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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Unless that's Taiwan currency, they CAN'T seriously want $900... ~$30-32 USD is what it would convert to, which seems... reasonable, I guess, I dunno action figure pricing...
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    Imagine if they used the oversized TV shoulder pylons. 9 feet? That boy could tango with Vampire Mommy Milkers!
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    Too true. D9 was his most successful work, both financially and artistically, and the one that I return to most often. Elysium and Chappie both still work well enough, but their social commentary is only surface level. I think it has to do with his being more familiar with the specifically South African apartheid that informed D9, whereas Elysium's classism and Chappie's... I forget what the term is, the "what makes a human?" idea... were either more generic in scope or tried to be specific to cultures/regions that he wasn't a part of or couldn't get good insight into. Regardless, I'm optimistic and excited about this movie.
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    EDIT: Accidentally submitted prematurely. Wop wop. Working on it. EDIT 2: Well, computer accidentally shut off mid-edit, so you get the CliffNotes response, sorry. Right, I read that bit of EvaGeeks, and it's compelling evidence, but again, the lack of an explicit statement within the "text" of the show itself, plus all the other vagueries of the show, leads me to leave it, and the idea of souls being needed at all, and specifically the souls of the pilots' mothers, in the gray zone of authenticity. I do like the idea, though, don't get me wrong. A couple responses: 1) I never took the MAGI setup to mean that her actual soul had been partitioned into the three MAGI supercomputers, simply that their behavior had been patterned after aspects of herself. A Dummy System of their own, so to speak. 2) I mentioned the ineptness with which Nerv handles the esoteric technologies it uses above to reinforce the idea that they didn't (before Yui, and maybe for some time after) fully know that a soul had to be present inside an Eva, and still currently don't know how exactly to go about putting one in there. The only other experiment we know of that tried to replicate Unit 01's assimilation of Yui was Unit 02's assimilation of Kyoko, and that was something of a failure. Only part of her soul was assimilated into the Eva, leading to her psychosis and eventual suicide... perhaps whereupon the rest of her soul joined in? If Unit 00 assimilated either Naoko or Rei I's soul, I assumed it did so passively, ie it was going to suck in the soul of any person who died in its vicinity, and Naoko/Rei I sufficed. If part of Rei's soul is inside Eva 00, it begs the question: Why? Why would Nerv, assuming they know that a soul is required and how and etc., not only put her soul in there, but put a fraction of her soul in there? And if they did so and it worked, why wouldn't they just do that for the rest of them? Yes, there's talk about better sync ratio and whatnot, but... the Double Rei Pilot-Soul System works. It's proof of concept that you DON'T need a pilot's mother's soul inside their Eva in order to sync with it. The fact that Rei and Shinji are able to swap Evas and sync with different "mothers" also kind of says as much... The fact that you have to qualify that statement with "likely" reinforces my point. It's canon that Evas need their pilots' mothers' souls inside them, but that canon is often enough abused that I feel comfortable disregarding it entirely. The only Evas for whom it is vitally important that they have their pilots' mothers' souls inside them are Unit 01 and, to a lesser extent, Unit 02. Unit 03, but I take your meaning. (Unit 04 is the one blown up in Nevada(?) during the experimental S2 engine installation.) Fair point. I imagine the language is... vague... about it, but all the same. Unit 02 still has a soul, so it's not functioning without one. Kaworu is able to "synchronize" with that soul, receded into itself as it is, and pilot the Eva. I think he says something like "If there were no soul, I could be absorbed into it," indicating to me that the presence of a soul is stopping him from simply becoming the Eva a la Bardiel. Mari's appearance in the manga I just took to be Sadamoto liking the design and wanting to use it in a fun, unexpected way. It wasn't made with the intent of tying back any more strongly to the Rebuilds. But, of course, fans being fans and people being people, they wanted there to be connections so they damn well made there be connections! and now we have... whatever we have in 3.0 and 4.0. Or maybe it was intentional. It did come out after the first two Rebuilds, after all. Maybe it was a hint of things to come. Regardless, I just... don't care? about Mari as a character. I don't care much about the Rebuilds in general. I'm sure 4.0 will be good. Maybe it will make sense of the nonsense that was 3.0. Maybe not. Maybe we'll finally get a reason to care about Mari other than being another fanservice vehicle. Regarding Asuka, I don't remember any part of 3.0 implying that she's a clone a la Rei, which you claimed it did. I've just never heard it, is all, and it seems rather tenuous and farfetched. Or well, maybe not the latter so much, but certainly the former.
