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https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/309190/TakeTwo_plans_to_only_release_games_with_recurrent_consumer_spending_hooks.php - less than a year ago https://kotaku.com/in-gta-online-the-rich-are-ruining-games-with-expensiv-1821821192 - less than 6 months ago https://www.vg247.com/2017/06/14/popular-gta-mod-openiv-has-been-shut-down-by-rockstar-lawyers-after-10-years/ - less than a year ago

luckily for me, it's easy to boycott rockstar because I don't like their style of games to begin with

a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one etc.

@Stalker progression: It's one of my favorite things about Stalker. Plays like an RPG, but doesn't have the stat silliness that all RPGs tend to have.

Vogel had decent hang times, and that's pretty much it. His punting average was abysmal (31st, IIRC), but his net punting average was a little below average (22nd, I think) as a result of his decent hang times - lot of forced fair catches. JK Scott and Michael Dickson (who was taken a little before us) were two of the better punter prospects that have come out in some time, so I can sort of understand trying to shore up the position - field position is a pretty important (albeit somewhat hidden) stat. As for the cornerbacks...we'll see. I hope we're lucky in that one of them is ready to play at an at least average level immediately, but our previous CB picks don't inspire confidence. As always, the most important draft grades come 4 years after that draft is over.

It's snowing outside, right now. It's nearly May.

Interesting. Packers essentially traded back 4 spots and lost a 3rd and a 6th in exchange for another first round pick next year (Saints) and a fifth and a seventh this year. Can't argue with that.

well, you got what you wanted

Tabletop Simulator. Very cool. Have played a variety of games so far with some friends, including something called DungeonQuest and the original The Legend of Zelda board game.

GPU prices have been falling a lot in the last couple of weeks, though RAM prices are still absurdly terrible.

I woulda suggested Earthbound...of course, if Earthbound released today, I'm not sure it would even be considered a JRPG. I'm kidding, of course: I can only recommend one JRPG, and it's the one that took #1 in our recently conducted Obsidian's Top 100 Games list.

If anything, I feel sort of the opposite about it: I wish I COULD get into video games like I once used to. I don't find myself as interested as I was when I was younger, and only very rarely fall in love with a game (...and they're usually indie).

that's the worst thing I've ever seen alternatively: this is the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever

RIP Verne Troyer.

It's a pretty nasty stretch. @LAR, @NE, MIA, @SEA, @MIN. However, schedules are rarely what they seem to be when looking at it before the season actually starts - most teams rise and fall quickly in the NFL.

Yeah, sounds terminal, short of a miracle.

No, who's on second.

It's not like every lowly German soldier was prosecuted for Nazism-related crimes in the wake of World War II, though. Caricatures of Nazi SS officers and the such aren't quite the same as vilifying the common soldier who was essentially pressed into service and scared of the war and dying the same as any Allied soldier, or the higher ups who only concerned themselves with the war itself (of which there were some, such as Erwin Rommel).

Ouch.... The irony!

RIP.

Pointless action and special effects fatigue, I guess.

​ Would you like to join the 'Tired of Kinda Mediocre Blockbusters and Not-a-Big-Fan Club'?

BREAKING NEWS: no news THIS JUST IN: nothing NEW UPDATES: no updates THE LATEST: ecclesiastes 1:9

yes, I was going to direct all you all to agiel's military thread so you can quit raining on my rain-on-trump-parade parade, but it's gone, so I couldn't

More like my previous attempts at watching the draft have killed my excitement of watching them, so a word of warning that it might do the same for you, .