David Hingtgen

Her hair's naturally green. Common in Zentradi/Meltrandi. See Guld.

Checking BestBuy, there's receiver and speakers only set up from Sony for a bit under 200--that looks good to me. As for audio out--the Samsung I'm looking at seems able to do what I want, the Sony seems like it can't. (There was literally a new firmware from Samsung like a week ago, and no problems reported yet---if they finally fixed the "tearing with 720p" problem, it's definitely the one I'm buying) Panasonic--manual's not very specific. It uses different terms every time audio out is mentioned. I get the impression it's "tv OR external".

That's better (half the price). I wish all the HTIB's didn't include a DVD player. I can always do better myself and it just adds to the cost. I want receiver and speakers, nothing more really. (plus, with the PS3 apparently being among the best at upscaling normal DVD's, it may see use as my primary player) One issue I really have to check---TV output vs "do the TV's speakers still work". How I have stuff now, everything is permanently connected. My TV speakers are always on, even when the stereo's on. My TV can't output audio at all, I just have enough splitters that "everything gets audio signals all the time". But for HDMI etc, I'd need to send all the signals to the TV, then have the TV output audio to the stereo or receiver--and many TV's (including my living room Toshiba) don't like to have their own speakers on when they're doing audio output. But I do want the TV speakers on all the time. I like the ability to almost instantly have my "high end" sound come on with a minimal of button-pushing. ::checks:: Yeah, the only TV I have that can do audio out requires you to physically flip a switch on the BACK of the TV to engage it--shutting off the TV's own speakers. Hopefully newer TV's can do it automatically, or just hit a button on the remote? (or even better, keep their own speakers on while doing audio out) (I've downloaded the manual for nearly every TV I'm considering, but most HDTV manuals are almost as bad as a X360's for how little they explain what all the TV can do and what's in the menus)

That's always my biggest issue--I like GOOD sound, not loud sound. I want to hear every note, with the volume set at "2". (My home stereo is much better at that than my car, despite the car's stereo costing much more). A lot of stuff just seems to add bass and volume, losing mid and treble. Or, if treble goes up, it just becomes "piercing". PS---500 is more than I'd want to spend. Plus I really don't have room for any more speakers. I mean, REALLY don't have room for any more speakers. But my current "send it all to my stereo" setup won't work with HDMI, and would take a lot more splitters etc with component and could lead to signal degradation---will have to further research what my stereo can take for direct TV output----might have to pick my TV partly based on its "audio out" abilities.

Yup, I have AR and singularity unlocked, so ANY future character can use them, regardless of class. (Can only pick one though, so even if you unlock every ability in the game, you can only have one "bonus") But singularity is the only biotic power a vanguard doesn't normally have, so it's pretty nice to do that one. (I'd go for hacking too so I could have a fully-teched infiltrator, but that one has even more restrictions on what "counts" as a use than singularity---it may take many hours and isn't worth it)

This is one of those "we need to ask Kawamori" things. Regardless of how the toy is, we don't know how the "real" YF-21 is designed back there.

I'm way too sick to moderate right now...

ME thread? IMHO, "too late now". A lot of us have already beat it, it'd be a pretty short-lived thread. I'm not playing it again until I get my HDTV. My 2nd run will be in high-res!

Constant rumors on the ME boards. We'll see. First DLC is rumored for Xmas. Could include fixes/patch, could be just new armor colors. Could release a patch prior to the DLC. I saw probably my worst ever texture glitch. Shepard AND Ashley didn't have their textures when I started the game the first time tonight. And one of the longer waits ever for them to "pop in". Anyone else ever see the Normandy lose a texture? The name "Normandy" is a separate texture over the black texture.

If you recall wm cheng's model, he had to fill in that area with plastic--Hasegawa leaves it as a gaping hole in the rear fuselage. If you check the official drawings--it's in permanent shadow, with no clear structure or covering. It might actually be, that the feet are visible through a large opening, canonically. Or that they perfectly match the contours of the area and themselves are a flush covering. They're just always in shadow in the animation. Something to think about.

My renegade will be my vanguard. That'll be my "through the game twice to get to level 60" character. And my female one, too.

Am I reading things right that the much-anticipated "remove 0 point arcade games" feature is NOT there? I only see a "option to not include future/new arcade games" on your gamercard. Not the option to remove old ones. Anyways---mwa hah hah. My "throwaway" ME character paid off, and I unlocked singularity in about an hour. My next "real" play will be a Vanguard--but with singularity. Will have all the powers of the adept, none of the weaknesses. (Well, a slower recharge time, only a true adept gets the class-specific charge time reduction bonuses)

Graham had asked me a while ago what that part is called. AFAIK a shape like that is unique to the YF-21. Most aircraft have either a standard tailcone, nothing, a tailhook fairing, or a "stinger". The closest thing is actually an F-14's, which is called the beavertail. But the YF-21's isn't shaped like that. I voted for "ducktail", as it's much more triangular. The B-2 actually has something very similar in shape and location---but it's movable and acts like an elevator, as opposed to being a fixed drag-reducing fairing. However, I have seen it called a "beaver tail" regardless. Officially it's the "gust load alleviation system". I would call it a body flap, as it's almost identical to the space shuttle's body flap asides from outline. But a body flap is basically "an aileron on the fuselage", not a large immobile structure. So I would call the B-2's a body flap, not a beavertail. But since the B-2's IS called a beavertail, I guess you could call the YF-21's that as well, since apparently there's a pretty broad definition for it. You can see a B-2's deflected in several shots here (especially on takeoff): http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Air...5/B2/index.html

The D'stance had the feet the exact same way. Note that the D'stance could do "limbless mode", and AFAIK that is why the feet were done that way. There is no reason to put the feet inbetween the nacelles and sticking out the back, instead of nicely tucked away inside the nacelles like the 1/72 and SHE did---unless you need to have fully-formed, 3D internals visible when you remove the legs and belly plates..........

