Keyrock

If Seattle gets the #1 seed, no one else in the NFC has a chance to make it to the Super Bowl.

Ugh, the Cowboys are terrible. On the bright side, everybody else in the NFC East is terrible too. Someone is going to win this crappy division by default.

That's what Comcept is, Inafune started his own company. Yay, Risky Mode! The next stretch goal for Shantae should be no problem, hopefully they hit at least the costume change one too. I really want Hero Mode, but I doubt that will happen. I want my playable Rotty Tops!

As few as possible. Zero preferably. I'm not against cinematics in general, they can add to a game, the problem is that they cost money and resources. Project Eternity may be one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns ever, but it's still got a very limited budget in the grand scheme of things. The money and resources that would potentially be spent on cinematics would be much better spent elsewhere. Give me pictures and text, I'll be happy.

I went for a bike ride this morning. I rode about 23 miles in just under 2 hours with plenty of climbing, including a 2 mile long climb with a little over 500 ft elevation change for the final climb. Absolutely perfect conditions for riding: Low 60s when I left, mid-upper 60s when I got back. Practically no humidity, mild breeze. Gorgeous autumn foliage, relatively low amounts of traffic. The ride was simply spectacular. I feel fantastic right now. Once my adrenaline fully wears off I'll grab a bite to eat, crack open a beer, and plant my ass on the couch for a day of NFL watching.

Hmm, I should have named the thread "Keyrock's Hopefully Attractive Critters" or even "Keyrock's Hopefully Attractive Animals", as we've moved beyond just Order Rodentia, which I fully support, by the way. Cue LadyC putting up hundreds of cat pictures. Also, Capybara hugs are the best kind of hugs:

Oh boy, somebody's been drinking the advanced metrics Kool-Aid. Sure, advanced metrics can be useful, but no stat is foolproof, not in any sport. The eyeball test is the best test, and even that isn't foolproof.

Might & Magic X - It got lost in the backlog shuffle as multiple games I'd been waiting for came out. I decided to jump back into it and am glad I did. I'm having a great time with it. I restarted the game after the patch that arrived some 3 weeks ago, so I'm not very far, just finished the Thieves Den. There's a whole bunch of bugs, as you'd expect with an alpha, seemingly maybe even more bugs after the patch than before, but the bugs seem less game breaking than before, or that;s how it feels like, anyway. I'm contemplating doing the Lighthouse now. I was ill prepared last time I tried it, part of the reason I restarted game from the beginning. I'm one level higher now than I was at that time, plus I know to stock up on potions before I head in there, as there is no apparent way back once you get to a certain point. I may explore a bit more and get up one more level first, though. That will make the boss fight a lot easier, I think (homeslice handed me my rear end last time).

There is no single stat, or even collection of stats that fully defines a player's value. For example, you look at a guy like Johnny Gomes on the Sawx. He's batting .244 with 13 HR and 51 RBI. If you were to just look at those numbers and nothing else, you certainly wouldn't think "major contributor", and yet, he is. The clutch game saving hits, the smart base running, going 1st to 3rd, harassing the pitcher while on 1st to make him throw a wild pitch or give up a hit. Things like that don't show up in stats.

Put up new pic link, hopefully it works now.

The Mariners are up 7-2 on the As. Looks like the Sawx are going to clinch the #1 seed before they even take the field tonight. If so, John Farrell should pull Lester after about 75 pitches, regardless of the score, and let someone like Workman pitch the rest of the game at that point. Time to start resting guys and giving potential pinch hitters and utility guys/non-everyday players/lesser used pitchers that may make the postseason roster some at-bats/innings. Edit: Also, The Tribe is up 5-1 in the 8th. Looks like they're going to take over sole possession of the top wild card slot.

Rodent and Feline living together:

Regardless of what stats people want to use, Trout has no chance of winning the MVP because he's on a chump team. You pretty much have to be on a playoff team, or at least on a team that contended for playoffs right until the end, to even have a chance at MVP.

Gah. Judging by the comments on the Kickstarter page, design B is a long shot to make the cut, probably mostly because glasses. People just don't know a good thing when they see it. Design B has an awesome hat, a sweet vest & tie combo, and modular, multi-function hair that retracts in to a bun. I'm willing to bet design F is going to win because it's the closest to Roll and the "sexiest" design.

That 3-way tie still looking that shocking? Oh man, I hope it happens. Not only would that be thrilling, it's the best case scenario for the Sawx.

Mount & Blade 2 screenshots:

Well, I mean, it's Linux, so you'll be able to do with it what you can do with any other Linux distribution, which is to say, whatever you want. Steam itself is proprietary, so not much you can do with that, outside of what Valve allows you to (it would be cool if they open sourced parts of Steam, but I'm not holding my breath), but outside of Steam, especially the underlying kernel, libraries, and stack of open source apps, you can do with as you desire. If you want to turn it into a print server running on a coffee machine, you can turn it into a print server running on a coffee machine.

Sawx won and now can finish no lower than tied for the best record in the AL (all the majors for that matter). They already have the 6th most wins in the Sawx' history, not too shabby for a team many people though would finish near the bottom of the division. I still don't fully understand how the tiebreakers work. I know head to head is the first and it's 3-3 between the Sawx and As. After that it gets complicated. I'm loving this race for the wild card. It's going to come down to the very last day, and while these 3 teams are exhausting themselves, scratching and clawing for those 2 spots, the Sawx can rest up and set their rotation for optimal ass kicking. I'm hoping for the 3-way tie so these 3 team can even further deplete their rotation and bullpen and the survivor will come in thoroughly drained to their series with the Sawx.

I saw that Dead Island Riptide is free this weekend on Steam, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I played it for just under an hour, long enough to remind me why I wound up hating the first game, then promptly uninstalled it.

You mean like these?

Update 24 Holy smokes! Design B is amazing! I love it so much. The hat, the glasses, the vest and tie. It;s all so great. I pray it wins. If you don't have a different favorite, vote B!

Hopefully they set up kiosks in some stores so people can try the controller, and a Steam Machine, for that matter.

It's made so any simpleton can just plug it in and go, like a console. You can already do everything a Steam Machine does with your current PC, Valve even stated so implicitly. Steam Machines makes it simple so mom can buy it for little Timmy and plug it in and boom it just works.

The game will feature 33% more underpants gnomes.