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All 3 Effies are speed down for the record

Hype!

Was pulling for Effie or Kagero. Ended up with a +Spd / -Def Kagero so stopped and switched to spring banner but got nothing off that.

Kagero is good though I guess.

Also got to my first 20k feathers so have decisions to make

Well I got a 100 gem 5* but it was Yuna Chaos Rod which I though was off banner until I went and checked. It's my 3rd Chaos Rod in like a week or so. I pulled 2 in the festival too

If I get to the point where I need someone else to look after me in order for me to carry on living then it's not worth me living anymore anyway as I would no longer enjoy life.

And I'm sure I will have plenty of money to make sure someone could take care of me anyway if it came to that.

I listen to Le Batard all the time and love the show. But he does get like that and it amazes me that some people agree to be on the show without knowing that it is never a serious interview.

Like friends/agents/whatever should warn you about the content of the show if you're not certain

I've used holiday days for this purpose, never sick days though

Problem is, who is there even out there who can flat out murder Reigns to get that crazy pop. I can't think of anyone on the roster.

Also, can we add conditional cuts to our PM's? I.e. If we are successful in signing this player then cut blah blah?

I know that you won't know whether to go ahead with the cuts until all bids are inputted but it would at least allow you instantly update the contract stuff for phase 2/3

I don't see any harm in you trying to do something for them. Teams already pay a really heavy penalty for idling during contract renewals.

Well Ramza tends to cover a lot of medal conditions via breaks. So you'd have to take up a slot on one of your other people if Agrias SB didn't meet the condition.

Read the comments.
'You have met a Serrable Fate'.
Did not disappoint!

I think with the PPV model they have in place now, they feel the need more than ever to run stories past WM due to having part-timers/one off performers at WM and then having another PPV so shortly after WM. So they carry some stories few to avoid a complete blank state and naturally it's the guys who are around full-time that have the stories carry through

Also conclusions on a pre-show is a really sucky way to end a story as a lot of people won't see it.

Never gone a week but I have gone Weds through to Monday multiple times due to lack of available showers (camping out at a music festival).

Glad I'm not the only one who gets annoyed by that. I was actually going to post complaining about it too

KCF0107 posted...

I can confirm that the highest rated rookies were Pioneers QB Russell Wilson and Raiders FS Reshad Jones at 88

That's how you know the computer cheats at drafts! Wasn't Reshad Jones like a massive reach for them that we mocked on draft night as a wtf are they doing moment because they need other positions and that is a huge reach

Surprised at the 88 QB!

Does the casual audience ever care about pre-show match results though? Might be wrong but my perception was the the majority don't watch them so defeats in pre-shows aren't that damaging.

Stupid ticket websites. That's 3 times now where when on the final step of ordering when payment goes through it says no longer available. And I'm not paying 2-3x as much as what I just agreed to!

I think my haul from Lucky Banners and Fest is okayish.

All my Bursts (except one) came from the Lucky Banner. So the Fest banners themselves felt disappointing despite the OSB's as I wasn't getting any Bursts and I got a lot of dupes or double relic pulls from the SSB's.

OSB
Terra
Squall
OK
Gilgamesh
Bartz

BSB
Yshtola
Quistis
Snow
Agrias

SSB
Celes Indomitable Blae
Selphie Dreamstage
Ramza Chant (x2)
Yuna Chaos Rod (x2)
Krile Sheepsong (x2)
Vincent SSB (Dupe)
Ovelia SSB (Dupe)
Vanille SSB (Dupe)

SB
Squall en-ice (Dupe)

That's exactly why I don't bumrush draws because every time I've done it in the past I've ended up with shit draws and then felt super pissed at the game

Tickets down to $45 now. Might be 30 by the time I'm home!

TheRock1525 posted...

I picked a section with a lot of open seats but you might find better seats with one open spot

Which section did you pick? Just got out of hairdressers now

I see tickets have dropped to $65 now for nosebleeds. The rain when it's an open stadium probably doesn't help!

I see some tickets for like $90 right now so might still go. Gonna see if I can round up a friend to go with me

It's doable if you have the dungeons available. Unless all your stamina shard dungeons are the 40+ ones at half price then it isn't

You're trying to get 50 before the end of Banner 5? You'll get 2 days worth of login bonus + festival stage changeover. So that's like half of it.

