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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

     

     

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  3. Just now, immamac said:

    Arch is nowhere even close to 6M in one year NIL value. There has been no deal approaching this level of scale for any student athlete or group of student athletes. 

    Your being dismissive of how big of a deal this is shows how little you understand about how any of this works. 

    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?

    Just now, immamac said:

    and now a million dollars is not a lot of money. Gotta love it. 

    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.

  4. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    lol what? 

    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.

  5. 1 minute ago, immamac said:

    point me to another $6.6M one time payout NIL deal with over 11k participants that isn't this one any time in the next 5 years, or 10 years. 

    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.

  6. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I think it's unfair to speculate on the lack of opting in and deleted this portion of my post because honestly what does it matter if this is his reason or what his reason was. It shouldn't matter, he isn't opting out and doesn't need to justify not opting in. 

    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.

  7. 10 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I still think it's stupid to opt out, that doesn't mean I think anyone is selfish or whatever. It's just stupid. having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense.  Moron = a stupid person.

    I think it lacks common sense in it's entirety to not opt-in to the single largest NIL deal of all time, for no effort, with extremely limited scope and an obvious pop culture implications. There is actually no (brand) drawbacks to doing it, but it's not like it's bad if you don't opt in. 

    I strongly disagree with the monetary portion of this having anything to do with anything and it actually makes Arch seem more like a dick to say something like that vs just leaving it his own business. 

    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.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Childers was just on Full Ride carrying @immamac’s water and calling Arch Manning a selfish idiot who hasn’t done anything and should opt-in for “the good of the fans” and such. 

    Why is it anyone’s business if a player opts out? Some guys have very legitimate reasons to avoid it, and $600 is meaningless to guys bringing in millions. 

    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.

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  9. 18 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    He wasn't in NBA Live's, either I don't think. Well, one of them, he was someone you could unlock

    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.

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  10. 4 hours ago, MIkeHoncho said:

    any links to video of Worthy doing the receiving drills?  40 is huge, but what about video of him catching the ball?

     

    I thought they said he didnt do any drills

  11. Just making sure everybody knows that We Own This City is secretly Season 6 of the Wire. Same cast, same writers, same city, only 20 years later, and the cast are playing new characters. But if every season of the wire has a theme, We Own This City Is about police corruption, the lens finally turns inwards. Well worth watching.

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  12. On 2/10/2024 at 8:34 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

    He’s gonna get fleeced out of his money just like Stringer Bell. 

    100%, by the end of the show, Marlo was straight up in checkmate and Avon ultimately won. Marlo's "victory" was something he didn't give one shit about, he was all about his name on the streets. By the end of the show, he'd achieved Stringer's victory, not Avon's. He's in the world of politics now, if he fucks up at all his ass is going to federal prison for life, and as the final scenes show, that dude just could not help but fucking up. And Avon set it all up from within prison. All his "West coast love" shit was bullshit playing marlo like a fiddle, he knew if he set Marlo against Prop Joe and the collective, they'd destroy themselves easily. And that's exactly what happened, by the end, the collective has no ties to the Greeks anymore and Marlo can't touch the streets or he's gone for good. All Avon has to do is wait out his term in jail and when he gets out, he has everything lined up to take all he lost back. Marlo was a dumb punk who got played by Avon in every scene they interacted in.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Moving my reply to the steam deck thread lol. 

    When I'm playing handheld on the couch or whatever, I almost always have a USB-C power cord within arms reach that can put out 65W for the deck. If I'm playing on a big screen, I stream my desktop to the TV and get 1440p with HDR.

    That's crazy the deck does so well driving a large display though, I assumed out of hand that the APU wouldn't be up for the numbers of pixels

