David Hingtgen

Personally, I'd like to see an almost "double" cosplay----Mylene with Mylene's valk. The ultimate valk-girl. Or Milia with Milia's valk.

I'm thinking this should be stickied, or at least very often referred to.

MSN/MS/Windows can't help for 99% of things, nor will most of the big-name big-buck anti-virus programs---they can PREVENT, but really suck at CURE. Google the virus's exact name and the name of any file you know, and any odd running programs/apps. Then start seeing on the various PC tech/help forums what everyone else who caught it had to do to cure it Seriously, if you really want to get rid of something, you're probably going to have to do it yourself and not rely on "corporate" solutions. Registry edits, nifty little free removal programs some helpful guy wrote tailored for that virus, etc. PS--I recommend Avast!. Totally free with free constant updates, and caught things every other one missed, and didn't miss anything any other found.

It better be cheap (as in under 100 bucks) or it's pointless: We already have $200 VF-1's, they're just 1/48 instead of all the other recent 1/60 valks. A 1/60 VF-1 (new) has got to be a lot cheaper than the current 1/48. I have but one request: PRINT THE SKULLS ON THE TAILFINS STRAIGHT.

I'm currently looking at the A30----only 250 right now at BB. Hopefully it'll go LOWER in the future, and not shoot back up over 300 once the Xmas sales are over. (A30 does 1080p, A3 doesn't---trying to future-proof where possible) (hey, with many TV's I'm interested in coming down 150 to 200 from just 6-8 weeks ago, I should be able to swing a TV and HD player----assuming prices don't rebound to Sept/Oct pricing soon)

What really sucks are the guys who just put in 48-hour codes, and have had over 24 hours of outage.

Possibly stupid question: With Blu and HD discs taking so long to load (and WHY do they?) does that affect "normal" operations of skipping chapters, fast-forwarding, etc? I mean, if it takes a disc 55 secs just to eject, (same problem I have with printers that take 45 secs to turn on) does that mean the player is always needlessly wasting time for the most basic of tasks?

Well, it's severe enough that MS is actually reporting issues on Live's status: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/?WT.svl=nav

Well, it was insane at the boards: http://forums.xbox.com/14/ShowForum.aspx They finally locked all the threads and made a new sticky thread. PS---yeah Mike, you show up as being online. But none of my other Live friends. PPS--I need a new gamertag pic, and while I'd prefer ME, few of them are any good. Half are so small/dark you can't tell what they are. "N7" is too common. (I have both the preorder bonus and the LE bonus, so I have most of the ME ones out there)

LIVE is down for me, and a lot of other people it seems. Surely someone here is having problems. I haven't been online since before the latest update, and I just went online today to try to get it, and Live won't connect.

Actually, the rattling was likely because it's an Airbus. Was it an A320, and was it the overhead bins? Inherent issue with that design.

China not respecting copyright on a massive scale: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/200.../2004087045.jpg It's China's first "entirely home grown" airliner. Cough, cough. Any resemblance to the DC-9 (specifically the MD-90) is entirely coincidental. Can Boeing sue? PS--this is not an instance of "they just look similar". MDC did send some parts/tooling for China to assemble their own MD-80's and MD-90's from kits sent from MDC. China is basically building new DC-9's from that tooling. I mean, if Iran started actually building new F-14's from scratch, you can bet Northrop wouldn't be happy.

Bluegrass=Basara. (c'mon, he flies his plane with his guitar while singing)

I never realized until now how confusing Hasbro instructions must be to the "uninitiated". I mean, they're confusing to me, who's been TF'ing with their instructions since 1984... That's just evil, dropping hard-to-transform-TF's on unsuspecting parents. Send him BW Tripredacus! It'd be worth what you have to pay for it. THAT is the ultimate TF challenge IMHO.

Nah, while I can totally blame the script/plot/writers/director for the original movie's mess, I think Ming-Na(Wen) was a great choice.

At this point, I plan to buy a standalone HD-DVD player. Whatever I can get for a bit under 200 or so. (And Transformers, Batman Begins, Planet Earth, and Blade Runner) I will buy a PS3 when FF13 comes out.

Remember the C-5 that crashed yet broke up into just a few very large pieces? Crash animation recreation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI5xTmmPbsY From watching the video, hopefully the cause isn't as simple as "they throttled back the wrong engine". (which has happened before, and will likely happen again) Watch N1, and throttle position. #2 is what failed and is holding at zero N1 (almost---the small amount shown is probably just windmill effect). Seems ok as they reduce thrust, but once they start throttling up to get back up on glidslope, they throttle up number TWO instead of number three. Effectively having 2 engines failed. Low, slow, with two engines out---not good.

Repaints are stupid at this point, the regular movie line deluxes alone could support Hasbro for the next 6 months---if they made them! Remember when Hasbro shipped entire cases of Darth Maul due to demand? They sold. They should do the same with concept BB. Or more accurately, they should have done it in November. Hasbro is just costing themselves sales with weird repaints kids don't wont, when parents are desperate to buy normal Jazz/BB/Prime/Barricade etc.

I could actually use that, but I'm keeping my old sony. You just can't find high-quality 20in CRT's anymore. I need to keep mine forever, to play lagless PSX and PS2 and SNES games forever on a screen where they'll actually look good... (same reason I'm keeping my PSX and PStwo---you never know when some obscure incompatability will crop up)

Finally found deep magenta wrapping paper, so here's my Nora all ready for Xmas: (I wanted to use dull gold ribbon for striping, but could only find bright "chrome" gold--was hard enough to find a dull bow)

I just might. However, I don't think the new versions fix any of the issues I currently have. I straightened out the landing gear and gunpod.

The 3253H at the other BestBuy has the exact same problem. ?!?!?

No, I'm not sure. However, I don't ever recall having this problem with any MW attachment before. I doubt yesterday was the first BMP attachment I ever encountered here.

Heavy Duty HAS no character. Road Block is an awesome character. Having Heavy Duty instead of Road Block is like having Bat-Mite instead of Bat-Man.

That's part of the problem--there's no thumbnails anymore. I'm wondering if MS did something during the last windows update or something.