Now I'm old and I don't know if FIRE actually means something, so here is just a list of like... all the RPGs a human needs to play in their lifetime.

Here you go:

Old Skool games where you'll have to look up how to actually play them because the GUI's aren't intuitive:

Bard's Tale (the old and the new), Ultima 3+, Betrayal at Krondor, Lands of Lore 1-2, Wizardry series, Might and Magic (the new one may be of particular interest), wasteland.

The Black Isle Ascendancy:

Fallout 1-2, Baldur's Gate 1-2, Icewind Dale 1-2, Planescape: Torment (my all time favorite game),

Troika Tries really hard:

Temple of Elemental Evil, Arcanum, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines (this game is GOD TIER).

Newer but good Bioware/Obsidian recover from the death of Interplay:

Neverwinter Nights 1-2, Knights of the Old Republic 1-2, Dragon Age: Origins.

Bioware Gets Bought by EA:

Mass Effect 1-2, and Mass Effect 3 with all the DLC.

Obsidian Makes the Magic Happen:

PIllars of Eternity, Tyranny

CD Projeckt may try to kill your computer after Witcher 1:
but 1-3 are all good.

inXhile, eXtine's likely favorite game company:

Wasteland 2, Torment 2

Hey look a shadowrun:

Shadowrun and the adventure packs are lots of fun.

Indie showdown for a few Serbians in their parent's basement:

Underrail is some real shit.

You can find all of them on GoG or Steam and also with enhanced editions for ease of use.

I'm 29 soon to die of old age no doubt. But a lot of the old timey tf2 players are likely still older than me wherever they are now lol.

I can coach/talk etc.

But where do we go from here Konr? The Bible, and other religious texts, have similarly wacky things in them, but those folks don't engage in terror attacks with as much frequency. So, where do we go from here? Because attacking Muslims generally, or Islam itself *doesn't* get us anywhere. Even the quasi-liberal's militant anti-religious propaganda (which is a popular response in these cases) is the opposite of effective because of the way bias works - generally people who believe something just believe it all the more if they are *told* otherwise.

@Goask

Well, I guess you've heard my story about that. The suffering and inhuman situation of the occupation is *real* no matter how much you want to deny it. There are millions of people who live in an absolutely ridiculous situation, just because you don't like them doesn't make it right.

I'm generally disappointed that any nation-states exist at all. Israel is no exception.

I wasn't aware that I was repeating myself in this context, but maybe I am? I generally respond in such ways to ignorant statements and perhaps they've come up a lot.

*Any* excuse will do - Islam is just the most popular one right now because most others don't offer the sorts of benefits that they used to. So where does that leave us? The reason I repeat myself is because in order to actually make any sort of impact - in so far as preventing these sorts of tragedies from occurring both in Europe and abroad, a rather nuanced approach is going to have to be adopted both by governing institutions *and* individuals themselves who have any sort of regular interaction with Muslims generally (I happen to have a lot).

Politicians will come out and say "oh you're in our hearts" and then proceed to do nothing - or actively make the situation worse by funding radical groups. Barbarians will call for the liquidation of all Muslims, which will only make radical Islamists more convinced that they are indeed in mortal danger - but typically both reactions are just ways of doing nothing that feel slightly better than doing absolutely nothing.

I also have no idea who you are Goaskalice but you *sure* do presume to know a lot about me.

I am not pro-Hamas - will I point out that they *legally* do have a right to utilize armed force against occupation? Yes - because all people do and that is how international law works. Would I like to see a Palestinian state that was run by Hamas? Absolutely not. The problem with Palestinian society is that the PLO is woefully inept and corrupt, and Hamas managed to fill the space that their ineptitude left - in part because other groups' constituencies were bled dry by emigration (socialists, mainstream-ish liberals, Western Conservative types, etc). Hamas also benefits from sentiments that are *very* much held in common with anti-Islamic types in that saying and doing very aggressive things *feels* good for the individual "HEH ban all Mulsims kek" ,but only actively makes the situation worse - because the conclusion is impossible to implement. Israel cannot be removed and likely won't join some larger body of nation states that would sublate it any time soon, so the end goal of Hamas' program is foolish and impossible, generally speaking. I should also point out that Hamas has hardly ever engaged in any sort of attack abroad - they may do and say silly things in response to terror attacks abroad, but they're not concerned with attacking European states - the idea has come up a few times, but it's almost always shut down in pretty short order as I've been given to understand anyways.

