TallonMetroid
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I mean, according to Revelation the faithful spend literally every moment on their knees locked in prayer venerating their god, so...
TallonMetroid
2d ago
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This is not a problem if you drive at the speed limit. Then what happens is that everyone else, who will be speeding, will continually pass you and thus create more car lengths in front of you. Unless you're in a no passing zone on a two lane road, in which case they can follow the speed limit for once.
TallonMetroid
2d ago
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Actually, Rebels is supposed to take place between the Reva show and ANH, and he's depicted as cartoon Alec Guinness there.
TallonMetroid
3d ago
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It always amuses me that we're supposed to believe that in the span of 5 years Obi-wan goes from looking like Ewan McGregor to looking like Alec Guinness.
TallonMetroid
3d ago
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Texas choosing to not execute a man (for now)? Surprising, but not unwelcome.
Also:
In a response to that petition, the Texas Attorney General's Office said Roberson had failed to prove his "actual innocence," and that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had ruled Nikki's injuries were "inconsistent with a short fall from a bed or complications from a virus."
That's... not how the burdern of proof works at all?
TallonMetroid
5d ago
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Hope he ignores the safety briefing and spills oil all over himself.
TallonMetroid
5d ago
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The article doesn't make it sound like the direction he's actually taking, but he could potentially sue for defamation, since they're attributing the messages to him, which he denies is true, and the messages have had a pretty apparent negative effect on him. Seems like he's suing for leaking his PII instead though, so I guess he's doubling down on the notion that someone apparently went through a lot of effort to fake everything.
TallonMetroid
6d ago
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Wouldn't that just be the SNES controller that Switch Online subscribers can buy?
TallonMetroid
6d ago
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Wouldn't mind getting the final act of the Aenid. C'mon Virgil, I believe in you!
TallonMetroid
1w ago
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...Wow, what a moron.
TallonMetroid
1w ago
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Well, this has no online component, so hopefully it won't end up like Battlefront Classic.
TallonMetroid
1w ago
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We do not recognize Communist Chinese agent Joe Biden
I mean, you'd recognize Communist agents, wouldn't you, Communist Russian agent Jones.
TallonMetroid
1w ago
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That's a failure to download the installers to begin with, not them being taken away from you after the fact.
TallonMetroid
1w ago
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If it works. Don't Teslas still have problems in his stupidass underground Vegas loop? And that's pretty much as ideal driving conditions as you can get.
TallonMetroid
1w ago
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You couldn't have disabled spellcheck before taking the screenshot? 😜
Anyway, obviously we've got President Convict, and I recognize Jim Jones, but who are the other two presumable fuckers?
TallonMetroid
2w ago
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I'm fine with doubling down, if it's all powered by furnaces that burn billionaires. After all, they're all going to die eventually anyway, so they might as well provide some tangible service to the world for once.
/S
TallonMetroid
2w ago
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I dunno about that. I was at least able to finish Crystal Skull, and for all that people shit on Shia Lebouf his character wasn't nearly as intolerable as whatsherface. Or maybe he was, but since Indy himself wasn't also suddenly a loser, I actually had other characters to give a shit about which cushioned his impact? Either way, I'd be willing to at least watch Crystal Skull again, but I still haven't finished Dial of Destiny and have no desire to try.
TallonMetroid
2w ago
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Blu-Ray
The porn industry actually backed HD-DVD over Blu-Ray.
TallonMetroid
2w ago
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The entire reason that they're appointed positions in the first place was to prevent just that. The actual problem is that these are lifetime appointments with no way to remove them. What we really need is some damn term limits.
TallonMetroid
2w ago
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Well, that's why this would be an underground railroad. If it was legal there wouldn't be any need to hide it.
What do you mean, Mrs. Loheng-Rinko totally counts as a Seed kit! I'll fight anyone who disagrees in Gunpla Battle. Anyway, the Strike is from the BB Senshi Striker Weapon System kit, but I wouldn't have been able to fit it onto her lap if any of the weapon packs had been equipped. Sad. Once I get the Skygrasper painted, because holy crap it needs it, I'll stick all the weapons on it instead and add it to the stand.
Whoof, that name's a mouthful. But anyway. This kit. I love it. The fact that it came with this entire display area, complete with tapestries in the back, is just so ridiculously amazing. Like, sure, this is based on the MG 1.5 RX-78, so the hands don't necessarily hold the weapons that well, but who cares? Just put them in the weapon racks and the Gundam itself in seiza.
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.
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
Or, according to the manual "EAST INVINCIBLE", which is some jarring Engrish given how well translated the rest of it was. Now I just need Bandai to release a HGFC Rising Gundam so I can pose them together for the Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken. Bonus: Nobell Gundam on a horse 
Messer Zwergs are from the Effect Wings Snow White addon kit. The paint mixture I used ended up being more blue than I expected, but all in all it still turned out pretty well. Bonus: there's something not right about this Snow White, but I can't quite put my finger on it... 
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sure, maybe I could've put this in a dynamic action pose. But samurai Gundam goes into seiza position.
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)?