Bartimaeus

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.

-> 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...