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That would be huge for the Nuggets if he was as good as LeBron.

He's a real character. People here talked about him a lot

Ideally she wouldn't have been president either and we'd still be deporting an amazing amount of people and committing a bevy of war crimes. But it wouldn't be as bad!

Did I tell you guys that I missed the softball playoffs? They were on father's day and I wasn't convinced we were going to have enough people to field a team anyway so I was kind of bothering the group text to make sure it was worth my time to abandon the festivities and go home. Eventually I was convinced to head out to the field so I got my mom to drop me off at my apartment. My car is behind the building in a private lot and there's only one way out of the street it's on and there was a damn fire truck blocking the way. Traffic cones and civil servants everywhere too. Me and a couple strangers I ended up talking to asked around and it turned out they had trapped all of our cars in there because there had been a gas fire under the street that sent a manhole cover flying. It wasn't safe to walk on the street let alone drive so I texted the group that someone had to pick me up or I couldn't come. The only reply was a guy telling me to uber instead. I didn't reply to that because that's ridiculous, $25 to see out our unwinning season in the 101 degree heat index. That was the last text on that thread

The Cards are still only 4 games back which shows how bad the Brewers have been playing. They've been atrocious lately

That Royals squad feels like it's probably gonna be one of those bullpens that at the end of the year they tell us was the worst in MLB history. Plus they just traded Herrera

My brain going through that: "oh no! That'll score one. Is that really gonna score two? Of course it's gonna score two dummy."

This is honestly hilarious, Landon Donovan is such a twerp

https://deadspin.com/landon-donovan-wins-biggest-asshole-award-in-dumb-socce-1826922624

The whole thing is completely stupid but it's OK because we get another reason to think Donovan is an idiot. His big goal back in 2010 or whatever sure was cool though

Yeah but I don't see it as a bad thing. A lot of the time I'll just feel like I get the picture with a game and be satisfied with that. Mario and Rabbids is a recent example of that. I'm probably 60-70% finished with it but don't really have any interest in finishing it. Really good game, I just don't need to see the story through and I've already spent what feels like enough time enjoying it.

Also the guy who talks about hentai and watches awful youtube all the time got demoted and I got his job and now he's super mean to me except for when I bring up Zelda or whatever and then it's like nothing happened

The cretin who I wish would die left some stuff for me to do last week and I pretended I didn't see it out of both spite and a hope that it would encourage him to do his own job but instead he tattled on me today. He's like 60

Gonna spend the rest of this work day figuring out other references to horse racing in video games.

Hey, are they called the Belmonts because of the Belmont Stakes and vampire hunters use stakes?

Waluigi is a pros pro

It's hard to ask for another FE character even as a thought experiment but in the Brawl era I badly wanted Ike's nemesis The Black Knight to get in. So for young me's sake I'll say him. Since Phoenix Wright has been taken I'll say his nemesis Professor Layton. And lastly the FF character thing inspired me to think about Nintendo RPG's so I'll say Frog from Chrono Trigger. Maybe Magus instead, Frog is just cool but pretty redundant in sword world

Dexter Fowler is hitting .170 still and Wong is below .200 still I'm sure but Ozuna has thankfully turned it on at long last though it hasn't really helped wins wise

I may have mentioned this before, but as a kid I generally didn't notice that a game was bad unless it was just hilariously weird (Alex Kidd) until after I was done with it or a month after I had given up on a bullshit level or whatever. I would always go back if a game was hard but good, but when I failed like three times on a game and gave up I would later realize it was because I didn't actually want to keep playing. This happened a lot with bad games with obscure directions, like the Shrek game on Xbox, I enver knew where to go

MNTwins1991 posted...

plus when you did actually get a new game, reading the manual on the way home. Hurry the fuck up and finish your shopping mom

You gotta enjoy that new game smell too.

It's sad enough that today's kid gamers will never truly know the joy of couch co-op and gaming sleepovers but it's also sad that with the switch to digital they'll never have the life experience of their friends breaking their games somehow and being flabbergasted by how they could have for example sat on the game they borrowed

He really is having a miserable season, damn. Not that I ever thought he was that good

Oh man, what was that. That was sophomore year and it too was a GBA game. I know it was sophomore year because the guy was in my chemistry class but almost never showed up until like the last week and asked me about games. It was something I didn't think he'd like but he did, like maybe it was Golden Sun or something along those lines.

STLCards1991 posted...

We borrowed Mario Tennis on GBC from our cousin and just never gave it back and one time we brought it up to him that we should give it back and he said "oh I borrowed that from my friend and he doesn't care" so we just kept it forever.

This may have inadvertantly become a permatrade with our copy of Fire Emblem 7

One time my friend lent my other friend who he didn't really like his copy of Spyro the Dragon and the kid got mad at him so he threw it in a vent at his house and it's probably still in there

The coolest thing about that Castlevania was how there were two different Castlevanias and we rented them both and as far as we could tell one of them was just the original game but you got to play as a werewolf instead of a vampire hunter.

I've always wanted to play Goemon and Quest 64. Glover was a classic though. I'm not really sure of any other funny N64 games we rented or bought but there were plenty, though a lot are cult classics like Jet Force Gemini which I didn't like very much (though I believe Chewy was a fan)

STLCards1991 posted...

I do not. The random N64 game I think about sometimes is this one where you play as a purple guy who is like a little wimpy dude but when you drink soda you become super strong.

Didn't we have to start over every time we played that because it required some external memory thing to save the game

STLCards1991 posted...

Even stink beetles?

Especially stink beetles.

To me most animals are 10/10, chameleons included. They're cool!

Hey mine was a controlled demolition

President Dwayne Johnson is going to make sure the games are simulcast on every tv in America no matter what, including in the rec rooms at the work camps! Not live of course because if America loses a match there's no need to broadcast it, and we thank Chancellor Musk for ensuring our viewing habits remain stable and fruitful.

