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Did you guys know that the Celtics, possible #1 seed in the East, are also the top contender for the #1 pick in the draft? That's so disgusting. The Nets are such a dumb fucking franchise. And of course only a Boston team could be the beneficiary of such a moronic trade

I'm kinda surprised they haven't been replaced by GSW fans yet, especially in NorCal. Wait, is it NorCal or NoCal? Did I just make a hella mistake

The Lakers suck lol

Tim Tebow got a hit today! He's practically a shoo-in to make the big-league squad, at least until all the godless heathens get in the way

The Bulls scored 9 points in the first quarter. Since it was against the Celtics, it made me think of this infamous game:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200711290BOS.html

Trump is still awful and I imagine that his name probably comes up a bit more often on Baseboard since there's a bit wider spectrum of viewpoints there. I think in this topic we just got tired of bringing him up since we all know we hate him

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

The Kings are going to get revenge on the Nuggets tonight and chewy will be absolutely devastated.

Probably. They've lost like seven in a row so of course they seem like the type of team the Nugs are ripe to lose to

And stupid Portland and Dallas can't stop winning all of a sudden

Yeah, I agree that the 3D ones are way better. OoT is really what made me a huge fan of the series. I played many of the 2D ones for the first time recently and they all were a bit samey. The 3D games have a distinct feel not from just each other, but different areas and dungeons within the same game.

STLCards1991 posted...

The 2D Zelda games tend to be easier in my experience, not counting the first two. But it's not like you die a ton in OoT either.

Really? I could see maybe they are easier in terms of figuring out what to do, but you definitely die way more often. I always feel bad if I die playing through one of the 3D ones (besides BotW obviously), but it's still not an unusual occurrence for me in the 2D ones. Even those are (mostly) pretty easy and I still feel bad, like Ultima said.


MNTwins1991 posted...

Which one of these stylish Shaun Hill shirts should I get?

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Are these real or is this like some site where anybody can submit designs and you and your friends did these as a joke

Wii U has an activity log for your games, so I would think they would put something like that in for the Switch, but I haven't really looked around in the menus too much.

I'm sure there's not a death counter, though, which is unfortunate. They seem to have phased those out of Zelda games recently. I remember maxing them out on LoZ and AoL when I was a kid.

Damn, I don't know how you are so far ahead of me, as I've played it quite a bit. Hopefully you've just played a lot more because otherwise that means I suck.

Okay, not really, but I have died a lot. This is probably the hardest Zelda game by far, but since dying is also not a big penalty compared to other ones, I tend to play pretty loose sometimes. It's pretty crazy when you have common enemies that can do attacks that take out like six hearts. I don't think I'd ever seen an attack worth more than four hearts in previous games and even then it was usually just the final boss.

How many shrines have you done? There are many ways of measuring progress, but that's probably one of the better ones just for a simple comparison. I have four heart container upgrades and three stamina upgrades, so that's 28. I was really gung ho about doing them since they're so easy to find at the start, but they get difficult to find pretty fast, even with the Sheikah Sensor

The early stuff I heard is that they aren't planning on keeping him. Basically they had so much cap space that they were willing to take on his contract for a second-round pick.


What's gonna happen to Romo?!? Obviously the Texans are gonna be in for him now. There's probably like a 90% chance it will be either Houston or Denver

Oh, and the Brock Osweiler thing is hilarious although I think it's less hilarious now that Houston was able to get out of it so quickly

I have the HUD on normal, but I think it's already a lot more minimal than other Zelda games that way. Maybe I should consider turning it onto pro since I usually just have to check the map a bunch anyways.

You're ahead of me? I gotta pick up the slack, I don't even have an excuse since I still don't have a job. Have you generally been staying on the main quest or do you mess around and explore things a lot? I probably could pick up the pace a little, but I prefer to space things out. Also, I generally try to explore a decent amount of each area once I uncover it, rather than just going to a bunch of the towers in a row.

@CaptainHammer that's an odd thing to think I would ignore. I just haven't really been talking about it much since launch because I know some people in the topic don't really want to hear about it.

