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https://twitter.com/PFT_Live/status/890192337695068160 Lucky Whitehead sat across from Coach Garrett and said "Coach you gotta believe me, I did not do this." Coach said, "I do not believe you." ouch

From what I've heard from other Cowboys fans, he was kind of a fringe player with a nasty streak of fumblitis, and was likely to be cut anyways. I don't understand why teams don't ever have more strongly worded press releases, like, "We've heard about (controversy) with (player), and if it turns out to be true, they will be cut from the team. For the time being, we're waiting to hear more by allowing the justice system to do its job." Instead, it's always crap like this, or nonsense like, "We've heard about it, and we're monitoring the situation." That doesn't tell anyone anything about what you plan to do or your values as an organization.

Trump's new director of communications, Scaramucci, is an...interesting fellow, to say the least.

Was the term "net neutrality" coined by a bunch of scumbag politicians, though?

Psh, not really a scam - more exploiting, if anything. Here I was thinking this was going to be Amazon fixing their rental/textbook encryptions or something, which have been broken for some time...but uh, I guess it's the opposite: Amazon continuing to do nothing.

Your steamcommunity custom url. Like mine: http://steamcommunity.com/id/tale You can actually change it when editing your profile. Some jerk has had "Bartimaeus" for as long as I've been on Steam (...which is almost as long as you). I occasionally check to see if he's changed it, but no luck so far. (e): Uh, why isn't "bastard" censored? I mean, I guess it has non-cussing uses, but so do others...

I would assume it's one of the customized ones, one that somebody clearly wants...although I'd be hesitant to make that trade without a (trusted) third party handling the money. Unless Tale meant they'd literally (physically) mail the money, which then I'd say you'd have to receive the money first...and maybe make sure that it's not counterfeit,

Thanks for sharing the story. ...On an almost totally unrelated tangent, I wonder when exactly Seuss came up with that quote. I hope it was before 1967.

I...honestly can't recall that. Now I want to see...

it ain't sodding censored, innit?

Oh boy, will you ever! Ever so simple to deal with as soon as you know what to do, it may be a highly frustrating experience when you meet them for the first time. I actually ran straight past them the first time I met them, but on a subsequent playthrough was not so lucky, and died way too many times.

Yeah, as I understand it, sorceries are considered to be the "easy" mode for Souls games, because there's a lot less technical mastering of the gameplay mechanics required. I've never played a sorceries build (the style of combat is just not really for me...even on my NG7 run, I still stayed at around level 100 instead of leveling up any further so that I could still play PVP)...so I can't really confirm that for sure, but that is my understanding.

It's not meant to change anything, perhaps besides myself. First and foremost, it's a warning to myself not to bother reading their posts, for the most part, particularly if it's in the thread (or other threads like it) that originally made me want to ignore them to begin with. For example, someone I put on ignore due to some ridiculous things that they said in a political thread, I might instead be willing to look at their posts in a gaming-related thread, until/unless they demonstrate that those shouldn't be read, either. Secondly, if I do read their post, it's meant to serve as a warning to not reply to them unless I think it'll be a totally non-argumentative discussion and I actually want to. In other words, some people on my ignore list are essentially "partial" ignores, while others are "total" ignores, if that makes sense. Them being on my ignore list helps remind myself *why* I put them there to begin with, and puts me in a better position to go about my day without giving another thought to their posts after seeing that they are there or even after reading them.

I don't think I have ever seen those people. I take it they only post in the sections dedicated to obsidian games I don't play (anything other than Alpha Protocol) ? I don't frequent the game forums, so no. A couple were because they only post in political threads and make my eyes roll every time I read something by them, while most of the rest were because they can't string together sentences in anything even remotely approaching coherence (note: generally not related to any language barriers, because while everyone may not know English all too well, basic ideas still generally translate O.K., even if all the details don't). I think most of them are inactive these days, though, hence why you probably don't remember them (some of them were only around for a couple of months before disappearing). I'm pretty trigger-happy (i.e. impatient) with new users who immediately make poor impressions, sadly. *Also, I should clarify: the above only applied to the ones I actually made visible in the video (as you may have noticed, the top and middle of the list were not visible in the video, and nevermind the second page).

