Bartimaeus

Ooh, if it weren't Australia, I would totally take it. ...But it'd probably get lost or destroyed with the cheaper services or something.

Tangled. Pretty good! Thanks to whoever recommended it (TrueNeutral, I think?). Weirdly, I thought it was more consistent in quality than Frozen (there were never really any parts that I really did not care for, unlike Frozen, where there were several), but somehow Frozen still seemed like the superior movie overall. Frozen having stronger music may have played a part in that (with the exception of "Fixer Upper", which I didn't like for several reasons), and a more interesting plot probably didn't hurt, either.

Small suggestion: turn up your mic volume some. I turned up my volume to 100% (it's normally around 30-40%), and it's still a little below my acceptable "normal" volume range. (The video volume is set to 100%, too.) I can hear you and make out words, but it's really hard to follow at this volume. Although...I realize now after saying that, that the game itself is about the same volume level as your voice (a little louder, but not much). What're you using to record?

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I was pretty serious regarding that comment. The Queen outfit was, I thought, pretty darned cool looking; reminded me a little - not a lot, but just enough - of later Roman (early-mid Byzantine) royalty clothing. I may be a little biased in that regard. I, um...rewatched Frozen again and discovered it was actually Kristoff who knew where she went - because apparently that's where the storm seemed most concentrated or something (even though it always looked relatively calm and peaceful when the castle was actually being shown...eye of the storm-type thing, I suppose?). So I guess that makes sense.

Yeah, that, too. Actually, the thing that probably bothered me the most about the movie was...weirdly, Elsa's voice actress. I didn't see anything of the movie besides dumb commercials, and so shouldn't really have had any expectations of what her voice was gonna sound like...but man, her voice seemed really out of sync with her character sometimes. I thought she sounded fine in "Let it Go", but it was making me physically uncomfortable listening to her in both parts of "For the First Time in Forever". It probably didn't help that her lyrics were pretty crappy both times, but even so. That might've just been me, though. ...that, and her throwing away her totally dope looking queen's dress in exchange for the comparatively silly-looking ice gown. But uh, that's a relatively minor complaint in the grand scheme of things, I guess.

I've been out of the loop for a while. Haven't seen any of those (and probably more). Life happens. I agree with you in regards to it not really deserving the rabid fanbase. Though I liked the film well enough, it really felt like it needed to be longer and more fleshed out. I realize the movie was (probably?) primarily aimed at children, but characters seriously felt like they were undergoing major character revisions every fifteen minutes...without the movie actually showing them undergo those character revisions, or why they were doing so in a plausible manner. Also, this may sound stupid, but it kind of bugged me how...um...I guess...OP Elsa was. We go from her being able to do mostly minor tricks, some moderately powerful passive freezing...to a nuclear winter and constructing castles. A little sense of progression for her powers wouldn't have hurt. And...it kind of bugged me that everyone somehow knew to go to that one mountain. Did I miss something? How did a complete shut-in like Elsa know that having her ice fortress there would be the perfect fit, how did Anna know she was going there, and how did Hans know she was going there...and all of them doing this independently of each other? Overall, still a good watch. Just not...the ridiculous perfection that most everyone seems to have hyped it up to be (and thankfully, not garbage like all the commercials showed).

God help me, I watched Frozen for the first time today. Worse, I moderately liked it. Whoever's in charge of making advertisements really needs to do a better job of it - every commercial I've ever seen of it has made it look pretty unbearable. I'll never forgive Disney for this.

Unless you change where your "presonal" user folder is by actually editing the registry (which is what I have done, so I don't ever need to worry backing it up when I reformat my C:/ drive).

I don't know the answer to your question (this is also the wrong section for this topic, by the way), but I hope all these new 21:9 monitors aren't a sign of the future...I still wish 16:10 became the standard instead of 16:9, and I don't think I could bear 21:9.

