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Yeah they aren't gonna have a problem getting people to tune in initially. It will be appointment viewing for many, myself included. But I would say the show, and franchise, has a considerably shorter leash because GOT S8 was such a shit show.

I thought it was too slow and probably two episodes too long but I don't regret watching it. Shocking how it turned out, just from the crime scene alone...come on man!

Week Zero 2022s: https://texassneakers.com/week-zero-2022-introducing-the-nike-pegasus-39-texas/ Look pretty great to me.

They have a new campaign out for like $15 and the general consensus is that it is better than the original. I just started playing yesterday. They have also added Sorcerer, Barbarian and Druids as classes (Bard/Druid for $$$, Sorcerer free)

I don't understand this either.

This and The Offer finally making me feel better about my terrible decision to purchase a year of Paramount + because it was half off.

Origins was great. Very good from scratch lore/setting/etc. Good combat, interesting classes/skills, decent story. Second one was ok but I did not like the combat changes, it was very clearly trying to appeal to twitchy console gamers. Inquisition was fantastic but I personally didn't appreciate the woke bullshit they shoe horned into the relationships. In general I am a big Bioward fan and I am sure I will check this out, I think Anthem is their only game I've never played and its because I have zero interest in the genre. That title seemed very off brand for them...seemed like a money grab TBH.

Turn based tactics CRPG-lite set in an Arthurian setting. Not a lot of games like this one, closest comp that I've played is Blackguards but not a lot of people have played that one. You play as Mordred resurrected to kill Arthur, who is also dead. You killed each other and bad shit happened, undead invasion, etc. etc. You manage Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. You upgrade various buildings in your keep for different bonuses. You can recruit a bunch of different knights but can only have a max of 12 in your roster, 4 on your bench and 4 in your party during a mission though a lot of missions have NPCs join you that you can control. There is an alignment system that has two axis, christian/old faith and rightful/tyrant. You are rewarded for piling on any of those four directions with Camelot perks and/or unlockable missions to recruit new knights alignment specific knights who are often very powerful. Loot is slot based but you never loot new weapons and armor, rather you get runes to add to your weapons and armor that give various perks. You also have a couple of accessory slots per knight restricted by class and a couple of consumable slots. Once you gear up your kit is locked in for the duration of whatever mission you are on. There are 6 classes but no two knights are the same as they have their own alignments, traits and skills that are based on their class but a little different depending on knight. The closer your alignment aligns with your knights the more effective they are in combat. Combat is pretty fun although enemy types are fairly limited. Four difficulty levels...normal is a little too easy hard is fine for the most part but maybe 1 in 10 missions is super fucking hard compared to the rest of them so it can be annoying on hard. Have not played story/easy or very hard. Graphics are little dingy, and the performance is poor for what's on screen. Devs are very active on the Steam forums and if you find a bug you can send them your autosaves and they will fix said bug if they can reproduce it. They also have some free DLC planned. Base game is 50-60 hours, allegedly, I am about half way through. If you like turn based CRPGs this is probably worth a look. If you like King Arthur mythos (I'm not super informed on it beyond the film Excalibur and the Bernard Cornwell books), also probably worth checking out. The studio's previous work is an ARPG set in WH40K called Inquisitor Martyr.

Yeah man its crazy. I am primarily a PC guy but I think I have bought every Sony and Xbox generation until this one. I would have pulled the trigger on a PS5 probably a half dozen times since it came out in 2020 but they are never in stock on Amazon and I don't want one bad enough to camp for them the way I did for a graphics card which still took me forever to find in stock at a retailer. I've done the PSN shit where you allegedly get put on a list to buy direct, nothing.

Yes they ruined Symantec.

I've got about 60 hours into the game. I was mistaken in my initial post, looking at my saves in retrospect I started on Ruthless, got destroyed on one early story mission, restarted on Merciful, found that to be too easy and restarted on Standard which I eventually won easily (last mission is crazy and I came close to losing dudes). I started a new campaign on Ruthless and I am on the mission that destroyed me my first run through and I expect much better results. You are definitely going to get wounded knights on any difficulty but it is very possible to never lose any permanently, especially on non-Legendary difficulties. The main difference between this and Xcom is you must play aggressively on the tactical map. It is very similar to Gears Tactics in that regard, if you played that. Every mission has a meter that fills up by X% depending on the mission at the end of the turn and when it gets to 100% a random bad thing happens and the meter resets. Sometimes the random bad thing is no big deal, sometimes it can be a PITA. Also overwatch is terrible relative to Xcom. It takes you out of cover and early on the enemies have better range than you do and is only ever worth it if you are facing one of the maybe 3 enemy types in the game.

