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    I guess. I mean, if it would get a domestic release, I'd probably buy it without a second thought. I just don't see myself liking it enough to pay out my rear for an import.
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    Tempting, but I haven't really cared for the Gundam Vs. series as much since Gundam Battle Tactics. The Gundam Battle series just feels better, at this point.
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    I want this (and Thor) in my collection. But I'm closing on a house on Friday, and won't be fully moved in until the 24th. I'll just wait, I guess. There's a place that sells used movies right by where I work, anyway.
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    I used CCCP back in the days of Windows XP. Since going to Windows 7, I use VLC and VLC alone for all video files and any audio I don't want automatically dumped into my iTunes library.
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    I don't want to be too critical, because there's a lot of stuff that's so right with that pic (face, chest, abs, and hands are perfect), but that's too many veins for my tastes.
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    It's still difficult. I mean, take Mark Bagley as an example. While he's improved since the early '90s, he's not that great at drawing people in street clothes. Back in the early '90s, every face on every dude he drew looked identical. But I still love him on Spider-Man (and later, USM) because he draws such a dynamic Spidey. Or Brett Booth. He drew some amazingly detailed stuff back when he worked on Backlash, and he was a huge inspiration for me. I remember spending a high school art class with an issue of Backlash #8... I'd stare at a panel, trying to absorb the details, and then try to redraw it. I did this for the whole issue. As awesome as Booth is at some stuff, though, he could never seem to get women right. They'd be standing around in poses that'd break a real woman in half if she tried it, or they'd have an unusually long torso, or their breasts would look like a pair of softballs in spandex instead of the more natural slopes of an actual breast. Then there's a lot of the guys at Udon. They have a great, anime-inspired style that's great for people in street clothes, but it doesn't necessarily translate as well to heroes in masks. In short, I like a lot of different artists, for a lot of different reasons. They all have their strengths, weaknesses, and specialties. It's actually a lot easier to tell you who I don't like. Rob Liefield, who seems to think if he draws a lot of extra pouches, straps, and lines that we won't notice he has no functional grasp of human anatomy. Or Humberto Ramos, who isn't a bad artist, but his style rubs me the wrong way.
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    I like Jim Lee, sure. My favorite for awhile was Brett Booth (Backlash), even if he never could draw women right. Nick Roche is probably my favorite Transformers artist at the moment. I like Mark Bagley's Spider-Man. Do I have to pick all five? I don't know that he's one of the top five of all time, but I think that J. Scott Campbell's work has really improved since Gen 13 in the '90s.
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    Monotony in a thread where most of the users are using anime-inspired wallpapers, maybe, but it seems like that's the sort of picture that's on most of the desktops on most of the computers I service. I'll give you bonus points for using Ubuntu, though. Been meaning to do a clean install of 11.04 on my Linux box... I kind of jacked up the install that's on there.
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    Clean version?
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    A certain captain of a certain starship would beg to differ... As would a certain lawyer.
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    Not a fan of Cadillacs in general. The only thing I like at all on that Ciel is the tail.
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    Sorry, Keith. The first Star Trek game I'd played was Starfleet Command 3.
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    What FTP players are missing. It's not much. One less character slot, fewer inventory and bank slots, no veteran rewards, limited forums, chat, and customer service, ad-supported chatbox, and the inability to create content in the Foundry (although they can still play it). No word yet if Gold (paying subscribers and lifers) members get any other perks. If they don't, I'm thinking I'll go Silver.
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    I enjoy 99% of the ship designs for the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans in Star Trek. I'm just not a fan of the nacelles on Abram's Enterprise, and I don't care for most of the original Cryptic designs, the exceptions being the Excalibur and Cerberus classes. I suppose a lot of that has to do with Cryptic taking pre-existing ships and then... modifying them into other classes, so as to keep the parts interchangeable for customization.
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    I don't really care for the nacelles on the redesign Enterprise. And I'd move the neck forward.
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    But the D crashed. If Starfleet wanted to keep a ship with the Enterprise name, it'd make sense to name a new-hotness ship Enterprise over another Galaxy... especially since the Galaxy-class seemed a relic of the 2360s, when the galaxy was peaceful and the flagship of Starfleet could afford to be a luxury liner. What happened to the E, though? By the game's timeline, it was in service until at least 2408. 30 years doesn't seem like that long in an organization that was using Mirandas and Excelsiors after nearly a century.
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    I'm with kaiotheforsaken. There's some stuff that I like in STO's story (like Data becoming captain of the Enterprise after Picard retires), but a lot of it is forced for the sake of gameplay (Klingons at war with Federation? Again?). Replacing the Enterprise E leaps over that second category into bullshit for the sake of bullshit. There is no reason the Enterprise E needs replaced already. Not from a commercial standpoint, and not from an in-universe one either. EDIT: For the record, I actually don't like most of Cryptic's original ship designs. The only exception is the Excalibur-class. And I actively despise this new fan-designed Enterprise.
