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yeah weirdly Irsay isn't totally out on bringing back Saturday

I guess I shouldn't say weirdly because Irsay has made many strange decisions

Metroid Prime 4 is never coming out

the FFIX strategy guide made me appreciate good guides even more

I always stole everything from every boss

DRV3 Case 2 beated! Well, I was right that the killer would be the person who got their actual motive video, and what a motive it was! It's sad that we lost two interesting characters in the same case, but that's how it goes sometimes. I felt pretty bad for Ryoma when we found out he didn't have anyone he cared about, and that's why he was willing to let Kirumi kill him. I was also right that Maki was hiding her Ultimate talent, as Kokichi reveals she's actually the Ultimate Assassin. It does beg the question of how he knew, unless he watched all the motive videos when he collected them, despite saying he didn't. There's no reason to believe he told the truth, of course.

I wouldn't say Seattle beat them soundly, although Detroit's defense was beyond dreadful in that game.

But yeah, like I said before, Detroit getting in wouldn't have mattered because they would've gotten rocked by the 49ers.

Of course, right after I post that, Maki reveals she met Ryoma during night time, meaning (if she's telling the truth) the killer couldn't have snuck him into the gym before morning. Which would make the prime suspects Himiko and Angie, since they were the first two at the gym and nobody could've entered before them.

Just put McCaffrey in at QB and Deebo at RB

In the DRV3 Case 2 class trial, it looks like we've narrowed the list of suspects down to Maki and Kaito. Is this game going for ultimate punishment and making the culprit of every case the person Shuichi gets closest to? If that's the case, then the culprit is Kaito. The Ultimate Astronaut seems tailor-made for a Danganronpa style execution, too. However, Shuichi had Kaito's motive video, so he shouldn't have been able to see it...unless when Monodam redistributed the motive videos, he gave them to the right people. Nobody we saw or talked to mentioned looking at the videos after they were given back, but that doesn't mean no one at all did. I still think Maki is the most suspicious, but maybe there's a reason for it besides her being the killer.

also Kokichi continues to be the star of these trials

AllHeDoesIsWin posted...

I still argue that the Lions are actually the 4th maybe 3rd? best team in the NFC

I'd probably agree with you, but they probably still get bodied by the Niners if they get in instead of Seattle. That SF offense would've eaten their defense alive.

Vikings/Giants was an entertaining game, at least

Suprak_the_Stud posted...

Wow we really are going to have 49ers/Cowboys as the most "enjoyable" of the NFC playoff games this year. Weakest conference playoffs I can remember for a long time.

Well, we've known for 2-3 months now who the three best teams in the NFC are, and it played out that way.

Haven't even reached the top yet...!

And that's why it matters that Josh Johnson is the QB even though the Niners have 21 other talented starters

thekitchensink posted...

friendly reminder that there are 21 other very talented starters on the 49ers other than QB

yeah but nobody should want to see Josh Johnson as a Super Bowl starter

Looks like the game plan now is "depend entirely on McCaffrey"

it worked on that drive

Oh right, we watched Empire Strikes Back last night. This is exactly what the middle part of a trilogy should be. It's great that the bad guys have the good guys on the ropes the entire time, and the only victories the good guys win are pyrrhic ones. It really helps to establish the strength of the villains.

Also, the lightsaber duel between Luke and Vader seems really basic in the sense that you don't have any fancy moves involved, but at the same time, it manages to feel intense and visceral.

oh yeah that was a thing that happened wasn't it

And now we've arrived at our second Deadly Life of DRV3. Once again, the victim is someone I thought still had more to offer in Ryoma. His skull is fractured and he was in shackles, so I'm guessing he was already dead before the piranhas got him. I wonder if he was in the box with the piranhas to begin with, which is how he got into the water without anyone noticing, but it wouldn't explain why they didn't eat him before they dropped into the tank.

https://twitter.com/AriMeirov/status/1619063053135319058

it feels like the Chiefs and Bengals don't like each other and I'm here for it

Love the series. I'm more of a fan of other properties Disney owns than Disney itself, at least for stuff made after the year 2000.

yeah but Jimmy G isn't that good, they would've gotten rid of him if they had any takers

it's possible Lance isn't good either, but there's no way to know that yet so I don't think this qualifies as a sunk cost fallacy like with the Jets who absolutely have to move on from Zach Wilson

I guess you can keep rolling with Purdy if you think he's a big reason why they're 8-0

or it's possible he's 8-0 because the defense is so good that he hasn't had to be a reason why they win

I don't think they can just not play Trey Lance after all they gave up to get him, unless they can find a trade partner.

Also Dan Quinn once again isn't taking a head coaching job.

that's what Brady did a couple years ago!

