Bartimaeus

Is it "OCD" to say "no, it's more OCPD than OCD"?

Looks like Sanders will be crushed in Mississippi (no surprise there), but he takes an early (small) lead in Michigan so far. We'll see how that pans out...

Why do you randomly put put two empty lines between some paragraphs, and one empty line between others? Your posts drive me crazy whenever I read them. ._. Personally, I always have my Steam profile set to completely private, so I can get away with just blocking the undesirables (that for whatever reasons I can't/shouldn't remove), which prevents them from seeing I'm online or what I'm playing. However, for friends who are also friends with some of my other friends, it runs too much of a risk that they might be talking to one another and one might notice I'm online while the other will see that I'm not, so to be safe, I block all of them. This doesn't seem ideal in your case, because you like playing with your other friends that he is also friends to, but you can at least play stuff in peace. (e): Also, ideally, yes, do what Malcador said. I've done what I've described, but I've also done what Malcador has said, and it's generally much better to do it that way.

At this point, I don't think much of value was truly lost here, as the studio was just a shell of its former self. A shame that the company's plans (perhaps dreams, more accurately) for their games were never fully realized, and that they're gone entirely now, though. The first time I played through Fable: The Lost Chapters many years ago, and my experimentation in Black & White, are good memories - although I knew next to nothing about the two games going in, which probably explains why I wasn't so horribly disappointed as so many others were. Still.

(e): p.s. this is much more fun to watch than to play lol

Because they're so horrendously unenjoyable. Going through the idiotic blizzard area with the randomly charging horses and going through Iron Passage...literally just so bad I never wanted to play a Souls game ever again. Maybe part of it was because by that point, I was starting to feel more like one of those people who just doesn't like Souls games rather than the DS "veteran" I was supposed to be, but whatever - that crap was horrific.

I hate our election system and I hate both parties. I demand sympathy!

For me, so far it's Dark Souls > Bloodborne >>> Dark Souls II >>> Dark Souls II DLC. I haven't played Demon Souls...yet. The Dark Souls II DLC is the most horrendous gameplay of any Souls game I've played so far, though, with every one of the new areas being uniquely awful in an entirely different way. I'm truly impressed how they managed to make someone who's played through about 95% of DS1 (including DLC) on NG7 at SL1 just absolutely loathe DS2, but they managed to do it.

I'm glad he gets to go off into the sunset a SB champion, and not, you know, Favre-ing it up. End of an era, etc.

The South is a gigantic number of delegates, though, and while he's projected to do better outside of it, he's not projected to do so well he can make up for being absolutely crushed in the South, which is why he's currently projected to lose. He's also currently losing in Florida and Michigan, the latter of which he needs to be winning, and the former of which he needs to be at least sort of close... There's nothing to misunderstand, Bruce. That's good, because you are, after all, the one making all the posts that you are constantly making that have made us regard you this way.

It's such a shame he's losing most of the South so horrendously badly - if it was a little closer there, he'd be sooo much better off right now.

Bloodborne. My opinion of it is a lot better than my opinion of Dark Souls 2 so far, so that's nice. Much more fast-paced like DS1 was...

My point was, that if Trump actually wins based off of this current "self-destructive" platform (and those who vote for him are presumably pleased with his presidency), then why wouldn't future GOP nominees emulating him have just as good of a chance as he did, thereby averting this so-called "self-destruction"? Wouldn't the GOP voter base picking a radical and a outsider that totally *fails* to win the presidency be a greater destructive force in the GOP, instead of one who can actually win? The latter is the GOP evolving to nominate the president its voter-base wants and actually being successful at carrying them to the White House - the former is demonstrating that the GOP and its voter-base have failed, and will probably continue to fail unless something changes (which may or may not happen regardless of circumstances).

Isn't winning the Republican nomination already more than enough for that, ktchong? You want Trump to win the presidency so it breaks the Republican party, because they'll just emulate him...but if he wins the presidency doing that, isn't the logical conclusion that future Republican nominees like him will do the same? (...Unless his presidency is horrific, of course, in which case the GOP will likely distance themselves from him as much as possible, particularly as he's already an outsider to begin with.)

VR 8K per eye, but the vast majority of developers still won't be able to make competent face animations...

What's wrong with that? Makes me want to keep using it even more if it's causing that effect on people...

Yep, I mentioned that here yesterday. Thanks for the video confirmation, though.

I'm aware, however, that has not been the case for, what, almost a decade now? (e): Since they were at least close, that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQpIbb7R4bc

I mean, it's not like nvidia and AMD haven't at least been comparable. Intel and AMD, on the other hand...

Yeah, you should really only be able to access Watcher's Keep from ToB - you can get a bunch of pretty OP stuff if you just waltz right in at the start of SoA. Plus, you get a ton of XP for no reason for just arriving at Watcher's Keep... Haha, that's crazy. I don't like playing on any difficulty besides core, personally - giving enemies huge damage bonuses as a way to try to make the game harder isn't really my thing. Personally prefer the slightly more organic solution of using the XP reducer mod and just reducing all given XP to 50%. And yeah, Improved Ilyich is just ridiculous - who in the world thought that was a good idea?

Interestingly, one of Clinton's staffers (who apparently helped set up the email server) was just given immunity by the DoJ today to talk to them - exactly in relation to what, it is not yet clear, but it is an interesting development, nonetheless.

That's not really a surprise, if you know the general weaknesses of a dragon (namely, it's a single enemy who can only do so many actions so fast...while you can run a 6 member party with additional summonables that can vastly outstrip a dragon's meager spellcasting abilities and such if you know what you're doing - plus, vanilla BG2 dragons are kind of weak to begin with). The Gromnir fight, on the other hand, you just have a load of crap thrown at you at once...and it has a tendency to overwhelm your party immediately. And if you're using difficulty-enhancing mods like SCS and the enemy spellcasters actually intelligently use their abilities (...timestops and high level abilities, yay...), well, that's so much worse.

Reminds of the story of how Roman "monks" smuggled silk spiders from China all the way back to Constantinople. The Romans then proceeded to monopolize the silk trade in all of Europe and the Middle East (and incidentally make the famous "Silk Road" more or less obsolete in regards to actual silk trade) for the next half millennium. Spies be whack, yo.

I like that "demagogue" is becoming a more commonly used word with the rise of Trump. Always been one of my favorite words. Minnesota is a caucus state, so I have to wait until 7PM to cast my vote...