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  1. David Hingtgen
    Not quite that many---you'll miss some of the best Milia/VF-1J action. I'd suggest skipping the first 10, the higher teens/early twenties, and most of the thirties.
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    "TRIPLETS---sequel underway to the 1988 comedy movie TWINS which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito. The sequel has the characters played by Schwarzenegger and Devito discovering that Eddie Murphy's character is their third sibling. The script hasn't been written yet."
  3. David Hingtgen
    And the airlines figured out people knew this, so now most charge extra to sit in an exit row.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Going a little OT here, but it just emphasizes how a lot of technology "looks" haven't changed as much as they used to. 1955 car vs 1985 car? Completely different. 1982 vs 2012? A lot of common sedans look not all that different. More rounded, yes, but not like they've got huge fins and afterburner tail lights. Airplanes---hah! 1955 F-86 vs 1985 F-18? 1982 F-15C vs 2012 F-15C? Or civilian----1955 DC-7 vs 1985 DC-10. Or 1982 767 vs 2012 767... I'd even argue the same for fashion. 50's/60's/70's vs 80's/90's/00's. Remakes of movies from the 40's and 50's, even 60's sometimes 70's---OK. Times/things change. But anything from the 80's/90's---what's going to be different? Will "Future Detroit" look any different at all? (Sadly, if anything, it may look even worse than what the original movie showed)
  5. David Hingtgen
    So, someone ordered 400 cupcakes to be delivered to Bioware's offices. 1/3 blue, 1/3 red, and 1/3 green. Though it doesn't matter which color you pick, they all taste the same. But you've got choice! Anyways--
  6. David Hingtgen
    Kinda sorta relevant: How far in the future was Robocop originally set?
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    So, the un-Kawamoried MP Starscream's out. Only real coloring issue IMHO is the canopy framing---gunmetal? Seems kinda random, since AFAIK pretty much every representation of every seeker ever has the canopy framing as the same color as the rest of the fuselage. Really stands out IMHO against the light grey. (that, and the face seems too dark--blends in with the helmet too much)
  8. David Hingtgen
    They're bent upwards more than typical to start with, and they're designed to flex more than normal. That's just how a 787 is.
  9. David Hingtgen
    If you're going that route--then does any of ME3's missions matter? Why not go right back to Earth after Mars, with a quick snippet saying "during the 6-month gap, they built the Crucible". And start the final mission right then. Because spending hours and hours on any given planet only gets you a 5-word line from Joker---"the ____ fleet just arrived too".
  10. David Hingtgen
    Wrong. Half the schemes at that site have errors, but it seems the entire world references (and believes) them. (actually, that drawing's either very, very, very wrong, or it's not even supposed to be the standard F-14 low-vis scheme at all) MATS is wrong too, despite being the end-all be-all Tomcat site. (they've got the pattern right, but the colors wrong)
  11. David Hingtgen
    Except that the whole "your decisions are important" was one of the key selling points and hyped things about the series. It'd be kind of like "most people aren't super-rich and drive Rolls Royces"---but if a game advertises that, but doesn't have it---that's bad. You can't just say "oh well, that's not how real life is, it's just being realistic". If you advertise money and cars in a game, they should be there. Real life also doesn't have space marines, but if they're on the cover, I expect to play as one. eugimon, re:rachni. In the end it didn't matter. So what, the Crucible is rated at 640 instead of 680? Big whoop, based on how "important" ME1 and ME2 hyped that decision up to be. I mean, it was the entire point of Noveria, which was like 1/4 of ME1's main plot. (since Therum was a much shorter section, and Feros was inbetween the two) Now, if the Crucible was destroyed---yeah, THAT'd be something, and would have made a huge difference to how things played out. But it's the exact same effect as "not discovering book #42 while scanning the attican traverse"----the Crucible has slightly lower stats---which means nothing. Having the Crucible even 500 points higher or lower would have done what, exactly? Expanding on that--really, no matter how big/old any decision was, all it ever does is change a few meaningless numbers around on the big map. Crucible 500 with Krogan 1000, vs Crucible 600 and Salarian 400 and Krogan 800. So what? Doesn't really change how anything plays out. I expected something like "planet X will be lost without Rachni support" or "you cannot get ending B if you chose the renegade option on Noveria". There were no consequences for anything. Heck, you could have purposely sacrificed pretty much every species ever, and the "red" or "blue" endings would be exactly the same. Except maybe Kaiden walks out 3rd at the end instead of Liara or something. Plus you'd miss out on Kirrahe's speech 45 mins earlier, if he didn't make it in ME1.