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No no, please, I couldn't possibly have more.

It's funny how many times I've heard this story, but most motherboard manufacturers (or the chipset maker - in this case, Intel) don't try to change it.

The piece of plastic itself is only meant for securing the card, I am pretty certain. If the PCIE port itself is O.K., then all you need to do is make sure the card is secure in the port even without the plastic lock. I would say it's at least worth a try unless the port itself is screwed up. P.S. I hate those plastic lock-ins, too. My current board has a pretty easy-to-use one currently, though, which I count myself blessed for.

Here's hoping DS3 is more like DS1 (and, optionally, BB as well) than DS2...

Yeah, the Batman vs. Superman topic's an appropriate place to ask that...*sigh*

I watched it casually a few weeks ago while it was airing on TV. Was pretty bored to tears - way too many characters doing way too many things at once, way too much constant, pointless-seeming action. Would not recommend it. But then again, superhero movies aren't for me, and similarly, I'm not a Marvel fan, so I wasn't exactly the target audience.

I saw the trailer with Jesse Eisenberg just interjecting himself onto the screen and then just rambling on for a not insignificant amount of time a while back. I was pretty convinced it was going to be garbage after that, but, you know, I could've been wrong.

Yeah...the "game speed" isn't really the "pre-eminent selling point of RtwP" for me: it's the fact that multiple things can actually transpire at once in real-time, which can help make combat actually somewhat interesting. Turn-based combat in RPGs is so single-focused, so two dimensional the vast majority of the time. I'm not a fan of turn-based.

Even as a huge fan of IE games, I've always felt like six is too many, personally. I like five. Five's a nice number. It's also the number of party members I generally use in IE games. Even four's O.K./better than six, though.

-> fatal accident -> fatal Yes, if you want to nitpick, I included it as part of the only "an accident". The worst of all nitpicks, if you ask me, because I included other stuff that was perfectly valid, but fine.

Yeah, but Lara Croft looks too soft for the role, too. P.S. I'm not a Tomb Raider (or Star Wars) fan, so it makes little difference to me.

I know "mansplaining" (man + explaining) has been for a while, so it wouldn't surprise me if it is.

In regards to getting to the crux of articles like you'd find on "journalism" and "news" websites? No, not really. In regards to other things? Sure...but only as much as you'd find here - it is essentially a giant web forum after all, albeit one with heavy populist tendencies and informal rules.

Yeah, another awful way of doing advertisements. Not that my eternal and passionate hatred of YouTube, as somebody who's actually uploaded crap to it, is really impacted by such. YouTube has been so horribly mangled by Google in such a vast myriad of ways, that the obnoxious advertisements basically aren't even on the radar for me.

You know, I don't actually mind advertisements - they're pretty important for the industry, and if I'm regularly using a website, generally speaking, I want to support that website and advertisements are usually the most realistic way of doing that, right? What I actually hate, though, is the way they're very often used on journalism and news websites, which includes videos with audio autoplaying, advertisements placed right in the middle of articles, way too much horizontal space being sacrificed for the sake of advertising, automatic content generation and advertisements as you go down the page, etc. Yeah, you might not suffer from all of those if you're using an AdBlocker...but the point is, things shouldn't be so horrid where we're basically being forced to use AdBlockers on these sorts of websites to be able to use them to begin with...and yet, they are. P.S. I obviously don't use Lifehacker and haven't visited it in a while, so I can't make exact claims for Lifehacker specifically, so you kinda win that point by default.

Unless Mr. VC is actually being physically harmed or threatened, I'm not sure your sentence is literally even possible.

Okay, so after hearing "isometric Dragon Age 2", this is about the SECOND harshest way I think you could describe the game. However, just because Oblivion completely sucked at using this kind of system, doesn't mean it has to, too.

I totally misread your post the first time around, whoops. How about we just call the two prospects roughly even?

Which is funny, because they do the opposite for me: on reddit, I can get straight into the details of any post or thread, no advertisements, no gimmicks, no BS. If it's a link to something off-site, like one of your so-called "articles", there are people that automatically transcribe said articles into posts which get voted to the top of the thread so you don't have to go off-site - which is good, because I don't want to give any of these terrible "journalism" websites page-clicks, anyhow. On the garbage "journalism" websites like Lifehacker and Cracked and such, everything is formatted to be loads of long-winded bullcrap with useless fluff everywhere, there are advertisements everywhere, they use garbage formatting techniques like splitting up things into different pages and into slideshows or randomly repeating bits already said but in a bigger font - it's awful, and I hate it. It's also pretty safe to say that I will never go back to willingly using that sort of media except when I have to, or when it's deserving. Web "journalism" like Gawker and Lifehacker? Heh, no. Outlets who actually put out quality and original work without the fluff? Yeah, sure.

I'm getting terrible flashbacks to Oblivion...

It's some sort of variant of it is, yes. "Terra" is Latin for Earth. (e): "tus" translates to Frankincense in Latin. Probably isn't what's meant, though,

Yeah, so is Vox Media, so that's not really saying much. (e): Gawker Media, not Vox Media, but Vox Media is, too

Given that the only sections I basically ever check are Way Off Topic and Computer and Console (...and I guess Skeeter's Junkyard and Obsidian General, but hardly anything there is ever posted to either so it's irrelevant), I can't really comment. Personally? Though there are virtually infinite things I disagree with people on here, there are only 2, maybe 3 people whose posts I feel are categorically, systematically, and universally useless, awful, and a waste of time to read and who shouldn't be allowed to even be here. You can probably guess one of them. Everyone else? Disagreements aplenty, but they're respectful disagreements and I'm not really fazed by such. ...Now how everybody thinks of me is an entirely different matter.

I mean...to be fair, I can do the same to you and myself and anyone else, and all of ours posts without any context all look pretty worthless and pointless.