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  1. David Hingtgen
    Ok, same issue with Twitgoo. Really stymied now. Completely disabling anti-virus, adding to trusted sites, and viewing in comptability mode---does nothing. There's just something about "sites with pics that use short urls" or something. ::edit:: may have solved it---I think my ethernet card didn't like the driver that win7 installed. I went and got an old driver from the manufacturer's site and it those sites seem to be working now.
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    Oooh. Though sailing ships have such complex rigging it's one of the few types of models I've never attempted. Also--plastic sails suck. And there's no holes. Surely some enterprising company will come up with aftermarket "ripped" fabric sails.
  3. David Hingtgen
    What, you mean drawing a rare spell 55 times from a boss, then beating it for 0 exp wasn't fun?
  4. David Hingtgen
    A remake of 8 better have an entirely new magic/levelling system...
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    Basic fact is---he was sculpted to be molded in color, and the details are sculpted to match the animation paint apps. It's like trying to exactly fit a VF-25's paint job on a VF-1. It just won't fit quite right. He has "big black boots" inherently molded as part of the figure---making them G1-toy-colored doesn't really work well. And the finely-sculpted "orange bits" on his forearm--that are no longer orange---just calls even more attention to the loss of paint. Same as sculpting/molding his collar---yet leaving it the same color as the surroundings...
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    I'm ok with the red boots, but the lack of orange on the forearms really bugs me. I may shell out for the fixed JP re-release. (I do much prefer Hasbro's chest flames though)
  7. David Hingtgen
    Original equipment vs customized is a key point.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Ok, have noticed something odd with Win7/IE9------I can't see anything from tinypic.com. Seems to be consistent, and other people can see those same pics, so I don't think tinypic's acting up or anything. I've even added it to my trusted sites list and I still don't get anything.
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    I think the general rule is "if it has a gun, it's not a doll".
  10. David Hingtgen
    Saw it tonight--better than the third by far, not sure if better than the second. Not as good as the first of course.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Xard, etc.----we try to eliminate comments/discussion in this thread. It is for news, and only news.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Best tutorial for introducing someone to Windows who's ALMOST a total newbie? As in, they can generally navigate a simple website by clicking around it, but if you want them to open up/find a folder or resize a window, they're totally lost. Don't understand drag-n-drop or cut-n-paste. Rarely remember that right-clicking will bring up a lot of useful options. But they can double-click on an icon on the desktop to open their 2 most-used programs, or will understand if you ask them to click "tools" then "options" then "whatever". If something shows up in "my documents" or a recently-used-documents list they're fine, but if it doesn't, they're fairly lost. Ultimate goal is to let them plug their camera to the PC via a USB camera or insert an SD card, and transfer the pics they want, to the folder they want. (and then be able to find said folder in the future). (sure, Windows can do this semi-automatically, but will only ever put it in "My Documents" or "My Pictures" which is worthless--they really need to learn the basics of windows explorer, and really what a "window" is----a way to see what files are in a folder) (they also need to understand that a shortcut on the desktop is just that--a link to something on the hard drive---not the ACTUAL location of something) And I'd much prefer a sort of interactive/video tutorial. Many are just slides of text. And most of the ones on Youtube suck, as they seem to be running WinXP on a 286 processor that renders only 3 frames per second.
  13. David Hingtgen
    New trailer, combination sequence:
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    I just saw it yesterday and had forgotten that line--but it may be the best one.
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    Yeah, amazing how they had them in the exact same place and worked the same way, way back when it was the Toycom 1/72 YF-19. All these years later, they finally "remember" how they got it right the first time...
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    That's an A330, a wholly different and much larger plane than the 320. The 330 and 340 are closely related. (share about 90% of their parts). Raptormesh--the 35K thrust figure of the F119 wasn't widely believed when it first came out, and for the past couple years the USAF will officially say/admit the F-22's engines are 39K thrust. Many (including me) think even that's too low, compared to the F-35's engine. So really it's at least 78K total, and likely 80K or even more.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Think I got it, deleted a registry value. Will have to boot a few more times to be sure.
