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    Thanks, the sales of the novel have not been as good as I would like, but then I have not been able to do much marketing the last few months, and have almost no budget to do so either. I've gotten most of my sales from Amazon, a little off itunes, none of B&N or the others that I have seen. So book 2 will start out as an amazon exclusive, will consider putting it onto kindle unlimited. What is really hurting sales right now is a lack of reviews. Reviews sell books and without them I am kind of up a creek.
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    T1 was the best terminator film, period. T2 was a fun movie, but a bad sequel, it broke the rules established in the first film. Had they not done the whole "stop judgement day" thing I could have forgiven more of its flaws, in terms of being a sequel. T3 was horribly miscast and ended up more an action comedy then anything else T4 had great potential, showing us the future war, and having a good cast, but the writing and direction (sorry McG is not a good director, Charlie's Angels, bleh, any director that destroys a Shelby Cobra is dead to me) T-G: I dunno, will probably watch it on netflix unless the reviews are just spectacular.
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    The flinching while firing annoys the heck out of me too. The CG Arnold didn't look terrible, but I could excuse those things. What I can't is the idea of stopping Judgement Day, that was the worst part of T2. T1 was a perfect causal loop story and all the sequels have ruined that. Why couldn't they keep the loop intact? Kyle doesn't need to know that Sara was a badass, JohnC could have lied. People always say that T1 had such a bleak ending, but htey forget the part where Reese tells Sara that they won the war, that time travel was Skynet's last gambit, and without him knowing, that sending Reese back was part of the loop that allowed that to happen. Sara's surviving and getting pregnant is what allows the war to be won.
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    So bets on who will play Amanda Waller? Will they go with the old school, fat oprah route, or the new 52 skinny b!itch?
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    Thanks to Greg Lane for providing the character lineart for the next Spiral War Book, now I am working on the coloring and shading. I wish I was better at this and had more time to work on it. Any tips would be well appreciated. Blazer gets the cover again: This time Chris gets some cover love, and is actually dressed: And of course Gokhead, a Drashig with reverse hinged knees: oops had to fix the link ANd the first test of the trio together:
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    For an immediate future look the man-amps were fine. My biggest beef is that with exception of what, one or two guys, none of them were suits with armor. Those were not mobile suits or power armors, but straight up man-amps. COngrats WMC, any hints as to what movie, has it even been announced yet?
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    I saw the movie a bit back, forgot to post. It was good, not as good as the book/manga, and it was horribly miscast, the ending was so different from the book that is shouldn't even be mentioned, and was all based on the star power, they should have useda well known, but not superstars in the lead roles, then it would have been better. The suit designs are still bad though, but forgivably so since the story is suppossed be 5 mins in the future.
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    That video is still all kinds of awesome, would have loved to see a series animated that way. Rogue Squadron!!!
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    Ok I have not followed MtF for a while, is the story actually progressing or are we just getting random part panels here and there?
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    IIRC from the novelization, been decades, so bear with me. There were multiple "academies" There was the Imperial Academy and then there were merchant academies for training folks to be freighter pilots. The EU made it so that Biggs entered the Imperial Academy, earlier versions had him attend one of the merchant academies and steal a freighter, the Rand Ecliptic, the EU later made it an imperial strike cruiser or some such.
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    A couple of EU authors I have spoken to have been just fine with the decision to cut the EU as canon. They view the separation of the EU into its own timeline as the only way Disney could really proceed. One of them called the EU a giant out of control garden that the landscaper didn't maintain. Disney has basically closed off the field and started planting a new garden, taking only the best seeds and cuttings from the old garden to arrange as they see fit. So some EU stuff will creep into the new movies, probably some concepts and storylines, maybe just mentioning them, and even some EU books could be brought into the canon, with some rewriting to fit the new Disney canon. If the powers that be keep a tight reign on it this time then the DSWEU could be pretty good.
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    Thanks guys I will look into those when I get my new phone
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    That SOB should be grounded for pulling a stunt like that, much lower and he would have killed someone, assuming he didn't crash.
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    In my mind, Interstellar's biggest flaw is that they didn't explain the science better, not dwelling on it mind you, but just a few lines here or there explaining more about the blackhole, about how the Ranger's engines work, just enough to quiet some of the science concerns. Also, while I understand that they couldn't communicate in real time with the Lazarus crews through the wormhole, why couldn't they once they were through? With the exception of the water planet and its time dilation issues, sending radio communications to the surface should have been relatively easy. Just a plot hole I noticed when watching it, but then the movie would not have been as exciting.
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    Are there any good photoshop type apps for the android out there? I want to work on my last coverart while on the vanpool to work and don't want to have to drag my whole laptop along, any ideas? Will need to be able to work in layers, color, resize elements, etc... Is there a gimp for android?
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    First impressions: The bit with the Falcon was cool. The bits with the new Storm Troopers showed promise, looked like a can of whoop was about to get opened. I definitely called how the new X-wing's S-foils openned. Overall, nice build up. Still hate that X-wing S-foil design, maybe it will grow on me when I see more. Really hate that republic pilots helmet, why is it digging into his cheeks like that? That speeder thing Daisy Ridley ride, WTF? That is hideous. What was the ridiculous looking protocol droid? The head looked like it wasn't even connected to that ball body. Light saber with light saber saber guards? That looks far more dangerous to the wielder than any other saber design yet. I will hold out hope that the story is good. The single bit of dialogue has me intrigued, could we be seeing an awakening of multiple new force users, en-mass? That could be interesting.
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    A production YF-23 would has suffered similar issues as the F-22, due to it being the front running 5th gen fighter, but with some important differences. There area fundamental design problems with the F-22 due to its overall configuration. If you ever meet an F-22 pilot ask them how loud it gets when they open the sidewinder bay. F-22s have always flown with a tight leash as well in regards to using thrust vectoring or demoing the aircraft's maneuverability, there are reasons for this. Let's not even get into the oxygen system issues. Northrup, on the whole, is more willing to implement design changes based on obsolesce than Lockheed, especially to Avionics.
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    I hate to burst any bubbles, but the reason we never sold the F-22 to other nations, beyond security, we knew it was flawed from the get go and didn't want that getting out. The F-22 is a marvelous piece of tech and an innovative stealth design, but has some serious fundamental flaws that are just now reaching public attention.
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    After 20 some odd years of course you would try and domesticate some of the dinos. The Raptors are a logical choice because of their wolf pack mentality. Imagine replacing military working dogs with Raptors, really see your enemies Shatting themselves.
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    You are able to absorb more Gs in a prone position then a seated or standing one. So the gimballed seat would actually lessen the load on your heart to pump blood so long as you were kept flat relative to the G Forces. For the sideways motion it helps as well by lessening any impact with objects to the sides. It would also help a lot with docking maneuvers.
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    Overall yes, I just wish they had explained the propulsion systems better. I especially loved how the seats were gambled for G-Force compensation.
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    Not going to happen, pre-internet design, and all the design files are locked up. THey would need to get physical access.
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    Love the color scheme, might actually convince me to get one.
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    The Tu-4 is the basis for the "russian copies" myth. Yes the Tu-4 was an unabashed copy of the, then, most advanced airframe in the world, the B-29 and it put the russians on an almost equal footing with the west technologically, but like with all things, the tech diverged and took its own path.
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    I could see that, it also depends on the nature of the Ranger's engines, they could have a high rad output that is not wanted for Earth launches.
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