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  1. Hiriyu
    VF-1, hands down. The first-ever convincing transformable mech of the "real-robot" genre. Just mind-blowingly ground breaking for the era it was created, and still beautiful today. Everything in its design suits a functional purpose; there are no extraneous bits added on just because they look cool, or to make for a novel transformation. Purity of design.
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    The Max-Kakizaki giftset custom box is quite cool. Takatoku fitted foam trays would have pulled the whole thing together a bit more though... Vacuformed Joons trays just aren't right when the name Takatoku appears on the box
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    Looking forward to the CDX report next week. More tease (diecast haters need not apply, yum):
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    Indeed, that's awesome. Also reinforces the awesomeness of GX-34
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    Via ToysDaily and Robot Japan, here's another painted proto picture. Looking good if I do say so myself, which incidentally I do. A little bird tells me that actual production is set to start very soon. http://www.toysdaily...187565-1-1.html http://robotjapan.pr...d=19216&page=83
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    Bace in your face, not an 8-track. Meh on the new Legioss/Tread sketch. The one from a few years ago isn't as egregiously bad, but I can do without it.
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    Soft & wobbly is anime-accurate in this case.
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    ID these SD's

    Hiriyu replied to orguss01's topic in Toys

    Bunch of my friends and I got these in gashapon form when we were kids, at the Robot Restaurant in socal. I got a GBP-1J battroid, and I think one of my friends got a vanilla 1-J battroid. They were pretty cool, but as I recall I lost mine in short order.... in hindsight, it was probably nicked
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    Dammit dammit dammit. Was lined up for this one. I hope for a late-game save of some kind, but am not optimistic. Dammit.
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    Doujin in Japan

    Hiriyu replied to akim's topic in Collectors

    Fix'd.
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    Wow, quite odd that. Unallocated stock? Nice news for those still looking for one!
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    Be sure to let us know your detailed thoughts on the Beagle/Toynami. I'd like to know how you think it compares to Yamato's mecha efforts. It is an absolutely incredible piece in my estimation. I cannot think of any other single toy that equals it in complexity or execution.
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    Sign me up any whichever way it comes out. I would prefer a completed toy, but a kit in the vein of the 1/3000 Macross second release wouldn't bother me a bit. If it were more a full-on resin kit, I'd just have to commission it to one of the expert builders here, but I'd still be entirely on top of the procurement. Woohoo.
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    Mike, Check to see if there were any Windows updates pending application from your last shutdown to your first startup today. I had a similar issue occur a couple of days ago on one of my machines, and was only able to solve it by restoring a backup hdd image (machine in question is a Windows tablet with a single hdd, and I couldn't get any sort of access to the boot menu until I plugged in a keyboard). Restore point didn't work; had to go whole hog with hdd image backup. Interestingly, the last backup was right on the cusp of an automatic Windows update which appeared to have failed installation resulting in the inability to boot (a single file in the boot partition was corrupted).
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    Yep Fortunately, all is good here, had caught that distinction before ordering. Really good advice in general though. Duke, you get your new rig put together yet? I'd like to see how yours overclocks with the Hyper 212. Mine's been pretty happy with the stock cooler at 3.9ghz, so I'd expect some serious headroom on yours..
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    Kit's Power

