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Apparently NBA2K15's face scanning mode is a bit glitchy and may turn your players into eldritch horrors.

Deck13 owes you commission since I think you just sold Bruce on the game.

The Costume Quest 2 reviews have started coming in and the consensus seems to be "more of the same with somewhat improved combat". I'm okay with that. The annual Costume Quest playthrough is coming soon, this time with double the Costume Quest!

I couldn't think of anything original and went with FMJ. Now if only I have time to play on weekdays... If a Ranger dies can you make a new one to replace said dead Ranger or do you have to replace him or her with one of the Rangers around the Citadel? I'd make a Private Pyle and have him kill himself before he ever left the Citadel area.

So, I'm assuming

Double Fine could sacrifice a human child and kick a puppy on a live feed and I would still buy Costume Quest 2.

The sad thing is that for a split second I tried to figure out which month is 18 What a weird way to write June 12th 2015 Actually, it's not, the Murican way is the weird way, and I say that as a Murican. Day Month Year makes perfect sense because it scales from the smallest increment of time to the largest, it makes a lot more sense than Month Day Year. Personally, I like the way it's notated in computer and sometimes scientific notation the best, which is YearMonthDay (4 digits for year, 2 for month, 2 for day), for example, today would be 20141006. The biggest advantage of this notation is that you can keep it going to smaller and smaller increments if you want to get super specific. For example, as I'm typing this it's 20141006125020. Year (4 digits) month (2 digits) day (2 digits) hour (2 digits using 24-hour clock) minute (2 digits) second (2 digits).

No sour cream, just potato, cheddar cheese, monterey jack cheese, and bacon. I don't get super crazy mashing the potato either, I like to have a few chunks in there.

Dez Bryant's ridiculous catch in overtime that put the Cowboys in field goal range:

The possibility of the Royals in the World Series puts a smile on my face... As much of a smile as a guy who's team went 71-91 could have, anyway.

NPCs will tell you their location is you make them happy.

The good news: DeMarco Murray is currently on pace to rush for 2144 yards this season. The bad news: He's also on pace to have 13 fumbles this season. If his body doesn't shatter into a billion pieces at some point, and that's a big if, I highly doubt he'll actually rush for 2000 yards, but I could see him getting around 1800 rushing yards, which is still a monster season. Hopefully, he figures out how to hold on to the ball and doesn't actually wind up with double digit fumbles by season's end.

Woohoo! The Cowboys are 4-1. Sure, they'll still meltdown in December like always, but let me have this moment.

The finished taters:

You make it sound as if they boycotted the official trailer of the game.This is just update number 8. I doubt they covered previous 7 so why should anything be different this time? It's significant because it announces the release date of the alpha, which is not only a milestone but also significant for those interested in testing the game and/or getting in on it when it's still raw and unfinished so they can see how the game changes during development. I agree that reporting on other updates along the lines of hey here's some concept art and a bio of one of our developers isn't something that's regularly covered by sites, but usually major milestones such as an alpha release do get a mention, particularly when it's a relatively major (in terms of how much money they raised) project.

Planning ahead for the traditional Sunday ritual (no, not church, NFL football) I think I'm going to make twice baked potatoes today and also whip up a salad of some sort.

Woohoo, I finally got a better bludgeoning weapon, a rebar staff. Higher AP than a crowbar, but the damage output is increased enough to still make it a better weapon in almost every circumstance. It has 1 better armor penetration to boot. I also found a badass sniper rifle called Sabra Marie.

Techraptor is the only other site that's done an article on them that I've seen and it's an article about how there are no articles about it other than Cinemablend.

I'm definitely interested in hearing your continued (as spoiler-free as possible) impressions of Crimes ans Punishment once you play it some more. I'd love to play a good Sherlock Holmes game.

Whether the ant-GG sites deliberately decided to not cover Kingdom Come: Deliverance's latest video because of Daniel Vavra's pro-GG stance or it was a coincidence, the lack of coverage hasn't stopped the project from having a really great week of crowdfunding pledges coming in. They can shun projects on their sites all they want (same as we can shun their sites), but we can spread the message ourselves. That is the power of today's interconnected world, it's very difficult to control the message and shut voices down because we can skip the middleman and get the message directly. Maybe no single non-industry person has the power to reach nearly the amount of people a big site can, but collectively, our voice is loud. As an aside, anyone here pledge for alpha access? If so I'd be interested to hear impressions. I only pledged for the final released game, so I won't be taking part in the alpha. Edit: As for the Intel thing, I'm going to continue to do as I've always done, that is to buy from whichever manufacturer gives me the best value for the features and performance I desire. My last CPU purchase was from Intel because AMD simply doesn't have a compelling product in the market I was shopping in. I've bought from AMD in the past and I will do so again in the future if they are ever able to compete in the mid-to upper desktop segment again, or if I'm in the market for a laptop and their APUs seem like the best price/performance value at that time. Or I'll buy from Intel if their product seems like the best value for my dollar.

Those do look really great. They would make for fantastic character portraits.

I played a lot of Wasteland 2, a little of World of Diving, and a bit of Borderlands 2 today. I think I'm done with Borderlands 2. I gave it a bit over 5 hours. Maybe the game gets better later, but if a game can't hook me in 5 hours, I'm not going to keep playing to find out. Good thing I got it at 75% off for less than a tenner. At that price, I don't have to feel that bad about writing it off as a loss.

Yay! I made it to California. Steam says it only took me 57 hours. Keep in mind that at least an hour of that, likely closer to 2, was spent idle while I ate a sammich or alt+tabbed out to do something else. Also, I play this game very slowly. It's a testament to how good this game is that I'm still motivated to continue and don't feel like taking a break from the game. Most games I get burnt out after 20-25 hours, even Pirate Creed, which is a game I enjoyed immensely, I lasted only a little over 40 hours before I got burnt out and needed a break. Anyway, I'm already mulling over my second playthrough party. Two things are for certain, I will play on Supreme Jerk and I will not take Angie along at the start for extreme difficulty reasons. I'm thinking about doing a party of junkies, but I'm not sure there are enough drugs in the game to last my drug addict party throughout, doesn't seem like there is enough in the Ay-Zee, anyway. Is there withdrawal in the game?

Are you sure? Have you gotten to the Mine or the Abandoned TrainYard? Have you found every Shrine? To the best of my knowledge, yes (a definite yes for the mine and the train yard). I've unfogged the entire map, every single nook and cranny.

Alright, got to Darwin Village, the last place for me to go through before I set off for the sunny skies and warm beaches of California.