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    Question: How much would you say is a comfortable range for domestic shipping? I had someone win two MG kit auctions, and combined shipping from the Midwest to CA for the both of them would have been - $40 Priority Mail (with padding) - $20 Priority Mail (w/o padding) - $18 Parcel Select Mail - $16 Priority Mail (w/o boxes) The buyer claims that the shipping cost is too high, which I can understand (especially that first option, yeesh), though the more reasonable prices only add $3-7 to the ~$13 it would cost to ship either of the two individually. I totally get where the person is coming from... but they were well aware of the shipping cost of at least each individual kit before bidding. But I'll just offer it to the next highest bidder, see if they want it. If any of you know of any lower-priced shipping options, let me know, too. These shipping prices ARE pretty steep.
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    It's a discussion forum, and I like to discuss. I dunno what else to say. That's projecting a bit. I don't think you're a racist, fascist hate monger. I certainly hope you aren't. The only things I know about you are what you've said, and what you've said conflicts with other things that you've said. But then who doesn't contradict themselves from time to time. If you really want to know, I think you're being a bit intellectually dishonest when you say that gender roles is the lesser criticism you have of Frontier, Delta, and the upcoming Macross show. I think you consider it the graver sin, judging by how much you talk about it and what you have to say about it. I think you could tolerate Delta's shoddy writing the way you tolerate Zero's shoddy writing if only the men and boys were more "manly." Perhaps "narrow" does have a bit of an accusatory tone to it, doesn't it? My apologies for the tone, but what else should I call it when what you define (or view) as being appropriately "masculine" is only a (narrow) fraction of the larger body of experience that has ever been considered masculine? You say that Alto's being pretty and playing a woman in kabuki makes him less "manly." But that conclusion can only be reached if you limit, intentionally or otherwise, the definition of masculinity. Do the Japanese just not know what masculinity is, that they consider his prettiness and kabuki roles irrelevant to his gender? True, but... we're on a discussion forum. There wouldn't be much to discuss if all we did was state our opinions.
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    Shin is fighting the Unification War(?), gets shot down by Nora near the island of Mayan (always hated that name, btw, like the deliberate invocation of ancient Maya had me scratching my head for years wondering what the connection was when there wasn't any), and while there gets saved by sisters Sara and and Mao Nome. Turns out the two share a connection with and can communicate with the Protoculture ship(?) lying dormant beneath the waters surrounding the island, which gives them their mystical powers...? That connection stems from symbiotic organisms in their blood (fold bacteria?) which is why interacting with the outside world is forbidden (thus precluding the possibility of donating blood for science as Sara does to that old guy that one scene). The UN and Anti-UN forces fight over the Protoculture ship, destroying the island in the process, with the Anti-UN eventually getting the head of the ship and reuniting it with the body. Apparently the ship was buried here by the Protoculture in order to determine whether humanity had evolved to a properly harmonious species? If so, it would give them tech for interstellar travel, and if not, it would destroy them? Anti-UN uses Sara to bring it to life, and it, reading Sara's thoughts, decides on the latter, starting with those around it. It kills indiscriminately and Shin finds his way to it and to Sara through the power of love, but not before the UN decides to Monster!nuke it. It and Sara save Shin and Mayan and everyone else by trapping the explosion and folding away to... somewhere? Another dimension? Shin splashes around a bit, then decides to follow it. How close was that?
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    I... wasn't, but alright. Who said I was angry? I'm trying to make sense of your criticism about the show, and am noticing that despite your repeated attempts to frame some of your criticisms as less pressing than others... ...you continuously come back to specifically gender role and sexuality as reasons why the more recent Macross shows are not just not to your taste, but bad. You bring up Frontier, and even though you say that you like it overall, the only things you dislike about it that you deign to mention are that its main character is pretty and one of its supporting characters is gay. In the case of Delta, you say that the biggest reason why you dislike Delta is because of its shoddy writing and dull characters (no argument there), but the other reason (and the one you spend more digital real estate on) is because it has a large cast of handsome/pretty males. Then you bring up Zero and position it as a direct contrast to "this new crap," even though it largely shares the same storytelling and character faults as Delta. The only way in which it is a direct contrast to those two is that it doesn't have a bishounen aesthetic and an openly gay character. And even when it comes to speculation, your opinion about a future show's quality hinges not on any significant story details or character profiles, but on whether the characters are in a boy band. So to say that what worries you more in a Macross show is the quality of its story and characters isn't accurate. What IS accurate is that what worries you more, or at least what worries you enough to express it, is whether the characters in a story conform to your, yes, narrow ideas of gender roles. I just wanted to clarify that.
