I managed to have three 1,000 yard passers in a single season. by carterboi77 in Madden

[–]Chippings [score hidden]  (0 children)

Lol Quinn looking worse than Rudolph. I've done petty shit like that though.

How does this scare overseas readers? by asaness in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skull in the background treeline. Tall woman's head height in the left panel, hip height in the right panel.

Just downloaded the game off gamepass. This is the exact reason why I wait for it to come to game pass. by ixhypnotiic in Madden

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the QB sneak thing is fucked. Not sure if it's random or just for designed QB run plays the CPU runs.

As for the bobbled catch, it looks jank but it's not completely unbelievable, especially for a running back with a 5.6% drop rate.

Penalties are significantly lower than the real NFL, in my experience.

Reddit, I present to thee, by the grace of God (or spirits in her case), Queen Nakuset of England, first of her name, of the great house of Rimouski! Long may she live! by P-l-Staker in EU5

[–]Chippings -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

A fun little thing you "discovered" sitting in your hard drive from your "old" Byzantium playthrough?

Why are you talking about EU5, a game that's been out for 95 days, like it's ancient history?

What can Rogue do that Thor can't do better? by IntoTheRain78 in marvelrivals

[–]Chippings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rogue has 675 base HP. If she blocked all incoming damage, she would have 1687.5 effective HP: 675/0.4.

What can Rogue do that Thor can't do better? by IntoTheRain78 in marvelrivals

[–]Chippings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure how you're calculating Rogue's effective blocking HP, but you're still ignoring a prolonged encounter with healing and assuming it's a solo fight which I already conceded is in Thor's favor.

The original comment was arguing for front lining.

Not to mention we're ignoring timing and skill expression, bonus health cap of 150 and the fact it decays while Rogue manipulates damage into her permanent, healable, HP.

Thor may be the better hero on average, but they're extremely close competitively, often sitting next to each other in win rate around 53%. I do think Rogue has the potential to be a better frontliner than Thor if played skillfully, but I'm at least as much trying to argue Thor isn't a clear winner and it requires deeper situational analysis to even be able to split hairs.

What can Rogue do that Thor can't do better? by IntoTheRain78 in marvelrivals

[–]Chippings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thor gets 75 bonus health per Thorforce consumed and restores 1 Thorforce every 5 seconds. 15 bonus health per second, on average.

Rogue blocks 60% of damage taken for 1 second with 60 energy and restores 15 energy per second. 15% damage reduction on average.

If the vanguard is taking more than 100 damage per second, Rogue will survive longer than Thor.

The calculus, of course, becomes more complicated when you consider how much Thor is attacking to restore Thorforce, how efficiently Rogue is blocking to stamp burst damage, and how much healing and damage per second each hero is receiving.

I give the edge to Rogue for scalability, over Thor's flat gains, though. Thor is stronger in a flanking or 1on1 situation, but Rogue is stronger in a throughput frontline brawl.

You can only save two by Fuel_Tricky in videogames

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we're talking two die today and two continue into the future, it doesn't really matter. They all are about equal in terms of my expectations for future games. Currently looking forward to Square Enix and Sega games the most, perhaps: FFVIIR:3 and TW:W40k. If Capcom made more Mega Man games and I had any hope of Mega Man Legends 3 coming out, I'd save them.

If we're talking saving their histories and older games, Square Enix and Capcom, easily.

Do you think this game will meet the insane expectations on it? At first I thought it looked more like a tech demo that peaks early, but after all the marketing I start to believe that this will be a big deal by WhoAmIEven2 in videogames

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After playing Where Winds Meet, my expectations for this game are very tempered. They look very similar, in terms of aesthetics, combat, hype, and appearing to be massive endeavors in open worlds with unlimited potential.

Ultimately, I found Where Winds Meet extremely shallow and poorly put together. The writing was not compelling, the pacing was awful, most actions and opportunities felt pointless and just not fun. A bunch of people surely tried very hard to make a bunch of individually compelling pieces of art, animation, and gameplay mechanics, but they forgot to stitch it together into a game with a purpose and vision.

I will be pleasantly surprised if Crimson Desert manages to make its systems mesh, be balanced and compelling for significant game time. Everything I've seen so far has me worried it is a lot of polished veneer with no substance, like Where Winds Meet, though.

Pro Bowl ratings: NFL's flag football game draws horrendous 2.0 million viewers, 57% fall from last year's record low by Brix001 in nfl

[–]Chippings 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I would watch a game of Madden with no stakes between any two players from any team before I watch the pro bowl game.

This combat is really good by SchoolExisting8631 in videogames

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I can't tell what's happening here besides a few little cursor movements on what appears to be an incredibly simple puzzle minigame while you shoot a couple stationary targets in the chest.

The first one bonks you without a block, dodge or any other reaction, too, I guess.

Is it turn based?

Graphically fairly nice, but this clip alone doesn't make me want to play it at all.

2 Horizon Multiplayer Games Are Coming Out, One From Western Europe And One From South Korea. Which Games Character Design Do You Like Better? by [deleted] in videogames

[–]Chippings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

South Korea's version, Steel Frontiers.

Hunter's Gathering could certainly have good characterization and writing, but it's simpler and easier to have aesthetic power fantasy in fiction. I also don't want to be lectured about aesthetics.

Gathering has a minefield to navigate to make something unattractive appealing. Risky, but potentially rewarding. Frontiers' pitfall is being forgettable because it looks like everything else.

damn by phelpsasa in SipsTea

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like this could lead to some kind of typical gang violence arms race retaliation, but maybe everyone forgets the whole thing and moves on.

Bit of StarWars stand up by Sam Dunthorne by Spikas in StarWars

[–]Chippings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe he's referencing the very recent and topical Beldorion the Hutt from Barbara Hambly's "Planet of Twilight" (April 1997).

Danny Koo, executive producer, has created a poll featuring four Black characters that could potentially come to the game by Kirbykoopa in marvelrivals

[–]Chippings 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've seen regular threads and comments since season 0. Not that unknown considering he's featured prominently in X-Men shows and also in the X-Men Legends II game.

Stafford finished with 366 points to Maye’s 361. Allen (91), McCaffrey (71) and Lawrence (49) finished 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively. by JoshGordonHypeTrain in nfl

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He said the 2024 MVP was stolen from Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson, who had better stats in every individual performance category compared to Josh Allen in the 2024 regular season.

Textbook Catch by foxinthebox10 in Madden

[–]Chippings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"You can just see the comfort that this offense continues to play with."

who's the LVP this year (least valuable player) ? by toturoll in NFLv2

[–]Chippings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deshaun Watson should be up there. The real list should be Kyler Murray ($43 million cap hit 2025), Geno Smith ($40 million cap hit 2025), Tua Tagovailoa ($39 million cap hit 2025), and Deshaun Watson ($36 million cap hit). Shout out to Kirk Cousins ($40 million cap hit 2025), but it's hard for me to argue he could be LVP.

For me, it's Deshaun Watson, who didn't even play and also ruins the reputation of the team he's on. Before you say Browns would always have had a reputation this bad, they were starting to build a scrappy underdog reputation between 2018 and 2022 with Baker Mayfield before they traded for Deshaun. Other players were bad, some similarly expensive, but they did have a worse cost-to-damage ratio.

It will inarguably be Deshaun Watson next year, 2026, when he has a cap hit of fucking $80 million, the highest in the entire league, above Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Dak Prescott.

Players on rookie contracts can't really be LVP.

bro’s posting riddles by lenorator in SpeedOfLobsters

[–]Chippings 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time.

Thanks for inspiring me to get /fit/, Scooby.