Bartimaeus

Well, I despise tomatoes, and would never drink or eat anything tomato-flavored or anything with tomatoes* in it, so I can't really comment. I like it, too, but I mean, c'mon, it's a supermarket fruit juice...you get what you pay for. *Except salsa where it is not the primary ingredient - unlike most supermarket "salsas" - and only specific, weaker-flavored (IMO) tomatoes: too strong or too much of tomatoes and you ruin the salsa for me.

If plants want to be people, you should respect their lifestyle choices! (I don't think I've ever seen anybody use this icon before, but it's dancing like the banana, and seems appropriate enough.)

Hey, I think V8 Fusion tastes O.K...way, way too much sugar, but that's what you get for crappy juice that you can get at a supermarket that people actually buy enough that it stays in stock (...and that, for some reason, nonetheless advertises itself as being "healthy" for some goshforsaken reason). V8 Splash is virtually inedible, though. Eugh.

Are you suggesting that plants can't actually be people, even if they really, really wanted to? Interesting, most interesting, Amentep...

I always hate it when I feel like posting something in a topic, but the latest post is about something actually kinda important/worthwhile, and my post is pretty much just useless garbage. With that in mind, I got a V8 strawberry banana drink today for the first time in forever, and failed to notice that I was getting a V8 "Splash" instead of a V8 "Fusion". I did notice that it did look a bit different than the last time I had one, but I just figured...the last time I had one was ages ago, I'm probably misremembering, and/or they changed the design up (...along with the actual color of the juice, too? ...). There was a great mixture of surprise, shock, and disgust when I actually tried to drink it. Never again, V8. What absolutely wretched stuff. Yeah, finding what you want to do/can do for a living can be tough. Hope you find a path that suits you, TrueNeutral.

I honestly wish they had *another* day where they aired another game or two...like Wednesday. On the other hand, I also wish no team ever had to play on Thursday after having played on Monday...seriously, it's such baloney that that ever happens, much less happens often enough that it's clear the schedulers just don't care. Only way you could do a Wednesday game without running into that problem is by having the team who played last week's Thursday play the next week's Wednesday...but that doesn't matter, since that likely won't happen anyway. There's no way Ravens should've won that game. They had so, so many chances to get ahead, but failed every time. Steelers' missed two field goals that should've made it impossible for the Ravens to come back, and then refused to even give the guy another chance in overtime *twice* when it would've instantly ended the game...and instead struck out twice on 4th and 1s...I could not believe that the Ravens won. Yeah, Philip Rivers has had a terrible offensive line...mainly because at least week, literally his entire offensive line was injured. I think in weeks previous, some were injured, but literally all were last week.

Well, that Ravens-Steelers game was one the most insane football things I've ever seen in my life.

See, that's what I thought for a long time, too, but the truth is...no, it's really just not. There's definitely still *a* point in still replying, for sure, but is it a convincing point - a point that is enough that you should actually still do it? I just don't think so. If such...unsavory individuals want to demagogue and weasel their way into feeling like they win all their arguments (or at least don't lose them), I say let 'em: most people will pick up on such ridiculous antics after some time of being around them, anyways, and adjust accordingly. If other people without such terrible behavior - even completely unknown people - want to raise the same points, then I'll engage with them...but I personally have had my full share's worth of people who haven't had seemingly even one good faith discussion throughout their entire existence. So...that's that.

I'm not sure exactly how common "whoosh" is, so just in case it wasn't enough/understood by anyone..:

Whenever somebody makes a post that says something like "uh, yeah, I'll totally get back to you on that...at some undetermined time in the future..." and then completely fails to deliver on it (note: I am not specifically saying you won't, Mr. Meshugger, but rather that it's simply a tactic certain persons have a tendency to employ when they don't have or can't be bothered to make a counterargument), I always can't help but want to save a link to their post in the event of them ever trying to engage in an argument with me, just so that I can point it out and give myself a good reason to not bother spending half an hour (or more!) writing a reply(s) that will eventually all just boil down to that "I'll get back to you later". That would be so satisfying to do.

That was my interpretation as well, especially considering the semi-dismissive tone.

Yeah, that is really cheap for a new expansion. Weird.

