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Was digging through my basement and found a few of the sourcebooks from the Mayfair DC RPG. One of them being "The Atlas of the DC Universe" which had this fun page breaking down the professional basketball, football, and hockey teams of DC in 1990:

Rey and AJ, when healthy, are also used more actively in matches and can be plugged in anywhere on the card. Carlito and Truth while consistently on TV weren't being used in actual matches very often. In terms of use, Miz is kinda the happy medium between the two groups.

One of the things I decided to do this summer was work my way back through the Sonic franchise. I had beat Sonic 1 in like the last year or two, so I started with Sonic 2. I figured I'd play it as close as possible to the original experience so I decided I would only use save states for when I stopped playing and not to continue if I was out of lives and continues. This means that at one point I started over from the beginning but it really wasn't that bad because the spots that I lost lives on I didn't the second time through. That was until I got to the last level... Two bosses, no checkpoints, and no rings? Jeez. I have no problem saying that I used save states to get through that. I'm fairly confident now that I've done it that I can probably do it without using save states but I'm filing that and getting all Chaos Emeralds for far far down the road.

Probably spent the most time since the NBA Playoffs started with the game and MyFaction. Knocked out all of the new LEs for the DLC pack. Sapphire Stephanie vs. Amethyst Charlotte with a 90 MFP requirement four times was a bit of a challenge. I pinned her twice before I figured that was good enough and beat her by countout the last two times. Giulia/Rhea was pretty easy and MCMG's triple threat TLC was no worse than any other triple threat TLC match. When they were in the Upcoming the LEs were listed as giving Superstar Super Packs but I think they realized how much MFP people have been getting from those and switched them to WM packs. I was still able to upcycle the MFP from the WrestleMania packs into Superstar Super Packs to earn enough to get Johnny and do his Encore Boss Battle to get Asuka. Still going miss out on Ultimate Challenge II and III unless they encore them since the WM Series 2 encores are currently scheduled after the UC II and UC III end. I probably should spend some time in Faction Wars and work on the card market in there since I've finished off the new cities in the World Tour and I've pretty tapped out all the non-grinding ways to earn MFP at the moment.

Jonathan Kuminga out here having his best game of his NBA career. However things go, he's made himself a bunch of money tonight.

7 quarters without Steph and the Warriors have a 1-1 split, far worse fates than that. Got good minutes from TJD and best Kuminga has looked since coming back from the ankle injury. T'wolves haven't done anything in the first 2 games to rule out the Warriors potentially getting a split at Chase.

Well this is not what I was expecting from this game. T'wolves really being nice enough to play so poorly that I'm not feeling worried about Steph going out in the second quarter.

Six games and haven't been able to figure out the two big zone look, seventh time is the charm, right?

Draymond was probably the happiest you can be after losing a game in the playoffs when they asked him about it in the post-game presser.

Honestly a lot of Warriors people were thinking that we'd get Game 5 of the Memphis series where Memphis blew out the Warriors. Funny enough Warriors were down 27 at the half in both games. Did not expect the fourth quarter to be that entertaining between Houston having to put the starters back in and the kerfuffle. Pat Spencer shall be forever a Warriors legend.

Houston really needs to find an offensive identity and answer for "Who do you go to at the end of games?" As it stands I really don't feel like they currently have that person on their roster.

So this a sign that they're finally actually going somewhere with Kross, right? The Smackdown promos seem to point to Black returning on Smackdown. I did on the other hand look at my Rusevian calendar and April 21, 2025 is Rusev Day.

Sunday Schedule: 8th seed vs. OKC at 1(ABC), Orlando vs. Boston at 3:30(ABC), 8th seed vs. Boston at 7(TNT), Warriors vs. Houston at 9:30(TNT). Surprised that Warriors/Houston didn't get the 3:30 matinee slot.

Yeah, my biggest problem with the ambulance/casket matches in general were that you had to basically beat the computer to a pulp before you could win the mini-game. I had noticed this one too.

Finally beat the Sami ambulance Live Event which definitely felt like an accomplishment when I did it. Only tried the Taker Underground match once and got dogwalked but still feels like it should be less of a chore once I get Taker's sig and finisher reversals down.

Great game, great play, can't be mad about that loss. Yay for meaningful basketball.

Scary fall for Jaylen Wells in Charlotte. People really need to stop trying to contest layups/dunks when they have zero chance of actually blocking the shot. Also the first NBA game I've ever witnessed where they had to wait to resume the game because the player had to be taken to the hospital, so they have to wait for a replacement ambulance to come.

He just wanted to eat his cereal!

I know that the Nuggets are trying to maximize the Jokic years but I have to wonder if there's a 1 to 2 year plan where they can retool their roster to get them a little bit of depth and take some of the load off of Jokic. I know Murray is out but even when he's healthy the Nuggets seem to have to play way too hard to win games.

With the way Steph, Draymond, and Jimmy are playing I think the window is still open. But AD has been a horrible matchup for us, he locks down the paint, can defend out to the 3, and we had no real defensive answer to him. I think I still have PTSD from that semifinals series against the Lakers.

It might be too soon for me to say this but I'm so thankful that the Lakers traded AD away.

I love the randomness of Nova getting his mid-90's look with the classic costume but the long hair flowing out of the helmet.

Will say that I was a bit disappointed that the Street Profits seemed to lose the edge they've had in the past couple weeks last night. Sure Tez didn't seem to be doing great with the grills in his mouth but it did seem like they came out and were the old Profits just with new music.

I never want to do a hud-less 6 man ladder match again, I can safely classify my victory in that one as complete luck.

I think World Tour is an overall upgrade for MyFaction but Dallas is a bit annoying with needing three male Legends cards and two female Legends cards to complete. On the male side there are at least a good amount of 13k male cards to buy but on the female side the only cheap option is Molly. I'll take it as a sign that I probably should explore more of the game.