It was OT pages ago, but it's basically substituting for the aircraft vs thread at this point. I was going to say something earlier but let it go. I think it would be best to move this discussion to the arcrft vs thread at this point, as we are well away from F-15/16 discussions---unless Canada picks some up soon. http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?show...0&start=600

Ah, but since "I don't care" about audio, I plan to just snag a home theater in a box.

Macross 7 has several scenes where we see her name on-screen as "Milia". So I spell it that way. (look for campaign posters and banners, that's the best place to see it) I also think we see "Milia" onscreen at least once in the original TV series.

Problem is, all the valks are pastel versions of what's in the manual. Not a red plane to be found, but lots of pink ones.

My next purchase after a TV is a PS3, and maybe a HD-DVD player. (or reverse that order). THEN I might have money for audio. But the new YF-21 takes priority...

Yeah, but Canadians are so polite (even when arguing), we don't mind so much.

Have you played any of Bioware's other games? If not, go buy KOTOR.

I'm going to go to Sears and BestBuy again this weekend, take another look. While I do like how that Samsung looks, it seems like the xxxx53 series STILL suffers from tearing on progressive inputs despite numerous firmware updates---which is 90% of what I'll have it hooked up to. Now if someone posts at the AVS forum in the next few weeks that there's another update which totally fixes the tearing, it's pretty much a no-brainer. But after 6 months of Samsung trying to fix it and not eliminating it, I doubt it. Sony S3000: still have never seen it "set up well", but have seen the 40in version and love it. But I know the 40in has a slightly different screen. Also, 2007 Sonys often have clouding, though the S3000, especially the smaller ones, have less of it, and some people get perfect ones. Then there's the buzzing issue. Again--variable, and some people have perfect TV's. If I could luck out and get a cloudless, buzz-free S3000, I'd love it. But if I don't... Going to shut off every other TV around it at Sears and see if theirs buzzes. (Can't do that at BestBuy) Panasonic---seems to have no problems. Bezel is matte. Highest refresh rate and least motion blur. But only 1 component input. Need to check it out more, but there's only one place in town with it. Sharp---1080p version only 100 bucks more this week at Sears, but I won't have the money for a TV for another couple of weeks at least, probably at least a month, maybe 2. Also--BANDING. Seems to be a fairly common problem, especially as the one I saw at Sears had it, I noticed it in the first 2 secs. Faint banding, but banding nonetheless. At this rate, I may end up with the Panasonic not due to looking good or image quality, but simply because there's no reports of problems that I can find. No tearing, no buzzing, no clouding, no uneven backlighting. Again---if I find a "perfect" Sony S3000 that'd be great, but that could be difficult. I like Samsung overall the best, but if it tears when hooked up to a 360, then that's a deal-killer, as that's mainly what I'll be using it for. Gah---I finally find a TV that "just plain looks good" to my eye, but there's a zillion reports of it tearing with the 360--the one condition I plan to use it in, that's not apparent in the store.

Problem with Japanese battle royale, is most of the time it's set to like 20 mins, lvl 1 planes only, no (or minimal) special weapons. In otherwords, truly hard-core. 20 mins of people trying to get gun kills. That's just plain stressful, not fun, IMHO. Sure, good for proving your skill, but nothing more. I actually played one of those once. (And won!--2 kills vs 0 for everyone else)

You have to do it INSANELY fast. Most time-critical thing in the entire game, even more so than the speed-run achievement. CFA-44 w/ADMM, period. Never miss, never make a 180 to get a target you missed the first time. Make a circle---from the start, head right and get the B-52's and the helis. Go north and west a bit, getting the C-17's, helis, and northern B-52's. Then head west and take out all the fighters. It took me several times. The only time he showed up is when I did it "as fast as it could possibly done, never wasting a second". Plan out your "perfect route" to get to each target as quickly as possibly. It's easy to make the Rafales appear, much harder to get the ace.

I own the MG Zeta, and it's still little more than "tucking in the arms and legs and sitting on its shield". You also flip up the chest and slide down the head. Big whoop. It just has a REALLY BIG shield/wing thing mounted on its back, that it can tuck its arms into to hide them better. It's still a flying shield, with a gundam torso and legs sitting on top of it. It's incredibly finicky and time consuming to transform, but that's not due to complexity or anything. (I did ONCE get it to lock together rock solidly--never figured out how, and could never do it again---it was either a mistake, or some hidden feature no one else has ever found that was actually designed into it---as everyone else (including me) complain about how floppy it is)