Me, upon seeing the response: Hahahaha! Man that was fast. Dude always has the perfect reply ready.

5 minutes later: tries to squint through Klingon makeup 🤔

One trip to IMDB and Memory Alpha later: …holy shit.

The next day: I should post a reply.

Now: We’re in now now.

Seconded, and same for thumbnails while scrolling. In gif-heavy communities it just bogs things down.

Because interest rates are insane trapping people in homes they no longer want but can’t afford to leave?

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it.

But there were some other headlines that said “people think the economy is bad but they’re spending lots of money so that means it’s good hahaha people are so dumb.”

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Agreed across the board. The newer HGs are so much better than the stuff I cut my teeth on 20 plus years ago, it’s hard to believe. It’s basically the only line that gets more than a couple of releases a year anymore. And what timeline are we in that Penelope, Xi, Messer, Nightingale, and Bound Doc are all released within a few years of one another, at regular retail? We’ve got Destroy coming, along with that big one from Build Metaverse. The latter reuses the new Psycho Gundam arms that initially came with one of the (so very many) PB Hazels… and I’m hard pressed to believe that there’s not a Psycho Mk II in the works to further use those arms. And not Gunpla, but there’s a Big Zam coming in the robot spirits line. It’s like Bandai is going all-in on the big boys in 1/144. I’m here for it, and would love a full size Wodom from this craziness!

The icing on the 1/144 cake, for me, is RG. I was out of the hobby for a bit and missed the first few years of the line. Tallgeese was my first RG, and I was blown away. And now that the pre-molded frames have taken a back seat, they’re basically mini-MGs with all of the detail (and lots of ridiculously tiny pieces lol). They give me my complexity fix.

I’m sorry for derailing your build thread ^_;;; Seeing your Penelope and Tallgeese side by side just kicked off another round of internal debate on how I should handle the hobby going forward (and gave me an excuse to geek out lol).

That’s a big beefy Dorito-bot.

Bandai putting MG on the back burner, while pumping out massive UC kits in HG, and killing it with RG, has me rethinking committing to 1/100 moving forward. 1/144 has pretty much everything I want these days.

ate a scoop of powdered chicken bouillon

…nope, not gonna ask.

To sum up what a lot of other folks are saying:

Money doesn’t buy happiness; money mitigates misery.

I got bit by this earlier in the year. I needed a smaller TV for the bedroom. I narrowed down the line I wanted. Target and Best Buy were the only two local stores to carry it. BB had the 2023 model, Target had a 2022 model with a sub-designation that was $50 cheaper. I went with Target because I didn’t care if it was an older model, just needed something good enough. Well, it wasn’t good enough, not even close. The color accuracy was so bad that the tint adjustment was useless — it was both too pink and too green no matter what. I dug out my old calibration disk and tried to adjust the color by isolating red/green/blue channels. The best-effort adjustments made it better, but still awful. I even connected it to the network (hardwire only, fuck “smart” appliances) just in case a firmware update helped. It did not, so back it went. Had to wait, multiple times in line and for someone to pull from the back, for like 45 minutes because they “don’t do exchanges” so I needed to do a song and dance to get the sale price on a replacement purchase. Got the replacement home, same deal. At that point I suspected it was leftover Black Friday junk.

Took it back and went to Best Buy. Spent the extra $50. Perfect color out of the box. Lesson(s) learned.

Ask and ye shall receive.

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I’m glad you stuck with it! There have been a few series that didn’t click with me at first. ZZ obviously, and that turned out fine. I did not like G the first time I tried to watch it, only made it like 5 eps in. I eventually picked it back up and I was glad I did, it gets so much better once the story gets going. Age didn’t grab me or my partner, and we’ve yet to get back to it. It is still on the radar, just gotta give it time.

If you’re going in production order,I Char’s Counterattack is up next. Then some excellent OVAs. Enjoy!

But it’s not perfect, so we can’t possibly do that.

- Signed, people scared of possible improvement threatening their position

Now just one second. I have it on very good authority that God works in mysterious ways. Your outline above has a clear narrative, and is therefore invalid.

Checkmate, mumblegrumble!

I think TotK put my jaw on the floor more times than BotW overall. And the mechanics are amazingly well thought out. But yeah, BotW has something TotK doesn’t. And that’s okay.

Somewhere, a Walton just sneezed.

Asking the tough questions.

Breath of the Wild on Switch. It had been a long long time since a game felt that immersive. I’d start a session, say to myself, “I’m gonna head towards this objective,” and four hours later I’d be in a completely different direction yet still entirely satisfied. Even the tutorial felt huge and weighty… at least until I was dumped into the wider world with only a suggestion and a general direction in which to go. I loved the hands-off approach. Everything felt organic. I remember being giddy playing Wind Waker at release, excited to get to explore the map once it opened… only to find that the first few far-off places I visited were locked behind items I didn’t have yet. With BotW, it felt like that decades-old disappointment was finally righted.

Hyper Gyanko came out around the same time as Winning Fumina, 2017 or thereabouts. I wasn’t following Build at the time so it’s been quite the process picking up some of the stuff I missed. Still waiting on the Gyancelot lol. Gyanko also got a P-Bandai refit as a Rick Dom.

All it takes is watching a few home improvement videos on YT to start the idiot ads rolling: bots reading screen text a la TikTok that boil down to “Doctors HATE this one trick!” nonsense. I’m never sure if the knowledge gained from the video is worth the brain cells lost to the ad.

Anyone else think it’s cool to just fly solo as a good human, no religion attached?

Religion does not have a monopoly on morality, despite what many preach. Be kind, and believe what you want.