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Devil
Mixed
Spirit

Jets
LOLB Elijah Lee (4th) - 4 / $10.7 mil / $1.72 mil
CB Derek Crosby (4th) - 5 / $20.4 mil / $2.15 mil

Lions
HB Alex Collins (1st) - 4 / $24.5 mil / $4.72 mil
CB Kendall Fuller (1st) - 4 / $22.1 mil / $2.80 mil
C Scott Braxton (4th) - 3 / $7.82 mil / $1.38 mil

Orcas
FS Andrew Adams (1st + 3rd) - 3 / $15.3 mil / $3.18 mil
RG Wyatt Teller (1st) - 3 / $13.4 mil / $2.64 mil
DT Dana Dorsey (4th) - 5 / $23.9 mil / $4.70 mil
CB Jalen Mills (3rd) - 5 / $20.4 mil / $2.15 mil

Packers
TE Seth DeValve (2nd) - 4 / $13.4 mil / $2.04 mil

Panthers
LE Travis Alexander (1st) - 4 / $15.8 mil / $2.32 mil
MLB Pete Harris (4th) - 3 / $11.0 mil / $1.02 mil

Patriots
WR Kelvin Benjamin (2nd) - 3 / $19.7 mil / $3.30 mil
RG Tom Gonzalez (1st) - 4 / $11.6 mil / $2.20 mil

Pioneers
Rigoberto Sanchez (1st) - 2 / $4.14 mil / $1.06 mil
LG Clay Schneidmiller (1st) - 3 / $21.7 mil / $4.38 mil
SS Orlando Montgomery (1st) - 2 / $8.10 mil / $920k
FS Tedric Thompson (2nd) - 3 / $11.2 mil / $2.01 mil
HB Jalen Richard (2nd) - 4 / $16.5 mil / $3.00 mil
C Scott Quessenberry (4th) - 3 / $9.60 mil / $1.77 mil
LT Isaiah Robinson (4th) - 5 / $12.8 mil / $1.80 mil

Raiders
C Billy Price (1st) - 2 / $8.71 mil / $1.88 mil
MLB Stan Carswell (4th) - 3 / $18.4 mil / $2.94 mil
RT Julie'n Davenport (2nd) - 3 / $12.7 mil / $2.49 mil
RT Lamar Thomas (2nd) - 4 / $12.6 mil / $2.04 mil
RT Eric Blades (3rd) - 4 / $12.6 mil / $2.04 mil

Rams
C Mason Cole (1st) - 3 / $11.6 mil / $2.37 mil
LT Justin Barry (4th) - 5 / $14.0 mil / $2.10 mil

Ravens
MLB Denzel Perryman (1st) - 3 / $16.5 mil / $2.31 mil
HB Corey Grant (4th) - 4 / $16.5 mil / $3.00 mil
WR J.J. Nelson (1st) - 3 / $17.9 mil / $3.00 mil

Seahawks
HB Jordan Howard (2nd) - 4 / $21.8 mil / $4.12 mil
QB Ted Burns (4th) - 5 / $22.5 mil / $3.75 mil
DT Rodney Gunter (3rd) - 5 / $19.4 mil / $3.60 mil

Steelers
FS Briean Boddy-Calhoun (1st) - 3 / $13.3 mil / $2.58 mil
CB William Jackson III (1st) - 4 / $28.8 mil / $5.12 mil
CB Bill O'Neal (1st) - 4 / $28.8 mil / $5.12 mil
QB Charlie Schroeder (3rd) - 5 / $24.4 mil / $4.05 mil

Titans
FB Alexander Armah (2nd) - 2 / $9.83 mil / $2.24 mil
TE Nick Boyle (3rd) - 3 / $11.7 mil / $1.95 mil
CB Artie Burns (2nd) - 5 / $21.9 mil / $2.30 mil
FS Lonnie Lofton (4th) - 4 / $11.0 mil / $1.80 mil

Vikings
TE Tyler Higbee (1st) - 3 / $16.6 mil / $3.24 mil
HB Devontae Booker (3rd) - 4 / $16.5 mil / $3.00 mil
LE Maurice Cobb (4th) - 5 / $12.9 mil / $1.65 mil

