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I have TWO 32" tubes. A Sony flatscreen TV from fairly recent, and a Mitsubishi monitor from the 90s(official max res of 800*600, but it makes a damn good s-video display). The Sony needs me to dig into the service menu and adjust it. It's as close to perfect as I can get it with the official end-user controls. The Mitsubishi just has aged phosphers, so the contrast level is just a hair low. Sony carries the nickname of Herniator. Mitsubishi = Screenzilla.

Those will probably be even worse, since you 'll be able to see the artifacts from the overcompression in addition to the original low image quality. And I have to point out that the best-looking HDTV to date was a tube set. Tubes aren't inherently inferior. They're just easier to screw up.

*passes out the party hats*

Interesting. Also interesting that they skipped the AV part of the question entirely.

So you're saying flash isn't supported because the DS lacks the space to download it? That's actually a MORE severe issue than my hypothesis, as it prevents the system from supporting Flash at ALL as opposed to just supporting it really choppy.

I'm a bit more skeptical. The DS is a much lighter machine than the PSP. I have doubts it can render the level of Flash that's expected at a reasonable framerate.

Maybe you saw an earlier one than me, but the first one I saw had a giant mess of kibble on the legs that was nothing whatsoever like the animation and just looked nasty. Prime is a hell of a lot closer to the animation than either version of Starscream. I agree the added conformal thingies on the sides/arms were stupid. And that I'm holding out for a vintage paintjob before I even consider buying one.

Well, if he can copy-paste a forum exploit, he can probably copy-paste something more troublesome. He's still a script kiddy, and thus still a complete retard incapable of doing anything more than copy-paste. ... Wonder if he was even sharp enough to spoof his IP. Be hilarious if he wasn't. Heehee... I love paranoids. And kids trying to sound smarter than they are. IP lookups can be fun, though. Find some brats reveling in their anonymity, get their IP, get their ISP and city with that, then ask how the weather in their hometown is. They shut up fast. I had someone threaten to hack my computer and "steal my media player" once. That was pretty hilarious at the time.

I'd be more worried about the guns. Child safety laws tend to screw weaponry up badly.

Ooooh, we could call naked Magnus "Anti-Scourge!"

I think Ultra Magnus is the best example. I don't really mind the trailerless Prime. Sure it affected nostalgia and truck mode, but it had no real impact on the robot, which is what the point was. But Ultra Magnus without a trailer is... not Ultra Magnus. If you aren't gonna include the trailer for a Magnus release, you may as well paint him orange and call him Stacks.

No? It's been sprite-based for it's original PC incarnation and subsequent SegaCD game. Went polygonal on the PS2, but was still a 2D game.

A Guncon would've actually been a major step up. Strip the orange paint off and a Guncon looks like a real gun. Was playing with one of the older gray models once, a gun collector walked in and started trying to identify what model gun it was. That's not going to happen with Classics Meggie, because he's very clearly a made-up weapon(Hasbro's even selling it as a "blaster"). Personally, I think with a more subdued color scheme he could do justice to the original anyways. And I intend to buy him just to spite all the politically-correct anti-fun whiners out there that made people abandon toy guns in the first place.

I dunno... it IS Japan...

I like them too. I LOVED that feature as a kid, though I have no clue why. And I loved the GoBots too, honestly. They turned from robots to vehicles, which was the important part. They're just an easy joke.

Yah. The rubsigns were among the most identifiable traits of Transformers. I mean, if it didn't have rubsigns, it could be anything. Even a GOBOT!

He looks like Prime's kid brother.

http://project.baka-tsuki.net//index.php?t...Suzumiya_Haruhi for the translations of the novels. http://www12.brinkster.com/stratoct/haruhi.htm has a "Haruhi Theater" story that's not listed on the wiki-based translation. I found it amusing. Haruhi plays RPGs the way I've always said they should be played.

Common misconception. Space is a pain in the ass to keep things cool in. There's nothing for conduction or convection cooling to work with, so the only way to cool off is radiation. And that works both ways. The sun carries a lot more energy when it isn't filtered by several miles of air first.

Easier yes, but I'm not sure it'd be more efficient. And there's still a lot of energy being dumped to sling the ship around, and likely far more limited supply of reaction mass than fusion fuel. That's not really a good plan for a space fighter, though. If you quit thrusting, you lose electricity. And battroid mode will have dead turbines most of the time regardless. Electrical generation should be isolated from the turbines for a VF, if for no other reason than battroid(the VF-1 seems to have been designed primarily with aerial combat in mind, so non-thrust in space may not have been a major consideration). That makes good sense, actually. It gives the laser a reservoir to draw on during times of heavy electrical load, when it might demand more than the generator has to spare. Or just allows a laser that uses more power than the generator can supply under "average" conditions. I figured part of it would be that the zentradi seem to use primarily energy weapons. That tells us what technology was like when their mechs were designed, and what they were designed to defend against. What armor they have should be better at deflecting energy attacks than projectiles if their weaponry is a good indication. Of course, we also had centuries of experience with the traditional gun and weapons-grade lasers were close to cutting-edge, so the gunpod may just be more reliable. Unless the disrupted system is the hand or arm actuators. There's also the VF-1 strike pack, to add to the list. Adds a bigger energy weapon than the head turret, and is most definitely NOT intended for atmospheric combat. That's another good point, though. Projectiles are easier to use in an atmosphere.

I doubt power drain was a primary concern, given they were usually seen thrusting constantly, which is gonna suck power too AND consume the much more limited reaction mass as well as fusion reactant.

There's no broadcast HD stations in your area?

It's worse than that... Roy's VF is not only alternating between gunpod and fighter nose, it's also alternating between VF-1A and VF-1S. Sometimes it's even got nothing under it BUT the VF-1A laser. As for primary weapon... the lasers probably SHOULD be, owing to their limitless ammo capacity. But the gunpod seems to be the favored weapon. Maybe cooling issues on the lasers restrict their use, the zentradi armor is more resistant to optics than projectiles, or just old habits die hard.

Older FPSes worked nicely on consoles, though(provided there was enough power available, which there usually wasn't). Wolfenstien, Doom, a bunch of not-iD games that no one ever really cared about and never actually GOT ports, as long as it's a 2D map it works. It's only the ones where you need control of the view angle where it becomes an issue. And thumbsticks suck in general. Got nothing to do with FPSes. RIP Beyond Good and Evil.

Unless your ass is on the wrong side of the foot.