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Additionally, this if you need your dogfight fix NOW: https://www.pcgamesn.com/ace-combat-7-skies-unknown/games-like-ace-combat-7-skies-unknown
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What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0
kajnrig replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
People are freaking out: -
New Macross TV Series in 20xx (sometime this decade)
kajnrig replied to Tochiro's topic in Movies and TV Series
If it's another Yoko Kanno team-up, I'd be totally down for the unexpected but totally expected swerve into smooth jazz again. Fuuuuuuck, Macross by way of Cowboy Bebop? Yessssss..... -
Eh, it's not inherently dumb. I can see it saving the customer time spent wandering through the store, getting lost. That said, if I'm ordering groceries, I sure as heck don't want someone else picking out my veggies and meats for me.
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Seems everybody are getting in on the Spider-verse hype. I for one am all for it: "'Legend of Korra' Fan Art Gives Korra and Asami #Spidersonas" https://comicbook.com/marvel/amp/2019/01/06/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-legend-of-korra-spidersonas/ EDIT: Cowboy Bebop fan animation inspired by Spider-verse style:
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I dunno if that's a problem as far as following the film goes. The various Transformers are already super distinct from each other such that names aren't, strictly speaking, necessary. IIRC, the film wasn't always going to be a prologue and/or wasn't always going to be a reboot and/or whatever it has ended up being in regards to the Bayverse. For my part, I find it easiest to think of this movie as a reboot and just handwave away any and all discrepancies that stem from its troubled chronology.
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There are certainly worse ways to go than Kim Possible International. Still, though...
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Yeah, I just figured it must've been something a bit more... topical. There was that one arc in the comics a while back with Donnie dying by way of splitting his shell open. I thought maybe there was a reboot or so and something similar happened, only to the other three + Splinter this time around.
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Seems like a mashup of TV spots. I saw the November trailer in theaters in the run-up to Bumblebee, and it struck me just how differently each trailer has been trying to sell this. First trailer was a bit artsy, centering on the coming of age story. Second trailer tried to really "mainstream" it, make it seem like a more conventional action movie. This one plays up the romance angle, at least at first. And of the three, I think the first and the third trailers do the best job selling this to me. We all know James Cameron's movies like to only pretend to be mindless action adventures while really being romantic comedies at heart. The second trailer tries REALLY HARD to appeal to the dudebros with the rote dialogue and heavy emphasis on the CGI fight scenes, but the first and third seem to better capture the more... "female-friendly" aspects of the film. I dunno, maybe I'm reading too much into it. Either way, still cautiously optimistic.
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I don't know what you're talking about...
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I can see where that conclusion comes from, but to me it always seemed more symbolic than anything. But that's neither here nor there. Moving on. Yeah, I don't mean to imply that this ever goes to the same explicit levels as Shape of Water, just that it can very easily be read as leaning in that direction. I can just as easily see it being purely platonic but no less affectionate. As you say, love transcends all barriers. Good point. Though Bee does "eat" Charlie's dad's car radio. Same? The crush felt very one-sided to me. It was obvious enough on his part. The reciprocation from Charlie, though... didn't seem to be there. She seemed to have eyes only for Bee, and vice versa. Memo makes an effort to comfort her, to find a seat in her inner circle of trust, but she consistently rebuffs those efforts in favor of opening up to Bee. See where the romance angle can be easily discerned? Bee is taking all the "romance movie tropes" that Memo should be taking. Bee is the one she shares heartfelt intimate... ahem... "touching sessions" with, he's the one who trusts her enough to be emotionally vulnerable in her presence and vice versa, he's the one who saves her and she saves him, so on and so forth... So when, at the end of the movie, she and Memo are presented as having a burgeoning romance, it doesn't feel particularly... "earned," so to speak. And... I mean, really. They had The Song From Ghost playing while a girl and her car bared their emotions to each other. That's not very subtle.
