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'Murica, **** Yeah! Future Edition With any luck, this one will railroad you and hold your hand down a linear path from setpiece to setpiece.

Same here. Maybe not so much pessimistic, just not interested in the product in its current state, much like with Kinect. VR is something I have no desire to own right now, but maybe in 5 or 6 years, when it's gone through several more iterations and the kinks have been worked out, then I'll consider it.

Both Indiana and OKC staved off elimination tonight, will the Dubs follow suit? Unfortunately for me, I won't find out until the morning since the game is on way too late for me to stay up.

They've already shipped a product, dev kit 1, and are about to ship another, dev kit 2.

And the code you write for a company, is the companies property, otherwise why would you be getting payed. But the source isn't, I don't think you can sue someone for plagiarizing themselves. I seem to recall a case about that but I can't remember the verdict. In 1993 John Fogerty was sued by his old record label for plagiarising himself. The lawsuit failed. Not sure if this is what you were referring to, nor does it really resemble the Zenimax vd. Carmack case much.

Because the internet is on the mother****er, there are already Winston Jameis crab legs photoshops out there. Here are a few of my favorites: I love you, internet.

Every time you press Ctrl+Alt+Del Steve Ballmer Satya Nadella kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.

Caribbean! Mount & Blade & Sid Meier's Pirates! mashup? /masturbates furiously

Hopefully the 295X coming out at half the price of the Titan Z slapped some sense into Nvidia as to just how absurdly priced that card was going to be. As for Fanboyism, I've generally bought Nvidia cards, but that's mostly down to me spending much of my time running Linux and Nvidia's Linux drivers being superior to AMD's. I want the companies to be competitive, that way the prices are kept reasonable. It's the same way I look at Intel and AMD. It makes me roll my eyes when Intel fanboys revel in the fact that AMD is so uncompetitive in the mid-high end desktop segment, because that's the very reason that Intel can set whatever prices they want in that segment and sit on their hands in terms of increasing IPC, opting instead to concentrate on reducing power consumption to try to push into ARM's mobile space. If AMD was more competitive with Intel, then Intel couldn't afford to sit on their hands, instead, we all lose. So the fanboys' prize (and, unfortunately, the fate for the rest of us as well) for Intel being so insanely superior to AMD on desktops at the moment is higher priced, lower performing desktop CPUs for all. Congratulations. Thankfully AMD and Nvidia are still neck and neck with GPUs. It would truly suck if we got the same situation with GPUs as we do with CPUs right now.

Further thoughts on combat in Child of Light: Most of the reviews I read before playing suggested that the standard difficulty setting was a bit too easy and that it would be advisable to play the game on hard difficulty, which I am doing. I've never played on normal difficulty, so I can't comment on it, but hard difficulty seems to provide a decent bit of challenge. It's still not particularly hard, so far, but it does prevent mindless button mashing, forcing you to plan carefully. The first boss battle I encountered exemplified this, as I died my first 2 tries, which quickly forced me to learn how to best use Ignacius' abilities to help me in battle (he can light up to either heal an ally or slow down an enemy, but his light meter is limited). The interrupt mechanic adds a lot of depth to combat as I've found myself strategically changing targets or slowing targets down or even releasing the slow effect on them to time my attacks to interrupt enemies. Overall I find the combat quite satisfying, which isn't that surprising since I was a big fan of Grandia's combat system.

Rubella keeps screwing up the rhymes, which frustrates Ignicius to no end.

Play some more when you get back from work. I'd like to hear some impressions. It is deffinitly on my wishlist. I fully intend to, and I'll report back once I have some hours under my belt. From the very brief time I had with the game this morning I can tell you that the game is breathtakingly gorgeous, but I think it's safe to assume everybody already knew that. The combat is like Grandia where there is a timer that runs and shows all the characters and enemies and when a character reaches its active point on the timer, the time stops and you can select an action from the menu. Actions take varying amounts of time to "cast" and can be interrupted if you get hit during "casting". I only engaged in a few battles that were quite straightforward. I'm sure it gets more complex later on. Edit: Also, everybody speaks in rhyme, which can be either amusing or annoying, depending on your point of view.

I got to play Child of Light for about 25 minutes this morning, so far so good, but now I have to go to work. Fooey! Work, always ruining everything.

Screenshots don't do this game justice.

Hopefully Memphis closes the series out Thursday.

All the art looks great. I particularly like the beach area, it looks so lovely. I'm really excited for the next update as both Priest and Chanter are near the top of my list for first character to make (I'm leaning toward Priest at the moment). I'm fully expecting Priests to be extra awesome, just for me (and the other players too, I guess).

I reached Pripyat via the tunnels, full squad intact. It's not quite as intense a journey when you've been through it several times, but still enjoyable. The Monolith ambush was quite fun. I brought Lynx along for the ride (in addition to Strelok's SIG 550 and Predator [i had forgotten you get it for killing the chimera]), so the Monolith snipers never stood a chance. I can snipe better than you, fellas. The end game is drawing rapidly near. Next order of business is getting both sets of calibration tools.

I wouldn't go so far as outraged, but, yes, I'm pointing out that the same owners who turned a blind eye to Sterling's previous transgressions, which were far worse than the phone conversation, mind you, are now taking the "moral high ground" because this became a highly publicized story, and also pointing out that whoever recorded the phone conversation should go to jail. Part of me is happy that Sterling is (likely) getting ousted, because the guy is a scumbag, I'm not happy about the manner in which it happened. I guess one's view on the situation depends on how much one believes that the ends justify the means. Anyway, my stance is known and clear on the situation, I'm done discussing it. Back to actual basketball. I'm thinking Washington closes out the series tonight.

It's funny that Sterling didn't violate the "best interest of the league" when he was discriminating against minority tenants and denying them their rights or when he was being sued for sexual discrimination. But that illegally recorded private phone conversation sure did violate the "best interest of the league". All those owners who turned a blind eye to those transgressions earlier (most of whom are still owners now) can now puff out their chest and get all vocal about what an outrage this is and how they would never stand for this. Good job owners, you're all a bunch of hypocrites heroes.

Sterling is a scumbag and the NBA would be better off without him, but that doesn't change the fact that he's been wronged here. This is the modern day equivalent of a witch-hunt. This is far from over. I can almost guarantee lawsuits are incoming.

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Here's a really well written piece by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about the Sterling situation not only condemning Sterling, but also all the chest pounding moral outrage bandwagon jumpers: http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/

/marks Hurlshot's words