JonCole

For some reason, I really just want to see that as a pixelated messed up Sean face and pixelated Danielle's victorious face as a cross-stitch with "I'm the Strongest Woman in the World" in fancy calligraphy-style stitching.

They could throw in some kind of GTA4 bundle (game/game + eps/eps.), Max Payne 3, Civ V (or even Civ IV complete).

Oh, I just now realized that I don't own The Darkness 2. I should actually jump on my own deal! I loved The Darkness, even though I played it like five years after it came out. I liked Mafia II at the time it came out, but there have since been games that'd make it probably look worse for wear (I'm mostly thinking Sleeping Dogs and GTA5). I played Bioshock 2 relatively recently and I think I had a reverse hype reaction where I ended up liking it a lot after my expectations were deflated. Also, I accidentally bought a PS4. It was only $360 from Buy.com via eBay. I had the Destiny bundle preordered at Amazon, but that would have come out to about $480 post-tax. Here's the link for any interested - http://www.ebay.com/itm/301233853610

Disclaimer - this is not a wildly generous offer. If this is distasteful, feel free to ignore. If you guys have cards/items you don't want to mess with, I'd be happy to take them off your hands. I could do a flat rate of $0.05 per card and buy some DLC or a cheap game for you in exchange, if you want. I still think it'd be so much more worthwhile for you to just sell them in the market, but if you're literally just going to give them to Trashbot or keep them in your inventory forever without using them, I figured I should at least put out the offer.

Dang, new Humble Bundle - $1 - Bioshock, XCOM: The Bureau, Darkness 2 Average ($6.20 now) - Bioshock 2, Mafia 2, Spec Ops: The Line, everything above $20 - XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Bioshock Infinite, everything above Pretty good deal if you somehow ended up missing all/most of these games.

Yeah, stealth is kinda problematic in this game. It relies a lot upon luck and knowing the exact, somewhat unintuitive way that some things work. That said, the top of the Ghost skill tree has that camera loop skill that I've seen used to great effect a couple times with randos. It lets you counter cameras, which are fairly unbalanced. The only non-loop counters are shooting it, which gets every guard's attention that passes, and getting to the security room, which is often behind at least one or two cameras or guards.

Killer strategy. My wife has a way with these kinds of things, she manages to unintentionally gather boys that buy her games for no good reason. I don't know if they have some kind of crush on her or something, but there have been situations where some random person just buys her a game without having talked to her for more than 10 minutes. They also do this super-stupid thing where they try to convince her to play a game because they know the best games and she's a silly woman for not having played said game, so they buy it for her to prove a point or something.

Yeah, it's hard going with one class in this game, but the skills higher in the individual trees are generally so much better than the middle-tier stuff. I think it's most beneficial to focus one class, but also dabble in pretty much every one of the other trees for at least 10-12 points. For now, I've observed that most times I play on the higher difficulties the main stumbling blocks are the special baddies. Ever since I got my first shotgun, I felt that focusing on high damage so I can one-hit headshot specials was the best for my style of play (which is mopping up guys while the rest of my team of randos singlemindedly focuses on the objective with no care for their own health). So I've since respecced for Enforcer but I plan on having 14 points in Ghost and 12 in Mastermind, so I'm still playing it kind of safe so I'm not too specialized.

Can you mount it to the ceiling somehow? Can we somehow order an array of sound baffling that is colored to look like the portrait? LET'S GET CREATIVE, GUYS!

Do I get progress toward my compendium for watching if I'm not in the actual DOTA2 app? Does it only count for live matches, or replays as well?

[Thumbs] Jon 1,633.2 hours on record / 36.9 hours last two weeks This account is worth $5516.92. If all games were bought on sale, it would be $1846.40.

So, I literally know nothing about DOTA 2 but plan on watching the International. I bought a compendium for the hell of it, am I supposed to actually "use" this thing or just hang onto it for some reason?

Wasn't she literally covered in blood and escaping through burning buildings? I understand emotion and innocence, but faced with that kind of field of war scenario I imagine that brief crushing emotion could easily be wiped away by pure survival instinct. I think they could have done a better job of creating moments where Lara just needs to decompress and process, but that exact moment seemed believable to me. I actually thought that Watch Dogs weirdly handled this quite well when a relatively innocent character was forced to kill someone and seemed to experience genuine shock that persisted over measurable time.

