JediMaster

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!

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.

The problem is it requires the enemy fighter to be VERY close to you (basically guns-only range), and if you're in that position you've already failed. If the enemy is NOT that close, it's a great way to set yourself up to be nailed by a heater.

Well, generally speaking a turbofan is better under Mach 1 and a turbojet is better over Mach 1.

Weird that they only did it themselves for WAPJ, and that WoF and IAPR didn't get them. I love mine, have them all!

I'll add a few others missing: Layne Staley - Alice in Chains (RIP) Kurt Cobain - Nirvana (RIP) Don Henley - Eagles David Gilmour - Pink Floyd Roger Daltrey - The Who Rivers Cuomo - Weezer David Lee Roth - Van Halen Bono - U2 Brian Wilson and Mike Love - Beach Boys Scott Weiland - STP/Velvet Revolver Dennis DeYoung - Styx Billy Corgan - Smashing Pumpkins

Some A-4s and F-4s had that extended nose gear for better AOA off the deck, but not all. I was thinking specifically of the wooden decks with JATO as well. An occasional use might not be a problem, but any regular use I think would be tempting fate. A concrete runway is a different matter.

Would JATO have been safe to use on those carriers?

...the edit button??

I always thought that a serious oversight in a game called "Pacific Fighters". They couldn't premap those controls??

Some stadium do indeed have ear-bleeding acoustics. I remember when I saw Paul McCartney at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami in 1990 (who knows what it's called now, they keep changing it, it'll always be JRS to me)...when he started "Can't Buy Me Love" the roar drowned out the (admittedly very loud) music and the concrete balcony started bouncing. All I could think was, "is it supposed to do that??"