Chaos

I saw somewhere on Twitter that this happened at the 2021 Euro final in Wembley as well.. Apparently there's a Netflix doc about it: https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/what-happened-wembley-euro-2021-final-161217787.html

I've not put an insane amount of time into it until the last couple of weeks, and it'll be probably my "I need a breather for EA College football" game for a bit, but I really hate the pack logic and the token market this year. I'm debating if opening packs is even worth it or if just getting enough MFP and buying from the market specific cards is just the better route. The live events being tied to pack luck also is just dumbly frustrating for me.

I learned over the weekend that you can convert a disc version of a PS5 game to a digital purchase. I dumbly resubbed to Gamefly last month, and I wanted to send a game back that I was a few hours into, and it was on sale. You used to not be able to do that with games on playstation. That was a launch feature with the Xbox Series X. Also, I played through the tutorial of Helldivers 2 that I also got from Gamefly. I'm happy I got the game this way. I don't really have a group that I play with regularly (joys of being 37 and a friend group with various degrees of lives). How playable is the game if you just use random matchmaking? I didn't hop into a session past the tutorial because I was curious about this.

I back in May reupped my EA Play and then bought the MVP edition with the extra discount to get both games for $135. I may not get much sleep tonight. I wish I could find an excuse to be home at 3:00 PM Central.

I'm on the fence about even giving it a listen. I have just not liked any of the recent output. Marshall LP2 was the only enjoyable release I can recall in the last 20 years?

I'm leaning towards doing that. Closest RSD approved ones to me are 90 minutes or so away. I'm going to be in Atlanta next weekend, but I doubt Criminal Records will still have it by then given the Billy fan cult.

The new Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) album is fantastic and in a couple of listens might be my Album of the Year. Also, if you've never heard any quality Live Billy Strings and are curious, Live Vol 1 is worth a listen. I wish I had a independent record store in town, so I could snag the blue variant on vinyl that came out with it.

Sami Zayn intros a man he studied extensively for the WWE Vault with El Generico vs Samuray Del Sol from EVOLVE 17. https://youtu.be/KsmuFr8kyUM?si=MSHGSuWKidvbIVGj

I really wish EA would stealth drop this over the weekend for anyone that paid for early access. I'm out of town next weekend (promised to take the fiancée's kids to Top Golf and a Braves game in Atlanta along with their mom doing back to school shopping), so an unencumbered weekend with this would be nice.

The ladies Enigma took me two tries because the men’s one misleads you on the ratings. I kept knocking Zoey off the apron to get Shayna defeated. Nash birthday fell apart on me. I’ll make another attempt tomorrow.

I think Drew/Punk is going to build to a cell match at Bad Blood in Atlanta. EDIT: I also think bloodline wars takes off there with maybe Uso/GoD happening there.

I've kind of avoided the metered passing in Madden the last couple of games it's been a feature. I do think there's some mechanics in this game that will force me to probably play exclusively offline because I do not have the time or energy to "git gud" as the kids maybe still say these days. (I look way too young and feel way too old for 37 going on 38).

It could be a case of most of the work is done on both of those things, and the remaining team can polish it.

I made the mistake of going down a MyFaction rabbit hole this weekend, and I worked through some of the early Proving Grounds stages and started to catch up on the Weekly Tower stuff. I have still yet to complete a Faction Wars run, so I might try to do that this week before getting consumed with EA College Football. I tried the Blair Davenport live event and had zero luck with that. It's something that would probably take repeated rage inducing luck. I also tried the Manifestation event, and good God!

Fightful has this version of the ending.

RAW was background noise for me tonight. It felt very run-in/post match shenanigans heavy tonight. I’m interested in the Stark/Sonya/Shayna trio. The ending was just really good booking, and it was hard not to react in the moment. Dom finally gets the high of pinning his dad to that immediate uh oh!

I watched a couple minutes of this on Twitch earlier today. I might download it and give it a brief run even though I know better than to try any as a service games with my availability. I haven't touched my PS5 in over 2 weeks.

She played here at a nursery, which has become one of the unique venues in our small town. Can handle maybe 100 people in attendance. I regret not going to it. I just kept putting off buying the tickets for it.

Wasn't Golf found in the Switch OS early into the console's lifecycle when people were trying to jailbreak it?

I'm debating if this is the thing that will push me into getting a PS Portal, or will the latency be too much for even offline play.

Let's just say, this is going to dominate my hour count for the year. Excited to turn Auburn into the power it should be, and become a humble OC for Troy to work my way to the ranks to a top tier job.

I caved and got Balatro on my Switch last night. I'm sure I'll toy with it tonight since I was a bit distracted by the US's Copa game last night. I also have been troubleshooting my turntable to frustrating results.

It was such a frustrating game with brief glimpses of brilliance and inspiration from USMNT, but attacking third/around the box play just completely crumbled every time. Pulisic was getting openly frustrated about bad follow through on set pieces as well.

It was a boneheaded play, and then you quickly go up 1-0. At that point, you should probably focus more on defense to secure the result. Instead, you concede the tying goal four minutes later and spend the rest of the game playing on your heels as your team increasingly tires. This was especially noticeable as commentary frequently highlighted the challenge of playing a man down and the resulting fatigue in tonight's game. Not having Turner in the second half, due to poor play from Panama that caused him to take an ugly landing, did not help matters either. The US mishandled the Berhalter situation after the World Cup, which forced their hand into giving him another shot. Otherwise, I'm not sure he would be the manager heading into the Copa, given the team's performances since then. EDIT: My grammar was not great here, as I wrote it a bit stream of consciousness.

This was the first I've watched any significant amount of AEW in a few months. Although admittedly, I half watched the show while I cooked and also did some work that I have to do before a Monday morning staff meeting. I thought Zero hour was fun, and the crowd seemed amped. It just kind of died off for me after that. I'm about as big of a Danielson mark as anyone, and even that match did not fully click for me. If a match isn't working for me on a certain level, I am more likely to be annoyed by nearfalls that should have been definitive finishes, and I get the story here for Danielson, but he kicked out of at least two legit match enders. I hopped into the discord in the middle of ZSJ and OC and stayed until Moxley/Naito ended. I finally tapped out for the main and will probably watch at some point this week and give a couple of other things a second look. I had never seen Vaquer prior to tonight, and I came away impressed by her. I just think the match was a little long in front of a dead crowd that came alive to turn on Mercedes.