Abombz!!

When you turn up all the bells and whistles it can really lag the system. HALO is still a really nice looking game and has many effects and high quality textures. Doesn't look too complex at first, but then you realize you're seeing real time shadows and reflections of trees and crap in master chief's armor. My framerates drop drastically around indoor environments and I'm running a 2.5athlon barton with 512 mb dual channel ddr and an nvidia ti4600. Multiplayer is awesome though. I used to be pretty good when I played the console version because truthfully, everyone kinda sucked when it came to the controller. But now that everyone's blazing with mouse+keyboard, I'm getting rocked left and right. Fun times! Funny... I always found the controller pretty easy to play, specially because secondary skills like jumping and granade throwing were so easy to reach.

Errr... you guys are going too far. Just having custom member titles is enough for now. As for ranks... maybe each squadron could be of 5. After like 500 posts 1 member becomes head of a squadron, and the 4 sebsequent(sp) members to hit the same mark would be part of that squadron. Repeat untill all members are part of a different squadron of 5. The problem is... coming up with a name for all squadrons. Or maybe we could go with squadrons of 20 or something.

Oh... so you've decided to re-interpret her translation due to her unfamiliarity with the proper term? And how did you come to conclusion (or even find out) that she was interpreting it too literally? And how did you find out the correct interpretation? Are you second-guessing your own translator? If memory serves me correctly, we had someone here once who knew English AND Japanese quite well, who was also quite good at not only translating, but also interpreting between the two (there is a difference). Hmmm... But you second guessed her as well. Touche!

Errr.... I wouldn;t hold my breath. We are lucky to be seeing a PC version of the game. <_<

For one reason or another... I always found the 0 to be nothing but a VF1 built around a larger conventional engine.

Actually... some kind of spiders do have hive mentality. Though, they don't build hives like ants, they simply mark their territory. Some thing size of your fist? Heh... in Amazon forest we get spiders the size of your upper body. You can't scare me like that - I know that spiders can only reach a certain size because of the method they use for breathing (among other structual problems... ) Of course, if you were some kind of mad scientist, and tried to create some kind of... oh, I don't know... man-spider, then that might be suitably big and scary - wait, whats that scuttling sound behin - YEEEAAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!! Yeah... keep thinking that. The Goliath Tarantula can reach almost twice the so called "permited" size.

Don't get it!! The best part of Halo, the co-op mode did not make it into Halo PC. The single player game is trully useless, if you even consider buying Halo, get it for multiplayer only. <_<

Eh? They had to pick up an egg to pass the test? Talk about high precision machinery!

That would sound right, but if that really happened, after BW ignored TPs request to stop making Macross derivatives, they would've really thrown their weight in and got BW in court. That didn't happen untill a few years ago. And now that they "know" their rights.... why not stop the production of Macross Zero? Or even ask for their share of the sales money? You got to admit that its a bit on the odd side that TP didn't really make BW stop if they felt they had some saying over the derivatives. OT question for Wrylac, your friend Naoko, how long has been studying english and how long did it take her to translate all this?

Actually... some kind of spiders do have hive mentality. Though, they don't build hives like ants, they simply mark their territory. Some thing size of your fist? Heh... in Amazon forest we get spiders the size of your upper body.

You've never read the original GITS, Abombz? Then definitely, get it! It takes a couple of readings to 'get" all of it, but I consider it the last of his classic-era stories. Plus if you get the TPB, you get something like 5-10 pages of footnotes by Shirow. Nice!! It will go very well with my Appleseed mangas.

Well, this is as good as I can do for now. I've modded the original Anakin pic to highlight the scar. It was actually there all along, but it was barely visible in the original. lol.... hot stuff!

Bah!! We need to see them!!

Interesting.... perhaps I should look for the manga, chances are that I will like it better then the movie.

Its moments like this that I thank God for not knowing all english slang words.

Errr... I should have been more specific. The character designs.... from where were they? None of them seemed to come from the movie.

Question... what was GITS the video game based on?

A few Aliens? You mean 1 at close quarters that almost took out Vasquez? What are the chances of a research facility having a few desert eagles laying around? Worst.... what are the chances that those CFs can do anything with them other then shoot themselves on the foot?

Really... how useful would now a days guns be? I know shotguns pack a punch... but its not like they are standard issues research facility fire arms. And besides... it will probably be one of those "got to wait till rescue comes, and even then, we might get pasted" kind of movie.

Cheer up, old man! B) Why wouldn;t Matrix and LOTR work? Because they already have cross over actors. It would be nice to see Elrond fight 1000 Agent Smiths. Or perhaps Saruman fighting Count Dooku? Or maybe even Magneto fighting Gandalf.

Sounds like a great idea!! Though... the idea of ranks might get to some ppls heads. <_<

There are more people scared of spiders than there are people scared of ants. Filmmakers try to use this extremely common phobia to add tension to their films, with varying degrees of success. Well... the cool factor. Spiders are bigger, cooler and creepier.

I wouldn't take it too seriously.... it seems to be bashing month here on MW, did you see the movie thread? And besides... somethings are just beyond explanation, such as the 3 mounds, why Macross 7 sucks so much, and things like that. Yet ppl still try to explain them, you can't blame some for being tired of hearing it.

I remember this one.... pretty bad movie if you ask me. The whole ants eating radioactive sugar was a pretty lame idea. <_< One thing I always wondered.... why did spiders get most of the love? There are about 10 times as many giant/killer/mutant spider movies then ants.

Interesting... care to be more specific?