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    Thanks very much for the advice. I didn't have any window cleaner on hand, but in looking more into it, I saw other people swearing by soapy water as well, which I did have on hand. And wouldn't you know it? It DOES work, pretty well too! But at that point, I'm basically working with waterslides again, to which I must throw my hands up once more and question why they didn't just go that route in the first place then. One thing I forgot to consider was panel lining; I was too busy thinking about a "straight build." I should've panel-lined first before applying the stickers. Some of the stickers take panel lines into account, but others don't. Bahgrumblegrumblegrumble. Oh well. It's my fault for not thinking things through thoroughly enough. It'll look fine. Definitely gonna take off those red stabilizer stickers, though. Ugh. Maybe just throw some red marker on that area; it certainly wouldn't look worse than they do. (Unless you have similarly remarkable advice on how to get stickers to fully wrap around complex surfaces...? A "decal solvent for stickers," perhaps? ) Yeah, I feel like a new 1/100 VF-1 done in the same spirit and style as their recently-announced YF-19 and YF-29 kits would be really nice. Their 1/72 kit is snapfit, sure, but also all I hear about it from people who got their hands on it back in the day is how much of a mess it is. A parts-forming 1/100 kit would save so much design work for them and save so much frustration for us. ...actually, now that I think about it, that basically describes exactly the Wave 1/100 kits, and now I'm kicking myself for never getting any of those when they were still being made... That must've been it. Damn you, promotional videos! How dare you not reflect reality!
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    In other news, not sure if this was already mentioned or not, but the NTSB recently released an initial report on the Dallas airshow midair collision. I'll be honest, I didn't look too deeply into the initial incident, and seeing raw footage of it like you'll do here was a bit... jarring. Forewarned.
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    Yeah, definitely would recommend the old standby, paint and decals. Don't do like I do and trick yourself into thinking, "Oh, let's just try following the manual to a tee. They did such a good job on the molding and details and everything. There's NO WAY they would do that and then not pay the same attention to detail to the stickers."
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    The stickers suck. I'll leave you to guess how much time I've spent on a single step applying a grand total of four stickers. The 1/20 kits at least had sheer size to run on. But these strike a really weird balance between the traditional engineering/design methods of Hasegawa and the brainlessly easy methods of Bandai that's... not bad per se, just a bit confusing. But seriously, though, frakk those stickers. My advice: Avoid them if at all possible, otherwise cut them into component pieces that will be significantly easier to work with. They're thin and tear at the slightest provocation, the printing sucks and scrapes off at the slightest provocation, AND they're slightly magnetic and/or get a slight electric charge from peeling off the sticker sheet or SOMETHING because they'll bend toward the plastic once you get within an inch or so... Trying to lay them down neatly is the absolute worst.
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    So I've started putting together the cockpit, and... this is supposed to be a snapfit kit, right? Because it really doesn't feel like it. So far, the seat, pilot, instrument panel, and cockpit fuselage (two parts apiece) don't so much snap fit as precisely but loosely align. Now, it's no problem for me to glue and cement things, but I was just under the impression that this is supposed to be snapfit. EDIT: Yeah, not sure where I got the impression it'd be snapfit, but I'm done with the nose cone now and it most definitely will require glue to hold things together. It was a hell of a time trying to hold it in my hand without it turning into a hand grenade. Masking tape, here we come.
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    Since it's based on the 1/20, that is indeed the case. I'm too used to the Hasegawa battroid that this new one looks super awkward... Not that that's going to stop me from buying multiples. I wonder if it's a static pose kit, though... And I like the sculpt of the pilot figure. Hopefully the final product matches that prototype.
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    You can't kill a pan, silly. So what's Peripheral about? I'm slightly of similar opinion about 1899, though I'm only half an hour into the first episode and kept getting distracted by family during that time, so my opinion might change on it.
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    Pah. Don't pretend that Heero Yuy and Gundam Wing don't indulge in the exact same type of wild, nonsensical plot swings. It's all about that dRaAaAaAaAmAaAaAa!!! *jazz fingers*
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    At this point I'm just glad to finally get a release date--well, year, anyway.
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    So with this announcement, that leaves A, J, L, N, P, Q, X, Y, Z still left to go. 9 packs, probably 4-5 releases left. Pretty impressive that they've remained so dedicated to this line, honestly. It'll surely make for one heck of a display piece to have all of these laid out together.
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    What the christ, the Drones already went on sale? Any idea if the P-Bandai items will make it to their overseas domains? And have any of the other announcements gotten release dates yet?