It sure would be nice if we could get politics out of our "funny things" thread. I'm here to see funny things, folks! (e): and this is not directed specifically at you, Volourn, but rather just the types of things that people - and not just Raithe, I'm not trying to single you out, either, especially seeing as you do post other non-political stuff in here - have been posting more and more of lately.

For PC parts (including mouses and keyboards and headphones), when in doubt, check PCPartPicker's price history. For example, the Razer Naga Chroma mouse is a currently highlighted "Prime Day Deal" for $40, so you can check its page on PCPP, and see that BestBuy recently dropped their price for it to $40, and Amazon seems to have matched it for today. You can also set the price history to go back 2 years, and you can see that $40 is the lowest it's ever been. So not too bad of a deal if that's what you wanted (...although Razer mice are pretty infamous for being more marketing than actual decent products, and I have a pretty low opinion of their mice for being pretty unreliable), but it's probably a good idea to check stuff, if you can, before you assume it's actually a sale. There used to be a more general tracker that outside of just PC parts, called PriceZombie, but it's no longer extant. PCPP also doesn't do video games, .

Yeah, Prime Day is pretty noted for being more of a marketing event rather than an actual sales event. That's not to say there won't be a couple of things you're interested in, but on the whole, it's really not much of a sale. It's certainly no Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

Hey, it's the only way to stay sane when you decide to post 10-15 single sentence posts all at once.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/r123qm0207nb4z9/2017-07-11_14-45-09.mp4

In DS1, Pyromancer is the preferred "universal" class, due to it having the best stats vs. level. Additionally, pyromancy itself is stat-free outside of attunement slots, so the fact that you start out with a pyromancer hand right at the beginning makes it even more powerful. Realistically, you can build your pyromancer any way you want - combat or magic, it's still all around best option to play, particularly as a beginner. How fortuitous that Katphood chose to start with it. In regards to the weapons, what that actually is is called "poisebreak". Different types of armors, and different types of creatures, have different poise levels - if you have so much poise, you can resist so much poise-breaking, which basically means you resist getting staggered. Larger weapons, and crushing weapons, tend to have more poise-break than smaller and edged weapons, though it varies from weapon to weapon.

Yeah, not sure. In other news, there will apparently be no more Viagra or Cialis commercials during football games! Hoorah! Not for the NFL's lack of trying, though - it was decided by those companies themselves. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/07/10/nfl-broadcasts-lose-viagra-cialis-as-major-advertisers/

Verisimilitude is a good word to use. When I first played it, Stalker worked for me. It did not work for other people that I know, though - with various complaints of the damage of weapons and especially accuracy being off. I understood why: trying to use a knife to stealth-kill everyone in the first bandit park is quite possibly more enjoyable than trying to use the vanilla Makarov to do it instead (...and stealth, and the knife, are both quite wonky in Stalker). God help you if you try to use the sawn-off shotgun instead - the gun that makes you think the AI is cheating every time they hit you with it because there's no way you could ever hit them. It's painful to use early weapons, and it's only once you start getting into the higher end weapons that they start approaching how you might expect a gun to actually perform (...and even then, bullet velocity and drop is still much worse than it should be). As for the names of weapons, as I understand it, that's for licensing purposes (devs did not want to pay for the rights to use the real weapon names). As for the sense of progression...I think having decent gunplay that the player can enjoy is more important than any sense of progression, personally. Don't want people to quit your game because you made your MP5, a tried-and-true powerful (and historic!) submachine gun, a ridiculous inaccurate pea-shooting piece of garbage. If you want to use an AK or an Abakan (the Abakan is usually my favorite gun in so-called 'realistic weapon' mods for the Stalker series, alongside the SIG 550), then I think you should able to. The vanilla Stalker versions are just awful, though.

Bringing a gun to a waterpark, and then reaching for and displaying it just feet away from police...and without giving any warning. Not exactly the smartest move, Mr. Washington. http://www.wkbw.com/sports/bills/bills-dl-adolphus-washington-arrested-on-weapons-charge I'm just glad no-one was shot.

Sweet baby Moses, Interplay/Black Isle and BioWare were disastrously incompetent at record-keeping. None of the original assets of these games were preserved, and now they don't even have the source code anymore? There'll never be any possibility of a real sound re-mastering or a real resolution/graphical upgrade for any these games because of their total incompetency, unless one were to start over from scratch. I would've expected at least BioWare to properly preserve the BG assets, but no - at least they kept their source codes, though, unlike Interplay.