TallonMetroid

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[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"No, John. You are the demons."

And then John was a zombie.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree that the man is clearly off his rocker, but from a legal perspective, what matters is whether or not you understand that you have, in fact, killed a dude, and that this is in fact a bad thing. Having voices in your head telling you to do it is a completely separate issue. Again, this is my understanding as a layman, so any actual lawyers please feel free to tell me I'm full of shit.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)

My understanding is that insanity defense has a very high bar, beyond what the public would commonly consider "crazy", so it's not actually something that happens often. And even then, actually getting out of whatever institution you're remanded to isn't guaranteed.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this person has never once done anything that would actually help service members or veterans.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

The pigeon lady saved the day, though. So on that basis alone, it couldn't have been Piers Morgan.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago

Aw, snowflake got triggered.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, how else would we know it's a pineapple and thus get triggered?

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

CAH also explicitly said that what they were doing should be illegal.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hey man, President Convict would have stopped stroking Vlad's balls while choking on his dick! That would've showed him.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

That's okay, unbaptized infants get a free pass to heaven! Y'know, because admitting the alternative is actually the case would be pretty fucked.

What's that you say? Fetuses would also get a free pass? Shut up with your dirty heathen logic!

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, according to Revelation the faithful spend literally every moment on their knees locked in prayer venerating their god, so...

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

 

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)?

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