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Awesome! thanks for posting those up. I've never owned a VT VE before and I'm really looking forward to this

frostii just released ep 12.

nice just capturing that gerwalk running pose!

Is it that he wouldn't allow it or they weren't going to pay him as much? Or maybe he thought they were crappy since he had no problem with Hot Toys using his likeness for their release: http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2009/03/hot-...ohn-connor.html

I buy toys for my enjoyment and that enjoyment comes from playing with them

Yeah, I actually do... When they're locked in fighter mode... without FAST packs, my kid has handled the 1/60 yf-21 and the various vf-1 incarnations. I keep the yf-19 away from him because I'm afraid he'll swing the wings forward and cause some damage. He's pretty gentle with them and mostly just pretends they're flying and makes "woosh!" noises.

I let my three year old play with my yammies: haha, no just kidding. He likes Macross and the planes but he's far more interested in Thomas right now.

Bri, there are some people who have brains that are more tuned for learning languages, polyglots. My wife is like this, she not only picks up words faster and grammatical structures faster than most people, she's able to approximate not just the accent but the particular rhythms of the languages she picks up and she retains that information even after years of non use. It's pretty startling. Some of that is natural, scientists think that polyglot brains are actually physically different than other people's, even people who are multilingual. On the other hand, her early education focused heavily on rote memorization... a method of learning that comes in handy when trying to learn a new language. There's also something to consider when thinking about what "fluency" is. For some people, the various languages are perfectly interchangeable, "compound bilinguals" and for some people, each language is separate, "coordinate bilinguals" My sister is the former, in her everyday speech she can interchange korean or japanese words into an otherwise normal english sentence: Umma, when are we eating bap? For me, once I start a sentence in one language I have a hard time finishing the sentence in anything but that language. I also tend to say english words with the appropriate accent even though when I speak english, I speak with no accent (I am american born and educated).

yeah, I didn't mean to imply an adult couldn't learn a new language, just that there is a window of time where it's easier... especially if the goal is to be perfectly fluent in conversation. This is especially true when trying to learn a tonal language. Western ears and even korean and japanese ears just aren't tuned to be able to easily pick up the nuances. Of course it's capable to learn but it's easier if you were exposed during infancy.

yeah, most everything brain related pretty much codifies with the end of puberty but the magic age to be exposed to multi-languages is around 5 to 6 months! It's at that age when babies really start purposefully vocalizing so it's age they should be exposed to as many languages and encouraged to vocalize in them as possible. More recent studies suggest that babies raised in multilingual homes have more flexible minds and are able to grasp new concepts or divergent concepts simultaneously much better than children raised in single language homes.

It's not just that, after a certain point the brain loses the plasticity needed to be able to map new sounds with ease. While there's a lot of overlap between english and japanese, korean and mandarin and especially cantonese and the other southern chinese dialects there are certain sounds native to each language that aren't found in either. One of the hardest things in learning to differentiate these sounds or tones, especially in conversation and then to be also be able to replicate it.

entertainment weekly also reporting T:SCC is dead: http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/04/scoop-fox-set-t.html

but if topher was a doll than that inhibition drug would have affected like the other dolls, memory flashbacks, instead he reacted like the other norms with just poor impulse control.

sweet! thanks for the update!

heh, that's not the only thing that doesn't make sense... like why would a computer need a UI for it's own sensors?

so awesome. Can't wait to see the break down and build up.

Well, basically yeah. But you want to be careful not use too strong or direct light unless you're going for that look. In most cases, that is to take photo's like drifand and jenius, you're going to want diffused lighting that isn't too strong... but just strong enough. Having overly strong light can cause you to blow out your highlights or just have a washed out image in general or have very strong form and cast shadows or some horrible combination. If you know what you're doing and your camera is capable, you can take some great photos using strong direct light... like in many of Vegas' pics. So here's the thing, if you lower ISO to something low you may need to compensate with the shutter speed. If you can't fine tune that, it may be better just to leave it on "auto" and just try to control the light and use a tripod.

