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Will be seeing Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom tomorrow. I'll do my review as soon as I get back.
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Ok so it's Sho vs 9 cyborgs from the 009 series. For Sho it's him with all his current skills Edit: on second though after seeing the groups upgraded powers again maybe at least gigantic should be allowed. So on to his oppoents. 001 - Ivan Whiskey Ivan's brain gives him several psychic powers, such as telepathy, telekinesis, and extra-sensory perception. These he can use to great extent, and they are powerful enough to withstand enemy fire and overcome a single foe. However, he sometimes falls asleep indefinitely at inopportune times, because his infant body can barely handle the strain of using his abilities afterward.Ivan's telekinetic powers only work on unconscious beings or inanimate objects, never live ones because possibly the requirement being greater than his usual limits or his dislike of killing. He usually uses telepathy to talk to his teammates because of his young age and, on occasion, read minds.Because of Ivan's brain enhancements, his intelligence surpasses that of an average adult human. His knowledge and awareness allows him to analyze current events and form theories based on the information he has gathered. Due to this, he has proved vital in surveying battle situations and providing information about supernatural happenings such as the mysterious fires shortly after 009 adopted an orphaned dog.In the three-episode OVA "Conclusion Gods War", the version of Ivan seen in that timeline was able to "upgrade" his fellow cyborg teammates and give them additional powers fitting their traditional ones, using his energy to help awaken their full potential. His own abilities were enhanced as well before this, allowing him to create an astral projection of himself which could use his psychic powers at will, while his true body remained sleeping at Dr. Gilmore's place. 002 - Jet Link Jet has high-quality jet boosters installed in his feet, allowing him to reach high altitudes up to 3000 meters. He has an early version of Joe's Accelerator, which allows him to go as fast as Mach 5, albeit temporarily due to technical flaws. He is also strong enough to carry up to three people at a time while airborne. He also has some artistic ability, as seen when he painted the front of their ship, The Dolphin. He is frustrated when Geronimo, Jr. paints over his work.In the OVA "Conclusion: GOD'S WAR", Jet's abilities were upgraded by Ivan to the point where his body became extremely light, resulting in becoming fast enough for his boosters to leave a trail that sets anything caught in it on fire. 003 - Françoise Arnoul Françoise was gifted by Black Ghost with the combined powers of telescopic and x-ray vision, allowing her to visually detect things even from miles away and see through internal structures. Her enhanced hearing also makes her capable of detecting the slightest sounds. This makes her useful as the "enemy radar" of the 00 Cyborgs, intercepting oncoming foes before they have the chance to strike. In addition to her enhanced senses, she also has some experience with electronic engineering, shown most notably when she uses it to hijack a jet plane and disable a bomb carrying a deadly virus in the 2001 anime episode "The Pharaoh's Curse". This is foreshadowed in the episode "Gilmore's Notes", when Dr. Gilmore states that besides studying ballet, she had also been an electronic engineering student (although this reference was removed in the English dub).In the three-part OVA "Conclusion: GOD'S WAR", after having her powers enhanced and modified by Ivan, Francoise's receptive powers were enhanced to the point she can detect things over even farther distances (such as detecting a large island that was well below ground), with the addition of having precognitive abilities. 004 - Albert Heinrich Out of the nine 00 Cyborgs, Albert's body has been modified the most, to the point that it no longer resembles the flesh and blood his body was once made of. Due to the wounds he received from the truck accident, most of his body parts have been replaced with deadly weapons. In the episode "Satan of the Deep Sea", he is not as affected by jellyfish venom and comments that it's due to him not having many organics left. His left hand hides an automatic electromagnetic knife that can cut through any material, while his right hand is converted into a personal machine gun that he can operate at will. When not in use, Albert hides his right hand with a glove made of synthetic skin to avoid identification and curious onlookers, or conceals both hands with gloves. His lower legs have been turned into metallic cylinders that shoot anti-air missiles whenever he bends his knees. Initially causing him great pain when he does so, the technology developed in the present day allowed Albert to operate his missile launchers without physical problems. In the three-part OVA "Conclusion: GOD'S WAR", after his powers were enhanced by Ivan, the Albert of that timeline gains the ability to shoot energy bullets that home in on a chosen target, causing them to explode when hit. 005 - G-Junior G-Junior has enhanced physical strength, estimated by Ivan Whisky to be "as strong as a thousand men". He can be seen lifting battle tanks, huge boulders, and punching through solid stone with his bare hands. G-Junior also has iron skin, which allows him to shrug off most attacks like nothing. This makes him suitable for the front lines as ground infantry, as his cybernetically-enhanced strength and durability covered those other 00 Cyborgs with more specialized powers. G-Junior has empathic powers not included with his cybernetic abilities. His empathy sort of functions like a "sixth sense", sensing changes in nature (and in the episode "Monster Island", sensing nature's condition as well) and possibly other people's thoughts. His instinctive comprehension of nature makes him a superb tracker. In the three-part OVA "Conclusion: GOD'S WAR", G-Junior's enhanced strength was upgraded by Ivan to the point where he can cause massive earthquakes with a single punch. 