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Mike F***ing White

Pretty good. I don't think it controlled better with a controller (I did test it). Melee sucked but the game wasn't designed for you to really focus on a melee build.

Just finished Horizon Zero Dawn on PC. That came with the base game and the DLC. Steam shows my playing time to be 80 hours but I know for a fact about 10 of those I was alt-tabbed out. Pros: Robot dinosaurs. Fun combat. You can purchase maps that show you were collectables are. Fun game world. Cons: The whole premise is built on a whole bunch of plot holes. First time, experimental tech doesn't work exactly as expected right out of the box but apparently in HZD all experimental tech does. But whatever. It was fun. I could see myself replaying it a bit for the gameplay or buying the sequel if it comes to PC. 7/10

This flew under the radar, but the XFL is back (third time's the charm).

It's so hard to tell. On one hand he looks like he needs a QB coach to drill into his head how the short passing game. On the other can you blame a guy who in a season and a half hasn't had the starting give offensive linemen take a single snap together?

I think my Jets are the weirdest NFL team I've ever seen. We're near the bottom of the league in yards given up but 11th in scoring defense, 12th in sacks, and tied for 3rd for team interceptions. We run the ball really well when we have a healthy runningback, but our passing game is the definition of small ball. I guess we'd have 7 wins for the season before the injuries started mounting up (I think we have four linemen out for the year), now I haven't predicted any of their wins so far this year aside from Cleveland. I hope we don't somehow stumble our way into the playoffs--I don't what to hear my fellow Jets fans whining when we get blown out in the first round and outrageous predictions of Super Bowl runs for the following year only to win 5 games.

In 2020 and 2021 the Jags had better teams in worse division than my Jets and won fewer games. Though, in both seasons after a certain point they were tanking while we were just that bad. It seems too early for them to be tanking again so I don't know what's going on.

My Jets beat yet another team without a quarterback. It's week 7 and we have 5 wins (4 against teams either without or struggling at QB). WHAT VOODOO IS THIS? I'm waiting to hear a plague of frogs has hit the east coast.

Are you winning, son?

Well, I guess we beat one starting quarterback. https://youtube.com/watch?v=WfGcJ-0Yr84

If we work hard we can get terrible value due to picking a fight with two nuclear powers

Naw, my Jets still suck. The three teams we beat didn't have quarterbacks. I guess we've finally reached can-beat-you-when-you're-without-your-starting-quarterback status. Damn it, it took long enough.

Happy anniversary, dear.

Spacher

Motion we call them Fooseball Team.

But were you playing as a sexy librarian dwarf? Beards make great bookmarks.

Not really. There's some better textures for ME1 but other than that the only thing changed is lighting and for the worse, imo.

Watched Samaritan on Amazon. It's a superhero movie. It was pretty alright. A touch of that crummy MCU humor but clearly a revisionist superhero. Didn't care for the child actor but I almost never like child acting.

Calvin Ridley got a year for betting on his own team to win.

Frank Drebin > Poirot > Holmes RIP Leslie Nielsen

Can't wait to see ya in a few days ranting about the terrible UI (which alone is a crime against humanity) and how lifeless the whole experience is.

Virtually all accents in Bioware games are fake. Their basic Canadian, basic American, and occasional real British are realish. Even most of their French are French Canadian doing 'French accents'. Hell, even their different American dialects (Boston, Midwest, Southern, Cajun, Jersey etc.) are fake.

Modders will fix that.

This looks kinda awful. At the rate they're making these Middle Earth games I can't wait to play as Tom Bombadilo in a harem visual novel in 2030. "I remember the first acorn," is probably his go-to pickup line.