David Hingtgen

Wow, the "Mass Effect is porn" thing keeps snowballing, instead of quietly going away. Apparently, Fox News had an "expert" on, and she said all the things the last guy did about ME---obviously, she just read his article/blog then went on TV and spouted it back out. EA had something to say (surprising THEY did, since they just bought Bioware and had no input into ME, while MS and Bioware are silent) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php...1410&page=3 And now many gamers are striking back at the "woman who had no F'ing clue what she was talking about": http://news.filefront.com/gamers-strike-ba...ence-on-amazon/

Virgin has always done "WWII pin-up" noseart. Every one of their 747's and A340's has similar paint.

Pic works, it's just huge (over 4 megs)

And on a related note, now they're saying Mr Surfacer is going to be much harder to get in the US. Apparently since the label's all in Japanese and US Customs doesn't understand exactly what the various warnings are, they treat it like it's toxic waste now and won't allow large shipments to distributors/importers nor via US mail.

Having played with it, I can only think "there's no reason it couldn't be 10x as sleek as it is". I mean, there's a LOT of space around the legs. And why are the thighs/intakes so huge? They could be half as big and still have room for the upper leg sliding mechanism. Have the legs closer together in fighter mode, and have NORMAL arms with NO GIMMICKS tucked up alongside the legs. It'd still be bigger than a real F-22 belly, but it'd be so, so, so much better than it is.

5 runs of ME? Wow. I've only done 1, and am holding off on the next run until I get my HDTV. (Seeing it in high-res will be like an all-new game I imagine, plus I'm going to play it the complete opposite way--renegade female).

And that's the #1 reason to buy a game system or TV from a big chain. Game Stop etc doesn't care if your 360 died the day you bought it. (Same reason I won't buy my HDTV online, no matter how much money I may save--one dead pixel and I'm stuck with it)

It won't. The point is it's so "wrong" from both a fan and scientific/physics/realism point of view that it's well worth bitching about. Plus the fact that if it's any indication, it very well could end up having Silverhawks-level of "even a 6 year old knows that's not how space works" problems.

----part of the reason I never buy a used car, no matter how new it may be. I've seen how other people treat their cars, even when brand new. At least with a car, when you get it repaired while in warranty, you get NEW parts, (or at the very least, totally remanufactured) not old dirty parts with a new coat of paint. If that. My replacement 360 wasn't even clean. It wasn't filty, but they didn't even wipe the dust off, much less the smudges and the "goo" I found near the logo.

I'm going to have the disagree with that. A lot of the really early TOS stuff just doesn't work and conflicts with common sense/later things. Look at 1701-A's plaque. It says "San Francisco Fleet Yards". Which is known to be one of the main Federation yards in orbit above San Francisco. The original 1701 plaque also says it's a "starship class" vessel. Which is wrong/stupid according to every other Trek canon source ever. 1701-A's plaque is obviously intended to be a more "correct" and updated plaque than the 1701's, thus why it's built in the same place. Ent D was built at Utopia Planitia YARDS, orbiting Utopia Planitia. (a lot of people get that messed up too). IMHO, no decent-sized starship is built in the atmosphere, or even parts of it. They are built in space, and the yards are named for the place they're in geosynchronous orbit above. But they often omit "yards" when saying where it's built because you don't need to say it. If someone says a ship was built at Bajor, they know they mean the Antares yards orbiting Bajor, not Bajor itself. Utopia Planitia means the yard above it, not the plateau itself. San Francisco--the yards in orbit, not next to the Golden Gate Bridge. Of course, there's still a problem--Oberth class ships are specifically said to have been built/launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Which is a real place. Maybe very small ships can be? Or, since it seems every fleet yard has a "matching" base on the ground that presumably launches up supplies once in a while, maybe the Baikonur Cosmodrome of 2240 or whatever is both the original ground based facility, plus the added-much-later orbital assembly yards. But retains the original name due to historical importance.

