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Sorry to necro this thread. But has anyone retimed these subtitles to the blu-ray release? I just ordered a (assumed legit) copy of the blu-ray standard edition form CDJapan. Was wondering if someone had already done the drudgery of retiming things and might have made the subtitle files available for remastering a subtitled blu-ray.
Or, dare I ask? Are there now better subtitles available beyond my meager efforts above? Has anyone improved upon them over the years? ;)
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Hi All,
Sorry if this is old news (rudimentary MWF search didn't show anything). . .
A youtube video of a scratch-built radio-controlled VF-1 Valkyrie (two of them, actually) actually flying. . .
Raw footage
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Hi All,
My very first Yamato 1/48 recently fell in the bathtub and broke his hip. Or something. . . =)

Anyways, if anyone has any spare parts, please let me know.
Best Regards,
Hurin
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Not sure if anyone has ever posted about this before. But Nike allows you to customize the colors on the classic Air Jordan (1st Edition) design.
On my only trip to Japan several years ago, I stumbled across some of these in Roy Focker's yellow, white, and black. . . and it even had a valkrie silhouette on the back of the heel. I've always regretted not getting them. At least now I can get these (when the wife is convinced. . .).
Anyways. . . you can even make a poster. . .
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Ah sh!t.. My brother DT is always with me. How could I have missed your post!
(for everyone else's information, he actually texted me to point out my oversight)
I thought the same thing since I posted even before DT. But rather than point it out, I decided not to give a sh!t.
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Incidentally, those who enjoy the redlettermedia.com reviews of the prequels should probably find a way to download them locally. Disney may not have quick so lax a policy towards such extensive use of film footage that they now own.
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Can only be a good thing. I mean, how much worse can you get than Jar Jar and the latest Indy movie? Ironically, it could be Disney that rescues them and returns them to their teenage/young adult-oriented roots.
But even if episode 7 stinks, we'll at least get a Plinkett review out of it.
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Ah well, that skin I scraped together had a good run!
Glad to see MW still going strong. Congrats on the successful IPB upgrade Shawn! The new version seems really robust/versatile.
I haven't had reason to run an IPB site for a year or two. But seeing this, I may just find a reason.

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Micro$oft are arsehats they also for no reason what so ever "filter" some other forums that I use that also have nothing to do with any products they own, they also "filter" one site I use that does mention modifications of a certain White coloured electric door stop I own.
So they now block those websites and sending email from my Android powered Cell phone Time to bin my hotmail account I think, thanks for the last 12 years M$, but Gmail wins.
Well, that could be it. But the current admin may want to check the back-end settings.
This is possibly something that can be fixed on the MW side of things. A few years ago (during my tenure as admin), we were having trouble sending to a lot of "free email" services. The problem was that a lot of those services were very picky about the header structure of the emails and rejected the way IPB structures its emails by default. The solution was to add a custom header in the forum email settings (this is something done forum-wide by the admin, not by users themselves). If I recall, the code needed was: -femailaddress@server.com (yes, "dash f" run into a legit email address). At that point, email started getting through to those services.
I wonder if this settings was (easily!) overlooked and not duplicated when the forums were rebuilt during the last major IPB version upgrade?
Best,
H
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It's a really annoying feature of the current version of the forum software, that if you make multiple posts within a certain timeframe, it automatically lumps them together in one post.
I really, really hate it. Should try to look if it can be turned off.
Graham
yes. it can be turned off. It's one of the first settings I disable on any new IPB install.
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Ridiculous. $400 and its knees don't even bend.
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Being the guy who created that logo. . . I'm actually sorta touched that someone liked it enough to steal it.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, etc. =)
BTW, that (highly filtered) kite emblem is actually from a picture of the T-shirt they gave away with Robotech Battlecry for the XBox. =)
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The cool thing about the ADV dub (and really the only thing) is that they do have it in the original Japanese as well. So, you can at least try watching the first episode in both and see which one she prefers. If she just prefers the english only, she may not appreciate it as much in English, but the option is there.
It should probably be pointed out though that the Japanese soundtrack is very sucky on the ADV release compared to the Animeigo one. The ADV original Japanese track is much less vibrant and quite a bit quieter (and therefore is more distorted and has more hiss because you have to crank it up). The audio track on the Animeigo release is very clean, loud, and vibrant.
The dub on Hulu, if anything, will hopefully convince folks to go with the subtitles, and hunt down the Animeigo release.

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Eventually, IPB 2.x wasn't going to be supported any longer with security updates. Better to do it now during a planned, methodical upgrade than do it in a rush a year from now when the site is un-updated, vulnerable, and under attack.