I like shooters and Tomb Raider was a good shooter, so I'm excited for a sequel. Also, maybe it's because other games have ridiculous stories and mechanics, but I couldn't muster much skepticism with regards to the whole violence thing. She seemed sufficiently thrown off by it and never particularly comfortable with it, but it's not like she was doing any of it for frivolous reasons. It's kind of where Uncharted falls another way for me - sure, Drake is put in some life-threatening situations and he is an explorer, but his job is also to nab some slick loot so I'm not super sold on him being all "whoops, I was forced to kill 1,000 dudes". Also, it always strikes me as an odd argument versus games like this that you kill so many guys, because even in situations where you do have the "proper context" of being a soldier or whatever there's still no "realistic" situation where one soldier kills hundreds and hundreds of enemy combatants single-handedly. I just want more physics in general. Get that hair going Bayonetta-style. Give her a Batman cape that can flow naturally while she's climbing things. Maybe attach some superfluous tassels to various attractive body parts to better accentuate the jiggling.

So in the kind of obsessive way that I play games, I've really been loving this skill tree tool - http://www.pd2skills.info/ It lets you plot out your skill tree with all the points you'd be allocated at max level. I don't know if I'll ever make it that far, but I like entertaining the idea and planning out what would be the perfect build for me. It also lets me anticipate how much money I'll end up needing specifically for skills, which isn't excruciatingly useful but something nice to keep in the back of my head ($6.45 million). This is a weapons spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au1pg4dZCOPTdGd4NGhhYWVwcWRhdGk3bmx3cG5ybFE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 It gives interesting stats for quick comparison, like DPS, maximum ammo, and reload time. It shows the dropoff distance/effective range of various shotguns. It also gives you the number of shots to kill various kinds of enemies (a high damage shotgun, for instance, can kill security guards, cops, FBI, SWAT, and SWAT Heavies with one headshot, in addition to most special enemies except for the bulldozers). It's an almost overwhelming amount of data, but useful if you're thinking about what weapons you want in your inventory and you have a specific purpose in mind (close quarters in a bank, you'd want a loud shotgun that can kill most specials in one headshot).

Well, feel free to give an alternate explanation that makes sense. Or we can just wait for Blambo, I suppose.

Both hands are shown, the one with the top side facing us has three fingers up. The opposite hand is coming from the other side, with four fingernails shown cracking the knuckles of the front hand. That's why the fingers are so far apart. Also, I would pitch a little to make this happen.

Spelunky jetpack is probably in my top three jetpacks that I can think of, along with the jetpack in Tribes: Ascend and the Archangel Armor in XCOM EU that made my squadsight + double tap sniper insanely OP.

Man, Knuckles was so cool and now he is just a meathead.

Also, this isn't meant to be a criticism or judgment, but I don't really even know what being qualified for a job as a gaming writer means. I get asking for qualified applicants if you are in a field that requires specific education and has a degree of risk in the day-to-day operation of said job. For many gaming-related writing tasks, the only things you really need are some talent at writing and perspective. Knowing how the system works so that you're less confused when going to industry events or have better interactions with PR or even knowing how to use a CMS surely has value, but those are things that can be learned by seemingly anyone. With that as my premise, I think it's weird to look for "qualified" people in this industry. The skillset is fairly flat and relatively easily learned, so why is there seemingly so much value placed on it?

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Cel Damage HD is super dope

I've read that D-Link's recent AC line tends not to actually have very good AC performance, though solid N performance. You'd have to pony up a little bit more, but Netgear's R6250/R6300 (the latter is just a mid-cycle model refresh) is supposed to have pretty much best in AC1750 class for both N and AC performance and range. Most AC1900 routers are not really worth it, also.

Dark Souls II - $25 http://gamedealdaily.com/pc-games/dark-souls-ii-steam-key/?clickid=wWZ3uUVH3wq7Qr2zVbTec1bdUkQzK0XN2T1MUs0 FWIW, people on Slickdeals are saying it's a SE Asia region code but it validates just like any other retail version and seems to work fine with a US Steam account.

This game is so dumb, I love it -