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Man the Yankees picked a bad series to play like crap in. Chance Adams is actually looking decent too.
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I used to enjoy the Mets' failures in the past, but I think ever since Wright's been out, making fun of the Mets has lost its appeal. Wright was probably one of my favorite baseball players in my lifetime, and it's truly terrible what happened to him.

As for this season, I've pretty much stopped watching Mets games because they've gotten really dull. Even watching Degrom has become meaningless because the same thing is happening every game.
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Yeah I agree that Bautista shouldn't play everyday, but at least he's been a relatively exciting Met this season, so from the Wilpons' perspective I get why they might want to capitalize on that. That doesn't apply to Reyes though. Guess you're right, they're just stupid.
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I get why they'd think Mets fans might want to see Bautista, but do they really think anyone gives a fuck about Reyes at this point? That's the part that doesn't make sense to me. Reyes was a good Met, but that was a long time ago. I think the majority of fans are well aware of that and see him now as a detriment to the team.
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It's amazing that Reyes is still on the team. You can probably chock up most of the Mets' nonsense to greed. But what they're doing with Reyes is just bizarre.
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https://twitter.com/based_ball/status/1024757992099463169

The Orioles just had to get rid of that Machado guy to rise to their true potential.
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Looks like the Yankees got Happ for Drury and some prospects. I'm glad Drury will most likely get the playing time he deserves at least.
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I wonder if the Mets are going to trade Wheeler. Honestly, at the moment he's looking like the best starter available. If he is available.
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Xuxon posted...

nah, that's a fair deal. Tate is a legit prospect. i'd probably have rather kept him tbqh but hard to say.

If Britton can be a big part of getting to the World Series it'll be worth it.

Great pitching by Tanaka tonight. Good to see him have such an excellent start.
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MrSmartGuy posted...

Cherche very underrated waifu material

She's the best one in my opinion. I had my Avatar marry Cordelia, but that was mainly because I liked Severa and thought she was the best daughter. But Cherche would have been the right choice I think.
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LinksLiege posted...

dirtycommunist posted...

I really like Fellowship of the Ring as a book, and as a movie. I haven't yet read Two Towers or Return of the King, got sidetracked... two years ago... but I've heard these complaints maaaany times.

The series is a worthwhile read for anyone who wants to see what it looks like when someone puts world building first. He gets you to see exactly what he wants you to see, but...well, you've read the first book, so you might remember how the council of Elrond part (where they're talking about what to do with the One Ring) contains like 50+ pages of Gandalf explaining the history of the Ring. That's a good warning of what to expect.

He makes some other questionable choices too, like the final part of the story after the Ring is destroyed where they deal with the Shire being taken over by Saruman, who's been demoted from demigod-of-sorts to petty fuckwit. That was just silly.

No it made sense. The Scouring of the Shire was set up pretty early. And it did a great job of showing just how pathetic Saruman had become. It's completely understandable why it wasn't used in the films though.

I think both the books and films are equal. There are certain moments that one does better than the other. Helm's Deep was one mentioned already. Helm's Deep in the movie is one of the most iconic and entertaining parts. It's a pretty dull chapter in the book though.
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Regular ones

But between those two, Scoops.
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Of course not. But the shitstorm it would cause would be very amusing.
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None of them are overrated.
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AlisLandale posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Knowledge_King posted...

Looks alright, potential to be great as long as we shift focus AWAY from the humans. I don't give a shit about humans in a Godzilla movie.

The human side of the plot in Godzilla movies is sometimes interesting to follow. The problem with the first Legendary Godzilla was that they focused on it a bit too much. Hopefully Godzilla and the other kaiju get much more screentime in this one.

I think another problem is that they killed their most interesting human and gave the second most interesting zero lines or screen time. And the human drama that followed was disconnected from the monster plot.

In Ghidorah The Three Headed Monster, Mothra vs. Godzilla, the MechaGodzilla movies, Biollante, etc etc. The human stories are inextricably linked to the plot and lore of the monsters. Cranston's son was basically just some guy doing actiony things so humans would get screen time.

Either that or the humans are charismatic and act as a "tour guide" to the monster action, like in Godzilla 2000 and GMK.

Yeah I agree with you there as well.

