Bartimaeus

Not looking forward to caucusing tomorrow...stupid election system. *sigh*

Huh, I thought you were an ardent Bernie supporter, Bruce. What changed your mind?

South Africa, actually, but your point remains.

I have one for when the cramps get too bad and I need a change of pace (and also it's wireless which is good for HTPC use). It's pretty much unusable for playing video games, though, so that's no good.

Be sure to let us know that it works (and yes, I am assuming that it will, ). Trying to find a mouse that works for me. My current mouse is the Logitech G400 (MX518 clone, if you didn't know), but it gives me horrible, horrible hand cramps after a while. So I switched to a Sentey Gammitus for a while (which I got for free in an Amazon promotion, if you're wondering), but its build quality is absolutely terrible and is falling apart after just like 6 months of use...and it ALSO gives me hand cramps. So now I'm using my wireless piece of junk Logitech M510, which actually seems pretty comfortable...buuut it's pretty awful in pretty much every other way. I was going to get the Mionix Avior 7000, but I realized the shape and dimensions of the mouse is pretty darn close to the Gammitus...so I thought, O.K., I'll try the Mionix Castor 7000 instead...but then I realized it's very similar to the G400 I have, too. I'm beginning to think that I may need a smaller mouse period, so I ordered a Logitech G100s for like $15 just to give it a try and see if that makes any difference. However, if you guys have any other ideas, I'm willing to entertain them as well.

Hey, it's not effectively any worse than the current EU4 implementation, where being literally >10x as big and powerful as a country right next to you (who's only a few provinces large) still isn't enough to vassalize, and the only real way to vassalize is through war...which I was trying to avoid by building up perfect relations with the target country. I miss the EU4 from a few expansions ago.

I've never been on any meds before, and I'm hoping I never will be. However, it does always make me curious as to what the effects of taking meds could be like, particularly because the rest of my family is or at least has been on them (ADHD, bipolar, and mildly schizophrenic sister, another sister with an even bigger host of problems than that, mother with depression issues, father with autism and depression issues, etc.)...particularly seeing as I have at least a few of the same problems.

The rest of the NFC North would like a word.

"The pins are manufacturer specific and used by both the manufacturer and data recovery experts to access the System Area of the drive. Sometimes those pins support a serial interface, in which case you can attach a 4 pin cable (power, ground, transmit, receive) and talk to the hard drive. Data Recovery hardware, such as a PC-3000, might use these pins to update/repair the firmware on drive, remove an ATA password, or modify/clear the G-list." I would not personally be concerned, from everything I'm reading. The only two things that matter should be SATA data and SATA power.

I'm not convinced WE'VE had a democratic election in the last 40 years...

My Struggle I was just kinda boring and bad, but it wasn't "make-me-want-to-leave-the-room" bad like Babylon felt.

Completed Undertale. It was a pretty good game.

That is interesting: for everyone that has him shown, he's somewhere in the 50-60% range, with a very few 70% scores.

Both first tries, and I thought for sure a few of those would net me at least a few points... (e): Awful, terrible quizzes, by the bye, (e): Also, funny how the two descriptions seem at least minorly in opposition with each other... And also funny to see how different people's fascism and Hitlerism scores compare against each other with their isidewith scores, too. I'm apparently 85% Bernie myself.

What do you expect? This is (more or less) the successor of the Black Isle forums. Not that I would know anything about that, given I was only three when BG1 came out...

So...easy mode, but not in so many words. What, are they afraid of offending people?

Yeah, that's terrible, especially if you're looking for just one bit of the video...and now you have to jump back and forth trying to find it using YouTube's awful video player (or heaven forbid, somewhere even worse)...a truly abysmal experience.

Hey, that kind of nonsense can be perfectly good fun. It just has to, you know, be backed up by the other elements of the show actually being good. Like I said, I don't know anything about Supernatural, so I can't really comment on this specific case...

I thought Babylon was the worst. Could barely watch it to the end - kept telling myself "it's basically almost over", but it was so cringeworthy and nonsensical I wish I had just stopped. In regards to the image, I don't know anything about Supernatural, but the rest is spot on.

But that's really (arguably) a different matter entirely, though. I will never, ever watch news videos...ever. They're pretty universally horrible compared to just quickly reading an actual article (although journalistic/news standards are so low regardless of how you're receiving it, one wonders why I bother with the news at all these days...).

I did a quick Google search for that, but didn't turn up anything - mind giving a link or quick rundown on this "story mode"? I can't stand the combat mechanics in PoE at all, so I'm curious...

Basically what other people have said: *who* you're watching play is more about the player than the game. However, watching people you like play games can also give you a feel for those very games, and may make you interested in playing them yourself. People had been raving about Undertale for a while, and I look at it on Steam and just...wasn't very interested at all. Saw a relatively short video from someone I like who played like 20 minutes of it, and thought "that seems pretty cool", and made me get it and try it out. In a way, they're also an informal way of reviewing the game, and certainly at least complement the normal review process...as they're a perfect example of the "show, don't tell" ideal. The trick, then, is finding players who don't annoy the crap out of you... I don't generally watch entire Let's Plays of games, though, personally - I prefer just seeing relatively short "slices" of a game.

Yeah, arguments like this always remind me of how poorly people must perceive me after I've been in an argument like this myself. And then I think...why do I have to be so stubborn?

They've also been saying for a long time that it would be significantly higher price than the Oculus...unlike the Oculus' "ballpark of $350".