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I noticed that too, but I stubbornly tried to make him tap. I ended up completing all of the tiers. I've never been great at getting evolve cards to evolve quickly. What's the trick there? I'm guessing pick a weekly tower match and play it repeatedly until you hit everything? I repeated one that way yesterday to get the 4 times daily with one character challenge.

I was using 97 Rock because I didn't catch it was a submission match. I also picked the Strikers deck for my starter (I normally go Technicians), so I didn't have a lot of strong submission options.

Reddit and other social groups are fast to catch these. Also, there are web pages that track active codes.

90 was one of my favorites in the early days of broadening my beer taste horizons, and it was new to this area. It's been a few years since I've last had it, and I don't recall enjoying my last couple of experiences. My tastes have changed, and the quality has lessened since Boston Beer Company acquired them. I've only had 120 once. I'd have to drive 90 minutes into Panama City Beach or Tallahassee to find it given Alabama is capped at 13.9% ABV, but the fishfinder is not always the most reliable app, and despite living so close to the beach, I'm lucky if I go down there more than once a year (some years I don't make it at all).

I played around for about an hour last night, briefly playing with Showcase and MyFaction. I do not love that MyFaction forces you to use timed pin escapes. I've always preferred rapid pressing, even though my thumb is not the fastest. The complete scenario within 30 seconds prompt in Showcase is not ideal either as you usually don't notice the timer until it's too late. I had to stop the Steiners/Headshrinkers match due to missing it. I attempted one Live Event last night with Iron Sheik, and he's not super difficult in regards to getting offense, but getting him to submit was not great. I'll try again today I guess along with playing through some other pieces. Tonight, I think I'll continue Showcase, start MyGM, and do some more in MyFaction.

I would concur with the voice actress for V during the few hours I played Cyberpunk ages ago. That's actually part of my weekend plans is to find something longer to stick with because I have so many games people love that I've barely touched or touched ages ago and forgotten everything in and probably need to just start from the beginning.

Try blonde, quasi-IT guy that tries to be cool and look handsome... In some ways mentally, you never escape high school.

I've gotten to where more and more that it's been my choice on character creators for RPG-likes. Otherwise, I find I just tend to create an avatar for myself which is what I do in sports games.

I'm happy I didn't drop money on Veilguard a couple of months ago. I've played through most of the opening hours. This will motivate me to finish it. I can't recall which Sonic games people liked and didn't like. I bought cowabunga on the Switch, so it's cool to have it elsewhere.

The 2K one feels more casual than the EA one for me. I've never really put much time into the latter because I cannot get the mechanics down. Both 2k21 and 2k23 were kind of comfort food that I played kind of mindlessly and actually found oddly relaxing.

I'm not much of a fighting game player, but I have loved the last few iterations of Mortal Kombat and Injustice. I finally started MK1 after getting it with the expansion off of PSN last week. I'm not sure I love how this one plays early on. It feels slower and less responsive to me, and it's added a little more complexity from stuff like Street Fighter with the meter boosts on specials. I'm sure I'll get in the groove, but I definitely have not gotten in the flow from the first couple of story chapters I played last night. (The story as always is really well done as a presentation).

For those of you that play FM on here, it sounds like they opted to not release FM25. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/football-manager-25-cancelled-delays-111155220.html

That's an odd claim when the market is exercising clear games as a service fatigue barring the staying power of Fortnite and the unexpected success of Helldivers. Marvel Rivals is more about the IP than it being a type of game people are clamoring for in 2025.

I saw the MLB account promote being able to avoid tags. My thought was, "because you want to have a new feature that can be cheesed in a game."

This is happening, and I may be dumb enough to double dip on it since I'm rocking a Series S on the Xbox side. https://forza.net/news/forza-horizon-5-comes-to-ps5

Yeah, this is probably in the list of games I sunk a ton of hours into ages ago and will probably have to restart from the beginning because I remember nothing and there's enough nuance to either the story or the combat (in this case, the combat).

Also worth noting is that this year will not be on Gamepass as the announcement said "no subscription services." I'm guessing it's a little bit of a) they probably feel the audience is big enough that people will pay and b) Microsoft didn't foot the bill forward to MLB/Sony because they're dealing with some things right now.

I finally made my SNES Mini more easily accessible. I think it's on that too.

I don't know. I was probably in the camp of them calling it the Super Switch would have been fun and right there to do.

The old beer thread here died a few years ago. My palet lately has narrowed back to mostly IPAs, especially NE/Hazys. Distribution in my part of Alabama is lackluster and has gotten worse over the years. Alabama also doesn't really make getting out of market beer easier through shipping because everything has to kiss the ABC Cartel ring. If I don't drink IPAs, I will occasionally go for a stout or a sour. I tend to shy away from anything too malt forward, which in recent years just gives me more of a gag reaction than anything. Recently, one spot in town got in a case of Parish West Coast Ghost, which I love any of their ghost variants and this one did not disappoint. I have a list of breweries that I wish I had easier access too, but I've always been hesitant on trying to actively seek finding connections in markets to ship stuff too me (for example, I would love to get some Tree House my way on occasion).

I blew through it this week and finished the finale this morning. I thought it was the most fun, baggage-free content they've made in some time, and it was smart not to have it heavily embedded in other canon and lore. It really could live inside its own bubble and thrive, and I thought it was a strong use of Jude Law's star power. I also think that's a character that is interesting enough for them to use again if it makes sense because you can see some internal conflict in the character. Wisely, it never felt forced nor addressed in some heavy-handed way, and that might be because you're trying to see this through the perspective of these kids.

I'm up to Chapter 17 now. I thought I could power through that before bed last night and then touch the ending today or over the weekend. I got through most of the platform puzzle stuff and figured I was heading into one boss fight. Once I looked up how much longer I had, it was in my best interest to pause for the evening. The upcoming boss fights in this chapter seem like a doozy. I also probably should be better leveled and have better stats than I do. (between levels 36-37 and don't have the defense stats needed). I've been opting to max out material slots in gear when getting the upgrade points.

Nintendo announced a direct for 2.9. They claim it's to focus on games that release during the first half of the year, so I would neither be surprised by nor count on a Switch 2 announcement. If the rumor last week was true, that would have to be soon as the launch window might be around April.

One of my goals this year is to spend my limited gaming time focusing more on backlog and single-player experiences (my limited time tends to end up going to sports games, wwe 2k, or the occasional games as a service venture). That means a lot of games that I've partially started may have to go back to the beginning because I remember nothing. I'm almost 5 years into my FF7 Remake playthrough of starts and stops (bought it at launch) with significant progress made through some of last year before stopping again. I'm finishing up a couple of sidequests in chapter 14 before moving on to the final linear stretch of the game and then jumping into Integrade. One thing I've noticed is that some of the trophies never triggered (like defeating a summon). I'm not sure if that's a glitch from upgrading or what. I also am not sure if I missed one of the Johnny events because I finished his last piece and it didn't trigger.

Since the Hogan thing has been a topic since it happened, I really want to know if anyone asked themselves if having him there in that moment was a good idea. Booking Hogan in California in LA in front of a fairly heavy Hollywood crowd has to be one of the worst cases of "read the room" of the HHH/Khan era if not in any era. Given how Hogan went straight through it like he memorized the script over and over again shows that even he was aware that was probably going to happen.