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  1. Pontus
    Still no XL Steak accessory, but...
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    Pardon me if this offends the Ace Combat fandom here as I am not a gamer by any means, but does this game require using a flight stick accessory to play effectively? I tried playing AC7 on my PS5 and found it completely unplayable with a standard controller and settings. It was so awful that I didn't even bother trying to adjust anything. I couldn't get anything I was trying to fly towards - even static things - to stay on screen let alone within my reticle. But I'm not very precise with tiny sensitivities of analogue sticks, so I assume it's just not for me. But I was a "Genius" at Robotech; Battlecry. I really miss that game. Blast into a war zone in fighter mode with missile salvos, drop into battroid with guns akimbo hitting incoming missiles, grab or do something or other and blast out of there in gerwalk while strafing regults around buildings. Man that was a great game! AC7 did not scratch that itch tho.
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    Thinking of placing a pre-order for M&Ms at BBTS; What are the current tariff charges looking like? I tried googling and couldn't make sense of it.
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    I respectfully disagree. With great balance in the mode, a backpack that folds up nicely with an antenna, a gunpod strap, crystal clear canopy with good interior/pilot detail, the flaps on the legs that allow the feet to articulate, perfect scale SDMF fixed pose hands, not to mention the head that drops down perfectly underneath, I would submit that this is by far the best in gerwalk in which mine stays on my shelf at work here. THAT HEAD DROP THO! It's beautiful! All that batroid has but with the wings out and canopy cleared. I hate gerwalk in almost every later valk, but I will always have a soft spot for VF-1 Gerwalk. And this one nails it!😍
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    They have VF-1S in stock currently. They offered a full refund but not a replacement? Or are you talking about a different model they don't have in stock?
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    That's actually exactly what I was thinking, but perhaps with some extension and extra optics. Of course @Bolt is right, the glaug itself seems like a much more natural choice, and I do have a 1/72 model kit. I guess I just thought of it as a more laid back, high rank officer vehicle that was all about big firepower and not as maneuverable. Regults seem more suited for articulation and crouching that a sniper would need.
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    Glad I'm not alone in this thinking. I specifically avoided the HMR Regults and Glaug because I didn't feel that they matched scale with the valks very well. I bought 1/72 model kits but was excited to see the KC toy. Although, now that I'm collecting everything in 1/60 scale, I guess I'll never have properly scaled regults... unless I or someone else ever 3D prints them. Speaking of Regult model kits, I was planning on building mine as a non-canon custom sniper model. It seems like something that should probably exist considering there's a scout model (and now that I say that, I think I need a spec ops scout to go with it as a pair!). Has anyone already built something like this? I was thinking of doing some sort of stealth/starfield camo and/or sticking with the regult color scheme except with a shift to black and purple.
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    They've been using the same style elbows on all of their figures and this doesn't look any different. Every elbow in these toy pics looks like it lines up in a different place on the arm too. I know we're all hating on KC right now which is fair, but this just seems like it's not only a moot point in regards to toy function not to mention a clear design element based on the actual art. I mean, in the mecha manual pic I posted, it clearly shows every. single. armor. with elbows like that (and even some of your pics trying to prove otherwise). I just don't understand where this is coming from, but I'll digress now.
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    Not to be rude, but... why does it matter? This is just the stock pose and how it's packaged. They got the shape right and it's clearly on a swivel peg (like a revoltech joint) so you can rotate it however you like just like valkyrie arms that came built and packaged the exact same way, but nobody complained about this on their HMR valks:
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    Everyone keeps mentioning the side elbow guards and saying how silly it looks (and I don't disagree), but that's exactly how they're depicted in the animation. All the line art depicts it. It's in every zentran/meltran armor in both the show and movie. It's like a major, common design element of not only personnel armor, but also the valkyries.
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    BBTS preorder is up now too if you don't want to deal with international shipping costs and want US based service/returns. Looks like the privilege will cost an extra hundo tho, so not great.
