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  1. David Hingtgen
    I think I'd take the Holiday Special as a canon source over that. On a serious note--I might buy that explanation for the A-wing, but no way for the B-wing. One of the missions in the X-Wing expansion pack, was doing the trench run in a B-Wing, as it's a FAR better choice than the X-wing or Y-wing. It was basically designed for such a mission---no way they wouldn't use it if even 1 prototype was available.
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    Anyone have keyboard suggestions? Very tempted by mechanical ones. (have pretty much already decided that if I go mechanical, it will be Cherry Brown switches). Info: Currently using Eclipse II. I despise extra keys on the sides, so that eliminates most "gaming" keyboards. I also require a numeric pad etc, which eliminates the other end of the spectrum of gaming ones. Not surprisingly, I also demand a totally standard keyboard layout---a LOT of boards do weird things with Esc, Bkspce, \, and others when you really look close. In short---any "cheap" boards worth looking at? Or should I just go all out and get a Corsair K70 etc? Or----it seems the Madcatz Cyborg V5 is basically a "new" Eclipse. I loved my Eclipse II when it was new---anyone got the Madcatz version? Madcatz stuff varies WIDELY---some is utter crap, some is pretty nice.
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    The presence of A and B wings though, seems contrary to established canon (and quasi-canon, and fanon), time-wise.
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    And since they're hexagons, they intermesh nicely in neat patterns.
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    One of the pics of the Neo-X-Wing shows BB-8 (or a very similar droid) where you would normally have an R2 unit.
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    Interview on (gamespot?) said atmospheric dogfights only, as like a "power up/skill bonus". No levels dedicated to it, no fleet action, Death Stars, etc.
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    No space battles in Battlefront? Heresy. It's called STAR wars. Not ground wars.
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    I personally like it, though I bet she gets about as much screen time as the previous movie Psylocke.
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    Sorry, but I can't trust anything Mr K says about color and adjustments, after they completely f'd up the -0D.
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    I just figured it out----of course Mr Abrams wouldn't use Tatooine----it only has two suns! With a new planet, he can have three or four suns in the sky at once----think of the lens flares that would create!!!
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    I keep thinking---is it simply due to real sets and real models, as opposed to green-screen sets and CG ships? Or is it something much more than that, harder to identify and replicate?
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    Ooh, interesting. I first thought it was Venator-class based on the engines, but I've only watched it on my phone so far. (Venator-class wrecks would be like 100x more common, but the raw size required for a scene like that does point towards an SSD)
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    That seems awfully long for a repaint.
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    It was never intended nor supposed to be called "F-117". F-117 was an intentionally inappropriate designation used to hide its true identity. It was called F-117 because F-114, 115, 116 were already used for other black/experimental projects---some of the "F-1xx" designations were used for the numerous MiG and Sukhoi planes we had "acquired" and were flight testing at the same time. (can't very well publically call it a MiG-27 if we're not supposed to have any! So any flight test/paperwork would say "F-114" or something) The Nighthawk just happened to get the "117" designation, as it was the next one in line. But that was never meant to be a "real" designation. There's probably something like an "F-128" flying around right now, that will get its true name of F-26, or A-14, or B-3 some day. (or, never be revealed and be a black project until 2045...) The F-35 should be the F-24, for similar-but-different reasons.
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    Waiting for a new MP Megatron, I feel is like waiting for MP Shockwave. At best, it'll be years from now, and no better.
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    I think I'm going to wait for Apollyon v1.5 (because he's nearly pre-sold-out most places, and there's plenty of tweaks still to be done---there WILL be another run of him for sure, and most likely will be a few additional improvements)
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    There's only the one release/version, and it comes with a LOT of missiles.
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    Rear fan grill is "flat" on mine.
