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  1. Chronocidal
    Frankly.. go buy a bunch of the Hasegawa sets, and make your own. They're better quality molding, and the pylons are actually long enough to give proper clearance to the wing flaps. Yes, you'll have to put some work in yourself on those, but just slapping them together and hand painting the parts will be worth it when you can get essentially three sets for the price of one Bandai set (maybe four.. depending on how inflated they get).
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    Yeah, I'm irritated with them as much as the next guy, but we seem to delve into that fiasco pretty often. I really do wish we could get some new news about Bandai's plans for the VF-1 though; right now the only thing on a ton of minds is that they're finding out their strike parts are never arriving.
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    I think we're all thinking way too much about a picture that wasn't really ever meant to be physically possible. I'm still trying to decide whether the two gun barrels in the left arm pack are meant to be vertically, or horizontally stacked.
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    I'm not sure what to think about MS acquiring Bethesda, especially after recent experiences with installing things from the MS Store... But someone I know made a really amusing point. Todd Howard just got Microsoft to buy Skyrim.
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    Ok, seriously, that wrecklamation job is looking far better than my original.
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    Yeah, the top profile isn't too bad, but that thing needs to go on a Ben & Jerry's binge and put on some curves. (Though, funny enough, the leading edge of the wing is also way too thick.) I'm kind of honestly considering getting two of them, and just stacking the parts vertically to make it thick enough. I really don't get it.. there are probably thousands of ways they could have built that shape, and dozens of other elements that would have made a much nicer and more accurate curve.. they just didn't feel like using any? Hell, even just using another pair of the long curved slopes on each side to stretch the curvature all the way to the tip of the "ears" would have been a huge improvement.. but they didn't. It's like the UCS Slave I all over again.. Memory-wise though, I think the Batman TAS design was so iconic that it made it hard to recall exactly what the others looked like. My own idealized Batwing design is actually somewhere between the TAS and Forever versions, with a very elongated shape that I think may have been partially due to some forced perspective shots in TAS.
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    I didn't figure it would have been an issue, it's just amusing seeing that sort of omission on a drawing with that much detail.
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    I feel like they saw the VF100s VF-25, and took it as a challenge for how much of a figure you can replace, and still call it "one figure." The very most I can see those two sharing is the base torso. All of the joints on the armored parts are different colors than the normal body. Also.. is it just me, or do a lot of Southern Cross/Mospeada mecha just completely lack the ability to rotate at the elbow? The cutaway basically confirms that the arm can't actually twist... but also has two elbows?
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    Frankly, no, because they need to stop with the stupid repainted missiles. I don't care if they're trying to mimic the style of the VF-1, they just look ugly on an F-14.
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    Definitely bought... but definitely bought to rebuild better. That thing has some major shaping issues, and I don't understand why. Could they literally not continue the smooth contours all the way to the nose? And... as much as I like working canopies, that one looks terrible. Also pretty disappointing that on something that size, they didn't bother adding landing gear. Maybe I'll rebuild it into the TAS version.. Edit: I might have to hunt down the directions to make this one though. Better proportions all around. The 1989 Batwing was a lot thicker than the new set, it was darn near what I would call stumpy.
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    I think the big question is.. is the hand capable of holding a pose that will allow it to fill the back of the arm that way, so a panel is not necessary? Will the thumb fit into the fist enough to allow the hand to actually be block-shaped?
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    You know, I genuinely don't remember ever seeing that frame. I wonder if it wasn't in the copy of DYRL I've watched all these years? It wasn't a great quality recording. Far as the color goes, the orange never bothered me, since it reminded me more of the bright red/orange used on some training aircraft schemes I've always loved.
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    Yeah, the original release didn't sell all that well, and I picked mine up on clearance from HLJ in the first place. I think I was able to get a pair of factory shoulders for mine, but they're still in the box, since the VT-1 never went past half-gerwalk anyhow. Would love to see a PF version, but I'm not holding my breath.
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    Yeah, after almost 10 years, I picked up a new CPU in February, and the 2080 super is taking everything I throw at it, so I'm in no rush to change anything. Not to mention, you just know that any new generation of hardware is going to force you onto whatever the newest version of Windows is, and I have gone to extraordinary lengths to bind and gag Win10 1909 until you can't even hear it whimper. I have the computer running smoothly the way I want, and I have no intention of changing that for at least a couple years.