Washington
QB Nick Mullens (1st) - 4 / $30.9 mil / $6.72 mil
RG Jay Lewis (1st) - 3 / $17.5 mil / $3.51 mil
DT Mike Thomas (3rd) - 4 / $22.7 mil / $4.44 mil

Wildcats
K Harrison Butker (1st) - 2 / $4.91 mil / $660k
RT Andrew Wylie (2nd) - 4 / $13.6 mil / $2.24 mil

Bears
DT Eddie Goldman (1st + 3rd) - 4 / $32.4 mil / $6.12 mil
WR Devin Smith (3rd) - 3 / $14.1 mil / $2.31 mil
CB Vernon Hargreaves (3rd) - 5 / $21.9 mil / $2.30 mil

Bengals
LG Dan Feeney (1st) - 3 / $21.7 mil / $4.38 mil
RG Russell Goolsby (1st) - 3 / $13.4 mil / $2.64 mil

Broncos
QB DeShone Kizer (2nd) - 5 / $24.4 mil / $4.05 mil
WR Eli Rogers (3rd) - 3 / $13.1 mil / $2.10 mil
RG Drew Cash (4th) - 4 / $10.1 mil / $1.84 mil
LE Will Clark (3rd) - 5 / $14.1 mil / $1.75 mil
CB Martin Shelton (4th) - 5 / $14.4 mil / $1.70 mil

Browns
MLB Damien Wilson (1st) - 3 / $20.3 mil / $3.57 mil

Chiefs
LG Greg Van Roten (1st) - 3 / $15.5 mil / $3.06 mil
WR Justin Hardy (3rd) - 3 / $15.1 mil / $2.49 mil
HB Chris Taylor (4th) - 5 / $12.1 mil / $2.00 mil

Colts
TE Evan Engram (2nd) - 3 / $12.5 mil / $2.19 mil
ROLB Darnell Forrest (4th) - 3 / $13.9 mil / $2.58 mil
CB Mackensie Alexander (1st) - 5 / $24.9 mil / $2.55 mil

Cowboys
LG Danny Isidora (1st + 3rd) - 3 / $30.4 mil / $6.27 mil
DT Andrew Vance (4th) - 5 / $22.4 mil / $4.35 mil
ROLB George Gibson (3rd) - 4 / $9.42 mil / $1.44 mil

Dolphins
C Frank Ragnow (1st + 3rd) - 2 / $12.9 mil / $3.34 mil
DT Jordan Phillips (1st + 3rd) - 4 / $47.5 mil / $9.92 mil
RG Forrest Lamp (1st) - 3 / $17.5 mil / $3.51 mil
LE Kareem Martin (1st) - 4 / $23.2 mil / $4.48 mil
CB Lennox Brooks (3rd) - 5 / $18.9 mil / $2.05 mil
LT Darrius Brown (3rd) - 5 / $14.6 mil / $2.25 mil

Eagles
ROLB Nate Orchard (1st) - 4 / $9.86 mil / $1.56 mil

Express
CB Daryl Worley (1st + 3rd) - 4 / $42.3 mil / $9.76 mil
HB Peyton Barber (3rd) - 5 / $14.2 mil / $2.40 mil

Falcons
LE Terrence Fede (1st) - 4 / $20.7 mil / $3.80 mil
HB Kenny Hamilton (5th) - 4 / $16.5 mil / $3.00 mil
MLB Dexter Holmberg (1st) - 3 / $12.7 mil / $1.05 mil

49ers
FB C.J. Ham (2nd) - 2 / $7.59 mil / $1.68 mil
QB Christian Hackenberg (4th) - 5 / $20.5 mil / $3.40 mil
FS Deuce Daniels (3rd) - 4 / $11.0 mil / $1.80 mil

Giants
SS Will Parks (1st) - 2 / $8.54 mil / $920k

Jaguars
LE Mario Edwards Jr. (1st) - 4 / $20.7 mil / $3.80 mil
CB Eli Apple (1st) - 4 / $26.6 mil / $4.36 mil
HB Ty Montgomery (1st) - 4 / $19.1 mil / $3.56 mil
WR DeRon Nelson (4th) - 3 / $12.2 mil / $1.95 mil

RFA Phase 2

The following posts will contain a list of all RFAs, sorted by team, that were offered tenders by their team during the first phase. Each player will have in parenthesis the draft pick compensation required to sign (not simply offer but actually sign) them as well as the default deal that they are looking for to the side.