006 - Chang Changku Chang's abilities enable him to breathe extremely hot torrents of fire that can burn materials up to 3,000 degrees, allowing him to easily burrow holes through the ground and be able to melt solid rock. In the anime adaptation of Conclusion: GOD'S WAR, his abilities were further enhanced by Ivan. He possessed what could best be described as a form of pyrokinesis, creating a construct of a dragon from his fire breath to take down enemies. 007 - Great Britain Great Britain's primary ability enables him to transform into a variety of things, such as inanimate objects, people, and animals. He can perform this technique by pressing his belly button, which contains an installed mechanism that reshapes his cellular structure. This allows him to take on the appearance of anything he desires, and makes him useful in situations where stealth is required or when he wants to get information by his enemies unnoticed. He can even use these shapeshifting abilities to, on occasion, adjust his own body proportions in order to transform into a gigantic version of himself. However, he can still retain injury while still transformed. In "Conclusion: GOD'S WAR", Great Britain's abilities were upgraded to where he turns into an astral spirit whenever his belly button is pressed, allowing him to possess and control another being. 008 - Pyunma Pyunma's body has been fitted a special set of mechanical lungs that allows him to breathe underwater at any depth, as well as endure underwater pressure at deeper ocean levels. As shown in several episodes, Pyunma is an extremely capable fighter while submerged, to the point where he can attack without relying on seacraft. Because of his former life as a soldier, Pyunma is the 00 Cyborg who has actual combat experience. One of the things that come with it is his knowledge in guerilla warfare, which he applies to his fights against Black Ghost. After his near-death experience and being upgraded by Dr. Gilmore, Pyunma's body became extremely streamlined underwater, enhancing his durability and allowing him to swim at higher speeds. This came in handy in a later episode when the 00 Cyborgs were attacked by cybernetic sea creatures. In the three-part OVA "CONCLUSION: GOD'S WAR", Pyunma's powers were given a second upgrade, this time by Ivan Whisky. He is able to mentally control the water pressure around him and even inside his enemies, causing them to explode from the inside out. 009 - Joe Shimamura While the 00 cyborgs are individually powerful and unique, Joe truly shines above the rest. His body was built by combining elements taken from the designs of his predecessors with the newest technology at the time, making him the most powerful out of all his friends and teammates. He has inherited Geronimo, Jr.'s iron skin, which allowed him to survive being shot in the back multiple times by Black Ghost's robots. In "A Phantom Dog", Joe was completely unaffected by Kubikuro's pyrokinetic flames, with not a single burn on his body (although he was wearing civilian clothes at the time, which served as a buffer). Joe also has Pyunma's underwater breathing to some extent, and an upgraded version of Jet Link's acceleration module, referred to as "Acceleration Mode". The Acceleration Mode is Joe's signature ability, and has been used as his primary method of attack. By activating a switch in his back molar, Joe can move at superhuman speed which makes everything around him stop to a stand still or move very slowly. He can run up to speeds of Mach 5, which is just as fast as Jet flying at maximum speeds. However, as episodes "The Escape" and "Frozen Time" have demonstrated, Joe cannot touch people while in Acceleration Mode, since normal people cannot physically endure such fast speeds for very long. Doing so will produce devastating results, bringing severe injury or death to the person being Accelerated. In the anime adaptation of Conclusion: GOD'S WAR, Ivan enhanced his abilities to a higher level, allowing him not only to move faster than light, but accelerate the molecules of objects on contact, causing them to explode. All the cyborgs, apart from 001, each carry a Super Gun. t is a pistol-like blaster equipped with multiple settings for specific tasks such as a stun function and high power energy rays that are able to take out armored vehicles like tanks or gigantic monsters such as Stone Giants. The original manga version had several settings: Gun, Heat Ray, Stun, Poison Gas and Tranquilizer Darts.The 2001 anime version had 5 settings: Beam, Energy Magnum, Freezer, Needle and Knockout Ray. Beam: A laser blast. The weapon's default mode Energy Magnum: Fires charged up blasts of energy that deliver heavier damage capable of penetrating rock and denting solid steel. Used to take out armored targets. Needle: A rapid shot that fires energy construct needles that can pierce objects. Useful for taking out squads quickly or disabling tanks. Knockout Ray: Releases a purple wave of energy that puts enemies to sleep.
