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    Ah, I see. By the by, the $349 deal I only saw at Gamestop and Walmart. Apparently there's this $399 bundle on Ebay that nets you Battlefront 2 and FF15 as well. I came across it just now confirming the Gamestop/Walmart deals. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Playstation-4-Pro-1TB-Console-Star-War-Battle-Front-2-Final-Fantasy-XV/382277434643
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    Destroids

    kajnrig replied to Xigfrid's topic in The Workshop!

    D'oh! Well, glad to have been corrected. EDIT: Oh, also I see the question was already answered a week ago. Should have skimmed better. >.<
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    Destroids

    kajnrig replied to Xigfrid's topic in The Workshop!

    Really neat work, as always. Some questions: - Scale? - Where/when are those variants seen? From left to right, I'm assuming... Frontier (show), Frontier (show), Delta, Delta workroid, and... different Delta workroid? - How easy would this be to convert to a Zero-era Cheyenne? I want to say I've asked you this before during the workroid WIP, but I don't remember doing so... Either way, keep up the always fantastic work.
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    With the PS4, Sony mimicked Microsoft and made online play require a paid subscription. On PS3, online access and online play was entirely free. It's not tied to the game specifically, but to the console. The controversy with the game has to do with its loot boxes, which are given to you at extremely low rates (think along the lines of 1 loot box every 2 days, or probably worse) but can be acquired en masse at once by paying real money. The loot box "rewards" sometimes contain in-game credits, which can be used to purchase and upgrade Star Cards, which in turn greatly affect gameplay (by, say, reducing a pistol's cooldown time from 4 seconds to 2 seconds). You said you got a PS4 Pro? Are you sure they're not selling the original/slim PS4 for that $100 discount?That sounds in line with what I've seen other retailers doing: - Original PS4 + extras for $199 - PS4 Pro (by itself or + extras) for $349 I believe the base PS4 is $299 retail, and the PS4 Pro is $399 retail.
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    This seems like the most applicable thread to post this update. It's about the ongoing Robotech/Battletech lawsuit, not anything to do directly with the Tatsunoko case which has already been arbitrated, nor does it have anything to do directly with Big West. tl;dr - Piranha Games has filed a motion to dismiss HG's case against them owing to the results of arbitration from the HG vs. Tatsunoko case. 1:30 for HG's litigation history. 4:05 for most recent update.
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    And so the rumor that he's fired would I'm assuming have to do with that recent reveal that he cheated often on his wife?
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    What's the order of these new Wolfenstein games? The New Colossus is obviously the latest in the series, but between - The Old Blood - The New Order which is the reboot of the franchise and which is the sequel(? midquel? prequel?) to the reboot of the franchise? No, just the original. Much as I wanted, I couldn't justify splurging on 4.1 without knowing if I'd like it or not.
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    Chogokin Mazinkaiser on sale for 16,200 yen @ Banzai Hobby. Might not be available, but you can give it a shot if you want it. http://banzaihobby.com/Bandai-4549660158349
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    I thought he was only tapped to help on the JL movie?
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    Oh, I didn't know about that. I should clarify the codes are for Newegg. I'm fine with the digital, I don't like the games that much, plus shipping is even faster than Prime! I just bought it, and so too apparently are some of the others here considering it. EDIT: A full list of the games I've bought in the last two days: - Earth Defense Force (bug-killing 3rd-person shooter) - Hyper Light Drifter (action RPG?) - Distraint (psychological horror) - Undertale (RPG) - Stories: The Path of Destinies (action RPG?) - Enter the Gungeon (procedurally-generated? top-down action shooter) - Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero DLC - "Pirate Queen's Quest" (love this franchise, you should too) - Prey - Wolfenstein 2 - The Evil Within 2 That's about $100 worth of games. I think that, unlike models and toys, should keep me busy for the next half-year or so at the very least.
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    Use promo code EMCBBCD53 for the $5 off (otherwise it's same as Steam). EMCBBCD52 for Prey, EMCBBCD54 for TEW2.
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    $30 isn't low enough? (Or is it more, I dunno.) I just bought a whole bunch of smaller games that went on sale on Steam - Enter the Gungeon, Hyper Light Drifter, Undertale, etc. - with the most expensive being Prey at $20, but then I quickly refunded that because Newegg showed its Thanksgiving day sales, which included Prey for $17. Big savings, I know. Same sale has The Evil Within 2 and Wolfenstein 2 for 25 each. EW2 looks surprisingly good from the LP I've been watching, and the nephew has suddenly gotten into Wolfenstein, so those are going into the cart as well. ...or maybe not, since said nephew is a little crap and doesn't have the patience for cutscenes IN A SINGLE-PLAYER STORY-FOCUSSED FPS WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUU---- No, but I almost assuredly will buy them once I get back from lunch with the in-laws (brother's, not mine).
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    This is the... Hasegawa VF-31C box art? Or...?
