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meh, I have a dozen of them or so since they first launched, only my 1s roy strike had a bad shoulder, easy to fix or replace, no other issues.

when you start a new character there's a menu screen where you can select which choice you want for the main plot points. Everything important is covered but you'll miss out on some of the minor stuff. edit: It's awesome that the PS3 is finally getting a proper RPG game.

it's called "fantasy"

totally, Street Hawk, on the other hand, was pure awesome in a spin cycle of best. show. ever.

yeah, like I said, I'm happy with the figure and what I paid for it, if I had a wish list... better articulation in the feet in bot mode head could swing side to side in dino mode dump the glowy hand gimmick for better articulated hands instead of glowy hand, glowy eyes in dino mode. Better shoulder articulation in the arms in bot mode. but it's fine, at 60 bucks he's in the leader class price range and I'm pretty happy with it

Yeah, even on insanity. Incendiary ammo + head shots = much fun. My favorite way to take down armored targets.

yup, that new heavy pistol is a freaking laser sighted hand cannon of DOOM! Almost single handedly unbalances the entire combat mechanic.

No, I mean I just don't think MP Grimlock is worth the 130 bucks it would have cost me to get the Japanese version. He's pretty cool for 60! I really wish dino mode had improved articulation, like side to side motion on the neck. Nothing that would really change his g1 look but just add better posability.

probably just used the molds too many times, this is at least the third run, tolerances are going to go down.

same experience with the joints on my copy. The hip joints and the thigh and arm swivels all too loose. Over all, I'm happy with it for the 60 bucks I paid but I wouldn't have been happy had I imported the Japanese market version. The general simplicity of the design and lack of posability are two big knocks against the design.

what's your b.net account?

I'm telling you, got sucked into a wormhole and became the progenitors for the eventual events chronicled in Orguss.

Hahaha, Carrie fisher's quote is so awesome.

sweet, my kid will be the same age I was when I first saw Star Wars, I can't wait to relive the movies with him, even if han shot last.

Me Grimlock eat puny Optimus!

Me Grimlock, me loosey goosey!

just take the leg apart and apply nail polish, glue, thickening agent of choice, let dry and put back together again, it's really straightforward.

love it, definitely one of the best yamato has made. Looks good in every mode, every mode locks into place, smooth and simple transformation, just a solid toy in every aspect.

it's not crouching tiger, but there's still wire work and some really really bad CG, along with plenty of camera tricks. And donnie yen uses plenty of wire work, again, it's not crouching tiger but he still uses it. My point is only that it's silly to say a movie or genre is "bad" because it uses such and such technique, the techniques are not inherently bad or good but the way it used and the competency of its utilization is what is important.

You obviously haven't seen ong bak 2 then or you're really picking and choosing which films to watch. Tony just hasn't done enough movies to say what he will or won't do, but if ong bak 2 is any indication of where he wants to go I'm more than happy to stick to Nolan and the dark knight. This movie looks fun, I think stall ones rant about the direction action movies have taken is more about how he's getting old and irrelevant rather than a serious or meaningful critique on action films. Personally I see nothing wrong with action stars that don't look like they spend all day lifting weights and shooting up steroids.

Oh please, get off your high horse, I've listed numerous facts and examples of what I'm talking about, feel free to ignore everything because of one off hand joke. But lets talk numbers, why can't we "drill baby drill" our way out of this?because the US has around 20 billion barrels of oil left, if we're importing 13 million barrels per day, then 20 billion barrels will last us how long? And those reserves are in places that are hard to get, like in wells 10,000 feet below the sea under another 5,000 feet of mud and rock. We've had MORE than enough time to switch our economy over, but here's a history lesson. In the 1970's the USA didn't support certain OPEC nations when they went to war with Israel, in retaliation they stopped pumping oil and we had massive gas shortages. The Carter administration mandated more fuel efficient cars and energy conservation as a national strategy. This policy of conservation cut into the pocket books of big oil and OPEC and they started delivering oil again. Reagan also took office around this time, froze fuel efficiency standards, ripped the solar panels off the white house, cut funding and tax cuts to solar and wind technology, either driving those businesses under or out of the country so that companies like Sharp could swoop in a buy their way into renewable energies on the cheap. Flash forward 30 years and Japan has installed more solar panels in the past year in Japan than all of the residential solar panels in California *ever*. Germany is the leader in solar technology and European wind companies call America the "new India" because our labor is so cheap. So, instead of using the past 30 years to develop these "futile" industries, we wasted them on SUV's, blowing up mountains, two failed wars, and trillions of wasted dollars with no ROI, and oh yeah, quite a few people dead from oil wells and refineries exploding and coal mines collapsing or exploding (that's "clean" coal for you). Meanwhile, US car firms have to license hybrid technology from the Japanese and the Germans are far ahead of us in flex fuels and bio-diesel, China is producing record numbers of solar panels on the cheap, Japanese residential homes are installing hydrogen fuel cell generators, Israel is building a battery highway for plug-in vehicles. As for those "environmental" policies you're so dismissive of, out of any 1st world country, America has the most lax policies in nearly everything. The problem isn't that we don't let industry pollute enough it's that Americans consume FAR too much.

