JediMaster

I played ET and finished it. Most uninspiring game ever... Also played and finished Raiders of the Lost Ark on the 2600. The whole "parachute off a mesa under a tree branch likely to rip your chute and kill you to get into a hole where the Ark may or may not be located (assuming you used the Map Room correctly to find it)" really bogged that game down more than the REAL bogs with stunning tsetse flies (as in they stun you if they touch you).

If you call "don't hold your breath" much of an update...

I like FF and use it 90% of the time at home. The only exception is for certain sites that just won't play nice and then I bring up IE. Could be because of the NoScript and AdBlock Plus I use on FF just messing with it too much. I know computerandvideogames.com (I think that's right) will crash my FF everytime I visit there via a link from some other site. IE gives no trouble.

I was just thinking...is there anywhere that's really too far to drive to over there? I mean, how long does it take to drive from London to Glasgow, say, leaving out the downtown traffic?

So...when are they painting the flames on it?

Yeah, in modern jets you barely use the rudder unless on T/O and landing. The only exceptions really are the low/slow CAS jets like the A-10 and Su-25 where you use rudder to correct when coming in for a pass. The F-16 flies so fast, though, that the rudder just doesn't have any effect. I remember when Falcon 3 came out years ago a current F-16 pilot mentioned that to someone who'd been complaining about something or other with rudders in it. He said something like "it doesn't do anything in the real plane over 300kts or so, so why would it here?"

I just recently replayed MOH: PA. Compared to the other MOH games, it just wasn't as good. I did enjoy Airborne quite a bit, though, although it was short for my tastes. Of course, it took me just as long to play MOHPA, about 8 hours! As for WWI games, how can you be burned out on that? How many are there anyway??

I wanted a regular SG-1 game, not an MMO!! To all devs: STOP MAKING MMOs!!!!

We've never had a very big naval sim group here. They tend to congregate at the dedicated sites I guess.

Yes, at 1200 PT yesterday GTR Evo was "unlocked" on Steam. You actually get a new icon for it, but it includes everything Race 07 had. While there are only 3 new tracks I could find (Nord, Nurb, Nurb GP), there are TONS of new cars. There's also a new R-Cade Extreme race mode, which seems to be like a cross between what Race is and something like GRiD or GT5 or something.

Traveling around the US is literally like visiting other countries. I've taken numerous trips around the Caribbean, and although those are all separate countries, there are many similarities even when the languages are different. There are a few states I've not visited yet, although some I've not been to in over 20 years, but I always find that same mix of "like home" and "different than home" in every one.

Oh no. No, no, no. They're not allowed to change it. Who said they could do that?? That was not approved. Floggings all around.

Anyone ever noticed the blind, rabid Il-2 faithful are always the ones that only fly online and never against the AI? When you're flying against other people who have the same limits as you, I can see how it would seem better. Yet if you fly offline or coop against the AI you can find all new sorts of ways to curse Oleg's team... The main problem I had is with Oleg's "we have it right" attitude. Then every patch introduces to changes to at least a few planes if not more!! Well, does that mean it's NOT right now? Or was it not right before? It can't have been right then AND right now if it's changed, can it? Oh, and the online MP-whiners got far too much attention from them. The ruination of the trim system being a major case in point. I can barely work with it now because of how slow it works, but oh, "people are cheating by using trim to turn tighter! WAH!!" Well, that doesn't work in a real airplane, so if it worked here...trim was done wrong! Do they fix it? No, let's have "trim delay"!

Don't think I've had that one. Have you tried reinstalling DX9.0c with the latest version?

Do you mean the printed manual, or the PDF in the directory? That PDF is pretty good, and the one that came with FC is even better, like 250 pages. As for the key commands, like the menus, I think it's a Russian thing. Il-2 is a different developer and suffers the same problem. It's like Russian programmers can't build a good UI.

At least Far Cry 2 will cover that.

Well, it's not like there's a Star Trek out there to compete with.

You forgot "and then came the Arabs who bought Mercedes Benzes, and then Prince Charles started wearing all of Princess Diana's clothes..."

I find it hard to believe the skeleton is still intact after hanging in a tree through decades of storms!

That has even happened here with regular airplane contrails. The sun backlights it in such a way that it looked like the shuttle or something reentering but a LOT slower.

Is that good old Bubb Rubb or whatever? I'd forgotten about this!

Sleep in, do some simming, watch some DVDs. Same old same old. With the wife ready to deliver within a month we're not very mobile.

Yeah, what with the whole holodeck-flashback thing and the cavalier death of a major character...well, I'll be honest it felt more like a poor TNG episode than an ENT one. The idea that they were basically in-between scenes from an old TNG ep where they looked MUCH younger didn't help.

Almalgam Warrior Heh. Brings me back to the good old MST3K days. "I am a Grimald warrior!!"

I've been waiting for this for quite some time now. Unfortunately, I have in my mind's eye how I want this to play and I feel I'll be sorely let down if it turns out to be "Il-2 v5.0" Yes the visuals are much improved, but how about the FMs, DMs, and the AI?? Will .50s work as well as they should? Will every big radial engined plane still flip on its back when you pull back too fast? Will the AI still have the ability to outaccelerate or outdecelerate you at a whim like they have airbrakes and afterburners? While I enjoy the time/theaters/planes of Il-2, I often find dogfighting more enjoyable in TK's sims because of how much they do NOT frustrate me!