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That would actually be really sad if the Browns really got McCarthy. Just gonna throw Baker Mayfield in the trash

It won't be my favorite moment when Stan Kroenke hoists the Lombardi trophy

I truly don't understand the Mario Bros 1 stage AT ALL

Alright just join mine then.

Alright make an arena or whatever

K give me like 5 minutes maybe a little more

SkynyrdRocker posted...

This college football playoff game is terrible. We should play some Smash guys.

I'll smash a lil bit if you still want to

Well that's too bad but it's also fine I guess. You did a little better than me in 2018. My biggest result was four dates with the same girl who I now sort of text as a friend but not really though I think we may play smash bros soon

How's your tindering going Kevin? I think we discussed it once or twice didn't we? Me? Well I haven't met up with anyone in a while but this morning a girl who ghosted me (I'm not upset about it, really, though she was cool) showed up on my friend suggestions on FB and when I went to stalk her I accidentally added her. I was still in bed. I said out loud to myself "it finally happened." Then I blocked her ofc

MNTwins1991 posted...

Well ships usually have female names...I was curious and I googled why ships have female names, and I found the answer in a wonderful Yahoo Answers thread:
"It is because they are similar to women : They are expensive, need a lot of paint - and they always have a lot of men around them !"

Haw! Haw! Haw!

Damn have fun shooting doctors and children

Sometimes ya log onto the faqs and there's nothing to report. Other times, one of the most legendary boring posters of days gone by is joining the Israeli defense force to shoot Palestinians trying to get over a wall

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/77343194

Don't let me and Brian be on the same team again

Last one

Chewster posted...

@STLCards1991
@CaptainHammer
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Are you all Smashing yet? I see you guys online but can't find your arena

We were in some weird arena, someone can set up a new one

I think I can do that

It saves to the switch

Is it a quip that lights up when it's time to switch sides of your mouth

He signed a four year deal with Seattle and no one hit more home runs over that time. He's good. But yes this is a meh move for the Twins in that it won't put them over the top but can help them get to that wonderful standard level of play so many teams strive for so that they can decide in July if they're good enough to make a trade

Twins got Nelson Cruz. Some day he will probably not be good anymore but until that day comes you gotta be excited to have him. He's a cool huge dude who hits bombs

I don't sleep well and I was never able to take naps. I needed that melatonin very badly when I used to take it because I was struggling to sleep for even like four hours in that situation. I weaned myself off of it eventually because I could tell I was developing a need for it and that's no good. Now I don't take anything and I hope I can get at least 6 hours each night and then I get really mad at myself when I'm up past 11:30 for no reason because i know that even if I start the getting ready for bed process at 11:30 I probably won't fall asleep until 12:30

Chewster posted...

Melatonin dreams themselves were usually okay for me, but I'd feel like I was waking up and falling back asleep from dreams like every 20 minutes which was annoying

This was sort of my experience with melatonin, just really long involved dreams that I'd wake up from at 12:45 thinking I'd been asleep for hours

Oh I did actually get some wireless headphones, way nicer than I need or would ever buy for myself from my other brother and his wife. They retail for $150 but he got some deal apparently

Chewster posted...

So... anybody get anything cool or interesting for Christmas?

Nothing too crazy for me but I got most of the stuff I wanted. Gaming-wise I got Skyrim and Doom and a pair of neon joycons. For once I didn't get any clothes (not that clothes are necessarily a bad gift but I'm someone who generally needs to pick them out myself)

The most outwardly interesting thing I got was the PS VR. Otherwise just clothes and some games like you. Brian got me Vampyr which I'm very intrigued by. Then I mentioned Black Ops IIII already. I haven't touched any new games yet. I also got shoes that were so humongous that I had to give them back to my mom in shame

Does anyone in this topic have Black Ops 4 on PS4? I have it now if you want to black out soon.

