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Splatoon came out of nowhere at E3 2014 and has rapidly gone from "heh, that looks interesting" to "whoa, this looks pretty fun" to "I MUST HAVE THIS NOW" for me.

I'm putting in my daily hour or so of Infinity Wars and getting back out on the road with Euro Truck Simulator 2. It took me a little while to dial in the sensitivity on the steering and the acceleration and braking axes, and to get comfortable with all the buttons on the wheel, but now that I have, cruising around with a wheel and pedals setup is so much better than playing with a gamepad. Now, if I just had an Oculus headset, I'd be in for full immersion. I'm still going to wait a couple more iterations before I consider getting one of those headsets, though.

Yeah. Sheeple can be easily manipulated and whipped up into a frenzy, and sensationalist bull**** is quite effective toward that end, but you gotta ground it in reality at least a little bit. That article is so over the top ludicrous that I think even most sheeple would go "get the **** out of here with that crap" after reading that.

Sure, if you can get a R9 280 at $150 that's a killer deal. I wasn't factoring in rebates. Regular prices, as of now, for the R9 280 (no rebates included) are in the same ballpark as the GTX960 (often about $10 cheaper) and the GTX960 is just about always faster at 1080p. And don't give me this 1440p bull****. NOBODY seriously wanting to game at 1440p is buying a ****ing R9 280 or a GTX960. I know you're not that stupid so please, do me a ****ing favor and don't try to assume other people are that stupid. You're not doing anyone any favors by implying some people on here might be stupid. Could you feasibly in theory game at 1440p on a R9 280? Technically yes, but with sacrifices and no path for the future without buying another card. Would anyone with even half a brain who invested in a 1440p monitor be buying a video card in the $200 range? Absolutely not. So don't try that stupid crap, that's just ridiculous. If you're going for 1440p you're buying AT LEAST a GTX970 or a R9 290X, period.

Wouldn't the 280X be a better value? That's definitely debatable. The R9 280X is certainly a little bit more powerful, but it's also about $40 - $50 more expensive.

She's showing so much wrist, I am so sorry. Think unsexy thoughts. Think unsexy thoughts.

What the heck, have a bonus Pakistani fighter pilot

Since Malky brought up jets, have some Chinese fighter pilots

I would say the GTX960 seems to be the price to performance king at $200 right now. It seems about the same, maybe a hair more powerful on average than a R9 285 at 1080p (let's face it, if you're going to run 1440p or 4k, you're not buying a $200 video card, so any benchmark above 1080p is irrelevant), which is a card going for about $20 more, as of right now (that may change very soon). Nvidia does indeed have a gap in its lineup at the $250 price point right now.

"A few years ago I started provocatively exterminating Jews whenever I saw them trying to make money off others. I only murdered in ways I agreed with, but I did it in an overly antagonizing way designed to enrage specific hateful Jews. The goal was to draw some of their fire and distract them from their money hoarding ways. It's shockingly easy to drive these Jews into fits of rage. Simply put them in concentration camps and attempt to wipe them off the face of the Earth." - Adolph Hitler

I thought I'd have some childish fun. In a perfect world we'll all poke some fun, it will run its course, then on its own fade into the oblivion known as off the front page. Of course, there is the potential for people to take this too seriously, puff their chests out, and this going horribly wrong. If that happens, accept my apology and by all means, nuke the thread.

A side benefit of the highly fashionable fully body coverage wear, besides the obvious rape deterring properties, is the protection from the sun's harmful UV rays. Imagine the money women will save by not having to purchase SPF 30!

This one is not only highly fashionable, it also has the practical purpose of allowing you to camouflage yourself in case of tiger swarm.

@Fighter @Longknife - You monsters, how could you!? You can see their entire faces! The shame! Urge to rape rising...

Quality work. I hear the 2015 spring floral burqa line is going to be quite exquisite!

Here we can post pictured and discuss women covered from head to toe, showing as little of the devil's skin that's turning men into raping monsters as possible. I apologize in advance for the little skin around the eyes or the hands and feet that might slip through the rape culture filter. Also, allow me to apologize in advance for being a white heterosexual male with a pen1s. I am a monster, please forgive me.

The first GTX 960 reviews and benchmarks are coming in. Obviously, do your research and don't just go be a single review, but from that single review the card seems like a real winner, delivering plenty of horsepower at a very reasonable price point ($199, don't know what that translates to where you live). If nothing else, this will likely force AMD to drop prices on some of its cards in the same general performance range, so everybody wins.

I'm sorry everybody, it was clearly the Io Shirai pictures I posted. ****less wimps were obviously intimidated by pictures of an attractive, highly athletic, fearless, and totally badass woman who does things they would never have the cojones to try. My bad.

Because the best way to deal with a security risk is to add another security risk into the equation.

It's the dead of winter and we have another week of brutally cold temperatures coming up. This seems like an opportune time to break out the slow cooker and make some clam chowder.

I finished up Jagged Alliance Flashback. Not the greatest ending in the world, but this is a low budget game, so I shouldn't have expected some epic cutscene. Anyway, I enjoyed the game overall. It's nothing special but it kept me entertained and coming back to it quite willingly, so there's something to be said for that. I'll take a look at the toolkit in the future and maybe set up my own scenario if I feel so inclined and the tools are up to snuff. I'd like to see Full Control do a follow up. The framework is in place and the combat mechanics are solid, good even. While characters don't have special abilities, so the leveling is pretty plain and straightforward, the actual combat itself works really well, better in many respects than XCOM, with the ability to stand, crouch, or lie prone anywhere, giving both offensive and defensive bonuses, good shooting mechanics with sustained fire bonuses, solid line of sight mechanics, and a relatively simple, but well functioning stealth/detection system that incorporates line of sight, lighting, time of day, weather, and noise. I wouldn't mind them tweaking and improving the mechanics further, but even if they left the mechanics alone and concentrated fully on making a better story with more interesting characters, I'd be happy with that, since that's the area in which the game lacks the most, in my opinion.

AMD's R9 285 is probably the price to performance king in the $200-$300 bracket right now, though Nvidia's GTX 960 is supposed to launch in a matter of days, it might even be tomorrow, so you may want to hold off until we get full specs, pricing, benchmarks, and reviews to make a decision.

The subscription model is pretty much dead. What subscription-based MMOs have succeeded in staying subscription-based? WoW FFXIV Eve Online There's also Wildstar, but I predict that will drop the sub within the next 6 months. For me, personally, a subscription is a barrier to me ever even trying a MMO. If a game is F2P, I may give it a shot, because what have I got to lose except some time? If I wind up having fun with the game, I may buy some stuff to support the devs. If I have to buy a retail copy of the game then fork over $15 a month, I'll never even try the game. Simple as.

Yeah, that Sandy Bridge CPU is fine. RAM should be okay for a while, though you may need to upgrade for some games in the near future. Video card is the big thing. I don't know what you budget looks like so I can't recommend a specific card other than to say I generally prefer Nvidia over AMD, but that's down to my own personal choice.

TESO going F2P model (except you still have to buy the game)? Nobody could have seen that coming.