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Well, IMHO that's the main problem. THE ending--singular. Based on how hyped the whole "choice" thing is, and "keep your saves, because it'll affect everything!" the fact that there's really only one ending in three colors goes against one of the series' main points----that things will turn out different because of what you did. Why even list what happened to the Rachni queen in Noveria and what happened to the council at the end of ME1 when you import a save, when the game plays out the same way either way really? And has no effect on the ending? We don't need *a* new ending, that won't fix a huge chunk of the player's complaints---we really need at least 2---generally a "paragon" and "renegade" one (since mostly people either saved or killed everything). It was originally believed/hinted at that there would be many possible endings, basically built up of cut-scenes tailored to YOUR Shepard---what you did on Feros, Noveria, Virmire, Citadel, Collector Base, Tuchanka, Rannoch, etc. But instead, we got one generic ending that ignores the entire previous 90% of your decisions.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Played the 2nd and some of the expansions, then the first. First one was hard in some ways, as the speed of the game did NOT scale with the CPU! So if your PC was significantly more powerful than what the game was designed around--whew! Things happened fast!
  14. David Hingtgen
    Keep it orange, get the turbine wheels (yeah, hard to find) and make it a quasi-General Lee. If not---I vote for Plum Crazy or B5 Blue. Sublime Green after that.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Nah, see both games are going to have a single unified ultra-DLC "real" ending. Where Shepard and the Farrons team up to defeat the Reapers...
  16. David Hingtgen
    Despite this apparently being the FF13-2 thread, nobody commented/posted on this? (no, it's not a fake, it is of course more DLC)
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    Bandai seems to be doing unpainted gear lately--bare metal struts with bare black plastic wheels/tires. (I painted the hubs on my VF-27---makes them look much better IMHO)
  19. David Hingtgen
    When you're towing a pink Mirage down a road with a tractor, you're the coolest guy in the world at the moment:
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    Yamato's made that stripe grey on Milia's since their old v1 VF-1. 1/48 was like that too. It's one of those "depends on the animators that day" things, like the head cannons (red vs grey vs steel).
  21. David Hingtgen
    IMHO it's sad when fan-theory is far better and makes more sense than the actual explanation. PS--exactly what it seems to be? The 2-second add-on clip? It's beyond implausible if it actually takes place after "the ending".
  22. David Hingtgen
    The "secret" ending is a 2-second clip tacked on to the end of the "red" ending: And that fact, that it only happens with the "red" ending is considered one of the bigger clues that Apparently "green" is only an option with a decently high "readiness/army" in the first place, but the same requirements also do that slight alteration to the red ending. Or, possibly, "alternate red" has an even higher requirement than "green" does. 5000 vs 4000 pts, respectively or so. PS---nice fan art of a fun ending: http://imgur.com/rC6FD
  23. David Hingtgen
    90x90 seems to be the "preferred" size right now. Used to be 128x128 IIRC.
  24. David Hingtgen
    I feel slighted that the previous arc (Obi-Wan in disguise) was twice as long as THE RETURN OF MAUL. Of course, all of next season could be about Maul, but probably not. He and Oppress will probably show up at the end of next season for another 2-parter.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Says the man with 4 copies of a one-of-a-kind VF-17?
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