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Maybe we were never meant to be some ultimate weapon. Maybe we were just a toy to be used in some war game with another alien race or to settle some dispute without them actually having to fight themselves. We are simply meant to be pieces created for a cosmic game and earth is a big biological toy factor.
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Ok so today turned into tomorrow but here I am. The Jurassic Games Review: Before I go into this review proper there's a little diatribe I want to get into before hand so you can properly understand my feelings on this film. I've always loved monster, alien and animal attack films of B quality or lower, always, and while I've not watched every single one I've seen enough to get a general feel for this genre and how its changed over the years. For the last ten years or so these types of film have really sunk to an all time low. What I mean is that they have gotten lazy, they have gotten bad and they try to coast on the idea they are so bad they are good. But worst of all they never really try. It's got nothing to do with being cheap, or having the less then stellar actors or the cheap CGI, films had all these problems years before many of us were born, it's simply that none of them want to put real effort in. Say what you will about the SYFY channels original films, which is where a good bulk of this genre was coming from for a while, but despite how low budget, badly acted or poorly written you could tell that people did honestly try. They are a C list films at best but they still gave it their best shot one way or another. Thats not to say there were no "we stopped trying" types out there. I believe that the turning point that landed us in the land of less then mediocre and "we wish we were so bad we we're good" started with a little film called "Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus" a complete joke of a film that is just plan awful. It's classed as a so bad it's good film but here's the thing, most films that carry that title and do it well are films that never set out to have it. Birdemic is a shining example of that. Those that can pull it off intentionally are few and far between. Films like "MS vs GO" are not so bad their good, they are just plan bad but if your seeing them for the first time they can trick you into thinking otherwise. After this film did well for what it was the ball started rolling down hill. Tons of films coming out every years with bad stories, bad acting, awful effects and worst of all no effort. After the Mega Shark films finally died off (yes there is way more then one) it was succeeded by other shark films, hyped beasts and the big one Sharknado, a film that from what I understand raised the bar a little only to be dragged back down when sequels were made and again the novelty wore off. Then comes The Jurassic Games, a film thats in the same ball park as the mountain of trash I just mentioned but feels like it's worlds apart. It's nothing super original, it takes ideas from most films of this type you will have seen and mashes them together, Battle Royal, Hunger Games, the Condemned, The Matrix, Gantz and Swordart Online etc but with dinosaurs. The massive difference here is that despite the fact the film knows what it is it still tries. The story is cheesy but is played strait, the acting is not the best you will ever see but at least there's actual acting accruing on screen with none of the caste feeling like 2-D, cartoon character in human form. Action is a mixed bag but there is quite a bit of genuinely intense and well choregraphed stuff here.The CGI for this type of film is some of the best you'll ever see. There is some stuff thats not as impressive, the affect of peoples heads exploding is laughable, dust affects could be better, model integrations with humans is not the best and there is a swarm of trilobites that is easily the worst affect in the film. But for all that you have so much other stuff that's pretty damn good, the dinosaurs easily are the best to come out of the "C grade or lower" market of films in the last 15 years and the way the film put them to use is just amazing at times. Other uses of CGI within the film are also pretty good to such as 3-D maps, screen and walls. Simply put what makes this film good is that it really tried with what it has and succeeds more often than not. It's still a C list movie and it ain't perfect by a country mile but damn if it ain't the best C lister I've seen in far to long. My score: 3/5
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Two movie reviews today. First... Actium Maximus: War of the Alien Dinosaurs Plot Summery - The wretched colony world of Actium is crumbling under the ego of its dictator, Grand-Automaton Polpox. Rebel Laffrodites, a religious minority, are being exterminated in a government run campaign and to distract the citizenry Polpox has put on a grand carnival, an Actium Maximus where alien dinosaurs fight to the death in a gigantic Colosseum. Space Hunter Axezun is commissioned to scout the farthest reaches of the galaxy for new combatants. He and his crew find much more than bloodthirsty monsters on their quest however, they also discover a secret which could alter life in the galaxy forever. Review - Oh boy starting below the barrel with this beauty. I ran across this film by accident while hunting for dinosaur related content on IMDB and really could not believe what I was seeing. I was so shocked and intrigued that I stopped the trailer half way and bought then and there. Actium Maximus is easily one of the lowest grade films I