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    Gets me EVERY TIME
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    I wouldn't be so sure of that. After the YF-19 is the YF-29, and after that... honestly, my bet is on the VF-25. This line feels to me like it'll be EXTREMELY limited, so we'll probably only get the newest and/or most popular designs made before Bandai move onto other properties. I suspect (but hope against) a smattering of maybe 3-6 kits in the line before it peters out, at most. YF-19, YF-29, VF-25 (<--all three on the WWM logo), maybe VF-31, and maaaybe VF-1 and/or VF-27 (the latter depending on how easily they can adapt VF-25/29 tooling), and even moooore diiistantly maaaybe VF-171, VF-11, VF-4...
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    Reference pic so people don't have to scroll up: Me, I think it's mostly the angle and the pose that make it seem like an inverted pyramid. The Metal Build flairs aside, it doesn't seem to deviate too much from the regular design. That being said, I noticed they've added the "buster shields as side skirts" bit from the... manga?... and gave it a new buster shield design entirely, neither of which I'm too keen on. The whites on the forearm guards also appear to be hinged claws now similar to the shields, at least if I'm reading the image correctly. (Look at the underside of the right forearm guard, the separation line at the front tip and the rounded ends of the white parts surrounding black pegs further back up the arm.) I can't say with 100% certainty that it has a double-ended scythe, but it certainly looks like it. And the head of the scythe is closer in shape to the TV design than the more stylized EW one. The wings seem to have taken some cues from the MG and added even more points of articulation/expansion on top of that. All in all, it honestly gives me the same vibes as a lot of third party kits/toys - trying a biiit too hard, being a biiit too edgy, but it's not bad. Hope it does it for those of you who were/are looking forward to it. IIRC the Aquarius Gundam was originally an SD Gundam design, right? I want to say it made its debut in one of the SD games, and the "non-chibi" design was extrapolated from there. Looks nice. Pulls off the peacock look in a way that doesn't bother me the way a lot of Gundam designs tend to do. Lol at the dober gun design. With every crack at the design they alter it more and more for articulation's sake, which... does it need it? I don't remember having too much trouble even with the old HG 1/100, and the main trouble points surely were dealt with by now...? The backpack thrusters are also interesting. It seems they've abandoned the older design that the 90s kits and earlier RD releases used where the thrusters were mounted onto the backs of the shoulder pads, and instead mounted them onto dedicated arms that plug into the back, similar to the MG and RG kits. And the side thigh skirts used to be connected only to the thighs, but they again seem to have mirrored the MG here and added a ball joint connection to the upper side skirt. Frankly, the MG design is stupid and doesn't add anything to the design, only makes it more complicated and cumbersome. At least here they smartly got rid of the connection to the thigh, so now it just functions as extra long, free-floating side skirts, which honestly doesn't look bad. Was there a MRD Tallgeese 1? I don't remember there being one. Starting at II is certainly an odd decision...
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    @Shawn Back in stock now.
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    Serendipitous timing; I just came to announce I got a shipping notice from them. Hopefully you've gotten one as well or will get one soon.
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    I've been meaning to quote your last post @Seto Kaiba, the bit about why the school exists and what they study there, because... yeah, that low-key has been on my mind the entire run of this show. Everything about the school, from its physical location to its customs to its areas of specialty, makes zero sense from any perspective other than to promote Gunpla. Going back to the Utena comparison (since this show takes so much of its trappings from that show), the high school setting there serves thematic and metaphorical purposes same as the rest of the show, so the literality of its existence can be largely handwaved. Witch from Mercury doesn't have that same luxury; it's ostensibly more grounded in comparison (in that it is grounded at all), so this weird, isolated high school for the world's elite where they don't seem to study anything and the backbone of society is an absurd, highly-ritualized duel system strains credulity. I'm surprised no one has yet tried to take over the entire school by way of duels alone. (Or, for that matter, masquerading an assassination of a fellow classmate or teacher as an unfortunate byproduct of a duel. Has anyone noticed how cavalier everyone is about mobile suit safety? Just casually steer a duel in the direction of classmates and oh nooo, it seems I accidentally stepped on Mr. Jenkins, what a shame... OSHA would have a field day in this school.) It's also hard to place Suletta herself's level of knowledge of... basically anything. It seems obvious that the intent was for her to be a socially inept pilot savant, but the show has overshot its mark and instead the impression I get is that she's clueless about everything outside of the very specific niche that is interfacing with the Aerial. She has trouble with the undocking procedure of a transport shuttle in the very first episode. But the show just, as you say, grabs a firm hold on the idiot ball in order for the plot to continue progressing. Blah. Well, I'm happy for those who're having a good time. I gave it to episode 6, two more than usual, and that's where I tap out. Shame. A lot of fun ideas here. It was just a funky fashion choice. Boooooo. BOOOOOOO I SAY!
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    I forget what the Extreme feature of this kit is again. I recall the majority of the advertised features being a variety of plate coatings as well as some runners molded in different formulations of "gold." Is there lighting and/or metal parts?
