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The Saints' one saving grace is that they are playing in what looks to be a pretty weak division. Meanwhile, the Cowboys have quietly assembled a rather good O line over the last few years. They have occasional issues with pass blocking, but their run blocking has been exceptional, as exhibited by the Cowboys being the league's #1 rushing offense, and by a healthy margin.

Oh my goodness, this Cowboys/Saints game. You guys, I love this so much!

It did not look like it was going to turn out well at the start. I guess the key is to be behind in the second half, not ahead. The Iggles turning the ball over 4 times doesn't hurt either.

Nice much needed win for the Niners. They had some clock management/situational awareness issues, but the bottom line is they got the W in what was not quite a must win game, but a very important one. As a bonus, they helped out my Cowboys by beating the Iggles. Now let's see if the Boys can take advantage tonight against the Saints.

What difficulty level are you playing on? In my game, on Ranger difficulty, enemies tend to act a lot more intelligently. Sharpshooters hang back and seek cover and/or high ground, gunners charge up until they're in range then open fire, melee enemies charge. They still do boneheaded moves once in a while, but for the most part enemies aren't complete berserkers. Yes, the combat does get repetitive after a while, but it does so in almost every game that has a lot of combat. I think the only way to have combat not get repetitive is to make every encounter essentially a boss battle, and even then.

Today I'm making pan fried pork chops with taters and sauteed mushrooms.

So, I'm making my way through the Canyon of Titan.

On the flip side, a concussion should have been a timed injury. Not 150 or 300 or whatever seconds, but one where you have to go onto the world map and travel for maybe 7 days or so for it to go away.

Now you're playing with power! I never had a Power Glove (who did?), but I did have R.O.B.

I can hear Bruce's cheers from here.

Just having giant open landmasses in and of itself isn't necessarily a good thing, and this goes for The Witcher 3 as well as DA:I. Those large open areas need to be filled with interesting locations to explore, interesting things to do, and (*glares menacingly at Bethesda*) interesting characters to meet. In fact, the larger the land masses, the more challenging it becomes for the developer to fill them with enough interesting and different things to do and the more likely said developer is to fall into a rut of copy & paste filler quests. Hopefully BioWare (and CDPR, for that matter) rises to the occasion and manages to make these giant areas feel interesting and alive. #DebbieDowner

Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy - A Puzzle Fighter type game coming to Windows, Mac, Linux, and Wii U, with other platforms in stretch goals. It's already funded with 11 days to go. I love me some Puzzle Fighter so I'm definitely interested. Nice low entry point too at 10 Canuck Bucks.

Can't say I have. I haven't had my rifle jam one time since I got it down to 0%. Maybe it's a bug with a specific rifle? Anyway, I made it to the Canyon of Titan. Now it seems I have a choice to make here about the Monks and this "militia". Personally, I get the feeling this "militia" is a group of raiders that just happen to be smooth talkers, but they do have a point about dem monks. Anyway, I'm not going to look up a wiki or search the inXile forums for how this plays out, I don't want to know in advance. I'm not sure which way I'm going to choose yet, but I'm going to do it on my own with out any guidance, and however it plays out, I'll live with the consequences, provided it doesn't produce an end game state. It's getting late so I'll sleep on it.

I'm going through The Prison now. Holding off on doing this area until I was more powerful (generally around lev 14 and 15 now vs around lev 8 and 9 when I first got to Prison Valley) and better equipped was definitely a good idea. I am massacring these Red Skorpion chumps and creating rivers of Red Skorpion blood. Also, great Zeus' beard, there are a lot of mines in this area. Good thing I have both a character with fairly good perception and a character who's good at demolitions. Anyway, once I clear all these chumps out it's on to Damonta, unless I get a call from HQ railroading me somewhere else. Edit: As an aside, snipers are pretty weak early on with the damage not making up for the slow rate of fire, but boy oh boy does it pay to develop one. Critical chance scales quickly with skill, plus sniper rifles have a great combination of high damage per shot and high armor penetration. I'm at the point where my sniper's base chance to hit is nearly 110%, and that's before kneeling down for extra accuracy. I generally get nearly 100%, and sometimes 100% (when I have high ground) accuracy on a headshot and my critical chance is 42%. Criticals on sniper rifle headshots are a beautiful thing. /wipes away tear of joy

I actually never got infected in Ag Center. However, there was a really tense stretch of the game where I was all out of med packs, down to 1 bottle of pills, everyone in my party was hurt, many below half health, and I was in mortal fear of rabbits.

Chris "The Stretch Goal" Avellone is like a fine wine, he just keeps getting better with age.

Hey man, Rangers like their veggies. They are trying to maintain a balanced diet full of important vitamins and antioxidants.

What is the world comming to? There was a time you would include The Witcher 2 at the far right of that equation HoonDing is growing soft in his old age. Anyone have this guy survive?

When it comes to Korean MMOs, or any MMOs, for that matter, the only one I want to play is that Black Desert one (I think it's only playable in Korea right now), and I don't so much want to play it as I want to play with the awesome character creator for hours on end. Someone needs to make a character creator game (no, not The Sims). There is no actual game proper, it's just a really awesome, feature packed character creator. I'd buy and play that. Someone should talk to Volition. Get them to take all the money they use to reskin Saints Row 3 again make Saints Row Gat Out of Hell and have them use 100% of that money to make their already pretty good character creator much better.

One of the sickest, fastest, most amazing instrumental jams ever. Just 4 of the best prog musicians on the planet going 200 mph the whole time.

That's a smart gamer right there. A man who knows the virtues of saving his game! Yeah. I just wish I had saved it (to a non-quicksave) after beating all the rail thieves. Oh well, I already cleaned out half of the half that was left, leaving one last battle for me to go through.

Alright, I have a savegame from where I had cleaned out about half of the rail thieves, so I just gotta clean out the other half. Not too hard or too much work.

Thanks, Marceror, Raithe.