Big Omer responded by hitting 8 of 12 and cementing the victory after James Harden went 7 for 7 from downtown.

Despite OKC losing Westbrook and their chances of reaching the Finals dropping by the minute, Derek Fisher and Kevin Martin made up for his lost offense with this stunningly beautiful play:

Two flops for the price of one!

GO ROCKETS!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8402350285

 OCD cost me $2000 in this game. My sad story.

Garianielas 1 Human Mage 0

I’ve played since December 2004. Yet, during these years, I’d play for a few months and quit, not even a few months, and rebuy the game. I had this extreme OCD where I couldn’t have faith in my decisions, and constantly, and I mean constantly, re-rolled my characters. I leveled about 500 characters from 1-26ish, deleted them because I wanted to be a different race or class for some reason, or because they felt cursed. This process led to me going a bit mad, and I would spam the forums trolling, simply for an outlet for my frustration, and get banned. I did this for like 5 accounts. I’ve also gotten 6 accounts with MoP, only one which I use. Anyway I finally got a character to max level in 2011, and I was so excited, despite having to use over 30 restores after deleting him. Anyway I learned about race/server transfers and ended up spending literally $2000 on them. I’d go to a PvP server to do world PvP, then I found it pointless, going to RP, and back, etc. Yes it is a severe problem for me. It has caused me so much frustration, I just wanted to finally play this game and get some high level characters that I don’t change for a year or more, and enjoy the content like everyone else. I’ve finally had some success, but I still get urges to trash everything. Just wanted to share my story incase anyone else suffered through this. I’m finally making some progress and I love every minute I can play WoW and work towards progressing in the game and making friends. That’s the other problem, I make friends quite easily, but I get the urge to server transfer and thus hide from all friends. I’ve lost about 20 people this way I could’ve made friends with, and just like in real life where I move every 1-2 years to a new city, it has caused me painful loneliness. Maybe this will get deleted, fair enough. I just wanted to share my story with the world for two reasons. One, to make you feel better about your lot in life and WoW, and two, to see if anyone else has similar stories. Every few weeks I think of all that wasted money and it makes me sad, thinking all the games I could’ve bought for it. But I realize now that regret is a pointless emotion. I’ve always wanted to be a respected member of the forum community like an MvP who contributes constructively, but my condition made it so that I would often use these forums to troll people, simple because it provided me some respite from my painful experiences. Everything here is true, I could even show receipts proving the money I’ve spent… or the three WoW game classic boxes and manuals I’ve thrown out over there years. I’m not rich either, this money is the only entertainment money I have had, but at least I feel glad to have supported Blizzard, a game company I love. I wasn’t sure if I should’ve posted this at all, but it feels better to share it to people, like this awful secret that has been festering inside me. I really wish I could’ve raided, PvP’d, even roleplayed in classic, TBC, Wrath, etc, but because of the way things were for me, it wasn’t an option. I wish I had those achievements other people playing since 2004 have, but alas, such is fate… Regards - WW

Our favorite game developer drops some big info on pvp in D3:

“it isn’t in, it won’t be in for a long time, what we were working on sucked, aren’t you thankful?”

The biggest joke ever keeps on delivering, but at least you’ll be able to duel the 14 other people that still play!

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/8163085/Diablo_III_PvP_Update_-12_27_2012

We’ve been working really hard on the features, content, and systems for PvP in Diablo III and I wanted to take some time to provide an update on where we’re at. Of course, our goal has been to release our Team Deathmatch mode as soon as possible, but we don’t want to put anything out there before it’s ready. Right now, Team Deathmatch isn’t yet where we want it to be, and I want to provide some insight into where we are at in the development process.

The State of PvP

Our original intent with PvP for Diablo III was to provide more formal support for the dueling community that existed in Diablo II. We wanted to give players some kind of structure that would not only make it easier for you to duel with one another, but also allow you to have duels that were team-based. This is how our Team Deathmatch mode emerged, and it’s been instrumental in making a lot of improvements to Diablo III. But in continuing to develop this mode, playtest it, and put it in front of other developers within the company, we’ve found that it falls short of our expectations for a high-quality Blizzard experience.

