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  1. The Wizard. It's objectively a shittier, kid friendly version of Rain Man, but holy shit the reveal of Super Mario Bros 3 at the end of the movie blew my child mind at the time. Going and seeing that in theaters and hearing the room gasp when they unveiled it is a memory I cherish. I also unironically love Terminator Salvation. Not at all on the level of Terminator 1 or 2, but I appreciate that it was much more serious than T3, and that it was a cool remix of the central theme (a robot that time travels, a central protector figure, etc). Plus that scene where John Connor takes down the terminators on his dirt bike while blasting Guns n' Roses You Will Be Mine is cool as fuck.
  2. That painting is awesome. I legitimately love it and would put it on the wall of my man cave. My senior year of highschool, I did a large poster drawing of Brad Lidge in pencil that I had framed until it drowned in Hurricane Harvey. My art teacher was, of course, an insanely huge pot head, and was regularly making "vases" in the kiln.
  3. Thats how I remember it. Back when I was in college, Nebraska was already big in Volleyball, with Texas as the thorn in their side. That's not on the AD at all.
  4. This same crew has already told the story of the invasion twice, one in Saving Private Ryan and one in Band of Brothers. They really had no reason to show D-Day a third time, especially when, as they put it, there was no luftwaffe in the air. It's a show about bombing runs, and they encountered no resistance on D-Day. There was nothing for them to tell, other than to give you some far away shots of action already better depicted elsewhere. Someone above asked why they wasted moments on the tank not dropping earlier, well D-Day would have felt like that but even worse.
  5. What kind of take off of "film from your car" bullshit is this? Is that guy pacing in front of a short bus??
  6. One of the teams here doesn't belong:
  7. The steam deck is idiot proof out of the box. Without knowing how to unlock it, you literally cannot fuck it up and it's plug and play by default. It won't even show you games that haven't been explicitly whitelisted to be verified as fully playable. You have to go into an additional menu to check "allow steam proton to run on any game" to get the full, unlocked library of steam open to you, and even then you still can't fuck it up from there. To actually fuck things up, you have to go to desktop mode, which is just plane jane normal linux, and even there, if you fuck things up, the way the steam deck handles updates and fuck ups is that valve updates are actually just entire images of the entire linux rootfs in read only mode that overlays ontop of the normal install. Meaning, unless you actually know what you're doing to do so in linux, your permissions on the file system are completely locked down so you don't trip over your own dick. The only folder you have write permission to is your home folder, which you can't do anything other than download shit to from firefox. And if you DO somehow fuck it all up, all you have to do is hold the volume button when powering the thing on, and it goes into recovery mode, which is simply it reflashing a pre-made image onto your rootfs from an embedded ROM (or USB drive if you want). When you actually interact with the steam deck outside of unlocking it, it looks exactly like a console, with big "INSTALL" buttons on the games you want to run: There is no way to accidentally fuck things up, if you want to fuck up your steam deck, you have to explicitly go into desktop mode and fuck around with a lot of non-intuitive console commands from a terminal. There are no buttons you can press that will fuck things up for you, it's impossible to screw it up unless you actually know what you're doing. To "set up" your steam deck for playing on a TV, you just buy a dock, set the steam deck on it, and plug an HDMI or display port cable into the dock and the other end to your TV. The steam deck automatically outputs to the TV when you do this, just like the nintendo switch.
  8. The opening gag in the series where she flashes Kamesennin accidentally and he squeezes his cane so hard it shatters and blood shoots out of his nose made me cry laughing when I was in middle school. So incredibly funny at the time.
  9. If you have never played Chrono Trigger before, you owe it to yourself to play through at least once. It's one of the most perfect examples of an RPG around. The story is very, very Akira Toriyama, it's like a condensed example of why he was so beloved. Every character type he would flesh out in other works is represented in Chrono Trigger. The best part of the game revolves around the rivalry between Magus, the dark lord of the demon world, and Frog, the last remaining squire of Cyrus - the royal guard who Magus murdered - who was considered so weak that Magus didn't kill him, but rather cursed him to live the rest of his life as a worthless toad instead. The tale of revenge between the two is shades of Piccolo and Kamesennin in Dragon Ball, and what makes Chrono Trigger so great is that it has so many different endings, so unlike a lot of other RPGs, your actions matter and you can take the story in lots of different directions. Chrono Trigger was considered a "dream team" game because it took the 3 biggest entities in RPGs at the time -- Akira Toriyama, Square, and Enix, and somehow brought them together to make a single game. It is the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" of RPGs. One of the most celebrated games of all time. It was an instant classic upon release and holds up magnificently. It's also perfectly paced -- not too long, not too short. You can blow through one of the multiple endings in a day. It's available all over the place, even on phones. It's so worth trying, especially if you want to see why Toriyama was beloved.
  10. The Father-Son Kamehameha is the coolest shit in the entire series:
  11. There will never be an introduction to a character as cool as this ever again. After watching Goku duke it out with Freeza for fucking MONTHS, trunks shows up and one-shots him:
  12. 1. Rocky 2. Miracle 3. The Sandlot 4. The Love of the Game 5. Goon "If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this time. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world" makes me want to run through a brick wall.
