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8/10 from me. Loved the entire movie except for the ending. I had a whole group of teenagers sitting in front of me and at the end they all pretty much said in unison "that was stupid". Ah, well. Everything else was pretty good.

Bah! I haven't seen it yet but I think I'd give it a 6/10 just for having Jessica Alba in a skin tight outfit in t.

Thanks SC, I figured out what was going wrong. I installed the game and just wanted to try out some instant action in "easy" mode since I didn't have time to drag out the old Falcon 4 binder manual and re-figure out how to target air and ground targets again. There is something screwed up with the easy avionics and changing targets. When you switch targets you get the buffer over run CTD if the target you are switching to is either just leaving the radar screen or has just been destroyed. Using the realistic targeting works fine and I haven't had a single CTD since. Also note that using 4xAA with an Nvidia card (maybe others) causes the opening movie and game menu to start with a blank screen. 2XAA and 8xAA work fine though. Whew, I think I would have spent less time dragging out the manual than wading through all this stuff. At least its working now.

quote: Originally posted by LostInSpace: Do you have the latest direct X. I see in your profile you have Dx9b the current one is 9c. Also, make sure your video card drivers are up to date and most importantly scan your hard drive for any spyware etc.. Uninstall the game Then do a chkdsk and defrag on whatever drive you are installing the game to. Ah heck, do a check disk and defrag on all your drives if ya got em. I found out more than not once people do this (cleaning the hard drive and doing maintenance on it) solved their problems. Once you do all the hard drive stuff re-install the game and see what happens before ya give up on it. All of the above except defrag is done already. The hard drive is a new 200 gb and Falcon 4 is the only thing on it. I'm not giving up on it, just going to wait till patch one is out. My gaming time is limited and troubleshooting time even more so. I was so ready for this game too, sigh.

I'm getting nothing but buffer overrun CTD's. Shelving this one until a patch comes out.

Whoa!!! Hey Rattler, care to take a retirement cruise around the galaxy with me?? Good to hear from you old friend.

quote: Originally posted by Remo Williams: Congrats Mordax, and Eclipse!! Does this mean you'll be taking the lead position in Team Spectre now Eclipse for MP? Just noticed your sig says retired Andergum hows the retirement plan with the Insurgents anyway? I've been meaning to ask the SC what us old timers retire on in GalCom for when he puts me out to pasture. Its probably just going to be a kick in the arse as I go out the airlock Well I'm not sure what the retirement plan holds for me, but I got my ship stocked with enough food and Empirian ale to last quite a while. Right now I'm just going to fly around the galaxy a bit, do the exploring I've always wanted to.

Congrats and good luck!!

Due to real life time constraints I have been unable to contribute to the Insurgent cause as much as I have in the past or as much as I would like to or should do now. As others have stepped forward, I feel more and more that it is time to step aside to make room for those who have contributed so much over the past years and especially since MP began. I hereby relinquish command of Eversor Fleet to enter retirement effective as soon as Vice Admiral Chavik and Vice Admiral Shohashi have promoted a replacement. I will remain with the fleet afterwards in an advisory capacity or in any other as deemed necessary. Vice Admiral Andergum signing off...

Pretty good episode BTW. Its good to see the Doctor back in action.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6981361/ "A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water......"

It works!!! Reporting in....

Still here.

Huge loss... About of half of all the actors in Hollywood owe their careers to Johnny. There will never be another like him. Thanks for the memories Johnny...

http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/fantast...ic_four_480.mov

The Fantastic 4 trailer will be showing on Jan 14 at the Electra premier. I've seen a few sites where they had it up already but had to pull it for legal reasons. Would anyone happen to know where I might find it?? Can't wait for this movie, The Fantastic 4 were always some of my favorite superheros. [ 04-28-2005, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

I agree. Totally loved it!!

I'm still here lurking. Hopefully I'll get some time over the holidays to get back into some gaming.

quote: Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by Fox__Trot: Yay the sc plugged ign.com uhm, no, I plugged the game. And yeah, I wish they'd make another Space Quest about Roger Wilco, our hapless space hero. Oh man, I'm getting this feeling nostalgia as I type this. Space Quest was the absolute best. Hmmm... I'm feeling a bit older all of a sudden.

I just saw it and I loved it. I'm so ronrey......

