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Curry chicken with rice & beans and veggies. One of the advantages of moving to Hartford is that there is a plethora of Jamaican food joints close by, and Jamaican food is awesome.

Spartans built a lead up but the Huskies clawed back to tie it. Both teams are really struggling to score.

Great start for UCONN. Hopefully the Huskies can keep it going.

Aw come on, it's a joke. Lighten up. Predictions: AL East: Sawx (yes, I am being a homer) AL Central: Tigers AL West: Angels AL WC: Rays, Rangers NL East: Nats NL Central: Pirates NL West: Giants NL WC: Cards, Dodgers

I'm getting ready to enter the Lighthouse in M&MX. I've done almost everything else I could do so far, save the Den of Thieves, but I'm holding off on that so that I can keep my freebie hireling that detects secrets for me as long as I can, on account of not having anyone in my party that can cast Whispering Shadows.

The Trout deal is very reasonable. He's the best player in baseball and he's only 22. There is always a chance of things going south because of injuries or whatever, but chances are the Angels don't wind up regretting that deal. Miggy is terrific, but he turns 31 in 3 weeks. The Tigers are most likely getting 3, maybe 4 more years of greatness out of him at most. After that, they'll be stuck with a past his prime first baseman with steadily declining numbers for another 6 or so years. Of course, if they win at least one title with Miggy, it will ease the pain during those later years, but if they don't, this will wind up being a massive albatross around their necks.

The game feels easier this time around. I don't know if it's changes they've made in patches since my last playthrough, or if it's an all-might party suiting the early part of the game better, or if it's simply the experience of having played the game all the way through before and knowing the tricks of the trade?

The Wisconsin/Arizona game was pretty awesome. That makes up for the boring first game.

While the first game tonight was a bust, at least the Badgers/Wildcats game is exciting so far.

Classic! Just for fun, here is The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Zap Rowsdower: He comes to save the day in a broken truck With a stinky denim jacket on his back

Plus, Florida obliterated Dayton on the offensive boards. The amount of second, third, and fourth opportunities the Gators were getting, particularly down the stretch, was staggering.

Changed my oil and did some minor repairs on my car. Not fun, but it had to be done. The weekend looks like a washout anyway as it's been pouring most of the day and that's not supposed to change tomorrow. I'll be a shut-in the rest of the weekend and watching March Madness.

This should be really tough sledding for Dayton, but go Flyers!

That is beyond adorable!

Gołąbki and bigos. Double the cabbage, double the pleasure!

Aaaarg, it's so hard to choose which game to watch. Both the Louisville/Kentucky and Virginia/Mich St. games are hella exciting. Damn you NCAA for scheduling two really entertaining games at the same time. Damn youuuuuuuuuuu!!!

Yup, that super long regular season of America's Pastime America's Second Favorite America's Third Favorite sport is upon us. So how about that Miguel Cabrera deal? Holy ****ing ****. Don't get me wrong, Miggy is a terrific player, but that contract is INSANE. The guy is 30 years old. 30! What are the chances the Tigers are regretting that deal 5 years from now? 80%? 95%?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI0icFKbjiI If I had the time to lose An open mind and time to choose Would you care to take a look Or can you read me like a book?

To each their own, I thoroughly enjoy watching the sun go down slowly and the world get progressively darker (or the sun go up and the world get progressively lighter), I just feel it happens too fast in 95% of games. I should not notice dusk starting out, then 2 minutes later pitch dark. Conversely, when I'm in a dangerous area, particularly if the game implements more dangerous/frequent encounters at night, and sensing dawn coming, the desperate want for the sun to come over the horizon adds a lot to my experience, and it would add more if it happened more slowly and not in 5 minutes. That feeling of "dawn is coming soon, I just need to survive for another half hour", that's what I'm looking for. I get it to some degree, but when that half hour is actually 3 minutes, it's not nearly as meaningful.

Using wait/rest function to turn it into whatever time of day you want is irrelevant to this conversation. You can do that with whatever ratio. You want to talk about breaking immersion, that's as breaking immersion as it gets. There is no wait/rest function in true immersion. 1:1 is not a realistic ratio for gaming. No one never plays for 24 hours straight... No one sane, that is. Realistically I see a LONG gaming session as 3-4 hours straight at most . The "best" immersion in my mind would be to make that one session feel like a day, thus a 1:6 or 1:8 ratio, somewhere in that ballpark. That way you play through a long gaming session (and 3-4 hours is a long time to game without a break, it really is) and feel like you just played a whole day's worth of game.

Props to the Cyclones for getting back into it, they figured out the UCONN D toward the end. Unfortunately for them, they dug such a deep hole for themselves that it was simply too late by then. It got to the point that Iowa St. was forced to play the fouling game, and it was clear they didn't want to, Fred Hoiberd is a smart guy, he knows that's a losing game. UCONN is just much too good a free throw shooting team. The Huskies went 17 for 18 from the stripe down the stretch. It's funny how often free throw shooting gets overlooked and how often it decides games. This "#7" seed is headed to the Elite 8, where they always belonged as one of the best 20 teams in the country.

1:1 ratio is insane and unrealistic. A 1:6 ratio would be more feasible, where 1 hour is 10 minutes and a day lasts 4 hours. A single, long gaming session might last 1 game day, which would work quite well, methinks.

UCONN up by 17 with 14 minutes to go. It's not over, but it's looking really good for the Huskies. That's a really big deficit to overcome for the Cyclones. Edit: Iowa St. made a push and got it back to 10 really quickly, but they desperately needed to get it to single digits by about the 10 minute to go mark and just could never get past being down 10. Now the Huskies have pushed it back up to a 14 point lead with less than 8 minutes to go. The game is nearly over. It would take a monster run from the Cyclones to claw their way back into it now. Edit 2: Cyclones got it down to 7 with 4 1/2 left. Not over yet. The problem for Iowa St. is that UCONN is now in the bonus and they're a good free throw shooting team.

Seems like we (IA State) are rushing things to much and not properly doing plays. There seems to always be a lot of blue at the rebounds. UCONN came out ON FIRE shooting the ball, then cooled off a bit, I can't expect them to keep shooting lights out. It's really the defense that's the key to UCONN's game, though. The Huskies have been rebounding well and blocking or disrupting tons of shots. If UCONN can keep that up I feel good about our chances. Hoiberg's a good coach, though, he'll make adjustments. I really hate I have to root against the Cyclones. I wish they were playing someone else so I could be cheering them. Iowa St. caught 2 bad breaks, the first being losing Niang, the second in running into a UCONN team seeded 7 when they're really a 4 or 5 seed team. Had UCONN been seeded properly they wouldn't be playing the Cyclones right now.

UCONN up by 10 at the half and looking very impressive. Lots of basketball left to play, though, so I'm not feeling comfortable. The Cyclones are very capable of going on a big run.