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    I just came back from Marshall's. I found an RTS Wreck-Gar for $6.99, and the battle-damaged Leader Prime for $24.99. If you don't mind the battle damage look and you want a RTS Leader Prime and a good price, you might try there. For those interested, I found a Leader Starscream that I passed on for the same price. I also saw the big metallic Bumblebee Shin was talking about, although it was marked $34.99. I might pick that up after work tomorrow if it's still there. I thought it was the same mold as the expensive Bumbleebee from the first movie, but it actually looks a lot better.
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    If we get a decently priced US version of the new Starscream, I'll pick him up. My original one has a busted wing.
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    MP Shockwave. For the record, I hope they do make another MP Megatron. Cut a few more corners in gun mode and give me a Megatron with legs and ankles that can support his weight... weight not complicated by a fusion cannon that's almost as tall as he is.
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    Yeah it does. I'll almost certainly buy that.
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    My PS3, which isn't a launch unit but is still a first-gen 60GB unit, would NEVER connect wirelessly. Couldn't say if that's relevant or not, but I felt like chiming in with that. Even though it sits not four feet from the router, it'd say it was connected, then immediately drop the connection. 'Course, since it sits so close to the router, I just wired it in. Haven't thought about it again, even after moving, until now.
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    I absolutely do no want. That Arcee looks like butt. Bee's not bad, but he's not a NYC taxi, either. I see they have Prime, too. Is that really a Deluxe? I've seen better scouts. Here's hoping for a decent Voyager version...
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    The replacement Samsung drive arrived today and was install quickly without issue. I haven't tried burning anything on it yet, but I did toss my copy of Deus Ex into it, where it was quickly recognized and I was greeted with an autoplay window. It's definitely looking like hardware failure on the Asus drive, which bums me out since I've had it for maybe a year. I guess I'll try cleaning it up, maybe toss it onto a computer I can more afford to screw up, and maybe flash a different BIOS. For now, my main comp is up and running, and that's what matters.
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    I picked it up. I only got the Catwoman pack, though. I think I'm a minority that thinks Arkham Asylum was better, but I'm definitely having fun with it.
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    No. The problem isn't that the burner won't read a disc to burn it with a program, or that Nero is misbehaving. I was able to burn my disc just fine with Nero when I hooked up a burner. The drive doesn't recognize any disc, single layer or dual layer, DVD or CD, blank, burned, or retail.
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    I think you get something like 1000 credits for each driver level you have, and I was at 48, so 48,000 credits just for having a Forza 3 save. I was a bit disappointed that I only got a few cars from my F3 garage; I had a ton. I mean, I had the Achievement for owning one car by every manufacturer, for crying out loud. As for beating the pants off supercars, my Evo handles pretty good. It might not stick to the road like a Koenigsegg or a Ferrari Enzo, but that WRC champion engineering is good for something. IIRC, Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi is or was a big fan of the Evos. I seem to recall him owning one (or more) in real life, and remarking that the Evo VII was one of the best cars for GT2 or 3. I also seem to recall an episode of Top Gear where an Evo VIII performed favorably with a Lamborghini Murcielago. *sigh* I guess what I'm saying is that, in real life, the reason I bought a Lancer GTS is because I couldn't afford an Evo X.
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    Me. What with the rewards for playing Forza 3, I built up cash quickly enough to buy a couple of Mitsubishis. Since upgrades are basically free when your affinity with a manufacturer hits 4 or 5, I have Evos that are at the highest levels for B, A, and S. Which is kind of hilarious, beating the doors off Ferraris and Lamborghinis in an Evo VIII.
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    Near as I can figure, the firmware on the drive is 1.04, and that's what is shipped with. On Asus' site, the only download listed is actually 1.03. I'm hesitant to flash an older firmware. Not that I can screw up the drive any worse.
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    So two days ago, I try to burn a dual-layer DVD. Everything runs like normal at first, but then the drive spits the disc out and Nero gives me an error. So I grab a different disc and try again, but my Asus drive acts like there's no disc. Now, although I've had the drive for coming up on a year, it's the first dual-layer disc I've tried to burn, so I figure it's just being a pain and I grab my external Memorex drive, which burned without an issue. Later, I put the freshly burned disc into the Asus drive to try to get at some of the files I'd put on it. The light blinks, and I can hear the disc spinning, but after a few minutes the drive stops and the computer acts like there's no disc inserted. Again, I grab the external drive, and it worked fine. I'm starting to suspect a problem with the drive. So I grab my retail copy of Deus Ex, which I'd installed on my computer using the Asus drive no more than three weeks or so ago. Same deal, drive spins, then quits, and Windows thinks there's no disc. The drive is showing up in the Device Manager, and DM says there's no problems. But every disc I've tried in it spins, the light blinks, then the drive quits. Windows Explorer shows the drive, but nothing in it. If I double click it, I get the "insert disc" message. I'm assuming hardware failure, and I've ordered a replacement Samsung drive from Newegg. But in the mean time, are there any software issues I could explore? I've tried running sfc /scannow, and no issues were reported. I've tried deleting the upper and lower filters, which did nothing for me. I've tried uninstalling the drive in the Device Manager and rebooting, but the problem persists.
