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You work fast Eizan!

I probably would have been to the first gym by now but I'm kinda hung up in the Wild Area trying to catch as many Pokemon as I can. Should probably just move along now...

Seriously. After all the Osuna-related stuff, it already would have left a bad taste had the Astros won this year. Would have been even worse had they won the WS and this came out.

They're poised to come back as a pretty decent team next year though, so they might as well tank this year. No reason why Steph or Klay should try to play in any meaningless games in the spring. Tell Draymond to get ejected from as many games as possible DLo isn't going to win them many games by himself. (Or maybe he's hurt now too..?) Get in the lottery this year and bounce back next year.

I figured when you said you'd sit this one out that it would end up like when you said you weren't gonna play Smash a few weeks ago Which started did you go with?

Even with the injuries, the Raps have still looked pretty damn good. Pascal and FVV are playing really good. Probably need to reign in their minutes a bit, but some of the bench guys have had good performances in recent games so maybe there are a couple more guys that Nurse can rely on a bit. I really like watching Boucher. He makes his fair share of mistakes, but he's also causing a lot of chaos for the other teams out there. And unlike some of their other bench guys, he's not afraid to take his shots. You still been watching / following along with the games, Ma?

They did the awards. I already forgot who won what That Astros expose on The Athletic re: sign stealing though That's a pretty big blemish on the 2017 World Series win. And some of the dudes implicated are in managerial roles on other teams now

Having not played much Pokemon before, I don't really have anything to compare it to... but I just played 30 minutes or so and I think it looks pretty sharp. Decided to pick Sobble as my starter, did the first tutorial battle thingy, and then had to go and do other things. The intro was a bit long for my liking - I prefer to just get into the gameplay, but that's just me - though I did find it a bit weird that there was no voiceover during that cutscene. Felt like there should have been. The dude's mouth was moving and all that... I don't even really care about voiceovers, it just seemed strange because it looked like it was supposed to be there Not something that would really bother me either way though.

This episode really hit the sweet spot for me for this show. Tsukasa and co. are boring bad guys and the fighting in recent episodes wasn't super duper interesting. Gimme more episodes of scientific discovery and blowing people's minds with good tasting food (Also find a way to shoehorn Taiju in there!)

Been on a pretty big David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) kick

I've never played a Pokemon game before, but I've got Sword pre-ordered. It's mainly for the kiddo, but I'll probably play it a bit too. Might be fun.

I've been trying (somewhat successfully) to pretend like I'm interested in Minecraft to keep my daughter happy. She likes it when we play it together. I get bored so fast though

I haven't been watching a tonne this season. Keeping up with Ace of Diamond and Dr. Stone of course, and I started the new Gundam Build Divers. That's about it. Oh, and the Demon School thing I'm watching with the kiddo. Pretty weak selection of new anime on Crunchyroll this season. Might have to think about jumping ship for Funi at some point.

I'm quite happy to play single player, so of we're different in that respect. I also don't have any issue with continuing to play the same game for a long time, as long as I still enjoy it. For me there isn't really anything in D2 that needs fixing. I like it the way it is, and I think the odds of Blizzard making a better Diablo game are not very good. I think I'd rather see them come up with a new thing instead.

I traded in Diablo 3 a while back. It got boring pretty quickly, and I can just play Diablo 2 whenever I get the urge to play Diablo. D2 is still the best of the bunch. This new game honestly feels unnecessary given that Diablo 2 still exists

They built those katanas fast! Nice win for the kingdom of science though. The bad guys, including Hyoga, are not very interesting

Astros struck first, but Nats came back to win!

Ooooh yeah, game 7 tonight! Who you got winning Eizan? Pretty sure every game so far has been won by the away team. Kinda strange. If the Nats win it in Houston then maybe this will be the first World Series ever where every game was won by the away team.

I'm really curious to see how the season plays out. They're not likely to go deep into the playoffs - maybe a second round exit - but poor performances / injuries to the key players could also cause this season to take a turn. I don't think they'll be sellers at the deadline though unless they really get off-track.

I think Strasburg can win them another game

Raps 2-1 now. I haven't watched any of the games because I've been too busy in the evenings, but I was following along with the play-by-play. Stat lines looking kinda rough for Gasol. I'm wondering how long it will be before we see Serge starting games. It seems like he's playing better right now. Also sucks that they had to lose a game to Boston

The Nats really need to win today or I think they're toast for sure.

I liked this week's episode less than the last one...

Lots of NBA podcasts the last couple days, and a decent amount of vulfpeck mixed in