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    https://deadline.com/2019/05/avengers-endgame-first-week-china-global-international-box-office-results-records-1202604612/amp/ Jesus. Any bets on how much more extravagant a movie will have to be to break the box office record this will undoubtedly set?
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    Ah, I see. Watching the latter parts of Max's video revealed the same thing. Seems like NRS are just bad at RPG-style progression systems, then. Can't say I'm surprised that's the case, either.
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    Apparently MK11 has REALLY gone down the microtransaction/free-to-play route. Heard this on a podcast, they're doing everything from premium currencies to loot boxes, with the old standby strategy of snail's pace drip-feeding rewards for grinding through the game's challenge modes to encourage the player to spend on those in-game currencies. Then when everyone's mad, step back juuuust enough to be "tolerable." Oh, bother. For a moment there I'd forgotten that WB was publishing this... Anyway, the recent patch, in case you're interested:
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    Interview with the Japanese animators that worked on Spider-Verse: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-04-30/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-japanese-animators-share-their-experiences/.146277 Also, Lord n Miller signed a deal with Sony to work on Spidey TV shows: https://deadline.com/2019/04/phil-lord-chris-miller-mega-deal-sony-pictures-tv-spider-man-universe-tv-series-1202603847/
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    Oof, you're not wrong. I need to get my hands on that again.
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    From comments on the beta versions, competitive players seemed kind of torn on the gameplay. I don't know how it's been tuned in the time since then, though, so maybe everything's been ironed out (or as much as possible, anyway) by now. Me, I've never liked the MK franchise. (Except for the movie, the movie is the frakking best video game movie ever.) Even though all the characters are polygons now, they've never been able to shed the feel of the old live-action animation. There's a series of videos on Youtube talking about bad character animations in MKX, and the guy had some nice things to say about MK11 improving upon that, but me, I still see dumb, awkward fighting stances and attacks. Especially kicks, I don't know what it is about kicking that the devs consistently get wrong. If they just watched a few Youtube videos or got a few martial artists to come in and demonstrate moves for reference, they could avoid having characters do dumb arm windmills for everything from an overhead chop to grabs. Plus the brutality has never done anything for me. It was a gimmick to set it apart from Street Fighter back in the day in lieu of improving the actual gameplay, and that's remained largely the case through to now. That's not to say I don't like brutal games. Killer Instinct, from the original to the reboot(?), those have managed to have both great gameplay and wonderful brutality. ...which is all to say that I'm sure MK11 will sell gangbusters, it always does, but it's not my cup of tea.
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    Even the original blue looks really good. Some schemes I'm currently fixating on are from the ASF-X Shinden II from newer Ace Combat games. I especially dig the "Ridgebacks" and "Kei Nagase" schemes. https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10183041 - JASDF scheme https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10270796 - Ridgebacks scheme https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10198937 - Kei Nagase scheme
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    All this is precisely why I prefer to think
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    Thanks. I was able to put in the request online as receiver. If they only respond to sender requests, why even bother offering that option on their website? Ugh. Thanks for letting me know; I'll see if there's a response by Tuesday, then let FJ know, see if they can put in a second request for me.
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    Any of you ever have USPS misplace a package? How have you gone about trying to find it again? I've got two packages that last updated nearly two weeks ago now, in the Chicago area. (I'm in Wisconsin.) I've filed a mail search request (on the 22nd or 23rd), but haven't gotten a status update yet. I'm worried someone in Chicago might have misread the shipping label and routed it back to Japan; this is the first time I've had this happen. I don't want to entertain the thought that someone jacked the mail while it was in transit from Chicago to WI. In the time since the last update, I've had two other packages find their way through customs, one by boat and the other by EMS. The former was delivered yesterday and the latter will be so by tomorrow. Meanwhile, these two are still just "In Transit."
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    Saw it, enjoyed it massively.
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    The trailer ran during Avengers, and the acoustics certainly did wonders for the music. Not enough to turn my opinion, but... oh well. I guess now the only thing left to do is see the actual movie to get a full opinion.
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    How well would the HGUC decals (if there are any) work?
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    Would appreciate if you spoiler tag your posts... though I suppose it's my own fault for clicking the thread when I knew the movie was out in some regions already and the possibility for even unintentional spoilage was there. EDIT: Whoops, thanks for the fix, David. Jumping the gun there, I was.
