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Better than Bayformers, but not as good as a genuine G1 or War Within game.

That kid was a prick, but he appreciated Mega Man for the 2D masterpiece that it was and still is...

Although the Metroid Prime games were very good, I don't think I've ever disagreed with anyone more about anything in my life.

Ideally, I'd want it for (backward-compatible) PS3. It's where I've got my Mega Man 9, my Mega Man Anniversary Collection with the eight before that, my Mega Man X7 and X8, and my Mega Man X Collection.

Mega Man 10. I just hope it's multi-platform, like MM9 was.

More or less. Although I do have to admit, what I'd really like is a Transformers game like the Armada one Atari did... just with more playable characters and set in the G1 universe. Maybe because prior to 2002 it was all one continuity? Except for Robots in Disguise, although Car Robots is part of the Japanese G1 continuity. Armada was the first Transformers series to be clearly set in an alternate Transformers universe, and the "Generation 1" label was retroactively applied to refer to the Transformers of the original cartoon/comic/toy line. Some kind of label had to be applied; the blanket term "The Transformers" could now apply to any of the various continuities. Further, I don't think G1 is a meaningless label. G1 refers to exactly what I said: the original cartoon/toy/comic line. Dreamwave places their comics in that setting. IDW re-imagines it. Nobody's saying that Bayformers, Armada, Animated, etc are G1. And without reading the actual GI article that reveals this game, I don't think anyone's calling this new game G1 either. There's a difference between "This game is G1" and "This game is G1-esque." And the designs for the game, while ugly, are evocative of G1 in other ways than by simply being "blocky." They're colored like their G1 counterparts. Prime's got the grill on his abs, something that could be windows on his chest, and the vents on his shins. Megatron's got his bucket helmet and Fusion Cannon. Soundwave's got the panel on his chest and his shoulder gun.

New non-movie Transformers game from High Moon Studios coming in 2010. Activision loves annual installments of their franchises, but a solid Transformers game without the movie nonsense could be a good thing. I just wish that if they were going to do a pre-earth Transformers game they'd have stuck to the War Within designs instead of doing their own thing I don't get why Prime is all blocky but Megatron and Soundwave are kinda of spikey. This game's Megatron especially looks like G1 Megatron and Bayformer Megatron had a baby.

Bah. The 90s were terrible. Crappy CGI popping up everywhere, grunge music, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, The Phantom Menace, Star Trek Voyager, boy bands, the Spice Girls, ravers, etc. The 80s were where it was at. Metal, Nintendo, awesome toys (Transformers, etc), awesome cartoons (Thundercats, He-Man), the Voyager Missions, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Empire Strikes Back, Saved By the Bell, Knight Rider... it was an awesome time to be alive.

We've still got another year until the end of the decade, folks.

So I'm watching that video and thinking about how terrible it is when it occurs to me that it's actually a lot better than the Legend of Chun Li...

The mini lawnmower noise goes from occasional to constant. That's when I ghetto-rigged it with the ATX PSU. I'll tell you what... it was a trooper. I think I had it for close to five years.

I don't think we'll see backwards compatibility from Sony again until the first batch of PS4 consoles play PS3 games. Best bet is to look for an older 60GB PS3 with an Emotion Engine, or to hang on to your PS2.

It was a colossal pain. The PSU that came with my VAIO was underpowered and started to make a noise like a lawnmower whenever the computer was on. Sony wanted $350 to replace it with the exact same underpowered unit... I wound up buying an off-brand ATX PSU and a pair of Altec Lansing speakers, then used the computer for another two or three years with the cover off and the ATX PSU sitting on my desk next to it. It was the last desktop I ever bought in the store. Screwing around with that VAIO forced me to learn about computers, so I build my own towers now. I need a new Linux box, though, and I'm sorely tempted to buy a Compaq. I see them go on sale for $300, and through my retail connections I might be able to score a $100 rebate on top of that.

Sony. Well, I don't think they use proprietary mobo standoff positions, but yes on the power switch leads. My old VAIO tower also had a proprietary PSU that caused me no end of grief.

