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Boo, I thought (barring some gruesome injury) we had come to some unspoken agreement that we weren't going to comment on this inevitable beatdown.

To repeat, the smallest gap between announcement and release was 9 months for Pandaria; I believe all the expansions have been in beta for at least 5 months before release. May is about the earliest reasonable date; September, maybe later, is the likeliest.

Yes, but I have a hard time imagining most of the account flows aren't: 1) Take existing level 90 to new territory (skip rebalanced territory). 2) Bump non-90 character to 90 and take to new territory (skip rebalanced territory). Sure, a handful of people will use the to-90 feature, check...

Well, the item squish needed to happen, probably now (boss health would soon get beyond an int data type @ 2.1 billion). The problem is I have no faith in their ability to correctly rebalance everything in the game anytime soon. (Is that the real stealth reason for the "Raise to 90 feature"...

Yeah, given the state we've seen things so far, I don't expect it before September at the earliest.

I'm pretty underwhelmed. The zones don't look different enough for me to care, and the idea of "fighting orcs everywhere all the time!" makes me sigh. (Hell, its the worst parts of Cata (rehashed stuff) mixed with the worst parts of SWTOR (same models everywhere). Blech.) I'll buy it and...

Any stat that is best until X then useless afterwards is going to be a disaster. Move speed just seems like a mess for pvp balancing.

"In addition to offering four tiers of difficulty as in Patch 5.4, we're also extending our Flexible Raid scaling technology to Normal difficulty raiding." So they are indeed flexing Normal, but keeping it a distinct difficulty.

I kinda like the idea of redoing the Outlands 58-70 quests because (I assume) this is a different timeline. Bumping the level cap to 100 says (to me) that they tossed their original "legion at 95, old gods at 100" plan after Titan blew up and a decade from now people will be running around at...

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Uhh yeah, the division winners always get seeds 1-4. You could have a #5 seed be 15-1, if two teams in the same division beat everyone else and split the series.

No, it was all over but the crying. Well, more of a statewide "ffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccc ccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkk" to be accurate.

Yeah, it's not like his presence (or not) on the field entirely decided this game or anything... There's a fairly good chance next week's Lions/Bears game essentially decides the division. Wacky.

Well, there are a lot of games available for both consoles. The problem being that most of those games are cross-generation, and are also available on PS3/360, with little solid information on how much better performing/playing the next-gen versions are. If you are talking next-gen only...

No, the NFL deadline is hard as hell, no trades are possible now until after the Super Bowl*. A team could release someone, eat the entirety of the current contract, and some other team could then sign them, but the original team wouldn't get anything for it. *Again, this is the first year...

There are times when the only "reasonable" explanation for a call is that someone upstairs decides the game is getting dangerously close to a blowout. That sure looked like one of those times.

Good lord AP is a goddamn train.

Nah, it is just as likely, if not more, that NBC has a whole bunch of new comedies again and Parks serves the fill-in role Community does this year after one of those future newbies fails.

Season 3 is a pretty strong litmus test for how committed you are to the show. Chaos Theory, Horror Fiction, Holiday Music, Lupine Urology, and Digital Estate Planning are pretty great episodes that were entertaining to casual fans. The Dreamtorium and Chang Takeover bits require a much...

It bears repeating: they play the NFC Least and the AFC South (Sour? I got nothing here) this year. Even that is understating it: they played the Titans' second string QB and play the Texans' third string QB. Aside from the Colts, the only games they have to worry about are in the division...

If you read the article, I'm not sure how any of it was Cleveland's fault with the (goofy) practice squad rules the league has. The real question is why the Packers still had him on their practice roster.

According to wikipedia, "If the blacked-out nationally televised game is on a cable television network such as ESPN or the NFL Network, all cable and satellite television providers in the affected markets, including the primary markets of both teams, must black out the cable network's signal to...

Yes, the NFL also gets the benefit of saying the extra bye is for health concerns. Though that may or may not be tied to one less pre-season game. Losing half a home game a year (5%) in local revenue (tickets and concession sales) may not be offset by less than a 5.8% increase in national...

If TNF was the only oddity, probably, but you also have the London games to worry about (up to three next season!). Historically, they've tended to tie those to bye weeks. (Whether they should or not is an interesting question. London games start at 1 Eastern, so it's not like players are...

The most reasonable proposal I've seen is that they add a second bye week to the season (which expands the number of TV airings and makes everybody more money), and everyone's TNF game is aired after that second bye week (so it is ~10 days before the TNF game, and ~10 days until their next...

I was a bit thrown about how the school's muscle had at least one mixed race dude (and certainly the guy who got the most camera time). I dunno if he will turn out to be related to the above somehow (why would he, 1 great-great-great-etc.-grandparent of a different race won't show up much in...

Welp, Amendola's out for another game and a half.

Oof, I think the Packers' season just ended.

I forgot to mention, I am always up for an avatar bet (even this week!). My rules though: I win, you don't have to change anything. You win, the avatar has to be wombat related. Ravens should have just gone for the field goal, I think.

No, they are saying The Millers' ratings situation looks great, which it is - it's on after The Big Bang Theory, and CBS has much bigger problems elsewhere (We Are Men was already killed after two episodes, they're trying to goose Mom with Big Bang Repeats, Two and a Half Men looks like a decade...

All those "most" stats should be divided by number of starts. 0.51 fumbles and 1.04 interceptions a game isn't great... barely better than Cutler's 0.63 fumbles and 1.08 interceptions, arguably worse than Romo's 0.53 fumbles and 0.94 interceptions. (Did I hit the ultimate trollfecta with...

You have to admit, the Jets haven't quit on Rex Ryan.

I believe offset language is something that can be negotiated (the rookie holdouts recently were based around this sticking point, though it smells like agents just trying to justify their existence with the new rookie pay scale), but in Freeman's case, when the Bucs released him, they ate all...

Eh, The Vikings do have all their games against the NFC Least, all their home division games, the dumpster fire Giants, and the Panthers left to go. Still, it seems too late to salvage this season; maybe they're hoping this works out beyond this year. (Though the Vikings have little room to...

Looks like standard tired defense to me.

Eh, I don't like the Chiefs' two games against the Chargers either. That said, they have a very good chance of being in the wildcard mix (and judging from tonight, bouncing the Texans out), though I would point out that the Lions went 10-6 and got a wildcard without beating a single opponent...

Highest NFL combined score was 99 points (unless we get a safety here, this will tie it). An AFL game hit 101 points, which we could see beaten in OT.

That's what made all the recent bad press so bizarre. By releasing him, the Bucs are entirely on the hook for his current contract, and any money he makes if picked up is just extra cash for Freeman. Furthermore, by releasing him, the Bucs have tossed out any picks they might have received in...

Coughlin's been around long enough (and won the SBs so recently) that he gets the graceful exit plan, ala Andy Reid, where no one will mention what will obviously happen on Black Monday. To me, the more interesting situation is Eli Manning. The guy has the largest cap hit in the league this...

What really bugs me about the Wii U is... what comes out in 2015? 2014: A decent lineup of Donkey Kong, Kart, Yarn Yoshi, Smash, probably X and Bayonetta 2. 2016: Zelda, maybe Metroid. Probably a 3D Mario game, partly farmed out to Brownie Brown while Tokyo works on the 4DS Mario. But...