have ever watched. The only saving grace of this film is it's premises and world building but little else. The dvd cover description compares it to the Dark Crystal and in the weakest of ways thats true, this films sci fi universe has no ties to any standard sci fi narrative or universe put to film, for the most part, that I can think off. Like the Dark Crystal it has no connection's to earth or humanity (almost) despite some very human characters, another world(s), another time but minus the wonder. Thats about the only interesting thing here, the film is of the quality of a student film and if rumours are to be believed it was never meant to be released but to simple act as a concept pilot for a tv series. The practical effects look like they were made in someone's garage and the digital ones look worse. With easily some of the most terrible green screen I've ever layed eyes on and even poorly done colour editing to try and make some scenes lighting consistent. Speaking of editing, well that sucks too, day and night are interchangeable from shot to shot, one scene will randomly cut to another while others will get long and unnecessary transition sequence. Virtually none of the location shots even remotely match up with style of the practical effects used, you'll get an establishing shot for paper mashie alien city at night that cuts to one of a very contemporary earth building in broad daylight. Speaking of which any indoor location shots are just normal buildings with a load of poorly put together tat to make you "believe" your in an alien zoo or ship. The aliens are mostly just people in different colour cloaks and what ever halloween masks they could find on the day, a few others are just almost immobile puppets dangles in the air or sock puppets, one of the main villains is a guy painted blue (badly), the main evil aliens are just pillars of rock on turnstiles with a few pipes coming out and the main antagonist, the Grand-Automaton Polpox looks like he's made of two made it two heavily decorated cardboard boxes with lots tubes coming out and two massive blue globes for eyes. The human actors are some of the most wooden and inexpressive you will ever see. Dialog is either in monotone or had been so badly altered/synthesized thats it's almost unintelligible to the point that subtitles had to be added for you to understand them, no it's not meant to be an alien language becuase you can just make out that it used to be a normal sentence. Speaking of subtitles, every single bit of text in the film is as cheap and poorly rendered as you can imagine. The titular Alien Dinosaurs are cheap rod and sock puppets which look bad even in their best shots and much like everything else there green screen is awful. It's also painfully clear they only had one of each and just used different colour filters to make it look like their were multiple monsters on screen. Also all fight scenes consist of slow waling animation and flailing sock puppets, with the odd biting of stationery models thrown in, to give them some small credit at least they included some minor blood and gore despite the non-existent budget although that novelty is ruined by these wonky fight scenes lasting 3 minuets plus. All in all, you'd need to be a very special type of person to not be uninterested and bored stupide by this film, in some places its so slow that even the "so bad it's good" vibe looses it's bite, so if the trailer didn't do much for you don't bother and even if it did don't get your hopes up as even I struggled to get real entertainment out of this, and trust me if I'm flagging at times it has to be bad. If you really are interested then watch it for free on YouTube, I only bought it because I'm building a physical copy collection. My Score: 1/5 IMDB: 2.4 I'll be posting the other film review later today.
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Anime you are currently watching and/or Downloading
Shin Mefilas replied to Toku Warrior's topic in Japanese Entertainment
Currently working my way through Cross Ange. A pretty good series actually even if it goes a bit overboard on the nudity and fan service. After that I’m finally getting to watch Steel Jeeg and God Mazinger. There’s nothing quite like a good old fashioned 70s super robot show. -
My story is pretty mundane. I had gone though a few years without giving guyver much thought until I dug up my old VHS tapes and started watching it again. I did this in part to get back into Guyver but also to try and hunt down other older anime from there advertisements. That was how I got into the works of Go Nagai, a trailer for Devilman was actually on the first one I owned, OVA 3, along with another series I would become interested in Mermaid Saga. This revitalised intreast is what lead my to start buying the manga of Guyver from amazon and ebay. Naturally I eventually his the road block that all wester guyver fans come to, the manga was cancelled. Thus I started searching online which lead me to not only guyver but other manga I had desperately wanted to read. I would not make my way to the site proper until the JL staff realised someone was leaking the manga to streaming sites, a fact I had been totally ignorant of. I made my way here and the rest is history. And thats also when my inability to stick with a name also began. I've recently read the manga so I'm not likely to go thought it again for a while, I've got to catch up on a few others like Mazinger Zero and Demon Lord Dante while working on my own manga project. Thats really cool, I've gone though a similar situation when I wanted to read the Blue Hole manga I'm currentlt translating.
