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[2010-10-14 18:06:01 +0000 UTC]
"Aric Rodgers"
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I suppose an obligatory "not dead" comment is in order?
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but otherwise, everything going well at least?
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Yes, for now. I'm trying to get back into drawing again, I've not been doing a whole lot lately, outside of some unfinished sketches here and there.
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Hey been a while since we talked. Have you seen my latest stuff? I finally got around to remaking the Yellow Zanny
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Yeah, sorry - I've just been in full lurk mode since the Dallas incident is all. You're definitely continuing to improve, very good!
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From my journal, remember?
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Oh yeah.... Sorry my memory isn't that good half the time
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I've got my lineart for the Yellow Zanny half done. All that's left is the hands and legs. I've also got the linearts and colors for the Weapons Loadout done. The unit with have the 120mm machine gun from the G Type Zaku, the Dom bazooka, and a large X5 model heat hawk
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I've got to say, I really like the color scheme that your Hellhound is rocking.
I've been thinking of doing some variant of ground type GM with Zaku armor grafted onto it, kind of like the Gefangener except done by a Federation pilot. Another post-war junk suit, like my Zaku II Jäger, but I just haven't gotten around to starting that yet. Honestly today has been the first time I've touched pencil to paper for drawing purposes since Dallas - and all I did was doodle a soldier with a rifle and bayonet and a knight. Maybe that'll help me get back into my sketchwork.
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Yeah the Hellhound is one of my best. I wanted a badass GM unit with a Gouf heat rod for the longest time. Took me a while to decide on the parts to use on it's exterior too.
Well your idea sounds really good. I happen to know that after the war going all the way up to the Sleeves in 0096 there was a group of pirates that had old MS like a GM Ground Type and GM Command in their ranks. They ended up being destroyed by the Sleeves though. And I love junk MS. Its always co to see mixed parts and improvised modifications. So what you're thinking of sounds pretty good as a civilian or pirate MS.
Drawing can be a pain. So when I do it I like to play music to help pass the time. It also helps to not try to do it all at once. If you let it take a few days or even a week to finish, it gets easier and less time consuming.
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I always thought that "the Sleeves" was a silly name that probably sounds way more intimidating untranslated. But yeah, I'm still mulling over just what kind of GM will be the base unit, exactly what Zeon parts I should incorporate, and so on.
For me, I don't do well with drawing a little at a time. I prefer doing it in big chunks, the trick for me is actually getting 'in the zone' for it! That's kind of why I don't like splitting it up, actually. Once I'm in the zone I tend to just stay there until I'm done with whatever I'm working on, even when I end up scrapping the whole page to start over! (Which frankly happens often, as I try to nail down just how I want things to look they often change significantly at least once during the process.)
Sometimes I do draw things with music playing, and sometimes they turn into things based on the music I'm listening to. Actually, rather recently I was jamming to "Final Countdown" while playing Phantom Pain when I got struck with inspiration for a kind of ultra-light prop-driven fighter plane that's effectively a motorcycle frame with and engine and propeller on the front, and wings and a tail with elevators and a rudder on the back. I started imagining a squadron of them taking off into a dogfight, trying to hold off an armored zeppelin attack that's supported by enemy fighters, and just sort of sketched out the mental image after the fact. I might upload the design I settled on for that sometime.
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Well if you want my opinion, using a (G) Type GM as the base machine may be pushing it. Mainly because of the limited number of them produced. However at the same time it's built a bit stalkier and has a cockpit in a similar area to a Zaku. If you used a GM Kai that might do the trick too.
I understand being in the zone. I get that way sometimes when I'm drawing too. But sometimes my brain just goes blank and then trying to drawpast that seems pointless. It's easier to do it when I'm firing on all cylinders.
Believe it or not there were actually planes produced at one time that used mototcycle engines. Though I don't think they were for combat.
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Well I think I've discovered why I don't draw GM's as much as I do Zaku's. For some reason I'm bloody awful at it!
On a side note, what do you know about the two RGM-79F variants? The Gundam Wiki doesn't have any information about the production runs, just that they were modified standard-type GM's intended for ground warfare. I was thinking about basing my (eventual) custom one off of one of them - at least, once I found out they existed. There's just, SO MANY GM variants!
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Well both the Desert GM and Land GM look like they could be perfect base machines for junk modifications or third party improvements. Though for your modification involving Zeon MS parts, I'd have to go with the desert GM since I think said parts would fit it better.
If you look at it there are just as many Zeon MS variants. MS like the Zaku and GM provided a base that was easily improved upon. and both sides were itching to test new designs during the war.
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Right, well then, that's good news.
Well yeah, but I knew about a lot of those already.
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From time to time I scoured the wiki looking for MS variants I didn't know about. Granted they didn't all stick in my memory. But I now enough. And every once and a while when I see something I really like, I save a picture of it for reference material in my drawings.
And with MSV-R and newer anime like Unicorn, more MS variants from the OYW keep popping up. Imagine my surprise to find out about the GM Guard Custom and GM Interceptor Custom a while back
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Yeah, I've gone up and down the Gundam Wiki (and MAHQ as well, since for some reason wiki sites just run horribly slowly on my computer - no idea why) since and save a whole bunch of reference pictures.
And here I am just wondering, when it takes years of development just to field a working rifle, where the crap did these guys find the time to do all this stuff?
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Yeah I did the same. And every time I come across something I like and don't have, I save it. I do the same with Gundam Manga.
