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*still has no idea how the game ended, so cannot comment, * (e): Although I am slightly disappointed that, according to you, she did somehow make it back to safety...I would've preferred that the game ended with everybody dying.

This is probably more along the lines of what you'd pay right now over about a month's purchasing time (for everything: this ignores any potential "super" deals, and instead presumes the normal variance of prices) using a combination of stores, including newegg, amazon, and tigerdirect, but a few reputable others as well: Chassis: $60-70 MB: $140-160 (VI when I bought it; VII it'd be closer to $190-200 right now) PSU: $80-90 (for my specific model: you could get a roughly equivalent one for probably in closer to the 60-70 range, possibly as low as 50 if you're lucky) CPU: $300-330 ($330 is the "standard" price, but retailers are often putting a "sale" on it and bringing it down to $300) RAM: $85-90 (RAM has gotten a bit cheaper very recently: when I bought mine for $75, it was basically a ridiculous mega-super deal, where the cheapest you could normally get the equivalent of my RAM would've been more to the tune of $110-120, whereas now it doesn't seem nearly so crazy) SSD: $95-105 (like RAM, it also has gotten cheaper very recently: $105-115 would've been closer to normal when I bought it) The difference isn't nearly as extreme. However, am I correct in assuming that there is still a sizable tax to add on to the AUS prices I listed earlier? If so, the gulf probably widens, but if not, that's not nearly as bad. These prices are still bad enough that I wouldn't bother making this PC (i7 and MB, at the very least, would be switched out for something else, and I would definitely be choosing a different PSU model than the specific one I chose, since there are other roughly equivalent models for cheaper), but regardless...

A few years ago, 909 EUR would be significantly more in USD (about $1136 at its highest)...so at least there's that, I suppose.

PC Case Gear Chassis: $110 -> 81 USD MB: $305 -> 225 USD using the VII instead of VI since they don't have VI in stock anymore PSU: $100 -> 74 USD CPU: $480 -> 354 USD using the i7-4790k instead of the 4770k (upon release, they were almost exactly the same price anyways, and the 4790k is essentially the 4770k's replacement) RAM: $160 -> 118 USD SSD: $165 - > 122 USD So I paid $435 (after taxes, by the way) for my system...I would've paid $974 at these prices (and I'm presuming this is before taxes). At these prices, I probably don't bother ever making a PC. Though, to be fair, a few of my parts (the CPU and PSU, in particular) I got at...very unusual prices. But that's still over double the total price...

Chassis: Corsair 300R (non-windowed, because I hate windows: $45) MB: Asus Maximus VI Hero ($120) PSU: Silverstone ST50F-ESG ($20) CPU: Intel i7-4770k ($90) RAM: 2x8GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24 (just find the cheapest set of two you can find, since the specific part doesn't really matter: $75 is what I got mine for) GPU: N/A (I received mine for free from mute688 ) SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB ($85) You weren't kidding about MSY: I have no idea how to use this website. Trying PC Case Gear.

What online stores do you Europeans and Australians use that generally have the best prices? Curious as to how much more expensive my PC would've been if I hadn't purchased my parts in the U.S...

I'm having difficulty remembering any of the bosses...was there something in a swampy-like area that was a boss? I just can't remember anymore... Yeesh, I can remember 2033 from like front to back, but I only have fragments of the areas from LL...

40%? That seems...low. I would expect it to be closer to...I don't know...say, 100%? Hasn't everyone experienced some sort of online bullying of some sort at some point? I don't know how you'd avoid it, whether it's on forum boards, reddit, youtube comments, in multiplayer games, or anywhere else...probably even on sites like Facebook, too. If that means "they're winning", I really think we should correct that to, "they've already long won". But I don't personally think that's a useful criteria for determining whether "trolls" have won.

I thought it was weird that the Diablo 2 voice actor for Deckard Cain played Bane, but maybe that was just me. (e): Literally all I could think of anytime Bane talked. Obviously, they're not exactly the same, but they're unique enough voices that happen to sound similar that I can't but help think it.

Yes!? Oh.

Yeah, that's a crappy way of doing it, since age ratings are more meant as "for mature audiences", not that the content of the movie itself is actually in any way mature: often, IMO, it means just the opposite. Actual maturity is a hard thing to define...it's also at least somewhat subjective, as you pointed out. Perhaps it's a little immature to concern ourselves with what we consider to be mature...enjoy what you enjoy, and let others enjoy what they enjoy without anyone looking down on one another for different tastes.

Insulting my English skills - I can live with that. Who cares? Not me, that's for sure. Insulting Amentep's? I literally haven't stopped cracking up since reading that. And your latest post...using that reasoning... You're too much for me, Bruce.

How did it come across as "painfully obvious" to you, out of curiosity?

That's all that matters, friend. Thanks, .

I don't wish to sound overtly hostile like Mr. Parker did in his previous post, but...I can't remember a single time you've ever actually convinced anybody of anything in these social issue topics, Bruce. Actually...that's not completely true: what I meant to say is that I can't remember a single time you've ever actually convinced anybody of your own viewpoint: I can definitely remember you convincing people of the opposite, of what you're arguing against.

For the most part, of course not. Nevertheless, I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my own English, and so it's a topic of interest to me, even though I've never understood English the way it was taught in school. Instead, I learned most everything I know from reading books and gaining an intuitive sort of sense for how things work instead of actually knowing how they work.

I didn't ask for any of this gobbledygook! Just tell me if I was right, darn you! I can't even remember what a preposition or a predicate bloody well are...American education, I tell you...(or rather, how I completely and utterly failed to learn anything from it, particularly on this subject, ). (Unrelated: did you know that gobbledygook had a "d" in it? I sure didn't before Googling how to spell it!)

That's...actually why I thought he did have a fair bit of negotiating leverage, assuming they wanted to keep him long-term. After the very first franchise tag, they would have to pay him more than they'd want to from then on. For two years, that about balances out to an average of what he got in the contract, but after that, it'd become prohibitively expensive and they'd have to let him go. He must've not wanted CJ money as much as he said.

What would a truly "mature" game look like, anyways? Seems like games either don't try to be mature at all, or try way too hard and it comes across as being overly edgy, which is usually even worse than not trying. Maybe we should stop using the word "mature" at all: it's not really something people usually use for other forms of entertainment, is it? Hm...

Not entirely true! I am certifiably "weird", not "strange". I can't vouch for the rest of these boggarts, though...

He was JUST saying he wanted equal to/more than Megatron money...what happened?

I think that means...I was correct in my examples? I hope? (e): I'm serious about being really bad in actually understanding how English works: I don't even know how to distinguish a "subject" from an "object" in a sentence.

I've played through 2033 a few times: I always play throwing knives or Helsing only (depending on how masochistic I'm feeling), so I stealth my entire way through the game, so I always get enough. I also always stealth murder everyone in the game, even after hearing their sad little sob stories, but the game doesn't care.