Bartimaeus

I don't understand Europa Universalis. I was able to do a complete take over of the Ottoman Empire with the help of what was essentially a crusade, (not actually a crusade, but the English and the Mamluks and all their vassals as well as myself attacked them all at once and destroyed them - neither of them took any actual territory, however, and by the time they were mostly brought to their knees and they made peace with the other two, I had taken most of Thrace and Greece, as well as a little of Anatolia, and decided to mop up the rest of their territories because neither of us could make any more soldiers due to war exhaustion...so why not?). I am not able to take all of their territory/do a complete annexation - says I don't have enough peace points. I completely ruined your nation - give me your territory and phase out of existence like the rest of them. No way to take just some of a nation's territory without taking *all* of it...and even then, it'll only give you roughly half after completely destroying a larger nation in the stupid "peace talks" because there's no way to just force a resolution - if an enemy nation refuses to cooperate in the peace talks even after having been completely annihilated, you can't do anything about it. That's stupid.

It's their way of telling you that you should play Crusader Kings 2 first and then import a save where the ERE controls all of Europe. Uh, how different is Crusader Kings 2 from this? Still getting used to this - don't quite want to jump into a completely different game already...

Europa Universalis 4. This is...interesting, I guess. War mechanics seem really wonky compared to what I'm normally used to, but I'm getting used to it. Boy, couldn't they have the earliest date like a hundred years earlier? The Roman Empire starts out completely hamstrung, surrounded by the Ottoman Empire except for Constantinople proper and Sparta in Greece. Stupid history getting in the way of my fun.

Alternatively, i.Disk for seeing what's taking up space. Additionally, run Disk Cleanup to remove old Windows Update backups and other useless files, set a cap on how much room system restores can take up, (or, in my case, as I have extensive backups, disable system restore entirely).

Wow what a hater! Theophany's stuff is awesome, that one song is the ONLY one he went out to make on his own and I for one like it. If you want more classic Majora's Mask stuff, here: I guess I just don't like his style all that much, at least for this Zelda stuff. I liked Final Hours well enough, but the source material was slow and fairly low key to begin with - did not like Clocktown. Feels like there's not a lot of dynamics between each instrument, and they're all fighting for dominance between each other. It also reminds me a bit of the Twilight Princess "Twilight Symphony" orchestra release - where everything feels too stinking loud, too high key, and that there's too much going on compared to the source material. I like the relative crudeness and simplicity of the original tunes. I understand that others might want to do something different when making their own versions - especially when using real instruments instead of midi instruments - but similarly, it's very possible I might not like it just because of that! vs. the simplicity that was, (note the huge length differences, for starters...)

I was gonna like your post for this, but this honestly feels so overdone and reminds me very little of Majora's Mask and/or Zelda in general, that I'm not sure if it would be right...

Papers, Please! Day 21: "You are under arrest for attacking an Arstotzkan official." "The penalty is death." "Your family will be questioned about their involvement." "The border will remain open under a replacement inspector." "Glory to Arstotzka." Yeah, well, maybe if my "Tranquilizer" gun wasn't a freaking missile launcher that blew up both the guards and the TERRORIST I was aiming at that was murdering those very same guards, I would still be alive. Why the heck is it my duty to deal with armed terrorists when we have armed guards, anyways?

Have you just spoiled everything for me?? HAVE YOU??? GOD DAMN IT PEOPLE. I made a brief pause after finishing book 9. The 'pause' has been going on for quite some time now, years actually, but I intend to go back and FINISH THE WHOLE THING SOME DAY. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!!!! Can't tell if you're actually serious or not - if so, my apologies. Wasn't it kind of always a given, though? I mean, I recall it being touched upon multiple times throughout the earlier books. I mean, I guess it's not wholly unreasonable to expect it to never actually come to pass, particularly given the apparent one-notedness of the author's writing...but the books have been out for at least a few years now, and it seemed relevant to what was being discussed. Sorry about that.

Icewind Dale always was more combat-heavy than Baldur's Gate - maybe they won't immeasurably screw this up in my eyes with their ridiculous fanfiction additions. Best of luck to the project.