Honestly, Big Noon Kickoff aside, why would they not put the game on in primetime? Is there another game on ESPN/ABC that would threaten those ratings? They would get more TV eyeballs at 6/7p central than 11a central so why wouldn't they do that?

https://www.change.org/p/make-fox-put-the-texas-alabama-game-at-night

Saw this tonight and thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever watched to completion. Nothing about it was good. The first half was a slog. The second half picked up the pace but it still sucked. Lone highlight for me was him sliding his sword through the dude's cut off nose and talking shit while doing it.

Yeah I thought it was great. JT has a hell of a lot of talent and impressive range as an actor. I can't believe she got off, again though don't know anything about the real case maybe the show made her seem a lot more guilty than she was. The whole 41 times thing though...I thought the scene with Jonah/Pat whacking on the tree stump was great.

That is exactly how I have them except Splendid and the Vile would be last. I did not find it engaging at all in the way the other books were.

Ammo prices are transitory.

Oh man I thought Devil in the White City was fantastic. I thought it was his best work. I liked Dead Wake a lot too. Didn't like the Hitler one at all. All the rest I enjoyed.

This is hilarious, I saw the baseball thing this morning and thought "Who else does this shit?". And the answer, AFAIK, is no other school.

Hulu show debuted last night and they are releasing one a night for five total episodes. Crime drama, pretty sure it's based on a true story but I don't like to look that up to avoid spoilers. Jessica Biel is the lead role and Jonah from Veep plays her husband. Starts sort of slow but gets real good after 20 mins or so. Candy is sort of a stereotype Texas suburban housewife from the early 80s.

This is a tremendous show. The guy playing Coppola I had only ever seen as the uncle on Goldbergs. He's cast really well here.

On to my next WH40K set video game! This one just came out and it's pretty good. Think Xcom2 and Gears Tactics have a baby. You are in charge of a ship that serves as your base and visit various systems putting out fires with a squad of four grey knight space marines. There are 4 classes initially (4 more late in the game but the way it works is you could go a whole game and not see all 4 of the other classes much less recruit one of each) and they all play pretty different. You research tech using 1 resource, upgrade/repair your ship using another and requisition new gear and marines with yet another. It is really hard early on if you go in blind. 4 difficulty levels where the easy one gives you bonuses, standard gives nothing and the two above standard buff enemies and nerf the player. I started on standard and got my ass handed to me early and restarted on easy. Probably should have just started a new game on standard again as once you start getting levels and gear the game gets a lot easier. Very much like Xcom you are expected to have casualties and there are a few game mechanics around this. The biggest reason the game is hard early is because of the wound mechanic. Basically if you take any damage at all, whether you heal it or not, your guy will get a debuff post mission that gives him -X HP and a recovery time before that debuff goes away. You can still use them on missions they will just have less HP. And the more wounded you get the greater the HP penalty and the longer the recovery time. Compounding this mechanic's significance is that marines are in very short supply early on. You start with just 6 guys and you can't pick the classes, they are preset. On easy this mechanic is nerfed a lot and you also start with 8 guys instead of 6. In actual combat if you go to zero HP, once per mission you will come back after 3 turns at half health. If you get to 0 HP twice in one mission you are permadead. Also most marines have a counter on them that decreases by one every time you get to 0 HP and if that counter gets to zero you are permadead. This counter starts at 3 and goes up as you level. Anytime you go to 0 HP on a mission that marine is unavailable until fully recovered at which point they also get a random implant that gives them a small stat boost of some kind. Finally you can respec your guys but it requires some research AND having 1 permadead marine for every respec you want to do. Anyway, this is a must buy IMO if you liked either Xcom2 or Gears Tactics.

The thing that kills me is how is Texas good to great in like, almost literally, every other sport we compete in except the one I care about most, football, and the one I care about the second most, men's hoops.

https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/stock-market-dow-nasdaq-sp-500-51651273777?mod=mw_latestnews This article says the following regarding YTD performance S&P500 worst since 1939 (fucking aggy) DJIA worst since 2020 NASDAQ worst since 1971 Seems bad

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-futures-lower-ahead-of-inflation-data-with-tech-under-pressure-after-apple-amazon-disappointment-11651220738?mod=mw_latestnews ouch