Well the Federation rolled out MS technology as fast as they did because they based most of their designs off of ones reverse engineered from Zeon technology. Plus with the advancement of computer technology in their era, it stands to reason that the simulation stage of design would be a great deal faster than it is now. Plus for some of those variants, it was simply a matter of changing armor, frame, or generator parts to achieve new results. The second generation of MS took four more years of development before mass production started with the Hizack
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I get being able to roll out gen 1 V Project machines pretty quickly, because there was likely some amount of Federation MS development beforehand (though never given the same priority as Zeon development was until they realized how mistaken they were at Loum) to supplement the reverse-engineering of Zeon suits. I can even get the GM being introduced onto the battlefield not long after because it's basically the Gundam made with cheaper parts and with a lot of features left out. But the Federation and Zeon both came up with an absurd number of variants and sub-variants in that time.
Speaking of development,I read on the Gundam wiki why Federation designs differed from Zeon so much. According to the wiki, there were two main schools of thought on MS development: Designing the frame and fitting armor to it (Feds) and designing the armor and squeezing a frame into it (Zeon). I just really have to say: Zeon's development method was so utterly backwards that it's really no surprise they got out-done by Federation tech. Nobody in their right minds designs machinery like that, let alone military machinery! Except maybe aircraft, since they have to go through wind tunnel testing and whatnot to ensure they are actually ally airworthy, but Zaku's aren't exactly jet fighters as much as they are tanks on legs!
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True. But both sides also had multiple different projects led by different scientists and engineers. With Zeon they had Zeonic, Zimmand, Granada, Pezun, California Base, ETC. The Federation had Jaburo, Luna II, and various side projects on the ground and in the colonies. So the fact that so many variants were cranked out in that amount of time is a very real concept.
Yeah the Federation aimed for efficiency over thickness. They also developed far better thrusters and generators. Early Zeon MS utilized a fluid pulse system for startup because it was quiet and worked well. The Federation said "Screw that!" and fitted their MS with something known as a field motor, which basically does the same thing but better. Albeit more loudly. Eventually even Zeon designs took to incorporating field motors too. As was shown with Uma Lightning's Gelgoog. Yes Zeon took it a little far with the weight of their MS. But they were pretty cocky about early development. They also had limited access to funds and materials. Which is why most Zeon MS of the OYW were made of Steel instead of Titanium. However the physical strength of MS like the Zaku cannot be denied. They make good wrestlers. Their weight also gives them excellent ramming power. Something that few Federation MS can attest to. And since they believed that the Federation wouldn't be able to develop MS too, they didn't bother improving the Zaku enough before the start of the war. That was ultimately their downfall.
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I get all that, too, but the US had a similar number of different companies and research groups as well during WWII, and development of aircraft (for example) still took several months to a few years, and mobile suits are a bit more complicated than P-40's. Still, I suppose that once you have the basic frame down (which was accomplished with the V Project, culminating with the Gundam) that does probably cut down on development time for all of the variants.
To be fair to Zeon, at the start of the war the Zaku was almost invincible. Most space fighters lack armament able to reliably damage them, and ships were to cumbersome to effectively fight back with their heavier weapons.Even though Loum was a Pyrrhic victory for Zeon, it still proves the point well enough. Also, as the two Zaku series are basically the earliest of the fielded Gen 1's, the excess weight is to be expected - they were solid, and quite functional, but unrefined. Kind of makes me wonder, though - if Zeon had built their MS more like Federation suits, that probably would have saved enough resources per unit for at least at third or maybe half of another mobile suit!
Speaking of, I've finished my junk GM custom (it ended up using far less Zeon parts than initially planned), and have started planning another suit that is basically a totally wrecked Zaku repaired with a whole bunch of Federation parts. I'll upload the first one soon enough, my current setup has no space for my scanner and I'm going to have to figure out that first!
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Yeah the development of planes and tanks in that era took a lot of time. But you also have to remember that back then, everything was done by hand or on paper. By the time of MSG, they had highly advanced computers that could do highly advanced simulations. Besides that, Project V had actually been going on for a few years by the start of the anime. They first worked on the Guntank. And many of the parts that were so completely different from the Zaku that were incorporated into Federation MS were likely derived from the Guntank. For instance, OYW Zeon MS used a Fluid Pulse system for startup. But Federation MS use a Field Motor instead. And once the base design for the GM was down, they could keep improving it with highly advanced simulations to test armor, mobility, weapons, ETC. Plus the manufacturing facilities at Jaburo were top notch. So the speedy development by that time actually kinda makes sense to me.
To have built their MS like Federation suits would have cost more. Titanium alloy costs several times more than Steel. Steel is also much easier to recycle with limited resources. And since the Zaku needed to be durable, thick armor and frame parts were used. But it's not like they didn't realized this mistake. The early models of Zaku II were the heaviest. But said components that made them that heavy were removed when they made the F Type. And then they were made even lighter with the F2. And when Anaheim refined the design even more, they got the Hizack. Which was an MS used by literally almost every faction in the 0080s.
I agree that Loum was a slaughter. Even the Zaku 1 was nearly unstoppable at the time. In the Gundam Thunderbolt anime, you see three Zaku 1s attacking space fighters while flying inside a colony. One of them took out a fighter simply by kicking it. I'd never seen a Zaku 1 move so well. But the truth is, after Loum and Operation British, most of the Zaku 1s were pulled from front line service. I saw in MSV-R Universal Century Heroes that Shin Matsunaga's superior officer died at Loum piloting a Zaku 1. It was a fighter that shot the crap out of him. Rather than retreat the guy wanted to keep fighting. And he was shot down. In my opinion, Federation pilots had learned to single out the Zaku 1, which is why it was pulled from full front line duty.
Congrats! I can't wait to see it! I just finished one of my best works too, the Yellow Zanny. I uploaded it yesterday. I think it's one of my best drawings yet!
Yeah my desk has no room for my scanner either. In fact whenever I use it, I have to put it on top of a TV tray next to the desk. Which gets very annoying since I have to take it out and set it up every single time I want to use it. But since I don't use it often, it's also not worth it to try and make a permanent place for it.
