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    I'm weirdly not excited about this. I think the bevy of PC handhelds has taken away some of the novelty, Switch 2 seems like a follower in more ways than one. I'm sure the games will make it interesting once those are announced. Heck, even just a look at Switch 1 games running better on Switch 2 might do it for me.
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    Same here. Here's hoping it corrects itself, otherwise to the US stores it is. Eh, if it works, it works, right? Be ready for those white stickers to start peeling, though. Maybe brush some glue onto the backing if you can to get them to really stick. Mine flaked off completely, which is fine as I'm still planning to paint it, but it's still nice having them there as a visual indicator of, well, the intended visuals.
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    If you're getting any of the newer releases or the "SP" re-releases of the old ones, they're largely the same. The original non-"SP" release of the VF-31A Kairos (and its sibling, the VF-31D Skuld), had wings that lacked hard points; some prefer that look over the "SP" re-release, which replaces those parts and includes new accessory drone pieces to fit into said hard points. That's about the only major difference to note IIRC.
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    A bit late to the party, but 1) Dandadan is wonderful and irreverent and great. English dubbing has become exceptional; my one complaint, as it ever is, is that the subs are designed for translating the Japanese dialogue and don't match the English lines. 2) Beastars The "Final" Season was binged in one night. Just as amazingly animated as before. English dub is also exceptional. Still a... unexpected... plot, as is the norm for this show. The season was billed as the "final" season but ends without resolving any major issue; I'm assuming it's NOT actually the final season? Or are they simply counting on you to read the manga, which IIRC has long been completed?
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    That was some very nice... gameplay.
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    I'm late catching up on all the CES happenings - been too busy playing Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown in my free time, it's pretty fantastic. It seems someone at Lenovo shared my thinking that the Z2 Go would be a good fit for an entry-level handheld. The Legion Go S previewed at CES seems to complete the "Steam Deck Pro" transition started by the Steam Deck OLED: adds VRR support to the high refresh rate screen, adds 2280 M.2 support, upgrades the SoC with a focus on the GPU (12 CUs vs 8 ) It gets rid of one trackpad and downsizes the other, but otherwise it's almost an exact hardware match for the Deck, including its use of SteamOS in lieu of Windows. And it's only $500, too. Or, well, "only." I wonder if it could have afforded to shave itself down another $50-100, to REALLY hit the value sweet spot. Even as is, it's a really decent package all around... provided it still hits the performance efficiencies of the Deck. I'm hopeful it does, or even improves on it. That's one of the only issues still plaguing the other handhelds out there; they can outpace the Steam Deck, yes, but they have to bump up the TDP from 5-15 to 15-25 to do so. If the Z2 Go can eke out a decent performance improvement at the same TDP, that would really be impressive. All in all, AMD's CES showcase was a shitshow, they demonstrated such a lack of confidence... but their actual products all look great. Them being mum on the 9070/XT is endlessly frustrating, but the rumored performance claims that are all we have to fill their silence paint a cautiously optimistic picture. They relegated FSR4 to their exhibit hall booth demonstration, but it looks like it's a major step forward. Their Strix Halo is super impressive - in addition to the Phawx video above, LTT took a look at the same device and disclosed much more information than the Asus reps allowed Phawx to do - and I'm incredibly excited/anxious to see reviews of it (and in a form factor other than a... giant tablet, seriously am I missing something? in what context would THAT be the right device to put this thing in?). Regular Strix continues to look great and be great on the low-power end. And so on and so forth. SteamOS is chugging along nicely and I can only hope it eventually becomes the de facto standard over Windows, at least for the PC gaming community. I think the biggest issue I have with Nvidia's presentation was its heavy focus on AI frame generation... when frame generation already exists, AND multi-frame generation already exists, AND it doesn't require any bespoke Nvidia hardware to pull off, AND it already looks and plays great*. Like... they haven't done anything to fundamentally change the paradigm of frame generation, AI-implemented or not. Some of the more technically-minded comments I've seen have been heaping praise on their change from CNNs to transformer-based image reconstruction for DLSS, which... I don't get. Does anyone know any more about this and why it is or is not a Big Thing? All that aside, their cards look perfectly fine, exactly as class-leading as they ever were. They're just not particularly exciting. I thought it's going to have 12GB?
