Bartimaeus

2014, when he received MVP votes. Unsure about his level of play in the cold. In regards to the playoffs, Romo has the 4th highest career playoffs passer rating of all time. They haven't really lost playoff games because of him, botched snap notwithstanding.

I could eat my words here eventually, but I think Romo may not be quite as fragile as you might think. How often do QBs break their back? ...I guess since Romo's broken it twice, it seems more likely for him than for others, evidently, but still. I think he'll be O.K.

Me too, especially since I played through the entire danged thing expecting something that would make me think "hey, actually, this is pretty good" to happen, and it never did. Some games are slow burners...but this one never lit for me.

This looks like something that's not meant to actually pass, but rather so they can say, "Well, we tried."

I guess I see it as a video game, first and foremost, and in that respect (that is, gameplay), it's just an okay platformer. Are there a couple of new ideas? Maybe...but it's nothing special, even so. In regards to the setting and atmosphere...that one, I still just don't get. People just rave about the setting and atmosphere, and, as you say, "the sheer amount of detail"...and I went through the entire game thinking, "Moving onto random set piece #42..." For me, the game didn't flow together at all like it seems to have for other people, and the resulting effect was that the game felt incohesive and poorly detailed and explained, not the opposite. Like it was just banking on its "surreal" atmosphere while never doing much of anything with it...and furthermore, surreal atmospheres aren't anything special if they don't make the player actually *feel* like it's a surreal experience, and Inside felt much more silly and over the top than actually surreal to me. So yeah, I just don't get it at all,

I don't understand the love for Inside whatsoever. I really don't, not even one bit. It's just a kinda meh/average platformer with a pretty forgettable setting that feels like it was made specifically to be "artsy", but really comes across more as "not made very well".

Free agency starts tomorrow! I am really excited for my team to do...absolutely nothing!

Given that PST sold very poorly (cult status notwithstanding), probably not.

getting rid of previous rules who promoted slavery is not extremism in my book, if he killed anyone who was not part of his movement that would be probably different story. Only revolution which didn't get rid of previous rulers was ours (Velvet revolution) and it sucked ...Except Louis wasn't executed for his involvement in slavery, but rather being a "threat" to national stability.

Looks like a DDoS attack.

Not just significantly slower RAM, but also higher latency. The RAM used for the Ryzen setup is 2133 MHz CL15 while the RAM used in the Intel setup is 3200 MHz CL14. Usually higher speed RAM has that advantage offset somewhat by having higher CAS latency, the fact that the RAM used in the Intel variant is both significantly higher speed AND slightly lower latency gives it a fairly significant advantage. I'll wait for benchmarks done on a truly even playingfield. ...Why the hell wouldn't they just set both to the same settings so it was on an even playing ground, ESPECIALLY when they know it's a temporary issue that the AMD board can't use the higher speeds... That's just silly.

How many nuts did you get?

This reminds me of why I started to really hate ME's combat halfway through the second game, and reminds me of why I absolutely despised fighting anything by the time I was halfway through the third. Such dreadful, repetitive gameplay. On a side-note, the female protagonist (...Riley, somebody said is the protagonist's name?) really does look about as goofy as male Shepard did, so at least that score's been finally settled.

Sure, but Tales is still missing the "plot" part. Furthermore, though Throne of Bhaal was quite poorly written, it was not Werewolf Island levels of writing. Eugh.

Why not? Seems like that's what most people like to do, anyways - when it suits them. And then demonize the other side when they do the same thing. Our political process is surely evidence enough that nothing is truly holy - neither the Constitution nor the Bible - to a large percentage of voters and the people they vote in. We sure seem to like to pretend they are when we can use them to justify our beliefs and behavior, though! I guess that's what happens when we already think a certain way about an issue and THEN come up with reasons to justify the way we think...instead of looking at the issue and reasons for and against certain positions, and deciding the best position from there. A natural consequence of parents trying to imprint certain beliefs on us as we grow up, I suppose.

I think it's called a trilogy because story-wise, it's BG1, BG2, and then Throne of Bhaal. Tales of the Sword Coast, beyond also being pretty bad outside of Durlag's Tower, has no meaning to the overarching plot.

"The 1800X is said to even outperform the Kaby Lake speed demon i7 7700K in single threaded performance and the 10-core i7 6950X $1700 desktop flagship Intel HEDT processor across the board with a one-click auto-overclock on air cooling." Uh, yeah, I'll believe it when I see it...from a better source. Even with overclocking, that's just a little much to believe.

Surprisingly, I've had much worse luck with WDs than Seagates. Every WD I've ever had has died on me within like two years. Every Seagate I've had has somehow survived 5 or more...I have old 80GBs that are literally 20 years old that still work just fine that I can't throw away simply because they still work. Since, as you said, Hitachi are supposed to have the best failure rates, I've just waiting until I see a decent price on one until I buy one. This Seagate is still at only 1 reallocated...but it's only been a few weeks since I noticed it. I'm not putting anything new without mirroring it to my backup drive regardless, though.

It took me about halfway through Mass Effect 3 to realize I didn't really like where the series had gone since the first, gameplay and story wise. I don't see myself returning for Andromeda.

...These two are the default main character?