Keyrock
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House chores. Almost the whole nine yards: Taking the trash out, washing pans, vacuuming, washing the windows, cleaning the range top and counter tops, didn't have to wash the floors or clean the tub, but I cleaned the sink, toilet, and mirror. Normally, I'd now reward myself with a beer, but since I'm no a no alcohol kick, and since it's nice outside, I'll go for a walk instead. -
Curry goat with pumpkin rice cabbage and gravy I love Jamaican food so much. Also, whoever invented curry, I'd like to kiss that person.
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Even when the 60Hz 4k monitors arrive, they will definitely be out of my price range. I'm much to poor to be dropping anything approaching a grand for a monitor. 1440p, on the other hand, is right up my alley. I'm hoping that by the time I build my next rig (at least 4 months from now, though I may hold off longer for Broadwell) 1440p monitors will hopefully drop into the $300 zone (the cheapest seem to be about $340 right now). Were I building this rig now, I would definitely consider the 780Ti. That card has enough juice so that I could play most anything at 1440p with plenty of eye candy. The 3GB of vRAM might struggle a bit with high levels of AA, but I never go past 4X MSAA anyway as my eyes frankly can't tell the difference beyond 4X MSAA. Hopefully all this is a moot point and the 20nm Maxwell cards are out by the time I build my rig.
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Got the water shard and the Shalassa blessing no problem. There are some large groups of undead in lev 4 of the Lost City, but none of the enemies are particularly hard. Went down to Skull Rock and got the air shard. I only did the bare minimum to get the shard, I'll clear out Skull Rock later as there are some pretty nasty ambushes in there. The battles with the elemental lords (water and air) were a piece of cake, as are all the elemental lord fights. I think Gralkor is the only one who's ever defeated me in either this game or my previous, and that's only because you're so much lower level when you meet him. The battles with the elemental lords get progressively easier as they stay about the same power and my party keeps getting more powerful. With the Ylath blassing in hand I now have a clear path to both the defender and barbarian promotions, though I doubt I'm powerful enough to go through the Pao Kai nest at my level (19) or take on multiple cyclopses (cyclopi?). Better test myself against the lone cyclops in the dangerous cave first. Playing this all-might party has taught me one thing. My fantasy of a zero magic quad-barbarian party is folly, at least at warrior difficulty. Even on adventurer difficulty I'm not sure how feasible it would be. Sure, I would be handing out massive physical damage, but I would need a mountain of scrolls. Without burning determination there would be areas that would be nearly impossible to get through for that party, and there are only so many scrolls you can buy.
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But would he say that on Tuesday? I'm assuming he says that on other days, eats the hamburger and never pays for it. Call it an old timey chew and screw. Would he use a different day of the week? Would he actually pay for his hamburger upon receiving it on Tuesday? Would he actually pay his tab on Tuesday? Maybe he eats tacos on Tuesday?
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What would J. Wellington Wimpy say on Tuesday?
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Made it to The Crag. The trek wasn't as tough as I remember, mostly because I was smarter about positioning and not letting myself get surrounded, methinks. Next up I'll go back to the Lost City to get the water shard. I should be able to handle the enemies in level 4 by now.
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I'll clear out Lost City, all levels, eventually, but I'm not ready for that at this point.
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That sounds like a positive in my book.
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I'm in act 2 now, going through level 2 of the Lost City. Smooth sailing so far. My party has just enough magic to survive. The blademaster's earth magic for healing and the defender's fire magic for Burning Determination, which saves me from being status effected to death, and torchlight so that I can see where the heck I'm going underground. Edit: And, just took down Montbard.
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Slo-mo Kangaroo Rat
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Gray Matter is pretty good point & click, not one of the best examples of the genre, but above average. As already mentioned, the atmospher and setting are quite good, the puzzles, not so much. As for Still Life, the first game is good, the second, not so much. As far as Microids point & clicks, I think Syberia, the first one, is the pinnacle. It has some rather obtuse puzzles, but the story is really interesting and the atmosphere is amazing.
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I have a 360 controller (an aftermarket one) I use for my PC. The rubber pad on the left thumbstick wore through (the right one will likely wear through eventually too), so I'm down to plastic. I need a replacement pad for the thumbstick and am wondering if any people have experience with them and can make some recommendations. I don't care about some performance gimmick the only thing that concerns me is comfort. I have pretty sensitive skin and blister up faster than most people. With bare plastic you can imagine that doesn't treat my thumb very well after a while. I'm looking for something nice and comfortable that can let me play for a while without abusing my thumb. Maybe something made of gel or nice soft rubber. If it's cheap enough then I'm not too worried about durability as I can just buy another one in the future. Thanks in advance.
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Actually it's an Egyptian Jerboa. They are fairly closely related to Kangaroo Rats, though.
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Great news! Having George on the project full time can only mean good things for TToN.
Couple things: It having 12GB RAM listed means 6GB per GPU, which is the same as regular Titan (Black), so no advantage there. Second thing is that a PCI-E lane is a specific thing, different from a PCI-E slot. A full PCI-E slot has 16 lanes, hence the 16X terminology, though sometimes these slots only have 8 or even 4 lanes dedicated to them. The small PCI-E slots - the ones about an inch long - are single lane slots. Yes, I know the difference between lanes and slots, it was a brain fart on my part. The advantage of vRAM is still there. When you SLI (or crossfire, for that matter) a pair (or more) of video cards, you only get access to the memory of one card, you don't get the memory of both cards (or all 3 cards in a 3-way configuration). So if you SLI 2 Titan Black cards together you still wind up with 6 GB of usable vRAM. Whatever black magic they're working with this TItan Z will make all 12 GB of vRAM accessible, at least that's how I read it. That said, 6 GB of accessible vRAM is still not worth the extra $1000.
My reasoning for putting the Heat as the favorites is that I feel a lot more confident that they will make it to the Finals than any team in the West. San Antonio is playing the best basketball of anyone right now, and they can absolutely make the Finals and win the championship, but I think a fully healthy Thunder team beats them more often than not. Of course the question is, will we see a fully healthy Thunder team? I can also see Houston or the Clips knocking out either San Antonio or OKC. Heck, the Warriors could get blazing hot and bury 3s for a couple straight games and knock someone out. The East is just a lot less muddled. Yes, the Heat aren't playing particularly great right now, but past experience has shown me they have another gear to go to for the playoffs. Do the Pacers have another gear to go to? Can they even get back to playing somewhat good basketball? Is there anyone else in the East that has a realistic chance of knocking off the Heat?
Oh man, I want the code wheel so bad. If you folks or Paradox were to make those and put them up in your (or their) shop, I would buy one in an instant. Heck, even a prinatble diagram to cut out and assemble myself would put a smile on my face. Pretty pretty please? With a cherry on top.
