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Personally, while I do think some pranks can be clever and funny, I find the general ratio of just plain stupid and mean pranks to clever and funny pranks is about 4:1. The tell your kids you ate their candy "prank" is neither clever nor funny. Hey, let's lie to our kids and make them miserable, it will be hiiiiiiigh-larious. No, it's just mean. Also, while children will, unfortunately, learn to lie and be cruel eventually, one way or another, it may not be the best idea in the world that they learn to lie and be cruel from their parents.

I don't get how making children cry equals funny. Oh look, the kids are miserable and crying, ha ha. To me that's mean, not funny. Maybe I'm weird like that.

Gothic 3 - I'm in Montera fighting in the arena to get my reputation up. I'm still playing both sides. I'll do some work for the mercenaries, maybe rescue a slave for the rebels, do some odd jobs for them to get them to trust me, then I'll move on to the next town. Eventually, I'll have to wipe out a reberl outpost and cement my aliegance to the orcs, but I'll hold that off as long as I can.

15 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 blocks per game. Clearly useless. One of the 10 best defenders in the league. Also useless.

Just like that the Thunder's chances of winning the title may have just evaporated. Hopefully it;s not as bad as they think and he can come back before the end of the playoffs.

Remaking the Oblivion areas and the dungeons should be super duper simple. They can just make one Oblivion area and one dungeon, then just copy & paste it a whole bunch of times to make the rest, just like Bethesda did.

I've gotten to the point recently where my vision went dim, legs wobbled slightly, and I saw stars while I was throwing the barbell up to do military presses. I don't have a rack where I live (nor do I have room for one) so I have to clean & jerk the weight up over my head to do military presses. Luckily it was very brief, I remained conscious, and my legs held out. Edit: Probably a sign that I should back the weight off a bit.

It's becoming harder and harder to differentiate and separate ethnic groups as so much interbreeding is going on that we're all moving toward one mixed race (fine by me), with the exception of a few remaining remote and isolated regions. As long as we remain an interconnected world and something doesn't come along to knock us back 1000 years technologically and start another dark age, splintering groups into isolated pockets again, this will continue until there are no more separate ethnic groups. That is, until we colonize other planets/moons, then we'll splinter off into Earthers, and Martians, and Europans, and so on. Anyway, I've derailed this thread long enough. Sorry about that. Looks like they're remaking Oblivion in Skyrim: Remaking Morrowind in Skyrim I understand, since it was far and away the most interesting (full) game Bethesda has ever made, but why remake Oblivion? Why put Cyrodiil, a land even more generic and boring than Skyrim, into Skyrim?

A lot of Slavic people have Asian features. While the Slavic peoples originated in Eastern Europe, they spread pretty deep into Asia and there's obviously been a lot of interbreeding. At what percentage does one stop being Slavic and starts being Asian, I'm not certain. I'm Slavic. So am I.

A lot of Slavic people have Asian features. While the Slavic peoples originated in Eastern Europe, they spread pretty deep into Asia and there's obviously been a lot of interbreeding. At what percentage does one stop being Slavic and starts being Asian, I'm not certain. It depends on the Slavs in question. For example, you take someone who's Polish, like this guy (/points to self), and there's not much in the way of Asian features, since Poland is on the western end of the Slavic countries. Poles do tend to have a little bit of Turkish features mixed in since we had a lot of contact (both friendly and very violent) with Turks, particularly when Poland was larger and extended further south. You take someone who's Russian, especially from the eastern areas of Russia, and you're likely to find more Asian features.

If this starts playing in Far Cry 4 then we'll know for sure:

Gothic 3 - I did enough in Cape Dun to earn the orcs' trust and get in to see Uruk. I'll hold off on killing the rebel in the town and wiping out Reddock for now, I don't want to decisively side with either faction yet. Currently, I'm wiping out Ortega and his thugs with Cyrus. I got about 3/4 of the way through wiping out the thugs in that cave when I had to stop to go to work (damn work, always ruining everything). I'll finish that up when I get home, then leave the Cape Dun area behind and move on to the area around Montera.

Anyone have suggestions for a PSU? 600W is the bare minimum I need to power a 780Ti, but it wouldn't hurt to account for the possibility of doing SLI, which, I think the bare minimum to power 2x780Ti is 800W, but I'd feel better with 900W. Modular would be a plus, I also prefer a single 12v rail, as opposed to multiple. I'm not looking to spend a fortune here either. I'd very much not to stray above $100 much (or at all, preferably).

