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TopicHearthstone Discussion Topic #2 - Descent of Dragons (Enter The Galakrond)
Emeraldegg
03/16/20 4:33:33 PM
#480
What's the deal with nozdormu that makes it HoF worthy? Do people find the time limit that hard to deal with or is there some interaction I'm not aware of?
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TopicHearthstone Discussion Topic #2 - Descent of Dragons (Enter The Galakrond)
Emeraldegg
03/16/20 3:00:59 PM
#468
Oh I just was cause the link was in spoilers so I figured better safe than sorry
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TopicHearthstone Discussion Topic #2 - Descent of Dragons (Enter The Galakrond)
Emeraldegg
03/16/20 2:27:01 PM
#462
I don't think I like the idea of a 1-cost hero power.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
03/12/20 4:04:27 PM
#497
I really don't think they're straight up cancelling. A common theory is that these sports leagues are going to just use current seeding and just do the playoffs once it's all done
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
03/12/20 2:39:56 PM
#488
MartinFF7 posted...
Well I just picked up some more players on the IR... feeling like a fantasy vulture here but hey, maybe some "done for the season" folks will be back now when (if?) things resume.

A lot of people are doign this in basketball as well, banking on maybe these sports resume the regular season rather than skipping to the playoffs
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
03/09/20 12:08:47 PM
#475
I didn't even realize fantasy hockey playoffs start this week
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
02/22/20 10:18:40 PM
#361
Ya go my emergency goalie
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
02/16/20 11:56:25 AM
#479
Yeah it's extra dumb that wade just voted for his team
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
02/15/20 11:39:55 PM
#472
Sounds like Aaron Gordon got robbed at the dunk contest again, he's sworn off any more dunk contests as a result.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
02/11/20 11:04:30 PM
#286
Scary moment in ducks/blues, jay bouwmeester collapsed with no warning on the blues bench after a shift. Seeming alert on his way to the hospital, but the teams agreed to postpone the rest of the game. Sounds like the medical staff were lights out in their response.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
02/11/20 3:25:44 PM
#278
What an original name
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
02/10/20 3:04:00 PM
#260
I miss dougie hamilton
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
02/06/20 3:42:23 PM
#438
I mean he has a PER this season apparently of 16.42 and a career of just under 15 (league avg is apparently 15) so average sounds about right
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
02/04/20 4:26:00 PM
#431
So what exactly is the deal with iguodala btw? Is he literally holding out because he doesn't want to be there? I expect better from him tbh if that's the case.
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
01/30/20 2:59:40 PM
#417
So they're changing the format of the all star game this year for Kobe, turning the first 3 quarters into charity games and the 4th quarter is an untimed "reach this score first" game, with the target being the leading team's score + 24 as an ode to Kobe.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
01/17/20 11:58:53 PM
#179
I didn't realize this, apparently dougie hamilton broke his leg a game ago? Man that really hurts. He was having a great season.
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/16/20 8:37:09 PM
#187
MLB says they found no evidence of devices worn on players
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/16/20 2:41:29 PM
#173
Holy ****
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/16/20 2:29:10 PM
#170
KCF0107 posted...


I'm not sure that is possible. I believe that all players who cooperated were given immunity by MLB, so the question is if a club can punish a player for what they did under those circumstances.

I imagine that depends. If they were actually told they were going to be immune to everything, then probably not. But if all MLB said was "We, the league, will not punish you" that would lead me to believe clubs could take their own course of action.
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/16/20 2:27:09 PM
#167
GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Maybe. We don't know what was going through his head at the time. I can't imagine any person in his position would have said anything in the midst of the Astros run to the World Series.

Him, or anyone for that matter, being unwilling to do the right thing (because yes, to me outing this stuff while it was happening, regardless of the consequences, would have been the right thing) that no one else is also willing to do, doesn't make that person innocent. It just means they're all guilty.
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/16/20 2:22:49 PM
#165
GeneralKenobi85 posted...


Whatever his reasons were for coming forward are irrelevant. It was the right thing to do. If you don't want to praise him for it, that's fine. But he also shouldn't be treated like crap for his decision. Like being called a snitch and the like.