Mortal Kombat Kollection: I suck at fighting games. Best I've been able to do so far is make it to Goro without a gameover, but I always have at least a few from that rat fink. And then...uh...Tsang...Shung(?) usually beats the crap out of me some more. I've taken the stance of "the best defense is a good offense", but man, it's so much RNG: if they decide to block a few times in a row (which seems to be determined by equal parts luck and what attacks you've been predominantly using), it can be pretty hard to conserve health. First battle is usually a breeze, second battle is a toss up because now they're blocking all my best attacks that I used to kill them in the first battle, and the third battle (if you lose the second) is where you have to be really careful. The difficulty is so schizophrenic. Thanks to Oerwinde giving it to me on Steam via the Great Game Giveaway!

Maybe it's my (ir?)rational dislike of LA, but I'd prefer if all teams stayed where they currently are in regards to it...

That seems more like nvidia's fault, especially considering you said it was going to full clock speeds (I'm presuming that's what it was doing, since there's no other explanation for it gaining more heat) while watching videos, which isn't *usually* normal behavior - at least with even sort of new GPUs (I would say anything released in the last 5 years). It should only go to max clock speeds for 3D graphic displays, and none of that is 3D. An unusual problem.

Do the clock speeds change when you have it open? I'm presuming yes, since I don't see why it would increase the temperature otherwise if there's no activity increase, but just making sure. (Also, what version of Firefox do you have?)

There's might be a normal day/night cycle combined with scripted events that "hurry" it.

Uh...I haven't played the game, but I would presume stats. Dying Light would hardly be the first game to have different clothing you can wear without being able to see it - it *might* be the first game to have different clothing you can equip which neither you can see nor is of any use at all...but I probably wouldn't bet on that, either.

After letting the program run the entire night, though, the lowest it'll go is about 60, even though I'm not running anything different from yesterday...probably a Window's problem. I'm curious to see how far it'll go up if you keep letting the system run, though.

Most emulators let you choose the default behavior by way of settings. Why can't actual, real games do it?

The highest value I've had running that latency checker all day, (I did it after Googling it), is a value of 229. It's been in the 30s-40s roughly 99% of the time. I guess it's a probably situational thing.

Yeah, it would help if I could read. So is this a common problem with the 1150s? I didn't know there was a name for it, but I seem to have this problem once in a while, where my PC has inexplicably slows to a crawl: close to 0% CPU activity, close to 0% hard drive activity, more than enough free RAM available...and yet it takes 10-15 seconds to open Notepad...

Sorry, I'm ignorant: what's DPA latency? I did a quick Google search and didn't seem to find anything.

Some (most?) of us don't automatically get "sad" about some random person's life each and every time we read about them. That's not to say you *shouldn't* feel empathy, but demanding others to for every situation where there's merit to do is rather insane. I felt empathy for Anne Frank when I read her entire diary, particularly already knowing how the story ended before even reading it - this doesn't guarantee I'm gonna do the same for every random article I chance upon throughout my life about something bad that happened. Pick and choose your battles. Hey, speaking of Anne Frank, have you finished grieving for each of those 11 million individual Holocaust victims*? *Actually, that number is just for the ones that died - there were almost certainly many more victims that suffered in a hundred other different ways, including some of the soldiers being forced to participate in the atrocity, never mind the whole World War thing...

Was the first request a PM? I don't see any messages from you earlier in the topic, haha.

At least a few QBs still do that - I know Aaron Rodgers, for example, gave all his offensive line guys - even the ones still just in the practice squad - like $1.5k curved LED TVs (I"m not sure what curved LEDs are, but apparently this was significant enough of a detail to be included in the original report). I think Wilson...or was it Romo...did something of a similar nature this season, too.

He did give the truck to Butler. (edit) Seems like that was just a rumor - nobody knows if it's really true yet. It'd make sense, though, given the guy's just a rookie and saved the Patriots from losing their third Super Bowl because of miraculous nonsense.