I mentioned it because a lot of the negative things I've seen posted about the film revolved around whitewashing. And I always wonder did you only not like it because of the whitewashing? I don't give two shits about whitewashing and I enjoyed the movie. I liked the characters, I liked the story and I liked the action scenes.

Bottom line is I spent $15 to watch it including the beer I bought. It took up 2 hours of my time. 2 hours 30 if you include the walk to and back home from the cinema. And I felt it was money well spent for the time consumed.

I went to see it last night and I liked it. I don't see whitewashing as a big deal and it doesn't bother me whatsoever

I generally use Tickpick to get tickets for stuff. There's less tickets on there but the price it displays is the actual price you pay. None of this your ticket is X and now there's all these extra fees which are ridiculously high. And usually it works out cheaper too.

I'll go if I find a ticket for the right price but otherwise will just watch it at home or in a bar. You're more than welcome to join me if you don't pick up a ticket Rock

I would play the hell out of that. Alas it is April 1st so the chance of it being legit is slim!

If you want Cena to lose and then propose, he would have to do so by losing due to trying to protect Nikki from something (I.e. he values her above winning). If you do it just 'because' whether it's a win or loss, it looks bad. It could be seen as either doing it in a moment of celebration or doing it to make you feel better after a loss.

Whereas if there's an actual sacrifice involved that results in the loss and then he proposes, it looks a little better I guess.

TheRock1525 posted...

I ain't gonna lie, I always liked this WM30 promo better than Monster:

https://youtu.be/y0v4J1JsJeI

I liked the promo but the problem I had with it was it was hard to buy how in any way, shape or form that Cena's legacy was somehow on the line.

Also, I agree with you that Monster is slightly overrated. The story was fantastic and the actual video was great but I don't think 'Monster' fits Bryan at all.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Ouch. How many turns did you have a chance to draw into it?

5. And I was down to single digits on cards left

He only got the upper hand because he got an Illidan from a summon a random demon card and then I got Doppelgangster from Firelands

Just had an Arena match that I lost but was praying for me to draw Pyroblast because my opponent made no attempt to play around it despite having me on the backfoot and that likely being the only possible out. I mean he put himself into Pyroblast range when there was no reason to risk it. Then when he got a Friendly Bartender to get out of Pyroblast range, he immediately put himself back into it.

He so deserved to be Pyroblasted with his play and I'm annoyed it never came

It looks good now but for so long back then it looked like they were just going to tease and tease and tease but never give us what we wanted with Bryan. I think that was the most frustrated I had ever been with WWE with how long they dragged that out. Even now it still feels like one of the few times the fans forced their hand rather than it actually being their plan.

Obviously it worked out in the end so it's all good but I was so certain it wouldn't for the longest time. I mean that Bray feud looked like the death knell for Bryan's story

Just finished putting together a stat sheet for all my players over the last 2 years. Man, I miss Vrabel!

I was thinking Ted Beardless might be looking to be a bust / rotation player at best after being a 2nd rounder with little growth (He's an 82 DE now). But apparently that's on me as he has made only 9 Tackles in 2 years so basically hasn't played >_>

I hadn't really paid much attention to him either but I'd guess for a SS Jermaine Phillips has put up relatively impressive numbers (124 Tackles,5 Sacks, 1FF, 6FRs, 3 INTs over 2 years). Also I knew Winston made a large step up in productivity last season but didn't realize just how much (13 Blocks, 4 Sacks 1st year and 47 Blocks, 5 Sacks 2nd year)

Kinda upset I only have 2 years worth of data. I love stats! >_>

So if your disc or playstation broke you're essentially f***ed and have to start over?

WWE announces a 32 competitor women's tournament. Do they even have 32 women to do this?

Even if it was yours, why would you care? I mean you dodged a bullet!

Pulled again. 2/11 - Ramza SSB and Agrias Burst

Well I got one of the items I wanted. Was really hoping for at least 2 of the items I wanted off of 100 but I guess I'll take 1. Doubt I'll pull again this fest as it would have to be paid. So that brings my haul to

1/11 - OK OSB
100 Gem - Selphie Dreamstage
3/11 - Gilgamesh OSB, Krile SSB x2
1/11 - Bartz OSB
2/11 - Ramza Chant, Yuna SSB (Dupe)
2/11 - Ramza Chant (Dupe), Agrias BSB

A little underwhelming as I had hope for more but I guess it could have been worse.

