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Change anything on your antivirus recently?

Check that the files aren't already marked as read only in the My Games\Skyrim directory.

The premise of tolerance usually works in the other direction, whereby the majority has to have 'tolerance' of the differences of the minority. People who are of the majority usually aren't subject to 'intolerance' since their actions and values are often the norm. It's a problem of modern civilization, where people are given the option of not assimilating to the dominant culture or face harassment or threat like the way things were done before when differing cultural groups were forced to cohabitate. There really aren't many ways to handle a situation of culture clash... Either the more powerful culture accepts and makes accommodations, or they forcibly impress their beliefs onto the weaker (or just commit genocide). Which method is best is a matter of argument. "Usually". Yeah, in a few instances though, it's a tad backwards. I see it as a precursor to societal collapse. :)

Stick it in,and try it out. Mainboard will run all ram at the same speed as the slowest ya got. If it can't figure it out, it simply won't boot.

And how about the intolerance of the minority, forcing their views on the majority, all in the name of 'tolerance'? That's one of my personal favorites.......

I would get a great deal of satisfaction from that. :)

Never underestimate the stupidity of your fellow man.......

Well that certainly explains a lot..... I always sucked at the whole sewing/knitting/weaving thing.......

The lobbyists will be against any law that that removes a 'free' commodity from their grasp. That, and there is no real good way to regulate data mining......

Yeah, they are pushing last gen hardware pretty hard there.... Wonder how many folks actually have systems that meet/beat those specs..... I don't have a 2gb vid card, so, I don't even meet minimum..... Wow.

Most of the ms tracking stuff is opt-in. If you enable the customer service experience, or whatever they call it, you send telemetry, if you don't.... well, you don't.

I disable third-party cookies, specifically so it is a bit more difficult for various advertisers to track me. That, and ad-block edge..... I don't see ANY ads. :) And it doesn't hurt my feelings one bit.

I would be interested to see the sites balance sheet....... Currently, we have no information about how well the site is/is not doing. Dark0ne may be raking in a hundred grand a year in salary for all we know.

This is kinda what worries me... its that X factor again. These guys aren't the first to pull this particular stunt. Won't be the last either.

The folks that are willing to pony up the dollars to have their ads unblocked are the ones that are approved.

No. There is zero reason to have some third-party software also running while I am trying to play my SINGLE player game. Steam would be far more acceptable if it were a verify and terminate application. Why do they REQUIRE me to burn machine resources for 'features' I will never, ever, use? Lets go back to the days of the disk check, or, a single use installation key, or some variant thereof. Or the same model that Microsoft uses.... You set up your profile, enter your key, download/install your game, and that's it. You are done. NO third party software running whatsoever. Seems to work great of MS Office. (even the non-subscription versions.) Steam doesn't do squat for preventing piracy, but it sure as hell kill the secondary market for used games.

Of course it's DRM, CEG stops you sharing your games with others and retail encryption stops the game leaking early. GOG is DRM free, not Steam. changing out ONE file defeats steam completely. It isn't drm.

Steam is a digital distribution source. It is by no stretch of the imagination any variety of DRM, as it doesn't do anything at all to protect digital rights. And yeah, I have real objections to being FORCED to install third-party software, to play my games.

Sometimes it scares me to read your posts..... I have to recheck the name, to make sure I didn't write it..... :D

OP appears to be a one-hit wonder.....

New game? Or old save? Is there a skill requirement? Button assignment? Non-english keyboard?

Not like threads discussing the LBGT issues are known for their even-tempered, rational discourse. :D

Very good points. Also, I suspect not wanting to stir the pot, so to speak, of those that would object to such a character being in-game, and causing some trouble...... Although, that seems to be a lot less of an issue today, than it has been in the past.

5 or 6 years. I think.... AMD 965 Black quad core. 12 gb RAM AMD HD 6840 Vid card. (originally 4890, but, that died) 256 gb SSD 320gb SATA 7200RPM data drive. (terrabyte external drive) MSI system board. All in all, it runs Skyrim on ultra (with AA and AF turned down) without a problem. Same for FO:NV. Two main "demanding" games that I play. Nothing else even makes it sweat.

Why does it matter? You can marry either gender, and it just doesn't matter.