Sad little king of a sad little hill.

Looks like it’s Majid with one “j”. Found this page; which seems to show the character OP mentioned, Lieutenant Maryam. Can’t find when she was first featured—wikipedia just says she was added later.

That’s a great movie! I haven’t really started showing my daughter (9) scary movies yet. I was terrified of spiders for like a decade after seeing Arachnophobia as a kid, and those Scary Stories books gave me nightmares for years, so I’m reluctant to expose her to media that might trigger something like that for her. Tough to know when it’s the right time—or at least, that’s been my experience.

I haven’t downvoted you, but I usually downvote any comments complaining about downvotes, or pretending that their point is proven by downvotes. It’s always fallacious masturbatory bullshit.

I dunno. I upvoted it, because it’s a really spot-on parody of the kind of comments a lot of people were making last fall. At the time, though, I was more or less in that camp. Not because I actually wanted Biden, but because it seemed like we were stuck with him as the nominee, and Trump was the only alternative.

But that can’t be right! I have it on good authority that A&W stands for Amburgers and Woot beer!

Not a lot, I imagine! Still a pretty low hurdle to clear. All you really need is ammunition and a place to shoot it. It sure helps to have a spotter/RSO/somebody who knows what they’re doing, but you can muddle through all right given enough trigger time.

True enough, but it’s not very hard to learn.

Pretty good pizza at Woodstock’s, tho.

It’s been working fine with my GTX 1060. I’ll probably get around to trying different distros at some point, but I’m pretty happy with mint. Most of the issues I’ve had with it have been due to its emphasis on stability; that is, it’s slower to incorporate changes than more cutting-edge distros. At least, that’s been my impression—I’m no Linuxologist.

Your comment resonated with me. I wish I had more to contribute, but all I’ve got right now is: you don’t seem like such a mean cow.

Fair enough. Bush is a war criminal, and no mistake. Still and all, Bin Laden did take responsibility for the attacks.

That’s certainly the case for traps, which I appreciate. But run-of-the-mill spot checks (that shine blue rather than amber) do not behave that way for me.

It doesn’t actually last that long. Multiple times, I’ve seen the check passed, swiveled the camera around like mad whilst holding down Alt, and not been able to figure out what the check was for.

Yeah, and if you didn’t see the failures, you wouldn’t be tempted to save scum. I can see why they’d leave the notifications in by default; there’s potentially a ton of content locked behind these kinds of checks. But I’d appreciate the option to turn them off.

Guess I’m lucky that I haven’t encountered any of these issues (except that super glaring “Characters turning toward you before dialogue mode starts” problem. Thank heavens that’s fixed!) Slightly bummed that I don’t see a fix for the issue of not being able to see what a perception check revealed. Just make the highlight last longer, please! Super frustrating to pass the check and not be able to see wtf it was for.

Tbf, Minthara is a genocidal maniac, and killing her is definitely a net positive. Still, I kinda like her, and she hits like a truck.

Ah, the perils of making my first run as a baddie. Hope I still see some of those lines in what remains of act 3. When is patch 2 dropping, I wonder?

It’s because Llewellyn is a Welsh name.

I don’t think it’s a cause for concern. There was a hotfix right after launch that affected some people’s saves, I think, (I haven’t encountered any issues) and they immediately rolled it back. They’ve released one major patch so far, and I haven’t seen any complaints about savegame integrity. I didn’t play DOS2 at launch so I can’t speak to the history there, but I’d be very surprised if save corruption was an issue with this game. They’ve got a zillion people playing it right now, the last thing they want to do is piss them all off.