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    Yeah, I got that same feeling, too, now that I think about it. The beginning dragged, and after the conflict ratcheted up and the alien had no more new tricks up its sleeve, I started getting a bit bored. Not enough to not want to see it to the end, but enough to notice time passing.
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    Saw it tonight. Enjoyed it well enough. Spoilers in case you care:
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    Are the mecha/monster designs as bad as they look in the trailer? Also, I heard the Power Ranger-ing doesn't actually start until the last 30 minutes or so. Confirmation?
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    This also points to the distinction between "Japanese" and "Japanese-American." To Japanese-Americans, World War II's most personal memory is the internment camps; to the Japanese, it's the atom bomb. There's cultural crossover for sure, and it's definitely worth noting how and where they view the same thing differently, but too often this sort of stuff gets used to try and delegitimize minority American perspectives. If Japanese people are okay with whitewashing, then Japanese-Americans should shut their mouths... except Japanese people by and large didn't have to deal with the consequences of whitewashing, Japanese-Americans did. Anyway, however else I feel about the movie, it does have some damn impressive special effects. It's nice to see Weta bringing their A-game; I don't remember them working on any "big" projects since King Kong. The Hobbit movies, I guess, but I didn't watch past the first one, so...
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    And yet they consistently find a way...
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    For those of you still wondering about extending the battery life:
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    The Hasegawa kit allows you to build that section with the guns deployed or stowed; the gold that covers the barrels in fighter mode can apparently open, eject, or otherwise make way to expose them. It's a mechanism that just didn't make the transition to the toys, models, and animation. The Bandai kit omits these covers entirely and just has the barrels exposed all the time, even in fighter mode. Bandai kit: http://dalong.net/review/etc/md03/p/md03_91.jpg
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    They're not using TV Flash? That's an odd decision...
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    Trainwreck Part 2: The Legend of MARTHAAAAAA edit: Whoops, timing was way off, apparently.
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    Did anyone see that theory going around that this was actually the Venom origin movie?
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    You and me both. I was hoping for this angle, actually. Hayate and Freyja snog during that birthday with the snow and stuff and the third less invested party just says "eh screw it" and focuses on her other just as relevant and important priorities.
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    A bit of an aside: Sheryl Nome's VA has a small role in one of the later Frontier albums. Does she sing, too, or does she primarily stick to VA?
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    No no no, no Ranka or Sheryl. It'll be Mirage filling in, after they discover she has fold wave capacity or whatever it is.
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    No, those are missiles being launched from the underwing pylons. The micro missile launchers are located in the shoulders in battroid mode. In fighter mode:
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    Update: Played a few more hours and the game's running smooth(er) now. A quick summary of the issues most people seem to be having: - Low and choppy framerates, lots of frameskipping - White/Black screen on launch - Game and/or computer freezes after a certain amount of time (if the former, requires game restart; if the latter, requires full system restart) - Fullscreen 1080p is actually 900p upscaled The first of these seems to be a combination of a generally poor porting job, underpowered hardware (people were trying to run it on integrated graphics chips and wondering why it was so slow...), and an anomaly with the way the game does antialiasing. Turning any amount of antialiasing on will interfere with how the game draws textures, so instead of getting a smooth fading in/out of high/low-res grass textures, you'll see patches of grass "pop in," as it were, and causes the frame timing to spike. I turned AA off (the ambient occlusion option apparently has a measure of AA built in, according to Steam forum members), and my game started running buttery-smooth. I didn't experience white/black screens, even though it's apparently more common on AMD cards than Nvidia ones and I have an AMD RX 480. Rolling back video drivers to version 16.11.5 (I'm guessing that's the release date of it? May 11, 2016?) takes care of the problem. I don't know exactly which driver revision works for Nvidia cards, but in either case, hopefully a driver update helps to fix the problem. The same thing fixes the game/computer freezing bit. On my end, it was the computer freezing, as I mentioned in the above post. This particular problem seems to happen to both AMD and Nvidia cards across all sorts of hardware configurations. The last issue can be overcome by downloading a program called Borderless Gaming that allows you to run any (or at least most) game/program/etc. in a borderless window. This forces the game into a 1920x1080 window, so everything looks right. The upscaling seems to be a leftover from the original PS4 version, which renders at 900p. All of these seem like they'll be fairly easy to fix in a debug patch. I imagine even the graphical driver problems can be traced to a problem in the porting process, but even if it's not, I'm fairly confident AMD/Nvidia will release updated drivers to support the game. As it is, I'm 4 hours in and loving it so far, even if I've only just beaten the first tutorial quest.
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    Thanks. Graphics drivers are almost definitely the issue. Rolled back to an older firmware and managed to get to the first save point with some stuttering come the big prologue finale. So yay for that, boo until AMD fixes bugs on their end. Good ride so far, though, the game itself.
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    Bought Nier Automata yesterday. It's frozen my computer three times since. Hoping for a patch, either to the game or to the hardware, to fix that sometime soon. Will try rolling back video drivers (which seem to be the problem) in the meantime.
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    Oh man, I need to watch this show now.
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    Mikumo as a character was little more than a deus ex machina. It would have been interesting if they'd gone the route of making her incredibly able to affect emotions/fold waves/what-have-you but also extremely ignorant of emotions and social interaction. That ineffable confidence is a defense mechanism. Mikumo as an idol was... fine, I guess. I dislike that the music emphasizes Junna's performance over those of the other performers. It throws off the balance of the music and kind of undermines the whole idol group philosophy. But that could be because Kaname is my boo and I wanted to see her singles/albums/solos/everything be about her.
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    Working with emblem decals always turns me into a nervous wreck. Actually, working on masking also turns me into a nervous wreck. Actually, I think it's fair to say that working on models in general turns me into a nervous wreck. Great job, keep it up.
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    It seems that I was wrong here, partly. Loading times actually go, from fastest to slowest: - internal storage - SD cards (wtf) - game cartridges It's so odd because you would expect they would want their proprietary game cartridge format to be faster than the other external storage medium.
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    Seems like someone did a naughty.
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    By all indicators, her working name appears to be the Mira Killian mentioned a page ago, with the writers forcing "Major" into the script, likely on orders from producers, in an attempt to distance the film as much as they can from the whitewashing. It's a political, not creative, concession and an unnecessary one at that (just like the initial whitewashing), which is why it's so off-putting.
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    This isn't weird at all. The industry invented blackface and consider/considered CGI-ing ScarJo to look "more Asian." C'mon. EDIT: I dunno, Steve Rogers seems pretty believable a character to me, and he's not the son of the inventor of the super soldier program or anything. His interesting story doesn't involve his parents/superiors/etc. lying to him about what he is. It doesn't turn out in Batman that Gotham City had Bruce's parents killed, and yet audiences continue to dig his movies. It feels like "my superiors are keeping a big secret from me" is becoming the go-to writing crutch when it hampers a movie more often than not. Does Wonder Woman REALLY need that kind of story arc to keep her interesting? I don't think so. Granted, this is all speculative, so maybe I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill, but regardless, I really hope they do something more creative with it than what's being implied by the trailer. It's a cover story? That's a shame. ...or is this one of those Dumb Comic Book Things where they retcon it in future revisions of her origin story?
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    Received my payment notice today. Here's to seeing it at the end of the month!
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