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  1. I find Metroid to be one of those games that feels wrong or right based on how much time I've spent playing modern games. If I haven't played a modern game that is based on platforming and timing shots/jumps it feels fine, but if I have it feels sluggish and non-responsive.
  2. For what it's worth, Whitlock got along with a lot of people in the industry, until he stabbed them in the back. He's actually a really talented columnist, who knows how to push buttons which is most of the job. The problem is everyone else pushed buttons, and then treats people well, but he does the exact opposite. You can get really far in this world being a public asshole, but being a private asshole is a much harder existence.
  3. From what I understand Stephen A., Skip, and pretty much everyone else who is a loudmouthed cartoon character of a sports commentator, are very good to the people around them. I've heard multiple black sports commentators who say that Skip Bayless gave them either valuable advice or an opportunity to be the serious voice of reason when no one else would give them that opportunity. Whitlock is apparently the exact opposite. He's the type of person who will laugh in your face, then turn around and stab you in the back. He is particularly duplicitous to his black colleagues, which is how we get here with Stephen A.
  4. Stephen A. built his entire career on screaming into a microphone, him calmly calling Whitlock the worst human being he has ever met, is so fucking hilarious. He wants us all to understand that this ain't part of the show, he legitimately hates this piece of shit.
  5. I'm going to use the same logic I used when a bunch of dudes said they wouldn't date Giselle Bundchen after she divorced Tom Brady. I know the women I've dated. I know a lot of women these dudes have dated. Most of them are perfectly decent people, but some of them are total assholes. Olivia Munn and Giselle Bundchen are going to have to prove to me they are assholes. Because I've dated some assholes who brought little else to table, and i was able to tolerate them for a while. Dating Olivia Munn or Giselle would come with a pretty hefty lifestyle upgrade, so I think I'd tolerate some extra asshoolery.
  6. Umm... if dating Olivia Munn is questionable, I hope to be questionable.
  7. You should have took the $200 and then called out on Friday to spend it. Chess not checkers.
  8. Flacco is proof of something I wrote in week one or two this season. Throwing downfield is the cheat code that is right there for everyone to use, but everyone is too scared to make a mistake to use it. Flacco drops back sees someone running way down field and says, "fuck it, I trust my guy," and throws it deep. It makes the defense have to defend the entire field, which is nearly impossible, and leads to more big plays, touchdowns, and defensive penalties. Sure, it is going to lead to more turnovers, but all of those other outcomes are better for an offense than a turnover is bad for an offense. Chuck that bitch downfield as often as possible, and see what happens.
  9. It's not that insane, the Browns have been good all year, last year they were ok, the year before they won a playoff game. They are talented at almost every position, and are finally getting competent quarterback play. They're actually on schedule for what they're trying to build.
  10. Honestly, if they're going to give it to a quarterback, which they will, it should be either Josh Allen or Dak Prescott. Tua and Purdy are supplementary pieces, Lamar is coasting towards a #1 seed, and almost everyone else is injured. Allen and Prescott are the only two who's teams have lived and died based on their performance and they have played at an MVP level.
  11. The best two players in football this year have been Tyreek Hill and CMC, no one else should be in consideration. Everything their teams do is possible because every defense has to account for them on every play. My point about Lamar is less about everyone else and more about Lamar. This does not feel like a great Lamar Jackson season, even though they run the "we have Lamar" offense. He's been great, but not in the way that usually wins you an MVP. I think his best performance was week 4 against the Browns. I was reading after the game that the Browns defense played better than every defense that week, but if you watched the game Lamar just kept doing shit that nobody else could do. He won that game pretty much by himself because you can do everything perfectly, and Lamar can still beat you. He is the best example of Cam Newton's "game-breaker" point in the NFL. He's undefendable because you can't possibly account for everything he can do on every play. That said, he only has 19 TDs, which isn't an MVP number. Here is the list of quarterbacks who currently have 19 TDs, Derek Carr, Trevor Lawrence, Sam Howell, and Lamar Jackson. No one thinks any of those guys are having a good season, they've all been pretty bad. If he wins MVP, playing like he's played this year, what do you do when he's putting up stats? I'm not saying he won't win the MVP, but this has been a fair to middling Lamar season. He's their entire offense, they have the best record in the AFC, and at no point this entire year has he felt like he's been out of 2nd gear. We do not have to give the MVP to a quarterback every season, especially when the most deserving quarterback is going to throw fewer than 25 TDs in 17 games.
