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Football Manager 2014 - aka - The game that will take over your life. Don't buy this, you'll never do anything else again. Nooooooooo! Don't do it! Is on sale at 75% off. I scooped it up because: a) Another game to play on my upcoming SteamOS Machine (because it has Linux support) b) I'm already a hermit and don't have much of a social life anyway

I'm thinking the All American June Cleaver-esque wife winds up getting "killed" which sends Aiden down a path of revenge which leads him into a much deeper conspiracy way over his head. Near the end it's revealed that June Cleaver didn't get killed at all, in fact she's the main villain of the story and has been manipulating Aiden all along for sinister reasons that don't really make any sense at all, but it's all good because SHOCKING PLOT TWIST! I'd buy 10 hours of that for 60 bucks All the DLC too Ubisoft Soulless Executive - "We're glad you feel that way, Mr. ShadySands. If you don't mind, may I call you Shady? (/does not wait for ShadySands to answer) We, here at Ubisoft, are committed to giving you, our valued customer, the best value for their hard earned dollar. That's why we'd like to offer you, Shady, this Season Pass package. For the low low discount price of $19.95, you, our dearly valued customer, will be treated to all the DLC content we release after the game... except the content we deem later to not be part of the Season Pass package. Let me assure you, Shady, that the value of this package, if bought separately, will far exceed the low low asking price of $19.95. We offer you, our valued customer, this deal because we are committed to offering you the highest gaming value around."

I was Team Green for a very long time. Phenom II 940 BE was my last AMD processor. I still remember the glory days of my Opteron 160 overclocked by 800 MHz on stock cooling (and never breaking a sweat), absolutely demolishing any Intel processor of that time in the same price area code, even somewhat more expensive chips. Sadly, AMD simply has nothing to offer me in the segment I'm looking to buy right now. Anyway, we'll find out soon either way. I have a plan and a backup plan. One way or another I'm buying a CPU the first week of June. It will either be a i7-4790K or a Xeon E3-1230v3. I will be playing games on my SteamOS Monster Machine the second week of June, that is written in stone.

I'm thinking the All American June Cleaver-esque wife winds up getting "killed" which sends Aiden down a path of revenge which leads him into a much deeper conspiracy way over his head. Near the end it's revealed that June Cleaver didn't get killed at all, in fact she's the main villain of the story and has been manipulating Aiden all along for sinister reasons that don't really make any sense at all, but it's all good because SHOCKING PLOT TWIST!

I imagine those kids either get kidnapped or killed. At least, that's standard vengeful protagonist backstory. Edit: I won't be able to play my copy until tomorrow, or late night tonight (I took tomorrow off, so I can stay up if I want). My copy is just a slip of paper that came with my video card with a code on it. I redeemed it and Uplay will activate the game when it officially releases. I wish it would at least let me pre-load the game so I won't have to wait an hour or two while it downloads tonight/tomorrow. All good, I'll just play Gothic 3 and Sleeping Dogs until then.

Good on them. I guess it's at least some consolation for their Olympic disappointment. Congrats Russia.

If Devil's Canyon does indeed get pushed back my backup plan will be to get the Xeon E3-1230v3 that Slink talked about some months back. No useless IGP, 3.3GHz clock, turbo to 3.7GHz, the extra cache and hyperthreading of an i7 while priced like an i5. Locked, so no (easy) overclocking, but if I plan to sell the chip in the future then I won't OC it anyway as I wouldn't feel good selling someone a chip that ran aqbove stock speeds. Then I just keep that until Broadwell comes out in the Spring of 2015 (or whenever that happens). So, while I was initially upset when I saw the rumors, I have a backup plan and if Devil's Canyon gets pushed back it's no big deal. Edit: Whoa, my 780Ti came with a cool poster. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a Qunari? It's not branaded as Dragon Age anything, so maybe not? Maybe it's a demon centaur or something?

Sweet. Is that a console version or did it activate on Uplay (I'm assuming the PC version requires Uplay)?

RPG Codex interview with Colin, Adam, George, and Jeremy of the Torment team. Great read. This, in particular, made me very happy They had stated their intention to allow a combat-free playthrough previously, but it's good to see it reiterated here. I fully intend to do a pacifist playthrough my first time through.

Watch Dogs is out already? i thought it wasn't until tomorrow?

That's what the mute button is for. I muted the video 30 seconds in. I don't know how you managed to stomach 5 whole minutes. I would have thrown my laptop out of the window much sooner than that.

The graphics look fine as far as I'm oncerned. They're not groundbreaking, but Piranha Bytes have never been known for bleeding edge graphics anyhow.

I don't know what kind of super steroids they shot up Serge with that he's back this quickly, but I hope they have more of those super steroids for before game 4.

I got an itch to play Sleeping Dogs again. Man, I love that game. Regardless of how anyone feels about the game, you gotta admit it's a superbly optimized game. These are the best settings I could come up with, with my baseline being minimum FPS of 30 or higher. These are fairly high settings on a moderately modest laptop. And it's not like it's an ugly game, Sleeping Dogs is very good looking. Hopefully United Front Games gets to make a proper sequel. I know something called Triad Wars was announced, but very little is known. For all we know, it could be a F2P mobile game. Hopefully it's a proper PC/console sequel.