I remember in the first movie when you're just about to see Godzilla and the MUTO clash in Hawaii, but it immediately cuts away to Elizabeth Olson and her son watching it for one second on TV. That really disappointed me.
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Encore Mode in Sonic Mania is fucking hard though. Maybe I'm just bad at Sonic games, but it's brutal. I've never played the old ones, so I don't know what they're like, but Mania is far and away more difficult than any Mario game I've played. So I don't really get that whole "Sonic is easier than Mario" thing.
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I see this getting compared to Roseanne though and I don't really get it. These are all things said by Gunn 6 years ago. And they're jokes. Roseanne was saying stupid shit in the present. I don't think she should have necessarily been fired either, but it's not the same as Gunn's situation.
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Close between Chikorita and Bayleef. I went with Chikorita.
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Knowledge_King posted...

Looks alright, potential to be great as long as we shift focus AWAY from the humans. I don't give a shit about humans in a Godzilla movie.

The human side of the plot in Godzilla movies is sometimes interesting to follow. The problem with the first Legendary Godzilla was that they focused on it a bit too much. Hopefully Godzilla and the other kaiju get much more screentime in this one.
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DepreceV2 posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

No way is it underrated or underappreciated.

I think it was a good game, but A Link to the Past and both Oracle games are much better.

A Link to the Past? Sure. Both Oracle games? No way

I just could not get drawn into Koholint the way I got drawn into Labrynna and Holodrum.
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No way is it underrated or underappreciated.

I think it was a good game, but A Link to the Past and both Oracle games are much better. I'd probably rank all of the 3D Zeldas higher than it as well.
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Kite Man and Condiment King

For a real answer though, even if he isn't specifically a Batman villain, I think Count Vertigo could be a good choice.
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Oh
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By who?
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Ving_Rhames posted...

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

God I would love to see the smashbabies throw a tantrum when their game finally gets dropped.

The top players wont care, it's the bottom 90% (like almost every single game that has an esport community) that make the most noise all the time.

The first comment to that tweet in the first post was from the current best Melee player. I wouldn't say he's throwing a tantrum but he clearly does want Melee to have a permanent spot at EVO.

It probably should be dropped from EVO. Melee will continue to do fine without it
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Baby game
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Wow Mets almost took that game. Poor performance by Chapman there.
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That looks really good. Shazam trailer did as well.
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Ah that's a good number 1.
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It's been 14 years since all the other famous kaiju have been in a film. It will be cool to see them back in action in both this movie and Toho's future Godzilla movies.
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Is it Mushroom Gorge?
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TheMarthKoopa posted...

Rainbow Road SNES

Definitely one of the Top 5.
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MyBroTierno posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Still not seeing the problem

You don't see the problem with adding Pokemon that are basically a lazy rehash of an older Pokemon. Alrighty then.

Yeah I don't see the problem. Why exactly does it matter? Even if Gigalith was a lazy rehash, does that automatically devalue its existence? I don't believe so. I guess on the whole Gen 5 does have less unique Pokemon than the latest two generations. But that obviously has to do with how many Pokemon Gen 5 introduced.
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And a real Battlefront 3 would have been nice
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MFBKBass5 posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

It's a good game. I don't agree that it's better than Halo 3 but it's absolutely better than Halo 4. Halo 4 will likely always be the worst in the series. I'm optimistic about Infinite since 343 showed with Halo 5 that they can make a solid game.

I never liked Halo 3 that much because it felt like such a step back from the best in the series(Halo 2) I remember being shocked they could mess up such a great feeling game. Halo 3s physics and movement engine feels like youre skating on ice at all times.

I get it. I never realized how slow you are in Halo 3 till I started playing it again in the MCC. Still, it was a great game and I don't think that's just because of nostalgia.

dr_marble posted...

So did Halo 5 have any open-feeling levels or was the campaign more like 4?

3 > Reach

It's more like Halo 4. I think it's a better campaign than Halo 4 too. The Prometheans are slightly more fun to fight and some of the levels look amazing. Still has some downsides though like fighting one particular boss far too much. And I was not a fan of the new squad mechanic even if it's more true to how Spartans are actually supposed to operate. The story is awful though. Best to just ignore that.
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Gen 7 would have been better if they didn't decide to make most of the new Pokemon slow for no good reason. And it also has some ridiculously late evolutions. They also make some of the newer Pokemon difficult to encounter.
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It's a good game. I don't agree that it's better than Halo 3 but it's absolutely better than Halo 4. Halo 4 will likely always be the worst in the series. I'm optimistic about Infinite since 343 showed with Halo 5 that they can make a solid game.
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Still not seeing the problem. But even if this is the case for Gigalith, what about your other examples. I don't remember the BSTs for Throh and Sawk but I do know Throh at least has two signature moves. They never really reminded me of Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee. Again though, I don't remember their movepools and BSTs. And I don't really feel like checking them out.
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MyBroTierno posted...