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Christian appearing isn't really a problem. Since he did that even in the accepted "real" timeline (he appears to Jack in the hospital). Unless you want to dimiss that as Jack being drug addled (though we haven't done that with anything else and it would seem that, well, spirits do appear). So, I don't feel like we need to explain Christian in the church any more than we needed to explain him as he appears to Jack other times.
I'm really not concerned with the age of Mile's father. Maybe he's just got good genes! Or maybe the writers forgot to put him in makeup.
All I'm saying is that there's ample reason to believe that the alt timeline is no less "real" or more spiritual than anything else.
And, again, I think that's the direction they were headed before they come up with the idea of the "church scene" at the end to give the ending and Jack's death real emotional oomph. Otherwise, you'd be watching Jack die and thinking: "Meh, it doesn't really matter, he's obviously going to be okay in the other timeline and be with Kate."
I can't really figure out who should be dead in the alt timeline if the nuke caused it. Most were being evacuated. And "our heroes" jumped as a result "back to the future." I can't think of anyone alive in the alt timeline that would have been killed by the nuke. But then again, I'm trying not to think about this too much.

As for the island sinking. . . I'm willing to believe that if pulling a stone plug out of the ground can sink it, setting off a nuke next to the same power source would do the same.
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I think there's a lot of evidence for the ALT timeline being "real" (and not just a spiritual/afterlife realm).
After all, the whole point of the last few episodes of last season was the explicit attempt to create a timeline where the plane didn't crash. Then you have Juliette's "it worked" transmitted by Miles. The very next scene (in the next season) is Flight 815 flying over a sunken island.
Then throw in Desmond and his demonstrated ability to travel between multiple timelines. His first journey took place when he pressed the emergency button in the hatch, and came into contact with Faraday (sp?) and Faraday's mother in an alternate timeline (that sure didn't seem like a spirit realm). He seemed to be unique in his ability to sense both universes and arrange to "awaken" the others in the Alt timeline.
To me, Christian's statement that "you all created this place where you could find each other, remember, and let go" is pretty clearly referring to the nuke going off and the creation of the alt timeline. I guess the producers once said that it's not clear either way whether the alt universe was created by the nuke. But, well, they're always saying sh*t like that just to f' with the fans (and they once asserted boldly that there would be no time travel in the show, etc.).
I'm no expert in theology or mysticism. But I don't know of any "religious mechanism" by which each person creates their own purgatory and is then able to populate it via their own mentally conjured tools in order to find their way to enlightenment. I've read that Jack's son (David) is a creation of Jack's to help him sort out his daddy issues. How does that work? Jack has a hand in creating his own "fix it" mental/spiritual universe where he creates his own son? And the spirits of all his friends are along for the ride and/or are alongside him working their own stuff out?" That is, until their main timeline memories come flooding back? It doesn't seem like the "purgatory" spiritual place was actually necessary at all. . . because as soon as their island memories came back, it was time to go! And it's not even clear that whatever growth and/or happiness they found in the alt timeline was actually retained in their memories as soon as the "awoke" and had their island memories back. So it seems odd that the alt timeline is seen only as a place where they figure out their crap and become "ready." It's not much of a purgatory if the way you get out is to have some dude make you remember stuff that never happened to you as far as you know.
Here's my personal take on it all: The alt timeline is just as "real" as the island timeline. However, once their consciousnesses come over from the island timelime, it's apparent, since they've all already "died" (some long after the events we see in the show), that they don't belong where they've awakened. So, they gather together to "let go" and "move on" in that church. My own personal belief/hope is that they exit the church into the bright light and move on to the next life, but David isn't deprived of his father and Locke's wife (?) isn't deprived of her husband because they also stay behind with the consciousnesses of those originally from that timeline (though perhaps with a merged memory of the island timeline folks).
Regardless, I think this was the writer's trick to have Jack's death actually matter and be melancholy even along with a "happy ending." Without all the spiritual stuff at the end, his death would have been a lot less poetic. It's hard to feel bad for the dude dying if we know he's just transferred into the alt-timeline Jack. This way, there's closure and a sense of loss. And it's also sad to think of Kate, Sawyer (etc.) living out the rest of their days in the island timeline while missing/mourning their fallen friends.
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It's hard to assert though that the alternate timeline was any less real than anything else. I mean, it was said to be "created". . . how? By wishes of ghosts? I think conventional wisdom is that Jughead going off created it. In which case there's some "sci-fi science" to all this mysticism. But some people don't think Jughead created the LA timeline. They're convinced it just caused them to jump in time again.
It really all comes down to this: Did Jack really have a son or not?
