I can't speak to the games they publish, but the PDS grand strategy games get a number of free features in the patch that accompanies every DLC.... to my knowledge, we've always had more free feature updates than paid ones. Their patch notes tend to be on the lengthy side.

Ugghhhh

If you want the kits now, you go Amazon or Ebay; if you're willing to wait a bit, you order through Hobby Link Japan. HLJ has a pretty cool feature called the private warehouse where they'll store all of your orders, allowing you to buy kits one at a time and send them all en mass to save on shipping costs. If you buy…

You've basically seen every core Universal Century show, so I'd wrap that up. You're missing MS:Igloo (not actually relevant, a 9 episode CGI show that shows alternative OYW stuff), Char's Counterattack (the final capstone to the Amuro/Char saga), Unicorn, F91 (a movie), and Victory. F91 and Victory can be skipped…

Why do you think people dislike ZZ so much? They only started animating it halfway through!

Seriously though, I like ZZ.

Ah, yeah, that can be an problem. I'll say that the newer polycaps are much better than the older ones, and the RGs have an inner frame that stiffens them up tremendously, so that shouldn't be much of an issue anymore. However, some kits are really back-heavy which brings us to the solution for (almost) any issue:…

I dunno man, Gunpla is cheap, as long as you stick to 1/144. Even the Real Grades (Master & Perfect Grade features on a High Grade Scale) aren't all that expensive, with most kits in the 20-30 dollar range.

Regardless of the position one takes on Why Europe and the West became dominant, we always run into the same issue: determinism. Do we argue that European geography led to a natural flow of technology and goods that enabled the West relative to the Rest and facilitated global conquest? Do we argue that the culture and…

While we're at it.

Since most of these curses are based in geises, it's 100% internally consistent with the mythology. The idea is that you're imposing a deal or trade on someone, they will suffer (or benefit from) X until they can produce Y. There's a distinct lack of positive curses in modern fantasy.

I have all the mixed feelings on this.

On one hand, I'm always keen on historical preservation and the destruction of historical and sacred sites across Mesopatamia is appalling. Any action to save them is, to me at least, a good thing. It is no small comfort to me that Ctesiphon, Seleucia, and most if not all of the…

Well, to a degree, vanity does factor into quality of life hence the comment about burn victims. But yeah, it's one of those issues where the reality is far more nuanced than it seems.

As I remember, the plastic surgery in question was actually a breast reduction. It's a shame we don't have better terms to distinguish between 100% cosmetic bullshit procedures and "elective" procedures that can actually be kind-of important.... or very important; I want to say that some procedures to help burn…

Yeah, the serious neo-Satanists (not all of which are Satanists, oddly enough) are all about the power and self-rule metaphors. I say serious because there's a bunch of "Satanists" that are just atheists doing it for the lulz rather than people ascribing to an actual life philosophy. From what I remember of the two…

That's right, Mike, asses jiggle too! While they're at it, let's port those penis physics from Mount Your Friends over.

You know what? Fuck all this shit. Just give us Teen Titans animated movies in the same vein as Flashpoint, Throne of Atlantis, and.... yeah, of the ones I've watched, those were the two good ones... but regardless! That's what I want from DC.

Agreed.

Because reasons.

The legs actually do serve a purpose (walking, balance, moving around in space without using valuable propellant) but the arms are supremely useful because you can swap out weapons on the fly {later on, both sides begin to use the same connections on their manipulators}.

They actually do make this…

"G-Saviour"

"G-Saviour"

We do not speak of the dark days, for they have passed and shall hopefully never return.