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I'm so excited about the Guardians, their comeback has been incredible. They were 15.5 games back at one point, which would make this the biggest comeback to win a division in MLB history, but it's even crazier that just a month ago they were 12.5 back. They've been on just a ridiculous run, and it's been so fun to watch.
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Who's excited for baseball playoffs? It's been awhile since I've been really hyped up for the MLB playoffs as it's usually just one or two teams I care to watch but this year there's a lot of teams in that have me excited for the MLB playoffs than I have been in past years (although I did quite enjoy the Dodgers / Yankees championship series last year.)

Still, I can't help but think of Insanolord whenever keeping track of this season winding down with the Guardians now overtaking the Detriot Tigers in the division. I've got to think he's getting excited also for MLB playoffs. Still, I don't want the Tigers to collapse too much more so that they can prevent the Astros from making the playoffs.

After leading in their division for most of the year, it's a bit of a bummer to see the Yankee surging a bit near the end to possibly take away the number one spot from the Blue Jays. Schedule has been a bit more on the easier side for the Yankees at the end here but if Jays can just sweep this last season series with the Rays than it's all good.

Meanwhile, Mets are just hovering in that last wildcard spot and it would be kind of funny to see them miss out on the playoffs after the Juan Soto signing. Have to wonder if Juan might be regretting that decision to sign with the Mets after getting to the Championship with the Yankees last year and seeing the Yankees and Jays both fighting for first in the AL after turning down both those teams trying to sign him after last year's playoffs. But maybe $765 million makes it easy to shrug that off.

But with Mariners, Brewers, Dodgers, Cubs and likely the Red Sox in as well, most of the teams I sort of root for to win are also in it this year. Also curious to see how well the Padres do this year. Last year, they put a scare into the Dodgers and almost knocked them out early. In a way, they were almost the hardest team the Dodgers faced on their way to winning another Championship. Wonder if the Padres have it in them to upset some teams this year so even they've got my interest.

And I guess there's also the Philadelphia Phillies taking up some space in these proceedings but, along with possibly the Tigers, you're also going to have some dud non-interesting teams making the playoffs. What can you do? There's more shrug-I-don't-really-care-about-them teams in a league than there are ones you root for. Just gotta hope they aren't the ones that end up winning unless they're facing off against the teams you loathe.
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TalkBack / Re: Next Nintendo Direct To Air September 12
« Last post by Khushrenada on September 26, 2025, 01:35:17 AM »
So, the ol' Nintendo Direct.

I must say, the beginning Mario Anniversary segment got me hyped up and expecting to see some footage of a new Mario 3D platformer. It made me realize how much that is sort of at the top of my gaming wishlist right now. After waiting patiently through the shrug of a tease for the next Mario movie, I then got to be disappointed by just getting a port of some past 3D Mario games in Galaxy 1 and 2. It's a bit of a mixed reaction since Mario Galaxy 1 is my least favorite 3D Mario game (and adding more story pages to Rosalina's storytime book is a further step in the wrong direction). Plus, with Galaxy 1 being included in that recent 3D All-Stars, it just further felt like it was way too soon to be hyping up a port of that game again. On the other hand, Galaxy 2 remains in my memory as one of the absolute best Mario games of the past 15 (heck even 20) years and it's been so long since I played it that I'd welcome a replay of it. Of course, I don't really need this port to do that since I still have a functioning Wii U and Wiimotes. Still it made me wonder if this might be a gearing up to suddenly announce Super Mario Galaxy 3.

But nope. It's a new Mario Tennis, my least favorite of the Mario sports games. Even that felt like it was too soon to be having another Tennis game but it's been 7 years since Aces right now. And, to its credit, what was shown actually had me thinking it might be the first Mario Tennis game I'd actually want to buy and play instead of buying it more to sit on my shelf as completeness for a software library catalogue. The DLC for Mario Wonder reminded me that I really wanted to finally get that game and get playing it since I seem to be jonesin' for a new Mario platformer. And that's what I've done. Got a copy of the game and played through the first world now. Looking at this DLC again, it seems to be more about making a party game out of a Mario platformer but it also seems to be hinting at more regular platforming content as well. Consider me intrigued yet at the same time it was a bit of a let down that after all this Mario talk, the best announcement just seemed to be about DLC for a game two years old.

Although then we come to Yoshi. They included him in the Mario portion but I consider the game a bit separate from the Mario series particularly as there doesn't seem to be any of sign of Mario appearing in this game. By far the best announcement in the Mario section though due in part to it being a game, a new game and maybe a different direction for the Yoshi series. The game I thought of when seeing the trailer was Untitled Goose Game. That's because UGG was about figuring out how to figure out how to pull off a checklist of objectives and it seemed like that's what this game was showing. Figuring out objectives /missions of requests to enter them into the Mr. E book. Curious to see how this one might turn out.

(More posting to come)
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What bad press and what was deserved about it?


My guess is Mario Kart World’s MSRP or merely Nintendo Switch 2 pricing in general.

Also, most people aren’t happy with Litigious Nintendo® though to be fair, the reporting on those stories is often thoroughly irresponsible and largely misleading. It’s easier to get mad about a sensationalized headline than it is to do even a minimal amount of reading.
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Quote
Bowser joined Nintendo in 2015 in a marketing role after several years at Electronic Arts

And thus another domino falls causing the unprecedented partnership to become more precedented by the day.
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Considering all the bad press Nintendo has (deservedly) earned this year

What bad press and what was deserved about it?
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Surprising news, but now seems like the best time, after launching a new system
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Considering all the bad press Nintendo has (deservedly) earned this year, I hope that this new President is much better at reigning in Corporate's worst impulses. Probably not, but one can hope.
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was Shibata the one responsible for Nintendo of Europe doing bizarre names? Giving us names like "A Little Bit of… Magic Made Fun: Funny Face", "More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain?", " Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise " Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training: Can you stay focused?" (although that is still better than the Japanese name of "Tohoku University Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer Professor and Supervisor Ryuta Kawashima's Tough 5-Minute Brain Training with Demon Training"). Please don't let him be in charge of naming games
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So...Stranger Things: Season 2...well that was excruciating, and somehow Season 3 is supposed to be worse than this boring slog where nothing happened for long spans of time and all the characters are morons? And oh look...everyone has to save Will again, and Eleven continues to be an overpowered, walking plot device. Yawn.

Yeah, definitely taking a break before watching any more of this show. I've heard Season 4 is a return to form, but I'd have to get through Season 3 and I'm just done with this show for a while.
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