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    I liked the Thrust from Botcon better, but as someone who can't afford to spend crap-tons on a handful of Deluxes, I'll gladly take the Generations fig. Meanwhile, I see Peg's got some Kawamori-esque hip kibble. I wonder if that's an intentional move to look like a Japanese mecha? And War for Cybertron is starting to sound like the Transformers game I've always wanted.
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    Or busy. When he started, wasn't it something he just did for fun? I know he's with Udon now.
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    As I understand it, Gizmodo returned the iPhone once Apple claimed it, and no larceny or grand theft charges were filed. The felony charges are more like theft of trade secrets, which is why Gizmodo and Chen are going with the "journalists are exempt" defense.
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    Prototype devices need testing. An Apple employee in possession of a prototype device (disguised as an iPhone 3G) is not an unbelievable occurrence. A guy getting toasted at a bar and forgetting his phone is similarly believable. In any case, I've yet to see anything that definitively says Powell keeps his job, just suggestions that he will. Right now a lot of eyes are on Apple, and it'd be really bad PR if they canned Powell. Your turn. Explain how a felony investigation is a marketing stunt.
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    Yeah, Jason Chen "just happens" to pay $5000 for the prototype, and then cops "just happen" to show up with a warrant and seize a bunch of Chen's stuff, and Chen "just happens" to be under felony investigation now. Nevermind that Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet (an employee was supposedly fired for showing Steve Wozniak an iPad minutes before they actually went on sale, IIRC). Nevermind that no one "just happened" to have media friends (Gizmodo had an open bounty out for information on yet-to-be-released Apple products). Sure sounds like a marketing stunt to me.
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    As opposed to paying that (or more) for one Valkyrie toy? Or any price over $100 for any activity that you might not be into, but someone else is? Judge not my hobby, lest I start judging yours.
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    No. You need custom firmware to do that. And while there's apparently a savegame "Hello World" exploit, I don't believe a custom firmware for the Go is available.
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    The PSP 3000 has less glare and two options for Color Space. Normal is the same as the PSP 2000. The other option is Wide. Wide has better contrast and more vivid color. For many games, it will be an improvement. Some games may experience issues with interlacing, though.
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    To clarify one thing, if you don't care about hacking, skip the PSP-2000 too. The PSP-3000 has an improved screen. And yes, you can import Macross games and they'll play just fine on a US PSP, or a British one, or an Australian one, etc (although, given the improvements, I'd say you can skip Macross Ace Frontier and go straight to Macross Ultimate Frontier). UMD games aren't regionally locked, just UMD movies.
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    There's some new pics of Deluxe War for Cybertron Prime floating around. I kinda wish they'd gone with a Voyager instead, since he's about as tall as Titanium WW Prime as a Deluxe, and he's got some back kibble. But he looks decently poseable (are those ball-jointed ankles I see?), and the head sculpt is one of the better I've seen for a Prime lately. I don't think I've been this excited for a new Prime figure since I bought Classics Voyager Prime.
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    Here's the deal; you want a hackable PSP, you get yourself a PSP-1000 (the old fat one). They're the easiest to hack (some 2000's can, so far the 3000 and the Go can't). If you're not planning on doing that, then get the 3000 (the current slim that still uses UMDs). Be careful if you shop used, because you don't really want a 2000 (also slim). The PSP-3000 has a much better screen than the fat or the 2000. You can tell the difference between a 2000 and a 3000 by the buttons along the bottom front. On the 2000, the Home, Select, and Start buttons are sort of half circles. On the 3000, they're pill-shaped, like longer versions of the volume buttons. Also, the Home key says "HOME" on the 2000; on the 3000 it's the PlayStation logo. Lastly, there's a little hole to the left of the PSP logo on the 3000; that's for the built-in mic. I don't recall if you can hook a 2000 up to a TV. You can for a 3000. One thing to keep in mind is that there's two cables out there for it, a composite (1 video, two audio) and a component (three video, two audio). If you use the composite, you can only watch movies. To play games on a TV, you need the component cable. Also, be aware that while movies will stretch to fit your TV, games will not. On my 720p 52" DLP, a game will take up something like 50-60% of the available screen, with black borders all around it. Do not buy a PSP Go. Not only does it cost more, you can't use UMDs with it. This would be less of an issue if more PSP games were available in the PlayStation store, or if you couldn't find most of the games there cheaper elsewhere, but there you have it.
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    If you're a Mega Man fan, I'd highly recommend Mega Man: Powered Up and Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X. And if you're a Gundam fan, Gundam Battle Universe can imported fairly cheaply (and after putting a ton of time in with both, I do still think it's better than the newer Gundam Assault Survive).
