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    I still think the proper translation is catfish. Because yes, the pun is worth it.
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    Does the "Ver Ka" moniker mean that it's using the Ver. Ka as a base kit? Or was the Thunderbolt FA Gundam designed by Katoki?
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    The part that really got me was the jigger flea. frakkin' A.
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    I have a question about photo-etch parts. Are they meant to be applied then painted the same way you would other scratch-built detail? Or are you expected to put them on after all other assembly/painting is complete, and leave the metal bare? I guess I'm not quite sure how much more they add to kits nowadays, considering the detail you can get out of the bare plastic has risen considerably. But anyway, I'm really looking forward to this. I've always wanted to build an Elint but never got the chance before they stopped production. Keep it up.
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    And tossing babies around willy-nilly. Oh, I thought it was something in particular that prompted it, like I'm guessing someone wondered about Messer and Kaname? Or Arad and Kaname? And then someone else must have asked "but can idols date in this universe?" etc. etc. etc.
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    Since the kits come on runners, you can practice by gluing the runner trees together. After snipping the pieces off, of course.
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    I know, and it's still one of my few sticking points about his style. But whatever his last movie was, some military one based on real life, I thought that one saw less significant camera shaking, no? Maybe I'm just imagining it.
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    Saw it a few days ago. I remember enjoying it, but looking back it and the first two episodes do feel a bit in a rush. I wondered in another forum whether Delta was supposed to be a 39/52-episode broadcast forced to slot into a single season. How many episodes is this slated to be? The music continues to grow on me, slowly. The mock battle was a bit disappointing. Not sure why, but still disappointing. Maybe it was the end, how Messer just randomly and unnecessarily shows up just as randomly and unnecessarily as he does earlier. Were those subs accurate and Makina and/or Reina have their own home and the two of them live together? Or is it just another dorm they share separate from the others? Because of lack of space? Gotta say I'm digging the actual planet, though. Actual geography and pretty vistas to provide backdrops. I didn't realize how confined Frontier felt until this show. The whole "purity" socially-imposed chastity belt did play a role in it, I think, though I seem to recall the allegation was that she was actually forcing herself onto several men. Not just nymphomania but abuse to go with it. But then I took those reports with massive amounts of salt (partly due to said "purity" taboo). Wasn't there an/several AKB48 member(s) who suffered a nervous breakdown after it was made public she was romantically involved? Also why are we talking about idols and dating?
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    What even happened in Legacy? No, but more seriously, the sequels were great and all but I was really hoping for a return to the more... mellow? styling of the original. And sure as heck less shaky cam.
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    Just want to add that the Gerwalk kit includes extra parts specifically for making that mode. So it's more B mode + F mode + G parts.
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    As do I. But this indicates that the studio wanted the character to be Asian. That being the case, then again why did they not simply cast an Asian actress in the first place? But you know what? Don't answer that. In fact, that's a rhetorical question. The answer is obvious, and I and others have already stated: For pragmatism's sake. The problem, and one that the majority of white people and/or members of this board - including and especially the guy who made that ignorant "whitesplaining" video (and yeah har har this thread is useless now but nobody had a problem with that word being used until I was the one using it) - don't get, is that it is pragmatic AND racist. And, in fact, racism has MADE pragmatism racist. Not in all cases, but certainly in this one. They wanted an Asian character, but they cast a white actress instead. The net effect of that, regardless of the reasoning or intent, is that another job gets taken away from another Asian actress and given to another white one, and another Asian character is presented to the world as white (and we've all seen how hard it is for white people to let go of White Jesus), and in every possible way white people are advantaged and Asians are not. People want to believe that racism is just about thinking, the mentality that this race is better than that race, but see, when scientists talk about racism (and social justice advocates have borrowed that academic language), they are talking about racism the same way an economist would talk about capitalism and communism and socialism. These -isms. Sets of ideas about how the world is and should be, AND the systems of law and social policy put in place to make the real world fit those ideas. America is a capitalist society. We not only collectively believe that private individuals can claim ownership and that competition for profit is good, we have enacted laws and created institutions that protect private property and competition and profit. Racism is no different. America is a racist society. Throughout the entirety of its history it was designed to advantage a white man over his colored brethren. Why do Hollywood metrics say that casting a white person instead of an Asian person is the pragmatic decision? Because of racism. But even IF the studio didn't want an Asian Motoko, even IF Motoko is based on Westerners, and even IF they were just doing a straight adaptation, so what? There is more "in-universe" reason, more credible "source material" justification--hell, more meta justification for casting this ONE film with an Asian actress than there ever was for 90 years and four dozen movies of White Charlie Chan. If this ONE movie casts an Asian person in a white role instead of the last fifty movies that cast a white person in an Asian role, what is the great harm? People were up in arms over Idris Elba as Heimdal; tell me what the great harm has been. It's not that you supposedly don't know what you're talking about, renegadeleader1, it's that we're talking about two distinct things, and you're saying that because yours is true mine isn't. It's only a problem if you don't know the source material? Right. And I'm sure "Birth of a Nation" is only problematic if you don't know about the Klan. But I'm done. I've said my piece on the matter already, and more than what I should have needed to say, and even then it likely still won't convince any of you otherwise, so it's time to extricate myself from the nest of vipers that this thread has become and go talk about the third episode of Delta.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I quite liked the 30's paint scheme...
