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Been watching the Umbrella Academy. Finished season one. I usually find child actors insufferable but the kid who plays #5 is really good.

^Gets my vote for the title. So meta.

That's one that I skipped.

We need to be able to duel wield whips. For science.

I watched Disenchantment a few weeks ago. Pretty good blend of long term epic and social parody.

Finished Cyberpunk. Pretty good game. It doesn't have the best intro and the tutorial can be something like 15 - 20 hours. At one point I was so kitted up with cybernetics I considered raising the difficulty but left it on Normal 'cause I suck at shooters. Felt like the game threatened to melt my graphics card a few times. It runs so hot. There's an odd quest design quirk that pushes you to pursue the main plot right until the point of no return, and then to go do side content. I did what I always do in games in consuming as much side content I could before advancing the main plot. There was two quest chains (only two) I didn't finish 'cause I didn't feel like spam sleeping to move them along when I'd already done everything else. I got the good ending. Judy's story . . . well, that was the quest chain that left me questioning if I would continue to play. The driving is kinda bad. The cars felt floaty. they slid around a lot. Also, way have a first person driving mode that only shows you one half of the view looking out the window? Don't know about you guys, but I peripheral vision. Really good game. Highly recommend despite the bugs.

The day has finally come for us canines. Beg for forgiveness, humans, but you will receive none.

My Jets got royally screwed in the scheduling. They start the season playing the entire AFC North back-to-back. After spending a bunch of draft picks and cap space improving their pass defense and doing nothing to address our linebackers, we get the best running division in the NFL. 😩

How many serial killers had a copy of the Carcher in the Rye?

I've been playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2077. Don't think I'm the right headspace for this game. I recently had a close family member pass away and all the body horror and post humanism of CP is hitting me much harder than it normally would. I'm really far into the game but still debating whether or not I'll continue or take a break and come back at a better time.

Oh, come on, Japan! That's not nearly enough nouns and verbs for a title. Gotta be something like, Surprising Tokyo Very Mirage Extreme Sessions 420 #FE Last Encore: of Darkness.

Hot take: chicken salad > tuna salad

Not really. Vegas had something like 9 of the top 10 picks favored to go where they did the morning of the 1st round. GMs have tendencies and there are ways to get a good idea of what teams will do.

"If we plant a nuke on a asteroid it'll break into two clean halves, right?"

But consensus boards are important even if you are higher on a guy than the rest of the league. If everyone else has Strange as a 3rd round pick but you have him as the 3rd best linemen, part of how you get that value is to pick him up in the 2nd therefore getting your guy higher than most people wanted him but also able to squeeze another pick out of it too. Look at the Jets. They had Jermaine Johnson as the 8th best player in the draft but picked him up at 26. Even people who aren't nearly as high on JJ liked where they got him. Also, Bill Belichick has always kinda stank at projecting collegiate talent into the NFL and any time they seem at a loss for what to do with a draft they always trade down and take an interior linemen. Worst case scenario you can hide the deficiencies of an interior linemen. That's why you see majority of the guys they drafted who play well in New England go somewhere else and just look like a normal dude.

Their last two drafts were good. Everyone after the Darrell Reeves up to Joe Douglas' hire were bad. We had something like a decade or more terrible drafts that were clearly terrible at the time. The last two years were good but Douglas had to get rid of a bunch of guys, clear cap space, trade for picks, and finally collect talent. It's taken three years and yes I do expect to see some results this year (not playoffs--the AFC East is too good to expect that).

Jets had a great draft. They fortified four or five different position groups, secondary, wide receivers, pass rush, running back, tightend (they wanted to run 21 personale last year but didn't have the tightends to do it), and o-line depth. It was confirmed that the Jets passed on Kayvon Thibodeaux because they asked him and several other high end players each in one-on-one interviews not to talk to the press about the interview and Thibs then went out and did exactly just that. Given that they couldn't get him to shut up about an interview, the Jets front office was pretty sure they wouldn't be able to get him to shut up about important stuff either and so they passed on him.

My Jets had a pretty good first round. Rumor is that they would've taken KT at 4 but when they asked him not to talk about what was said in their interview, he then went out and did exactly what he promised not to.

But Walker is a terrible edge rusher. He's a run stuffer. They picked him based solely on traits. Terrible pick. Can't believe they haven't fired their GM yet. Dude failed his way out of San Fran and then when he left that's when the 49ers got good.

The speculation is that Avowed is more than a year out.

That's 'cause vikings put love in every stitch.

I played this years ago. Glade to see it back in some form.

My bad. I'll leave the post as a testament to my stupidity.

Uh. Okay? I was being serious. The game's unbalanced and buggy as hell right now and not in a player-friendly kinda way.