JediMaster

Just look at the price of the 8800GTX vs 8800GTS. I always upgrade in small stages myself, but my next upgrade will have to be a whole new system. I'm DDR/AGP/IDE right now, so next one will be DDR2/PCI-E/SATA. I do have SATA ports on my current mobo, but I've never used them.

Wow, looking at this shot now I can see a ton of improvements since last year! Anyway, if it's a UH-60, you can roll it out by pushing forward on the stick a bit without giving it any collective to lift off. The tail will come up, but it will still go. If it's a skid-equipped one, you have to get it just BARELY off the ground and hover-taxi forward very carefully! Generally speaking, though, flyable helos shouldn't be parked in a hangar. It's a mistake by the mission maker if it is.

I saw him at a convention right before filming of Generations was about to begin. It was funny in that he said how much he hated Shatner, then he winds up being in the film with him and having the most to do with him on screen! He reminded me of my grandfather (who'd passed away only a year or so earlier) in many ways. He went along with this silly ST quote thing they did where he'd read a line as Scotty and people would raise their hands to guess where he'd said it. I think it was right after he'd been on TNG, actually. I'm glad I got to see him that once.

I watched a lot of Starblazers when I was young, but that's it.

I never got to play Obi Wan as I never had an Xbox. I remember the day they dumped PC and went Xbox-only for it...a dark day indeed.

I still am befuddled by all that has happened around these parts. It started with the modder vs modder conflicts on the forums, led to the A-team's reg-only choice, and continues to this day. Perhaps it's no longer a "hot war" like it was then, but it's very much a "cold war" still. I understand that people will get upset at someone claiming work they didn't do as their own, 100% I agree with that. I do feel that if you release something like that to the public domain, though, you can't expect things like that won't happen. Whether someone deliberately misrepresenting themselves (I think we all know someone in our lives who is the "pathological liar" and will lie even when there is no benefit to it), or just a person who was looking at someone else's work for reference and got it confused with something they did and repackaged it as part of a greater whole and forgot to give credit, it's going to happen. However, as soon as someone gets nasty about it, either the accuser or the one being accused, the whole thing goes to hell fast. One definite side effect of this has been a general contraction of the community into "sides". It used to be you had the pro-TW sim people and the anti-TW sim people, the latter consisting of those who would ramble ad nauseum about all the features that weren't there and how it will never achieve greatness without them and so on. Yet all those who enjoyed the sims were on the same side. In typical fashion, however, as soon as the "external" force of the naysayers gave up due to boredom or whatever, the fans that were left started to argue amongst themselves. I'm not for or against anyone, other than a general appreciation of the good work done by the modders. I have no info nor an opinion on who did what to whom when, and I doubt I ever will. The opinion I do hold is that this is a sad state of affairs we now find ourselves in and I despair that we'll ever see a return to "the good old days." I loved NATO Fighters and NF2 for WoE, OTC for SFP1, and so on, and I was waiting for more of these "bundles" to come out...but with modder set against modder I feel such things will be quite rare indeed now.

Unfortunately it's no longer where it once was, at least when I last visited 3 years ago. It used to be hanging right above the entrance to one of the halls (as shown in the pics on that site). When I was last there they'd moved it to the lower level of the gift shop, where no one sees it unless you go into the gift shop first then go downstairs. Only good news is it's in a glass case now.

"He is a eunuch. He is a eunuch. He is dead!"

And yet, who mourns for the hovercraft?

It doesn't make things look different, it merely increases the max allowable size/res of used textures. So all the stock textures and many planes you may already have fit within the old limits so it doesn't matter. All it does is allow mods that surpass those limits to run. Generally speaking, those mods will look better than the stock stuff because of the higher limits.

You've not seen the redone TOS eps I take it? They CGI replaced all the model shots so the Enterprise and the other ships look 100x better. The rest was remastered in HD, albeit not 16:9 widescreen. They air them weekly here, but they're still only on season 1. Space Seed looked great with the Botany Bay alongside, then kicked off. The First Federation ship in The Corbomite Maneuver also looked a lot better.

There are 2 P-38s in there. The J and the L, right where they've always been. I don't understand why you wouldn't be able to see them...

No, those are the La-Z-Boy planes.

It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

Semper Ubi Sub Ubi

Mongo only pawn...in game of life...

Let's not forget Rutan's EZ!

All we need are some giant posters of the leaders to strafe.

I'm surprised they're not releasing a 6-disc HD version of the movies to coincide. I've watched them all in HD on cable in recent months, looks GREAT...especially the last 2, as they were filmed digitally and the picture is just miles beyond anything else.

Yeah, too bad as XWA was like another X Wing with XvT-type graphics, better actually! It wasn't as good as TIE Fighter, but it was on a par with the original.

Things looked ugly on the ground, but they sure do a number in the air!

Calm down, dear. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans and spam. Baked beans are off! Can I have spam instead? You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and spam?

"Occupation?" "Stand-up philosopher!"

"Be seated. Now I don't have to tell you what has been happening to our beloved little town. Sheriff murdered, crops burned, people stampeded, and cattle raped. Now the time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving."

Pretty much only SHQ on a regular basis. I used to go to Frugal's on occasion. I go to other places like TW or Ubi when I'm looking for something, but I never post there.