David Hingtgen

My 360 just started acting up tonight, emailed MS, will see what happens. Basically: for the past few months (ever after installing an "update") it's had issues with FMV. No problems loading polys and textures, but it sure doesn't like playing back FMV from the disc. But today I start up DOA4, and it pauses for a moment like it always does during the FMV Team Ninja logo----but then it stops cold. Spools down and the system goes dead slient, and goes to a black screen. Resets itself, and spools back up--and picks up right where it left off in the FMV, as if nothing ever happened. And I know it's my 360, and not the disc, as I've tried a few of my brothers's games which are fine on his, but the FMV acts up on mine. The latest update (snagged from OXM disc) didn't help the situation, and may have made it worse. It's gone from "FMV minor stuttering" to "coming to a complete halt during FMV playback".

6, wow. Sigh---with NO color at all on the F-22, can't tell which squadron(s) they're from.

Never ever read Youtube comments. Makes life better. Especially since half of them are stupid chainmail things.

How not to refuel a jet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGMlriUTab4 How not to refuel a helicopter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2fSjHghubc

I haven't seen or heard about any other colored waxes at all. As for the clay---do you mean the Ice liquid clay bar? Saw a few posts---apparently it does work OK, it's just only for light claying---for the people who clay often and there's not much to remove. Not a semi-annual heavy "get the rail dust off" claying.

Alien machines trying to blend into modern America as closely as possible. If SS is trying to disguise himself as a normal F-22, having bright blue exhaust really gives it away that he's different. Same for Prime---if he pulls into a truck stop sounding like that, every trucker's going to go "WTF was that?"

Ok, I'll refine it: Prime doesn't sound like a semi at all. And Starscream's afterburners are colored like no jet that I know of. It's not those specific types, it's those general types of vehicles. I mean, if Prime sounded like a Model T it'd be a bit more obvious to people that something was wrong, but it's the same general idea of "not even in the right categroy".

They still say "MH-3" instead of MH-53. Who wants to bet they never fix that in the final film? Also, when Prime pulls up and stops---that is nothing like what a 379's brakes sound like. Trust me. That sounds more like a Super Soaker exhausting its last puff of air pressure... And SS still has blue afterburners in jet mode (wrong) yet seems to have perfect orange-yellow ones when transforming or in bot mode. Still, overall I have to admit--the movie looks better with every new second of footage I see.

I do have to worry about dead pixels, as there are DS Lites that have them, including recently-bought Navy ones. I have bought other Nintendo portables that had them. They're out there, and I'm just unlucky enough to have experienced them first-hand.

A bit OT but there's literally nowhere else to check: I'm *really* trying to find some of Turtle Wax's (I know) Color Cure polish. AKA "the colored wax with the lipstick thing on the bottle". In silver. Apparently they stopped making silver (and several other colors) a few months ago, and *every* place online is out of it, as are all the places around here. And the few bottles that pop up on ebay are going for like 40 bucks a bottle. If anyone should happen to spy a bottle of the silver at their local parts place, I will gladly pay, as I can't find it anywhere.

Felix is still being used: (this pic makes awesome wallpaper BTW)

You really can't judge from the animation, they didn't come anywhere near top speed. No dogfight has ever occured supersonically AFAIK nor likely ever will. Planes just can't turn well then---also, F-14's always have their wings swept back past Mach .95, and we see them swung out a lot during the fight. (not that M0 had realistically-moving F-14's) An F-14 can only hit Mach 2.4 when it's nearly empty, at very high altitude, with no weapons, no drop tanks, no pallets, no pylons. Which never ever occurs in combat. Add in the load Shin's was carrying and you're talking Mach 1.8 tops---and not at the low altitude they were fighting at. Very few planes can go past 1.8 with external weapons. No matter how fast you are, you basically have to slow down to sub-sonic to fight. The Sv-51 certainly has a huge power/acceleration advantage, but top speed would be of little use in combat, since it's unachievable. Speed-wise, the Me262, F-18, and F-15 are about equal in a dogfight, despite large differences in top speed. But the F-15 has the best acceleration and sustained turns due to its higher power.

I just inherently don't like the vehicle for Ironhide, never have. It's the ultimate poser vehicle. Just buy a friggin semi! Don't add stacks to a pickup... IMHO it's worse than the riciest of Hondas. And I just don't like Solstices either. Not to mention there's one at the local dealer that is WHITE WITH BLUE RACING STRIPES. The perfect scheme for Jazz already exists, but they made him silver in the movie? As we've already all seen, there's way too many grey/silver bots in the movie. So I'll wait for G1 color Jazz.

Did they ever get around to making a .45 Qui-Gon? I lost track after so many yes/no/maybe/exclusive/club rumors about it. It also sucks as Qui-Gon's the only other Force FX I wanted...

I'll post a pic again of an all-red 379: And if anyone wants to photoshop, you can get the frame of a 379 painted any color you want---it's just that 95% of them are still black. But I'm sure there's a red 379 with a blue frame out there somewhere. Add some blue half-fenders over the rear wheels and there you go. Or maybe someone could just recolor a pic of movie Prime vehicle mode into G1 colors.

That would make him greatly pre-date the "sudden evolution" of humanity though. It seems it's a recent thing, only 1 or 2 generations ago.

Currently, I'm waiting for either a G1-style leader-class Prime repaint, or an Ultra Magnus repaint. And a realistically-painted (and I darn well mean realistic, not "F-15E's are teal" realistic) F-22 leader-class mold. Or even better, Thundercracker colors. And that means deep metallic blue, not dull pale blue. Actually, I don't plan to buy ANY of the first wave of movie toys. I want repaints, or bigger/better molds. Deluxes are just too small for most any of the movie designs.

My guess was that Hiro's dad's power is "the ability to teach people really well, really quickly". I'm half-serious. Maybe he can mentally impart knowledge/skills. He's a living Matrix. My current question---how come Matt didn't "hear" Thompson sneaking up behind him? Can he hide his thoughts well? How would one do that? Even HRG can't do that, he needs the Haitian to mentally hide from Matt.

They could just "strip" Sylar of his powers----plenty of cliches to use.

Second that. 90%+ is basically the world's best paint stripper for "plastic toys painted in China"---like valks. But it usually won't harm any plastic in the slightest--I've soaked parts in 99% for days.

It was this guy: I didn't even see him until he stepped into the frame as he was standing behind someone else. Also note that I am far from the closest spectator to the plane. (Since I'm taking the pic) And I only have like a 2x zoom on that camera, I'm sure there was a guy 50 feet behind me getting better pics with his 20x zoom.

I'll cast my vote already for "hot chick wearing boots". Because you know there'll be one...

I intercepted one in validation this morning, only one I've seen today. And then another one while typing this post. ::grumble grumble::

Well, US sub technology usually *is* highly classified and off-limits, and there are no photos allowed, and will be confiscated immediately. But the F-22---as I said, you can go to any book store and get detailed pics of every inch of it. If it was classified, they wouldn't have allowed the guy to publish the book and make money off it, nor would they have given him access to one to photograph in the first place!

Who needs color when you can have "gritty realism"?