Here and lurking as always.

quote: Originally posted by Grizzle: Come on Jag, where have you been? This is not the only example! BUSH: I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it. Listen to it and then ask yourself if he answered the question. I watched that press conference live and was absolutely floored at how poorly Bush handled that question. I kept asking myself how someone with such poor speaking/question answering skills could ever become president. Bush has had fewer press conferences than any other president in modern times and this is the reason why. He sucks at answering unplanned or unscripted questions. I don't know how good Kerry is at this kind of stuff but it is Bush's worst quality IMO. You can bet that the candidates will know exactly what questions will be asked of them by the media at the debates because I'm sure its scripted and I'm sure that Bush's handlers wouldn't have agreed to the debates otherwise. I'm hoping that the other candidates will have tough questions for each other. For the record I don't like either Bush or Kerry and will probably vote libertarian in disgust this election.

This is really sad IMO. CBS and Dan Rather have totally lost all credibility with this. It is so obviously a forgery that I don't believe they had an "expert" look at or verify the documents at all. Then again, Al Gore says he invented the internet, maybe he secretly had MS word running on a computer in 1973. hmmmm

I just got this via email. All I can say is OUCH! quote: Bring it on, John Oliver North August 27, 2004 "Of course, the president keeps telling people he would never question my service to our country. Instead, he watches as a Republican-funded attack group does just that. Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: 'Bring it on.'" -- Sen. John Kerry Dear John, As usual, you have it wrong. You don't have a beef with President George Bush about your war record. He's been exceedingly generous about your military service. Your complaint is with the 2.5 million of us who served honorably in a war that ended 29 years ago and which you, not the president, made the centerpiece of this campaign. I talk to a lot of vets, John, and this really isn't about your medals or how you got them. Like you, I have a Silver Star and a Bronze Star. I only have two Purple Hearts, though. I turned down the others so that I could stay with the Marines in my rifle platoon. But I think you might agree with me, though I've never heard you say it, that the officers always got more medals than they earned and the youngsters we led never got as many medals as they deserved. This really isn't about how early you came home from that war, either, John. There have always been guys in every war who want to go home. There are also lots of guys, like those in my rifle platoon in Vietnam, who did a full 13 months in the field. And there are, thankfully, lots of young Americans today in Iraq and Afghanistan who volunteered to return to war because, as one of them told me in Ramadi a few weeks ago, "the job isn't finished." Nor is this about whether you were in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968. Heck John, people get lost going on vacation. If you got lost, just say so. Your campaign has admitted that you now know that you really weren't in Cambodia that night and that Richard Nixon wasn't really president when you thought he was. Now would be a good time to explain to us how you could have all that bogus stuff "seared" into your memory -- especially since you want to have your finger on our nation's nuclear trigger. But that's not really the problem, either. The trouble you're having, John, isn't about your medals or coming home early or getting lost -- or even Richard Nixon. The issue is what you did to us when you came home, John. When you got home, you co-founded Vietnam Veterans Against the War and wrote "The New Soldier," which denounced those of us who served -- and were still serving -- on the battlefields of a thankless war. Worst of all, John, you then accused me -- and all of us who served in Vietnam -- of committing terrible crimes and atrocities. On April 22, 1971, under oath, you told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that you had knowledge that American troops "had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam." And you admitted on television that "yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed." And for good measure you stated, "(America is) more guilty than any other body, of violations of (the) Geneva Conventions ... the torture of prisoners, the killing of prisoners." Your "antiwar" statements and activities were painful for those of us carrying the scars of Vietnam and trying to move on with our lives. And for those who were still there, it was even more hurtful. But those who suffered the most from what you said and did were the hundreds of American prisoners of war being held by Hanoi. Here's what some of them endured because of you, John: Capt. James Warner had already spent four years in Vietnamese custody when he was handed a copy of your testimony by his captors. Warner says that for his captors, your statements "were proof I deserved to be punished." He wasn't released until March 14, 1973. Maj. Kenneth Cordier, an Air Force pilot who was in Vietnamese custody for 2,284 days, says his captors "repeated incessantly" your one-liner about being "the last man to die" for a lost cause. Cordier was released March 4, 1973. Navy Lt. Paul Galanti says your accusations "were as demoralizing as solitary (confinement) ... and a prime reason the war dragged on." He remained in North Vietnamese hands until February 12, 1973. John, did you think they would forget? When Tim Russert asked about your claim that you and others in Vietnam committed "atrocities," instead of standing by your sworn testimony, you confessed that your words "were a bit over the top." Does that mean you lied under oath? Or does it mean you are a war criminal? You can't have this one both ways, John. Either way, you're not fit to be a prison guard at Abu Ghraib, much less commander in chief. One last thing, John. In 1988, Jane Fonda said: "I would like to say something ... to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm ... very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families." Even Jane Fonda apologized. Will you, John?