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    I think I'd be more interested if it was at least a full-detail (or, well, pseudo-full-detail) kit. A nose radar, full cockpit with maybe functional EX Gear system, removable panels, wires/hoses, etc... I mean, I still have half a mind to get this just to scratchbuild the rest of it, but still...
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    I dunno if it's him specifically or the FX crew (Weta?) he regularly teams with, but his movies always have such good, unconventionally appealing visual effects.
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    Who needs heavy arms when you ARE the heavy arms?
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    ...what? This is the first I've ever heard this idea posited... or that it could be Toji's mom. The first sounds more farfetched than the second, but I'm fairly skeptical of both. It's canonically stated (in "supplemental" material... sigh...) that Evas require souls - specifically the souls of the pilots' mothers - but that statement of canon is often at odds with the events of the show itself. Or at least, it causes... friction. Of the 13 known Eva units, only 2 - Unit 01 and Unit 02 - are known to have their pilots' mothers' souls inside them. In 02's case, it only has part of her soul (for a time, at least), leading to her psychosis and eventual suicide (after which it might have absorbed the rest of it???). 00's soul is unknown; apparently the prevailing theory points to Rei I, though I've seen both Naoko Akagi and none posited. Aside from those three, the show and supporting material says nothing at all about whose soul reside in which Eva Unit. If anything, I lean towards the "soul" of Unit 03 being no one at all. Once it comes into contact with Bardiel, the Angel simply puppets it, even more easily than Kaworu puppets Unit 02 in episode 24. I always got the feeling that the characters of the show don't even really know that an Eva HAS to have a soul to synchronize with someone. Or if they do, they aren't able to comprehend anything more than that. The what, but not the why or how. Yui Ikari might be the one exception, and even then I'm not sure. "The curse of Eva" is nothing more than an excuse to keep the pilots young and marketable while fast-forwarding the setting 25(?) years, but I didn't see any reason to not take it on its face. Piloting an Eva has caused the pilots to become ageless. Sure, alright. 3.0 Mari and Asuka are the same as 1.0 Mari and Asuka as 2.0 Mari and Asuka. Who Mari is beyond that... eh, I don't really know and I don't really care.
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    I'm more upset at how quickly they're blazing through those numbers. Helloooo! We were just at 57, you really had to pass on sixteen other prototypes?
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    So my free trial of Hulu ends in a week or so. Any suggestions for what to binge in the time remaining? I've only watched a kids movie (what I got it for) and I think an episode of Bob's Burgers.
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    Was it Eva or Frontier that announced some 1:1 statues coming out soon-ish like last year or so? Well regardless, I know there have been other 1:1 statues of Asuka/Rei in the past, so this doesn't surprise me too much. This certainly looks better than the previous ones, too. Though I don't know if less anime and more "real"istic is a plus or not when it comes to life-size... You know what? I'll just not think about it. At all. Scrub my eyes, ears, and prefrontal cortex with bleach.
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    Damn thing has an AT Field???
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    Valve announces the Steam Deck, a portable gaming PC with a custom Zen 2/RDNA 2 APU
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    Valve announces the Switch Pro
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    Perhaps it's a VF-29, a scaled-back production model that doesn't cost several moderately-wealthy countries' GDPs to make. Emphasis on scaled-back.
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    grumblegrumblegrumbleyou win this round bandaigrumblegrumble I hope they do an EW re-pop alongside this. I missed out on the last run of the EW movie kits, and I don't intend to repeat that mistake. Actually, speaking of which, what are all the MG EW kits and variations now? There's "TV/Manga" kits: Wing EW Deathscythe EW Heavyarms EW Sandrock EW Shenlong EW Wing Proto Zero (EW?) Tallgeese EW Epyon EW Tallgeese 2 EW (P-Bandai) "OVA/Movie" kits: Wing Zero Custom / Wing Zero EW Ver. Ka Deathscythe Hell EW Heavyarms Kai/Custom EW (P-Bandai) Sandrock Kai/Custom EW (P-Bandai) Altron/Nataku EW (P-Bandai) Tallgeese 3 EW (P-Bandai) "Manga Special Equipment" kits: Deathscythe Rousette (P-Bandai) Heavyarms Igel (P-Bandai) Sandrock Armadillo (P-Bandai) Shenlong Laioya (P-Bandai) Tallgeese Fluegel (P-Bandai) Drei Zwerg option kit (P-Bandai)??? Am I forgetting anything? The optional equipment kits especially I think I might have missed some releases. Unfortunately, the Gundam wikia page doesn't keep track of P-Bandai releases, so I can't check against that...