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    I believe that OS Seeker mold is a little bigger than 1/48, something like 1/45-1/43? The cockpit is big enough to fit some 1/48 model kit pilot figures, and it's a nice all-around improvement to the old MP-11 design. Fits in pretty nicely next to any 1/48 valks.
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    The story quests were definitely re-engineered, but it's more that they completely omitted Harukotan from the anime (for the better, I think). None of the characters or events in that region get shown, and and the major events from Episode 3 take place in entirely different locations. For what it's worth, I think the prequel anime is better than the actual game content for episode 4, because the story just felt more solid before they added all of the cheesy super-secret factions, and you were just dealing with players of the game. I actually stopped playing episode 4 mid-way to watch it, and find out what they were referencing in the story. The nature of it being a prequel that couldn't reveal a lot of the later story content worked in its favor, I think, since it just worked better without trying to explain everything. Also, as meta as the series gets, it does not hold a freaking candle to the actual game content. I don't know how far in the storyline you might be, because I flat out marathon each segment as they come out. The story missions in the game take the fourth wall, tug the bottom of it like a pull-shade until it rolls up like a pool noodle, and then cut it up into segments to make pretzels. I honestly don't want to spoil it though, because the way the final segment was resolved had me crying with insane laughter at how silly it was, and despite that, laughing that hard felt pretty good. Side note, you actually get several characters from the series (and their alts) if you finish their quests. Just don't use the English voices for them.
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    Provided you can unearth the specific phone number for the office. I don't know how common this is, but it has become all but impossible for me to find numbers for local offices of any particular shipping source, whether it's USPS, UPS, or Fedex. All the published numbers go directly to a national hotline, and they really do not seem to like to let you talk to your local office at all. More often than not, I've had to bypass the phone entirely, and just walk into the offices in person to get a straight answer.
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    It really doesn't need to look like every generic "going to be taken over by a rogue AI" drone... one specific one is plenty? Seriously, I have trouble believing that's not on purpose, at some level.
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    Darnit.. I've lost track of the 1/100 fighter releases in the pandemic, and I would have loved to pick up that hornet... although, the paint on the cover looks a little derpy on the yellow band around the canopy. Anywhere it's still available?
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    If the non-SSD drive is starting to go out, that could maybe give you some issues, but the thing this reminds me of the most is the behavior I get when my work computer attempts to access files stored remotely. It doesn't matter that I have the original files stored on my local drive, because Windows will always go straight to the online storage before checking locally, and it means I get to sit and wait while it chugs to open a file on my local hard drive. You might want to check whether Windows has signed you up for a One Drive account without your permission, and is storing your stuff in the cloud. I'm becoming horribly cynical with Windows lately, and want to just say that if you've been downloading Windows updates, that's likely your main problem. All things considered, if you haven't changed anything else, it might be the simplest explanation, as the only verifiable changing variable. Having the full SSD probably doesn't help though, and it might actually be the direct cause of the issue. Assuming Windows is operating on that drive, not having the extra space might possibly make Windows behave badly.
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    I haven't been watching much of anything in recent years, but I got the urge to hunt down the Phantasy Star Online 2 series after the NA release earlier this summer. For those familiar with the game, Episode Oracle is a streamlined retelling of the first three episodes of the game's story content with a much darker tone than the game itself, while the other high school-focused series is a lot lighter and more comedic in tone, and works as a prologue to the fourth episode of story content. Oracle was pretty good, and shed some light on some story gaps from the game, while trimming out some of the less interesting content leading up to the final fight of episode 3 in the game. The high school one looked cheesy and out of place at first, but was pretty enjoyable once the context of the story was fleshed out better. Sort of falls into the typical high school anime trope pile, with a side of MMO-based humor, but I had fun with it. Oracle is on the Funimation streaming site (I signed up for the free trial to watch this one), while the high school series can be found on Youtube, since I don't think it was localized officially yet.
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    But... they're all planes...
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    You know the funny thing about the J-20.. move the wings around and alter a couple of details, you've pretty much got an F-22/F-35. I wonder if they'll do it. Really though, part of me wishes more people would abandon real aircraft designs, and just focus on making something that looks cool and functional. That Kalavinka looks like exactly that, and have to agree, the ZOE aesthetic gives it a nice presence.
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    Honestly, at that scale, it almost feels like it would be worthwhile to mold teeth and ridges into the finger joints to soft ratchet them like LEGO hinges.
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    See.. can we just abandon any attempt at a serious plot, and turn Discovery into the Star Trek version of Tag and Bink? I'd actually pay to watch that.
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