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There is a bug with disabling status effects, where if an enemy is disabled in the middle of an attack, they will resume the attack upon the effect expiring, regardless of how far away their original target is currently. This is very easy to see by using Cipher's Mental Bindings while an enemy is in the middle of an attack animation. There's also another bug with paralyze at the very least, where if you paralyze an already paralyzed enemy, they will complete their currently queued action after the original paralyze duration ends, and then resume being paralyzed for the remainder of the new paralyze duration. Very annoying. Again, easy to test with Cipher's Mental Bindings.

Fired him for refusing another face-to-face interview? (He offered to do a phone interview, but the NFL declined.) Yeah...no. We'll have to agree to disagree. Firing him for being involved in the scandal at all I would've understood...but we don't know how much of the their texts Patriots leadership actually saw before handing over their phones to the NFL, so I won't pass judgement in that regard.

How did the Patriots organization interfere with the investigation? Only in two areas did the Patriots not "cooperate": McNally, one of the two employees involved in the scandal, was tired of interviews and refused to give a fifth interview, and Tom Brady did not give up his phone. In every other way, the Patriots have cooperated fully as far as I'm aware, including freely giving up the phones and texts between the two employees responsible. I'm of the opposite mind as you: I don't think there should be any punishment against the Patriots organization itself, but I would've been more or less accepting of a 2 game suspension for Brady for being strongly circumstantially linked to the scandal, for lying, and for not cooperating.

You may not wish to watch Wolf Hall, then,

Season finale of Wolf Hall on Masterpiece. Stupid British 6-episode seasons...aired on Sunday, but I didn't get around to watching it until now. Great season finale - I was praying for the death of a certain character GoT-style, but then...then it actually arrived, and they did it so well that I felt terrible that it happened, and now I wish it hadn't. 16th century England, I tell you what...nobody's good. Even the main character, Cromwell, is a bit corrupt...but he's still better than the rest. Wonder if there'll be a second season.

What a joke. For purely circumstantial evidence against Tom Brady, for being a grand total of 0.5 PSI under the legal limits...what a joke. Suh gets a 1 game suspension for purposely trying to injure, possibly cripple the league MVP, Raiola gets a 1 game suspension for stomping on another player...and Tom Brady, Superbowl MVP, gets a 4 game suspension and his team the loss of a first round pick for what again? For being involved in a minor cheating scandal that they cannot even conclusively link him to? Where the recorded PSI was just ever so slightly under legal limits...where they probably weren't even *trying* to get it under legal limits? Breaking the rules is breaking the rules, yes...so why aren't players trying to cripple other players to get an advantage for their team similarly treated? I dislike the Patriots and I dislike Tom Brady, but this is absolute nonsense. Pfeh. Not a good year for football.

Outside of the Bible, I don't think much of anything was ever read to me or my siblings. However, on the other hand, we listened to old radio tapes like the...uh...the Whistler, and something called the Best Christmas Pageant Ever, I think it was called. We also listened to the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? a million times, and I had to have watched the Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and Sleeping Beauty a few hundred times collectively by the time I was ten. Surprised that didn't turn my brain to mush. Or perhaps it did. On the other hand, I was independently reading stuff like the Harry Potter books and the Lord of the Rings as well as Redwall and...some Garth Nix stuff and...uh...other stuff, I guess, through 1st to 4th grade about...though I can really only begin to remember anything of what I read by the time I was in third and fourth grade. Trying to read the LotR trilogy in second grade was a mistake - I got through it somehow, but I don't remember hardly a single word. Should've started with the Hobbit. (e) I didn't really read any "classic" books until by the time I was in middle/high school. I thought Animal Farm was terribly dreadful, so hamfisted (ha ha) and boring as it was - didn't like Lord of the Flies, either. I don't much like any "classic" novels, actually - only exception I can think of at the moment is 1984 (e: unless you count the Roadside Picnic as a "classic", in which case, that too), which I thought was rather enjoyable.

