Jump to content

kajnrig

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4913

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by kajnrig

  1. kajnrig
    Honestly, I might get this just to have a VF-31A I can finally swoosh around...
  2. kajnrig
    Is that the Guncannon-looking one? (EDIT: Is there even a Guncannon-esque MS in Victory at all, or was that F91?) Either way, if it's anything like this one is shaping up to be, I'm all for it. RE/100 Palace Athene next, please.
  3. kajnrig
    Ah, thanks. I completely forgot about the two variations already released.
  4. kajnrig
    THE TIME HAS COME AND SO HAVE I
  5. kajnrig
    "Version 1.3"? What other improvements are they planning to make, and what improvements were in versions 1.1 and 1.2?
  6. kajnrig
    Thinking back to my vague memories of DYRL, I remember being kind of bored by the whole Protoculture subplot that I think Hikaru and Misa go on. (I forget where, too... Earth? Mars? There were the ruins of another Zentraedi ship or something?) I've never really liked the Protoculture stuff in general, but that in particular brought down the movie for me. Don't remember much of the mecha action or the animation (both of which are fine if dated IIRC) except that it was remarkably graphic, but the Protoculture stuff stuck in my mind. Which is all just a way of saying that even DYRL has its faults. None of the entries in the series are perfect except Plus.
  7. kajnrig
    https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-08-22/macross-frontier-sheryl-ranka-sing-new-song-with-music-video/.135768 New music video along with new CD featuring three tracks (Ranka solo, Sheryl solo, duet). Songs are I believe the ones discussed a few posts up.
  8. kajnrig
    and/or budget.
  9. kajnrig
    ^ It's refreshing to see someone play who actually knows how to play.
  10. kajnrig
    I thought that was going to be a lotto drawing? How does getting a ticket/the drawing work? I remember the same thing happened for the VF-31J Kai, but I didn't pay it much attention at the time.
  11. kajnrig
    Haven't checked this thread in a while. Anything extra confirmed to be included on the BD/DVD? Making of? Concert video? Sexy 1/6-scale figures of Walkure + Mirage?
  12. kajnrig
    I still take some dumb measure of pride in not knowing which of those names is which Gundam. I hear the names and I expect them to follow up with a Truth Gundam, and a The American Way Gundam.
  13. kajnrig
  14. kajnrig
    https://comicbook.com/anime/amp/2018/08/21/gundam-animator-kunihiro-abe-death/
  15. kajnrig
    Nothing major here, I just thought this was funny. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-last-jedi-geophysicist-explains-why-that-resistance-fighter-was-smart-to-lick-salt-on According to this geophysicist, licking rocks on Crait is not only totally normal but also tactically sound
  16. kajnrig

    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    The new upcoming one. I mistakenly said it was part of their Ichiban Kuji... line?... which is a lottery system, but it's an EXQ figure releasing as a crane game prize.
  17. kajnrig
    ...for now. DUN DUN DUNNNNN That's not necessarily a bad thing, not that you were implying thus. Well, tracing someone's art for your own profit sure is, but I'm fairly sure you meant that figuratively. And considering the HMR is a Macross item (and a good one at that, from all the reviews arouns here), it's nice to see a bit of The Real One slip into this, if that is indeed the case.
  18. kajnrig
    For my part, I would have no problem with the additional camera/sensor/whatever if it weren't obvious the mobile suit already has those. If it had Gundam eyes, for instance. I mean, I guess the assumption is that all these mecha DO have a full complement of visual sensors regardless of "eye composition," but like... a visor always makes me feel like the mecha has a larger assortment of finer-tuned equipment, regardless of whether the "canon" indicates that's actually the case or not. A fold-down camera in front of an already complete sensor array just looks like terrible engineering. I mean I suppose the same holds true for stuff like beam rifle "cameras" and especially sniper rifle scopes - like why wouldn't you just update the existing camera in the head, that just complicates things and adds extra points of failure - but those generally don't get played with very much in the story, and when they do (in the case of sniper rifle scopes), they also come paired with big visual signifiers. A mobile suit getting into a shooting pose, for instance.
  19. kajnrig
    From what little bit of googling I did: The ones to "report" this picture were The Daily Caller (the credibility of which is up to you to decide, I think it's fairly obvious that I think they're bunk), followed by everyone's lovably hateable conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. I see a "Bounding Into Comics" article on it as well, the slant of the writing of which renders me even more suspect. Looking up the author and the site, those suspicions were confirmed. (Apparently BIC as a whole is a haven for disenfranchised white men and/or internet trolls looking to coordinate abuse campaigns, as per this Daily Beast profile on a seemingly unrelated individual: https://www.thedailybeast.com/comicsgate-how-an-anti-diversity-harassment-campaign-in-comics-got-uglyand-profitable .) But really, the important thing is that the "context" they're providing isn't anywhere near full, and so I find myself unable to take it at face value. For instance, they don't get or even ask for a response from him, nor do they source or date the pictures or otherwise provide any context for it aside from being from a "To Catch a Predator-themed party." Your own statement that the surfacing of this image has "shut down most of his defenders" is also disingenuous, as it merely reiterates the same things those articles have said, and without the supposed evidence to back it up. (That evidence being a tweet renouncing support/defense of James Gunn from, of all people, one Ian Miles Cheong, himself apparently a known internet troll and a writer at the Daily Caller - probably the one who "broke" the "story." I'm learning a lot today.) I still don't know what tweets he wrote. I'm assuming these pictures are from that same time period, maybe even attached to those same tweets. Do I see anyone defending the tweets? No, I think everyone who hears about them roundly excoriates them. I do see lots of people defending him, though, partly because of the contrition he has evidenced in the time since those tweets and partly because it has become abundantly clear that this has less to do with any sincere concerns about pedophilia/racism/whatever those tweets are about and more to do with a desire to "punish" him for his outspoken political rhetoric. Again, proxy political warfare. +1
  20. kajnrig
    I doubt that's the case. Disney rarely if ever admit making a wrong decision; it's more likely they're just going to not touch this at all anymore, consequences be damned. They'd rather garner some (relatively minor, in the grand scheme of things) ill will than admit being wrong - or worse, admit being duped by anyone, including and especially Neo-Nazis. But on the subject of the original outrage, I'd like to point out that said outrage has pretty much died completely down now. I don't hear a peep from the supposedly offended mob of people about this anymore, whereas the demand that he be rehired was going and continues to go strong. So... it's not very hard to see which "side" was being disingenuous, which outrage was borne of actual outrage and not a desire to enact proxy political warfare.
  21. kajnrig

    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I do think it's unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be more Delta stuff in the works. I'd still love to see their shmexy movie designs in figure/Figure-rise form.
  22. kajnrig
    Ick. Too much robot, not enough caged animal forced to do the bidding of its masters and barely restrained by its shackles.
  23. kajnrig
    YES is that even a question Anytime something like this comes up, I always fall back on an apropos Zero Punctuation quote: Talk about it being "ironic" all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that someone's rubbing themselves off to it even as we speak.
  24. kajnrig

    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    This is different from the Ichiban Kuji, right? On mobile right now so can't easily check...
  25. kajnrig
    Hey, just wanted to pop in and ask: Did the fighter kit come out first, or the Gerwalk? Has one or the other (or both) not come out yet?
×
×
  • Create New...