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I hope they make the MG Avalanche and Boo on Bandai for not adding the extra sword for the QanT

Aw you beat me to it Yes I really like this idea. Why couldnt have aliens visited in the past. Great Setup. Cant wait for this one.

From the looks of it it seems the Aliens may have sent robotic drones as a first wave attack. Still One thing bugs me, in the alien movie Seres: Genesis the aliens have a deadly virus to kill us off. Which is the most efficient way of eliminating your enemy than depending on re-supply of ordinance and man power

This looks promising A little of Monsters mixed in with Skyline

I think next to the MK -II its the best out there, but I dont have Red Frame so I cant say with certainty so the three best are strike mk-II and Gp-01

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Got Tired looking for each specific thread. So I will place them all here under one umbrella .

Overtime I noticed I got better. There a lot of aids to make your kit look good. With MGs and PGs they basically painted and you can add "HighLight" Paints here and there, panel lining. and decaling. And flat coat to make it look professional. Anyway back on topic, saw pics and news on the new metal build. I pre-ordered with HLJ. Just what are the differences with Metal Build and SOC and the new SOC mini

funny but right There was only one GFFMC for a long time until only recently the shiny metallic look was announced. And as anime52k8 said yes its pearl coating. Not the same as HD either. Since I have the Cage MG HD version and the GFFMC I prefer the coating on the HD color scheme. But if the metallic coating is like on the MG Nu Gundam it wont look good. On some gundams it looks great on others its a real distracting yup

covering yourself in zombie guts =Brilliant

In my opinion I think Bandai will be branching out into other non hero mecha PGs. Evangelion was turned into a PG....and the Szabi was too iconic NOT to do as PG. It only makes sense to make Strike Freedom as PG as they can use the Strike frame as a base. I am actually hoping they make more seed PGs especially Infinite Justice. It may be a while but I think within a year or two may start to see the frequency of PGs pick up and see an introduction of Non-Hero Gundams turned into PG. Maybe we even get some Macross Frontier PG kits! WOuldnt that be sweet

Thanks for the scans That is superb. Its nice to get the weathering look without forking out extra $$ as Aoshima did. Also Seems the Canons go as bright as the Big Scale Yamato Model. My SOP doesnt go that bright. Not sure if its just mine. Will look nice with my collection Now if only Aoshima will reissue the movie version of Capt. Harlocks ship

My Daughters first Halloween

Got that STRAIGHT!

I know its pretty late and all and most of you have seen it and talked about it but I just finished watching You Shall not Advance and MF Movie and WOW I Am so impressed. The quality of animation is superb. I have re-watched both at least 3 times in the last two days. Always some detail you missed. MF movie's story line wasn't so bad as I thought it would be. I was hoping they would close of the love triangle between alto and the two songstress fairies. I wish they also gave us more information on the bug aliens. But I enjoyed it a lot. Evangelion was intelligent as usual. I like how they concentrated on explaining the ways in which humanity went to survive and make sure its sea life also continues. But if Seele and Nerv wanted to bring the end of life via instrumentality why bother preserving the planets animals and restore the oceans from LCL??

I always like SGU and every episode thus far has been good and better at times. I think maybe the ship could be evil? Its a stretch but it could be. The ship was obviously designed for humanoids with an average height of 6 feet. Control systems easy to figure out and lavatories meant for easy pooping! And the ship implanting or manipulating desires and actions. If Young wasnt meant to be the captain it surely could have chosen one but instead its creating conflict. The episode reminded me of Event Horizon. Pretty Soon they will find a vid of the crew cannibalizing and fornicating

Not sure if its been said but Keanu Reeves is Cowboy Beboop....for 2011 release yet no real news???? http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/22/fox-developing-cowboy-bebop-live-action-feature-film/

a new view of the battle pod like aliens http://www.traileraddict.com/clip/skyline/pool I like they dont look humanoid but how did they build those advanced ships with all that slobber. Still think the one alien movie The Day the Earth Stood Still was the best along with War of the Worlds

