Zoraptor

Bard's Tale is the 3rd. W2 -> Torment -> Bards Tale. Each with diminishing return though. Yeah, to be fair Torment is in Early Access so it isn't like it's vapourware.

(Auntie) Flo is an old British euphemism/ colloquialism for menstruation.

Americans think of some sitcom character, imperials think of Auntie Flo Visiting. Kind of sums up the stereotypical differences between the two.

Man, do I wish people would leave off with the Alzheimer's (and Parkinson's for that matter) talk. Trump doesn't sound like someone who has Alzheimer's, early or not. What he does sound like is a fairly typical person who never/ seldom does formal debates and basically speaks as a stream of consciousness. It's certainly 'unusual', but only because the vast majority of people who are doing politics at this level are, well, career politicians who have a certain style that has evolved to appear smooth/ rehearsed and is designed to offend the fewest people possible. That's why 'experts' always tend to underrate how well Trump actually does- they tend to rate things against the typical politician which is not necessarily what the average voter is looking for. It's the same thing that got GWBush elected over Gore. One might say that Bush voters were morans (if one were a monumental dong at least, and not just for using 'one' unironically) but so what, their vote is worth every bit as much as anyone else's. And for all that 'experts' tended to make fun of Bush's folksiness it worked, and criticising it was hugely counter productive.

Well, that was uninspiring. Didn't watch the whole thing as I value my sanity far too much but Trump was RubioBot 2.0 with every question he didn't want to answer while Hillary still seems like a lizard person impersonating a human half the time. If it were a football (soccer) match it would probably have been a turgid 0-0 draw with Hillary having the better run of the play. (Lol, CNN spent ages talking about birtherism and obama = muslim. Ye gods)

Only interesting if the pseudonym turns out to be something good like Sexbot420. Or if he knew that the correspondence was conducted on an insecure channel. And by inference that he lied about when he knew of Hillary's server. Which he was 'allowed' to do since it was only to the press and the public rather than under oath, but much like just everything in this email saga at the very best it's not a good look. Huma Abedin was also using her Yahoo account to print Hillary's emails for convenience. OK, so some of the incompetence there is Yahoo's for being hacked and apparently not knowing it for literally years, but if you're taking 'secure' emails and printing them off on your personal email it actually wouldn't have mattered if Hillary were using a secure server. Along with things like the Democratic Party emailing new passwords on a system they knew was compromised the overwhelming impression is of utter incompetence or complete naivete.

So far as I understand it you can already sue countries- sovereign immunity has to be asserted to stop the process. That's why Iran (!) 'has' to pay 10.5 billion for the 9/11 (!!) attacks despite having nothing to do with them. They needed to turn up and assert sovereign immunity to stop the process but didn't.

GOG did that because people insisted on installing old games into program files. Not exactly a great solution to be sure, but I imagine they got sick of "game does not work, it won't save!!!" complaints coming in every five minutes. Unflagging run as admin was certainly annoying, but I can see why they'd do it that way.

Ten years on and Oblivion's face gen is still embarrassingly unrealistic.

Jennifer Aniston? Silly people with short memories. Gwynneth recently got divorced from Chris Martin, that can't be coincidence. I'm not sure what you're saying? Nothing, really. Before he was with Jennifer Aniston he was with Gwynneth Paltrow, who recently 'consciously uncoupled' from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. I rather doubt either has much to do with a split with Angelina Jolie, I just happen to remember a load of pointless crap.

Jennifer Aniston? Silly people with short memories. Gwynneth recently got divorced from Chris Martin, that can't be coincidence.

A racist right wing irredeemable! Get in that basket with Pepe Tone is a liberal hippy thing, though For this election I'd associate the word directly with Hillary, as she didn't like Bernie's 'tone' back in March. It was one of those semi meme phrases of hers, like telling Wall Street to 'cut it out'. Pretty pointless comment from Obama in any case, especially after Madeleine Albright's similar intervention labelling women who don't vote for Hillary as having 'a special place in hell reserved for them' did not work as intended.

