Vic Boss

God of High School 6

I think basketball's problem is that, outside of a few blips every once in awhile, you know which four or five teams actually have the a shot to win the championship and everyone else is kind of just there

TBH if they cut off 10 games in the regular season and had this play-in round every year, shit would be pretty cool.

It would be completely on point for the Canucks to win the asterisk real Stanley Cup. Easily more legit than most Cup wins

TBH, I don't know what I want more: The Leafs losing again as normal, or the Leafs winning the asterisk Stanley Cup that they can't even hold a parade for and any time they bring it up you can be like "Well yeah, but that wasn't a real Stanley Cup."

"Awriiiiiight, the round robins are over, who we got in the real first round?" >Defending Stanley Cup Champion St Louis Blues Fuck

The normal person in me knows it's just toys and media to sell the kids so ofc the kids have to be there but the video game tactician in me is like "Wait, why don't you just power up the Digimon and then go run and hide while they fight because you're kinda really getting in the way"

God dammit, KENTA

So one thing I never quite figured out about Digimon: what do the kids even do? Like in Pokemon, the trainer focuses the Pokemon's skillset and moves so that they're better in battle than they would be in the wild (the games even reflect this). In Digimon, it seems mostly that the kids are only there to be a power-up battery for evolution and that's it?

So how'd the fight buddies drawing turn out? Hopefully they're all wearing dickbutt T-Shirts (I typo'ed as T-Shrits so it looked like T-Shits)

Summer Struggle Spoils Don't look now but

YOSHHHH, Canucks beat Minnesota to make the first round. Pittsburgh, Edmonton and Nashville are the first teams to lose to "Non-Playoff" teams in the qualifier. I put "Non-Playoff" in quotations because like in the Canucks case, even though they were a playoff 7 seed vs a non-playoff 10 seed, the Canucks only had one more regular season point so it was an even matchup. Pit/MTL is a bit of a disaster but the rest aren't But also because of how this shook out, fucking Edmonton has a shot at the first overall pick again

1) One Piece - Pirate Warriors 3 (Platinum) 1a) Journey (Platinum) 2) Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty HD (Platinum) 3) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD (Platinum) 4) Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots (Platinum) 5) Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD (Platinum) 6) Zone of the Enders HD (Platinum) 7) Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen 8 ) Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner HD (Platinum) 9) Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection (100%) 10a) Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (100%) 10b) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Platinum) 11) Sonic The Hedgehog 1 (100%) 12) Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (100%) 13) Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country 14) :ps1: Final Fantasy VII 15) Final Fantasy VII Remake (Platinum) 16) :segacd: Sonic CD (100%) 17) Infamous: Second Son (Expert Evil Playthrough/Platinum) 18) Infamous: First Light (Platinum) 19) Detroit: Become Human (Platinum/100%/Secret Ending) 20) :Genesis: Streets of Rage 2 I popped all the single player trophies (one of them was scoring 800k points on Hardcore mode, which was way not fun but save-scummable). Still not technically done with what I want to do with the game, there's a few easy online trophies to pop assuming I can find someone on PSTrophies. This is about what I remember of that era of beat'em up on the SNES. First few levels are fun, then it starts getting not-fun. The flying enemies are total bullshit and the health bars getting longer and longer makes things more aggravating. I beat it on Normal and then did the Hardcore mode trophy with Axel, then played a few rounds with Max (love his power, especially when you German Suplex someone and they die or a huge chunk of their health goes), Blaze (I like her flipping dash move) and about 10 seconds of Skate (way too weak for what I like). I think weaponry is a bit of a gameplay weakness, knives get in the way more than they help and while it's pretty fun to beat down fools with the Pipe or the Katana, you can also probably do more damage with a combo rather than a weapon and sometimes they get in the way too. I also think enemies have a bit too easy of a time hitting you from a different plane but maybe I just wasn't used to using my character that way either.

