Keyrock

Pfft, you guys can make all the weight jokes you want. Check out how rugged that beard is: Sex appeal level = OVER 9000!

So when the brackets came out there seemed to be a lot of grumbling with people hating on Wichita State getting a 1 seed. While all the other 1 seeds so far have won, none of them have done so impressively. Meanwhile, Wichita State is STRAIGHT MURDERING Cal Poly right now.

After watching a highly entertaining Kansas/Eastern Kentucky game I switched over to OK State/Gonzaga. Ugh, what a disappointment. Freakin' Whistle Fest 2014. This game is nearly unwatchable. Edit: Switched over to George Washington/Memphis because that OK St/Gonzaga game was just way too brutal to watch.

Does it feature any gratuitous GabeN shots?

I'm drinking The Good Stuff: Magnificent potato vodka made in Poland, where vodka was invented. Don't let any Russian or Scandinavian tell you otherwise.

March Madness is so great. Duke just got bounced in the 1st round. This.... This is so great... I told myself I wouldn't get emotional... /breathes heavily //wipes away tears of joy

Yeah, losing the original voice files is a bummer, the game does look quite pretty, though.

I don't think I've ever used the term 'douchewaffle' before, but now I just might have to start using it.

^ Yikes. I do have a proper vise and all the necessary equipment at work, but the idea of going at a $350 chip with a hammer doesn't sit well with me. I'd probably feel less queasy with the scoring it with a razor knife method then using a hammer and a block of wood. I really hope Intel follows through with their claims and puts some proper quality thermal paste between the chip and heatspreader. Soldered on would be the best, but that ain't gonna happen. Spend a few bucks for some Arctic Silver, you cheap ass bastards!

So, there's a new Quest For Glory game out... sort of. It's called Heroine's Quest and it looks insanely like Quest For Glory, which was originally called Hero's Quest, except, as you might have guessed, you play a female character. Check it out: http://kotaku.com/classic-pc-series-reinvented-with-female-lead-1548435140 http://store.steampowered.com/app/283880/ Oh yeah, and it's free. Hopefully the game manages to capture some of the charm and humor of the games it's so obviously paying homage to. I'm going to give this one a go when I get home. Edit: Apparently, this game has been out prior to this, it just hit Steam today. Why had no one told me about this before? Quest For Glory is my jam.

GDC Mighty No. 9 Alpha Gameplay Footage Holy smokes that looks like the good ol' blue bomber.

Yeah, the hardcore aim was ridiculous. Sitting at the very edge of my Dragunov's scope, barely able to make out enemies, crouched down and in partial cover, meanwhile they are hitting me with almost perfect accuracy with assault rifles.

Oh, yeah I did misunderstand, and I'm not sure I'm willing to pry apart the heatspreader and chip. I'll likely still put my own thermal paste between the heatsink and heatspreader.

I don't much care about Iris Pro IGP as I'll be getting a dedicated GPU anyway, but does this confirm higher end Broadwell desktop chips? I hope so. Seems a bit weird to put an IGP into higher end desktop chips, though. Won't the people in that segment of the market be getting a dedicated GPU anyway? It's down to Haswell refresh or Broadwell for me, I've mostly talked myself out of Haswell-E. I don't know if I trust Intel about the "Improved TIM". Does that mean they'll use better paste or just more of the garbage they've been using? I'll likely just drop 10 bucks on a small tube of Arctic Silver, it's a small price to pay for the peace of mind of knowing the chip will run nice and cool. The properly hardcore people will just run bare-die! But I'll take any improvement, really, I'm not even going to consider going at a $200-300 CPU with a knife or pliers just to get the heatspreader off (and of course, voiding the warranty). A knife!? Pliers!? Jesus Christ almighty, I'm not letting this guy within 1000 yards of my CPU. You use a Q-tip and a little bit of rubbing alcohol or acetone. When you buy a CPU, generally the CPU and heatsink come separate, they're not pre-attached.

March Madness!

I had the same experience with the Misery Mod (it was 2.0 when I played) minus the stuttering. I like some of the changes, but other changes straight up ruin the game adding nothing but tedium and making enemies beyond insanely difficult (no human should survive multiple headshots from a Dragunov, I don't care if he's wearing 3 helmets layered on top of each other).

Every time you fold a piece of paper over its thickness doubles, so we're dealing with an exponential here. You would be doubling the thickness 42 times, so if you start with a thickness of 1 then it would go 1 > 2 > 4 > 8 > 16 > 32 > 64 > 128... You do that 42 times and you wind up with a ridiculously huge number. I'm not great with exponents, so I could be off here, but I think it would wind up being <thickness of paper> X 2 to the 41st power

I knew like 11 or 12 of those.

Maybe Advanced Fighting in Tunnels could be adapted into a MMO? You wouldn't leave that market untapped, would you, Monte?

"Vodka" healing to "Red Bull" healing? Speaking of healing items, they'll have to change Pirozhki to Doritos Locos Tacos. As an aside, changing to Red Bull and Doritos Locos Tacos has the side benefit of making the game ready for eventual console release. I can already see it "Pick up specially marked 4 packs of Red Bull for a special code that gets you a weekend of double experience in Skyforge".

What exactly does "westernization" mean? Will they be changing character names from Svetlana to Suzie?

Who knows, but any improvement with the chip/TIM contact would be very welcome. People have been able to get their CPU's over 10 degrees celsius cooler by applying their own paste in there. But still, I'm starting to lean over i5-4670K. I bet I'll be able to get one from a good sale when stores are replacing the older models with newer ones and I'm sure it's more than enough to carry me until Skylake arrives. Also leaves room for a SSD drive in my budget. Yeah, further reading makes it seem more and more implausible that Broadwell will actually appear this year. While Intel hasn't given any sort of date, the sentiment I'm gathering is that most people think it will be no earlier than CES next year (which is in January), which would make it far too late for me as my build will likely happen in August or September. It makes sense since, if you're Intel, and you release the Haswell refresh in June or July, why would you release another chip 3 months or so later that would cut into your Haswell sales? I'm not sure if I'll wind up getting an i5 or an i7. The hyperthreading wouldn't do much (if anything) for me gaming wise, but it would be nice to have for other applications. I guess how much I'd managed to get saved up at that point will be the determining factor. As an aside, "Devil's Canyon" is a pretty bitchin' name for a chip.

Well, the tank game, I'm sure, will appeal to some people. I'm not one of those people.

I'm assuming this means that even at low level the damage numbers popping up over enemies heads will be in the thousands or ten thousands and will work their way up to millions.