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    I passed on Ace Combat and picked up Forza 4 instead, based on my dislike of the former's demo and my enjoyment of the latter's. Now that the reviews are coming in, and many of them are quite positive, I wonder if I shouldn't have picked up AC?
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    I picked up the new Spider-Man game, Edge of Time. I wasn't planning on it, but I did like Shattered Dimensions, and Peter David wrote the story for Edge of Time. And it was on sale at TRU. I'm enjoying it, but it's not as good as Edge of Time. The voice acting is great (the guy who did Spidey's Voice in Spectacular Spider-Man is regular Spidey, and the guy who did Spidey's voice in the 90s Fox cartoon does 2099... not to mention that Val Kilmer voices one of the villains). The story is simple, but the dialogue is perfect. But it lacks a lot of the variety that Shattered Dimensions had. I'm thinking the next game I'm going to pick up will be Forza 4.
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    Thanks for the info. I'm not really interested in most of the TF Prime line, as I feel it borrows to heavily from the Bay-universe designs, but I seem to collect Optimus and Megatron regardless.
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    Did you get him in a store, online, or at Comicon? Should I be looking for TF Prime toys in stores yet?
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    There's also the narrative standpoint. With few exceptions (like the MegaTen games), JRPGs have been running the same cliches over and over since the orignal PlayStation. So, better gameplay, better tech, better story, what's left? Have you never played a Bioware game? They write some of the best characters in the business. I was really glad they made Tali a romance option in Mass Effect 2, despite the fact that over the two games you never once see what she looks like outside her environmental suit. And that's the crux of it right there. You don't want video games in the sense that many of us here do. You want anime in video game form. And you're disappointed that most of it sucks. And I don't really know what to say to that except that maybe Keith's right, maybe you'd be better off pursuing retro gaming, on the Wii or otherwise. Japanese game development, I'm sorry to say, has become largely stagnant. It's why Keiji Inafune left Capcom. It's why guys creative types like Suda 51, Hideki Kamiya, and Shinji Mikami keep forming smaller studios like Clover or Platinum Games.
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    Western RPGs, which have left their Japanese kindred by the wayside. Fallout 3, Deus Ex, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc.
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    Even if you can't stand Apple's products (I'm a Windows PC and Android phone guy, but I do have a Mac Mini and an iPad), you can't deny the huge influence Apple has had on the tech industry. It seems like every time Apple did something really innovative (the original Macintosh, the iMac, Mac OS X, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, etc), Jobs was directly involved. The man was truly a visionary. While Apple will undoubtedly continue to make tons of money selling the products that Jobs created, it will be interesting to see if they can continue their industry-defining innovation without him. It's a sad day. I'm gonna go watch Pirates of Silicon Valley in his memory.
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    I'd like that. I'd like if they put the PSP games into a collection like the God of War games, too.
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    So I've bought, played, and loved Ace Combat 2 and 3 on the original PlayStation, Ace Combat 4, 5, and Zero on the PS2, and Skies of Deception and Joint Assault on the PSP. I bought and liked 6, although I thought it definitely had some issues. I've finished each of the Ace Combat games I've mentioned (except Joint Assault) at least twice, and in some cases dozens of times. I finally got around to playing the demo for Assault Horizon, and I frankly hated it. The F-22 mission had too many "leader" type enemies, and too many waves of enemies in general. It was just boring. In previous Ace Combat games, there's usually been something interesting going on during the mission, but there was none of that in AH. Just, "Kill those Flankers. Now there's more of them, go kill them too!" As for the helicopter mission, the controls just felt clunky. With an exterior view (which I usually use for the planes), the helicopter usually seemed to be between the camera and whatever you're shooting at. With a cockpit view, I couldn't seem to see much besides the interior of the cockpit. An interior, no-cockpit view seemed to work best, but it wasn't great. And the button that sort of locks your aim onto a target always seemed to lock on to some dude hiding behind a barrel or a post or something. Just irritating. I noticed that there's no health indicator? I got shot up a bit in the F-22 and had a heavy damage warning (screwed up the countermove during the scripted bit where they give you tutorial for it), but after killing the guy who shot me I noticed the screen said "light damage." Don't tell me Ace Combat has gone the FPS route of magically regenerating health? The Ace Combat fan in me will almost certainly wind up buying the game at some point, but with the other great games that will be jockeying for a place under the Christmas trees of North America, I can't imagine myself buying it at launch.
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    I picked up Deus Ex on sale at Best Buy. I'd never played the previous two. I think for the first half hour I didn't like Human Revolution, but at some point it gets its hooks into you, and everything clicks. I think I'm close to the end, and by now I think it might be the best game I've played in 2011.
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    How fast is your ISP that it even makes a difference? On a good day, I got 17Mbps with Comcast. Since I moved, my internet seems a bit crappier. 802.11g is rated for 54Mbps. Unless you've got several wifi devices talking to your router simultaneously, range is going to be more of a benefit with 802.11n than speed.
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    Voyager DotM Megatron and Deluxe DotM Prime seem fairly in scale in vehicle mode. Anyone more knowledgeable about trucks wanna weigh in on that?
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