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Falcons - 10
Orcas - 26

Notable Players
Falcons QB Patrick Mahomes 16-27, 140 yards, 2 INTs
Falcons HB David Johnson 150 total yards, 1 TD
Orcas HB Knowshon Moreno 184 total yards, 2 TDs, 1 fumble
Orcas K Ka'imi Fairbairn 4-4 FGAs
Falcons MLB James Laurinaitis 11 tackles, 1 FF

Colts - 14
Jaguars - 28

Notable Players
Jags QB Reuben Lane 12-15, 159 yards, 2 TDs
Jags WR Terrelle Pryor 3 rec for 74 yards, 2 TDs, 1 PR TD
Colts DE Lyle Kearns 2 sacks
Jags OLB Dante Fowler 14 tackles, 1 sack, 1 INT
Jags DT Billy Walker 3 tackles, 1 sack, 1 FF
Jags DE Cordero Moore 2 tackles, 1 sack, 1 FF

AI Score

Pioneers - 17
Bengals - 15

20. Beat an action game
Mighty Goose

Mighty Goose (XB1)

Fun and silly run-and-gun game that is quite forgiving unless you are someone who tries to go for max stage rankings

They have spent three first rounders on OL in the past decade. While one was a blue chip prospect (Tunsil), the other two were not (James and Jackson), and there's also the issue of coaching that has clearly been a problem in the past.

As a Dolphins fan, that has been my stance for a long time on how Miami should draft

I'm glad we pretty much all had the same idea of posting the dumbest and silliest combos we could think of.

NFC Playoff Picture

Playoff Teams
1. St. Louis Rams 10-2 (NFC West leaders)
2. Atlanta Falcons 8-4 (NFC South leaders)
3. Detroit Lions 7-5 (NFC North leaders)
4. Dallas Cowboys 6-6 (NFC East leaders)
5. San Juan Orcas 8-4 (Wild Card)
6. San Francisco 49ers 7-5 (Wild Card)

In Playoff Contention
7. Chicago Bears 7-5
8. Washington 6-6
9. Carolina Panthers 6-6
10. Minnesota Vikings 6-6
11. Seattle Seahawks 5-7
12. Green Bay Packers 5-7
13. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5-7
14. New York Giants 5-7
15. Philadelphia Eagles 4-7-1
16. Toronto Wildcats 3-9

Rams clinch NFC West with a win

Wildcats might technically be eliminated, but they are theoretically still alive but would be eliminated with a loss, tie, or 49ers win, plus other results.

Eagles, Packers, and Giants can be eliminated with losses and certain win combinations.

Buccaneers and Seahawks should still be alive even with a loss due to potential tiebreakers

AFC Playoff Picture

Playoff Teams
1. Portland Express 9-3 (AFC West leaders)
2. Miami Dolphins 9-3 (AFC East leaders)
3. Baltimore Ravens 7-4-1 (AFC North leaders)
4. Jacksonville Jaguars 5-7 (AFC South leaders0
5. New England Patriots 8-4 (Wild Card)
6. Pittsburgh Steelers 7-5 (Wild Card)

In Playoff Contention
7. Buffalo Bills 6-6
8. Kansas City Chiefs 6-6
9. New York Jets 6-6
10. Oakland Raiders 5-7
11. Indianapolis Colts 5-7
12. Tennessee Titans 5-7
13. Cincinnati Bengals 5-7
14. Columbus Pioneers 4-8
15. Mexico City Browns 3-9

Eliminated from Playoff Contention
16. Denver Broncos 3-9

Express and Dolphins clinch playoff spot with a win

Browns are eliminated with a loss or Steelers win

Week 13 Players of the Week
Offense - Bengals HB Derrick Henry
Defense - Chiefs CB Sean Smith

