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  1. Knight26
    So, my laptop is having issues again with random shutdowns. I still think it is heat related after the last go around but thought I would ask you guys and see what you think. Basically the issue is this, the laptop will shut itself down after an indeterminite time and for no obvious reason beyond that I can feel a lot of heat at the exhaust vent. Now, it was really having this problem a few months ago so I did the following: 1) tore it down and reseated all the daughterboards, video card, and memory, everything... 2) scrapped off and reapplied new thermal gel to all points that contact the heat sink 3) cleaned and reset the exhaust fan 4) purchased a cooling fan to place it one, setting it up for maximum airflow underneath This seemed to work well until just last week, now in the interim period I noticed the following: 1) THe computer would lag when hot or running high memory applications 2) Playing ME3 requried me to periodically pause while the frame rate dropped to unplayable levels for upwards of two minutes, not that big a deal, it just forced me to take a break 3) AutoCAD slowdowns 4) Has the biggest issue when running streaming video Since it has started overheating and shutting down again I noticed the following: 1) started a new ME1 playthrough, cannot play more than 15 minutes before it completely shuts the machine down 2) streaming video or playing downloaded videos it will last maybe an hour before having problems and slowing down 3) streaming multiple videos or audio streams will almost always result in a shutdown Now the biggest issue is this, my wife has agreed that I get a new laptop this year, but can't be until the fall, so what can I do in the interim in order to keep this beast running through the hot summer? Oh and one last bit of wierdness to throw in, when I take the LT into my office and use it in the big conference room I can stream or watch video, run autocad and/or ME3 with no slow downs, no overheating, none of the problems I have at home. However I have not stress tested it since we had our PG&E smart meter removed at the house yet, but it did overheat after I let my son watch videos on it.
  2. Knight26
    DH quit outing yourself we all know now that you're one of these:
  3. Knight26
    f'n goregous, you have to sneak that into the background of one the movies you work on next
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    So what excuse do they use as to why it has been recommissioned? Do any of the crew look at the old equipment and have no clue how it works? Thos gun batteries alone have had no one trained in their use in what 20 years? Heck one of my favortie parts of Down Periscope was Bret from Alien being there as the old as dirst reservist who still knew how to run the engines on the old diesel sub and none of the others knew a damn about how to run those engines.
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    the whole reason that Iron Sky works as a movie is because it has its tongue so fully in cheek that the tongue has fused with the cheek wall.
  6. Knight26
    Gore freaking geous, give us more, let's see cruiser glory and maybe some valks on the deck
  7. Knight26
    how many episodes total will 0096 have?
  8. Knight26
    Gorgeous, can we see the underside?
  9. Knight26
    Going to pick my copy up today, unless comicbook guy lied to me on the date.
  10. Knight26
    I agree 100% graham, I work with UAVs and movies always protray them horribly, the TF movies were the worst, and oddly the best protrayal, most accurate and realistic was that horrible movie Skyline. Infact the only scene in it worth a damn is the scene were the UCAVs attack, that one X-47 that makes it long enough to fire was awesome to watch, and honesly was the only character I gave a flying flip about. Infact the X-47 guys here have the scene playing on a loop in their conference room.
  11. Knight26
    Mx on the YF-23 was no more intensive then other stealth jets at the time, and would have only improved. The B-2 has always been a maintenance pig, but improvements made in the last few years have halved the Mx time. The YF and F-22 are still Mx pigs in a lot of ways, in large part because of all the Mx stations shoved into the internal bays instead of having their own access hatches. A friend of mine is an engine maintainer and dreads pulling F-22 engines because of the fact that you have to cut into the jet to do it then reseal the cut afterwards. The F-35 on the other hand learned a lot from the B-2 program and so a lot of those Mx issues have been lessened. Talking to the NGC engineers I work with here, a lot of the Mx issues seen on YF-23 were to be addressed in the production bird, especially the engine tiles, which were the biggest Mx pig.
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    Or it's just poorly designed by a movie artist who knows jack about aircraft carriers.
  13. Knight26
    Proprotionaly it looks like it is based on the 1:55, but even then it needs some adjustments like the legs look they already have FAST Packs on, so it should be transformable. I agree on wanting to see other modes though. What I am curious about is how you plan to sell this, as a garage kit, would be the only legal way I see, but make sure HG doesn't get wind of this.
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    Finally had some time to work on this. Not sold yet on the starboard weapons pod, probably going to trim it down a bit, but I can't too much since that gun has to open. I am also going to increase the size of the engines a bit integrate the under carriage and then start in on the detailing work.