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It's a tough sell, but I suppose it isn't too unreasonable
Well, yeah, titanium is right out of course, but I was referring to slimmer and with smarter armor design. Rounded armor is great for withstanding blunt impacts, but against bullets it's much less effective. The same level of protection could have been achieved with less if the armor were more angular, like on Federation suits. While it means that the limbs are more vulnerable since you can't really give them sloped armor, the vital areas are quite well protected. Also, using less material in the internal components by making them slimmer would reduce the cost of the unit further. The obvious trade-off is that it's not as robust, though I do believe that it is sufficient for MS combat - after all, the GM's managed just fine with Though, of course, with so many of the MS-05's produced, for shortstslimmer internal components under their fancy titanium plating!
Agreed, although they were certainly still a threat they were the easier of the goliaths to take down!
Nice job on the Zanny, only complaint is that the eyes look a little too big for the space they have - but then, if they're both re-purposed Zeon mono-eyes, that would make sense! Mine is a hodgepodge of GM types, mostly the two F types but the arms are from a GM Kai. It has two modes, regular and "full armor." "Full Armor" mode adds junk armor to the frame, but it only consists of a large plate added to the upper glacis of the torso, and trimmed-down Zaku II shoulder shields reinforcing the shoulder armor. I wanted to have Zaku armor starpped to the lower arms, too, but I didn't like the way it was turning out so scrapped that part of the... scrap armor.
The desk I have is really not designed to have a scanner on it. Problem is, I don't exactly have much in the way of space, so it's been crammed on anyway. Could be worse, but the power cord on it is short enough that I literally cannot reach my setup's surge protecter strip from where it sits! What's worse is that there is a more practical spot I could put it, but it's covered in cd cases and technical documentation that I have nowhere else to put. Not to mention the model kits....
Oh, today I discovered the RX-81 series of suits, what do you know about them? Apparently they were pseudo-mass-production Gundams, or at least, they were a GM alternative that was far closer to the original specs of the RX-78 series, and as such saw only limited mass-production, being fielded post-war (hence the '81,' I imagine) mostly in units tasked with hunting Zeon Remnant forces.
In other news, I got the emulator for Encounters in Space to work. My overall productivity has taken yet another hit XD
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Well MS like the Zudah had the slimmer GM-like build. But it's durability was negligible. I think that if a GM were to be made from steel alloy, it wouldn't be able to handle the weight of it's own body as easily. Think about it, maybe the Zakus were thicker because they needed to be able to handle the weight of their size so as not to stress the metal of the armor and frame. This would explain why the Zudah was never used in land combat. Aside from in that non-canon online Gundam game. In the 19th century the first major steel industry started with the idea of building a bridge. They couldn't use iron because it couldn't handle the weight. So they built it of steel. Which was difficult to manufacture at the time. But it kickstarted the industry. In that sense, maybe a 18 meter tall combat robot made of steel wouldn't be able to handle the weight of the shock of it's own body movements. Which could be the reason for the Zaku's design. Though that's all just a theory.
After the OYW MS were being designed a bit more with armor that could take better hits from beam weaponry, rather than bullets. Which is one of the reasons MS designs started getting refined so fast after the war. It's also one of the reasons for the implementation of the movable frame.
Yeah the mono eyes are supposed to be a little too big. I knew that if I made them smaller, it'd seem like they had more Gundam-ish eye cameras lying around. Of which of course I know they don't since Gundam parts were rare. One Zaku mono eye tends to have pretty good vision. I figured if there was two of them facing forward in one head, they'd have more human-like binocular vision comparable to a Federation MS. Especially when coupled with Guncannon antenna sensors.
A full armor mode on your GM sounds nice. And there really aren't enough MS that have that option. What's more, I really like the idea of the armor being made from recycled parts. Also Zaku shoulder shields tend to look pretty decent on a GM. I saw GM Kai Thunderbolt models equipped with them in the Thunderbolt manga.
Well I've got decent space, just not on my desk. I bought it used from the goodwill a few years ago. Me and a friend had to carry it for a couple of miles too. It's nothing special, but it has a specially treated surface that's almost perfectly flat. Making it great for drawing or writing.
I've known about the RX-81 G series since Battlefield Record came out. There's three versions of the machine since it can equip different armors. All three units were made from the spare parts made for the RX-78-7 7th Gundam. So they have comparable performance to it. Despite the visor on their faces, they have Gundam eyes. So being a hybrid I think they just called them G units.
I haven't played EIS for years. But I do still have it for my PS2.
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I get what you're saying, but if steel can hold up towering skyscrapers then with good engineering it can handle slimmer mobile suit frames. Between the solid bracing and shock-absorbers I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
Yeah, the ever-vague "anti-beam coating" that gets mentioned so much. I'm pretty sure it involves some kind of heat shielding, which is why it gets good enough to defeat heat hawks and such.
Yeah, it's just a minor thing.
Well, like I said, it's a fairly limited armor package - solid additional armor, but not so much that the mobility of the unit is impacted too negatively. And the shoulder shields are, well, *very* trimmed down, and fixed to the armor differently than they would be on a Zaku.
My desk is my dad's old desk that has been in the family for as long as I can remember. We took good care of it. It's also pretty flat, though the wood surface has the occasional fault that means I have to put some other kind of surface beneath my paper - usually I just use a few more sheets of paper!
I think they're called G-Lines, if I'm not mistaken. Kind of like the Strike Gundam, except the whole armor package was modular instead of just the backpack - I suppose that actually makes it more like and Armored Core unit instead!
Yeah,I've still got it too, but it's handy to have it on my laptop so it can come with me on road-trips. Also it's kind of neat to be able to go through it again and unlock things without having to delete my almost-complete PS2 save! The website I went to has several Gundam titles, including some Japan-only ones. Even a couple for the Genesis system!
