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    Saying it's not replacement for Giant is like saying that a Chevy Sonic is no replacement for a Corvette. If Devy's priced around the same as Metroplex (assuming, since they're both Titan class), you can buy 4 for what Giant costs. You get what you pay for, and outside of the MP line I think it's unreasonable to expect Hasbro's mass-market toys to be on the same level as third-party releases aimed solely at adult collectors.
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    Oh, i thought I'd read March for V-Rabe, but you're totally right. That spaces things out a bit better... I can do Z3 and V-Rabe in Feb, Wing and V-Dash in March, G3 in April.
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    So March for Hi-Nu V-Rabe and V-Dash. April for the P-Bandai RG G3. Spring is starting to add up, I still have the Z3 coming, and I still haven't picked up the RG Wing Zero yet. Man, I'm falling behind...
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    Anyone know when the HGUC V-Dash is supposed to come out? I wasn't planning on getting it, but I really liked the Victory kit and the V-Dash is supposed to have the parts to make a Hexa head. Oh, and I haven't been watching Build Fighters Try, and I'm not typically interested in non-UC HG kits (I'll buy all the RGs, though, go figure), but that Hi-Nu V-Rabe is looking sexy as all get out.
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    Hegemon wasn't the most impressive toy I'd come across, but have you seen Toyworld's new Devilstar ("Not-Astrotrain")? Not sure about those ankles, but it's pretty impressive how little train shows on the shuttle and vice versa.
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    Dunno about third party, but the rumor is that Ironhide will be MP-27.
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    Honestly, if you're not reading IDW's Transformers books, you're missing out on some good stuff. Especially More Than Meets the Eye.
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    Transformers: Robots in Disguise #15. That arc, though, is RID 12-16.
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    Thanks!
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    Good find! I really want one, but can never find it under $80.
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    "Ok, last time we made a FF movie we totally butchered one of Marvel's most beloved villains, and people hated it. Clearly, the only thing to do is make a dark and gritty reboot! And make that beloved villain a blogger!" I'll consider it a small miracle if I hate the FF reboot less than the Green Lantern movie.
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    So I hear Hasbro just filed a butt load of Gobots trademarks. Could be nothing comes of it, but I'm secretly hoping that the next big IDW/Hasbro thing after Combiner Wars is Transformers vs. Gobots, with lots of Gobots CHUGs to come.
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    I loved the Lego Star Wars games, which led me to buy the first Lego Batman and the first Lego Indy. I honestly didn't care for Lego Indy, and while I liked Lego Batman, it felt tedious at times. I decided to give Lego Batman 2 and Lego Marvel a shot when they went on a Steam sale, and am just now getting into Lego Batman 2. I'm digging it, from a level design POV (and Superman is just so broken and so fun), but I'm actually not too keen on the open word design. Sure, it gives you a big area to wander around in and look for gold bricks, but I kind of liked the old hub where you could buy guys instead of having to look for them.
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    I have Assassin's Creed Unity and Watch_Dogs on PS4, haven't started either of them. I've got Ryse untouched for Xbox One, and I haven't finished Forza Horizon 2. And let's not get into how many games I've bought and either haven't finished or haven't even played in my Steam library. So what am I playing. Lego Batman 2. Maybe I'll pick up the third one later. What I really want, but not $70 want, is to import Gundam Breaker 2...
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    Different, sure. But not fast. When Windows 10 is released, it'll have been about three years since 8. Which was about three years after 7. Which was about 3 years after Vista. And before XP, Windows 95 was about three years after 3.1, 98 three years after 95, and XP 3 years after 98 (wo to those of you who ended up with ME, though). Three years between major revisions isn't fast; it's been Microsoft's target for at least 20 years. That huge gap between XP and Vista that everyone remembers wasn't normal, it was an anomaly. Worse for Microsoft, it was an anomaly that that had everyone clinging to it for so long it took them over a decade to finally kill support for it and had people questioning the need for major OS updates every 3 years.
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    Or Vortex for a Bruticus.
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    Hikuro, when I built my RG Zeta, the result was seriously flimsly, like the cockpit wouldn't stay pegged down so the chest flopped open and waist parts kept sliding up whenever I'd handle it. Now that you've built two, does Zeta still seem overly flimsy, or is it it a case that I shouldn't have started gunpla with the RG Zeta?
