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Uh, actually, Kensai doesn't even exist in 2E to beign with, and its appearance in Baldur's Gate is a totally made up (by the BG developers) derivative of the 1E class, and it was clearly never really thought through enough to be balanced with the 2E systems (and hence why some mods change the class to disallow it from being dual-classed, which would also presumably disallow multi-classing with it). So I'm not sure I would feel so comfortable justifying using a totally broken combination by saying "but PnP!", personally...

If I'm understanding this correctly...Obsidian used him in contract negotiations with Paradox like he was the/a project lead, but nobody ever told him that, and he was never really even allowed to act in that capacity (not that he necessarily wanted to - as he said, it wasn't his "baby", and it was insulting to the others for whom it was their "baby" to pretend like it was). Is that right?

Yeah, we'll see how that pans out in the actual benchmarks, the only measure that really matters...

Well, the Tomato rating on Rotten Tomatoes is literally just a question of, "Did you have an overall positive view or experience of this movie, or did you have an overall negative view or experience of this movie? Fresh Tomato for positive, Rotten Tomato for negative." Consequently, the Tomatometer can lead to some pretty wacky ratings, since some people's idea of an "overall negative view or experience" of a movie could be something they'd otherwise rate as high as an 8/10 - I know that can sometimes be true for myself, where I could rate something highly for being technically sound and having a cool premise and whatever else - basically just understanding why a whole lot of other people like/love it, and yet personally not really liking it myself for whatever reasons. The Fifth Element, for example - I really do not like it, but I see why other people do. I'd give it a Rotten Tomato, but contrarily I'd probably also give the movie a rating of somewhere in the 7.5-8.5 range. Some people are also much more sensitive to parts of movies (and other media) they don't like than parts they do like...and as such, having just a few bad parts can ruin their entire outlook on the overall movie. Others are much more forgiving. I personally fall into the former group of people, .

Every time I see unemployment numbers on reddit, I also always see analysis why the unemployment numbers given by the feds are useless, including the number of part-time jobs vs. full-time jobs, the number of people being payed actual living wages, the number of people who are still looking for a job vs. those whom the government now considers to have totally given up looking for a job (the latter of which aren't counted, for both good and bad reasons), and probably some other stuff that I'm forgetting. The end conclusion always seems to be, "Things aren't nearly as good as they're saying they are..." ...The truth of which feels rather self-evident to me, but of course, I'm a younger person with a very, very limited perspective on our economic history, so that means little,

Well, female fighting characters (either ones you fight as, with, or against) are certainly treated the same as male fighting characters in D&D - at least, I think so. Fighting characters are not the only type of characters in D&D, though, and on a wider overview, I don't think you could really consider that principle to stand up to any great degree...

Yes, I do think it's a little hypocritical to call my post a "potshot" based on the context of your own post just earlier...but saying that that's "the pot calling the kettle black" doesn't mean I disagree with the classification of it being a "potshot" - I actually think it rather implies the opposite. My post was definitely to poke fun at the fact that you'd just got done ribbing me for, more or less - and mostly in your words - thinking that you don't have a basic understanding/command of the English language...and then went on a small (but kinda crazy) tangent/potshot post of your own on a point Guard Dog wasn't even really making, especially if you read the additional context that you removed from his post (and which I felt was further confirmed by the replies he made after). Like I said, though, you sorted out the thing I was taking issue to with Guard Dog already, which makes this additional arguing about it kinda superfluous at best.

Guard Dog already got it, mostly. Though calling my post a "potshot" when your original reply to Guard Dog was little better after you stripped his post of the context that would make your post make...well, not that much sense (for reasons Guard Dog went on to explain better), is...well, I guess the pot calling the kettle black, .

Jacob's Ladder, since Paramount put it up on YouTube. It's an O.K. film. Both Macaulay Culkin and Jason Alexander (George Costanza) are really distracting anytime they're on the screen, though...

I'm curious about your argument as to why you think this. I'm not convinced either way yet - I feel like it's a complete tossup right now what will happen - but maybe you can convince me your way. With just the never-ending amount of bad and worse and even worse news for Hillary in regards to her emails lately, I feel much more optimistic about it now than I have in the past...so what makes you so sure?

Hey, to be fair, it's difficult to tell the difference between people lightly ribbing others or whether they're deliberately misconstruing other people's positions around here - both happen so much in these political threads, I figure I'll get a .500 batting average if I always assume people are serious.

I don't think Longknife said he was "absolutely sure". What he actually said, rather, is...too obvious to be worth the bother to restate.

Reset all my passwords because of the Team Viewer security breach. Bah, humbug.

Yep.

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/3077432/components-graphics/polaris-confirmed-amds-200-radeon-card-will-bring-high-end-graphics-to-the-masses.html "In a livestream from Computex in Taipei, AMD announced that the Radeon RX 480 will be the first graphics card based on its forthcoming Polaris graphics processors. And get this: The Radeon RX 480 stands ready to deliver performance equivalent to what today’s $500 graphics cards offer, as first reported in the Wall Street Journal earlier today. That’s roughly in line with the Radeon R9 390X, GeForce GTX 980, or air-cooled Radeon Fury. But here’s the real bombshell: The Radeon RX 480 will cost only $200 when it goes on sale on June 29." Hmm...I'm liking AMD's (purported) end of this much better so far...

"An average of 35% of coral was now dead or dying in the northern and central sections [of Australia's Great Barrier Reef]." That'll surely help with the "dying oceans" problem... http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/30/most-coral-dead-in-central-section-of-great-barrier-reef-surveys-reveal

Heh, but seriously...

A redditor also suggested that he could've just said, "I don't debate losers," to begin with, and that would've been so perfectly Trump-esque (and also...not that terrible of a reason, if I'm looking at the race between Clinton and Sanders objectively) that I wouldn't have been too insulted. Oh well.

I very much agree, actually: Bernie seems to rather despise Trump, and Bernie would've never went at Hillary herself - no matter what too many of her idiot supporters are saying about Bernie trying to "damage" her campaign (which he has clearly tried very, very hard not to do this entire election cycle, even at the expense of his own campaign - just because he's not rolling over for her "coronation" does not mean he's trying to damage her campaign). I think Trump's best bet would've been to pretend the invitation never happened - accepting and then almost immediately backing out after confirming it several times on the lamest, most awful excuse paints a very different picture than what that would've done, though. He's now alienating Sanders supporters anyways.

Not true: https://web.archive.org/web/20160527230741/https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/tech-company-we-will-put-up-10-million-for-bernie-trump-deba?utm_term=.qyKWl5vkv

Some choice reddit content: "Brave Sir Donald ran away, Bravely ran away, away, When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled! Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about, And gallantly he chickened out, Bravely taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat, Bravest of the brave, Sir Donald!"

It looks like Trump may have chickened out of debating "crazy Bernie". Too low energy, I guess - being a total pansy would do that, I suppose, . https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-statement-on-debating-bernie-sanders Right after Bret Baier of Fox News said it would happen, too: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-host-network-to-schedule-sanders-trump-debate-event-before-june-7/

Whoops! Yeah, you can tell I'm a great follower of these shows by the fact that I couldn't remember the difference between the two...