David Hingtgen

News is that JLU starts up again Feb 11th. 10:30EST, though latest reports are putting it at 8:30EST.

MW alone could support an entire on-line wing.

Well you'll at least SEE a Blackbird very early in AC5. And there's 2 XB-70's you can shoot down in AC4 if you really hunt for them. "Shattered Skies" and "Broken Arrow"---they're the targets that zip across REALLY fast.

Ace Combat 2. Where the AFD-01/Falken also made its first appearance. The Falken did not premiere in Ace Combat 5, it just became more famous in AC5 because in AC2 it was only an enemy plane (and you couldn't fly it). Pics are few and far between, here's the only one I could find: http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tac1991/18.jpg AC2 has a plane viewer in it, so you can look at all the planes up close and move them around, etc.

If you want an X-02, you could always buy a YF-23 and modify it. Anyways---the XFA-27 is a far cooler plane. And you can even fight the Falken with it! A REALLY ambitious person could build one from an F-14 kit, as it uses a large amount of the fuselage panel-for-panel. If they're making the ADF-01, they need to make the rival XFA-27.

6 Enterprises---the 2 3-packs or all six individually? (Which'd cost quite a lot nowadays) Plan on lighting anything up?

Well mine's launch day, so it's certainly got the early style. Don't really feel like opening it up again to take a REALLY good look at the cooling system. (Can't get parts anymore really, I plan to have mine forever)

For #2, I want to say J57. 13--that's a Rockwell Sabreliner in the background. "If it's got triangular windows and it's not an old airliner, it's a Sabreliner"

IIRC when I opened mine up when it was brand-new, it's basically a silver square with faintly visible tubes embedded.

Oooooooooooooooh. I was thinking about getting a DS soon, but will definitely wait for this one. (I *so* want that Xenosaga 1+2 remake to come to the US--I would buy a DS for that alone in a second---also, XS1 sold far better in the US than Japan, so I'd expect it to come out here--they would literally be missing their primary market) I hope the screen is like the new backlit GBA SP---the latest GBA SP screen strikes me as nicer than the current DS.

I'm still searching for the perfect spray-bomb for basic overall painting like primer, white, grey, etc. I currently like Testors "Light Aircraft grey" but it's still thicker/grainier/bumpier than I'd like, and far more expensive than hardware-store paint. But I use it because it has lead to my best results, even though most of the time it just comes out "ok". Gunship grey still sprays the best but far too dark for most things.

Very true. While white paint may still yellow, it's nothing compared to white plastic! Also, I tend to believe that it's usually the clear coat that yellows more than the white paint underneath. Acrylic clears are certainly the way to go, they seem to be inherently more "pure" and truly colorless than any lacquer clear.

Dreamcast is liquid-cooled. Just water, but water is second only to ammonia for "common/safe liquids that can suck up a lot of heat." And liquid ammonia isn't practical for home use. Sodium and lead are even better, being liquid metal under heat/pressure, but it's really hard to work with them---only a few nuclear reactors use it, with the other 90%+ of reactors using water. In other words: water is about the best you'll ever see for liquid-cooled things, anything else is probably inferior or very impractical except for high-end military use.

90% of "something rattling inside" problems are the little ball inside the hilt that is the sensor so that it knows it's being swung, and to make appropriate sounds. In other words: that's how its supposed to be. Same as the "rattling ball" in an Xbox 360--it's how it knows which way is up.

OT, but my GBA is the Asian version, and my brother's Dreamcast was the Asian version. It generally only affects packaging and possibly the default language when starting up the first time. Though IIRC Asian Dreamcasts have no modem.

There's different levels for a tone, it doesn't mean automatically LOCK it simply means it can tell there's something out there and is looking for it. It'll make a different tone (almost always described as a growl--listed for it in real gun camera footage , especially the F-14 ones) when it's actually LOCKED. You can fire a Sidewinder at a sort of "half-lock"----low chance of success, but sometimes it's the best you've got. No noise: Missile's acting stupid, even if it's staring at an afterburner. Tone: Searching, sorta sees something, can tell there's a heat source somewhere in its field of vision. Means "seeker is active". If it actually locks on, it'll give a growl to indicate how well it's locked: Low-pitched growl: slight lock Medium-pitched growl: moderate lock High-pitched growl: strong lock (I think, could be the opposite) Also---"No Joy" specifically refers to sighting of aircraft. If you call "Bandits, 8 o'clock high" to somebody, he'll either respond "Tally Ho" that he sees them too, or "No Joy" that he doesn't.

I'm more curious about that Skull Leader YF-19 in the background.

I still haven't seen one, though my brother recently bought the first one he's ever seen, at Target.

Yup, smacking the case often works to get a fan to "settle down" and quietly hum instead of BUZZ/RATTLE. Until it doesn't. (Then it's time to replace)

Ugh? I've seen fairly universal positive results for the SDB. Of course, seeing "good results/news" for any military program is such a rarity it casts suspicion...

While we're on the subject---what's the best way to quiet a PC fan? (or is it better to just replace the fan). Every PC I ever get, the fan occasionally gets noisy after a year or two of utter smoothness, but doesn't ever actually DIE, it just rattles more and more often.

Kill off the JSF, make F/A-22 Strike Raptors.(heh heh, bring back the /A) History has shown that big fighters can easily be modified into EXCELLENT attack planes---see F-14B/D, F-15E. Of course, I'm also in favor of developing a new bomb that is the biggest possible that'll fit in the current F-22 bay. 1,300lbs? 1,567lbs? Whatever it turns out to be. Almost all current bombs are fat in the middle for aerodynamic reasons, for both stability in flight after being dropped, and minimal drag while being carried. Well, with modern guided bombs directly controlling their own path through the air and internal carriage, there's no need for that. So long as it's not literally shaped like a brick, it'll be fine.

Could you compare the sound to some other systems? I'm rather picky about system noise. (Even the slim PS2 bugs me)

All time? 1. Xenogears (see my avatar) 2. Valkyrie Profile

I too don't have Service Pack 2. Still had to ignore it about 500 times until the download center stopped bugging me with that stupid pop-up... (For SP2, the "don't tell me about this again" button does NOT work) Don't know what finally caused it to stop.