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    Good luck porting all your save data, etc., from the old console to the new. Did they ever offer a workable solution for that, or is it still relatively locked down? Maybe connect the two with a USB cable, copy everything over...
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    Did Bandai just get lazy with their hands again or is the lance actually supposed to feature handles that are perpendicular to the shaft like that? God forbid they should include dedicated holding hands canted at an angle.
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    I didn't get that sense at all. (Granted, it's been a while and I haven't revisited the show since my initial viewing, but) I thought it was pretty clear that the Delta's intended hierarchy of fighter prowess was - Arad (in terms of overall capability) / Messer (in terms of sheer prowess) - Mirage (when "dancing") / Hayate (when "dancing") - Mirage (when alone) - Hayate (when alone) - Chuck (just because his abilities as a pilot are never touched on) with the implication that Mirage is capable of superseding everyone and living up to her family name if only she can get out of her own way and stop trying to live up to her family name. ...or that could be just me inferring things about her character that the show didn't have time to do.
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    Yeah, DLSS requires their tensor cores. I was under the impression that they - Nintendo - were leaning in that direction; IIRC there was some leaked developer guidance or something stating that devs should aim for 4k output, and the rumor mill at the time saw that as hints at improved hardware. Assuming they did want to implement DLSS, that definitely would have required a new SoC. The most recent generation of Tegra has tensor cores - its GPU is Volta-based, two generations ahead of the X1's Maxwell GPU. For reference, Maxwell was 7xx-9xx cards; Volta was used in professional cards after the 10xx Pascal cards and before the 16xx/20xx Turing cards. Alternatively, they could have asked Nvidia to, if possible, backport tensor cores to the Tegra X1... which would be a custom solution and be even more complicated and costly as using a new SoC. About the only possible positive of going that route is possibly maintaining absolute compatibility with previous Switch games/software. Well, kind of. Nvidia didn't make the Tegra X1 specifically for the Switch. It made it for its Shield devices and to sell to third parties, but no third parties were interested. Nintendo only settled on it because Nvidia practically let them have it to clear up inventory. Or at least that's the story I hear. That's also very possible, and it seems reasonable to me. It's just disappointing, is all. ...then again, I haven't even touched my Switch in years, so what do I have to be disappointed about? I'm just complaining to complain.
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    I thought it was pretty clearly shown that she's an at least competent VF pilot on her own, and her "Jenius skill" just needs a dance partner, so to speak, to express itself. I really wish this show, this setting, could have gone through another draft or two before production really kicked into gear. Or spread itself out over multiple seasons. There's interesting stuff there with all the characters - and Mirage especially - that could have been more fully explored.
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    That improvement was due mainly to a more efficient version of the Tegra X1 - made on a 16nm process rather than the original's 20nm. IIRC, the following year Nvidia took orders for one final run of the Tegra X1 before ending its production for good, so there's not much chance of that design moving to another manufacturing node. Nintendo could probably get one more good battery life extension by increasing the battery size... and maybe the OLED screen is more power efficient, too, I dunno. They could also unlock more of the chip's overclocking headroom, but even that still wouldn't net the performance boost necessary to get, say, Hyrule Warriors 2 running at anywhere near a decent framerate.
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    I wonder what they would have upgraded it to, though. I don't hear much of anything about any successors to the Tegra X1 - IIRC there were one or two generational improvements and that's it? Presumably Nintendo would want something like that so as to maintain broad software compatibility. What even is the makeup of the Tegra X1? How specialized is or isn't it such that a hardware upgrade is feasible? And also IIRC, Nintendo specifically went with the Tegra X1 because stock of it was so high, Nvidia had produced so many chips and no one was using them, so they could be had for cheap. I don't think there's a chip in existence today that could replace the X1 and can be had for similarly cheap.
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    I know about the Netflix dub, and so I could swear the talk I heard was in relation to the Rebuild BDs, but I'm too lazy to check for sure.
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