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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.

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.

They nailed the mandatory 412 different shades of brown and it even looks like they threw some green in there for highlights.

It kind of looks like Tera, but less creepy. That ludicrous sword, though... Ugh. Well, at least I didn't see any preteen girls with bunny ears running around in ridiculously short skirts with their underwear showing.

It looks less ridiculous than the last time we saw it, I guess.

I'm really saddened that Chaos Reborn has gotten so little funding so far. This project will most likely make its goal, but it should have already done so and then some. This is Julian Freakin' Gollop we're talking about here, the man is a legend. Between him and Sid Meier, those two pretty much defined the turn-based strategy genre. This project should be getting a lot more attention and people should be throwing their money hand over fist at him.

Engine developers undercutting each other has to be a win for game developers, right?

This is more just plain awesome than funny. The Christopher Walken Dancing Supercut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNaau2uPFqI

Good news. Hopefully this turns out for the benefit of everyone involved: * Benefit to backers - Obsidian doesn't have to worry about marketing can devote 100% of time and resources to development. * Benefit to Obsidian - Paradox's marketing means more copies sold after release, means more profit for Obsidian, even after Paradox's share. * Benefit to Paradox - I'm assuming Paradox gets a cut of all sales after release meaning more copies sold means profits for Paradox. That's how ideally I see this playing out. Hopefully reality matches the ideal for once.

13 years later and GNU Hurd still isn't ready. I'm not convinced it ever will be. And yes, Linux was built from the ground up, but Minix is what Linus was working with at the time, so it stands to reason that it would be the flavor of Unix that Linux most closely resembles, or did at its inception. There are, of course, differences in design between Minix and Linux, not the least of which being that Minix uses a microkernel design, while Linux uses a monolithic kernel design. Edit: I'm derailing this thread, aren't I. I'll stop now.

Shame Nonek, I feel bad for you now. Why do you say " Bioware doesn't care for you "...the fact that they have active forums and take fan feedback seriously, like Romance, tells me they most definitely do care But you right its unlikely you will receive presents from Bioware but don't mistake that for a lack of genuine affection. But don't you think there is such a thing as gratuitous and unnecessary criticism..so in other words not all criticism is good? I would say criticism is good as long as it is genuine, presented in a respectful manner, and with a level head, otherwise it crosses over into rage or trolling territory. I bought it in a sale the other day (the version with enhanced graphics), so I intend to rectify that problem, now please don't hit me! It's okay marelooke, since you plan to play the game you are no longer part of the problem, you are part of the solution.