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Jim Saunders
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Simone Biles wasn’t in the last Olympics, so where were no stats to buff. That’s a 1 point deduction right there.

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I was about to say you missed one and it’s 24, but you’re talking Michael Phelps and not the 2016 USA Olympic Team.

Couple of factoids:

1) USA won half the swimming events. 16 out of the 32. No other country had more than 3 gold medals.

I know the full review (and murder threats/swatting/doxxing) is coming later, but I’m curious what the first thoughts are from people on staff. Is it fun? Is it worth diving in right away, or should I get through my backlog first? Are there a lot of rough edges? Would love to hear what people think.

Why get rid of in game purchases? All that shit isn’t even on their own servers. They can keep making money until the system it’s on completely craps out. Makes no sense. It’s like they’re holding a grudge against the company that makes it or something. Just tearing it to shreds.

There’s also an obsessive quality to putting up on-screen text to label all the military hardware. Chunks of the movie did feel militaristic, Rising Sun camo badges and all. However, other Godzilla movies in the past have also put the military—or special forces—front and center, so that didn’t feel totally out of