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    Microsoft seemed to imply that once you're on 10 updates are free in perpetuity. If Windows 11 came out right after you upgrade, you'd be able to download it as an update. This is what they're getting at when they say they want to eliminate the question of "what version of Windows are you on?" By pushing more frequent updates with smaller overall changes (especially if they can do it through Windows Update), Microsoft is hoping to get everyone on the latest version of Windows and keep them there. No. If you have Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1, you will have one year to upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost. If you wait longer than a year, you will have to pay to upgrade, although no pricing has been announced. Whether you upgraded for free or paid to upgrade, there are no more costs for Windows after you're on 10. In fact, as I mentioned to Az, it seems that Microsoft's plan is that updates beyond 10 will be free for Windows 10 users, so if you upgrade to Windows 10 and Microsoft releases Windows 11 you'll get that for free. And as incredible as that sounds, just two or so years ago I had to look into Microsoft for a grad school assignment. As ubiquitous as Windows is, it's not a huge money-maker in the first place for Microsoft. Microsoft's real money-maker is Office (hence the subscription service for it now), which accounts for around 55% of Microsoft's revenue. They're not losing a lot if they make Windows free.
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    Like Office 365? Well, they said it when they were talking about the free upgrade. Well, we're used to free OS updates on our phones, and with Mavericks Apple's doing it with iOS. Microsoft said they want to end the question of "what version of Windows are you using?" The current thinking is that Microsoft is following suit, and that once you have Windows 10 you'll have updates in perpetuity.
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    HoloLens is a neat idea, but so did Oculus Rift, and we're still waiting on a consumer version of that. So while I think it's interesting, I'm not ready to get excited about it yet. Windows 10, though... I haven't been this excited for a Windows OS since 7. I'd already been using the developer preview on a spare desktop and was digging what I saw, but the way they're making it intelligently know if you're using it with a touchscreen or a mouse and keyboard, the ability to scale to different sizes, that's pretty cool. And the Xbox One streaming is cake. I freely admit that I'll be using it to play Forza Horizon on the can.
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    So, Nintendo's killing off Club Nintendo. I have mixed feelings about this. The quality and amount of physical gifts have gone way downhill, but on the other hand, I have a huge pile of coins. Sounds like Nintendo is promising new physical gifts, and they're giving members until June to spend their coins, so at least there's that.
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    I watched one episode of Rescue Bots, because Transformers and Levar Burton. Yeah, it's a little too kiddy for me. Bummed about G1 and Prime, but I have the G1 DVDs and Prime on Blu-ray, so it's really more of a "why do I keep Netflix when it seems like they've been losing more content than they've been gaining?" and less of a, "I can't believe I won't be able to watch that anymore!"
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    So, Steam has a free weekend for Civilization: Beyond Earth. I'm kind of glad that they did. While I freely admit to having not played any of the Civs before V, I loved Civ V. I've got like 70 hours on record, and that doesn't count the hours I spent playing it in the evenings when I was in China and didn't have the internet. So I'm trying Beyond Earth, and at first I'm thinking "Civ in space... yeah this is cool." But then I noticed that the aliens are a lot tougher than barbarians. Especially if there's a siege worm... you can shoot them from your outposts/cities with impunity, but it'll one shot any unit. While the deadly aliens thing does sort of lend itself to the colonizing space theme, it also slows the game way down. On the easiest difficulty with the fastest pace, I was 180 turns into the game and still basically in the little corner of the map where I started, with three total cities, a trade route to what's basically the BE version of a City State, a group of marines with their health in the red, and a lone worker I'm hoping won't get eaten by the siege worm that ate the other workers. There are other changes from Civ V, some are good (I dig the quests), some not so much (upgrading units with upgrade points seems kind of cool at first, but in practice it's easier to manage in Civ), and some I'm on the fence about (Explorers, BE's version of scouts, are the only ones that can explore certain things like crash sites, which makes them a lot less useless, but means you'll have to spend resources on them, and they have to go back to cities every so often to get new expedition kits). But what I think was the most telling thing about my time with it is that after a few hours, I saved and exited out of it because I just didn't feel like playing it anymore... I felt like playing Civ V. And 200 some turns into that and I'm forcing myself to save and quit, not because I'm bored but because it's late, and I should go to bed. TLDR: Skip BE and play Civ V instead. I'm not saying that BE is bad, but I think that the game needs some balance tweaks. Maybe check it out again after an expansion.
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    I'm probably going to pass. Wife's pregnant, and I figure being a new dad is going to cut down on my gaming time for awhile. I just don't see myself using that time to play the original Resident Evil again (played it a bunch on PSX and played the Gamecube remake back when). If I do get it, I'll get it on Steam, preferably during a sale. The new console honeymoon phase has worn off on me, and with the GTX 970 I upgraded to the only reason for a PS4 version to look better is if it was a sloppy port.
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