Keyrock

Microsoft started crumbling long before the XBOne fiasco. XBOne isn't even their biggest problem. Microsoft's biggest **** up was missing the mobile boat. Once upon a time Microsoft had, for its time, a halfway decent phone OS and a small foothold in the market, albeit far behind Symbian and Blackberry. Then Apple showed up with their trend/hype machine and blew the mutha****ing market up. Mobile exploded and Apple went from afterthought to industry leader practically overnight. Google jumped into the fray while the market was still exploding, gained a foothold, skyrocketed, then eventually took over as the new boss in town, relegating Apple to their familiar #2 role. Meanwhile, in Redmond, Microsoft was slow to respond then stumbled again and again and again in their effort to get Windows Phone 7 out the door. Had Windows Phone 7 arrived a year earlier, they could have caught the tail end of the market explosion and gained a foothold, instead, by the time it arrived the market explosion was effectively over, Android had been established as the far and away market leader, iOS settled into a distant, but solid #2 spot, Blackberry was fighting for its life to remain relevant, and everybody else was scrambling for a meager few percentage points of the market. Since then Microsoft has been trying to get a foothold in the mobile market and been for the most part unsuccessful (I think they managed to surpass Blackberry for the VERY distant #3 spot). They still dominate the desktop, though their dominance there is slowly starting to slip (Windows 8 certainly didn't help), but desktop is a shrinking market, mobile is where the real money is right now. They still have Windows server, but even with their victory of finally supplanting Unix as the #1 server OS they weren't able to completely dominate the market because Linux made significant inroads and effectively took over where Unix had fallen. So now they're left with a strong position in server, Office, a slowly slipping dominance of a slowly, but steadily, deteriorating desktop market, an uncertain future with XBOne, and an uphill battle to become even relevant in mobile.

The Sawx just completely demolished the O's with Victorino having a monster night (2 HR, 7 RBI). Another good sign is Napoli heating up as of late. He's well known as a streaky player and this certainly wouldn't be a bad time for him to go on a hot streak. The starting pitching has been really good lately too, even in the 1 loss in San Fran and the 1 loss in LA. The Rays loss was a bonus I was not expecting. Still a month to go and things are too close for comfort. It's going to be an exciting September. On a side note, hopefully Buchholz fares better in his second rehab start today than he did in his first. The most important thing is no setbacks, though.

Meanwhile, in Florida, a man was arrested for masturbating outside a convenience store while rotating in place. Pretty fantastic mugshot too.

I'm liking the sound of Jadepunk. I love me some wuxia and I love me some steampunk.

Same here. The patch that dropped this morning seemed to have caused a whole host of issues. Volition is working on a hotfix right now. I guess I'll play some Might & Magic X for the time being.

That's some damn good reflexes.

Dread lords all shop from the same clothing/armor catalog. It's convenient, they get discounts depending on how many souls they've enslaved, and they usually get free shipping.

That's a bit of a departure from his look in TW1:

I've backed off playing mainly because SR4 is taking up all my playing time, I pretty much expected alpha testing. I'll jump back in when this patch goes live as the weapon/armor breaking was my biggest frustration and causing me to reload saves constantly, and I don't particularly like to meta-game like that. No fix for the goblin chef but I understand there are much more pressing issues to solve first. I'm pleasantly surprised at just how many of the issues the first patch will address.

https://mightandmagicx-legacy.ubi.com/opendev/blog/post/view/521b9074e754b64a72000000 Sweet, sounds like many of the glaring bugs are being addressed in the next release.

I always found the best way to immerse myself is to just simply jump in a lake or a river.

It's a murder simulator masquerading as a Tomb Raider game. As NKKKK mentioned, there are some pathetically simple tomb raiding elements, but for the most part the game is murdering and more murdering.

Dual Shau... Wait... Triple Shaundi style?

Stoner Shaundi outfit

http://youtu.be/a79zE7H_LDg

I haven't bothered with the area at all yet. I plan to do it once I get enough AD to upgrade my Acolyte of Kelemvor so she can level up while I complete the quests.

But they're Belgian, that has to count for something.

That was the best episode this season and one of the better episodes in the show's history. The "confession" will likely go down as one of my top 3 Breaking Bad scenes... depending on what else they have in store for us. ****'s about to get real crazy. I think Jesse is the only one who has even a microscopic chance at something approaching a happy ending, but I'm leaning toward dead man for him. Walt, Skyler, Hank, Marie, Todd, Lydia, I think every one of them ends up dead or in prison.

But I specifically wrote no pressure.

This one is for LadyC: Catlateral Damage - A game where you play as a cat and your task is to cause as much mayhem as you can in your owner's home.

Real life recreation of the tentacle bat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1DADOZ-0w

Nightshape, if this game turns out to be anything less than incredible, I'm going to hold you personally responsible. So, you know, no pressure or anything.

Ugh, I see the US getting sucked into yet another costly (both in terms of lives and taxpayer dollars) disaster in Syria. On the one hand, they did use biological warfare. On the other hand, if we go in there, nothing good will come of it.

You forgot one of Microsoft's favorite business tactics that can be used in conjunction with their other approaches: Strong-arm your way into market dominance by way of FUD and threats.

Oh man, Walt's "confession" on Breaking Bad was so great. You could literally feel Hank crumble as that went down. That was some seriously diabolical **** right there.