Well...then my joke doesn't work very well, but my point was that Scully happens to also be wrong 99% of the time when she disagrees with Mulder, and she also happens to be an FBI agent. For some reason, most everyone who watches the show still loves her, though... I haven't really watched enough of Luther (two episodes, maybe?) Blacklist (also like two episodes ) to say anything truly relevant.

What're you trying to say here?

Thanks. Oh man, best YouTube show ever. I'm STILL quoting Nappa all the time. It's only worth watching for Dragonball fans, but boy is it added value. I've never watched Dragonball, and, in fact, I dislike the vast majority of anime art styles (only exception I can think of at the moment is Avatar), and I generally dislike it as a medium altogether. I still like DBZ Abridged, though.

Oh no, I think dubbing is almost absolutely worse than just plain subtitles. Unless the dubbing is truly excellent (we're talking like DBZ Abridged level quality, so never, basically), I'd rather take just subtitles. What I actually was asking is if the experience would be ruined if I just didn't flat out know Russian.

Hah: I disliked Canticle for Leibowitz. I don't think the Roadside Picnic was exactly brilliant, but I rather enjoyed it, especially being a fan of the Stalker games. Personal taste, I suppose. I've not watched Stalker in a while. but the actors in it are very good, so a bad English overdub could really hurt. as for the dialogue itself, I remember there being a lot of metaphysical stuff, but a quality translation should be enough for you to enjoy it if you do decide to watch it with subtitles. actually, I'll go watch it right now to make sure Report back after.

And the Jaguars' first round draft pick has already torn their ACL and is out for the season. Poor Jaguars.

Is knowing Russian important to enjoying Stalker? I've read the Roadside Picnic, but I never watched Stalker because I felt like subtitles would undermine the movie.

I'd love for the topic to get off of these silly Marvel and DC movies/comics that I, too, personally do not care much for... ...but now that I think about it, I think perhaps I'd rather let everyone else continue to amiably and enjoyably discuss the movies they want to discuss. Ah, it's so easy to comment when there are things being discussed that you would also like to discuss...and equally so easy not to comment when there isn't, isn't it?

I personally never minded group PMs from a "personally being annoyed" point of view - maybe because I was the head admin outside of the site owner and so received plenty of PMs all the time anyways - but I hated that it usually ended up with a bunch of different admins/moderators trying to do a bunch of different things within a short period of time to "fix" it, as well as revealing who're apparently unsuitable for being in a position of responsibility at all if they can't even decently handle a stupid PM or two.

Yeah, group PMs suck. It's a great way of getting everyone important's attention...and making all of them instantly hate you.

No. Besides being a woman - and, as you pointed out, succeeding in spite of it in a very poisonous political climate - she stands for most everything I hate about U.S. politics - corporate backing, family ties and other questionable connections, being put mostly in a position to succeed by others - just like everyone else who runs for anything even half-important in this godforsaken, nepotistic country - and straight up, I did not not like her part in the Obama administration (being a grand part of the "most transparent administration ever", HA), and I have little love for what I know of her politics. Why in the world do YOU think we should like her for president? You still haven't given any bloody reasons that would actually play into why she makes a good candidate. Because she succeeded at manipulating her way into positions of import, just like everyone else who holds/has held those positions have?

It's funny - because, again, I know I made a stupid assertion earlier that made it sound the other way - but I agree with you...to a point. I'm not really all that concerned with the private affairs of presidents, for the most part. I don't want a president who has affairs, or abuses their spouse or something, obviously...but the for the most part, I think these sorts of private matters should stay exactly that: private. I guess that's the result of being so important nationally...and worldwide, too, I guess...that there's absolutely zero room for mistakes of any sort, even in your personal lives. Shouldn't try running for one of the most powerful political positions on Earth then, I guess. Yes, sorry: it apparently took me a bit to write my own post, and yours was posted in between. I regret getting involved in this discussion in more than a superficial way: I hate politics and I can be a very poor arguer. I also dislike getting heated, which I am here with Bruce's statements, which are alienating me more than anything you've ever said to me before, Bruce. Sorry.