    The main limitations of the steam deck with modern games is the shader unit count. At only 512 shading units vs, say, an RTX 2080 having 2944 shading units as a mid-range card, you are mainly bound by special effects heavy vertex and fragment shaders. But in terms of pixel throughput and threading, the Steamdeck stands up to modern consoles well. The reason people like to hang around 720p resolution is because for some special effects that use the entire screen buffer as an input, you can choke your shader units because they have to work on every fragment (read: pixel) of the screen. But quite a few modern games will let you lower the resolution of special effect buffers, while the final output image of the game is still 1080p. So you might have a 1080p image, but, say, the buffer that shadows are rendered at, which uses a stencil shader, will be at a lower resolution. That get hidden in game menus as "low quality shadows." You basically have to get a feel for what options in games tend to most heavily stress your shader count, but beyond that, the resolution can be pumped up just fine. And, again, capping the framerate with the built in options on the steam deck really helps -- framerate responsiveness works on an exponential curve, so the jump from 30 fps to 40 fps feels bigger than the jump from 40 fps to 60 fps. Anything that can divide evenly by the framerate is ok, so any 120hz TV can cap at 40 fps with no screen tearing just fine, and it'll feel much more responsive than 30 fps while providing a huge performance boost.

    At 4k, however, things indeed do get pretty hairy because at that sort of resolution, you really are running up against the pixel throughput limit of the steamdeck. You can use FSR 2.0 if a game supports it to us ML to upscale the image to 4k in games, but not every game supports FSR 2.0, so it's sort of hit or miss (and FSR doesn't perform as well as nvidia's proprietary solution anyways).

    The very best thing about the Steam Deck is the individual thread performance of the APU. Only 4 cores/8 threads (SMT), but each core runs fast and is performant. So on the CPU side of things, it can keep up just fine with any CPU heavy application, especially things like emulation. The Steam deck can run Yuzu to emulate the switch pretty well, for example.

  14. 21 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    This is neat  and works for "lower end" games - HOWEVER - steamdeck is built to display at 720p, not 1080p or 4k on a TV. So while you can play Cyberpunk2077 or BG3 natively on a steamdeck pretty well, it really struggles at typical desktop resolutions with "modern" (made after 2016) games

    I played Cyberpunk 2077 on my steamdeck at 1080p just fine. Same with Final Fantasy VII remake, same with Crash Bandicoot 4, same with God of War, same with Spider Man: Miles Morales, same with Baldur's Gate 3, same with Horizon: Zero Dawn. It is definitely not for "lower end" games, and resolution is not at all the deciding factor in how well the games run. When *NOT* docked, you have to carefully manage your graphics setting vs your TDP because if you crank it too high, you'll eat your battery in 30 minutes, but in a dock, that doesn't matter at all. Let the Steam Deck eat all the electricity it wants, and you can push it to 1080p just fine, so long as you aren't trying to run everything on ultra graphics setting. Fact is, PS5 and Xbox Series games already run in a mix of low to medium settings, matching them with the Steam Deck and capping your framerate at, say, 40 FPS on a 120hz monitor, they play just fine.

  15. 3 hours ago, TexArcher said:

    Right, I already have a laptop and I play a shitload of digital board games on it. 

    I want a console really just to veg out on the couch with some sports games.  If NCAA weren't making its triumphant return, I wouldn't even be in the market.  

    Steam deck is a pc in a console form factor. Its like the nintendo switch, you dock it and it outputs to a tv. Runs steam os, which can run all windows games.

    Since you already have a laptop, you dont have to buy games again for a new system.

     

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  16. 28 minutes ago, ajax said:

    Thanks. I already have the 8bitdo hall effect controller on the way to me.

    I got the Steam Deck over the weekend. I thought I'd start small with a cheapo game like a truck simulator. Turns out I really like driving a virtual truck. This thing is addicting.

    That game is incredible. Do you have the texas dlc? It blew my mind when nasa road 1 was in the game. Grab the texas pack, install a Ferrari mod, tune into the local texas radio over the internet, and cruise down the highways at 120 mhp. Its incredibly fun.

  17. 12 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

    NFL ‘94 undefeated champ right here.

    Pissed several friends off they never won. 😂

    Oh man i had joe montana 94 and it blew my mind. The best thing about sega channel is every month they would throw up every sports game they had to download, and they always had way better sports games than nintendo.

    My favorites were world series baseball 95, nba jam t.e., and mutant league football. Especially the last one because you could do things like bribe the ref or send in goons for dirty hits to take players out of games.

    The sega game announced so far that im most excited about is shinobi, its being made by the guys who made streets of rage 4 which was incredible. Im totally there day 1 for shinobi. I also put an ungodly amount of time into virtua fighter 2 in highschool, so ill be all over vf6.

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