There's certainly a happy medium between the two systems, especially for a company that makes that much money. Of course that happy medium costs money so you get either the equivalent of the office intern approving one game a week from small companies (old system) or the current one where that intern doesn't even do that any more and you have, basically, open slather limited slightly by a greenlight system which nobody likes. Not only does there tend to be a lot of crap and drivel let in- and more importantly games that don't or are basically scams- but that dross also tends to obscure the quality small scale titles too. GOG has curation, imperfect curation certainly but there's still a lot less shovelware and stuff that doesn't work there, and GOG is an order of magnitude smaller than steam is.

Almost certainly just a screw up. Absolutely terrible timing though, and apparently a 'double tap' strike too targeting rescuers which is why the death toll may now be as high as 100, and for a relatively small defending force that's a horrendous one day loss. The only real counter evidence of it being deliberate is circumstantial- the big one being that the US very seldom bombs immediately around DEZ itself so this strike even if it hit ISIS would be odd, because doing so actively helps the government and they really want their rebels to take that land since it blocks the land route from Iraq into Syria, hence why the direct US proxy New Syrian Army has tried to take multiple Syrian border crossings from ISIS at Abu Kamal and elsewhere. Also the positions around DEZ are relatively static and they 'should' be able to identify government forces from both position and by their equipment, flags etc with any proper reconnaissance. The alternative deliberate scenario is that there was bad intelligence from a 3rd party, either a Gulf Country or non ISIS rebels, trying to derail the ceasefire.

Three interesting developments 1) US Special forces chased out of Jarablus by 'moderate opposition' chanting the names of 9/11 hijackers and about how they'd like to behead them. One of the more bizarre videos I've seen recently. The SF came back later with Turkish support, but that pretty succinctly sums up the state of the 'moderate' opposition. 2) Israel is bombing the Syrian government in southern Syria in support of... Al Qaeda. No, not a joke, seriously, there have been about a dozen Israeli strikes in support of an Al Qaeda/ Jabhat al Nusra offensive in Quneitra. 3) US is bombing the Syrian government in support of ISIS. OK, this one is probably accidental, however last time the US bombed the government accidentally around Deir ez Zour ISIS made significant gains soon after in the area bombed. Still, may have to adapt the old WW2 adage: When the Russians bomb the rebels duck, when the Turks bomb the Kurds duck, when the US bombs everyone ducks. In this case it's particularly unfortunate, the Syrian army forces in DEZ have been there for four years of pretty much non stop fighting and they're protecting ~200k civilians from ISIS. There's also another truce, but it's a bit of a joke since nobody on either side is going to respect it.

No, they drive on the left because that enables people to pass each other with their sword arms free for easy defence. Fools, morans and the terminally naive drive on the right which simply means all their highwaymen are left handed. Americans may think their right to bare arms protects them from crime but it's simple fact that the UK has a lower crime rate because it drives on the left and so does Japan, another country with a low crime rate. Statistics don't lie.

Hillary: "I am a banana"-- we at politifact rate this mostly true. (Birther movement wasn't just started by some random democrats in Hillary's campaign, it was actively promoted by Sidney Blumenthal, perhaps Clinton's closest political confidante apart from Bill. That was the reason Obama vetoed Blumenthal having any official position while Hillary was SoS. He also promoted the 'closet muslim' theory which was promoted by Hillary in exactly the same way the birther movement was promoted by Trump- 'just asking questions' etc. It's another one of those technical answers from politifact, like Hillary being mostly banana, that is just utter crap from any practical standpoint. Hillary herself may not have started the birther movement, her campaign on the other hand definitely did and it was promoted by her closest confidants)

Pretty easy to see why Powell has been so chill about his emails leaking, doesn't seem to be anything there for him to be embarrassed about aside from some honest opinions that most people who aren't the target of them would either openly or tacitly agree with. Worst you can say is that he's a bit gossipy at times. Shame he didn't run in 2000, then again that also means he also didn't get Roved so fair enough that he didn't.