I'm still playing it a lot and having a good time, though I'm not very far in it. I have like 30-40% of the map revealed, but of course the amount of that I've actually visited is much smaller. I'm used to being able to completely play through Zelda games in a week (or less). So far it's done a good job of having something new for me to find out every time I play it, so hopefully I won't get bored of playing before I'm able to finish it, but I don't know with such a drastically different and longer experience. Sometimes I'll have moments of realization that I just spent 15 minutes climbing a mountain without even knowing what's on top and ask myself if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I miss a few things that they changed from past Zelda games, but overall it's really enjoyable and I think it was a necessary formula shakeup, so they were probably good sacrifices. It's cool how things are familiar enough but different, so it adds to that constant sense of discovery.

Sorry for the super vague terms, but I don't know how much you've played and what you have or haven't discovered yet.

He better get a good coaching job or something or he's gonna be broke as hell a few years after retirement

Is he really dumb or is he just one of those crazy Christian people who doesn't believe in using contraception? Of course, even those people usually value monogamy, so he's probably just dumb

Fair enough although aren't the Twin Cities close enough that they're generally considered one market?

The Nuggets finally did it; they slayed one of their demons. They beat the Kings.

I was going to point out how pathetic that is given that the Wild play there regularly, but I looked it up to be sure, and apparently the Wild are one of the few NHL teams in NBA cities that doesn't share an arena, so it's at least somewhat understandable

That's so random, like why did Conor MacGregor get to be on GoT? I know he's popular, but I doubt he's much of an actor. Also, he seems like a big phony and douche, but for some reason those are always the popular guys in combat sports (see also: Mayweather and Pacquiao). I don't watch those sports anyway, so whatever, but when they try to force some kind of crossover appeal it's annoying

Yeah, I guess if you aren't going to play it anytime soon, you might as well watch it now anyways since you're probably bound to hear spoilers at some point. I'm too fanatical about Zelda to wait for it, and even things that aren't plot spoilers, I'm trying to avoid. It's fun discovering all the different little things you can do, which I'd rather learn about on my own than see somebody else do. That isn't something I felt for previous Zelda games, but Link's abilities had basically stayed the same since OoT, so there wasn't much to ruin.


On the other hand, I remember I didn't play WW until almost ten years after it came out, so I had heard the twist several times, but it didn't really ruin it for me.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

I watched Game Grumps play it for about 45 minutes.

Surprise, they suck.

Is this how you experience all new games now?

I'm not really one to talk, since I still watch them sometimes, but I always hate when they play new games, because it makes no sense to me. I tend not to be interested in watching LPs of games I haven't played, but if it's a game I'm interested in, I'd rather play it for myself.


And/or I'm just jealous that I don't get games sent to me early and for free so that I can play them poorly and be unfunny on camera

I've been having some issues with my left joycon de-syncing, but apparently you have to do a full shutdown of the console to get it to work.... so whenever I feel like playing again, hopefully it's fixed. I thought I did that earlier (though not knowing about this alleged sync fix), but maybe I just put it in sleep mode.

I'm still getting used to how to use this thing - both the console and the controls in Zelda. There's so much more to it than any other Zelda games, so I keep pressing the wrong buttons all the time

Well you knew I was gonna post about it when I got it.

Anybody else play it yet?

Well, I just started playing BotW! I'm so excited, but I had to take a break to eat, hence why I'm posting instead of playing. Also, I'm super intimidated by the vastness, but that's a good thing.

I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but I actually own Dark Souls. Maybe when I finish all this Nintendo shit I'll actually play it

CaptainHammer posted...

I'll jusr say this: you said a lack of exposition and narrative no longer flies when it absolutely does, and in the case of Dark Souls it was actually the answer to a problem they were having where people would skip the cutscenes and get lost. Just like Johnny Walmart doesn't finish Mass Effect, Johnny Walmart skips the cutscenes in Zelda.

I can't really argue the details since, again, I don't know Dark Souls, but I also feel what Ultima said - they're different series, so there are different expectations. Maybe it flies for Dark Souls, but I don't think Zelda would be the same without it. I don't want the game to do too much hand-holding, but a little something to push it along is a good thing, so hopefully BotW finds that balance.

You can't skip cutscenes in any Zelda game except TP (and maybe also BotW, I don't know). While that's not a good thing either, it makes it so it's kind of hard to miss objectives and get lost.

I haven't played Dark Souls so I don't really understand the point you're making, but I'm gonna assume that's sarcasm?


And of course it will have cutscenes, but I wonder how many of them will be missable. After all, you supposedly can go to Ganon in like ten minutes if you want to. Whether or not you can actually beat him, though, or if visiting him affects the story in any way, I have no idea.


