RGM-96X[ZG] Jesta Zeitgeist

Decided to name this thing the Jesta Zeitgeist

そういやガンプラビルダーズとビルドファイターズでキャラが自分のプラモデルに変な俺設定を付けたりしたし今度俺もそれをやってみようかな
— wotn (@Weisskaiser) November 15, 2013

そういやジェスタキャノン（キャノン付いてないけど）になんか俺設定を書こうと思ってたな。暇だしやってみようか。俺設定って存在自体が厨二だから厨二路線で行くわ
— wotn (@Weisskaiser) November 16, 2013

つーわけで

ジェスタ・ツァイトガイスト（拠点制圧仕様）
型式番号　RGM-96X[ZG]
頭頂高 　19.3m
本体重量　34.8t
全備重量　69.2t
出力　3,560kw
推力　117,320kg
センサー有効半径　21,300m
装甲材質　チタン合金セラミック複合材＋ガンダリウム合金

アナハイム・エレクトロニクス社の極秘特務部隊ツァイトガイスト（「時代の亡霊」）隊所属の、先行量産型ジェスタを改造した特別仕様機ジェスタ・ツァイトガイストの後方支援バリエーション。同隊の3番機。
ベースとなる機体であるジェスタの性能は「シャアの反乱」時に活躍した、連邦のアムロ・レイ大尉の専用機νガンダムの性能の９０％と同等であることで有名であるが、更なる改良とコックピットでのサイコフレームの使用で「ジェスタ・ツァイトガイスト」の基本性能はνガンダムのものをも上回り、その１２０％にまで達している。
移動弾薬庫とも言うべき拠点制圧仕様のジェスタZGは火力に優れており、後方からの砲撃による支援や防空壕などのハード・ターゲットの制圧がおもの役割となる。

武装     
バルカン・ポッド・システムｘ１
頭部右側に1基装備
ビーム・ライフルｘ１
ジェスタと共通。加速・偏向装置により、通常射撃と連射へのモード変更が可能。
グレネード・ランチャーx1
ジェスタ・キャノンと共通。ビーム・ライフルの銃身下部に装着するアンダーバレルタイプ。
ガトリング砲（ガトリング・インコム）ｘ２
バックパックに装着される大型のガトリング砲。内部に誘導ワイヤーと内蔵推進器が搭載されており、インコムとしての仕様も可能。重力下での使用は不可能。
ハンドグレネードｘ１２
両腰、両脚に3基ずつ装備。
ビームスマートガンｘ２
ガトリング砲に装着される着脱式のビーム兵器。ビームライフルとしても使用可能だが、ガトリング砲とともにバックパックに装着された場合はジェネレーターに直結し高出力のビームを発射できる。また、メガ粒子偏向機が備えており、砲身の先端からのビームの軌道の変更が可能である。
マシンガンｘ２
両腰に装着されている、取り回しに優れた短銃身型の実弾兵器。
ヒートサイズｘ１  
ツァイトガイスト隊の基本装備で本機の唯一の格闘兵器。刀身は可動式で角度を変えることで槍として使うことも可能。武装としての効率は悪いが、敵対者への心理的影響が考慮されている。

ツァイトガイスト隊
一年戦争時から兵士の間で噂となっていた都市伝説である、連邦・ジオンを問わず、遭遇した者を等しく殺める、無残に死んでいった兵士たちの怨霊によって構成されたと噂される「幽霊部隊」、あるいは「死神部隊」。その正体はアナハイム・エレクトロニクス社の極秘特務部隊。AE社はおもに兵器の供与・提供で紛争を影から操り、時代を動かしているが、直に手を下す必要が生じた時の駒として用意されたのが「ツァイトガイスト隊」である。その存在を知るものはAE社内でも上層のわずか一部でしかなく、公式資料にその名は残されていない。隠密行動が基本であろ、その存在も極秘であるため、目撃者は等しく抹殺される。部隊の設立時期は不明だが、その噂が最初に囁かれたのは0081年の「水天の涙」事件の当時である。なお、部隊のマークはアワーグラス（砂時計）と「Zeitgeist」の頭文字であるZの字をモチーフとしたもの。

パイロット
宇宙世紀0049に誕生。アナトリア半島を中心にで活躍し、伝説とまで言われた腕利きの傭兵、通称「黒鳥」（レイヴン）。一年戦争時に連邦に雇われ、同地域をジオンの猛攻から守り抜くが、重症を負う。また、ジオン軍の任務達成率100%のエース部隊「ⅸ」（ノイン）を退けたことから、現地の兵士たちからは「ナインブレイカー」とも呼ばれるようになった。一年戦争のあと、一時傭兵業を引退するも、0086年に過去の功績を買われＡＥ社にスカウトされる。その後ＡＥ社内の秘密研究機関「アスピナ・リサーチ」で強化人間処置を受けるが、サイコミュへの適正は低い。しかし、操縦技術は極めて優れており、シミュレーターではニュータイプのデータを用いた敵機と対峙した場合、20回に17回は圧勝している。0105年に引退し、アナトリアで酒場「レイヴンズ・ネスト」を開業。


Edit: Gave it another big gun!

