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    No, but if you plug in a USB keyboard and type JUSTIN BAILEY he turns into a girl NOT wearing powered armor.
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    Sorry 'bout the wall o' text. I'm just... genuinely mad at my games right now. It's a big old insane mess, and there's no good reason for it to be that way other than incompetence.
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    I must've missed the period where "My Documents" was the right place to put game saves. It wasn't true anywhere from Win95(and the birth of the universal Program Files dir) to XP, and it's not true on 7. If Vista was that jacked up... then it deserves it's reputation. (I HAVE a Vista machine, I've just not had reason to crawl through my account directory yet... maybe I should). And, well, I've got stuff released last year doing it. Hell, I've got stuff released less than a week ago doing it(never mind that DOA5's Windows port has some hilarious issues and was clearly done by the B team with very little support from the company(yes, I just admitted to buying Dead or Alive)) But no, automatically spawning twenty different directories in one that is explicitly for my documents is wrong. Saved Games as a dedicated target directory only exists so that there's one place to get at them for backing up instead of having to dig up a million different locations(and personally, were I MS, I would've put it in username\saved games instead of username\my documents\saved games, though I can see the argument for visibility). Also found: A lot of settings files that should've gone in AppData strewn about My Documents. Oh, and there's a My Games directory inside My Documents. THAT might've been Vista's designated directory for saves. But again, stuff from last year and this year is crapping in it. Regardless, this reeks of programmers calling %mydocuments% instead of %savedgames%, or whatever the actual environment variables are. Of course, MS CAN'T enforce a standard, since the OS is not locked down. It took a lot of trickery to catch all app writes to program files\application and transparently redirect them to %appdata%\application, and it still broke a few things. Other than locking the OS down so that there are only a tiny handful of ways to access system storage, all abstracted out where software has no actual access to the hard drive, and all software has to go through MS licensing before it can be released into the wild, there's nothing they can really do. And no one wants that. Heck, I STILL have a program or two that defaults to c:\ instead of c:\program files. Programs released in the last couple of years, with absolutely no legacy to speak of.
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    Actually, the de facto standard before MS introduced the Saved Games directory was C:\Program Files\Game Dir\ Now that there IS a designated directory for them to go, people seem to be going out of their way to do it wrong.
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    PROBABLY. AVI's a container format. The extension doesn't tell you anything about the format of the actual content. As an older format with technical issues making it difficult to use more modern codecs, most of the things that wind up in it are pretty broadly supported these days, but... we can make no guarantee. Most commonly, it's carrying uncompressed video, MPEG2, or a subset of MPEG4 like divx or xvid(technical issues make using true MPEG4 problematic). None of these should cause any issues in the modern era. Audio streams are typically raw PCM or MPEG, if I recall correctly.
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    You can actually mount a drive not as a drive letter, but as a directory inside another logical drive. What I'd do is install Windows to the flash drive as C:. And then mount the hard disk as "C:\All My Files" or some such. (And that's what I should've done with my hard disk instead of making it E: and moving my "C:\Stuff" directory to E:. oh well.) As far as changing the default install location... http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/how-do-you-change-the-default-installation/73450b25-d794-4f18-9add-75253b893343 There you have it. Personally, right now I install apps I want fast access to or that I use very frequently to C:\Program Files, and everything else to E:\Program Files. What I NEED to do is drop the cash for a terabyte flash drive and move everything onto it. Set my Users directory to a very large hard disk along with \Stuff. It kinda blows my mind that I can get a five-terabyte drive cheaply. And yes, I still have an optical drive. Hence E:. You can have my shiny disks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers!!! Speaking of my user directory... why are all my games saving in "users\me\my documents\" instead of "users\me\saved games\"? I'm glad I don't USE that directory, since it's a trainwreck now.
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    There won't be anything that's grounds for a lawsuit. Even if they WEREN'T being careful. The nature of these big studio adaptations is such that it was almost guaranteed to go so far astray from the original source as to be unrecognizable even without legal issues. I hope it does get made, hits theaters, and bombs horribly. Because this is going to be a hilarious trainwreck, and I'm still feelin' the hurt from the kickstarter campaign's early termination. Alternatively, I hope it hits theaters and surprises everyone by being a genuinely good science fiction movie. But that's not going to happen.
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    And to make a long story short, HG knew this back in the day. There is a good reason that all the returning characters in The Sentinels got a complete redesign, and it has a lot to do with them not having the legal rights to make new animation with the old designs. (Ditto for Shadow Chronicles) It's the same reason they didn't block US releases of Macross II and Macross Plus. They knew they didn't have a leg to stand on. And of course there was Macross: DYRL, which one would think they MIGHT have a vested interest in. After Mac+ came out, they got greedy and started trying to shake everyone down for money. They know they don't have a leg to stand on, but also know that no one wants to actually go to court over it. They keep hoping they'll see a payday... which they almost did once. But a live-action Robotech movie won't use the original designs, and won't use the original story even if they DID have rights. So it's fair game.
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    A. Why are they presenting all this information as an image? Is a tiny bit bit of CSS THAT hard to write? i mean, if anichart.net could do it... B. ANOTHER friggin' Nanoha series? Did I not suffer enough when you monsters did StrikerS? Yeah. I don't see a lot to excite me here. I'm committed to finishing Unlimited Blade Works, but if you ask me, going on a three-month hiatus mid-arc is a big fat load of crap.
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    That's awesome. Not Robotech-ish at all, but awesome.
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    Don't hate. 13-3 is comedy gold.
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    Jumped from an internal corridor, if I recall. Came in the airlock, headed back to the hanger, then DEATH FROM ABOVE. Good question. I like to believe he'd ride the ejection thrusters down "because overtech". But he probably needed a parachute.
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    I'm kinda sad we can't handwave it away with "because overtech" like so many other mechanical realities. It's just such an odd place for reality to make it's presence known.
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    I don't thonk they want to do Macross, is the thing. Thry want to do their own thing, then slap the brand on it to get some more sales. Mospeada is just more like Hollywood than Macross. The similarities will be coincidentaL.
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    I do not deny this train of thought.
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    That'd be awesome. And if they don't include hovertanks, they missed out. But I don't think they'll actively be trying to adapt MOSPEADA, I think they'll THINK they're adapting Macross and accidentally turn it into MOSPEADA somehow.
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    At this point I think the worst thing is they'll try to shoehorn in Macross references to prove they were "doing it right", so instead of a good MOSPEADAish, we'll get the bastard child of Macross and MOSPEADA.
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    Why Sony wants it: They don't have rights to Transformers. This will certainly be different enough to avoid the Macross legal issues. Even if there were no issues, it would be different enough to avoid them. I don't think they'll even go to space. My hypothetical outline: Aliens invade Earth. Humans steal alien technology, reverse-engineer it. Robot jets that don't look like they should fly kill all the aliens. A single token alien defects to the humans so they can pretend they didn't totally ignore the original. Hmm... actually, adapting MOSPEADA would be GREAT for Hollywood.
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    You type really well for a newborn.
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    It's the hair. How can the embodiment of greed NOT have gold hair?
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    Debatably. There's an argument to be made that atmosphere is explicitly part of a planet.But ejection inside a pressurized space ship behaves as if it were In atmosphere, so it's a moot point.
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    You and me both.
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    But Transformers was awful.
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    Oh, you're saying he's a Spacetrooper!
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    I think it's probably a bad sign. If the fan runs faster than other fans, that'd be a good reason, but I'd be inclined to replace it. But as for the search... try alternate approaches. Search for "hot electric motor" or something.
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