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    Michael Bay's Racist Alien Big-Boobied Explosions actually sounds pretty good...
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    The only Asus anything I've had that's failed on me was a DVD drive, and rather than RMA it I just replaced it.
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    So the Turtles are Aliens now...
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    I'm sure everyone here has had good and bad experiences with one brand or another, and like I said, they have similar failure rates. The best advice I can offer is, if at all possible, see the laptop in person. Even though they get internals from the same suppliers, they can often have very different exteriors, so personal tastes in aesthetics and comfort can be a big factor. Personally, I don't care for Dell; their computers strike me as thick. Likewise, I'm not a fan of the keyboards on most Acers. HP's G-series computers look a little cheap, but their DV-series laptops are pretty nice. But I usually go with Asus, because I love their keyboards. Pre-installed software is another thing to look at... especially since I have a tendency to remove almost all of it. It mainly falls into two camps, manufacturer software and third-party software. Acer and Toshiba tend to have the most manufacturer software, and I think Toshiba's is the worst. HP tends to have more third-party stuff, like Skype, Zinio, and the like. They can always be removed, but the more of it there is (that you don't find useful, anyway... I here some people like Skype, after all), the more time you'll spend uninstalling.
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    It depends on what you (or your brother) mean by good. If you mean "how likely is my hardware to crap the bed?", many manufacturers source their parts from the same place, and statistically ALL major brands of laptops, Apple included, have issues requiring repairs at about 1 in every 5 units. Apple fans can maybe claim that they get better support, friendlier service, or an all-around better experience getting their computer repaired, but anyone claiming that Apple hardware is inherently of higher quality is a victim of Apple's Reality Distortion Field. The Apple tax, despite Macworld's attempts to prove otherwise, is also a real thing. You can definitely get a similarly-specced Windows laptop for less than the cost of a Macbook Pro. Here's where things get sketchier. Which OS you prefer is highly subjective. I use a custom-built Windows 7 PC and a Mac mini almost equally. I tend to use the Windows box more for gaming and power-user stuff, and I use the Mac more for surfing the net and Twitter. If push came to shove, I'd probably say I could give up the Mac before I could give up Windows, but that's largely because I'm big into PC gaming. Both OSes have their strengths, though. Which brings us to this... while scanners and Wacom tablets and Photoshop and many other tools of the trade work on both Windows and Macs, it is a fact that Macs are much more dominant among professional and semi-pro artists. I guess, in summary, both brands are equally imperfect, you can probably do what you want with either, and it's really a matter of personal preference.
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    I promise to be more true to the source material than Bay would.
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    Oh yeah? *begins writing Dinosaucers screenplay*
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    I went to the post office today, and afterward I was supposed to meet a friend from work, but she told me she was sick. So I decided to go to Target instead. I must have got there shortly after they started stocking Wave 2... shelves that were nothing but Bumblebee before were also overflowing with Cliffjumper and Wheeljack. But I was lucky enough to find a solitary Soundwave and a lone Ratchet. I was bummed that there was no Arcee, but I was feeling lucky, so I stopped at the new Walmart by my house, too. Sure enough, I found the last Arcee (at that point, I bought Bumblebee too). I have to wait for the new Voyagers so I can get Bulkhead and Starscream, and then I'll have all the Prime figures so far that I definitely plan on getting. Anyone know when we can expect them?
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    I don't know what's crazier... that Bay has enough fans to have a forum dedicated to him, or that people can say "I trusted you with Transformers, I'll trust you with this" with a straight face. Mind. Blown.
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    Finished the game with the "blue" ending this morning, then for the heck of it I reloaded and played the "green" ending. Is the ending perfect? No. It could have been better written, could have explained a few things that seemed out of place, and maybe not created so many more questions. But I think it's ok. I think it's best to look at the last 20 minutes of the game not as the ending of ME3, but of the entire ME3 experience as the end of the Mass Effect trilogy. Frankly, I don't understand the amount of rage the ending generated. Did people really want a happily ever after, everything goes back to normal ending? Something so mundane would have been a disservice to the epic scope of the trilogy.
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    So the title means nothing? We can't even get Bay to agree that calling them Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles means that they are, in fact, mutants? Why not take the retcon even further then? Perhaps TMNT can be about middle-aged, alien hamster boxers.
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    Thanks for the info. I'm not going out of my way to spend extra money and track down FE Starscream, so I guess I'll wait for the Voyager. I'm thinking that Ratchet and Arcee shouldn't be too hard to find, it's just a matter of stores getting the second wave in. I have a feeling Soundwave is going to be a pain, though.
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    Where'd you find Ratchet and Arcee? I haven't seen anything but Bumblebee lately. I want Deluxes for Arcee and Bee, and probably Ratchet. I want a Voyager Bulkhead. I want a Deluxe Soundwave. Not sure if I want a Deluxe or Voyager Starscream. Which is the one you have? In any case, I don't think Prime's too tall. Ratchet could, perhaps, stand to be a little taller, but Arcee is maybe half of Prime's height. Bee's pretty short compared to him, too.
