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  1. Knight26
    Changes in the battlespace created the need for an SR-72. The SR-71 was surpassed by sattelites finally having the data bandwidth and resolution to provide near real time imagery to the analysts that wasn't complete garbage. What we are seeing now is that hacking and jamming are coming into play much more, allowing our enemies to disrupt UAV operations. An SR-72 will be able to carry mission specific elint or strike packages at a speed that will allow it to strike almost anywhere in the world relatively quickly. Deployment of a probe droids via rocket is not a feasible plan. What happens to the rocket? It either crashs in enemy territory, creating an international incident, or self destructs, creating the same issue. The same goes for the mini-uav/probes and now you have handed our tech over to the enemy. Beyond that, the data transmission gear onboard the uav is not tiny people, especially if you want a satellite uplink.
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    So when do the firefox and chrome girls come and pound her into the ground?
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    Ok, I could see her as WW.
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    Definitely see it in IMAX if you can. I just hope they come out with an extended edition DVD with more in the battleroom.
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    So I finally had a chance to see Ender's Game last night. Overall impression, go see it, it was fantastic. The visuals were stunning and they had the right cast to bring it to life. Beyond that, i twas too short, run time was supposed to be 114 minutes, but that must have included the end credits, as our movie start at 4:15 and we were out by 6:00, including trailers. There needed to be at least 1 or two more battle room sequences. Still go see it whether you read the book or not. And if you haven't read the book go read it afterwards. Much better than ST: Into Darkness IMHO.
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    Ok, other than the director at the beginning this trailer almost has me sold on this being a fun, maybe not good, but fun movie. I like the bit with SLJ asking why we can use ED robots overseas but not in america. It calls out the whole drone debate in the news nicely.
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    What Abrams and CO should really focus on is what the core of star wars always was. The original trilogy, and less so the prequels were all about the Skywalker family. Watch the OT and find all the scenes that did not have a Skywalker in them, revealed or not, and yes I count the droids as members of the Skywalker family. In the OT they belonged to Leia, then went to Luke so they are part of the family. There are not many scenes without a Skywalker in them, it keeps the story close and tight to viewer. If it jumped around throughout the war it would lose viewers. Now jump to the prequels, look how few scenes, have a Skywalker in them. Now some will argue that Obi-Wan should count, but no, he was never a part of the family. Others may argue that the prequels should have revolved around Obi-Wan, wrong again, the focus of the prequels should have been the fall of Anakin and the rise of Vader . The OT was the redemption of Anakin/Vader through his children. The next trilogy needs to go back to the core of following the Skywalkers and their descendants, whether they be in city's the frontier, whatever.
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    Ok I see the point, from a certain POV, but with the specs they've published why not go with a dual boot system, kind of like the old school Commodore 64 where if you had the game plugged into the back it booted up straight into the game. Obviously that wouldn't work with downloaded games but have something like two power buttons on the unit: #1 boots the system up in STEAM OS, straight up games, no surfing, no TV, no productivity, etc... #2 boots the system up in windows/linux so you can use the machine for productivity. Given that this unit is based so heavily on existing PC hardware why not that option?
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    Ok, i have been out of the loop on this, but now reading that article I have to ask, what's the point? This is basically a nice gaming computer slammed into a small package with a controller that is unfamiliar to the target market. Why not just spend the money on an equivalent gaming rig, and then you have the ability to actually work on it too? A computer built to a specific function is the reason I don't buy consoles to the begin with. Also in regards to the trackball debate. I use a trackball exclusively, except at work. I wish MS hadn't discontinued the trackball that I have loved since the day I got it, with the big thumb controlled ball on the side. It fit my hand great, had fantastic responsiveness, and lasted me 10 years before it finally wore out. MY logitech wireless, while of a similar form factor, is just too small for my hand, but I still prefer it to a mouse, as does my oldest son. Heck he still use the MS Trackball we stitched back together despite its issue because he prefers it to the mouse.
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    Some small updates: And the back cover:
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    Titanfall looks interesting and I may get it for the PC, but we will see
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    Very nice TWDC
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    Have they even started filming yet? Or have a script even?
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    Thanks guys for the tips. TWDC if you want to that would be great, PM me for my e-mail. I need to figure out where it picked up those jaggies, hmmm. I can always go back to the visio source file and figure it out there. Sketchley that was actually me 8th attempt at the galaxy, and I could never get a bar spiral to work, they always looked jacked up. Anyway I may just use the APoD background, they are free to use IIRC. What else does the image need? Should I darken the background? Are there any troublespots you see? I can take another stab at the character coloring but I'm not sure how much good it will do. Is there anything else I can do to really make it look/feel right?
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    A quick mockup with two changes. I used a logo based on TWDC's thanks. I also replaced my galaxy with one of the milky way off apod. I wanted to use one I created myself, but oh well.
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    That is seriously cool, I don't think I have sever seen anyone paint a model that way before, the way it plays with the real shadows causes a real sense of, wha....
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    I agree, the movies are banking on Hugh Jackman's star power over James Marsden's (the most screwed over man in movies). In terms of storytelling however I find Cyclops a much more compelling character. Wolvie is the dark loner without a past who acts as the brawn to Cyc's brains. Cyc is the strong leader character with a haunted past, a pilot, engineer, physics expert and shoots freaking laser beams from his eyes, how is he considered less cool then the guy with a steel skeleton and healing factor? I think this video shows my opinion of wolvie best: http://youtu.be/mhko3m7D6UA
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    Looks interesting, but once again Cyclops gets the shaft. Come on people, give the man some love.
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    Ooh, I like that, see that is why I post stuff to get comments an other options/insights, I will give that a try tonight. Also, do you think you can post them without the backgrounds, might save me some time, thanks.
  20. Knight26
    Fox the horse is dead, quit beating the poor beast.
  21. Knight26
    Here is the logo sans text, the text is is done as a separate element or text box. If you want the original visio file let me know.
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    Ok, played around with this some more. FYI. I am compiling this is Powerpoint, easier to move bits around and resize them. The background Galaxy was made in photoshop, as were the character colorings. The fighters were designed and rendered in AutoCAD. The characters drawn by Exo based on concepts I provided. The original text and logo I created in VISIO. Anyway here are the changes. Old Text, recolored/positioned galaxy. Repositioned Fighters. Not sure how the jaggies reappeared in the text. New text same positions as above. New text, same galaxy as above, new fighter size and position.
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    I'll work on those points tonight, wonder if I can do something in the character coloring to make their emotions more apparent. Also, is there a font out there there that would work better in your opinions? I don't mind if people have suggestions, but just saying you hate something without offering an alternative is not helpful.
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    Very nice, your anatomy work is definitely getting better. Something about the proportions still feels a little off though, I just can't place my finger on it, her head maybe?
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    Did a quick pass on the front cover again. I toned down the galaxy in the background and removed the aliasing around the title and fighters. I also removed the effect I had on the text, it was overdone. I haven't worked on the author portion yet. Now, I've had several comments here and on another forum about the text. What exactly is the problem with it? Maybe it's just because I created it, but I have no problem reading it. If it is too difficult to read then do you have a suggestion for an alternate text? How about the filtered versions, visuals only, did passing it through the filters help to make the whole more cohesive and less obvious that it was multi-media, yet still make an interesting cover?
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