Does anyone really need to know for sure? Good for a chuckle though when you hear commentators talk about stripping east german athletes of records for their 'obvious' doping. She never failed a doping test (her retirement was... unusual though) but then neither, technically, did Lance Armstrong. And on the leaks themselves, it's always heart warming and inspiring how many top athletes overcome the odds of having severe asthma, ADHD and the like to achieve greatness in their chosen field.

'Adventure with up to 4 friends'. This signals MMO design choices for me. Can't actually remember if this was in the first reboot game, if it was then I guess it's not so pronounced, which is a good thing for me at least. It allowed two-player co-op by default, but let each player control two party members each. Mods quickly allowed for four player co-op and it was such an obvious move that it's just implemented by default in the sequel. Really the puzzle is why they didn't do it the first time around. Obviously they were surprised by the number of rpg nerds who had four three friends. Though they should have remembered that four is the practical minimum for a D&D session, at least.

This electoral cycle is starting to make me wonder if someone is supplementing my food with LSD. I see Hillary('s campaign) talking about green cartoon nazi frogs and Colin Powell writing about Bill Clinton "still [boffing] bimbos"*; and they're just the tip of an iceberg that includes Donald Trump winning a major party's nomination. It's utterly surreal and it'd lack believability, were it fiction. *That Bill is still richarding bimbos is not, of course, itself a surprise.

Not really relevant to anything but I'm just trying to break up the Clinton talk Didn't it pass with enough margin to override the veto anyway? Lol no, voice vote so no one risks those lovely Saudi $$$ by making their vote official. I'd put money on them not voting again on it, but making sure to pass the TPPA during the lame duck session.

When I had pneumonia I specifically asked about that since I have 2 young nephews I see regularly and was told not to worry about it. One of them actually got pneumonia later (9 months later, and viral, so not from me) and while he had to go into hospital he didn't go into isolation or anything. So she was probably fine with that, corny/ fakeness etc notwithstanding.

Yeah, just saw the statement from her physician elsewhere. I don't think they're claiming the allergy caused the pneumonia though, there would be no point prescribing antibiotics if that were the case. At this point I'd be more concerned about her ignoring her doctor's advice (or having a rubbish doctor) than any immediate ill effects, she really shouldn't be getting "dehydrated and overheated" at 70F if she was following doctor's orders. As for anything else that might be wrong with her '~fainting' is a very non specific symptom that could be nearly anything- but I have to agree that some scepticism is warranted.

Pneumonia can last a long time, especially if you don't take the time off you need- and it varies in severity. I actually had near exactly the same thing happen to me as happened to Hillary after an extended period (weeks, possibly months) of coughing and shortness of breath which was never quite bad enough to go see a doctor or take time off for. Then I mowed the lawns and started hyperventilating uncontrollably afterwards. After some antibiotics and a few days of proper rest it was fine*. Definitely more of a worry for a 70 year old than someone half her age though. *except for caffeine intolerance, which I got as an added bonus. But she was being seen by a doctor all the time, how wasn't the pneumonia diagnosed? And why was she allowed to proceed with her schedule after the diagnosis? I knew a fairly young guy who died from pneumonia in two days, you have to take it very seriously. I'd imagine the diagnosis came today, otherwise they would have managed things a lot better. As for the diagnosis itself we don't know when she last saw the doctor but pneumonia is tricky as it's more of a symptom than a specific disease (and thus has multiple causes) and has degrees of severity, so you can have a chest infection from a potential pneumonia causing source without it being actual pneumonia. Plus, a lot of the symptoms are not very specific, like tiredness or shortness of breath or coughing. She doesn't have severe pneumonia- clearly, she'd be in bed at least if not hospital if so- so it was probably a mild pneumonia and exhaustion combination that caused her collapse today. From a forthright person it probably wouldn't be much of a big deal either, but Hillary's tendency to obfuscation doesn't serve her well at all, again.