Yeah, I don’t mean to make it sound like that was the sole purpose of HZD’s development, or that Sony had some sort of decade-long master plan. I guess I did say that, so yeah it’d sound that way.

I keep hearing people say they liked the Baron. I guess I’m missing something. He just struck me as an abuser who sometimes regrets that he’s an abuser.

It’s certainly a ridiculous conspiracy theory, but I know that playing HZD scratched my itch for a Zelda-esque game and helped me put off buying a Switch for at a while. Similarly, Okami did the same thing for Twilight Princess.

I literally said “But hey it’s okay because it was like this in the books therefore it’s not a problem.” It’s no excuse. CDPR could have made some important women not hot or made some hot women not available to bang (yes I know there’s like two of those) or done a dozen other things to soften the bro fulfillment. They…

Witcher 3 has the best-developed and most interesting sidequests of any game of its genre I’ve ever played.

For what it’s worth, I thought Horizon Zero Dawn wasn’t too bad in this regard. It did have a good chunk of “fetch X things” quests, but they mostly leaned on exploration and climbing, which I wanted to do because of how pretty the game was. Most importantly, it was blessedly short for a map game. I 100%ed it in under…

The Most Unwanted Song is gold.

And gee, wouldn’t making an effort to make sure the military reports such things be worth doing?

I love Kaepernick and I want to see him signed, but wouldn’t the Texans be better off packing it in and giving up this year? Hard to see them winning it all with Kaep. Really, this is the dilemma. The five or ten teams with a legit shot actually have QBs, and the rest of them don’t wanna win a couple more games just…

I haven’t had Sbarro’s in forever, thank God, but it was always infuriatingly cold in spots.

You know, I like bourbon, I like stout, but I can’t stand bourbon barrel aged stout.

Hey, everyone. Stop asking your closers to go 30+ pitches and/or multiple innings, especially when they pitched the night before.

We’re talking about Sidney Crosby. Right?

Jesus, people. I’m not saying I would have gotten that, but Tibet?

According to a Packers fan friend of mine, Hundley has the 2nd highest preseason QB rating since 2000.

Gotta be honest. I thought this was going to be about a player named Rogue Flying Fish giving up a record he set because it was somehow illicit.

The Niners had every intention of cutting Kaepernick. Opting out didn’t matter.

I’m the rare pro-Yankees Mets fan (blame my Yankee fan dad) and Didi still pisses me off a little. He’s exactly the sort of player who dumb teams hand to the Yankees for very little. Sure, he had a bad year with the bat before he got traded, but he was a 24 year old plus plus defender at shortstop.

More like three smiles. His body language was full of failure before he ever threw that ball.

The best one of these happened in 2004, I think. Jason Michaels of the Phillies managed to snag a Charles Thomas line drive a little shy of the warning track, then somehow flung it like 40 feet backwards.