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    But this is exactly my problem with WoW. Is there lore and storyline in the Warcraft universe? Absolutely! I've had friends try to tell me that even the details in what spells my Blood Elf mage was learning had a ton of lore behind them. But I never played Warcraft 1-3, and whatever story WoW is supposed to have is too poorly presented. All I've been able to glean is that a bunch of disparate races have united into two factions that don't like each other. That's it. And my champion of the Horde is off in the woods, killing X number of Y because it's how some dude gets his jollies, I guess. At some point, I stopped reading the quest givers' explanations for whatever it was they had me doing. It was just tedious. And of course, there's the PVP, which I never cared for. Nothing sucks quite like running through contested area for 20 minutes to complete a level-appropriate quest only to have some guy from the opposite side 20 levels ahead of you run up and kill you. Like I said before, STO isn't perfect. There are some missions that are repetitive (the patrol a certain sector block missions), and some that I flat out won't even take (most fleet actions, deep space encounters, sector block defense, anything PVP, and any mission that involves going into uncharted space and looking for a needy planet to donate commodities to). But I love that most missions have easy to follow stories (even if you just clicked the green text quickly from the mission-giver without reading it) with multiple objectives that play out like an episode of the TV show. Or maybe it just helps that I'm a fan of the TV shows. *shrugs*
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    I don't hate Abram's Enterprise. I mean, when you see it, it's instantly recognizable as the Enterprise. And the original Enterprise does have a sort of "this is what we thought was futuristic in the '60s" look. I just don't like how what passes for "futuristic" in the late 2000's is something that looks like Apple designed it. So it's not my favorite Enterprise, either. I think the warp nacelles are the biggest turn off for me (well, that and the fact that it's supposed to be closer in size to a Galaxy-class than the Constitution-class of the original series and movies). Regarding the shows, I love TNG. Good stories, great cast playing great characters. DS9 started off slow, but it got really good, with some really classic moments ("In the Pale Moonlight" might be my all-time favorite episode of any Trek series). TOS is a little too '60s campy for me most of the time, but there are some really good episodes (like "Balance of Terror") too, and I like the TOS movies. Enterprise does a lot of stuff wrong, but Scott Bakula was awesome in it, and was surprisingly entertaining if you gave it a chance. Voyager, though, was awful. Boring characters (Chakotay, Kim), another Vulcan (Tuvok), another Klingon (B'Elanna). But hey, the captain was woman this time! And why is it that, for a good chunk of the series, their main adversaries are silly-looking technologically inferior enemies? Face it, Voyager was flat out boring until the Borg became the main enemy. And even then, Voyager took what had been an occasional, terrifying, and powerful enemy and turned them into ho-hum villains of the week.
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    That's easy; stop playing WoW. I know millions of people seem to disagree, but WoW is just awful. Boring quests, no fun to solo, numbingly dull trying to get from point A to point B. The only time I've even come close to having fun was socializing with friends on it, but even that quickly turned into one friend not being able to get online when we decided to meet, one friend getting online but constantly going away from keyboard because of girlfriend drama, and one dude who would play way more than us, get 20 levels ahead, and think it a good idea to take the rest of us on instances that were level appropriate for him and him alone. STO's not perfect, sure. It's a little repetitive (but I don't think I've played an MMO that isn't), and flying from one sector to another is just as boring as flying around in WoW. But at least the game itself is fun.
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    I'm pretty sure it does. The Armada one, and the Universe reissue, do. I don't think this one is a remold, just a repaint.
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    I'd say if you don't have a Unicron, the Amazon one is the one to get. I'm tempted, but I can't justify spending the money when I've already got the Universe Armada reissue Unicron.
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    Free to play STO by the end of the year. Figures. I played on a 10-day pass a friend gave me when the game first came out, and though I liked it, I didn't really like it enough to pay $50 plus $15 a month. Lately I've been bored, though, and I'd heard they improved the game a lot. So when I found the Collector's Edition for $12.99 at Gamestop, I figured I'd bite the bullet and get a subscription.
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    Lucas should just do what we all know he really wants to and remake the original trilogy. He can screw them up however he likes, and stop "digitally remastering" the actual original trilogy.
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    reeoyuy is correct. Although I've heard they're very good, I never played any of the Persona series, because playing half the game as a Japanese school sim sounds really dull. SMT3 is different. I liked it because it's not a game about saving the world... the world ends during the first half hour. The game is really more about how you deal with the end of the world.
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