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Now I need you to ask for Jessica Alba to knock on my front door!! Yeah, I was pretty stoked to see the patches when I logged on this morning!

I think a certain Mr. Jensen was getting his arse kicked at Ace Combat and had a bit of a dummy spit. Unfortunately, this is the caliber of parliamentarians who are consulted in defense issues here, and more unfortunately, are listened to. Not to pick on his party (the former government) as the ALP has been making mistakes too, but his was the party who thought it was okay to go ahead and acquire the SuperBug without the need for any competitive tender at all. The current government continued said mistake. Still, it's bugging me. How the hell did they come up with F-13??

The Liberals are conservatives here... Has that done your head in?

It's about 2:15 on the eastcoast of Australia right now. And Australian journos are renowned for their substance abuse problems. I'm gonna chalk it up to that. Seriously though, if this report were true, how is it only he seems to have the reports of the F-35 getting boned during this mythical exercise? No other agencies? Denis Jensen is a well known F-22 proponent through and through. He simply does not believe that anything but the F-22 should be bought, even if it means we retire our Pigs, Hornets, Orions, Hurcules, Hawks, Globmasters, etc so we can afford at least 20 of them. I think it's just an extension of his agenda. Plus, Liberal party back benchers are a bit special in the head...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/22/2371412.htm Um... huh?! There are several questions that arise from this: What's an F-13? (Czech Mig-21s??) Are F-13s flying at Red Flag? "F-35s were being outperformed by Russian aircraft..." so there are production model F-35s operating now? Since when areF-35s are performing at Red Flag? It's a shame, the ABC is normally a very good news agency.

Happy birthday lads!

By the way, that's exactly what's going to happen Luiz. The previous games will be patched up to the current standard (or is it up to the next WOI patch?). Either way, after the next patch, the entire series should be at the same patch standard. As for when, I couldn't tell you I'm afraid.

What's this story about Ubisoft looking to buy the license for the TW series?? Wings Over: Global Conflict?? Check out the article here.

Heh, me too, although it's invariably one of my wingmen who's miles away getting shot at! Tomcat, do you mean like the warning system in Jet Fighter: Full Burn where your defensive suite identifies and warns you of what type of AAM (IR or AH/SAHM) is fired at you?

Must be a yank thing. They seem to crash into water here. Then again, a lot of our airports are on or spitting distance from waterfronts.

Heard about this last night. Pretty nasty...

The hardpoints and model specific launch rails aren't transferable, but some of the racks can be, ie, the APU_62 2IR rack. I think it's only MER,TER and the twin racks or whatever is in the weapons directory.

"5'7"?? I DIDN'T KNOW THEY STACKED S**T THAT HIGH!"

Oddly enough, I get that same problems with the Yak-141, not the Mirage 2000D. Does the Mirage level out when you let the controls go dead?

Where was that Spectre?

Still looking good too!

Hot on the heels of this nugget of news today came this. I mean, way to go with snatching defeat from the claws of victory! Apparently Spore is now well on the way to being the most pirated game in history! Of 2100 posted reviews on Amazon.com, 92% are 1 star scores, all due to the digital rights management policies EA has instituded with this release. I really feel for the PR staff they have, because it's hard making bricks without mud, let alone straw! About the only good I can see coming from all this bad press is that other companies will be hesitant about going down this path for a little while yet (except for Valve probably ).

For me it was NFS 3 and the ability to add your own cars. I think I had about 150 at one point.

I just love that, as of midday Aust. CST, all of the 13 comments posted hated the idea of EA getting their grubbies on GTA! I think the popular consensus is that they would balls it up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of EA but I like a few of their titles, Zero Hour (CWC mod), BF2 (Australian Forces mod), Underground 2, although just about all of them are modded in one way or another. I just get the impression that if they did acquire the GTA series it'd be like watching them take something like CoD 4 and tarting it out to be like somebland BF2 clone. Whatever happened to the EA of my misspent youth that produced quality titles like Road Rash, Jungle Strike, Mutant Hockey League, FIFA international Soccer...? (sigh)...

'fraid not.

We can breathe a bit easier now... http://www.news.com.au/comments/0,23600,24...5014117,00.html

Yeah, that's where I thought I scored mine...

Try grabbing here or have another look at column5, the FRS. 51 is there. But the link to the campaign also has the IA-58 Pucara too.

Patience dude. With the WOx series, get your hands dirty first. Fly the planes around for a week or so, so you get the feel of the sim. You'll answer the majority of your smaller questions by having a play around with it and figuring out what to do when, etc. It's a really easy sim to get into and pretty forgiving compared to the likes of LOMAC. That said, welcome to CA dude! ps. Like Caesar said, the swing wings are all automatic in this series. They move relative to your airspeed. :yes:

Happy Bday Mr. Fixer!! Have a good one champ!