Putting people into an arena and letting them hurl fireballs and swing crazy-ass swords at one another always has an element of fun to it.  I imagine it’s no surprise to anyone reading this blog that people like battling each other in video games, so if you had the chance to play our Team Deathmatch at one of the BlizzCons where we featured it you might not understand why we’d say that we don’t feel the current mode is good enough.

 

Well, Here’s Why…

For us it comes to a few issues, one of which is depth.  Simply fighting each other with no other objectives or choices to make gets old relatively quickly.  We’ve brought a lot of people in to try out Team Deathmatch and, while some found it entertaining, most of our testers didn’t feel like it was something they’d want to do beyond a few hours. Without more varied objectives, or very lucrative rewards, few saw our current iteration as something they’d want spend a lot of time in.

Another is class balance. Like Diablo II, Diablo III was designed to be a PvE-first kind of game, where we never compromised on player abilities in the name of future PvP balance.  We want to be able to carry over as many of the crazy runes, items, and skills as possible, with their crazy effects, and alter them as little as possible. In a casual PvP mode, something equivalent to a WoW Battleground, this would be fine, but Team Deathmatch felt very hardcore, and it put a laser focus on class balance in a way that we didn’t think would be good for the game as a whole.

Certainly, we’ve gotten a lot of benefits from the development of Team Deathmatch, especially in the areas of controls and combat model tuning, but at this point we don’t believe it’s the experience we feel it needs to be in order to ship, so we will be shelving it for now and exploring other options.

 

What’s Next

So, our core problem is that our Team Deathmatch mode doesn’t feel like a great addition to Diablo III. It’s not up to the quality that Blizzard gamers expect or that we feel you deserve, and it doesn’t really fit with our goals for the rest of the game. The question now is what are we going to do about it?

First and foremost, if our original goal was to support dueling, then we’re not achieving that goal very well if we don’t actually give players a way to duel in-game. You’ve been asking us for dueling for a while, so we’re going to add it to the game soon. Dueling is currently scheduled to release with patch 1.0.7, which is set to hit sometime after the new year. (We’ll be providing details about that feature very soon, so stay tuned.)

But as I mentioned before, we are going back to the drawing board on a new replacement for Team Deathmatch, something that feels more appropriate for Diablo III.  And as we stated previously, regardless of when we release it, it’ll be a free addition to the game. Team Deathmatch provided us with the foundation that we needed and served us well. Hell, it may even still be added in some form in the future. For now, though, we’re going to first be looking at new modes that play up to the strengths of the character classes, focus on objectives beyond just defeating other players, and possibly even integrate PvE elements and rewards.

 

Keepin’ It Real

We wanted to be upfront and honest with the community about where this particular project is at. It’s certainly not ideal, and I know some of you got to play Team Deathmatch at BlizzCon and are probably thinking, “It seemed good enough! Just give us that.” I also know how I feel whenever a game or game feature I’m looking forward to is delayed, but, as with all things Blizzard, we want to be sure that the features we add to Diablo III are actually worth it and will make the game better, and PvP is no exception.

While we don’t have any further information to share right now about our plans for additional PvP modes, we look forward to posting more about dueling in the next few days.

Eat up, fuckers.

With that being said, here are the things I’m thankful for this year:

• My wife
  Another year of putting up with my bullshit. How and why I have no clue, but it is impressive.
• Jay Wilson
  He destroyed one of the greatest franchises in gaming and saved me a lot of time by not waiting for Diablo 4

• SWTOR
  Made me realize that anything that promises to not suck is going to be the worst game of all time.
• Mists Of Pandaria
  Finally gave me a farm to plant juicycrunch carrots on.
• Mitt Romney
  Showed the world that 48% of this country is unequivocally stupid
• Barack Obama
  Showed the world that 52% of this country is smarter than the average evangelical.
•  My friends
  They bought D3 & SWTOR yet they still talk to me for some reason.
• My family
  They have stopped calling me a nerdy loser for the most part. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THAT HURT ME.
• The proclivity of politicians to eat corn dogs
  The pictures of them eating them in extremely suggestive ways have made me quite a bit of cash. Thanks, google images!
  
