JediMaster

Did that change? I don't remember Tyndall being announced as a permanent base back when Langley and the others were.

It was just a matter of protocol anyway. One guy awake when it should've been 2. My feeling is had those been active codes they'd not have had a 3rd guy fall asleep. When you know you're guarding junk your vigilance will naturally ebb compared to when you know it's something important.

What's truly tragic is that MedGroup dep cmdr must have been up there for an incentive flight or something, he wasn't even part of the regular crew. Probably always wanted to fly in a B-52...

I'm not talking about the Talon's design per se, although a canopy that large is very anti-stealthy and also is not conducive to going Mach 3 (which they were apparently doing at low altitude, in a dive, and still took a long time to go like 5 miles??), nor has anyone built a VG FSW design yet, plus your turn radius at Mach 3 is measured by national borders, not feet! While the Talon didn't LOOK that far off, its capabilities were totally wrong. Plus those helmets were ridiculous. Only Hollywood makes full-face clear-front helmets.

You don't need a bee, just a stinger. Just stick one in a chair or whatever so they sit on it.

AFAIK there are always F-22 in FL. I can't remember if it's Eglin or Tyndall, but they've got them there, albeit not permanently assigned.

Ok, so even if you have a merged WoE/WoV install this will by default only apply to the German terrain unless you make those changes yourself?

We're 2 months behind you, Laton! In our case, however, it's a girl incoming. I will say my wife is hoping it is quite a bit LESS than 9.5lbs, though! I was 9.75 lbs when I was born, but we don't want that for our daughter!

Bzzt! Sorry, thanks for playing! The best PTO sim was 1942:Pac Air War by MPS. It had its shortcomings, but I still never got that feeling in any other PTO sim before or since. CFS2 and Il-2's Pac Fighters were pale shadows. You had to follow your flight plan carefully or you might not find your carrier when you headed home and you had no way of locating it! I miss that one. All it needs is an updated graphics engine with improved FM and AI and it would be the best flight sim out there hands down!

If you get a Starfleet vessel named USS Red October I can do a killer Connery voice.

No, I never heard of that one. That's odd. Is it gone from the screen saver selection list (switched to none) or does it just simply not activate although it says it should?

Agreed. I get tired of it real easily lately. If I want politics, I'm not reading a thread about adding landing lights to my plane in WOI! If I DO read such a thread, I hate seeing political opinions in my face. It just seems like all anyone is talking about lately and yet nothing can be done about it for another 3 months anyway, so just give it a rest already! Vote for who you want to vote, I don't need to know!

Which is why I won't waste time watching televised news coverage. The Daily Show is great at showing how easy it is to warp people's statements and viewpoints with their satirical biases. I think its greatest contribution has been to show people that while they do it to an absurd extreme, they're NOT the only ones doing it. Kind of like "see how the magic trick is done and next time you see it you'll see the carefully hidden sleight of hand more easily." Of course, the SNL coverage of the Obama/Clinton debates was priceless. "My first question is for Senator Obama. Senator, are you comfy? Would you like a pillow?"

They like to use CG now for safety reasons. It lets them do things that are far too dangerous for "real". Of course, in TG they used large flying models for some of those things and they looked damn good, but it's hard to convince a studio to anything between "real" and "CG." So if you can't do it for real, they CG it. I actually thought the flying scenes in Flyboy were excellent, although the rest of the film was forgettable. Forgetting the whole "every German in a Dr.I" thing, it was stunning to watch and the BS factor was low. Stealth had a nice camo Flanker on screen but that was it. The Talon itself was an uber joke.

The problem with the leftist way of looking at crime (applying to W Europe, CA, and other like places) is that they don't want to admit that force is the only thing people who are intent on breaking the rules will respect. Same thing with children. You can't explain things to a 3 yr old. You tell them what to do and they do it or they don't. If they don't, you have only the carrot and the stick. The carrot can lead to them expecting a carrot to do ANYTHING, while fear of the stick can be sufficient. No one's ever said "we can use the carrot, the stick, or the jumble of words." What are you going to do, talk to Dahmer and convince him he shouldn't be killing and eating people? Talk to the angry teenager with a broken home and no money and convince him that robbing convenience stores or mugging people is just "wrong" and they shouldn't do it? Ok, well what happens if you tell them and that doesn't work? Tell them again? With a louder voice? Send them to their room/prison? What happens if they refuse to go? Then you have to FORCE them, which may involve beating to get them to submit. The left think man has evolved so far above his animal past that words alone can solve anything, even to the babies that don't have fully developed langauge skills or the criminals that don't care what the left think! The right think man basically hasn't evolved past being an animal at all and everyone needs to be able to defend themselves because it's the survival of the fittest, whether in business or politics or just home protection.

No, that's a single clip. Look closely and you'll see there's no doubling there. I'm just astounded you could put it in backwards, I call that a lousy design! The one who was shot was obviously not shot by THAT weapon.

His reviews are awesome, even the ones bashing games I liked. FEAR, Crysis, even Portal. Of course, he praised Portal and said how shocked he was he couldn't find one damn thing wrong with it.

I've seen the QoS trailer a couple of times now. I'm eagerly awaiting that one, I loved Casino Royale.

You can rent it from Netflix, so it's still out there somewhere. It never got much love, though, because it was being compared to one of Kubrick's greats.

The A-7F was a real plane, and adding extra heaters wouldn't be that big a deal. I just don't know what kind of specs an AA radar in that nose would have. Maybe 40 mile range max? Without RH missiles it really doesn't matter too much anyway, it's not an interceptor.

We caught them red-handed making miserable games years ago.

I'm currently replaying an old FPS, Contract JACK, having replayed the other 2 in the series NOLF1 and NOLF2. Games on my HD now: Contract JACK Company of Heroes Race 07 Armed Assault All TW sims LOMAC F4: AF rfactor ET:Quake Wars UT3 Sins of a Solar Empire Rise of Nations SW: Empire at War SW: Jedi Academy STALKER LEGO Indiana Jones (time waster) Dangerous Waters GTL GTR2 Il-2:46 X3 FS2 EECH/AH Games I've recently finished: Tron 2 FEAR + both addons Bioshock Crysis Deus Ex GRAW 2 R6 Vegas Doom 3 Serious Sam 2 HL2 Ep1/2/Portal (Orange Box) Tomb Raider: Anniversary Thief 2 Getting ready to replay: MOH: Pacific Assault Quake 4 Prey SW: Republic Commando Coming soon: STALKER: Clear Sky Crysis Warhead Project Origin Storm of War Black Shark GTR Evolution

I thought those were the guys from The Abyss.

The Terminator teaser (not really a trailer) was nice, but the movie was great. It was not "the best movie ever" or whatever ridiculous hyperbole many like to use, but I think it's definitely very impressive. My one complaint was they made the film too long by cramming too much into it. The Joker could've taken the entire film for himself and it really wouldn't have suffered. The other storylines were fine, but felt rushed.

I have it on Bluray. Absolutely stunning cinematography. I have the utmost enthusiasm for this mission.