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  1. SchizophrenicMC
    There have been a lot of those. I used to be a part of the 405th, the main Halo armoring community. There are literally thousands of Master Chiefs.
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    I just noticed for the first time that David has 2 g's in his username, and that his badge is Sharon Apple. I'm not sure if this says more about how little attention I've been paying, or where my attention to detail goes when I'm tired. Either way, I've been here 6 years and I'm just now making these connections. In other news, I've decided the 777 is my favorite airliner. Because reasons.
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    Yeah, Syd from HLJ/Gaijin Gunpla did a full set of videos on the build. It's pretty helpful.
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    I keep my 240SX because it has popup headlights. And it's not afraid to be a fastback with a hatch.
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    A double full Billy has 330sqft of shelf space for $160, plus $200 for 4 doors. You would need 5 Detolfs to get the same amount of shelf space, at $65 each. Five Detolfs is actually marginally cheaper than a double-Billy with glass doors, but the glass doors on the Billy would keep more dust out. And, if you don't need as much height per shelf, you can add shelves to Billy for pretty cheap, and push up the square footage even more. It all comes down to what you're displaying. And if you're like me, and don't like shutting in your displays, it's a lot cheaper. My only inhibition is, if I replace my single bookcase with a double Billy, I'll have to take some of the posters down from my walls. I do like my posters. Even still, eventually, I'll need more display space. Ikea is on my list. Hikuro, the undergating must be nice. I keep wanting Bandai to put more undergating on more kits. Especially since Bandai is all about snap-fit kits, they could really boost the finish just by using that technology.
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    I wish cars could be that small and lightweight again. Stupid pedestrian safety and rollover requirements.
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    I live in Texas. Between dust coming in from outside, and the whole house being made of cellulose, (not to mention my 4 cats, my dad's 12 or so birds, and the rest of my family) dust is a major issue. I usually just try to keep my displays blown down, but I have considered getting a couple Billy with either the Morliden or Oxberg glass doors. I'm led to believe the hazed look on Morliden is just an optional panel, and that the glass itself is clear. Of course, it is more expensive, and I'm still not a big fan of closed displays, but it is another option. Oh the things I would do if I had money.
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    That's just it: a Detolf doesn't hold all that much. They're rather constricted, so everyone who has one, has it crammed full of gunpla and figures. I reckon 2 large Billy bookcases (or the one extra-large double-Billy) could hold more than 4 Detolfs, with a less-cramped layout, for less than the price of 3 of the glass cases. It's also my personal opinion that the sturdy wood shelving unit looks better than the glass cases. Every time I see the PG Unicorn, I like it more. I knew Bandai wouldn't let us down. The only letdown was some of the initial promotional material.
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    While I can dig a clean MR2, Saabkyle is really bad at presentation, and he's prone to getting his facts just a little bit wrong.
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    I just don't dig the whole glass case thing. I prefer bookshelves and wall shelves. Detolfs get cramped easily, which looks weird in contrast with the openness the glass is supposed to promote.
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    Man that description has me hyped for some Macross, I tell you what.
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    Am I the only gunpla guy who doesn't like Detolfs?
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    Just grab an LED and a watch battery. Bend the terminals to contact the battery and put it in your gunpla.
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    You just don't have any luck, dude. Hory Froating Head-sama must be angry with you. I suggest you repent for whatever you did.
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    There's your fun crossover. I'm not asking for a technical justification. I'm just looking for some insight as to the thought process of the designers, who have been completely quiet about all of the changes they've made. Like, why was this design chosen, over what other designs we didn't see? What was going on inside the designers' heads when they started drawing X-Wings? Shed some light. Without that to humanize the designers and understand their perspective, all I can see is a needless change to a beloved icon, for the sake of some artist's ego. The only thing any of us can agree on is that the new design is polarizing. Some think it looks good, some think it looks bad, and some just don't care. But maybe it'd be less polarizing if anyone involved with the movie was interested in enough in what they were doing as a piece of art to talk about it, rather than the obvious NDA-driven, information-embargoed Disney cash cow that it is. If it weren't Star Wars, I'd be pretty convinced nobody was making the movie for anything but the love of money. (I mean look at Star Trek, a franchise Abrams has said he had almost no prior knowledge of, going in) I guess I'm just jaded. I've been a big fan of Star Wars since I could pronounce "Jedi" and ever since the sale to Disney, I just feel like the parts that I care about have been brushed aside into the incinerator, for the sake of mass appeal to make new moneymaker films with. The movie will sell, just based on the name alone, that's a given. But the Star Wars that I imagined was special, is dead, if it ever lived beyond my own imaginings. I'm gonna go be upset about this somewhere else. You guys carry on with your whatever.