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So City on the Edge of Battle came out today. No reviews or spoilers as of yet however we did get a poster for the third and final film of this animated series Godzilla: Planet Eater "Bow down and worship the golden demise"
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Been a while to get here but here's the overview of Blue Hole's Prologue. The prologue opens by discussing the Blue Hole caves off the Bahamas and about monsters that are rumoured to lurk within it's depths. It talks about the Bermuda Triangle and other locations across the world known as "cursed seas" were strange occurrences are documented to happen. It then moves on to the discovery of the Coelacanth in 1938 and one of the cursed seas of the coast of Africa, near the islands of the Comoros. It is here were our story begins proper. Gaia (the women appearing on the cover of the manga) is a Comoros native and a fisherwomen. She, her Grandfather and her deck hand Diego our out night fishing for a very valuable catch, Coelacanths. The fish a worth a lot of money and could not only help her pay of the rent on her boat but make her entire village wealthy. However her Grandfather wish's to leave the area, a spot were many of the prehistoric fish are known to gather, for other monsters have been known to swim in these waters and this is also the place were Gaia's father met his end years earlier. "They do no belong in this world" he says "They come from another world and have gotten lost here". It is then the boat is attacked by a large sea creature, a mosasaur. Diego is thrown overboard and as the ship sinks Gaia's Grandfather slips from her grasp into the jaws of the ancient beast. The next day, Gaia is picked up by a research vessel from the UK under the command of Captain Fox. He and Prof. Wizard interrogate Gaia who is still in shock. Poaching Coelacanths is a very serious crime and they are also interested in the state of her boat, as the damage on it appears to have been caused by an unknown creature. They also show her a severed arm which has a bite mark that dose not match any shark. While she cannot explain exactly what happened, with the threat of being arrested hanging over her Gaia cuts a deal. If she shows them the hiding place of the Coelacanths she can go free. Gaia, Wizard and the Captain head down to the ocean floor in the ships submersible and soon find their goal. The Blue Hole is a massive cavern like structure 100 meters below the surface. From the hole pours an ominous blue light. At the Blue Hole the water's temperature and salt content changes, ultrasound is reflected from it and magnetic readings are abnormal. Soon shoals of Coelacanth begin swimming out of the Blue Hole as the group look on in awe, with Gaia pointing out that there many fish here yet she's criticised for taking a few. Unfortunately the shoal also attracts the attention of the Mosasaur Gaia had encountered the night befor. As the Captain is about to leave the area, Gaia grabs the controls and attempt to ram the sea reptile but this only results in it turning it's jaws on the sub. Things look grim but befor the Mosasaur can do to much damage a Plesiosaur rises out of the Blue Hole and snatch's the other animal in it's jaws befor diving once more. As it passes through the Blue Hole, we get a glimpse of an ancient sea. The group are able to return to the surfs without incident but are clearly shaken by the experience. Through there collective mussing they come to the conclusion that the Blue Hole is gateway through time. In the closing panel of the chapter we are told that Gaia left her native land and Prof. Wizard returned to UK, specifically the University of London. The world continued to turn as if nothing happened for the next six months... and thats the Prologue. Translating this chapter was one most rewarding experiences I've ever had. It took months to get all the martials I needed, the original manga, its 1996 French translation and then actually sitting down for days on end using google translate and common sense translate the first volume. This was a totally new experience for me as I do not speak any other language other then English, my sever dyslexia insuring I had no time to devote to learning even French at school, nor had I ever attempted manga translation. Fortunately I do have a supportive family member who did read the language to a degree, so I had someone to turn to if I was unsure of a sentence, and provided me with equipment needed cut the manga pages so they could be scanned. To be able to site back and read it in full is a true joy as is sharing these over-views with you.
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I'd have to say no. Guyot was the most powerful of the 12 originally, not counting Archanfel, but Imakarum is defiantly superior. In human form Guyot was able to match a Guyver in strength but Imakarum was powerful enough to destroy buildings and give both Sho and Agito a rough time befor he even transformed. To date no other human based Zoalord has shown that kind of power, again not counting Archanfel. Guyot is also more limited in what he can do, he simple a gravity control type while Imakarum also has very powerful bio-energy attacks as well. Imakarum is also shown to have to have better control of his gravity powers, such as his pressure wave attack that can disable a Guyver, and his energy attacks are quite divers in application as well. Simple put Imakarum is Guyot+. He's been optimised to have all of Guyot's powers but with a greater level of control, improvements made to his original bio-energy based powers and his control of them as well and to top it all off he was created at a later date, meaning more advanced technology and techniques were used in his creation and he's processing was overseen by Archanfel himself. Guyot, for all his awesomeness, is an outdated model.
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Which Infinity Stone Would You Have Quiz?
