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ITT, A Grown Man Posts Pictures of Toys

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Dix-Neuf has some surprisingly great legs!

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Saber got her replacement limbs in return, and I actually kinda like how she looks in ’em.

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So basically, I was just testing out how well my desk light works for photography since all the other bulbs in my room are fluorescent or something and turn everything yellow. Seems like it does a pretty good job, better than my prior tactic of waiting for daylight and taking a picture on “Auto” from about three-six feet away.

THIS IS WAYSIIIIIIDE

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I thought way too much about working a Sparta crack into the last panel. So I did it here, instead.

The local used/half-off book shop had the Transformers Ultimate Guidea paperback edition a while back, and it’s aggravating me to no end that the ‘updated material’ covers Armada, Energon, then the Classics line, with no mention of Cybertron/Galaxy Force whatsoever. It’s almost conspiratorial, considering how hard they tried to CRAM the stand-alone GF storyline into the Armada-Energon mishmash, resulting in one of the least accurate localizations since Casey& Friends. Names were changed, GENDERS were changed, and the discrepancies were explained away by a black hole that apparently causes amnesia too.

I’ve started into Luminous Arc, and my ‘try it before I buy it’ policy for iffy DS games is yielding a dilemma- I’m pretty far in the game, since it turned out to be essentially FFTA with voices (and an anime intro featuring a prodigious “Gainax Bounce”) and worth buying; yet it would require me to start from scratch. Which really wouldn’t be all bad; the localization is pretty articulate. The touchscreen-only controls are poison, though, disable them immediately. I’d probably do well to spend more time leveling in between story battles as well since I keep surviving with one guy left.

I’ve also been picking at a second play of Super Robot Wars: OG2 since I doubt we’re going to see the PS2 Original Generations here, which is a bloody shame. I went into OG expecting a mere ‘fix’ with generic characters and mechs, and now I’m hooked on the OGverse, looking at the more canonical Alphas as a side story to it, and was pretty disappointed by the lack of the SRX Team in W. (The Ardygun family was okay, but getting the Valcazard in the final stages disabled your ability to split up and recombine the component machines.)

So, Here Goes Again

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Note: this will get alarmingly close to whiny typical personal stuff. Not that my normal writings aren’t personal, in fact, I get the impression most of the robot stuff is along the lines of an injoke shared between facets of my own personality. Like a nerdier Killer7.

It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but I’m only in the past weeks putting serious research into looking for my own set of wheels. I’ve managed to wing it this far with a combination of public transit, lifts from family and friends, and the sheer luck of being within walking distance from my workplace. And though I’m getting decent hours (and the seclusion to play games or catch up on paperbacks during precious lulls), I think I’m ready to make a push for something bigger. In particular, I’m kind of sick of walking around the store on days off nervously expecting people to ask me where canned foods or tomato sauce are even though I’m not in uniform. Getting back to the original point- It’ll open things up a lot once I can get around without relying on my feet or amazing coincidences. A tailwind makes a big difference!
I’ve been putting off a formal review of Transformers: The Game, because they keep getting exceedingly ranty and off-topic. (Spoiler: It’s really rather bad!) The ‘intro’ to the review needs some chopping but it ends up being quite possibly the most crotchety anti-gaming shitfest I’ve ever written. Still playing the DS one off and on though, which says something. I’ve since blown through the Autobot edition as well.

I managed to find fresh, factory sealed Nintendo DS games in a Goodwill of all places a couple weeks ago, so I’m finally giving Lunar: Dragon Song a go. So far I don’t really see the appeal, though I hear that it’s light on story compared to the ‘proper’ series; as such the one thing I can say with all confidence is that the idea of the battle ‘modes’ is pretty stupid. Either you get experience OR items, making for stretches where you have to decide between leveling up to strengthen yourself while depriving yourself of restorative items, or gather items to sell or cash in on ‘missions’. Either way, something is wrong with tiny bees that inexplicably are harder to beat than the wild anteaters and knockoff Bulbasaurs you encounter.

So where the hell does one find 2008-model Bumblebee in this bloody state?

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