Bartimaeus

Hm. Yeah, I'm just not totally sure how true that sentiment actually is - at least, on the scale you're implying. For very small number increases, it's going to be hard to notice a difference either way...but personally, I prefer the greater chance rather than greater damage: though mathematically it all evens out in the end, on a more micro-scale (e.g. a single combat encounter), I prefer a more consistent and predictable output, which means I prefer the greater chance to score a critical hit rather than the greater damage.

Are they bringing the works of art to museums or something, at least? Like Guard Dog said, some of these folks weren't necessarily bad people - Robert E. Lee certainly deserves great respect - so it would be a shame if the works just disappeared into the night. (e): Pidesco already answered this, whoops: yes, they will be.

Unless there's a hidden submenu somewhere I've never seen (...I'm pretty sure there isn't), yep, that's it.

Sorry to hear that, majestic. Preventable deaths are some of the worst...

Works fine for me.

The claims to be the 3rd Rome were based on the Tsar's claims of inheritance based on his marriage to the niece of the last Emperor and Muscovy's status as the most powerful Orthodox state. Yeah, I know. Still doesn't make it Rome. :|

(for context, Comey said he would only testify if it were public)

...realistically speaking, I'm not gonna upgrade from my 4770k until I actually need to, which is probably going to be in like 3-5 years...

I refuse to play games based on silly things sometimes, so I don't know. For example, though I think the gameplay looks like fun, I'm just gonna have to straight up refuse to play a game called "Immortal Redneck". The game has a nice setting (Egyptian pyramids, from what I saw), decent-looking gameplay...but you play as an immortal...redneck? I mean, come on, guys - I just can't do that. Meanwhile, a few of my friends got into Overwatch a while back and I refused just on the basis of the character design of literally almost every single character being just absolutely totally atrocious. I just don't have the motivation to get into a game where the presentation seems so bad - got other stuff to do.

I don't really like talking about Owlboy, because I hate to only faintly praise a game, but it's what's appropriate for it. Awesome pixel-art graphics, but overall just a decent/solid game, not much more. Nothing of the story, dialogue, or gameplay is bad, but none of it is really that good, either - just decent.

Shady, before you do anything rash, I have a number I'd like you to call. Give it a try - they're very nice people, and I'm positive that they can help you with your problem. Trust me, it gets better.

Yeah, if I started rejecting publications (or any other source of news) because of that, I'd have no sources of news left in approximately the time it takes me to cross off every single source of news I currently have, including this forum.

Humble Indie Bundle 18 is now live. Includes Owlboy at $13.

...was that in a copy+pasted or a response to somebody? Maybe he just didn't notice that he included the original poster's name.

It seems like s13ep is just plagiarizing his posts from somebody on deviantart, anyways. Doesn't even share the same birthday. http://cmspdr.deviantart.com/ Incredible to think that there may be at least TWO people out there who think that this word salad actually makes any sense or means anything.

Oh man, I WISH it was.

You don't know us, everyone could all suddenly start getting along instead. ...Yeah, never mind.

Yep, see, I knew I probably missed something - 200 titles is a lot to skim and not miss something, . And yeah, I'm sure there's probably stuff in there that I could appreciate...I mean, with 200 albums of varied tastes, it'd be hard not to, right? Yeah, it was me. But now you know even MORE about my musical tastes! Fancy that, huh? But yeah...men vocalists I generally feel less extreme about than women vocalists - positively and negatively. Women vocalists I don't like will drive me utterly mad, while male vocalists will generally just reach the level of "I don't like this very much and would prefer to stop listening to it"...but the women vocalists that I do like I tend to like a lot.

The bigger names that are my favorite vocalists: Emiliana Torrini(!), China Forbes (of Pink Martini), Beth Gibbons (of Portishead), and...um, hmm, David Byrne (of Talking Heads/himself). I guess it's a little more than just five or so, really, as there's also a few smaller names, too, though, from artists most nobody has ever heard of and that you can't really listen to unless you actually physically own their stuff (->me). Most of the artists that I listen to I'm actually just merely "okay" with - VNV Nation, Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, They Might Be Giants, Depeche Mode, etc. It's more that their voices don't actively bother me than that I really like them all that much. Instrumental music is mostly fine - definitely subject to less arbitrary dislike than music with vocals. There are a few things that still bother me, though, and the usual suspects are brass instruments and electric guitars - however, the latter is obviously extremely varied in its usage, and so that's kind of hit or miss, too.

Well, like I said, I just plain don't like the majority of vocalists. Nothing to do with any sort of "quality" or the lack thereof - I just have an irrational hatred for most singing voices (misophonia). When I hear a singing voice that I like, it's a pretty huge deal to me - I ALWAYS check out a decent portion of the rest of their music to determine whether they'll become one of my "favorite" artists. It's not always meant to be, but I can forgive (or acquire a taste for) a lot if they're a singer that I like. The reason I haven't checked out the rest of those more "known"/popular artists is, sure, I know of them and have heard a few songs, but I didn't really care for what I heard, so yeah, I haven't listened to their albums. For most of my life, I really have not liked music much at all. I liked just a little bluegrass (think I'll Fly Away by the Kossoy Sisters) (e: and a little swing like the Andrew Sisters, now that I think of it) that my mom would play to put me to sleep as a baby/toddler, and some classical music (probably thanks to watching Disney movies like Fantasia and Sleeping Beauty many times, again, as a baby/toddler...), and of course, video game music - note that these last two don't really have much singing in them: that's not happenstance. It was only in my late teens that I finally found a singer that I liked. Nowadays, I have probably about 5 singers that I really like, and maybe 10-15 more whom I'm 'just' fine with...while I actively dislike the majority of everyone else. It sucks to be this picky, as majestic said,

Yeah, vocalists are the most important thing for me, too. And unfortunately, I just straight up don't like the majority of vocalists, and so I don't like the majority of music.

Snake Pass. ...It's a platformer where you play as a literal snake. No, really: http://store.steampowered.com/app/544330/Snake_Pass/ It's actually pretty decent, and not actually as hard as I thought it would be (...although note that I have played both Octodads and a little of Surgeon Simulator already). I'm about halfway through (and having found everything). Worth $20? ...Yeah, if you like this sort of thing.

We're not exactly seeing people get straight up murdered or bombed or...very often over here*, either, though. If there was an "Awesome Murders/General Violence" thread, I imagine it'd probably get shut down sooner or later, too, *And when we do, it's usually tangential to another topic...

There's generally a certain level of professionalism and cleanliness expected from an official developer's forums. I think it's obvious as to why that thread would cross that boundary. ...Now as to why the perpetual pissing matches in the political threads don't receive that same level of scrutiny and judgement, that I am less sure of...

I might've missed something, but I believe I've listened to exactly one album out of those 200, and it's the one The Residents album, .