I wouldn't call a win over the pathetic Sawx huge. That's a team that wasn't playing well even when it was fully healthy, and is currently comprised of about 50% minor leaguers because their roster is decimated. There are probably a good number of college teams that could beat the Sawx right now.

So, I've pretty much done everything around Trelis short of liberating the city or wiping out the rebels at Nemora. I guess it;s time to head north toward Geldern and Silden. If I remember correctly, these were areas that were quite obviously far from complete when Piranha Bytes released the game, since there wasn't much of anything to do there. The content mod and quest pack, I think address this, though the user made quests will likely be of the simple kill x monsters or fetch quest varieties. Better than nothing, I guess. I made a mistake when I sold off my halberd in favor of a bearded axe. Sure, the axe does a little more damage and gives me +10 health, for some reason, but I'd rather have the reach of the halberd back. Oh well. Hopefully I find a non-worn halberd lying around somewhere.

Obsidian should just never realease Update 79 and go straight to 80, and play it off as a Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Case of the Missing Floppies type deal.

Yeah, hopefully this is just a false rumor made by some retailer or Intel itself as a ploy to sell off the remainder of the 4770K and 4570K stock. If it isn't, though, I ain't waiting for September. I haven't gotten a mobo yet, so I could always say go **** yourself, Intel and go AMD. The problem with that, though, is that AMD is so uncompetitive in the mid to enthusiast desktop segment (they have all but admitted defeat in that segment by not even releasing an FX line of chips based on Steamroller). The best I could do with AMD is getting the top of the line Vishera and I'd have to overclock into the 5.5 GHz regions (turning my mid tower into a space heater in the process) to even come close to matching the performance of an i5, never mind and i7. That would be tantamount to curring off my own nose to spite my face. If this is true (Grrrrr), then what I'll wind up doing is I'll still get a Z97 mobo, then I'll scoop up an i5 for about $200. Honestly, for gaming, it will make zero difference in 95% of cases. Some of my other applications and multi-tasking will be slower, obviously, because of the lack of hyperthreading, but oh well. Then, I'll skip Devil's Canyon altogether, hold on to that until Broadwell comes out (all indications are that Broadwell will be compatible with 9-Series mobos), eBay the i5 for half the price I paid for it, and get a Broadwell i7. It's so sad Bulldozer wound up being such a collosal failure. AMD has even lost much of their edge in the integrated GPUs department, with HD4600 and Iris Pro closing the gap considerably. Honestly, if HSA doesn't wind up being the game changer that AMD has been touting it as, and if the architecture that succeeds Excavator (by all reports the final of the Bulldozer-based architectures) doesn't wind up being waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better, AMD may die as a CPU company and essentially become ATI, only putting out GPUs. That would really really suck. Intel would be raping our wallets and dragging their feet in the desktop segment even worse than they are now. *sigh* I miss the days when Athlon64s were mopping the floor with the Pentium 4 space heaters and forcing Intel to scramble, innovate, and drop their prices to be competitive. Those were the days.

Let it be a lie!

Gothic 3 - I've done a bunch of work for the Orcs around Trelis, now I'm working the other side helping out the rebels nearby, just enough to get them to trust me (a trust I will eventually betray MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)

That would probably be very fun to play with for an hour or so and to show off to friends. Beyond that, it would collect dust on my shelf. Yeah. I don't even much like typing on my Android phone. It just feels weird typing without any sort of feedback, or at least something physically getting pushed down.

I remember getting magazines with a disc, or just having someone come up to me in a store and hand me a disc with either America Online or Netzero on it (happened multiple times). Dial up...

I wound up getting this 16GB of DDR3 2400. Tiger Direct tossed me a $15 off offer so long as I spent over $100 and did so within the next 2 days. Not sure why, probably because I haven't shopped there in forever until I got that sweet SSD recently and they want my business back. Whatever, I'm not complaining. Anyway, I highly doubt I'd get 16GB of very high speed DDR3 any cheaper than $130 (heck, I doubt I'd get 16GB of regular old DDR3 1600 cheaper). Now I just need to make sure the mobo I get supports 2400 MHz XMP profiles. All I have left to get is the mobo and the CPU and the build will be complete. Soon, my precious, soon.

There are advantages to mechanical keyboards. Reduced, or completely eliminated (with PS/2 input) key ghosting. Potentially faster response times (particularly on the lighter types like the red and brown). Better double tapping precision. Potentially less typing fatigue as you don't have to bottom out the keys to register presses (this is especially true with the tactile varieties as it'a a lot easier to tell when your keystroke registered). Also, they tend to last a lot longer, though care/abuse will play heavily into that. A mechanical keyboard is something you'd probably never think you'd need (and you'd be essentially right) until you've owned and used one. Once you've used a decent mechanical keyboard you won't want to go back to a membrane keyboard, even though you can get by with a membrane keyboard just fine. A mechanical keyboard is definitely a luxury rather than a necessity.

You're a man after my own heart. Dialogue-heavy and combat-lite is just how I like it, thank you very much. If it makes you feel better, there is a deep, stinging wound in my wallet region. It's like a knife twisting around inside the wound combined with a deeply sorrowful voice faintly screaming "What have you done? Where have all my friends gone?"