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LOL. Hence, why I threw up the grain of salt alert. Anyway, we're about 3 hours from finding out for realsies.

GRAIN OF SALT ALERT: ANONYMOUS SOURCE - SUPPOSEDLY VALVE EMPLOYEE Valve's next announcement to be a reference design, Source 2 on Friday Obviously this is all just rumor, but it does sound rather plausible. It does indeed make sense for them to push OpenGL as the graphics API. They've been championing OpenGL ever since their move to OSX and Linux. Valve has been working hard to bring better tools to OpenGL, which is the area where it falls behind DirectX. Feature wise, they're on par with each other. If this is true, this would be eerily reminiscent of Microsoft's own strongarm tactics some 10 years ago that attempted (somewhat successfully) to bury OpenGL. We'll find out soon enough if there's any truth to this supposed leak.

I just don't play that many twitch games. In most of the games I play, the difference in fps is barely noticeable, if at all, and has zero impact on gameplay. If I was playing fighting games or high pace FPS all the time, I'd be wanting higher framerates too, but I don't.

Well, since the GTA-series has been a satire of hyper-masculinity and mass consumption, i would bet that the female lead would not behave very feminine so to speak. Am I the only one filled with a quiet rage every time someone claim GTA is a satire? It's power fantasy with some self-awareness. Self-awareness can be confused for satire and there's lots of satire in the unimportant details (such as Republican Space Rangers), but there's also crude jokes and parody just as frequently (Post-Op, hi-larious...). You're right, it's as much of a parody as Scarface was. The problem with Scarface is that it was supposed to be a cautionary tale, yet it's overwhelmingly perceived as glorifying criminal life.

A Molyneux game not living up to promises? But that never happens.

I generally can't tell the difference above 30fps. I guess in a game where there is extremely rapid animation or you change the fov really quickly, the extra fps would make it slightly smoother.

In my opinion, outside of the Brotherhood questline, all the questlines were for the most part worthless in vanilla Oblivion. There are a few cool daedric quests, but those are pretty much one-offs.

No way. A custom built gaming PC is still going to cost you 800-1000 usd. I could put together a gaming machine for $600 that would play any game out now and for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't be able to max settings on every game at 1920x1080, but I'd be able to take the Pepsi Challenge with PS4 and certainly XBOne, at least in terms of raw horsepower. And that's me, a regular consumer paying regular consumer premiums. Valve can strike a deal with hardware manufacturers, much like Sony or Microsoft, because they would be buying in bulk. I bet Valve could put together a machine for $400 that could trade blows with PS4 and likely still break even on every unit sold initially. Anyway, I'm guessing the hardware announcement is coming tomorrow, so we'll find out soon enough.

I thought about watching that, but tuned in to Blacklist instead. Fairly mediocre, had its moments. It could conceivably turn into something good, if for no other reason than James Spader putting it on his back and carrying it there. He was great. The rest of the show...

Why would you refuse to name King's Quest 5: Abscence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!? Anyway, for King's Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow they bring in a relative unknown named Jane Jensen to help Roberta Williams write the plot. I won't spoil anything, but as it turns out, Jane Jensen is a pretty dang good adventure game writer.

At the very least I want the the next two stretchgoals. I doubt it can reach 900k, which makes me sad, because I want Hero Mode so bad. Playing through the game as Rotty Tops would be awesome. 700k is all I wanted. 700k is feasible. I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll reach that figure. Playing the game while wearing a Patty Wagon outfit would be great.

At the very least I want the the next two stretchgoals. I doubt it can reach 900k, which makes me sad, because I want Hero Mode so bad. Playing through the game as Rotty Tops would be awesome.

What game is this? I love an old school dungeon crawl. La-Mulana. It's basically Indiana Jones: The Metroidvania. Sadly, you just missed the Steam Sale where it was $3.

Woot! Shantae: Half-Genie Hero has met its funding goal. Now onward to stretch goals.

As long as pony hair brushing simulators remain inclusive of both sexes, I'll be good to go.

I'll be interested to see if this winds up using Wayland/Weston rather than X.org. Probably not, at least initially, I doubt Wayland is mature enough yet. Then there's the issue of the current lack of official drivers supporting Wayland from nVidia and AMD, though Valve could likely help speed up that process, if they haven't already. X.org is a rather old display server that's quite encumbered by legacy stuff to support ancient hardware and systems. Obviously anyone running SteamOS isn't going to be doing so on a Pentium 1 with a Verite V1000 graphics card, so it would seem like a good candidate for Wayland adoption.

No. Both nVidia and AMD drivers have extremely similar performance across both Windows and Linux. I know nVidia stated in the past that their drivers are 90% or more identical across OSs.

No surprise here. Valve's own custom Linux distro built around Steam is something I fully expected. That's step 2 toward SteamBox (step 1 was getting Steam to work with Linux in the first place). It makes perfect sense. Part of what makes Linux hard to work with sometimes is that there are a bajillion different distros out there and they may be running on different versions of the Linux kernel, Mesa, Glibc, Xorg, etc. Usually it doesn't make much difference, but sometimes it does. By putting out their own distro, they have full control over package versions. Before they just adhered to Ubuntu 12.04 since that's the most popular distro and the latest LTS release of it, but this way they fully control what package versions their distro uses, not Canonical.

If I had to rank the top 5 teams right now I would go with Seahawks Broncos Bears Patriots Saints

This, was some seriously gut-wrenching **** I love that this show pulls no punches. None. Ever. Zero. It is quite hard to watch sometimes, though. On a different note, for whatever reason, I thoroughly enjoy the incredibly awkward Creepy Todd hitting on Lydia scenes. It's soooo creepy.

The penultimate episode of Breaking Bad. Great television, but really, really, really sad. I'm so psyched for the finale.

La-Mulana. Getting lost in that giant metroidvania maze and killed by fiendish traps, and loving it.

Pretty fantastic football week for me, as a Cowboys fan. The Boys won handily and actually looked like a competent team, granted it was against the Rams. The Eagles lost on Thursday to a feisty Chiefs team, the skins lost to the Lions, and the Giants got obliterated by the Panthers. The Cowboys stand atop the division, almost by default. I predicted at the beginning of the year that the Cowboys would go 8-8 again, I just didn't know that that may well be good enough to win the division. It's kind of hard to make heads or tails of most of the teams. The only thing I feel really confident about is that the Seahawks are really good. Every other team...

At first I was surprised the Dodgers weren't #1, the way they've been spending money. Then I remembered the albatross that is the A-Rod contract.

Holy ****, the Giants are awful. They are getting eviscerated by the Panthers. The Panthers!