David Hingtgen

The finish of the screen is important, and there's more than simply glossy vs flat. There's many levels, even within brands. A fairly big factor for me was the finish of the screen on mine, since it sits right next to a window (but always with the blinds closed and at 90 degrees to it). My TV was about the last one Samsung made with that particular type of anti-glare----others made the same year were different (can't remember if they were shinier or duller) but they were inferior IMHO. And too much anti-glare can be a bad thing, just like too little. It's a sliding scale. For light pointed at the screen----a TV can either reflect and show a clear image, or it can diffuse and show a blurry area of light. Extreme diffusion covers half the screen but is more subtle, but a very sharp reflection will be very small (but very obvious). Pick your poison, you can't have both. (my TV I think is actually on the more reflective end of the scale)

Not much too it. Get a hair dryer, turn it on, and heat the plastic. You should see stress marks lessen.

Using a hair dryer on "high" is an alternate method to above, that is much safer/easier. In my experience it works very well on stress marks from fitting/bending/tight pieces, but not on sprue cuts. (worked VERY well on my MP TC's legs--anywhere there's a screw, the plastic gets stressed and turns white) beatsing--to swap the chest pieces you have to completely disassemble the torso, including the pins. That means using a hammer and a punch. (the only pin you don't have to remove is the "master" one that connects the intakes to the forward fuselage, right around the head/neck area---that one is impossible to remove anyways) PS---if you do try the lighter method, and the plastic smells like butane or asphalt, you've got cheap plastic, and probably a knockoff. Actually, just sanding will make enough heat that you can get a sense of the plastic.

I can change it. But how do you want it?

Your thread and your post are opposing. The thread is titled "list of ones with smooth pins" but then you go on to list those with knurled...

I looked at US Skywarp in the store---it's nearly flawless. But most of the production batch of Thundercracker has CHUNKS missing on the tailbooms. Not just sprue marks, but very obvious ones. As for reversed chest piece--yes, they ALL do. Nobody has yet to report one that didn't. I swapped mine around though.

Like Mortal Kombat 2.

Smoothing out sprue marks with your thumbnail is often the easiest and best method. Just burnish hard. (assuming the marks are decently smooth, and not obviously chewed/ragged)

Just google your intended cooler+mobo with the word "fit". Surely, someone's tried it and posted pics of how it fits. That's how I knew my mobo+cooler+case combo would work before I ordered parts. Another possible issue is RAM fitting under a cooler. A big cooler, combined with RAM that has large sinks, can be an issue.

My Masterpiece Thundercracker would disagree.

Long story short: I accidently way overvolted my E8400 for a few secs. 1.75v instead of 1.175v. Now, it only ran that high from "booting up to as soon as I can start CPUID" so it was probably less than 30 secs and unstressed. Would such a short period have hurt it? Or is that much voltage really bad no matter how little time? I use a MUCH bigger cooler than necessary (Scythe Ninja Plus) :edit: I'm starting a Prime95 test tonight and logging temps, will see how it does.

Anyone thinking about White Knight Chronicles? http://www.thegameheadz.com/Games/Playstat...40/Default.aspx http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/01/whi...nline-tutorial/ I first saw it like 2 years ago, and thought it looked kinda Xenogears-esque (what with the giant knight in battle and all), and it's *finally* coming out to the US.

Well, it's popular enough (with a fairly distinct art style) that it has definitely influenced much recent/popular art of what a valkyrie "should look like".

Just a quick note: It seems that ME2 will be like DA:O in regards to the social site, and you may be able to "show off" your Shepard, etc. Also, Bioware is going to close the current ME forums and switch them over to the social site prior to launch. (which will suck, as the social forum has godawful architecture and search functions, and likes to auto-post spoilers in the front page)

That'd be Lenneth, the valkyrie. I'll assume you've never played/seen "Valkyrie Profile". (the 2nd-best game ever, after Xenogears)

Exactly. Someone's got OLED's like that too, but the individual "pixels" are like 2ft by 2ft. They're intended for skyscraper-sized images.

I will only change my Shepard if it'll bring me closer to exactly how I want it. I won't "change", only "improve". I've read there's more hair choices now, so that may change. (really, I think there should be more mouth choices---a lot of them are very similar, and there's entire categories of "basic shapes of human lips" that seem to be missing) Scream Man----that's what I fear. I know Bioware won't spoil anything big. But other people will! Anyways, if anyone's playing through ME 1 again---don't ever get rid of your Shredder VII or Tungsten VII rounds. There is no better version, and nowhere will ever sell it again, and nothing will ever drop it again. They are the best anti-creeper, and anti-geth ammo out there---but above level 45 or so, they never appear again.

Lenneth! I proclaim that the best art in several pages.

New good pic of the Gamestop-exclusive armor: http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/masseff...t2_preorder.jpg

The tailfins look REALLY asymmetrical in that pic.

Yeah, because they totally ditched the metallic look.

That's another thing that irks me--stuff like the Centaur. Those were half-assed kit-bashed designs both FX-wise and canonically. Yet they're in, and not the classes they were derived from. I'm surprised we don't have Yeager class instead of Intrepid...

Seekers as cars is just plain wrong. Do we get Sideswipe as an F-15 next?

I'd certainly do a beta if I didn't have to pre-order. Though honestly, the main thing I don't like about the game so far: Lack of major/famous ships. When I first read about the various "groupings" (cruiser, explorer, etc), and the progression---in about 5 secs I had thought up an awesome fleet covering from TOS through DS9. And when the actual ship list came out---almost NONE of them were there. How the hell do you not put the Excelsior class in the game? Or Nebula? They were the backbone of the fleets for a while. Certainly the most common "not the Enterprise" ship you'd see of their respective generations. Why on earth are there a zillion made-up classes, and very few of the well-known, seen-in-multiple-episodes ones? I mean, that'd be like making a Star Wars game, and inventing many new force powers and weapons, but leaving out blaster pistols and force lightning. No Excelsior=no purchase. Period. I will not play without that ship.

Wing Zero (TV version) could, very similar to Wing Gundam. Wing Zero Custom (Endless Waltz) couldn't. (though it could do that quasi-cocoon thing)