Bartimaeus

I'm banking on that he DOESN'T become the next Aaron Rodgers, personally. On a side-note, if there was a "next Peyton Manning"-type prospect, it would have been much, much more expensive than what they paid to go up.

What the 49ers told the Bears was basically that if the Bears didn't trade up for our spot, somebody else will and they will also take your guy. I'm not sure if it was true, but either way, it clearly worked.

Or we don't try to make sense of it, and we talk about something else, possibly something just tangentially related!

No...but I'm not exactly the ideal person to be asking this, given that I'd describe my "preferences" as being anti-men while not feeling too strongly one way or another about women. That means women win by default, of course, but, you know, nevertheless, matters of physical attraction are really just not my forte here - however, the subject is still interesting to me, .

The Kinsey Reports (results and methodology) are likely more interesting than the scale itself, I think, since the scale (and all the others like it, as this wiki article itself mentions) are obviously totally arbitrary and meaningless in of themselves without data and good methodology to back it up. Thanks for the link. @Heijoushin: I understood that, and I still disagree. I don't think "most people" would say or even feel that they're even "slightly" or "2%" (or whatever) interested in people outside of their "first" preference, or that they have multiple, equal preferences. It's not clear how the Kinsey Reports feel about this, because while it says roughly 7-10% of people were 50/50 at some points in their life, I don't know how the Kinsey Report actually "judged" people to be 50/50, and I can't seem to find the percentage of people that fell anywhere from 1-5 (the 'tweeners) or again, how it was determined that they were a 'tweener to begin with. I'm not discounting the Kinsey Reports themselves, but it'd be nice to have additional/clearer information about the data and methodology.

Have to agree with Hurlshot here - the sliding scale/spectrum thing makes sense, but saying that "mostly everyone is somewhere in between" just doesn't seem to really figure for me. I don't think most people have a "small desire" (or greater than that) to "experiment" with those outside of their first preference on the basis of physical attraction...but they may do so anyways due to lack of better options and as a result of a desire for the other elements of a relationship. Additionally, I think this scale extends farther back than just from "no interest" to "absolute interest" - "no interest" people might eventually be pushed into a relationship outside their preference as a result of circumstance, but there are also people who feel more strongly (negatively) about it than just "no interest", and would never consider something outside of their preference no matter what - not now, not in a million years*. I'm not sure where on the scale the majority of people fall, but I think it'd be somewhat hard to believe that the majority of people have at least "some" physical interest in everyone - it certainly doesn't feel that way. Have there been any proper studies on the subject? *My bias may admittedly be showing in my feelings on the matter here, as I personally feel this way about those outside of my "preference".

You know, I've always wanted a savestate wrapper, that you could just attach to any game/program a la Cheat Engine, and where you could have hotkeys bound to saving and loading the RAM state (where it would obviously just pause the executable as you're saving and loading states similar to Cheat Engine's pause function). With the advent of SSDs, even games that take up a large amount of RAM (~4GB?), it would still only take a few seconds. This must be more complicated than I think it is, because nobody seems to have made it yet.

...I assume there's no pause function? Thank God for Cheat Engine, where you can just create a hotkey to pause and unpause the program.

Couldn't you just not let your AI co-driver drive? (No, I don't know anything about this game. )

Yeah, I watched this last time you posted this.

I tried to listen to them the last time you posted them (even though I don't really like metal), but it's just not for me, no matter how forward thinking or advanced they may have been for the time.

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XFX has kinda not great customer service anyways. It took them about a month and a half to check my video card for basic artifacting problems...and they no longer do the lifetime/double lifetime warranties anyways, so what's the point?

