Bartimaeus

No - though I may enjoy cartoons, I am decidedly not an anime or manga person, . My scanning interests lie more in the realm of music and books.

That sounds pretty fair. The four biggest things probably are: 1. Scanning in images and editing them in Photoshop (at 1200dpi, even a single image is very memory hungry - at a 16GB limit, I usually had system stability issues when attempting to do this); 2. Memory editing; 3. Running virtual machines; 4. Running new emulators (the Switch, WiiU, and PS3 emulators are all very memory-hungry). I also very frequently have multiple browsers open while doing any and all of this, and I am often encoding stuff, along with anything else I might be doing.

Bet that feels nice. Still debating on when I want to upgrade to a Ryzen...anyone know if RAM prices are decent these days? Haven't been watching the market for a while, since nobody I know has been looking to upgrade. Don't feel like paying a trillion dollars for 32GB of DDR4 (and at this point, 32GB is my minimum since I was very frequently running into my limit when I used to be at 16GB).

Still happens sometimes, think it must depend on some fields being set on Facebook itself or something. Can see it here on Raithe's post in the first page:

I mean, if I'm the only one that has an issue with it, then it's probably just easier to stick with posting the Facebook direct links. It's way more trouble for all the people who do that (which is not just Raithe) than it is for me to work around it, .

All these Facebook memes/images you guys post never load for me. I think I have a container that prevents anything from a Facebook domain from loading if I'm not actually directly on a Facebook page or something. Probably for the best.

It looks so tacky.

I honestly don't know.

Intel coolers have always been quite terrible - doubt it's changed for the 10000 series, but I don't know for sure. Ryzen's won't get you much overclocking, but will be perfectly good otherwise. In terms of performance, it looks like they're roughly the same (although there's a lack of benchmarks available for the Intel chip, while the Ryzen has like a billion).

But I don't want to use their garbage software...

We all stand on the shoulders of giants who have sociologically, technologically, culturally, financially made our current lives possible, a great deal for the better but also unfortunately probably some for the worse. Perspective is always a good thing to have - though having it, I think, would also tell us that what we have is worth fighting for when other forces want to take away some of it or limit us in some other manner.

Yeah, especially because when I compare them to other Souls games, both Bloodborne and Demon's Souls had much better "boss protected by a lot of minor enemies" executions...in fact, I can even think of one in Dark Souls 3 that did it better. Dark Souls 2 is just kind of a funky game all around, haha.

Some of the boss designs in DS2 just...uh...aren't great. They could've had fun with a concept like this, but it really just comes across as kind of lazy and uninspired, haha.

What's weird is that it worked perfectly fine pre-update, but now anytime you use it, it does one or more of a few things: completely destroys ends of posts (whatever was after the spoiler), sometimes creates multiple nested spoilers, and makes it so you can't edit whatever you put in the spoilers so you can't even recover the text to attempt a re-try. Gosh, I wish BBCode mode was still be a thing. Plaintext is so much better than trying to manage stuff from what's essentially a public-facing editor.

Yeah, don't think you have anything to worry about in regards to selfishness, . It probably also doesn't help that we've also been kind of lousy at cleaning them up for you...this forum probably skews older than most, and I think most people know what they'll like a lot of the time and nobody has infinite time to try out a bunch of stuff they don't think they will. Now if you posted your list on a gaming forum on reddit or something instead, where you have a bunch of 13-16 year olds who will try anything, your list would probably be cleaned out in a few days, .

Maybe just link to an external like, pastebin or something?

Across several different forums that use this particular forum software and updated to the latest version within the past year or so, I've found that using the spoiler tag has destroyed every single post I've ever tried to use it on. I do not understand how you're supposed to use it - it always does something horrible to my posts when I try, sometimes multiple horrible somethings. HOWEVER, if you instead use the spoiler button on the actual post editor while selecting what you want spoilered, it usually works - no guarantees, but usually. I've just gotten so use to typing it out manually that I sometimes still forget to actually click the button instead.

...wait, is this you admitting that you've actually been a nazi this entire time, because that'd be the biggest reveal of 2020 so far

That's exactly what I was talking about. No hint of being able to do it, no real logical reason for the prompt to be where it is, and just kind of dumb in general.

That's the snake lady in the poison windmill, right? Since you asked for no spoilers, all I'll say is that it's considered one of the sorer points of the game design-wise, .

Oh yeah, I remember Lucatiel now that you mention it. She was probably the most memorable for non-annoying reasons. Unfortunately, among its many other issues, DS2 seemed to be lacking a lot of the customary Souls NPC goofiness/charm.

Are there any likable or memorable NPCs in Dark Souls 2 anyways? Can't remember anyone but the spammy Firekeeper (Ms. "Bearer, seek, seek, lest"...). @Skazz That's cool. Yeah, I thought they did a good job, and I enjoyed the minimalistic-but-well-written story. It helps that they nailed the length of the game - if this game had been ~12 hours like that other indie game I recently played, Underhero, I probably would've been dying by the end of it - conciseness in dialogue, plot, and gameplay with minimal fluff and repetition/recycling will almost always be welcomed by me. Also, something cool they did was have a bunch of unlockable bonus missions you can find throughout the main story missions, each with a particular theme (e.g. one is Holy Grail-inspired, another One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest out of all things, etc.) - doesn't make any difference for the main story, but if you were concerned the game wasn't long enough, well, there you go! Overall, a simple but well-made and very effective game.

Serial Cleaner, courtesy of @ShadySands. A very pleasant ~5-hour game (right about the time I like for simple-but-novel indie game concepts) about being hired by murderers to clean up dead bodies left behind while cops are patrolling the crime scene. Get in, avoid the cops, clean up, get out. Simple, but I thought pretty enjoyable and well-made for what it is. Thanks, Shady.

Unless you're a workaholic, the amount of lost time doing a job like that hardly ever ends up being worth it. I've got too many other things I need or want to do to willingly waste away all my waking hours for a job. Salary, especially if you're in anything computer related (IT, programming, whatever), is just about the worst thing you can sign on for if you expect to ever not be working. A work culture that expects you to always be over your hours or "you're not working hard enough" is one I'm going to jump ship from as soon as humanly possible.

It takes like two months for the new Congress to be sworn in after election day, don't think the Democrats could could hold it up nearly that long, right? Wow. There have been many cases over the years where somebody had something censored and where I was trying to figure out what 4-letter swear was supposed to go in its place, but none of the normal ones would make sense, so I could only conclude that they self-censored and put the wrong amount of asterisks in. That makes a lot more sense. Also, somebody should fix that.