2/11 - Ramza Chant and Yuna SSB (Dupe)

Now I have to decide whether I want to throw another 50 at it knowing it would likely mean I get no shot at banner 5. I think the answer is yes because I have a lot of dupes on each banner (5 on banner 4, 3 on banner 5) but more wants on banner 4 (5) than banner 5 (2 wants, 1 whatever)

So yes, you are reading that right. Banner 5 is 10 items, I have 5 of them yet still want the remaining 5. The 5 I already have are all the SSB's and lower + Alphinaud BSB.

They don't become the Nets but they are certainly down there. I'm a Magic fan and looking at that OKC team, they are not better than us minus Westbrook and we are a 27-49 team right now (That's the 4th worst record in the league).

Granted there's an element of tanking going on so we might be marginally better than that but I'm sure it's the same for all the teams down there.

Can you imagine how badly Reigns would be booed if he beats Taker and the streak was still alive? Man, I would go get tickets for that alone! Hell, I might even hear it from my house

If they condensed the pool down once you select the orb and then applied the rates it would likely be fine.

But it's actually in the players favor as it is right now. Well as long as you understand the rates which isn't going to be true for most

It calculates the % for each star rating for the group as a whole.

Focus - 3%
5* - 3%
4* - 36%
3* - 58%

So if you have the same number of Red, Blue, Green and Colorless in each category it works out perfectly. But that's not the case. So lets use simple numbers and say you have the following

Focus - 3 heroes
5* - 3 heroes
4* - 36 heroes
3* - 58 heroes

So basically you have 100 heroes in the pool and any given hero has a 1% chance of being pulled. But now lets say we have the following

Focus - 3 heroes. 2 of which are green
5* - 3 heroes. 1 of which is green
4* - 36 heroes. 9 of which are green
3* - 58 heroes. 13 of which are green

So if you isolate purely green heroes you are left with a pool of 25 heroes. All 25 heroes have a 1% chance of being pulled in a full pool of 100 heroes except now we only have 25 heroes so we need to adjust accordingly.

2/25 of them are focus green = 8% chance
1/25 are 5* green heroes = 4* chance
9/25 are 4* green heroes = 36% chance
13/25 are 3* green heroes = 52% chance

So despite there being a 3% chance at Focus and 3% chance at 5*, if you only pick green orbs and then back out you actually have a 12% chance at getting either a Focus Hero or 5* Hero.

Oh yeah it's only silly because you have a 1.5% of a green hero from Focus this banner. Even if you assumed equal distribution amongst the rest, that puts the green 5* draw rate at 8.73%. In reality it's probably higher than that I think

Well not only that but there's a lot less Green characters in general I think. I don't know the actual numbers but from how it's worded it sounds like each grouping is evenly split (I.e. if there's 58 3*'s, each one has a 1% chance of dropping)

So unless the distribution of colors going 3 > 4 > 5 are kept at the same scale, then the odds of pulling a 5* of each color is not the same even without the focus.

It's a tricky one. You're obviously not going to cut someone before you know you get the better player in. But cutting them during FA I can also see being a dick move.

I also did not know you could be over the cap limit until pre-season. If I had known that, I'd have certainly bid on more players during free agency rather than not bidding on players because I thought it would stop me from getting more desirable targets.

Like I distinctly remember missing out on players after not bidding on them first round of free agency (when nobody else had bid on them), then losing them second round of free agency when others bid. Not a big deal as most were fringe player, only one who looks like he would have been a difference maker was Aaron Rodgers (and that's not for sure, may not have developed in my system). But yeah, knowing you can go over the cap limit and then rectify afterwards changes a lot.

Wait, how do you only be at Riovanes Castle at 6 hours in an FFT speedrun? Like what sort of randomness did he have to contend with to be so badly off track

Oh also found that opponents shoot 47.1% when Harden is on the court, 35.4% from 3.

Also I don't really trust defensive rating that much. The Spurs have a significantly better defensive rating with Kawhi on the bench than on the floor. Apparently because he's 'too good' at shutdown defense so team just completely ignore his man.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kawhi-leonard-is-so-great-at-defense-hes-actually-hurting-the-spurs/