Jamalisms

The footwork here is painful ... and something you can actually take away from preseason as a legitimate concern. We'll see how it is when bullets are live.

Forgot to add, this game has a lot of Bloodborne DNA. I happen to much prefer the build meta in Dark Souls over the gameplay of Bloodborne (which felt much more basic to me) but the character design and gameplay are definitely more in the vein of Bloodborne and the aesthetics have the gothic vibes people seemed to enjoy in Bloodborne. One character (Jan) almost seems a "here, this guy is your Bloodborne default" feel.

I participated in the Duskbloods playtest on the Switch 2 this past weekend. Intriguing game Fromsoft has cooked up. It's a multiplayer game and they've got a handful of characters with different abilities (they each play pretty differently as a result). Gameplay loop is you basically just rush around, killing mobs to level/power up as fast as possible. But certain tasks also give you points and every 8 minutes or so the people with the lowest points are eliminated, so you've got to kind route yourself efficiently. At the end, it's 1v1v1 with two lives each and whoever wins that fight wins the game (about 30 mins / game). There are certain bosses that will trigger an option for others to teleport in and join you co-op to help you take it down and share points. Smaller bosses you just fight alone. You can also run into one another and PvP during the match with benefits from small to large depending on events that are live at a given time. And then there's also a summon that everyone can find in the map and level up over the course of the game (meaning 1v1v1 at the end is kinda 2v2v2 and it can be messy). I played docked and performance was pretty good. A bit of input lag sometimes but mostly tolerable. People trying handheld seemed to report more issues.

Ew

Until they teach them to slow down, I don't think we need to worry.

Just checking back in. Did we figure out if looking like trash and making bonehead mistakes in the preseason is because the starters aren't trying or because it's all vanilla or because they just all suck?

In before Oldschool comes in and lays into everyone.

Man, get this baseball talk the fuck out of this thread.

Hell of a quote

There's a lot of hope tied up in Cam Ward. Expect the (dumb) hyperfocus with wild swings of dismay and uber-confidence to continue, simply based on whatever his most recent performance looks like. Should be expected, really.

In the entire fandom ...

Biggest overreaction (to Vrabel being a DC and having a personality) I've ever seen. It checked boxes and everyone was on board with the theory of it ... until he hired the highschool buddy, at least.

So many injuries after practicing with SF in SF!

I'm convinced he was given too much power and control over offense and team in general. It's the only thing that makes sense from the outside - that he operates well with controls and limitations and narrower focus without extra input on offensive systems, etc. his track history is just too good otherwise.

Not sure who tops him, if anyone.

Did we trade Cam yet?

It's six games. And, at least as of 2014 when they redid things, that's a first offense but with evidence of trying to manipulate the test. So ... unless somebody has an update on the policy that I missed ... fuck that bullshit about blaming infertility. https://nflpa.com/press/joint-nfl-nflpa-statement-to-changes-on-drug-programs

That chance is much closer to zero than the Dolphins apparently think

Especially things like ... Tannehill getting replaced. That one always seems to lead right back to Tannehill.

Didn't be so hard on yourself, big guy.

Game 1 or 2 in Milquetoast's first year?

Only to the extent that drafting him blew up a number of Tanne-stan narratives and then even him being an instantly better option when he saw the field destroyed almost all of the remainder. But an actual bandwagon? Only in the loosest sense and the minimum that a starter engenders. Nobody stuck around when he sucked. Absolutely everyone gave up on him almost instantly. That's pretty hard to come by and just tells you how low the investment was from fans.

It's amazing how confidently and consistently Twitter simply gets worse with time.

Kinda sad when it was over. And that there were no knives and no bats.