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today at work I was reading NFL prediction articles from September and before and they are all hilariously awful. I know it's impossible to predict and I wouldn't have done better, but still. Like one guy said the Giants and Raiders will go 12-4, the Rams will be 2-14, and cleveland will make the playoffs

STLCards1991 posted...

Statistically speaking, 100% of GameFAQs users met their wives on GameFAQs.

I met mine in Pelican Town thank very much

So... Do you come here often?

A friend from my hometown in northern MN met his wife in final fantasy 11. She moved up here from Georgia and they're happily married

blackhrt posted...

but any videogame that can have two real life people find love and get married is pretty cool.

if you're asking me out, all you have to do is send a PM

Hey it's a better video than watching Master Chief shoot aliens in the sneak peek for halo 11. And Nintendo has always made really good video games so they can do whatever they want (hot take in this topic- don't @ me)

how do you make a fishing pole and a piano out of cardboard

I watched that whole video, and here's a disclaimer: I pay 0 attention to upcoming videogames/consoles. I still love video games and play them often, but if there's a game that seems interesting that's already out, I get it. I just personally don't really focus on the E3 type stuff.

I watched that video, and am I losing my fucking mind? what the hell is that? It's like the typical Nintendo over-intuitive demo videos we've been seeing since Wii, except on speedballs. This video makes me feel old. This video seems like it should be a Google April Fools joke, or something from The Onion.

My friend's (who I was sitting with) brother and wife are also at the game, but sitting in a different section. They left when the saints kicked that last field goal. I know that game was over 9999/10000 times, but still... You would have to feel pretty silly after doing that

Rockies posted...

I thought you literally meant play hockey, though I guess having write in ballots wouldn't make sense. Well, since John Scott happened, such a thing doesn't seem that crazy

That was also the year that Snoop Dogg MCed and played uncensored versions of his songs on live TV

So as we all predicted, we'll see Nick foles/case keenum vs Blake Bortles/ Tom Brady in the super bowl

I paid $205 for a nosebleed seat with my friends who were also at the "Blair Walsh missed the kick game." The familiar feeling of the Vikings are going to lose again set in, which is fine. It's not the end of the world. I once again contemplated what the heck I'm doing with my life, and why the heck do I invest so much time, money, and energy into this sad team. Having fun watching sports is a perfectly good thing to do, but this is just too much man. I was sitting there in the 4th quarter and I made a resolution to deactivate my twitter and facebook accounts for a few weeks and sort of be a hermit and read a few books. The Vikings ended up winning in the most epic thing I've ever seen in my life, but I still think it's a good sentiment to deactivate and become a hermit for a while

I had a few nights where I stayed up too late playing that game. "Just one more day...."

Except it was like 5 days

The titans are definitely not playing well enough to win the game but there have been a lot of very questionable calls that went in favor of the Patritos

here is a funny video about Tommy Wiseau in Star Wars

Nobody cares, but Grey Ducks update:
We were down 4-0 with 9 minutes left in the third period. One of our Dmen got a penalty. So we proceeded to score 2 shorthanded goals in 30 seconds. 4-2. In the last 3 minutes, we got another. 4-3. With 3.3 seconds left, we scored to tie it and send it to OT. we ended up tying.
Huge win from being down 4-0

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

wtf the Raptors beat the Cavs by 34 with Fred Van Vleet as their leading scorer

Maple Jordan destroyed the Cavs the other night as well

go flames go

weren't you making more than 80k like 5 years ago? unfortunate that you haven't been able to obtain a raise since then

"compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe" - STLCards1001

STLCards1991 posted...

Congrats on the big gains. I have one stock tip for you: buy low, sell high.

great point, Wolf of Sports Topic

ahh ok. looks like you're gonna have some nontaxable dividends in 2017, as a result of the merger

SkynyrdRocker posted...

My Roth IRA increased in value by 1150% today.

You must not have a lot invested yet. I'm not trying to shit talk because mine is tiny, but this stuff just doesn't happen overnight.

All I'm going to say is that if the Vikings lose to the Saints again, the self hatred of this fanbase is going to reach critical levels

I wish I could pull off Jimmy Butler hair

Great Monday talking points

Rockies posted...

