David Hingtgen

Tire pressure question: The federally-mandated tire-monitoring system in new cars was clearly not designed for midwestern states that experience wild temp swings. PSI is changing faster than I can keep up due to weather changes, and the car keeps beeping at me. (4PSI per day or so, while 5-6 will trip the system). Now, my car's tires are supposed to be at 30PSI. They were at 29 a few days ago. They're at 24 now due to losing 25+ degrees or so over the weekend, and the car's beeping at me that they're low. However, if I fill them up to 30PSI soon, we are supposed to see a 31 degree increase in temperature by Friday afternoon, and then they'll be up around 35PSI, and it'll be beeping at me for over-inflation. So--what's better? Overinflation, or underinflation? Because I do not plan to bleed/inflate my tires daily. (currently I plan to leave them about where they are, as I expect this to be the coldest week of all winter----and the PSI will naturally raise to about the right number as we warm up over the next 2 weeks)

I really only saw environment pop-up on the Normandy--mostly displays/screens on the bridge etc.

I usually just do it manually. Just have "spoiler" in brackets, then "/spoiler" in brackets.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Boeing Gets $1.3B Deal for C-17 Fleet Wednesday January 2, 10:50 am ET Boeing Gets Five-Year Pact Worth Up to $1.3 Billion to Upgrade C-17 Aircraft Weapons WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aerospace manufacturer Boeing Co. has won a $1.3 billion deal from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade weapons on the C-17 military cargo aircraft, according to the Defense Department. The five-year pact awarded to Boeing's McDonnell Douglas Corp. unit is an add-on to the company's original contract awarded in January 2001. Boeing has received $13.6 million under the new contract. The company will provide planning, design and development of prototypes to improve the aircraft's weapons, the Defense Department said late Monday in a statement. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Could you explain (as spoiler-free as possible) what/where the split is? I assume I got Paragon/Paragon. The "choice" for the first one is really obvious what it is if you've seen the end with really obvious Paragon/Renegade implications. Is the second choice "who" you pick way near the end? I wouldn't really class that as Paragon/Renegade. Plus there's the fact that you can also do a "neither" option so there should be 6 really.

When I finally got broadband (cable) the guy who came was very professional--switched out everything needed quickly, custom-made some lengths of cables, changed a lot of things in the junction box outside, and checked and set-up all my settings on Win XP and setup the initial account. I can only hope than when (if) I get HD cable, their HD installation guys are as good as their broadband installation guys.

Trust me, I mean EXTREME viewing angles. (Also, I'm very sensitive to viewing angle brightness---I don't like a lot of screens just standing dead center, as the edge of the screen is a few degrees off from my eyeball, relative to the center of the screen--I notice that 3-degree difference on many screens) 170/178 is pure BS. Notice how all of a sudden they ALL did that? Not because of some amazing new technology, but because they revised the definition so that they all "improved" to 178.

Imagine if they'd just completely cancelled the stupid movie "fast action battler" toys, and used the money to fund a $40 Barricade instead... (or Starscream)

Honestly, a nice new 32 or 36in SDTV would be nice to have in the living room. Due to the extreme viewing angles and giant windows, no HDTV AFAIK would look good. Plus the fact that it will only ever see SD cable and VCR, with occasional DVD. I don't think I've seen a SDTV bigger than 24in for sale for over a year.

Bad guys look cooler. Basic law of the universe.

Same here--while none of the toys really appeal to me, I think kids will love them. (plus they have among the best "toys match show" appearance ever) (I like realistic designs, which is why I bought almost nothing from Energon/Armada, but tons of RiD)

I'm in Iowa.