  12. If they give Lamar Jackson the MVP this year, they might as well give it to him every year, because this has been about as average of a Lamar Jackson season possible. He's been good, but there isn't anything special about this year as opposed to any other year of his career. He's kind of just doing his job.
  13. Yes, I've stated here multiple times that I'd rather have Jameis' recklessness over Carr's complete and total risk aversion. Interceptions are bad, but not as bad as not trying to make a play because you might make a mistake. Mistakes are part of the process, and if you aren't willing to risk making a mistake you're probably going to fail in most things, but especially as a quarterback.
  14. I used to work for a large retail store and we had our store brand for almost every snack food. If you were to look closely at the label you'd see that the store brand and the name brand both were exactly the same other than the name and the price. They just negotiated a deal with Planters to throw some of their nuts into a jar with a different label. Jacoby Brisset is as good as Deshaun Watson except the Browns are paying the name brand price.
  15. People acting like Cam Newton is crazy for separating game managers and game changers seem to forget that Cam won the Heisman, a national championship, an MVP, and got to a Super Bowl by being the only offensive player worth defending on any of those teams. He's 100% correct that there is a difference and mostly correct with the names that he named.
  16. I have no idea how to feel about Staley as a coach, because the parts of the job people complain about the most, aren't really the reasons why he sucks. Most of the 4th down decisions he made were solid decisions that didn't work out. I think his biggest flaw was that he seemed to get the worst out of his players. That's a talented team that never seemed to be on the same page at the same time. It doesn't help that Austin Ekeler went from one of the most productive players in the entire league to one of the least productive players in the league.
  17. Nothing says America more than Franco Harris getting honored after he's dead and this dude being honored when we just learned his name in the exact same ceremony.
  18. So, I'm not the only one who saw that dude and thought, "he's going to steal all of that poor kid's money."
  19. The size of lineman is always going to be secondary to the skill of the lineman. The Cowboys had a great offensive line because all of those massive dudes could play, not because of their size. If there is an issue with current line play it has very little to do with the size of the players and everything to do with the lack of skill on display. There are multiple teams that are consistent at the top of the league with their line play, and it's because they focus on the skills required to play at a high level. The Cowboys always seem to have a line full of future hall of famers for a reason. They're obviously picking the right players, but they're also emphasizing the skills it takes to maximize their abilities. Until McDaniels took over, the Dolphins spent countless draft picks in lineman who never seemed to pan out. Playing offensive line requires people to be large, but that size means next to nothing without the relevant skills. If you want to talk about how hard it is to teach these skills with limited practice, I'm all ears, but the size of the players is pretty far down the list of the problems with line play in my eyes.
  20. The Chiefs have multiple people who could have been called for lining up wrong on this play. You honestly can't tell who is supposed to be on the line and who is supposed to be off the line based on this formation. The right tackle and Kadarius Toney are both supposed to be on the line, but are almost 3 yards apart. Toney isn't even lined up with the ball, he's in front of it. The ball is behind the hashmark, his toe looks to be in front of the hashmark. You absolutely have to call that if you are the referee.
  21. I was talking to one of my friends about how I think His Flacco is the best quarterback the Browns have played this season. It isn't that Flacco is good, it's just he's the only one who has played in a way that made me think, "that's above the baseline for an NFL quarterback." Everyone else looked like every capable quarterback was kidnapped by terrorists and these were the guys who were left over. So if a Steelers fan thinks, "at least Kenny doesn't look like he is a replacement from when terrorists stole all the quarterbacks," I understand.
  22. R.I.P. Carlito. I can't believe Selena Gomez is dating that piece of shit from the Bronx.
  23. If this happened 2.5 years ago, and we're just heading about it they are absolutely putting it out there as justification for his firing. If his ass doesn't win the Super Bowl, you might as well invite him over to watch football with you next season. It might not be smart, but that's exactly what's happening here. If they fall out of playoff contention, he's gone. Maybe I'm just used to how the Commandos get down, but if we start hearing stories that only got out because somebody from the team put them out, they don't want anybody to be able to question that firing. If one of the players was going to snitch, it would have happened by now. This is from whoever is going to have to stand at a podium and answer questions about why you fired the most successful coach since Marv Levy.
  24. If you're trying to get fired, this is an interesting strategy. This is almost Papa John levels of, "we cannot possibly trust this person's judgement." Remember, Papa John didn't actually say the racist thing, but made everyone think, "oh my god, he's about to say the super racist thing," the entire time he was talking. The next thing you know, he wasn't allowed to sell pizza any more. The board of directors heard him taking and knew immediately they could never trust him to speak publicly again. This is close to that level of terrible judgement.
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