HG 1/144 Jesta Cannon (sort of)

MSG gatling gun.

Jesta Cannon (?)

I'll do the decals another day because hooooly shit it's almost 3 AM.

Edit: Regular Jesta Cannon configuration

This week's loot (16th November 2013)

Just for the hell of it, GP base:

This week's loot (9th November 2013)

First of all, not loot but I went and watched the new Madomagi movie. AGAIN.
 
I said this before but I'll say it again. It's good. Typically, when given time to think about a film or game or whatever my opinion of it tends to drop over time as I start to notice more of the flaws. Also I hate Shaft (I find their stuff to be kind of pretentious, so much as to be obnoxious) and didn't even like the Madomagi TV series that much. Despite all this I FUCKING LOVED THE MOVIE. It's that good.

Anyway yeah loot.

Madomagi stuff (part 1). Soul gem gasha got me Sayaka and Nagisa's grief seeds, and post-transformation soul gems Kyouko x1 Sayaka x1 Homura x2. I now have two each of both pre and post transformation Homura's soul gems. Yay.

And yeah two more pamphlets in addition to the one I had before (previous one was first ed, got another first ed + regular version, will probably be giving one away to someone).

QB thing is a "smartphone stand" which is basically a small cheap QB figure with a suction cup on his tail you can attach to a smooth surface (say, the back of a smartphone) so he can hold it up. Pretty cool I guess but definitely not worth 1200 fucking yen.

Also, two key animation clear files.

Contents are random and I got Sayaka and the secret one. Not too bad I guess. Also another different series clear file, and the week 3 bonus film strip.

Other stuff. Just comics and Todokanai Koi '13. I loved that song before, I love it even more now. Nonnonbiyori is fun (Komari is the best). Arpeggio is... kind of disappointing, actually. Eh.

Anyway Madomagi secret key animation clear file and film strip:

まどマギ新編の感想をツイッターで投稿したがせっかくなんでこっちに転載しとく。

俺の場合、ゲームにせよ映画にせよ、クリアした・観た直後の評価と時間を置いて思考を巡らせた後の評価を比べると後者のほうは明らかに低い。魔法が解けて、欠点があらわになるからだ。誰も気づいてないだろうけど、俺のエロスケを見ると新しい作品を評価する際、他の、前に既に評価した作品を再評価することがかなり多い。そしてほとんどの場合、その再評価で点数は落ちる。例えばこの前クリアしたＴＴＴ２だが、クリアした直後は７５。数時間後よく考えたら７０だった。そして数日後６５になった。もちろん、色褪せない作品は確実に存在する。だけどそれに該当するのはごくわずかである。前置きが長くなったが要するに俺が今言いたいのは……

まどマギ新編を今日、再び観た。もちろん初見と比べて欠点がよりよく見えるようになった。とくにシャフ度の多用がくどい。あと一部のシーンで作画が映画のものとは思えなかった（激しい動きの「隙間」のフレームとかそういうのじゃなく、ほとんど動いてない会話シーンで顔がおかしいとか）。

だけどそんなものは大したことなかった。何故ならばこの映画の美点は欠点を遥かに凌駕している。ネタバレになるから詳細はあえて挙げないでおくが、前回観た時に気づかなかった小さいディテールとかが結構あった。こんな短い期間で映画館で同じ映画を2回も観たのは初めてだが、後悔はまったくない。むしろ2回も観て、良かったと思ってる。まどマギ新編はそれほど一つの作品として完成されている。あと前回も言ったが、テレビ版はそれほど好きでもなかったし、劇場版の前編と後編は興味がなくて見なかった。そんな私がこれほど新編を評価している。

以上でござる。

追伸：しかし「覚悟を持って観ろ」とか映画を観たビフォア＆アフターは理解できんな。前者は観た後でも意味不だし後者は映画を観ずにネタでほざいてるだけとしか。万が一どちらも本気で言ってるとしたら…これはアレか。たまに耳にするゆとりの豆腐メンタルか。ニコニコ動画で鳥肌注意とか書くニワカスなのか。ニコ厨ってやたらと「全米が泣いた」をネタにするがてめーらの鳥肌涙腺崩壊注意報のほうがよっぽど信用ならんわボケ。

What the hell might as well write it in English too.

My thoughts on the movie (based off my comments on twitter in Japanese): Typically after I complete a game or watch a film or whatever, what I think of it immediately after the fact and some time later after I've had some time to think about it differs significantly- When I have time to think about it, my opinion of the subject clearly drops. That's because the magic has worn off and the flaws are now more apparent. If you pay close attention to my erosuke (though I don't know why you'd be doing that) you'd notice how whenever I review a new game, I also tend to re-review games I had previously rated. And almost all the time this results in their scores dropping. Take my most recent game, Tears to Tiara 2. I started off giving it 75 right after clearing it, but just a few hours later I realised that that was totally inappropriate and lowered it to 70. A few days later I came back and figured 70 was still too high and it's now 65. Of course, there are games and films and books and whatever that don't lose their magic with time, but they're really the tiniest minority. But anyway, what I want to say is... Well. I watched the new Madomagi film again today. Of course, its flaws stood out more than they did the first time (like with the stupid Shaft neck bend that irks the shit out of me being overused as fuck). Also some scenes had really terrible quality (I'm not talking about in-between frames during action scenes, but stuff like long dialogues during which there is no movement and DUDE WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HER FACE HERE).