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Who is to say. When it comes to buildings they do a block frame that's usually welded and riveted together. The frame of an MS is nothing like that. Sky scrapers don't get up and walk, much less run. It may just be that an MS like the Zaku had to have a certain thickness to it so it's frame could withstand the shock and not suffer fatigue with prolonged use.
Yeah the concept of anti-beam coating is pretty sci-fi. But who knows what technology will yield in a century or so. Though the concept of ceramic parts in MS for heat shielding is pretty spot on.
Ah I see. Now I want to see this GM even more!
You could try getting a desk calendar. My dad uses one to write on, on his desk all the time.
Well I think there were other UC MS with interchangeable armor parts. And while it was cool, I wouldn't call it innovative. Mainly because it just made three variants of one machine only on the outside. If you think about it, the core block system was more impressive because it connected three completely different machines and not just three of the same machine with different armor. If they had a standard GM that had interchangeable armor parts, it wouldn't be much different. Also, it's not all that different from the wearable armor of the GM Striker or Chobham armor of the Alex.
That sounds awesome! Though I'm not really a PC gamer. Do some of the Japanese only ones have English text emulators?
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The question could be answered easily if the wiki listed what the frame of the GM was made of, but sadly we're not so lucky.
I read that, according to the Internet anyway, plasma swords are theoretically feasible if you use an electric field to contain the almost-pure-energy blade. If that's true, then an anti-beam coating could be as simple as a layer of paint that produces an electric field which repels the energy. Failing that, ceramic heat shielding could be upped to resist the kind of temperatures we're talking about - either way, it explains why it can't take too many hits from beams before losing its effectiveness.
Well, patience please - I still need to figure out what I'm going to do about this scanner!
Well of course the Core Fighter concept was much more mechanically impressive, but the fact that RX-81's could be kitted out on the fly for whatever mission they were needed for would cut down on the necessary number of variants - let's look at the Navy for a second. The US Navy's primary air superiority fighter right now is the F/A-18 Hornet. It's primary fleet defense interceptor is the F/A 18 Hornet. It's primary ground attack fighter is the F/A-18 Hornet. Light electronic warfare plane? Another Hornet. By being able to kit a single plane type out for various missions based on demand, the Navy was able to cut costs by streamlining and standardizing the bulk of their air fleet without sacrificing their overall effectiveness - they still have a plane for every mission type they'll encounter, because they can kit out the same plane for multiple mission roles. In fact I think the Hornet makes a good real world analogue to the RX-81 series - more expensive to produce than other options, but the reduced maintenance costs by having just a single base type plus its increased effectiveness over those other options. While the GM series was eventually refined into more powerful suits and variants, the RX-81 would have made an excellent addition to the main Federation forces right out of the gate due to its pure versatility - one suit handling the roles of front-line fighter, heavy support fighter, and fast strike fighter- not to mention its higher combat abilities. Instead, the Federation decided that ease of production was the most important factor, and that was the end of that until the war was over.
I'm afraid not, at least as far as I can tell. Best bet at finding out it seems is to download one and see if it does. And, after finding out that Bandai had deliberately closed their North American operations some time ago, I don't think we're going to be getting any official translations over here for the time being. Apparently they had no idea what the NA market was like, because they were wanting to sell dvd's of four episodes for $60 apiece over here, but distributors were having none of it, so they closed their NA branch, believing that anime just isn't popular enough over here any more to even bother. And then they were promptly proven wrong when Toonami came back and brought new anime with it. So, until Bandai reopens their NA distributor or makes working deals with a third party, we're basically out of luck there.
*EDIT* Case in point about Bandai, they've announced that they will be releasing Gundam Breaker, in English, April 28th - in Asia only. Other recent Gundam games are... getting similar treatment. This seems specifically aimed at making the games more attractive for individuals to import on their own dime. On top of that, Sony exclusive, so I'm going to have to buy a PS4 for a single game - frankly that just isn't going to happen unless Sony can wow me with some other exclusives. There isn't exactly a lot there, but I'll have to keep watching I suppose - that is, if I decide I can't live without a new Gundam game.
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Well I wondered about the frame myself from time to time. Years ago I scoured the wiki for answers. And while it's sort of conjecture, I think I found one. I noticed MS like the Gelgoog weren't really any heavier than the RX-78-2 Gundam, despite their bulkier and larger design. Meaning the Gelgoog more than likely had a Titanium frame. And since the RX-78-2 was very likely Luna Titanium to it's core frame because of things like the Core Block System, it's more than likely that the GM has a Titanium frame since it's a dumbed down version of the RX-78-2.
Yeah I know about how beam sabers are feasible. I pointed out to my brother-in-law a few years ago that Gundam figured out the real science behind it before Star Wars. But I didn't know about the concept of how anti-beam coating works. I did do a carbon paint addition for a Zaku franken I did for a friend years ago. But it was just to withstand high temperatures instead of beams.
I understand. Some computer stuff can be a real pain. Didn't you say a while back that you have a software problem with it too?
The RX-81's were not kitted out on the fly. Yes they had three different armors for one base machine. But they weren't simply fitted on like the Liger Zero armors from Zoids right before combat. They had three units and fitted each one with different armor. The wear system that they used was based off the Alex, more or less. So each armor had to be fitted pre-battle, and usually stayed set that way. Yes they were designed to use different armor for different combat roles. But a standard GM or a GM Kai fitted with a wear system could basically do the same thing. In reality all the G-line did was make a more expensive and overly complicated machine that deemed unfit for mass production. And each of the three armors didn't really do much to enhance the already great specs of the base machine. Even the light armor technically added weight to it. It just added powerful thrusters to compensate. The heavy armor was derived from the GM Striker. The standard armor is really the best innovation of them. Mainly because it has excellent balance. And with the already durable luna titanium alloy body it has, the idea of the heavy armor based off the GM Striker is a little redundant since the Striker's armor was designed to protect regular Titanium. The Alex's chobham armor made more sense because it was made to double durability and then be able to be jettisoned when damaged. Even the 7th Gundam that the G-line is based off of uses an improved version of this armor concept. So it's really no wonder production was shifted to MS like the GM Custom and GM Cannon 2 instead.