    Hiriyu replied to Rock's topic in Model kits

    Heh
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    Thanks Az! There was for a brief time a skin selection setting at the bottom of the page, right after the boards came back online (about 6 days ago, I reckon). It disappeared after having selected the MW skin.
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    Quick question, regarding skin issues... I currently have the MW skin selected (non-mobile), and can't revert to standard IPB as there is no selection/setting available. The boards are near illegible currently with the MW skin, and I have to logout to be able to read the board. How can I switch back to the stock IPB skin for the time being?
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    Quick update for me too I've got my new system from the last page up and running, and it's truly killer. I received my parts just before I left town on vacation for a couple of weeks, and jumped into the build on my return. This thing just smokes everything I've thrown at it so far (Crysis included)in 1080p, though I haven't put it through its paces in Eyefinity triple-head mode yet due to lack of time. With regard to the debate on my choice of the massive overkill 16GB RAM setup, I've seen a max usage of 38% thus far in triple-head 1080p extended desktop with multiple applications open (Win 7 x64). So, right around 6.5GB usage, more or less. This actually bodes well for me, because I know that it will see heavier future use than I've put it through thus far, and I can't expect Windows applications to be getting any slimmer anytime soon. I'm stoked with the headroom available, coming from my previous 4GB system. An extra $30 well spent, near as I can tell. I ended up using the 64GB SSD I had ordered as a cache drive for the 1TB HDD using Intel's new Z68 RST driver, instead of dedicating it as an OS-only drive. This setup caches regularly used files to the SSD, and gives general disk performance gains on the order of +75% compared to a standard HDD-only setup. The overall performance benefit is somewhat contextual depending on what is being run - regularly used files get cached and can run up to 10x faster than from an HDD, while seldom-used files run strictly off the HDD at normal speeds. It seems a nice medium between management of a small capacity SSD vs. the known performance of an HDD only system, since there is no user management/input required once set up. I did have some teething problems getting it set up though (I can elaborate if anybody wants me to). Next up is triple-head game testing, and then overclocking
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    Frost & Pegg as Thompson & Thompson? Sign me up.
  21. Hiriyu
    Thanks for the constructive criticism folks, it's appreciated My rationale for the large amount of RAM is mostly due to my past system building experiences. I had always gone a bit smaller in RAM capacity (say, 25-50% board/chipset capacity), but always with fairly high-quality specialty dimms for overclocking... Invariably, the latest and greatest specialty dimms have short retail shelf lives, and it becomes very difficult and expensive to match them later down the road, if I need to add more. I've been bouncing off the ceiling of my current 4GB RAM lately, and decided that massive overcompensation was finally due. Besides, what with dicounts/specials factored in, the additional 8GB over what I had been previously considering added only about $30 difference to the system total (the Newegg combo I selected actually reduced the unit price by $45.00!). That's my rationalization, anyway, and I'm sticking with it Az, I had decided on an SSD long before I started picking hardware for this build. I intend to use it strictly as an OS drive. I usually don't store huge amounts of data on any one drive in my main desktop/gaming system anyway (I've got a couple of TB available on my home network already, and have only used about 300GB of 750GB on my current system over the past 4 years). I'm hoping the OS speed boost will be worthwhile. This'll be my first time playing with an SSD, so even if it sucks, I can chalk it up to education. I went ahead and placed my order earlier today, with a couple of small changes to my previous parts list. I went with a little faster 1TB HDD, a slightly less expensive HD6970 model, and a slightly less expensive model of RAM (different only by heat-spreader design). My order as it stands: CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3P LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 GPU: PowerColor AX6970 2GBD5-2DH Radeon HD 6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card SSD: Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive I should receive my parts Tuesday/Wednesday. I'll update when it's running.
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    Chewie, sent PM. ...And on the same subject, how about a round of everybody's favorite computer-geek game, "Rate my prospective PC build"? My current E8400 rig (overclocked 24/7 at 3.6ghz) is starting to show its age, and it's about time for my tri- or quad-annual new rig build. I currently run Eyefinity in 5670x1080 via an HD5870 1GB, and do some heavy PC gaming and productivity tasks. I already have monitors, a Corsair TX750 PSU, a Coolermaster Centurion V, and optical drives which will be re-used for the new build. New parts will be sourced from the 'egg. My emphasis for this is to upgrade as economically as possible, without compromising unnecessarily... basically a machine I'll be happy with for the next 3-4 years, barring my regular mid-term video upgrades. CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CML16GX3M4A1600C9B GPU: SAPPHIRE 100311-2SR Radeon HD 6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity SSD: Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) HDD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive Whattya think?
  23. Hiriyu
    That's awesome. Innovative use of the stand! I'll have to do that one up myself.
  24. Hiriyu
    These birds drink HBT. Awesome stuff guys!
  25. Hiriyu
    Yep. Just doing panel lining with acrylic ('cause that's what I have). It's good enough for me, but then again, my standards aren't very high Not done with it yet though.
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