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    I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the performance bump you get from an SSD (or, for that matter, a 10,000 RPM platter) is NOT worth the difference in price/GB. A 64GB Kingston SSD with good speeds is around $130. You can find 2TB 7200 RPM SATA II drives for that price. If my math is right (not saying it is, I'm lousy with numbers) that puts the SSD at something like 30x more per GB. And while I'd love to see SSDs become standard in notebooks (better battery life and less moving parts!), the pros just do not outweigh the price con. Not yet, anyway.
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    So it gets a bad score, and that's overrating it? If anything, I'd say it's underrated. Honestly, I'm not sure what they're griping about. Did you like the first one? Seems you'd like the second one then. It's just new characters, more specializations, a higher level cap, and more dungeons to crawl.
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    Did anyone else get the Dragon Age Origins: Awakening expansion? I know I'm a bit behind on it, since a ton of other games came out around the same time, but I've finally sat down to start seriously playing it. One question that I've had since I started playing it, though... and I'll use spoiler tags for anyone who hasn't finished the first one or started this one.
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    I liked both of those better than VII. And while VIII is sort of a black sheep in the franchise, IX was probably the best one since VI.
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    Games that suck, but I still like? Halo. Just kidding. I don't actually like Halo (although I did finish all three of the main series games). In a more serious fashion, as has been said a number of times, I do enjoy the Dynasty Warriors games (I think the only one I finished 100% of was the first Dynasty Warriors Gundam game). I also enjoyed the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen adaptation, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Prototype, and Dante's Inferno, despite the mixed reviews. On the whole, I think I'm more likely to dislike a well-reviewed game than to like a poorly reviewed game. I mean, in addition to Halo, I've yet to like a 3D Zelda game, never cared for a Prince of Persia game, couldn't quite get into Metal Gear Solid, liked the second Splinter Cell but never completed any of them, and thought Gears of War was just mediocre enough to not buy the sequel.
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    The northbridge? A northbridge chip usually handles communication between the CPU, GPU, and RAM. If it had come unseated, that'd definitely cause problems like you described.
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    Without running the usual suite of tools, my snap diagnosis would be heat damage to the motherboard or GPU (damage to the CPU should cause a post error). You may try to get it repaired, but due to the difficulty of repairing laptops (and thus the expense), if I was in your shoes I'd look to buy an external enclosure for the hard drive (Best Buy and Staples sell an Antec one for around $40, but you can find them cheaper online), then replace the entire laptop.
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    Windows may freak out if it's missing drivers, and will probably de-activate because of the radically different hardware. But as long as the connection is the same (that is, both IDE or both SATA) it should at least boot.
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    Underrated: stuff I like. Overrated: stuff I don't like. Or possibly everything.
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    If you're going to to complain that "Final Fantasy" is misleading as applies to Spirits Within because it's sci-fi and not fantasy, then I'm going to take issue with Final Fantasy II-XIV + any all spin-offs, on account of what "final" implies. Most sci-fi from that era is pretty flawed. But I love sci-fi from that era because, despite its flaws, there was so much imagination and optimism about human space exploration. It's before we found out we weren't going to do much beyond launch robots and orbit the earth with the same handful of vehicles for 30 years. But yeah, I liked The Black Hole. You're going to have a hard time winning me over on your opinion of BSG after defending a movie as god-awful as Robocop 2.
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    Watch it, if you can. ZZ does start off pretty corny, but it eventually gains traction and works up to near Z Gundam levels by the end.
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    I wasn't aware that 00 was getting favorable reviews. About the best thing I could say for 00 was that it was better than SEED. I guess I also liked how, instead of aping the original like SEED did, it borrowed more from Wing. Oh, that reminds me... Overrated: Gundam Wing. There still seems to be a ton of love for this series amongst anime fandom at large. To be honest, it was the first Gundam I saw, back when it was on Toonami. It got me interested enough to watch all of the other Gundam series... which I quickly discovered were all better. Wing was full of characters with about as much depth as a puddle, and who personified 90s angst. Not to mention that it was more of a Super Robot show than a Real Robot show, yet lacked the originality to be more than a Reader's Digest version of UC Gundam from first Gundam to Char's Counterattack. Until SEED came along, Wing wound up being my least favorite Gundam. Underrated: Gundam X. Interesting post-apocalyptic setting, decent cast, acceptable mecha designs, and the meaning of Newtypes as a central theme. Possible the most Gundam-ish AU series.
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    That's the problem I've had with every Final Fantasy since IV. So it was missing, what... chocobos? An androgynous fellow with a sword a guy twice his size couldn't lift? It's not like there's a lot of commonality between the games. I can't really comment on whether or not Spirits Within is underrated, because I've never seen it. But Advent Children was just terrible... 100 minutes of fanservice for the kids who vote Cloud and Sephiroth into every Gamefaqs character battle. It's got a 33% at Rotten Tomatoes, and yeah, I'd say that's overrating it.
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