Laptops, TV, and Gundam
My laptop rawks.
I can play HL2 and 16:10 Widescreen (1400x900 resolution), 6x anti alisasing, and everything turned to the max except for bloom, which slows my shit down for levels that can support it. Runs perfectly fine unless something explodes right in my face, then there is a tiny hiccup. Loading times are pretty quick. It looks awesome, and it's like playing a totally new game. I've noticed so much more random stuff that I would pass on by because I couldn't make it out due to low visuals.
I can run oblivion on medium with some viewing areas turned to the max. Also runs great, looks good too.
I got all 3 seasons of Arrested Development on DVD for only 34 bucks through Amazon.com. What a great deal, I never watched it while it was on TV, and now I'm sorry. I've only watched three episodes so far, but they are hilarious.
So, onto Gundam. I've just finished up the One Year War section of the main series, which covers everything before Zeta Gundam. The original Mobile Suit: Gundam show was pretty good, although parts were a bit "super robot." The movie trilogy was a lot better, it cleaned everything up and made it more about Newtypes (although that may have been because the show was dubbed in English and dialouge may have been changed?), the last movie was almost all new because they had to change so much. The only thing I dislike is that they didn't have M'Quvie fight Amauro at all, so the movies never tell if he lived or died.
The 08th MS Team was okay. It takes place on Earth during the beggenning and middle of the One Year War. The mobile suit design was really excelent. The suits were redisgned by the dude who drew Macross, and they were very realistic looking. Unfortunetly, the characters were cliched and were drawn in the modern "he acts like his hair" style, and the story was only so so because they added a doomsday weapon that was way too powerful for the era.
Gundam 0080 was my favorite side story, which surprised me. It takes place near the end of the One Year War, at a colony in Side 6, which had declared itself neutral. It is about a kid, who is maybe 10? and loves mobile suits and plays war with his friends and such. Because he accidentally joins up with a detachment of Zeon soldiers on his colony, he learns firsthand the horrors of war. I thought I would hate it because a little kid was the main character, but it was easily the most mature of the 4 (5 if you include the Gundam movies) shows.
Gundam 0083 techincally didn't take place during the One Year War, it takes place 3 years after. But it bridges the gap between MS: Gundam and Zeta Gundam. It was okay. The mobile suit design was decent, and the characters were mostly okay, but a lot of it felt cliche and there were some glaring plot holes. Plus, the mobile suits were, again, too powerfull for the era.
MS Igloo was a computer generated series that took place in random points of the One Year War. I hated it. It was so fucking bad. The visuals were pretty good, but the characters's eyes and lips looked really fake, they didn't react unless it was their "line," they were completely one dimensional and cliche. The ships moved too fast, and the mobile suits moved too slow. The only good episode was the second one, which had a pretty great battle between a bunch of comadeered Zeon mobile suits and an experiemental tank, but one episode can't redeem the entire thing. I never even watched the last episode, I couldn't stand to.
I'm now getting Zeta Gundam. I'm hoping it comes before Saturday afternoon, so I can watch it at my Grandma's house (I'm going to be there from Sunday morning to Monday night or Tuesday morning). I don't get it, I still have Arrested Development to keep me busy.
I can play HL2 and 16:10 Widescreen (1400x900 resolution), 6x anti alisasing, and everything turned to the max except for bloom, which slows my shit down for levels that can support it. Runs perfectly fine unless something explodes right in my face, then there is a tiny hiccup. Loading times are pretty quick. It looks awesome, and it's like playing a totally new game. I've noticed so much more random stuff that I would pass on by because I couldn't make it out due to low visuals.
I can run oblivion on medium with some viewing areas turned to the max. Also runs great, looks good too.
I got all 3 seasons of Arrested Development on DVD for only 34 bucks through Amazon.com. What a great deal, I never watched it while it was on TV, and now I'm sorry. I've only watched three episodes so far, but they are hilarious.
So, onto Gundam. I've just finished up the One Year War section of the main series, which covers everything before Zeta Gundam. The original Mobile Suit: Gundam show was pretty good, although parts were a bit "super robot." The movie trilogy was a lot better, it cleaned everything up and made it more about Newtypes (although that may have been because the show was dubbed in English and dialouge may have been changed?), the last movie was almost all new because they had to change so much. The only thing I dislike is that they didn't have M'Quvie fight Amauro at all, so the movies never tell if he lived or died.
The 08th MS Team was okay. It takes place on Earth during the beggenning and middle of the One Year War. The mobile suit design was really excelent. The suits were redisgned by the dude who drew Macross, and they were very realistic looking. Unfortunetly, the characters were cliched and were drawn in the modern "he acts like his hair" style, and the story was only so so because they added a doomsday weapon that was way too powerful for the era.
Gundam 0080 was my favorite side story, which surprised me. It takes place near the end of the One Year War, at a colony in Side 6, which had declared itself neutral. It is about a kid, who is maybe 10? and loves mobile suits and plays war with his friends and such. Because he accidentally joins up with a detachment of Zeon soldiers on his colony, he learns firsthand the horrors of war. I thought I would hate it because a little kid was the main character, but it was easily the most mature of the 4 (5 if you include the Gundam movies) shows.
Gundam 0083 techincally didn't take place during the One Year War, it takes place 3 years after. But it bridges the gap between MS: Gundam and Zeta Gundam. It was okay. The mobile suit design was decent, and the characters were mostly okay, but a lot of it felt cliche and there were some glaring plot holes. Plus, the mobile suits were, again, too powerfull for the era.
MS Igloo was a computer generated series that took place in random points of the One Year War. I hated it. It was so fucking bad. The visuals were pretty good, but the characters's eyes and lips looked really fake, they didn't react unless it was their "line," they were completely one dimensional and cliche. The ships moved too fast, and the mobile suits moved too slow. The only good episode was the second one, which had a pretty great battle between a bunch of comadeered Zeon mobile suits and an experiemental tank, but one episode can't redeem the entire thing. I never even watched the last episode, I couldn't stand to.
I'm now getting Zeta Gundam. I'm hoping it comes before Saturday afternoon, so I can watch it at my Grandma's house (I'm going to be there from Sunday morning to Monday night or Tuesday morning). I don't get it, I still have Arrested Development to keep me busy.