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    I remember the comics were waaaay better than the show writing (S3 and on anyway), and I always thought they would make for great episodes. Those character-specific ones especially made me laugh, like the "day in the life of Luna" one where she's characterized as a socially awkward eccentric, and the Pinkie Pie one with the great Watchmen reference. Them's Fighting Herds looks like a great little fighting game if and when it finally comes out. I know the original was called MLP: Fighting is Magic and was nearly done when the CnD came about. There was enough progress on that game that at least two builds were released (one featured the Mane 6, the other had a larger cast) anonymously post-CnD. When Mane 6 Studios (I think that's the name) moved onto Them's Fighting Herds, the creators of Skullgirls, Lab Zero Games, actually gave them their game engine to use. (It happened after either M6 or LZ had a successful Kickstarter campaign.) If you know anything about Skullgirls, you should be able to expect a really solid fighting game. I don't play many fighters myself, but I always try to buy them when I can because I really love the community that's grown up around the genre.
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    This place has a MLP thread? That's... unexpected. I'd have thought any fans here would have taken their fandom to EQD or something. Speaking of fandom, what's the state nowadays? I stopped paying close attention after season 3 or so (after season 2 if I'm honest with myself), and completely after season 4. About the only thing MLP I still indulge in is the FimFlamFilosophy abridged series. I hear it's up to season 7 now? And there's a new Twilight proxy? And some new princesses? I remember the good old days when there were only two and they were gods...
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    Shots fired, shots fired!
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    Okay, thanks everyone. Yeah, I tend to get a bit too invested in seam line removal for my own good. It gets especially rough with Bandai's articulated kits, where the articulation proves to be an additional source of worry. (What to glue/paint/mask and in what order to get good paint coverage while preserving articulation...) I don't recall there being too many seam line issues on the Bandai Delta kits, but it's good to get thoughts nonetheless.
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    Tangentially related question: Do you guys fret over seam lines much? I tend to get overly paranoid about them, gluing and trying to remove seam lines even where there might not be a need. The top and bottom halves of a Hasegawa VF nose cone, for instance. The seam is pretty obvious, but the fit is impeccable, and sometimes a really good fit is enough to get rid of a seam line, but I always glue/cement/putty it anyway before painting it. I don't know how good it looks painted but unglued. There are other areas where this is the case, usually wings and tail fins and the like, and I always wonder about this when I tackle them. With Bandai kits at least, you can be fairly sure that it'll be an "all or nothing" type deal, where the seam lines are noticeable and require putty/cement OR hidden by crafty parts separation.
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    The demo's free on PS4, though, so get it on there, get a feel for the game and if you like it, then buy it or not on PC. It'd be nice if they ported the demo over to PC, but no way are they going to spend more time than they have to, it seems.
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    The gold is dull on the Hs kit as well. Compare them to the Hasegawa decals and you can see the clear difference in quality.
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    This is the only article I've read that has any sort of numbers for the international gross so far, and it paints a grim picture for its success, though I predict it'll be mildly successful in the end. NOTE that it dives into the whitewashing issue insofar as it affected returns. (tl;dr - Not very, or at least unquantifiably.) I know we've had our fair share of discussion on the matter, so I'll quote the only relevant part below: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ghost-shell-how-a-complex-concept-whitewashing-critics-kept-crowds-away-990661 It will have to make up some $50-60 million in China and Japan to cover its production budget, and another $100 million for marketing (at least that's what I'm guessing; apparently it's common practice to ballpark marketing costs at 90-110% of production costs). That's a slightly more daunting task than I originally thought. I doubt it'll make much in Japan, since Japan just isn't big with theater (Pacific Rim, since someone mentioned it earlier, had a total of $14 million there), meaning China will be the one to look at (Pacific Rim in China made $112 million). (Numbers from Box Office Mojo.)
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    You mean the arm cannons/behind-cockpit guns? Those are railguns?
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    It would have been too much hassle. Even the Hs only has the most minimal gold parts, with the majority of colors being represented by the decals. They would have had to engineer two entirely separate molds for ostensibly the same(ish) craft.
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    Dang it. I was looking through my trove of kits trying to find mine so I could scan the decal sheet for you, only to realize that I don't have a 1/48 kit of the VF-1. (The YF-19, yes. The VF-1, no.) I felt really sad about that. Best of luck.
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    Hm... I'd say go with the 1/48 ones based on size alone. It'll do better to scale them down than to scale the 1/72 decals up, if you get my meaning. Do you have any particular decals in mind? Or are you just hoping to "mimic" the decals/placement from the kit to the toy? (I mean, obviously it won't just be a matter of scaling down to 1/60 anyway, the proportions are too different, but hopefully you know what I mean.)
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    From Appledaily Facebook page: April Fools joke or not, I'd watch it. It looks dumb in the best way.
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    I dunno, I think that one peaks at 2 like most trilogies do. Maybe the Star Wars prequels? But I like Phantom Menace more than Attack of the Clones, and even if Revenge of the Sith is the best, it's still not good...
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    Just got the final ending of Nier, some 70+ hours in (with half of that time spent on the first playthrough). Good game. Go play it. EDIT: Make sure you backup your save periodically.