I also agree with that last bit, I believe both can be true. He definitely does not deserve to be called a snitch, and it's the people who are doing that who are all about "gamesmanship" and stuff that I believe to be garbage not just in baseball, but in sports. Play fair, and follow the rules. You are right, all in all he did still come forward, which was the right thing, but it absolutely does matter to me if you do the right thing for the wrong reason. Perhaps we just disagree on that. He doesn't deserve hate for coming out with it, but he also doesn't deserve to be treated any better than any of the other players.
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/16/20 2:02:07 PM
#158
I just want to say, that Mike Fiers is being lauded as some sort of whistleblower, I don't take him seriously one bit and he's not some hero for this. He only brought it up in the first place because it served his new team's interests, he didn't do it out of some desire to see cheaters brought to justice. He was just as willing to cover it up until it benefitted him most.
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/15/20 1:42:25 PM
#131
I was under the impression that they namedropped him because he was the one instance of a guy who's in a manager spot now, but was also a player at the time of the incidents, rather than naming him as a sort of implication of guilt, so they felt the need to clarify why they weren't going to punish him.

I haven't read the whole statement so maybe I"m just wildly wrong but that was the impression I got just reading conversation and tweets about it.
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TopicMLB Offseason Topic
Emeraldegg
01/15/20 1:36:40 PM
#129
Reg posted...
Hey, guys, humor me.

Name a single player that got fucked over by this cheating harder than my favorite guy in baseball, Yu Darvish.

I'll wait.

I think clayton kershaw deserves mention as at least being close. But since he's better than darvish (no offense) he has more going for him outside of that series, his legacy can take the hit. So yeah, Darvish probably lost the most.
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
01/13/20 2:05:11 PM
#375
I think the process worked even without a title yet. It gave them all star building blocks to work around, both of whom still have room to improve and grow, and as long as they build smartly around them, they'll be contenders for years to come. The process itself is only tanking to draft franchise players, regardless of what they do after. They did that, and it succeeded. They got the players, and the players are really good. The process achieved what it set out to achieve, but there's more that goes into a title after the process.

The problem now is that they're throwing around 25+ mil for 3 years to the likes of al horford, who's currently averaging like 12 ppg and 6 rpg and is 33 y/o, was there really no better free agents they could attract with that cap space? I'd much rather have just held onto the space and tried again next year. Moves like that are what's holding the 76ers back imo, but that has nothing to do with "the process" at all.
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
01/06/20 10:49:49 PM
#350
Yeah but those orange and gray unis are awful though shattered sorry
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TopicNFL Pick'em Topic -- Wild Card Round
Emeraldegg
01/04/20 4:19:49 PM
#50
Yeah I am definitely going with something like that in the future, I was just in a rush and didn't think it through properly.
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TopicNFL Pick'em Topic -- Wild Card Round
Emeraldegg
01/04/20 1:16:38 PM
#29
Oh I looked at the wrong thing on espn's ticker thing, today's not till 4, whoopsies

If you want to post your picks in here, go for it
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TopicNFL Pick'em Topic -- Wild Card Round
Emeraldegg
01/04/20 11:51:01 AM
#26
Game in like 1+ hrs
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TopicB8 DBZ Dokkan Battle topic: His name was Krillin!!!
Emeraldegg
01/04/20 11:44:06 AM
#474
I got a dupe AGL SSJ Gogeta and dupe AGL Metal cooler with my steps 3 and 4
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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
Emeraldegg
01/03/20 7:30:00 PM
#467
what if the team moved? Was the team never a fan of me? Shouldn't they be the ones ridiculed?
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
01/03/20 4:16:39 PM
#341
Pistons and hawks working on a trade for andre drummond

Makes sense if he's on a player option next year and expected to decline it
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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
Emeraldegg
01/03/20 4:02:44 PM
#456
Good sir I consider that post to be a blatant attack
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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
Emeraldegg
01/03/20 3:51:27 PM
#454
but what about a team in one sport that is and a team in another sport that isn't

See these corner cases are very important to distinguish!
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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
Emeraldegg
01/03/20 1:11:16 PM
#436
lordjers posted...
I'd say even save states for training is kinda cheating but that's not gonna forever ban from saying you beat it afterwards.

I'm curious, what specifically is it that makes it still qualify as cheating for you? Is there something you believe about how a player might learn differently using save states vs playing the game naturally (IE playing the whole stage over and over every time they die to the boss)?
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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
Emeraldegg
01/03/20 12:31:30 PM
#422
I think there's an important distinction here, in that save states could potentially be used in good ways and not so good ways.

A good way to me would be if you're saving before a particularly tough boss, you save before it, attempt it, fail, reload the save to where you were starting that section, repeat until you get the whole run and are able to complete the whole thing in one go. More like what Meow is talking about. That's just a time saver while still gaining all the experience the game has to offer.

A more not so good way would be if you're starting as the above, but during said boss you save in the middle of that run repeatedly so that you know exactly what is coming and when right then and just immediately do that particular section of that run, over and over until you get it. In essence playing a bunch of mini-sections which are made easier by the fact that you know what's coming exactly in the next segment.

