Bartimaeus

They aren't deleted - for example, the previous movie thread where the trailer was shown is still around, it's just not in the thread list. I'm not sure in which thread it would be then, since I looked at both the "Nerdgasm" and "Movie" threads for all your posts, and you said you made those comments closer to release, which would be this thread, since the last comment I quoted from you was near the end of the previous movie thread.

I was curious, so here are the three posts our good friend SonicMage had on the subject of the Solo movie: ​ (can't quote due to age): "The new Han Solo movie looks meh. Seems like peoplw don't really care about old Han Solo anymore so I'm wondering how it will do compared to the likes of Rogue One in sales." ​ ​In his mind, this constituted him predicting that Solo would fail. To his credit, Hurlshot and Volourn expressed disbelief that a Star Wars movie could fail, while I (for example), would later say, "...The Solo movie? The one that looks like the worst one yet (excepting the prequels) that also had a media circus for its problems? ...Yeah, don't be too optimistic there." And then we spent an entire page of the thread making fun of Star Wars and how downhill it all seemed to be going. ​ ​​ ​ ​Yes, that's definitely what happened.

I imagine that's because the whole thing was made by politicians who don't understand how the internet works.

Yep. Well, sort of. IIRC, Demon's Souls is the major test/milestone they're working on (no surprise - lots of Soulsborne fans in a similar position to myself who want to play it), so it's the title that works best (so far, AFAIK). The other major exclusives will no doubt get better in time, too (if they haven't/aren't already).

I don't have a PS3 anymore, unfortunately, and I didn't know about Demon's Souls when I had one. However, I can emulate it on PC, but haven't really dedicated myself to playing through it yet, so I've held off for the time being (that, and its performance isn't perfect...but it was pretty darned good some months ago). Looking forward to playing it sometime soon.

...Yeah, IIRC, it's basically impossible to find on your own. I surely did not on my first playthrough - but it proved very useful on NG+, especially on my NG7 SL1 run.

Ring of Fog makes him a joke, too, since his minions won't aggro. When you beat the final boss, you immediately go to NG+ - so I would suggest doing the DLC before that.

Yeah, I got through season 1 and was basically thinking that hey, it was getting sort of interesting and maybe this won't be so bad if the characters just grow a bit. And then Amon disappeared (though I have a feeling that's not the end of him) and Korra instantly got her bending back after two seconds, which gave the season a pretty poor bookend. Now I'm halfway through season 2 and Bolin seems to already be flanderized, Mako continues to be a grey blank slate that which nothing sticks to, Korra is back to completely ignoring the word of her friends while constantly being angry (her boyfriend literally tells her straight up that hey, I saw firebenders attacking this building, and she's just like nope, waterbenders did it - what is this writing?). I am more interested in Tenzin's family vacation (that so far seemingly has no relevancy) than I am in any of the main characters or plot...that seems like a bad sign to me, but what do I know.

Has anyone seen the entirety of Legend of Korra? I recently re-watched The Last Airbender for the first time since it aired and rather enjoyed it, and decided I'd finally give Korra a chance. I am really, really struggling to get through it. I guess the base problem is that I'm finding Korra to be a rather dumb and insufferable main character, while the rest of the main cast are a rather dour, colorless lot on the whole. I've liked the side characters (e.g. Tenzin and his family) and the villains much more than the main characters. Does it ever get any better, because I'm not sure I can handle much more of "Korra gets angsty about anything and everything, never seems to trust the word of her friends and mentors, and then predictably get proven wrong over and over while never learning". She reminds me more of early season Zuko than anything else, except not nearly as interesting.

My cat died today. RIP Bart (coincidental name - I did not name him, and actually he's old enough to pre-date my usage of this name). You were the worst cat in the history of cats, but you were my worst cat. I recently re-calculated his age, and he was around 15-16 years old, which is a pretty decent age for a cat that's had as many chronic health issues as he had.

It totally depends on your needs and point of view. I have 500GB of SSD storage, which is about $200 for something decent these days (at least in the U.S.), and find that to be more than enough for my gaming needs. But I have about 20TB of non-SSD storage that I use for non-gaming purposes...so it really just depends on what you need.