Pokemon Twilight Wings Episode 7 The fucking animation, holy shit

I'm still doin Xenoblade but haven't touched it for about a week or so just to concentrate on Detroit: Become Human. I've 100%ed most of the chapters and most of the endgame, there's two or three significant early chapters I still need to work through most of the choices for. I thought I would've needed two full playthroughs but it turns out I needed three (Markus has three choices he can make in an early chapter with Carl that he can revisit in the second-to-last chapter if you choose to resist Carl's son), so I completed one and knocked out a few nodes I wasn't planning on getting quite yet (the "Be Mean to Hank" run and Ralph showing up in one of Kara's endgames) and just started the next one (Save the wounded policeman in the first Chapter, escape Alice's father without using the thing you can find). I'll finish off the early chapters afterwards and then start the final Platinum run (Markus' third Carl choice, not getting out of Alice's house at all, and the "Get all the Tombstones at Amanda's place" run for the final trophy). Also still Fire Emblem Awakening.

Poppin trophs in PS3 Streets of Rage 2. Might take awhile to find someone who wants to boost the online trophs though. Got one more single-player troph to attempt, score 800k points on Hardcore Mode (Hardest Difficulty, start with 1 Life). It should be doable because you can save-state scum it, but I'm about halfway through the game and I'm starting to lose lives in some of these fights even with scumming x_x

1) One Piece - Pirate Warriors 3 (Platinum) 1a) Journey (Platinum) 2) Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty HD (Platinum) 3) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD (Platinum) 4) Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots (Platinum) 5) Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD (Platinum) 6) Zone of the Enders HD (Platinum) 7) Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen 8 ) Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner HD (Platinum) 9) Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection (100%) 10a) Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (100%) 10b) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Platinum) 11) Sonic The Hedgehog 1 (100%) 12) Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (100%) 13) Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country 14) :ps1: Final Fantasy VII 15) Final Fantasy VII Remake (Platinum) 16) :segacd: Sonic CD (100%) 17) Infamous: Second Son (Expert Evil Playthrough/Platinum) 18) Infamous: First Light (Platinum) 19) Detroit: Become Human (Platinum/100%/Secret Ending) Platinum'ed, 100%ed all nodes (which isn't part of the Platinum) and popped the secret ending to finish it off. I think the game's special the first one or two times you play it, and unlocking a new (non-awful) scene you haven't seen before is good shit, but the game doesn't hold up as well when you're replaying chapters or sets of chapters over and over to unlock each node. Favourite Ending Worst Endings Most intriguing

The big three all have X buttons and they're all in different locations

God of High School 5 ?

These playoffs are legit is as fuck up until the Canucks get eliminated, then they're an asterisk and this isn't a real Stanley Cup

I've only ever played Yakuza Kiwami, which is a remake of Yakuza 1. Release order is 1-5, 0, 6 and then the upcoming Like A Dragon, so I'd probably do Kiwami 1, Kiwami 2, 3-5 Remaster, 0 (People love the shit out of 0 but seem to be disappointed when they play Kiwami next), 6 and Like A Dragon.

I've heard gamers more hardcore than I say that XBox Elite controllers are the hands-down best ones. I think the SNES controller figured out 2D gaming just right, the 360 controller felt good for 3D gaming. The Dual Shock is the best of both worlds and I also think it benefits from just not changing too much for 20 years, so you only had to make slight adjustments with each new console whereas going from something like N64 to Gamecube to Wii was some wild bullshit. Gun to my head, Dual Shock.

Still Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive (Chapter 14, probably haven't played it for about a week), Detroit: Become Human (because I've been popping nodes in this) and Fire Emblem Awakening here and there. With Detroit, I've been replaying the chapters from back to front, also replaying a few close chapters together that have cross-chapter choices. I've come close to 100%ing most of Markus' chapters (one requires an early chapter choice to go differently so I'll do that in my "Be Mean To Alice/Be Mean To Hank" playthrough), a decent amount of Connor's (I'll have to do at least one full playthrough and one near-fully playthrough to fully 100% him after popping all the nodes I can, and one of them sounds so touchy that it might need some extra chapter replays to accomplish) and a decent amount of Kara's (I think I just need one playthrough with her). Not even for the Platinum either, doesn't require 100%ing it, just want to do it to do it.

A few songs or albums you've been listening to lately Logic just released his "retirement" album and I liked it a lot. I'm a fan of nerd references (dat Solid Snake feature) and his discography is definitely something I want to explore more of in the future. One of the better songs I like off it just because it made me lol

Holy shit, Elliot Friedman came down from the mountainside he's been squatting on to report on hockey again