Week 14 Game of the Week
Falcons at Orcas

Week 14 will be simmed on Thursday, April 21st

Packers - 31
Vikings - 16

Notable Players
Packers HB Austin Ekeler 143 total yards, 2 TDs
Vikings HB Devontae Booker 139 total yards
Packers DT Marlon Favorite 5 tackles, 1 sack, 1 FF
Packers DE Matthew Ioannidis 2 sacks
Vikings DT Ndamukong Suh 2 sacks

Ravens - 30
Eagles - 30

Notable Players
Ravens QB Kirby Freeman 22-35, 141 yards, 3 TDs
Ravens WR Michael Crabtree 4 rec for 28 yards, 2 TDs
Ravens MLB Sam Crooks 11 tackles, 1 sack, 1 FF
Eagles OLB Jason Worilds 11 tackles, 1 FF
Eagles SS Clayton Geathers 4 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 FF

Browns - 21
Cowboys - 24 OT

Notable Players
Browns QB Blake Bortles 23-31, 157 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT
Cowboys QB Cam Newton 17-33, 247 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT
Cowboys HB Le'Veon Bell 150 total yards, 1 TD
Browns OLB Kwon Alexander 11 tackles, 1 sack
Browns SS Jeremy Brewer 8 tackles, 1 INT for TD
Browns MLB David Harris 4 tackles, 2 sacks
Browns DE Johnny Stegall 2 tackles, 3 sacks
Cowboys OLB Haason Reddick 15 tackles, 1 sack
Cowboys DT Andrew Vance 3 tackles, 2 sacks
Cowboys DE Erik Thornton 3 tackles, 1 sack, 1 FF

Wildcats - 20
49ers - 23

Notable Players
Wildcats K Harrison Butker 2-4 FGAs
49ers OLB Byron Jackson 3 tackles, 2 sacks

Bills - 3
Raiders - 23

Notable Players
Raiders HB R.J. Jackson 33 carries for 143 yards
Raiders MLB Vontaze Burfict 4 tackles, 2 sacks

Jaguars - 23
Steelers - 28

Notable Players
Jags QB Tim Tebow 8-18, 124 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT
Steelers HB Christian McCaffrey 36 carries for 131 yards, 2 TDs, 1 fumble

Falcons - 17
Lions - 24

Notable Players
Falcons QB Patrick Mahomes 18-31, 146 yards, 2 INTs
Falcons HB David Johnson 20 carries for 81 yards, 2 TDs
Lions WR Derrick McPhearson 4 rec for 80 yards, 2 total TDs
Falcons MLB James Laurinaitis 14 tackles, 1 sack, 1 FF

Dolphins - 7
Titans - 10

Notable Players
Dolphins QB Sam Keller 14-26, 127 yards, 3 INTs
Titans OLB Aldon Smith 11 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 INT
Titans CB Prince Amukamara 3 tackles, 2 INTs

Jets - 3
Rams - 13

Notable Players
Jets QB Deshaun Watson 6-22, 47 yards, 2 INTs
Jets OLB Novorro Bowman 5 tackles, 1 sack
Rams OLB Leonard Floyd 6 tackles, 1 INT
Rams DT John Mixon 5 tackles, 2 sacks

Chiefs - 35
Patriots - 25

Notable Players
Pats QB Sam Bradford 16-27, 108 yards, 2 TDs, 2 INTs
Chiefs HB LeGarrette Blount 117 total yards, 2 TDs
Chiefs FB Peyton Hillis 2 TDs
Chiefs CB Sean Smith 1 FF, 2 INTs
Pats DE Cliff Avril 6 tackles, 2 sacks

Bears - 22
Colts - 17

Notable Players
Colts HB Jamaal Williams 159 total yards
Bears K Nick Folk 5-5 FGAs
Bears SS Derek Linde 9 tackles, 1 INT
Colts OLB Jarvis Jones 7 tackles, 1 sack
Colts DT DaQuan Jones 2 tackles, 1 sack, 1 FF
Colts DE Bjoern Werner 3 sacks, 1 FF

