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Yeah it's like if you want the model, you are paying a bit under $100($80+shipping from what I've seen), and $200 or a bit under/over give or take, for the toy.My main issue with this isn't so much the looks, I actually don't mind the hip placement, but the fact the intakes, since they are placed higher than on the model, are prone to scratching off the paint from the LERX's. It's annoying to try to angle the hips out more to avoid scratching the LERX paint while posing.
Actually the model kit is about 80USD, and 20USD for SAL, 40 for EMS. I wouldn't really know about the toy price exactly, but I think you're understating it a bit there since the basic VF-25S without armor is around that price.
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Lol. While most are controlled by the number of posts, your title usually defines the group you belong to. Sometimes the admins will screw with your title though :3
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That's one thing I like about top-loaders. The drive mech (usually) has a much more stable grip than tray- or slot-loading drives. They're also far simpler and more reliable.
While I would agree, these systems also can wear out the bearings that clip onto the CD over time, and then eventually result in the same problem.
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Is it just me, or does the center pic looks like a Bay-former face?
... omg... he's right!
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Is the VF-2SS really just all plain boring white underneath?
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still has the intake gap and the shoulders that don't sit flush in fighter too. Too bad. I'm not buying another yf-19 until they fix those fit issues.
Not to be a jerk or be OT, but...
My 19 says hi.
Doesn't change the fact that Yamato didn't do anything other than the color swap in this release though.
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It may not be Microsoft's fault directly, but it is their console, and it makes a lot of sense to call them (and not the company who produced the drives) when it has malfunctions. Even if the fault lies in the manufacturers of the drive, that's Microsoft's responsibility to forward the problems to them, and not ours.
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Oh man.. You guys are treading on thin ice here. Someone is going to get offended again >_>
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You... Never... Move your game console ever when a disc is playing? o_O. I cannot even count the endless times when someone tripped a cord (power, output or controller... although most controllers are now wireless) and moved the console. Especially when playing with the lights off in a multiplayer game when people often get up and down to get refreshments. Stuff like that will happen. Now a PC you'd generally not move too much, but a console is a party/multiplayer experience and generally in a relatively small space. To give Microsoft lenience for their short-sightedness here is a little silly. Consoles will be moved and jarred.
Oh and your comment about DVDs in your PC being scratched... At large LAN parties, people have had their entire desktop crash to the floor from table height because the idiot on the other side kicked the table leg lock mechanism. 3 PCs fell to the ground at one event, and they were fine. It was purely luck that the harddrives survived, but no one would expect that their DVDs would be gouged beyond repair.
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It's okay, they had a recall procedure on destroyed discs too. >_> I still cannot understand how they screwed up the CD stabilizing units though, weren't portable cd players present nearly a decade ago?
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Why not just make a Crysis movie then. *throws self off bridge*
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Oi. I'm not talking about the VF100. I'm talking about the fighter only VF100 version above. Which is still 4000 yen.
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Wait. What. No. It makes sense, although 'as expensive as a non-transforming GNU' is slightly misleading, leading one to believe that GNU's do transform... But that's not what i meant at all.
It's as expensive as a GNU, another non-transforming toy. And this fighter VF100 doesn't transform, LIKE the GNU.
And no, the fighter VF100 is the one I'm talking about. It's no longer a partsformer. It doesn't transform at all.
And yes, it is ABS, but there is a significant presence of PVC, which is not the case with the GNUs, which is virtually all ABS.
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Huh. So it's like... As expensive as a non-transforming GNU... Doesn't transform like the GNU.... but is made of PVC and not quite as sharp and detailed as a GNU. >_> Someone wasn't thinking straight.
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While I too hope this movie is greatly successful, I really don't want it to spur development of a sequel. I can't really see how they'd make a sequel without retreading the path laid down by other scifis in a inanely predictable manner.
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So uh.. If we take human corpses, put them under immense pressure and turn it into a fuel... And then inject that into cavemen... They become homosapiens? I still don't get the mutagenic properties. =/. It's not like feeding gasoline to a reptile will make it a dinosaur either. Reminds me of: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/20/kid-dr...e-transformers/
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It's the first of the non elite HDMI units and it lives on top of a wire rack to ensure the bottom vents can suck in air and there's a can of compressed air that lives nearby that visits often as well...
Thats already way more maintenance and setup than a simple game console should require.
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Mines great too lol. Hows that for irony. But the YF-19 has had a lot of neck issues, in terms of widespread breakage prone areas, although it varied from neck cracking to tab damage. They had shoulder/arm breaks too, but not so common.
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The VF-0 had issues with shoulders too. So did the YF-19. And outside of shoulder issues, mysterious spontaneous breakages on other parts still occur. However, you're right that these were products from 06-07, so hopefully we've moved beyond that. *crossing fingers* I haven't forgotten, I just hope we never have to remember =P
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Actually, imo Alien weaponry was very diverse. You had projectile based weapons, the handheld machine gun that looked like a hedge trimmer and the arm mounted one of the exosuit. There was the resonance/sonic emitter weapon, the lightning bolt guns, the force shields, the taser-like weapon that fires a tethered projectile and then transmits energy, the gravity gun, the missile packs, and the explosive burst autopistol weapons.
Most of their weapons were painted in a similar red/white scheme though, so it could imply they were just hastily reassembled alien hardware... But imo, it looks like its made up of stuff you'd find in a garage, just repainted over. I honestly cannot believe they'd spend the effort to repaint it >_> However, the exosuit seemed impossible to be built from scrap. It was machined in a fashion that you wouldn't find anywhere except a plant. Even with 20 years, it'd be hard to put that together, so I'm sure they found it off the ship. The ship Chris rode back up on is speculated to have been the massive control module piece that fell off.