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    So I was just gonna ignore these posts, but it turns out that despite how odd and terribly-communicated their non-sequiturs of reasons are, there is the smallest grain of... I don't know, "logic" is too strong a word... in what they're trying and failing (or not trying and succeeding) to describe: So, way back in the halcyon days of MK3, there were so-called "Nudealities." This was exclusive to the arcade version of the game, as Nintendo and Sega censors would not have allowed such things to pass in the home market. The input for it was so obscure that, to this day, no one REALLY knows how to do it; even though the ROM has been dumped and is easily accessible, no emulator devs, hackers, speedrunners, what have you, have bothered to do whatever sorcery it is they do to find out the input. Come MK4, though, Midway received so much public criticism that they dropped the Nudeality altogether, and even sent out technicians to arcades across the country to patch MK3 cabinets to strip that aspect out of them. And of course, all of that is not true. There never were Nudealities in MK3, or in any other MK game. The "Nudeality" began as unsubstantiated (and indeed completely fabricated) rumor from as far back as MK2 two years earlier and persisted in one form or another before eventually becoming nothing more than a footnote in MK history. Fenrir27's posts are... cryptic... enough to begin with, but any complaining about this or that rating because of the existence of nudity or lack thereof is especially, well, unfounded. There was never a time when MK either A) featured fully-nude characters, or B) was rated M because of full nudity. The original MK pre-dated the formation of the ESRB, though the Sega Genesis/CD home ports respectively received MA-13/MA-17 ratings from Sega's Videogame Rating Council (the latter because it featured uncensored blood and gore that had to be unlocked via cheat code on the Genesis version). Certainly some games in the franchise have been rated M for "Partial Nudity," but the nudity was only ever one reason (and easily a secondary one at that) for that M rating. Even if nudity WERE the only reason for an M rating, once that rating has been achieved, the only "rating limit" to the depiction of nudity (ie what would net it an AO) is graphic sex. If all fenrir27 wants is fully nude females, then... well, there's no accounting for taste. Fenrir27 links to this article by the Wall Street Journal (full text in spoilers below): https://www.wsj.com/articles/sony-cracks-down-on-sexually-explicit-content-in-games-11555427944 ...which details Sony's efforts to impose stricter content guidelines for games releasing on their platform. These impositions chiefly affect Japanese game devs/publishers/games, which NetherRealm/WB/MK are very not. What point fenrir27 is trying to make here, I haven't the foggiest idea.
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    Well. So much for FBA.
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    Where are the big gaudy pictures of the girls to plaster all over the plane? These decorative schemes do look pretty, but I want some stupid stupid itasha with their face plastered all over everything!
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    I forget if it's already been theorized, but I have a strong suspicion that the movie subtitle is implying that Rey is Luke's daughter, and the titular Skywalker. And that... I dunno. The whole point of her arc in the last movie was that she had to get over her need to impart significance to her parentage and learn to be emotionally independent. Kylo Ren telling her that her parents were nobodies could easily be made a lie (though it was already a suspect statement on its face), but the truth in it was that, whoever they are, they no longer matter narratively. To have it once again be her major story arc would be rather regressive and disappointing.
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    Oh yeah, this is assuredly a super niche product in an already super niche subset of the market. That sucks (or, well, "sucks") that you didn't have any long-lasting arcades near you. I had one in the mall near me that managed to last well into the 00s, and it maintained some pretty good-quality cabinets while it existed. I was really sad to see it go. I remember playing Soulcalibur 2 arcade mode as a kid, getting challenged in the very first match, beating the guy fairly easily, then returning to that first arcade match and getting absolutely bodied. The guy watched, incredulous, and I shrugged nonchalantly and walked away in silence, not wanting to cop to the embarrassment. Good to know, thanks!
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    At that price, yeah, there's some sticker shock for sure. Thinking on it some more, though, that's two presumably high-quality arcade sticks plus some classic games for $200. A good quality stick for one person is already in the $100-150 range. Double that for two sticks, and you're already in the same ballpark price-wise. The value for this would be even greater if you can attach it via USB and use it as a standalone fight stick, and even greater still if you can toggle between 1-person/1-stick, 1-person/2-stick, and 2-people/2-stick setups. But still, since I already have a stick... yeah, that asking price is intimidating.
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    After KH3, I have zero faith in the FFVII remake anymore. I'm sure they have already, in various ways. But this comes with the all-important stick, and I'm not being facetious when I say that. I think this is awesome. Now I just hope the price isn't too high and the emulation is good. Even better if it turns out to be using MAME or some other open-source emulator.
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