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I've never hit 20 breach on any playthrough, even with always allocating points to Int so that breach stays uncapped. Keep in mind, my last playthrough I maxed out engineering (after every combat skill)... by mass crippling, buying immunity to my own grenades, and applying sticky grenades...

Don't forget geography, while Cincy to Baltimore is kind of a treck, everything else in the division is a day trip if you're committed. Nothing is sweeter than being there beating the other guys in their house, or more painful than stewing about almost winning while sitting in traffic for five...

I haven't heard, will we be able to respec stats outside of the patch respec? Or more to the point, do we still get perk points from skill level ups? That character builder assumes a flat 80 perk points, and I didn't think everyone got a flat amount prior, due to different stats granting...

Packers didn't have their #1 RB or WR. That said, they could use some skill players to emerge / be drafted.

I'm hoping

IMO it's way too early to say Love will be a franchise QB. That said, I don't wish misfortune on Rodgers, but am glad we got something out of the contract we signed with him last year, but that would be independent if Rodgers started one game or 20 this year. Honestly, the poor Jets are the...

Still, the number of draft picks we got, for four plays, from the Jets. Woof. And can you imagine the additional impact to the Jets if Rodgers hadn't cut his own salary? You would have to think the league takes this as a precautionary tale and doesn't make a major trade for anyone 35+ again.

3/4ths of this game was miserable, but not the last quarter.

Jets defense is giving it their all. Just a bummer, was hoping for an option other than 49ers / Eagles / Cowboys / Chiefs / Ravens / Bills / Bengals (having to win on the road all the way) this year.

This is legitimately painful to watch, both in who is winning and how nothing is working for the other team.

This is the level of offense I expected out of the Packers, at least to start the season.

The bottom two floors of Target's Worldwide Headquarters in Floydeapolis are a standard retail location, and same deal there. You would think seeing that reality on a daily basis that might make the corporation question the trajectory of their political support, but what do I know.

I've been assuming the Cardinals get the #1 pick since free agency started.

There is zero chance someone with those eyes is of euro descent. Internet says father's Italian, mother is Chinese.

Given how Just-In-Time movie making is nowadays, unless they've finished primary photography, maybe even reshoots, I would toss out any Spring premiere dates. Which is probably the real reason for the delay - sure, not having publicity would hurt Twune's box office in 2023, but not having any...

The Internet (TM) has noticed that Sam Witwer (the lead in The Force Unleashed games) had a voice credit in the second episode, so maybe they are doing an adaptation of Starkiller as the mystery Inquisitor? Honestly, I'm up for it - nowadays you don't put someone in a mask unless their identity...

It's telling that I don't remember any of the names or terminology less than a year out, but the future timeline plans on setting off a nuke to wipe out their city in the present timeline, so Hit Girl generates another timeline in the future, somehow transfers her consciousness to that third...

I took Hati as the other half of Ahsoka's redemption arc - Ahsoka gets to overcome her own padawan experience with Sabine, while bringing Hati over to the light side like she failed to do with Anakin. Hati's pretty clearly conflicted - she's skeeved out by working with a witch, gives Baylan the...

I believe most of the behind the camera personnel had swapped to the Fallout show. I'm torn; while it was one of the few 2022 shows I watched, I also think this would have Westworld-ed and become unrecognizable before long (especially given the nonsensical finale).

That was the least final finale I think I've ever seen. Apparently the boys hated ending the series on the idea of Hank and Dean being estranged, and Doc / Monarch being neutral, and managed to get WB to fund a 90 minute movie to fix just those two things? Weird. Hell, Venture Bros was my...

Is it more or less weird that the last time around (in 2007), the writer's guild president was Patric Verrone - Wikipedia, one of the main writers for Futurama?

While I'd like to say this was Patton, a number of youtube shows have received Emmy nominations in recent years (like Honest Trailers). Now they just need to give Ryan George (from Pitch Meetings) a writing nom and I'll consider them caught up with the times.

The show also had years long gaps between seasons, retconned or just ignored previous backstories, and constantly dropped / focuaed on new characters. (Remember when the Mr Fantastic parody went evil and bordered on being a main antagonist? I don't.) Personally, I am a little worried this will...

Nah, reality TV had already reached saturation by the last strike, the biggest difference was importing foreign English-language shows (e.g. from Canada).

Fucking Illinoisan taking shots at The Rave? Every non-superstar act has been through there.

Hopkins just sets off all the alarm bells to me. 1) The dead money hit was $22Mil - that's removed from the team salary cap whether he stays or goes. Therefore Arizona didn't think he was worth paying $8 Million to play for them this year. 2) More to the point, Arizona could have structured a...

To be fair, has the emergency (non-QB) ever won (as opposed to merely held on to) a victory in our lifetimes? That said, them taking one of the 53-man roster spots makes a dicier proposition. I would expect every elimination game to have one, but don't think most regular season games will bother.

Did Ant man fail or is GotG the only sub-brand that can bring in anything but the hardcore? I suspect its really the latter, and doubt anything will do GotG numbers until Deadpool 3.

Nah, all of 10.1s issues (to me) were already kicking in for 10.0.5 - a smallish area that only the group stuff has any value, but the player base drops off massively almost instantly, since constantly inflating ilevels means theres no reason to grind anything.

This seems aggressively mediocre, and oddly put together all around. The episodes (at least the first three) are short for streaming (~42 minutes), but standard length for ad-run television. But the profanity (and violence, depending on the country) seem like they'd be a tough sell for any...

Just a reminder that most of the worst written movies of our lives (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Transformers 2) were due to the last writer's strike, as the strike also covered rewrites when they ran into problems onset. Technically, the actors can adlib/ write their own dialogue, so your late...

Ergonomics have come a long way.

Like most teams that aren't sure about their QB, I would expect them to be heavy OL and DL this year, and if things go hideously sideways, draft a QB very early next year.

The kind required to not have constant questions about game fixing / insider knowledge, given potentially shared trainers, medical staffs, and surgeons between sports in a market. Yes, there's no difference in reality from a player making bets in the building vs in the car on the street, but you...

I think Season 3 salvaged Picard (the character) from the gutter where Season 1 and 2 had left him. I also think the writing on Season 3 did not hold up as the season went on - look at that finale from an objective perspective, and the vast majority of the writing wasn't materially different...

Am I glad to be wrong! Still going to be tough to top 'All This and Gargantua-2', but I assume Hammer and Publick and will be throwing in the kitchen sink for this.

To be clear, Transporters as murder xeroxes goes back decades - the Hyperion sequels deal with very similar territory. Man in the middle attacks during that process though are far more novel.

What do you mean sexless, Rey and Poe gave each other googly eyes at the end of The Last Jedi.... because apparently the end of the second movie in a trilogy was when two of the three main protagonists actually met? Those scripts had much bigger problems than not having a Leia / Han analog.

Going to be honest, I am fine with them Legends-conning Thrawn (in Ahsoka) into the reason the Empire stayed together before The Force Awakens, then having the Yuuzhan Vong level threat Thrawn was keeping the Empire together for be the actual enemy in the Rey sequel.

Return of the Crimson Guard is the only ICE book I would ever consider worth rereading, and that would be very low relative to Erikson's overall list.