Been a while since I last blogged. So I went ahead and built an Astraea unit, HG, 1/144. I used one of those magazine boxes with the Astraea HG conversion kits, not the actual Astraea HG box that’s out there. That said, I had only gotten it for $10 so at the time it was worth it. Sat on this for so long, so it was time to actually do something with this kit.

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Just gave this a watch, and I thought it was pretty awesome. Firefights and drama galore, the animation is top-notch and the soundtrack fits well. Though I should mention the soundtrack would fit more within a Gundam 00 setting, it works just nicely here. Nonetheless, this is a nice change of pace from the alternate universe Gundams; I don’t hate Gundam 00, mind you. In fact I loved 00, and I also love how Gundam UC is turning out. Can’t wait for the remaining 5 episodes.

I’m also quite tempted to buy the Blu-ray now.

P.S. Non-mainstream Japanese theme song is a plus.
P.S.S. English and Japanese mixed in some places is lol. Does this mean the English voice acting is working alongside the Japanese versions too?

http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/conan-and-andy-do-anime-again-0292209/1159869

Again?! LOL

Holy crap, this is awesome:

Almost makes you feel sorry for the people who bought MG Exia. ^^;

Source: Official PG 00 Raiser Website

http://kotaku.com/5352295/mechwarrior-5-runs-into-legal-trouble

Get lost, Harmony Gold.

http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/08/16/indy-galge-stopped-from-distribution-on-xbox-live/

I did a bit of investigation and checked out the Xbox Live Marketplace… what I found was that 248 Indie games were available on the Japan marketplace, while some 408 were available on the US/Europe marketplace. And of those numbers, only some games were shared but not all.

Needless to say, I think this is more a problem on the author’s part for not checking content restrictions and restricting it to the region it’s supposed to be limited to. Otherwise, all 408 games would have appeared on both marketplaces, rather than this not so mutually exclusive (or not exclusive at all) state of affairs.

Edit: Just found this:

Games are now evaluated for “one world” or worldwide approval.

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Each game has to match the standards of all countries we support – that means the strictest standard will be applied for all countries. A game must pass all criteria before being allowed for sale in ANY Xbox LIVE marketplace.

Guess it’s the way the games are made then. If this was the policy, why on earth did the author decide to put a galge like this on Indie Games…?

Terrible author. Run-on sentences all over the place, and his writing is so assholish that you wouldn’t even begin to imagine just how much of a pain it is to try and capture the same meaning…

There were a number of major problems Studio Deen had with the Fate/stay night TV series a few years back. The biggest one, and probably the major culprit, is that it was billed as being an “original scenario”, covering all three scenarios, rather than being one. As a result, they did a bunch of stuff that resulted in it being particularly stupid, or coming off as rushed, etc. In fact, I do think that advertisement and goal with the TV series was why it failed so hard in the first place.

Now they’re making a movie based off Unlimited Blade Works. If you think about it though, not long after the Fate/stay night TV series ended, Kara no Kyoukai’s movies came out, and they were a resounding success. What’s not to say that Studio Deen realizes that what they did was pretty stupid, and that they want to try this again for round 2? After all, people do learn after screwing things up… most of the time.

Of course, this is all just a very dim, but glimmering hope of light for the UBW movie, and I pray that it will actually work out well. If they had billed the Fate/stay night TV series as just being the Fate scenario back in the day, maybe it would have worked out better; all they’d have to do is follow the Realta Nua variation of the Fate scenario.

Better yet, they could have done it as a movie, and that would have worked out as well.

Oh how you make me laugh.

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