Best example of buying what you don't understand---the guy who buys the $3000 camera with 5 different lens adapters and just leaves everything on "auto". Don't buy more camera than you understand how to use. I just went up to a $350 one recently, and I'm still learning/fiddling with basic stuff like ISO vs f-stop, etc. (It always annoys me when the picture I took on auto comes out better than the one I tried to do myself--means the camera is still smarter than I am)

As for connections: My NES was originally hooked up via RF. Next TV? Composite! New, better, and looked a lot better. (TMNT was the test). Next TV had S-video, but didn't use it. (It was one of the TV's that didn't like SNES S-video----they're out there). Next TV almost had component, but that particular sub-model did not. But it was in the manual and I knew about it and knew it was better. And that's a 1998 model. Component certainly isn't new (for decent TV's in the US at least---my 1999 20in lacks it, but that's expected). DVI/HDMI is effectively one new connection since then. If you can't handle 1 new connection per decade, you're pretty hopeless. PS---those "DVD-player connection kits" that sell for 40 bucks at Wal-Mart should be banned. It only encourages stupidity. But the profit margin has to be insane. "Connect your player to any TV!" Yeah, it's a composite-to-RF-splitter. And you KNOW they're being sold side-by-side with the one Sony Bravia Wal-mart sells. And they're part of the reason people are having problems--instead of educating people and encouraging them to use 1980's standards of connection, they just keep engraining it in people's minds that RF is the way to go, and the only way. I can't wait to see a HDMI-RF adapter in stores... PPS---oh man, February '09 is going to be insane. Stock up on food, water, and ammo. PPPS--marketing error. Component sounds like composite and also uses composite(RCA) cables and jacks. Try explaining THAT to Joe sixpack. (At least Toshiba called it colorstream for years, as they invented it--but even they usually call it component now)

I've always wondered about the truth of that. I mean--they probably do sell better because there are many lines where production/availability is 5:1 good:bad. Look at current GI Joe. But I mean, for my brother and I in the 80's: Combined, we probably had 90% of all G1 Decepticons. Seriously, not exaggerating. And Prime, Magnus, Omega Supreme, and some Dinobots. And Gears and Huffer. Deceps had about a 10:1 advantage. GI Joe: Dozens and dozens of Cobra. Televiper, Stratoviper, Technoviper, Lackey Viper, etc. And Snakeyes. My brother and I always wanted the bad guys. Our parents knew that any Decepticon or viper would be welcome, but we were very picky about the few good guys we wanted. I still think the current GI Joe is the worst ever for "no bad guys". Who exactly are the 15 different Dukes supposed to fight? So---do good guys sell better because that's what kids really want, or just because that's all that they make?

And the counterpoint: Truth is sadder than fiction. The woes of trying to get people with 5000-buck TV's to use HDMI and not RF: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222962 Read and be frightened. And this particular post really says it all (that's a 360's AV cable, BTW--launch ones didn't have the big obvious sticker, but most do) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p...mp;postcount=73

With the rate of advancement for HD electronics, 1 year is not "brand new/cutting edge". It's early, but not nearly as "beta-tester" as it used to be. HDTV's are now on a 9-month product cycle I think, if not shorter. The models that hit the shelves in March are already going away.

They need to make WAY more than one female fig a month. I mean, 2 more months until Asuka? We'll never get characters from more than 2 or 3 anime series per year at this rate. Plus all the ones we need from video games. (Revoltech KOS-MOS would sell big)

I always wondered about clearance with those, especially with inboard drop tanks.

Actually, few (if any) threads will go to the hall of the super topics now. It was more a limitation of the board than a sheer "we kill big threads" thing. But with the latest updates, threads can get HUGE. We have a few over 100 pages now. ::off to rename topic::

Here's my award-winning (literally, got a medal) run through the game: 1 4:02 2 3:05 3 3:54 4 6:24 5 8:18 6 8:19 7 10:49 8 8:11 9 5:14 10 6:31 11 7:10 12 7:07 13 10:17 14 12:34 15 11:05 (table would look nicer if not for stupid message board ignoring all my formatting) Total: 1:53:00 CFA-44 for most missions, can't remember the exceptions. Good odds of using a Typhoon in mission 9, though A-10 might be even better.

A7---why post in this "dead" thread, and not the big main TF thread where everyone's talking about it? ::mod note to self:: Should rename the thread, as the show's name changed. Or maybe we should designate this the "official" thread, as it might clutter up the main TF thread. Thoughts/opinions?

I thought I got renegade points for running over a monkey, so I avoided it in my first run. Next time though---hunting in spaaaaaaaaaace!

YF-19: save the world single-handedly VF-19F: just a VF-11C in different paint

I could easily be mis-remembering/imaginig, but I think the new Sideswipe and Sunstreaker work kind of like how Punch/Counterpunch did.