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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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    Unrelated to these movies, but there was talk here of a Matrix sequel/reboot, so here you go: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/matrix-reboot-works-at-warner-bros-986292
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    http://www.crunchyroll.com/interviews-with-monster-girls So Crunchyroll is streaming the series. Watched the first two episodes. Will watch more. Turns out it's a slice of life show, which puts some people off. Me, I don't watch much anime anymore anyhow, so I haven't developed the appropriate distaste, I suppose. It puts an interesting twist on the "supernatural high school" setting by making the characters more or less "normal," with their respective monster personas being mutations with ill-understood physiological effects. So the myth that vampires hate garlic is actually that garlic overstimulates vampires, which is why most avoid it, and so on. The series vampire happens to enjoy the rush she gets from eating it. It's a bit like X-Men in that you can see some social commentary in between the lines, but it's perhaps not quite so heavy-handed about it. The slice of life far outweighs the supernatural elements. (EDIT 2: Actually, there's quite a lot of clever, creative depiction of mental illness here without stigmatizing mental illness. I'm really liking this.) There's some of the usual trope-y tropes that go with the genre, but for the most part, the show keeps characters on an even keel. The dullahan character is probably my favorite so far. She's a cutie, and she has a crush on the main character that isn't played for creepy wish fulfillment. I remember reading one manga, I forget the name of it now, where a teacher-elementary student romance is the main plot and not done very well at all (with gratuitous loli fanservice as well, which... egh), and I remember constantly hoping it would play out more like it does here. I think it was controversial enough that its English localization was scrapped after the publishers saw some of the later chapters. She gets one of the trope-y tropes - this one's of the "she has big boobs and sensei hugs her and overreacts when he realizes what she's packing" variety - but so far it's been a one-off gag and hopefully doesn't get more focus than that. Anyway, I'm liking it so far. Here's a clip: EDIT: Ten seconds into episode 5 and BAM explicit (but not graphic) suicide imagery. That sure threw me for a loop. Sheesh.
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    Saw it just earlier. Dug it very much. That final battle brought back all my fondest memories of Pacific Rim. Two very minor gripes, spoilery:
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    Has anyone heard of Demi-chan wa Kataritai ("Interviews with Monster Girls" I guess)? Some random clips showed up on my Youtube feed for whatever reason, and it seems like a cute anime, with a sensible protagonist and story rather than the prototypical high school harem show. Also, I keep hearing Madoka recommended, so I'll probably check that out. Any other reccs?
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    That's a really cool origin. Way more in line with the abject weirdness of the Ancient Greeks than yet again baby daddy Zeus.
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    I realize now that I misread your post. I'm totally down for seeing this movie, and I have no doubt that it'll be a great little monster flick. I mean I enjoyed Godzilla well enough, and that one was only 20 minutes long. I meant that as long as it's better than Jurassic World, which I found more disappointing than not (it's certainly no JP1), I'll be a happy camper. I'm a cheap date when it comes to giant monsters.
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    This was the endorsement I was hoping for. Jurassic World was a major letdown.
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