Got a PS3, PS4, Wii U, vita, a 3ds and a new 3ds xl.

I play my vita, 3ds and wii u a bit, and once in a while I'll pull out the ps3 to play virtua fighter, but I hardly ever touch the PS4. If I can get a game on the PC I do, even when I know I shouldn't, like when it's a WB game.

Get Persona 3 and 4. Does the slim have backwards compatibility? If so, see if you can find Persona and Persona 2 for the playstation as well. JRPGs, but good ones.

Also get Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance.

I love fractal design's define r4 case more than I do most of my family. Great to work in, doesn't look like some garish eyesore, every air inlet has an easily removable dust filter, there's plenty of room for good cable routing, and the thermals and acoustics are fantastic.

Can't really speak to alternatives but I'm a fan of the G710+. Backlighting works, the brown switches feel nice, and build quality isn't bad at all.

I also have a zowie celeritas mx brown that is great as well, even if the space bar took a bit of getting used to. I also know a lot of people that swear by Ducky keyboards.

@Hexagon_777: Mac os x open gl drivers are atrocious. Not a surprise, obviously, since every piece of software apple writes is poor. Still a shame though.

I think you're underestimating how large uncompressed 7.1 audio files are.

Wonder if the other language packs can be safely swapped out for dummy files. I'm on all SSDs here, because **** a mechanical drive.

Ballmer is such a nutjob. Kinda gotta love him.

Under him the open source division at MS did some cool stuff though. I'm not really a fan of their license and I don't care much for that fact that it got OSI certified, but I guess it's better than nothing. Kinda.

ToGL sounds nice, but I guess we'll have to see how useful it turns out to be for non-source engine projects. And Cryengine getting native linux support is fantastic. Just need UE and frostbyte now I guess. And whatever ubi's stuff is running on.

Haven't played the retail game yet, but I've got what sounds like a fairly similar system (i7 4770k, 32gb ram, single gtx 780) and I didn't have any issues with stuttering or frame drops or dips during the open beta, during the training missions or during multiplayer matches, and I had everything pretty much cranked.

There are plenty of bugs in openGL just like there will be in any advanced piece of software. Unavoidable.

And opengl is only visual stuff, and only 3D. That's kind of important. It doesn't concern itself with audio, or 2d graphics, or inputs, or any of the other things directx does. Which means that instead of using a very well integrated toolset with a lot of very handy helper functions for all sorts of things a game might need you're either buying someone else's solution, or you're making your own. Which is not a trivial problem, far from it.

As for windows 8, it's pretty great. It's basically faster windows 7 with an uglier start menu. I don't use the start screen just like I never used the start menu in 7, that's what pinning, search and jumplists are for. Mousing around the menus is for suckers.