If not, then you believe it was all just a spiritual plane of existence.
If so, then you probably believe that the Losties awoke in that timeline. But whether they're going to stay there (which doesn't seem fair to the versions of themselves that appear to have been fully supplanted), and where they're "going". . . who knows.
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I'm not sure either timeline was purgatory. As Christian says, "everything that happened to you was real". . . and then note also that Christian doesn't say that Jack "is dead". . . he says: "you died."
That could mean he died (as we saw) on the island.
Now, here's the trick. . . it seems that they didn't just get their memories back of their time on the island up to a certain point. But they got their memories back from the "island timeline" all the way through whatever lifetimes they would have lived. So, this would explain why Kate would actually say: "I've missed you so much" when she sees Jack. Because she just flashed in from the "island timeline" where she escaped the island and lived a long, full life without Jack in it. The existence of their after-island memories in the island timeline was also indicated by Ben and Hurley seeming to share memories of being on the island long after the events we saw last night. This would seem to be vaguely supported by Christian saying that there is no "now" in that place they had created (the "church" or the whole LA timeline?). Since everyone's timeframe is different (soemtimes drastically so).
So, what was the scene in the church? They were coming together to "remember" and "let go". . . but not to "leave". . . only to "move on." Desmond says they're all "leaving". . . but Christian seems to know more about the process underway. It also seems that nobody interacts directly with Christian except Jack (although Desmond might be looking at Christian at some point).
So the question for me is: As Christian opens the doors to the church and the white light floods in, everyone looks back at the opening doors (and sees the light?). . . are they in some magical "smoker's lounge" on the way to the afterlife? Are they all "borrowing" these bodies in this alternate timeline in order to have this event together? Are they about to be raptured to heaven? Or, by "moving on" by "letting go," are they all going to now get up, and go out into this better, happier world that they've "created for each other." Given that everything was "real" and "everything that happened really happened" (according to Christian), it's hard to just dismiss the LA timeline as a spiritual realm or purgatory. There's still too much "corporal" about it. I don't think, in order for purgatory to work, that you need to do all the shenanigans that Desmond arranges. If it's a purgatory, it's a metaphorical one. But I think that timeline actually does exist. . . created somehow by the nuclear device going off?
Oh, BTW, I f'ing hate that they put this ambiguity in there and left it so open for interpretation. Is it too much to ask in today's popular culture that a writer just tell a story that has a concrete beginning, middle, and end? I'm not reading a f'ing "choose your own adventure book" (if you want them to be in purgatory, read page 27!).
But, regardless, I think you could make a case either way for them all being dead even at the moment where they're all meeting in the church. It could be sorta an "epilogue" after they've all died somehow over the years. But, that doesn't seem to account for all the other information we were given. I have no idea where they're "going" from the church. If they're all dead and have been dead for a while and this is all just some "after party". . . I suppose they're headed to the afterlife. But that makes the LA timeline a lot less "real" since there's no transition from that "real but different" timeline. I personally think that they're all now going to take part in the new LA timeline. I do wonder, though, if they have merged with their LA timeline consciousnesses, or if they fully supplanted them. Locke saying that Jack doesn't have a son seems to indicate the latter, which would tend to undermine the idea that the LA timeline was ever more than an artificial, meaningless construct for them to "work out their poo" in. . .
Meh. . .whichever. . . all I can say is that the finale was darn near perfect until they decided to go all f'ing wishy-washy at the end for no real reason other than to keep up their "I confused the hell out of my audience" street cred with their fellow writers (a 'la The Sopranos). It's getting to the point now where I think I'd just rather watch The Real Housewives of New York with my wife where the show can't f' with you just to f' with you at the very end just because they can. They really didn't need to throw this angle in at the end, Lost was already one of the most amazing, original stories told on television ever.
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Jack's "accepting the job" was a little too... Obvious.
Yah, as soon as he did it, both me and my wife said at once: "he's dead."
It so obvious you have to assume they're going to throw us a curve. Though, they could throw us the curve by not throwing us the curve.

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So, the theory is that Jacob was bringing these folks to the island in an effort to rehabilitate his brother? Think about it, Smokey has almost no frame of reference for humanity. All he know is what his mother told him about how evil they are. . . along with the small community he lived with for a while before mom killed them all. And, if you'll recall, he hated those people.
Though that begs the question, why does Jacob take the side of humanity being decent? He had even less interaction with people than Smokey. You'd think he'd be even more of a believer in his mom's warning about how evil they all are.
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So. . . some have been hinting about it. . .
