Zoraptor

You know what they say, without IGN you can't spell ignorant. Guess that's tier 1 gaming websites for you. I'll decide what I think of the game when the lower tier web reviews come out.

It's a drop down menu after pledge/ reward/ redeem key, and it defaults to blank so it would be pretty difficult to stuff up.

Have to say that Bioware's choice of voice actor for Daddy Lawson was spot on, even if their face scan of Strahotski was... slightly reminiscent of a waxwork in an overly warm room. And while I'm hardly an SJW, Bioware's obsession with Miranda's butt at best verged on being creepy. I just don't get the appeal. From Bioware's perspective Fox News 'controversy' incoming--> free publicity. Won't even be fake news this time around, it seems. From the buyer's perspective, well, I guess some people don't know about certain, uh, specialist sites that already feature Mass Effect characters. [triggered]

IIRC the boy was 12 when the relationship started, he was 14 when it was discovered/ she was prosecuted. Not that that invalidates the rest of the post of course, it rather reinforces it.

To be fair, the 480 was exactly where AMD said it would be- around 390-/x level. Well, apart from PCIe power draw, at least. People got over hyped by things like its async compute scores which were always going to be better than nVidia as their cards are crap at that, same as nVidia would murder AMD cards at tesselation. So long as people keep their expectations reasonable and accept that there will be limitations and problems with a new launch the hype train should not derail. Then again, while beating the 7700k in single threaded in a like-for-like (ie not overclocked 1800x on very good cooling in a top line MB vs stock 7700k in a low cost B or H MB) test is not a reasonable expectation given the Ryzen has twice the cores I've seen an awful lot of people who suddenly think that ST performance is the paramount factor in choosing a chip and that cores/ threads are unimportant around the net lately. Fanboys gonna fan, for both sides.

Turks/ rebels captured Al Bab a day or so ago, though it seems that ISIS retreated more than anything- probably to defend the far more important Raqqa from the SDF (Kurds+allies). What Turkey does next will be interesting, since it will probably determine whether Raqqa falls in the next six months or gets a reprieve while the SDF fight Turkey instead. Erdogan has a referendum to win in his quest to make himself emperor, so he has to balance the nationalist/ religious agenda against the negatives lots of body bags could result in, plus whether it's worth annoying the US significantly (probably a vote winner in itself, though most of the people who like that idea already vote for him anyway).

The investment funds help a lot. Looks like it will be around 50/50 funding from investors and 'genuine' crowdfunding, if it were crowdfunding alone it would be a lot less than P(o)E and there are less than half the number of backers. Paypal/ backer site will probably help a fair bit since many people do dislike Fig. Have to say, I did find some aspects of the PoE2 pitch rather odd. The world map and boat stuff seems very similar to Risen 2/3 with some additional 'base building', which aren't exactly the most popular of models amongst the target audience. And part of the latest stretch goal seems to be straight out of Stardew Valley (!)- again, not something I'd really expect.

I liked ME3 well enough, albeit it isn't much of an RPG, but Andromeda has a lot of red flags on it. It seems to know what it wants to be as a game even less than ME3, or even Inquisition (disclaimer, haven't played DAI, so going by commentary). A Gears of War/ relationship simulator combination with open world elements? Sounds like it has been designed by committee to appeal to the maximum number of people- and as a near inevitable consequence to appeal to none of them well.

R5 chips are now slated for Q2, R3 for 2nd half of 2017. On the positive side though at 500NZD* for a 1700 the 8 cores are within budget and I could even stretch to an X model if pressed despite having to buy a custom cooler as well. Depends if the old computer carks it soon or not. I was expecting at least $100 more for the CPU given our tech prices are usually inflated massively compared to US. *about $50 less than it 'should' be given the US price, after currency conversion and 15% GST so a very good deal.

