Bartimaeus

There's absolutely nothing wrong with having just a female protagonist: there is, on the other hand, perhaps something wrong with finding it necessary to complain that there's something wrong with a game if the devs include both options. Personally, I generally prefer female leads, and would be happy to see more...but I'm not going to go around complaining about the games that are kind enough to include the option for both preferences. (edit): I wish there was like a five minute grace period for editing where it doesn't say you edited. Why do I have to write my posts so horribly the first time and not check before actually posting? (edit): See, I even had to edit my edit for full clarity! Argh!

74% Bernie, 59% Hillary, 46% Rand, 44% Jeb; 89% Green, 86% Democrat, 83% Socialist, 75% Libertarian, 70% Constitution, 41% Republican. I had a whole lot of uneducated opinions I wasn't totally sure about, though, so I'd give each result a 5-10% variance, at the very least.

Ha ha ha...my previous post is rather ironic, given what this post will be about: Restarted my computer this morning for some reason or another...it boots up, stuff is missing and not working - can't even boot into my normal user account...oh no...my storage HDD is not being recognized as being plugged in. Crap: I have a lot of stuff backed up, but I also have a lot of stuff not backed up...and that if it's gone, a month or two's worth of stuff like music and pictures I will have lost...and all of my game saves and mods as well as the vast majority of my documents and some other stuff are all gone. Power down the PC, plug it into a different computer, go to the BIOS to see if the MB can even recognize something's there...nothing. Unplug it and replug it in a few times, trying to boot it in between each one...still nothing. Resign myself to the fact that it appears to be completely dead (even though there were no warning signs at all), and lament that I couldn't boot it up one last time to save some things...even just a few things. Looked like that I would need to reformat my system drive because I store my personal user folder on my storage HDD for easy reformatting, and I can't even boot into my normal user account without having my storage drive working. So I spend the day reformatting and installing stuff...and as one final hurrah, I plugged in my broken HDD again just a little ago and turn my computer on...and I think I hear the hard drive clicking and whirling: it was completely dead before. Stick my head and ear right up to the hard drive bay...and never before have I felt so happy to hear my HDD making funky noises in my entire life. I boot into Windows without even checking if it had been recognized by my MB in the BIOS...open My Computer, and it's sitting right there. Without restarting the computer (for fear of it not booting up again), I've started copying over unbackupped stuff to my SSD and have set up a network location for more things. Now, I'm not exactly the most religious of people....but I shouted "thank you jesus" at about 12 in the morning in an apartment after seeing that it was there. I learned the valuable lesson of backing up MORE THINGS than I already do today.

Barti my darling I'm extremely disappointed that you think a good system of government is one where an outsider can undermine the national security of a government by posting confidential documents on the Internet? That is Assange's view of acceptable conduct. No government in the world would accept this, so I will give you time to reflect on this and then make another post ...you may want to rethink your opinion of Assange ? Re-think my opinion of Assange? I already said I wasn't a big fan of his...merely that, given the circumstances, his Western ideology is more agreeable with than our current Western governments'. Are you, again, suggesting that I should actually have a higher opinion of him? But thats the thing, the circumstances of Assange's actions are unequivocal. He posted confidential documents of the USA and other countries on the Internet. So either you support his illegal and damaging decisions or you don't? I'm not sure why anyone would support this but I can't read minds so I am interested in any justification for Assange's choices...and please consider the words "confidential " and "top secret " At this particular moment, retribution feels like a pretty good reason: our governments have collected and stolen massive wades of information I have not heard any reason I consider to be valid for them taking...and so Assange (and Snowden) have done the same to them. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind...and if everyone's blind, I have little fear of what I consider to be my rights (in this regard) being trampled upon. This answer is only half-serious...but it has some truth in it. Like I have said, I am not the biggest fan of Assange...however, I currently find him more palatable than our governments, and so I am not willing to demonize him upon this basis.

Barti my darling I'm extremely disappointed that you think a good system of government is one where an outsider can undermine the national security of a government by posting confidential documents on the Internet? That is Assange's view of acceptable conduct. No government in the world would accept this, so I will give you time to reflect on this and then make another post ...you may want to rethink your opinion of Assange ? Re-think my opinion of Assange? I already said I wasn't a big fan of his...merely that, given the circumstances, his Western ideology is more agreeable with than our current Western governments'. Are you, again, suggesting that I should actually have a higher opinion of him?

