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Yeah, but what if all your shots that hit the woodwork actually went in?

Both of the Like a Dragon ones are turn based, the rest are basically beat-em-ups like a modern Final Fight/Streets of Rage(inside battles).

Boredom led to me playing Wrestling Empire. While refereeing accidentally knocked totally not Rey Mysterio off the top rope, injured and "did not survive injuries", 11/10 would murder while refereeing again.

I have to say, an unfortunate problem I have with these games (or at least 0, being still the only one I've played) is that I'm never going to platinum them on the basis that a) it will take months and months to do, and b) I'm just not any good at half the mini-games that it would necessitate. "But surely you can just enjoy a game and go about your life without feeling compelled to platinum it" - I have no time to listen to such reasonableness, away with you.

Yeah you run about doing all sorts of weird and wonderful side quests/activities with a good and serious main story. It's all open world in the city and when you get in to a fight it's confined to a small area almost like how it would be if you got in to a fight in a JRPG but it's action.

Inside battles, so like open world until you get into a fight?

Jeff McNeil and the Mets bench bitched and moaned about Rhys Hoskins making a dirty slide yesterday (it wasn’t dirty). Hoskins called them crybabies and did the motion and all of that. Today. 1st inning. Hoskins at the plate with 1st base open with 2 runners on. Yeah maybe it’s draconian to call to put one in someone’s ribs but the thing with the Mets over the last few years is they never, ever retaliate no matter how performatively upset they get. So everyone knows it’s easy to get under their skin. Even when they were leading the league in HBPs. They never even attempted to brush someone off the plate which emboldens teams to keep working inside with impunity. Does Severino send him a message or pitch him inside? Nah. He throws a first pitch meatball down the middle which Hoskins promptly rips to drive in 2 and he celebrates wildly at first base. So again, nothing’s changed. Gutless team that the rest of the league loves to clown. Business as usual.

It’s goooo time! Your world champion Arlington Renegades vs Your world champion Birmingham Stallions!

Football, eh?

Quite an EDM heavy month as it helps me get stay focused at work. Last month I think I had Alestorm at #1 artist because I was refamiliarising myself with their newer albums. That's Marshmello, Hollywood Undead, Sebastian Ingrosso, Avicii, and Fall Out Boy represented in the top tracks. Spotify kept serving me Bullet (Hollywood Undead) on basically every mix playlist possible, including both happy and moody!

Yep, that's exactly what I'm referring to. What a moment. I love how it's so different to the original yet so true to the mythos. I genuinely can't believe this game exists. Like, it's definitely bloated and I'm going to have complaints about the open world and pacing for sure, but as a work of fan service it's absolutely phenomenal. This is the Avengers Endgame of Final Fantasy, it's big and messy and probably doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, but I've never had so much fun.

Every 3rd inning for home games the Mets bring out the Veteran of the Game. The veteran for Opening Day, the largest crowd of the year, was named Seymour Weiner. Respect to the man and all but holy shit.

That seems a bit US-centric to me. UK has had (legal, regulated, widespread) high street bookies for millions of years. The fact that back then your only option was to go to the bookies meant that if you went people would know and the public aspect and the shame of it played a part in keeping levels of gambling relatively low. Before internet gambling there was an ick factor to it which (sadly) has mostly dissipated since. Doing it on your phone makes it far more private which gets rid of the shame factor and makes it far easier to do it. Also prior to the internet offering limitless betting opportunities on all kinds of nonsense the majority of football gambling happened through the pools which involved small amounts of money and was pretty harmless.

If Alonso hadn't played for us, think a lot of people on social media etc wouldn't have reacted the way they have at the news. Feels to me he is going to do another year at Leverkusen trying to retain the league and Champions League football whilst waiting for the Madrid job. Looks like we'll turn our attention to Amorim or De Zerbi.

Bears vs. Texans is the Hall of Fame Game coinciding with the inductions of Andre Johnson, Devin Hester, and Mongo McMichael.

Love these types of games when they're on. Always fun to go to and just seeing load of players when you're growing up playing again. Still find it mad that out of those who played you're got Skrtel now with hair, Kuyt who's had a glow up and Torres becoming an absolute unit of a man.

Things that happened today - graffiti on the route from Liverpool to Manchester calling Liverpool fans murderers, poverty chanting from United fans after every goal for the club, shouts of murderers clearly heard on the broadcast, Munich stuff both online and in the stadium, and someone in the away end threw a flare down into the disabled fan area (because clearly, that's a good place for disabled fans, below away fans) that injured a guide dog and forced the area to be briefly evacuated. Fuck football fans man.

"Cara Dune Pig Shit Shovelling Scene. Take 349. Action!"

My new life. Homeless Career earning $10 day. Basically living off of my Dogs wages. Going to save up money and buy a bigger place and eventually a business. Rags to Riches I guess.

Classic Chelsea performance once again, at home to 2nd-worst team in the league... * Under fire immediately as game starts with incessant Burnley attacks * Scrape a soft penalty to end the first half 1-0 up and with Burnley down to 10 men * Concede equaliser immediately after the restart * Hit 30-odd shots straight at the Burnley keeper while they force fingertip saves/hit the woodwork at the other end * Go 2-1 up only to again concede straight away (losing a header off a corner with a man advantage, naturally) * Gusto taken off possibly injured because lol * Two points dropped and I presume Poch will say something about the process in his interviews