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That was awesome. He got called for a charge late in the game he didn't agree with then got T'd up for dropping some colorful language. So after that he just went into **** The Dumb ****, I'm Taking Over And Ain't Nobody Out There That Can Do A Damn Thing About It Mode and just started dropping bombs on the Blazers. That was some prime Kobe or Reggie Miller I'm taking over type ****. I still think LeBron is the best player in the league when he's playing as hard as he can, he's just coasting right now because the East is so pathetic that the Heat can get the 2 seed on cruise control. If anybody is going to supplant King James as the NBA's top player Durant is certainly the top candidate. Paul George is the next guy in line who I think has the all around game to eventually become top dog in the league.

Agreed. I'm definitely down with a historical-ish RPG, basically a more structured and story driven Mount & Blade.

Perhaps you should read something about it. Intel is only supporting DDR4 at the end of the year for servers because of the lower voltage. DDR4 will be released at 2133 MT/s, which is also the speed of the highest DDR3 standard modules, manufacturers sell DDR3 at 2400 MT/s. In the future DDR4 will be faster, but for a while it won't be. It's supposed to appear in enthusiast desktop chips this year too (Haswell-E). You are completely correct that DDR4 won't offer any tangible performance benefits initially, same as DDR3 didn't over DDR2. In a couple of years DDR4 will be significantly faster.

I enjoyed the beta and I am excited for the full release. I almost forgot it was this week! It's tomorrow, isn't it? I'm pretty pumped. I liked what I got to play during Early Access quite a bit.

Thunder won their 4th straight tonight and beat the Blazers for the first time this year (this was their 3rd meeting of 4). Durant continued his insanely hot streak with his 8th straight 30+ game, dropping 46 on the blazers on a highly effiient 17 for 25 shooting, including 6 of 7 from beyond the arc.

Those specs are highly dubious. The GPU is essentially a R9 290X, plus an octa-core PowerPC CPU? In terms of raw horsepower it would slaughter the XBOne or PS4, but how would they sell that at a competitive price without taking a MASSIVE loss on each unit? I mean those are high-end PC specs. I suppose in 2 or 3 years those components might be cheaper, but still.

I find it hilarious when white knights assume they know what the majority of women want. Of course, assuming they know best what a certain group wants and getting outraged for them is prototypical white knight behavior. It's funny that white knights see themselves as some kind of moral role models and waging the war on stereotyping when their actions are the very definition of stereotyping.

Teams from states that have legalized recreational marijuana have a 100% success rate of going to the Superbowl. This cannot be denied, it's science! As an aside, I'm partial to Smoke-A-Bowl as the name for this year's Superbowl.

Sweet. La-Mulana was awesome. I love me some Indiana Jones (the one with the Crystal Skulls not so much) and I love me some metroidvania, so naturally I love me some La-Mulana. I will most definitely be pledging to this. This will easily make it to the 200k initial goal, but hopefully it gets the half mil for mac and linux versions, or better yet the 800k for Evil Stages.

Indeed. Wouldn't be cool if they had side effects, or at least that you run the risk of getting addicted? I mean, like BruceVC mentioned, it's too easy to shake the disease/addiction via one of them super meds lying around almost everywhere. The Witcher games have that to a small degree, where chugging down too many potions can put your toxicity levels into dangerous territory, though they don't really deal with potential addiction. I'm all for drinking potions carrying with it a risk factor, one that should rise exponentially if you quaff large amounts in a short time.

Video games, like movies and television (or even music for that matter), tend naturally to gravitate toward attractive people in starring roles. Sure there are always some parts for fat or weird looking actors or actresses, but the vast majority of highly successful movie and television stars are very attractive people. I guess it all boils down to the medium being essentially the realm of fantasy and when you watch a good movie or play a good video game you place yourself in the stars' shoes (at least I do) and we all like to imagine ourselves as being better looking than we really are. I don't particularly mind. I do wish there were more broad options in character creation as far as body types go, but I guess not all games can have a character creator like Saints Row. As always, if there's enough demand for it, the modders will make it happen. So if you want to play a fat dude or a flat chested woman, chances are modders will hook you up (though the nude mod will naturally appear much earlier because priorities).

Aren't potions essentially drugs?

The joys of low level D&D. I got so sick of save scumming in BG that I would just use a save editor to boost my characters to level 3 at the beginning, then once I would get to level 4 or 5 I would subtract the appropriate amount of exp (like 3000 exp or whatever it was to get to level 3) from the characters to get back on an even playing field.

I'm doing a poor job because I haven't gotten a single kitteh yet.

I'm pretty excited about The Greek Freak.

Thank goodness there's always the good ol' Saints Row Sex Appeal slider which lets you make some big uns. Then the community modders always put out a mod that changes the limits on those sliders allowing you to make even more hilarious proportions.

That's definitely true. You expect forwards to be much better in the paint than guards. My favorite thing about Durant's shot chart is that you notice he doesn't take the corner 3s. That's because that's one of his weakest shots (and by weakest I mean he's only about average at the corner 3), but he's smart enough to recognize that and simply not shoot from those spots. Now if only Josh Smith could stop taking the shots he's not good at:

They might both be aliens. Here are Goldsberry's shots charts for both of them from last season (I don't know if he has ones for this season yet). Curry: Insanely good 3 point shooter, a bit weak near the basket. Durant: Above average from literally every spot on the court. And let's face it, LeBron is an alien also: Insanely good near the basket, above average 3s, a little weak mid range from the wings.

The handshake attempt was most definitely disingenuous. Richard Sherman is a pro-wrestling style heel, which is something I definitely approve of. Jake "The Snake" Roberts even offered to help him with his heel promos: https://twitter.com/JakeSnakeDDT/status/425104952499773440

That's messed up. I like the C-Hox being a heel team, the NFL needs a few of those, but tossing food at an injured player is pretty low. On a more fun note, here's the C o c k y Pete Strut with added tophat, monocle, and cane: I don't know who made this, but I'd like to shake their hand.

You should get an XBOne as that seems like exactly the philosophy Microsoft adopted for their new console. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

That picture doesn't do justice to how spectacular that play was, but I couldn't find a gif showing him twisting around in mid-air.

I'm shocked it's releasing so soon.

Kevin Durant followed up his blazing hot 54 point night with a crazy efficient stat sheet filling performance in a win over the Sacramento Kings. In just 32 minutes of play Durant scored 30 on 10 of 15 shooting and added 6 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 blocks, and 4 steals, raising his PER to an unearthly 30.54. KD is in some kind of ridiculous zone right now. Either that, or he's an alien.