Keyrock

That time ain't gonna work for me. Count me out. No biggie, have fun folks.

From here on forward, to troll people like you. That's as good a reason as any.

Looks like the best Castlevania game ever might be heading to PC.

I haven't watched the pilot yet. I'll give the show the standard 3 or 4 episodes I usually do to a show I'm highly interested in to suck me in.

Must be pretty good if they still gave it a 7.5 despite the horrible horrible misogyny of depicting a strong, confident, capable, albeit hyper sexualized, female protagonist. Do you think the introduces himself: "Hi, I'm Arthur Gries and I hate my ****" With any luck, assuming a 3rd entry in the series is ever made, Platinum could get pressured into having her wear one of these: Word 'round the campfire is that the places where these are typically worn are all types of progressive and treat women with the utmost respect.

Must be pretty good if they still gave it a 7.5 despite the horrible horrible misogyny of depicting a strong, confident, capable, albeit hyper sexualized, female protagonist.

I would be down for Numenera. 22:00 CET translates to 16:00 where I live, which wouldn't work for me on a weekday, I get home around 17:30, thus 23:30 CET at the earliest on a weekday for me. Weekend I'm generally good to go whenever. If my available times don't work, I understand. I'll think about a character concept when I get home and have my book to flip through . Sorry I missed this thread until now.

Well played, Nonek, as usual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fYYWMtj1Ag&list=UUwLw7wMt6ra3yIdSd8EK8FQ So, is anyone else excited for this upcoming TV series? This is the first show since Breaking Bad went off the air that has me legitimately excited. For those that don't know, Constantine is adapted from a long running, highly popular DC comic. The character of John Constantine is highly beloved, ironically because he's kind of an a-hole. As with any TV adaptation, I'm sure compromises will be made. One is already known for sure, John Constantine won't smoke in the TV show (I guess you can't do that in prime time on network TV these days), which is a bummer since it is part of his character, but what are you gonna do? Anyway, I hope I'm not setting myself up for disappointment. The show kicks off on the 24th on NBC Please don't suck. Please don't suck. Please don't suck.

Am I the only one who thinks the entire Bayonetta thing is just 100% pure stupid. From frakked up proportions to pistol high-heels to pretty much everything. It's the kind of stupid that I'd normally laugh at, except it's too stupid to do even that. I, for one, enjoy the pure stupid in this case. It's part of what I love about Platinum Games, they go full on balls to the wall over the top with everything they do. That sort of extreme dedication to ridiculousness will certainly rub some people the wrong way, but it makes my inner 12 year old child smile with a big toothy grin in this case. Anyway, review scores are coming in and they're really good so far: IGN - 9.5/10 D'toid - 10/10 It's running at 91% on Metacritic with 31 reviews in. I'm so freakin' excited for the 24th, or whenever my copy gets to my door. I'm going to be playing both Bayonetta games until my thumbs bleed. (As an added bonus, all indications are that the packed in Bayo 1 that comes with this is the best version of that game)

It's not just Unity, though Unity may be a particularly egregious offender. Shadows tend to be one of the biggest resource hogs in games in general. I remember I couldn't get NWN2 to run with shadows on until like a couple years ago when I finally had a card with enough brute force to overcome the insane performance drop. Back when I had a more modest GPU, shadows and AA were the first things I always turned off if I was having performance issues.

Here's another picture of the same person that should make this much easier:

Holy **** Cowboys! Wow they were great today and even overcame a bunch of special teams derp. It would be really hilarious (in a very painful way for me) if they still managed to go 8-8 after starting 5-1.

It works on so many levels.

Oh man, that Bengals/Panthers game. That made me so happy. That was the most fun tie I can ever remember.

Neither. Thrown, bladed, brawling, or blunt. Why? No ammunition.* *note: thrown weapons have ammunition, but you could pick up almost anything to throw, making ammo almost unlimited.

The female version of Michael Bolton: I'm not generally a fan of this type of music, but, much like with Bolton, Sade's music is just so insanely good than even though it's not my thing I can't help but get into it and acknowledge how awesome it is.

Another installment of Name That Famous Musician: By the way, anyone is free to participate in Name That Famous Musician, whether guessing or posting a musician's picture for others to guess. My only guideline, and this isn't strict, is that the picture is of the person at at least the age of 16. Posting pictures from before that age just seems unfair.

@Valsuelm - We have a winner! It's crazy how different Jerry looked without his trademark beard. For your effort you get a Jerry Garcia Band cover of a Bob Dylan song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv7DY27aPyk

Sounds like it scales well and was made to work on older hardware while also take advantage of newer, more powerful hardware. If so, thumbs up BioWare. We'll find out for sure soon enough.

Nobody? Okay, let me give you folks a picture of the same musician slightly older, hopefully that will help:

In defense of the level 50 cap, beyond more HP, what does anything above level 40 get you, anyway? Shouldn't you have all the skills you really care about maxed out by then?

@Fighter - Yeah, Sandy Beidge will be good to go on the CPU side for some time to come. To the best of my knowledge, even a GTX 980, which is the most powerful single GPU card on the market, won't get bottlenecked by PCIe 2.0, so you're good to go whether you get a 970 or a 980. Those new Maxwell cards are very impressive, not nearly enough for me to even entertain the idea of an upgrade, though, power savings (which are thoroughly impressive) aside. My superclocked 780Ti will beat a vanilla 980 in most games. Obviously, an overclocked 980 will beat my 780Ti, but not by nearly enough to warrant an upgrade. I'm waiting for at least Pascal to upgrade. For anyone upgrading from several generations ago or making a new system entirely, though, Maxwell makes all the sense in the world. There is really no reason to buy a Kepler card any more, Maxwell has pretty much obsoleted them completely. I'll be curious to see whether Pascal does indeed wind up being the introduction of 3D memory. The features on Nvidia's roadmap have certainly gotten pushed back enough times (including of late) to warrant skepticism. Still, if it happens, it should be a major step forward, though the 1st iteration will almost certainly not reap the full benefits.

I ran through NWN OC earlier this year. I did it because I love myself. My plate still consists of Bayonetta 2 demo and Wasteland 2. I can only play the Bayonetta 2 demo for so long (same will go for the full game, once I have my grubby little hands on it), because it's a game where you're constantly pressing buttons fairly rapidly, and my thumbs can only take so much. Wasteland 2 makes for a perfect break from that, as it's a turn-based game where I only use my thumb for one of the mouse buttons (I use a center-ball trackball), plus it's a different part of my thumb than what I use to mash gamepad buttons.