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    Pass. I'm sure someone's into it, but personally I don't get the desire for a figure that's the G1 toy, but colored like the cartoon. If I want G1 toy, I have the G1 toy (and Missing Link). If I want cartoon accuracy, I have SS86,
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    If I were building a cheap 1080p rig for someone just getting into PC gaming I'd probably go with Battlemage. Doesn't do much for me, though. Still, I sincerely hope Battlemage is a success- rumors are going around that Celestial could have a few more skus, and Nvidia really needs more competition in the mid-tiers... right now the price and performance difference between the RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 is huge.
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    Unexpected but very welcome. https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-is-finally-bringing-back-onimusha-the-game-awards-2024?utm_source=threads,twitter
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    My i7-9700k is getting a little long in the tooth, but with 32GB of RAM, 6 and a half TB of storage, and an RTX 4070 in my tower I don't need the Ally X to be a desktop replacement. Maybe after the RTX 5000-series launches I'll upgrade my desktop and save the 4070 for a dock on the off-chance I decide to game in the living room instead of my computer room, but for now the Ally is 85% for keeping me entertained while taking my kid to her various classes, and 10% gaming in bed, and 5% Netflix/Hulu/Youtube/etc in bed or when my girls are watching TV and I want to be close to them without actually watching their crap.
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    So I said I was biting the bullet, and I did. Sorry I didn't report back sooner. It's pretty much exactly as expected... marginal improvements, but nothing amazing; if you couldn't run the game well on an Ally plugged into the wall an Ally X probably isn't running it either. That said, some of those minor bumps do help. Like, I can actually take advantage of the 120hz display on a few games now. But the extended battery life is absolutely worth the upgrade, at least in my particular use case. At the 15w "performance" power profile on the original Ally I'd fall a little short of getting through my daughter's two-hour dance classes, forcing me to bring a power brick and hope to sit near an outlet in the waiting room or hope to get a playable 30fps at 10w. On the Ally X at 17w we're leaving and I've still got around 50% left. It makes the Ally X feel truly portable in a way the original Ally didn't quite live up to. The other main advantage for me is that there's two USB-C ports on the top now. It's a minor thing, but it does allow me to plug the Ally X in while I use the Asus 15" portable monitor I have kicking around, or more importantly, my Viture XR glasses. Speaking of, I had the Viture One XR glasses. They're basically like sunglasses with thick frames that have mirrors and little OLED displays. You plug them into a laptop or phone or whatever and it projects a virtual screen in your field of view. They've been a great match with the Ally- a virtual 1080p, 60hz, 120" display is a lot easier for my old eyes to see than the 7" display on the Ally itself, and I like that I can use for more privacy when I'm out and about. I like them enough that I offered to get a pair for my wife. Her response was that I should upgrade and she'd just use my old ones, so yeah, I bought the Viture Pro XR glasses. Honestly, I wasn't sure I needed the upgrade. They're still 1080p, but they upped the refresh rate to 120hz, and they increased the FOV so the virtual screen is 135". So far, nice-to-haves, but nothing earth-shattering. The display is brighter, but I thought the One XRs were bright enough. They also improved the electrochromatic lenses so that they get much darker, but the One XRs already had a clip-on cover if you needed to block out more light. Then I got the Pro XRs in hand. And I was right about one thing... I don't really notice a huge difference on the screen size. But the rest is apparently a bigger deal than I thought. It's not just brighter, it's noticeably brighter. Combined with the darker lenses you definitely don't have to worry about seeing through the virtual screen, even in a bright environment. But best of all, whatever they did to increase the FOV fixed the single biggest issue I had with the One XRs- blurry corners. The entire virtual screen is nice and crisp. The Pro XRs aren't cheap, but if you game on the go I'd say they're a must-have accessory for the ROG Ally/Ally X/Steam Deck.
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    Age of the Primes is live now on Pulse. I grabbed all three Aerialbots, Megatronus, Prima, Solus, Star Convoy, and Red Alert for now. I skipped Wasp, same as I skipped Animated Motormaster, because I'm just not that into the Animated designs. I'm on the fence about Grimlock, since I already have the much more interesting tiger striped G2 version, but if they're going to do other G2 Dinobots then Bluelock might match better. I'm also not preordering the Sonic crossover. I'm not really a fan of the cartoony aesthetic; I think they'll look too out-of-place with the other crossovers. And I'm not really into Sonic. But if I see them in the store I might still bite.
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    Like Menasor, they're spring loaded and close when a bot is plugged into the calves. Unlike Menasor, it sounds like any of the four Deluxes can go on any of Superion's limbs. I haven't confirmed it but I think wave 1 preorders are coming Tuesday in the States. EDIT: Oh, BTW, the plane kibble on Wingtail's butt is likely supposed to be his fox tails, of which Tails has two.
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    My best guess is to make it just inaccurate enough that they don't have to license the alt mode.
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    Depends on what you mean by "accurate". The AOTP Aerialbots aren't accurate to their real-world jets, no. But they're pretty close to their animation models... I just wish Air Raid had bigger wings and his arms tucked in a bit better like Slingshot's.
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    Yep. Also, Slingshot. Also, hey artwork for Vortex. Guess we already know that Onslaught's the Commander for 2026. I'm hearing that Hasbro will announce their next Transformers Haslab in the spring. I'm like 75% sure it's Gigatron/RiD Megatron.
