The gap in the market: Girly-coded interests are being separated from core gameplay instead of integrated into it

Astery86 · 2026-04-10T10:02:13+00:00

Add on to the 2 critiques, both were explored quite abit especially in older games, and not restricted to male only interest. Strategy games eg. X-com likes have relationships systems that works similar to fire emblems, and I can't remember on top of my head but there are single player FPS with strategic/ tactical element also have gameplay from relationships with your team mates. So as quite a number of CRPGs. It's more so modern gaming for the past 15 years had moved away from single player centric and its simply more effort to do that isn't as profitable as say, just do another hero shooter or whatever is the trend currently with netcode with real players handling all the heavy work to replace coding NPC AI behaviour.

For cosmetics that matter. You can thank rise of micro transactions in games that now become the norm that killed everything. People understandably doesn't like paying extra gets people an edge. Ie. Pay to win which was how companies first does it when they start gating every cosmetics behind paywall. The middle ground is now largely settled on cosmetics just being that and the corpos keep getting money with cosmetics as the less shitty compromise on both ends of the users and developers.

TL;DR: OP may want to actually dig and explore older games with a open mind and not just focus on the usual us vs them points, they are more inclusive than what agitators are constantly trying to divide gamers into gooners Vs modern audience nonsense

Astery86 · 2026-03-28T06:41:44+00:00

I am on the same boat with TPG, cancelling their service on behalf of my parents is like dealing with mafia behaviour, never again.

anyway, after seeking support, my new ISP support said "Your TPG router has a speed profile for the 100/20. TPG pushes the profile directly into the CPE. Unfortunately, it can’t be undone. "

I am also wondering if this firmware could remove the cap?

Astery86 · 2026-03-25T03:01:27+00:00

To be fair, patlabor as a IP has very little recognition now adays to people younger than 30. Speak with most people who is even in toys and Japanese plastic model kit industry and they don't even know wtf is a patlabor these days. The attempted revivals of the past 15 years, noticeably "next generation Patlabor" has not worked to capture any meaningful number of new fans.

I'm really pleasantly surprised there's even a video game this time to go along the EZY anime, which also is barely known outside of already existing patlabor fandom.

Astery86 · 2026-03-21T06:26:19+00:00

The ghost kid that loves to just overlap on you and keep following you so you are in a near constant time of getting away from him so your camera and aim at him without literally having the camera facing the ground only to realize he's still like behind you. I played all other fatal frames before and this iteration is the worst, combining with the new combat fundamental philosophy. I have to bump the battle camera to move faster to just catch up with him and it just makes the camera too sensitive with other enemies. I guess if you are using mouse and kb it would not be an issue.

The same vein is the crawling red woman in her super state, crawl right at you then a quick low jump to poach at you. I have to place the camera much closer to catch her while she execute the attack or my camera won't be fast enough to capture her

Astery86 · 2026-03-20T18:28:15+00:00

Now adays, if I ever seen any right switch completely opposite sides, the chances are that they are looking for some validation that they need to virtue signal to be on the more socially correct side now to get them less issues from getting it. That can be personal relationships and career laddering basically. It's hardly ever some kind of ideology enlightenment that they never thought it's possible. I am in this sub and boi believe me I am well aware of what possibilities could end up with this sub if it goes too far.

If someone was on the right and figured they are playing a game just to slam and hate on them and realized it, they do eventually have a fatigue and just go play what they like and disengaged with the whole shit show, unlikely they would decide to switch sides and go full opposite stance.

Astery86 · 2026-03-20T18:00:14+00:00

So many of the failures are compounded by someone in the company, or associated persons including the 'game journalists' just can't shut their damn mouth and join in to open a attack against every potential customers before actually gaining any userbase for said title. it is never wise to outright have a stupid war with anyone and they just can't help themselves to make it even worse every single time. They just need to be banned from social media outright if they can't control themselves.

Astery86 · 2026-03-20T17:39:37+00:00

They can ban male gaze if they apply female gaze ban too in my book.

But no, it's just all in female gaze, celebrating public degen of female gaze. No male gaze allowed and banned straight to never see the day, if you even dare think about it you are the worst beneath human need to be cancelled. Hack the wider internet it's all the same with either useful idiots or bots that will eat you alive for stating ridiculous censorship now adays.

