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    I am sure it will outlive you
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    yep...same one on auction, but more expensive than what you paid
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    Yak! Was hoping for more merch using the new Kawamori illustration....will try and get the towel, which is more like a fleece blanket...
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    LOL....no idea what that is but sure!
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    I don't think I have the Animate card, but really not interested in getting it...I think there is one on auction now...kinda high for what it is
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    yeah saw the pic posted by Shawn back on Jan 9th
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    I had a feeling that was you..lol https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g1083410406 I try to stay away from incomplete items...knowing it is not complete would bother me until I find a complete version...lol
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    An HG license will not keep me from buying something I like
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    Original Masami Watanabe Illustration - SDF-1/VF-1S - 250,000 JPY https://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auction/item/itemInfoEn.html?index=701486
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    Original Masami Watanabe Illustration - GBP-1J - 185,000 JPY https://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/auction/item/itemInfoEn.html?index=701485
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    Hi-Metal R

    jvmacross replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

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    Hi-Metal R

    jvmacross replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Maybe swap out the left hand for symmetry with the right hand?
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    We who are about to die....salute you! They look like freshly baked cookies straight out of the oven! Yum!
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    I actually feel it's never been easier to buy anything Macross-related these days...guess it all depends on how far back you are making the comparison...
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    Thanks everyone! I probably will only have myself to blame if I can't find something to play on this new system eventually....I haven't played any of the GT or RE games since PS2! LOL....so it will probably be a shock once I try these newest versions...also...the only games I find myself playing these days are combat flight games....I was glad to find out that the Air Conflicts games were compatible with the PS5...so been playing those...I also like the Call of Duty type games, so hope something like that gets the VR treatment...but I'd be so glad if there was a WWII fighter game in VR...
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    Purchased a PS VR2....but no games yet....anyone here get it and can recommend a few? Also...on the previous PS VR set....were there any games released that were jet fighter or perhaps WWII fighter VR game? Would love something like that...or maybe even Star Wars Squadrons in VR
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    I don't follow anything HG...but I buy some HG licensed items
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    Maybe the OP can narrow down what it is that he/she would be satisfied in collecting...for example, only "Main hero" valks...or only "DYRL", "M+" or "MF" valks...then it becomes easier to "complete" a collection and much less expensive...if it is all or nothing, then this is probably not the right hobby to be in...especially if you did not get started on some of the lines from the beginning... Probably not popular to say this, but I like knowing that part of my collection, including the toys, have increased in value....at some point we will all need to either sell or plan on having it all tossed into our funeral pyre....
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    That's a good find...thanks for posting it!
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    I assume you must view yourself as an "artist" so your viewpoint is understandable...still, there is no difference to how current fan-artists take IP and try to develop it into something "new"....as I said before, new technology forces us all, especially those directly affected by newly introduced technology, to adapt to it and, in terms of the market, to either embrace it or let it fizzle out like a VHD player.....so unless you fear that AI will someday be able to adapt at "human" levels, then there is nothing to worry about or feel that this situation is any different or more worthy of protections than other past situations where technology innovations have been introduced that have both positive and negative consequences to different groups...
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    Do folks who do fan-art and fan-fiction ask the IP holders for permission? Do folks that produce other things like limited kits or 3D renders for 3D printers ask the IP holders for permission? The majority of the time the answer would be....rarely at best. Again, not sure why AI doing the "violating of artists rights" is any different than when "human" artists do it? I do not think AI threatens "real" artists in any way. Will some artists lose their job due to AI....sure, and apparently some already have. But, that happens all the time when new technology becomes available. Artists shouldn't feel that they are more entitled to have their field more protected than say librarians, production line workers or fast food employees...all whose fields have been affected by technology...internet, robotics, automation, etc. Progress always brings about winners and losers....welcome to what some may consider the dark side of capitalism.
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    If you mean that the "art" being generated is not that good or original...then yeah....but if you are fearing that original art from "human artists" will go away somehow, then I am not so sure about that....IMO, AI art is no different that fan-art, it's just being created by a machine...like AI generated art, fan-art is taking the original works of say Kawamori and using that as their inspiration for attempting to create something "original" that could exist in the universe that he originally created.....the big fear is that AI will do the same thing and somehow stop new and existing artists from creating new art...However, fan-artists have been copying the "styles" of artists, for example anime/manga artists, for years...and yet we keep getting new anime and manga styles all the time from new artists that develop all-new styles.... All AI will do is force artists to up their game or perhaps they can use it to inspire the quick evolution of their current art style.......think of how Mikimoto has evolved his "style" from the original SDFM....his current "style" which was introduced for Macross the First, is similar but significantly different from how he originally started drawing these same characters decades ago...will AI be able to do this or do this faster? Will AI be able to "evolve" the style of art that it has copied to begin with and come up with something that looks sufficiently different from the source material? I have not heard of it doing that yet.....of course, if AI becomes sentient....all bets are off! LOL
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