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Heh, yeah. A friend loaned me his modern deck to play with at a PTQ side event this weekend. It was my first experience playing constructed, let alone modern, and was ridiculous amounts of fun. I want to play more so I can actually learn the matchups since most of my losses were due to not...

Generally speaking video game companies write their own APIs (if you can call it that) because they can specialize the calls for exactly what they need so that they don't waste performance. General APIs (OpenGL) are supported but will rarely be used by big companies with enough resources. Beyond...

PS4 preordered.

I wonder how much Gamestop's stock is going to go up tomorrow.

They've spent like 10 min max not talking about games...

Prices will come down, especially as the prices of the cards themselves devalue and the initial frenzy is over. I wouldn't be surprised to see a box sitting around $225-$240 in the next few months.

Of the three Modern Masters drafts I did, I went giants twice and thallid/suspend once. For whatever reason giants didn't work out at all but thalkid/suspend was fairly effective. That said in all three drafts it was rebels that were winning everything. Kind of sucks that unless I buy a box I...

Ended up going 1-2 in a Modern Master's draft where my one win was a bye. Had a good giant tribal deck but didn't draw well and got mana flooded for three of the four games I played. That said, I did lose one game in a most spectacular fashion. I was playing a guy with a storm deck and he...

Despite being ridiculously ahead last night I lost a game because three people on my team kept arguing constantly, costung us the game. Le sigh, back to Silver III for me. Though I will say my play the last week hasn't been too great due to being tired so I suppose I deserve it.

Yeah, a lot of people bashed the first game but the gameplay was solid and it had an absolutely fabulous world, atmosphere, and music. I am really looking forward to this one. I should also play the 3DS prequel sometime.

Sony's policy will likely be similar, albeit more relaxed.

I'm also pretty sure my point went over everyone's head. The Skyrim example was to show that massive amounts of RAM, like you have on the PC, can be put towards readily visible results. I'm also sure game devs will be a bit more creative, too.

Eh there are plenty of useful things that can be done with 8 GB of RAM. High resolution textures and objects being rendered with high resolution textures farther in the distance immediately comes to mind. The easiest way to see the benefits of a high amount of RAM is to mod Skyrim.

Depending on the cards, they're worth quite a lot.

Thank you for the help. After getting a 20 minute thrashing by my coworker who plays competitively I've decided to try doing a Maya Aggro deck instead since that's fairly close to the colours I like to play. That said I think I'll still try to make a rogue deck based around populate and what...

Yeah the pre-built deck has three Lingering Souls already. I also like your idea to add Abrubt Decay and Putrefy. I would then add a full set of Godless Shrines. My real problem is figuring out what to remove, so I can Voice, Advent, Putrefy, and Abrubt Decay.

I've been playing lots of draft/sealed and decided I want to dip my toes into standard. Given that I like the idea behind the populate mechanic, I bought the Strength of Selesnya event deck fully aware that the default configuration isn't the greatest. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to...

Strictly speaking from the architecture it would surprise me if the Xbox One is harder to program for given Microsoft's reputation with developer tools and their legacy in the X86 space. Then again they could have gone and implemented some silly software that you have to program around. Sort of...

Eh, Anandtech has a direct comparison of the PS4 and Xbox One and dedicated an entire page to comparing the memory subsystems (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6972/x...laystation-4/3). The conclusion was that the it was a wash between the two and that, even if the Xbox One's memory subsystem ends...

Well truth be told, the PS4 has 50% more shading power than the Xbox One. Everything else is pretty much equal* including the X86 architecture. Therefore the PS4 is more powerful. These things are pretty much PCs and when it comes to a PC you can look at its hardware and get a very good idea of...

I believe WotC has said they won't reprint fetchlands until shocklands rotate out. So we're looking at the block after Theros.

Well, that's a problem with the games themselves. It has nothing to do with Origin, and we're talking about Origin.

Some example games that have external registration from the platform you purchased them on: Arkham Asylum and any Ubisoft game for UPlay. Besides, those are complaints with the individual games themselves, not Origin.

Generally my rule of thumb is to not build defensive if I'm behind unless I am playing a tanky champion or a champion with high base damage. The reason is that in pretty much all other scenarios if I'm behind, defense is not going to help me catch up. If I'm against a smart opponent they'll...

Someone hasn't actually used Origin recently. Origin is a perfectly fine complement to Steam and functions quite well. Granted it doesn't have quite the same sales as Steam, but both Steam and Origin are currently getting their asses kicked in that department by Amazon anyway. Your complaint...

Late game strength is great but in solo queue, I find that most games are decided relatively early. I do agree you can make arguments against an early Lichbane but at the very least I would grab a Sheen, the extra damage makes your trades that much more potent in the laning phase for only 1200...

AP Kayle is also quite effective given you can gain AP more easily than AD. Furthermore an AP build has so much penetration that you don't need to worryabout the enemy team building magic resistance. Plus even if they do your don't really need to worry since most people don't build that much...

If the API is good, remote play for the Vita shouldn't be that hard to implement for a game. The big issues I see with it relate to readability of text and implementing decent controls but those aren't too bad to solve.

The teams will be more efficient by virtue of repeatedly using the same engine. You sortof see that now with Unreal. What is really needed is a revolutionary improvement in tools and who knows if/when that'll happen.

Oh yeah, an interesting article about drafting the current block:http://www.mtgsalvation.com/1393-les...gons-maze.html

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Yeah that's pretty shitty situation and I would also boycott the store and get my friends too as well. Beyond that Modern Masters is just in a really weird when it comes to pricing. Card Kingdom, the biggest game shop in Seattle, is selling for $250+. At the same time they didn't do preorders...

I should clarify what I meant when I said that the news about cloud computing was crap. I was referring to the part where people and the news were talking about using the cloud to do graphics calculations and the like. It is just not going to happen in the near future due to technical...

The problem with this thinking is that it assumes homes don't already have smart TVs and set top boxes that can stream when lots of homes do. Whereas back in the DVD era most homes had a VCR but not a DVD player. It's a completely different landscape. As for the whole Xbox cloud thing, it's...

For the amount of money and time spent investing in Magic cards you're better off spending your time learning the stock market and playing that.

Eh, the article makes everything out to be worse than it actually was. Plus some of the complaints are completely off base. For example:

If you are investing in magic cards you are doing it wrong.

If you can, practice. Team cohesion is a big deal and will win you matches against more solo queue oriented teams. My team in the AHGL learned that lesson the hard way early on.

Guides are generally a good starting point but aren't the end all be all. For example, lolking has a decent Kayle mid guide. However my general build is quite different from their top rated mid guide. Where the guide advises to rush Liandri's I prefer to rush a Lichbane after Haunting Guise...

By my estimation, backwards compatibility is one of those features that everyone says they want but not many people use.