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    Ouch. That super sucks. And from such a young age, too. I honestly did not recognize the name or remember who he was. See, I never thought Young Anakin (or hell, even Hayden Anakin) was all that bad, either. Certainly didn't care enough to make fun of him for years and years and years about it.
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    Saw it today, and I have a confession to make: I never noticed the dice in the original trilogy. My thoughts going in were largely my thoughts coming out: It's good given what it is, but it continues Rogue One's trend of not making a particularly strong argument for why these side movies should exist.
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    Jake Who?
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    Ah, good to know. I didn't get the impression it would be an insensate rage video like some other reccs, but it popped up alongside them and I had to roll my eyes at The Collective Mass. I'll probably check it out. I take it as a defining character trait of his. He's self-deluding; he 100% buys into the lie he's set up for himself, and his lack of self-awareness only serves to make him more dangerous. Anyway, I'm not gonna link to any of the articles because they're all clearly just clickbait spinning off of the same tenuous, poorly-researched, barest thread of a lead: If true, then the fandom needs to get its collective crap together, but Tran has a history of being social media-averse, so these sites could have stood to do a bit more digging before publishing what is obviously half-baked nonsense for the sake of a couple more views.
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    They're finally doing what I said they should have done ten years ago. Alas, that's ten years too late for me to care anymore, but I know some of you will definitely be down for this.
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    God damn it, Youtube, your algorithm is taking me down a slippery slope. It's only two more videos before I watch a fan blathering on and on about how The Last Jedi signals the downfall of the global civilization... This one, though, seems like it'll be another one of the reasonable ones. We'll see in a couple minutes. EDIT: So yeah, it's an older code but it checks out. It's more about analyzing the narrative aspects of the movie (obviously) than any critique of the film itself, which is the kind of stuff I absolutely love but I know some of you here probably aren't as interested in. EDIT 2: Oh boy, here we go. "Star Wars: The Last Jedi - What Went Wrong? – Wisecrack Edition" "Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a Complete Cinematic Failure" "The Last Jedi And The Fall Of Star Wars: Part 1 - The Idiocy Awakens" *long, protracted sigh* god damn it youtube...
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    Just waiting with bated breath on that Carrie-Anne Moss announcement... Or actually, maybe it's better that they leave her to be a theater-wide gasp when she teams up with Neo and Morpheus again.
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    In celebration of Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection:
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    I forget, did the Arcadia have magnetic leg Supers? Or was that the Yamato?
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    Yeah, with this being the more recent film and thus this thread having more of an audience, I figured more eyes would see it this way. It's related enough to TLJ... but anyway. I forget when I first started watching Lindsay Ellis's videos, but she used to be part of Channel Awesome, the group that included the Nostalgia Critic (she played Nostalgia Chick). She went solo after some sort of fallout, I think, and her solo stuff is way better in comparison. She has a bomb three-part essay on The Hobbit as well which included her going to New Zealand and interviewing the actor who portrayed one of the dwarves.
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    Hm... Better to post this in the TLJ thread, or here?
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    Eh. Make it a Ground Gundam and you'll have my attention. Best of fortunes, though. The design work is solid. It reminds me of the old 1/60 Ground Gundam conversion kit for the PG RX-78-2. Back then I didn't know what a resin kit was, and was even less able to buy one, but I'd kill for a chance to work on one now...
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    Mildly topical:
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    VF-0B = two-seater, correct? Reconnaissance role? Or...?
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    This suddenly showed up on my feed:
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    Eh, I forget all the haters, I love me the F-35. That said, I agree the Super Hornet was probably the better choice. It's more distinctly Navy like the F-14 before it, whereas the F-35 "feels" more Air Force/Marines, especially the 35B with its VTOL ability being sort of the face of the platform.
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    So which of these two threads should we be following? EDIT: Whoops, nvm. Didn't see they'd already been merged.