It isn't ideological for me- I've been happy with all the Intel processors I've used and if Intel offered a better product at a better price I would still buy from them. Doesn't look like they will though, and I certainly don't have so much loyalty to Intel that I'd buy a worse product just for the brand. The feeling that they should have been offering better products for less certainly doesn't help, but that is the only ideological part. OTOH my attitude towards nVidia probably is ideological- I'd actively avoid their products if possible and would have bought a 480 over a 1060 even when the 1060 appeared to be better value. That that would have been a good decision due to AMD's driver improvement would just reinforce the decision.

I've been extremely satisfied with my now ancient Core2Duo, it would play pretty much any game up until recently and has been 100% reliable for ten years. Could not have asked for more and it will get the electronic equivalent of burial with full honours (and repeated F pressing) when replaced. I've been less happy with Intel over that time though, they've mostly coasted on their advantage and a situation with no AMD competition would mean Skylake-> Kabylake type transitions where the improvements are... limited would be further encouraged. To be honest though, their products looked significantly overpriced/ under featured even before the Ryzen leaks, and now they don't (from the leaks at least) look competitive against the AMD offerings in terms of what I want- future proofing, with things like current game performance decidedly secondary. Ideally, I want a CPU that will last for another ten years, and I simply cannot see an Intel chip doing that as well as Ryzen at this point. It's basically the same situation with nVidia, was happy with their cards but not happy with their attitude, and bought AMD (and will again) since they'd support and improve them longer.

The main problem is that it's just plain old and fundamentally needs replacing. It's not always a bsd, that's shorthand for bsds, lockups, spontaneous reboots etc. It has always been finicky about the case, only other times I've had instability problems was when I cross threaded a case screw (!!, yes, that finicky) and when I lost a screw and did the case up without it- until I got a replacement off of an old case. Everyone I asked about it thought it was a weird problem as well, only explanation I ever got was that it might be the MB warping or the case tensioning/ straining it somehow.

Should be the plain 1700 there rather than the 1600X. Despite what AMD said it looks like a non full range release with the 6 core and 4 core processors being released later than March 2. I suspect the sweet spot for price/ performance/ longevity will be somewhere in the 6/12 range (I'm looking at the 1600X myself) so not having them available as soon is a bit disappointing. (My computer is currently in desktop configuration despite being a tower because the MB is warping and it blue screens if stood up or if the case lid is attached, it's getting to the point where even I have to accept an upgrade is absolutely necessary rather than nice in theory. Hurry up, AMD)

...Which is exactly why the procedure is heavily restricted and only proscribed as a last resort when everything else fails. You mean prescribed here rather than proscribed- prescribed ~ ordered by a doctor; proscribed ~ banned or very heavily restricted by an order/ law. Wouldn't normally be bothered correcting that since it's an easy mistake to make but using proscribed it means exactly the opposite of what was meant.

Update: Two months later and Turkey still hasn't taken Al Bab. They haven't even taken nearby Bzaah or Qabasin either, which are far smaller. They've now lost 70+ soldiers (plus estimates of well over a thousand sponsored rebels dead/ wounded) and have been stuck at the same point for nearing 3 months. But they're going to somehow take Raqqa real soon now, which is 3 times the size, 100+km away and has both the Kurds and government considerably closer- and they'd have to go through the Kurds/ government to get there as well. Erdogan really does live in a parallel universe. On the positive side there haven't been any more pictures of tanks getting knocked out for a month or so, and they've now apparently killed more than the estimated total number of ISIS soldiers in the entirety of Aleppo governate. And since alternative facts are all the rage at the moment, apparently ISIS took the city of Deir Ez Zor at some point. It seems the government troops in the city remain unaware of this fact though.

