Bartimaeus

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...

A live action Dumbo directed by Tim Burton, no less. I'm surprised Disney wanted more from him after the disaster that was Alice...but what do I know?

Tim Burton's Dumbo, lol. What animal will Johnny Depp be playing, I wonder?

I liked Frozen more because the plot didn't feel *completely* predictable. I hated how Tangled opened up with spoiling some of the most important danged parts of the story for no reason. Maybe they didn't care because they figured everyone already knew how the story of Rapunzel went, but *I* didn't know how it went outside of "girl has very long hair, something something". It also took me a long while to appreciate the music in Rapunzel - I was pretty ambivalent in regards to all the music except "Mother Knows Best" for a while: it took me several rewatches/relistens to really appreciate Mandy Moore (voice of Rapunzel) in "When Will My Life Begin" and "I See the Light". I still like Frozen's better, but I like Tangled's well enough now, too. Also, IMO, Anna and Elsa are stronger, more relatable (for myself, anyways) characters than either Flynn or Rapunzel. So there's that, too.

Anna literally died, Elsa was nearly murdered by Hans, Sven would've froze and drowned in the ice water sooner or later if Elsa hadn't had an epiphany after Anna was unfrozen, Olaf would've died sooner or later without Elsa, the parents are already dead, Kristoff...uh...Kristoff might've been okay. Sad if Anna hadn't magically been unfrozen, but probably okay. A LotR quote comes to mind..: "The quest stands upon the edge of a knife: stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all."

I can forgive not correcting the "true love's first kiss" bit, because maybe he simply didn't have a better idea - I mean, if she was engaged and in love with Hans, then it seems like a pretty good idea, right? Maybe if he had known how *long* they had been engaged, he might've said something. At least he wasn't like the other trolls and wasn't trying to hook up Kristoff with Anna while Anna is literally dying that very moment from something they all already know about because it happened not that terribly long ago; yet, for some reason, they still don't care in the slightest about it. I can't stand "Fixer Upper" because of how horribly inappropriately placed it is in the movie, haha. It would be bad enough if it was just Elsa going crazy (followed by the castle siege...), but with Anna literally in the process of dying right there... But not telling the parents that they are doing literally the complete opposite of what they should be doing...while they're actually directly telling him their awful plans... Yeah, that's less forgivable.

Does it bother you? Unless you have a pure or almost pure black desktop wallpaper (like me), you probably won't hardly ever notice, right? So...up to you as to how you deal with it.

Well...I still don't like ultra-widescreen, so that makes me feel a little better... Looks nice, though. Transparent stand? Was trying to figure out how it was floating for a few seconds, don't think I've ever seen a monitor with a transparent stand, haha. Almost no backlight bleeding? All the LCD monitors I've ever had have always had some backlight bleeding - should post a picture of a black background: curious to see how nice the blacks look. But seriously, that thing is so wide...my eyes sometimes get strained at just 16:9 - I can't imagine getting used to that. So wide... I always forget that we have the same keyboards - always startles me a little whenever you post pictures. What're the speakers, out of curiosity?

So when the king says immediately after, "No, we'll protect her: she can learn to control it, I'm sure of it. Until then, lock the gates, we'll reduce the staff, limit her contact with people, and keep her powers hidden from everyone...including Anna," ...the chieftain didn't feel like saying something, like maybe, "Uh, no, that's not quite what I meant..."?

Yeah, I'm dying to run nethack on max settings!!! No, you are right. If it was just a gaming machine it would be overkill, but I do use my desktop pc for other purposes (3D modelling/rendering/animation etc., all stuff that loves as many cores and as much memory as possible) I might be misunderstanding you...but I was mocking you because you said 12Mb - twelve megabits, which is 1.5 megabytes. I PRESUME you meant 12 GIGAbytes, which is...uh...8192 times as much as 1.5Mb. This message may sound really stupid and patronizing if you got that already - it may sound that way even if you didn't! - so apologies in advance. Also, I have 16GB, myself, for little to no reason...pretty much for the sole purpose of making sure I never have to worry about not having enough RAM in the next ten years. @Sarex: looking forward to pictures so I can cry about still only using some crappy 1600x900 screen that's a million years old.

Yes...perhaps there is... I know Disney trailers/advertisements are almost universally bad regardless of the quality of what it's advertising for...but that trailer for the Black Cauldron looks so bad. I say this, knowing that the trailers for Frozen made Frozen look like garbage and actually delayed me from watching Frozen...was the Black Cauldron any good?

Sleeping Beauty is a little bit boring, I'll admit...it's mainly the music that makes Sleeping Beauty for me. Some really fantastic pieces inspired by Tchaikovsky. What the heck is the Black Cauldron? Fantasia 2000 is...a mixed bag for me: I thought it had some good segments, but also some...too abstract/silly segments, too (e.g. the opening flying whales segment, which sorta just made me scratch my head). I'm also not the biggest fan of Lilo & Stitch - it's okay, but...a little too modern for my tastes, and almost a little too...ADHD, for lack of a better term. Too crazy and all over the place for me, haha. Pocahontas is pretty decent, as well. "Savages" is the thing that makes Pocahontas most for me. I've not seen Meet the Robinsons or Home on the Range - Disney was been pretty invisible for me for the past decade or so, until about Tangled. I did, however, actually watch that Winnie the Pooh recently: it was...fair enough, I suppose. If there's anything I don't like about that movie, it's the fact that most of the voice actors sound really, really out of place - particularly Christopher Robin, who sounds like a three or four year old to me, and has the (lack of) range to match . Every time he talked, it made me cringe a little. It's also a little too directed at younger audiences, but I'm willing to overlook that because that's...probably how it should be for Winnie the Pooh. (edit): Why the heck is Vevo hosting that Little Mermaid song?

What do you think were their actual instructions, then? (edit) Now that I think of it, maybe the parents did take the troll chieftain's instructions to extremes: he just implied that she should keep careful control of her powers, and that they should probably stay hidden (I'm assuming, since otherwise why remove Anna's memories of them?) - not that the sisters should not be together or talk to anybody else at all. Hmm.

Ah...that sort of thing was way before my time. Funny thing is, a car isn't hardly any less comfortable movie viewing than the terribleness that you get at most local movie theaters. I've seen all of those, though, except the Aristocats. Sleeping Beauty was probably the best, followed by Sword in the Stone.

Robin Hood was fourty years ago! How have you avoided seeing any since then? Mystical knowledgeable trolls who tell them that the best strategy for two sociable sisters who are as thick as thieves that the best thing to do would be to segregate and isolate them. Clearly, there wasn't much known about human psychology at this point in time...that, or troll psychology is very different, and they were all just idiots. Beauty and the Beast is great...though, like all Disney movies, not without its flaws. Watch it sometime, I've never seen the Aristocats. Always looked a bit mediocre to me. I can hear the voice actor for Baloo from the Jungle Book in that clip, though...

Well it just frustrates him. I don't mind it (everyone in LOST had the same problem). At least Frozen motivates a bit why Elsa and Anna don't talk to one another. But Hiccup and his dad don't just not talk to each other, they don't talk to anyone else either, instead just assuming what the other will think/do and acting accordingly. Yeah...instead of it being directly Anna's or Elsa's fault, it's their dumb parents. Great. Beauty and the Beast is the best Disney 2D film, IMO. ...Even if Belle's face IS inconsistently drawn throughout the whole movie, which it is.