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    I'd post this in the TLJ thread, but this one seems more timely:
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    I mean... that kind of IS the definition of a vocal minority... but I get what you mean: it's not an insignificant percentage of fans. That said, I do still think you're overestimating the actual size of the backlash to socially progressive politics in and around the Star Wars franchise because you're limiting the size of the fandom. I seriously doubt that this backlash is the main (or even a significant) contributor to Solo's less than stellar box office takes. Like I said, there are numerous fans on this very board who directly contradict your claims. (And as others have pointed out, there are other factors outside of "the pulse of the fandom" that may have contributed to this film's receipts.) I hate that they're trying to make the droids sympathetic. Well, except for R2 and BB-8, because they were always kind of the pet mascots of the show. Y'know, just like every good anime has to have one. The trend of "main character" droids being sassy really irritates me, though. K2S0 is easily the worst offender so far (unless Leet gets a similar personality, which it seems it does), and its "noble sacrifice" irritates me a lot because, as you say, droids are by and large just more tools. The reason C3P0 was given an ounce of personality was because that's literally part of its programming: instruct on etiquette, translate, etc. What purpose does K2S0's tendency to make snide remarks serve? That Jyn and what's-his-face act all emotionally wounded upon its sacrifice just rubbed me more the wrong way in a movie already rubbing me the wrong way. Blarhgh;laksjdf. Anyway. Isn't making the movie they would like for themselves what made Star Wars Star Wars? I mean I get your point, but all the same, at some point it just comes off as entitled. I think you unintentionally hit on the reason yourself, and Focslain is more explicit in his response: His past coming up as part of future adventures would have been cool to see. Not so much his past in a vacuum; we all know that however said past forms his character, by the time of Star Wars he reforms himself. So his individual story, or the interesting parts of it, are already told throughout the original trilogy. How he deals with his past given the new life he's made for himself, that's where the interesting story material lies. (That said, they kind of mucked that part up, too, once TFA came out...) The first trailer came out only a few months before the movie released, right? Definitely not enough time to drum up the interest you'd expect of a tentpole franchise like Star Wars.
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    Was that you? I'll be honest, after the first few comments throwing up a fuss about SJW this and SJW that I lost track of who was saying what. But either way, I'm sure you're right to a degree, that some people felt slighted enough (be it by TLJ or Kathleen Kennedy or whoever or whatever) that they made a conscious decision to never support this movie or franchise again, but it's definitely not in the "half of the fans" ballpark, especially when a considerable number of fans - even those who have felt "disrespected" by... whatever - not only did not "make a stand" against the movie but ended up enjoying it quite a lot.
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    So before this turns into even more of a crap-flinging contest, let's just rewind a bit here because the conversation's gotten hijacked by strong emotions and a poor ability to articulate them. The conversation was about why Solo isn't doing so well (relatively-speaking, that is; $100 million for any other movie would be a good first-weekend haul, no?), and @Negotiator chimed in that fully one-half of the fandom were so off-put by The Last Jedi (or perhaps more specifically the sociopolitical stances expressed by its creators) that they've decided to vote with their wallets. It's a half-baked argument easily contradicted by plenty of statements from this very thread - people who liked TLJ don't like/want to see this, people who hated TLJ love this, people who don't care to see this irrespective of their thoughts on TLJ... and so on and so forth. That's not to say that there WEREN'T people who were so put off by TLJ that they decided to vote with their wallets on this one, but to say that it's fully half the Star Wars audience is... well, silly, like I said before. I'm still of the opinion that Solo just wasn't of that much interest to general audiences. I wonder if it would have done better had it been divorced from Star Wars entirely. Make it its own sci-fi romp with elements that call back to its Star Wars inspiration, perhaps. The reviews I hear of it indicate that its ties to Star Wars were awkward and hindering, anyway. Word of mouth is that it's a good time, though; I'd be interested to see what its second-weekend numbers are, when I'll be going. If it has legs, then its poor first-weekend receipts don't matter as much.
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    Wow, data caps are a bleeping shitshow. I feel for you guys.
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    There's a thread here devoted to it, but I don't think anyone's too interested in it. Me, I caught the first two(?) episodes or so, but I'm not in the mood for that particular brand of... not quite generic... but definitely more formulaic shounen post-apocalyptic mecha anime. I dropped it pretty quickly. I might pick it back up closer to the end of its run, if groups are still subbing it. Anyway, I'm just catching up on episode 6 of FMP, and one thing I forgot to mention is that I love the branding on the arena mecha. The logos made me grin from ear to ear.
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    The V2 hasn't come out yet. June 30 release date.
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    The Atelier Sai version is 1/60 scale whereas the MB is roughly 1/48. That's probably the most significant difference between the two. Well, that and the overall design being based on the manga/TSR and IV, respectively.
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