Giants - 35
Bengals - 38 OT

Notable Players
Bengals QB Andy Dalton 24-42, 359 yards, 2 TDs, 3 INTs
Giants HB Charles Sims 20 carries for 74 yards, 2 TDs
Bengals HB Derrick Henry 32 carries for 157 yards, 2 TDs
Bengals WR Josh Briscoe 7 rec for 157 yards, 1 TD
Ks combined to hit 1-4 FGAs
Giants MLB Eric Kendricks 16 tackles
Giants OLB Barkavious Mingo 8 tackles, 1 sack
Giants OLB Anthony Hitchens 6 tackles, 1 sack
Bengals DE DeForest Buckner 3 sacks

Buccaneers - 14
Panthers - 31

Notable Players
Panthers QB Lamar Jackson 21-27, 197 yards, 2 TDs
Panthers HB LeSean McCoy 22 carries for 87 yards, 2 TDs
Panthers WR Marvin Jones 5 rec for 108 yards, 1 TD
Panthers DT Sione Fua 2 tackles, 2 sacks

Seahawks - 10
Washington - 31

Notable Players
Washington QB Nick Mullens 10-21, 170 yards, 2 TDs
Washington HB Ryan Williams 15 carries for 60 yards, 2 TDs
Washington WR Selwyn Lymon 4 rec for 100 yards, 1 TD
Washington MLB Manti Te'o 10 tackles, 1 INT
Washington DT Christian Covington 5 tackles, 1 sack, 2 FFs
Washington DE Jadeveon Clowney 2 sacks, 1 FF

AI + my score

Express - 3
Orcas - 17

Pioneers - 6
Broncos - 13

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Elder Scrolls

Contrast (XB1)

I wasn't sure what to think going into the game knowing this was the first title by Compulsion Games, and I was disappointed with their second in We Happy Few. It caught me by surprise, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It bugged me for so long who voiced the two major male characters because they both seemed awfully familiar. I looked it up after beating it, and one voiced Adam Jensen in the Deus Ex games and the other voiced some prominent characters in a cartoon from my childhood in Arthur.

Only Daniel Day-Lewis, but he claims to be retired now. There are plenty of actors that I will check out their upcoming projects to see if I would be interested like Leonardo DiCaprio and Benecio Del Toro

Eight days until the drawing

16. Kokichi
15. Tenko
14. Tsumugi
13. Gonta
12. Rantaro
11. Maki
10. Angie
9. Kaito
8. Kirumi
7. Kaede
6. Miu
5. Korekiyo
4. Himiko
3. Shuichi
2. Ryoma
1. Keebo

In all, this was a better cast than the other two games. If every character was featured in our board's Do You Like This Character project, there might be five from this game that I would say yes to, which is roughly equivalent to what I would say about the first two games combined.

1. Keebo

From a pure character standpoint, Keebo is not my favorite in the game, but the way and frequency that he was utilized makes up the difference to give him my #1 spot. In a thought that I'm certain his persecution complex would interpret as a phobic remark, when I saw on the box art that there was going to be a robot character, I did not have high hopes for him.

Imagine my glee when almost immediately it turns out that he is unremarkable as a robot with the strength of a healthy senior citizen and innate abilities that commonplace objects, that you can find in the warehouse no doubt, are able to do. This was a common source of humor, and it had an excellent hit rate. The rest of the cast ragged on him a lot for other reasons and they were had a high hit rate. My favorite line in the game was in Angie's lab after her body was discovered and Kiyo said he planned to hold a seance. They needed five people and four volunteered. I want to say Himiko and Koki said a few lines basically saying that he can come but weren't too pleased with it and Keebo responded, "Why am I being forced to come and being treated like a burden?" That hilarious scene stuck with me all game.

Other than being a great direct or indirect source of humor, Keebo was very underrated as an asset in the game. With having arguably the most pleasant attitude, he was very proactive during investigations and trials and presented reasonable arguments and had valuable information to give. In a game where the vast majority of characters with the ability to consistently contribute to their cause were killed by the halfway point, Keebo's presence was vital to keeping things from being stale. I don't want to think about a scenario in which Shu was left with Gonta, Angie, Himiko, and Tsu.

