JediMaster

I can do it! Twilight is every cliche ever seen in vampire stories done for teenagers. No laughing!

I hardly think the C-27J qualifies as COTS! It's the same thing as the C-130J...new engines and cockpit in a proven airframe. While C-27s are cheaper than 130s, I think they should only supplement them not replace them. The 40mm guns are good, but sometimes you need that 100+ punch.

Whatever. This has to be a marketing case study. "Let's make people pay US to advertise our product to them!"

Would you spend $50 for one ticket to see a movie? How about a play on Broadway? A hamburger? A watch? A pair of shoes? A mortgage payment? I think few would argue $50 for a brand new WWI sim with modern graphics and MP and a great campaign was too much. This is not that. It's still using the 6+ yr old CFS3 engine, a DX7 engine at that. Il-2 came out the year before but even it had "real" water not just textures moving along. It took until later patches for TK to get good looking water in his sims, but he did. CFS3 was dumped after one small patch and CFS4 was cancelled, so that never happened. CFS3 can give great FMs and DM's. The AI can be tinkered with. You can add any plane you want and make it fly like you want. You can make any textures you want for ground, sky, planes, ground objects, etc. You can create a whole new front end for the campaign engine to feed the game with the missions you want. There's no doubt this is a good 1/2 of what a sim requires. Yet it also needs an engine to run on, and CFS3 doesn't have a great one. OFF is like spending a lot of time and money putting a new coat of paint, redone interior with great sound system and GPS, fancy new rims and tires, and improved shocks and struts on a Pinto. Sure it looks and feels great, it's better than any Pinto to have come before it by a mile, but when you drive it you can't hide that it's a Pinto. I'd spend $25 to make my Pinto look better, no question. I spent $30 for FE's expansion pack I think. I'm not going to spend $50.

I like the AI in LOMAC and TW's sims just fine. There are BS moments, but they're occasional. Il-2's AI is apparently incapable of handling the flight models they were given, so they're given a ton of cheats to help them cope which turn them into...well, things you've read about happening in WWII won't work because every single AI pilot is an expert marksman capable of hitting you with impossible deflection shots every time (no such thing as crossing the nose too fast for them to react) and they will never lose control unless they're already damaged. What are the odds that in an 8v8 engagement, you would have all 8 planes on one side chasing a lone plane on the other? Happens in Il-2 all the time because human players are given a priority, so friendly AI will be ignored. I've been shot down by the tail gunners on planes broken in pieces spiralling down to their death more often than I can remember...

Pretty much no relationship with anyone in college or before will last. You're just too young to know what you want out of life yet, and someone to marry is definitely not in the cards. Unless you've got no problems with getting a divorce, that is.

Seeing as this is only the 4th (and final) season are you referring to the 1st season or the miniseries? I've got the whole thing on DVD but the ones airing now and I've got no idea what you're talking about.

So, they killed themselves out of stupidity? Are they protesting the gov't or that the gov't has allowed such stupidity??

How about an AC-5??

Maybe you need to PS yourself into aforementioned screenshot with your mouth wide open and pointing at said bird. After all, a picture is worth 1k words, and a PS'd one is worth at least 2k.

I fly coop MP a lot, so I find WOI and FE w/exp pack are the 2 getting the most time right now. Prior to WOI it was WOE/V/NF2 merged, but when one of us went and applied the 10/08 patch to their install and fubar'd it that got put aside. Waiting for NF3 now to resume that arena! Done a little straight WOV, too. I'd say I put the most offline time into SFP1 over the years, with FE w/o exp pack coming in 2nd, but SF2 is getting the most time lately.

So Dave is telling everyone he got Blazing Angels for the Wii???

The AI in Il-2 ruins my life every time I play it.

Yes, that's another thing. When it's free, you can just say "stop whining, it's free" as long as it doesn't trash people's PCs. As soon as you charge for it you have to deal with support because people want something that works PERFECT for their cash.

LA gave a BS reason about PC's not being uniformly powerful enough or something. Since they released it on PSP and PS2, though, which pretty much EVERY PC have more power than, it was obviously crap. There's the idea they didn't want to deal with piracy, as well as the profound feeling that they don't want to do stuff for the PC ever again.

I'd say pretty much the entire year except for the birth of my daughter!

Computers are cheaper than cars!

So the question is...WTF is up with Starbuck anyway?? Funny seeing Leoben run away from her...she scares Cylons now!

Sick or stupid. Or both.

Forget the 109s, we need Yak-9s for Korea.

First PC in 2000? LOL, only 15 years after I got my first one!

Fast-food fish is one of the signs of the impending apocalypse. I only get burgers or ham, chicken, or beef sandwiches. Everything else = nasty!

Actually, the sound of the whale-talking probe flying by in Star Trek 4 was Leonard Nimoy going "wub wub wub wub" into a mike, so such a thing is not without precedent. I heard those things flying around here all the time before the runway was shut down for repairs...like a year ago.

She'll only come out at night The lean and hungry type Nothing is new, I've seen her here before Watching and waiting Ooh, she's sittin' with you but her eyes are on the door Oh-oh, here she comes Watch out boy she'll chew you up Oh-oh, here she comes She's a maneater

Funny, everyone I know who's eaten at local Mexican places say the ones in the US are better because the quality of the food they cook is higher.