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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.

Uh...I think those are all the same face. It's a little hard to tell because of angles and lightning and makeup AND animations, but all of them share the exact same nose (EXCEPT maybe #5, which is at such a different angle that I just can't tell for sure), all of them seem to share one of two lip shapes (and they're only a little different from each other, so much so that I'm not even 100% sure that they're actually distinct lip shapes...but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt - I think one of the shapes you can see that the upper lip is larger and more prominently sticking out like in #1, while the other shape is smaller like #2), and all of them seem to have the same basic cheek-bone, jaw, and general head structure and shape. So the biggest differences that I can see are makeup/tattoos, animations (how they're smiling or frowning and such - this helps give the illusion of variance), and lighting tricks. I think Amentep is really on the mark here. Liara, Benezia, and Aria (e: and Samara/Morinth, whom I already forgot, ) all had unique faces...but everyone else besides maybe a couple of other exceptions we can't think of right now, not so much.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SlaterNFL/status/846512375729672192 "Tony Romo has taken situation very personally in Dallas and has distanced himself from teammates and coach who were "Team Dak" per source." YO, WHEN ARE YOU GONNA LET HIM GO, GUYS do right by tony, my foot

Isn't being "politically correct" more avoiding saying things that could be perceived as being offensive? Trump would certainly not qualify under that.

The longer you wait to do anything you have anxiety or other types of misgivings about (for whatever reasons), the worst it tends to be when you finally get around to it. So if you actually have the desire to do it at some point, the sooner the better, as Gfted said.

Yeah, someone said earlier "ME3 was perfect up until the ending", and I just sorta sat there and thought...huh? The utter failure of Kai Leng as an antagonist in virtually every aspect of design, the stupid child dream crap, the almost totally meaningless and poorly implemented decisions that were supposed to actually have an effect from all three games (such as the Rachni and Genophage that you mentioned), and the complete total elimination of exploration - building off of ME2 nearly eliminating it already, of course - and finally, the utterly boring and endless, repetitive drudgery that was the gameplay. The last one is my fault for playing on the hardest difficulty throughout the series, but goodness gracious, it's so darned boring. All three games had flaws in places - often different places - ...but ME3's were pretty front and center throughout.

I plan on playing through Earthbound / MOTHER 2 some time soon, probably next month. I played MOTHER 1 for the first time ever earlier this month and enjoyed it, so I figure I might as well continue with the game that actually made the series famous. Would be nice to have one of those SNES controllers. 360 d-pads suck pretty bad.

Until you realize every asari (except for one) has the exact same face with slightly different color. Good luck in-seeing that, because once I noticed now it makes it impossible for me not to think of them all as the same character in different costumes. That's actually kind of a problem for all the ME games...and for all races, actually. The party members of those alien races look unique enough, but everyone else looks more or less the same outside of a few minor exceptions.

Oh wow, someone I'm putting on ignore after reading literally only one post. Nice. That's a new record!

To add on to what Fenixp said, if you have an account on imgur, you can also delete the images at any time. Alternatively, you can go to dropbox, which works for image hosting as well as general files...but it isn't quite as convenient unless you're using a program like ShareX to automate link generating and such.

I was thinking hitman, but that might be it, too.

No. Assuming you're talking about imgur, they are "unlisted", meaning if somebody has the link to specifically them, then yes, they are accessible. Failing that, however, they do not appear anywhere on the site proper.