Keyrock

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.

Here's a youtube clip of the Richard Sharman interview: Best. Interview. Ever. Edit: I take that back. The Bart Scott "Can't wait" interview is still the best postgame interview ever.

After completing some number of quests, they kicked me some free points to spend in the item shop, so I got myself this pimpin' outfit. It comes with a nice fedora too, but I prefer not wearing a hat. The outfit goes well with the pistols. The pickaxe... not so much.

That was a horrific call. Ironically it wound up benefiting the Niners. Doesn't change how bad a call it was, though. I'm still cracking up about Richard Sherman's pro-wrestling style promo he cut after the game. The guy is definitely an a-hole, but he's also really good.

He sure does. Stay classy, Richard. That was pretty hilarious. What an awesome and exciting game and what a crazy way for it to end.

I thought TERA had that covered?

On the positive side of TSW, the investigation type missions are great, the ones where they don't put a marker on your map but simply give you clues or riddles and you have to figure them out on your own. More of that, please.

TSW most definitely does suffer from a case of Kill X Monsters Syndrome, as most MMOs do, and I fully agree that it would have been a lot better as a single player and/or co-op RPG. The game has good enough voice acting and writing to pull off being a single player game, the MMO aspect of it seems to be holding it back rather than enhancing it in any way. I haven't engaged in any PvP, but with mechanics this bad, I can't imagine it being in the least bit enjoyable, especially since I'm not a fan of PvP even in games with decent mechanics. I've gotten to the point where I'm used to the atrocious controls enough that they don't (severely) hinder me, and seem to have settled on a weapon combo of sledgehammer and pistols (start battles with pistols then when enemies close in smash em up). I'm contemplating switching my ranged weapon to something else, though. Do assault rifles or some of the magics have longer range than pistols (the range of the pistols is pretty pathetic)?

Yes. Yes I do. I mean I'm starting to get used to the control scheme, but I can't wrap my head around what the thinking behind it was. It's the retarded kid trying to pound a square peg through a round hole of control schemes.

I'm wondering who at Funcom thought it would be a good idea to let someone with severe brain damage design the game control mechanisms, because that's literally the only possible scenario I can come up with as to how they came up with the control scheme for The Secret World. It's a testament to how good the setting and writing is that I'm still enjoying myself.

Good gravy, I didn't realize KD's metrics were THAT good right now. His PER (Player Efficiency Rating), which is the closest thing we have to a single all-encompassing stat, is 30.1. 30.1! For reference, anything north of 20 is really good, north of 24 is great, once you start dipping into 27 and upwards territory, that's extraordinary. 30.1 is ludicrous. I don't think it's sustainable, because KD is going silly right now, but to even go above the 30 mark for a single game is ridiculous. I can think of exactly 2 active players capable of that.

I named her "Squirrley" The mechanics are atrocious, even by MMO standards, but I'm definitely enjoying the game so far.

That was part of it. You could do entire races without ever attacking any of the other riders, if you chose to, but there was definitely a certain satisfaction in whipping a dude with a chain or kicking him into the path of an oncoming car. For me, though, the best part of Road Rash was that it was the first racing game I can remember that truly captured the feeling of speed. There were games before that you were supposedly moving at 200 mph, but it didn't really feel like you were moving at 200 mph. In Road Rash it really felt like you were going st00pid fast. Traffic would come up on you so ridiculously quickly that there was no time to react. The feeling of going over a hill crest at over 200 mph and squeezing past a car and the curb on the shoulder (what we referred to as a "sneak-a-bye") with the car coming up on you so quickly it just basically blinked on the screen for a split second was what I really loved about the game.

It's a difficult to gauge what the Thunder would be like were it KD rather than Russ that was out because KD has been healthy his whole career. We have virtually zero games we can point to and say "That's what the Thunder look like without KD" because they're never without KD. You're preaching to the choir about LeBron deserving to be the MVP again. If I had a vote I'd vote for LeBron without giving it a second thought, despite the fact that KD is my favorite player and the reason I follow the Thunder. Some of the voters have these weird rationalizations about voting or not voting for certain people, not wanting someone to get 3 MVPs in a row because only Bill Russell, Wilt, and Larry Legend got 3 in a row and they want to keep it that way, or some bogus crap like that. It's not just in basketball either. Look at the bull**** of some idiots not voting for Greg Maddux for the Hall of Fame just so he wouldn't get voted in unanimously. It's unfortunate that people with obvious agendas and strong biases get to vote on these types of honors, but it is what it is.

I'd say he's the front runner right now. KD's numbers are ridiculous 30.6 PPG 7.9 RPG 5.0 APG, plus there's going to be the reluctance of the voters to give LeBron a 3rd straight. If KD can help OKC weather the storm while Russ is hurt and still finish with one of the top 2 or 3 seeds, and he's still putting up obscene numbers like this at the end of the season, it will be hard to not give it to him, despite the fact that we all know LeBron is still the best player in the league. Long way to go, though.

Actually, Dragon are the goody two shoes. Templars are right gits. As I said. I'm on "Grim" But if you are on a different server I might say hello Kinda weird for the group that's all about chaos to be goody two shoes, but you've played the game a lot longer than I have, so you certainly know better. If we're members of different factions does that mean we have to try to kill each other or can we cooperate? I'm going to make an Illuminati character. I've played too many mostly kind-hearted characters lately, time to play a selfish prick interested only in their own power and control and if some people get hurt in the process, oh well, it's a harsh world.