  18. David Hingtgen
    I just don't have time this week to siphon through google results: I have Windows Defender turned off. I want it off. But it bugs me at every boot and log-in for every user that it's off. How do I get it to just shut up and stop telling me that it's off? I have disabled and turned off Defender itself in every way I can find, but the message saying it's off still keeps coming up.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Ok, I'm already sick of "allowing" nearly every program I own 10 times a day, since Win7 won't ever "remember" that I allowed a program access, and there seems to be no easy way of permanently granting programs I trust access to whatever they want. Any reason NOT to turn off the UAC?
  20. David Hingtgen
    As of 2 mins ago I finally found a useful font size hack. (99% of "bigger font" methods suck, because they make EVERYTHING bigger--that means blurry pics, icons, buttons, etc---I don't want the whole screen zoomed--JUST text). Will report back once I got it tweaked more. I'll try pinning etc in the future---for now I need my "classic" interface just to be able to make all my visual tweaks/changes first quickly, get all my programs installed, etc. THEN I'll learn the new UI. ::edit:: or not. It changed everything, not just text. I may have to live with it though---even going through the reg hacks and 7 forums makes it seem that changing only fonts size (of ALL fonts, not just the menu/active title bar/icon ones you've been able to select since 95), and not the size of everything, is almost impossible.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Just upgraded to Win 7, a few questions (since every google result is from beta or release day): Window size/position. Not just folders, but programs. They really can't be saved? That's like the most essential thing there is in Windows™---the windows! I've had to resize my browser window like 500 times today... Classic Start Menu--gah, just couldn't deal with clicking clicking clicking. Found a little program to give me XP-style (really more like 98 even) cascading program menus--I hover for a split second, and it expands. For those of use who use LOTS of programs on a weekly basis, having a rapidly-expanding-cascading programs list that you don't have to scroll through is essential. Making everything "must click to expand" is mind-blowingly stupid. (but not as stupid as removing "remember window size and position") Same for "recent documents"---just hover. Don't have to click through everything. Those are the big ones, I'm sure I'll find more. But overall, I kinda feel like I wasted my money. Bought 7 because XP was just plain old now, but I'm spending lots of time modifying 7 just to make it half-assed usable. Like the programs list. And it's going to take forever to get text/fonts right. The dpi setting now changes EVERYTHING, not just fonts. 125% fonts are good, 125% pics and buttons when browsing the web are not. Oh, one more thing---since Win 7 (or is it IE9?) likes to scan/judge/evaluate everything you download from the web---can it be disabled? I mean, that's what I have an anti-virus program for---and they don't pop-up a box for everything. (and the fact that you have to do a drop-menu selection and "save as" to save something anywhere but the default location is annoying)---it used to simply ask where you wanted it----I don't know about other people, but I don't put everything and anything in one huge "downloads" folder---I tend to send it where I plan to keep it)
  22. David Hingtgen
    Even I don't know.
  23. David Hingtgen
    I too may cave on Epyon---it does seem better from the prototype. I just hope they don't announce TV Epyon 6 months later, reusing the entire internal frame etc. All those white markings remind me of a Zoid. (They look pretty good, but I'd probably only put on half of them or so---and only dry-transfer)
  24. David Hingtgen
    I'm going to say this now: DON'T paint the area under the airbrakes white. I'd bet a lot of money that everybody at Hasegawa has only said/done so because of the zillion incorrect model kits in the world of real jet fighters. They were probably trying to be "realistic" and copy the infamous "white airbrake housings" of the F-15 and F-18. Just like most any reference source you find on those jets do. Except that, that's wrong. Real F-15's and F-18's use the same color for the airbrake interiors and housings as the surrounding camoflage. Not white. (the Tornado is often cited as a counter-example, but it too actually uses grey--a pale grey to be sure, that contrasts with the camo---but it's not white)
  25. David Hingtgen
    I've been saying that the YF-19 should do that too for years. (It's fairly apparent in the line-art, it's part of the basic transformation for the entire -19 family--it's just more obvious with the later versions due to the extended LERX)
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