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Just saw it today by myself because literally no one I know wanted to see it. Did anyone else get unexpected The Shape of Water vibes from this? The inter-species romance angle is absurdly strong here, only stopping short of snogging (symbolic or otherwise) due to the need to maintain a PG-13 rating. The "nerdy love interest next door" subplot is so nothing, especially in comparison. Like every time the boy was on screen I just wanted to shoo him away. "Get out of here! You're ruining the moment!" while this girl and her car get reeeeaaaally intimate to the tunes of Unchained Melody. All they needed was a pottery wheel and some clay... The rest of the movie was fine, too. it was surprisingly decent if shallow. Not Transformers: Prime tier but decent, which is more than I can say for any of the other movies. But that one single aspect threw me for such a loop. I did not at all expect them to go in that direction and be that unapologetic about it. But then again, it's hardly the first time they've flirted with the idea. EDIT: Seems I'm not the only one. https://www.inverse.com/article/51929-bumblebee-is-2018-shape-of-water-romance-with-an-autobot
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The computer and electronics super geek thread
kajnrig replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Thanks for the comments, guys. Really, I'm just blowing off some tech-related steam. I'll keep that in mind, and maybe do some more periodic storage management on it. The thing is that it's my mom's and she's extremely technology-illiterate, so she only brings it to me when something hinders her ability to take photos/videos. (Yeah, she's one of those people who take pictures using their tablets....) So many of these issues could be at least mitigated if you could just throw in an SD card and expand the storage, but noooope, of course not. I have no doubt that if I were more deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem, I'd be able to do whatever I wanted to do more easily. But as it is, being a stranger who occasionally dips his toes into the bobbing waters, it's such a nightmare doing what comes naturally on other platforms. -
The computer and electronics super geek thread
kajnrig replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Just need to whinge about Apple for a bit, because frakk 'em. -
Kickstarter: Mornnovin, a fantasy novel
kajnrig replied to kajnrig's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Fully funded as of today. Thanks so much, you guys! I don't know if she's going to throw in any extra funding goals, but if she does, I'll update here as well. Seriously, thanks again. -
The computer and electronics super geek thread
kajnrig replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Have you checked reviews for the SD card? IIRC, the claim of 200 MB/s (also is it MB/s, megabytes per second, or Mb/s, megabits per second? Convert Mb/s to MB/s and you get a speed around 25) is usually just a marketing strategy, stating the theoretical max rate supported by that standard (UHSII) rather than the real-world speeds obtainable by the device. Usually, you have to rely on hardware reviews to get actual speed numbers. -
Looking at the box office results, I'm somewhat incensed that Aquaman, easily the worst of these three "super" movies, is making so much more money than either of the other two. It's such a BAD movie, especially in comparison... Aquaman = $700 million Spider-Man = $85 million Bumblebee = $46 million https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/12/27/bumblebee-transformers-box-office-aquaman-mary-poppins-spider-man/#72a813916fe2
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Hey everyone. A good friend of mine is trying to get her Kickstarter past the finish line, and I really want her to succeed, so I hope you don't mind that I'm shamelessly plugging it here. You can find tons more info clicking on the Kickstarter link above, but the short of it is: She needs ~$1200 (of her $4,000 goal) to complete the campaign, with exactly one week to go. The funds will go entirely toward publishing the book; the story itself is already completely written and edited. Several support tiers offer physical copies of the book as a reward (part of the Kickstarter money will go towards commissioning cover art). She even shows off some IRL examples of the jewelry from the universe. Take a look, see if it interests you at all, and help out if you want. Just want to get more eyes on this and hopefully push it over the finish line. Thanks.
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That looks like From Japan. Yay/nay? Usually they're good about sizing boxes to fit. That's kind of ridiculous. Someone was feeling really lazy.
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The last fight end, or the main story end, or the final twist end? In the case of the latter two, agreed wholeheartedly.
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I agree, it's one of the sticking points to me as well, though... I don't know if I'd put it into that category so much as the aforementioned "tiny unanswered questions that just makes me want to return to this more and more" one. My take, so far, is that EDIT: Also, I just listened to the Christmas album and holy crap Shameik Moore has a damn good singing voice wtf.
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Spoiler video. It touches on one of the things I noticed in my... surprisingly many viewings of this movie. I know some of you mentioned it here as well, and it's just one of the many tiny little questions that make me really really want to return to this universe. (Wow, I think I've seen it something like... 4, 5 times now? Completely unintentionally, just with this set of friends and then that set of friends, etc.)
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Stateside, USAGundamstore and Tatsu Hobby get their hands on them occasionally (with more consistency nowadays), and will usually be willing to check and/or place pre/re-orders for you.
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You could try the trusted "do it 'til it works" method. Print out a test decal at a bunch of different sizes and see which one fits best. Use regular printing paper (and maybe print in black and white). Then once you figure out which size fits best, you can scale the entire decal sheet to that size. Something like this: Type of decal paper depends on what kind of printer you have. There are different ones specifically for inkjet printers and laser printers. There's also "white decal paper" and "clear decal paper." Both are white in appearance (usually), but the difference is in how the decal turns out. Since printers typically don't have white ink, white decal paper reproduces it by adding an extra layer of white to the entire sheet. Clear decal paper doesn't. In the above example, printing onto white decal paper means the skulls would be accurately white, but you'll have to trim the decal as close to the edge of the black circles as possible. Printing onto clear decal paper means the skulls would be transparent, but you don't have to worry as much about trimming the decal. I did a bit of Youtubing and this shows the difference between the two pretty well. Ignore the text, just focus on the decals themselves. Hope that helps.
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With the Dark Knight trilogy overlapping with the end of the "old era" of superhero movies and the beginning of both the MCU and DCEU, it can understandably be confusing to place it. For my part, I consider it its own thing and begin making direct MCU/DCEU comparisons from their respective beginnings, ca. 2007 for the MCU and ca. 2011 for the DCEU. I find myself more often comparing it in my head to the Sam Raimi Spider-Mans than anything else. IIRC, SM2 and Batman Begins came out around the same time.
