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I gotta hand it to the advertising folks at Dimension Films for a BRILLIANT piece of advertising. So they put out a bunch of character posters for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, standard practice, including one featuring Eva Green and her sweet baby Jesus awesome breasts, knowing full well the MPAA would reject it because lord almighty Eva Green's amazing breasts. Predictably, the MPAA rejected the poster, turning it into a "story", which in turn means 1000% more people will see the poster than would have otherwise, which in turn, likely means a lot more people going to see the movie because great googly moogly Eva Green's awesome breasts. In a related story, I'm so going to see this movie (I was going to anyway, since Sin City is one of my favorite movies ever).

Since I failed to deliver a cleavage shot of the 780Ti, I thought I'd try to make it up to you with full frontal of my keyboard: It came with regular WASD and Win Key keycaps (show below), the ones in the above image came separate, though included with the keyboard, plus a keycap puller. It's tough to tell from the image, but the red WASD keys have the letters written on the front of them so that you can see them when sitting at a desk. I may still purchase some custom keycaps in the future. The keyboard feels very sturdy and well put together. Unfortunately I cannot convey the sound the keys make when pressed, nor the subtle, yet satisfying bump you feel, via picture.

Ubisoft has generally been the best of the big publishers at doing 'niche' titles- it's not so long since M&MX which it is very hard to imagine EA/ 2K/ Actiblizz etc doing. Outside of Civ there's very little tbs or even rts from the other big publishers now, but Ubis till do the Anno and Heroes series. They certainly give the best impression that they care mostly about titles being profitable rather than being all blockbuster all the time and going solely for the super profitable. I would agree with that. Whatever their motivations, Ubisoft, as of late, has been a lot more inclined to go against the grain than other behemoth publishers. Sure, they still churn out their annual AssCreed and SphincterCell cash cows, but they've also put out the aforementioned M&MX, plus Child of Light, and now Valiant Hearts. Even Rayman, though an established franchise, saw a return to 2D platforming. What other behemoth publisher, outside of Nintendo, is putting out 2D platformers these days, or any kind of platformers, for that matter?

My rankings of worst 1st pitches of all time: 5) John Wall 4) Baba Booey 3) 50 Cent 2) Mayor Mark Mallory And, STILL, the reigning and defending Heavyweight Worst First Pitch Champion of THE WORLD 1) Carly Rae Jepsen

I'm still Watching_Dogs. I've mostly been doing side stuff and am only 2/3 of the way through the 1st act. I just finished unlocking all the ctOS stations and bugging all the ctOS towers. I really enjoy breaking into the ctOS stations, so many different ways to get the job done. I broke into one sniper style, simply finding a good spot to set up, breaking out my SVD, and using lures and distractions to get good shots on goons. I broke into one pure stealth style, sneaking around and cracking skulls with my telescoping baton. I broke into one Rambo style, guns blazing, explosions everywhere. I even broke into one without ever setting foot in the restricted area, simply by hacking gameras and creatively using distractions to lure the guy wearing a camera to where I needed him to go. Good times. I just wish the cars didn't feel like they were all made out of styrofoam. For the sequel, they need a much better driving model.

Pretty sweet goat backpack, dude

Does it matter whether Ubisoft bought the game to show off "look how indie we are" or whether they legitimately thought "hey, this sounds like a neat project, let's fund this"? Bottom line is they funded Valiant Hearts and it's coming out as a result. I'm a results driven guy. I don't much care if the famous actress visited the sick children out of her own volition or whether her publicist had her do it as a way to gain good publicity. In the end, the result is the same, some sick children got a visit from the famous actress and were made to feel happy.

Metro Redux screenies:

You didn't miss much, it was a blowout. The game was over before the half. Miami looked terrific, though.

It's a tasteful sideboob shot of the 780Ti, that's the best you're getting. For a full-on cleavage shot I'd have to unscrew it and take it out of the motherboard. I'd rather not handle it any more than I have to.

Adam Morrison has a ring, what's your point? Guys warming the bench just happen to be on championship teams all the time.

This is the game I've been waiting to see from the Heat, the game they put it all together. Firing on all cylinders and just straight steamrolling the Pacers.