I don't think what I put in spoiler tags is something you guys don't know, since it has been known since E3, but you can view it at your own risk.

Also, I just got confirmation from Best Buy that my preorders will be available tomorrow. That's a relief... now I just hope it won't be packed whenever I go there tomorrow.

I'm afraid it's going to be the kind of game that you can beat in 10 hours but need to play at least 100 to feel like you're really getting a substantial experience out of it. I just hope that it gives you some level of direction/objectives and that it's not possible to accidentally miss a bunch of the story. It better be more than just the original LoZ but bigger and in 3D. That kind of lack of narrative and exposition doesn't fly today. I'm a little apprehensive about this being a "what the fans wanted" Zelda. The other ones were ALBW and TP, which used better games than LoZ as their main inspiration and were still pretty weak entries.

I clicked on that but I was afraid it was going to be something actually from BotW. I don't wanna see any more of that game til I have it on Friday!



Also, the reason I actually clicked on this topic was to say that I didn't know the Nuggets played again tonight, but apparently Jokic got his second consecutive triple-double. I know that Westbrook had like seven in a row but WHATEVER AND HE'S A CHUCKER

I can never decide if Erik is just trolling or if he really is that dense. Probably the latter though

One of you Sages could just make your own board, but maybe that's taking it too far

MNTwins1991 posted...

I bet you $100 that he goes to GB, Seattle, or NE for like 3 mil and has his best season in years.

He had 11 TDs and almost 1500 yards in 2015 so that sounds like an easy $100

I've always thought it's crazy how teams can sell so freely in baseball. It seems like the most active trade deadline of the four sports, generally. Why are some teams so willing to give up a bunch of prospects for a guy that they'll probably have for two months?

I know, but I didn't really think anybody in this topic had cable

I don't even know what channel the Simpsons is on around here anymore. I stopped watching them on syndication a long time ago since there started to be so many weak seasons that it was hard to catch a classic episode. Though it always felt like uncovering some sort of treasure when you finally did see a classic on the air

I feel like you could have filled out a Mad Lib to make that sentence. The _____ with Kid Rock is one of the worst _____ of ______ ever produced

What can you nickname him now that Fat Adams doesn't make any sense?


The Rockies are playing today but I have no idea how to watch them... I don't even know if they put these games on TV. Maybe that's only a thing in places where they care like St. Louis

Thanks for reminding me that the NFL exists. What are you doing reading NFL articles in late February?

Eh, you can do whatever you want, but I'm probably not alone in this topic saying I have NFL fatigue. They push it so hard to be a 365 day a year thing; guys playing fucking catch is a headline now. It doesn't help being in Denver, where all the other sports teams are irrelevant, so the media outlets here love covering the Broncos as often as they can. Of course, even if all this offseason bullshit didn't happen, I still would probably get tired of the NFL just from watching games alone.

Sports suck

I've never seen Caddyshack, but that reminds me, I watched Airplane! for the first time somewhat recently and was like "This is one of the best comedies of all time?" It had its funny moments but there's so much stuff that's ridiculously dated. The casting is pretty on-point at least

Uh oh, what?

Jeez, Eric, I know you're horrifically unobservant, but I'm sure even you have figured out by now that these topics are barely about sports.


I feel kind of bad sometimes when some random decent poster comes to post about sports and then we usually ignore it (not out of malice, because we just don't care) and they're probably thinking we're such a lame circle-jerk. These topics are pretty false advertising but at the same time it would feel wrong to start calling them something else

I don't think we'll actually talk enough about Zelda to annoy MNTwins1991 with our Nintendo Nerdiness, since we've expressed an interest in trying to experience as much as we can by ourselves. I'll probably just say something like "It's awesome" once I start playing and leave it at that

OMG guys, only one week til MNTwins1991's new favorite game comes out

Clearly from this one game each by the Kings and Pelicans it's a reasonable conclusion to say that Boogie was the problem

Yeah, if you're so set on having nuggets in the name, why not include dank?

What an uneventful trade deadline. I get sick of hearing every year about how the Nuggets should trade Gallinari or Faried or Chandler or whoever (Mudiay now) and then it never happens. They got Mason Plumlee earlier but that was basically just a flip of backup centers, so meh.