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    Micro SD Express?
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    Was the 2000s era Phone Booth with Colin Farrell and Donald Sutherland a remake of this movie? Maybe just playing with a similar premise...?
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    First Strix Halo preview I've come across. No numbers, but impression seems positive, plus the device is running at its lowest power setting on battery. The current clamor in the comments is for this to see a handheld release, but I'm skeptical that's a good idea. It'd make for a great laptop, but it would force a handheld to be absolutely huge to provide adequate cooling and a battery size worth having; at that point you may as well make it a laptop/tablet.
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    About the only thing interesting about Nvidia's announcement is the pricing on the lower end, and that's only if their claims match reality... which they almost certainly don't. At least they HAD an announcement, though, instead of cutting it from their presentation at the last second like a certain OTHER tech company. Still, I was always more excited for AMD's mobile lineup anyway, in particular their Strix Halo and Z2 chips. I'm finally using my Steam Deck for more than just old-school emulators, and I'm finding out it packs quite enough punch and runs all the games I need it to run at a good frame rate with a good battery life. Z1 was a modest upgrade over Van Gogh but didn't perform well enough at the low wattages demanded of mobile gaming; hopefully Z2 and Z2E address that. And Z2 Go is basically a Deck APU but with a slightly stronger GPU component - so pretty much exactly what people were asking for - and looks like a prime choice for sub-$500 handhelds. I can easily see Valve sticking this in future Deck 1 revisions once Van Gogh production ends while waiting for more generational efficiency gains from Z2 or beyond. As for Strix Halo... Well, it's exactly the kind of Big APU I've been asking for for damn near a decade now, so I'm excited to see how it performs. The only thing more I would want is HBM to overcome the memory bottleneck.
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    Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the pseudo-picatinny that Hasegawa added to the top of the guns. I don't hate them enough to get rid of them... probably... but they look like they took a weird dip into tacticool military aesthetic for a second there. (Although... a Regult appears in Frontier or Delta, right? Maybe it's taking from the CGI model and that's an updated part of the design? I don't have any episodes on hand to verify at the moment...) It is indeed the angle of the shot that distorts the RTKF dio's real proportions. That thing is just so big, and the lower angle looking up, combine to emphasize the arms and legs and makes the cockpit seem smaller than it is. Rewatching the pilot episode a few months ago, I was bamboozled by the scene of a full-ass Zentraedi soldier basically bursting out the back of a Regult like a caterpillar shedding its skin. I think I've said before that I basically headcanon that all these setups have micronization tech inside to make the whole giant human in giant-er mecha thing work. But we know that's not it. Their universe relies on a far greater technology: intentionally loose animation standards.
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    The one thing that sticks out to me is how small the actual pod is from how I feel it should be. I want it to be either slightly more voluminous, or the limbs scaled down slightly. That aside, I think the proportions are actually better on the Hasegawa pics than the Moscato dio. The Moscato dio's limbs absolutely DWARF its cockpit, it almost looks to be a kitbash of two different scales. I dunno, maybe it's just the angle, or maybe that dio isn't using the Moscato kit at all. 🤷‍♂️
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    Wow. Dare I hope for a Queadluun-Rhea in the near-ish future, too? I'm pretty sure they would have to make a completely new mold for it, but still.
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    Seems to be the new trailer meme now.
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    https://hiddenpalace.org/Star_Wars_Battlefront_III_(Nov_21,_2008_Prototype) A fully playable prototype build of Star Wars Battlefront 3 for Wii just leaked.
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    Eyyyy badum-tish That's about what I'd expect to see. Are you planning something that would require a similar process?
