David Hingtgen

Also, do Russo-German-Israeli planes of the future have ENGLISH warning signs on them? English is the universal aviation language, and many non-English-speaking nations still use "No Step", but if there's one place you won't find English, it's Russian-speaking nations. Personally, if I wanted to decal up a Sv-51, I'd buy a Flanker sheet.

IMHO everything varies. Color by color, brand by brand. I personally like Tamiya white for hand-brushing better than most whites. Just try a bunch. PS----Pollyscale. Probably the best overall acrylic, certainly for brushing. Available in MANY colors, but usually only found in the railroad colors.

Neat. I never snagged the DVD's of any of them (don't know why) and now I can get Blu-Ray versions.

The Tornado's the newest plane I know of with det-cord. Modern planes (to me) means 1990+ or so. Which is still 17 years ago. And with the Sv-51 being more advanced than anything we have now it's just kind of odd. Or maybe it has something to do with heatshield placement etc.

Det-cord in the canopy? Hmmn, never noticed the "real" one had any. (Kinda surprised they use it at all, can't think of any modern planes with it off the top of my head) I'm mainly curious about if the torso locks together in battroid mode. That's my #1 complaint about the -19, and the only way in which I think the original one was better. (It didn't lock either, but it stayed together better due to sheer weight of the diecast)

JsARCLIGHT---what was your total play time? Local place just got in Bioshock to rent. Gone before I could get it, but if I could beat it in a 5-day rental without playing too much per night I'd like to go that route. PS---I like games that give decent achievements for winning too. Too many games have insane requirements, unlikely ones, or just plain stupid ones. I personally feel you should get 1/4 to 1/3 just for winning, and probably get up to or a bit over half for also doing pretty "normal" stuff that isn't guaranteed but could easily happen. Like say 50 kills of a certain type, or 50 kills of a certain enemy type. Not 5,000. You could easily win the game with like 4 and 12 respectively, but if you "killed *everything*" like some people play you'd easily get 50. Of course there should be some hard/insane ones, but it shouldn't make up like 500 points worth. I mean seriously---shouldn't WINNING THE GAME be a fairly large achievement? 300pts minimum IMHO. That is the main goal, and should take the longest (or close to it). (Now, some games only give like 20pts for actually winning---but that's because they also gave 10pts for every stage leading up to the end--same thing)

Super Wal-Mart, not my normal one: 5 Ratchets, 2 ultimate BB. And a ton of Classics Mirage.

I mainly vote for Elite because it's black, and has a chance of having quieter fans. (AFAIK the quieter fans are Elite-only, but even then aren't that common) Also most likely to have the quieter drive. The bigger HDD is worthless. If you just want a basic system--get the Pro/$350, as recent ones have HDMI and the extra heat sink. And that's easier to tell, as it shows/lists HDMI on the box.

Fatalist--I'd buy an elite, but check the manufacturing date. Look for a really recent one---July/August. That actually applies to any 360. If they won't let you look/pick---buy from somewhere else. They way some distribution centers are, you could easily get one from last October that just arrived at the store. Or one that was built in China only 12 days ago.

I think we should make a gamertag list in this thread, besides the one in the 360 thread. Me: "Xenogears Id" mikeszekely: "Pharaohman" sorata, yellowlightman, veritas?

Luckily, I'm the exact opposite of an audiophile. Sounds quality means nothing to me. It's the "A" in A/V that seems to take the most money once you get into it. Just hook the player up directly to the best TV you can afford---that's my setup.

I think some people would find it ironic that I never use joysticks/yokes etc for "flying" planes. Even on a PC. Numeric pad+FS4=bliss.

Quick Arcee review: Among the best motorcycle TF's, and among the best female TF's. Would be awesome if not for the shoulder pad design (the bike's rear wheels)---they fold to the FRONT. If they folded back and/or up they could make a neat cape or pauldron design, or even nice wings. As it is, they fold to the front and down (there's 2 hinges), and cover her arms and chest. I currently leave them almost straight out and up, they look fairly wing-like then. If the hinge direction was simply reversed she'd have a much better robot mode.