My sister died around half a year ago, but in some ways, this is harder than a sudden death - even one as awful as hers. It's...very unsettling. He's terrified, he's in pain, and feels totally incapable...he can't even walk or hardly talk anymore - and those are literally two of the things he loved most, moving around constantly and he's always been so very talkative - loved to talk to anyone about anything. Now, his lungs barely work and all he could do is just whisper a little...and silently cry. And then you look at him...and it's like he doesn't even look anything like himself. It's so different than a sudden death, which is just shocking and awful in a very different way, where there's nothing that can be said or done about it - it's over and done with, and that's that. For this, it's like...they're still here, they're still alive, they're still thinking about things, and they can still appreciate your presence - can love it, actually...but they're dying, and can't even communicate - certainly nothing like they're accustomed to. No memories or stories they want to tell to make sure are remembered, no real last words of insight...just a simple appreciation that you're here with them at that moment, because who knows when the next time you'll see them is, or what complications the next day will hold - if they even make it that far. Just stuck in a bed, locked there by their own physical incapability, and in pain... Makes it hard to leave - you want to be with them the entire time...but you can't. It's ghastly stuff, death. Truly ghastly. (e): And yeah, chemotherapy is truly awful in of itself. He nearly died from trying it - they didn't really think it would help due to his cancer's advanced state, but they figured, eh, what the heck, might as well try. He went from having an expected lifespan of 1-2 years, they said, to almost just a few weeks instead, and that one may still come true. Really awful. Thank you both for the well-wishes...as well as to anyone else sending positive thoughts my way. Cherish the people important to you - life's too short and ends much too suddenly to do anything else.

I drove many hours to see my terminally ill grandfather. It was difficult to see him in his state (rounds of chemo that quite literally nearly killed him, and may still do so in the next couple of days as he tries to recover from it so that he can live at least, you know, a few months more, at the very least), but I feel I would've regretted it for the rest of my life if I hadn't.

looks too easy for me [/s]

In regards to the "there are Steam games that don't require Steam except for the initial installation" - yeah, those have been around for years and years now, but it's up to the dev/publisher, and is not really any kindness of Steam/Valve (except for allowing them to do it, I guess).

We actually had a Steam thread already, it's just that it was a few pages down since nobody had posted it in a while.

I think it's a little harsh. I'm no fan of his, and I get the point, but while he's prone to being a raving lunatic, he often brings up subjects that others aren't willing to help get the ball rolling, which I appreciate. And other times, he just takes the most ridiculous and inane stances that really make you wonder what the heck was going through his head. The issue of playing a character, I suppose...

I seriously doubt any lawyer would ADVISE that. This almost certainly didn't happen anyways, and it's all just coincidence, but you could ask something like, "What's the best way that I can protect my family...what do I have to do, I'll do anything at all, because they're the only ones that matter to me right now?", and, well, if you were in that state of mind, I could see the possibility being indirectly mentioned (i.e. saying "well, if your crimes were vacated, your family would have a much better chance at escaping a civil case", which the obvious question would be, "well, how do I vacate them", to which the reply would be, "...well...")

So from that, is the implication that either he knew that fact on his own or someone close to him or his lawyers advised him to commit suicide?? Yes, seems a little contrived, doesn't it? But I suppose it's possible that it's something he learned and it just sorta became a goal in the back of his head as soon as...well, actually, as soon as both cases were on appeal, because if it works for one of the murders, it works for two, right? ...Yeah, seems contrived.

Interestingly, because he died during his appeal for the other murder, his crimes are now considered legally void. https://twitter.com/deancoyne/status/854651898930110464 Apparently, a murderer, but not a convicted murderer. From what I'm hearing, in specifically MA (where the murders took place), civil cases are much harder to win if the criminal trial does not succeed (so not like the OJ Simpson case that took place in California is what I'm saying). He may have done this to shield his family from having their assets taken away as a result of the murders.

Would anyone happen to have the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance soundtrack free MP3s from the old Interplay website, circa 2002-2003? It's something that I've been looking for for years now, with no luck. I doubt anyone has it, but if you do...you're probably one out of like maybe ten people who do. The Internet Archive never was able to archive them, either, as a result of the Interplay website hosting them off-site on some ftp server. The only thing that seems to exist of it is some fan-made game rip, which isn't quite the same...

You can work around auto-updates, but it sure is tedious. You'd just set the game to not auto-update, edit the game's appmanifest (a plain text file in your steamapps folder) to say it's the latest version, and then restart Steam, and then it'd think it's updated. Since you can obviously get around it, I am not even sure what the point of forcing this crap on you really even is - seems like it's just there to annoy the rest of us who really do not like auto-updates.