I would also generally favor Pyyyour - he may not have been as well known for flashy movement - but such things are not always necessary.

Islam is by its nature a decentralized religion - essentially any given congregation could have radically different interpretations of scripture and tradition. The Qur'ran even says in the very beginning that the book itself may mean different things to different people at different times.

There isn't an Islamic equivalent to the Pope or Metropolitans - each (generally small) group decides for itself what that small group believes to be correct.

In short, the religion itself *rarely* serves as the pure justification for perpetrating terrorist acts - it just serves a convenient excuse after the fact. If one is bound determined to do harm to another person they'll find any readily handy excuse to do so. Even a cursory knowledge of history could acquaint one with any number of justifications for killing someone. Generally even the most spurious are acceptable in the right conditions.

Manning was an intelligence officer who had security clearance high enough to view and download various classified materials. Most of the politically effective leaked materials related to force reciprocity.

In an occupation, within the confines of international law, the occupied are allowed to resist the occupier with force of arms. The occupier is thereby allowed to respond to this in a reciprocal way - most of the leaked documents and videos related to war crimes committed by US forces within that context. Granted, occupiers are very rarely prosecuted for such crimes, but in the case of these particular leaks, it did give an amount of momentum to anti-war sentiment in the US, and made it extremely difficult politically for the Iraqi government to justify allowing US forces to stay in Iraq in numbers.

Buying in on a PC isn't such a bad idea right now - mainly because with all the new gen stuff coming out (particularly from AMD - but I doubt Nvidia/intel are that far behind) a lot of large retailers and warehouses are clearing stock and I imagine sales will come up fairly frequently for yesterday's news.

If you're not intending to be a big time streamer or do tons of video editing for hours upon hours, that would be the market I'd look to get in on - regardless of whether it's AMD/Intel Nvidia/ATI - if money is a huge concern you have to decide at which you're going to cut off spending on each individual part and what your budget over all is.

You'll likely, depending on sales, get a better deal for AMD products because they're typically cheaper for roughly equivalent specs - but you never know sometimes you can snatch things up for maybe 20-50$ more, and you have to decide if that's something you're willing to do.

Building your own PC is basically as easy as putting legos together - there's nothing to panic about unless you're very accident prone and like to spill water all over yourself. .

The best advice I can give you is:

INCLUDE warranties into your budget. If something is 10$ more expensive but offers 1-2 extra years of warranty, that's not a bad investment. Look at the different vendors (newegg, amazon, bestbuy, ebay, tiger direct, direct from manufacturer, etc)and see what sort of warranty policy they have - some stores offer you their own warranty ON TOP of the part's own warranty, and that is definitely something to keep in mind. Typically things don't break down that fast if you pay for quality hardware, but you just never know when something freaky may happen, or a design flaw nobody saw coming pops up.

Think about routine maintenance. Is this case/hardware going to be easy for you to maintain (this is a big one for people who are first getting into things like liquid cooling, or want to buy a fancy case, or do a funky HDD set up).

Make sure the manufacturer is a reputable and established company - there are lots of new hardware companies cropping up all the time, and they are relatively short lived sometimes, and that can leave you in the lurch if you take a risk on a new manufacturer. If you choose to go this route, I would strongly suggest investigating their customer service practices and perhaps look for that kind of content in reviews - the first case I bought came with the wells for the MOBO screws slightly out of alignment, and when I tried to get in touch with the manufacturer, all I kept getting were messages in Cantonese - despite them having a website that was in English, and the company died only a few months later, and I was left with very big piece of scrap metal. But it turned out OK because I just made new holes for myself - guess it should've said some assembly required.

Spending big on CPU and skimping on GPU is a good idea if you're short on money.

