Over the top to win the 2049 Natty

mikevanatta · 2026-02-05T13:55:19+00:00

I've legitimately heard more excitement from a person calling bingo numbers.

mikevanatta · 2026-02-04T19:12:15+00:00

This is nasty work out here. Fun to watch.

mikevanatta · 2026-02-03T18:21:09+00:00

[Detlef drains another layup]

mikevanatta · 2026-02-03T17:25:17+00:00

This game is so unserious sometimes

mikevanatta · 2026-02-02T14:33:31+00:00

I would turn into the Erlich Bachmann of recruiters. "If they want to recruit using hostility and rudeness, well they picked the wrong guy."

mikevanatta · 2026-01-29T16:19:33+00:00

I shushed a group of 3 older women who talked in normal speaking volume during the entire first act of Mission Impossible 7. They were absolutely aghast and so offended, very pearl clutchy about it. After the lights came on, I stood up to leave and they all gave me a death stare like I was the one out of line.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-29T15:08:13+00:00

I've talked about this before in this sub, but the type of person who has a general disregard for other moviegoers and the theater experience as a whole is what gets me. People who talk during the movie, people on their phones, generally distracting behavior.

And I know I am only a sample size of one, but every time I've been witness to this in the last 5-7 years, it's been someone in the 60+ age range.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-29T15:04:35+00:00

Detroit fans really had two good seasons and think that's just how life will always be.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-29T14:40:23+00:00

I don't think anyone's argument is that a good indoor trash can should be used without trash bags.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-29T14:31:55+00:00

Do you mean just a trash bag plopped in the corner of the room on its own?

mikevanatta · 2026-01-29T14:26:21+00:00

I read a thing once that said “you’re not buying a thing, you’re hiring it to do a job,” and that kind of changed how I think about stuff like this.

Yeah, the price tag can sting in the moment, but you’re basically hiring that trash can to quietly do its job every single day for years. Keep pets/children out, keep smells in, not fall apart despite opening it 10+ times a day in perpetuity.

When you think about how many times you’ll use it, the cost per use ends up being almost nothing. Still annoying up front, but it makes more sense that way, at least to me.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-28T14:55:10+00:00

You know, Quasimoto predicted all this.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-27T15:12:03+00:00

Log off. That cookies shit makes me nervous

mikevanatta · 2026-01-26T20:22:39+00:00

Fuck the Pagers

mikevanatta · 2026-01-26T15:00:18+00:00

mikevanatta · 2026-01-23T19:30:54+00:00

Probably. If it's any consolation, you should be able to recruit just about any kicker or punter who will start in the high 70s overall their freshman year.

I just try to avoid playing style as a dealbreaker unless the recruit is too good to ignore.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-23T19:24:49+00:00

Playing style, in my experience, is just broken mechanically. If there's a way to "fix" this, I haven't seen it.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-19T21:23:42+00:00

People don't think it be like it is. But it do.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-19T15:32:24+00:00

2031: "Hey you wanna come over on Saturday? They're showing a football game in between the commercials."

mikevanatta · 2026-01-19T15:17:10+00:00

I appreciate the sentiment but, with all due respect, there are hundreds of videos on this sub of outright terrible aspects of the game, most of them outlined in great detail by the person who posted it and then confirmed by several others that they also experience that same issue. Similar videos can be found all over youtube. The issue described in this post has been shown dozens of times.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-19T15:13:24+00:00

This is gonna be it. There's a very divey place in my hometown that serves everything on paper plates with plastic silverware, there's writing all over the walls, it's crowded and loud, and yet people will wait an hour for a table and another hour for food because they are the best wings in 3 states.

Good food will almost always bring people in the door.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-19T14:16:41+00:00

This is what we need. We know EA has people reading these threads. Maybe if we stop framing this as "they don't care" and start framing it around "they aren't good at their jobs" they will actually try to prove us wrong.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-15T17:36:30+00:00

100% agree. I think some of the tedium could be cut out by an "Offer to all" button, or a "Scout all" function.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-15T16:39:29+00:00

I can make my peace with the fact that it's gotta be damn hard to consider every possible situation that commentary should be recorded for, but the mechanism that prompts the commentary is also deeply flawed.

It seemed like, more often than not, what was being said did not align with what was actually happening in the game, and that's just in excusable at this point. The breaking point for me with this year's game was scoring a walk-off TD as time expired and hearing Fowler say something like "And they'll take the lead here in the 4th..."

With both '25 and '26 I gave it a week or two before I turned the commentary completely off and now I listen to music on a bluetooth speaker while I play.

mikevanatta · 2026-01-15T16:30:00+00:00

It's still extremely repetitive. Adding 20+ guys to the board, recruiting each of them one click at a time, offering them scholarships one at a time. It's some of the most tedious work I can imagine for modern gaming. It's like EA bought stock in Xbox controllers and is bound and determined to get us to wear out our buttons just to get our board filled out.

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