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Legends Arceus Spoilers

This bitch

https://youtu.be/0yqm7vrCp-g?feature=shared

Oh yeah and Wang

5

ctes, ExTha, Rock, Nick and Nio

I think I have the distinction of having met B8ers on three different continents though which is something

Also I have a schoolfriend who briefly posted here as well so he would make 6. Don't think he counts though.

Weird that I picked spice last time.

There is merit to repeating these, maybe even at random to compare results

Yeller

Yeah Seinfeld had very little exposure in the UK. When I did watch it I didn't think it was particularly close to Friends. I found the track between scenes oddly annoying and insistent and that put me off too.

Run

Silent

RyoCaliente posted...

It is the worst way to experience the story though, in my opinion.

I find myself wishing the whole thing was already out in live action because I've found it to be the best way to experience this story

SeabassDebeste posted...

god, way too young. crushing. my wife just this last week has been watching friends all the time too

I was just watching a couple of episodes last night before bed. This is awful.

RIP

This one really hurts. Fuck. Fuck =(

Damn

I like this a lot. I guess I wish Loki had more focus, since it's become more of a TVA show than a Loki one, and Loki is so good

But yeah really enjoying it

Finished Skypiea

Jesus, that flashback towards the climax felt interminably long. Not without merit because it explained the Nolan stuff, but christ. Largely enjoyed the rest of it

Anagram posted...

Do we know if you still have to open up the menu to change camo constantly?

That's what the Shotgun is for

Steiner posted...

hell in a cell

Nike already kind of did this

https://youtu.be/f65EwG10kgY?feature=shared

I'm a simple man

Give it to me yesterday

Reg posted...

On this note, it's not physical sports, but let me tell the tale of League of Legends as an esport, which is basically speedrunning your exact concerns here.

When Riot Games took over the Professional League of Legends circuit in America and Europe, and transitioned it from an open circuit to a closed league (End of 2012/start of 2013), it was originally a Football-style promotion/relegation system - Bottom of the standings in each region's top league had to play to avoid being relegated to the secondary league. After five years of this (Going into 2018), all of the orgs complained about the lack of stability (Getting relegated was largely a death sentence for an org in the scene, and not many of the promoted teams did particularly well), and the top league in each region transitioned to an American-style system.

When this transition happened, the amount of money and investment into the scene (Which was already trending up in anticipation of this exact happening) exploded, especially in America. Most of the teams partnered with existing sports orgs (Most notably, MSG/New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors) or other major investors (Literally Disney was, and still is, involved).

And, now that we're five years after that, it's become clear to those major investors that the ROI for them is not what they were hoping it would be. People who follow that scene have been watching that bubble slowly burst in real time for the past year or two.

And the point I'm trying to make is, if you think EU Football is a bubble waiting to burst now, an Americanized system will probably follow a very similar path, flood in a bunch of money to blow that bubble up even further for a few years, and then burst just as you're fearing.

Thanks for that.

Both genuinely and sarcastically. Something to look forward to!

That is true, the clutch matters

Real Madrid winning multiple CLs despite quite blatantly not being the best team in Europe (or even top 5), for instance. They have a certain knack for that kind of situation that others don't. It's not an accident, despite their overall inferiority.

Also, off-topic: the middle east getting involved in football this heavily prevented the bubble bursting for quite a while I would say. Pre-City there was a chance it might happen.

With that said, 10 out of 20 PL owners are American now I think. There's a chance that it will soon be 14, at which point they can bend the competition to their will - create a truly closed shop with no relegation, guaranteed CL for certain teams, potentially a playoff system, etc, and truly Americanise it.

Saudi owning Newcastle is morally grotesque and for me personally killed a lot of my interest in the competition, but American owners in the PL are potentially a graver threat to whatever sporting integrity it has, and a closed shop may lead to the death of many of the smaller, local teams

Like many large sporting brands, the PL is a fairly vile organisation (see the way they allowed the Newcastle takeover), but the competition itself still allows for cool things like Luton being in it with that tiny stadium. That potential should be non-negotiable.

xenosaga posted...

Playoffs aren't always going to crown the absolute best team, but sure beats the anticlimactic finish of 'welp seasons over, lets look at the stats.'

And no Cinderella runs?! That's like the best part of watching sports.

