randomness

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

Sared,
Please sleep sir. Please?

[Sared]

I did; I sleep on Sundays.

[Tecknik]

Not nearly as cool as the Hello Kitty AR15.

[likwidtek]

*shudder*

[Tecknik]

New drivers from Nvidia.  No mention of any improvements for SWTOR.

http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/nvidia-geforce-295-73-whql-drivers-released

[Fuse]

How far do you get?

[likwidtek]

There are so many times where I want to sing this song to people.

[Sared]

For those of you that have heard me rant about a little game called Bastion, and happen to use Google Chrome, the folks over at Supergiant have released a demo of Bastion as a Google Chrome extension. It's a short game (maybe 4-5 hours tops to beat), well-crafted, and worth checking out just to hear the wonderful narration.

[Fuse]

So the other week i bought an RC helicopter... It's my first. I bought way over my head, but it's how I usually do things. I was at least wise to buy something that would be relatively easy and cheap to repair - sure glad I did.
I wasn't trying to fly it - i was just trying to spool it up and make sure it worked fine, but it got away from me and I hit stuff...

Things I broke in the first hour after getting this:
Top frame mount
Tailboom mount
Main gear (stripped in some places)
One ball linkage
Rotors
Stripped servos (expected to do this, as it came with cheap plastic ones)

Got my parts in today and it took me about 2 hours to fix it up. Again, I'm new to this so it's the first time I've worked on an RC this intricate, but I love engineering things and learning them.
The only part I still have to get are new metal gear servos, so I wont bother flying this thing until at least then.

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

Man, if I had extra cash to blow, one of those is where it'd go right after a new PC.

I bought a cheap, small apache one that worked great for a while, but now spins constantly in circles. Having one with some metal parts would be awesome.

[Tecknik]

http://kotaku.com/5887987/star-wars-the-old-republic-players-average-at-least-four-hours-per-session-love-sundays

"When they play, their sessions are absurd," Greg Zeschuk, head of BioWare Austin, the studio leading continued development of the game told me during a recent interview. "What it implies is that we've managed to pull off this 'just-one-more-quest, just-one-more-thing' feeling. I find myself doing that all the time. I just get sucked back in. The playing of the game is off the charts."

YES!  This was me last night at 2:00AM when I've got to be at work at 8:00AM, asking in TS what a fast way to get 30k XP so I can hit the next level before going to sleep.

[Fuse]

There are some pretty amazing options now for ~$100. I've even seen a deal for a mini 6ch (can fly upside down) with a nice Tx for about $160: http://www.xheli.com/walkeraheli-geniuscp-devo7-rtf-24g.html
Mine one cost me about $160 initially, and I've so far put about another $150 into it with parts and accessories.

In hindsight, I should have gotten the one I linked. It's smaller and lighter, meaning less likely to break, and it has a nicer Tx (that's where most of the cost to it are). Only downside is that it would be a bit more work to fly outside. Heavier helis aren't affected by wind as much.

[Ketamininja]

Get a camera mount if ya can.. far better flying it in first person mode..

[Tecknik]

Get a camera mount if ya can.. far better flying it in first person mode..

http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/

Camera built-in.  Fly it with your smartphone.

[Fuse]

Get a camera mount if ya can.. far better flying it in first person mode..

Baby steps...

1. Learn to hover
2. Learn to fly
3. Learn to fly well
4. Add a camera, like http://www.hobbypartz.com/86p-988-dice-minicam.html

As far as FPV as you mention... I'm not sure if that's #5 or #10. bt it certainly isn't at the top of my list.