Craig H
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If I didn't grow up as a Bulls fan then I'd certainly would be a Pacers fan. I always liked Reggie Miller, but some of that may have been because of basketball video games when I was younger. I'm happy they're doing well, but I have never been able to get into them or get behind them. It would be fucking rad if they won it all this year and took a big shit on the NBA's and ESPN's desires for a big market team winning the Finals this year.
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Not going to lie - I got teary eyed during the Hangman and Ospreay promo, more so for what Hanger was saying. It’s pretty rare that I’ll do that for wrestling. Last time was probably for Cody winning the title. Hangman just connects with crowds and people in a way no other wrestler does. He’s cutting a promo, but he also feels very genuine and relatable. And Ospreay did a great job too.
More and more I think they need to go with the idea I think Dolfan had a few weeks ago. Hangman and Ospreay go to a draw and you do the WM X thing where Hangman takes on Swerve or someone else to open All In followed by Moxley vs Ospreay, or reverse the order of those two matches, and then Hangman vs the winner of Ospreay vs Mox (likely Mox) in the All In main event. Ospreay has Hangman’s back in the main event, Hangman grants Ospreay a title match at Forbidden Door, and so on.
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Are they still making the TLOU multiplayer game?
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This is the lamest and most limp dicked revenge hellride ever. It was a good/great episode that highlighted the glaring weaknesses with the game and the tv series. Everything is just so uneven and narratively out of order.
And because I’m dumb and watched the preview for next week I’m extra confused about next week because it looks like they speedrun to the theater, Lev, and the end of the game to where it makes me wonder if S3 is all Abby. I’m beginning to even wonder if…
SpoilerThey even kill Jesse and shoot Tommy this season.
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I don't buy that. They had a mountain of evidence that the Empire was acquiring massive amounts of exotic materials that would only be used for energy and weaponry and both. You don't go through the hassle they did on Ghorman to just acquire another power source. You don't stockpile and acquire all of the kyber for nothing. They also had more than one source saying the empire was building a super weapon. They didn't know it was a planet killer, but there was too much evidence and too many voices pointing towards the Empire plotting something very cataclysmic. I would accept the Alliance taking everything at face value and then being skeptical of what the weapon is and if it would even work. Hell, I just watched Rogue One and even Tarkin, the Emperor, and others were skeptical if such a weapon could actually work until they test fired it using only one reactor. I think the wording used was something along the lines of that they needed proof of concept and weren't at the stage of sending a message just yet.
It took Jedha and a significant portion of the planet being destroyed for the leadership of the Alliance to say, oh, ok, yeah, they're making a super weapon. Like, no shit. What else were they doing? Manufacturing a shit ton of lightsabers and creating a power source for the galaxy and not for their own nefarious purposes?
And that stupidity continued to trickle on down even after the second Death Star and the Emperor were killed. Despite the Empire having a large presence throughout the galaxy, they decided to disarm or rather have a reduction in arms because they thought their work was done. As dumb as JJ's entries into canon were, something like Starkiller Base isn't created in secret and the formation of the First Order doesn't happen in secret. I mean, how are you going to disregard what Leia, a general, is saying to you? Even if some of the dumber parts of the sequel trilogy don't happen, leadership would have to know just how metastasized the Empire was throughout the galaxy, Thrawn was lurking out in exile, and the wealthy were selling weaponry to both the Republic and someone else. Who would they think that someone else was. PRIMARY MON MOTHMA!
If anything, the First Order did the entire galaxy a favor by wiping out the seat of the Republic and a bunch of other planets.
Sorry, me disagreeing turned into a long rant about some of the idiocy of the writing for Star Wars.
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And K-2SO still rules.
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But yeah, like RandomAct said, these two seasons were just beautiful and peak Star Wars. I really need to give Rogue One a rewatch tonight or tomorrow.
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The other striking thing was that the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance council blew off Cassian’s warning that the Empire was building a super weapon and almost begrudgingly accepted that maybe something was happening and then they do the exact same thing to Leia when she tried warning the New Republic about the rise of the First Order and what they were up to.
So many pointless and needless sacrifices and deaths from the Alliance/Republic. Like, wtf do you think they need that much kyber for? A giant lightsaber?
They are just frustratingly dumb to the point where I hate they’re written that way because it makes me feel like they got what they deserved which is definitely not the message they’re trying to send with those movies and tv shows.
Can we please just start writing the leadership of the good guys in a way that they suffer setbacks or deaths or tragedies because fighting against a machine the size of the Empire and First Order is incredibly hard and not because they’re just so fucking naive and stupid.
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I’m glad Andor continues the long tradition of showing that the leadership of the Rebel Alliance/New Republic are dumb as fuck and it’s a fucking miracle that they were able to overcome the Empire/First Order. Although I suppose you could chalk that up to an equal amount of hubris and stupidity on the part of the Empire and First Order.
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HELL YEAH, FUCK YEAH.
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I can only get so hard.
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Ok. Clair Obscura is really fucking rad. This has to be one of the most unique and good battle systems I’ve played in an RPG.
Only thing that sort of bugs me are the words not coming close to matching up with the character’s mouths. That’s pretty minor though.
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They're not gaming comedy. It just happened that when they'd talk about games it would be funny sometimes because they were without a leash and free to basically say the things that we all thought. But I would not describe them as gaming comedy. Not the least.
