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Makes sense. You don't trade away a king's ransom to move up to #1 and take a guy who's going to sit for a year or two. If you're trading up to #1 you're picking a guy who's going to start week 1. Just about everybody, even the people who think Wentz will be the better QB eventually, thinks that Goff is more ready to play in the NFL right now.

Seasonic is indeed the gold standard in PSUs. If you buy Seasonic you know you're getting top notch build quality, Japanese capacitors, no corner cutting, just a rock solid product. You can probably get something that will work just as well for less, but when you buy Seasonic you know for sure you're getting top quality. When I bought my Seasonic X Series 850W PSU I got it on sale plus a rebate, so I managed to buy it for what I would have paid for a cheaper 850W PSU, thus it was a no-brainer. Generally, though, you are going to pay a premium over other brands when you buy Seasonic.

I'm ****ing around in Saints Row 2, but not really playing anything seriously. I still have the itch to play more point & clicks, despite having played several lately, but I don't have one started currently. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm looking for something fun and lighthearted, rather than super cereal.

I went to a rasslin' show today down the street from where I live. I drank a few overpriced beers, bought a t-shirt, took some pictures and videos, and watched sweaty mostly naked guys grapple for 3 1/2 hours. It was a great time.

Looks like they're getting close to the 1.0 release. I still have my Morrowind discs from when I bought the game over a decade ago. I might give it another play again once this project reaches 1.0

I'm getting some laughs out of Boston's fat third baseman saga.

How do you put a monetary value on a life? Some people get more attached to their pets than others. To some people, pets are little more than toys, to others they're legit members of the family. I don't think it's possible to find a one size fits all value.

It's definitely not genetic. My dad is the master flipper. He just flicks his wrist, the pan contents go up into the air then land perfectly back in the pan upside down. Like most things, it probably comes down to practice, but practice would mean eating a lot of floor omelettes, so I'll pass.

Cheese and onion omelette. I am a terrible omelette flipper, so I have to use the technique where I slide the omelette off the pan onto a plate, flip the pan over and put it over the plate, then flip both together to get the omelette flipped in the pan. If I try to flip it with a flick of the wrist I'll have a floor omelette and if I try to flip it with a spatula I will have a scrambled omelette.

Same problem with Crusader Kings2.. They need to learn to let go, almost a unique problem in the industry. They should have stopped with Sons of Abraham with CK2. IMHO, that was when that game hit its peak. Hilarious scenarios like you having a son that's essentially the anti-Christ be born and that son manipulating his way into becoming the leader of the Catholic church became possible with that expansion. After than, the expansions didn't add that much, not anything I really wanted, anyway, while also messing with core mechanics I would rather have seen left alone.

A straight line between the tackles runner is the exact type of runner that Dallas' O-line was built for, though. There's value in having a guy who you can just hand it to on 3rd and 2 and he can just lower his shoulder and get the 1st consistently, even if the defense puts 8 in the box.

I hope the Cowboys take Deforest Buckner at #4. They desperately need a pass rush and Buckner seems to have all the tools to be an elite edge rusher. Hopefully Derrick Henry slips to the second round and the Boys can scoop him up at 34. I know Dallas needs a lot more help on the defensive side of the ball, but I feel Henry is a rare talent. A big, beefy downhill between the tackles runner is a perfect match for the Boys offensive line, plus he has decent receiving skills, deceptive speed for a guy his size, and good pass protection skills (which is extremely important given Romo's injury history).

If it will be anything like other Paradox grand strategies it will have a broken or non-existent or woefully inadequate tutorial, have a brutal learning curve, and be totally worth it if you can get past said learning curve.

BioWare would license that for ten games, slap a poorly design combat rule-set on it and their fanboys would call it an innovative RPG. Don't forget clumsily shoehorned gender politics. That would be good for at least 4 or 5 Polygon articles masturbating all over the game.

It makes sense with their move to LA. They want to make a splash, pick up a QB, and give fans hope to drive ticket sales. It's just, as I've written before, I don't think there is a franchise QB in this year's draft. The top QBs this year are Goff, Wentz, Lynch, Cook, and Prescott. A couple of those guys could become mid-tier starters, but I don't see a Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, or even a Russel Wilson in this draft.

I wonder if that's similar to kefir? I freakin' love kefir.

I finished J.U.L.I.A. Among the Stars. It's a very interesting game and I'm happy to report that all questions are answered and the game doesn't do a cop-out ending. That game has a ton of mini-games, so many that it might be more proper to call it a collection of mini-games tied together by a point & click adventure than simply calling it a point & click adventure. Many of the puzzle mini-games are not well explained, though I guess figuring out the logic of the puzzle is part of the challenge. The only puzzle mini-game I really didn't like was the very last one, simply because it didn't use any logic, it was a puzzle based entirely on trial and error and memory. All the other puzzles had logic behind them, even if the logic wasn't immediately clear. I do very much like the diversity in the mini-game puzzles, a lot of them are vastly different form one another. Overall, it was a worthwhile experience.

It seems like there's no quality checking at all, they'll allow literally anyone willing to pay the fee to use their license, which is why we wind up with 8 bajillion Warhammer video games, 5% of which aren't complete garbage.

That's bold, departing from the classic Doritos and Mountain Dew combo. This man is a rebel.

Damn, Tale, which layer of the Abyss do you live on?

Still playing J.U.L.I.A. Among the Stars. The game keeps getting more and more interesting and I'm really excited to unravel the mysteries I keep finding as I head toward the finish line. Hopefully everything gets answered before the game wraps up and they don't do a cop-out ending. I will be super pissed if they pull a Lost and do a cop-out ending.

Apparently the Eagles think so. I think Goff got dinged by some folks at the combine for having "small hands". Scouts come up with the most ridiculous reasons to raise or lower someone's stock. I personally feel teams put far too much stock in measurables (height, weight, how fast they run the 40, apparently how big their hands are, etc.) and not nearly enough stock in how players perform on a football field during games. In my opinion, this is doubly important for QBs, since so much of that position relies on what goes on between the ears.

So, is Wentz being considered the better prospect over Goff? I honestly don't think either guy is a franchise QB, which is why I hope the Cowboys don't take a QB in the draft, even though they desperately need someone soon to replace Tony Romo, whose body is held together by formaldehyde and the hopes and prayers of Cowboys fans. That said, I'd take Goff over Wentz.

That's also me when I make pizza. I know it just came out of the oven, I can see the cheese bubbling, I know it will burn my mouth and I should wait, but I can't help myself.