Yeah, I guess that "mom" had made the mistake of going into the cave of light herself and was able to become a "smoke monster" too. . . hence her ability to wipe out an entire village by herself?
So, if that's true, was she evil too? Did it make her evil or does it only intensify whatever is in your nature already (if indeed it alters your soul at all)? Can you get turned into a smoke monster and still be a good guardian of the light (as she apparently was)?
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I don't believe Smokey killed Richard. The earlier scenes indicated that Richard was immortal and that Smokey would not kill him. I think what we saw was richard just being escorted, not so gently, far away.
Gotta agree. When they've shown us Smokey killing people in the past, he's usually shown to beat them to a pulp or literally tearing them limb from limb. The fact that they only show us Richard being taken off screen probably means something.
Though, I'm not saying that he can't kill Richard. I'm just saying that he probably didn't in this case.
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I'm just gonna wait till Sunday for them to tell me WTH is going on.
I actually wonder how much they intend to explain. They might throw us a few bones and "aha!" moments. But at this point, I don't really think they need to in order to finish the story. They might just wrap up what happens and just leave us guessing as to the whys of everything.
I wonder if they'll somehow rehabilitate Smokey. Like, maybe put him in Ben's body as fully human. . . so he won't be such a threat should he escape the island. And then maybe he also won't be such an a-hole.

Edit: I realize this isn't news, and that we were told that not everything would be answered. But at this point, I'd be surprised if we learn much of anything more in the final episode (long as it is planned to be). They've established the villain, and what he wants to do. Maybe the rest of the story will just be stopping him, and leaving the rest of the "mysteries" out of it.
DYRL Blu-Ray (2016) English Subtitles
in Movies and TV Series
Posted · Edited by Hurin
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Hi All,
Long time no see! I don't really know how well my subtitles project for the fx and official DYRL DVDs have held up over the years. Perhaps there's newer and better ones available nowadays. But, on the off-chance that some still remember those projects fondly and want to incorporate those subtitles onto their 2016 official Blu-ray release of Macross: Do You Remember Love, I humbly offer a ZIP file containing an SRT file and a ASS (heh) file below.
A lot has changed in the fifteen years since I first grafted subtitles onto those DVDs. Most especially, I no longer feel the need to "graft" to physical media in the era of Plex and other media playing technologies that can stream original-quality video and audio to our TVs and home theaters. I suspect the vast majority of people will use MakeMKV to extract the movie from the physical Blu-ray disc (make sure you own and keep the disc, lest this not be something I can recommend) and then play it in some modern media player that will allow the importing of external subtitle files. How exactly that is done is beyond the scope of (at least) this first post. Basically, these files are meant to be used in Plex, VLC, or something similar (though they could also form the foundation of a "graft onto a physical Blu-ray" project I suppose).
Back in the day, I was arrogant enough to call the DVD subtitles projects "upgrades". . . I'll leave it to all of you whether that's still a warranted description. As then, the goal of these subtitles is "better looking, more accurate, 'natural-sounding' (at least to my ear) subtitles for Macross: Do you Remember Love with no image quality loss."
The files are timed only for the 2016 Blu-ray (the "uncensored" Blu-ray re-release). It took about a day to re-time them and nudge them all a bit since they weren't off by any uniform timespan that I could just apply across the board. I'm pretty happy now with their "snappiness" though I may upload a v1.01 eventually since I find it hard to watch the move without noting where an improvement could be made here or there.
Of the two files provided. . .
macross-dyrl-hurin-english-bluray.ass - this format provides positional data for the subtitles so that (only) Zentraedi dialog can be placed at the top of the screen where it won't conflict with the already present "burned-in" subtitles in the film. The downside is that on applications like Plex, it will actually force a transcoding of the video in order to transpose these image-based subtitles onto the original film. So, if you must have absolutely untouched video, go with the SRT file.
macross-dyrl-hurin-english-bluray.srt - this format does not provide positional data (etc.). At its core, it's just a text file with timestamps and it's up to your media player to decide how and where to display the subtitles. So, your media player should be able to display them without touching/changing the underlying video at all. Another benefit is that your player can decide on size, color, etc. The downside to this is that you're only able to choose one place to display all subtitles. So, if you choose the bottom of the screen, you're going to get some overlapping English and native Zentraedi (burned-in) subtitles.
The ZIP file download is available here.
If you're so inclined, you can verify the integrity of the file with the hashes below. . .
Some screenshots of the subs in action (click for full-size). . .
Oh, and of course, if you ever want to tweak these subs yourself (wording, size, positioning), all you need to do is open them in Aegisub and tweak 'til your heart's content!
Best Regards to All,
--Hurin