Yeah I head about Bandai's greed a year or so ago. Honestly 60$ for a DVD with one episode of Unicorn is not worth more than any typical movie DVD. Though at the very least they could sell some all region DVDs with eng subs.
So is it the new Gundam Breaker? Or the first one they are doing that with? Yeah I've wanted a PS4 too for a while. Ever since I watched a playthrough of the game Soma anyway.
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I'm hesitant to assume that it's solid luna-titanium the whole way through - even famously armored machines like the A-10 aren't wholly made of their armor. Still, depending on the qualities of the alloy (which I have no way of knowing) it could work.
Still, greater heat resistance certainly helps against a weapon that is basically a controlled stream of pure heat.
I did, the software is so out of date that it just plain no longer works, and I've had to use a backdoor method using my computer's Control Panel in order to do anything with it - though, thanks to a gift from my dad, that's not going to be an issue anymore. (at least, once I get the bloody thing installed right....)
I see. Oh well.
I don't know about around you, but most DVD's are $20 at the store here. And we're talking new ones, I walked past a display of DVD's for The Force Awakens today for $20, and most older ones they keep in stock are $5 to $15! Why would I pay that price for a feature-length film, and then go and pay many times more that for a DVD which only carries a single episode? That's absurd!
I think it was 3, so if 3 is the new one, then yes it's the new one. I'm always more or less on the fence in the 'console wars.' The only reason I went with Microsoft is for Halo. Basically all of the other games I have for my Xbox 360 and my Xbox One are also on the Sony consoles (and obviously the reverse is true in terms of most of the games I would play on the PS4), so it'll take Sony really catching my eye with 'exclusive' games in order to make me jump to their system - which means that if they get a deal for new Gundam games, in English, then those plus my curiosity towards a few other titles might well make me do it. As it stands now, however, it just isn't worth the price yet. Nintendo has actually done a better job of meeting my criteria than Sony has, with the Zelda HD re-releases and Smash Bro's, to name just a couple. Though to be fair, if Microsoft hadn't backed down from their ridiculous mandatory Kinect + always online DRM scheme they had when they first unveiled the One, I would never have gotten one and instead would have gone for the Sony model, Halo be damned.
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From what I know of MS like the Turn A, it's armor and frame were both made of nanoskin. It seemed to have comparable durability to Gundarium. Might be like a sort of future carbon fiber.
I'm pretty sure that MS like the RX-78-2 have a Luna Titanium frame. Granted there are most definitely many steel parts. Like hydraulics for instance. And those parts made have been replaced with Titanium ones to make next gen MS lighter. With what I've seen of MS of the RX series, it's very likely they use the same material for the frame as the armor. If they did have steel frames, then they'd have been made badly obsolete by second-gen MS. MS like the Hizack most definitely had a titanium frame because it was 10 tons lighter than the Zaku F2. And MS like the Geara Zulu are listed as having a ceramic frame. So it's very likely that lighter stronger materials were incorporated to lighten the overall weight of MS. Now the reason I'm pointing out later gen MS is because in 0090 the Heavy Gundam unit 2 was upgraded and pulled back into service. I don't think they'd have bothered to re-service such an old MS unless it had internal parts made of modern materials. Though if you want to point out an MS that likely has a steel frame, the Gaza C is a good bet. That MS was made of recycled mobile worker parts with pretty thin armor and had pretty bad structural integrity.
Oh so you got a new scanner then? Mine's a hand-me-down from my mom.
Yes it is absurd. The Fred Meyer I usually go to has new DVDs for those prices. Often times they sell new release DVDs for two dollars off. So you could get a new movie for 18$ or less. Unless you get a blue ray.
I first went from Nintendo to Playstation because of the Kingdom Hearts games. And once I was able to afford it, I liked having a variety of consoles. I am interested in getting a PS4 at some point. Though I'm not sure when. I think the XBOX 1 is actually doing a lot better lately. From what I know, it's been the best selling system the past month or so.
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Yeah, or something.
Well, it's just that with how famously hard titanium can be to work with, I always kind if figured that the internals of the RX series are probably a mix of materials - titanium for critical pieces, steel for less critical ones, and probably a fair amount of military-grade aluminum as well. Maybe some luna-titanium around the joints, since the armor plating doesn't exactly protect those. Still, like I said before - depending on the qualities of the stuff (more precise than the "lightweight and durable for its construction" that the wiki gives me, unfortunately - the same can be said of aluminum!)
Funny thing is, so was my old one. Parents were just gonna chuck it but I didn't have one, so they gave it to me instead - years ago, now. I mentioned how poorly it's been working recently to my Dad because he was grumbling about the performance of his printer/fax machine, and he came back from the store later in the day with one for each of us. Funny thing is, I kind of formed a habit of never scanning just one image at a time, since the old one was such a pain to work with, that now that I have a fully functional one I'm hesitant to use it just for my GM image! Like, literally sitting here glancing at it going "Uh, maybe later"! I actually have an old, half-finished drawing request that I've put off for far too long, so I'm going to try and finish that and then upload them both (and maybe another unrelated sketch I did, if I feel like it) in the next day or so.
