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Everybody has poor shooting nights, LeBron included. Having Tony Allen draped all over you all night long doesn't help the cause either. KD still managed to contribute to the game by snagging 13 boards, and also by drawing extra defenders constantly leaving Reggie Jackson open for shots. Memphis has always made life quite tough for KD, namely because they have Tony Allen, who's one of the very best defenders in the league. Also, having a coach that never runs any actual plays or any type of offensive system isn't helping the situation. Scotty Brooks is OKC's #1 problem.

Sergeant Vincent Lamar Carter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESAu-pKmyE

Finished Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse. Good game. Started out fairly meh. Not bad, just not particularly exciting for a good chunk of part 1, but it really takes off in the second half of the game. Pretty much the entirety of the second part is great. It took me a little over 14 hours to finish, which is fairly long for a point & click adventure. The voice acting is all top notch and all the audio is quite good. The 2D backgrounds are gorgeous, and while the 3D character models are really good, they sometimes don't fit perfectly with the background, sort of popping out. Nothing really egregious, a solid job, but far from perfect. I consider this is the best Broken Sword since the first one. It's way better than The Sleeping Dragon or The Angel of Death, a little better than The Smoking Mirror, and not quite as good as The Shadow of the Templars. I give it 3 1/2 meeflors out of goojyflux on the arbitrary scale.

3rd straight OT game in the OKC/Memphis series. The western conference playoffs are pretty freakin' awesome, not an easy series in the bunch. Whoever comes out of the west is going to have to go through a murderer's row to do it.

There is a precedent and he likely will be punished, but I don't agree with it. Had he made disparaging racial remarks to one of his employees, like the Clippers players, management, or staff, I would be fully in favor of disciplining him, but he didn't. This was something said in private to his girlfriend(?).

For once, I agree completely with Volo. Donald Sterling may be a bigot, but things he says in private, like this, don't have any bearing on him as a team owner.

Sergeant Vincent Lamar Carter with the buzzer beater! Man that was an exciting game.

Tripe & Beans

The things George has to do to save the world

I liked Prey, though I kind of forgot about it. That may be the closest game to Unreal 1 since. Maybe not in terms of overall quality, but in being a somewhat similar type of shooter and letting you explore a weird, alien environment.

Serious Sam is a different animal altogether, it's the FPS equivalent of a bullet hell shooter. As far as games like Unreal 1, sadly, I can't really think of anything even remotely equivalent since then. Half-Life 1 & 2 is the closest I can think of, just to give you an idea of how far off even the closest thing I can think of is.

Resourceful woman. I would like to think that I too could be that calm and quick thinking is a situation like that, but, obviously, you can never know until it actually happens. Hopefully, I'll never have to take that test.

Thanks for the thread bump, Walsy. No longer necessary, but nevertheless appreciated. I wound up getting GeltabZ and they worked like a charm. Nice and soft and they have little nubs on them so your thumb doesn't slip off. They were cheap too (the shipping was more than the cost of the item) and it came with 7 pads, 6 regular size and a smaller one. If you're putting them over the existing rubber pads (like I did for the right thumbstick, just for consistency and aesthetic purposes, then they fit perfectly and stay put as if they were glued on (I didn't use any glue). If you're putting them (regular sized pad) on directly on the plastic (like I did on the left thumbstick), then they slide around, still function, but feel weird because they're on there loosely. So I has an idea, I put the smaller pad on first, then put a regular sized pad over it (double pad madness!) and it worked perfectly (stays nice and put like the other thumbstick). Now I have a controller that's super comfortable to use. Here's a picture of the product and my now comfy controller: You can't see the little nubs on the pads because I took the picture with my crappy phone camera, and also because I'm a terrible photographer, but they're there. Anyway, maybe this can help someone in the future if they get into the same predicament as I did.

Iron Maiden 1984 Better than your favorite band. Iron Maiden 2014 Still better than your favorite band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E50QazmwP7M ♫ Circle of fire my baptism of joy at an end it seems The seventh lamb slain, the book of life opens before me. And I will pray for you. ...Some day I may return. Don't you cry for me Beyond is where I learn. ♫

My body is ready.

