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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces

« on: July 06, 2021, 10:54:22 AM »

Ok, but when are they announcing the New Nintendo Switch Pro SP?

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Livin' La Vida Loki)

« on: July 04, 2021, 03:24:36 PM »

That's good to know!

I watched the last two episodes the other day, and something told me there'd be a post-credits scene on that last episode.  It figures that Marvel wouldn't just let the episode end with Loki being deleted.

I don't wonder what's up with wherever Loki Prime landed.  Is that someplace that all deleted variants go? Or is there some trickery at play?

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: July 01, 2021, 12:13:23 PM »

CP3’s case of Covid was the worst of it, I think. Which makes then the lucky ones.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Wishlist Game Recommendations

« on: June 29, 2021, 10:07:28 PM »

If other games aren't scratching the itch, then FDC won't either. And yeah, if game length is a big factor then you might want to steer clear until a deal shows up. I think the price has the voice acting budget caked in, but it's really not valuable for someone who doesn't speak Japanese.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Wishlist Game Recommendations

« on: June 29, 2021, 06:36:03 PM »

The Famicom Detective Club games are good too, and also very short. I beat one in only a few hours and I think James said on the podcast they were like 8 hours long. I’m partway through the second one, and they’re both neat little stories that I think are enjoyable. However, the biggest thing for me was that they scratched the Ace Attorney itch for me since it’s been so long since I played one of those. But if you get The Great Ace Attorney when it comes out, it could satiate that need for you.

For Fitness Boxing, I would recommend the sequel over the original because of the slight changes they made. You're not gonna miss anything from not playing the first game unless the song list is that important to you. Also, the demos are pretty ok. The initial workouts are not too intense, and that's what you get in the demo. So it doesn't give a full picture of what you can expect from the full game.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 27, 2021, 10:50:15 PM »

I feel like the well has been a little dry last few games (I also have been going to bed early).

https://twitter.com/UltraWeedHater/status/1409341179934744577?s=20
https://twitter.com/BaylessSklp/status/1408997295241064448?s=20
https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/1407073714122989568?s=20
https://twitter.com/nba_paint/status/1405007856777183234?s=21

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 25, 2021, 10:10:24 PM »

I didn't save any, but I'll start sharing to the thread.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 24, 2021, 02:17:54 PM »

Holy ****, that ending! No goaltending on an inbound pass. This fourth quarter was so good.

Paul George is about to get wrecked on social media.

The social media slander has been my favorite part of the playoffs. Top-quality tweets abound.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2021?

« on: June 20, 2021, 12:59:49 PM »

Metroid happens, but only in trailer form.

Very happy/excited to be wrong here.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Livin' La Vida Loki)

« on: June 20, 2021, 12:55:07 PM »

Finally watched the first two episodes.  I really liked the twist of gender-swapped Loki.  I knew they had to do something visual with the character (why else bother with the cloak when we know it's Loki) and all the visuals surrounding the explanation of variants showed visual alterations to them.

This does bring up some questions though.  There is one "Scared Timeline", so how do variants alter so much?  Like, how does Loki being out of time make him into a her?  And Mobius remarks "that's how it happens, that's how it always happens" as if the Scared Timeline occurs over and over.  This makes me think there are multiple timelines that just get steered back into the main one when they get branched off.  The show makes it seem like things get reset and the branching path never happens, but I'm not convinced that's always true.

I may also need to go back and revisit The Ancient One's time loop explanation she gave Professor Hulk in End Game.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 16, 2021, 11:36:16 PM »

Thanks for sharing!

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 16, 2021, 10:10:18 PM »

Yeah, that's really bad luck if he's vaxxed up.  Hopefully, it means his infection won't last long.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 16, 2021, 06:30:28 PM »

So, is it assumed Chris Paul tested positive? The article only mentions that he's in the protocols.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Dread

« on: June 16, 2021, 06:26:38 PM »

I don't know..... have you read this thread? It ended in a weird place, man.

Apparently in a better place than where game development ended at that time.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Dread

« on: June 16, 2021, 09:24:41 AM »

Good thing we already have a thread for this game, which was announced in 2021.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo E3 Direct announcements

« on: June 15, 2021, 07:45:22 PM »

I really enjoyed the Metroid Dread reveal and subsequent development history video on the youtubez.  The game had been rumored to exist for so long, that it was especially nice to see that the game is using ideas from when they first attempted making the game.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Lite and Future Revisions

« on: June 13, 2021, 12:41:02 PM »

Well, according to this already-debunked GameStop leak, maybe not?  Possibly?  Who knows.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Accidentally Leaks Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Early

« on: June 13, 2021, 12:39:22 PM »

The best leaks are ones where it's clear someone just messed up on time zone math.

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Now you can watch on the GO, no mobile data needed.

« on: June 11, 2021, 02:52:39 PM »

That sounds. . .interesting.  Wonder what they'll do with a live action RE series.

