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Yeah. It's a Korean MMO called Black Desert, most likely it will never see the light of day out west.

You know something, brother? I hope Hulkamania runs wild on them.

Is that person honestly asking the backers he/she ripped off to support his/her other projects? That's some gall right there.

I don't even care about the game, I just want that character creator. Dammit, Korea, keep your game, just send us the character creator. I want to make a short, fat, insanely stocky dude with a monocle and a super exaggerated cleft chin.

I don't think 2-2 will do it. Even if Dallas beats Philly in the rematch; and Philly also loses to Sea, Philly would still likely win the Division since they would end with the better division record (thanks to Dallas' loss to Washington). While it's possible (albeit unlikely) for Dallas to win the Division, Philly wins almost all division tiebreakers. So a 2-2 finish likely pushes Dallas to the wild card tiebreakers. Of course the Evil Mark Sanchez could show up and blow up Philly's season. LOL And that also assumes that both Philly and Dallas take care of Wash and NYG or Chicago. In almost all of the likely Dallas 2-2 finishing scenarios, Dallas misses the playoffs on a conference record tiebreaker (they finish with no better than a 8-4 conference record and 7-5 is more likely) or head to head loss to one of the other possible playoff teams (SF and Arizona). There's still four weeks left and lots can happen. Exactly why I'm not trying to figure out every conceivable scenario yet, too much football left. I'm strictly going by the fact that historically 10-6 gets you in a lot more often than it doesn't (I'm too lazy to look it up, but I'm guessing it's in the 75-80% range). There are of course exceptions, 11-5 teams have failed to get in before, but 10-6 usually is good enough to get in.

I achieved a feat of monumental proportions today. As of right now, my Christmas shopping is essentially done. I may still pick up a few doodads, maybe a joke gift or two, but those are all stress-free icing on the cake type things. The important part is that the I got everyone covered with their "serious" gifts. I can now enjoy a completely stress-free December... well, free of the stresses of Christmas shopping, anyway. This high five is for you, Cyber Monday:

Divinity: Original Sin. I'm nearing lev 10 and I just made it out of the starting area around Cyseal and into the forest north of it. I really dig the game's cheesy sense of humor, it goes a long way toward making an already enjoyable experience into something very fun. Also, I've gotten pretty proficient at utilizing the environment and my different spells and abilities to set up wicked traps for my foes. I'll sometimes spend 5 minutes at a time dragging a barrel or two over to an area to perfect my devious plan.

The limerick is in extremely poor taste and that person is an a-hole for posting it. That said, the people doxxing said person, harassing her, and making threats against her are scumbags, and those threatening and harassing her family are straight up monsters. Regardless of what Social Justice Warriors believe, just because somebody did something wrong, or they're an a-hole, or a racist, doesn't give you carte blanche to dish out retribution how you see fit and without ethical and moral repercussions. Just because the person you're going after is a bad person, that doesn't absolve you of your actions. If you murder a gang banger, you're still a murderer.

There is a definite possibility of that. It's going to be entertaining to watch either way. I don't care about the Browns, I'm just in it for the entertainment value, and Johnny Football is going to bring that one way or another.

THE JOHNNY FOOTBALL ERA IS UPON US. I REPEAT, THE JOHNNY FOOTBALL ERA IS UPON US. (yes, that needed to be all caps, I almost switched to a larger font too)

It's almost as if Crytek knows how to make game engines that push the limits of graphics, but they can't actually make a good game any more. On the bright side, the game does have next-gen boob physics

Space Mutiny gets my vote for best episode. Space Mutiny is a pretty spectacular episode. Punch Rockgroin! Dirk Hardpec! Flint Ironstag! Big McLargeHuge! My vote for best episode goes to The Final Sacrifice. Zap Rowsdower is legendary.

I seem to have noticed a pattern in Ms. Wu's communication style. Please do correct me if you feel I have come to an erroneous conclusion. Step 1) Make unfounded, often flat out false, claim of sexism or misogyny, accompanied with a plea to retweet. Step 2) Matter-of-factly have claim refuted (often by someone with expertise in the given field) using factual evidence. Step 3) Loudly react to the person who matter-of-factly refuted her claim with righteous indignation. Step 4) Lather. Step 5) Rinse. Step 6) Repeat.

The way I understand it, to the SJWs, any woman who's pro-GG, or even neutral, is either a sock puppet (only pretending to be a woman) or a house n****r (a traitor to their gender).

If I take nothing else away from this thread, the 44th President of the United States of America will now forever be known to me as Peach Obama. I derive probably altogether way too much joy out of that.