In DRV3, the group regains some more of their memories, and we learn about the Ultimate Hunt. Interesting that only Rantaro seemed to remember it before now, but this would explain why they were all just "normal" students at the very beginning. I wonder if the Ultimate Hunt was trying to protect them from Monokuma's killing game, and we're going to find out that it was Makoto's organization behind it or something (the Future Foundation, right?).

Also, I'm going to laugh if Kokichi turns out to be the mastermind, but because he was flat out telling us he was the Ultimate Supreme Leader while also lying left and right, nobody believes him. It's the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" gambit, let's see if it pays off for him.

Every now and then, I get an urge to make a list (probably now because transience is making his annual games list). Sometimes I think I should make a non-video game list, but I don't know that there's a lot of stuff I have enough familiarity with to make a competent list. Even with something like Star Wars, I've really only watched the movies and the Disney Plus shows. I don't know much about any of the books or cartoons. The lore of Lord of the Rings is super deep and I haven't invested that kind of time into it.

I'm not really knowledgeable enough about music to talk intelligently about it, and there aren't a lot of bands I'm familiar enough with to talk at length about their body of work, other than maybe the Goo Goo Dolls, since I was obsessed with them in high school and college (and I've barely listened to any of the stuff they've put out since Gutterflower, so that's a huge gap of stuff I know little about anyway). I guess I could talk about a video game soundtrack or something, but again, I can't discuss anything specific about music, so I wouldn't be able to give any sort of insight into why a song is good. I don't think it'd be interesting to read.

I guess I could talk about Friends since it's probably the TV show I've watched more than any other (I've often got reruns in the background at night when I'm browsing the board if I'm not playing a game), but I don't know if most people would care about that since a lot of people don't like it or never watched it. Same thing with something like Frasier, which I've almost never seen anyone else on this board talk about. I could probably talk about Scrubs, too, I guess, which is actually a popular show here (or was at one point).

Maybe I should just stick to video games.

this topic would be impossible to believe if it weren't made by Anagram

It's kind of wild (no pun intended) that BotW2 is one of my most anticipated games. I've never been this excited about a Zelda game before.

Finished the original Star Wars. The movie is just a classic. So many great one-liners and well done characters. It's kind of crazy to think about all that this movie has birthed, especially since it's debatable how much of it Lucas planned out in advance.

I still need to play the Royal version of Persona 5 sometime, but I'm not ready to make that sort of time commitment right now.

Well, at least this Cowboys loss to the Niners in the playoffs wasn't nearly as crushing as last year's loss to the Niners in the playoffs.

Eagles have barely played a meaningful game in the last two months. Debatable whether that's a good thing or not.

I wish more games had an ATE mechanic.

Ultimaterializer posted...

The team you lost to had their three best offensive lineman out. There is no excuse to lose that one.

The Bengals made it to the Super Bowl last year with an even worse offensive line, so there's plenty of excuse to lose that one.

and we're really breaking out "what has he ever won" on a guy in his mid-20s huh

Football posted...

So when do we start having the Josh Allen cant win important games conversation

I mean, he did everything he could have possibly done to beat the Chiefs last year, so I don't know how much of this is on him.

He just wasn't the same after he injured his elbow this year. He played through it, but it hampered him.

They called that a fumble in Jags/Titans. I think it's a pass, but we'll see what they decide this time.

Thorn posted...

Easy to say this now but I always felt the line for this game was way too skewed towards the Bills. -6 seemed kinda crazy to me.

Then again, I always liked the Bengals in this game so maybe I'm biased.

Vegas loved Buffalo this year, so they always got inflated lines.

Burrow has mitigated a lot of their Bungling ways. The way they won last week was the way you'd have expected them to lose in years past.

Burrow is already the all-time leader for playoff wins for Cincy.

Yeah, Buffalo has the firepower to score quickly, but I've seen precious little evidence that their defense can get a quick stop. They'd need Cincinnati to be complicit in their own demise.

we thought Mahomes vs. Allen might become the new Brady vs. Manning but it might turn out to be Mahomes vs. Burrow

that score should do it for Cincy

Divisional games are weird because you know each other so well. Baltimore's defense was really good. If they had a competent offense, they'd have probably won, but that goes without saying.

Cincinnati has clearly been the better team for the first three quarters

One more score probably ends the game

Crescent-Moon posted...

Except it was physically impossible for the ball not to be across.

well yeah but I don't know if refs "infer" that way

although they overturned it so I guess they do

I think Mixon is across, but you can't ever see the ball cross the line (at least not in the replays I've seen), so this might be a tough challenge to win.

also I don't know what the target demographic is for "80 for Brady"

Ultimaterializer posted...

I see we STILL don't know what a catch is.

He does not have the ball in his hands for a split second after he hits the ground. Pretty clearly not a catch.

Crescent-Moon posted...

Why is this being reviewed?

the ball moves when he hits the ground

Joe Burrow is a bad man

Important drive for the Bills, took up half the quarter there.

It looks objectively worse than Axiom Verge 2