Also fps related I played a little overwatch on the 24th to get the 5 free loot boxes. Hadn't played in a while. Man that game is so good. I hadn't used Ashe until then but I was kicking so much ass with her. I main Reaper but I aspire to main McCree, she kind of feels like splitting the difference

I don't know if his parents have guns. As far as I know they don't and to see these I kind of had to coax it out of him that he had guns in the house (he was clearly concerned that I was going to rip him a new one for owning guns). Like it eventually went

Me: you own guns?
Him: (long pause) yeah.
Me: are they here?
Him: (bite of food, chewing) ....... yeah.

The hunting rifle was from a different uncle. I was just getting a beer in the garage with my non gamefaqs brother one day and he went "cool! A gun!" So we took pics holding the gun that day and then told his wife he left his gun out. He's pretty country but also sort of fake country in that he's also a rich liberal.

That is a cool gun. It was surreal holding those guns too, just hanging out in his parents' house ive been inside 100 times putting guns down on their bed and stuff. Even though I knew they were real they just seemed like toys until I held them, maybe because I associate the house and him with my childhood and maybe I still see him as my little cousin though he's grown now.

He does go to the range and stuff. Maybe that's why. And maybe standard gear in the army sucks but he can use the good stuff if he has it.

Today's only political thing was I asked my army cousin to show me his guns. I'm anti gun but hell you can't deny that guns are interesting. I won't get into our mild good natured debate but I wanted to ask, have any of you guys ever used a real live gun? I didn't shoot them but he showed me how to check if there was a bullet in the chamber on a handgun. I also held and aimed down the sights of his massive like assault rifle. Good God those things are huge. I didn't bother asking why he thought he needed one that size but now I wish I had. I mean I'm sure he spent an obscene amount of money on it. Anyway I've now held three guns (third being my uncle's hunting rifle) but never shot one

I raise a glass to ya sports bros - Merry Christmas!

Oh by the way I actually did kind of get into it with the hardcore republican 12 year old but I didn't mean to. I was talking about the government shutdown with my uncle and the uncle saw the boy and started behaving trollishly towards him like oh isn't that funny how deficit spending is actually going up under a republican and the kid starts following me around as I'm trying to remove myself going "it was Bush's job to bail out the banks and Obama didn't pay it off! We have a deficit because Obama didn't pay it off!" I was relieved the take was so weird and stupid on its face that I didn't even really get mad. Then my grandma literally called me an internet troll (she's not really wrong but she was using the phrase incorrectly) because she saw me comment about the first George Bush being a not good guy. She goes "you know if you hate white men from wealthy families who went to prep school that's your grandfather." That one actually did piss me off. It's too bad no one tweeted any articles about how to deal with trump supporting family members this holiday season

At the big family party we played a trivia game where we all had to submit a question about ourselves. The aunt setting it up said make it general so guessing is possible. Here are some examples:

Q: What is @CaptainHammer's current favorite TV show?
A: Game of Thrones

I thought this was fine because it followed the rules. Then not long after this one:

Q: What is the grossest thing (cousin in military) ever ate?
A: boiled coyote road kill for survival training

Q: What compliment did (grandfather) receive at age 13 that he still hasn't forgotten?
A: He was the best babysitter our four kids ever had, from his aunt or neighbor or who knows

There were a lot like this. Ones that only were guessed by that person's spouse or sibling. The first one there is fun, the second one was annoying. Then out of nowhere:

Q: Why was (cousin)'s ex boyfriend in the news?
A: He was arrested for first degree murder after trapping someone in a car and executing them.

Congrats. I won $40 on a scratch off a coworker gave me last week

My sister doesn't game but she still talks about how we used to have a Neo Geo Pocket Color because we all think it was an insanely underrated console in that it ruled and no one has ever heard of it

We at least had a Vectrex. It was cool. Pretty much anything SNES and on we had. We had a virtual boy, I'm sure I've mentioned that before

Chewster posted...

I never would've guessed in a million years that your dad was a big industry dude.