• Brazil/The Phillipines/Eastern Europe/Australia
  Without any of these fine places, my gaming experience would be significantly reduced. Keep on gaming, fellas. Dota2 would suck without you!

What a fucking travesty. These aren’t even ‘fast’ zombies, they look like they’re fucking Usain Bolt. Standard doomsday movie tropes, no preservation of the structure of the book, I hope this movie bombs and bombs hard.

Sources say that the victim, Sean Dugas, drew all Moxes and Black Lotus on his opening hand the game before he was murdered.

I would have killed the fucker too.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler/article/280396/58/Friendship-money-greed-meet-in-fantasy-card-game-Magic

William Cormier, 31, is accused of beating Dugas to death Aug. 27 at his home in Pensacola.

Dugas’ cards, valued at somewhere between $25,000 and $100,000, ultimately were sold in Pensacola, Georgia and Tennessee, police said.

Dugas’ body was taken to Winder, Ga., where it was found Oct. 8, buried in a plastic container in the backyard of a home. Now held in Georgia, William Cormier and his twin brother, Christopher, will be returned to Pensacola to face charges in the homicide.

Hawken is a mech combat game that I’ve been waiting to play for a while now. Since Mechwarrior Online looks like it is going to be pretty shitty, this is the shining beacon of hope for mech games.

I have the privilege of participating in the first closed beta event this weekend, and since there’s no NDA, I’ll make sure to fraps some gameplay and bitch about shit I don’t like about the game.

http://www.playhawken.com/#home/

 

HAWKEN’s first Closed Beta event is right around the corner! The event starts around 12:00 PM on October 26 and runs until Monday evening, October 29 at 11:59 PM. All times are in Pacific Daylight Time (-8 GMT). To join this event, grab a code from one of the many giveaways we’re holding this week on partner websites. If you participated in Alpha 2, you’re all set and do not need to redeem a new code. There is no non-disclosure agreement for the Closed Beta events; we encourage you to capture footage and screenshots of your battles and share them. Please remember that the Alpha 2 NDA remains in effect.

How do I get into the Closed Beta?
Got your Closed Beta code? Log into your account (or create one!) on the PlayHawken.com website. In the upper right corner is the Redeem Code link. Click that and enter your code. If the code is legit, you will be taken to the download client page with full details on the event. Click the DOWNLOAD CLIENT button to begin downloading the client. If you have the Alpha 2 client, you’ll need to uninstall it before you install the Closed Beta client.

What if I was in Alpha 2?
If you participated or were invited to participate in Alpha 2, your HAWKEN account has already been flagged for access to Closed Beta. You do not need to redeem a Closed Beta code, please forward any you find to other eager players! Instead, log into your account and click the ENTER BETA button on the PlayHawken.com website, then follow the instructions to download the client.

Public Closed Beta Forums
We’ll be introducing a new forum section just for Closed Beta including News, Discussion, Suggestions, Support, and Bug Reports subforums. This forum will be readable by all but you’ll need to be in Closed Beta to post in them. Expect this new section shortly!

First Closed Beta Screenshot Contest
Stay tuned for details on our Closed Beta screenshot contest coming tomorrow!

From all of us at Meteor Entertainment and Adhesive Games, we’re thrilled you’re here to share this milestone. We look forward to seeing you all in-game very soon!

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Still have questions? Read on!

Will there be more than one event?
Yes! We’ll announce future events in the coming weeks.

Where can I get a Closed Beta code?
You can stay on top of our news, including links to Closed Beta code giveaways, on Twitter and Facebook.

