Bartimaeus

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...

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...