David Hingtgen

Small rant: Why on earth does every device CARE what the date is? Zune, PS3, etc. And why do they FAIL if they don't know? Why does everything seem to default to "totally lock up if you don't know what the day is, rather than simply ignoring/not displaying what day it is". My 360 doesn't care what day it is, and it doesn't know half the time (it never remembers for very long, and I don't usually bother resetting it---and if I get an achievement "in the future" or "before the game existed" it doesn't care---it simply says "unknown date") But the PS3 seems to go absolutely ape-crap with regards to trophies if it doesn't have the correct date. And also--why do computer programmers seem to really suck at figuring out how leap-year works? 2010 doesn't even fall under ANY of the rules. Most 12-year olds can give you most of the rules. (few people know the "400" rule but we'll all be living on Mars before that happens again)

1/250 has the short end on the bottom. (gotta look close!)

maximilian_jenius posted recently on deviantart account (linked in their sig) so it seems they're ok: http://nermallion.deviantart.com/

The most epic painting ever: "The Death of Jennifer Sisko" http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Scree...egory_Code=BIRD

Yeah, and be sure to thank the alternate source, too.

Open it up and fiddle with the screws around the hinges. I found mine works better by actually LOOSENING one certain screw.

Future is the most "forgiving" stuff ever. http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html

Neat concept, though I doubt a prototype would already have a beta variant.

Kaoi--that is last year's ToyFair you linked to. But they showed the Ent-B again this year---with the wrong nacelle endcaps (Excelsior style, not Ent-B style).

Well, it's "necare". What do they get?

Did you clearcoat everything, or just over the markings? And what'd you use? (I was leaning toward using Future, and only over the major areas of paint)

I prefer the F as well. The S has *5* head lasers. Yeesh.

Blazer wings are completely different from both Basara's and the YF-19/VF-19A. And I don't think you can even use YF-19 wings on Basara's, due to the different glove and tailfin. Heck, even the pivot point may be different once Yamato gets around to finalizing/tweaking. (the wing itself is mostly same, but as you get towards the root, everything changes due to the different tailfin location---the VF-19F/S/Kai almost have a kind of tailboom there, the YF-19 doesn't at all) Each type of -19 pretty much needs its own wing mold, despite there only being 2 basic wing shapes.

Speaking for Graham: Not without significant remolding. Basara's valk is far from "a VF-19S with a new head". (namely wings, canards, shoulders) Hmmn---anyone know if the wing gloves are identical? (this would be the very largest piece of hib-kibble that the wings retract into in battroid mode)

Bumping out of hope that someone will have something to post...

40 bucks and 90 days free: http://atari.com/games/startrek_online/ (it's 60 days EXTRA, in addition to the standard 30)

Eh, from how often I get exactly 50% CPU usage, a lot of my programs can't take advantage of 2 cores...

Yeah, I was thinking "very tiny turbine with very small supply lines in a primary loop". Of course, I think you'd need a couple million RPM or so to make the power needed, then the turbine itself becomes the most dangerous aspect.

..says the guy with a Sheryl figure avatar...

Length and size are very different. The VF-27 is big, but not extraordinarily long. The 2 extra engines and the numerous fins contribute a lot of mass and volume, but nothing to length or wingpsan. Just something to keep in mind when comparing valks (and real planes too)

"Going critical" is the most normal thing for a reactor to do. 99.9% of the nuclear reactors that are operating at this moment, are critical. (at least, I would sure hope so). I think a big issue with almost any type of anime reactor, is that we're missing a critical element---how is POWER derived from that reactor? Nuclear reactors don't make electricity or plasma or anything else---they make heat. And just about every one I can think of converts that heat to something useful via steam. We've got to know what it does, before we can figure out why stopping or increasing some aspect of it would make it explode... (a reactor in meltdown doesn't explode---it's all the air/steam that does) Ironically, a valk's turbine is by far the most logical/realistic use, as turbines are almost inherent to any nuclear installation. (assuming you actually want to DO something with the radiation, vs simply creating the radiation to study its effects like many university reactors etc do)

That would explain why it was so incredibly even and subtle. See, I'm looking for a "barely smoked, with a slight purple tint" look. Or I guess, "lit not very brightly".

Just don't go 24 hours without healing after getting bit. Getting bitten isn't instant vampirism. The glitch only happened if you "vampired around for a few weeks" THEN tried to do the quest to get cured.

I'd guess lots of re-pops for the Frontier movie (with minor color/design changes etc), then maybe a VF-171 if the movie is popular enough and it's featured enough for Bandai to justify it.