JediMaster

Chuck Norris ate the fuel rods in Three Mile Island to prevent a meltdown and he's fine.

LOL, there is no such thing as American SF anymore, it's all been filmed in Canada for the last 15 years!

Chances are if you see someone on an episode of one series you'll see them on another. Rewatching SG-1, SG Atlantis, DS9, Voyager, BSG...I keep seeing the same guest stars over and over.

I've not heard an F-35 yet, but the AV-8B has to be the loudest single-engine plane without an AB I've ever heard.

The loudest 4-engine plane I've heard so far: DC-8. Puts the B-1 to shame.

Well, his talk about the "revised" method of expansion packs makes it seem like that's indeed what he will be doing. It will basically be one new flyable (eg the Mirage F1) and some new AI and some other stuff.

As for how many planes come with ICE stock, it's SPAD XIII, Fokker D.VII, Nieuport N.28, Albatros D.Va, Fokker DR. 1, Pfalz D.IIIa, S.E.5a, Sopwith Camel, and a bonus plane. That plane depends on where you buy the game from. So if it's from Amazon it's one thing, Gogamer another, etc. It's on their site, just go to riseofflight.com and look. That's nine planes out of the box, which is a pretty good selection.

Unlike other sims which have lots of AI-only "filler planes" modeled to a lower fidelity, ROF chose to go with the "every plane flyable" route. The one exception was the DFW and Breguet which appeared as AI well before they were made flyable. The DFW now is, the Breguet will be out soon. That means by necessity of that choice that there are fewer planes to fight with or against, and the planeset is certainly biased towards late-war vs early.

Whether you want to call this a negative depends on your POV. The AI is very good and deadly, although they have one quirk that bugs me...the "dive for the deck" tactic. It reminds of EAW's old "split S when he's on your six" move the AI always did. I don't mind the AI doing it sometimes, but they ALWAYS do it, no matter if they start above you, the same altitude, or below. If they're attacking you, they'll go after you where you are, but as soon as you're behind them they make diving turns to get away, so inevitably furballs wind up on the deck, although in small engagements you can keep it up high.

I personally would've given ICE a lower score, maybe an 8.5, but that's a personal opinion and I can't say it's because anything in the review was wrong. It's just because everyone personally will give greater or lesser weight to a given fact.

Some people care more about the scope, some care more about the AI, some care more about the flight/damage/weapons modeling, some care about the environments, and so on. You can easily have a group of 5 people agree on everything that is or isn't there and come up with wildly different scores based on what is more important to them. It's no different from a movie review.

As mentioned, the microwave should not be the sole cooking instrument unless you're just making a frozen dinner or reheating leftovers, and even then it's better used for getting the frost out and heating it conventionally.

We have a small convection oven that gets a lot more use than the microwave. It's not as fast, but it's still faster than stove or oven and it can cook fast as well as make it crisp and/or brown versus rubbery.

I'm afraid that story is contradictory! If she's well-known, than by default you WOULD have heard of her. The fact that you've not means she's not THAT well-known after all, and that explains why she was keen on having you know who she is.

There are 2 types of actors: those who want to be known more, and those who are too well-known for their comfort. She was obviously one of the former and was hoping that since you didn't know her face, you would know her name. When you didn't know that either, she wanted to be sure you knew what she did in the hopes that you would spread the story so she'd become better known. A lot of hiring in Hollywood is done on name recognition...if they can hire someone people recognize it can draw viewers, and if that person is on the rise it means they don't cost as much as they might be worth.

WTF is with this all this "future" talk?

It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away!!!

You all get your citizenship revoked!!

I'd love to see a formation pic of that plus a Bone!

Yeah, they don't bother with writing there after installation. Well, at least TIR does. I don't know a thing about Saitek!

The stock plane DMs in CFS3 were indeed stupid, with things like control cables given a 60% chance of being damaged!

The Firepower addon and 1% 3rd party planes were far better and made the game quite playable, even if the DX7-class graphics made it dated looking from its release.

The deal is the program files folder is read-only now, so a lot of stuff is done in your profile instead. So you may want to create a folder named "games" for something like EECH that wants to write back to the main folder. As for Il-2 and SF2, you don't need to worry about those, they work fine. No clue on FS9, haven't touched the series since FS4!

There are a LOT of 737s out there. As for how many of the older ones, I'd say quite a few still!

I don't know, CFS3 was IMO relatively polished. It ran slow on anything but top-end systems, and it was missing some things we'd have like to have, but it was complete. It also had the largest map of any WWII sim released since then. All the Il-2 maps are far smaller, and well there are no other WWII sims! Only EAW had larger IIRC.

Well, that's the trick. Lower the settings on most any game and you can get it to run well.

Your screen is relatively low res (13x7) so that should help minimize the stress on the system vs a higher-res screen.

That should handle everything great with the exception of A-10C. I hear it's a real bear, so you may not be able to crank those graphics up like you will in the other sims.

Charlie Sheen can't kill Charlie Sheen because he has insufficient coordination to actually hit him.

Apparently they've now found some bodies.

So, Boeing then.

Oh right, I forgot about the ice coming off and damaging things.

Maybe they should adequately staff them so that someone else would've been there to keep him from falling asleep.

Ah yes, I'm now reminded that for some reason people pick this day of the calendar to attempt these things.

I'd gone a whole 3 hrs this morning without being aware of it...sigh...

Blame Jon Bon Jovi.

And all of this will happen again.

Don't the canards have deicers built-in? What's the consequence if they ice up? I mean, they're only used at low-alt anyway, where icing usually isn't as big of a problem, right?

"Silent" is throwing the bullets by hand.