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    I read up on CPU fan location/direction before the build----one guy tried EVERY configuration and it made at most 1 degree of difference on an Evo212, which is quite similar to a Kotetsu. So mount where you want, blowing in the direction you want. Point: Having the fan suck air through the cooler, vs pushing it through, makes it WAY easier to clean, as the dusty/clogged side of the cooler will NOT have the fan attached to it. So I plan to mount it in "front" of the cooler (normal location), but flipped around to suck air through it. Mounting the CPU fan on the "rear" of the cooler, to push air through like "normal"---puts it only like an inch away from the rear fan. And that's way too crowded to allow for even just plugging things in, it covers up the main mobo heatsink, etc. PS to all---mounting the cooler "sideways" so that the fan is blowing up, isn't possible. Not with the supplied mounts/bracket. Only real concern with this setup, is a filter for the rear fan, which is now an intake. There are custom filters for my case, (DemciFilters), but I don't want to pay 20 bucks shipping for a $4 part. Anyone tried the "generic" magnetic etc 120mm filters?
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    My graphics card almost splits the case in half, into a top and bottom compartment. So the front intake, on the bottom, blows back towards GPU and PSU, which both exhaust to the rear. So latest idea is to have rear fan as intake, CPU fan in normal location but flipped so it's pulling, then moving top fan to the front mounting location, where it will "raise" the CPU cooler's exhaust up out of the case. May still add 2nd top fan later, but we'll see how this works out for now.
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    Reversing CPU fan----::smacks head:: duh, that should be easy. Still haven't fully tweaked the fans noise-wise, so still have to decide if I can add another fan without making things too loud. (I'm thinking of running the top-exhaust fans at low speed/power, and the front intake higher----for no other reason than looks, as fan speed affects LED brightness) Have ordered new power switch---the original measures 16mm across, and that seems to be a decently common size, so it should fit with little to no case-altering. (it's an inherently blue LED, so whether you put a red, green, or yellow filter over it, it's going to light up blue) Just makes no sense for it to be blue, since the LCD display and HDD LED on the case, are red.
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    New PC up and running, but not finished by any means. At least I know it works. Found a few things during final assembly: 1. Bottom fan location can't be used once power supply is installed. MAYBE a skinny-framed 120mm would fit, if PSU is installed upside down. But a normal-sized PSU physically covers the 140mm mounting holes. So, no bottom fan. Maybe a small 430 watt PSU would allow a fan to be used? But not anything in the typical 500-600w+ etc range. 2. So, that leaves lower-front as my only intake fan. What about making the rear fan, an intake? Then having both top locations as exhausts? Sucking in both front and rear, exhausting out the top. While that would put the rear fan and CPU fan in "opposition", the CPU cooler itself would be between them, so I figure that'd mitigate much of the rear fan's effect on the CPU fan's flow. 3. "Power on" LED is blue (like EVERYTHING these days) and it totally clashes with my color scheme (and the red LCD display on the case's header-panel itself--they didn't match their own parts!) But it seems impossible to change---I've got it disassembled after much effort, but the LED itself and the on-off switch are basically intertwined-----pushing the on/off button, actually moves the LED's housing down around the LED, making the LED housing contact a switch directly below the LED itself. And it's all soldered and glued together in a single assembly. The LED itself seems to be like one of these: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-5mm-Round-Subminiature-Axial-Lead-Yoke-Lead-Series-LEDs-High-Bright-Red-LED-620-630nm/708163112.html But the leads wrap down around through slots in the housing, and are glued to the lower/inner housing (in addition to being soldered I assume). So unless someone sells an aftermarket switch, it's going to have to stay blue. ::grumble grumble:: (you know, if companies just used *white* LED's, then it'd be easy, you could just use any little clear filter or paint to color the lens how you want and match any PC's color scheme---white's not much more expensive than blue---both of which cost much more than basic red)
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    Been very interested in it---is there a powerup that turns him into a girl wearing a powered suit?
  25. David Hingtgen
    So it comes pre-riced, or is that a show-only modded version?
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