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Student's lawsuit against parents for support loses first round in court. Well, no chance she turns out to be a colossal failure at life.

Nice triple double for Russ last night. It's good to see him back to (almost) 100%. Also, KD had 42 and 9 in 3 quarters of play (I'm pretty sure Russ only played 3 quarters too). The Thunder were up by a crazy amount after 3 so there was no reason to play either KD or Russ any further at that point. With roughly 20 games left to play, it looks like both the East and West are two horse races. I don't really think it's a huge deal who gets the 1 seed for any of the teams except Indiana, so I don't expect any team except the Pacers to go crazy trying to get that top spot. I would expect the Heat, Thunder, and especially the Spurs to prioritize making sure everybody is healthy and rested going into the playoffs. Further down the standings, the Raptors and Bulls are scrapping for the 3 spot, and in the west the Rockets, Clippers, and Blazers are locked in a deathmatch for that same seed. The race for the 3 spot in the west is going to be really entertaining to watch.

I don't even know the reference meaning behind this post and I still found it amusing for some reason. http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103543/taco-flavor-kisses

I spent a couple minutes in one area in Stick of Truth doing absolutely nothing but standing there just so that I could listen to Taco Flavored Kisses. True story.

Oh ****, italics! Volo means srs bzns!

LeBron was straight up beastin' last night.

Yes, yes, and yes. Also, some graphical options, any graphical options, on PC, would be welcome. This isn't an issue for me as my mid-range lappy runs the game just fine and the game already looks identical to an episode of South Park. No amount of extra polygons, SSAO, godrays, bloom, HDR, etc. is going to make the game look any more like an episode of South Park, and I can't imagine that kind of simplistic art style being particularly taxing on hardware. Still, maybe there would be things people on older hardware would be able to turn off or lower in case the game runs poorly for them?

You're intimidated by my hella cool scar, aren't you?

South Park: The Stick of Truth, though I've only really done character creation and not much else because I gotta head off to work. (*grumble grumble* stupid work always ruining everything)

My "new kid"

Sexy time?

Steam games usually unlock at 1 PM EST. I can't remember the last game that unlocked at a different time.

Jew, most likely.

Don't mind me, I'm just grabbing a seat in the front row.

I didn't want to make a separate thread for this, so I decided to stick it here, for lack of a better place. Paula Creamer's ridiculous 75-foot eagle putt to win the HSBC Women's Championship:

That design choice is likely a result of sticking to the past too much, as it was that way in older games too. You can persevere with skills you can't expert until Seahaven, though. I thought the game started out quite hard on Warrior difficulty and got easier as it went along. You can get by without raising skills to expert for a while, it sucks, but it's not the end of the world. Once the game opens up it gets easier, to the point that I wish they had another, harder, difficulty (which I may just make myself by editing the config file). I'm totally with you on the "one more turn" syndrome.

This really is shaping up to be the closest thing we've ever had to a true Ultima VII spiritual successor... Must not get overly excited... Must not give in to hype... Must not let self get set up for disappointment... Must not give in to hype... Must not... ... Must... /rolls hype saving throw //fails miserably Holy ****! Holy ****! Holy ****, this game is going to rule!

I feel like playing something chill, so I'm going to get my Euro Truck Simulator 2 on. Later, I'll play a bit more Shadowrun Dragonfall.

Finished Psychonauts. The Meat Circus was infuriating, but not as bad as the first time I got to it, since I had some idea of some of the tricks and pitfalls. Once I got past getting to the last "timed" area of the Meat Circus, it was smooth sailing until I got to the other area that always gives me trouble, the part where you're chasing psycho dad while the water is rising and you have to scale the flaming fence. After that the rest of the level and the boss fights are a piece of cake. Also, while the credits were rolling, I learned that Raz's dad was voiced by Quark from Deep Space Nine.

As a huge fan of the X series, I implore you to stay away from Rebirth. If you want to play a good space sim in the X series, get an X3 game, like Terran Conflict or get the Terran War Pack which has Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude (which requires Terran Conflict). To say that X Rebirth was a disappointment would be a gross understatement. The game is garbage. Egosoft has released buggy games before, it's standard procedure, but this game is messed up down to the core. With Rebirth Egosoft managed the impressive feat of both driving away would be new fans and completely alienating their core fan base. I will say this for Egosoft: They have a long standing tradition of fixing their games, improving them, and supporting them for years. The problem is that I'm not sure Rebirth is fixable. The game is so badly borked right down to its core, that it would honestly be wiser to scrap it completely and start over than try to fix the mess they shipped.

Well, Volo did use a smaller font... That he did. But doesn't smaller font mean less emphasis/ quieter? I'm not 100% on my internet font, tell me if I have it right: smaller font = quieter larger font = louder italicized = inflection underlined = emphasis boldface = emphasis & louder ALL CAPS = 12 YEAR OLD OR A-HOLE Is that about right?

I don't think Volo was serious. I mean, he (I'm assuming Volo is a guy) didn't even bother to underline, italicize, or boldface his font for that post. Anyway, nice to see Russ have a decent game. It looks like he's shaken a good bit of the rust off. It will be a few more games until he's back to playing at 100%, though.

Of course. They're a business, they need to sell their product. If they didn't, they wouldn't be a very successful business.

If Dragonfall is anything like The Deadman's Switch, then I expect money will stop being an issue in the latter portions of the game, unless you play a character that goes through medkits like he's popping candies and lobs grenades by the half dozen. I like the fact that I've been able to use my rigging skills a couple of times now outside of just controlling my drone and having it shoot up my enemies.