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    That's not a handwave. That's the statement of "yes we changed it." The handwave would be like how the original X-wing needed to spread its wings so the cannons would be aimed correctly, and a second-level handwave would be how later media explained that the wings served as radiators. Sure, the real reason is because it looks cool and it's marketable. But the handwave is the in-universe magic for why something works a certain way. So now that the design has been changed, there has to be a handwave for why those changes happened. Like, there was some improvement in thrust from the McQuarrie engines, and the split-wing weighs less than a traditional S-foil. I dunno, SOMETHING. Something driven by some line of thought from the original design, that ties it into the design and the universe, and doesn't leave me feeling like it was just some hipster at Bad Robot making his headcanon a reality.
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    Yes, yes, things change over the space of a few decades. I get that. But why these particular changes, which just look silly? I wish they'd share their thought process behind designing the new X-Wing. I doubt we'll see that thought process- we never did for the Star Trek redesigns. All I'm asking is for a handwave to explain why the new design is better. Something to show the designers put some thought into the design, and not "this would look cool because I made it, and now the X-wing is mine!"
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    I'll grant those points, Azrael. Like I've said, if the artists would give a reason beyond "well, times change" I'd cool it. Even Lucas took care to shed light on his thought process behind the art direction of the prequels, and it lent credence to the notion that the older stuff would be cleaner, and the newer stuff would be grimy and used, in a way. I just don't understand the new art direction, and they're all mum about the new film and won't tell anybody anything.
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    Man, usually when I troll that hard, I get banned. How is anime# here getting away with it?
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    Even going outside the issue of movie canon being superior to non-movie canon (even though the radiator thing is G-Canon) and avoiding all the technical talk, you have to wonder why they changed the design. There was no reason to. The only reason with an iota of possibility is because somebody wanted to put his touch on something as big as Star Wars. This whole debacle is because some artistic type decided to change the art style for the sake of changing the art style. Somehow this is a travesty when Lucas does it in prequels, but it's hunky-dory when Abrams does it for sequels. At least the clean aesthetic of the prequels generally made sense- we're not seeing a group of rebels after a 20 year war, we're seeing the height of the Republic. Even if I don't care for most of the design direction in the prequels, I'll grant that the designs generally make sense, and tie into the overall mythos of Star Wars. So what the hell do the Split-Wing starfighter, the fudgesicle speeder, and the FIFA-bot have to do with the mythos of Star Wars?
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    Best Korea: Ruining It For Everybody Since 1953 Sony Pictures Entertainment: Undermining Freedom of Expression Since 2014
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    The whole assembly looks spindly. While I can take or leave the Ralph McQuarrie engines (though I do prefer the 4 small cylindrical nacelles to the 4 large semicylindrical nacelles) I think the wings don't look like wings. The upper one looks kind of wing-like, but the lower one is just narrow. Original: New:
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    Yup:
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    I've never had issues with drooping blasters. They're pretty lightweight-looking. At least, the barrels are. The big chunky assembly on the wingtip mount looks a lot heavier than the rest of the cannon. The design always gave me the impression that the forces acting on the end of the blasters were less than the materials and overall design could withstand, between strong lightweight alloys, and a blaster that didn't really look all that heavy in the barrel. The new X-Wing has the same aesthetic to its blasters, but now the heavy-looking bit is hanging over the wingtip mounts. It's harder to accept the hand-wave now. The designs of sci-fi objects have to fulfill fantasy, and be novel, but they also have to be rooted in a sense of suspension of disbelief. The more off a design looks, the less likely a viewer will be able to suspend disbelief. I've said it before, and I'll reiterate it: I don't really take issue with the science behind the designs or their changes. What I don't like is that these designs get changed willy-nilly for no stated reason. Why did the X-wing need these changes? Just give me a reason. "The design was updated over time in universe" is not a reason, it's telling me what I can see in the picture. And what I see is the art direction changing in the same way Abrams' films always change the art direction, for no other reason than that's how Abrams likes his designs. I guess that's fair enough, but Star Wars isn't a pet project, it's a cultural icon, and I would have hoped a bit more effort would be put into the art for it.
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    In return, there are many more of them, and allied AI is always useless.
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