That's so laughably easy to spin it's not a distinction worth even noting. "Oh so-and-so is a clear and present danger to the country, so in my official capacity as protector of the Constitution of the United States I have ordered his termination". Bam, it's now an official act.
Wouldn't that make it an interquel? We already had Batman Returns and then the '89 comic a few years ago that was a sequel to Returns.
Man, I didn't even know there were coyotes in the park, and I grew up in SF.
90s/00s isekai just hit different. But I dunno, much as I enjoyed reading the manga back in the day, this isn't anything that I really need?
[Resin Kit] Model Bingo 1/100 Mercurius & Vayeate
Headon view:
Something I've been working on off and on for a few years. Ostensibly a 2xTallgeese conversion kit (one for each), although it really doesn't use very much from the Tallgeese at all, just mostly the limb joints. I found out later that this is because the kit was a rework of an earlier resin Kit that didn't use any Tallgeese parts at all to begin with.
HFY in the modern sense was originally the result of angry neckbeards being triggered by James Cameron's Avatar and venting by writing a bunch of stories that basically boiled down to "chad humans showing the virgin xenos what for (usually via mass murder)". After a while people calmed down enough (or enough non-angry neckbeards got drawn in) to start expanding beyond that original concept, which is when we started getting more "humans are the tide that lifts all boats" and "humans are weird and that's OK" style stories. So yeah, I agree that even if the genre is more that that nowadays, it's still a fundamental part of it.
Why would I shell out $50 to play on a tiny ass screen with shitty touchscreen controls? Fuck that noise.
Yeah, looks like it could be the start of heat rash. @[email protected] do you feel a sort of prickly heat under the bumps?
Making the consumers pay to do beta testing. That's the sort of nonsense we get with AAA games, so I guess it fits the narrative of "Tesla as tech company, not car company" that Musk was going on about a couple months ago.
The new LA law that I'm told actually lists 11 commandments.
LessWrong are a bunch of pretentious loons, so you're not wrong.
Last I heard, he decided to bow out of politics after his anti-semitism blew up in his face. Maybe someone finally forced him to take his meds?
Look, if Rafael Cruz was willing to listen to voters on anything other than oppressing minorities he wouldn't be GOP.
Sorry, but there is no context. All of the other bounty hunters just exist to pad out the multiplayer roster and provide random encounters in single player. They don't actually have any plot significance.
And 160 years later his legacy has been coopted by the same sort of people who killed him to begin with.
Article says that he's also requested to speak at the Dem convention. So it's not that he's supporting El Presidente Convicto, but rather taking the opportunity to speak to a captive audience. Good luck to him, but I'm not gonna hold my breath that he's actually going to convince anyone there to stop sucking corporate cock.
MG Wing Zero Snow White ver.
My very first MG kit, originally built almost 20 years ago, newly repainted and equipped with the Seraphim binders and Neue Zwergs from the Effect Wings Snow White addon kit. Had to strip off all the original decals for the painting, but honestly the stickers hadn't handled 20 years worth of dust very well anyway. Also, the original hands were terrible at actually holding the buster rifles, so I put in some magnets to stick them to the forearms
America! (MG 2.0 RX-78-2 [US] Gundam American Type)
Rear view:
I already posted a pic of this in a mostly completed state alongside the Kiryu, but this can now be considered actually done. Mostly just a straight pallet swap (blue > white, red > blue, yellow to red), not including the stripes and shoulder armor. The stylized RX-78 emblem and the star field are actually custom decals I printed onto blank water slide paper, and I'm really pleased with how they turned out. Not pictured is the core fighter, which has also been pallet swapped. At some point I'll do a resin cast of the MG 3.0 core block and sitting pilot figure and replace the core fighter with them so that I can have the core fighter out on display too. Aside from that, probably the only other thing I might do is tint the beam javelin effect parts pink.
Not Gunpla, but Kiryu deserves an exception
Aoshima's Type 3 Kiryu Kai Eva-02 color version, with a partially finished MG 2.0 Gundam (repainted in the American Type colors) for comparison. Since the Kiryu normally just has uniformly silver armor all over, to get the Evangelion style coloring a lot of pieces were pre-painted on the runners. Which is nice in that it saves me the trouble of painting it myself (or gods forbid, applying giant stickers to recolor pieces), but unfortunately it does leave nub marks. Build complexity isn't quite at MG standard, but there is enough of an inner skeleton that I would still rate it as more than HG. Price is a little steep, being more in the high end action figure range than what would be expected for a comparable Gunpla, but all in all I'm pretty satisfied with the kit.
Not generally a fan of portrait orientation, but in this case...
Gundam Epyon (Sturm und Drang unit), with decals and topcoat applied. What I really wanted to do was to have the Epyon hold it straight up with both hands, like the He-Man pose, but alas the wrist articulation doesn't support that pose.
Fun fact: the tip of the tail is actually in one of the holes in the base plate, acting as a brace to keep the model from tipping backwards.
From Neo-America, it's Chibodee Crocket in the Gundam Maxter! Gundam Fight! Ready? GO!
Decent build, all around. If I had one complaint, it'd be the clamps holding the feet to the surfboard. The clamps have a single peg at the back that go into the grooves on the board, which allows for some fairly dynamic poses, but they're at risk of popping out if the Maxter gets jiggled too hard.
I might keep it like this, or I might switch to having the armor blasting off as well; haven't quite decided yet.
Musha Gundam MK II Tokugawa Ieyasu ver.
Sure, maybe I could've put this in a dynamic action pose. But samurai Gundam goes into seiza position.
How are in-store pickup sales tracked for revenue?
So, obviously, if you go to a brick-n-mortar store and buy something there, it counts as a sale for the store, with stores that don't get enough sales often closing. But if I order something online from, say, Best Buy and pick it up in store, how is that tracked? Does it count as a sale for the store, even though I didn't actually buy it there? If not, do companies use a separate metric (ie this store doesn't get as many sales, but people still come in to pick up stuff, so we'll keep it open)?