Heh heh---I simply bought a 50ft ethernet cable, and just string it all the way across the living room and into my bedroom, when I need to hook up to Live. A lot cheaper and easier than setting up a wireless connection.

I'm sure we could get 4 MW'ers online at once, don't know about 8.

But why were there like 20 times where preds killed aliens, and not one alien killing a predator?

Annoyingly, my local Kohls is RIGHT next to Wal-Mart, but I never thought to check until just yesterday. I probably would have gotten a Concept BB had I checked Kohl's every time I was over there checking Wal-Mart...

Personally I'd like a CG JLA movie. Hey, it solves the Wonder Woman casting problem. Make her "inhumanly perfect" and be done with it. Or just make her look like Lynda Carter did 30 years ago.

Target: 1x new Decepticon SUV/armored truck thing Kohl's: 2x Arcee. I'm presuming that means 09 BB was there and gone? Wal-Mart: Lots of Cybertron, some Classics. Most voyagers. No leader/deluxe.

The screen grab is wrong IMHO. Yes, it's a screen grab. But it's off from every other depiction. Go watch M+. Also, Kawamori specifically mentioned a scene showing leg launchers which was an animation mistake using non-final details, so I wouldn't trust anything else drawn in that scene.

A bit OT, but that's not a problem here in the US. Lots of people have stickers on their cars, or tattoos on their skin, that they can't read. And especially clothing they don't understand.

Real issue is money. Guns cost money to maintain. It costs money to train the people to maintain them. Ammo costs money. Eliminating the gun saves money in several ways. Plus the argument of the AIM-9X, ASRAAM, Meteor, and AMRAAM actually being what they wanted in Vietnam (and Desert Storm)--a missile with a good chance of getting a hit. I've always thought the F-22 occupied two opposite ends of the spectrum: It's a long range high-speed-cruise interceptor stealthy max-range missile kill assassin, or It's a close-in super-agile gun-killer. If it was THAT good at the first one (which it supposedly is), why does it even need the second one?

There's nothing wrong with it. The MoD just can't make up their mind about using/funding it, so it keeps getting things cancelled, started again, cancelled, started again----and important bits (like ammo, and training how to use it) keep getting forgotten in the mess. And I'm sure they've spent more money cancelling and restarting it than if they'd just fully funded and kept it in the first place. It's just a linkless-ammo version of the Tornado's gun. But it can apparently use the linked Tornado's ammo. Or maybe they had to retrofit the gun to accept Tornado ammo and that's causing a problem. Either way, "lack of ammo since it was cancelled back when" wasn't realized until recently when they re-re-re-decided to make it operational. I think the linkless-ammo version is also going to be used in at least some versions of the JSF. I still can't find a definitive answer for if the Gripen has the linked or linkless version--I suspect linked. It's pretty common modern gun.

Because there's currently no money nor provisions for ammo procurement. Just what's leftover from the retired F3 Tornados (as the IDS Tornados still need theirs for strafing). History of the Typhoon gun: 1. Gun designed and produced. 2. Gun cancelled. 3. Find out there's balance problems with the gun removed--software can't cope. 4. Ballast designed to replace gun's weight. (apparently easier than rewriting software) 5. Find out that the ballast will cost as much to design and produce as the guns do. (WTF? It's a simple block of lead or something) 6. So the already produced guns are put in AS ballast and nothing more. Non-operational. 7. They realize--hey, since we've got the guns, why not use them anyways? But then realize that with the gun program being cancelled, there's no ammo for them...

Another game that requires the hard drive: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3162176 I personally think it's a good thing. The more that require it, the more that games will start to take advantage of it, caching stuff, etc. And it also helps against the "360 versions of the same game are downgraded from the PS3 versions because the 360 can't be assured of having a hard drive" argument/possibility etc.