Bartimaeus

I can never tell what the heck games you guys are playing if you don't say what they are.

And I wish you would go back to reddit. Can't tell if he's talking about the liberals or conservatives here... Or maybe he means the awful mental degenerates who are in between.

Yeah, Paradox is their publisher, I'm not even slightly surprised. Throw the actually important stuff in the expansion packs, and throw the cosmetic nonsense in the DLC - that's the Paradox way.

Is there a specific part in there that I'm supposed to watch, or...

To be fair, though, that meme video is pretty hilarious.

I could survive with no internet or TV, but no utilities...no way of listening to my music or playing my games or reading my books (I've switched entirely to ebooks: I hate the feeling of real books)...I didn't spend years of work carefully putting together my entertainment/media collection just to not be able to use it!

Hah, I was just going to post that. Here is the go fund me page: https://www.gofundme.com/BuyCongressData The CAH guy warned against donating to any campaigns like these for the time being, because we don't even know the mechanic for buying data yet. That campaign looks like it was created by some random.

Build a wall? around the school

It's literally embarrassing, I'm not even kidding or exaggerating in the slightest. You have literally ~20 year old games like Age of Empires that forced client-server synchronization: you're telling me MASS EFFECT in 2017 can't? Are you serious? Just...what?

Which comes back to project mismanagement, huh...

That's pretty crappy. Not what Cheat Engine is supposed to be for. ...Also, it's embarrassing that the netcode is so bad that client-side changes also affect the server. Hyuk.

Yeah, uh, any singleplayer game that pulls that crap on me is gonna find itself completely and permanently disconnected from the internet and in offline mode right quick. Into the trash it goes.

Does Cheat Engine's speedhack help speed through the repetitive area transitions at least? Where the heck I would be without Cheat Engine in my life, I just don't know...

What? I thought Greenlight didn't even exist anymore! Valve has been talking about shelving it for literally the past 3-4 years - how haven't they gotten around to it yet?

Shooting for the legs is actually pretty dangerous because of the strong possibility of hitting major blood vessels that will almost assuredly cause death without immediate treatment. Sadly, there's not really a good (i.e. reliable) non-lethal way of actually shooting a gun besides the very difficult targets of hands and feet...

On a side-note, the split being so relatively small also explains why owners don't feel like paying for their own stadiums: it would take decades to pay off stadiums with the money they actually get from their NFL enterprises - never minding any other costs. Obviously, that doesn't make the NFL making cities pay for it instead any better, but it at least explains part of it.

Players made roughly 4.96 billion of 6 billion revenue last year. That's not quite right, because that assumes that every team spent to their cap limit, but it is, at the very least, what is allocated to the players. That's roughly 83% of the NFL's revenue. I'm not sure how this compares to other sports, but it's not like it's INSANELY out of whack to split the last billion between 32 different owners. That's only 30 million per team per year.

I think they might have a case for this particular one - at least, on the surface. As far as I'm aware, the case is being rather misrepresented by the media - there seems to be the widespread implication that PERSONAL data will be available for ISPs to sell off, but personal data is actually still protected to some degree. What they can do is sell off aggregated and semi-anonymized data (I say semi, because I believe they can narrow it down to demographics like "white males in their 20s", which is not totally anonymized, so it'd be dishonest to call it that). It's still crappy and I don't like it, no doubt about it, but it's not quite the picture being painted by the media...unless I have been totally mislead in the opposite direction, anyhow, which is admittedly a possibility. The more important bit of this, as I understand it, is that the FCC more or less loses their power entirely on being able to regulate ISPs, and that that power instead goes to the FTC...but I could be misremembering that particular detail.

Yeah, it'd be neat to see how contracts would work if the players could opt out at any point, too. Of course, if that were the case, the league would probably want to get rid of guaranteed money entirely to make it a more equal playing field...if the players want something, they always have to give something up, unfortunately. I'm pretty sure they'd prefer to have more guaranteed money than being able to opt out of their own contracts for seeking not totally significantly more money - outside of a few cases where players are getting criminally underpaid outside of the rookie contract, anyways; also, the crappy rookie wage scale is a thing the NFLPA argued for in order to benefit veterans...but the situation hasn't honestly changed that much, because it's just made rookies that much more valuable by guaranteeing that they're cheap - but that's just conjecture. Teams would fight back that on anyways by only signing shorter deals with players "known" to be money-seekers, I think.

Technically, it's in their contracts that the teams can dump them. But yeah, it's a crappy player's union...and more, it's a crappy sport to be a player in, period, due to how many players are needed to fill out a roster. Football is too physically demanding, which means you have to have more players, which means you need to spread the money around in order to pay those players, which means those players get paid less, and it means they individually have less power, etc., etc. Anyone who has options in multiple major sports should go anywhere but football - with brain (and other physical) damage, less pay, less guaranteed pay, and the possibility of being thrown out the door at almost any given second, it's just a no brainer to go elsewhere. Relatively speaking to the rest of us, though, it's not a terrible deal...but it could still be better.

Sorry, ignorance: what does "POR2" stand for? Tried Googling it, but I got nothing.

What specifically don't you like about it? I'm not a phone person, but still kinda curious as to why you think it's no good.

I somehow have fond memories of NWN1's OC...but I haven't really seriously played it since it came out, and I actually just downloaded the GoG version of the game to play after I'm done with Earthbound. I'm expecting those fond memories to not be so fond after I play through it again for the first time in over a decade. I think I gave it a casual go a few years back, but didn't get very far. This time will be different!

Yeah, and that's why Sanderson's work has never really lived up to Jordan's. Just couldn't commit to the job, I guess. [/s]

Hah, yeah, I'm not too surprised that it was the case for ME1 - new IP and assets, they were still their own company when 90% of the game was made (EA only got them right before it was released)...so the real question is why there wasn't notable improvements for ME2/3 when they were under the financial umbrella of EA, and already had a lot of base assets made? But all that's ancient history at this point, I guess.