Another piece to the Cooper Flagg conspiracy: the Dallas Wings just drafted Paige Bueckers #1 in the WNBA draft.

"Wouldn't it be a Cinderella story if both the men's and women's teams in Dallas got the #1 pick?"

Jivaro wrote on May 13, 2025, 16:41:
" It's not just me right? A medical drama on a cruise ship sounds insane." -Blue

No, it's not just you, that will be insane. From a writing point of view, passengers on a cruise ship can come from anywhere and could have been doing nearly anything. The storyline options could easily run from smuggling narcotics in surgically implanted bags to an Ebola outbreak...and everything in between. They are probably going to throw a little "Love Boat" type romance and comedy in there as well. It will be ridiculous and way over the top, and people will most likely love it.

It’s a plausible story. Cruise ships are floating petre dishes. Going on one you should prepare for the high chance you become sick during or after the cruise. And Covid showed how bad it can get. wikipedia

Congratulations to Major League Baseball for finally doing the right thing.....Pete Rose is HoF eligible. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45115659/pete-rose-shoeless-joe-jackson-players-reinstated-mlb


Manifred is still an asshole for not doing this before Rose died and his whole "when their dead they aren't a threat" bullshit will irk me forever....but whatever.

WarPig wrote on May 13, 2025, 17:11:

This should serve as a reminder to the NFL that it desperately needs to implement a draft lottery. Rooting for the Giants on a bad run has found me complaining the team should just tank for the draft after recent terrible starts, which is an awful position to be in as a fan.

Blue, I'm thinking you were also listening to Mike Greenberg on "Get Up" this morning. I agree completely with the idea that incentivizing losing (tanking) is a terrible idea, and that I would probably watch an NFL draft lottery show (which would probably be stretched out to at least 3 hours long).

Yup... in thinking it through it really started to irk me that this wasn't implemented long ago.

Jivaro wrote on May 13, 2025, 15:43:
Doom: The Dark Ages is a blast as of Chapter 5. A few areas in particular stand out:

1) So far, it seems to take the best from 2016 and Eternal...and drop the worst. There are some "you have to be running to make this jump" type of things, but so far...nothing like the platforming gameplay that many people disliked in Eternal. I don't want to get into spoiler-type stuff, so I am not going to give too many more examples on gameplay other than to say that they do a great job of keeping the pacing fast...like a Doom game should be. I am also appreciating the way and the pacing with which the storyline itself is being revealed. Doom is not historically a "deep" franchise IMO. No writing awards are ever expected to be given here. This release isn't going to change that, but like Eternal, the base storyline is at least presented in a way that seems pretty clear-cut rather than leaving a lot of room for interpretation. The cutscenes are well-made as well, and there are auxiliary characters that you (or at least I) find yourself interested in.

2) This game is set in a world where the Slayer is already universally renowned for killing demons, so it wouldn't make sense if you started as a 140lb weakling with a pistol....and you don't. This game does an excellent job of making you feel like the badass you are while following the time-honored Doom tradition of adding to your repertoire as you go along. Little gameplay touches, like jumping from a ledge down to the ground from a great height, do not hurt you; instead, you land with a shockwave that will take out basic enemies in range.

3) People are going to focus on the graphics, and that's fine, but the gameplay sounds and music are pretty damn good as well. Particularly the sound effects. Play with volume UP.

That's all I wanted to say. Carry on.

Thanks Jivaro. That settles it for me. I'm in!

Jivaro wrote on May 13, 2025, 15:43:
Doom: The Dark Ages is a blast as of Chapter 5. A few areas in particular stand out:

1) So far, it seems to take the best from 2016 and Eternal...and drop the worst. There are some "you have to be running to make this jump" type of things, but so far...nothing like the platforming gameplay that many people disliked in Eternal. I don't want to get into spoiler-type stuff, so I am not going to give too many more examples on gameplay other than to say that they do a great job of keeping the pacing fast...like a Doom game should be. I am also appreciating the way and the pacing with which the storyline itself is being revealed. Doom is not historically a "deep" franchise IMO. No writing awards are ever expected to be given here. This release isn't going to change that, but like Eternal, the base storyline is at least presented in a way that seems pretty clear-cut rather than leaving a lot of room for interpretation. The cutscenes are well-made as well, and there are auxiliary characters that you (or at least I) find yourself interested in.

