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    Oof. That sounds... unlivably unsafe. "You don't believe in the Force, do you?" "Oh, you mean that thing you just found out about three hours ago and are now judging me for not believing in?" I spent both movies expecting and hoping in the back of my mind for that very thing to happen, now that I think about it. It's especially bad given how the last movie was all about the dangers of clinging blindly to the past.
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    JJabrams is nothing if not consistent in offering up the rose-tinted glasses. I think I'd prefer if Rey just never made another lightsaber. Its absence would be a stark reminder of the ending of an era, and of Rey's incredibly unorthodox Jedi training. Besides, she's shown plenty of times she's adept with other melee weapons. Have her use electrified whips or something, I dunno, make it glow a little to justify it being able to clash against lightsabers. People have been able to do amazing whip fights on a budget one one-thousandth of this movie's. Does anyone else find that tag line to be unbelievably stupid? You can feel the corporate think-tank oozing from its every pore. And it's not even true. It sounds like this powerful and moving phrase on first glance, but it's little more than nonsensical gibberish when you think about it for even half a second. "Every saga has a beginning.", from the marketing for Episode 1, that worked great. It fit the movie, it was a true statement, etc. etc. "Every generation has a legend." Well yeah, except legends are stories that persist across many dozens if not hundreds of generations of people. What can charitably be called the "legend" of Rey's generation is largely the same as the "legend" of Luke's generation, ie the whole Jedi and Sith thing. Or is the "legend" of Rey's generation the story of the Rebels ie the events of the original trilogy? Is she going to come face to face with that "legend"? I mean she already has, so why make it seem like that will be the big point of this movie? I rolled my eyes through the entire trailer. I just... This trailer makes the movie seem aimless. Here's hoping that's not the case and expecting it will be.
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    IIRC - Deep Striker replacement parts used for the following areas head (made smaller for better proportions) shoulders (split the top and bottom halves) chest (new parts) maybe backpack? - fixed-pose hands - apparently there are some changes to the frame as well
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    Going through these posts, I think I've got my reading list set for the next few months. Some new ones I didn't know about, and some reminders of classics that need catching up on. I'd been meaning to get on The King in Yellow since references to it seem to have increased in the last few years. On another note, I forget if I shared my friend's Kickstarter for a novel she was hoping to publish, but the Kickstarter was a success and published it she has. It's up on Amazon now, if you feel inclined to have a look-see: https://www.amazon.com/Mornnovin-Way-Falling-Star-Book-ebook/dp/B07PTBXQCV/ I received a physical copy for backing the campaign, and I'll be back with some thoughts on it soon...ish.
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    MG Ex-S/S 1.5 box art
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    I figure since there's an anime thread and a manga thread and a TV thread, there may as well be a literature thread, too. Unless no one here reads... which would be literally impossible, now I think on it, but ANYWAY I'll start off. I just finished "The Obelisk Gate," Book 2 of the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. The trilogy is set on an Earth-like world with a single super continent populated by people with specific abilities that put them into this or that "use-caste" (ie character classes). The story follows an "orogene" (think earth-elemental magician) named Syenite who works for the Fulcrum, an organization that specializes in 1) training orogenes to use their power for the good of society, or 2) killing orogenes, either "wild" ones or young ones unable to control their powers, for the good of society. It's been a blast so far. Good characters, good writing. When I heard that each book in the trilogy won successive Hugo Awards I kind of did a face, thinking, "That's cheating..." But the quality of writing has been pretty deserving of the accolade. It also gets pretty anime at times, like the part where Syenite exclaims something like "You want me to catch the frakking moon!?" I imagine she would've been useful during a certain battle against a certain mad titan... Anyway. if anyone else has been reading anything or want to recommend stuff, have at it.
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    Who here have seen Shinkai's pre-Your Name works? He's been on my radar ever since Voices of a Distant Star, and his works have been hit or miss with me. Seems every other one is pretty good, with a mediocre one in between projects. Me, I tend to prefer his short stories. His feature-length films prior to Your Name have always been a bit too convoluted for their own good. Always beautiful to watch, though.
