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God help me, you AR-types have nearly turned me to the dark side. Recent news up north o' the 49 says that a major importer will someday be stocking these:

Sure it's chi-com, but if they build it as well as their M14s and the 1911's (of which I own 2) I'll be a convert. I wasn't interested in spending $1200 on a name-brand AR, but if it sells for around the $600 mark like we're hoping, I will be powerless to resist.

Looks an awful lot like the flying HKs from T3. Still not the classic HK we all know and love, but I guess this reflects the changed timeline...or something.

Evidently GI Joe takes place in the same universe as Crysis.

No, I didn't.

Oh look, this isn't an argument. It's just contradiction!

Bears? What the hell is wrong with you people? Are you truly that ignorant of the furry menace we face, or are you just a bunch of ursine sympathizers?

Haven't they been basically remaking the first Highlander ever since '85 anyway? How else would you describe the string of sequels that not only ignore the original, but ignorantly trample all over the story, like a stampeding herd of downs syndrome kids at a picnic? And with that, I've typed two more sentences than any Highlander film really deserves to begin with.

With luck, it won't be as bad as Temple of Doom.

Bite your tongue. Doom rocks.

I ran across an interesting analysis of the first three films (the Indy OT, if you will) HERE. It should be considered required reading, especially for those who merely want to discuss things on a "ZOMG...wtf is with Macrus Brodeee?" level.

In other words, people who disagree with me aren't terribly discriminating.

I think this is what you meant to type, H.

Empire Online's first reactions are quite positive, although they still have yet to post a full official review.

The BBC is also giving it a thumbs up.

My optimism level is raised from "skeptical" to "guarded."

I suggest that you re-read those SW "Art of..." books because many, if not all, of those models were concept sculpts and not practical models.

Wrong.

Oh noes! The Times Online reviews KOTCS...and the review is positive?!

The first newspaper review: ignore all the gossip, the new Indiana Jones film is worth the wait

Clearly this is part of some Lucasian conspiracy. John Harlow was probably paid off with unsold Jar-Jar figures to write that positive review.

Check out the "Art of..." books of SW EP 1-3, you'll be amazed just how many physical models were used in the FX shots. The modelers did a perfect job in making it impossible to distinguish the physical models from the CG sets.

Quoted for truth. The number of times I saw people bitching about "zomg teh CGI" on these boards about shots that in fact were executed with scale models proves that most people prefer to talk out of their asses on the matter. Then when cornered on the matter, they'll usually resort to some emotional argument, citing how "it feels like this" or "the love in that."

Eh Seirei no Moribito and nearly everything else is still hand drawn... the difference between now and before is digital painting compared to hand painted cells... and digital painting has many advantages over hand painted cells.. youtube Studio 4Cs (when the hell is Detroit Metal City going to premiere!!) work to see some of them... here check out the Kung Fu Love demo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yMrOcaDZJM

Dude, don't even bother trying to discuss this "CG issue" with them in any rational way. The more I hear bitching about it, the more I realize how little they actually understand. Around these parts, CG (and can you even call computer painting of hand drawn cells "CG"? ) has become a shorthand on these board for some of the laziest yet most vitriolic bitching and moaning this side of the internet.

May I be the first to coin the phrase Rankabump ?

chrono has complained bitterly everything since the beginning of MW.

Fixed.

And if MW had one of those "reputation" features, I would give it to Gubaba for his Rejected reference. Silly Hats Only!

Neither can i take you seriously, frankly. GiTS? Go take a screen cap that looks something like this and I will believe you.

You'll have to forgive us if we don't jump up and comb through a combined 52 episodes of Stand Alone Complex looking for that single background cel of any given cast member.

Kinda small I think, I wish it was bigger, maybe around 500m-800m would do.

And this makes the show better...how? Jesus, stats and the like are fine and dandy, if you're still at the ager where role-playing is a fun way to spend friday night, but otherwise focusing on minutia like this is unhealthy. 20 more episodes of this kind of discussion and we're going to make Trekkies look good in comparison.

The pacing in Frontier shows a welcome maturity, which has been missing from its mecha contemporaries for some time (I'm looking at you, Gundam). The show could have easily jumped into some huge fracas after the last episode, but instead we're treated to a well done buildup to the launch sequence. Sub-par animation be damned, this is one damn fine show, and I'd rather watch the remainder of Frontier in pencil tests that suffer through another episode of Gundam 00. Seriously, the show has gone 5 for 8 in terms of good animation, so its hardly time to panic just yet. Hell, even the otherwise gorgeous Stand Alone Complex had a clunker or two.

I guess leather is the new standard issue... bulletproof leather...

Didn't you hear? Leather is the new MARPAT this season.

Oh believe you me, when I turn in my doctoral thesis on "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles: Its Insight into the Jouissance and Desolation Inherent in the Monomyth of the 21st Century Urban Mindscape as Dintiguished from Fin du Siecle Apocolyptic Dread and Malaise," I'll include AT LEAST twenty pages analyzing the tits.

I will say, though, that Janice Em singing a Minmei song was Tommy Yune's clever swipe at the state of the music industry...in the 80's, there were REAL PEOPLE singing songs, but now, although the musicians going through the same motions, they're simply a robot-like product, devoid of feeling and soul.

Robots with big tits, mind you.

a colt pistol

It had better not be, or my childhood is offically rape-ed. Good sir, Indy is a Smith & Wesson man.

It's NOT sci-fi, it's SPECULATIVE FICTION!

I thought it was more of a social commentary, actually.

Still doesn't say "Baroness" to me. "Generic movie chick in leather".

Plus it totally doesn't help that she's not a real brunette.

the things you own, end up owning you.

I dub thee eugimon "The Sphinx"