Zoraptor

Celebration -- Kool and the Gang Dancing on the ceiling -- Lionel Richie Na na Hey Hey Goodbye -- Gabe Newell FTR Zora thinks that people who choose 'teams' for anything other than sports are inflexible doctrinaire morans, and that it is thus utterly unsurprising that Bruce always nails his colours to teams. Zora also finds Bruce's deliberate manipulations of other's positions to get replies to be obnoxious. Plus, still no proof that Russia leaked anything, just assertions from the same people who said that Iraq had deployable wmds, yellowcake, worked with Al Qaeda and a host of other politically mandated falsehoods. D+ overall you got a reply and had your name at the top of the post so I have to give your troll at least one grade, and my regret for not reporting you when you admitted to trolling goes up sufficiently that if you ever do so again- or admit it for anyone else- I most certainly will. I have the playlist all cued up and ready to go.

"Our dedicated boys keep the peace in newly annexed Canada" -- Clinton Galaxy News Network

I had a non turbo subaru 4wd station wagon/ estate which was 'only' 2.0L and it was absolutely fine in terms of speed and acceleration. It was actually pretty good off road as well, except for its ground clearance. It certainly felt more nippy and was far more pleasant to drive than the 4+ litre turbo SUV my sister had (albeit that was diesel) due to being far lighter and having far better handling, and it was better for suburban driving and acceleration than any SUV or Utility I've driven. Personally I wouldn't go for a turbo for the same reasons as you but to be fair I actually do have one now and so far it's been perfectly reliable for 70,000 km.

The one thing nobody has said about the DNC etc leaks is that it was falsified, indeed the whole point of Red Scare 2.0 was to get people talking about the, uh, red herring of who did the hacks instead of what was in them precisely because they were genuine. If they could have proven they were false, they would have. You're probably getting your Russophobe knee jerks confused, it was (supposedly) DCLeaks, not wikileaks, that got some altered stuff. There's tons of stuff that could end her campaign- proper outright bribery or anything else of significant illegality. I doubt it actually will, if only because it's so late in the piece and some are so invested that she'd probably try and stick it out (or claim it's false) whatever it is. Plus, Assange is a salesman, he may be gilding the lily in terms of how significant anything he has actually is.

to be more specific, the Codex wants attributes and character progression to be designed in a way that allows broken character builds. your character is too weak and you cannot advance in the game? your own dumb fault for not reading tutorials/guides. your character is too powerful and blazes through every encounter? your own dumb fault for developing him that way. basically, that's what most people find enjoyable - or so they think. which is absolutely not the case. I could never understand this irrational position, but I also think it would've never been an issue if Sawyer hadn't given any insight into how he designed his systems. people just started to freak out even before the game was available, and then it was so much easier to find something validating their complaints. I mean, they think Arcanum is the best game ever, and that game had probably the worst combat I've ever experienced. Pretty sure they think Fallout (1) is the best game ever, or PST, though neither of those had 'balanced' combat either. Well, I guess PST's combat problem was not lack of balance (and in most combats you literally could not die, so obviously balance per se was not a concern), to be fair, but rather that its combat was pretty crap. I do tend to agree with the Codex that you need to have potential 'broken' builds. That's part of learning games and improving in them, and the alternative is what? Oblivion, where you can win the game at level 2, and it's probably easier to do it that way than by playing properly? Arcanum and Oblivion are two extreme positions, the happy medium is what should be aimed for, especially in a party based game like PoE where the weaknesses/ strengths of one character build are (or should be) complemented by the strengths/ weaknesses of another class. The classic example would be something like a D&D mage from BG2- massively underpowered if you don't know how to use them or make mistakes, or even are unlucky with saves. But they're extremely powerful when handled correctly. Correct positioning, spell selection and risk minimisation are the keys to using them correctly, if you focus on 'balance' too much you end up with a class that can take more punishment and is more flexible in terms of choices, but also is weaker overall. It's the 'glass cannon' dichotomy, the glass part inherently balances out the cannon part; 'balance' as it is usually used tends to dictate that every class ends up as some sort of mid calibre gun. Thing is, there's not a single game I can think of where poor balance did not detract at least somewhat from the overall experience. The holy codex troika named above all have bad balance, and it all detracts from them at least somewhat. Though for F1 and PST other aspects make up for them they'd be better games with better balance. System Shock 2, great game, where any combat build except standard weapons makes little sense, psionics are massively underpowered for half the game then massively overpowered, some skills are basically useless etc. Balance wouldn't be at the top of the list, 3/4 of those games are great even with their balance problems (Arcanum's combat is just so bad though, it's a travesty) so clearly there are other factors that are more important for enjoyment, but I'd have to have it on the list if only to stop another potentially great game like Arcanum from being ruined. If 'balance' had been on Arcanum's priority list it would have been a far better game than it was. For that matter, if proper balance had been on Oblivion's priority list it would have been far better too.

Balance should make the shortlist, for sure, or you end up with Arcanum combat where you have super builds like anything able to spam harm non stop and everything else is progressively weaker. The problem the Codex (or a certain subset of it) had with PoE was more that the attempts to balance everything and have anything be a viable build left the classes/ characters feeling too generic and cookie cutter. Which I have a fair bit of sympathy with, without agreeing completely. So the 'Codex position' is essentially that balance should not be an end in and of itself, it's only a positive when it contributes to the game being enjoyable. If an obsession with balance results in a lack of fun then it's not actually an asset for the game to be balanced, it's a weakness.

SACP. Johnson faces stiff competition in US election Johnson exposed by Aleppo gaffe Weld leaves Johnson hanging when asked which world leaders he admired etc etc Might as well get them all out of the way.

No, just the one time in 1980-something where she laughed about the legal particulars of a rape case. http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-laughed-about-it/ 2011, actually, in Boo's favourite video of all time. Of all time! She came she saw, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was raped to death with a bayonet. Ahahaha! (Glad to see that Te Pepe has made it into the US education system. Lazar Kiwi was a better flag option though)

Masochistic? Yeah, that seems about right.

It is raining You are shivering You are shivering uncontrollably You have blisters You have hypothermia You have severe hypothermia You froze to death :( (I liked the Neo Scavenger, but sometimes I think we need a word other than 'fun' to describe such 'roguelikes')

The Senate has had an override vote, 97-1. Have to admit I'm kind of surprised, I was sure they'd let it dangle until the lame duck session and then forget about it. Guess that's exactly the sort of margin a veto override was designed for. (Obama is probably right to have vetoed it, and I say that despite loathing the Saudi state pretty much wholesale, as it opens a whole reciprocal can of worms. The US don't really want Pakistan suing them for drone strikes, Laos suing them for unexploded ordnance, Chile suing them for Pinochet, El Salvador suing them for School of the Americas etc etc etc etc)

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.