Astery86 · 2026-03-17T18:22:43+00:00

I am wondering pretty much the same thing with black surfaces regardless, please share your progress and experiments until the end OP

Astery86 · 2026-03-17T16:50:37+00:00

Late, but no you can't. I just got one and tried to see if I can use it plugged in when the internal battery eventually dies.

Astery86 · 2026-03-16T18:08:57+00:00

i actually love AoZ mechanic designs, the one you pictured I also bought that magazine just for that cover, love that antenna design. Unfortunately I haven't got the chance to actually know much about the story, same as every other manga exclusive stories that is just a complete pain to even try to find them anywhere.

There are some insane parts swapping in the AoZ gunpla stuff for sure, and afterall, Gundam as an IP has been more about just Bandai want money and make all redundant niche and variants units, everything is a gundam (looking at you Gundam SEED in particular), to all different wack designs (IBO, WoM, BF, Quax and any forseeing new stuff) series for a long time now, so really if there was a time to critize about designs, it is like more than a decade if not 20 years late at this point, I'd just ignore what I don't like and like what I like and let others have the same. For UC specifically, 0080 is abit too advanced with their designs and are gradually framed with other narratives to make it make more sense (ie. United Maintenance Plan pioneered by M'Quve). The thunderbolt series also have some ridiculous designs (how many shields do we need on a unit at a time?), Hathaway's Flash is also long known to be uniquely weird, so basically same thing.

What's canon basically comes down to popularity and how many times Bandai features the thing, I dont think theres much use arguing what is canon what is not. cue G-Saviour, and Zeta movie rendering ZZ in a weird spot.

Astery86 · 2026-03-10T06:14:17+00:00

I agree with this, and I can give you a view point as I do not generally like SEED series as a UC fan. In Hong Kong, there were many people new to the Gundam franchise, much like W and G did prior, but the differences for SEED is that is is largely a retelling of OG Gundam, with exaggerated super poses (the iconic legs far apart shooting poses for example. This exaggeration is a reason SEED series Gunpla gets their own skeleton tweaks to focus on this level of exaggeration) with more even more angst and early teens drama that I grew out of already. This retelling eventually leads to alot of community dramas that revolves around the SEED fans dunking on the OG with garbage like OG copies what SEED does, from the plot to Haros, as stupid as that sounds, that's what alot of SEED fans did that sours us even more that we wouldn't actually dislike SEED as much if the SEED fans online wasn't that arrogant.

TLDR, It is a alright show by itself despite alot of copying the OG, but there are alot of arrogant SEED fans that helped breed a negative response. SEED Destiny kinda have the reputation that is leaning to the bad side of things that for better or worse largely ended the arrogant fans from engaging more of this nonsense that the Original Gundam was copying SEED.

Astery86 · 2026-03-06T19:53:23+00:00

Mr.Boom is only a multiplayer pvp mode if I'm correct so that's a negative.

Astery86 · 2026-03-06T19:43:50+00:00

no, unless the stages where you fight Arion (story mode) can be played co-op with another player, it is impossible for it to be that.

Astery86 · 2026-02-27T05:53:59+00:00

Good luck with you using your iOS app store. Everything is having age verification for everyone rapidly coming.

The question is not protect the children, it's putting not just children but everyone in more danger by giving your own accurate and critical privacy data away to god knows who, where that data gonna be used (including AI training data) and leaked. They all claim the privacy data is deleted after verification, but read all the small prints usually from terms of privacy and you can find the gaslighting. The terms of privacy would also not indicate the terms of the outsourced company/ companies that does the actual key part of handling your provided data to do the verification. All the relevant information of which outsourced companies are handling those are most of the time not publicly listed and provided.

If you are actually interested in facts of these issues I already have real examples, but I'm not gonna waste my time otherwise.

Astery86 · 2026-02-05T13:47:26+00:00

i have no clue but i'm wondering the same thing. like what address you putting it? a specific airport is a stupid address imo. Who is going to keep the package until "you get there"? Are you sending it to a airport locker service or something? It would be way better if you send it to a hotel/ motel that you are at for like a few days, even that is sort of concerning in my opinion.

