Ah, so you must know the pain and suffering as well! My condolences... :P

Translated from Orcish: "WHERE IS WARCRAFT 4?"

Let me tell you, sometimes (read: often) listening to others (as a worker) in the IT industry is painful. Too many times have I listened to whole presentations filled with jargon but literally no substance! q.q

No lie, I've barely played it either... and I own it! Seriously though, it's been shelved for after I burn-out on Battlefield 4! :P

CoD4 and Halo definitely had their similarities as you mention, but it seems to me that the CoD4 multiplayer community was much more competitive than that of Halo. Halo really became competitive with Halo 3.

Yea, the original Halo is another important title, though I'm not sure Halo 2 is of the same caliber (in terms of importance and gameplay :P). Good call!

Thermal paste is intended for permanent adhesion whereas thermal compound is not; although it is "sticky" when cold, it may be easily removed unlike thermal paste.

Diversify stocks equally across a minimum of 5 sectors.

As a whole CoD4 didn't do much new, as you mention. However, its significance is the introduction of modern competitive FPS gameplay on consoles and end to the WWII fad.

No Arctic Silver 5? No bueno.

Thermal paste isn't used for mounting CPU heatsinks because it is an adhesive. Thermal compound on the other-hand...

Fun Fact: A week after the motherboard arrived, I sent an email asking when the processor would arrive. "It's mounted on the motherboard," came the reply. Never skip the important opening the box and looking at things step of computer assembly, kids.

4. Tap the power supply to ground yourself before touching components. I'm pretty sure this doesn't really do anything, but someone told me to do it 22 years ago, and I've been doing it ever since.

Gross. Totally should have gone with the PRO series if you're getting an 840.

OS X doesn't have TRIM support for non-OEM SSDs? What the fuck...

Considering the dry-spell space flight has been suffering, I gladly welcome the genre's overkill.

Titanfall is just really fun and popular, not game-changing (PUN!).

It's only conjecture; I have no supporting evidence.

When you say "business as usual", do you mean that literally (i.e. referring to actual business/financial operations) or as slang for the status quo? If the former, that severely limits the potential for disruption.

I get what you mean... but... damn... this is just so morbid... and NSFW. :P