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It earlier this week. It wasn't on my priority list so I missed out on a Beelink Ser9 (had it saved in my cart and checked back when I got home and the price already went up and was out of stock at that price point) and a Dell Pro Micro refurb (was in my cart, went to a meeting and gone after I came back). I see some SSD "deals" that I might act on instead ("Deals" meaning that's the price they were being sold at back in August as opposed to the inflated price they are sold at today).

🤣 With that blue tape I would have guessed it was Max's Valkyrie, in which case that should probably read "position 639 of the Kama Sutra" 😉

Nice Job! Is that a custom mix blue, or straight from a jar? Looks perfect.

Honestly, it's amazing Mylene DOESN'T get violent with Basara.

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Plamax 1/72 VF-1A Max Valkyrie Almost complete

It's directly stated multiple times in the Macross Chronicle Mechanic Sheets for Boddole Zer's and Laplamiz's mobile fortresses as well as the Character Sheets for Boddole Zer and for Milia (Laplamiz is an extra note on hers) that Gol Boddole Zer and Moruk Laplamiz are computers that form the core of their respective mobile fortresses. In keeping with their faction's particular aesthetics, Boddole Zer is an "Ultra-large living command computer" while Laplamiz is an "Ultra-large holographic computer".

No, first I'm hearing of it. I just used the regular credit card I use for everything. Between that and all-season tires for my Porsche I'll get some points that I'll cash it for gift cards for Christmas.

hope you took advantage of the 20% off paypal promo. before there was no limit but they changed it to 1 transaction per customer after a whole week went by.

At the risk of how this may sound Seto: is it official that DYRL Boddole Zer was simply an AI (Macross chronicle or other publication/ source), or is that what you gather from the OVA? Not doubting you or trying to question you; just wanted to know it if was canon.

Well, yeah... that's the kind of design usage you can only really get away with in media being marketed to existing fans. Like the other games, Macross VF-X2's writing assumes the player has done a certain amount of prerequisite reading/watching and is familiar with a lot of the set pieces the game's story is playing with. The main TV series titles are all intended for both new and existing fans, so the creative team pursues a certain "visual clarity" in the proceedings to ensure that each faction is made distinct for the viewer's benefit and that the "hero mecha" are distinct from the cannon fodder as well. That's why we don't see any Zentradi ships among the New UN Forces in the later titles, why Macross Galaxy and Windermere IV use a completely separate set of ship classes from the New UN Forces, and why the VF-19 got the axe as main fighter because it looked too "hero mecha-y".😆 Well, that's not exactly fair... or entirely accurate. Zentradi technology doesn't really need improving in a technological sense. It's not the fanciest or most feature-rich hardware out there but it's not meant to be. The Protoculture equipped the Zentradi with the most rugged, dependable, and economical military hardware they could. Their ships and mecha are basically Ragnarok-proof and will run pretty much forever if not for battle damage. Klan even boasts about this to the Macross Quarter crew at one point. Overtechnology improves Human technology in visible ways because Human technology was hundreds if not thousands of years behind the mass-produced lowest-bidder military hardware the Protoculture designed for their Zentradi forces. About all that Human engineers can do is try to improve on the areas the Protoculture deliberately neglected: safety and survivability. So improvements like the Queadluun-Rher's focus mainly on things like beefing up armor, improving pilot awareness with better sensors and a BDI, and preventing single-point failures with redundant control circuits. I don't think that's necessarily true in most titles. Guld certainly gets hit with that awfully hard but that's his past trauma combined with Isamu being a master button-pusher. Other prominent Zentradi characters are often shown as simply being eccentric. Sylvie is a quarter Meltran and a soldier, but the main focus on her is normally that she's a dutiful soldier (or just really attractive) and it's actually her entirely Human boyfriend Nex Gilbert who's a gung-ho fighter jock. We see several other Zentradi in that OVA who are basically Earth culture otaku. Milia c.2045 is depicted mainly as a stereotypical Japanese middle-aged mom worrying about getting her daughters to wed into good families, gossiping, and the like. Mylene stands out not in being predisposed to violence but in her being the realist opposite Basara's idealism and Veffidas is just there to be weird. Ranka doesn't have a violent bone in her body and the focus on her is her devotion to culture and music, and Richard Bilra's just a train otaku and Minmay fan. Mirage and Ernest Johnson almost fit the bill, but in both cases they stand out because they're rubbish as warriors... Mirage having quit the Spacy because she couldn't live up to the family legacy of Awesomeness and Johnson is presented as a commander who can't seem to win. Outside of the original series where the first-ever generation of Zentradi adapting to Earth's culture struggled, the only time we really see that is with the 33rd Marines in Frontier. Even then, the 33rd Marines are noted to be a unit of problem children that even other Zentradi regard with scorn and whose bad behavior was being exacerbated by a Macross Galaxy-aligned plant. The marine unit in Shalal City can't be blamed for what happened because they fell victim to Var syndrome and had no control of their actions. They were perfectly peaceful and getting by just fine prior to that. As we saw in Frontier, there are some Zentradi who are either more recent inductees into Earth's culture or simply weirdos fetishizing the Zentradi's warrior heritage for their own purposes (like Lyle in Macross: Eternal Love Song). They're basically space versions of swedeaboos who fetishize a wildly inaccurate version of Norse culture for its alleged macho-ness.😆 Given that Exsedol's enhancements are also said to be tied to his genetic makeup and a part of his basic design, it's doubtful that Vrlitwhai's implants are due to injury. Other Zentradi commanders have similar body modifications. They can't all be losing exactly one eye. Like a lot of Macross titles, the Macross II prequel games cut a dash between versions of events. In some of the backgrounds, you can see things like the Macross with its main gun missing ala DYRL? but with the Daedalus and Prometheus attached like in the DYRL? novelization. He was designed and constructed as an integral part of the ship. The DYRL? versions of Boddole Zer and Laplamiz are not really people, per se. In short, they are the self-aware AI computers that were constructed as essential components of their respective mobile fortresses. They exist as both the ship's main computer and the de facto commander of the fleets supporting the mobile fortress. They are the ship's brain and it is their body in a very real sense... to such a degree that destroying them "kills" the ship, as happened to Boddole Zer at the end of DYRL?.

