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Valve and Bethesda, it's been said. I read on reddit that Valve actually takes 30% - similar to the cut they take for other sales - but there's no way of confirming it.

Comment retracted (by myself a few seconds after posting). Delete if you desire, o' mods! (P.S. In case it matters, it was just a stupid half-joke comment that I realized may not have been completely on point immediately after hitting post. Sorry!)

Yeah, these speakers already have too much impact for me, so that's probably not a great idea. Thanks for the explanation, haha.

Hah, so it goes, I guess. I bought my speakers not really expecting to like them all that much...but I actually like their sound signature better than the headphones I have (Sennheiser HD595 and Sennheiser HD280), and have been using them almost exclusively since getting them. Too much bass for my tastes, though...which is funny, because I read before purchasing them that people complained about them not having enough, which encouraged me to purchase them. Guess I'm really not a bass-head. In your experience, if you don't want more bass, is it worth getting a subwoofer?

How are the speakers? I once considered purchasing a Logitech set, but then I bought something else - though I'd like to note I paid only about 40% of Amazon's price (still for new, too). Warning: I know absolutely nothing about speakers.

I don't know idea why I have this song downloaded or where it came from. I have literally no idea. I don't know who the artist is, I hadn't even HEARD the track before when I found it in my downloads folder, and I don't know what or who it was related to when I found and downloaded it or whatever. But I kind of like it, so I guess it's staying for now. This has never happened to me before, though.

Pretty sure it does. There are currently post count restrictions. You can also restrict by class. These are things administrators - not moderators - can do. There is, I believe, one administrator on the Obs side. Yeah, but edit time limit isn't one of those that you can edit on a per user or per user group basis, I am almost certainly sure (at least, without custom software / a plugin). Rights for post editing in general, however...

I'd rather just roll my own...which, coincidentally, is exactly what I do.

SCS definitely takes a large amount of time, but Level 1 NPCs? Do you manually re-define each and every character?

I ran into all of those on my first playthrough. Thinking of firing it up again as a BGT-BWP, going to do either a F/M/C or F/M/T(possibly with a kit cuz I'm a cheater). A bit put off by the time it takes to do a BWP install, but perhaps I'll find the time when I'm done with PoE. I still install mods manually. Big World Setup is useful as a guide, though - though I wouldn't use just plain old BWP, since that would add way too much junk I don't want regardless of the settings I use. Also, frustratingly, the BWS is locked to always install Baldur's Gate Trilogy, and while BGT is great, I just don't care for BG1 that much and it's more trouble than it's worth. I'm playing with Item Revisions...any undead hit with it needs to make a plain save vs. death or it does nothing. Vampires are impossible to kill with it, skeleton warriors extremely unlikely, and liches unlikely (yes, liches are the easiest of the three, for some reason - crappy mage save vs death progression table, I guess? ). And since I'm playing with the hardest SCS settings, it means I have to tear down spell defenses regardless, and if the battle makes it that far, it's usually all over for the lich, anyway. It's not as useful as I'd hoped.

Baldur's Gate 2. It amazes me that after...literally, probably 50 playthroughs since I was 5-6 years old, I'm still finding new stuff. Met some rogue named Itona at the northern limits of Trademeet - in all my years playing, I'd never seen the lady - and, to my great surprise, she was not mod-added. She's a shadow thief and gives a little hint on how to find Ihtafeer, the rakshasa the djinn are hunting. She also wears the Gloves of Missile Snaring - a pair of gloves I knew existed from messing around in game and save file editors, but never thought actually appeared anywhere in the game. Little stuff like this astounds me. I also found out that an NPC in the Council of Six building in the government district, a guy named Llarsh, who I'd always thought was just for flavor and never served any useful purpose, actually DOES have a purpose. If you steal Valygar's tax forms from his house in the docks district, you can give them to Llarsh and he'll tell you about his cabin. FURTHERMORE, somehow, I'd ALWAYS missed the fact that Cromwell can upgrade the Mace of Disruption. For some reason, I was under the impression that that was a mod-added thing (and a mod I did not have), but no, that's in the vanilla game, too! If you keep the pure illithium from the Sir Sarles quest (the artisan that the churches want you to secure for them), you can instead give it to Cromwell. Plus, the church you're working for doesn't even care, as long as you bring back the fake illithium - they'll be happy to use that instead. I can't believe I've missed all three of these. I'm playing with all my regular mods (Sword Coast Strategems, Item Revisions, Spell Revisions, etc.), except I'm using a 50% creature and quest XP reducer. The going has been a little tougher at times than I'm used to, I have to admit. The planar prison (Haer'dalis quest) was pretty friggan' hard. Yuan-ti - particularly the mages - are such pains in the butt. I think I have another mod...polytweak, I think...that improves them alongside SCS. Eek.

The entire save, or the current save? Try to use the chapter selection and pick the latest chapter autosave if you can.

No, otherwise I'd never sleep. If it did, on the other hand, I don't think I'd ever be awake.

So...unlike the original, are you trying to say it's actually watchable? (Just kidding - I know that almost certainly means it'll somehow be much worse than the original.)

Raining and thunder over here... (Source: I don't know, my friend sent it to me a while ago)

That's also how I felt...though unlike you, I generally thought having Legolas in any of them was kinda lame. Tauriel I'm okay with, but Legolas always feels like he's trying too hard...

Oh I open all books and click all chat options, I just don't ... read them with super concentration, since I just forget it all after the next combat or two. There was a couple of lore tomes that had stories I liked enough to focus on them enough to remember I liked them, but not enough to quote them or their titles even. You're an oddity. I really wondered why so much time would be wasting developing such in game lore that had no relevance to the main plot. I guess it's for people like you. I've read all the BG2 books at some time or another. History of the Dead Three was always my favorite - Jergal becoming tired of his godhood and giving it away to Bhaal, Myrkul, and...Bane?...via a game of seeing who can throw a lich's head the farthest or some such. Good times,

Hah. You and I have different definitions of "mad cheap". I was thinking more along the lines of my $100 for my 4770k...haha. I haven't bothered with overclocking at all, because...why? I have so much more processing power than I'll conceivably need for the next few years, at the very least. After that, games will hopefully become quad threaded instead of still mostly dual-threaded, which should make it even less of a need.

How much did you pay for the 4790k?

How absurd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HsCEQz48tg

I bought 2x8GB of RAM for $75 expecting it to be canceled. It arrived just now. Whoops!

That's why I use Cheat Engine's program speed setting hotkeys for pretty much all my SP games. Life is short enough - let's get through the banal stuff in this stuff quickly.

Eh, Gandalf the Grey DID defeat the Balrog, and I have serious doubts Vader could do that. ...but he died in the process. Hm. I'd still give it to Gandalf to at least get the job done, even if perished doing so. Vader, I don't feel so confident about.

Given that Gandalf basically has force powers anyways (see the Fellowship of the Ring, fight between Saruman and Gandalf in the Orthanc) and that Gandalf is much more limber than Darth Vader in general AND has a wide variety of other powers, I'd have to give it to Gandalf pretty easily, too.