That's a stretch. He was freelance and it's not like he has a StarCraft or Half Life review online somewhere. He was too lazy to become that guy. We did get tons of free stuff though. He wrote the strategy guide for Evolution: The World of Sacred Device so we had a Japanese Dreamcast and an American one for free. We also got a free OG Xbox and just a bunch of games, like for a while every Xbox game of note we would get.

Now my dad's lasting impact on online gaming culture is this site Quarter to Three which he ran with his friend once upon a time. The friend still runs it. It's a tiny forum I think basically but I don't look at it. I creeped on my dad's posts there once and he was just defending Hillary in the primary a lot on the off topic forum.

My mom used to play Solitaire and weird like boggle style flash games all the time. I know that doesn't really count. She also had a weird affinity for Sonic the Hedgehog and various puzzle games, specifically Tetris and Puzzle Fighter. I think she used to game with her brothers and my dad before she had kids too because once she was excited to see that I was playing Mega Man 2. I haven't seen her play a game ass game in a long time.

My dad games a lot and always has. He was a games critic for a long time and his work was featured on IGN and PC Gamer amongst other reputable periodicals. He plays PC almost exclusively and from my ages like 10 to 16 or something literally all he did all day was play WoW. No job or anything. Now he is in sales and games in his down time but still has a lot of weird connections. He knows Geoff Keighley (guy who runs The Game Awards) for example. At one point he was trying to get me to send him an essay about games so he could give it to Stephen Totilo from Kotaku (I don't think he actually knows him but knows a guy who knows a guy or whatever). I don't know what came of that crazy idea. He's been to E3 and stuff too.

Come up with a bet. I want to bet you that RE gets a rep

The Reds can basically field a big league roster now which is nice I guess

The Reds added a few wins for sure and Bailey is addition by subtraction. But they're in a tough division and those guys are all gone after 2019. They're trading headaches basically but the Dodgers got much worse in doing so

The Dodgers are clearing payroll!!! Yessss!!! They're either going to get Harper or make the playoffs with an even blander roster than the one that got humiliated in the world series!!! Awoooo I love baseball!!!!!!!!!

He's just rich and precocious. Last time I saw him he was telling us he just wanted to quit school and start working. He wears suits and shit too. Typical gifted kid mindset plus gobs of money. His little brother is probably just as smart but at least so far seems like more of a regular dude. Anyway I'll make sure to talk loudly about medicare for all and shit this weekend when he's around

My youngest cousins are like 12 and 13 year old boys and the next youngest is 21. Anyway the older of the small boys Instagram bio used to be "When life gives you lemons the government takes them away." I just got him suggested so I looked and now it reads:

"When life gives you lemons the government takes them away" - Me

The ones with brains are worse

I had a lot of fun with Soul Calibur II on GameCube

Literal lol at the TIL one. Smh

MNTwins1991 posted...

Very nice job, especially on the names.

My friend's wife shares crap like this all the time, including the Robin Williams "Genie, You're Free" (ugh, kill me)

It's gotten to the point where when literally any celebrity dies I have to go "they must be having one hell of a party up there!!" Or "that's some band they got up there now!!" Like I was saying Stan Lee on drums and George Bush on bass or whatever. I don't know. I'm going to die of irony poisoning. I'll probably say something like that when my grandpa dies without thinking about it

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Ok y'all but can we talk about how much Neville grew as a character???

-Description of Neville at the start
-Description of Neville in the middle
-Description of Neville at the end

And y'all think Harry was the hero of that story????

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Also it just does not matter if your character changes or not. A heros journey is a lot of fun but so what if a protagonist starts out as a piece of shit and doesn't learn his lesson. That's called real life baby

I think that if you can prove that he was scared of something in the first act then you can prove that he experiences character development. And anyway one of my biggest english major takes is that character development is overrated. It's just something dumb nerds say to sound smart when arguing about marvel movies

Also today my Facebook memories are from 2007 when I borrowed the golden compass from my friend and we were debating about it and from 2011 when a girl asked me to prove that Link experiences character development. Usually i delete memories but these are too valuable