JediMaster

I really can't pick 3 best, so I won't bother to try. My DVD collection is vast, and my BD collection is catching up, but a lot of the ones I've bought are because they are faves! Now for worst, that's also hard to pick 3 so I'll just choose the first that pop into my head: Virus Alexander (so dull you'd think it was real history) Wing Commander

That Na'vi language is everywhere!

Would that be a "technical" pony w/saddle-mounted .50 caliber MG???!?!?! AWESOME!!! Anyway, for some reason games like HAWX get a sequel while TK's sales are a drop in the bucket. At least he doesn't have to split the proceeds with publishers anymore.

IIRC 1946 is now a bargain-priced sim due to its age. Anyway, I've been running it since I installed Win7 a year ago without a single issue. I don't recall any installation issues, but if there were I've forgotten.

Yeah, I think the worst I've seen is a blood-stained canopy on rare instances. The people on the ground tend to be ephemeral and are there only to run away from vehicles, disappearing after they get a bit away. Flight sims are not a gory lot and Il-2 is no exception.

The way the trail is dissipating in the lower part of the image is the key. Rocket trails go from lower atmosphere to upper atmosphere and don't disperse in the same way at different points because wind speeds, directions, shear, etc all vary with altitude. The lower part of that trail is all smearing off to the left in a uniform way which indicates it's all at the same altitude. No rocket will fly to an altitude, stay there for awhile, then climb again. That's an inefficient launch profile plus it puts stress on the rocket. Oh, and rockets move REALLY fast. It's an airplane. I once saw a contrail like that form here. It was also at sunset, off to the west of here, and it just started at altitude slowly heading north. When it first started it looked very odd because it was so short so it almost looked like the contrail was the object itself. After about 5 minutes though it was long enough, and you could watch it getting longer to the north at a nice slow rate, that it was obviously a distant airplane.

It's the same reason that many of the early Bond films have several actors revoiced/dubbed by another actor because of perceived issues with being understandable. Some, like Adolfo Celli, spoke perfectly fine English, to the extent that only SOME of their lines were dubbed while others were left alone, but it still seemed odd. Of course, they dubbed Arnold in his first film as well, even though Terminator showed you could understand him just fine! It's as if while Hollywood doubts the intelligence of its viewers (but not their ability to understand slang), the UK establishment doubts the ears of its viewers (but not their intelligence...usually).

I see them doing touch-and-go's here all the time...for hours... Those guys sure know how to land...and then take right off again!

Besides, the Alamo is hardly an uber-missile. Best used against targets that AREN'T fighters!

Il-2:1946 has a lot more than FB+AEP+PF. There were a series of addons released overseas that weren't released here until 1946 bundled them all together. There's really no reason not to just get 1946. The graphics between FB and 1946 didn't change much. The only real jump was from the original Il-2 to Il-2:FB. Every release since has been patches to the FB release code. If your machine can fly LOMAC, you should be able to fly 1946 without much difficulty.

The C-5...when it absolutely, positively has to have an engine problem between flights.

He's not there, I think he's still in Dubai shooting MI4.

That depends on whether there was a timer with a big clock on it, or if it was just that 17 minutes after they defused it they suddenly heard "CLICK!" without warning!

Wouldn't...you...rather...play...a...nice...game...of...chess?

Yes, Fresno is quite funny. Hard to believe people still live there!

Just who is ActivIdentity Inc, anyway? Do we really know who's behind them? I demand a congressional inquiry complete with those boring hearings on C-SPAN (although they may feel free to liven it up with appearances by Garry Shandling or Robert Downey Jr).

What a PITA these CACs are. I'm not sure if it's an inherent flaw with the tech or just the way the masterminds at the DoD have decided to implement them!

Anyone remember that old 60s film The Starfighters? I think 30% of the film consists of watching 104's practicing AAR.

If you're asking someone to burn it to a disc and mail it to you, it would be easier to just come out and say so rather than just try and imply it.

True enough, I just don't think we'll be going out there...they'll just bring everything inside for us to look at.

I was thinking about what would happen if they tried to put the Ark on a truck for Cairo...

We have a couple of E-model Hornets here right now, plus a couple Beagles and the T-birds, but I'm not allowed on the flight line (I'm in IT, not flight ops) so I can't get any good pics.

You want to make a remake of A Few Good Men as a Top Gun sequel???

The video isn't bad because of the collision, it's bad because it's ALWAYS bad. Film cameras were far superior to video when it came to actually SEEING what is going on. Watch WWII gun camera footage, or Korea, or Vietnam...then watch Gulf War video...ugh.

A and C are the same thing, A is just easier to install. B is older and lacks the fixes.