The AAA model is certainly not doing us any favors at this point. Most of those games (CoD, AssCreed etc.) would be played by exactly no one if it were not for their production values. Call of Duty games have legitimately good shooting mechanics and a thriving multiplayer community. Assassin's Creed succeeded quite well in integrating parkour elements into an action game and also have some of the best representations of cities of any game or game series out there. Walk through a city in any AssCreed game, then walk through a city in Skyrim. One of them feels like a living, breathing city, the other doesn't. Also, the whole Animus part of the games was initially pretty brilliant and could have turned out really awesome, but Ubisoft c0cked that up right quick. The problem is that it's the same mother****ing game every single year, and at full price. CoD: Advanced Warfare is being praised by some (and derided by others) for bringing the biggest changes the series has seen in probably half a decade, if not more. Those changes are fairly minor, they just feel earth shattering compared to the nonexistent changes from previous titles in the series. The problem with the AAA model lies in 2 factors: The Madden Effect™ and The Michael Bay Effect™. I'm fully confident I don't need to explain what those are, but I will anyway for the sake of completeness. The Madden Effect™ is the annual (sometimes biannual) release model (the same model that murdered Guitar Hero), and The Michael Bay Effect™ is placing value and emphasis on production values, flashy effects, and ridiculous setpieces above, and to the detriment of, all else. The Madden Effect™ works to maximize profit and The Michael Bay Effect™ works because publishers have (sadly, correctly) assumed that it's what sells. The Madden Effect™ makes it essentially impossible to start from scratch, or even make sweeping changes, simply because there isn't enough time to do that, which leads to iterative (at best) releases. The Michael Bay Effect™ makes for games that are pretty and flashy on the outside, but hollow on the inside. This leads publishers to release the same candy bar (sweet and tasty on the surface, yet almost completely devoid of nutritional value) year after year, just in a slightly different wrapper. I don't want AAA to go the way of the Dodo completely, because once in a while I like to indulge in a candy bar, but I have no intention of having several of these candy bars shoveled down my throat on a regular basis, plus they're making some people pretty fat. The AAA model needs a major overhaul. Sadly, I don't see that coming about without a spectacular crash.

Well, looks like the show's future is up in the air, at least they haven't outright cancelled it yet. The last 3 episodes (4,5,6) have been the best of the series so far, in my opinion. To me, the show started out poorly, with the piss poor pilot, got steadily better in episodes 2, 3, and 4, and has plateaued since then. As it stands now, I feel the show is decent, good enough to make me tune in each week, but not good enough to make me passionate or truly excited about it. For one, the John Constantine character is still way too much of a nice guy. That said, I'd rather the show get picked up for a second season than it didn't.

Needing a break from the twitch action gameplay of Bayonetta 2 (a guy needs a change of pace after 75+ hours), I started playing Divinity: Original Sin. I've been waiting for the Linux version to come out, which is why I haven't played it earlier, but, on a whim, I decided to see how it would run via WINE. Lo and behold, not only does it run, it runs perfectly, even with all settings maxed out. So, since it runs great, no need to wait for the Linux version, I can play it now, and when the Linux version does come out, I can just copy my profile and save files over and continue seamlessly (if the game does cloud sync it will do that for me automagically, but I never bothered checking if it does). Anyway, I'm still pretty early in the game, still mucking around Cyseal, though I think I'm mostly done in this area and ready to move on. My Source Hunters are Luciana, a cleric who's both a front line fighter and my primary healer, and Humphrey, a witch who's my all around magey dude. For my companions, I scooped up Madora as a second front line fighter and Bairdotr as my archer plus thievery type. I definitely like the game a lot so far, even if can be frustrating at times. I like being able to wander into areas I have no business being, and the guards will warn me once that I probably shouldn't go there yet, but I can all the same and wind up getting obliterated (though I have won a couple battles I really had no business winning via creative use of the environment). One big compliment I will give to the game is that it has probably the best pathfinding I've ever seen in this type of game.Things like your characters automatically avoiding spotted traps and hazardous surfaces may seem like a minor detail, but it makes the game so much less frustrating and tedious to play that it would have been if I had to babysit each character, one by one, around every trap. Seriously, how has it taken until 2014 for a game of this type to finally get this right? How is it that it's taken several decades of these types of games being made until someone was finally able to program pathfinding that doesn't make your characters look like complete imbeciles?

Explanation for those who don't understand US tax laws? Charitable organizations are exempt from tax but they need to apply first. I'm guessing people think that she hasn't been paying her taxes, or that she is making people believe that's a charitable organization when its not. Not only apply, but follow through with the process to become officially recognized as a nonprofit. I make this nitpick because, if I read those links correctly, she (or someone on her behalf) did apply to become a 501c nonprofit but seemingly never followed through with the next step, and thus never became a 501c nonprofit organization.

My results from www.isidewith.com" I guess I'm still a Democrat, even if I have lost all faith in the party. The results are what I expected. I'm liberal on environmental issues, conservative on fiscal issues, and moderate leaning liberal on the majority of other issues.

Collectivism score: 33% Authoritarianism score: 0% Internationalism score: 0% Tribalism score: -50% Liberalism score: 33% I had a lot of maybe answers, probably a third. On many of those I leaned one way, but not strongly enough to give a yes or a no.

I voted for it on Greenlight not as a **** you to anti-GGers, though it serving as a **** you to anti-GGers is a welcome bonus, but because it looks like a game I'd like to play. I do like me some Harvest Moon and this definitely seems to be like that. I have to admit, though, watching anti-GGers try to blackball someone in the industry and fail spectacularly puts a big ol' goofy smile on my face.

I scooped up Rogue Legacy for the price of a cup of coffee.

I'm pretty sure I played it on a Tandy 1000 running MS-DOS (6, I think), so, more or less, PC.

One of the best things about Thanksgiving, in my opinion a way better holiday than Christmas (all the spending time and sharing a meal with family with none of the stresses commercialization of X-Mas has brought), is the awesomeness of having a Thanksgiving sandwich a day or two after. Turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and stuffing on bread, toasted. Aww yeah!