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Not a fan of the cut-scene killing of the Gryphon. I'd rather kill the monster myself. I though the rest looked great.

Two of them, even. One I am interested in: Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, a sequel to Lara Croft and the Gaurdian of Light. One I have no interest in at all: Rise of the Torture Porn Raider.

They're launching a beta of Battlefield: Hardline today. But I thought Battlefield 4 was still in beta?

So it sounds like there is more focus on combat in the new Mirror's Edge. In a related story, I've lost all interest in the new Mirror's Edge.

I also noticed that he switched signs without bringing up a radial menu, or any kind of menu, for that matter. Obviously, also a plus.

Hopefully you can have the Inquisitor wear a lion helm, because that helmet they always show the Inquisitor wearing is fugly something fierce.

Gryphon Hunting Gameplay I wonder if it's possible to save the guy getting attacked by the thugs? Also, I'm assuming you have the option to get some sexy time with the attractive lady (witch? herbalist?) later on.

Sunset Overdrive looked pretty cool. It is far and away the most interesting XBone exclusive I've seen.

I thought the DA:I trailer was okay. I was neither wowed nor disappointed by it.

Which team will take the coveted Diving Cup this year, Italy or Argentina, or is there a dark horse?

What, like this? Speaking of which, has it officially started yet or is this still a "pre-E3" trailer?

Yeah, Civ games are make up your own story as you go along type games.

It's as if someone at Bio spent 15 minutes programming a generic edgy slogan generator. All I know is that I now have no desire whatsoever to meet Iron Bull nor Sera at #EAE3. I'm not sure if that was the desired effect.

I suspect Adda living or dying will be the most significant of the choices from TW1 going forward. It, like most choices from TW1, is only really referred to briefly in conversation or mentioned in books in TW2. Although Adda is unlikely to be near the top of the list for Temerian succession, what, with the whole Striga thing hanging over her head, I suspect she'll have a role to play in TW3, or not (on account of being dead if you killed her in TW1).

You could always scour the interwebs for TW1 save games, as there are places where people have put their save games online with every conceivable combination of choices in TW1, in case you want specific choices to funnel down into TW2, and, presumably, TW3. That is, if you haven't done that already.

Seems my suspicions about Devil's Canyon were correct. The chip runs a bit cooler than the 4770K, but, on average, the overclocking potential is barely higher than that of the 4770K, which confirms the theory (not my theory, mind you) that temperature wasn't a major factor in what was keeping Haswells from OCing as well as people had hoped. It seems the silicon lottery is still very much the order of the day for the refresh Haswells. I mean, there has always been some variance in the quality of each particular chip you get, both with Intel chips and AMD chips, but the range with Haswells is just really extreme, affecting overclocking potential by as much as 500 or 600 MHz. Overall, I feel good about my decision to go with the Xeon I got, I would have been satisfied even if the DCs had been shown to consistently overclock like champs. I have made my bed, now I get to sleep in it for nearly another year (until Broadwell). The lower clocks of the Xeon will hurt my application performance a bit, particularly encoding and decoding work, which I don't do very much of. For gaming, there will be no difference whatsoever in the majority of cases and a bit of a difference in a few heavily CPU-bound games. Honestly, for gaming, I suspect that my RAM running at 2400MHz, as opposed to the standard 1600 MHz, has, on average, a significantly bigger impact on gaming performance that having the higher clocked 4790K in place of my Xeon would have had. Although higher clocked RAM doesn't always have a positive impact, it can actually have a negative impact, in some cases, as higher clocked RAM tends to have slower timings, then you get into a bandwith vs. latency issue and things get really complicated.

Did you partake in sexy time in the pool? I will, regrettably, not be having sexy time with a certain red headed sorceress in the pool when I get there (likely later today). I'm doing a strictly platonic with Triss playthrough, which will be my canon. I chose Shani in TW1 and Triss is getting friend zoned in TW2. Then in TW3, I'm running straight into Yennefer's arms if and when we're reunited. I'm also trying to keep as many people alive as possible. I saved Vesna, Abigail, and Adda, cured Vincent, and spared Berengar in TW1, spared Aryan, will save Phillipa, spare Sile, Saskia, and Letho.

I'm plugging along in Flotsam in The Witcher 2. I did the sneaky sneaky bits around Loredo's place, did all the fist fights and arm wrestling and most of the dice games, and finished the Nekker contract. Endregas up next, I guess. Inspired by the upcoming World Cup, I also started up a game of Football Manager 2014. Time to take Wisła Kraków to the top of Ekstraklasa, though I probably should have started with a lowlier club for more challenge. Edit: Oops, wrong thread. Pretend I posted a picture, or something.

I've never heard of it before, but they advertise Motion Blur as a "feature". I need to find out who the first person to pollute a video game with motion blur was, build a time machine, travel back in time, and murder him or her before they have a chance to implement Motion Blur and start this abysmal plague. Thankfully, most games allow you to turn it off, but who thought this was a good idea in the first place? Are there people out there that enjoy Motion Blur? Who was the genius that said "You know what games are missing? An effect that very poorly and unnaturally mimics the effect you get when you turn your head really fast, makes you disoriented, and chews up resources, all at the same time."

Honestly, I'm not expecting much of anything at E3 this year. The new Witcher 3 trailer was already shown so I don't know what else CDPR can do, other than maybe something something Cyberpunk. The only thing I really want is for Nintendo to announce a Metroid game for WiiU. If when they do that, I'll definitely buy their system at some point. Other than that, no expectations, nothing to be excited about. Hopefully something comes out of the blue and surprises me. If nothing else, we might get a cringeworthy presentation from Microsoft that will make for a fun meme.

I'd argue the Spaniards have been pretty dominant over the past 6 years.

It's 83 degrees, I'm doing squats and lunges, and I'm sweating like a deadbeat dad at a child support hearing.

Why should a team's chances be any factor in whether you cheer for them or not? There are terms for people that only cheer on the favored teams: "Frontrunners" and "bandwagon fans".