  13. This was such an incredibly huge part of middle school for me, Dragon Ball consumed me for an entire minute. I can't say enough how much I loved this man's work. Not just Dragon Ball, but Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest and Blue Dragon and on and on. It's impossible to overstate his influence, which was wide and varied, from Street Fighter to Sonic the Hedgehog. Outside of maybe Superman and Batman, Dragon Ball has to be the most beloved comic in the world. RIP to the GOAT.
  14. Again, your reading comprehension sucks. I never said Arch was close to $6M in NIL value. I said his collegiate value was estimated near that, as in all his NIL deals throughout his college career are estimate to approach that figure alone. Before the season started, he was getting valuations of upwhere near $3.5 million. Now, since you completely suck at reading, that is not to say he took $3.5 million in NIL money. That means that's what people with money were estimating he could earn if he went full whore and started tricking himself out like you're suggesting for $600 a pop. And I definitely understand how game budgets work. How many titles have you shipped again? My budget for an attraction at the toyota center that ran for 4 fucking months was quadruple that. $1 million is fucking nothing in gamedev.
  15. I mean I guess its no wonder that's so hard for you to grasp considering your slack-jaw awe at a 2 year time frame. Here's a clue, though: A million dollars is honestly not a lot of money. $6.6 million is chump change for a project like College Football 24. Your audio recording budget for the game is larger than the player cut.
  16. There will be single players who will have much larger deals than $6.6M, it's a guarantee. Brony James is already close to that. Fuck, Arch is valued near that alone. The number of people involved means fuck all. And again, "all time" is 2 fucking years. Get over it.
  17. I agree, him not opting in isn't really a big deal. Except it is, because he's arch manning, and we're Texas, and it's not a conspiracy to say there are more people rooting for someone like him, on a team like ours, to fail, than basically anybody else in college football. For better or worse, he's got a spotlight on him that makes every normally no-brainer decision deserve pause and reflection. I think it's pretty damn mature of him, and I'd actually think that goes to the team of people around him.
  18. I think it's incredibly savvy for a player like Manning, who is clearly in bitch eating crackers territory with people begging for his fame to become a cancer, to opt out when he's the backup QB. Opting in, with his spot light, just invites all sorts extra comparisons to Quinn. Imagine when the stats drop and the endless sports talk radio discussion it would generate. Imagine how irritating it'd be to see people tweet to the team account videos of themselves benching Quinn after he throws an int in real life or some shit for Arch. All for just $600. Manning already has the clout to make millions in NIL. He'd be stupid to give ammo to people looking for any in to tear the team apart and generate controversy for less than the price of an RTX 3080. Plus saying shit like "Biggest NIL deal of all time" is really dumb when "all time" is 2 fucking years. The NIL is a goddamn toddler. $600 per player is only the "biggest of all time" because the NIL is still brand fucking new.
  19. After hearing for many years that Arch was just riding his last name to success and money from dickheads just like that, who gives even half a shit? No matter what Arch Manning does, there will always be some prick out there bitching up and down.
  20. NBA Live was never as big of a deal as NBA Jam was in its prime. Shaq had a stipulation in his contract that an NBA Jam TE arcade cabinet was required to follow the orlando magic to every hotel the team would stay at because he was legitimately addicted to the game. Shaq recalled that they would have NBA Jam tournaments before the finals with guys like Penny Hardaway and Reggie Miller showing up just to play. NBA Jam was an actual phenomenon that bled over into the sport. Since EA's college football game is the only one in town, it has to be compared to the NBA top dog. Of course Jordan wouldn't appear in a lesser basketball game if he was opting out of the king at the time. Jordan avoided all video games (except ironically Michael Jordan in Chaos in the Windy City, which isn't even a basketball game). But it's only really noteworthy that he skipped NBA Jam, because players would reach out to Midway themselves and beg to be included, because being included in NBA Jam TE was seen as a huge honor (remember: in NBA Jam, only 2 players per team got on, in in NBA Jam TE, only 3 players per team. It wasn't until Showtime, aka NBA Jam 4, that nearly every player in the league got in). One of my friends was the digitizing artist for NBA Jam TE, and he said they had to turn away big name players at times because they could only include so many players and everybody wanted to be in. Of course, the flipside is the director of NBA Jam, Mark Turmell, absolutely loved that Jordan wouldn't let them put him in, because he was a detroit pistons fan. He famously included a hidden easter egg in the game -- in any game between the bulls and pistons, if the pistons have the ball on the final shot with a chance to win, their shot percentage goes up to 100% and they will hit automatically from anywhere on the court. Similarly, the opposite is true, if the bulls have the last shot and can win on a buzzer beater, their shot percentage will drop to 0 and they will brick any shot on the court. I got to do a project for the Houston Rockets a few years back, and the NBA itself co-owns much of the NBA Jam brand. I was allowed to use any of the NBA Jam iconography and audio clips in the game I made for them at the toyota center. Within the NBA itself, NBA Jam is still a really, really big deal.
  21. To repeat for this topic: Michael Jordan famously never appeared in any NBA Jam game.
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