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Where does it say it'll run on SteamOS? Is Steambox even real or vaporware at this stage? I'm confused. Here is the Steam Store product/pre-order page. Notice the beautiful Tux logo next to the ugly Windows logo. As for Steam Machines being real actual physical models versus vaporware, at the very least, in my case, it will be a very real, physical (albeit self-built, as opposed to pre-built) machine in approximately two week's time. I'll even fenagle some sort of Steam Logo sticker to put on the case to make it look "official", along with a sexy Tux logo. Edit: Maybe a combination Tux/Valve logo?

So, seeing as I spent about 30-40 bucks less on the SSD (and got a better one than I expected to boot) than I planned, I used that money to get this mechanical keyboard rather than a cheap ass membrane keyboard. 10 keyless, which is fine since I never use the numpad anyway and it saves space. Cherry MX Brown switches, which are my personal favorite since they're almost as light as MX Reds but have the nice tactile bump without the really loud click of the MX Blues (not to mention the heaviness of the MX Blues, or the MX Blacks, for that matter). After the rebate it will only set me back about $57, which is quite cheap for a Cherry MX Brown keyboard.

Watch Dogs - driving from one end of Chicago to the other

Marcus Miller slapping the mutha lovin' funk out of his Fender Jazz Bass Gotta love how in the middle of playing rhythm while the sax is laying down sweet sexiness, he just sneaks in a slide arpeggio progression all casual like, because, why not?

Have a good holiday weekend Obsidian folks.

Does default difficulty include friendly fire? On hardcore D&D difficulty there is friendly fire and that winds up being a killer. For example, in NWN2, Qara will OBLITERATE your party if you let her cast spells on her own.

I don't think I've ever played a party-based cRPG where the companion AI was good enough that you could leave the casters to be controlled by the AI and do their own casting. Definitely not on Hardcore D&D difficulty (which is how I always play). I've tried every custom AI script under the sun and it's never nearly good enough.

I kind of wish I could justify spending another $220 and getting a second one to set up RAID 0. The performance would be insane. Alas, I'll just have do deal with the sorta blazing fast performance of using just one. I'll put the OS and the games on the SSD and keep all the stuff that I could care less about read/write speed (music, videos, documents, etc.) on my archaic 7200 RPM HDDs.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/05/22/metro-redux-officially-announced-with-debut-trailer/ Probably doesn't make sense for people that already have the games, particularly on PC, where you could get 60 fps (assuming your hardware is capable) already, but this is perfect for me I've never played 2033, and while I have played some of Last Light, I don't own it, so this is a no-brainer. This will purr nicely on the SteamOS monster rig I'm currently building.

Yeah, as soon as I saw that price I got quite happy. Every professional review for the Seagate 600 series I've seen is quite positive. I was just hoping to not go far above 50 cents per GB, this is less than 46 cents per GB.

I wound up getting a Seagate 600 Series 480GB SSD. Surprisingly, Tiger Direct, who is usually slightly more expensive than Newegg, has this about $130 cheaper than Newegg.

I wonder how much that makes up for the epic failure of Russia not even making the semis on home soil in the Olympics?

Now I definitely want to move to Shady's utopia.

I guess I'll be playing Watch Dogs soon since I get it free with the 780Ti I bought. If nothing else, it looks like a capable GTA clone. Hopefully it has some good radio stations, that's always a big part of my enjoyment in these types of games (It doesn't get much better than soaring through Cyber Steelport while Stan Bush ~ The Touch is playing)

Clueless Gamer is always entertaining.

I want to move to Shady's utopia.

Penumbra: Black Plague is significantly superior to Overture, IMHO, you should check that game out. It, like Amnesia, doesn't have any weapons, though it is possible to kill enemies via environment. Mostly, though, like Amnesia, it's about avoiding combat altogether. There are some fantastic mind****s in Black Plague.

Not only that, but it now has a Linux version. This, along with GOG's impending Linux support, all but confirms The Witcher 3: The Badassery of Bearded Geralt (Alternate title: The Witcher 3: Bearded Geralt Sexes Up the Ladies) coming to Linux.

"The Matrix" and "My Short Movie Trailer". Also, Doge. Such gameplay. Much video. Wow.

Most of the videos got taken down.

I thoroughly enjoyed the riddle locked chests. I'm proud to say I didn't Google a single one of those. I will, however, admit to Googling a couple answers to Sir Whatshisname's riddle quest in the tower.

They could certainly have done worse than to rip off the Arkham combat system, it worked beautifully for Sleeping Dogs. Which reminds me, I need to play that game again.

Never mind Unreal Tournament 4, Epic just released a game that shows off the full power of Unreal Engine 4:

Tony Parker has been eviscerating OKC's interior. Not a huge surprise, given that OKC is without their best interior defender, but there's still no excuse for getting that thoroughly dominated.

Listening to your adventures reminds me how brilliantly the game design was in Gothic 3. You have this choice where you basically can work for both sides until a certain point in the game gets reached and you start freeing too many towns from the opposing sides, only then are you the enemy of orcs or humans. But then you have all the adventures in the mountains and still the desert. Plus you have the fun of finding the Fire Chalices which really motivates you to fastidiously explore the land. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing, I'm working both sides as long as I can. I've never done a full playthrough siding with the orcs (I have siding with the rebels), so eventually that's what I'm going to do and I'll start wiping out the rebel encampments. Gothic 3 is such a mind-bogglingly huge game. I don't think I'm even 10% through the game yet.