Bartimaeus

we're sorry to report that bartimaeus has suddenly passed away rest in peace bartimaeus, we hardly knew ye'

guys they're taking me off to the hospital right now it's a heart attack i might not make it

As I said, gentlemen: the Green Bay Chokers, everyone. So many opportunities to put away the game, just like in the NFCCG...and choking on every single last one.

Packers must be the only team in the league who are worse at 3rd and +15s than they are at 3rd and 2s. Don't understand it. Again and again and again and again, we let everyone convert these 3rd and longs on us repeatedly. At some point, you have to think there's an issue with coaching and scheme.

Luckily, Packers start out with the ball. I think how Rodgers handles the continued pressure on that drive may help shape things for the second half.

Point in case: one moment, the Packers feel like they're utterly dominating, the next, it feels like they're totally choking the game away with every new down. The injuries continue to pile up...if Burnett does not return, I think Cowboys will win. We just don't have the DBs to handle the Cowboys without him - not even with him, really, but it's so much worse without him.

Packers are generally a team of two halves, though, so don't give up hope too quickly. Generally, when we start out flaming out in the first half, we sizzle out in the second...and when we start out like garbage in the first, we're on fire in the second. Let's see what happens.

Um...

1. I didn't 2. Yes 3. Rightist populists (and people who are at a lack of better options than this or what anyone else offers, aka the working class aka pretty much all of us) 4. Yes, for better or for worse The "working class" is not an ideology, either, if you hadn't noticed.

Yeah...so, uh, that video (or rather the English one) was enough to kill any modicum of interest I had remaining for that game...and combine it with how unbearably bad Skyward Sword was, I think Zelda is just about officially over the precipice for me. Oh well. "[...]If there is one thing that is very often too much for me, it's Japanese games with voice-acting. They just too often come up with the worst ****. Cue forceful tear-jerking scenes, cue Link charging towards the enemy with tears in his eyes brandishing a flaming oversized sword. Please don't **** up, please don't make characters summarize aloud what's going on for me, please don't make characters voice their ****ty inner thoughts like what you're doing at 2m38s." "I don't think voice-acting is even the main issue I have, but rather what seems like the inclusion of further anime design philosophies." Two comments I read on the release trailer. Combine that with having the most painfully generic Japanese-to-English styled voice actors, and I don't think I could bear to sit through this game. Into the trash it goes.

I remember trying Borderlands 1 way back when, and hating the gunplay so bad. I just can't stand terrible gunplay when it's a central part of the gameplay.

That's probably right. Was a while ago, and I am not familiar with either series.

I think it was Battlefield One where there was a story about, upon release, somebody had bought a Windows Store copy of the game...and there was exactly one other person playing on the Windows servers (everyone else was on Steam or on console), so they had to refund it.

I can never get through ToB. So much of the writing is just so bad...and the game just becomes such a painful grind. Shadows of Amn is such a much more natural ending in most ways. I am playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest...after having just beat Ocarina of Time. What a wacky redux of the game. I'll play Majora's Mask after. (e): Also, I only ever play Zelda games with 3 hearts, so yeah, I've been doing that, too.

All 4 away teams in the wild card round won last year...all 4 away teams lost this year. ...Then, in the divisional, all 4 home teams won. If the "opposite" pattern holds, I believe it should be a Texans vs. Packers Super Bowl, with the Packers winning. ...So, uh, obviously, that's not going to happen.

Thank you. Good luck next season. I actually thought we would lose for sure after that first half, even with the two miracle plays (that crazy super long scramble ridiculous catch by Adams...and then the Hail Mary right after...), but it seems like either Rodgers got out of his own head or there were some serious half-time adjustments of some kind, if not both.

mccarthy is so incredibly stupid at the most inopportune times, it hurts me so much

the packers are so gosh danged lucky this game, holy cow so many dropped passes to wide open giants receivers (including a couple of easy dropped TD passes), so many close calls, such terrible playing by rodgers until those last two drives, what a ridiculous hail mary, good lord almighty

wtf

Well, if the Dolphins still had Tannehill, I would have some hope, but alas... Chiefs are the only hope for the AFC...

I thought you were calling me illiterate for not knowing the exact difference between a bard and a skald. Now I DO feel illiterate.

I'm not sure which team I have less confidence in. I guess the Raiders, since they haven't shown they can win whatsoever without Carr...while the Texans somehow won their division while having nobody. Also, Texans home game.

What's the meaningful distinction here, o-so-friendly one? I'm not intimately familiar with the term, and from what I'm reading online, there doesn't seem to be so much of a difference that would make it any more difficult than the standard bard. The biggest thing seems to be that Skalds generally told of the deeds of someone current (their patron) instead of whatever a standard bard would tell of. Is that what you're getting at?

...I thought Diablo 2 was a worthy successor. Different - less dark, more crazy and demonic instead - but worthy.

What? A bard raised at Candlekeep works perfectly fine: so many stories you could tell from the great library... Sure, the monks and such probably wouldn't have much of an interest in them (or maybe they would, having them retold in a very different manner from the dry history-keeping that they do), but not everybody who lives at Candlekeep was a monk and was familiar with everything kept within the library.