Depends. Realistically the whole trip was done for stunt value rather than to shore up Le Pen's somewhat shaky diplomatic credentials and that will certainly play well to her base, but it also illustrates that she will have problems if elected dealing with the large number of ex French colonies that are muslim and where a Christian isn't constitutionally always the President as in Lebanon. Her meeting with kind of moderate but currently Saudi puppet Lebanon PM Saad Hariri didn't exactly go well, either, and not due to any veil wearing. She doesn't have any problems appealing to her base anyway and is a shoe in for round 2, but she needs basically every Fillon supporter to then vote for her and there stunts are less helpful. Yeah, but most people who use a 'When in Rome' type argument (for their own country/ immigrants) are actually using it as a cultural superiority argument rather than a cultural acceptance argument. Practically all the potential Le Pen supporters would think "When in France, do as the French do. When in Lebanon... you should also do as the French do, because we're just the best and our values are better than yours" more than anything else. And from that point of view the hypocrisy inherent in wanting immigrants to adopt your culture but not wanting to adopt any else's when in their country doesn't matter.

FWIW at this point since nothing is official the leaked benchmark for the 1700X puts it just (~10) behind the 6900K on that graph, and at about 1/3 the price. (The 1600X on that chart may not even be the X version, since the leak listed TDP as 65W instead of 95W)

Go to someone else's country, be told what you needed to do at a meeting then throw a paddy when you actually have to do it- to get domestic political points? I'm not completely anti Le Pen by any means, but that was pure political stunt.

Given the current situation I can hardly blame Trump for not listening to agencies that clearly want him removed and are trying for a soft coup. Hard to trust their information under those circumstances. Hardly matters anyway, if he went for verification before talking it might stop a 'last night in Sweden' type moment where he's talking off the cuff about something he half heard last night, but there's been plenty of cases of leaders picking information selectively to fit what they want to be true whatever the information they have access to.

Looks like the NDA comes off on the 28th, with product release on March 2. Still all based on leaks at this point but Broadwell-E equivalent performance for 2/3 of the price and without a MB costing almost as much as the processor would be... tempting to say the least.

Any list without AP is suspect. Yeah, gameplay is janky but things like being an unprofessional smart arse dressed in full body armour while meeting Marburg and watching him come to the boil are some of the best actual role playing and dialogue in any game- though of course most won't actually see that on a first play through. The reactivity is minor in most practical respects but the overall impression of reactivity won't be beaten too soon. Speaking of too soon, that thread title...

East End of London hated Bobby Peel's original police force. Most of the negative names for the police in english originate from there.

It's easy for so many to confuse 'credible' news sources with conmen largely (but not only) because you have passionate, biased reporters. Reporters too are people, and they suffer the exact same series/ ranges of fallacies from scenario fulfilment to cognitive dissonance that lead the average Joe to believe fake news, they just get to put theirs down into print and be taken with some intrinsic, but declining, authority. Passion and bias should stay exactly where it belongs, in opinion columns or reddit/ forums/ usenet/ facebook etc- and out of the news. Too much opinion in news doesn't result in better information, it results in precisely what we have now, declining confidence in the entire idea of actual news, one side ignores the other sides' news because it's 'biased', and vice versa. Passionate, biased reporters are easy to discredit because they almost always fall into a range from selectively reporting to constructively dishonestly reporting because their passion and bias- and being human- means that they believe what fits their world view and ignore what doesn't. You then only have to point out what they have ignored, or their selectiveness, or their lies/ mistakes and you've discredited them with a proportion of their user base. Since most people reading a news source agree with its editorial bias- pretty obvious- that proportion which becomes disillusioned ends up not trusting either their own sides press or the opposition's. So, they look for alternative sources of information, usually still on their own 'side' but do it enough and hey presto, you've discredited the whole idea of news. Ironically, that's the (supposed) aim of entities like RT, which they couldn't do it without the help of those passionate, biased reporters feeding them juicy examples to deconstruct. Passionate, biased reporters give bad analysis and colour their stories because they report on what they want to be true, not what is, and are the cancer that is killing real news far more than fake news- which is, after all, fake; and people get disillusioned with mainstream media for a reason, not just because they're stoopid.

lolwut, Paradox had yearly conventions. Oh, non press only conventions. Actually, I thought they'd done one of those earlier as well.

I might have thought that Vals would at least have some appreciation for Hurt, 1984 and V for Vendetta would seem to be right up his alley, philosophically speaking and as warnings, at least.