Master Dex
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12 hours ago, twich said:
I am curious to see if we will see a continuation of the SV-300 through SV-303 research for the next enemy(bad guy) variable fighter and go a whole new way for the next hero valkyrie design. I wished that Bandai had made a toy of the SV-303 instead of the SV-262 color change for Con Vaart in red. I love the design of the SV-262Hs/Ba, but the transformation in toy form causes me anxiety. I hope that we get some news/teasers/something this year.
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If your think the transformation of the Sv-262 toy causes anxiety the 303 would have been 10x worse lol.
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I knew from the picture it was different but I wanted to clarify just in case someone who didn't know the difference and hadn't kept up didn't know there was an option (albeit pricy) in other markets.
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The UK does have a collectors edition though through Anime Limited, which is also available in America through Crunchyroll store. It's not cheap but it has both versions in it.
I know because I own it lol.
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Yeah that's all decades old spaceflight jargon and dark humor that came from old pilots and the steely-eyed missile men at Mission Control.
SpaceX is just following up their legacy. Great work but it wouldn't be without what the vintage NASA did first.
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3 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:
Okay, my apologies then. I thought the plethora of them were doing this and not just Tesla. Apparently, given the info you gave me just now, we can tell where the "flow of the BS" is coming from.
TBH: it's not really a surprise given he 3d prints rocket engine parts (I don't trust the sintering process for the metals used in them).
Relatively Space does more of 3D printed rocket components than any other space launch company, though even they are walking it back on new designs for cost reasons.
SpaceX has done it but not to a large scale. And in all truth SpaceX isn't even directly operated to that guy's direction, it's run by Gwynne Shotwell who does a very thankless job considering all the things they accomplish (and the press they have to deal with for iterative design testing being inherently destructive but the layman just seeing it as failure). I'm all for dunking on Musk but he takes too much credit (good and bad) for a lot of other people's work. He is more directly responsible at Tesla though which causes most of the aforementioned BS trending.
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2 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:
Well... That's what all 5th Gen VFs have, so we know exactly what that looks like. It actually avoids causing bits because pilots can survive higher G-loads.
Technically the YF-21 and VF-22 had the tech from the Q-Rau but it was limited. 5th Gen like the VF-25 and up all have the Inertia Store Converter powered by fold quartz. I'll leave it to Seto to get into the technicals because he'll do it anyway regardless of what I say lol. Plus he has that information on hand and I don't.
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37 minutes ago, guyxxed said:
Fair enough. The engineer in me is still raising an eyebrow that you could get enough thrust out of that small an amount of reactant to move a multi-ton air/spacecraft at the speeds we see, but there are certainly crazier things to accept and at least there's a thought through rationale behind it. Works for me, and thank you for pulling those together. I'm always a bit impressed at the depth of world building Macross has accumulated over the years, whether it's "official" or otherwise, it's all fun to read through.
As another engineer, an aerospace one even, I understand your disbelief.
I think we have to consider just how efficient and hot this reaction is, it's more than we're imagining for sure. And like Seto said it's based on advanced alien tech we can't replicate with real world analogues. This is a classic unobtanium situation, in the literary sense. It's something that physics says is completely doable but the capability is entirely outside of reality as we know it, but not as they in the continuity know it.
That's always my preferred kind of sci-fi tech, rather than technobabble that means nothing.
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In case it's unclear, that stuff bring cut on the one release was only done because it was packaged with a video game and by Japanese law it had to match the game rating.
There was never a reason beyond that for DYRL to be censored for any content beyond that the game was marketed for a younger age group. By this logic all releases with just the movie are basically always going to have everything.
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Couldn't tell ya anything. I'm just reporting what I've looked up and others say about that. I'm not an audio expert.
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Yeah, so audiophiles will like the Linear PCM option overall, but if you have an actual 5.1 surround system set up, the DTS will be more immersive despite the compression used.
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1 hour ago, kajnrig said:
Sorry, I guess I just don't know exactly what's what. Set comes with two discs, UHD with red trim, HD with yellow trim. UHD disc presents you right away with options for
- Linear PCM 1984,
- Linear PCM 2016,
- DTS 5.1 2016.
I was confused and assumed they had packed two different versions - the 1984 being the new 4k one (with the one audio track), the 2016 ones being the 2016 master, maybe with a basic 1080p-to-4k integer upscale applied (with two audio tracks). Since I didn't have the discs on hand, I didn't pay too close attention to the discussion up through now about its contents. Teaches me.
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The Zentraredi troops quaking in fear at the Minmay doll. I'd forgotten such silly moments.
So from what I've been told, both versions of the movie on the disc are upscaled and enhanced, the difference is the content, the 1984 doesn't have the Angel Paints concert outro, which is like 2 minutes worth of visuals at best, and the 2016 does. The 2016 cut also has the DTS audio option of course which if you have the right audio set up will be ideal. Most people's average TV set up likely won't notice a big difference either way I think.
And just so it's fully out there, the options are the same on each disc, with the UHD disc having everything in the full 4K whereas the Blu-ray disc is just HD.
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Well I have yet to watch Frontier on stream actually, I'm still finishing a 7 rewatch. If I remember I'll watch for that.