Man, Nintendo must not like having to eat the cost of Joycon repairs. I called and said I wanted to get my Joycon repaired and then they started taking me through all the obvious troubleshooting steps. Yes, I've updated my Switch from the first system version in the last ten months, thanks for asking. Eventually I got impatient and said I know this is a known hardware issue, and we got moving along.

I suppose some of that is just typical customer service type stuff. I hate how they have to ask you the most obvious questions. Why is it like that, do people really call customer service immediately without making a single troubleshooting attempt on their own? Every customer service call I've ever made is like 10% actually working on the problem because of this model.

I called and went though those same steps for a hardware issue on my switch. And of course it started working perfectly while on the call while they were trying to get me to recreate the error. It worked for a day and now it's worse than ever so I'll have to call in again.

They probably go through all those steps with ever call because people are idiots and 90% of the issues can be solved by quick troubleshooting stuff like restarting or updating

Rockies posted...

I have more fun discussing video games and whatnot

surprising

Both have looked like hot garbage this year, from what I've seen

It's a good show.

I just bought tickets to the vikings divisional round playoff game because I hate myself

Agreed. There have been some really really bad ones, but plenty of great ones that capture the essence of the show.

I'm at season 3. Great show, but it's just one of those shows that takes some time to digest. It's not like Parks and Rec where you can binge 19 episodes in a row and it seems like no time passed

I'm more scared of the Saints than the Rams, but the Rams are a very good team. The vikes did beat the handily earlier this year, but it was 7-7 up until the 4th quarter and could have been a very different game.

I don't do predictions (just a policy of mine), but I bet none of you motherfuckers will pick the vikings next week (which is fair)

Completely agreed, but I've been trying to enter each season with the expectation that my fave teams won't win, and everything else is just icing on the cake. I love watching sports, but at the end of the day it's something I do for fun and I try not to let it affect the other parts of my life negatively

After 2009 I took a step back from Vikings fandom and re-evaluated myself. Watching sports is something I do for fun, so it should be fun regardless of the outcome. I think I've done a pretty good job of being that kind of fan since then. That being said, I'm fucking terrified of any playoff Vikings game. They are going lose.

Weird...still working for me

Lmao this is hilarious. Excedrin and farmersonly.com are the sponsors, so the commentators have been talking about how great excedrin is for curing Browns induced headaches, and they're now talking about how great farmersonly.com is

If I was a Browns fan that lives in Cleveland, I would definitely go. Might as well have a little fun with it

here's a link to the livestream of the Browns 0-16 perfect season parade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCgq4IvyYQg&feature=youtu.be

It starts in 5 minutes

^^^hipster who played stardew before it was cool

I'm seriously considering buying viking playoff tickets to the divisional round game, and they're cheaper than how much tickets were against the Bengals game in the regular season. I don't understand

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Well they're wrong. McCarthy is a terrible coach riding on the coattails of two of the best QBs in NFL history.

agreed, his QBs have hidden his flaws as a coach

And yeah everyone should play Stardew (even if chewy doesn't like it)

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Weird. I didn't know those people existed.

yeah there are plenty of them near where the Packers play

Rockies posted...

It takes such a long time to do anything (so far

you may be doing something wrong

Not so much at the later part of this year, but I know at least half a dozen packer fans who thought MM is better than Belichick. At a fantasy football draft, a coworker of mine went on a 20 minute rave about how great he is. I too interact with cheeseheads on a daily basis because I live in MN

I'm obviously not an NFL insider or anything like that, but it seems like they are just trying to make a splash by signing a big name to a huge deal like that

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Gruden is the most overrated coach of all time. He inherited a great situation in Tampa, won a Super Bowl with Dungy's team, then destroyed it and everyone acts like he's a god.

I'd argue that Mike McCarthy is more overrated than Gruden

A ten year contract.... There's no way that's going to end well

STLCards1991 posted...

It's funny how that works out. BSB were reasonably cool for boys to like here. I think. I hope. Anyway watching that video I was reminded that BSB had guys named Brian and Kevin which might have had something to do with why we liked them...

everybody...yeaaaahh

STLCards1991 posted...

"Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

I like that one

STLCards1991 posted...

"Larger Than Life

that one was kinda weird