In order to even submit an offer to a player, you must have the draft picks on hand. Post #3 has the NFL Draft order, which includes any draft pick ownership changes based on previous trades. You should keep in mind that if you own multiple picks in a round, signing an RFA will have you lose the worst of how ever many picks you have. For example, let's say the Wildcats try to sign 49ers FB C.J. Ham . They own the 10th and 27th picks in the 2nd round. Should Ham accept their offer and the 49ers elect not to match their offer in the third phase, the Wildcats will end up giving the 49ers the 27th pick in the 2nd round (59th overall).

Going back to the deals in question, these deals are for the other 31 teams in the league. The team who first offered the tender is stuck with the 1 year deal unless a team submits an offer during this phase. You can also offer them a long term deal later on in the offseason as well as any time during the pre, regular, and postseason, but what's important right now is that you understand that you can do nothing about your own RFAs at this moment.

If you do wish to submit an offer to an RFA from another team, the deal mentioned is not the exact deal that you have to offer them. You are free to mess with the years, total money, and/or guaranteed money. As a word of caution though, unless you are trying some bizarre psychological attack to where you offer a deal that would devastate a team financially but would be practically forced to accept, you will want to submit an offer that would ultimately net you the player you seek. Not only that, but you are in essence competing with 30 other teams for the right to simply sign an RFA. If you skimp out on any combination of years, total money, and guaranteed money, you are decreasing, sometimes substantially, the odds that you will get the player.

If you do submit a custom offer, use the base deal as a benchmark. Using Bears CB Vernon Hargreaves, he is asking for a 5 / $21.9 mil / $2.30 mil contract. Dividing the latter two figures by the years, you find out that he is asking for an average cap hit of $4.38 mil (21.9 / 5) and annual bonus of $460k mil (2.3 / 5).

I hope that everyone understands the slash line that I explained earlier in the topic, but if not, do not hesitate to ask any questions. You can direct them to me via PM, through the topic, or Discord.

Do not feel compelled to be active in this phase if you don't want to. While most users do not, several do as well as the AI, so it isn't as if nothing happens.

The deadline to submit offers for the second phase of RFA will be Saturday, August 6th at 1 PM ET

Moe Szyslak

Minesweeper

Paperball Deluxe (Switch)

I love me some ball-rolling games, but this is in the running for most challenging that I've played.

KCF has beaten Paperball

So unless the trigger to skip a level is more than like 20 fallouts, the button prompt for skipping on the Switch version was incorrect. I tried other button possibilities and no dice. Needless to say, a few levels on Expert and Champion destroyed me.

I didn't write down the medal count for those two, but after getting a medal in every stage in Novice and Intermediate, I had around 10 where I failed to in Expert and Champion. I think that I got more bronze than any other medal. It was close between that and silver. I believe that I had 434 fallouts between the two (338 on Expert and 96 on Champion, give or take some).

I'm a big fan of Marble Madness, especially the GB version, but there were pretty much no quality inspirations until the Monkey Ball games from the early 00s and then nothing until Marble Madness Ultra for the 360 and then the explosion of indies in the late 00s to the present. Paperball might be the most fairly challenging of them all. It isn't my favorite, but it is a very good entry into the stage-based ball rolling genre.

I've already gone through the Deep Sea expansion, and that is great. Cherry Sky is the other medium-difficulty pack, and boy that one is kicking my ass. I will try Secret Spy and Sunflower Fields later, but I'm not expecting to do well there. I've dabbled in Medal Mode but intend to try out the other modes as well.

Dark
Heart
Ambiance

One person put forth Assassin's Creed. The others were refuting its inclusion or just talking about the game irrelevent to the core of the topic.

III > II > CoO? > I > GoS?