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    In other words, it would be basically repeating what the 6900 XT did for its generation. I do find it slightly amusing that while AMD is basically just repeating the same strategy, the move wasn't met with much fanfare last gen but has gotten A LOT of positive press this gen. I guess the combination of Nvidia again increasing its prices and the 7900XT/X seeming to reach a minimum bar of acceptable raytracing performance is just hitting everyone in the right way. Given AMD's steady software maturation over the last few years, I imagine it won't be much longer before they satisfactorily address professional use cases as well. It's certainly looking more likely than it did during the dog years of GCN and Vega.
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    And back we go to the 12vhpwr issue with what seems to be the first report of native 12vhpwr cables also burning: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/yltzbt/maybe_the_first_burnt_connector_with_native_atx30/ Crazy stuff. Maybe it IS a spec thing. Maybe it's a transient spike thing. Maybe wire gauge is/contributes to the problem. What an unexpected ongoing mystery. (r/Nvidia megathread with a convenient list of confirmed/unconfirmed cases: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/ydh1mh/16_pins_adapter_megathread/)
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    Gah. Voltage, wattage... 150W, 150V... How to tell you I'm not an electrician without telling you I'm not an electrician... I dunno, I think the relative performance and price-to-performance value is a bit vague given how... uncharacteristically loose they were with their numbers. Honestly, the moment they started going on about "8K gaming" my eyes glazed over and my default assumption became "they're comparing non-FSR numbers to FSR numbers, or using a non-standard definition of 8K, or otherwise futzing with the numbers." It's a shame, because they haven't tended to be so transparently fishy in the past with performance claims. Prices do seem decent - well, "decent" - for now, though. I'm sure that's entirely as intended. I'd have liked to see the 7900XT at something closer to $799 to really take the screws to Nvidia, but even so, they're still relatively VERY well-positioned in comparison. All in all, I'm more interested in the tech behind the cards than the cards themselves. I wonder how long before they get dual GCDs working (and whether such a design will ever make it to a gaming card), when they might release 3D Vcache versions of these cards, what FSR 3.0 and their other software suites entail, etc. FSR 3.0 especially. I hope it's not just real-time frame interpolation same as Nvidia, though I wonder what it could be; surely they can't get "up to 2x" the framerate of FSR 2.x by tuning the algorithm alone? Also, maybe I just missed it but I didn't see anything that might suggest the inclusion of Xilinx. Were they rumored to be including Xilinx AI/matrix hardware in their CPUs and/or GPUs? Perhaps there is dedicated hardware and that's what's accounting for the performance boost of FSR 3.0 over 2.0? I dunno, I'm just rambling now.
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    Specifically, the wire gauge was... lower? higher?... better, the wire gauge on the GN samples were better, rated for 300W each at 105C, whereas the one Igor's Lab dissected indicated only 150W. Maybe a manufacturing issue, then? Buildzoid theorized that the issue may be related to Nvidia using cheap double-slit terminals and that even just slightly misaligning those would result in partial contact would result in greater resistance would result in heat buildup. I dunno. At the very least, it seems to have been narrowed down to Nvidia's adapter specifically. Though @azrael said adapters included with AIB cards are also affected? (Has it been confirmed they source their adapters from Nvidia perhaps?) Anyway, AMD's RDNA3 announcement tomorrow. In addition to AMD confirming they won't use the 12vhpwr connector, a leaked image of a purported RX 7900 XTX showed 2x 8-pin connectors, indicating no more than 375W of reference power draw. (150W per 8-pin, 75W from PCIe slot). I wonder if that holds true, and if so, how that affects performance relative to the 4090, and how much higher AIBs might be able to push it. With prices falling on GPUs right now - I saw a 6700XT for less than $350 on Newegg, still very little movement on Nvidia's end though... - now has been such a good time for PC building. We're spoiled for choice at the moment.
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    Oof. That's quite the list. How many of those have people actually heard? is what I want to know now. That's odd. The "Review" cover album I looked up doesn't match the one I remember. The "Review" I remember had the song in four variants (plus karaoke versions), including Shimokawa's and a Cantonese language version (the one mentioned above by Priscilla Chan). The "Review" that exists is apparently a Mikuni Shimokawa album, where she covers multiple anime songs. Most likely the disc I received way back when was a burned disc, some weirdly specific bootleg. Meh. Anyway.
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    How many covers, professional and otherwise, are there of this song? Which are your favorite? I ask because I've had this particular rendition by Mikuni Shimokawa in my playlist for years and only recently discovered it was from an early 2000s album that..,. apparently consists entirely of different covers/remixes of the song. If anyone has any information on this album, I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks, cheers all.
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    I'm pretty sure I've asked this before, but Does the VF-1X Valkyrie Plus feature any external/visual differences from standard VF-1s? Or is it all internal?
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