Shin Mefilas replied to Shin Mefilas's topic in Tinned Meat
I speak honestly and say if I was given the time stone in real life I'd use it with the respect it deserved, by which I mean I would not use it at all unless I had to. Time, to one who wields this kind of power, is very vulnerable to change and using it unwisely could have horrific effects for the earth and possible the wider universe. At most I may use it to see into the past and future to gain insight but even then by haveing knowledge of the future you run the risk of altering it anyway. So outside of learning to control it in the safest way possible I'd likely use it to look back at the time of the dinosaurs. But if I was not such a sensible person and had the mind set of mad comic book villain I'd use the stone to make.... -
https://www.buzzfeed.com/keelyflaherty/which-avengers-infinity-stone-should-you-wield?utm_term=.rbGnLELP5#.ca458p8m0 You got: The Time Stone You're a true academic with an analytical mind, and one of the precious few who could be entrusted to wield the Time Stone. With the power to control the flow of time, and to see both the future and past, this is a Stone that might drive the average mind to madness. You, however, think on a higher plane and are able to see situations from many points of view, and judge them without emotion — which some people read as aloof. But you're a rarity; not many people can handle the Time Stone's immense power.
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I agree...
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Well one advantage the Exceed will instantly have is that it can't be indoctrinated. Since the control metal should protect Sho's mind from their influence. A reaper is roughly estimated to be more then capable laying waste to city on their own and most mass effect universe weapons prove to be less effective on them, with a single reaper backed up by Geth forces proving to be a real threat to standard alliance forces. They are also appear to be protected a reactive kenetic barrier that blocks incoming fire. and all thats is pretty scary when up against the conventional... but Exceed is far from that. Given that its Giga-Smasher's power has increased in proportions to it's size and standard Gigantic's beam radius is about half the height of Cloud-Gate, it could easily one shot a Reaper with that weapon, in fact it would be major overkill as both its Pressure Cannon and Sonic Buster could likely get the job done. A reaper's reactive shield has also been shown to not activate for physical attacks, such as when one was attacked by a giant thresher maw, so Exceed's blades will likely work to. The Gravity Implosion makes this even more one sided.
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The answer is likely that thats not what Thanos wants.
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Ok a few little updates. As before there a prequel novel to go with the film. Project Mechagodzilla details more events prior to humanities abandoning of earth. A group that worshiped two moth deities, Mothra and Battra, reveal themselves during the later years of the kaiju apocalypse. They preach that they could have defeated Godzilla together but Battra died while on a mission to destroy a comet heading to earth called Gorath. (this is in based on the plot of both Godzilla vs Mothra and another Toho film Gorath). Alone Mothra is able to push back Godzilla, however she was killed in the 20,000 years between when the refugees left and the events of PotM. Godzilla is stated to have destroyed Gorath when it came came close to earth, however it's hinted that an alien lifeform was within it. The Giant Condor, widely considered to be Toho's worst monster from Godzilla vs the Sea Monster (next to Maguma the giant walrus) makes an appearance. The big reveal from the book so far is that a kaiju named Gigan was found by the Bilusaludo. They were able to control Gigan and have it attack Godzilla. Gigan was badly injured but was then injected with Nanometal which upgraded and healed its body. However it was killed by Godzilla, making them move to Project Mechagodzilla. Nanometal is a material which will be playing a part the upcoming film. Is clearly based on "Space Titanium" from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. It's basically nanotech metal that possesses the unique attribute of being able to act autonomously, however it requires 100 gigawatts worth of power from thermonuclear reactors in order to function. MechaG was created using this metal. The new mechs seen in the trailer are called Vultures. They are upgraded variants of the Power suits used to combat Godzilla in the last film using Bilusaludo tech likely from the titular City. Finally we have some basic stats for Mechagodzilla as it was prior to the earth evacuation. Height 50 meters Weight 30,000 metric tons Primary Operating Systems - Quantum Computer and Artificial intelligence. Armaments: Convergent Neutron Cannon Blade Launcher Hyper Lance Nanometal Field and Armour Plate - Mechagodzilla is surrounded in a field of Nanometal particles designed to deflect Godzilla's atomic breath and covered in a laminated heat-resistant armoured plate which shields it from the intense heat of the beam. Plasma Booster - Mechagodzilla is equipped with a Plasma Booster which grants it the ability to fly.
