JediMaster

Oh, oops. The Eclipse is different. You can ONLY get it playing the Consortium campaign, where you hijack it away from the Empire. That's it, not available in any GC campaign.

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/11/star-trek-first.html I'm not sure I'm happy with every choice they've made here, but I guess it will do!

What, no VTOL??

I thought Greece had ordered Typhoons years back but then cancelled the order for budget reasons. F-16s and Mirage 2000s are still the most modern thing they have. They're also unique in that their greatest rival is another NATO member instead of any outside nation.

Really. If they get chased off, they'll just try again.

I'm very disappointed in this decision. It strikes me as a very Russian one. Almost no other dev or publisher believes in using SF anymore because of the tons of bad press, but bad press apparently had zero impact on their decision. I find that remarkable. It's like they wanted to use SF because it's Russian and only if their 100 person testing team had serious issues with it were they going to go elsewhere. This reminds me of a certain other decision made just about 6 years ago to do something that people mostly thought was a bad idea, but was backed by what later turned out to be faulty information. Not that it mattered, because the "deciders" had already made up their minds and any positive backing was grabbed, however flimsy, and negative was brushed aside. So, congrats to ED for acting very presidential in their decision-making process.

I played the first for BF42 quite a bit. In some ways it was better than BFV, in others I preferred BFV (like the helos in EoD I could never handle). I never got BF2, though.

You have to play one of the Galactic Conquests as the Empire and I think it finally becomes available at Tech 5 or whatever the final level is called. Then it costs a ton and takes forever to build.

According to Andy Mahood in PCG, he's raced against Dale Earnhardt Jr in a race or two. The REAL one. I can see the appeal of that, and if you're a diehard MP racer it may well be worth it to you. As someone who puts in maybe 15 hrs/month tops into racing all my sims combined, it's not for me.

You have to enjoy the films for what they are. Of course the Moore films are nothing like the books, even in his day they had a sort of "reboot" after Moonraker. That film went literally to new heights in the post-Star Wars era that was followed by the very retro-plot For Your Eyes Only where the whole thing was about a code machine and a woman's revenge. The Dalton movies had their faults, but as mentioned the portrayal of Bond wasn't one of them. The Bond "women" in his 2 flicks were among the worst they had, and the villains weren't that great. Robert Davi is a good actor, but he's not suited to those types of films. Joe Don Baker...has he ever been good?

Oh right, forgot about that. An entire NATION where Spanish is almost never spoken...how will one cope??

Apparently he had one last book waiting to be published, not sure what will happen with it now. Sounds like it was mostly finished but maybe needed a little polishing.

LOL, I so rarely catch anything taking off and I never have my camera. I did grab a handful of the 2 WB-57s here several years ago for the shuttle return-to-flight though.

The Shinden's intake is similar in concept, but it's smaller. The difference is you could stand up in that other inlet if you were thin enough. It's all about the geometry, baby!

I've seen that one here, too. I've also seen the other one, with the satcom antenna on the top. The E-4B I think?

I lived in Perrine and Cutler Ridge, but spent most of my life in Kendall. The other thing the UK has is that super high latitude. Nothing like watching the sun rise at 10AM and set at 2PM!

Right, the tanks were jettisoned before the wings were swept back.

Going from the hottest, driest state to moist, cold country? I literally shudder at the thought! Oh, and NV is mega cheap to live in by comparison, too.

Cool idea, not so sure of the actual practicality of it. There's never been a jet with an intake like that, and there must be a reason for that.

It's sad to see that's how it looks now. I read an article about it in IAPR I think a few months ago. A B-36 turned into a massive cargo plane. You can see how thick the wings were on the side of the fuselage.

If you watch movie DVD extras you know what can be done with a moderate budget. One is to digitally ERASE something that's really there (like a wing) to give the impression it's not. I think they took a performance, erased the wing, then at the end put a digital plane in for the transition to a landing and then switched back to a real plane (which conveniently is sitting so you can't see the wing is missing).

I remember seeing Spaceballs and Naked Gun in the theater and both times I was ROFL the entire film through. Something that didn't happen again until I saw the South Park movie over 10 years later.

Fencer in!

I'm not sure that's the best way to do things. "We'll do what we want unless enough people complain loud enough to make us change our minds" instead of "figure out what the customers are most interested in and serve that need."

Yeah, 800x600 @ low detail isn't what I call "playing". The shots I've seen indicate my guess is closer. Radeons I'm not sure, maybe "X1800 or later".