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    Oh yeah this game looks damn good and has done for a long time, too:
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    That exact problem was one of several. I'd have to unplug and replug the devices together afterwards, every single time press Allow on the iPhone, and even then sometimes the prompt wouldn't show up or the phone would be paired but shown as "Unknown device" or "Apple USB composite device" or something similar or etc. etc. etc... Good to know about disabling the high-efficiency format, thanks. I'll make sure to discreetly toggle that next time I get hands on her phone. They pay a lot of lip service to the cause of "security," but in truth a lot of their practices actively add frustrations for people not wholly invested in their ecosystem for no other reason than to punish them for... not wholly investing in their ecosystem. It just makes me swear them off even more every couple months or so I when I have to deal with their products again. I'm pretty sure I made a similar post griping about exactly this same thing in the backlog of this thread somewhere, hahah.
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    oh my god apple can go to frakking helllllllllllllllllllllllll Just spent two hours getting my mom's iPhone to play nice with my PC so I could offload... *checks* ...20 Gig's of photos and videos. (Jesus Christ, mom.) One frustration after another after another for what should be a routine copy and delete. Whyyyyyyy????????
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    Same. Or, well, "want," at any rate. Just built an ITX system and gave that and my old rig to the nephews, and now I'm considering a nice compact system for their sister as well. It's a shame these won't be available for DIY builders and SIs for a while yet.
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    So Ghost of Tsushima was already looking extraordinarily beautiful, and was already pretty high up on my "probably gonna buy" list, but seeing the title sequence seals the deal for me: Anyone else getting/got this game?
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    I've traveled from the future to tell you all what I'm currently watching a month and seven days from now:
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    The news is a couple days old now, but all the same. He passed away on July 13, 2020. Instead of news articles, I figured I'd post some video tributes:
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    Just got an email notification from USAGundamstore that they're receiving stock of GFFMC RX-78-02 (40th Anniversary), $200 and GFFMC MS-06C Zaku II Type C, $210 They regularly have 10% off coupon codes. Dunno how that price compares to other retailers. I know the Zaku Aurelius Youtube channel has a code that's consistently plugged on his videos. I forget what it is off the top of my head...
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    So from a few pages ago, this got me curious: Did Isamu and Myung canonically marry or at least get together post-M+? Because my honest assessment of M+ was that... well, besides it kind of being irrelevant, they didn't.
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    Not Gundam, but this caught my eye for being unexpected. Kotobukiya are adapting their Frame Arms Girl into crossover territory. Or, well, they're continuing to, at any rate, with the "Cross Frame Wonder Woman" that looks pretty good, honestly: https://www.hlj.com/cross-frame-girl-wonder-woman-humikane-shimada-ver-kbycg-004 I think this is the fourth in the line, with... a GaiGaiGar kit first, something else second, maybe the KojiPro Ludens girl third?
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    Slightly off-topic, but this was a surprise. Kotobukiya are releasing a Wonder Woman model kit based on their Frame Arms Girl kits: https://www.hlj.com/cross-frame-girl-wonder-woman-humikane-shimada-ver-kbycg-004
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    ... ... WOOHOO I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD YEAH!!! :/
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    Dunno how much if any of this is true, but $18 an episode sounds so frakking insane.
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    Does anyone know the history of the various Eva kit releases? The only ones I really know are the old-school 90s(/00s?) LMHG line and the PG Eva-01 from Bandai. I know Kotobukiya and Bandai both released kits for the movie releases. I'm not sure if the Bandai ones are just reissues of the original LMHG line (because apparently the movie kits are also "LMHG") with some extras, or if they re-issued their various kits for each new movie release, etc.
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    Any word on a release date for that Klan Klang 25?
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    Same as everyone else, I've been a customer for... wow, something like 20 years now... and they've been consistently good the whole way through.
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    No problem, figured y'all would jump on it. I'm gonna grab some kits myself. Maybe multiples?
