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I'll likely back at the $35 level to get the digital toolbox.

Games Workshop's whoring out of the Warhammer license continues. This time they can finally deliver the bug-filled, utterly broken experience their fans have been craving by partnering with Creative Assembly!

I'm sure Peyton Manning would be completely open to being a backup. In Cowboys news, head coach Jason Garrett, Princeton Red, as I like to call him, signed a 5 year deal and defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli got a 3 year deal. I wasn't too keen on Princeton Red before this year, but I have to admit he did a good job this year. What Marinelli did was nearly miraculous, bringing back essentially the exact same unit as the previous year's historically bad defense, minus DeMarcus Ware, and turning it into a halfway decent defense, despite several injuries (I'm convinced I'll never actually get to see Sean Lee play ever again in the regular season). Staying the course is almost certainly the right call here. They do need help on defense and they need a young QB to start developing. The Cowboys can't continue to rely on playing Russian Roulette with Romo and continuing to not get shot. Absolute best case scenario is you get 3 more years of Romo where he MIRACULOUSLY stays healthy. The other side of the coin is he could be finished 1 game into next season. Dude is a couple hard hits away from retirement.

Ironically, Mr. Warbutts is correct. If you do stay silent on #Gamergate and do not denounce antiGG (specifically the SJW extremists at the rotten core of antiGG), who very much operate through fear and intimidation, which is pretty much the definition of terrorism, albeit less violent (so far at least) than what is normally associated with that term, then you are turning a blind eye and enabling them.

And it's fully funded already! See you in Honk Kong, chummers.

I just sent IGN a tip about this (they're more than likely well aware). IGN doesn't usually cover Kickstarters, except in rare cases. They might for this, though, since its predecessor was so successful and well regarded. A story on IGN would help get more eyeballs to their crowdfunding campaign. Also, without having played a single second of the game, I'm proclaiming Gobbet, the Rat Shaman to be the greatest video game character ever created An ork rat shaman? it's like Harebrained Schemes designed a character specifically tailored to me.

In a hour they're 1/3 of the way there already!

Yeah, sorry about the confusion, I was slightly confused a bit myself. That's what I get sneaking in reading posts and making them while at work. But yeah, it's applicable in either case.

You will never solve the problem of annoying fanboys shouting about stuff. They'll just shout about something different than numbers. Anyway, I'm all for trying to make a positive change. I very much have my doubts about this succeeding, but I'll do my part to try to help it do so. If I flushed $25 down the toilet then so be it, it's not the end of the world. Potentially getting Metacritic surgically removed from gaming's arse is worth a $25 risk to me (plus the time I'm going to put in on the site). I'm assuming they'll have user reviews too, I hope. I plan to write a bunch up with as much detail and as little bias as I can muster up. If they do, I hope the place doesn't get flooded with the stupid "This game set my cat on fire. 10/10 would set cat on fire again" joke reviews. Those don't help anyone. Hopefully they'll have a forum too, if so you'll see me on there likely (I already got my username reserved, same as this one).

They're only asking for 100k? If there is any goodness left in the world they will meet that goal in a matter of hours. Then they can open up PayPal support and I can toss them some moneyz.

Never heard of this, but it looks like it could be amusing.

It's a free Quest For Glory clone.

Still. Waiting. For. Linux. Version. Of. D:OS. Anyway, I still haven't played the Directors Cut version, but Dragonfall was awesome, I'm super excited for the incoming (today?) new Kickstarter for Hong Kong. Might & Magic X was a surprisingly good and faithful (maybe a little too faithful) throwback to old skool M&M games, I enjoyed it thoroughly. No comment on Neo Scavenger, haven't played it. I would personally put Wasteland 2 above all those games, but that's my own personal preference. I was a darn good year for RPGs.

Niche Gamer second interview with Christian Allen

Dang. Most of Something Awful is harmless with people just poking fun and such, but there are dark corners of that place where folks don't just joke about stuff, they're into that stuff for real. Some real sick people in those dark corners. If /b/ is much worse than that, then I shudder to think about that.

It's users from old /b/ who enjoy doxing and stuff. Best to avoid. Is it something like the seedier crevices of Something Awful?

Can someone explain this "Baphomet" business to me? I don't frequent 8chan, 4chan, or any other chan, so I have no clue what anyone is talking about.

Holy ****, that's a pretty awesome twitter rant by Based Biscuit. My favorite part was: The Cynical Brit at his most gloriously cynical.

Wooo, with hours to spare!

I'm looking forward to the prestigious first annual Gorgon Awards. Any special guests planned? Who can you get on short notice?

I remember this. At the beginning it looked like it had little chance to make its goal, but it's going to be close. Hopefully the goal is met.

Well yeah, karma is a b****. There's also the karma for the picked up flag in last week's game, so double karma payback.

Well, sure, but that's easy to say sitting at a computer. On a crucial 4th down play, making a spectacular grab, it's probably hard in that split second as all that happens to recall this ridiculous rule and make a judgement to tuck the ball rather than risk stretching out for the endzone. I would think instinct pretty much takes over at that point and it;s Dez's instinct, as a competitor, to try and score the TD on that play, it's what makes him a great player. It's the same reason I don't get too mad at DeMarco Murray when he fumbles when he's fighting for extra yardage. Part of me wants him to maybe not fight quite as hard and put more effort into securing the ball and less into trying to get extra yards, but it's the instinct and desire to keep fighting for extra yards that makes him a great runner.

Well, okay that clip doesn't start early enough, I guess, to show the ball as it's getting there, still he gets control of it almost immediately and before he even starts falling. More importantly, as a rule that's supposed to take judgement calls out of the game the Calvin Johnson Rule is a failure, since it still often comes down to a judgement call. The only difference being that the judgement call is now "did he make a 'football move'?" instead of "was that a catch?". Also, any rule, regardless of its good intentions that labels what is clearly a catch not a catch is a stupid rule. I still remember the original Calvin Johnson play. EVERYBODY thought that was a catch. Anyone with a set of eyeballs and a brain thought that was a catch. Even my sister, who doesn't watch or give a crap about football, came in the room as my pops and I were watching the replay and asked us "what's going on?". To which I replied "they're reviewing this catch". She watched a replay of it and asked "Why? That's clearly a catch."

Dez was falling down when he gained control of the ball. He might have had a chance a non-falling catch if he'd secured control when the ball first arrived, but Shields got a hand in there and made Byrant bobble it a bit before he could control it. He got it in his hands as he stumbled forward, though. Then the ball touched the ground and he lost control. Ergo, incomplete. It's really quite an easy call-- controversial only in that some people don't like the underlying rule. Really? What bobble? Show me the bobble. Here is the play: Dez clearly has complete control of that ball. He has it securely in his hands and stretches his arm out, fully controlling the ball, toward the endzone. The ball comes loose when it hits the ground, he is in complete control of it up until that point. The "football move" part is important because if it is deemed that he has completed catching the ball and is making a "football move" then he is no longer considered to be in the process of catching the ball and is now considered a runner. The question is, is he still in the process of making the catch when the ball hits the ground or has he made a "football move"?