I have played all of these multiple times, but I get the specifics of Olympus and Sparta mixed up to where I have difficulty pinning them down. Regardless, every game here is great.

R.I.P. my VGMC

Me
Command
Battle

Jakyl25 posted...

Is Pong readily available?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/400020/Atari_Vault/

Pleasantly surprised to see so many people have played Rivals of Aether.

4 > 2 > ODST > 3 > 1 > Reach

Another
CMYK
Heart

Assassin's Creed is one of numerous titles from the Xbox/360 era that are backwards compatible (as well as still available to purchase) with XB1/Series S/X

RFA Rules

1. I will privately contact every user and inform them of their RFAs and the tender levels. If you dont have any RFAs, then you won't be notified.

2. Users will have three days to inform me which players they wish to sign and at what tender level.

3. I will publicly reveal all RFAs from user and A.I. teams that can be signed by other teams (AKA were offered a tender) plus their draft pick compensation and the base kind of deal they are looking for.

4. I will give users seven days to decide any action, if any, they wish to take. If they do wish to take further action, they will PM me.

Now by "any action you wish to take," I mean that everyone has an opportunity to attempt to sign RFAs from other teams. You might see some sticker shock but keep in mind that some positions are more expensive (WRs, DTs, QBs) than others (OLBs, Cs, TEs) relative to their overall rating. An 80 WR will usually be more expensive than a 90 C, and that's just how things are

5. If a team attempts to sign another teams RFA, then the user who owns the RFAs rights will have three days to decide whether or not to match the offer.

The deadline for the first phase (encompassing rule #s 1 + 2) will be Saturday, July 30th at noon ET. As always, do not hesitate to ask me any questions.

Restricted Free Agency

This minor but oddly detailed offseason event is for a small subset of players who just completed their untampered rookie contract that was exactly three years in length. These players are not eligible to be originally offered multi-year contracts by the team that holds their rights but instead one-year contracts of fixed figures based on the tender level that you offer them.

Our Tender Levels for this season
No Tender = no potential draft pick compensation = $0
Low Tender = potential original round draft pick compensation = $1.21 mil
Mid Tender = potential 1st round draft pick compensation = $2.64 mil
High Tender = potential 1st + 3rd round draft pick compensation = $3.51 mil

Now, the mentioning of draft pick compensation there is only applicable if another team attempts to sign your player. It has no bearing on this first phase of RFA. It wouldn't make much sense if you had to give up draft picks to sign your own player now would it? Newcomers and people who don't have a good memory are certainly free to ask me what round a player was drafted in if that affects their tender level.

That being said, you might want to keep in mind about that draft pick compensation when you determine what tender to offer your player. If you think highly of your player, you might want to offer the highest tender to deter other teams from attempting to sign them. If you don't consider a player to be a part of your future plans, you might want to offer the low tender so that they barely count against your cap space and you could end up even getting draft pick compensation if someone else wants him.

A word of advice from me: The full monetary amount attached to the tenders is NOT GUARANTEED and in many cases is less than what they would make on the open market, so there is essentially 0 risk to offering all of your players a tender unless you personally hate them with a passion.

You can also engage trade talks with other teams so that you can prearrange a trade that if X player is not signed by another team, you will trade them to Y team for Z compensation that might be lower than what Y team would have had to give up to sign them during RFA. In this scenario, you might want to offer the highest tender level to deter the maximum amount of teams from disrupting the trade.

World
World
Map

Into the Breach is on sale for $10.04 USD for Steam and Switch
https://store.steampowered.com/app/590380/Into_the_Breach/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/into-the-breach-switch/

And your August Games of the Month are...

Into the Breach (PC/Switch/iOS/Android)
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PC/XB1/PS4/Switch/PS3/Vita/Wii/PS1)
Westerado: Double Barreled (PC/XB1)

Congrats to Ark, Crispy, and Sean for having their games selected!

And then GameFAQs went down, and then my internet soon followed suit lol.

I will do the usual official postings later, but for now I will simply list what was drawn:

Into the Breach
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
Westerado: Double Barreled

NOW noms/changes/supports are closed. My home internet went down just after my first post, and I didn't want to do this on mobile.