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I plan to due a those Blue Hole Chapter summaries I promised this weekend and I'm starting work on chapter next chapter tomorrow. Also here's my one and only dinosaur character, who is heavily inspired by one of my faviort novels. Moby Dick Artwork done by Cobravenom at Devientart and bio by me. "It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.""To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."In a dark, possible future mankind is broken. We have sucked the world dry of its resources and replaced them with poison, we have scorched and branded it with our arrogance and self-loathing. We have destroyed and usurped, and in doing so sowed the seed of our own destruction. The world is no longer ours. We in our arrogance created life and shaped it as we saw fit, spawning living nightmares and dreams. They were our works of art, testaments to our greatness, our children, our pets, our slaves. But, as is always is the case, as time passed and we blindly walked to our doom, our slaves raised up. The great beasts could never be truly tamed and as our grip grew weak they broke free. While much of the world is still bare and burned by atomic fire, just as much of it has been born anew. Savage and beautiful plants constantly battle to reclame the earth and in both the green and burned lands the great beasts roam. Their forms are as varied as our imagination and their power is great. Freed from their chains and cages they have spread across the world creating new ecosystems to replaced the ones we destroyed. Mankind still exists but we have diminished much. We have lost much of the ancient wisdom and folly we knew. We hide in the old cites that were not consumed by fire or forest and dwell behind great walls built both before and after the world burned. Yet even in this dark age we still have technology though little of of it is new. We scavenge, cannibalise and re-purpose old technology, making it work for us as best we can, though since most of the old natural resources we had once depended on are now gone and we have neither the knowledge, time or safety to build and maintain the more complex machines that harnessed the power of nature, fuelling our technology is another constant struggle Though we breed as prolifically as we always have sickness, mutation, the plants and the great beasts insure that we will never rule again and promise only our extinction. However our greatest plight is one of food. Most of the plants in this new age are inedible at best and poisonous at worst. What plants we can grow and cultivate are constantly under siege from sickness and insects. Meat is also hard to come by, for all our food beasts passed away long ago. So he have gone back to the old ways and hunted as our oldest ancestors did. Yet even in this we are beset with tragedy and misfortune for even the smallest of the great beasts can prove dangerous prey. As such there are none who are more venerated then those men and women who take up the role as hunters and chief among them are the "Land Whalers".Land Whalers, as their name implies, hunt Land Whales also know as Long Necks. These giant herbivores were genetically engineered as food animals and are the only beast of that kind that still live, though they have become as wild and savage as the world they now live in. They were based on the extinct species of dinosaur called Supersaurus though they are somewhat larger then their template and lack some of the anatomical features such as protruding teeth and back spikes. Their improved teeth, large guts and powerful immune systems allow them to consume virtually any type of planet life and when they breed they produce large numbers of offspring. These factors combined with their great size and strength have allowed then to flourish were lesser beasts would have gone extinct. In fact they are a keystone withing the ecosystem of the world, provide an important sours of food for many predators and scavengers as well as acting a controlling factor for plant life. To humans however they are not only a prime source of meat but also fuel. Within their bodies, the Land Whales carry large amounts of a special fatty oil which can be used to fuel fires (which are used to keep warm, cook food or keep away predators) or our ancient engines to provide power, electricity and moving vehicles. The Land Whalers hunt whales by using land ships (and in very rare cases sky ships). These mobile fortresses are constructed from a large number of scavenged materials but the foundations for all of them are giant vehicles who's original purpose has long been forgotten. Their movement is primarily powered by great engines however much of the machines computerised systems either cannot be worked or do not work at all, meaning that much of the ships functions require manual labour. These whaling ships look to be little more the giant, slapped together, rust buckets but the crew's work tirelessly to maintain them and they are much more durable then they may first appear. These ships are equal parts hunting ship, refinery, butchers and home to its crew and they travel far and wide for whales, sometimes never coming back to their homes for years at a time. This is done primarily because the ships need to gather enough oil and meat to sell and not just to maintain its crew and fuel supply.The primary weapon of a whaling ship is its harpoon cannon which is mounted on the prow. The harpoon its fires is exceptionally large and one alone in normally powerful enough to slay a land whale from shock and blood lose (though there are some some large and tough old bulls who can be found still alive with a harpoon and sometimes two in-bedded in them). While the harpoon is the main weapon, the ship also carries a small assortment of other weapons and vehicles (which vary from ship to ship) that are used in the hunt. Once a whale is killed it is brought alongside on powerful cranes to be harvested.However while whaling ships and their crews seem invincible, they are in truth in more danger then those who hide behind their walls. For while out in the wilds there is much wealth in meat and oil there is also fear and death not only in the form of the common predators, whom the whalers often clash with, but also the Named Ones.The Named Ones are the most feared of all the creatures in the world. They are unique individual who's size and power surpass