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Imagine not liking Gigalith. Good to know you have bad opinions.

I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it was a shameless ripoff of Golem. Learn to read.

I guess in that they're both rock types with a trade evo? Design wise they're nothing alike.

Besides having extremely similar stats, near-identical movepools, and identical team roles, sure.

With the amount of Pokmon they've reached it's inevitable that some are going to play similar roles to old ones. I don't see how that's a problem. It only becomes that if the design is uninspired or bland. In this case I don't think that's an issue.
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shnangyboos posted...

What am I missing about the Tails pic? I looked it up, but I don't see anything.

The first result explains it.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

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guffguy89 posted...

Can't they find anyone better than Joe Buck to call every major thing on Fox? I mean, it seems like everyone either hates him or are indifferent to him.

let fans vote on the broadcasters

actually that could be a horrible idea, yankees fans would stuff for Kay

No one likes Michael Kay

Let A-Rod call every game imo

I like Michael Kay. I think he's improved a bit over the past few years. Still not as good as the Mets booth though, which is why I always watch SNY for subway series games.
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Perhaps they could get Taika Waititi to direct the Guardians films now. Can't really replace James Gunn, but he's already directed the only other Cosmic Marvel film. Or at least I think it counts as a Cosmic Marvel film.
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MyBroTierno posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

As for your first point, do you have any examples? I can't think think of anything that is a shameless rip-off of older Pokemon.

Emboar is a cheap-ass version of Blaziken and Infernape.
Watchog is another early-game two-stage normal-type with absolutely no thought put into it like the first three gens.
Unfezant is just another three-stage early-game normal/flying type that we'd had four times already.
Gigalith is a shameless ripoff of Golem, including its evolution mechanic.
Conkeldurr is a shameless ripoff of Machamp, including its evolution mechanic.
Throh and Sawk are lazy reworks of Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee.

Do I need to go on?

Imagine not liking Gigalith. Good to know you have bad opinions.

I don't think any of those are shameless rip-offs. Emboar shouldn't have been a Fire/Fighting type. Everyone knows that. But otherwise, I think it's decent. Personally, I like it more than Blaziken and Infernape. And you can't single out Gen 5 for the Watchog and Unfezant lines because every generation has an early Normal type rodent line and a three stage Bird Pokemon line. As for the final three, they're all likely inspired by those Gen 1 lines. But inspired by =/= a rip-off. Gigalith is clearly fucking different than Golem.
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CyricZ posted...

Oh it's only available on Disney's streaming service.

Hm.

They announced a streaming service? I figured they would have one eventually, but I didn't know they officially confirmed one.
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Monster Hunter World
Soulcalibur 6
Fallout 76
Just Cause 4
Smash

Just Cause 4 will probably be fun but I can wait a year or two to play that. Smash will be fun to follow, but there's no way it will be worth buying a Switch right away.

MH World and Soulcalibur look fun, but I really don't feel like spending 60 dollars on either one. Fallout 76 is entirely dependent on having people to play with because it will be a complete waste of time otherwise.
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TerrifyingRei posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

I used to like it, but eventually it started tasting off. I prefer Diet Coke.

nah man

Coke Zero > Diet Pepsi >>> Diet Coke.

at least here in Canada.

Complete opposite for me. Although Diet Dr. Pepper is the soda I drink the most by far. Nothing has ever come close to that.
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I used to like it, but eventually it started tasting off. I prefer Diet Coke.
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I think Achievements are fun, but not necessary. I especially like them on Xbox One though. If you get a rare one it has a neat sound effect when it pops up.
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im not 13 posted...

The 3D cartoons are pretty good

But the 2D ones were so much better

I thought this was true until I actually watched The Clone Wars. I had always thought it looked stupid, but it happened to be on Netflix and I decided to see what it was actually like. They're both excellent, but The Clone Wars obviously has a level of depth that Clone Wars doesn't even come close to matching.
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EbonTitanium posted...

I want this, but Disney has dropped the ball.

Dave Filoni is behind this show and he's probably the most competent person involved in Star Wars right now. Plus, these are most likely going to be episodes that were planned for the 7th season that never came. I guess they decided to finish them up and release them now.
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