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Finished Resident Evil 3 R and while it was good. I found it to be too much of a reimagination rather than a remake. Too many locations and certain content were cut from the original which leaves me alittle sour. Carlos' character was easily the most well fleshed out. Jill was good but her personality looked forced at times.

Been playing Doom Eternal on PC and loving it so far. The dash mechanic is a huge difference maker over Doom 2016. Game doesn't stress my 1070 Ti graphics card at all even on Ultra settings.

8 hours ago, AN/ALQ128 said:

What a beauty.

From what I've read, the APG-71 was ridiculously powerful. No radar among Naval aircraft came close to it until the Super Hornets were upgraded with the APG-79.

If you've been driving an Auto most of your time with cars, what's the fastest way to get comfortable and efficient with driving a manual?

God this looks good.

I'm still very curious how many hours FF7 will take up. Hoping for atleast 40 hours and not taken up mostly by cutscenes.

March and April will be insane for game releases.

I still have the VHS tapes of this I picked up at Suncoast way back in the early 2000s.

20 hours ago, levzloi said:

I'm not going to say I really liked it, but like you I went in with low expectations, and I honestly "enjoyed" it.  I'll have to see it at least once more, I'm pretty sure it crumbles under any scrutiny just like the others of the sequel trilogy, but I didn't leave the theater thinking I didn't want to see it again like I did with The Last Jedi.  My general impression after a rewatch this week culminating in The Rise of Skywalker, was that the sequels suffered from three things.  One, no concrete vision of where it was going.  I'm convinced that any JJ Abrams writing room consists of a bunch of people saying "You know what would look cool and/or mysterious!"  Then they write all those scenes together as a committee.  .  Two, one-upmanship, everything needs to be bigger and badder and more exciting than everything before.  "this doesn't make sense, but who cares, it looks cool!".  Three, as a result of the first two, there's no real story, just a few tangentially connected events in sequence.  Say what you want about the Prequels, and there is soooo much to criticize, but they existed to tell a story.   The sequels exist because Disney made a corporate crafted blockbuster that just happens to be set in a universe that so many people love.  nuf said. 

This has also been largely my opinion of the Disney-era Star Wars. The movies seem to revolve more around acting like a theme-park ride than telling a story.

16 hours ago, peter said:

Watched an F-18 pilot review of the trailer.....he mentioned something that I'm not sure is actually true.  He said that it was his understanding that all the flying in the movie was supposedly real, then he got to the shot of the F14 and did not confirm whether it was real or not.

Was what he said about all the flying being real, true?  He seemed unsure about the F14 scene.  Or maybe it was real footage, but from before their retirement and just enhanced for the scene?  There's no way they got one flying again right?

Would be sweet if this movie was just a teaser for F14s coming back, but I know it's just wishful thinking, lol!

 

Pretty sure the Kitty is CG. It would take alot of effort to get an F-14 airworthy again from what I can tell.

Here is CW Lemoine's take.

5 hours ago, Ignacio Ocamica said:

Thanks!!! That's another airshow. Yeah, kind of...

I could swear I've seen footage of Super Hornets and even the standard Hornet pulling higher alpha turns than that. They're not Cobra maneuvers but still very tight.

We also still don't get any whiff of an opposition fighter in this one. Only sign of a fight seems to be one of the Rhino's dumping flares to avoid a surface-to-air missile it would appear.

So Maverick's exploits were so great, the Navy mounted his F-14A.

I'm definitely checking this film out now. Looking at the cockpit footage of the Super Hornet, I'm curious if they filmed in an older Block I.

Definitely a filler episode but I still liked it.

Skipped Episode VIII and from what I'm seeing, will probably say no to this.

Overall, I liked this episode. I just hope they shift the formula up here before the series ends.

Closest thing to legit carrier ops in a simulator.

So Hollywood has covered Formula 1 and now Le Mans with a decent result. Now I just want to see them take a crack at the WRC in the mid-80s.

Honestly felt this has been the weakest of all the episode so far. Still interesting but yeah.... Couldn't help but notice the red lighting inside the AT-ST cockpit. Nice touch for night combat.

I recall in Jane's USNF the Su-34 getting the unflattering but appropriate callsign "Platypus" in the manual. I'm assuming this was before NATO designated as Fullback and the game designers needed to call it something.

55 minutes ago, F-ZeroOne said:

Just to reassure people, no hedgehogs were harmed in the making of hedgehog flavoured crisps.

I think. I mean, sometimes you'd get the odd one that served a dual function as a toothpick but...

Now I think about it, the NATO "If we give them silly names they'll sound less of a threat" possibility extended to helicopters too - Hip, Hind, Hokum (that one always felt deliberate)...

"Havoc" doesn't quite fit that mold then. I always thought NATO gave Soviet bombers the best callsigns. Backfire, Blinder, Bear, Blackjack, etc.

I'm intrigued but some of the elements I've heard about in DS. From a design perspective, it looks fantastic and has almost a Shadow of the Colossus aesthetic. I've been a fan of Kojima since MGS on the PS1. ZOE2 was another big favorite of mine but around MGS4, his games started getting more out there and indulgent. Jingles' review of Death Stranding more or less affirmed my fears that Hideo Kojima had gone "full George Lucas" with no one there to tell him "no".

DS still interests me. I'm just having a harder time seeing it worth dropping $60 on.

I've been debating between Death Stranding and Jedi Fallen Order. I'm starting to lean more towards Jedi after what I'm reading. I want to play Stranding aswell but thinking of waiting to get it a lower price.

15 hours ago, slide said:

 Good Lord... you folks have some odd tastes!

 

could NATO at least stick to non-disparaging designations? "Su-57 Felon", "Mig-15 F***" [although this one became FAR more hilarious with Russia's "Anti LGBT Propaganda" laws], "Mig-21 Fishbed", "Tu-22 Backfire"

They're getting better ... but it's almost as if NATO doesn't like them! LOL

...although in the Su-25's case, wouldn't the NATO reporting name just make the French hungry?

 

Wasn't F***** meant to be the bundle of iron/metal pieces?

Thinking more about it now. Felon doesn't seem so bad given the stealth features of the Su-57. It's far less confusing then following each iteration of the Flanker family. (Flanker-B, Flanker-D, Flanker-E, H, etc.)