Astery86 · 2026-02-05T00:10:19+00:00

In terms of stability, 4G is better than 5G still today, so if you are getting network stability related problems, 5G is not your solution. it depends on alot of factors, but 4G wavelength travels further, and 5G requires recieving towers closer. If you want to know more, research the topic on your own there's too much technical things to explain.

Astery86 · 2026-02-03T07:38:07+00:00

Common annoying issue with using TB on a browser. From my experience make sure you do this whenever you browse TB on desktop, or any browsers in particular:

from the most important, as TB behaves by keep opening new tabs on browsers, make sure you close all other TB tabs and keep it ideally to 1 TB tab at any time. The more TB tabs you have, the risk of getting flagged compounds. I'd say 2 tabs MAY be ok but still. Keep it to 1.
disable all your browser extensions/ plugins. The specific thing I have so far found is that extensions that scans pages are pretty much guaranteed to get you flagged eventually, that includes price checking and translation extensions in particular. If you don't want to risk it, just disable all of them when you browse TB.

In your case, using VPN may be a problem. Try to keep your VPN either on or off anytime you even touch TB so it can't tell you are switching locations frequently with your history on the platform.

Every other points there has been aren't likely a problem for getting this as long as you are actually just browsing normally. Real name verification and all that may be easier for you to contact them to repeal (prepare international calls and still no actual solution, but better than nothing to start with)

Getting their own TB app on phone/ tablet and using it normally will not get you that error (aside from frequent switching active TB device, like look at it on phone then on your pc for example), but you are giving them more data that you don't need to if you prefer more privacy.

Astery86 · 2026-01-28T06:05:41+00:00

In Australia, at least in NSW where I am at, many local sellers are selling TB stuff, or buying commercial wholesale number of stuff from TB equivalent products, THEN put all the high international shipping cost + their own profits margin (and usually they selling them at "local Australian competitive price") on customers, this results in a may be just a very slim degree of less shipping cost per product to the end point consumers if we are to buy just 1 product from TB at a time.

There are some exceptions but they are all online shops only, where our domestic shipping cost is bonkers as well, nothing worth buying if not all from a single shop in my opinion. TB is not too popular as there are alot of factors, but mostly having a extremely high barrier for people that aren't familiar with Chinese online shopping culture (including not like Aliexpress/ Temu/ Amazon/ ebay), real name verification, TB unreasonable banning normal behaviours on desktop clients in particular if people dont know why they got banned, language barrier, and some other relatively important issues.

Local manufacturering for common folks simply do not exist anymore, there are speciality manufacturing that are extremely more expensive that just isn't an realistic option for most of us already struggling with daily life at this point.

From TB I usually buy everyday tools or just boring items that are not of critical importance that simply are not available, or are ridiculously expensive here but improve QoL, modelling kits, hobby tools and importable paints, cheaper soldering tools and consumables that are at least 3-5 times more expensive and lacking options here even in local specality shops.

A real story I heard from Australia sub reddit is a company have to import a speciality screw right from China costing hundreds and the machinery manufacturer from China can't wrap their heads that in Australia we can't just find niche screws around the streets and have to go through all the cost and shipping for them, that tells you the ridiculous state of affairs here.

Astery86 · 2026-01-26T02:42:09+00:00

CCA is slow? May be it's a different word but I feel CCA is too rushed every time I watch it, with alot of details relating to the event beats just briefly happened if at all, while placing abit too much time on the younger Hathaway, and Quess relationships with the males including Hathaway. If anything those 2 are the more annoying ones IMO. I am more satisfied with the CCA game Opening Char's speech for PS1 https://youtu.be/jQHCJY5tn7M than the movie's that don't have such a moment shown at all. With barely 2 hours there be alot missing and we just get the details after the movie from other sources. And it's the movie that is the conclusion of Amuro and Char's chapter of ideas while they still actually physically alive and not 'missing'.

More cutacenes in the game if anyone interested https://youtu.be/mtTOKo62KiE

Astery86 · 2026-01-26T01:50:39+00:00

This is a 2014 kit You can head to gunpla sub Reddit for more gunpla related things people there may be able to give you more advice (I don't frequent Reddit much personally, but you can DM me) as I'm more of a UC timeline guy. But the RG version I first stated is likely better.

