u/Impromark — reddlx

Really early arrival - being budget-conscious, what to do until the hotel lets us in?

Hi travellers, we’ll be arriving at Haneda at 4:30am. The Haneda monorail doesn’t even start running until 5!

We haven’t booked our hotel yet, but I’m not sure how flexible Japanese hotels tend to be with REALLY early arrival times. I expect we’ll be pretty beat by the time we land, so I don’t think we’ll be up for exploring anywhere until some relaxation time and a nap.

Assuming we can’t get any earlier arrival tjmes for our hotel, what would you recommend we do? It’s not our first time in Japan, but it’s definitely the first time we’ll arrive so early. Any thoughts on what we should do? Should we just hang around the airport until lunchtime? Check into a capsule? Find an Onsen for a soak and sleep? TIA!!

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u/Impromark — 3 days ago

▲ 267 r/Mechwarrior5

MW5 Chaos Reign / 1993 Series Comparison Screenshots

As someone who watched the 1993 (Edit: 1994) Animated Series back in the day, I was gobsmacked by Chaos Reign and how it's effectively a sequel to a failed show. Looking forward to it!

And while the art's changed, you can easily see the similarities and inspirations in the character designs. I've made a few comparison screenshots to illustrate.

u/Impromark — 3 months ago

▲ 221 r/ironman

We're a few issues in now, and we've had a chance to see the new armor in action, see its new gadgets or gimmicks, and hopefully form a more informed opinion. What do we think of this new "standard" armor?

I... am not that impressed, to be honest. While competently designed and drawn, it's really a basic armor with nothing much to it that differentiates it from what came before. Overall, it's basically just another MCU-esque design with nothing special about it beyond the standard features we've been used to for some years now. More importantly, it doesn't seem to have much of a reason to exist aside from it being the newest model.

Left to speculate, I'm guessing the Model 72 armor can't be replicated or upgraded without more mysterium, so in order to keep iterating his designs, Tony needed a "fresh" suit to work with, and the Model 74 was not suitable for further upgrades beyond what we saw in the previous run. So instead of defaulting back to the Model 70 (which had clearly been upgraded over the course of a couple runs of the comic), he's worked up a new baseline armor to work with. We're at the point of the current where Tony usually starts tinkering, so once the current armored foe (no spoilers) is dealt with, he may add some new gimmicks or a whole new armor may show up.

Thoughts?

u/Impromark — 4 months ago