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    The timing here is eerie. I don't know that you specified a price range, but the ones covered here are all $350 or less. Comments have some recc's as well. Navigating the tablet market is like walking through a minefield, I don't envy you. Tl;dr: Walmart ONN if budget is thin. ALLDOCUBE iPlay 50 Pro Mini if you're tech-savvy. Lenovo Tab Plus/iPad 10 good all around. Galaxy Tab A9 comes in "last," but only because something has to. Walmart ONN 10.1, $99 - Nice materials, pretty clean OS, decent speakers. Low-res/low-brightness screen, sluggish 3GB ram. Good for the price if $100 is all you can spend. Best battery life, ~7.5 hours. ALLDOCUBE iPlay 50 Pro Mini, $140 - Surprisingly good all around - good screen, good processor, 8GB ram, metal chassis, etc. Single low-quality speaker, some build quality issues. ~6 hours. Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+, $280 - If getting, get the 8GB version. 90Hz screen, lightweight, tons of bloat, good camera and speakers. ~7 hours. Lenovo Tab Plus, $290 - Worth its price, great speaker setup (8!), has integrated kickstand, pen support. Heavy, tons of bloatware. ~7 hours. Apple iPad 10, $320 - Out of consideration. Surprisingly had the weakest battery life, ~4 hours.
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    Those red triangle stickers that fold over the backplate/wings really are annoying, aren't they? They're not nearly as bad as the ones that came with the Plamax fighter mode VF-1, but they still peel off all the time; if I weren't replacing my YF-21's ones with paint anyway, I probably would just cut the sticker in half along the fold and deal with it maybe revealing a bit of blue plastic along the wing edge. Very clean, very pretty build. Am I seeing it right, the hand guards did indeed end up being gray plastic with yellow stickers on top as hinted by the preview pics?
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    DX VF-27 Revival

    kajnrig replied to borgified's topic in Toys

    I didn't realize those were TWE. I stand corrected. And of course with the links popping up I look like a fool and should have just been patient literally one day longer. EDIT: Speaking of links... USAGS, $260: https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/macross-frontier-dx-chogokin-vf-27ysp-super-lucifer-valkyrie-brera-sterne-use-revival-ver Kappa Hobby, $238.88: https://www.kappahobby.com/products/dx-chogokin-vf-27ysp-super-lucifer-valkyrie-brera-sterne-use-revival-ver
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    DX VF-27 Revival

    kajnrig replied to borgified's topic in Toys

    Just want to be sure: Do I need to place an order now through one of the proxy sites, or will it for sure be available stateside? I know @sh9000 indicated the latter, but all I'm seeing is that it's TWE, which brings to mind items like the VF-31AX Super Ghost set, or Bogue's VF-31AX, neither of which saw release outside Japanese TWE IIRC.
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    Is that official? I sure hope not, that was... nauseating.
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    I'll be damned. Got mine in today and it's in good condition to boot. Didn't hear anything from either BN or Bluefin about it being on its way, but good to see nonetheless. The other posts, though, do have me wondering what it is about this part in particular that seems to be so troublesome to produce.
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    Was it? I vaguely remember the sentiment being that it was a letdown. I thought it was fine myself, even if it didn't reach the same heights as the first. I forget what it's about, though. The only things I remember are 1) a horde of infected chasing some dude down the verdant English countryside to a boat on a river; 2) some guy kissing an infected (an unsymptomatic carrier?) on the lips while she's strapped down and immediately becoming infected himself; and 3) Jeremy Renner's character doing a heroic sacrifice moment and pushing a car down the road while getting flamethrowered. Anyway, looking forward to this. Apparently Cillian Murphy is returning as well, so that'll be interesting to see. I don't think we see him in the trailer; I'll have to check again. EDIT: What's the voiceover narration? Seems to be reciting I want to say a poem, probably some old WW1/2 radio broadcast or something... EDIT 2: "Boots" by Rudyard Kipling. Written in 1903, recorded as apparently psychological warfare in 1915 by Taylor Holmes. (Not recorded to be psychological warfare, but used "for its psychological effects in US military SERE schools," according to Wikipedia.)
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    Do Sony care? I seem to recall their licensing agreement stipulates they have to create something using the IP every few years or so in order to keep it, so they're willing to waste money on ancillary projects like these as long as they maintain a stranglehold the cash cow that is Spider-Man. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
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    I really like Ikuto Yamashita's designs pre-Rebuild. Eva, Yukikaze, this Nu and the Sazabi apparently, Nadia's Nautilus... I think it was starting with the Rebuilds, you saw him and it embrace more and more of his current industrial design aesthetic/phase, which can be nice in the right context, but I haven't found it particularly enjoyable to look at so far.
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