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    Very cool, and similar to the VF-4 in overal transformation scheme, well done
  16. Knight26
    Don't get me wrong I like Javik, but he seems much more like he should have been in the main game not a DLC based on his interactions with other crew members beyond Shephard, whereas Allers is only ever seen interacting with Shephard and over the comms with Traynor. That is more consistent with the early DLC characters of Kasumi and Zaeed, who only refer to other characters and never interact with them. Then again most characters in ME2 were only seen outside of their quarters on rare occasions.
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    Why is Cate Beckinsale being escorted by Cerberus troops?
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    I think the biggest problem with the ending is the identical nature of it, and I don't think that was on bioware, I am willing to bet that they did originally plan, script and demo the "wildly different endings" and were shot down by their distributor EA. EA wanted the identical endings, EA wanted everyone's endings to be similar enough that they could come in later and cash cow more games out of the franchise. Look at their track record of how they treat other properties they have bought from developers that no longer exist. Even look at some of the characters taht were shoehorned in there, Diana Allers, Lt Vega, etc... They are attempts to make the game more accessible to people who were not initially invested in the franchise or genre. Let's look at how they treated another property first, Wing COmmander. They gave us a new WC game after a decade and what was it, a friccking top down arcade shooter, that had nothing to to do with WIng commander except for a few bastardized ship designs. But back to ME3, Diana Allers is a freaking waste kilobits, she makes no impact on the game, only has some dialogue with shephard and Specialist Traynor and never deals with any other member of the crew, she stinks of a last minute DLC more than Javik. But, no one would pay for a reporter (who gets nicer quarters than anyone other than Shephard or Liara) DLC. Heck I would have prefered to keep the PITA report we have the option of decking on the Normandy more than that Jersey SHore looking nasty. Speaking of Jersey SHore washouts, what is up with James Vega, we all thought Vega would be the cool sniper in the tower, who only gets a shout out once we get to Earth. Instead we get this roided out idiot, no thanks, I would have prefered a Krogan on my team, or an Elcor. Infact if you look at him he basically fills the Krogan role except he doesn't have any good biotic powers. I would love it if bioware came out, with EA right beside them admitting that EA forced the ending, rewriting the epic conclusion and shoe horning it all down to the batch of near identical endings. And we know why too, to sell more games and to sell DLC. I will place good money that the Truth DLC will include a new ending explaining that what we saw was an indoctrination attempt and giving you the option to really stop the Reaper and give us the endings we all wanted.
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    The book won't be but the website will and I plan to put these on shapeways too.
  20. Knight26
    Thanks Gu-11. Basically these all belong to a book series I have been working on, on and off, for a few years now. Life and other things have prevented me from finishing a major rewrite of it, and late at night I can usually not get much writing done since I have to monitor my disabled son's sleeping, to make sure he is breathing, and so all I can do is play games or work on these designs. As for the confusion of the title with SPiral Zone, no big deal I think a few people have made that mistake. I'm thinking that I want to finish up the missile pod tonight, probably make it a little shorter and thinner, but will put some more launch ports in the rear, probably for heavier ordnance. After that I will start on reworking the Anti-matter cannon, probably will keep the forward mandibles (which open) and redo the rest. Then onto the wings, docking mounts, landing gear, details, etc...
  21. Knight26
    Ok update time, sorry but real life and well Mass Effect 3 slowed down progress. This is Splicer-3000 Marker fighter/bomber, basically the space equivalent of an A-10, A-6, and a few other attack aircraft. I may rename it, thinking something along the lines of dragon right now due to the new tail. The weapon's pods will see some serious rework, just I'm focusing on the missile pod right now. And the old version for comparison.
  22. Knight26
    For those of us who are not apple whores can you spill?
  23. Knight26
    Gentlemen hand me the scissors, we need to remove your man parts as you clearly are not a man
  24. Knight26
    The ending did not bug me as much as others. Was it the ending we wanted with Shephard running off into the sunset nailing/getting nailed by their lover, no. But in a way it was the best way things could end for him, I mean where do you go from there as a character? At that point he is too godlike in level to make any further game enjoyable without breaking him back down again in some way. IF there are any further DLC I just hope that they fill some of the plot holes, And I know I will be in the minority on this one, but I missed the vehicular stuff, maybe it will be a future DLC, there is room in the hanger for a Mako or Hammerhead.
  25. Knight26
    Hard to tell, but I don't care for the power armor from what I have seen. Also the audio has shades of Armor and Forever War in the dialogue
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