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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...

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.