I forget how that fight even goes. Only ever fought him once.

That's the kind of thing you write when you want people to put quotes of you in their signatures, only for the completely wrong reasons.

Would agree that 16GB is enough for most people...but for people who like to do stuff with Cheat Engine, Photoshop, VMs, etc., alongside their gaming (as I do), 32GB is becoming more and more of a requirement.

Heh, I saw that on my "related videos" on YouTube for some reason like last week, too, and figured what the heck, and listened to it for a few hours. It was...pleasant, for the most part. People should really take care to upload higher quality videos - it's not too difficult, either. This one isn't too bad, but my FLACs certainly sound better than this.

pretty meh also, wrong section also, wth is this crap

yeah, maybe it's just crappy writing for a series that got way too big for its britches past the original trilogy. terrible writing happens regardless of agenda (or lack thereof).

so charge them by the bite

IIRC, Satan is not the master of hell, but simply another one of its inhabitants. Don't think he has anything to do with punishments or anything of the sort, though it is a popular myth (but not based on any scripture, from what I recall). In fact, I believe the entire idea of "hell" is pretty fuzzy and ill-defined in the Bible to begin with. I remember more mentions of simply "the second death" (presumably perdition, but it's not perfectly clear) than anything about a hell.

Nah, I'm pretty sure he's Lawful Evil I think it would be difficult to wholly characterize Satan as either Lawful or Chaotic. Certain aspects of him (e.g. the Prosecutor) were obviously very lawful, but others (e.g. his role as the bringer of knowledge and the patron of the various different types of want-on sins and all the chaos that come with both) I would say rather seem the opposite. So I would think Neutral Evil is probably more fitting for him, as it encompasses his seemingly multi-faceted nature. (e): It also really depends on which Testament you're looking at, and possibly even from which book within those. God in the Old Testament would seem to be best characterized as Lawful Neutral (he was a real "my way or the highway down into a pillar of salt" type of guy), while in the New Testament, I would say he's more Neutral Good...so if Satan is supposed to be an opposite of sorts, then Neutral Evil seems like the best fit for the New Testament.

Yeah, I have arthritis in both of my wrists as well. I've even had surgery on one of them in an attempt to fix it, but it never heals. I look forward to 20-30 years from now when I'm dying from a host of auto-immune diseases, seeing as they tend to multiply as you get older.

Heart health can be so stupid for some people. My mom can't do anything to get her cholesterol down - they recommend that she does lots of exercise and eats healthy. She's virtually a vegetarian and her job makes her work on her feet every day *and* she works out on top of it, and of course avoids all the foods that are supposed to be bad for her cholesterol, but nothing she does seems to put a dent in it. Doing everything they keep telling her to do besides taking the terrible pills and none of it seems to do anything.

I've always thought learning how to parry in Dark Souls was kind of a waste of time for the most part, especially since the netcode in PVP is so janky that it makes it super difficult to rely on even if you get really good at it. The knights (both silver and black) and one other enemy you haven't come across yet so I won't say, however, are probably the one big exception. However, it's easier just to fish for backstabs on both of them and not bother, .

Yeah, it's pretty much agreed upon that playing any sort of magic on your first playthrough for a Soulsborne game is "easy mode". The only game I'd recommend that for personally is Dark Souls 2, but that's just because that game controls like such hot garbage that I can't blame anyone for struggling with it. But hey, if that's what you need to enjoy the game, so be it. Those crappy archers are infamous - the easiest way to deal with them is to just rush all the way up to the top, approach the one on the right and make him pull out his sword, and then start backing up (but not too much that he takes out his bow again) and then get him to fall off the edge when he tries to attack you. The first time I ever went through there, I did it without a problem...but the second time I went through, it took about 15-20 tries before I figured out what to do.

Well, I played the original game with M+KB, and it worked better there than the remaster did, which is not exactly a good sign for the quality of a remaster. Not that the original's inventory system was exactly a bundle of joy, either, but it was at least functional. Anniversary, when I played it, was borderline non-functional when it randomly refused to listen to keyboard commands and you'd have to repeatedly exit out and re-open to try again...and then sometimes it would do it again. Fun.