Please do. I left a lot of stuff out cuz I'm lazy like that and I'm sure it could be made more clear.

are you talking about the VT-1? If you remember, hikaru flips it over in gerwalk and fires and we just see the sensor dish/head just sitting there. The VT-1 is never shown with weapons in DYRL.

err, not quite. If you're talking about DSLR type cameras, you have two sensor sizes, cropped and full. Having large pixels on the sensor allows you to handle low light better with less noise. So in fact, the more megapixels you have the more noise you'll have. Real world example, the new nikon D3X is a 25 megapixel camera and it handles low light much more poorly than the D700 which is a 12 megapixel camera. Now, a camera like the canon 5D has stunning low light capabilities. Why? Well, it's 12 megapixel camera AND it's a full frame sensor. That means it has the same amount of receptors as a cropped sensor body like the D90 or 40D but it has more surface area so correspondingly, the individual receptors are larger and each one can take in more light than their cropped sensor cousins. Where having high megapixels works is when you want to take massively detailed photos, say for portrait or landscape work where you can either control the light or take a long enough exposure where you don't have to worry as much about the light. So ISO is basically how many much your sensor will gather light. A low ISO means not a lot and is for sunny or well lit conditions, high ISO is for lower light conditions. How high you can go will depend on your camera. Most current P&S or compact or subcompact cameras can really only go to about 600-800 ISO before noise becomes a real issue. Some cameras like the lumix lx3 and some of the lower megapixel cameras like the nikon coolpix p6000 can hit 1600 with "acceptible" noise... decent for snapshots but still noticeable noise. Newer DSLR cameras can easily handle 1600 ISO and deliver a noise free image for cropped sensors and 3000+ for a camera like the 5D (note, the 5D mk II actually handles high ISO worse as it has almost twice the megapixels). So... if you want to take a nice clear shot like Vegas and you don't have a 2k rig? Well, ideally you'll want to shoot your mechaporn in good light, say during a nice overcast day, the overcast will disperse the light and give you nice even lighting. Mother nature not agreeing with you? Try multiple lamps with some sort of diffusion like a nice white semi transparent paper ( basically a poor man's lightbox) adjust the lamps to either get rid or minimize shadows like Jenius' pictures or use the shadow's for dramatic effect like Vegas' pictures. With a setup like those, the AI on most cameras should give you a nice image. If you're not in a position to rig something like that and you only have your desk lamp to work with... well, read the manual and see what settings you can can control. a lot of cameras will let the user control ISO and some nicer ones like the lx3 will even have a "manual" mode. Try setting the ISO to something low, and set the exposure accordingly. Now, this shot is going to be much longer than 1/50th of a second so hand blur will be an issue. So either place your camera on something solid or work with a tripod. Tip... even if you're working with a tripod, the mere act of physically depressing the trigger can introduce enough jiggle to get a fuzzy picture. If you have it, use your remote trigger. If you don't, use the auto timer. Set up the shot, insure good focus or whatever you're trying to accomplish and then set your timer to 10 seconds or whatever and then step away and let the camera take the picture. After you have a nice crisp image, most of us will want to take a look at the white balance. Some people have the appropriate bulbs and set ups to approximate daylight, most of us don't. All bulbs produce light in a certain color range. Incandescent bulbs, especially the frosted ones, produce a pretty pleasing color. Compact fluorescents, sodium vapor, metal halides... all produce light that can only be categorized as "not daylight". Either the light is too cool, too blue or usually, far too warm with too much red/orange or yellow. It's why people look sickly under fluorescent lamps... the light itself casts a sickly glow on you. Most of us don't consciously notice because we're not trained to and our brains compensate. It's why when you look at your valkyrie it looks nice and white but you take a picture of it and it looks yellow or brown. Either your bulbs or the culprit or they're working in conjunction with some colored reflective surface... like the desk to cast a brownish light on your toy. Good new is, most image viewers nowadays have a very decent "auto fix" option. Use it. It will tweak your saturation and hue to something closer to what you probably intended and you can play with the sliders to fine tune it. It probably also played with your brightness and contrast as well. Most of the time, most programs do a decent job. If you were going for something artistic... don't use auto-fix. Auto-fix doesn't understand art. Do it manually and try to shift the colors back to the actual colors or to whatever effect you want.

You should put a disclaimer... it's only impressive if they think/know you're not korean. If you are ethnically korean, and they know this and you don't speak fluently, even if, say, you were born in a foreign country... it's very possible to have conversations like this while taking a cab ride: cabbie: koreans who can't speak korean are race traitors you: excuse me? cabbie: worse than the koreans (spit) who helped the japanese occupy their own country you: worse than that? cabbie: far worse.

Those snipping pics are awesome!

not necessarily, they could have ended the series by jumping them back to where they started. I guess the show could possibly explain the liquid/endo hybrid as well.

good idea and maybe break it down by release so we can see if there really is any difference.

Well, it'll be a shame if you do. I can't wait to see your take on the Quarter and the Macross when they come out...