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    I'm glad they went with a colorless clear rather than the various colored tints they used for the regular MG releases. Yes it looks dead without the LEDs on, but from a modeler's perspective, they're not shackled to a single color. Instead of having to settle for the red/green/blue/yellow, they can get whatever mix and match they want given just a bit of effort. It's something I've constantly wished Bandai would do for all their clear parts. As for which color I like best... I've always vastly preferred Unicorn Mode over Destroy Mode anyway, so the discussion is kind of moot from my point of view. I don't mind the "burning" look it gets when the psycho frame is glowing beneath the armor, always makes me think of Burning Godzilla. But there's a piece of art from... I think it's the novel... that applies a light blue glow between the panels which has always stuck with me. I keep telling myself to try and recreate that look, but I can never find the time.
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    Not sure what the discussion is about right now, just wanted to pop in with some thoughts, which mirror what some others have said here I think. I was talking with a coworker about a movie soundtrack I was listening to at the time (Pacific Rim, still rocks), and the conversation moved to Star Wars. I noted that, whatever one thinks of the OT and PT, one of their respective strengths was strong aesthetic inspiration. For the OT it was obviously, among other things, World War 2 imagery. Particularly Nazi Germany in the Empire's uniforms and certain the framing of stuff like the victory celebration in Ep4, and so on. And I'm less clear on the specifics of the PT, but it's all very clean and opulent... haute couture, maybe. High fashion. Naboo starfighters to the Senate chamber to the frickin' Coruscant underbelly, everything SEEMS sanitized, even when it's obviously not. A lot of it is because of the generous use of CGI, of course, but still. Strong inspiration that leaves a strong impression in your mind. The music is the same, some of John Williams' best stuff. Strong themes, strong leitmotifs in all six movies, it's music that sticks with you. With the ST, I'm wondering about its inspirations, which seem to be just... Star Wars. It's Star Wars inspired by Star Wars. The ship designs aren't particularly memorable because they don't really have an identity of their own. The worlds are slight variants of preexisting ones. I suppose it shouldn't have taken me this long to realize that the ST overall just draws inspiration from its predecessors, because the very first movie traded almost entirely on nostalgia. Again, and I'm just beating my own dead horse at this point, but part of what makes TLJ stick out more in my mind than the other two is it has a stronger aesthetic. On reflection, I remember the color red. The red in TLJ often stands in stark contrast to everything else. It's what makes the throne room fight so good to me, even if the fight itself apparently has issues. That stark red background. The red that gets thrown about on Crait(?) in the finale. It was the primary color on the posters, and even the Star Wars logo was done in red. Getting back to the ships, I also enjoyed the heavy bombers a lot. Say what you will about their strategic purpose, they really stick out to me amongst a sea of interchangeable planes and carriers and etc. etc. etc. They take the same historical inspiration as the OT's ships do, but simply from someplace the OT never touched, the heavy bombers of yore, and their munitions the "dumb bombs" also of said yore. Blah. Anyway. Long post was supposed to be short, sorry. PT and OT have inspired, memorable imagery and music, ST is Star Wars inspired by Star Wars.
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    Oh, duh. Because that's his friggin' name. Of course. I'm so blippin' stupid. No wonder none of y'all responded. Probably were wondering wtf I was on about.
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    "Hayate"?
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    Well, since no one else commented, that be looking evil af. Real nice.
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    Honestly, this just makes me want to play Ace Combat 7 again. Or heck, Battlefront 2, the REAL Battlefront 2. I had to laugh midway through this trailer because literally all of this is just the space battle mode from the original Battlefront 2 split up into separate modes. I really wish they'd have just released raw gameplay footage. Make it a vertical slice if you have to, I just want to see the HUD elements and actual controller movements and stuff instead of 2 seconds here and 3 seconds there of uninformative cockpit footage.
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    As per https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2020/0618_01_en.html: No resumption to the USA yet - and frankly, given how woeful the public health response here has been, I don't foresee us getting on the Nice Kids list for a while yet.
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