Deadly_Nightshade

What style(s) do you do?

I just picked up Killing Floor 2!

Woo! Congratulations and good luck making it official.

Sadly that character is dead but his stats were something like this: Diplomacy: 7 Martial: 21 Stewardship: 9 Intrigue: 29 Learning: 10 Because Genius is one of the most broken traits in the game with the +5 across the board.

Meh, I'd say the books were better but to each their own... Is anyone else playing the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II? It just got updated for 2.3.4 and seems to be a lot more stable than it was in the alpha of this build.

That's what alts are for!

I defeated the Kingslayer in a duel!

The time limit is good (and you have an hour as is, how much longer do you need for simple edits to correct mistakes).

I started to go through my shelves of pen-and-paper games and cull the ones I would likely never actually play... Sigh... It's hard but something that had to be done.

The thing that people seem to be ignoring is that current anti-discrimination law already requires employers to accommodate reasonable requests by an employee, such as the ability to wear a headscarf or not draw Muhammad, as long as it does not cause undue expense, hardship, or directly interfere in the normal, everyday requirements of the job: “The law requires an employer to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices, unless doing so would cause difficulty or expense for the employer. This means an employer may have to make reasonable adjustments at work that will allow the employee to practice his or her religion, such as allowing an employee to voluntarily swap shifts with a co- worker so that he or she can attend religious services.” There's no need for an additional law, especially one as open-ended as this one. And, sure, ostensibly someone has to 'prove' that they had a sincerely held religious belief that would be burdened to discriminate, something that would not be too hard given the inordinately stupid amount of leeway already given by the government to people because of their religious beliefs, but that’s not reassuring and still leaves entirely too much room for abuse even taking a ‘litmus test of faith’ into account. For example, someone who believed that the Curse of Ham, Genesis 9:20–27, dictated that people of color, or really any group that is out of favor –it has been used to justify mistreatment of everyone from Jews to the poor to people of color-, be servants and slaves could refuse service because of that belief: “20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.” I’m not saying that this is an accurate interpretation of the verse, or that it is a common one, but there are people and organizations, ranging from the Klu Klux Klan to more, in theory, mainstream groups, who do espouse this belief: “The Appleby church, whose pastor could not immediately be reached for comment, proclaims a litany of racist beliefs on its website: The black descendants of Ham like fair-skinned women, of course. And ‘the proof of the presence of God among the Israelites was the absence of the black skinned folk of Canaan … It is obvious God is a separator, not a mixer. It is God who set the boundaries.’” Likewise there are people who would, based on similarly flawed beliefs, refuse to serve a wide array of groups. And that is confining yourself to the various Christian sects because they're the majority in the United States; add to this the innumerable other groups that could be included once you take into account other religions –e.g. a devout Hindu might refuse service to people who eat beef-, and you’re well into the realm of insanity.

This reminds me of a conversation I had about SB 1062 last year where I explained why laws like these are far worse than people realize – namely that they doesn’t just allow for discrimination against gays but it allows for discrimination against anyone (be it atheists, people of color, the left-handed, or the poor or disabled). If someone can show-horn discrimination into a religious belief system they’re covered and that’s a really frightening concept.

Actually, no, that's not true but it doesn't really matter as people censor things all the time (e.g. if you know your grandmother doesn't like swearing you might self-censor cursing while around her). It's still censorship.

I think you're wrong given the meaning of the word bedded: In-context only the informal meaning makes sense (especially considering the 'hero in bed' moniker given in the opening stanza).

Have you ever heard the expression 'too much of a good thing'? I think you might be taking the fanboi a bit far...

It was doing the same thing for me when I tried to upload a .jpg earlier tonight.

GoG! And Steam... But only because I realized that I had an extra copy that I had gotten for my Ex but, since she's my Ex, I might as well activate and use. GoG is always my first choice though.

As someone who used to have a laptop that used one, this card runs very hot under ideal situations so it's not surprising that you're getting high temperatures.

Are you using Steam or do you have the Tarball off of GoG?

That seems to be the case.

So, after running around the first area for a few minutes my average FPS was a steady 30-40 without tweaks. Not great but considering that this is an ultrabook and not my main gaming machine, as pitiful and in need of updating as that is it is still much more powerful than this laptop, I'll take it. EDIT: I also downloaded Skyrim for a comparison and at medium settings I'm getting around 60+ FPS, about double what you reported. I suspect that your CPU is the bottleneck here but one thing you could try is seeing if you can permanently set turbo boot (that should increase your 1.7 Ghz to 2.6 Ghz, or something along those lines but I think those were the numbers for your processor off the top of my head, and give you a bump in performance - that should be an BIOS setting and fairly easy to try out).

I suspect that the game has been updated since the Physical copies were shipped and Steam is downloading those updates.

You also have a weak CPU... But I'll soon be able to test this theory when the game finishes installing on my X230 and I'll be able to see how the HD 4000 runs when not paired with an ultra low voltage processor.

They basically don't issue them ever.