Jump to content

mikeszekely

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    13144

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by mikeszekely

  1. mikeszekely
    I'm not going to say that spoiler never gets in the way, but it's actually the rear seat headrests that give me the most grief. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't just check his mirrors; I gotta take a quick peak over my shoulder before I change lanes. If I'm moving left to right, that puts the back seat on the passenger side's headrest in exactly the spot I'm looking. Luckily, they can be removed.
  2. mikeszekely
    My "attainable" dream car would be a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X. Yeah, I know everyone seems to have a fondness for other Evos first, but I really dig that body style (it was a step in the right direction after the way they brutalized the Eclipse). Still can't afford an Evo, though. Bought a 2010 Lancer GTS instead. What surprised me the most about the process how sentimental I got about my old car when I was trading it in. It wasn't anything fancy... just a 2002 Mitsubishi Mirage DE coupe. But it was the very first brand new car I'd ever bought, shortly after college and 3 days after I got married. After driving it for 8 years, I got kind of attached, I guess. Trading it in was a lot like putting down an old pet... you know it's for the best, but your gonna miss that loyal companion.
  3. mikeszekely
    Sorry. 3D Dot Game Heroes for me, at least until Alpha Protocol.
  4. mikeszekely
    I think it just came out this week. I went to the Target real close to my house yesterday, and they didn't have it. I didn't feel like dealing with Gamestop's douchebaggery (in the past few weeks, they've fired 5 store managers and two or three assistant sms in my area over really stupid stuff), so I went down the road to Best Buy and found it there.
  5. mikeszekely
    Originally from Energon. A repaint was being sold exclusively at Targets under the Revenge of the Fallen line.
  6. mikeszekely
    Anybody pick up 3D Dot Game Heroes? It's slightly surprising to see a game with so many 8-bit NES homages not on the Wii, but the game is really good. It's the game that is the most like the original NES Zelda I've ever played (although I've ran across references from Dragon Quest, Mega Man, and Armored Core as well). Seriously, this game does things for me that even the Gameboy, GBA, and DS Zelda games haven't. If an old guy saying "It's dangerous to go alone, take this" and giving you a sword brings back fuzzy feelings of nostalgia, get this game.
  7. mikeszekely
    I wonder how that works for the PC Steam users. I assume that since I already have Steam, if I installed Steam on my Mac that the copy of Portal I already bought would still be playable on my Mac even if they weren't giving it away.
  8. mikeszekely
    First off, consider installing Microsoft Security Essentials after you get everything fixed. It's free, it's lightweight, and it performs quite well for being basic protection. Also consider grabbing the similarly-free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and running that from time to time. It's not as pro-active as MSE or other AV software, but I've found it to be better at removing infections that get by your regular AV software. Second, I've seen infections similar to what you're describing, in that you're locked out of running the most basic of programs, but they're almost always accompanied by some kind of fake AV popping up and promising to unlock your computer if you'll only give them your credit card number. These kinds of malware are very annoying to get rid of... they'll block you from running stuff like Malwarebytes that you might use to get rid of them. If you try booting into Safe Mode, they do a great job of hiding from scanners, so you're still infected when you boot back into regular mode. At work, I usually end up googling which processes, files, and registry keys are at the root of the issue and manually fixing them. Before you go getting out your Windows discs, if you can get to a clean computer there's a version of Malwarebytes that you can run from a USB flash drive... just rename it ie.exe. You can also download a distro of Linux that can run an AV software from a live CD. Lifehacker recently ran an article describing how to do just that.
  9. mikeszekely
    I missed out on ALL the G1 Seekers. So I feel you there. But if Reprolables makes a Peg decal, it'll mean we've started a meme. And that, my good Admiral, would be hardcore.
  10. mikeszekely
    A friend of mine had been talking this movie up for awhile as the funniest movie he'd ever seen. So on his recommendation, I rented it. And at first, I'm thinking that I must not get it. I'll admit, my buddy's black and I'm a white guy, and I was wondering if I was just missing something. I'm glad I kept watching. Turns out I was just being impatient with it. The movie's like a snowball of absurdity, building as it goes on. By the end, I was ready to admit that it really was one of the funniest movies I'd ever seen.
  11. mikeszekely
    Yeah... ever since Mac Plus, the Hory Froating Head loves himself some hip kibble. YF-19, YF-21, MP Starscream, GP-03, VF-14... And as hard as Grand Admiral is going to buy Thrust, if Reprolabels makes a Peg decal, I'm going to buy that so HARDER.
  12. mikeszekely
    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.
  13. mikeszekely
    Or busy. When he started, wasn't it something he just did for fun? I know he's with Udon now.
  14. mikeszekely
    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.
  15. mikeszekely
    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.
  16. mikeszekely
    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.
  17. mikeszekely
    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.
  18. mikeszekely
    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.
  19. mikeszekely
    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.
  20. mikeszekely
    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.
  21. mikeszekely
    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.
  22. mikeszekely
    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.
  23. mikeszekely
    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).
  24. mikeszekely
    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.
  25. mikeszekely
    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.
×
×
  • Create New...