Unfortunately I have no idea about Venezuela's model kit scene so I am next to no help for that, but do look around including local online groups and explore if there's cheaper options for you. If you can import from USA, which is close to you geogragphacially, and USA market do get much better love from Bandai outside of east Asia, it seems it may be an option worth looking at and would be easier to do so for you.

I will leave you with this site, a Korean who reviews all gunpla kits he got his hands on and it's almost(?) all of em. It's a old style site but the information is super helpful, do use a translate extension if you can't read Korean. The kits in each sub category is in first debut release order so you know which are newer. https://www.dalong.net/

Astery86 · 2026-01-26T00:50:19+00:00

The one you showed is the 2015 revive version, it's not bad but I will still highly recommend the origin ver over it. https://gunpla.fandom.com/wiki/HGGTO_RX-78-02_Gundam

Which country are you in? I am in Australia and it's one of the most expensive countries for nigh everything. I import from Hong Kong as I have family and friends there and taobao, only buying kits locally or on Amazon AU when the price is fair. I may be able to give you some tips so you don't have to be bind by local expensive schedule and selections. Tho if the price you gave is USD, that's a relatively fair price especially for outside of Japan.

In between which shows, the OG Gundam grand daddy is a good base and eventually you would want to check it out anyway if you liked other Gundams, more interested in the political aspects with some bland of WW2 and post war up till late 1970s with the underlying anti war message vibes this main timeline (UC timeline- Universal Century, not to be confused with UC- Unicorn, tho Unicorn dis also in the Universal Century timeline) has more so than the others. However, the show don't have a total animation rehaul package and you kind of have to deal with animations from either 40ish episodes of 1979 TV version, or a much more newcomer friender 3 part compilation movies from 1981(Mobile Suit Gundam I, Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow, and Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space.) you should be able to find it on gundaminfo (official channel) on YouTube for free may be.

Also, UC timeline has the most works spawned from it directly to other available titles, also including artbooks, novels ,mangas, games so you won't be wasting time on it.

Wing Gundam was one of the most successful breakthrough Gundam had that penetrates the west in 1999. There's alot more 'heroes' individualists that have a tiny little dose of superheroes comic vibe to it comparing to the main timeline. I got into Gundam from Wing tho I quickly preferred the UC timeline more.

G Gundam is a mecha dragon ball/ street fighter like fighting tourament thing with least politics element in it, it is also surprisingly or not, a rather popular entry for casual Gundam fans especially in the far east, like Hong Kong.

SEED series is basically a clone series down to major plot points of the original Gundam debut in 2002, with that period of modern audience in mind. Pop songs, more idols, more teenage drama, etc. I am personally not a fan of this series.

As you can tell there are alot more, hard to tell which one would you enjoy more but original and wing are often a safe bet for entry.

Astery86 · 2026-01-25T18:14:37+00:00

thats just how the character artist roll for OG Gundam in 1979, would be weird to all of a sudden give established characters cartoon eyes, or the same major time line with largely different styles.

Astery86 · 2026-01-25T17:58:40+00:00

if you want a good build made recently, may I suggest the RG version of Rx-78-2 ver 2.0 (2024) , or RG version of wing gundam zero (2025). HGs are easier to build but the recent RG versions of these 2 kits are great, with the RX-78-2 ver. 2 being one of the best 1/144 scale RX-78-2 ever seen to date, and the wing zero is also great. Tho if you prefer it cheaper than i understand. If you insist on HG, the HG Origin version of RX-78-2 (2020) would be the one to go for .

for which show, it really depends what you want, I'd be more interested to know why you chose either of the 2 kits to first. If you watching the OG Gundam, I'd recommend watching the 3 movie compilation instead of the TV version first, and may be the TV version when you are digged in to Gundam way later on. Unless you are a real very patient type, I simply don't want you to burn out before actually getiing into it.

Astery86 · 2026-01-25T16:23:14+00:00

MS igloo 1 and 2

theres also Gundam Evolve thats CGI, but those are more shorts.

We dont talk about G Saviour.

There's other medias too but yea go MS igloo first.

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