Imagine I'm playing a card game like Magic or something, something with random draws. I play against a certain type of deck best out of 3. After the first game, I know more about what cards that deck has, and what strategies it likes to do, but I don't know when it will play things. Perhaps the cards still don't go my way but I actually learned things and tried to alter my playing strategy to beat it.

Now imagine I do that but I know every card I'm going to draw in advance. I know my opening hand and my opponent's opening play, so I do something different this time. In response, their follow up play is different than what I experienced in the previous example, so I'm thrown off...but I then go back in time and do the sequence again, and I do this over and over again until I reach the best outcome.

Some types of games, I get it. Maybe like an RPG where you're just in it for the story. Such things can actually improve your enjoyment of it, especially if the gameplay is rather annoying. It keeps frustration to a minimum. But if you're playing a game to say you "completed" the challenges that the game has to offer, like said mega man game, the 2nd scenario shouldn't really give you any satisfaction if you used that method to complete it.
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
01/03/20 12:06:33 AM
#339
Jonathan isaac out at least 2 months a couple of weeks after I traded for him

A+
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TopicNFL Pick'em Topic -- Wild Card Round
Emeraldegg
01/02/20 10:03:53 PM
#20
Bump
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TopicB8 DBZ Dokkan Battle topic: His name was Krillin!!!
Emeraldegg
01/02/20 3:02:53 PM
#469
ah, cool

also it'd be really great if they brought back the phy broly one cause uh, I missed that one
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TopicB8 DBZ Dokkan Battle topic: His name was Krillin!!!
Emeraldegg
01/02/20 2:56:08 PM
#467
I'll be lucky if I get to the first step 5 tbh. I'm about 10 away from step 3.

I imagine we'll get a new battlefield before the banner is up, plus I'll have however many coming in from getting to rank 400 (i'm almost to 399), still have a bit of story stuff to do and the new year's missions to complete, so we'll see.
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TopicSign-ups for B8's best board project [sports]
Emeraldegg
01/02/20 11:00:29 AM
#20
After much deliberation, I have decided to return to the Panthers
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TopicNBA Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
01/01/20 4:04:19 PM
#336
oh woooooow
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TopicOl Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS*
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 2:58:11 PM
#45
Dunsparce's only use in actual battling is I've seen like a serene grace/headbutt stunlock setup but his stats are bad

Dunsparce more like dumsparce amirite
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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 1:25:44 PM
#289
His statement absolutely was an attack
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TopicNFL Week 17 Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 12:09:11 PM
#110
Question ZSig, since iirc you are also a panthers fan, how would you feel if somehow tua fell to us in this draft? Would you take him?
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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 11:05:00 AM
#276
I'm on the fence. Ultimately, you are still learning things you didn't know before that enable you to beat something, it just goes by a lot faster. If I'm playing dark souls, and I die to a boss, it doesn't matter whether I take 10 minutes or 10 seconds to get back to that boss, I hopefully learned its pattern a little better than I did the previous time, which gives me a better chance to beat it next time. It's not actively lowering the difficulty of the part in question.

On the other hand, bypassing a game's natural checkpoint progression (if there is one) means that you're playing outside of the rules the game has laid out. Going back to dark souls as an example, they expect you to have to restart from a bonfire every time you die. So by rewinding back to a difficult part rather than having to play through the portion of the level the game expects you to, it does feel a bit cheap.

Ultimately though, Zea's point reigns supreme. People play games to have fun, let them do what's fun. If I were to be playing dark souls with a rewind feature and I finally beat a boss it took me 50 tries to do (cough fume knight cough) I don't think my first reaction would be some sort of hollow victory feeling like I didn't earn it, it would be **** YEAH TAKE THAT I WON. And that feels good.

Also, the way the person in the tweet is making is point, he's being a jerk about it. HOW DARE YOU CALL YOURSELF A GAMER YOU FRAUDS. Like chill, dude. You can make a take without acting so...superior.
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TopicNHL Discussion Topic 2: Holiday Road
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 10:36:29 AM
#91
I miss him a lot
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TopicNFL Week 17 Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 10:21:08 AM
#108
Also jerry pledged throughout the season that he would let garrett finish the season and unlike many others, he actually stuck by it, so good job there even if it didn't work out. At least he didn't do the bull**** where he says he won't do a thing and then does the thing.
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TopicNFL Week 17 Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 10:14:51 AM
#106
Well considering he's pretty bitter about how his previous owner treated him, you'd have to think that working for dan friggin snyder would be an instant turn-off, but who knows.
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TopicNFL Week 17 Discussion Topic
Emeraldegg
12/31/19 10:04:20 AM
#102
Well I saw one tweet yesterday that said rivera negotiations were progressing more slowly than expected so maybe he won't
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