's so good, I'm unable to decide if it's better or worse that Children of Men. The biggest revelation with this film is that the characters, story or setting offer nothing all that original, but HOW the characters, story and setting are shown and used is unlike anything you've ever seen before. I've watched countless films about science fiction and space yet Gravity explored those subjects in ways unlike anything I've known. The acting is superb, the dialog is smart and emotional, the music is astounding (I MUST have this soundtrack) and the effects...my gawd, the effects in this film. So many sequences are marvels of visual effects. There's so much going on here and all of it is interesting. Several of the disaster sequences are packed with detail to such an extent I have to watch this film over again to try and catch all that detail. The feeling of weightlessness is accomplished so effortlessly, I could swear the whole film was shot in space. And then of course... ...the tension. The tension almost never lets up. The entire film has you on the edge of your seat. I found myself gasping for air and cringing several times throughout the film. A film hasn't place me on this kind of thrill ride since The Raid. One last thing; if you hate 3D, go see this movie in 3D. Gravity should be the poster child for everything that is right about 3D. This is the 3D film to see. I give Gravity a 5 out of 5. Easily one of the best films about space ever made and an exciting, emotional thrill ride made by a master filmmaker.
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Yeah, some of those specs are for the high-tier of the Steam Machines for sure. Those compenents are approaching the power of my current desktop machine, so they'd be very expensive. Looking great so far
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If I recall, those missiles were also in the Macross Plus anime but were never identified.
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Impressive trailer. Show a lot more diverse gameplay and combat.
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I'm not feeling this show at all. Sure, there's being a patient viewer while a show hit's it's stride, but there has to be something there that draws me in during the wait for the show to reach it's potential. The concept, the actors, the writing, the plots, the music, the effects, anything. But this show, nothing is there except a show about super heroes and the agency tracking them. The dialogue of the pilot was not entertaining, the jokes were not firing and the actors were not engaging, and somehow this second episode seemed to make all that even worse. There is no Josh Holloway here, no Summer Glau, no Timothy Olyphant, no one or two actors in this entire cast that is drawing me in. The stories certainly aren't distinguishing and the effects always feel like bad CG on a sound stage. And the music is just so damned boring. What's worse, this series isn't showing any indication anything different will be done with the super hero concept or sci-fi genre conventions. I've been through Star Trek, X-Files, Stargate, Lost, and a dozen other such broadcast genre shows. If Agents of Shield is just going to be a super hero veneer for yet another tired run of villain/monster/anomaly/disaster-of-the-week episodes WITHOUT any new spin/humor/twist to any of it, I'm out. At least have the balls to be daring and provocative like Battlestar Galactica or have the talent to be funny and entertaining like Firefly. This show is just so dumb it makes "The Avengers" look like "Breaking Bad". I'm going to drop it.
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Yup, looks good.
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That is an impressive painting. Wow.
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I can certainly understand the confusion people have about these announcements. Many people have described the SteamOS/Machine as Valve entering the console wars. Others have - like you said - interpreted this move as a grab for the mass market. I don't think it's that simple and I believe Valve has very good reasons for making the SteamOS and the Steam Machine. While money is no doubt a factor - and lets not fool ourselves that isn't important - I don't believe it's Valve's primary motivator. Valve simply do not like Windows and rightly feel their current business model can be threatened by the control Microsoft has over the OS platform upon which Steam needs to distribute. Valve would be much happier and feel far more secure with a world using an open OS model where any number of companies can support their products (or not) and it doesn't jeopardize their entire business. Knowing what Gabe Newell has said publicly, he and Valve are also critical of developing on the two major consoles and they also love making things easily accessible for everyone. It shouldn't be a surprise Valve is making a PC console; it's the logical progression of their existing business model and the necessary move to ensure the company has a future that isn't at the whim of Microsoft. You're right that Valve is taking this seriously. Nothing in these announcements shows anything but a 100% effort. But this isn't Valve entering the console wars or selling out to the mainstream. This is a company that is both serious about it's own future and is going to bring PC gaming to the living room. If that means their efforts actually change the definition of console and PC video game entertainment, that's a byproduct of the direction of their business. While I have doubts and hopes for the Steam Machine, I agree that the built-in consumer base of Steam customers and the demand layman have for PC gaming will make the Steam Machine successful. And I can't imagine a more killer line up of video games in demand than to sell the Steam Machine to would-be PC gamers by releasing Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3 and Portal 3. Most consoles makers search far and wide for the "one" game to be their killer app. After years being mocked, it appears Valve does in fact think in "threes"
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This is exactly what Valve has in mind. PC gamers (particularly, older PC gamers) forget themselves and their own gaming history far too often when looking at new video game products like the Steam Machine. The older PC gamers grew up in an era when not everyone had a computer or knew how to use them and video gaming was niche - console and PC alike - so DIY was the what it meant to be a gamer. Now for almost two decades computers and consoles are mainstream and are in virtually every home...but does that mean everyone is an advanced power user? No, in fact few are. PC gaming has grown, but it's inaccessibility has meant it's still niche while console gaming has been easy and simple for years. Valve wants to use Big Picture, SteamOS and the SteamMachine to change all that. If all this works, Gabe Newell is going to be the Carl Sagan of PC gaming. It's clear he loves PC gaming and doesn't want it relegated to some second class hobby. He wants everyone in on it and I can't be any happier that this is a real possibility.
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Spike lives!