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    CVT is a great idea, and like anything, it has to be built right. My only problem with them is that they're often programmed counter to it's design philosophy; It's supposed to allow your engine to run smoothly at it's peak efficiency without major changes in RPM for the given conditions, but it's often programmed to meet human expectations by making it sound like it's shifting which is not ideal for a CVT to be jumping the belt back and forth across the cones. As a manual loving car guy, I actually loved my Ford CMax which had a smoothly programmed CVT in it. I leased it tho and would NEVER own one, although I know plenty of people at my workplace who've had theirs for years now. Chevy did what is imho the best hybrid implementation on the Volt; You need to make the engine a generator and drive the car on electric alone, not as a assist stuck between the engine and wheels. I always hated how the CMax would turn the COLD engine on when it needed power and rev it to the max to get it. But, if you kept the battery charged up, it hardly ever used it in city driving. I had the person at the service desk AT THE DEALER chastise me for not changing my oil at 4k mi. I'm like the engine never runs. Once a year is fine and even at that I was changing it MORE often than recommended. Funny story with that car... My wife, I, and our 1yr old toddler just starting to walk were going up north to spend time at Lake Wazee and decided to take the "back roads." The car handled the roads like a champ, and I was always impressed with it's handling. Within a few miles of the lake, my options were to get on the highway and take the normal route in, but I saw all these smaller roads leading into the area and decided to cross the highway keeping on the road I was already going down. THEN IT STARTED TO POUR RAIN! Seemed like a nicely paved road at first, but then the lines went away. Ok, but still a nice paved road. Then the road started to narrow until the point where I didn't feel safe attempting to turn back because I was obviously going to get stuck if one tire went off the pavement in this low slung car with like 3" of clearance. It was still paved tho, so we kept going. Then the pavement slowly faded into hard packed tarred gravel. Then hard gravel... then sandy, muddy gravel... and before I know it, I'm doing my absolute damnedest to keep my speed up and my car out of and on top of the muddy, sandy ruts with the traction control constantly cutting power until I found a panicked moment to jam my finger at the traction button. I made it through a mile of this, down a muddy valley and finally up a sandy hill to crest back onto the safety of a paved road again. PHEW! Then around the next corner... mother nature said NO! Road was flooded out about 3' deep. F*&^!!! Now I have to drive BACK THROUGH all that mud again! And it ain't getting dryer cuz it's still pouring down rain! And I have no idea where to tell a tow truck to get me even if they WOULD. But by some miracle we made it. Then my kid went to get out of the car at the lake and promptly landed flat on her face on the pavement. Poor kid had a scratched up face, but she was ok. Then the sun came out, we enjoyed the rest of the day, and TOOK THE HIGHWAY HOME!!! Afterwards the car's suspension started making a clunk sound of a broken front sway bar link, so I took it to the dealer fully expecting them to say that it wasn't covered under warranty because I obviously took it off roading, but to my surprise, they covered it!
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    Good to see some love for the ol' 262. I've got one of mine set up at work along with a 3Zero VF-1J. In battroid mode, I hate having the wings all up in the air like it's about to go gliding, but it looks a heck of a lot better down low like sortuva mechanical cape... and the big gun sticking up there seems very Macross imho.
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    I hope that the statement, "the items will be shipped with the Alus Edition UHD Blu-rays" means that the discs are coming soon. This has been dragging on for a while now. I know there was some extra stuff going on, but these were originally promised by last December.
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    I thought I read somewhere that the styrofoam these were packed in was the cause of yellowing. If that's the case, then keeping them in the boxes may have been the problem.
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    @Sildani, I'll bite on that one. For such a low budget, you might be better off going with one of the windows based gaming handhelds. I recently went with a Steamdeck because it's purpose built with a dedicated linux gaming OS that's easier on power than Windows, but there's no support for Tarkov, so that wouldn't work for you. But there's plenty of great options out there like the MSI Claw, Asus Rogue, Lenovo Legion (which actually has both SteamOS dedicated support and Windows, so you could dual boot), etc. These are all within your budget iirc. Old school/serious PC gamers may write these off, but the tech is seriously capable now (other than battery life, get an external one), and they all have docking options, bluetooth controllers, and double as a standard PC. Will they do 4k with ray tracing at 120hz? Not even close, but I think most of the latest models can meet your stated expectations not to mention being portable. Some can even connect to external GPUs, although that's not really all that practical... yet. Asus makes a good go of that but it's expensive. USB C vsn5 works but isn't quite up to the task, and the only one that has a PCI connection is the older Asus model. Just my 2¢.
