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We should all post more about baseball

I'm gonna be rocking the Purple Mountains album and the Silver Jews discography all week. David Berman killed himself earlier this month, I think it wasn't even a month after the Purple Mountains album dropped.

Do it MORE

C64/DOS games at my cousin's house, and then Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on another relative's NES. Died right away but I was hooked My folks bought me an NES shortly after that first experience with Mario.

Recently: The answer might be the Project Diva games. I've gotten so much entertainment value out of these games. All-time: Probably Mario Bros. Honorable mention to Final Fantasy.

Chocolate croissant + coffee for breakfast Pizza + beer for lunch Dinner TBD

I've never tried a RetroN but they sound like they'd be handy. Wow they're expensive though

Nice. Did you get the real thing, or a RetroN / something like that?

My phone - until I took it out to check this place - and probably some pocket lint

My nephew was reading manga on his phone at a recent family gathering so I ask, what are you reading? Cause I'm the almost-hip uncle who kinda gets the stuff he's into. He says: Berserk. I'm like don't tell your parents about this one I meant to start reading this way back, I think after the first season of the new anime wrapped. Never got around to it though. How many pages is each chapter on average? Edit: looks like my local library has up to volume 39 available. Guess I'll start borrowing some.

Yeah, that used to bug me - but then I got over it and decided to post things even if it was basically just to talk to myself. Can't get people into something if you don't get in their face about it a bit. Start making some new threads, MT and KK.

I thought very briefly about taking a flier on a cheap copy of FF XII The Zodiac Age the other day but decided to just keep my money. I haven't played anything past X and X-2 so I'm curious... but from what I've read I don't think I'll like XII.

Yeah, pretty much equivalent to 50 kg / 110 lbs water. That big ass clay jug that can hold 50 L of water probably also weighs quite a bit too though. She's not carrying just 110 lbs of water.

Traded in a bunch of Switch games yesterday that me and the kid are done with. There is 50% extra credit on Switch game trade-ins this weekend, so lucky me. Put $50 toward an eShop card to get Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon EVERY BUDDY, which is fun so far. I'm only a couple dungeons into it. Got well over $100 left in store credit so I'm going to try to get as much out of it as I can on price dropped and used games.

I feel like there's a difference between being a freak athlete, like a LeBron or something, and whatever the heck Tsukasa is. Also new girl carrying that jug with 50 L of water (did I read that correctly?), Taiju picking up really big and heavy rocks, etc. all feel like too much of a reach. I'm open to any explanation the show might offer though... did petrofication turn people into mutants?

I appreciated Senku's realization that everybody is super powerful for no good reason in this world. I don't expect anime to be realistic necessarily, but it has bothered me that Taiju, Tsukasa, and new girl seem to have superhuman strength without an explanation. They're all just normal humans as far as we know, right?

Finished The Origin yesterday. Note I really want to rewatch Gundam. Maybe I'll do the compilation movies...

Miku is coming to Switch http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/hatsune_miku_project_diva_mega39rs_announced_for_switch_in_japan Gotta import this one if it doesn't get localized

Slix: You been watching the Fate/Zero spinoff? I just caught up on it this week. I skimmed past it in the charts not realizing what it was. Waver was definitely not one of my favourite Fate characters, but Rider was the fuckin man and I hope he gets summoned again in this show

The Athletic has a feature up right now ranking fan confidence in their teams' front offices. Oilers, Canucks, and Sens rank 28-30th. You hate to see it (Only the Wild ranked worse in last place) Obviously not very scientific - it's based on polling fans - but fun to read anyway.

Save save save Still getting my shit kicked all over in various Street Fighter games. I don't know why I thought this was a good idea I grabbed Doom ('93) on the eShop the other day and I'm working my way through the 1st episode right now. I hardly remember any of the secrets it's been so long. Almost feels like I'm playing the game for the first time again. I feel like buying a new game, but I'm not sure what I want to play. I probably just like wasting money. Maybe I'll check out Mario Tennis during the free play window...

He's finally heating up at the plate and it's so good to see. Defense is still a big question mark at 3B though. A missed catch for put out at 3B cost the team a couple runs last night... Even if he improves defensively, I doubt he sticks at 3B for too many years because he's such a big dude. But it would be nice if he could do the job for a little while before becoming a 1B/DH. They shouldn't be DHing him at all this year. Gotta see what he can do.

This Jays team is seriously so fun right now. Even if they don't keep winning like this, they've got my attention. It's hard to stay interested in a bad team during the dog days of summer but I can't not watch them these days

Free agency and tampering and big trades really stole the Raps' thunder. I guess the rest of the NBA wanted to forget

I think I only have two stages left in the story mode of Radio Hammer Station. 3 Star'd everything so far Played SF2 Turbo long enough last night to realize how bad I've gotten at fighting games However I was playing handheld and it just wasn't comfortable. Gotta try again with a controller.