Well yeah, because Blu-rays are newer tech so they still gouge on them. Have you seen what they charge now for a laptop with a Blu-ray player in them? More than a thousand dollars for some! Just plain crazy - especially since I know full well they were selling laptops with them for half that a few years ago! But because the current trend in laptop design is apparently to make them more tablet-like, manufacturers have been stripping off basic features in order to make their machines smaller and lighter, and then charging the full laptop prices ($500 up) for them because they're somehow 'hybrid' machines despite literally just being a keyboard and a touchscreen! Just finding one with a CD/DVD player in it is upwards of $700 now, for the 'extra' feature!
I never had the luxury of having more than one machine on any given console generation - I've got an N64 (the oldest, if I don't count my parents' old SNES that I was introduced to gaming on), a PS2, an Xbox 360, and an Xbox One - and I don't exactly have the real estate to keep any more than that, if I'm completely honest. Though it does mean that I have been exposed to a wide array of different kinds of games between them! I might get myself a PS4 at some point, if I can find enough games I can only play on that so that it's worth the cost to me, but you don't know how close I was to just not getting the Xbox One over what they tried to pull before launch. Granted they were definitely able to rebound after caving to the pressure the public put on them, but not enough to cover the head-start that Sony got on them just by saying "And the PS4 does none of that crap", and I'm still kind of leery of Microsoft's apparent disregard for their customers now!
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Well I admit I've used the concept of aluminum in MS like my Barstomp. But MS like the RX-78-2 Gundam were capable of unassisted atmospheric reentry. Materials like Aluminum would probably melt under the temperatures that it took. Yeah there were probably plenty of steel parts. Especially with the hydraulic push motors. However by 0079 I imagine they had manufacturing abilities to better work with Titanium. I mean they'll probably have a much easier time working with metals like that a century from now. White Base itself have a machine shop on board capable of working with Luna Titanium. So the odds that both the armor and frame were made of the same materials is pretty plausible in my opinion.
you might like to know that there is anon-canon Gundam side story from the Gryps Conflict about two mono-eye type Gundams. The info on one of them said that it's insides were reinforced with a material called Nanocarbon Steel. However since the manga wasn't canon and was probably an independent release, said information may not actually pertain to canon UC.
I know the feeling. There have been plenty of times where I didn't want to get my scanner out just for one pic. So I usually had to talk myself into it again and again just to get it done.
I'm kind of skeptical about getting a new laptop. Mostly because I'm a shtickler for sticking with tech I'm used to. But if I do, I might get one on dealdash or something. I talked to a guy that repairs computers and in his shop they had a blu-ray movie playing on a tv with a computer as the player. And while I was there I happened to overhear him say that he got the computer to play blu-rays with a software upgrade. If it really is just a software difference for computers I'm gonna be pissed!
I stuck with an N64 from 1999 to 2005 before finally upgrading to a Gamecube. And before the N64 it was just an old NES and a Gameboy Pocket. So after I was able to afford it, I started hoarding games and systems. Oh is your apartment pretty small? I have a friend who lives in a studio. Well various companies in the gaming industry seem to be treating customers badly these past few years. Maybe they just don't think they have to be nice anymore for us to by their stuff.
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Well, we didn't exactly put luna-titanium into our real-world spacecraft, and beneath their skin all their more sensitive components seem to work fine. Frankly, adding the ability to survive an unassisted reentry without any proper heat shielding to the list of things luna-titanium can do kind of drags it into the realm of being Unobtanium.
Nanocarbon Steel sounds to me like a hybrid alloy of carbon nano-fibers (which we have some form of already) and, well, steel. I don't honestly know much about carbon fiber outside of the fact that some people hail it as a magic future-material that'll change the world - as you can probably infer, I'm not exactly sold on it. Sure, it might me plenty tough, but I'm gonna need more than an ad-hoc sales pitch to make me more than just 'slightly curious.'
I got a new laptop recently because I had to - my old hand-me-down was starting to blue-screen every other week, so I figured it was time to make the jump. Now I use the new one for all the little games and emulators that used to be on my desktop, so that I can free up some hard drive space on my desktop in order to improve performance for the bigger games it has on it. I know that it isn't *just* a software thing for Blu-rays, but software is a lot of it. The PS3 can be easily hacked to be full backwards compatible all the way back to PS1 games, but it produces additional strain on the hardware that was optimized for the newer disk format. My roommate in college actually had one he had done that to - he was always very careful with it.
I don't have an apartment, or my own place at all yet if I'm totally honest. Out of college, I'm living with my parents until I can get my own place - though I admit to having delayed that a lot over my mother's health issues. Between the idea of moving out and becoming more independent, and sticking around in case of *another* health emergency, I picked being on hand for her since Dad can't be here all the time because of his job.
Frankly I agree with that. They think brand loyalty is enough to keep them going - and Microsoft probably thought that Sony would be doing very similar things to what they tried to pull, so they figured it was safe to try to get away with it. I imagine that had to be a shock to the execs who thought that was a good idea, and it proved to basically everyone that despite their occasional technical issue Sony is the far more trustworthy of the two.
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Well we're not gonna get Luna Titanium until we get refineries in space. Besides, as far as I know NASA uses a fair bit of Titanium in their spacecraft. It's just not in the outer hulls. And honestly right now our spacecraft aren't anywhere near what's in Gundam. So you can't really compare what we have now to what they'd have then. Spacecraft like the Komusai were designed to take a beating as well as be able to do atmospheric reentry. NASA shuttles just fly in and out of the atmosphere. They don't need armor. Just a heat resistant outer shell.
Unobtanium is the metal from the movie The Core right? I'd say that's way more sci-fi than Gundarium. The concept of Gundarium is actually pretty plausible as far as I know.
Well I'm not so sure that carbon implies that it's a hybrid metal with carbon fiber. Regular steel has plenty of carbon. It may simply be a very special form of steel that uses carbon that has been tempered on the cellular level in a specialized manufacturing process or something.
