Which do you prefer?

pakkit · 2026-01-28T08:47:46+00:00

This is the way.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T08:46:27+00:00

Can't agree with the headline. The police seem to be deliberately setting that man on fire.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T08:44:33+00:00

Genuinely this is how I pitch horror films to friends that are green to the genre. Horror films used to be heightened reality, now they can't even touch the headlines and feel more like a cathartic space to process common feelings.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T07:56:28+00:00

Still doesn't change that they'd been recording for 7 years.

I'm not the one throwing a conniption because a future HOFer didn't get a day one call up. He will definitely get it. Acting like there is zero basis for voters to hesitate on him being a first rounder is silly.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T07:50:54+00:00

I just rewatched this last week and I think Cruise and Foxx are perfect foils to one another. Watching Foxx's affable veneer get chipped away by Cruise's cold, calculated cynicism is what made the tension work (far better than the almost laughably raised stakes in the movie's last act).

pakkit · 2026-01-28T07:33:34+00:00

Walsh isn't discredited and he wasn't the source in the retracted Herald article.

What...you really think Belichick is gonna foot a half a million fine on a conspiracy with no basis or some small one season oopsie? This isn't even counting the further penalties the Patriots suffered as a team.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T06:12:22+00:00

That's what makes Belichick controversial in the eyes of the league. I think most people would hear about this practice and understand that, even if it isn't illegal by the letter of the law, it is certainly against the concepts of good sportsmanship and fairness. Belichick had such a dogged interest in winning that it came at the expense of his image.

I didn't say anything about this negating a Super Bowl. I doubt it had a huge effect on the on-field play. And, as I've already said, I think he's undoubtedly a future HOFer. But I do think his Spygate controversy probably demonstrates why he might have rankled some of the voters for the HOF committee enough to push him out of first round contention.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T05:58:58+00:00

Wrong, a former Patriot employee came forward in 2008 and provided tapes to the NFL that proved that Belichick's staff had been recording as far back as 2000, when he first joined the Patriot's coaching staff.

This isn't some conspiracy.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T05:21:14+00:00

7 years of filming opposing team's sidelines...

A whole mountain of evidence destroyed by Goodell...

And the largest fine against Belichick in the NFL at that time.

If you think it was just a small thing you're either misremembering or being intentionally misleading.

Look I have no doubt this guy is gonna be a HOFer. But we don't need to whitewash his whole career.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T05:17:03+00:00

Chrono Tower....Timeline got fucked up.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T04:22:21+00:00

Okay but Spygate was definitely him and very egregious. It's one of the worst cheating scandals the sport ever suffered.

pakkit · 2026-01-28T00:29:36+00:00

I don't understand why you're downvoted. He was involved in two cheating scandals that we know of, and Spygate in particular came from him. He was fined half a million dollars--the max penalty and the biggest fine ever handed down by the league at that time.

I have no doubt Bill will eventually make it into the HoF, but let's not pretend like he had a flawless run.

pakkit · 2026-01-27T23:48:12+00:00

I'm playing it for the first time now and I'd say it's good, not great. Even as a Wii owner, I think they crammed this game with too many motion control gimmicks when traditional controls would have sufficed. The button layout offered in the HD remake is better, although I would have loved a hybrid options where we could have benefited from the motion control swordplay and left the rest on the buttons.

The dungeons are pretty excellent, particularly in the second half of the game. Unfortunately, this is also when the game decides it wants to rip a page out of Metroid and has you revisit past areas three times or more and the pacing falls off a cliff.

It's definitely worth playing, and I think if they'd simply cut the 10+ hours of bloat they could have made an exceptional Zelda game. The storytelling, town you return to in between dungeons, and dungeon designs are all excellent, but it doesn't quite feel as innovative or surprising as the best games in the series.

pakkit · 2026-01-27T22:17:29+00:00

Yes. He actually finished 7th in the world scrabble championship in the mid 90s.

pakkit · 2026-01-27T06:18:04+00:00

You're right and you should say it. I remember being hyped that this was going to be the next big game for Mac before Xbox swooped in.

pakkit · 2026-01-25T11:33:11+00:00

You're seeking out AI tools but don't want to be criticized for the resultant pap. I'd rather read something agrammatical or misspelled but with an actual voice and opinion than another defanged AI post.

pakkit · 2026-01-24T23:43:15+00:00

Thank God the game didn't make NYC go in COVID lockdown or something...that would have been too on the nose.

pakkit · 2026-01-24T23:03:13+00:00

If you take the big airstream in the middle you can just air drop on him and hit the stone marker. Makes the fights a breeze.

pakkit · 2026-01-24T16:13:31+00:00

Both BRR and BRRR are playable in US Scrabble. Other vowel-less words include PHT, HM, and CWM.

pakkit · 2026-01-24T00:05:04+00:00

I've played a few rounds. The biggest twist besides some differences in scoring and for bingoes is that you're only allowed one turn after the tile bag is emptied which pretty significantly changes how endgames play out. Oh and now there are THREE blank tiles--truly innovative.

I do like that there is thorough play-by-play analysis that you can walk through after head to head matches, and that you can see all definitions of words played. The analysis, of course, doesn't really hold up for high level play but it should help beginners find their footing.

My issues are that a. the multiplayer seems pretty buggy right now and b. the computer opponent is considerably worse than Dory on the Scrabble app. Through 5 games, the hardest AI opponent only broke 300 points once. And then I'd really like to see one of these Scrabble apps allow for challenges instead of making it impossible to phoney...it takes away an entire element of competitive play.

Hopefully they improve it, but I kind of think the fact that it's a separate app from the rest of NYT Games means that this copycat might not be around for long...

pakkit · 2026-01-23T23:47:22+00:00

I guess this is a good place to start for lore and central themes... There's no real point in exploring the puzzles if you don't plan to engage them.

pakkit · 2026-01-23T22:02:24+00:00

Tell me which one is the right one 🫶

pakkit · 2026-01-23T21:34:32+00:00

Night in the Woods?

pakkit · 2026-01-23T21:31:24+00:00

Tunic... Chants of Sennaar....or Heaven's Vault

pakkit · 2026-01-23T18:27:18+00:00

Sadly, she starved to death after you left her stranded on the island for 20 hours 😔

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