Do I need multiple codes for multiple events?
No, you only need to redeem one Closed Beta code to access all events.

Can I post footage of any Closed Beta event?
YES! There is no NDA during Closed Beta, so feel free to share your experiences and footage!

Help! I broke it!
If you experience any issues with the Closed Beta, see if there’s a discussion about it in the Closed Beta Support section of the forums.

 

I’ve never claimed to be some god at dota, as I recognize my weaknesses and have never tried to really address them. Let us address them now:

• Being a ward ho.  Yeah, fuck that shit. Buy wards, be broke, be good support while your team refuses to leave lanes and gank, your wards get countered, you get raped all game, and so forth. I hate playing support for the most part and will pick an agi hero even if we have 3 others on the team from people randoming or instapicking Antimage/Ursa/Meepo.
• Tendency to fight instead of farm/farm/farm. I know that WINNING IS FUCKING EVERYTHING, but so many heroes can get early kills without sitting in a lane surrounded by an impenetrable ring of wards. QUIT PLAYING THIS GAME LIKE YOU’RE IN THE GRAND FINALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL; YOU AREN’T.
•  Compassion towards teammates that don’t deserve it.  I guess this probably comes from being a bleeding heart suckass.

Despite all these things, I’m probably what would be considered an average dota player, which means that I make tons of mistakes, blame them on someone else, and above all else, look for an excuse for any and every wrong decision that I make from the picking screen to the throne dying.

With all that said, I think I played the game of my life last night. I will never be able to replicate my performance and I’m sure that the first game I play tonight I’ll be sent screaming, cursing, and crying right into the trash heap. But that’s fine; life is about balance.

Names are hidden to protect the innocent.  You can see here what I had to work with. The early game was rough, but I managed to keep my resolve and steal every kill I could with Spirit Lance. I knew I was in trouble when I saw CM going really big nuking creep waves every time it was off cooldown, so naturally I turned inward and focused all my hate and rage accumulated over the years towards Bloodseekers that go mid and feed Lich, to an Ursa that gets 6 Roshan kills during the course of the game, and to a Huskar that builds the recommended items and has no fucking idea of what is going on.

Around 45 minutes in, two lanes of barracks are down. The malaise has set in and I knew that despite my good farm, the game is over. Ursa had just completed another Rosh kill and they’re coming top lane to end it. Someone on my team says, “URSA DR GGGG”. The other team is talking shit, my team is arguing with each other, and I give a perfunctory GG as I lay back and accept the rape.

“FUCK THAT”, I say. An Eye is bought and Bounty Hunter falls to me easily. The push is still coming. CM, Huskar, and Bloodseeker form a line and end up killing Lich while I come in from behind. Ursa rapes a couple of them while I get some illusions off of the Ancients.

“Just hold off another 30 seconds you motherfuckerzzzz i’m otw”

Ursa gambles and brings the fight to me as he sees the rape train coming; he gambled wrong. Divine Rapier is mine. Push, push, push, push, push fast, push hard, push like you’re giving birth to a 25 pound baby with two heads. Push like your fucking life depends on this moment; that the crux of your future lies in whether or not you get this shit.

We push; they’re rezzing. We get their rax. I feel invincible.

Three of them are up, I can get away. OH FUCK HERE THEY COME. I can’t get away. Lich goes down. Rexxar stuns me, BH is beating on me, I have to leave NOW.

I die. Ursa swoops in for the Divine Rapier. We’re fucked.

I buy back, they’re coming with a vengeance.

“nice try guys”
“good try but we 2 stronk”
“LOL get raped PL”
“GGGGGG ursa with DR again u noob”

I start to despair because at this point, Rosh is back up. The only thing that can pull this is out is a perfect teamfight executed by a team of average to terrible players against a fully farmed Ursa Warrior with Aegis and Rapier.

We stand at the top rax like it was Thermopylae. I bid my queen, my wife, MY LOVE farewell. Another hour long game lost, and another day to sulk as I question why it is I play this game.