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    They're not even a necessary evil. Loot boxes are, when you get down to their core concept, randomized rewards. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. It's when you start stipulating on the randomness that things get problematic, and especially so when you start "offering" the "choice" to pay real money to affect that randomness. Moreover, F2P games don't NEED loot boxes to make money; before loot boxes, there was in-game currency, and before that, there was microtransactions, and in all of these cases, the same problems existed: was the game gating off gameplay and gameplay advantages behind hidden paywalls? The problem has only been exacerbated in the transition from F2P games to "traditional" games, because now devs and publishers are demanding that you pay up front in order to even access these microtransaction-, loot box-, in-game currency-laden systems. It's layers upon layers upon layers of obfuscation to try and hide the fact that they're selling you an addiction. Overwatch makes you pay $60 up front, so you assume you're getting a full game, but then it locks costumes and other cosmetic items (which would have been unlockable items in a previous game) behind a paywall, but don't worry it's not a real paywall, just an in-game currency paywall, but you need loot boxes in order to get in-game currency, but don't worry you can get loot boxes through gameplay, except you can't get them nearly fast enough through gameplay to make the grind satisfying, but don't worry if you really really REALLY want loot boxes you can just pay a small $2-40 to get anywhere from two to an astounding FIFTY loot boxes, isn't that such a great value??? And that in itself is distasteful enough, but apparently the gaming community is totally fine with the practice because after all, it's only COSMETIC items - never mind that cosmetic items, even a limited number of them, have been included in the $60 purchase price of a game for decades now, so really gamers are saying that they're okay with paying full price for less content... but moving on. EA's big frakk-up here has apparently been to tie these loot boxes to tangible gameplay benefits. Gamers would apparently be fine with this money-grubbing, nefarious, greedy policy designed to target their most vulnerable and mentally ill members if only it didn't touch the precious precious gameplay. I'm being a twit about this, I know, but... only just. And yet they've still been profiting off of just game sales. Even on discounted game sales. Loot boxes, microtransactions, etc., aren't a way to make a profit, they're just there to make more profit. Your wish is my (or, well, the Belgian government's) command. https://gizmodo.com/belgian-gaming-commission-decides-battlefront-ii-style-1820663366 And apparently Hawaii agrees with the Belgians. ------ In unrelated news, I saw some demo gameplay of this game, Jack and Casie, and while I have some issues with it, I just spent a good two hours playing through it myself. It's really fun. It's already met its Kickstarter goal, but if you want to help it hit some of its stretch goals, that would be cool. It's basically if you take the attache case from RE4 and built an entire game around real-time managing it. And if you're anything like me, you've spent an inordinate amount of time managing your RE4 attache case. Myself, I'd like to be able to pause or slow down the gameplay from time to time, especially to give me time to read item details and dialogue and the like, but again, all in all, it was really fun.
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    Sounds about the right modus operandi. Also, isn't this based on the Mk. II 2.0? Does it really use so little of the Mk. II?
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Speaking of which, is the Arad -31A's emblem different from his -31S emblem? I haven't taken a good enough look to know for sure. It'd be neat if it was something different.
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    "Overseas for Justice League posted $185.5M, putting the global opening at $281.5M." They'll ultimately make a profit, but it's time to just completely reset the franchise, methinks. The casting is fine, but the world and story have been fundamentally flawed from the get-go, thanks in large part to too much Zack Snyder influence. He's just not a good narrative director, and too good a visual one.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Well you see, when a man loves a woman...
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    Thor wins by a landslide. And considering this is supposed to be the mother effin' Avengers super team-up movie of the DC universe, it getting trounced by arguably the least interesting of the Avengers is just... well, expected, at any rate. Ironically, the DC movies have much stronger leitmotifs than any of Marvel's individual superheroes, but when it comes to the big team up, Avengers trounces whatever was the theme here. I chalk it up to Snyder's directorial style. The generically sad music comes in when the generically sad scene calls for it, the happy music when the happy scene starts, and so on. Very Zack Snyder, very individually competent but narratively dead. The song that played during the "Superman is dead" montage at the beginning of the movie made my eyes roll. The chemistry comes and goes. It's steadiest with the Flash, just because the writers seem to have the firmest grasp of who they want him to be, but even then I wouldn't call it a success because it's so fitful. Agreed, that whole thing was terrible. The movie feels like a rehash of Suicide Squad, when each character needs to have their personal arcs systematically checked off. And I swear to god the movie acts like everyone in the DC universe has mommy issues. EVERYBODY in this movie has some sort of maternal trauma, it seems. Me, I obviously think the movie fails too many times more than it wins to be a success overall. Better than the 2-3/10 that Man of Steel/BvS/Suicide Squad were, but doesn't quite reach the 5/10 of Wonder Woman. 4/10, don't waste your time, go watch Thor instead.
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    Seems to be the most talked-about aspect of the movie, honestly. Friends convinced me to see it tomorrow morning, cheapo seats. (No way I'm paying full price to see this.) I have the lowest of expectations.
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    My sentiments as well.
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    Waiting on the extra scene as I write this. Enjoyable, but the dialogue was disappointing. Of all the Marvel universes, Thor needs a specific cadence to its dialogue, to how especially the main character speaks and acts. The first movie is still the best at getting this classical, mythic dialogue right, and even the second movie had its share of Shakespearean speech. This one was too Guardians of the Galaxy about it. Otherwise, really enjoyable movie.
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    Are you sure the waterslides aren't actually stickers? I haven't built the Red Frame, but Bandai doesn't often package waterslides with their kits.
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    Very nice colors. Did you strip everything and start from bare plastic? If so, where did you get the decals for all the markings? Or did you mask off areas and "just" paint over the original paint scheme? Either way, that's a really pretty design.
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