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Aventurine in 22 on Star Rail today

Beetle fighting remains my favorite bit of Minigame Impact, wish there was more with it.

Got Navia and a Tighnari dupe on the same 10. Hoping that Tighnari was the second draw between them so that I'm on guarantee.

Help I died from cute, absolutely need to pull her

Of fucking course it's the Dodgers

Metroid: Other M

My brain has invented so many entire Metroidvanias in my dreams.

KanWan posted...

Crocodile Rock tbh

Was between that and GYBR for me, went with the latter.

Everyone knows the quality of Mario games is predicated upon their difficulty

/s

But he can't jump. What else could he possibly be besides a tadpole?!

In the interest of shilling for the upcoming Granblue fighter, have a cute sheep girl.

https://vxtwitter.com/CanYouPetTheDog/status/1722789996086571331?s=20

chaos_knight posted...

Which game in particular? Now really curious. Also guess I chose right, haha.

Blazblue

ai123 posted...

One of the forms this takes is overthinking every detail and part of the process.

Big fucking mood right there

Orie from Under Night

Leanaunfurled posted...

Navia animations just leaked and what an absolute QUEEN.

If the Archon quests hadn't already completely sold me on her, those animations definitely would have. She's straight up "would spend actual money for" tier now.

Won first 50/50 after 30 draws (was 50 draws into pity), got Qiqi'd after 70 more, and 60 after that got me C1 Furina.

In total, came out with C1 Furina, C6 Collei and Beidou, C3 Charlotte, another qiqi, and enough star glitter to refund 20 wishes.

This is honestly way better than playing as some ninja

I'll take $100 and a giant bottle of nothing.

Yes, but for Christmas or something.

Star Fox Zero

Laugh in Arizonan

Look, I love my long hair

But $2m is $2m

For sure Zero

Under night

I definitely did not have new Beatles song on my 2023 bingo card

It's lovely though

Punching the same raid over and over again in Granblue in the hopes of a 1/1000 drop.

Penoblade

Congrats from a D-backs fan

Well, that's that. Congrats on the title, Rangers, you kicked the shit out of us here.

D-backs, go lock up Gallen and Moreno, and get some actual starting pitching. Probably replace Walker and Longoria as well.

Yeah, that's definitely the game and series right there. Alas.

orz

Or not

Seager three run shot incoming

If there ever was a time for Walker to do something it's now.

Well fuck

TyVulpine posted...

And there it goes.

Still got the no hitter going at least.

Hats off to Eovaldi for escaping four straight innings of a runner in scoring position, but hoping that ends soon.

Sorozone posted...

Gotta let Moreno hit there, not settle for a bunt.

Especially with how bad Walker's been.

This is frustrating as fuck.

Delirious_Beard posted...

the only way to remove cheap teams from existing is total overhaul to player compensation. why has player development become the most important thing for every well-run organization? because players make no fucking money early on in their career, so churning out cheap young stars and contributors at an enormous surplus is the key to sustaining winning on a budget.

Aaron Judge as a rookie was an MVP runner-up and his salary that season was league minimum. exploiting this is the job of every top executive in these front offices, it's why the free agent market has dried up in recent years except for true superstars, who are always worth paying (unless you're the Red Sox). paying market value for merely good and aging players is just not worth it for most teams, and any system where paying actual fair value to workers is discouraged is a broken one

the closest thing to a compromise that teams are actually doing is these early extensions like the aforementioned Corbin Carroll one, but even these are still extremely team-friendly like 80% of the time, and in some cases like the Ozzie Albies or Ronald Acuna deals they are outright robbery

See, I pretty much agree with most of this. I'm not against players getting paid, especially from the outset. I would not be against something forcing teams to pay the players more; raised league min or salary floor or something, as well as increased focused on player retention (fuck do I wish the D-backs were better about that one).

Maybe I'm just jaded, though, because the overwhelming feeling I get after 25 years of watching this team is just that the playing field is too unlevel when it comes to free agency, to the point that as soon as any of our stars are approaching the end of their contract, I assume they're just going to be gone because we (and poorer teams in general) can't compete. Just in recent years, losing JD Martinez to the Red Sox and AJ Pollock to the Dodgers just really drove that home, as well as trading away Goldschmidt.

But even with that, I don't oppose players getting paid in free agency, or want a cap of any sort to that. I just simply see how teams like the Rays run things as the way for poorer teams to actually be able to compete.

So, tl;dr, I don't agree that lower payroll teams that do well through the farm system and trades and whatnot is inherently bad for baseball like you and Zithers have been saying, but I do agree that players deserve to be paid more than they are, and wish we would. I'm going to be pissed if we let Gallen walk after this season, but I'm largely expecting it to happen.

Alright, do or die time, boys. Hope Gallen's got his shit together now.

And sorry for getting snappish last night, got sick of hearing about how the D-backs shouldn't have been allowed in here.

Well, we tried

Too little too late

Probably

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Could it finally be the Rangers' turn?

Looking like it.