Well, technically, I suppose it is all, in a sense, Western ideology...now, if the world could just start upholding the specific brand of Western ideology that *I* prefer... Assange's "Western ideology" seems closer to what I think is right than our lovely governments', so I guess I should be supporting him, as Bruce seems to like to support the U.S. for the same reason...I've never been *that* big of a fan of Assange, but you've managed to convince me this time, Bruce!

Saw this amusing post on the front of /r/all just now. I am sure you guys will like it. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/39ovi1/ellen_pao_is_now_retweeting_brianna_wu_its_ogre/

...and Child of Light refunded, because I didn't check for 3rd party DRM and didn't realize Uplay was a requirement. Yeah, no, I can't be bothered with having DRM on top of DRM.

I purchased Child of Light - not expecting to really like it since it doesn't really seem like my type of game, but I liked the art style and who knows, maybe I will: if I don't, hurray for Steam refunds! - and Octodad (2): Dadliest Catch. :D

The only thing reddit's cared about enough over the past few days to allow it to get to the front page during the recent drama/censorship debacle. RIP, Mr. Lee.

They actually removed the "do not automatically download and install updates" option awhile back... Yes...I see that it's now "only update this game when I launch it". How lovely.

Lets you choose between launching a game and updating it first Updates on launch anyway The weird thing is, it actually was letting me repeatedly launch it at that time without having it update. It was when I tried later in the day that it didn't even present the option and just started updating, even though I have the game set to not update automatically...*sigh*

Okay, well, apparently, I was wrong: tried launching EU4 just now and it started auto-updating. Gosh dang you, Valve.

The timing is pretty suspect, I agree... Maybe invisible mode on Steam Friends is next? Please, Valve?

Holy crap! It took over a decade, but it finally happened! Games you set to "do not automatically download and install updates" for, you can finally continue to launch even after a new update for it has been released! Amazing! Now I can actually continue to freaking play my games while I wait for mods to update for new patches.

The last 2% (100/14 questions = 7% per question, remainder 2%) just goes to whatever you score highest at (review everyone's previous scores and/or retake the test and answer randomly, if you want to confirm), and it seems like it goes at random if you have multiple tying for the highest. The test isn't designed all that well, and it's especially frustrating that there are more than four answers per question (I would wager there's likely 7 - one for each character - but I didn't actually check)...but you're only given four out of each question's pool for each taking of the test. So even if you actually matched them perfectly in actuality, a given character's answer is likely to be missing randomly at least a few times because of the four answer limit and you'll have to make do and answer non-optimally in favor of a different character. So...in reality, the test isn't even capable of competently determining what character you most match: retake it and answer in the exact mindset as you had the previous time, and it's quite likely you'll be forced to answer differently as a few of your original answers may not be present for some questions...and you may want to answer differently for a few others as different and new answers may more closely match what you actually think. It's very possible you'll "match" a different character most if you didn't have a super-majority like I did. (e): making this post actually coherent

Yeah...I was just making a joke.

I think their most likely representative would be Bruce, and he's pleasant enough most of the time.

I don't know anything about most of these characters, but..: Okay, I guess.

The first one is definitely right, because, for some reason, whenever there's a Twilight Zone marathon on, they ALWAYS show that one, without fail - must've had good ratings when it originally aired - so I definitely remember the dumb bus station...and the second one seems about right, too.

That sounds a whole lot like a Twilight Zone episode... ...Well, actually, it sounds like a combination of TWO different Twilight Zone episodes, if I recall correctly: one that involves doppelgangers taking over the characters' lives in suspicious circumstances, and one where the characters are on some strangely similar yet different version of Earth for some reason or another. The crazy things and ideas some of these old sci-fi shows/movies had...

Actually, from what I recall, you can pretty clearly see on the radar that the civilians are illustrated differently on the radar: I recall figuring I was bombing civilians immediately because they were shown differently than the militants. The fact that the game forced you into every bad and evil decision without any chance for recourse up until that point probably tipped me off, too, though.

I don't understand how it did: it wasn't even rated well. It was so bad...I didn't even realize until now there was another being made...