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2 hours ago, Mog said:
So, is the Hulu translation of the lyrics for “What ‘bout My Star?” accurate?
Because I don’t think I ever saw those exact words pop up in the subtitles. 🤷🏻♂️
Like the name or specific lyrics?
The name has been official since the song was released on CD and streaming. You can see that almost anywhere because it's almost always displayed in English (as the lyric is sung in English).
If you are questioning other lyrics, we might need more specificity.
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53 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
CDJapan's delivery flew close to the ground, I've just been informed a batch including mine is already out for delivery in multiple cities in the east coast and midwest.
Similar, I just got my notification from them this morning and they say it's coming today (in CA here).
Granted, I picked FedEx shipping it seems so that might be why.
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Technically it releases in two days.. well maybe tomorrow in Japan. The international shipping going out is to meet that release time frame likely.
My CDJapan order hasn't given shipping confirmation but my order status is "In Shipping Process" so stuff is happening.
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Yeah honestly you're probably better off.
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I had a feeling that was the case, so you're really just watching them in another country then.
Valid if that works for you, but it's not the way to natively do it in the US.
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That... Shouldn't be true. It's been shown before that only Disney+ tells you to unlock Hulu shows by paying for Hulu, bundle or not. I'm not sure how that can work unless one forgot they had a subscription to both.
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I dunno what I'm doing differently, but I've been watching on Hulu with my Roku TV and have had zero issues with subs and I'm almost 20 episodes into a Macross 7 rewatch. Maybe the others mentioned might still be an issue, I haven't checked yet.
It does port it through the TV's CC but Hulu has always done that so that's not new to me as I have watched anime there before. I also customized my TV's CC settings so the lettering is larger and has no black box at all with a proper drop shadow so it tends to look a lot nicer on my end. I don't know if every TV these days can do that but if so, consider it, I think it helps a lot for presentation. I can't offer much for timing as that's usually out of the user's control but at least on 7 I haven't seen any problems yet.
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4 hours ago, JB0 said:
In fairness, if they're only doing one set of captions, it should be "for the hearing-impaired".
I assume they aren't ACTUALLY closed captions, since no one's complained about the huge black boxes. Open captions for the win!
It's more just several apps port subtitles through the CC on smart TVs and Hulu and Disney are both examples of that. Functionally it looks exactly like CC, which on my TV settings I can edit to look different so I have large white drop shadow text CC with no background. That helps a lot.
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45 minutes ago, Graham said:
Interesting.
I wonder why D7 is the only thing we are still missing on D+ here in HK (apart from the original series and DYRL obviously).
It is worth reporting we do have it, but episode 2 has been slightly recut. No one is entirely sure who did it, but it seems they decided to remove the admittedly very uncomfortable Mylene scene. You all know the one if you've seen it before.
While some have grown worried it's a marker of censorship, I think that is an improvement in all honesty... and so far nothing else has appeared to be edited, including many of the more risque stuff in Frontier et al.
Whether that has any bearing on it not being in Hong Kong I can't say.
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Yeah I'm aware but they still brand content with it. All anime in the US that Disney licenses has a clear Hulu label on it and you can watch it with just a Hulu subscription if that's all you have. This hasn't changed yet.
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It's from Australia. I saw this earlier in a fan group and was immediately suspicious of the date formats plus it had no link to source, just an image. Others looked up the same information for the US and Macross items weren't on that. I highly doubt they'd be on Disney+ directly anyway instead of Hulu.
This image is different from the one I saw.. it's been edited but they didn't change the date formats to match, they are all different styles (though I admit 1/1 can be read either way so maybe it is just the Australian one I was told about from a different page)
This is where we are now, people willing to fake this stuff or say it's US with no proof just to stir the pot.
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3 hours ago, Scream Man said:
What provides forward thrust for Valkyrie type fighters in Gerwalk mode?
21s/22s, 27s and 29s have rear thrusters separate to the feet thrusters, but VF-1s etc have no rear facing engines with the legs down.This is how I know you never looked at the VF-1 from all angles.
The backpack at the top has thrusters in it. The VF-1 relies on that and a mix of foot movement.
This is more easily solved than some VF's like the 30/31 series.
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Accurate, there is a real use case for doing the Gundam thing though, and that's called a technology demonstrator. It's a unit full of new and experimental stuff designed to trial things out and figure out how to apply then to production and other prototypes. The tech demo itself is not designed to be a fielded unit, but sometimes it can take the shape of a super capable highly expensive unit. In truth doing it like this isn't economical and most tech will be tested piecemeal but it's an option to do it Gundam style.
There is a pseudo example in Macross with the YF-30 which is in truth a tech demo for the Fold Dimensional Resonance system developed by Aisha Blanchette. To wit the flight unit is described not as a variable fighter but a variable super dimension diver. So why the YF code? In short, SMS didn't want to tell the NUNG about the specs and the laws of how VF prototypes work says they don't need to disclose details for production prototypes. So they lied. Obviously the events of Macross 30 ensured they got caught so the design became known, which indirectly led to the supposed YF-31 that became the Kairos by Surya Aerospace, which doesn't have the fancy tech in it of course.