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The memory is long and the distractions are many.

Missing the fact that there's a decimal point, maybe? I'm consistently at 250-300MB regardless of what I'm doing or how many tabs are open.

No clue, but FF is running at 600ish right now, for me, and it only has about 25 tabs open and the flash plugin off.

When I actually used it as a primary browser, it would regularly top 2 gigs (and crash shortly thereafter), to all appearances just due to the number of tabs up (>100, with the amount varying). It's explicitly why I switched over to Opera for primary use -- it also hovers over the gig of ram territory (1.4 at the moment, and I actually purged a lot of tabs recently), but remains stable despite it.

and all i can think is that the soviet cheesecake has hired your wife for eating

why sg

why would you spread such innuendo bait

I find hexawyr to be a miserable nightmare of a map to play on, but I don't play enough different maps to have a better suggestion :V

Also you might as well throw new players into the worst case scenario, I guess.

Other settings are fiiine. My actually preferred ones (Max sites, maxed thrones, too much throne points required to actually win a throne victory) can only be called silly

Quote from: Frumple on November 15, 2015, 07:51:13 pm

Wow that's a bit scary to be honest. I always imagined that America was past that kind of thing.

Eh... parts are, parts aren't. It trends towards better in the more urban areas, usually. Bit harder to get away with things there, if nothing else, heh. Most of the population's in those areas, but there's still several countries worth of folks that, well. Aren't. And some nasty shit can get got away with when the sheriff knows yer pappy.

And yeah, as ro notes, the sunday school services themselves trend towards pretty chipper. It's usually the parents or other relatives that brings the stick (though fortunately that, at least, is on the downslope. Got lovely tales from the couple generations before about being switched until they bled for doing something unchristian, though) to accompany the carrot.

Really? I've only heard of that kind of thing in the more extreme sects like Jehovah's Witnesses or the isolationist American ones.

Yeah... sunday school (basically bible study for kids mixed with lovely social pressure and a nice heaping of local doctrine indoctrination) is incredibly common, at least in the US. The churches in question are just not as emphatic or overt about it, comparatively (usually). Still, pressure on kids to attend church (and church related activities) and espouse what they're told (sometimes accurately, sometimes not) are christian beliefs is pretty strong (as in, I've personally seen kids beaten until they couldn't walk for trying to refuse and the community not blink an eye, and that's in relation to some of the more moderate baptist sects ) in a lot of places, and it generally tends to start before they can even walk. It's even more pressured south of the border and in the christian parts of africa, or so I understand.

Though yeah, it's generally not as exacting or focused on the text itself as muslim practices are. Still very much indoctrination, just usually of a different intensity and emphasis.

You should be fine for a few weeks, at the least. Depends a lot on the machine itself and the vagrancies of its construction and history. That said, I had a laptop that ran for probably... five years? Without a working fan. Not one that was working poorly, mind you. One that was not working at all. And in the end, it didn't even break, I just got a new machine.

Though that doesn't mean yours will react the same way. Different computers are different, it could be the thing explodes tomorrow. Probably won't, should be fine, but standard disclaimer that unique situations are unique and yours may or may not be more unique than most.

Have you already tried to just clean the thing out? Popped the laptop open, did the cleany bits, put it back together?

I'm not actually trying to demonise it. I don't oppose it. I'm okay with Muslims. I'd be okay with Islam massively expanding. It just pisses me off when people try to associate Christianity with terrorists. No doubt you feel the same way about Islam.

Also, now you know how I feel every time I check this thread. Every damned time. Except that quote mining Christianity is socially acceptable, and quoting the Qu'ran in context with the concession that the quoted passages are not applicable to very is demonisation. No, I'm not bitter, why do you ask?

Don't really give a damn about the quote mining. The difference I've spent too much time -- especially offline --running into between most of the biblical ones and most of the qu'ran ones is that the former is maybe trying to deconvert or belittle, and the latter is being used to support rhetoric that calls for the absolute genocide of the world's muslim population. Spend way to much of my goddamn time around people (devout christians, of course ) calling for glassing the middle east or murdering the world's muslim population down to the child, supported and emboldened by rhetoric hinged on stuff like that, to keep associating with the foundations of that message in my off time, too, y'know? Don't really have the energy at the moment, especially not when it's probably about to engender another wave of atrocities.

For what it's worth, it's fairly frustrating for me when people associate christianity with terrorism, too (you'll note, again, that I wasn't actually doing that). There's damned few religions out there for which the actions terroism involves aren't explicitly damning.