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  1. David Hingtgen
    :gasp: An enemy ace that flies a Super Flanker?!?! Man, how new/exciting for the Ace Combat series... PS--seriously, those are some CLOSE range missile launches...
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    Milia's short-lived -17 does have yellow stripes. Always thought it'd look MUCH better with white...
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    You forgot the massive "no ground targets super-dogfight mission" at the mid-way point. And the elite squadron confrontation just before the end.
  4. David Hingtgen
    I think it's more proper to write it as "Flanker-D". With a hyphen.
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    IMHO there will never be a really good Ultra Magnus unless it is designed from scratch to be UM, and only UM. Using Prime as a base brings in far too many limitations. (and makes the figure hideously more expensive and complex than it needs to be---nobody wants/like un-armored UM---make the figure like in the G1 animation---a car carrier, and a huge armored bot---no more, no less). Sure, it'd probably require the cab to be out-of-scale with Prime. But the figure as a whole would be SO much better for it. The cab would basically be a minimally-transformable truck cab with a giant UM head inside taking up the whole interior---really, that's all the cab did in the G1 figure--support the head.
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    I think of it as a "deserving" thing. If a major character has never had a very good figure---they deserve it more than an equally-famous character that HAS had a pretty good figure (even if it was as far back as G1). I can think of no other character that has such an extreme dichotomy between their fame and their figures to date, as Galvatron.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Yay for neon-green beam saber.
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    I believe that was the most-expected and one of the most-desired characters for MP-10. Goes with Rodimus, certainly famous enough to stand alone, has had very few iterations overall, and had an awful G1 toy. Soundwave pops up a lot, but you gotta admit---much like Grimlock, he was already nearly perfect and an MP version would simply be a bigger and more articulated G1.
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    I think I would have realized by now if I couldn't see in 3D. Everything else has always seemed to work fine--red/blue, polarized, "Magic Eye", whatever Disney does at "Philharmagic," etc. But the 3DS---yeah, it's 3D, sorta, but more by shifting your focus than anything else really, versus altering depth. On a related note, I think I'm exceptionally good at "Magic Eye". The fad has pretty much gone away, but when it was "the in thing" I could see them all, quickly. I still love this gif:
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    Truck mode is better, but not WAY better. IMHO the front half is better, the back half is worse. Not nearly enough improvement in vehicle mode accuracy to warrant purchase. Still lacks side windows and proper doors, etc.
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    Googling killzone and freezing brings up numerous reports. I think the program itself is poorly written or something---many issues with the game not working right. It's not the disc, it's not the PS3.
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    Even old cinema film from the 30's can be 4000p or higher, far beyond current 1080p. A lot of it depends on preservation--if it's a minor film that literally sat in a closet for 30 years and was produced on cheap film to begin with---it may be hard to ever get quality out of it as it's physically degraded over time (actual film never really stops developing, or something like that--you can never wash out ALL the chemicals). But any "first class" film properly cared for that was produced with 35mm Technicolor or something----it should still retain "beyond HD" clarity even today. And of course, if the original camera itself was cheap or they simply upscaled a DVD and sold it as Blu-Ray--you just won't get quality. But an "old classic" that is re-scanned from the master, should be FAR beyond a DVD's clarity. The biggest issue of "old stuff in HD" is with syndicated TV shows---many were basically produced on little better than VHS, and there is no higher-quality master. You'll never get HD from tape.
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    Canards! (also, a good illustration of why the Gripen has a short landing run--massive airbrakes)
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    I have issues with a "Space Paveway", especially in retaining the "GBU" designation. No gravity=no dumb bombs, basically. If you add a rocket motor etc to a Paveway, it would be an AGM or even AAM. (Macross doesn't really seem to differentiate between air and space for weaponry, so there would be no space-specific designation I presume)
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    I like Nvidia less and less all the time. My next graphics card will almost certainly be ATI. I think the only blue screens this PC has ever gotten have been traced to bad Nvidia drivers etc. Their hardware seems good, I just don't think their software is up to snuff.
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    Not very good. "It's a modified Blackhawk". That's the story and they'll stick to it. Wouldn't matter if it's 99% new and only uses the original tires.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Thank you for the suggestion, I will order their purple the next time I order from Lucky Model.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Hey, didn't "massive patch version 2" just get released? I'm waiting for patch #3 myself before starting it again...
  20. David Hingtgen
    Or a simpler way---look at how many fighter jets have their intakes on the sides of the fuselage. An F-4 Phantom is a good example. One side of the intake is permanently "blocked" by the fuselage.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Planes alter pitch far more often than they yaw, and to a much greater degree. Even a steeply banked turn is mostly a pitch-alteration, airflow-wise. On the sides is much better than on top or bottom. 20+ alpha is far, far more common than 20+ beta.
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    Yes, I believe I saw your build, which is why I tried mixing up some using Citadel's purple wash on your suggestion---and I learned that their purple wash isn't the same as their purple ink, and the ink is no longer available. And food color had about the worst result of all, trying to make purple. Red/orange/yellow/green work fine as food color+future, but not red+blue.
  23. David Hingtgen
    I only had like one Maxell Gold tape. I had to "waste" it on something trivial though as it was the only tape I had at the moment and had to use it. Rant: Any VCR can playback in LP (4hr) mode, but few can record in it. Always annoyed me---my final(current) VCR has superior EP recording to any other, but it cannot record LP. At least 2hr 40min SP tapes became common eventually.
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    Any more stuff that can be gotten/translated from her profile? ::edit:: Ok, I just checked Sketchley's work again, seems more was added since last I checked--there was only the YF-27 when I looked before, now Maris' profile is up too.
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    Hmmn. I was thinking--one of Grace's "multiple personalities that make up her internal consciousness" sounds like a younger girl IIRC---wonder if that's Maris somehow? Maybe Maris is part of Grace, split off or something? Or Grace controls Maris directly, even more so than she did with Brera?
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