Agreed, the Victorez is the only sniper rifle that is even remotely viable as a short to medium range weapon, the SVD is far too unwieldly for that, and it's a far more versatile weapon. My thought process is that for medium range, that's what my assault rifle is for. It's at extremely long range, where the target, even in the scope, doesn't look much bigger than an insect, where the SVD (and Gauss Gun) tend to be significantly superior to any other weapon. Knowing that a center mass shot, even on a soldier wearing a fully upgraded exoskeleton, is gauranteed to take him off his feet (with the Lynx, not sure if a standard SVD will guaranteed take him off his feet) doesn't hurt either. Plus, I kind of enjoy the massive recoil and thundering sound of the SVD. It makes me feel virile, or something.

I recall liking the special Vintorez more...I'm struggling to remember its name. Tide, maybe? Then again, I always liked the regular Vintorez more than the regular SVD/SVU. Tide is a quality rifle and it's a matter of personal taste and application. While Tide's rate of fire is slower than that of a regular Victorez (more than compensated for by highly increased damage), it still fires faster than Lynx. Another advantage of Tide is practically no recoil. Tide's damage is pretty impressive, though it's not as high as Lynx or the Gauss Gun. The thing that makes Lynx (and SVDs in general) preferable to me is that Lynx has significantly less bullet drop than Tide, making it a far more accurate weapon at very long ranges. Of course, if you get really good at calculating the bullet drop into your aiming then that becomes a much smaller issue.

Inception Dog

I got Nimble to get me a Lynx sniper rifle in Call of Pripyat, it's a modified SVD. I consider it to be the single best sniper weapon in the game. The Gauss Gun does more damage and has a better scope, but it's slow rate of fire and prohibitively expensive ammunition lose out to the Lynx's vastly superior rate of fire and only slightly lower damage output (The Lynx will still knock just about anyone off their feet with a single bullet and will insta-kill, to the best of my knowledge, anything with one headshot). Now I have arguably the best sniper rifle in the game, and arguably the best assault rifle in the game. Now I just need to get my hands on an Amsel Striker for maximum short range killing goodness. The SPAS-12 will have to suffice until I get my hands on one.

Well played. In other news, the defending champ Sawx have been flat out awful so far this year.

Back to Call of Pripyat. I went to the Jupiter Factory and visited the helicopter crash site there, as well as going through the chain of documents that eventually lead me to the plans to open up the underground passage to Pripyat. While I was there, I also completed the Strelok's group 3 stashes questline and got Strelok's SIG Sturmgewehr 550 (/rubs hands together). Strelok's SIG 550 is arguably the best assalut rifle in the entire game and a definite upgrade from the LR 300 I had been using up to that point. The SIG 550 is already one of the better rifles in the game, but Strelok's modified model eliminates the only 2 real disadvantages the gun has, that being the inability to mount a scope and the inability to mount a silencer. I can already afford a SEVA suit as it is and I have a pretty good shotgun (SPAS-12), a kickass assault rifle, and a sniper rifle (SVD), so basically everything I need for that intense journey through the underground, but I want to tie up some loose ends around Jupiter before I round up a team to take through the tunnels with me. Man, the mercenary ambush in the Jupiter Factory was fun. I obliterated those chumps, and, surprisingly enough, mostly with my shotgun. I managed to lure them to choke points where they couldn't really lob a grenade at me to flush me out effectively and had no choice but to come through that point and into point blank range. I don't care what kind of armor you are wearing, a point blank 12 gauge blast to the face is not good for your health.

But I can't drive Gran Turismo 5 and 6 on my PC.

Played some more of The Golf Club today. I played a user made 9-hole course. It was pretty well designed except for a couple of holes. The most glaring was a par 4 with the most ridiculously inaccessible green. It's one thing to make a postage stamp sized green. It's another to put a big ol' bunker covering 75% of the front of said green and another bunker behind it. It's then even another thing altogether to put said green on a par 4 that has no right calling itself a par 4 seeing as even if you hit a perfect drive with favorable conditions you're still going to have to hit a 3 wood from there just to be able to reach the green in 2. Despite this, I still managed to par the hole due to a spectacular chip from the rough next to the green. I had a masterful 2 under round going until I melted down on the par 5 6th. I sliced my drive into the deep rough. Rather than take my medicine and chip it back onto the fairaway, I opted for foolish heroics and tried to muscle it toward the hole. Predictably, this put me in more deep rough. Long story short, I walked away with a double bogey on a hole where a birdie is basically a par. After that my rhythm was shot and I unraveled further, finishing 3 over par. Just like in real life golf, **** can go sideways real quick.