BUT! These flaws were ultimately totally insignificant. The film's strengths heavily outweight its flaws. Also, while I won't go into specifics because spoilers, there were things, details that I didn't notice the previous time that I did this time. This was the first time I've ever gone to see the same film at the cinema within such a short period, and if you asked me before watching the movie what I thought of that I'd say it was ridiculous, a waste of money wait for the fucking BD, that sort of stuff. But I did not regret the decision. If anything, prior knowledge of what's going on let me pick out more stuff and enjoy the movie even more. This movie is really just that good. I've said this before, but I didn't like the TV series all that much, and didn't even bother watching the other two movies. And I hate Shaft. But holy shit this movie is fucking good.

PS: There are people (on Twitter and such, mostly in Japanese duh) going "prepare yourself before watching the film" and doing before and after reaction pictures where supposedly the movie left them super depressed or something. I have to call bullshit on them. The prepare yourself thing- I don't fucking get that at all. And the before and after shit- I have to wonder, did these fuckers even watch the movie? Or are they just that new generation of semi-retarded yutori kids who go all *****HUR PREPARE YOURSELF FOR ALL THE TEARS THIS BIT IS SUPER MOVING!!!!!!!***** and shit on Niconico? God I hate those fuckers. Anyway they're full of shit. Just saying.

Edit: Do note that I'm a regular reader of Comic Yurihime though.

Edit: Just these things

Tears to Tiara 2, clear

I loved the original Tears to Tiara- the original, not the PS3 version with Arthur becoming Takayuki in a stupid costume and Morgan laughing like Rena and WHY THE FUCK DID THEY REPLACE THAT AWESOME SONG WITH FUCKING SUARA (Suara's nice and all but not so nice that you can replace the fucking theme song and not have me mad, plus her stuff doesn't fucking match TTT at all) and fucking bullshit golems shooting lasers at you through walls until you die- and though it ended with you defeating just one of a whole bunch of enemies years passed and I'd given up all hope of a sequel. And then they did the PS3 remake and TV series which gave me hope again. And then the show bombed and the PS3 remake was rubbish which extinguished that hope. Then they made a fandisc thing for the PS3 version but it was rubbish too and I didn't know what to think. And then they announced 2 but at this point I'd already given up hope. But I went and pre-ordered it anyway because eh why not, while not expecting it to be any good.

Well... it wasn't that good. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be!

Okay so the writing is horrid. The original, refreshing setting is totally squandered on the bad writing and cheap, predictable plot. Hamil's a fucking caricature of the normal guy WHO TOTALLY HAS ALL THESE SUPER MAGIC POWERS AND IS SOME GUY REINCARNATED AND LOOK AT ME I'M SO BADASS HURRRRRRRR (seriously, the last game I cleared before this was Chronophantasma and Ragna the Fucking Bloodedge would feel embarassed just looking at this guy). They invade imperial territory AND THEN TURN BACK. MULTIPLE TIMES. The tempo of the whole thing was terrible (NOW WE INVADE THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL LET US GO THROUGH THIS STUPID SEWER MAP; NOW WE ATTACK THE GOLDEN PALACE BUT FIRST LET US FIGHT THESE USELESS BUMS WHO POPPED OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE AND AS CHARACTERS ARE COMPLETELY POINTLESS). In the end pretty much nothing with the forces of heaven is settled (they don't even show up except for just one thing Lector seemingly left behind). At least the empire is gone but that's another thing- It's the big fucking war to take down the fucking holy empire and what the fuck is Arawn doing again? Nothing? Great.

So yeah the writing's bad. But what about the gameplay?

It's worse.

Masoukishin 3 had better game balance.

It's kill or be killed- usually in one hit- and sometimes the enemy surprises you with giant AOE magic that kills your entire party in one hit. Projectiles go through walls (AGAIN! That's what made me give up on TTT PS3!). THANKFULLY there's now a difficulty setting (easy mode is "Abraxas kills your entire party and you win the battle with one character left" mode) and a thing that lets you restart from the beginning of any previous turn (the RNG seed remains the same though which is bullshit as it always is), which makes the game marginally playable (unlike PS3 TTT and did I mention the golems shooting at me through walls because fuck that shit).

So yeah it was pretty bad I guess?

But like I said before I fucking loved the original game, and to have a sequel at all- no matter how bad- is a good thing. And after the load of bullshit that was PS3 TTT I wasn't expecting much at all, so in the end it wasn't too bad. Relatively. I guess.

Anyway yeah I also wrote a review in Japanese on Erogamescape so go read it I guess. It's pretty much what I wrote here though.