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And our field for this season is set with 67, though 22 with a possibility of 24 have been eliminated
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Less than 20 minutes!
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Less than three hours until the final game kicks off.

Titans at Broncos
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

LiquidOshawott posted...

Sorry, I meant when their licenses expire

Yes
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

It isn't too late to sign up, but time is running out!
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Yeah, any team from the MNF games are available to anyone who has yet to sign up
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Hans
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

you already picked the Chiefs and are safe until next week
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

In the previous six years that I have run this, I have been eliminated in Week 1 four times and Week 4 twice. My fate for this season might be sealed.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Definitely digital. It so much more convenient, it takes up no physical space, and with the exception of Switch I think, physical console games still need to be downloaded in full.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

With signups still allowed through the kickoff of tomorrow's Titans/Broncos game, we have 44 still alive as of right now with one person on the Rams, four people on the Steelers, and two on the Titans. The other 37 have secured their spots in Week 2.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

The casualty total is now 22 as we lost two who picked the Bengals and four who picked the 49ers
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

I think that I have just one more student loan payment.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Monthly Progress
Yakuza -
Stick It - KCF, Fake, Crispy
Xillia 2 -

Nominations
Ark - Water Tastes Like Wine
Cody - Her Story
Fake - GRIS, Mercenaries Saga
KCF - PixelJunk Shooter 2, Strider (2014), Super Mario Bros. LL
Metal - Amnesia Dark Descent
MMX - Hypnospace Outlaw
Paul - Crash 4

darkx Birthday
Golden Sun - MMX, Abacus, Cody, MZero
Beatles Rock Band -
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

16 users have been eliminated in Week 1 so far, and it isn't too late to sign up for anyone who hasn't! The following games are still up for grabs:

Cowboys at Rams
Steelers at Giants
Titans at Broncos
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

davidponte posted...

The Colts are about to eliminate a whole bunch of the suicide league. Classic Rivers.

I have a personal rule of never taking divisional matchup road teams, though that probably means less for this particular season.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

77 is the lowest we've had since I started running this, but we currently only have 59 signed up
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Just under 24 hours until a bunch of games kick off
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

I'm about to get on my laptop, so if anybody wants to get in the spreadsheet to do stuff, I will be in there soon
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Sure. I'm rarely on my laptop, so I would prefer if I could get you both back-to-back
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Tyrod Taylor
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

We have 49 signed up thus far, and four lives are already on the line with the current game.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Sands of Time trilogy got a remaster release for 360/PS3, but yeah this is a remake in the vein of Tomb Raider Anniversary
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

I don't know why I thought that it was Thursday
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

You only have a few hours of you want to select either the Texans or Chiefs
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

HB and QB are way more important than TE. You are also aren't taking into consideration that Savage has a 92.8 career passer rating and Hill over 1200 total yards and 13 TDs on 4.2 YPC. If you can solve even just one of your HB/QB issues, that is worth more than giving up a league-average starting TE.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Third trade

Bears receive:
QB Tom Savage (82 overall, 26 years old)
HB Jeremy Hill (83 overall, 24 years old)

Express receive:
TE Trey Burton (88 overall, 24 years old)
WR Jordan Matthews (82 overall, 26 years old)

Bears shed $5.56 mil in cap hits to assume $3.32 mil in cap hits

Express shed $3.32 mil in cap hits to assume $5.56 mil in cap hits

In a swap of players on RFA tenders, both teams grab hopefully offensive fixtures for the long-term.

The Bears try to solve their post-David Carr QB problem with Savage who performed well as a backup to Philip Rivers. They also get one of the best backup HBs in the league with Jeremy Hill as incumbent Antonio Pittman's successor.

The Express get Kellen Winslow's replacement for maybe the next decade and also a much needed body and probable starter on their depleted WR corps. It did come at the cost of Rivers' potential successor, but Hill was always going to be blocked by DeMarco Murray.

Bears demonstrated that they understood the trade details, past histories of players, financial impact, and what they hoped to achieve (and why the Hawks would make the move).

This trade is official.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Okay, AI trade incoming

Seahawks receive:
MLB Barrett Ruud (86 overall, 35 years old)

Giants receive:
QB Chad Henne (80 overall, 32 years old)
HB Reshard Mendenhall (83 overall, 29 years old)

I already made the trade so whoops, but I think the Seahawks will incur a cap penalty a shade under $1 mil to shed roughly $8 mil in cap hits to $6.54 mil.

