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A nice new feature is the ability to hide individual members signatures, so if you have like 3 people whose signatures you're tired at staring at, you can hide those 3 people's signatures from your view, yet see everybody else's signatures. That should encourage people to make signatures that aren't too much "in your face", as they will just get hidden by other users over time and not seen anymore.

I've been playing Risk of Rain 2 a few evenings lately together with a couple of friends. It's one of those deceptively simple to learn games... but because the difficulty increases constantly over time, so you have to master the timing, how much to you want to hang around and gear up on a level before you get overwhelmed. Not to mention, once you decide enough is enough, it's time to trigger the level boss(es) to progress to the next map. It's one of those early access games, but already worth the money we spent on it

Yes, comedy... but it is so close to reality it gave me the shivers. The horrors that sometimes take place in project meetings

Indeed, moved to Pillars of Eternity discussions

Smart fish those sharks... (edit: a surprisingly long time before they return)

The story behind the picture... Gorillas pose for selfie with DR Congo anti-poaching unit

My friend and i went and saw Tim Minchin live last weekend. Probably not a lot of people outside Australia know him, but he's a composer,songwriter, musician and singer. His satire is particularly pointed and most of the songs, I wouldn't be able to post here (too much profanity). Besides the classics, like "Come Home Cardinal Pell" (a song from Satan to George Pell telling him he's missed at home... in hell), the Pope Song (about the mother****ing pope and his ****ing organisation covering over all the kiddie ****ers) and "**** the Poor" about the hypocrisy of many wealthy people, there was also this little gem about language and how words can be used to categorize and oppress people:

Oven baked Salmon is one of the best things I can make for myself (and easy to clean up afterwards too!). A bit of baking paper in a tray, a squirt of olive oil, add lots of Salmon (boneless but with skin on one side) and cover with a bit of dill and alu-foil. Leave for 25 minutes at 220C in a fan force oven. Being lazy, I usually improvise steamed vegetables by throwing some cauliflower and broccoli in in a plastic bowl with a bit water in it and cook it for 10 minutes in the microwave. Lemon is good. I sometimes always add a bit of tartar sauce too. Mostly because I love the stuff and need an excuse to have it

Tl;dr; version of Protestants, they were the rabid militants of their time. The trigger was the Catholic church's obsession with secular stuff and the increased focus on wealth of a material kind rather than a spiritual kind. The ability to buy absolution for hard cash at a time of resentment, was the proverbial drop. Bibles had to be translated to local languages so nobody had an excuse for not acting piously and religion should dominate your life, not being an esoteric thing you heard some clergy man ramble on about in a language you didn't understand anyway (in Latin).

If you are interested in history, I can recommend reading up on the schism between Rome and Constantinople, the hostility between the Latin and Greek descendants of the Roman Empire, the Patriarch of Rome deciding he was better than the other four Patriarchs and declaring himself Pope and leading the western part of the Orthodox church into what became Catholicism. Basically, the Catholics were the first heretics of the church.

What Christians are you referring to? Catholics tend to love their gaudy symbols. I'm sure most of them are supposed to follow those 10 amendments Moses brought down from a mountain top or some such (15 if you believe in Monty Python) Edit: Commandments, dangit, not amendments. I had religion/history class about the subject in my native Danish as a kid

Looking at all those fancy GPU's... I need to upgrade my Ti 1050 (4Gb) some day. I could use more Cuda cores for rendering, but I worry that the trade off is going to be a noisy cooling. My current build (somewhere in this thread) is effectively noiseless.

Melting points... I'm so hot! I know from personal experience that when you light a large pile of magnesium, it burns very hot and very bright

Didn't the Christians have some kind of constitutional amendment against worship of symbols anyway?

I remember Visceris getting killed repeatedly by the werewolf and people getting a laugh out of it... RIP Visceris. The game oozed atmosphere though, even if it had it's weak spots here and there. The music and ambience might have contributed a lot to that. Most negative memory was a game breaking bug halfway through and one of my favourite memories was the TV commentator discussing things with my Malkavian (better than the stop sign conversation imho) Edit: The game also had some slightly surprising endings depending on your decisions

"I have something to say: it's better to burn out than to fade away!" (unnamed Kurgan in a church)

I remember when this joke was new... oldie but goodie internet joke (I first saw it on usenet on rec.humour.funny iirc) I never was able to verify the original source or attribution, but funny none the less Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, Final Exam question for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as, "why do airplanes fly?" on his final exams. His one and only final exam question in May 1997 for his Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer II class was: "Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with proof." Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following: "First, We postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, then you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist: If hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose. If hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over. So which is it? If we accept the quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic." The student, Tim Graham, got the only A.

Probably a carpenter forgetting to switch off something when leaving work.... sad to see. Lot's of history around that building. As for when the fire brigade shows/showed up, I don't think central Paris is easy to get trucks through and the cathedral was located on an island in the river. As somebody mentioned, water bombing the place would just have brought down the stone walls too. I guess the question for me is, why wasn't more done to 'fire proof' such a historical building?

Cassowaries are like the Funnel Spider in that regard, a good offense is the best defense and it will attack anything if in doubt, including rocks, trees, humans etc. It has a large, hardened lump on it's head that works like a shock absorbing helmet when charging headlong towards "enemies". Once close, it will try to disembowel whatever is in front of it. Edit: From Gromnirs link above, related articles: Five Fascinating Facts About the Amazing Cassowary (just the paragraph headlines) 1. Yes, they could absolutely kill you 2. They can jump five feet off the ground 3. They have giant fingernails on their heads 4. They don’t like you, either 5. Australia is trying to protect them, because they’re really endangered

Death to "Rouge Trader" and "Angles of Death!"

Hmm, because the $200m is only the initial development cost, not the running cost. Even assuming they sold 2 million boxes of $100 each (not including any subscriptions at all) would not cover the cost of the game the first day after launch. Only the subscribers would be able to cover the running costs. I checked a few websites (because I was curious) and none of them has swtor in their top 10, whether it being popular, populous, healthiest etc. whatever at the end of 2018. So it might have been able to stave off death by starvation for a while, but I do honestly wonder why EA is bothering at the moment (unless there is something we don't know in their Star Wars license agreement).

The number I heard was 200 (gamespot referencing a no longer existing Los Angels Times article, but it's still a tonne of money. Without a cash shop, it would have required 1 million users for a year to make a profit? (numbers pulled out of my butt, mind you) As for how Bioware ended up in where they are, I wouldn't really point fingers at EA, but at Bioware management and company culture. Things you can get away with as a small company tends to explode spectacularly and create headlines when playing the big league. Lots of talented people doing the work. but less impressive management.

Who cares about politics anyway, there are more important things in life From the BBC: 'The revolution can wait. Football comes first' The mood in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, was different on Wednesday. Anti-government protesters put up huge screens to watch Barcelona beat Manchester United 1-0 in the Champions League quarter-final first leg. "The revolution can wait," a journalist tweeted, summing up the mood of the crowd.

Oh stop getting reasonable...

I was listening to something slightly related when youtube recommended Sabaton... I listened to a few of them and found them to my liking. One for Poles I guess (Live in Poland): Live at Wacken: