The good news is that I got to watch a few more episodes of Bamboo Blade and I'm now up to episode 21! Rin Suzuki has just been introduced as a rival/friend of Tamaki and the Kanto tournament is coming up, so we get to see Tamaki lose, at last.
I'm not trying to bring her down or anything, but the one part of her character design is that she's kind of smug. The aura she gives off is meant to display her modesty and make the fans fall in love with her, but it actually gives off an air of arrogance in my opinion. It's refreshing to have an almost entirely female lineup, but the author is responsible for another series in which a female character 'stole the show'. Maybe some variation is needed.
Next on a topic focusing more on the real world (you know, the scary place with uber-high resolution graphics). The new AMD R9 series have been premiered at the GPU 14 event.
GPU14 was hosted in Hawaii meant as a play on words of the new GPU architecture that AMD is using, also known as Hawaii. The cards have boasted some pretty significant benchmark figures and are meant to be capable of taking the crown from nVidia's almighty GTX Titan. To be honest, if they can provide even close to the performance of a GTX Titan for the price they're saying, they will sell out in minutes anyway.
I only have two concerns really, one is whether they will fix the god-awful CrossFireX scaling that the 7xxx series suffers with and two is whether AMD will get distracted from the task at end with their new approach on 'gaming audio'.
In normal circumstances, the release of a new generation of cards would be a whole new ball game when it came to CrossFireX and SLI compatibility, but the majority of the cards that AMD is releasing (with exception to the new audio capable cards) are just remodelled 7xxx series cards. This pisses me off because it's just cryptic marketing, especially when they never managed to fix the issues with the previous generation.
Sure, AMD got the 7970 performance from rivalling a GTX 660ti to being able to compete with a GTX 770, but if you run more than one card (and a lot of hardcore gamers do), you're suffering due to lack of effort from the card developers.
If I consider buying an R9 series card, I'll wait until the aftermarket models are released, since buying from the first batch is asking for problems and AMD's stock coolers always run on the toasty side. Lastly for this post, the new king in the 'bane of my social life' category, Cookie Clicker...
I actually have my girlfriend to blame for this one, since I caught her playing it after teaching one of her students. The game has no meaning, no end goal and no actual game play. I'd actually say it holds a trophy of it's own for having less game play than most of these shockingly-bad Facebook games.
All you do, is click the big Cookie... I bet you couldn't have guessed that, right? Once you have enough money, you buy properties that automatically make cookies. Not just normal buildings like factories or farms, but time machines and antimatter converters. There are achievements and upgrades you can buy, but mostly it's a giant waste of time.
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| Cookie Clicker - In a few hours this will be you. It's inevitable, don't fight it. |
That said, most people enjoy wasting their time on the Internet these days, so why not give it a try?
Turns out I missed the entire 'Online' section of my Demon's Souls review so I'm in the process of writing it now.
PS: My Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD STILL ISN'T HERE! ARGH~!
Links:
AMD R9 Official Release
LinusTechTips Video - GPU14 Footage and R9 Hands On
Cookie Clicker
With regards to Cookie Clicker: Open at your own risk. Your partner will leave you, your children and pets will die of neglect, and all you'll care about will be clicking that big... useless cookie. Anyways, back to clicking my cookie!
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