2) This game is set in a world where the Slayer is already universally renowned for killing demons, so it wouldn't make sense if you started as a 140lb weakling with a pistol....and you don't. This game does an excellent job of making you feel like the badass you are while following the time-honored Doom tradition of adding to your repertoire as you go along. Little gameplay touches, like jumping from a ledge down to the ground from a great height, do not hurt you; instead, you land with a shockwave that will take out basic enemies in range.

3) People are going to focus on the graphics, and that's fine, but the gameplay sounds and music are pretty damn good as well. Particularly the sound effects. Play with volume UP.

That's all I wanted to say. Carry on.

Nice! Going to wait on a sale and the reduction in my pile of shame. I loved the 2016 version and never finished Eternal.

This should serve as a reminder to the NFL that it desperately needs to implement a draft lottery. Rooting for the Giants on a bad run has found me complaining the team should just tank for the draft after recent terrible starts, which is an awful position to be in as a fan.

Blue, I'm thinking you were also listening to Mike Greenberg on "Get Up" this morning. I agree completely with the idea that incentivizing losing (tanking) is a terrible idea, and that I would probably watch an NFL draft lottery show (which would probably be stretched out to at least 3 hours long).

It's not just me right? A medical drama on a cruise ship sounds insane.

My wife watches that show and it is so funny how fancy and futuristic everything looks. The medical area on the ship, well the whole ship really, looks like they wanted to make a sci-fi show in space but changed it to the ocean at the last second. I was commenting on how everything was covered in gold and a minute later they hand the patient a gold medicine cup that would normally just be paper.

As for the medical aspect, it is basically House on water instead of painkillers, a better name would be Houseboat. The passengers/patients have some of the rarest situations ever.

" It's not just me right? A medical drama on a cruise ship sounds insane." -Blue

No, it's not just you, that will be insane. From a writing point of view, passengers on a cruise ship can come from anywhere and could have been doing nearly anything. The storyline options could easily run from smuggling narcotics in surgically implanted bags to an Ebola outbreak...and everything in between. They are probably going to throw a little "Love Boat" type romance and comedy in there as well. It will be ridiculous and way over the top, and people will most likely love it.

Prez wrote on May 13, 2025, 15:51:
Anyone who has ever played X-Com knows that a 1.8% chance means the outcome will occur a third to a half of the time.

This sounds like some of the people posting in the Steam Balatro forum.

Anyone who has ever played X-Com knows that a 1.8% chance means the outcome will occur a third to a half of the time.

Doom: The Dark Ages is a blast as of Chapter 5. A few areas in particular stand out:

1) So far, it seems to take the best from 2016 and Eternal...and drop the worst. There are some "you have to be running to make this jump" type of things, but so far...nothing like the platforming gameplay that many people disliked in Eternal. I don't want to get into spoiler-type stuff, so I am not going to give too many more examples on gameplay other than to say that they do a great job of keeping the pacing fast...like a Doom game should be. I am also appreciating the way and the pacing with which the storyline itself is being revealed. Doom is not historically a "deep" franchise IMO. No writing awards are ever expected to be given here. This release isn't going to change that, but like Eternal, the base storyline is at least presented in a way that seems pretty clear-cut rather than leaving a lot of room for interpretation. The cutscenes are well-made as well, and there are auxiliary characters that you (or at least I) find yourself interested in.

2) This game is set in a world where the Slayer is already universally renowned for killing demons, so it wouldn't make sense if you started as a 140lb weakling with a pistol....and you don't. This game does an excellent job of making you feel like the badass you are while following the time-honored Doom tradition of adding to your repertoire as you go along. Little gameplay touches, like jumping from a ledge down to the ground from a great height, do not hurt you; instead, you land with a shockwave that will take out basic enemies in range.

3) People are going to focus on the graphics, and that's fine, but the gameplay sounds and music are pretty damn good as well. Particularly the sound effects. Play with volume UP.

That's all I wanted to say. Carry on.

So today, there's been more feces than usual in Rock Creek?

It be pretty cool if he died due to flesh eating bacteria or something for his stupidity, the grandkids though, not cool. Kids are always the ones that suffer from moronic adults.

Are there any other Andor fans here? I'm really looking forward to the last batch of episodes tonight.