Chaos

Yeah, after saying i was not falling pray to it again this year. I bought the MVP Bundle for Madden/CFB. I'm excited to plop into CFB for another year. Sports Games are my ultimate money/time suck and why I need to quit paying money for games for like 3-5 years (outside of GTA VI).

This has been kind of my turn brain off and play game instead of touching my endless backlog. I mess with MyFaction a lot, but I wouldn't say I have unlocked everything. In the weeklys, I've gotten slightly stuck on the 4 man HIAC match. I did have one of my most rewarding wins ever in one of these 2Kgames with the Cody/Kevin Owens Myfaction ladder match. The ladder mechanics are so bad this year that I was able to withstand multiple should-lose moments and pull down the briefcase. I did login at lunch today and looked at the live events. I decided to open a Legends II pack and got the Mr. Perfect card needed for the HBK 94 card (first time I've ever had that kind of Pack luck).

I am not sure when I'm getting a Switch 2. Life is filled with financial hurdles at the moment, but the hype made me take my Switch to the beach with my pro controller, a dock, and a couple extra joy cons for the kids for the post-wedding beach trip for my wife and I. My Pro Controller got left in the condo or i can't find it since getting back, and the cleaning crew claims they couldn't find it. My friend code is SW-3812-1439-8988. I have two friends on my Nintendo account. I could not tell you who either is.

I'm aware, but I think Punk in an interview recently oddly mentioned wanting to get one with him while they could.

Tonight could be the last time we get Punk and AJ together in a wrestling match. I hope not. I'd like to see them have a 20+ minute fun 1v1 together one last time.

GUNTHER removed anything not related to his wife, which was interesting.

Looks like he's somewhat quietly letting that happen. He removed most WWE references from his X account yesterday. That's one that is a bit shocking to me because Miz for so long was the definition of Mr. WWE PR.

Vegas for the second straight year is certainly a choice. Not a fan of that one.

I really cannot stand wrestling influencer Twitter. The "this is cinema" or "this is art" or faux God-like worship from many of these accounts (and I only really follow the bigger ones) makes me queasy. I occasionally debate unfollowing most wrestling accounts for that reason, but I still wouldn't avoid them because of a group text I'm in. The complete lack of sincerity and dignity is why we are where we are as a society in many ways, which is agnostic to all political persuasions. I only saw an image of Stark's injury, and I hope she comes back and can get a decent run. It feels like she's been pretty snake-bitten throughout her WWE tenure. I only caught the end of RAW last night, and I agree with the sentiments of Jey/Bron working well together.

This is going to be the first 500GB install on consoles, isn't it?

He was part of the Jey/Gunther build with a few weeks ago. He and Waller were also in Vengeance Day against Oba Femi a couple months ago.

It does show you that things don't have the reach that they used to because this did not hit my algorithms at all until I saw this. That's a really weird move after they just started powerblock, also different vibe than them celebrating Minotti for Gamesbeat being independent last week.

I guess viewing Cloud/Sephiroth as a Neo/Mr. Smith pairing or even that canonically the MKverse keeps rebooting itself over and over again, then it might actually reframe this new trilogy for me, which I haven't started Rebrith yet past the NIbelheim prologue (I went back to being 10-11 years old playing through that sequence) and still need to finish Integrade.

If McBride/Hill make another one of these series, we probably should create McBride/Hillverse thread. I'm going to be really sad when this one ends. Our enjoyment of Gemstones finally made me go back and watch Vice Principals all the way through as well.

I got my 360 around mid-console lifecycle and never made time for it. I'm excited to give it a whirl tonight.

I'm sure it was tame compared to whatever energy Heyman was bringing on McAfee today.

I said this in a chat to a friend that his match with AJ last week was probably the best match he's had in his entire WWE and NXT run, and it was just a "solid tv match." I think his usage as some agent of chaos has been smart the last year or so. It just needs to be leveraged a tad bit more.

Just seems to be the continued curse of Onana. He seems to falter down the final stretches of a match after playing well to start. It's inexcusable to concede a 2-0 lead on this stage.

Rumor is Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake might be getting announced and released next week.

The DLC option to unlock everything used to be something you had to prompt the game to do for you. I believe it was labeled "accelerator" a few years ago.

Teasers for trailers are dumb, but we make exceptions when they involve Paul Thomas Anderson working with LEO! https://youtu.be/9u-2yB8GJ-Q

Bonds would have to be a deal directly with him, right? He famously left the Players Association around his peak homerun season and the peak of his accusations.

Yeah, I used all of my MFP to get Michelle McCool (not exactly one I'd willingly pick but needed in the moment). I'm lucky I had not elevated my Stratton card yet. I also cannot tell you how many matches I've lost early just because my timing is a fraction off from the large window you get on early kickouts. I'll probably take the early part of this as far as I can and never touch it again. I still have all of the VC from the preorder, and am not sure if I'll save it for MF or if I'll use it on The Island even though I will almost never touch competitive play. That's the thing that 2K needs to accept with these games. They're not built for competitive play. There's too much cheese potential, latency concerns, and the fact this isn't hyper technical like your hardcore fighting games are.

Jai Alai is still produced, but it's basically the only beer coming out of there these days. On occasion, you can find a double imperial called Florida Man that's not terrible. Monster took over them a long time ago. Their head brewer before the sale was a dude from Enterprise, AL. Our local brewery here used to make a NYE collab beer with them that was solid.

The really sad one is Cigar City in Tampa who made some fun beers, and they recently basically had their brew team and production shut down. Craft beer in general is on a decline because production costs are significantly up making it hard to produce, people are drinking less in general because quitting alcohol is huge in the influencer space these days or if they are they're doing low cal vodka seltzers, and being California sober is more the norm as legalization continues to expand.