So...if I'm not mistaken, you'd need to get a Windows installation disk/drive, (or a Windows repair disk/drive), boot from it, go into Windows repair instead of Windows install, Windows image recovery, and it should hopefully detect it from the other drive. You should also exclude any disks for reformatting/restoration when it asks you to - at least, for any drives you don't want to be wiped. Windows unfortunately, while having other repair options built in, does not have the re-imaging tool accessible without the installation/repair disk. If your OS is a 64bit version, and you have the dual 32bit/64bit copy of the Windows installer, you will not able to use that copy of the Windows installer, because it defaults to the 32bit setup, which will not function when trying to restore to/from a 64bit version, and there's no way to switch to the 64bit version, as far as I'm aware. It's pretty stupid. If you're using a flash drive as your bootable Windows install/repair disk, you must take out the flash drive directly prior to actually initiating the restore process, (when it asks to confirm your options and that you want to reformat the selected drives - you can do it a little before that, too, if you're not sure), otherwise the restore will fail for no particular reason. Also stupid, I know. If you're restoring from a network drive, you will have to manually add your network drivers from a driver .inf file, which can be a bit of an...obscure process. This applies even if the generic Microsoft driver would normally work - the Windows installer will not load it. The entire Windows 7 re-imaging process is pretty arcane, from having spent a large amount of time playing with it.

What tool did you make the system image with? The entire OS + storage combination, just the storage drive/partition, or..?

Bit of a slow start, but that chorus...

Hah. I played through NWN1 when I was 8 or 9 - pretty much the first and only time, (though, as I've mentioned before, I tried again recently...but it was a flash in the pan type effort). I missed and didn't understand *so* much, haha. Actually, it kind of makes me want to give it a try again...

Having random people constantly adding me without any idea why, yeah, that would be great. I simply press "ignore" too... I check what groups or friends we have in common. If they're from here it should be someone. Otherwise I ignore them. I violated this rule recently and ended up getting messaged by a guy with a private profile telling me to add some other guy. I ask him who either of them are and then just get the same exact message copy-pasted back to me. That'll teach me to give people a chance. I don't mind giving new people a chance. Not so much people I already know and pointedly don't have added - three of which I've received in the past month or so.

"Worthy men," she said, her voice sweet and low, "I am told the Emperor of the Romans is a man of great learning and wisdom: yet, even such men have need of diversion from time to time." -Queen Eithne of Ireland, Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead

I don't even know what the Expendables is/are, so I can hardly get upset about this to begin with.

I would like to permanently stay in the visible BBCode mode, (code mode?), because that's just how I was kinda raised on forums, but then you can't use any of the convenient buttons. I don't really understand why. It's especially crappy, because the non-code mode posting box is all sorts of buggy in my old browser, (Opera 12.17).

I think the only game I've purchased in the last five years with third party DRM is Dark Souls. For good reason, too.

Probably Covenant's worst album - particularly with the main single being (arguably) complete garbage - but this is a decent song, IMO.

I could be wrong of course, those are my memories of dimly lit things from 2004 (at the latest, I think thats when the Obs forum started). That said, I think you radically underestimate the abilities of some of our illustrious membership (myself included) in firing off angry responses. Reddit has it both ways: you have like a 5 minute grace period where you can edit as many times as you want...unless somebody replies to you, in which case no matter what, any subsequent edit shows a notice.

The entire DRM approach is so ridiculously contrived - even as a big fan of Steam and Valve, I still think you should be able to at least launch the games you already have downloaded without having Steam running. You would definitely be having an easier time having gotten it elsewhere. While there isn't much of a moral conundrum getting it elsewhere if you've already paid for it, there is sadly still a legal one.

I don't like either series...but I tend to respect CD Project more. Also, while I didn't try the Witcher 2, (not having liked the first game), I did try both DA:O and DA2, neither of which I liked. The Witcher sequels are unknowns, comparatively. Therefore...the Witcher 3. (e: yeah, I totally respect CD Projekt so much...hence why I can't even spell their company right, )

Way back when - really way back when, like...5-6 years ago - you could actually do this, if their profile was open to you. No idea why they removed it. I actually complained about it to myself recently, too.