that's way more time and effort I care to invest in this conversation. But google is your friend. There's more than a few books you can read on the subject such as Thomas Friedman's Hot Flat and Crowded Jeremy Rifkin's The Hydrogen Economy if reading isn't your thing there's plenty of documentaries. Honestly, there's a TON of information out there but you need to get it from sources other than fox news and glen beck ;p but let's do some math, here's some figures from the EIA the US imported close to 13 million barrels of oil in 2008 PER DAY, on average oil cost around 90$ per barrel in 2008 13,000,000 x 90 = 1.1 billion, give or take 1,100,000,000 x 365 = 400 billion dollars in 2008, and our oil consumption has only gone up. So yeah, we've sent trillions of dollars out of this country on oil. It actually makes up a fairly substantial part of our trade deficit. And that annual half trillion dollars? That's not even including the tax incentives we've given big oil and coal, the land rights we gave them on the cheap, the 1 trillion dollars we've spent looking for WMD's in Iraq and we now know that Cheney and oil firms were already dividing up the oil fields before we even declared war, it goes on and on and on. If you don't want to believe in climate science, whatever, but sending a half trillion dollars every year out of this country for energy? When we could be creating jobs and building a modern energy grid like Europe, Japan, Israel, and even China? That's inexcusable.

The petroleum economy has been the single largest source of wealth redistribution in all of human history, funneling hundreds of trillions of dollars into the hands of a few states and more specifically, into the hands of a few families fueling wars, conflict, despotic regimes and economic and social instability across the vast majority of the world. Americans live in a sheltered petroleum paradise where our tax dollars subsidize the industry, land rights are given away next to nothing, where tax payers continually clean up their spills, where our health care system picks up the tab for treating the communities who live near the wells and refineries for mysterious illnesses and cancer. If the US government stopped subsidizing big oil, made them pay a fair value for what they do and consequently, Americans paid a more accurate cost for gasoline (8-15 USD per gallon) then you would quickly understand what countries all across Europe, Japan and Israel have realized, big oil is a one way road to economic ruin. We more than have the economic, technological and manufacturing resources to go renewable energy. If we hadn't abandoned research and investment into solar and wind in the 80's then the US would *still* be the world leader in those technologies instead of countries like German and Japan. In fact, if we had just invested the nearly 300 million dollars PER DAY we spend in iraq on wind and solar we already would have more electrical generation than all of the projected equivalent in oil reserves in Alaska and we would have revitalized the manufacturing sector all across America in the process. It's entirely preposterous to NOT want to destroy the petroleum economy. The only thing science fiction about this thread is the idea hat we can drill our way out of the energy crisis.

lol. Wind and solar are powering much of europe and asia, they're a proven and cheap source of power once you factor in the trillions of dollars in subsidies the US government has spoon fed big oil and coal in terms of land leases, environmental damage the government has had to clean up, the deleterious effects to the health of the local population not to mention the trillion or so dollars we've spent in just the last ten years trying to secure one of those large oil fields. The issue with those fuel sources isn't how much is left but how hard and how polluting they are to retrieve. In terms of economics, wind and solar both create far more jobs in all sectors of the economy then does drilling for oil which is a capital intensive but labor light industry. Besides, with an attitude like that, we'd still be scooping oil out of the tar pits with buckets because we wouldn't have spent the money to develop futile ideas like oil rigs and refineries. All technology has to start somewhere, to say that because it doesn't fill all our needs *right now* it's a waste of time and money is not only short sighted but laughable.

I'm of the opinion that if the "ruling elite" left earth, the rest of us would be in a much better situation and we wouldn't want to leave.