David Hingtgen

Posts deleted. I said move on, not move on and make one last rant/slam against the other guy...

In a similar vein, any sort of hook/hangar that's supposed to work in drywall. They don't. I use ones rated for like 5x as much weight as they say, and several of them, just to feel "safe" that it won't fall down---because I assume at least half of them will twist out over time.

Ok, I'm not even going to try to wade through the last couple posts. Could we move on past US vs JP cell phones please?

Wow, having a rotating part rotate about the threaded part of a screw? That's guaranteed failure if not done right. Maybe not always the first few times, but that pretty much ensures that it WILL cut itself apart after enough movements. It's about at the 7 minute mark if you want to skip ahead. I'm thinking that it may be a torque/friction issue. If something is too tight, then instead of rotating with the screw, it'll rotate independently--thus cutting. I think loosening the screw may be enough. (I don't have one and can't really analyze it). It actually seems very similar to the VF-1 shoulder issue where the rotating part is so tight it doesn't rotate like it should, and instead forces the part that's supposed to be fixed to move around it. (which again, was not truly ever about the knurling, but the friction in the center part of the hinge---removing the knurling cured the symptoms, but didn't change the actual cause/flaw). So, to everyone who has a Rodimus coming---loosen that screw before you ever transform it, if possible. :;edit:: Eeek, another break. 17 min mark.

Apparently it should have been called the "Long-winded posts about cellphone differences between nations" thread...

LOOSENING the screw nearest the gear bay often works.

It was mentioned/calculated that there is an aspect of randomness. Even with "the most perfectly assigned utterly loyal" team, someone may die.

Nah, the worst thing is spending an entire ep saying "Am I as good as Prime? No, I'm not, I'll just go and mope around some more."

I would say a trilling song note.

Yeesh, I saw that pic and wondered "who's the new girl?" then realized it was Alto...

Like ONCE I saw a simple cut-joint hip on a female figure that worked. Legs moved up with little to no splay. Looked good in most positions. Was a Resident Evil figure actually. Always wondered why no one else ever seemed able to do it.

Just IMHO, but ball-joint hips have ruined the sculpt of every female action figure that ever had them. Ball-joints work great for a buff guy's shoulders. Not everywhere.

The makeup design of new Cheetara really doesn't translate well to the figure. I get more of a blood-enraged-vampire-zombie vibe from the figure.

VF-0D.

That's the opposite of the situation in the US. Nowadays, any phone which has even the most minimal, useless, pointless HTML capabilities that no one in their right mind would actually try to compose an email on, much less surf the web with---is considered a "smart" phone and requires an additional data plan, just to be able to use/buy the phone. There's several new phones I'd like to get WITHOUT the data plan----mainly just to get a better QWERTY board and a better camera. But "non-smart with QWERTY" pretty much doesn't exist any more. I mean, they do, but you can't buy them like that. So I still use my old, old phone. A year after I got it, my phone "became" a smart phone, and new customers had to get data plans. And trust me, you can not use it for any sort of internet/email purposes unless you are an utter sadist. Its successor, and its successor's successor, have no more capability than mine---but require a data plan only slightly less expensive than the top-of-the-line super-smart phones, even though they cannot truly use it.

1/100 is a common mecha scale though. But again--in fighter mode, it's not very mecha-ish shaped nor sized.

Because Bandai designed it, not Kawamori?

Like the scheme, hate the head.

Like guns?

Oh come on, don't tease me like that! Are they for gust-alleviation, asymmetric-drag-yaw-control, or what? Please don't tell me they're a fancy lap-counter...

Oh, Snarf is coming. But his design is supposed to be uber-ultra-secret. No one has even a hint AFAIK. But he's still the comic relief character. If he was totally gone, that'd have been great.

There's a difference between complex and finicky. There are many small TFs with few parts that are very finicky---often shell-formers. You have to line up everything at once just right or it doesn't lock together at all. And "that one section" can only spin around into place if part A is exactly 33 degrees out and part B is 78 degrees up and 14 degrees back. Finicky, but not very complex. There are also big TFs with many parts and steps that aren't very hard or finicky, because everything clicks into place nicely, and you can do it in pretty much any order you want. Complex, but not finicky.

Yes, but it's caused errors before when people improperly convert from lbs thrust to a metric equivalent. They often try to "do too much" or something. A common issue is the fact that 9.8 is close to 10, and people kind of cancel-out a decimal point or something.

It looked like a banana in the prototype pics. Anything changed? That's my main complaint with the mold----car mode isn't the "sloped wedge" G1 at all.

IIRC, yes. All jet engines are assumed to be at mean sea level, at mean barometric pressure, at 1.0G when calculating thrust ratings. "Pounds" already assume 1G, kilograms do not. (and though the effect is ever so slight, being at sea level does tie in to gravity----the top of Mt Everest is like .98G or something, and a deep deep deep cave could be like 1.01)