The Giants will incur a $1.43 mil cap penalty to turn a $7.97 mil cap hit into $6.99 mil cap hits

The Seahawks lost Hall of Famer Lofa Tatupu to retirement, and seeing that Schobert is probably not ready for a starting job, a stopgap in Ruud is probably better to help turn around a team that finished as the 6th-worst team in the league. It cost them a pair of good backups, but they were just backups.

The Giants have a lot of starters with expired contracts, so they decided to save a mil and plug two holes with quality backups as they try to sign at least one more.

The Giants demonstrated that they understood the trade's parameters, the financial impact, the history of the players involved, and what they hoped to achieve with the trade (and why it would make sense for the Seahawks).

This trade is now official.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

We have a seldom-seen three-team trade

Patriots receive:
LG Doug Free (89 overall, 36 years old)
LOLB Jim Jones (75 overall, 26 years old)

Falcons receive:
DT Clifton Dickson (87 overall, 33 years old)
Browns 3rd round pick (via Pioneers, 78th overall)
Pumpkins 6th round pick (via Pioneers, 178th overall)

Pioneers receive:
DT Jonathan Babineaux (78 overall, 36 years old)
DT Manuel Wright (78 overall, 34 years old)
Falcons 2nd round pick (51st overall)
Falcons 4th round pick (115th overall)

Pats will incur a $1.43 mil cap penalty to shed an $11 mil cap hit and receive $5.75 mil in cap hits ($5.25 mil cap savings)

Falcons will incur a $1.6 mil cap penalty to shed $9.86 mil in cap hits and receive a $9.61 mil cap hit ($250k savings)

Pioneers will incur a $1.96 mil cap penalty to shed $7.71 mil in cap hits and receive $8.26 mil in cap hits

The Pats are brushing up against the cap with extra draft picks, so this trade gives them big cap relief and a new starting LG, whose run-block rating makes him a good fit for the offense, in a rather thin interior OL. They can replace Dickson with former #33 overall pick Brandon Williams as a starting DT (this is me putting words in your mouth), and Jones was just a toss-in to sweeten the pot as he makes just $1.04 mil and fills a hole on the Pats

The Falcons are also brushing up against the cap and found someone who would take multiple expensive, sub-80 and mid-30 defenders. This directly saves them a little in cap space as well as indirectly through sacrificing draft position to acquire an aging but quality DT that could theoretically be a starter for them for a few seasons beyond this.

The Pioneers have cap space to spare, so to gain some draft pick position, they traded away a starting G close to retirement for a pair of expensive backup DTs with over 300 combined starts to their name (that doesn't really mean anything, but I want to make it sound like they have more value than they do). They have backup OL that can take over at G for now, but this doesn't prevent them from targeting players in free agency, and at worst, this trade was a wash for filling positional holes.

All parties demonstrated that they understood what each team was giving up and receiving, the financial impact of the trade, past histories of players, and what each team hoped to achieve from the trade.

The trade is official.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

I bought it probably during the same sale as you, but I haven't gotten around to it.

It says that I bought it 2/28 of this year.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

We currently have 43 signed up, and I am officially putting myself down for the Bills
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Kansas City Chiefs
Atlanta Falcons
Buffalo Bills
Chicago Bears
Minnesota Vikings
New England Patriots
Washington Football Team
Las Vegas Raiders
Indianapolis Colts
Baltimore Ravens
Los Angeles Chargers
New Orleans Saints
San Francisco 49ers
Los Angeles Rams
New York Giants
Denver Broncos
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Kansas City Chiefs
Atlanta Falcons
Buffalo Bills - LOCK
Chicago Bears
Minnesota Vikings
New England Patriots
Washington Football Team
Las Vegas Raiders
Indianapolis Colts
Baltimore Ravens
Los Angeles Chargers
New Orleans Saints - SUPER LOCK
San Francisco 49ers - LOCK
Los Angeles Rams
New York Giants
Denver Broncos
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Level 1: 49ers

Bonus: Yes
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

There is a trade to announce

Pumpkins receive:
LG Andy Christensen (88 overall, 33 years old)
Pioneers 4th round pick (127th overall)
Pioneers 6th round pick (191st overall)

Pioneers receive:
Pumpkins 4th round pick (114th overall)
Pumpkins 5th round pick (146th overall)
Pumpkins 6th round pick (178th overall)

The Pumpkins will inherit a $5.68 mil cap hit

The Pioneers will wipe a $5.68 mil cap hit

The Pumpkins having just lost their starting LG from the past 13 seasons and with the belief that they should compete for a playoff spot, they felt that someone like Christensen makes more sense than paying a premium for a free agent or tossing a lesser rated player like their current backups into the starting job. With the price coming at a 5th rounder and two trade downs and Christensen on an expiring contract, the risk was very low and worth the chance.