I dont think what I said was that bad. But ok. And yes I feel Zombies as portrayed in the movies are childish. I loved I Am Legend. Why because I like apocalyptic movies. The zombies in that film didnt look ..... well for a lack of a better word not to offend the sensitive types, funny! Also Zombie movies dont have to be disgusting to be scary either. Its just disgusting. I like being scared sometimes. But to me.. its just gross and funny. I tried watching Resident Evil and I couldnt sit through that. The cannibals in the Road make for real life zombies very scary cause there is a case in china when a small village went batshit crazy and became cannibals. Thats scary. The whole point of a zombie movie is emotional and scary and I want to like them. Thats why I might check out the crazies movie because its based on that type of movie but its more of a virus that drove people to insanity and turned them into murderous nutbars. I really liked zombie land. Maybe because it was a bit funny and the show does look ok

Yeah I found some info on that and post it, interesting stuff and I know of a Fungi that takes over insects bodies and controls their actions to climb into the trees where it then kills the host and grows the spores to only release it again in some unsuspecting host.

are you trolling the troll Idiot! Yeah lets me make a topic and say nothing but good things about Never discuss anything but love and adoration. Never be a little bit critical. Obviously you cant read my post. Hypocrite !

goofing off on the internet and found this kinda funny! http://www.fvza.org/zscience2.html January 17, 2006 The Return of the Puppet Masters Email This Entry Posted by Carl Zimmer Are brain parasites altering the personalities of three billion people? The question emerged a few years ago, and it shows no signs of going away. I first encountered this idea while working on my book Parasite Rex. I was investigating the remarkable ability parasites have to manipulate the behavior of their hosts. The lancet fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum, for example, forces its ant host to clamp itself to the tip of grass blades, where a grazing mammal might eat it. It's in the fluke's interest to get eaten, because only by getting into the gut of a sheep or some other grazer can it complete its life cycle. Another fluke, Euhaplorchis californiensis, causes infected fish to shimmy and jump, greatly increasing the chance that wading birds will grab them. Those parasites were weird enough, but then I got to know Toxoplasma gondii. This single-celled parasite lives in the guts of cats, sheddding eggs that can be picked up by rats and other animals that can just so happen be eaten by cats. Toxoplasma forms cysts throughout its intermediate host's body, including the brain. And yet a Toxoplasma-ridden rat is perfectly healthy. That makes good sense for the parasite, since a cat would not be particularly interested in eating a dead rat. But scientists at Oxford discovered that the parasite changes the rats in one subtle but vital way. The scientists studied the rats in a six-foot by six-foot outdoor enclosure. They used bricks to turn it into a maze of paths and cells. In each corner of the enclosure they put a nest box along with a bowl of food and water. On each the nests they added a few drops of a particular odor. On one they added the scent of fresh straw bedding, on another the bedding from a rat's nests, on another the scent of rabbit urine, on another, the urine of a cat. When they set healthy rats loose in the enclosure, the animals rooted around curiously and investigated the nests. But when they came across the cat odor, they shied away and never returned to that corner. This was no surprise: the odor of a cat triggers a sudden shift in the chemistry of rat brains that brings on intense anxiety. (When researchers test anti-anxiety drugs on rats, they use a whiff of cat urine to make them panic.) The anxiety attack made the healthy rats shy away from the odor and in general makes them leery of investigating new things. Better to lie low and stay alive. Then the researchers put Toxoplasma-carrying rats in the enclosure. Rats carrying the parasite are for the most part indistinguishable from healthy ones. They can compete for mates just as well and have no trouble feeding themselves. The only difference, the researchers found, is that they are more likely to get themselves killed. The scent of a cat in the enclosure didn't make them anxious, and they went about their business as if nothing was bothering them. They would explore around the odor at least as often as they did anywhere else in the enclosure. In some cases, they even took a special interest in the spot and came back to it over and over again. The scientists speculated that Toxoplasma