  17. Pontus
    But seriously (well, half), these things have shoulder mounted missiles, cannons front and back... and freakin' valks have hands for no apparent tactical reason other than holding a ridiculous, handheld gun that makes zero sense (if design was considered BEFORE they knew they'd be tackling space giants). At least Spartans have big, heavy duty hands for both load handling and non explosive, close range tactical use on a SPACE ship where you don't exactly wanna be firing inside your own ship. In that regard these things make perfect sense.
  18. Pontus
    Has anyone had a chance to download the Alien3 4k fan edit yet?
  19. Pontus
    Pardon me if this is common knowledge and/or been asked before, but I just watched DYRL for the first time on this 4K release (just beautiful, glad I got it!) and noticed something; Flashback 2012 is not the first time the VF-4 was featured. Unless I'm mistaken here, in Hikaru's apartment scene, he has a blue model of a prototype VF-4 on his shelf. The only thing that might be different is that I don't see the front kenards on the model. (what am I talking about, I must be confusing my valks) But it's only a small part of a few frames. Anyway, I was just wondering if that's been noticed before, or is this only just now noticable (or perhaps confirmed) due to the high resolution?
  20. Pontus
    I was disappointed at first too especially after having to wait so long for a preorder, but looking back at the OG pics from SDFM to compare, it's really growing on me. Maybe I'm just being contrary after seeing all the negativity here, but I'm going to add some positivity and risk ridicule by saying... I think this is pretty good! Is anyone else making Max figures that look half this good with such articulation? Maybe a model kit, but ain't nobody got time for dat (and no articulation at all)! Sure, there's some nitpicks to make, but it looks like Max and has REAL CLOTHES that are quite nice. I am very happy to have finally gotten another great addition to their figure line up, and I hope they keep it up. All I ask for is Kakizaki (and it better have a steak), but Global, Claudia, or even another Misa in real cloth would be killer. Anyway, just my 2¢ and wanted to lend some perspective to what seems like a very negative reception. I mean, there's a fan with a company out there that's still making toys from an 80's anime for crying out loud! I'm so thankful for this. Still not doing kickstarters tho.
  21. Pontus
    Max will be shipping soon. Just got an email from KC asking me to confirm my address.
  22. Pontus
    I got mine yesterday. This is my second shipment from Crunchyroll after returning the first, and although it arrived without damage this time, it's not for better packaging. This time, they chose a "box" that was actually just a prefolded cardboard piece with no corners just slapped around it, and it was way too narrow so they just bent it over the edges, slapped some more miracle paper in there, taped it once across the middle, and called it a day.🤦‍♂️ For those that had issues extracting the disks from the book, I see what you mean, and I found the solution. It's tempting to wanna crank on that disk to get it out, but that only makes it harder to extract like an inverse finger trap. It's actually a rather nice retainer imho (better than too loose), but you have to really press hard in the center while supporting the back of the book with your other hand, and DO NOT pry on the disk - only use enough pressure such that it pops out when you press. It pops right out without stress that way, or at least it did for me.
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    Interesting, mine spent several additional days in USPS shipping too after it came up with an error saying it was getting forwarded back to the shipper, but then it went back through the local shipping system again. My box only had a single wadded up sheet of paper under one side. I'll see if they'll exchange it, but I don't want to wait for them to get the return before shipping my replacement in case they run out of stock in that time, so I think I'll see if they'll ship the replacement before I ship it back.
  24. Pontus
    DO NOT buy this from Crunchyroll. They packaged mine in a box with zero padding other than some craft paper under one side. The whole corner of the box ripped out. Fortunately, it only dinged the corner a little bit, but this is unacceptable packaging!
  25. Pontus
    Got mine today. Very nicely done... other than powering the lights with 4 different battery sockets! And I love the instructions, "insert the batteries according to the instructions." These ARE the instructions ffs! And WHAT batteries?! They don't say what model to use anywhere that I can see. Does anyone know? I think I'll rewire it for USB power some day. As for scale, I bought it to match 1/100 instead of getting HMR because I feel like 1/72 regults match HMR valks better (and cheaper). I was already planning to build the bandai kit, but since I had super custom plans for that (a purple stealth sniper) this is really great to have a proper regult. But as the pics above show, it does seem a bit large for HMR (which isn't really 1/100). Happy to have it finally tho regardless.
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