CoryHolmes

My current PC is running a GeForce 7350 LE graphics card, and I know that's woefully underpowered. I'll soon be getting my grubby hands on Dragon Age and Star Wars: TOR sometime next year and I'm looking to update my grapics card and I'm willing to spend the bucks to get a good, top-of-the-line model. My problem is that I have no idea what sort of interface I have available on my mother board, be it PCI or PCI Express or PCI 2.0 or, or, or... So I come before you seeking education. How can I find out what I've got and which cards to you most-knowledgable people recommend?

*patpatpat* We can't believe it, either You know what else we can't believe? That he was 50 when he made that movie. I should be in that good shape next year!

He succeeded in being so evil-looking by having utterly NO expression whatsoever. That takes some serious acting chops to bring that sort of presence through the movie screen. Even in the first film Arnie occasionally had facial twists and expressions, but Robert Patrick had none of that. Serious props to that guy. ... you fail 80s action flicks FOREVER! He was the baddie from the first Bloodsport film.

Say what you will about the concept of Halo live-action and the general quality of game-to-movies so far, but that ODST and the Halo 3 short films for that game just rocked. Totally and completely rocked.

That's why I simply can't watch the original cartoons in their un-dubbedness. I've watched, re-watched, re-re-watched, re-re-re-re-re-re-re-^456324 watched Robotech so many times that to see the same images with different music and voices just too damned jarring. Especially the music.

Will any of these mould silcones require degassing? I'm not looking forward to that extreme for what will amount to a weekend hobby.

Any ideas where I can get some Smooth-On casting silcone and urethane resin? I prefer not to use web-based sources since I'm impatient and want to walk out of stores with purchases in hand

Techie question. I'm looking for a small laser/LED to write some words on a sheet of paper with. Not burn into a piece of wood or anything, I just want to display letters and numbers. Any idea as to what sorts of gizmos I should be looking for?

Curses! You just beat me to it! I still watch the Visionaries to this day, which is more than I can say for any other 80s cartoon. Forget TF and GI Joe, Visionaries deserves to be remade as a film

The problem is that BioWare is trying to keep a Star Wars-y feel to the game, and that means wedge-shaped ships, Moffs, and Emperor's for the Sith Empire, and Jedi robes, Ebon Hawk / Millenium Falcon-type ships for the Republic. Heck, even the basic premise of most Star Wars games/media is the same: Jedi are on the run and hunted down, Republic is fighting against an Empire, the bad guys have Stormtroopers, etc. It sucks, it's a bad idea... and it's how Star Wars games have been made from yonkers back and will continue 'til yonkers in the future. ... but I will admit to loving the Jedi's armour

He was the proto-Shinji! But seriously, whenever I sit down to watch that show I totally ignore the squishy humans and focus on the uber-cool mechas. That's what 80s anime was all about, yes?

Well, I'd already gotten the front half of the picture It's just the back half and the character in question that was confusing me since I keep seeing Asuka from Evangelion.

Can you reccomend a clear urethane/acrylic that I can use with a silcone mould? I'm told that the clear urethanes I've found from Smooth-On are quite toxic to use (not really for hobbyists, I guess) and that clear plastics don't work well with silcone.

... dare I ask what your ASCII sig is?

What do you use for your moulds? Silicone or urethane? What do you use for your resin, more urethane?

My favourite 80s anime has to be Detonator Orgun. Cheesy sci-fi goodness at it's best

Well, that's solved the logging-out-by-pictures deal. Now I just have to find a way to keep the website from logging me out at random interverals

That does seem to be the bane of this console generation, eh? It's not like we have Mario and Sonic as flagship titles to two very unique game libraries anymore. Now games cost so much time and money to develop that most studios simply can't afford to be console-specific and still expect to see a profit, except in some very rare cases. And even then, most games eventually come out to the PC as a third platform. Kinda makes me wonder if Denis Dayak wasn't right about how the consoles are going to be even more commoditized in the future.

Don't forget Heavy Rain. That title is also generation a lot of buzz, and it's the reason I'll finally break down and buy a PS3

Pretty much what it says on the tin, really. Everytime I click on a picture to get the larger version, the board logs me out. This is most annoying, so does anyone have any tips?

But you have to admit, the fight at the end is pretty decent... I know, I know; poor justification for one of the first animes I ever saw. Sue me

Parts of their ship (which looks a lot like Discovery One from 2001) rotate and parts don't. Gravity is easily explained on the rotating sections, but in order to simulate gravity in the non-rotating sections their jumpsuits have "nanofibres in them" which pulls them down onto the deckplate. Neat, but doesn't explain why their hair still feels gravity. In another example, a crewmember is testing a spacesuit when she's pulled out an airlock. Fortunatly she was wearing a teather, so all they had to do was reel her back in. The character reeling her back in is tugging, tugging, tugging and when she gets back to the airlock, she runs into him with the force of several tugs instead of the several dozen that he'd been pulling. Again, some of this is very nit-picky but it does stand out when noticed. Also, I have but this to say about your avatar: Bark!

Nope, it's on right now. Well, Sunday nights at 9pm As I said before, I'm rather surprised at how much I'm enjoying this show. I'm not a big TV fan, nor a fan of "relationship drama", but this one has me hooked, dubios science an' all Though I will say that I figure it'll be much more enjoyable watching the whole show on DVD when I can keep track of all the plots and little drop-ins about the overarching story/mystery.

After three episodes, I can already tell that this is a show that I'm going to like. And I don't even enjoy shows like Lost or BSG or Grey's Anatomy, which this show is directly compared to. It's mostly about relationships, which is a topic that I normally can't stand, but it also comes with an underlying plot thread about the hows and whys of what's going on and that's what's really got me hooked. Any of you peeps have thoughts on this?

Ah-HAH!!! Victory is mine! Victory is mine! *does a ridiculous victory dance* Suck it, toy! Suck iiiiiiit! *ahem* I'm pleased to report that I have sucessfully transformed this toy to battloid mode. That Collection DX review really did help with my one stickling point, which was the kick-stand. I knew that was my problem but I had no idea how to fix it until I saw it done for me. After that, my only problems were that the right side of the toy had insanely tight tolerances, in so far as almost being outside of each mating pieces' tolerance. Seriously, I had to shave down the thigh peg and widen the hole for it to plug into (and even then it was a tight fit), and the right chest armour/sensor bay won't stay plugged in and pops out at the slightest breeze. And that sideways skew still screws things up, though the groin-piece and groin-hook kinda hold it all together, except during the aforementioned breeze. The figure joints are also so tight that I was afraid to bend them lest I break them, and as soon as I got a pose that darned right side popped free. Fortunatly it's not that visible, so I'm going to leave it just as it is. All in all, this is an awesome toy that's fiddly enough that I think I'd sooner buy a second one to display in motorcycle mode than attempt this beastly conversion again anytime soon