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    Did you guys know that Cybertron Con is happening in China? And wouldn't you know it, it's the official reveal of Age of the Primes. Hopefully we gets some more info and clearer pictures soon, but here's what I've managed to wrangle up for you guys so far... Sonic Collab Titan-Class Star Convoy. Looks like he has all the gimmicks of the G1 toy, including a Micromaster Hot Rod! Forget Devastator and Superion, Star Convoy is my most-anticipated 2025 release now. Commander-class Silverbolt and Superion. Bot and combined mode looks good, but it looks like Superion's using similar engineering to Menasor, and the rear half of Silverbolt's alt mode is a massive brick of combiner kibble. That said, if you look closely you can see what appears to be a while veritcal stab folded over, so the current theory is that Silverbolt turns into a jet that combines with the brick of kibble to become a bigger, blockier jet (though, even without it, he's definitely a robot with a jet on his back tha turns into a jet with a block of robot kibble on its belly). G2 Grimlock Armada Red Alert Wasp Primus Solus Prime Some artwork for Onyx Prime Skybyte Heatwave (who's probably a Bulkhead retool, just saying) and Crasher (who's the same Earthrise Mirage retool we already got in Velocitron) Slingshot's bot mode with art for his alt mode and art for Air Raid's bot mode and his jet mode
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    The show might be good. Heck, it might even be great! Animation isn't everything... I didn't care for the animation in the Netflix Ultraman anime, but I loved the show. I'll need to watch an episode or few to decide if the plot and characters are something I'm into or not. All I'm saying for now is that's the worst mecha to bear the name "Gundam" in 45 years.
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    I think it depends. For Gundam specifically, I don't think it did Iron-Blooded Orphans any favors. But I think it worked ok for 00 and Age* where there were more significant time gaps in between.
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    Surely you're not referring to the people who are pointing out, correctly, that the GQuuuuuuX is less Gundam and more Hot Garbage?
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    Every time they do a new Gundam TV series I think it's the mechanical designs can't get any worse, and every time they prove me wrong. Aerial was worse than Barbatos, and this thing is new levels of bad.
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    I'm right there with you, but flipped around.
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    I'm not either, but it's better than the mechanical designs. Woof. I gave SEED crap at the time for rehashing a lot of the One Year War but worse, but twenty years of crap* have made me a lot more forgiving of it and 00. *TV series, anyway, Unicorn and Thunderbolt were pretty good, and Hathaway's Flash was a good start.
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    The thing with Batocera is that it's an entire operating system with the emulators baked in. It takes some work to setup, but once you have the PC you installed it on basically becomes a console, with gorgeous menus separated by console, with box art for games, all navigable with a controller. It supports a ton of controllers so, with adapters, you can use the original ones, but I'm content with using one of 8bitdo's.
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    Yeah, probably something like that. Or shipping, since the VF-11 was coming up about $33 and the Super VF-11 was coming up $28 with $5 shipping. To be totally clear, I wasn't doing an in-depth search for them, I just typed "Hasegawa Macross" into Amazon and looked over what came up. Both were being sold by third party sellers, and the VF-11 was shipped by Amazon while the Super is shipped by the seller. Anyway, thanks for the help. To you too, @VF-1A Grunt. Yeah, I can see on Hobby Search links you put up that the Super has the same sprues as the regular with instructions on what parts not to use for Super mode. Seems like it's better to buy the Super and just build it without the super parts, and just keep them around it case I want to change it up later.
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    Sorry to necro this thread, but until Bandai makes an HMR VF-11 I was thinking about grabbing a Hasegawa 1/72 VF-11B fighter kit. I'm seeing two different versions, one that's just the fighter and one with the super packs. The one without the super packs is a little more expensive... is there something in the details of the non-super version that makes it a better fighter if I prefer to display my Valks without FAST packs?
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    Hi-Metal R

    mikeszekely replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Aisha had a VF-19E, but like the A it was basically still the YF-19... but pink. Macross The Ride gave us the VF-19EF, which in turn was the basis for Isamu's VF-19EF/A in one of the Macross Frontier movies, but they too looked like the YF-19. Heck, aside from new boosters and some SMS markings the VF-19EF/A was even painted the same as Isamu's YF-19. It's too bad. I love Macross 7, honestly, and I don't mind the existence of customized one-offs, but I prefer military hardware without faces. And as much as I dig the YF-19/VF-19A and the VF-19F/S, I can't help but think that a variant that combines the sleeker body of the F/S with the longer wings and canards of the Fire Valkyrie/P, a more traditional head, and maybe a nice Skull Squadron deco would be my idea VF-19. I haven't committed to buying the HMR Fire Valk, but if Bandai does retools I'd buy either a YF-19/VF-19A (VF-X2 colors, maybe), and either a VF-19F or S. I'd maybe even go for a VF-19P if it's the mostly-white original colors and not the red-goo one. It'll be a darn shame if Bandai quits on the HMR line before I get a VF-11 and VF-17, too.
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    Hi-Metal R

    mikeszekely replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I know the 19A and a few other variants are basically the YF-19. Then the 19F/S have the smoother lines of the Fire Valk, but without the canards and with stubbier wings. Were there any variants (besides the P) that have the refined shape of the F/S but the longer wings and canards of the Fire Valk?
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    Well, the fall Steam sale has finally begun. Not the hugest deals for me, but I'm picking up Space Marine II and Silent Hill 2 at 20% off, plus Metaphor: ReFantasio, Visions of Mana, and Star Wars Outlaws at 25% off.
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    That's a darn fine looking Peg. Maybe I should get one...
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