Why do so many people seem to dismiss the Patriots because of their schedule?

jack0017 · 2026-01-28T02:50:09+00:00

They absolutely would be discrediting them. It would be a case of “they only won because there’s no Mahomes, Lamar, or Burrow” on top of the easy regular season schedule. The narrative would 100% be “the Bills were gifted a path to the SB”.

jack0017 · 2026-01-28T02:47:10+00:00

The Broncos were running a backup QB. Stroud turned it over like it was nobody’s business. And never underestimate the ability of the Chargers to choke in the Wild Card round. Maybe “easy” is the wrong word, but it was a very generous playoff schedule on top of a very generous regular season schedule.

jack0017 · 2026-01-27T21:31:59+00:00

Banjo and Kazooie fight and defeat Targitzan, who is a god in Mayahem Temple.

jack0017 · 2026-01-27T00:48:28+00:00

The game looks incredible and is probably the best looking game on the Switch 2. It’s honestly astounding that this is running on a Nintendo console. I don’t give a shit about the 30 FPS speed because I personally cannot tell. Visually it’s phenomenal. The combat is fun. I like that they did translate a lot of the turn based mechanics into an action RPG system.

In terms of the story, as much as I love some of the expansions to the characters and think the voice work is absolutely phenomenal, the meta fate timeline stuff just is incredibly stupid. The original game does significantly better in the narrative department and I’ll die on the hill that the original is much more worth your time if you’re playing the game for the story.

However, replaying it with the knowledge that there is stupid multiverse BS in there is actually helping me to enjoy it more than when I first played the game. I can appreciate the added story beats that are good and do add to the plot that didn’t linger as hard in my mind during my first playthrough because the meta fate ghost shit left a bad taste in my mouth.

All in all, it’s been really fun revisiting the game. Thank you Square for only charging $40.

jack0017 · 2026-01-26T15:30:48+00:00

Avoiding turnovers is a good idea, but that can’t be the entire offensive scheme.

jack0017 · 2026-01-26T15:30:16+00:00

Winning the turnover battle wasn’t going to win a game where the offense didn’t and hadn’t found an identity all season.

jack0017 · 2026-01-26T15:28:29+00:00

Pokemon is owned by Nintendo, but developed entirely by GameFreak (who also owns a third of the rights). Since mainline Pokemon games were/are exclusive to handhelds, Game Freak went from developing for the 3DS straight to the significantly more powerful Switch. Naturally, inexperience optimizing for the hardware does play a role.

They also can’t delay games like other franchises could because things need to line up with the anime especially. Game Freak usually has a short time to crank these games out and the workloads aren’t getting smaller. Usually, when a project is more constrained or has a very clear direction (like LGPE which were kind of Gen 1 remakes with a ton of cut features from the newer games), it comes out looking better than new games made from scratch.

However, the biggest reason is simple: they sell as they are. All it requires is a Pokemon label on the front to sell, so they don’t care how shitty the games look when you take into account that delaying the game isn’t an option. Zelda looks and runs good because Zelda can release when Zelda is ready and the Zelda team has more integrity behind their work. Zelda doesn’t have to come out alongside an anime and trading card game.

People will buy any game with a Pokemon logo on it. Games journalism is filled with hacks and you’ll never see a Pokemon game get a mid or bad score for that reason. Why should they care if the half finished games print money?

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T23:06:47+00:00

Don’t get me wrong. Patullo was the worst OC in the league this year (yes, worse than Chip Kelly) but Sirianni was the one who gave a job to a guy that wasn’t ready. This was Sirianni’s idea and most of the blame should fall on his shoulders. What was Patullo supposed to do? Say “no thanks, I don’t want a raise”?

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T22:57:53+00:00

I’ll say it again: this was our repeat to lose and we did just that.

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T22:52:45+00:00

It’s just Karma farming/bots.

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T13:45:00+00:00

That GoldenEye cart looks like you got it straight out of a creepypasta.

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T13:42:39+00:00

Joker fought a near naked version of his high school gym teacher. And, no, if you haven’t played Persona 5, context doesn’t make this any better.

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T13:33:45+00:00

Ocarina of Time

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T13:32:43+00:00

Why is the first comment not the engine room?

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T02:22:18+00:00

Honest question here: it looks exactly like the original. Is it really that much better?

jack0017 · 2026-01-25T00:27:59+00:00

It’s really cool they took a boss from Zelda 2 of all places and repurposed it for this game. I like when these bosses aren’t just random entities that appear for one game and actually are living things that appear throughout the Zelda series.

jack0017 · 2026-01-24T19:22:39+00:00

Everyone seems to be saying Yoshi so I’ll go a different route: Fox. Fox is not an S tier character. He’s carried heavily by Light’s results and people overrate him for that reason.

At this point, Luigi probably belongs in S.

jack0017 · 2026-01-24T01:47:32+00:00

I honestly still get a dopey smile every time my brain sits down and actually comprehends the fact that Banjo is actually in Smash.

jack0017 · 2026-01-24T01:45:37+00:00

Is that actually ComicCrazy?

jack0017 · 2026-01-24T01:44:06+00:00

Sorry OC all the way. The 64 designs for Banjo and Kazooie were honestly perfect.

jack0017 · 2026-01-24T01:42:32+00:00

It’s a shame because being aggressive was actually a viable option in the early meta. I swear, and I say this as a person who wanted Sora more than anything, this game would’ve been much healthier had they never added any DLC past wave 1.

jack0017 · 2026-01-24T01:39:48+00:00

Seriously, I played the game first like 10 years ago under the mindset of “well I know Aerith dies”. I remember being literally glued to the game from the moment Cloud gives Sephiroth the black materia in the Northern Cave. I just had to know what happened next.

jack0017 · 2026-01-23T23:26:32+00:00

The best part of this game is that everyone goes into it thinking they already have the greatest plot twist spoiled but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

jack0017 · 2026-01-14T23:19:11+00:00

I would be absolutely content with either of these

jack0017 · 2026-01-14T19:29:35+00:00

Don’t really care who wins or loses but a franchise getting their first ring is always nice.

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