JediMaster

I always wear a condom before I touch the keyboard. There's another one on my CAT5 cable.

There was the time some genius at SimHQ laughed off my suggestion that TK might consider on-line distribution (this was way before the 3rdwire on-line store - back when there was a SimHQ SF community). He said something along the lines of "I am constantly amazed by the lack of business understanding of some people" and then said some nonsense about TK not wanting to offend his retailers by selling his sims over the net. I felt a bit bad about this considering the amount of money I had spent getting my MBA, but I let it slide. The guy was one of those hyperactive "meteor" posters who appear from nowhere, do 500 posts in a month and then disappear forever. I still laugh about that one.

They don't just "disappear", they're usually banned.

Well, I'm offended by the M1, so I guess it succeeded!

AFAIK TK's sims are still single-core aware only, but even so they run better on dual-core as Windows will use both cores and free up more time for the sim on its core.

As far as the difference between SF2 and earlier versions, the graphics are better, the gameplay is the same.

OR...we could put the cockpits in a gyro-stabilized enclosure so the pilot always experiences G-forces in the same manner!

Well, the way to design a fold-out wing kit for a bomb is likely to be copied as there aren't that many ways to do it without it looking the same.

Lettering, though, is a bit much.

That would no doubt have resulted in a change of flightsuit!

That mid-air with an A-4, though, was amazing because the F-15 shouldn't have survived.

At a mere $20 each I find I can't justify NOT getting them.

Photos of the real plane on the ground interspersed with some fake photos of it flying/landing.

Do those missiles actually have AMRAAM-D stenciled on them?

Guess I'm one of the few knuckleheads around here who play TK's sims in MP! Although I have SF2/V merged install, it still gets less time than my installs of ODS, NF4, FE+exp, and WOI as they all have MP that I fly coop on.

I'm just sad TK didn't feel MP was worth the effort to make more of it than the WOX series had, let alone dump it for Vista's sake.

What about the expansions for WOI and FE?

I still wish TK would release a Wings over Korea game.

Yes, that's NIN's "The Day the World Went Away" from The Fragile in 2000.

Harold eating the chili again?

Amazing how inaccurate some people can be about basic things.

"A commercial variant"??? Does this imply you can now buy them like a bizjet or something?

Prior to SF2, I would just start a MP session and put myself against unarmed planes only (bombers, transports, etc) if I wanted to just try out a particular plane in a low-threat environment. As SF2 dumped MP, that's no longer an option. However, you could just start a campaign mission and never leave your home base, ignoring the radio and other things happening far away.

To be fair, if TK wasn't stubborn, SFP1 likely would never have seen the light of day and we wouldn't be on SF2V and waiting for expansions for FE, WOI, and SF2E!

LOL, well the $45 part should clue you to the fact that you got a bargain processor. For many tasks it's perfectly capable, I'm just saying it's not ideal for gaming...especially newer games.

Most "good for gaming" processors are going to run you $100+ right now. I think the C2D 3GHz I just got rid of runs about $170 right now. Since you already bought the mobo, look at what the board is capable of running on Asus' site and you'll see what CPUs it could take.

If you stick with older sims it shouldn't be too bad (you likely can't run at max detail), but I think DCS: Black Shark and Oleg's upcoming SoW:BoB would bring that to its knees rather quickly. The funny part is your GTX280, a card that's faster than my 260, is way fast for a Sempron. I literally spent the same amount for my video card and CPU ($260 each I think) to keep the performance "matched". In your case, your CPU will be the bottleneck, there won't be anything it could throw at a 280 that the 280 can't handle. Of course, when you spend $45 on a CPU and what, $350+ on the video card, that's what will happen.

Water...water...

Oil...oil...

Room service...room service...

I've had to "scoot" to that base a few times myself.

T4 takes place after T3, but the only thing that's really carrying over from T3 is the fact that John was in a bunker when the nukes dropped and that Kate (played by Bryce Howard now) is his wife. She was shown as a vet in T3, now she's a doctor, and presumably she taught herself via books while in the bunker.

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Have a nice day

"Thank you"

Yes, but you can buy 2 360s for 1 PS3 and swap back and forth while one is out for service.