Well, I now physically have everything I ordered. I went ahead and installed everything in the case. I have nearly an entire system waiting here ready to go. It's just missing one little, insignificant part called a Central Processing Unit. It's going to drive me nuts with the rig sitting here waiting for that CPU. I won't bother tying the cables up nicely until I get the CPU and install it.

It sucks. The guy is the Cowboys' best defender but his body is made out of paper mache.

Mighty No. 9 Gameplay Footage Not bad for a game that's still about a year away.

The Clippers will be renamed The Vistas and you won't see them next year because they're going to be several years late.

Great update, Adam. I learned a lot, even if I only understood half of it.

Well, I ordered my mobo today. Now all that's left is to wait until next week for Computex and then I'll find out whether it will be a i7-4790K or a E3-1231 v3 that will be slotting into said motherboard.

Yeah, the stealth in the game is pretty decent and you can use your hacking to supplement that by creating blackouts, causing distractions, and so on. Or you can cause steam vents and transformers to blow up when they're next to goons, or cause explosives they are carrying to go off and kill them without ever firing a shot, if you're feeling a bit more bloodthirsty. Or you can just go in guns blazing and mow them down. It's nice how you can tackle things in a variety of ways, and they're all viable.

For me it's all about my personal experience. Steam has been rock solid for me going back many years now. Uplay hasn't done me wrong yet (it was down the day Watch_Dogs released but it was kind enough to let me play the game in offline mode). Origin has given me problems in the past, when I most recently used it (which, admittedly was quite some time ago), and GFWL was such an awful experience for me that I still, to this day, actively avoid games, even games I'd very much like to play, like Dark Souls, that require the service. Plus, as a Linux user, Steam holds a certain advantage over the competition. I can totally see someone who's had major problems with Steam but Origin had always worked well for them preferring Origin. I wouldn't expect anything different.

It's to do with density, the same thing happened with the 6-core processor. I kind of figured that, I just didn't expect the difference in clocks to be so drastic. It really makes the 5960X look very unattractive. I reckon that in more real world situations than not the vastly higher clock speeds of the 5930K will outperform the 2 extra cores and added cache of the 5960X. With the 5960X you'd be paying almost twice as much for a processor that will ultimately perform worse the majority of the time.

I'm not sure why Oby is giving props to Poland in his sig (maybe it's a Slavs gotta stick together type thing, I can respect that), especially since the relationship between Russia and Poland is... tenuous, but thanks dude. Poland is indeed strong, we done survived some crazy **** in our nearly 1000 year history as a country. Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła.

You gotta figure Miami will close this out in game 6 at home. LeBron played only half the game, Paul George went BALLISTIC in the 4th quarter and the Pacers still only barely won game 5. Should be a fun game in San Antonio tonight. I'm sure Pop has made adjustments and the Thunder won't have the home court tonight, like they did in games 3 & 4, but will that be enough for the Spurs to overcome OKC's athleticism edge? I still think Scotty Brooks is playing Perk entirely too many minutes, but at least Steven Adams is getting more minutes than Perk now. I get the whole toughness thing about Perk, but the Thunder's edge vs. San Antonio is athleticism and length, Perkins exhibits neither of those qualities. Perk isn't a particularly tall center and he plays shorter than his height, plus, he runs like he's waist deep in water. Steven Adams is raw, but he's taller and much faster and more athletic than Perk. I'll give Scotty Brooks credit for not playing Sefolosha the last few games and playing Perk less. I wish he'd take it further. When the Thunder have Durant, Westbrook, Jackson, Ibaka, and Adams all playing at the same time they are terrorizing the Spurs via sheer athleticism. Pop will have to pull out some coaching magic to beat that lineup, or find ways to get OKC to not be able to play that lineup much, because San Antonio simply does not have the personnel to match OKC athletically when those 5 guys are out on the court together.

Well, I wouldn't exactly call something appearing on wccftech confirmed. That said, if true, I wonder why the clocks on the 5960X are so much lower than the 5930K? Can Intel simply not keep stable clocks any higher when cramming 8 cores on one die, or is it some kind of weird marketing ploy?

Look at that, trying to put words in my mouth when you know you have nothing but empty lies to work with. LOL It's pretty sad because I know you can troll better than that, Volo. It's like you're not even trying any more.