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I fine finish indeed. I loved how it all wrapped up; Gretchen and Elliott get the money for Flynn (with some dime store motivation, LOL), Skylar gets a way out of her legal troubles, Lydia gets her "stevia" and Todd/Jack get nice new haircuts. I loved how Jack tried to bargin his way out and was cut short. "Bon Voyage Breaking Bad....you were good"
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mikeszekely I must say, reading all that is encouraging. I'm somewhat like you in terms of control preference. I do like my X-Box 360 controller for the PC when it comes to playing games like Dust: An Elysian Tail, Fez, and Mark of the Ninja, But whenever I can I use mouse and keyboard for every FPS, RPG or strategy game I play. Valve had to come up with something gamepad-ish for a living room setup. They couldn't sell keyboards and mice for the console, or even some lap-based platform. The HMI for the Steam Machine had to be something small, portable and easy to use whether you're seated upright, squat on the floor or lying on your elbows and belly because as console gamers that's what we all demand. I understand that and while the console gamer in me demands a small, portable controller of some kind I'm also willing to give a little and meet Valve half way on the responsiveness/applicability of the controller for PC games. Thinking a little about it, it shouldn't be THAT hard to improve on a traditional console gamepad for FPS games since the gamepad is utter crap for those game types. I mean, there's been damn few reinventions in the basic gamepad for decades. Necessity being the mother of invention, I can see why it took something like this Steam Machine to spur ANY kind of creative thought into the gamepad again. I have no doubt Valve struggled long and hard with this controller and put far more thought into it than most others. This is Valve we're talking about and though they aren't infalliable, I have a hard time thinking they'd put this controller to market if it was as crap as the knee-jerk reactions of the naysayers would have us believe. I'm tickled by the positive reactions thus far, but honestly I have to play with this thing before I make any kind of judgement. If it's crap, I can handle that. But I'm really hoping once I get over the learning curve, this controller might actually work.
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GMK No prob. I have a larger version of the picture if you need it. anime52k8 My translation skills are limited to online translators and a LOT if patience. So I translate very little myself, typically no more than a short paragraph and that can take me a whole day. It's best if one of MW's resident experts (Seto, Gubaba?) takes a quick look at it.
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I have a scan from This Is Animation Macross Page 90. It's a big file, but here it is if you can use it.
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No, I can't handle this reasonableness While I'm very eager to try the Steam Machine controller, I do have my reservations about it. I've no doubt the controller is a novel solution that may alleviate some of the problems consoles have when trying to master high definition interfaces. However, I can't see this controller - as good as it may turn out to be - supplanting the mouse and keyboard in any way. The responsiveness of the controller is likely to still be a compromise. Now having said that, how much compromise is the big question for me. It may turn out to be "good enough" but I'd be really surprised if it's really THAT good. Though to be fair, it's not like Valve is talking this controller up as the best thing ever. So maybe they are happy with good enough if it gets the PC gaming market into the living room.
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No where near sufficient, but it's a damned good start, LOL!
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Valve has released it's last of the three major announcements TODAY. And that announcement is...the controller. One look at this thing and I can see why Valve left this one piece of hardware to be announced on it's own. Take a look: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-steam-controller-is-valve-s-third-announcement/1100-4751/ Oh boy, is this controller gonna create a storm of controversy in the gaming world. I can't wait to read all the hate
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I just HAVE to build some custom line art of this design. Phenomenal work!
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Because I don't need my enthusiast class PC to play 90% of the games I own on Steam. Left 4 Dead 1&2, Half-Life 1&2, Portal 1&2, Fez, Mark of the Ninja, Dust: An Elysian Tale, Limbo, Doom 3, Fallout 3, Bioshock 1&2, Starcraft 1&2, etc. I only need my enthusiast class PC for Battlefield 3&4 or Far Cry 3 or Bioshock: Infinite...basically the high end First-Person Shooters. That's the only reason I had to buy one, aside from my high end Photoshop work and the fact that I build my own custom systems. Besides, a guy like me wouldn't buy the low end Steam Machine anyway. I'd likely get the top tier version I suppose. But to 90% of the people I meet, I'm one of those crazy tech heads that actually builds their own PC and still uses one of those "quaint" non-portable machines in a big black box. To the enthusiast PC owners, I'm a barely acceptable computer fan who only gets respect for building his own machine but clearly isn't "serious" enough to do water cooling, custom-painted/illuminated cases or SLI Anyway, getting back to the point - enthusiast or not - there is an average level of PC power for the majority of Steam users that falls far below the high end enthusiast users. That average PC power level is precisely what Valve is going to go for and will sell accordingly.
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Oh wow, all this time I didn't realize the ship in the third picture you posted was the Golg Gants Charts. The funny angle at which it was drawn made it look like a completely different craft, something I had never seen before. For some reason that weird side/partial front angle made the ship look completely different to my eye. Well, I guess there is no mystery craft in DYRL then. My mind is blown! EDIT My mind is blown even more...for the first time I realized that the Golg Gants Charts bears a striking resemblance to the God Warriors from Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind. The two big round eyes, the toothy maw, the big blast of energy the comes forth...wow!
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I don't think the SteamOS, the Steam Machine and the other form factor PCs are aiming to be "consoles" or competing with Sony or Microsoft. Valve and co. are clearly aiming to bring PC gaming to the living room. Now, if in so doing that changes the definition of what "console" and "PC" actually mean for living room entertainment...all the better! I'd like nothing better than to get away from this console-style gaming and PC-style gaming nonsense that dominates the video game landscape and have them both available on one box. I'm so sick of buying so many damned boxes just to play all the games I want. There's no reason I should own an X-Box 360, a PS3 and a PC to play all the games I want...and yet I own them all. But this is getting ahead of everything. For now, I love the idea of being able to keep my enthusiast PC in my bedroom but have a small box that enables me to PC game in the living room.