Well I'm still on the fence about upgrading hardware. I just spent 360$ fixing my shower. So I'm not gonna replace what I got until I don't have a choice.
Yeah I remember you telling me about that PS3. As good as that little modification sounds, I think it'd be better if the PS3 could have a optional secondary disc drive connected to it so that it could play older games. That'd be much better.
I'm in a similar boat. I live in a smaller house next door to my folks. And I know that if I were to move, it'd be a heavy strain on my folks. They need me to handle yard work and various other things. They also need me to mediate things with other relatives. Recently I got into a huge argument with my mom over how she was dragging me into her family drama. She acted like just because I wasn't on her side all the time, that I was on the side of her worst enemy instead. Even my dad said she was being completely irrational.
Yes in terms of reliability Sony is on top. But for the sake of variety it'd still be nice to have all the top systems.
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Maybe you're right.
Actually I don't really know where the word comes from, except that its most common usage is as a play on the word "unobtainable." One version I read about was that engineers would often refer to having to find a batch of unobtanium if the requirements they had to meet were too unrealistic for the resources they had. To be honest, "lightweight, stronger than titanium, and able to resist extremely high temperatures without losing its hardness" are the kind of qualities where you list them out and then add "Pick two of the three."
Honestly I have no idea what it is, that's just the first thing that came to mind.
I know what you mean, there. I don't get the whole "It's six months old, time for a new one!" mentality some people have.
That doesn't sound like a bad idea, except that would mean having to buy a separate, smaller disc drive for what amounts to a large disk drive for the TV. It can't be that hard to make a single drive cross-compatible, can it?
Because parents make great neighbors and roommates. "Hey, can you do me a favour?" "Considering I can't really say no to you, sure."
True. Which is why Sony has some work to do to win me over - and why Nintendo is ahead of them in that race!
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Well Unobtanium is much more of a sci-fi metal than most of what I've heard of. Even if we do ever figure it out some day, we're more likely to have things like Tritanium Alloy from Star Trek or Carnon Nanotubes.
Well The Gundam wiki isn't exactly swimming in details about metallurgy. So who can really say what things like Nano-Carbon steel are.
Yeah some people are like that with cars. I have a 93 Camry and I'm just fine with that.
Well it wouldn't be any different than buying a secondary disc drive for a computer. And it couldn't possibly cost more than 50$ since it'd be made for older discs. Besides, it would make backwards compatibility easier and could use Flash Drives for memory cards. Even if they kept up the backwards compatibility, not ever user is very responsible with their PS3s. Some probably burned them out within a year playing PS2 discs on them. As you said before, playing older discs is somewhat hard on the PS3's reader. Blu-ray discs are actually very different. So the readers had to be much improved. But as a tradeoff, it made it harder for them to read older stuff. The differences with the discs are like the differences of reading something in normal sized print, and something that's so small you need a magnifying glass. But then when you go back to try reading the normal sized print with the magnifying glass, it's hard because everything looks like it's too close.
My parents are my landlords. And I can't complain because the rent is super cheap. Besides, they don't ask a lot of me.
Well Nintendo's doing ok now after the release of the Wii-U. But I've never played one. So I've no idea if it's any good or not.
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Someday, yeah.
I know, but we can't expect them to have literally every detail thought out - at it's core, Gundam is about giant robots blowing crap up, not the physical properties of armor, so I'm not surprised.
I know, right? I can't count the number of run-down trailers I've seen around me with a shiny new Mercedes or Cadillac or Corvette in the driveway - and the number of nice houses with old Suburbans and sedans! Maybe if some of those people spent less on their cars, they could afford better places to live, you know? My first car was a 1992 Accord, which had been in the family since it was new. I learned how to drive stick on it and everything - but then it conked out on us before I went to college, needing a new battery once a month (at best!) and having no working air conditioning, and finally the costs of constantly trying to repair it and replace parts outweighed our sentimental attachment to it and we sold it. I got absurdly lucky with my next car though - my uncle was selling a 2000 Mustang for $1500, and five years later that's still my car and I have no plans to get a new one until it ends up like the Accord did!
Well yeah, I'm just surprised that they haven't figured out some way to make it less of a tradeoff - like maybe using two separate disc readers in the drive, and the software to know when one was more appropriate than the other! With the way people just drop support for older storage types, I can seriously picture people in the future discovering a huge cache of important documentation on cd's, but being completely unable to read them because they don't have any compatible hardware!
Oh I'm not complaining either, because honestly I don't mind, I just think having that kind of exchange is kind of funny.
I played Splatoon on a Target display model once. The large controller takes a little getting used to, and it has a very sensitive motion sensor that lets you either use the sticks to move or just move the pad around in the air, but the user can disable that feature if it gets in the way - which is a smart addition, I think, since not everyone likes motion-controls. Not really interested in the amiibos, so the frequent shortages of them are a non-issue to me, and YouTubers I've seen who have them never badmouth them and seem to quite enjoy using them, which I think is telling. But otherwise, between the Zelda re-releases and the new one in the works, Star Fox, Smash Bros, and so on, I've got more reasons to invest in a WiiU than a PS4 right now!
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True. But sometimes I wish they'd put a bit more into the details. Gundam AGE had next to nothing in the technical details.
My first car was supposed to be a 1972 Le Mans. But every time we tried to fix it up, it just got worse. Then I bought a 87 Ford Escort for 300$. It was a bit broken down and all I really ended up using it for was hauling wood. After a while I just sold it for scrap since I couldn't afford to work on it anymore. Then I came into some good money and bought a 64 VW Bug to try and fix up as my personal car. But that didn't work out. Then after all that I finally managed to get my driver's license (Only took till I was 27!) and I saved up and bought a 93 Camry from a mechanic. It's no prettyboy. But it drives. You're pretty lucky to have something like a Mustang! Those are great cars. Though some of them have limited seating space.