Agreed. I would be shocked if Indy beat Miami. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if San Antonio beat OKC.

Does this mean that the canon playthrough of Alpha Protocol has Michael Thorton sparing Brayko? Did Ubi broker a deal with SEGA to use one of its characters? Will SIE make an appearance in Far Cry 4? Please tell me SIE makes an appearance in Far Cry 4. SIE was the best.

Yep, Brayko was immediately who popped into my head when I saw him.

Is it just me or does that "white man" has distinct Mongolian features? An albino Tibetan perhaps? At least it is something different. He looks Slavic to me, which is not at all unreasonable for that geographical area.

So, after the top teams, minus Miami, struggled in the 1st round, all the teams that were supposed to make it to the conference finals made it to the conference finals. I wasn't surprised when the Thunder struggled with the Griz, because Memphis is a nightmare matchup for OKC and Tony Allen is KD's kryptonite. I was a little surprised when the Pacers struggled with the Hawks, despite the fact that the Pacers looked like garbage during the last month of the season, simply because the Hawks aren't even a mediocre team. I was very surprised when the Spurs struggled with the Mavericks because, outside of Dirk (and Dirk didn't even play well during the series), that Mavs roster is a cobbled together hodgepodge of castaways duct taped together. Kudos to Rick Carlisle for getting them to play as well as they did, and kudos to Sergeant Vincent Lamar Carter for the revival he's had this year. In the end, the top 2 seeds in both conferences weathered the early storm and made it to the conference finals (likely saving Frank Vogel and Scotty Brooks' [i'm still not a fan of Scotty Brooks] jobs in the process). In the East, I still don't trust Indiana at all. They've showed some signs of getting their **** together in the Washington series, but they've also laid down some EPIC stink bombs. Prediction: Miami in 5 In the West, San Antonio is far and away the better coached team, and they a plethora of experience, but OKC has been to the conference finals 3 of the last 4 years, they have tons of experience as well, so nobody really gets an edge in that department. Overall, I think San Antonio is a better team, but OKC is the worst case scenario matchup for them due to their athleticism. Prediction: OKC in 6

Once I get the PSU and the other components I can experiment with different fan setups. My motivation behind getting that case was that it was cheap and that it came with 3 fans and 6 slots for fans, giving me a lot of flexibility out of the box. I'll try the default setup first to see how it works. Maybe there is a method to their madness? I've had good success with a negative pressure setup in the past.

It's got USBs on the top/front on an angle, making them super accessible if you put the tower on the floor next to the desk, like I plan to. Also, it comes with 3 120mm fans, 2 top mounted and 1 rear mounted, and dust covers, and there are fan control switches on the panel. There are 3 more spots for 120mm fans (2 front, 1 side), I'll probably get another 120mm fan and mount it front intake. My only complaint about the case is that it could be built sturdier (though for the price I shouldn't really expect it), but I'm not going to be lugging it around to LAN parties anyway, it's basically just going to sit in one spot on the floor, next to my desk, so it doesn't really need to be built like a tank anyway. It's not the sexiest looking case ever made, but I don't care about that.

Nice. Trading is my jam in space sims.

Never mind Himalayas and self-appointed kings. You're burying the lead here. Harpoon guns and rideable elephants. RIDEABLE ELEPHANTS!

I have nothing against Gigabyte, but that price tag is way out of my price range. I'm looking for something in the $150 region. Anyway, there is till time. I can't finish the build until the i7-4790K is released in, presumably, 3 weeks. I'm keeping my eyes peeled and when I see a sale on a component that fits my needs, I pull the trigger. For example, I scooped up this case when it was on sale.

Theory: The mechanical arm tends to get very hot, thus explaining why only the leg furthest away from it is fully covered. Wouldn't you want the leg on the same side of the body as the arm to be covered to prevent possible accidental burns?

I've thought about getting this before. I'm generally not that much into shooters (not named S.T.A.L.K.E.R.), though I do enjoy them once in a while, and I like that this game supposedly makes you face the gruesome consequences of your actions, rather than being the standard Murica, **** yeah! *brofist* *chest bump* fare.