Depending on what GPU you have right now, you could even just continue using the one you have and throw even more money into your CPU. The reason for this is that it's often impossible to upgrade your CPU - socket types change frequently enough that if you don't plan to be able to drop another 200-500$ on another CPU in the next 2-3 years, you're going to want to spend more money on a CPU because that *will be* your CPU for the life of the machine most likely. Graphics cards however are a different story. Their socket type as it were hasn't changed appreciably in the last 10+ years (since we stopped using AGP ports) and likely won't be changing in a big way any time soon. Even if you have a PCIe 2.0 card and a 3.0 PCIe slot, you'll still have a functional GPU. Then 2-3 years from now you can just buy a new GPU as an upgrade.

You can do the same for RAM - so long as its compatible with your chosen CPU, and just upgrade to more later on in life (it's cheap anyways, and will only get cheaper). You could also try to salvage your power supply as long as it isn't super dirty, works correctly, and has the required amount of wattage for your build. That's a few hundo in savings at least. Maybe you'll have to buy more later, but it can put off the cost until you're able to save up more.

Well you just go to limbo - which isn't so bad really.

I'm a 6th circle toaster.

I had a lot of back surgery when I was a kid (14-15) due to the formation of cysts over my tail bone and spine. I had just had my second surgery (which required over 100 stitches) and the doctor had me drop in on him on a Friday - where he typically did charity work in a burn ward (plastic surgeon). So he looks at me, and says "well... this isn't good. Are you prepared for surgery?" And I said uhh... sure I guess. My mom asks what he means and he says "There is a cyst forming in the sutures and I have to cut it out right now." then he utters the words I'll never forget:

"Nurse... I need a 10 blade knife, some KY jelly, and a Polaroid camera, because his insurance isn't going to believe this."

I figured out pretty well what the knife was for, the KY jelly was more worrisome.

So with no anesthetic or anything, he KY's up his fingers, makes small incisions in the suture line, and shoves his hand into them, confirming that there is indeed something in the sutures. At which point he says "ok... you're still with me yeah?" I reply that I am indeed still conscious. At which point he says "Get ready for a big pinch" lol And I hear my skin flop open (there is a lot of tension on skin so when you cut all the way through it it just gapes open). My mom starts gagging (she had to witness it, I couldn't see being as it was my back). I felt pretty blinding pain - akin to when you first twist an ankle, except it was constant from that point on lol. Then I heard the sound of a Polaroid camera going off and it was all over.

Masters degrees for history are pretty rare - they usually just skip you straight to Ph. Dizzle.

I thought it was ok, it's missing a few things I'd put in there, but it was a solid shot and at the end of the day it's just supposed to be a fun video anyways. I'd say this one was better than the history of Japan video - since that particular video omitted a lot of people and events which are fairly critical to understanding Japanese history - since this is much larger in scope it's easier to forgive those kinds of oversights.

I should also point out that on most modern cars you can have 0 brake pressure and still brake - you won't brake very fast but you will still brake if you apply absolutely all the pressure you can to the pedal - even in a worst case, where your brake lines are all cut and your brake pads are completely gone - it'll still grind any remaining metal against the disc. Your brakes aren't completely dependent on hydraulic pressure to operate - it just makes them a LOT easier to operate and they can apply more pressure with less input with said hydraulic pressure. The only way to get around this is if somebody completely removed your brakes entirely and then it would be VERY much obvious that this had happened basically as soon as you tried to put the car in gear because your brake pedal would bottom out completely lol.

I've used both products.

The mod mic was nice because it was attached to my headset and so I didn't have to worry about moving it around - it was reasonably insensitive, and if you put some nice foam covering over it beyond what they give you it should work fairly well for muting out background noises - unidirectional would be idea as that will also cut down on the ambient noise it picks up (I'm not sure if mod-mic has gone to unidirectional mics yet).

The Snowball is pretty handy too - I still haven't built a fancy stand for mine yet, but it works well enough on the desk - but is MUCH more likely to pick up ambient noise than the mod-mic was because it's right next to my keyboard and I use blue switches so they're really clicky :D But the audio quality is fine.

Mod mics also get *really* bass-y so if you've got a voice like Tony Swan it may make you difficult to understand.

back in my day we had POGS at least you could talk massive shit when you kicked somebody's ass and took all their pogs from them.