GoGo Yubari

Won one of the crazier Fall Mountains I've ever played tonight, as this late into the season usually people don't screw up on the last hurdle. This time I watched like five or six people either jump too early, forget to grab, or get knocked off by the swinging hammers they put in after the remix and somehow got the crown in spite of running into ball after ball after ball in the second-to-last section of the course. Hit 40 the other day so now I'm actually fucking around a little more when I have comfortable leads, looking forward to season 2 where I absolutely don't have a chance of maki

Generally speaking you can't expect too much from midseason acquisitions. Like, sometimes you do get a Nicolas Lodeiro or Wayne Rooney situation where they immediately turn a team around but more often than not they need time to gel. Anyway, since this is the Inter Miami thread I'm popping in to say they've traded Roman Torres back to the Seattle Sounders, and all we had to give up is a draft pick. I'm surprised it's so little but given that it's basically just a bandaid to cover for the fact that Xavier Arreaga will probably miss a lot of time due to World Cup qualifiers and quarantine r

Top five character names in this season of Fargo thusfar: 5. Swanee Capp 4. Banjo Rightway 3. Ebol Violante 2. Constant Calamita 1. Doctor Senator

Speaking of, finally watched the last two seasons of Silicon Valley. Season 5 feels like a show that was just hopelessly treading water (also good lord, the Tesla subplot felt overbearing) but I liked season 6 a lot. Having an endpoint did wonders for them.

The Europa League, baby!

Yeah, "what if we gave a backstory and internal life to a character that's meant to be representative of a system that dehumanizes people" feels like it's missing the point, and I especially would never trust Ryan Murphy to do something interesting with that. It feels like the point where the "what if we make an origin story movie/show for this iconic villain" wave has outright taken a step too far, where up until now it was maybe just a tired trope for me. It does gangbusters every time, though, so I expect thirty years from now I'll be floating in a pod with a ten-episode miniseries about Yo

One advantage they'd have is that when the Playstation one came out, nobody was really doing platform fighters other than Nintendo. Now there's a billion of them, probably wouldn't be too hard to snap up one of those dev teams (frankly there already is one that I remember playing at ID@XBOX open houses, but I remember not really loving it). But yeah, my preference would just be more big-name characters heading into Smash DLC. Cuphead would be in my first-choice list for an XBOX version and man do I want him to be more than just a Mii fighter skin in Smash.

This is the kind of move Microsoft very much needed, and to be honest if this can lead to Bethesda putting out games that are less... broken on launch that would also be a big plus.

Boy, Hades is fun. Turns out that I, a person who likes roguelikes and Greek mythology, am pretty into the Greek mythology roguelike.

Even though we've all known this was a Done Deal for a couple days now, actually seeing the video made me so happy. Hopefully it's a good homecoming for him.

"Purple Rain" is the most popular Prince song on Spotify, actually. I checked Apple Music to compare but I don't see a single song off Purple Rain on the top played songs which makes me think there's some Prince vs. Prince and the Revolution labeling confusion going on there. People love a ballad. It's not close to being my favorite Prince song (that's "Let's Go Crazy" by a mile) but I get it. For me with "1999" I heard the phrase everywhere as a kid but not really the song, I think. Prince was weird because I knew exactly who he was because of the constant jokes and references to him on

Hades' 1.0 release date seemingly coming today out of nowhere is very exciting news. I was waffling on whether I'd buy it for PC or Switch but Switch just feels right.

My initial thoughts are I'll probably buy the PS5 (with disc) at the first decent discount. I've not played the PS4 Spider-Man game yet, even, so there's no need for me to jump for Miles Morales. Maybe holiday next year? Most likely I grab that before I grab a Series X, though.

Just played my first game after the new update. Got Slime Climb as game two and my heart nearly stopped when I got past the first part and got to where you usually just have to weave around large balls being shot at you... and instead nearly got bowled over by those sticks that occasionally show up in Fruit Chute instead. I made it past and it didn't seem like it really wiped out a lot of people, but I did see that they were piling up near the bottom.

I think my level of enthusiasm for Lovecraft Country wavers a lot from week to week, which makes sense given that the show basically swings from one horror subgenre to another each week. The one this week was right up my alley, makes all the sense in the world a show like this would eventually get to body horror.