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His administration already leaked that we're withdrawing - hardly need to wait around to hear the official announcement. (edit): There you go, the moron announced it (after the WH publicly denied it an hour ago), and even went a step further - threatened sanctions against any country that takes Iran's side over ours. Hopefully, everybody does.

At his own request. I guess he didn't feel like competing...or I guess he thought competing against our new guy was a longshot - he signed with the Browns to compete there instead.

The Vampyr soundtrack leaked.

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.