Vic Boss

I think the animation noticeably dipped in the second episode. Only small bursts of high quality animation, and cut corners everywhere else to make it happen.

Maybe he was the problem? (How tf are the Islanders even here? Just looked at their roster and there's nothing special going on there )

Was legit wondering if Tampa was setting themselves up for an upset. Badass regular seasons put teams to sleep and then they can't gear back up when they play against a team that's been playing for their lives for months. Tortorella being Columbus' coach and knocking off Tampa would sure be some shit too. Pittsburgh potentially getting swept seems a little surprising too. With hindsight, probably shoulda kept Fleury

I can understand changing it from War Machine to War Raiders because everything has to sound fucking nerdy in the modern WWE Marvel and/or that UFC guy who almost murdered her wife being named that. But an "experience" is something a 35 year old woman googles to add to her vacation plans and something a 50 year old man puts into his record player to remind him of the times back when he had testosterone, not something you use to describe a bunch of white savages rolling up on your coast to murder, rape and pillage. "They live the Viking lifestyle, even sew their own clothes!" Michael Cole can take the biggest baddasses in the world and make them sound mildly more threatening than someone who volunteers to run bingo at an old folks' home.

Welp, The War Raiders The Viking Experience's careers are over

:x

S8E1 That was pretty much just more Season 7

880

Golden Wind 26 I'm convinced that Araki had absolutely snapped by the time Part 5 came around. I don't think I've cringed in one part as much as I have this one.

1. Lost Odyssey 2. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD (Hero Mode) Personal 100%ed it (Got all the items, heart pieces and did all the Treasure charts, there was still a few other things I could've done but they only rewarded Rupees so I didn't bother). Fixed a lot of the problems I had with the original. Most of the things that made the game drag (paying for Tingle Charts, changing Wind Direction, Triforce Shards, sailing in general) were sped up or had options to speed it up. Dungeons and bosses were fun, but I think the game is still really barren compared to the games that came before it, or Breath of the Wild, or even Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I found Hero Mode didn't add much of anything. I died a few times in the first little while but once you start collecting items and especially bottles, the lack of recovery hearts in the game just became a minor annoyance more than anything. I think that mode is maybe more designed for people who heavily restrict themselves for things like not collecting heart pieces. I'm gonna play Twilight Princess a little later on in the year, I think I'll just leave Hero Mode off with that one.

Bungou Stray Dogs is back Episode 25 is just the OVA though. 26 is the start of Season 3

Discovery S2 E13

Same reason I watch Raw, for good matches and sometimes good angles (and a DVR/PVR to skip through the stuff that's bad) Also my fav wrestler Rush is there right now

Apparently Sasha tried to quit over the weekend and Bayley wants to leave

I watch RoH weekly and have for years ? There's a hundred reasons why it's not a good promotion. Apparently Bully Ray is getting a lot of backstage say and he's the one behind Enzo and Cass coming in

Doom Patrol 3

It's so weird, WWE pretends the time between Mania and Raw is a 4 month offseason like real sports and that they're just starting from the beginning again instead of recognizing they can keep the hype train going off of Mania. Or maybe they've just gotten lazy and assume "the crowd after" will carry things with wacky chants either way, so they don't have to try all that hard to do anything

TBH I missed nerd arguments

That new intro is delicious

I think this might chase more people away more than anything else. Losing forward progress, sometimes significant progress, and having to reclaim your body afterwards or lose even more feels a lot like artificial bullshit when we live in a save-scumming/auto-save/checkpoint era.

Every time they pull that angle, I fast-forward (or in this case, just turned the show off). You can't waste my time and then give me something lesser to make up for it.

I think in a weaker season I would keep up with Fairy Gone because the visuals are pretty high quality, but the power-set is so similar to JoJo's Stands and it's missing just a little something and I kind of want to keep a smaller anime list this season.

If it sounds good, it sounds good.

Further using the Uncharted 2 example, I beat it on Crushing but they added Brutal to the Remaster collection. I tried Brutal, got shot in the head and died immediately a few times because the mode is basically one-hit-and-you're-dead, and decided that was my limit, I didn't have the patience or desire to develop the skills to keep playing the game at that difficulty. If the game originally released with that difficulty level as the only one, I never would've progressed past the first area or so and just would've played something else instead of it becoming one of my favourite cinematic-style action/adventure games. The decision of what kind of experience I wanted out the game would've been removed from me and then I just wouldn't have had one. I may not have even bothered playing through it on Crushing if that was the only difficulty level because having the story withheld because of gameplay skill is more annoying to me, I don't consider story a reward for good gameplay (it's not the PS1 era anymore). I beat it on an easier mode, loved it, figured "Hmm, this might be do-able on a higher difficulty", did that and then I think I did it again on Crushing after that. I got the same story experience each time but different gameplay experience and skill progression, different feeling of victory on higher difficultly after overcoming each challenge (I was expecting to get stopped on Crushing difficulty at some point and wasn't expecting to beat the final boss on crushing at all).

I played the games long after the fact and somewhat knew the synopsis going in. I was expecting to hate MGS2 because the story is so whack and expecting to love MGS3 because the story is so good, but the opposite ended up happening because MGS2 was just so easy to play and made stealth as a skillset easy to apply and if you fucked up, it's because you need to do it better and it'll just drop you in a spot to try again, whereas MGS3 added the menus and stamina maintenance to it, so if you fuck up, it's because you need to do better but first you have to go into the menu and fiddle with options and make sure you've got enough stamina/stamina recovery. It's sort of like how Mass Effect 2 removed the menu bloat and made the gameplay of ME2 smoother, but in reverse. In Peace Walker's case I wasn't really expecting much of anything from it, so getting ambushed by bite-sized gameplay and base-building felt great.