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Movies & TV / Re: HBO Max

« on: June 11, 2021, 02:51:08 PM »

In case you weren't following this story, or weren't impacted by it, HBO Max completely borked it's Apple TV app to the point that people were complaining it was unusable.  They fixed it this week, after all the complaint.  Basically, HBO decided to hell with Apple's native playback tools in favor of their own.  This basically disabled pause and rewind features on their videos and other issues.  It's still unclear why they rolled out a self-sabotaging update, but the man in charge of the platform promised a fix and delivered saying "no excuses from us" while also not explaining WTF happened.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 06, 2021, 07:28:50 PM »

No offense, but this is next level tin foil hatting.

The NBA isn't a charity. Teams are in direct competition with each other all the time. The Knicks were licking their lips over the prospect of drafting Zion Williamson for a year, and you think they'd quietly hand over the pick to the Pelicans? Come on, man. If anything, what would have been "best for the league" at least from a ratings and revenue perspective would be for Williamson to be the face of the Knicks.

The drawing is private, but there are witnesses who have no stake in who wins the lottery. Also, do you want that televised? I guess it could replace the dais. I don't even watch that; I just wait for the list afterward. Personally, I don't think the actual lottery procedure would make for compelling television.

I'm not familiar with the 76ers thing. Magic Johnson was not employed by the Lakers during the three years they drafted second thus him promising a top three pick carries no weight and likely has more to do with the fact that the Lakers were a dumpster fire during those years. Also, have you ever looked at Johnson's Twitter? It's a mess. One would think he's shitposting except he's completely serious. A few pages back, I was complaining about Mark Jackson's commentary. Magic Johnson's feed is that in Tweet form.

No offense taken.  As with all conspiracy theories, you gotta get a little tinfoil hatty.

To me, the timing of New Orleans winning those drafts was really, really lucky and couldn't have come at better times for the team.  Same year the team is bought from the league, and traded away Chris Paul, Hornets get the number one pick and draft AD.  AD demands out, NO gets #1 pick, AD gets traded in summer.

But with the lottery being in private it at least lends to the possibility of rigging, despite witnesses.  And no, I wouldn't want that televised.  I certainly wouldn't watch it.  They would have to de-complicate the process to make it watchable.

The Magic Johnson thing happened when he was President of the Lakers in 2017, so it at least jives with him having some sort of relationship (a fake job he didn't actually want) with the team.

Plus, there's D-Rose going to Chicago with their 1.6% odds.

I can't really explain why every team would go with it every year.  The best I can come up with is that the goodwill can come back around eventually.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 05, 2021, 09:34:13 PM »

I'm a firm believer in the NBA Draft being rigged, and I think both times New Orleans got the #1 pick, there was a concerted effort to get a star to New Orleans to keep a team there for reasons.

I respectfully disagree. The drawing process of the lottery machine with the ping pong balls in the NBA draft is very transparent. Last year notwithstanding due to the pandemic, league officials, representatives from each team, several members of the media, and members of accounting firm Ernst and Young are physically in attendance for the drawing. To believe the draft is rigged, you'd also have to believe every single person in that room is in on this conspiracy. That doesn't track for several reasons. First and foremost, why would any team agree to give up the top pick to another team?

For New Orleans specifically, there were times when the team was basically gonna fold if something didn't happen.  I also think team owners like keeping New Orleans in the all-star game rotation for reasons.  As to why teams might agree to this, I think it's because those decisions can occasionally be seen as "what's best for the league" and extending grace to other teams can always come back around to them.

But the drawing itself is done in private, and even with and EY auditor there, the possibility of rigging still exists.  The EY partner isn't exactly signing an opinion on it.  Plus, there's the time the 76ers winning the first pick got leaked ahead of schedule or Magic Johnson ("allegedly") promising a top 3 pick for the Lakers before they actually received the #2 pick.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 05, 2021, 09:25:55 AM »

It's not just an NBA thing, if you look at the national broadcast schedule in every sports league there's usually a handful of teams that show up way more often than the rest. The networks think certain teams get more viewership, so they prioritize those, even though that can kind of become sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The NFL pisses me off with that to an extreme degree. Cowboys and Steelers can freaking lead the league in prime time games after failing to make the playoffs in the previous season some years. It’s wild.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 04, 2021, 05:55:19 PM »

I'm a firm believer in the NBA Draft being rigged, and I think both times New Orleans got the #1 pick, there was a concerted effort to get a star to New Orleans to keep a team there for reasons.

I say that to say that I think the NBA knows what it's doing when trying to grow "the brand".  But I don't think they've done a good job with these young stars.  I refer back to the jokes people made re:Jazz/Grizzlies, but that ended up having some of the best games of this round.  And Dame forced two overtimes from NBA TV (not that he's particularly young, but you know).

I think the NBA might have more leverage in TV negotiations than you give them credit for, and it's possible they're just not pushing to have certain matchups on prime time TV the way the could.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: I'm not making it up, it's in the NEWZ, DEWD.

« on: June 03, 2021, 02:37:13 PM »

Why the **** would you think that is a good idea?  I mean, as an adult, the 10-year-old is allowed to be dumb.  Especially in Florida, a concealed carry and stand your ground state, of all places and during a surge in crime.