The Pioneers, even with their surprise playoff run, are still in their rebuild/retool and are looking to make some of the final changes as the GM tries to make the roster in the image of their choosing. Christensen, having received him in a salary dump the previous offseason, was a luxury as a high-cost backup and adding more cap space will allow them to be major players in free agency if they desire. With no early round picks, adding mid rounders and draft stock improvements in other rounds gives them the flexibility they desire and more chances to hit the lottery with the draft picks they do have.

All parties understood the trade parameters, the financial impact, the past history of Christensen, and what each team hoped to achieve.

This trade is now official.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

azuarc posted...

I am just now figuring out why everyone is thinking of yoblazer.

This was probably before your time then, but yoblazer ran a project called Best Ass in Gaming

https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Best_Ass_in_Gaming
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

I got pulled away from sending out PMs for a little while, and I need to take a break, but I will get the final four PMs out before I go to bed.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

People who say no don't necessarily dislike them. Apathy is a thing and the reason for my vote.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

I want to take the time to inform people who did not know or forgot that you are allowed to go over the salary cap. I only enforce that you be under the salary cap by the time we sim the preseason, which is still like a month away.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Signing Your UFAs Rules

1. I will PM everyone their UFAs and the slash line (length/total/signing bonus) of their desired deal. I will also include and isolate any players who are either holding out or hate your team to where they will only sign with you if you place the franchise tag on them.

2. You will PM me back with the following format (using two players from my team as an example)

Re-signing:
TE Josh Hill - 4 / $9.32 mil / $1.40 mil
or
TE Josh Hill - 2 year default

Franchise Tag:
Nobody

Not re-signing:
HB Arian Foster

The deadline for signing your UFAs will be Thursday, September 17th at 9 PM ET
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Unrestricted Free Agents (AKA Signing Your Remaining Free Agents)

Any player of yours whose contract expired and was not part of the previous event will be included here. This is an extremely straightforward event. You either sign or you do not sign players, Those you do stay on your team, those who don't enter the free agent pool.

When you receive the PM with your slash lines, remember that those are not the deals you have to sign them to. With a few exceptions that I will lay out, you can sign anyone (pending the age/max length rule) to deals 1-7 years in length. If you wish to give a player a custom offer, I might be available to do live signings the new few days. Otherwise, we can bounce PMs off of each other for a while (remember that there is a deadline though and delay in response could be a day or longer). If you wish to offer someone a deal of a different length but do no want to bother with the financials, you can merely say you want to give X player the default deal for Y years.

There are only two wrinkles for this event. One is that a few players might hold out for better deals. I can confirm that three users have a holdout. What happens is that I will isolate them in the PM and tell you their base deal. If you elect not to sign them, they will stay on your team without playing a down for you until you trade them, release them, or give into their contract demands. Keep in mind that any guaranteed money still left on their contract (annual bonus) is transferred over to the new contract.

The second wrinkle is that some players hate your team to where they will only sign via the franchise tag, which is a one year deal that pays them the average of the Top 5 salaries at their position or 120% of what they made last season, whichever is higher. I will isolate those players and also tell you how much money that comes out to as of this moment. The franchise tag has rarely been used, so while I am not expecting anyone will use it, you never know.

For those who don't remember, the age/max length rule is that you can't sign a player to a longer contract if it will take them past their age-34 season. You can however sign a player through their age-34 season if it was already included in their default contract. For example, if a 33-year-old player asks for a 3 year contract, you can sign him to that deal because it was part of the default deal. You cannot sign them to a 4+ year contract though.