Better yet, Sony should release their own version of the Retron that plays PS1, PS2 and PS3 with two separate drives. That'd be a good system to have. Personally I'm still waiting on a retron that can play N64 games.
I never played Splatoon. But I hear good things. And the Wii-U probably is more user friendly than it looks. But I doubt I'll be getting one any time soon. I didn't much care for them using puppets in the new Starfox. Unless that was just the commercial. I also don't like the fact that they wont get on with making a game that shows what happens after the DS StarFox game.
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Yeah, that would be nice.
You don't know the half of it - the back seats are basically just theoretical if the people in the front ones have long legs. Which I do. Though since it's my car, I'm not exactly back there much. Only real gripes with the car are that A) someone in the list of previous owners installed a "sound system" (a quartet of subwoofers for bass) in the trunk which takes up the whole space, and did shoddy electrical work to boot so I can't unlock the car with the remote, B) It isn't a stick-shift car, but an automatic, and most importantly C) the interior is beige. BEIGE!
Oh, I've actually seen something like that - that plays N64 games, I mean, and NES and SNES ones! Saw it in a Books a Million in a mall a year or so ago! Don't know what the brand was, though, but knowing it's sold in Books a Million ought to narrow it down for you!
It was entertaining, but it was just a demo of the singleplayer mode, which was more or less just a 3rd-person shooter with the whole squid-shapeshifting-and-ink-swimming thing added into it. Still, it was fun. I don't know about puppets, but as it turns out I watched a less than stellar review of the new Star Fox yesterday. Then again, I don't think Jim Sterling has ever had much positive to say about any game he's covered (he tends to be pretty brutal, especially for indie games on Steam or general corporate shenanigans), so take that with a grain of salt, at least until you find other reviews to compare it to.
I remember playing Star Fox 64 (which I had borrowed from a friend) and getting to Andross, and little kid me was so frightened by the spontaneous floating head in a space-fighter game that I almost instantly lost and was too scared to make another attempt. It was years until I played another Star Fox game (Adventures, on my cousin's Gamecube - I wasn't very good at that one, either!) and another set of years before getting Star Fox Assault, and by that point I basically given up on following the overarching story-line and instead just focused on what the game presented. Honestly I think that the endings in that game offered enough 'finality' to them that I haven't exactly been itching for a sequel - though it's nice to have one since it's a classic series that I enjoyed in the past.
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Beige....... WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?! Wait is it leather beige or cloth beige? Was that the stock interior? I'd rip out those subwoofers if possible. You could actually resell them or find a guy that's good with working on cars that wants them.
I think I may know of the product you speak. There was an added attachment for a retro system similar to a retron that allows you to play N64 games by plugging in an extra cartridge with N64 controller ports on it and then plugging an N64 game on top. ........Wow that was way to many times to say N64 in one paragraph.
If you want a very realistic game critic, watch Zero Punctuation. That guy is smart as hell and unbelievably funny!
It's not so much the endings in Star Fox Command as something that was released at a game convention years ago. It was a picture of the Star Fox team and Krystal was pregnant. And there were rumors of a final game. Then they just decided to say "Nope" and rebooted the series.
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Leather, thankfully - though I have cloth seat covers for the front seats thanks to a hole in the driver seat cushion. We've been meaning to take care of those subwoofers for a while now, but there's not a lot of people around me that I'd trust to not make the electrics worse than they already are - "professionals" or otherwise.
No, I'm talking a single box with three different cartridge ports - I remember picking it up to have a better look at it - though I didn't buy it since my N64 still works grand, the SNES of the family actually belongs to my parents (one of the first anniversary gifts Dad got for Mom) and I highly doubt they'd ever let it or its games go, and we never had an NES so we have no games to use in that port!
I'll have to look him up, thanks!
Did Nintendo release that picture, or was it fan-art that got used as a red herring? Because I've seen a couple of pictures of the two of them plus a baby bump on this site's front page - back when it showed everything as it was uploaded, instead of just the top picks and such. I still don't like that change.
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Well beige leather is better than beige cloth. I remember there was one guy I met once long ago that hated the color of his car interior so much he spray painted it. It might not be such a good idea to leave those amaturly installed woofers in there. Bad wiring jobs can eventually cause a short, or worst case scenario an electrical fire.
What you're describing sounds a lot like one of the Retronns. But I really don't know of any repop systems that plays N64 cartridges without an added attachment of some sort.
NES games are ok. I liked Dragon Warrior. But beyond that, there aren't a whole lot of fond memories. Really it takes an enthusiast to enjoy them now.
Did you like Zero Punctuation?
Well I found out about the picture from looking up official Starfox info on Wikipedia. o as far as I know, it was official.
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I think you're looking for "stockier," because I'm pretty sure a Mobile Suit makes for a terrible stalker. XD I agree, though, the (G) type is what I'm kind of gravitating towards. The Kai would work for a post 0083 model, but honestly I was thinking of it being built before then.
Well yeah, they were light and strong in an age when most internal combustion engines were just too heavy for the purpose. Of course, the funny thing is that these days you can find enough horsepower to put the Wright Flyer in the air - in your lawnmower!
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Actually the GM Kai was fielded in the One Year War. It'd just become the Federation standard by 0083. But by that time they were already three years old. And some were still active as late as 0090 in some desert regions that had lesser Federation bases.
True that. Though the last time I saw something in the news about a home made plane, the pilot crashed and died.
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That's unfortunate, because a lot of people fly "kitbuild" planes these days - put them together in the garage, and off you go! Actually, a number of replica WWI planes can be bought as kits!
Well yeah, but they were in limited supply for unit leaders until after the war, where they became more standard. Still, I suppose it's not too unreasonable.
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