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  1. On 3/10/2024 at 11:34 AM, fuggled said:

    Maybe, but they further confused it by showing the perspective from the POW camp and intertwining the Tuskegee story line.  When the POWs are trying to decipher the German freak-out, you can't tell if it's misinformation, pre-invasion or post-invasion.  Plus, they did show Rosenthal's perspective, but did it retroactively and didn't actually show anything he did on D-Day. Just weird all the way around. It felt like they were trying to avoid a story that's already been told elsewhere, but they ended up with a gap that wasn't filled very well.

    This same crew has already told the story of the invasion twice, one in Saving Private Ryan and one in Band of Brothers. They really had no reason to show D-Day a third time, especially when, as they put it, there was no luftwaffe  in the air. It's a show about bombing runs, and they encountered no resistance on D-Day. There was nothing for them to tell, other than to give you some far away shots of action already better depicted elsewhere. Someone above asked why they wasted moments on the tank not dropping earlier, well D-Day would have felt like that but even worse.

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  2. On 3/5/2024 at 7:49 PM, Celery Man said:

    It’s crazy how bad Madden is in all forms.

    I’ll not weigh in on steam deck because i haven’t fucked with it, but I’m skeptical that it is simple and easy. I mean, I’m sure it’s not rocket science, I’m sure anybody could get it set up and working, I could be totally wrong and it’s no more complicated than plugging in a console and waiting for your game to download. Actually i kinda want one now that I think about it. But it’s also totally legitimate to just want an almost entirely straightforward experience as a casual gamer. We have both consoles and i use the Xbox much more, but that may be influenced by spending much more time on the 360 during that era.

    The steam deck is idiot proof out of the box. Without knowing how to unlock it, you literally cannot fuck it up and it's plug and play by default. It won't even show you games that haven't been explicitly whitelisted to be verified as fully playable. You have to go into an additional menu to check "allow steam proton to run on any game" to get the full, unlocked library of steam open to you, and even then you still can't fuck it up from there. To actually fuck things up, you have to go to desktop mode, which is just plane jane normal linux, and even there, if you fuck things up, the way the steam deck handles updates and fuck ups is that valve updates are actually just entire images of the entire linux rootfs in read only mode that overlays ontop of the normal install. Meaning, unless you actually know what you're doing to do so in linux, your permissions on the file system are completely locked down so you don't trip over your own dick. The only folder you have write permission to is your home folder, which you can't do anything other than download shit to from firefox. And if you DO somehow fuck it all up, all you have to do is hold the volume button when powering the thing on, and it goes into recovery mode, which is simply it reflashing a pre-made image onto your rootfs from an embedded ROM (or USB drive if you want). When you actually interact with the steam deck outside of unlocking it, it looks exactly like a console, with big "INSTALL" buttons on the games you want to run:

     

    There is no way to accidentally fuck things up, if you want to fuck up your steam deck, you have to explicitly go into desktop mode and fuck around with a lot of non-intuitive console commands from a terminal. There are no buttons you can press that will fuck things up for you, it's impossible to screw it up unless you actually know what you're doing.

     

    To "set up" your steam deck for playing on a TV, you just buy a dock, set the steam deck on it, and plug an HDMI or display port cable into the dock and the other end to your TV. The steam deck automatically outputs to the TV when you do this, just like the nintendo switch.

  3. 20 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

    Bulma was the first rude anime chick I ever seen. 
     

     

    The opening gag in the series where she flashes Kamesennin accidentally and he squeezes his cane so hard it shatters and blood shoots out of his nose made me cry laughing when I was in middle school. So incredibly funny at the time.

  4. 11 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    I cannot say I was a big follower of his work, but he made an incredibly positive difference in the lives of millions of people. These are the kinds of people we should celebrate more. What a life he had and I feel for all the folks that will miss him. May he rest in peace.