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I think the signs were more of a xenophobic precaution than anything. On top of that, there may have been some limited rights given to the aliens when they initially landed 20 years ago. Chris had a son, which seemed to have been conceived when it was still legitimate to do so, and you would think that following the trend of the movie, the prawn's rights were diminishing rapidly. So perhaps at one point they were allowed out to tour human civilization, except that's changed quite dramatically for some time before the start of the movie.
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Just saw the movie. Was good, but not stellar omfg blow me down. About 8.5/10.
- The humans are evil message was not over-generalized and repeated ad nauseam.
- Exosuit portion was done well, and it was made clear that Wikus didn't have full control of it, yet he was not frustratingly bad at it. A very fine line to walk here.
- Left some gaps, but you could fill most of it in with your imagination.
- Wikus was a much more believable protagonist than many other sci fi movies, and while he showed some traits of a typical EVA pilot (cough, shinji), being a wimp and all, he showed a more even balance closer to the end.
- The exosuit racing forward and firing guns left and right really made me think of a Mechwarrior movie featuring a 50 ton mech. Agile, yet hefty enough to really do some damage. Pretty sweet stuff.
Some questions and theories I had though.
1. Why did the mothership stop? Or why did it even stop on Earth anyway?
The movie suggests it needed supplies, but why would the aliens not leave the ship and instead just starve to death in quarantine for 3 months?
It also says that a control module broke off, but for the aliens to design the spaceship so poorly that the vital segment just breaks, and the passengers just get locked off to die... seems kinda strange for a race that should be accustomed to long-distance space travel. Or maybe its Yamato that makes their spaceships =P
Furthermore, with their silly vial plot device inserted, they were able to take command of the ship again. The control module theory just drifts further and further from being feasible.
2. We understand that the aliens were brought off the ship by human means, and refused the right to return to their spaceship, thus grounding them, but the aliens were still capable of building alien weapons. Yet they sell these weapons to gangsters for cat food... Instead of just shooting them with their advanced weapons and taking the food for themselves? They get butchered after transactions anyway. So weird and foolish.
3. Who was Chris and why was he so much more intelligent and capable of understanding technology? Some think he's possibly a captain or an engineer of the mothership but was trapped with the passengers in the hull.
4. Near the end, an emergency beacon was sent out from the mothership, activating all alien technology and auto-targetting any foreign species. While the exosuit was activated, no guns on the mothership fired. In fact, where ARE the guns on the mothership? you'd think interstellar spacecraft would have some weapons for defense at least.
5. How the liquid canister both provides the essential activation for the dropship, the remote control of the mothership, and also gene manipulation is beyond me, but it has been speculated it's some unfathomable nanotech thing capable of carrying out different commands dependent on its circumstance. *shrug* It's mostly a plot device, I know. One of my friends suggested their tech was heavily based off of biology, which seems well integrated in things down to their weapons... But their architecture (their guns, ships and all) were essentially steel armor and circuitry, with no biology to speak of. A little contradicting... But this is probably the weakest parts of the story, and thankfully one of the few parts like that.
Here's my theory that tries to answer most of the above... And while there's no direct evidence to support it, there isn't a lot of strong evidence that denies it either.
If anyone has played Homeworld 1, the first 15 minutes of the movie will seem eerily familiar. The ship is a prison ship, there is no designated captain or crew (only autopilot), and it carries within a group of exiled criminals to a far off place in the galaxy, possibly to their own fate. Either through chance, miscalculation or through experiencing damage during its travels, the ship stops over Earth, with its prisoners still in its belly, but without anyone in control. This would explain the primitive level of understanding and hierarchy amongst the aliens, as well as their malnutrition and poor disposition. Shipped across space in a vessel of their own species, yet incapable of controlling or understanding their own technology, only this explanation comes close to fitting. Chris is a rare prisoner; he understands technology and is able to reverse engineer his own species developments. It would make sense if Chris was a scientist or engineer who was convicted of war crimes, or possibly the leaking of intelligence. There would not be many other criminals like him, but he sure as hell would be imprisoned or sentenced to death. Furthermore, since it's a prison ship, it would make sense that much of their armaments would be stripped, so that it's defenses could not be commandeered even if the prisoners managed to wrestle control. One thing that doesn't make a lot of sense is why Chris would return home if he's really just a prisoner sent into exile. Would he expect compassion from his own kind? Would he make a case for mistreatment of a sentient species and thus receive help in saving his brethren? That seems a little sketchy to me, and would be one of the bigger wrenches in my theory.
Aside from that, it seems like Christopher would make good on his promise to return... But his goal seemed clear: to save his people... He never mentioned anything in the line of vengeance or retribution, so it seems like it'd be more of a campaign of liberation.
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I didn't use magnets, the kit was super tight as I was assembling it already. Squeezing the parts together and pushing them up into place, they locked and held just on grip and stiffness. The tightness is enough to scrape paint off if you're not careful. I'm not sure if it was because it was the first time assembling it (I didn't do preassembly) or if the several coats of paint increased the tightness, but magnets are completely unnecessary for it. I can't even raise the legs to a higher position if I tried, its already pushed up as far as it can be against the body, and doesn't sag at all.
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eugimon [yuu-jee-mon]
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