I will draw soon.

Kalimari Desert is one of about five courses that I like a lot from this game.

That probably spells doom for Choco Mountain, Toad's Turnpike, Bowsers Castle, and Yoshis Valley

Last call for noms, changes, and supports

Bell
Sweet
Mountain

Link's Awakening

Hall of Fame Results

With five voters, three voters were needed for enshrinment.

HB Markus Manson - 0 votes
WR Dwayne Jarrett - 0 votes
G Aaron Merz - 0 votes

C Chris White - 1 vote
G Chris Pino - 1 vote
CB Zackary Bowman - 1 vote

FB Peyton Hillis - 2 votes
OT Mike Jones - 2 votes
DT Rodrique Wright - 2 votes

OLB Zach Brown - 4 votes

HB R.J. Jackson - 5 votes
TE Dane Guthrie - 5 votes
OT Shane Olivea - 5 votes
DE Loren Howard - 5 votes
DT Claude Wroten - 5 votes

Congrats to our sixth Hall of Fame class!

Monthly Progress
Paper - Sean
DOOM - Fake
Tunic - Sean
Maneater - KCF, Fake

Nominations
Ark - Sifu, Into the Breach
Cody - Detroit Human
Crispy - Klonoa Door, Yakuza 2
Fake - King's Quest '15, Sir Lovelot, Cthulu Saves World
KCF - Manifold Garden, Mummy Demastered

Supports

Drawing tomorrow, except for those on west coast

Desert
Desire
Saga

3 > 1 > 2 I think.

I can easily switch 3 and 1, but 2 is definitely staying in third.

You have never played a classic Spyro or Ratchet & Clank game before?

New
Tower
Purple

Heretic
Argon
Hollows

andylt posted...

Note I was also considering putting art of rally on here largely because of your entry into VGMC (and its aesthetic), but I watched a review and apparently the gameplay isn't as accessible as it would seem to someone who isn't an expert at driving games lol.

Yeah, racing is my favorite genre, but I'm self-aware enough to be able to determine the barrier to entry of games in the genre. There are a ton of customization options for driving mechanics, but it will likely be daunting with a lot of trial and error with tinkering until you get something that suits you. It took me several tweaks to get something that worked very well for me even.

There's also two ways to play. You can do the actual racing stuff across seasons/time periods, or you can do an open-world collectible hunt across half a dozen or so locales.

It's not an amazing game by any standards, but it is a quality title. Given your admittance of your skill at racing games, this would probably be a frustrating experience for you from the start.

You have to understand that this is B8 where they have a bias toward Japanese games and RPGs. Eiyuden Chronicle Rising is the only one that fits the bill. The game's quality is ultimately irrelevant, it was always going to get the most votes.

You can ultimately ignore all votes for Rising, Kraken, and Artful (possibly Weird too) since they aren't what you are looking for.

While it isn't my favorite of what's remaining, Skul is a good game and is gameplay-centric.

Into
World
Forever

Radical Rabbit Stew (PC)

Some annoying obstacles at various points in the game but otherwise a very fun arcade/puzzle game.

Golf Club: Wasteland (PC)

It looks great and the physics are good and easy to get accustomed to, but the trial and error aspects of the golfing along with a minimumally helpful ball landing indicator and long, unskippable, repetitive animations hold this back.

$0 on Mobile and PlayStation
$25-ish on Switch
Over $100 each on PC and Xbox

Without knowing the exact amount, I voted for PC

Ristar, and Flicky might be second

Simpsons
Yoshi

Halo
No
War

I finally got back to Paperball. I've cleared 10 stages on Expert (aka 20% of them), and I have nearly as many fallouts as I did in Novice and Intermediate combined. I wonder how many hundreds of fallouts I will end up with this batch, and if I will have a stage where I fail to medal.

I will bump this

Monthly Progress
Paper -
DOOM - Fake
Tunic -
Maneater - KCF

Nominations
Ark - Sifu, Into the Breach
Crispy - Klonoa Door, Yakuza 2
Fake - King's Quest '15, Sir Lovelot
KCF - Manifold Garden, Mummy Demastered

Supports

Drawing will be on Monday