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  1. Major Focker
    not to say they're related in any way, but i get the same from Wong Kar Wai movies and Haruki Murakami novels.
  2. Major Focker
    IPJ?
  3. Major Focker
    excellent work! congrats!
  4. Major Focker
    no pics yet on amiami, but i suppose this is what they meant by Deusla II, right?
  5. Major Focker
    the difference is that those theaters and ticket sellers are only selling one thing at a time, or at most a few dozen distinct items (eg. different concerts, movies, etc.), and people they cater to are typically buying only one kind of item at a time and they specifically know what they want to buy, so transactions are expected to be quick hence the timeout counter. for retail webshops like Amazon, Amiami, HLJ, etc., customers actually take quite a bit of time assembling their cart which consists of several items, particularly when free/discounted/combined shipping is involved. so it would be rather annoying for these customers to have to keep re-adding things to their cart because they were timed out while they were still shopping/browsing. plus there is a risk that they would forget which items they've had in the cart and therefore a lost potential sale. so it's actually in the interest of these kind of webshops to encourage customers to shop longer on their sites and keep the carts open, or set the timeout to a generous one, like a couple of hours or so. now, one could argue that they could just enforce the timeout for selected items. but how would they know which items will be hot? if i was the procurement manager at one of these shops, i might know which Macross items would be hot, but know nothing about Saint Seiya, or K-On hairclips, or which variant of that. even for Macross, i'd be hard pressed to predict which new/re- release would be hot. remember the original YF-29? it was up for weeks. if i made the wrong call, that might mean lost sales because these not-so-hot-after all items would be timing out from people's carts and some of them might not be bothered to go search and re-add them again. with an inventory of hundreds, if not thousands of items, one can appreciate that this is easier said than done. not impossible, but a very big resource investment like what Walmart does. i've been cart-jacked a few times myself and i know how frustrating it can be. but if i think about it, the luck needed to not lose out at the last checkout screen is the same as the luck one would need during the F5 refresh frenzy. if anything, having an open cart system encourages customers to sign-up/pre-register to gain a little bit of advantage during checkout. increasing registered customers potentially translates to future sales. i wonder how many have signed up at CDJapan even though they've never bought there previously? i wonder how many will now be getting newsletters from them, or even make a future purchase they might have bought elsewhere? a better solution would be to do a one-click/express checkout (like what Amazon does) alongside the usual checkout button. it encourages registration/membership and offers customers the flexibility to do a quick purchase, or to shop around for longer, hence no need to predict which items will be hot. still, the company will have to weigh whether this will be beneficial for them or whether it would encourage their customers to make fewer/smaller purchases. and that will depend on what items they carry, and whether sales from hot quick-to-sellout items are a significant portion of their overall income for them to bother with the added IT investment.
  6. Major Focker
    ooh. preorder stays then. i'm easy that way also checked out RR Mechanics#1 and it seems to have also some stuff on the VF-1
  7. Major Focker
    if any japan based members here can help me order on Froovie, kindly PM me. thanks
  8. Major Focker
    i still can't believe i actually got one from amiami.
  9. Major Focker
    yes, i meant different publication. i thought though that RR Mechanics#3 would be entirely about VF-1 models. if it's just a feature article then i'll probably cancel my preorder.
  10. Major Focker
    another one, this time by Model Art: http://www.hlj.com/product/MDARRM-03/Boo
  11. Major Focker
    thanks. that should be easy enough to do. i suppose i won't need a US credit card unless i actually make a purchase on the US PSN store.
  12. Major Focker
    that made me dig up my dvd and re-watch the whole movie despite the outdated CGI, i think it's a stronger movie than Ex Machina
  13. Major Focker
    is this more... erm.. inviting? lol! i kid. to each his own.
  14. Major Focker
    i'm considering getting the US version of Killer is Dead for PS3 that comes with an artbook, CD, and DLC pack. will the DLC work even if i'm in Asia? or do i need to have a US PSN account?
  15. Major Focker
    this arrived yesterday but the shelves aren't ready yet it's the glasses again
  16. Major Focker
    had great mindless fun with Beelzebub. i was laughing too much to care about the character development, or lack thereof.
  17. Major Focker
    thanks. maybe it'll work with some 1/700 buildings in my stash
  18. Major Focker
    can't wait to see this finished. go! go ! go! what approximate scale do you reckon this is?
  19. Major Focker
    thanks for the link. saw some other interesting stuff there. the figures though are actually cheaper on amiami. i suppose it's their discount plus no sales tax. the one i got from YJA though was a GK by Atelier Hiro, so i don't feel too bad about the price. i do hope it comes with the tea set though
  20. Major Focker
    of course these pop up on amiami barely a day after i won similar but more expensive figures on YJA
  21. Major Focker
    cute or morbid?
  22. Major Focker
    drawing circumferentially parallel arcs are probably even trickier since in the pattern Dobber used those tend to be longer than the radial lines. i can't draw a perfect circle to save my life, but i have friends who were in architecture and fine arts who can draw perfect circles in one stroke like it was nothing
  23. Major Focker
    yup, that's it. thanks westfall. i guess amiami had a few lying around and threw it in as a freebie. the clear Yamato is kinda cool and looks to be in scale with the 1/3000 SDF-1
  24. Major Focker
    box from amiami arrived today and included the Gamillas Set#2 and the Kato Cosmo Falcon. there was also a Yukikaze molded in clear, glittery, red plastic. parts breakdown was simpler - just the 2 halves of the hull, fins, and antennae. it wasn't inside any of the kit boxes and instead came in its own bag with an instruction sheet inside. did anybody else get this? i wasn't aware of such a kit nor mekakore freebie. and i most certainly didn't order it.
  25. Major Focker
    so no need to watch Berserk TV series first?
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