    If you have never played Chrono Trigger before, you owe it to yourself to play through at least once. It's one of the most perfect examples of an RPG around. The story is very, very Akira Toriyama, it's like a condensed example of why he was so beloved. Every character type he would flesh out in other works is represented in Chrono Trigger. The best part of the game revolves around the rivalry between Magus, the dark lord of the demon world, and Frog, the last remaining squire of Cyrus - the royal guard who Magus murdered - who was considered so weak that Magus didn't kill him, but rather cursed him to live the rest of his life as a worthless toad instead. The tale of revenge between the two is shades of Piccolo and Kamesennin in Dragon Ball, and what makes Chrono Trigger so great is that it has so many different endings, so unlike a lot of other RPGs, your actions matter and you can take the story in lots of different directions. Chrono Trigger was considered a "dream team" game because it took the 3 biggest entities in RPGs at the time -- Akira Toriyama, Square, and Enix, and somehow brought them together to make a single game. It is the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" of RPGs.

     

     

    One of the most celebrated games of all time. It was an instant classic upon release and holds up magnificently. It's also perfectly paced -- not too long, not too short. You can blow through one of the multiple endings in a day. It's available all over the place, even on phones. It's so worth trying, especially if you want to see why Toriyama was beloved.

     

    Spoiler

    My favorite way to play Chrono Trigger is to let Magus live and give him a redemption arc that mirror's Vegeta's from Dragon Ball Z. Magus is essentially the Vegeta of the game, down to his look.

     

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  5. 1. Rocky

    2. Miracle

    3. The Sandlot

    4. The Love of the Game

    5. Goon

     

    "If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this time. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world" makes me want to run through a brick wall.

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  6. This was such an incredibly huge part of middle school for me, Dragon Ball consumed me for an entire minute. I can't say enough how much I loved this man's work. Not just Dragon Ball, but Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest and Blue Dragon and on and on. It's impossible to overstate his influence, which was wide and varied, from Street Fighter to Sonic the Hedgehog. Outside of maybe Superman and Batman, Dragon Ball has to be the most beloved comic in the world. RIP to the GOAT.

     

     

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  7. Just now, immamac said:

    Arch is nowhere even close to 6M in one year NIL value. There has been no deal approaching this level of scale for any student athlete or group of student athletes. 

    Your being dismissive of how big of a deal this is shows how little you understand about how any of this works. 

    Again, your reading comprehension sucks. I never said Arch was close to $6M in NIL value. I said his collegiate value was estimated near that, as in all his NIL deals throughout his college career are estimate to approach that figure alone. Before the season started, he was getting valuations of upwhere near $3.5 million. Now, since you completely suck at reading, that is not to say he took $3.5 million in NIL money. That means that's what people with money were estimating he could earn if he went full whore and started tricking himself out like you're suggesting for $600 a pop.

    And I definitely understand how game budgets work. How many titles have you shipped again?

    Just now, immamac said:

    and now a million dollars is not a lot of money. Gotta love it. 

    My budget for an attraction at the toyota center that ran for 4 fucking months was quadruple that. $1 million is fucking nothing in gamedev.

  8. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    lol what? 

    I mean I guess its no wonder that's so hard for you to grasp considering your slack-jaw awe at a 2 year time frame. Here's a clue, though: A million dollars is honestly not a lot of money. $6.6 million is chump change for a project like College Football 24. Your audio recording budget for the game is larger than the player cut.

  9. 1 minute ago, immamac said:

    point me to another $6.6M one time payout NIL deal with over 11k participants that isn't this one any time in the next 5 years, or 10 years. 

    There will be single players who will have much larger deals than $6.6M, it's a guarantee. Brony James is already close to that. Fuck, Arch is valued near that alone. The number of people involved means fuck all. And again, "all time" is 2 fucking years. Get over it.

  10. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I think it's unfair to speculate on the lack of opting in and deleted this portion of my post because honestly what does it matter if this is his reason or what his reason was. It shouldn't matter, he isn't opting out and doesn't need to justify not opting in. 

    I agree, him not opting in isn't really a big deal. Except it is, because he's arch manning, and we're Texas, and it's not a conspiracy to say there are more people rooting for someone like him, on a team like ours, to fail, than basically anybody else in college football. For better or worse, he's got a spotlight on him that makes every normally no-brainer decision deserve pause and reflection. I think it's pretty damn mature of him, and I'd actually think that goes to the team of people around him.