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    But Zero was terrible. All the writing and story issues you have with Delta, Zero also revels in. So this... ...rings especially untrue. What bothers you most isn't how dull, boring, or lazily-written/directed Delta was, it's that the characters didn't conform to your narrow view of gender and sexual roles. In which case, own your opinion. No need to hide it behind other criticism. Just lay it out there. Other people have, and the forums haven't come crashing down because of it.
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    That's either a magnet on the gunpod or a battery pack to power the airsoft gun that it really is.
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    This isn't a purchase, but I figure some of the Toy guys might like what's going on in the Models section so I'm just giving a head's up. I know most already know about the 1/20 VF-1 model kit being made by Max Factory; there's an event coming up on the 22nd and that thing is being shown off, completed and painted. Discussion thread: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/43427-max-factory-120-vf-1sa-hikaru/?do=findComment&comment=1381901
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Is this a thing in the real world at all? Do flight commanders get any sort of specialized, personalized plane/tank/etc.? I know there are squadron-specific markings, but did the commanding officer's Jolly Rogers F-14 have special communication equipment or the like that the rest of the JRs didn't?
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    It's also possible they did get some in stock, just not enough to cover what I'm sure must have been an insane flood of orders. If one of each item was found, then congrats to the 5-6 people who managed to get their orders through the pipeline first and tough luck to the 37,893 who didn't.
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    IMAX trailer. Don't watch if: 1) You don't like spoilers (this shows basically an entire key battle save for its ending, which REALLY pissed me off) 2) You like good trailers (this thing is terribly put together) That said, this trailer reinforces my supposition that the movie will be the popcorn fest I want it to be.
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    See, here I was thinking the characters were just dull and boring, but alas you're right! Yes, of course! The problem is that the boys are pretty!
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    This show takes place 100 years before Enterprise, no?
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    Uh... Different strokes for different folks?
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    Don't kinkshame.
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    So I'm two episodes into the mirror world and I'm already tired of how caricaturally evil it is. EDIT: Is it ethical and/or within Starfleet protocol to seed an uninhabited celestial body with alien biology?
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    That is too good.
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    This is still easily the most fraked-up thing about this show.
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    The kana specifically say H25 Sky Blue, if that helps. (And H35 Cobalt Blue.)
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    I dunno, it looks like an exact copy of a Metal Build stand to me. And IIRC, both 1/100 Gundam models (with some finnagling) and MBs can fit on the stand.
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    That's rough. Good luck fixing it. Polystyrene plus thinning by 2mm plus a too-direct heat source (such as a hair dryer at close distance) equals this sort of localized warping. Heating up the entire thing, very slowly, to a lower temperature MIGHT work better. I remember the old Bandai Evangelion kits had polystyrene arms that you could bend by putting it in hot water and then slowly bending to the desired bend. Edit: Maybe packing the back side with clay prior to heating will also help it maintain its shape. A thought.
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    IIRC, the competing team to the Walkure+Delta combo was also supposed to consist of an idol group (or more likely a boy band) and demo team. I suspect that the AK might be amalgamations of those ten or so preexisting designs, which explains why they're almost all such bishie types. Make their rivals a group of Meltrandi idols piloting new transforming power armors.
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    If she's inconsistent, it's because she's always (or usually) presented as being right; or rather, the writers want us to sympathize with her, even in those cases where, if we take a step back, we see how much her actions might contradict each other. Such as... Yeah, that was a pretty fraked up strategy. I can sort of see the ways they could rationalize it - the battle wasn't over despite what the Klingons thought, and so the Shenzhou was (were?) taking advantage of a strategic miscalculation, not necessarily rigging the dead for a "nefarious purpose." It's a flimsy rationale, though, and when they just went ahead with the plan without a single protest... yikes.
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    Apparently she's actually Malaysian . I'd only ever seen her Chinese films, I didn't realize. She was in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and its sequel. She plays a bit role in the GotG films, too, as one of the... original Guardians? I never understood what they were referencing with her, Stallone, and the other Ravagers. She has a long career in wuxia films, too, and became really well-known for performing her own stunts. She was part of that same 90s wave of wuxia movies that gave us Jet Li, Donnie Yen, et al. She starred with Li in Tai Chi Master and headlined the movie Wing Chun (with Donnie Yen in supporting role). One of the sillier movies of hers I remember really liking was The Heroic Trio, a sort of campy superhero flick set in the... 1940s? and its sequel, Executioners. These are all films from decades ago, so their actual quality might not match up to my memory of them. There's also this gem:
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    I didn't know about the Captain spoiler, THANKS VERY MUCH! -_____- (I jest, I suspected as much.) But I'll be honest, the Emperor Georgeau spoiler was what pushed me to finally watch this show. Michelle Yeoh, man, I've been watching her movies since the early 90s. I think of her as like my cool Chinese kung fu mom.
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    Isn't a boy band exactly what the characters who eventually became the Aerial Knights were supposed to be?
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