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Praise Game Pass. Downloading it now. I'm just hoping that if I start a session on the PC that I can continue on my Xbox on the big tv.
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On 5/9/2025 at 6:09 PM, AxB said:
I am watching Creed 2, and in one specific aspect it has not aged well.
It is established early on that Ivan and Viktor Drago are from Kyiv, Ukraine. But the big match "on their home turf" takes place in Moscow, Russia. That just feels wrong, in 2025.
Yeah I thought the same thing. Hell, I thought that when it came out because while there wasn’t a full blown invasion, there was still fighting in the Donbass and Crimea was occupied. It just was very tone deaf.
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Billy Bob’s wife on Landman is one of the worst written characters I’ve ever seen. Holy shit.
Honestly, I’m only watching this because Billy Bob is really good in it. I guess Jon Hamm is too. Everyone else is written like a fucking caricature.
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I was bored while making a craft so I decided to watch Landman for whatever reason. It does feel gross because it’s not very MAGA-y, but it feels like I’m being lectured to by oil companies at times for why renewables are just as bad for the environment as oil. Aside from that, this is pretty fucking funny. Every episode that I watched, which was 4 of them, gave me a pretty big laugh.
I feel really bad for the guy that plays Billy Bob’s son on the show. He is somehow uglier and more rat faced than Alfie Allen.
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Well shit. I'm sold.
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1 hour ago, Kevin Wilson said:
In simple non-spoiler terms, its a story-driven turn based RPG, but during battles there are timed button inputs for dodging/parrying attacks and a QTE to hit for your attack for extra damage. Getting the timing right for dodges and parries isn't optional to get a little less damage done, if you don't get them right sometimes you are gonna die. Also, every character has a.... method to make their attacks more powerful by how you use them, so there is always some calculating to do the most damage possible. I guess that is to say calling it just a turn based RPG sells it short as there is a lot going on during battles besides "attack this turn" "potion this turn" "defend this turn" etc.
Sounds pretty dope. What is the story about? Typical saving the world stuff?
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I'm not gonna lie...I haven't watched any videos of Clair Obscur and up until a day or two ago had no interest in it primarily because the name is incredibly dumb. That is also very dumb and vain, I understand. However, it's like the fucking thing at this moment and it's all anyone is talking about or doing videos for. One dude I relied on for Last Epoch and Path of Exile videos is now doing videos for Clair Obscur. So I guess in the simplest way possible, wtf is this game?
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Oh man, now THAT would get Cena some forever heel heat - getting Vin Diesel to interfere to help Cena win a match.
But there is no fucking way ol' Vin is taking the ego hit from getting booed.
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It's weird you don't know given how long you've been gaming and on how many corners of the internet you're on.
It's a games website. Maybe one of the best. They probably laid the foundation for independent games journalism, podcasts, and long form videos and streams. It started a couple years before my daughter was born, I think, so around 2008. The original crew was Jeff Gerstmann who was fired from Gamespot because he wouldn't change his Kane and Lynch review and then spoke out about review practices over there (under an older leadership that has been dead for a long time). Ryan Davis from Gamespot joined him. So did Vinny Caravella and Brad Shoemaker. Once Alex Navarro was done with making Rock Band games he joined the crew as well. Others came on board, content remained great, they partnered with a company called Whiskey Media to keep them going, they came close to being killed off and then Ryan Davis died and there was a massive outpouring of support which showed just how much Giant Bomb meant to so many people. The site stayed alive, it was eventually sold to Gamespot and CBS because there was new ownership there. Since then, it has been sold too many times. Brad, Vinny, and Alex all left and formed Nextlander, The last corporate owners were Fandom, who fucking suck. Jeff was looking at putting in his two weeks because he had a new kid on the way, said he needed some time off, they fired him instead, which was super shitty. From that point on the site has been jerked around in multiple directions. A week ago it looked like the site was dead on the same day Polygon was sold and essentially died. Then as of yesterday, the main guys remaining at Giant Bomb purchased the site back from Fandom and it's back to being fully independent again.
Why does that matter? When so many gaming sites are dying, the good ones anyway, it started looking incredibly dark when Giant Bomb and Polygon both looked like they were done. Giant Bomb staying alive is a faint glimmer of hope for people that want to report on games, not do reviews of games and do longer videos instead to show you what you're in store for, a podcast that doesn't pull any punches when it comes to talking about the shittier aspects of the gaming industry and what everyone is playing from bigger games to independent games, etc.
It's an awesome site that has never not had excellent people working there and with how bleak gaming looked over the last week or two, this makes me feel really fucking good.
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I hate everything about this Cena turn. Like everything lately, started hot and not it's a wet fart. The booking in these matches is beyond fucking dumb. Tonight was even worse with every top official coming out AFTER Cena destroys the ref with a belt shot. How the fuck is that not a DQ? This shit is dumb.
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Same here. Like, Casian Andor? Really? Why do we need a series just for him. And ultimately the series is more about what happens between Palpatine declaring himself emperor. Casian doesn't even need to be there, but it doesn't hurt that he's there.
Marvel TV & Movies - 2025
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I figured it would have to happen, but Doomsday was pushed back to 12/18/2026 and Secret Wars was pushed back to 12/17/2027. I kept thinking there was no way they were going to get Doomsday out by May of next year unless it was like 90 minutes long. I wonder what this does for the rumored Doctor Strange/Time Runs Out movie.