  11. 10 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I still think it's stupid to opt out, that doesn't mean I think anyone is selfish or whatever. It's just stupid. having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense.  Moron = a stupid person.

    I think it lacks common sense in it's entirety to not opt-in to the single largest NIL deal of all time, for no effort, with extremely limited scope and an obvious pop culture implications. There is actually no (brand) drawbacks to doing it, but it's not like it's bad if you don't opt in. 

    I strongly disagree with the monetary portion of this having anything to do with anything and it actually makes Arch seem more like a dick to say something like that vs just leaving it his own business. 

    I think it's incredibly savvy for a player like Manning, who is clearly in bitch eating crackers territory with people begging for his fame to become a cancer, to opt out when he's the backup QB. Opting in, with his spot light, just invites all sorts extra comparisons to Quinn. Imagine when the stats drop and the endless sports talk radio discussion it would generate. Imagine how irritating it'd be to see people tweet to the team account videos of themselves benching Quinn after he throws an int in real life or some shit for Arch. All for just $600. Manning already has the clout to make millions in NIL. He'd be stupid to give ammo to people looking for any in to tear the team apart and generate controversy for less than the price of an RTX 3080.

    Plus saying shit like "Biggest NIL deal of all time" is really dumb when "all time" is 2 fucking years. The NIL is a goddamn toddler. $600 per player is only the "biggest of all time" because the NIL is still brand fucking new.

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  12. 12 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Childers was just on Full Ride carrying @immamac’s water and calling Arch Manning a selfish idiot who hasn’t done anything and should opt-in for “the good of the fans” and such. 

    Why is it anyone’s business if a player opts out? Some guys have very legitimate reasons to avoid it, and $600 is meaningless to guys bringing in millions. 

    After hearing for many years that Arch was just riding his last name to success and money from dickheads just like that, who gives even half a shit? No matter what Arch Manning does, there will always be some prick out there bitching up and down.

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  13. 18 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    He wasn't in NBA Live's, either I don't think. Well, one of them, he was someone you could unlock

    NBA Live was never as big of a deal as NBA Jam was in its prime. Shaq had a stipulation in his contract that an NBA Jam TE arcade cabinet was required to follow the orlando magic to every hotel the team would stay at because he was legitimately addicted to the game. Shaq recalled that they would have NBA Jam tournaments before the finals with guys like Penny Hardaway and Reggie Miller showing up just to play. NBA Jam was an actual phenomenon that bled over into the sport. Since EA's college football game is the only one in town, it has to be compared to the NBA top dog. Of course Jordan wouldn't appear in a lesser basketball game if he was opting out of the king at the time. Jordan avoided all video games (except ironically Michael Jordan in Chaos in the Windy City, which isn't even a basketball game). But it's only really noteworthy that he skipped NBA Jam, because players would reach out to Midway themselves and beg to be included, because being included in NBA Jam TE was seen as a huge honor (remember: in NBA Jam, only 2 players per team got on, in in NBA Jam TE, only 3 players per team. It wasn't until Showtime, aka NBA Jam 4, that nearly every player in the league got in). One of my friends was the digitizing artist for NBA Jam TE, and he said they had to turn away big name players at times because they could only include so many players and everybody wanted to be in.

    Of course, the flipside is the director of NBA Jam, Mark Turmell, absolutely loved that Jordan wouldn't let them put him in, because he was a detroit pistons fan. He famously included a hidden easter egg in the game -- in any game between the bulls and pistons, if the pistons have the ball on the final shot with a chance to win, their shot percentage goes up to 100% and they will hit automatically from anywhere on the court. Similarly, the opposite is true, if the bulls have the last shot and can win on a buzzer beater, their shot percentage will drop to 0 and they will brick any shot on the court.

    I got to do a project for the Houston Rockets a few years back, and the NBA itself co-owns much of the NBA Jam brand. I was allowed to use any of the NBA Jam iconography and audio clips in the game I made for them at the toyota center. Within the NBA itself, NBA Jam is still a really, really big deal.

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  14. 4 hours ago, MIkeHoncho said:

    any links to video of Worthy doing the receiving drills?  40 is huge, but what about video of him catching the ball?

     

    I thought they said he didnt do any drills

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