I see they've expanded the entrants from 32 countries to 48 for 2026 anyway so even the pathetic US probably could have gotten in regardless. Now we wait for the ultimate humiliation in 2026 when we lose to Canada or something

That sucks. Do Canada and Mexico also get auto in?

They have Pokemon Let's Go! as well

Oh no!

Oh and I guess Bethesda announcing Startield and TES VI is nice but they feel far away.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Chewster posted...

if I don't have anything to say then I'll just end up posting for the sake of posting

Do it anyway. I noticed you were gone, so if you left forever or posted a lot less, it would suck.

There was nothing for me to get excited about for Nintendo which is good since I don't have a Switch. E3 in general seemed to be having a down year. I wonder if all the companies are focused somewhat on next-gen stuff already.

Well the Switch just came out! I think the other two are prepping for next gen though. Sony is taking a multi year victory lap and now they can't shut up about that Spider-Man game while Microsoft is clearly revving up to win the next one and honestly they probably will because that's the way these things go. Nintendo just doesn't have anything for 2018 and they don't usually talk about things far in advance which is why I kind of thought this time last year that Metroid Prime 4 was going to be a 2018 game.

Overall it was pretty bland. Sony and Nintendo are the ones I care about and neither one sold me on anything I wasn't already going to buy. Even that Ghost of Tsushima game I'm not all in on yet though I'm sure I'll play it. I also thought the Last of Us 2 footage was pretty whatever. Showing story stuff from that game without context is pointless and I don't want spoilers anyway. But it looked good.

The cool stuff from this E3 for me was pretty much Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, maybe that RE2 remake, Smash/FE of course, and then obviously CyberPunk 2077. I know my expectations are too high for that game because I think it's going to be better than Witcher 3 which is probably my favorite RPG ever.

In a 42 minute video, 24 minutes was just a list of facts about Smash. It seems like a heavily enhanced port but it's hard to say. The stages are all the same but they changed the character designs and animations and stuff...where do you draw the line at what's a port and what's not

They had a trailer for a new Fire Emblem that looks excellent. A few other things as well but nothing too interesting. A new Mario Party that they're marketing to adults

I only watched a minute or so of it but it seems like it's literally just a list of fun facts about Smash 5

I honestly think it would be a good move for Trump if he said the US was boycotting these games. How many of his braindead followers would even wonder if that was true or not if he said it

Can it Sombra

And no one should take this personally. It's like I always say, to know yourself is to be at peace.

STLCards1991 posted...

MNTwins1991 posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

SkynyrdRocker - Brigitte
Zeeky_Bomb - Winston
CaptainHammer - Genji
SpeeDLeemon - Junkrat
STLCards1991 - Hanzo
MNTwins1991 - McCree
crinalex - Zenyatta
Ultima_Dragoon - D.Va
Chewster - Torbjorn
Wii3Kings - Reinhardt
chocoboslayer - Tracer

This is canon. I will provide clarification upon request

Please provide clarification. Thanks for making me a cool guy. Nice choice with genji/hanzo. You're brothers, and CaptainHammer likes Japan and is an augmented cyborg as a result of a fight with his brother years ago

This is the kind of "too cool for school" joking around that makes you a classic McCree.

Thank you Brian. It's also because you wear bucket hats all the time which makes you the resident "Hat Guy" and because you come in shooting all the time. Half blase half pissed off

chocoboslayer posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

This is canon. I will provide clarification upon request

So requested. >_>

You pop into this topic all the time and then you're gone before we know it. You're also affable like Tracer

It would be racist to say that PoC can't be the gorilla out of fear. If you're a Winston you're a Winston and race has nothing to do with it. That said I will be resigning from my post as attorney general of the state of Missouri. I'm so grateful to everyone who worked so hard to get us here and I'm extremely proud of everything we've accomplished. And I promise: this isn't the last you'll be hearing from me. It's like I said over and over in our historic campaign: ONWARD!

STLCards1991 posted...

I think Winston is a high compliment. He's probably the most intelligent and levelheaded character in the game.

The only negative is that he could use more self confidence

I probably am more weab than you but it's probably fairly close. Well maybe not, maybe I'm a super weab and I just won't admit it. I just watched One Punch Man on Netflix, it ruled and it's super short

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

Zeeky_Bomb - Winston

Uhh...

*goes to Wikipedia*

...I can kind of see it?

It's actually personality based. It's a compliment mostly

SkynyrdRocker posted...

So please explain

You're a versatile sports fan in a way that bothers us sometimes. Brigitte is a versatile support healer character because she's also got a big shield and if you're not careful she smacks the crap out of you.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

I actually agree with most of those but I don't see how I'm D.Va. I wonder what connection you're seeing.

Oh, is it that I'm playing games all day? I could see that.

Well it's not technically gaming habits based but it's because I think of you as the pro gamer of our group. You're also if I'm not mistaken the closest thing to a weab we have, though I might be more of a weab than you which is fine because I gave myself a Japanese guy anyway.

Speaking of that, if anyone wants to dispute the brothers placement go ahead, I just picked them because they are brothers but there are a few slight similarities there as well I think at least in terms of how my brother and I interact as adults. Basically the brotherly power balance

SkynyrdRocker - Brigitte
Zeeky_Bomb - Winston
CaptainHammer - Genji
SpeeDLeemon - Junkrat
STLCards1991 - Hanzo
MNTwins1991 - McCree
crinalex - Zenyatta
Ultima_Dragoon - D.Va
Chewster - Torbjorn
Wii3Kings - Reinhardt
chocoboslayer - Tracer

This is canon. I will provide clarification upon request

SpeeD is also the Ovie of this topic.