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    What'd they do to Hitomi's face?
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    Megatron is pretty well sold out in my area, as are all the Deluxes that aren't Bumblebee. You can still find some Primes though. TF Prime Ratchet is a watered-down version of the grumpier, ornerier Animated version.
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    Yes, with the caveat that I don't run it on either of the computers I use regularly (those being a Windows 7 gaming rig and a Mac mini with Lion). I have Ubuntu on my wife's old laptop, an Acer Aspire that originally shipped with Vista. I think I upgraded it to 11.10, because I remember there being a GNOME upgrade. I used to be a Kubuntu fan, until they switched to KDE 4 (which I never got on board with). I got along with GNOME ok, although I can't stand Unity. First thing after installing Ubuntu was "sudo apt-get gnome" and switching to "Ubuntu Classic". Second thing I did was remove the bottom panel entirely and replace it with a Docky dock. The result is something a little OSX-ish, but it works well. The changes in Ubuntu kind of make me want to try another distro, like Mint. But getting wifi working on that laptop was a colossal pain. Maybe I'll try it on a desktop when I'm done playing with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (which I'm not loving). As long as I'm talking about my computers, I found a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable in one of my closets. I used it to hook my Windows 7 computer up to the 27" monitor through it's HDMI input (previously, I was using DVI on the computer to DVI on the monitor, which I prefer in case I want to use that monitor for something else, like a PS3, temporarily). Then I used an HDMI to DVI adapter that came with my Mac mini to hook back up to the 22" monitor on it's DVI input, and it works fine. To recap, I hooked different computer up to the 22" monitor via a VGA cable, and it worked. So the problem is either the mini-DisplayPort to VGA adapter, or the Mac itself. I'm hoping it's the adapter; it's a Dynex brand, not the official Apple one. I'm a little too lazy to try it on the Mac mini upstairs. If it turns out to be the Mac, I guess I'd have to take it to the Geniuses. If it turns out to be the adapter, I doubt I'll buy a new one. I'll either pick up another DVI cable, or I've been meaning to get a larger monitor for the Mac anyway, in which case I'll leave everything hooked up the way I have it until I get that monitor. Then I'll go HDMI on the Mac to HDMI on the new monitor, and put the DVI cable back on the Windows box.
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    I got excited until I saw "8-12 players online" and "free to play". I might check it out, or I might be too lazy to make a Japanese PSN account. Either way, it's not the Gundam Battle game on the PS3 that we've been waiting for.
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    So my Mac mini (2011) up and decided to stop displaying video from the mini DisplayPort/Thunderbolt port to the monitor it's been hooked up to bascially since I bought it. It's not the monitor or the vga cable; I just hooked my Windows 8 test box up to it without issue. The Mac has no trouble outputting video over HDMI to a different monitor. It's either the Mac, or the mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter. If I had another adapter, I'd test that, but it's all I got. Anyone know how I might troubleshoot this? It's worth noting that I downloaded an OS X update Saturday. That was the last time I was sure it was working. Oh, and when I open the Displays option in System Preferences, the Mac detects two monitors, and the light on the monitor isn't blinking or showing a "no signal" message, so something's getting through, but the image on that monitor is all black.
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    OK, I want to chime in as being excited for Sideswipe, because, like David, he was my first Transformer. But I also want to say my Transformers Prime Blu-ray set arrived today. The quality is quite good. Everything is less muted, and I'm noticing a ton more detail that I never saw in the oft-muddy rips on the net. For G1 and Animated, I'd say DVD is fine, but Prime is really best on Blu-ray.
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    Looks like Gundam Seed Battle Destiny has a release date of June 7th.
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    That works so much better than holding down button combos and toggling through crappier ones (I'm looking at you, Napalm!). As much as I don't want to spend the money, as much as I really want another UC Gundam with Victory and Unicorn campaigns, as much as SEED is probably my least-favorite Gundam universe... I think I'm going to buy this. It's not like there's a ton of other Vita games I want yet, and the previous Gundam Battle games probably make up 80% of my time on the old PSP by themselves.
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    That thing's worth sitting through another mediocre Resident Evil film for. It'd be kind of awesome to have a toy.
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    Yeah, Captain America's not as good as some of his older stuff... but there's no official music video for "Unsung Hero".
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    Touchscreen selection of subweapons would rock.
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    Do you mean Animated? If so, Animated had better characters and better stories with lots of homages to G1 (and later other Transformers shows), but it did get a little weird with one of the main characters in the third season. And while a lot of people liked the art style, I can't say I ever did, so as entertaining as it was I didn't buy many of the toys.
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