Bartimaeus
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"which team goes in as a wild card"? You mean which teams?
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The "best OS background" award goes to whatever background is not stupidly blindingly bright - aka, it's basically impossible for any version of Windows to win this award.
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Pretty close to winning that game, too. Such is life... ...Glad the Packers in the NFCN, where the entire division has imploded so there's still a chance they can win it.
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Based on the fact that I loved the RTWP combat of the Infinity Engine games, but hated PoE's torturous implementation of it, I'm not sure if it's necessarily a fault of the fact that it's RTWP...and in fact, I feel as though, if combat rules were still mostly the same, making it turn-based would not help matters at all.
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It could even be longer than that, like 2, or even 3 years: just eventually, so we don't have to worry about games going forever quietly into the night a la consoles. I already regret that with playing Bloodborne: my favorite of the Souls games, and now I don't have a PS4, and so I basically won't ever be able to play it again unless I get a PS4 again...until emulators for the PS4 come out in like ten years, I guess.
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Discretion is the better part of...uh, game design, I guess.
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Agreed with Humanoid: size (and reliability) > than outright speed. Samsung Pros are not really worth the extra cash, while a better argument could be made for the Samsung EVOs...particularly if you get them at a sale price. In reality, though, there's a lot of good options...and a few bad ones with controversies: simply try to avoid the latter category while making the best business decision for the former. Also, fortunately, we've moved away from a lot of the crappier controllers like SandForce over the past few years, so things, in that regard, look better than ever.
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Hey, it's symbiosis: you provide it a home and opportunity for food, it provides you the ability to satisfy your maternal instincts. I'm currently host to one my siblings and their family because a crazy person has been stalking and intimidating them over the past few weeks. It's currently a madhouse.
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Wow, the Packers are really bad.
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Yeah, I actually just finished Owlboy. The charm and atmosphere of Wind Waker, a combination of a bit of Donkey Kong Country and a bit of Zelda and...maybe something else for gameplay. It was pretty good, but it was not revolutionary whatsoever. Just a pretty solid game with great art.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yul_AGm-7G I think the Stalker one (and Stalker in general) works the best out of the three, though. Diablo is maybe a little too high energy, while the Off song is probably using too weird of an instrument to truly sound "hell"-like.
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BG2 voice-acting was pretty darned good throughout: I'm not sure how somebody could argue against that, with the ridiculous amount of work that was put into it. Maybe a few miscellaneous characters could've been better, but on whole, quality generally ranged from serviceable to good and sometimes even great. It's a little absurd to think of just how many little soundsets for all the different types of monsters and character types they bothered to make. If I had to pick out a weakness, actually, it would actually be that some of the main playable characters...think Cernd and maybe Viconia...fell into the "merely serviceable" end of the spectrum...but because if you have them stick around for so long, it can easily get to feel like they fall below that after hearing them too much. Planescape: Torment I am less sure about, mainly because it's my impression that there wasn't nearly as much voice-acting in PST as there was in BG2, and so it's harder for me to remember and gauge it.
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Wow, it actually finally happened. Congratulations, Amentep,
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I am also playing on normal. After the soul crushing grind of the combat of Pillars, I have no desire to make the combat any more tedious than it has to be. I considered doing story mode, in truth. well, screw that, if they somehow conspired to make it WORSE than pillars, good lord
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And yet they still somehow managed to make it embarrassingly cringey and completely without reason or sense. Bah, humbug. Regardless, they actually just came out today and said the previous reports were false:
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Hopefully there won't be some completely idiotic and nonsensical romance going on like the previous game...
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Hey, some of us tried.
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Hey, that's the way things go. I'm moderately concerned about the future of our country...but I was going to be that regardless of who won: just about different specific things, I guess.
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Hey, I voted for Bernie, who projected much, much better than Hillary did against Trump at the time. I very, very reluctantly would've preferred that she won tonight, but that's not how the rest of the nation felt, I guess. None of us can do much about that, and you lashing out at us isn't going to change that. (e): rest, not right
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Well, Hillary won my state, so at least Bruce can't wildly lash out and blame me for the current state of affairs like he's doing everyone else.
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It's still not really enough, though.
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"Preliminary exit polls show that many voters were motivated by dislike of one of the candidates more than by support for the person they voted for. One in five Clinton voters said they chiefly oppose the other candidate, and 27 percent of Trump supporters said the same; those figures were just 8 percent for Obama voters in 2012 and 10 percent for Romney voters." -538
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I hate questions like, "A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system." Yes, I do realize that that's a distinct advantage for our government...but it's not an advantage that I necessarily want a ruling elite to have. Or, "Some people are naturally unlucky." I agree with this because, yes, people do get lucky and unlucky in life...but what is the question actually asking here, because I feel like it's asking whether I believe luck is some sort of inherent trait in people or some other such silly superstitions. Bah. I also hated that wasn't any neutral options for some questions... Anyways, I got Economic Left/Right -4.88, Social Libertarian Authoritarian -3.9...but in reality, I think I should be a little closer to center because of how I was forced to answer sometimes.
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He never blamed the British Empire for anything? Why did he defect and fight against them, then?