btw, mine just got delivered today. It's, err, nice? At least in default jet mode with the open intakes. But really rather boring overall, tbh. Maybe the matte-finish that's triggering the meh feeling from me. 🥱

Whatever you're using it for, hope you find a good deal. I feel like I didn't get the best price I could have if I were a little more proactive earlier, but with NAND prices on the rise I think I still got a better deal that I would if I waited a few more months. I wound up buying a Beelink SER5 with a Ryzen 7 6800U, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD for $380. Like I said, it's going to be a Batocera box, and I'd like it to do up to PS2/Gamecube. 32GB of RAM is probably overkill, but boxes with 1TB SSDs were scarce and M.2 drives are already creeping up enough that if I bought one with 16GB of RAM and bought a 1TB drive separately I'd be paying just as much.

This one just popped at Nin nin https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/dx-chogokin/209472-dx-chogokin-super-dimension-fortress-macross-roy-focker-s-vf-1s-armored-valkyrie-148-limited-edition-bandai-spirits-.html

Since mecha shows are slim pickings this season I finally started Alma-chan wants to be a family. Surprisingly cute and mostly wholesome. Next up is this weeks episode of I'm gonna punch you in the face! aka My I have a final wish.

hmm. Do you have a snapshot of that particular listing? I don't see that 20,520y listing either from my phone or from my computer's browser. See added pics below. Maybe that particular 20,520y listing is a country/region block thing? amzn-jp's a bit notorious now for region-blocking items. I'm in the US. edit: phone-app: browser:

Double posted so I'll turn this into announcing Amazon JP is now at 20,520 lol For some reason they are now hiding the listing halfway down the first page too. Maybe bandai made them hide the price freefall?

I think you misread me a little somewhere along the way. I'm also talking about the japanese market. But what I'm saying is, there is more than just the original fans there. They macross has been growinig a lot of new fans there. While bandai is trying to be the second go at the same yamato customers, there are also the fans that didn't have a chance to get in on the toy back then, and don't want to wade into the second hand/scalper scene. They do have a sizeable market of multiple groups at home, so I don't think they care that much about exporting like you assume. What went wrong was their utter disrespect for the IP and the fans going on full display in an assortment of ways all at the same time. I was also thinking of but forgot to mention, I think the HMR releasing in such close proximity also poisoned the well. Unlike gunpla scales where its affordability/roster selection vs details/gimmicks between HG and MG, and the distinct differences are well established and expected, DX and HMR cannibalize each others' main selling point, which is (near) perfect transformation. The differentiator falls into the size and details, but fans of details are then cannibalized by the HG, which even comes with the sound booster. Macross simply isn't big enough for them to play with self cannibalizing product lines, when we are talking about these price tags. DX collectors are even looking at HMR for cues and seeing that bandai most likely wont release the full sound force there, and are becoming sure that there is no chance the collection would be completed in DX, so there's no reason to buy the centerpiece. Bandai shooting themselves and their DX line just continues through the HMR side of things.

just finished watching it tonight.

One more minor nagging thought occurs... On page 172, when Mirage is making her case to support Messer's final sortie she mentions that her and Hayate's VF-31s have no missiles left, but that their machine guns and optical weapons (yes, she says "optical weapons", kougaku heisou 光学兵装) still have enough ammunition to meet combat regulations. I wonder if that is an endorsement of the Master File take on the VF-31's beam rifle. That it has actual physical ammunition that it uses to produce charged particles in addition to the operating power it receives from the Valkyrie's energy capacitors.

Yeah, especially when you take into account they have chonky high heels.

Same here (though, not for Batocera). 'Also been looking at the refurbished 1L/Micro PCs Dell/HP/Lenovo as well.

Decent gamin laptop deal HP OMEN MAX: 16" QHD+ IPS 240Hz, Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, RTX 5080, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD $1699.99 for a rtx 5080 laptop, that's the lowest I've seen.

If it's ~6.3" up to the top of the head/helmet, that's pretty good for me whether armored up or not.

Yeah, very lucky if in HMR at all... not so lucky for me if they go the HG route since I suck at applying stickers/decals.