2. Ryoma

When I first met Ryoma, all I could think about was his voice. I mean it's better that he have an ill-fitting deep voice than some annoying shrilly voice to make him seem like he's nine, but I still don't know how I feel about it. What I can say is that it's a damn shame that he was killed off so quickly. If you gave me a choice of having Ryoma last until the end or have it so Tenko never existed, I honestly think I would take the former, and Tenko is shit character with no redeeming qualities!

Ryoma was not buddies with anyone and made no attempt to do so, but he did take the situation seriously and made a concerted effort when the need arised. I forget what the trial mechanic is named where you had to do a one-on-one battle cutting through lines, but his in the first trial impressed me because he addressed a problem with a reasonable position and when presented with counter evidence, he was open-minded and accepted the new theory. He is the kind of character that I want to be in the game for a long time, not people like Maki, Gonta, and Tsu who just totally fade in the background and basically only participate in trials to pose a banal position/question just so the writers give them something to do.

Ryoma reminds me of how I felt about Mahiru from GD in that there's something there, like the potential of a hidden depth that the rest of the cast doesn't possess that unfortunately would never come to fruition because they had to be murdered.

Catch Me If You Can or Schindler's List

The Ravens have typically been a team that has fielded an elite defense, above-average run-oriented offense that features a top-flight HB, and good special teams. I know last year they had an uncharacteristically poor turnover differential but were great everywhere else.

This year, the Ravens have a Top 10 O and D (joining the Express and Dolphins) but an average turnover differential. Outside of Melhaff, the special teams seem to performing at a below-average level.

16. Kokichi
15. Tenko
14. Tsumugi
13. Gonta
12. Rantaro
11. Maki
10. Angie
9. Kaito
8. Kirumi
7. Kaede
6. Miu
5. Korekiyo
4. Himiko
3. Shuichi
2. ???
1. ???

3. Shuichi

Shu is quite the departure from the previous main protagonists because his skill had a practical use for the killing game that was made front and center. While characters like Angie, Koki, and Kaito "ruled" the pre-murder portions of chapters, it was the Shu show once a body dropped. I could do without his mundane struggle to believe he was worthy of his title, but his display during this critical segments of the game really made me appreciate that I was not having to watch/be in control of Makoto.

Shu as a character isn't particularly interesting, so he really gets here almost solely based on his relatively strong showings during investigations and trials.

4. Himiko

Like the other games, the characters are pretty one or two dimensional. They typically have a base personality that they demonstrate for the overwhelming majority of the time and shift to a second for dramatic or comic effect when the game desires. As is the case, I will usually know if I will like a character's personality from the get-go. Himiko, this lazy girl who insists she is capable of magic, was not someone at first impression that I thought would be my top-ranked female character at . Yet, I grew fond of this silly doofus.

Her dramatic form did nothing for me, but whenever she was adamant about her magical prowess, I kept envisioning her doing magic tricks and physically struggling with them to the point of being disheveled and out-of-breath during the big reveal, and I couldn't help but chuckle to myself.

5. Korekiyo

Eccentric, but it's subdued to a palatable level that makes him charming in a way. It also isn't some nutso/inane obsession that makes him eccentric but human culture. I remarked, or at least I think I did, way back that he initially reminded me of a character from another video game that I like in Caustic from Apex Legends. That turned out to be true in more ways than one. I don't recall him being of much assistance in the investigation portions except maybe his own murder, but he did shine in the trials.

It's shame that they did him dirty like they did randomly making him into a mentally ill serial killer and also have him commit the second murder that ultimately did him in because he didn't want his setup to go to waste. He deserved better than that crap, but it didn't knock him down much in the rankings.

I outlined why I thought the way they went about making Kaede an unreliable narrator was terrible storytelling.