And Genghis Khan managed to unite a significant portion of the tribal steppe hordes and conquer a good portion of Europe...and Attila defied the imperium sine fine and marched down the Italian peninsula and cowed the Romans, leading to the downfall of the Western Roman Empire a mere 20 years later..and Hitler was born in a small village to a poor family and ended up becoming Fuhrer and leading Germany to its infamous recovery from WW1... I'm not concerned about her circumstances or supposed "accomplishments". I am not concerned about her supposed "beating the odds" - which I disagree with. Your statement "she deserves it" is completely reprehensible to me - nobody "deserves" the presidency. It is only because of our perpetually absolutely horrible state of affairs in politics that she is even being CONSIDERED as a potential candidate - never mind if she actually won it (by the way, this statement is hardly limited to her - I don't think ANY of the potential candidates, besides MAYBE Sanders, should even have a shot at it). The presidency should be earned, and if she were not a Clinton, I seriously doubt she would be in the running. It is extremely unlikely that she would've ever become Secretary of State or Senator without the backing of a former president (who happens to now be rather popular, perhaps thanks to the string of previous presidents we've had - was he ever not popular after leaving office?). Nobody deserves the presidency. Unfortunately, with U.S. politics as they are, it can't be earned, so I guess that's just how it has to be, huh?

An interesting comment, and I'm not completely sure how to respond to it. Different times and different motives, I think - Mrs. Kennedy was never really anything besides the First Lady, and, at that time, I don't think really ever had any realistic aspirations of being, y'know, Secretary of State or something...unlike Mrs. Clinton. Also, I would like to amend my previous comment: I don't think Bill Clinton's affair(s) are the thing that actually make her morally bankrupt - that'd be a pretty stupid assertion to make (and I know that I did make it, but it wasn't quite what I meant)...just something that has always perturbed me about her, and, in my opinion, doesn't help paint a pretty picture of the Clinton family - along with everything else. Bruce's reply got me in a little bit of a huff, I think. Note my mention of a former president assassinating a potential president - who also happens to be his wife.

Yeah...that's why I only played sorceresses in Diablo 2. A hammerdin was my second, but it wasn't close: I hated having to constantly switch from teleport to aura to teleport to aura, lining up the hammers so they actually hit things because of the odd hammer arc...and the cost of a playable hammerdin versus a playable sorceress were incomparable: you could always play a sorceress at some level, because you always have teleport. Hammerdin? Have to have Enigma, at the very least, and if you don't have good gear in other respects, you'll never survive the beating that a hammerdin takes because of the dumb hammer arc. Of course, having thousands of forum gold on d2jsp rather defeats the entire fun of playing D2 at all...which is probably why I don't play it anymore. In regards to Path of Exile, one thing I hated was a lack of teleport in any class. I hate ALT+F4 being my only escape from unbeatable odds.

Unless Bill is her VP and he plans on assassinating her on day 1 of being president, I don't think so. He may or may not be morally bankrupt, but at least he was a decent president. Her? I know she's morally bankrupt - why else would she stay married to that husband of hers that cheated on her in one of the biggest public marital scandals of all time without so much as batting an eye...if not for the lure of power later on - and while she has shown flashes of competence at one time or another, I'd rather take my chances with virtually anyone else.

I'm not all that left-leaning (firmly in between), but at this point, I'd vote for anybody who seems they have even a shred of honesty and integrity...so right now, my current favorite is Bernie Sanders. I do not want to see another Clinton - particularly not this Clinton - and I do not want to see another Bush. I hate U.S. politics.

Reminds me of that story about the St. Paul's Chapel in New York, and about how it was the only building in the area around the World Trade Center during 9/11 to be completely unscathed. Fundamentalist Christians like to parrot that off as if the entire event was a sign from God to repent or some such. Interesting stories, regardless.