Also remember that sign-and-trades are not allowed. Players signed to 1 year contracts are ineligible to be traded (RFAs signed via tenders are exempt from this rule). Players signed to multi-year contracts are ineligible to be traded until Week 9 of the regular season.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

My experience with Digimon is limited to one game and a little bit of the cartoon, but I would probably say no to everyone.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Jill Valentine

If only because of yoblazer declaring it or something like a decade ago
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

In the meantime, we have another trade

Buccaneers receive:
K Sergio Aguayo (99 overall, 33 years old)

Bears receive:
Bucs 4th round pick (101st overall)
Bucs 5th round pick (133rd overall)

The Bucs will assume a $1.64 mil cap hit

The Bears will incur an $830k cap penalty to wipe out a $2.47 mil cap hit

When Chris has been active, he has a long history of eschewing the draft for established players, and with longtime K Jay Feely's retirement, he would rather get the top-rated K and one of only a handful of kickers in our league's history with multiple seasons of making 90+% of their FGAs than grab a free agent or try to develop one in the draft.

The Bears are still in their rebuilding process and were willing to part with a luxury in Aguayo for draft assets and cap relief.

Both teams demonstrated that they understood the trade parameters, the financial impact, Aguayo's past history, and what each team hoped to achieve with the trade.

This trade is now official.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

If anybody desires a G, I'm willing to part with G Andy Christensen for like a 4th round pick, but we could get creative. That might seem like a low price for an 88 G, but he isn't a phenomenal G or anything. His career stats are 132 blocks against 27 sacks, which is just under 5 blocks per sack. He is a balanced G that leans slightly toward run-blocking and has one year left on his contract for $5.68 mil.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

I should get around to updating the spreadsheet later today, and we will start the next offseason event tomorrow.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

RFA Phase 3 results:

- Bears signed Broncos SS Derek Linde to a 6 year deal. The Broncos have elected not to match and receive the Bears 1st and Pioneers 3rd round picks.

- Bears signed Washington G Al Cleveland to a 6 year deal. Washington idled and thus default to not matching and received the Bears 7th round pick.

- Bengals signed Colts CB Jamal Muhammad to a 5 year deal. The Colts idled and thus default to not matching and received the Bengals 3rd round pick.

- Bills have signed Jets WR Davante Adams to a 6 year deal. The Jets have elected not to match and receive the Bills 1st round pick.

- Bills have signed Patriots OLB Luther O'Neal to a 3 year deal. The Pats have elected not to match and receive the Falcons 3rd round pick.

- Bills have signed Patriots C Isaac Claybrooks to a 4 year deal. The Pats have elected not to match and receive the Bills 4th round pick.

- Buccaneers signed Vikings TE Travis Kelce to a 3 year deal. The Vikings have elected not to match and receive the Buccaneers 1st and 3rd round picks.

- Buccaneers signed Cowboys DT Dominique Easley to a 4 year deal. The Cowboys have elected not to match and receive the Buccaneers 2nd round pick.

- Lightning signed Raiders OLB Tee Ilko to a 5 year deal. The Raiders have elected to match.

- Patriots signed Steelers CB Bashaud Breeland to a 4 year deal. The Steelers have elected not to match and receive the Pats 2nd round pick.

- Pumpkins signed Bengals G Jamon Brown to a 4 year deal. The Bengals have elected to match.

- Pumpkins signed Raiders C Mitch Morse to a 4 year deal. The Raiders have elected not to match and receive the Pumpkins 2nd round pick.

- Rams signed Dolphins DE Jabaal Sheard to a 5 year deal. The Dolphins have elected not to match and receive the Rams 2nd round pick.

- Vikings signed Dolphins SS Jaquiski Tartt to a 5 year deal. The Dolphins have elected not to match and receive the Vikings 1st and 3rd round picks.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

For my nomination theme this month, I will do games developed in Asia to complete the three-continent theme I set out to do. I will chose:

PixelJunk Shooter 2
Strider (2014)
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

KCF has beaten Stick it to The Man!

I love absurd, dumb humor, so a lot of this game was right up my alley. The puzzle-solving was the best aspect of the game though given the cleverness, simple controls, and backtracking wasn't much of an issue. While the platforming wasn't an issue in low-stakes situations, I was definitely not a fan of the confrontations with goons. I understand that they were implemented as a change of pace, but the impreciseness of platforming and grabbing the two aids for those segments as well as camera issues made those an absolute chore at times.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu

Absolutely yes

JoJo! Give me that dog turd!
JoJo! Hand me that bucket of bum sperm!

To this day, I think MacGruber is still the most that I have ever paid for a movie ticket (it's that or Baby Driver).
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu