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  1. David Hingtgen
    A complete inversion of the tentacle trope.
  2. David Hingtgen
    That's the problem--no matter what, they'll hire a "WB girl" for that "skinny waif" look.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Grace is older than the "main 3" characters...
  4. David Hingtgen
    It's MvC 3: FTW. What more do you need?
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    Hmmmn. I generally go for the 2D versions, but don't actively *hate* 3D. (I hate 3D when it's tacked on and focuses on pointless "throwing stuff at the audiecne) 3D *really* worth it for this?
  7. David Hingtgen
    Of course---marketing. If the jet impulse is 0.4 ounces, they can say it adds force... And the drawings reinforce the masses' mental concept of a "jet car".
  8. David Hingtgen
    I suspect some people (especially the media) are confusing jet engines and turbines. When they say "turbine", in this context---think "hydroelectric dam"---they are generating electricity, little more. And like most electric motors---incredible torque at low speeds. Their true limit is often RPM/gearing. All in all, this seems most similar to a turbine-electric locomotive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine-electric_locomotive (car will likely have same issues, too---both steam and electric turbine locos have the same issues as all other turbines---best at long, high-speed runs) I figure it'll be almost submarine-like in actual operation---the electric motors will run off the batteries, the batteries will be charged by the turbines.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Currently I'm using Avast 5. Slightly slower but much more effective than Avast 4. I used AVG prior to that, Norton prior to that.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Norton is evil, period.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Mylene's valk, with soundbooster.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Every video card ever massively over-estimates the power requirements--they assume (rightly so) that many people will use cheap gigawatt PSUs, and so to actually get 300 watts of quality power they list an 800+ watt requirement figuring that a cheap one of that power may actually get half its rating. Buy QUALITY power supplies, not "high-power" ones.
  13. David Hingtgen
    BTW, 124 more Super Hornets for the USN. About 50/50 standard/Growler.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Another quick question---best free .ogg to .mp3 converter?
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    That fact is often overlooked---for really high-end ships such as carriers and boomers, there may be as much as a 2:1 ratio of "in service" to "deployed/operational". The UK rarely had 2 Invincible class active at once---it was normally one out in the water, one in ready reserve (would take months to get ready), and one in refit (taking years to get ready). The US carrier fleet as a whole has higher availability, but at any given time, you can figure that at least a few are completely out of service. We need ~12 just to ensure we ALWAYS have 6 ready and hopefully 9 ready.
  16. David Hingtgen
    Re: STOVL. Above all else---forward deployed for rapid CAS. Plus, amphibious assault ships (or as I like to call them "Harrier carriers") You don't find Marines TOO often on the super carriers. They like to be self-sufficient.
  17. David Hingtgen
    V4 is still the ugliest KOS-MOS IMHO. I won't buy anything of that version. The original is the best, followed by the short-lived V3.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Miranda was never in my party, except when forced to by the game. I had Ashley in a lot in my very first ME1 playthrough, but not much since.
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    Starscream's a not-F-16. Hmmn. Man, is that the first single-engined Starscream ever? Having 2 engines (and usually in his feet) has been a trademark of his, even in robot mode. Overall, I'm pleased. Yes, Soundwave is very very different---but more Decepticon planes are never a bad thing. All the Autobots are nigh-perfect IMHO.
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    I think everyone here knows that most of the characters in the game have faces that are scans of real people. Well "Samara" wants to cosplay as Samara: http://www.indiegogo.com/Samara-from-Mass-Effect-2-cosplay-with-the-real-model- I donated. (I'm not very convinced that the $3400 donation is legit though) And if she can do Morinth too, so much the better.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Xnview was definitely what I needed--it did everything in seconds. I spent like 20 mins dealing with GIMP's scripts for nothing.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Quick/easy photo editing question: I have ~200 .bmp files I need to convert to jpg so I can email them. Quick/easy way to do so---a macro or program where I can just select a bunch of files and say "make them jpgs" and not have to convert them manually 1 by 1? (as in, a free one)
  23. David Hingtgen
    Well I say pop too, as all Iowans do. But I've always disliked the term petrol for being so unspecific---kerosene, benzene, gasoline, lamp fuel, bunker oil, and vaseline are all "petroleum".
  24. David Hingtgen
    Many of the markings on the original show are implied. Most are ret-conned from DYRL, 1/55 Takas, Hasegawa kits, etc. Personally, I'm a minimalist. Pilot name, assigned ship, ejection triangles. That's about it. (plus, highly-repainted/customized military planes tend NOT to have all the little markings everywhere repainted---only the factory tends to do that)
  25. David Hingtgen
    You're in Michigan, yet you use the term "petrol"?
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