all other and are the supreme rulers of the ecosystems they inhabit. These monsters, for no word fits them better, have world wide renown among the surviving humans because of the destruction they have caused, destroying many land ships and even cities. They are not all of one species however, rather they are unique individuals of their kind who not only possess unnatural size and strength but also seemingly supernatural powers. In fear and reverence the humans great them the honour and distinction of a name. Their is Timor Jack a savage and scared amphibian horror who rules the country of that name as well as the sea and islands around it. Their is Lord Tom of New Zealand, a giant, three eyed, flightless bird that can run faster then the wind and is said to summon lighting. Their is Morquan the king of Japan, a vile, fire breathing tyrant. Their is Don Miguel the old turtle with mystic hieroglyphics upon his back who haunts the coasts of Chile. There are many Named Ones, greater and lesser, but one name stands above and apart from the others. The White Land Whale, Moby Dick.He is a giant among his own kind and even among the Named Ones, he is perhaps the biggest creature to ever exist on earth. He is a nomad who's skin is a tapestrie on which the history of his long life has been written and every scar on his flesh is a chapter of that story. Despite being a herbivore his wraith is legendary and his roar makes even the greatest predators tremble, in fact he is often more likely to attack others then they him. He has destroyed countless land ships, several cities and has even killed a number of the Named Ones. Yet despite all this there is something truly tragic about this behemoth. He is always alone and despite the fact that he has been known to save other herbivores from predators and humans, they fear him and also keep their distance. There is also something otherworldly about this creature and none knows how old he is. He seems to appear and disappear like a passing storm or cloud of mist, some even saying that he summons or turns into these things and vice versa. Their are others who say that he has been seen in two places at once. Their are also those who claim that he is not only nigh omnipresence but also immortal, swearing that even when he has been dealt a mortal wound and lost gallons of his black blood the next time he is seen he will be as fit and well as ever with the only sign of the event having ever happened is a new scar or harpoon in his flesh. However the greatest tale they tell of him is that it is not only his greatly scared flesh that earned him his name "The White Land Whale" but that when he truly becomes enraged, his skin glows with an appalling, white radiance that burns like a dead sun. It is he above all else we fear, it is he whom we believe will bring us our final doom and yet it is also he who will the carry the only trace of our having ever existed on his flesh.
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hi all, so I've decided to create this blog to share with you my love of prehistoric fauna. Over the last few month's I've been dealing with a lot and one thing that really helped was taking up a real intreast in what has been my faviort subjects since childhood. Please note that I don't clam to be a paleontological expert, I'm merely an amateur. So this blog will be for a lot of different things related to the prehistoric world, fiction, film, comic, manga primarily but also to talk about the real world facts as well. It also save on space if I confine it to a single topic. So to start off, along with working on the Blue Hole manga, which I'll talk more about in the future, I've taken up fossil collection and hunting. Here's my collection at present. Spinosaurus Tooth Mammoth Tooth - partial Basilosaurus Tooth Mylodontidae (Sloth Species) Tooth Carcharodontosaurus Tooth - Small Arthropleura Exoskeleton - My oldest specimen at 310 million years old. Megalodon Tooth Edmontosaurus Rib - partial Cave Bear Paw Woolly Rhino Bone - joint? T. Rex Tooth Fragment Rebbachisaurus Tooth and finally one of the Ammonites I picked up, literally, from the Jurassic Coast.
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Ok a while back I did a which zoanoid would you be thread, based around which zoanoid you'd become if you were a normal human living under Cronos's rule. Now I'm putting forward this question but here's the catch... You pick must be based on you style of gameplay, be it RPG, Shooter, Fighting etc whatever's your poison. For me it would be Gaster. Heavy weapons, explosives and high damage out put are my bread and butter, even at the cost of my on safety when playing. My gaming philosophies are "destroy everything" and "A respawn without bringing down at least one foe is a life wasted". Thats not to say I'm a total nutter who just likes to blow anything up, well at least not completely. I apply my weapons with the skill any decent player would, I just happen to enjoy it and I don't let little things like "my well being" get in the way. And yes I'm the kind of guy who will blow himself up to bring his foe down with him. Turok - Dinosaur Hunter was were I got my taste for heavy weapons. Since then thats been my style for every shooter, heavy machine guns being an ok substitute if my proffered weapons aren't to hand. This also translates to most other games I play.
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Haha, it's far from the most egregious change to a work of fiction made by an author in supplementary marital. A little before DB Super came out Toriyama basically provided a ton of facts about the db universe... and a lot of them he'd clearly come up with recently and had not put a tone of thought into how they'd fit. One good example being that Old Kai had been sealed away by Beerus, which didn't really match what had been stated in the Buu arc. Also I believe that thats the shortest post I've ever seen you make.
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Yep, a whole seven tons. That's what I actually thought the Guyvers strength level was until I joined the site, as Guyver I and III don't exactly show off their lifting strength much in the manga.. Then I come here and hear about tank lifting Gregoles and I saw this series in a whole new light.
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Thanks. I thought it didn’t sound right but thought it best to run it by the forum.