Bartimaeus

Yes, I've been seeing that reviews and ratings from critics have been overwhelmingly negative, while ratings from non-critics have actually been pretty decent. Weird.

What you're willing to give is at least partly determined by your finances, though. I'm a pretty greedy and frugal miser, to be honest, so I can't even imagine spending that much money on a silly tablet.

Neither did I, to be honest...I can't believe tablets can get that expensive. Also, you're right: it is pretty difficult to find a laptop at that price range that's worth anything at all. Shady, basically, you have to make a choice between i3 and 4GB of RAM or an AMD (or maybe lower than i3 Intel?) CPU with 8GB of RAM. I tried to find even just one laptop that had 8GB of RAM + i3 for sub-400, and it's just...it doesn't matter what anything else is set to, it's just not there - unless you're willing to go refurbished.

Yeah, see: Gfted's opinion of "cheap" is so expensive I wouldn't ever even consider it, not in a million years. Different people have way different finances - this is why real price ranges are important. (e): I'll see what I can scrounge up.

Yeah, fair enough - I should've actually addressed that to Longknife, not you.

What's your price range? Like, sub-300, sub-400, sub-500..? "Cheap" is a lot of different things to different people.

He didn't start this, though. Bruce is literally the one that asked for that sort of feedback. Sure, he asked specifically Elerond, but this is a public forum - if he literally only wanted Elerond to reply, it should've been a PM...like many other posts of Bruce's, to be honest. Personally, I rather disagree with much of Longknife's appraisal of Bruce - of course, that's not to say my own view of him is that much more positive, but it's nonetheless pretty different. My posts have been more a result of Bruce's argument with Amentep (as well as numerous past arguments) than anything.

I agree...but I also disagree. It's a personal problem - I have the ability to not look at posts from users whose posts I don't want to see, and I fail to do it. That's my fault, simple as that. But yes, for those of us, including myself, who are weaker and unable to resist, a more strict ignore list would be great. But...things are O.K. as is. Oh, so you are a troll. Good to know, and honestly, it's nice to see you confess. Well, self-admittance is the first step on the path to curing your disease, my friend. But also, you're completely missing the point: the way you think of me, how you talk to me...is utterly of no consequence to me. I...and others...have laid out many...so many...times what we would like to see improve from you. You can take comfort in the fact that I'm just as stubborn as you are in this regard - probably even more so, in fact. I'm leaving the ball in your court, though.

Seriously, it takes so much more work to refute your constant stream of infantile bullcrap than it does for you to write it, as was just made patently clear by your post above. I wish there were some sort of "super ignore list", where I couldn't even see the "view this post anyway" button on your posts, and couldn't even see quotes other people have made of you. Guess I just have to start exercising self-control.

gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8 never change bruce actually wait please do

Resident assistant. In college dormitories, they are generally tasked with...uh...I guess basically supervising in a number of ways, including making sure people don't have weapons, apparently.

It gets a rise out of people - it's forcing a response. From you, from me, from anyone who sees his pretty freaking constant use of phony logic, from his complete and total lack of even a shred of intellectual honesty and good faith in the vast majority of the topics in this section - and never mind the condescension that's just dripping from way too many of his posts. And no matter how many times this kind of crap is blatantly and forcefully pointed out to him, he keeps doing the same stuff over and over. Trolling? Maybe not - maybe it's just a bad combination of narcissism or narcissist-like behavior and being...well, we don't need to go there. Point is, regardless of what it is, the result is effectively trolling way, way too much of the time...and it's about time it came to a screeching halt. There's good reason the moderating team here considers him a joke, and there's good reason a whole lot of other users, myself included, do, too. He asked me a few days ago my thoughts of the "vastly new and improved" BruceVC of today were, compared to a few months ago... Like, holy crap, man: you're still doing the same exact sort of crap that I've taken issue with repeatedly, continuously over the past year, year and a half or so...in pretty much every topic you're in. It's really gotten old. I've come to the conclusion that even if he wanted to change, he likely can't, because generally speaking, you need to be able to recognize what's wrong with your behavior before you can actively try to change it...and it's clear that he can't even get that far - no matter what we say, we can't make him see the problem. So...to the ignore list it is, and then the attempt to not click too many of the "view this post anyway" buttons, for the sake of my own sanity, and for the sake of my free time.

H87 and Z87 as well. There's unlikely to be any need at all to upgrade to Skylake, particularly seeing as both support PCIE 3.0.

At least he'll always have these funny posts that he can show all the ladies he meets at parties to!

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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.