Whether someone liked that outcome is up to them, but there's no debate that it was the result of lying to and manipulating the player at every turn for most of that chapter.

NFUN posted...

perhaps maybe possibly a turtle?

I didn't read the topic title I think and based it on the options in which everything else is probably a fish

Well, this one is no contest, and the voting results seem to agree. I didn't know Lapris was a fish and figured it was a marine reptile or mammal.

NFC East has only one more win than the AFC South, and they too have a 4-7 team just one game back in the division

6. Miu

In a way, it is stunning that Miu finished this high. She's basically how I would imagine a 12-year-old heterosexual boy would write in a fanfiction what he thinks a cool and sexy high school girl is. Her cringe level, especially when she gets turned on, can get very high and belongs in the upper tier of cringiest characters in the series, and that's saying something! With better writing, her juvenile quips could have been pulled off as absurdist humor, but it's just very hit-or-miss here.

Yet, I find her endearing in spite of all that's weighing her down. It helps that she shared something that I found funny about Mondo, and that's her little remarks her voice actor makes that doesn't match the text but gives a similar vibe. She even uses Mondo's "Piece of shit!" I think what ultimately had her finish 6th instead of the 9th-11th that I was originally thinking was what I said about her before.

This is a setup where characters are expected to kill for the right to escape. You don't need these contrived sob stories of not remembering, not having a choice, or whatever. The justification, in a manner of perspective, is in the game, Miu plotted a murder, including efforts to frame someone, all for the reason of wanting to leave. Sayaka was my #1 from THH purely for how she was utilized, and that included her having a similar goal as Miu. Because neither had their sob stories, both had to fail and die, but they still tried.

7. Kaede

I can't put her any higher than this. She was different from the other two protagonist, and I was welcoming a more assertive and proactive protagonist. If she remained in her original role, I feel confident that she would place in my Top 2. Unfortunately, her stay was brief as it came to an end in an awful bit of storytelling that I unfortunately have to use as a knock against.

I didn't go into much detail before, but having an unreliable protagonist is a difficult thing to do, but there are a few routes to go to make it easier and effective. It's more of a challenge to pull off in video games, especially in a game like Danganronpa. The way they failed here was just baffling. An integral part of the game is the being privy to the inner thoughts of the protagonist as the story unfolds and inspecting the environment. They chose to remove and/or replace thoughts that Kaede would have obviously had throughout the second half of the chapter even as I clicked on things critical to her pulling off a murder, such as the vents, warehouse box full of shot puts, and books in the library. To lie to the player and then turn around and use those lies in an attempt to make a clever shock felt insulting.

I could and maybe should penalize her more for that, but I don't know, it would still feel weird putting her below the likes of Kirumi and Angie.

8. Kirumi

I wish that her pre-chapter murder self wasn't so tied to her title, and she had one of the dumbest "twists" I guess you would say as a means to give her motive for murder, but, and you will see that I value this with several other characters, I liked her even-keeled demeanor during the investigative and trial portions and would actually contribute to the discussions instead of presenting nonsense not worth my time.

NFC Playoff Picture

Playoff Teams
1. St. Louis Rams 9-2 (NFC West leaders)
2. Atlanta Falcons 8-3 (NFC South leaders)
3. Detroit Lions 6-5 (NFC North leaders)
4. Dallas Cowboys 5-6 (NFC East leaders)
5. San Juan Orcas 7-4 (Wild Card)
6. San Francisco 49ers 6-5 (Wild Card)

In Playoff Contention
7. Chicago Bears 6-5
8. Minnesota Vikings 6-5
9. Seattle Seahawks 5-6
10. Carolina Panthers 5-6
11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5-6
12. Washington 5-6
13. New York Giants 5-6
14. Green Bay Packers 4-7
15. Philadelphia Eagles 4-7
16. Toronto Wildcats 3-8

There might be a playoff clinching scenario if the Rams win and a combination of losses including the Lions and 49ers

Wildcats could be eliminated with a loss and certain win combinations