You could probably get one of those personal-size pizzas with plain cheese or maybe pepperoni to run around 1000 calories.

I didn’t think Rodgers was gonna have a next destination. Even from a purely on-field perspective, he showed he was beyond cooked this season.

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One of the most frustrating things about American sports is that the person who is perhaps the most important to a team’s success - the owner - has almost zero accountability to anyone. Bad coaches and GMs can be fired, bad players can be cut or traded, but bad ownership is nearly impossible to remove.

Ideally, the fans would be able to hold ownership accountable by withholding their money, but between TV deals, sponsorships, and now shitloads of gambling money, it’s virtually impossible to actually run an unprofitable professional sports team. Even if fan interest drops enough, it just becomes an excuse to relocate.

Fuck Haslam, fuck Watson. Cleveland deserves better.

This is surprisingly mellow and tasteful for something that has what appears to be a couple of rabbit crackheads on the cover

Yeah, he led the design. The whole thing was his brainchild, iirc.

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Yeah, I’m… skeptical, to say the least. I don’t think any of these sprawling, massively-scoped “everything games” have ever actually lived up to the hype. It’s a problem of pure logistics. Making a game with so many different segments each with entirely unique gameplay loops is essentially like developing more than half a dozen games at once. It’s the problem Spore had - the scope was just too broad, and even with EA and Will Wright behind it, it eventually released as a pretty decent creature creator stapled to four shallow, rushed game stages.

No studio has the resources or inclination to commit to the 10-15+ year development cycle for a single game needed to fit that much scope, and even if they did, the entire game design landscape would have changed between the beginning and the end of the project, which would make major technical and design components of the game obsolete before it was even finished.

I’d put money on this game either becoming vaporware or releasing as a chaotic, disjointed mess with the depth of a puddle. I’d love to see them prove me wrong, but I just don’t see how anyone could overcome those kinds of logistical hurdles.

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I don’t know what anyone expected. The bigger you make the playoff, the more blowouts you’re going to get. If you want a more competitive first round, contract the playoffs to 8.

Goodbye

…and yes, I’d love some!

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Like it or not, it’s kinda necessary for any semblance of league parity. I don’t feel like there’s any fairer way of doing it that would still result in a competitive league.

The fact that there was even a debate between whether a team with two losses to 6-6 teams or a team that was 0-1 against ranked opponents should have a title shot is proof that the playoff is just too damn big.

Should have never gone past 6 teams, 8 at the very most.

Do you think the homemade seasoning mix is worthwhile over store-bought? Haven’t tried that one before.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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