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    Which supports my point. This is all very creator/character designer dependent, but the history of anime is littered with Asian characters who clearly do not look Asian. Shirow does not draw the Major with a distinctly Asian look--or even close to one, really. It... doesn't, actually. The caveat, both by itself and within the context of my larger post, is that anime ethnicity is perceived, not inherent. The history of anime is littered with anime characters who clearly look Asian... to Asian audiences. The Major is no exception. Like I said, whenever I've seen her I've always thought she was more Asian than not. I'd imagine the majority of Japanese audiences think the same. EDIT: In regards to the video, I spent quite a long time trying to marshal my thoughts about it into a cogent comment (from whenever it was linked here to now), but I got tired of listening to him, so I'll just post here what I ended up posting there:
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    Weren't these third-party garage kits anyway? Recasting an "unofficial" kit is done all the time in the Gundam world. I don't see why it'd be different here. Even recasts of official B-Club kits are done fairly regularly with no legal risk.
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    Oh, that's not a bad idea. http://ratatarse.jimdo.com/tutoriels-reviews-liens-et-dowloads/reviews/comparatif-vf-25-1-72-bandai-vs-hasegawa/ That's a comparison of the Hasegawa and Bandai kits, and it seems like the shapes and proportions are pretty similar in all regards, so I'd imagine the itasha decals would fit just as well on the Hasegawa kit as on the Bandai one. They're probably cut to fit to the Bandai kit's transformation gimmicks, but otherwise, I don't see there being any major problems.
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    Except of course you're wrong. Well, not wrong, that's just a bit of hyperbole for dramatic effect, but anime characters DON'T look more white than Asian. It's well-documented. Google "anime character ethnicity," and you'll find that there is a lot of ongoing debate over the "ethnicity" of anime characters (the obvious caveat being that anime characters don't inherently possess an ethnicity). Ask the majority of Japan and they'll agree that the average anime character is Asian. Do the same to (white) America and they'll agree that the average anime character is white.
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    Well, that's certainly the most condescending and intellectually dismissive video I've seen today. "The only reason to be mad is because you don't know better," said the missionary to the natives as he burned their ancestral altar to the ground. "Here, let me tell you." I was completely neutral on the casting decision until now, but damn if this didn't slide me over right quick into the "frakk this movie" territory.
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    Oh, be still my beating heart...
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    I haven't watched the episode yet, but does the VF-1 transform, or is it a fighter-only CGI model?
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    Well, that's rather a bit of an insult, isn't it? If you don't feel like talking about this stuff, then by all means, say so and I'll drop the subject entirely. But I took the time to read the entirety of your opinion and consider the points you made. I'd have hoped for the same in kind. It's not like I don't get why you'd find it bothersome. I'm sure you must be as tired of discussing race as I am. But this is a discussion forum, and it certainly seemed like you, by virtue of posting, wanted to have a discussion. For instance, if you had read what I said, you'd have seen that I made much the same point as what you said here: Namely that casting actors of a different race/ethnicity than the character is done often out of pragmatic concerns, not so much out of racist intent. (Disregarding that in the early history of American cinema the opposite was true.) I went further by saying that this pragmatism, however, clashes against the industry's voiced support for diversity and representation. With regards to the GitS CGI bit, you had asked why the magazine was still maintaining its original stance when the studio had already directly refuted it. I answered by clarifying Dreamworks' response and the magazine's rebuttal, and from there I began discussing why they couldn't just have cast an Asian actress in the first place if they wanted Motoko to be an Asian character. So nowhere in there did I talk about whether I thought the character should be any particular race. I don't know what you're referring to by "that typical-anime-whiteface" so this might be unrelated, but I've read - I'm sure you must have, too - that Japanese audiences largely see any anime character, unless they are explicitly made to be exaggeratedly white/black/etc., as Japanese. And white people see those same characters, unless they are explicitly made to be etc. etc. etc., as white. No matter how exotic the hairstyle, no matter how un-brown the eyes or un-black the hair or even un-white the skin, anime characters are Japanese... if you're Japanese. And white... if you're white. For my part, whenever I've seen pics of the Major, I've always thought of her as having this exact kind of Anime Ethnicity. Perhaps more Japanese than not, if only because I know the source material is Japanese, but then I also know the source material draws from Western fiction and philosophy, so... yeah. EDIT: Forgot to respond to this, too: I'd say that while moviegoers can't create contracts, they could certainly put consumer pressure on the studios to do as much, partly because of exactly what you said about change from within. It's a bit of a tall order, admittedly, getting moviegoers to collectively work for a cause. One could also argue that it would unfairly place the entire community's responsibilities upon the studios, but then I don't know if that would necessarily be true. Hm... More to think about. The how of it all.
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    Can't cross your middle and ring fingers? Is that a genetic thing, like rolling your tongue? Well, I suppose you can always do the alternative.
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    Damn, beat me to it. lol If it were "realistic," it would have to be in white and fit along that black strip lining the canopy, right? That's TIIIINY. I'm so in love with this bird. So sorely underused. And the colors are spot-on, too. <3
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    Bandai Sv-262 DX valk

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Do NOT get my hopes up. Do. NOT.
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    I'm sure third-party decals will pop up soon enough. Right? Right? No, but more seriously, I suppose an alternative would be to cut up the stickers along the panel lines. Lots of tedious work, but then so would be applying the stickers/decals in the first place.
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    My sentiments as well, save for the shudder. Probably they're operating on how well he seems to work with Freyja. Sync ratio, compatibility, etc.
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