Well, that's why you have other competitions within the season that are straight knockout to scratch that itch

I don't think injuries are truly random

You can mitigate them with accurate sports science and training regimens and a good medical staff can reduce downtime. That comes down to good management just like a strategy does. Also you should have adequate replacements

Then again we're talking about different sports here

Fair, that's probably a bit excessive, but I think you know what I'm getting at. Idk what you'd call him. He spent a fair bit of his screentime being anything but serious. We all knew it was a front and whatever but he was much more comedic than Baldur from the previous game. In almost every scene he was in, he was the one providing whatever humour there was with his unexpected line deliveries and actual jokes (e.g. "are you sure he's yours?"). Thor, Kratos, Freya, Atreus, even Mimir were all very serious in their scenes with him (as you'd expect)

So yeah "comic relief" is maybe not an accurate description but if we're talking about the MCU, Hela is a decent comparison. She had a ton of lines/moments where she was the one bringing the humour in the scene.

I appreciate Baseball and Basketball doing multi-game series, which mitigate the issues, but end of season standings are "better" and a more clear way of finding the best.

That said, if you're going to divide the teams into separate conferences of roughly equal quality then playoffs are a necessity.

Rising

Ragnarok was very MCU at times, right down to Odin being comic relief

Which I'm fine with for the most part but it did seem to be a bit of a shift for the series

Sure
It was pretty fun getting destroyed by the South Park one

Spice

I've read until they reached Skypeia. They just got charged with a bunch of crimes. Mostly enjoying it.

Alabasta was pretty good. I got a kick out of reading about Zoro turning down B.W. previously which was shown in the live action.

Zoro beating all those guys at Whiskey Peak was cool. I hope in the LA they do that justice. I'm imagining a big, Daredevil-style one-take sequence for at least some of it.

Watched a couple of anime episodes but I generally don't have the patience for it. Especially when I know it's going to be done in a medium I enjoy more in a year or two. That said, I like the vocal performances and some of the comedy (the scene where Robin joins the crew and ingratiates herself with each of them in turn is very well-realised and funny in the anime).

AM losing fucking rules by the way. Nice job everyone.

Jack

Huh.

Played about 4 or 5 hours. Had only one serious problem which was during Kraven's attack on the raft, I beat all the enemies but the next section didn't load. No other glitches beyond that

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/6/AAKKwUAAE9Bo.jpg

Huh

Get

4 - Zard
9 - Ampharos
10 - Camerupt
7 - Infernape
24 - Darmanitan
2 - Greninja
11 - Incineroar
4 - Toxtricity

Megas: 1 - MCX
Top 100: 2 - Zard

Pretty good

Nobody ranking it #1 kind of feels like nobody won there.

Still, the 10-6 today were the lowest ones they could have been for me, so it's a good day on the whole even if the top 5 was in a bad order

XIII_Rocks posted...

1, 2
7, 9, 11
16, 19, 28, 29
64

I guess I'm fine with this if we get rid of that 64 soonish. The rest is good.

Fuckin score

Kirk

Glad to see some Gholdengo support

I love him and his happy little surfboard so much

1, 2
7, 9, 11
16, 19, 28, 29
64

I guess I'm fine with this if we get rid of that 64 soonish. The rest is good.

Oh this is pretty good so far then

MoogleKupo141 posted...

Fuecoco #1 hell yeah

Absolutely

Well idk about #1 overall but he's going to be high

The only starter out of all 27 that I'd put above its fully evolved form

Aw damn. 2 and 2 I guess.

Damn.

Two good elims, one really bad one

That's fine.

Big upgrade on Basculin though

Love

Damn

1, 2, 4
7, 9-12
16, 19, 28, 29, 39
48-50, 56, 57, 64, 69

If I can get through tomorrow keeping my top 20 ones mostly in tact I'll ultimately be happy with this, I think

Oh nice. That dropped lower than I thought. Fuck that guy and I hope I sabotaged his top 20 place.

A guy cut me off in a car park the other day and I said "prick. Uses Obstagoon." It was pure instinct too. From the soul.

DToast is good people. Nobody's perfect or anything like that but he's been very relaxed and receptive in the interactions we've had so far.

(And this isn't me being like a company man or whatever bullshit, if I thought he was bad I'd say so or at least say nothing)