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  1. If you guys have a PC, might as well just play the PC version right? Does the console version have better graphics? I doubt it has even half the number of flyable planes the PC has?

    Considering its an 'old' game, the PC required specs are quite low for today.

    Perversely, since upgrading my video card a few months ago, IL-2 no longer works correctly for me, and I spent hours and hours troubleshooting to no avail. There's something about my 4890 or the current ATI Catalysts that it don't like :( . I can either run it with minimal detail and lighting effects (runs great, looks like poo), or I can run it with full detail and lighting effects (runs great, looks like poo due to crazy artifacts). It kind of bites, as I've been playing since '03 and have been without my fix for a while now. Hope the driver gets sorted.

    All that aside, IL-2 is my absolute favorite combat flight sim. I'm holding out for its replacement, the BOB:SOW series.

    I didn't even know that there was a console port in the mix until I read this thread. I'll have to take a look at it.

  2. We discussed this a bunch in the Licensing thread. Check my site for lots of better pics... the toy is actually blue with black, gray, and gold highlights.

    I checked your site right after posting about it... and of course, you were already on it. Your pictures (and of course, text) are much more descriptive than the publicity shots. I'll have to pop in on the licensing thread, thanks for the heads-up.

  3. I am quite looking forward to this one - I loved the original as a kid, so much so that I programmed my own light cycles game in Atari Basic back in the day. I am also embarrassed to note that I have probably seen the original movie in the theater more times than anyone else on the face of the earth, but not necessarily due to choice...

    See, way back when, TRON was released just slightly before E.T. What was that, '82, '83?

    I actually went to see TRON once with my family, and a couple/few other times with friends. Saw it of my own accord maybe 3-4 times total.

    When E.T. came out, it became one of those must-see movies, and at any theater, there were invariably lines stretching around the block to see it. On the multitude (oh, god, I don't know how many times) of occasions that I attempted to see E.T with various friends and family groups, and failing to get in, we would invariably sit in on TRON instead... Bringing my in-theater viewership of TRON to some incredibly high number. I can remember sitting in on TRON one time, when the over-played film and projector were so overworked, that the film melted onscreen (during Sark's address of his conscripts). That was cool.

    To this day, I have still never seen E.T. In fact, at some point, I decided that there was such a perverse universal conspiracy to *prevent* me from seeing E.T., that I consciously decided that I must *never* see it, out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

    Fact. :lol:

  4. I dunno. I think I need to compile all the awesome ideas into one post.

    I think it goes something like this...

    Focus Group Guy: [after showing the fans some Macross cartoons] Okay, how many of you fans would like Macross to deal with real life problems like the ones you face every day?

    [the fans cheer]

    Focus Group Guy: And who would like to see the show do just the opposite, getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers?

    [the fans cheer again]

    Focus Group Guy: So, you want a realistic down-to-earth show that's completely off the wall, and swarming with magic robots?

    [the fans all chat at once about it being a great idea]

    Milhouse Van Houten: And, also, you should win things by watching.

    Focus Group Guy: [sighs]

    :lol:

  5. What if .... what if ... Toynami and Beagle is pulling a fast one on us; that this news of no more 1/10 cyclones is a ploy to get everyone to buy, buy, buy!!!

    After all, sales were not that good with the first two due to the fact that their original $79.99 exploded to $220 or so. Anyone have any idea why the companies decided to mark up the price to almost 3 times the original price? WTF?

    Well anyhow, I'm deciding whether to pick up Rand for $170 shipped. I got Stick at the Comic Con.

    Unlikely scenario. The pure awesomeness of the Beagle should be all the impetus you hobos need to "buy, buy, buy". Read Save's posts.

  6. WDC,

    I don't know if you are still fishing for advice on this one, but here are my thoughts...

    About ten years ago I had a customer make the same mistake, putting about 8 gallons of diesel into a 12-gal tank. The car in question was subject to a recent mechanical restoration which I had performed myself - the engine was brand-new, and was still being broken-in. What amazed me at the time was that the engine actually ran on the diesel, although it was belching, smoking, and knocking like you wouldn't believe. After pumping out and flushing the fuel tank, purging the fuel system (including the mechanical injection pump and injectors), changing the oil, and running a couple of tanks of premium through it, the engine tested healthily and suffered no ill effects. It still runs strong and healthy today.

    I've seen multiple catastrophic cooling system failures in VW's and Audis over the years; once a faulty heater-valve caused the heater core in a car I was driving to explode, showering me with steam and scalding hot water from the heater vents - all of the glass instantly fogged (I was on the highway), and I received several 2nd and 3rd degree burns to my legs and feet. Other failures I've personally observed have had to do with the coolant hoses blowing off of their fittings (due to inadequate factory-equipped clamps and mounting hardware), and head gasket failures (usually the result of owners using cheap or low-octane fuels). In my (admittedly biased) experience, I've come to the conclusion that VW cooling systems are absolute junk. There have been numerous class-action suits against VW for the very reasons I've mentioned.

    My thinking is that while the diesel-fill wasn't the best thing that could have happened to an already compromised engine, it probably didn't do much to accelerate the problem. If diesel was entering the cooling system in volume (very unlikely), it would most certainly cause it to run hotter.

    HTH

  7. The stars can be giveth; and they can be taketh away.

    I doubt that anybody gives any credence to the stars when looking at sales items. Hell, I didn't even know about them until you posted this thread. For all anyone knows, the stars could be related to relevance to topics posted, as this is how they work on other message boards. If you're a reputable member and/or on the SSL, that seems to generally be enough.

  8. I'm having a hard time deciding which Alphas/Beta to get. I mean they have their ups and downs!!

    Ups and downs is a bit of an understatement. "Heights" and "Depths" are more the terms I would use.

    IMO (take lightly, just my opinion), if you are a line-art nazi, the Toynami setup is for you. The sculpts are really pretty nice. Though the build quality on their Tread is really quite nice, the Legioss' are more hit and miss (and more "miss" than "hit").

    The Aoshima stuff is about the same as the Toynami cosmetically speaking, but going by most reports, is even more deplorable in terms of build quality.

    The CM's stuff is (again, by all reports) terrific in terms of quality and playability, but somewhat inferior in terms of sculpt and line-art accuracy. If you are not a Line-art nazi, then by all means go for the CM's.

    The final option is the OG Gakken 1/72. Prepare to bend over. Expensive, extremely hard to locate, fragile, and wooden. Pretty cool though in terms of rarity, cachet, eliteism, status and funk.

    My $.02

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