I'll almost certainly sell my 1/60 Milia, as there's no point to keep it now that I have a 1/48. And really no point to buy a 3rd one--the new 1/60. My 1/60 DYRL Roy---maybe. I need to see just how good the new 1/60 is. Either way, I'll likely only buy one new 1/60, if that. Roy or Max. (Roy because it's THE valk of valks, Max because I've never had a Max)

I finally caved in and picked up movie Thundercracker today. I just knew I'd probably never see it again (first time I've seen him in months) and would regret not picking up a blue F-22, regardless of kibble/bulkiness. I've only transformed this mold once before, but he took a surprising amount of fiddling/effort to get all the parts lined up in fighter mode--mainly getting the arms to latch onto the "support bars". It's like the notches just aren't in the right place by a few mm. Did get it though. Haven't TFed to robo mode yet. Also, he takes 2nd place all-time for "most annoying to free from packaging". (BW Depth Charge is THE worst).

I want to see some more DECEPTICONS. Seriously---the bad guys are always far more interesting characterwise, despite their often limited screentime. G1--Megs and SS, even Rumble and Shockwave. BW----yeeeeeessss. I fear the show will quickly become "Autobots animated, and those bad guys who occasionally show up". Why was JLU/BTAS etc so good? Good villains who are fleshed out, and not merely punching bags for the well-developed heroes. Why was the premiere of TF Animated so good? Starscream.

From another forum I visit, the best theory I've heard so far on the BA 777 crash: <<<<<<< He is checked out on the 777 and currently works training pilots on the type. This is just his 2 cents, and he would be the 1st to admit it might not be the reason at all. Please keep in mind it is only an opinion and not fact.; "Just thought I'd give you my 2cents on the British Airways 777 short landing in Heathrow last Thursday -- - running out of fuel - highly unlikely, unless that Captain & F/O are the world's worst pilots - more likely the engines spooled way down below normal idle because they made a prolonged thrust-idle descent from high altitude and kept an un-interrupted descent going all the way down to final approach. Only at the last minute (600 feet) did they try to get power from the beasts and by then they were so asleep that it is quite feasible it would take more like 2-3 minutes to get them up to power producing RPM -- just not enough time with 1 minute to landing. I also think some form of icing in the engine intake was responsible for the engines going way below idle rpm. Anyway, that's just my theory at the moment -- like everyone else in the business, I'm anxiously waiting to hear the official reasons BOTH engines did not respond to throttle movement.">>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Too late for Rei? LAFtoys hasn't even gotten theirs yet and is still taking pre-orders, as is BBTS. It JUST came out and a lot of places are still waiting to get their first shipment. http://www.laftoys.com/product_info.php?cP...products_id=261 If you want one NOW though, ImageAnime has them, if you'll pay more: http://www.imageanime.com/reayreip.html

In the system's ROM, there really should be "Achievement unlocked: 500 hours without RROD, read error, or freezing". 2000 pts.

XB-70 had "gigantic ejection seats" with a sort of shell that formed a pill-shaped capsule when closed up, but they were individual seats still, no part of the airframe went with then.

Because it's in Japan. Period. Same reason a Playstation 3 costs twice as much in the UK as here.

And the F-111's control stick doubles as a water pump, in case the capsule lands in a lake/ocean and starts sinking. Seriously. Interesting video---never seen footage of a drone being launched off a Blackbird. Nor hitting said Blackbird and destroying it. (Video says SR-71, but it's actually an M-21, 60-6941, no SR-71 could ever carry a drone, despite numerous models, paintings, etc) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYsMli570K8 The only other M-21 ever made, 60-6490, is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. (the coolest of all Blackbirds you can go see, as it's the only one still in bare titanium)

I need more than a silhouette of the G1 toy to convince me---Grimlock's been guessed/hoped for since MP-01. If it does come out, I have one request. That it's F-ing huge in dino mode. OK, two requests: Also that Kawamori isn't allowed to 'tweak' the design.

Anyone heard of any new DLC lately? Also, I've dropped down a few spots: http://www.mygamercard.net/leaderboard.php...p;x=44&y=16 And someone got 1000. Not surprised at who, I flew against/with Nizmojoe a few times IIRC and he was good. And he was going up the ranks quickly. Still, that's several hundred more online battles than I care to play.

The best, most informative article about 360 failures ever: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/digital...ives/129866.asp

Whoops, didn't see them there. Luckily I can re-vote (cuz I'm a mod).

Would it have been that hard to offer a few CHOICES? Like I mentioned earlier--how about some of the ones they already give away free with the Arcade system? UNO, Pac-Man, or maybe basic/old yet fun ones like Marble Madness.

I like. Mostly. Front's a lot better than the back. Would like a SIDE view though.