I don't think so. I can't read too much of it, but the article is talking about two games. It seems the only mentions of the DS are for Rockman EXE: Operation Shooting Star.

Is it just me, or has the cost of RAM really gone up lately? I remember checking the prices of 2GB sticks for my netbook (and Asus Eee PC 900HA) shortly after getting it (a little less than a year ago), and it was around $25. I passed at the time, because I didn't use it much. I find myself using it more lately (because I bought a new notebook mouse, maybe), so I checked again and it's around $40... Or is it just because DDR3 has dropped in price enough that you can get a 2GB stick of laptop RAM for the same price as the DDR2?

Yeah, Asus seems pretty solid. I'm just having trouble finding one in my price range. I'm not. I can't buy anything without selling my Mac, and I can't even find a buyer for that yet. I'm hoping maybe around my early February birthday, and right now I'm just comparing prices and GPUs. And as for that Acer, I'm willing to go $50 out of my price range for it.

Everyone I know that's bought an Asus has been pretty happy with it... but I'm thinking that it might be worth my while to save a little more for a better GPU. I mean, the GT 220M looks like it'd do for what I want, but a GT 230M or GT 240M definitely gives me a bit more headroom. Thing is, if I'm going to buy a lappy, I'd rather do it from Newegg, since I'm used to doing business with them. And they don't have any laptops with a GT 230M. They have some with a GT 240M, but the Asus is a little out of my price range then. There is this Acer that's pretty close to my budget, though. Any reason not to go with it? I've kind of come to associate Acer with cheap Walmart laptops, but on the flip side I bought my wife an Acer two years ago and it's been really good. Bonus question: GeForce GT 220M or Mobility Radeon HD 4650?

That doesn't look too bad, but I'm thinking maybe this one. Unless you guys think I'm better off waiting a bit longer? I still need to find a buyer for my MacBook.

Thanks for the suggestions. Is the GT 220M ok? I noticed that Newegg has an Asus with a GT 220M that's highly rated. Buying desktop cards is so much easier...

Here's the deal... I have a nice desktop setup for gaming. But I also go on trips from time to time, and I've been thinking about selling my MacBook and buying a Windows 7 laptop that I could take with me on said trips. Now, I'd want to take a laptop with me on trips mostly to play games, but I'm not looking to sink too much money into it since I would still do 99% of my gaming on my desktop... we'll say maybe $700-$800. What I need is a laptop with a decent dedicated card for mostly games like Fallout 3, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and the like. I wouldn't complain if it ran the Call of Duty games, but FPS games wouldn't be a priority for it, and I'm certainly not looking to run Crysis. The games I do want to run, I'd like to run on higher settings but medium settings would be okay. So what's a good laptop GPU that'd fit my needs and budget? GTX 260M is obviously out.

You guys are getting too wrapped up on the fact that the Narada is a mining vessel and ignoring the fact that it's a Romulan mining vessel. I don't think the Romulan philosophy allows for "lightly armed."

AFAIK, that nickname origin only applies to the Abrams-alternate timeline. His nickname in TOS (and the original timeline) was a shortened form of "sawbones," which I guess was slang for a frontier doctor back in the day.

I actually wouldn't recommend a netbook if this is going to be your friend's primary computer. Sure, they're cute and ridiculously portable, but that's about it. From my experience, netbooks tend to be sluggish, and the screen resolution is too low to be productive in Office. And that doesn't even touch on the limited hard drives, lack of RAM, lack of an optical drive, or the fact that most netbook still come with XP, and even the ones that do have Windows 7 have Windows 7 starter. IIRC, you're in Australia, so I'm not sure what the pricing is like over there. But in the US, most netbooks are still around $300, and it's very possible to find regular laptops for $350. And even the cheapest laptops around all seem to have 15.6" screens, 2-3GB of RAM, either Pentium Dual Core or Athlon X2 dual-core processors, 320GB hard drives, and Windows 7 Home Premium.

Some study I read on Engadget suggests that HP has the highest 3-year failure rate. Make of the study what you will. It does seem like most of the computers I service are HPs, but then again I always figured most people buy HP and Dell.