was secreted some substance that was altering the patterns of brain activity in the rats. This manipulation likely evolved through natural selection, since parasites that were more likely to end up in cats would leave more offpsring. The Oxford scientists knew that humans can be hosts to Toxoplasma, too. People can become infected by its eggs by handling soil or kitty litter. For most people, the infection causes no harm. Only if a person's immune system is weak does Toxoplasma grow uncontrollably. That's why pregnant women are advised not to handle kitty litter, and why toxoplasmosis is a serious risk for people with AIDS. Otherwise, the parasite lives quietly in people's bodies (and brains). It's estimated that about half of all people on Earth are infected with Toxoplasma. Given that human and rat brains have a lot of similarities (they share the same basic anatomy and use the same neurotransmitters), a question naturally arose: if Toxoplasma can alter the behavior of a rat, could it alter a human? Obviously, this manipulation would not do the parasite any good as an adaptation, since it's pretty rare for a human to be devoured by a cat. But it could still have an effect. Some scientists believe that Toxoplasma changes the personality of its human hosts, bringing different shifts to men and women. Parasitologist Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University in Prague administered psychological questionnaires to people infected with Toxoplasma and controls. Those infected, he found, show a small, but statistically significant, tendency to be more self-reproaching and insecure. Paradoxically, infected women, on average, tend to be more outgoing and warmhearted than controls, while infected men tend to be more jealous and suspicious. It's controversial work, disputed by many. But it attracted the attention of E. Fuller Torrey of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Torrey and his colleagues had noticed some intriguing links between Toxoplasma and schizophrenia. Infection with the parasite has been associated with damage to a certain class of neurons (astrocytes). So has schizophrenia. Pregnant women with high levels of Toxoplasma antibodies in their blood were more likely to give birth to children who would later develop schizophrenia. Torrey lays out more links in this 2003 paper. While none is a smoking gun, they are certainly food for thought. It's conceivable that exposure to Toxoplasma causes subtle changes in most people's personality, but in a small minority, it has more devastating effects. A year later, Torrey and his colleagues discovered one more fascinating link. They raised human cells in Petri dishes and infected them with Toxoplasma. Then they dosed the cells with a variety of drugs used to treat schizophrenia. Several of the drugs--most notably haloperidol--blocked the growth of the parasite. So Fuller and the Oxford scientists joined forces to find an answer to the next logical question: can drugs used to treat schizophrenia help a parasite-crazed rat? They now report their results in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (press release). They ran the original tests on 49 more rats. Once again, parasitized rats lost their healthy fear of cats. Then the researchers treated the rats with haloperidol and several other anti-psychotic drugs. They found that the drugs made the rats more scared. They also found that the antipsychotics were as effective as pyrimethamine, a drug that is specifically used to eliminate Toxoplasma. There's plenty left to do to turn these results into a full-blown explanation of parasites and personalities. For example, what is Toxoplasma releasing into brains to manipulate its hosts? And how does that substance give rise to schizophrenia in some humans? And even if the hypothesis does hold up, it would only account for some cases of schizophrenia, while the cause of others would remain undiscovered. But still...the idea that parasites are tinkering with humanity's personality--perhaps even giving rise to cultural diversity--is taking over my head like a bad case of Toxoplasma. Update 2/9: link to new PRSL paper fixed. Comments (98) + TrackBacks (7) | Category: The Parasite Files

Metal build???

Dont get me wrong I like the concept of Post Apocalyptic movies. The Road really had me sitting in the dark and brooding, and cannibalization surfaced a fact of survival. In I am Legend. I watched the struggle of a man racked by guilt and going nuts alone in the world. Even others like Mad Max or Planet of the Apes. And this is why I did watch it. But the concept of Zombies going around duh uuuuuu ummm aaaa makes me laugh pretty hard. I guess its just me. PS I also liked Denzil Washingtons movie of the last bible thumper on earth even though I am an avid agnostic