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    Dang. And I'd been working on a response to various points over the course of the last few days, too. Oh well then. In trying to answer my own question, I came across this: http://movieweb.com/ghost-in-shell-movie-2017-box-office-predictions/ It's predicting a not too hot debut (10-15 million domestic) owing to competition from the likes of Beauty and the Beast and Power Rangers (though the whitewashing certainly doesn't help much either). It also had this press-release synopsis that isn't really spoiler-y but is enough so to warrant it, methinks. Bolded are parts that stuck out to me for better or for worse. Also of interest was this Forbes article, which focuses on the third trailer and potential box office numbers compared to other big March releases (with luck, it'll perform around the same as Lucy owing to ScarJo influence): https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/03/27/scarlett-johanssons-ghost-in-the-shell-gets-a-last-ditch-trailer/#448bc17445e9
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    This showed up randomly in my Youtube feed. Some info on the reviewers: One of them saw the original movie, the other didn't, neither have seen or read anything else GitS. tl;dr = Falls far short of the original(s), but isn't an out-and-out trainwreck. Middle of the road, underwhelming (basically what I expected it to be, plus racism). Seems that's the opinion of most people here as well.
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    Just paid for my two re-releases. Hope everybody got theirs as well.
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    5:50 - Apparently yes. Visor and veil.
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    I'm not art historian, so take this with a grain of salt, but I'd argue there's nothing about the "Japanese expression" of anime that precludes it from being anime. Actually, it's precisely that expression, those ideas applied to animation that originated in the Japanese industry, that make it the movement that it is. To put it another way, the European Renaissance included distinct expressions that influenced and were influenced by other expressions of that movement. The French Renaissance, Italian, etc. etc. etc. all sort of fed into each other. Maybe it could be said that the "Anime Renaissance" started in Japan and "anime" ideas wormed their way into American animation, French animation, even Middle Eastern animation (apparently a show called "Torkaizer," never heard of it). I dunno. Anyway. ....ehhhhh..... Is there tracking data on this movie at all? As in how well it's projected to do? As much as I'm railing against it, part of me does hope it ultimately does well, but that trailer doesn't fill me with much hope for its quality. It doesn't seem like general enthusiasm levels are all that high, either (what a shock), at least in America. It'll probably do better in China (and Japan? maybe?).
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    Neat monster girl anime Interviews with Monster Girls ended this weekend with a decent 12-episode run. While I really liked it, the final two episodes fell victim to the anime trope of The Heartfelt Narration, where the protagonists espouse about all the things they've learned and what they're grateful for and so on. There's a long stretch in the second-to-last episode where it's just three girls talking to the camera one after the other, and the animators did what they could with what they had, but you could tell they were running out of steam. And final episode is the "beach" episode, because of course there has to be one. To its credit, the show subverts the trope as much as it can - it takes place in the school pool, for one - and spends no time at all creepily sexualizing the underage cast; in fact, there's a good amount of focus on the attraction between the two adults. A+ for not being Creepy Anime Bullshit.
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    I dunno about that much, but it is a good movie. That ending was all sorts of cheese, though, and kind of took me out of the movie. First Class is still a better overall X-Men movie, but this is as good as a Wolverine movie was ever going to get, I think. I'm glad they decided to get rid of the baggage of all the other movies, too. The relationship between Logan and Charles got a bit too real for me at times, made me honest to god tear up at one point.
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    Eh. Someone brought it up, and I'm fine with discussing it. I try not to drag it on because I know most people here aren't as comfortable and/or interested in it as I am, but if someone wants to discuss it, then I'm game. /shrug
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    That's... not at all what I said, but I'm not gonna keep arguing the point. Cheers.
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    I wonder about this, too, and how prevalent this thinking is in Japan. I was always under the impression that, generally, Japanese audiences understand anime characters as "Japanese" (insofar as nationality is at all applicable to anime) whenever it comes to how they specifically interact with the characters. But then again, anime in Japan encompasses literally all animation; the term isn't used nearly as specifically as it is here. Heck, the "term" isn't even a term, it's just a Japanese tendency to shorthand EVERYTHING. And even here people argue that stuff like Avatar, Wakfu, Samurai Jack, Adventure Time, etc. fall under the American definition of "anime." One Youtuber likens anime to historical art movements like the Renaissance, modernism, etc., which I think is a... better way to understand it, but anyway. They also didn't organize their society around race like we did, so... Like, I get what you guys are trying to say, but you're comparing apples to oranges here. If Japan had won the war, let's say, and they continued their experimenting on Chinese and Korean POWs, and brought over a bunch of Chinese and Koreans and settled them into the slums of Japan and then systematically leeched off of them financially and socially for the next seventy years, meanwhile marveling at how primitive "mainlanders" are, and in the meantime Korea recovered from the war and made a sick-ass action movie, and then Japan started saying to themselves, "You know what? We don't like racism anymore," and then took that sick-ass action movie and recast it using Japanese actors who had infinitely more exposure than their Korean-Japanese counterparts, THEN that would be more comparable to whitewashing. You can bet that Korean-Japanese population would be throwing up as much of a fuss over the casting decision as Asian Americans are over GitS's whitewashing.
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