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Functionally, they're essentially the same, though. When you're "avenging" somebody, it's usually because you feel as though that person has been wronged...and for whatever reasons, you've become personally offended and wronged yourself through them - enough so that you've decided to take it upon yourself to "avenge" that wronged person. The supposed underlying reasoning is different, but the thing actually motivating you is the same exact thing: an injustice has affected you in one way or another, and you're going to try and right it in whatever way you deem necessary. Revenge and avenging are pretty much completely interchangeable in the case of, to take a very generic fictional example, trying to enforce justice on the behalf of...slain loved ones or something. This is an extreme example, but you can apply the same idea to pretty much any "avenging" scenario. I find it annoying that there's no noun version of "avenge"...and that there's no verb version of "revenge" or "vengeance". What's up with that?

Avenge has much more positive connotations than revenge, though, which is weird, because in a lot of cases, there's not really much functional difference between the two.

If you don't have much desire to mod, the Enhanced Editions more or less serve your purpose, I think. And I say that as somebody who dislikes the EEs. Hoping to hear more on your impressions. Particularly interested in a combat comparison to BG1's higher levels.

Glover 64. Kill me.

I don't think they actually were fire, which is surprising to me, given how businesses tend to fire in situations like these and ask questions later. I'm also not perfectly clear on whether the Patriots actually decided to suspend them, or if the NFL enforced it - they say the Patriots did it, but then say it's up to the NFL as to whether they could ever be reinstated in the future...which implies that it's the NFL's doing. (Also, in case it wasn't clear, I was balking at the idea of firing him for not doing a fifth interview, not actually saying he was fired. Not sure how clear that was in my previous post, now that I reread it. )

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.