No, EU/CK/etc. expansions don't usually do that much in that sense...tweak a few things, add a few more minor gameplay mechanics, flesh out a few other things a little more, and stick like a $15-$25 price tag on it. Personally, I don't think they're really worth their retail cost...particularly combined with Paradox splitting up their "expansions" and the cosmetic DLC associated with them into separate items on Steam (...in addition to whatever else other DLC there is to buy). Fans will defend them to the death (and not completely without reason, I will admit...they're not being COMPLETELY terrible), but it still seems pretty...I don't want to say "scummy", per se, but maybe a lesser version of that. There's good reason they're able to come out with a new, so-called "expansion" just every few months... Personally, I don't really like supporting that much nickle-and-diming...so I don't.

I don't think I've ever been on a forums where there is pretty extreme profanity censorship...in addition to that censorship policy being stringently pursued and upheld...and yet there seems to be a virtual free for all on trolling (and troll-like behavior)...and even outright flaming is allowed to some extent. What an odd forums I am on.

That is a pretty old (and not very fast) processor. Could you please list your other specifications? I know you said they meet them, but knowing would help get a clearer picture. If I had to guess, I would say that the CPU is too old and too slow... And if I recall correctly, PoE is NOT multithreaded (Unity 4 limitation?), which makes the situation even worse for you.

I stopped watching after the Redskins turned it over in...the beginning of the fourth quarter, was it? Wasn't exactly what I'd call a fantastic game.

I don't disagree: my point was that this is how humans have behaved since time immemorial, and that it's unlikely to change anytime soon. We look after ourselves and the ones we love first...and then others second, and then the latter group to a much different (i.e. lesser) degree than the former. No, that was hyperbole in response to 213374U's "it is wrong to leave people to die to protect your living standards". I mean, we literally all do that all of the time...we could all decide to live places less nice than where we are, or do without certain amenities, or decide to work more so that we can donate more of our money to saving other people's lives...very, very scant few of us actually want to or really can live that way, though - the people we're trying to save included, because humans, regardless of station of life, simply aren't really capable of doing that day in and day out. It's physically possible, if we had iron wills with a bent towards caring about anyone and everyone...but almost all of us are simply human, just as our ancestors were.

In that case, we're all morally compromised, as every single one of us could give up and sell at least some of our non-vital possessions (such as the devices we use to access these forums, for example) to instead put that money towards saving the lives of others. If you want to make the argument that the vast, vast (>99.9%, likely) majority of people throughout history are selfish (i.e. human) to some degree, well, you won't get any argument here.

That's funny. I've gotten a "your password was reset" email from twitter like a half-dozen times over the past two years or so. I've never even used it (honestly, I don't even remember signing up, but I guess I could've for some reason or another), so presumably it was hacked or something, but whoever hacked it hasn't actually done anything with it or anything, so I really just don't give a crap.

Colts defense bad, Colts offensive line bad, Jets defense good, Jets win. Whomever their GM is, they don't appear to be all that great at building a well-balanced team around Luck...wonder if it's the same GM from Peyton's days - wouldn't really surprise me, considering it's basically the same crap he had to go through for forever.

Yeah, sounds about right. I should proooobably work on that...

Switch to BBCode Mode (light switch button at the very top left of the posting prompt) when you want actual full control over what you're posting...particularly if you're dealing with quotes. It still really quite displeases me that you can't use BBCode Mode full-time, because it arbitrarily disables all other buttons for literally no reason - a million other forums allow everything else to still work while in BBCode Mode - but if you want greater control of the raw text, that's the way to do it. Ah, I have extremely weak achilles tendons because of the unusual way I walk (my heels never touch the ground: people call it "walking on your toes", but really, it's walking more on the "palms" of your feet - or whatever you would call the area of your feet that would be the equivalent location of the palms of your hands)...so walking for long durations becomes extremely uncomfortable for me. Biking is fun and super easy, though.

Yeah, see, the long, cold winter nights would be great, but the long summer days would be what drive me to lunacy. Summers in the north U.S. are already too much for me. Face-to-face communication is a very different beast from interface-to-interface communication.

In my experience, it's not so much the temperature that matters, but rather the wind conditions: air is a terrible, terrible conductor of heat...except when it's moving. I'd rather take -30F (-34C) or maybe even -40F (-40C) with no wind than even 0F (-18C) with even moderate wind conditions. I love the cold...the less sunlight, the better, and I hate small talk. I should move to Scandinavia. Although Scandinavia has really long summer days, too, doesn't it? Stupid Earth tilting and all that.

Do you do that by bicycle? Doing it at night sounds pretty nice, actually...as long as there are no harsh winters to deal with. @Enoch: that page won't even load for me.