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    It's gonna be super weird when the movie gets to the sex eyes part.
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    boo no massive frakk-off sword
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    Did somebody say missiles? For $70, you can get a dozen of them (in the right scale, too, no less!) plus a bunch of guns to go with! (Entirely irrelevant, I know, but I just finished snapping together this kit, and all this talk about missile packs made me think. HLJ link in case you're interested.)
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    I suppose it would be too much to hope that Arad's is armored...? I wouldn't care very much either way, but I would certainly enjoy the promotional pics.
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    My bae!!! NO MY BAE!!!
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    I see "hot topic," I click. What's going on? A reissue? Someone got new stock?
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    "Millennial," as used by Pew, covers anyone born between 1981 and 1996. But in general, it's used en masse by old people as a catch-all for all the damnable rapscallions and you young'uns get off my lawn!!!!! that had the temerity to be born after them. Anyway, yeah, plenty of "millennials," however you define it, have seen and remember RH1 and 2. I'm actually reminded of just how frakking old I am, that I can barely remember them anymore...
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    Yep, you're thinking of Hobby Base's Mechanical Hand line. They make 'em in both 1/100 and 1/144, and I think there have been variations on them since their debut - color, style, etc. https://hlj.com/1-100-scale-mechanical-hand-100-angled-g-gray-ylsppc-tn83 https://hlj.com/1-144-scale-mechanical-hand-144-angled-g-gray-ylsppc-tn87 You're right about them being a bit big. IIRC the 1/144 ones were about the same size and shape as the HGUC Unicorn I got at the same time, but the 1/100 ones were a little big even for a Zeon MG (which already have slightly bigger hands than their Gundam counterparts).
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    They made a 1/24 RX-78 that will have hands slightly larger than in the kit Darth Mingus linked. https://hlj.com/1-24-scale-rx-78-2-gundam-hyper-hybrid-model-ban900878 But good luck finding that for a sane price on the used market; they easily go above $2k nowadays, maybe reaching up there towards $3k. Kotobukiya made a 1/1 model kit of a Border Break mecha, but I don't think it was ever anything more than a publicity stunt.
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    It's totally the framerate. Instead of locking to key poses for a longer period of time and using an animation shortcut between them to impart a sense of movement, the studio chose to simply render fewer frames across an entire animation. It's way easier and more cost-effective (which is why you see it used a lot nowadays), but doesn't look nearly as convincing because more of those extraneous in-between poses stay on screen for longer. For my part, after seeing the first... 2?... episodes, I don't know why they didn't just do this in live action with a really high CGI budget. It's not like they didn't already fully mo-cap the scenes and aren't slavishly recreating the look and feel (and acting caliber) of low-budget tokusatsu shows. They could also surely have saved some money by not modeling all of Tokyo down to the finest detail...
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    Been seeing weirdly universal praise for this movie. My pessimism is still going strong, but... Hm... Anyway, why I'm here:
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    Isn't the first part of that kind of what happens in the Batman-in-fuedal-Japan anime?
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    Dunno if true, but that's actually a pretty damn fine pick. He's proven to be a great dramatic actor.
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    Oh okay. I didnt know who played which Flash or even if different people played the different Flashes, much less what happened if anything.
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    They're saying there should have been solo movies before the big JL team-up, a team which is now missing its Batman (ie Affleck left) and apparently its Flash. I was asking if he meant movie Flash (Ezra Miller?) or TV Flash (???).
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    Which Flash? The TV Flash and Movie Flash are played by different actors, right? I don't keep up with DC news much, but I remember seeing recently that James Gunn confirmed (or at least the news came out with him as part of the context) that SS2 would be a full-on reboot with the same cast (sans apparently Smith). Was this the basis for Heath Ledger Joker's penchant to make up origin stories? "Wanna know how I got these scars?"
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    Yo, that actually looks really badass. Is that a Neptunia thing or something?
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