“OK you fucks this is it either win this fight or you’ve wasted a hour of your life sucking on a man’s cock”

Teamfight: we lose Bloodseeker, they lose Beastmaster before he can get his ult off. An army of PL illusions fuck everything up and I have Ursa surrounded. Ults flash, the sound of my teeth grinding to powder as I lean forward in my fart-soaked chair. A dead Ursa, “triple kill”, an item on the ground: DIVINE RAPIER. We have this, we can do it. We fly  towards the enemy base like a cruise missile on a trajectory to blow up innocent Afghanis. Victory is at hand.

“LOLOLOL GG YOU FUCKING NOOBS”
“ROFLLLLLLL”
“WE HAD THIS SHIT ALL ALONG, GET GOOD YOU FUCKING MONKEYS”
“TY FOR THE DR”

There’s nothing like winning (or losing) a game of Dota to make you realize how shitty people are. I found myself participating in the razzing of the other team, particularly the poor Ursa who did everything he could to win the game. Yes, we won. Yes, it was one of the most exciting matches I’ve ever played. Yes, I carried hard (which rarely happens). Yes, I won us the game.

However, I also lost. I lost my sense of honor, my humility, and my compassion for five other humans that just had a degrading loss planted right in their face. I’m not 16 years old. I don’t need to be an asshat online to make up for having zits all over my face or not having a date for prom.

In the lobby after the game, as I leaned back and gloated on just how bad I raped those noobs, I realized all this. I felt bad about rubbing my opponents’ face in shit after a tough, close game. I wanted to rationalize my reprehensible behavior, that I’m above doing this.

Then I played a game of Warsong Gulch this morning before work and shit all over a bunch of faggoty Alliance players.

If you’re reading this, chances are that you’re a nerd. You are probably pretty smart about computers, Magic: The Gathering, or trolling dota games, but you also probably don’t know a fucking thing about cars. You more than likely have never held a screwdriver for any other reason than to remove those annoying fucking screws that hold the side cover on your computer and that hold those stupid fucking bezels that cover up the card slots or to put batteries in your fleshlight.

That’s ok, I understand. We’ll take this slow.

Here’s your car:

Your car has an engine, and it is lubricated by oil:

If you own a car made this century and take it to Jiffy Lube, your dealership,  or some other shitty place, you are getting raped. STOP GETTING YOUR OIL CHANGED EVERY 3,000 MILES LIKE A FUCKING DUMB ASS. If your dad told you to change your oil every 3,000 miles, he’s a dumb ass too. Same for your grandfather: dumb ass.

Did you know that Jiffy Lube is OWNED BY SHELL? I didn’t until I read this article. The myth of the 3k mile oil change has been perpetuated for years upon a populace that wishes to maintain its vehicles as well as they can, but the net result is millions of barrels of wasted oil, money being thrown at an industry that has been fucking the world over forever, and additional environmental degradation.

http://www.edmunds.com/car-care/stop-changing-your-oil.html?mktcat=maintenance-article&kw=stop+changing+your+oil&mktid=ob61762858&msite=w

Oil chemistry and engine technology have evolved tremendously in recent years, but you’d never know it from the quick-change behavior of American car owners. Driven by an outdated 3,000-mile oil change commandment, they are unnecessarily spending millions of dollars and spilling an ocean of contaminated waste oil.

Although the average car’s oil change interval is around 7,800 miles — and as high as 20,000 miles in some cars — this wasteful cycle continues largely because the automotive service industry, while fully aware of the technological advances, continues to preach the 3,000-mile gospel as a way to keep the service bays busy. As a result, even the most cautious owners are dumping their engine oil twice as often as their service manuals recommend.

After interviews with oil experts, mechanics and automakers, one thing is clear: The 3,000-mile oil change is a myth that should be laid to rest. Failing to heed the service interval in your owner’s manual wastes oil and money, while compounding the environmental impact of illicit waste-oil dumping.