JediMaster

Smart weapons. Let you attack from farther away with equal or better precision. Sure for dumb bombs and rockets and strafing the older planes are likely better, but there's not as much of that nowadays since collateral damage has become a 4-letter word.

I saw an interview with Lucas where he said he had a hard time getting this film made because it's relatively big budget but has no white stars. They felt it wasn't worth more than a few million because that's all it would make...not many would pay to see a film of almost totally black actors, just a couple of white actors in minor roles. He also said the few surviving members left who saw it were supportive. So obviously any inaccuracies they felt were more than compensated for by the rest.

They had a funny skit on Robot Chicken where a doctor tells Twiki "I'm afraid you have diabe-de-be-de-betes." The first season was cheesy but still good overall and had some quite famous guest stars. Jack Palance, Roddy McDowell, Gary Coleman (who incidentally did a voice over spot for Robot Chicken just days before his death), Jamie Lee Curtis, and others. The 2nd season was bad. Hawk was played by a guy whose overacting skills blew away Shatner or Frakes. The half-senile doctor was ridiculous, the whole pretense of the season was stupid. They tried to make it Star Trek without knowing how and failed.

Of the "classic" SF franchises, Buck Rogers is the only one that hasn't had an attempted reboot lately. That Flash Gordon show was just pathetic.

The late Sabres had all-moving tails, that is. Early versions had elevators and suffered it as well.

[Pyle] Surprise, surprise, surprise! [/Pyle]

It's not really adding complexity anyway. A datalink with AWACS is pretty simple, just a display on your radar of contacts you yourself aren't seeing. The ability to lock up and fire on 6 targets at once is just an extension of the TWS in the Eagle already. With the Maverick we already had EO targeting, so a TCS is just a Maverick seeker without the missile or warhead stuck under the nose. The weather, with rolling seas and pitching decks, certainly had to be more difficult to implement than the other stuff I just said.

It's just like Vietnam...we pull out and things look like they'll be far worse within a year. A "damned if you do, damned if you don't" setup. We either stay indefinitely and pay the price, in people and finances, or we leave after already investing a lot of said people and finances just to have the end result be as if we left immediately after the fall of Baghdad. Iran's meddling has tempered any optimism I had that things would be allowed to develop as they should. Likewise Pakistan's meddling in Afghanistan (because they're scared to death of India getting chummy with them) means that country likewise will get no peace, whether we're there or not. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, a peaceful stable return to prosperity under their own power is contrary to their neighbors' security concerns so they work to ensure it doesn't happen.

There's also always a calm after a storm. Otherwise, you wouldn't know the storm had begun or ended, it would just be continuous. Yes, that's right, that's another phrase that I loathe because it's nothing but the obvious. Like "tomorrow's another day." Well, duh.

I don't find much wrong with them, although at times they appear to be overpowered, hence the comments that it looks more like a SW dogfight than a WWII one. But a comparison to Pearl Harbor isn't very meaningful. It's like trying to pick a valedictorian based on who's furthest away from the guy who's dropping out!

Look into the modded one for EECH. It's quite good.

So does last night's dinner at the bottom of the toilet bowl.

"Items belonging to Danger Powers..." "No, no, that's Austin Powers. Danger is my...middle name."

Next up: Buick Entmoot

Of course, who cares? We have tons of other sats up there already. It's like a big news blurb: CHINA BUILDS A TANK!

It's ok, their Ayatollah has a direct connection with God, he knows exactly what to do to bring about His wishes. That of course is the problem with a theocracy, you can't argue with the leader without being accused of blasphemy (which of course is a capital crime) thanks to how the system is set up.

I'll bet the lives of 1 billion people, take your pick, that this will not be just MSFS 11 with the word "sim" dropped from the title.

Yet once again they did things and then informed the players after the fact, giving little explanation of what's going on. How hard is it to give reasons and explanations? What is up with the black box mentality?

I don't know what exactly they're trying to do with this. On one hand they appear to be appealing to a broader audience than MSFS had, but on the other they seem to be abandoning that core audience which made up their sales in the past. You can't reject 80% of your previous customer base in the hopes that the other 20% will not only become 100% but even more than that, can you?

The issue is not that Iran would blatantly attack us. They're not that stupid. They know China and Russia oppose Western opposition to Iran just on principle, and those are the nations that can face off with the US, not them. Any action would be an attempt to play to them. Either they would do it in a way that they could attempt to deny culpability ("it was not us, it was Zionist powers who attacked carrier to make us look guilty, but if US attacks us in retaliation we will kill all of them with no losses because we really rock and stuff"), or they would simply pretend they've been attacked by us (perhaps stage it somehow or even just plain out lie) and then THEY would have to retaliate, all the while claiming innocence.

That's BUFF!

You know, in just 4 months this thread will be a full 4 years old. One of the longest continually-active threads here that I know of.

Yeah, I think the car marketing people have officially run out of names for cars. "Enclave"? Really? What next, the Nissan Sequester?

IIRC the official date is around the end of Dec 2012, so they still have almost 12 months.