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* And another horror game becomes a movie. Trailer for Mortuary Assistant just dropped. It's a fairly big deal horror game. I've wanted to watch a bit of gameplay, mostly to form an opinion on whether it's a Phas-like, but speed running it is a thing so it's hard to find streamers NOT doing that.
I could try playing it, but much like the original Phas, the game's demo is fucked and you need to learn how to play via outside info. Unless they finally fixed it.
The game is at least 50% a Phas-like.
* Sens fans saying they 'had no choice' but to sign Reimer really need to stop. Grubi cleared waivers last year. Sens are the franchise that originally drafted Daccord and then just didn't develop him at all. The goalie market is thin, but add in fumbling chances at good goalies and also failing to develop them? Goalies take longer to cook. That's one of many reasons why the recent ECHL strikes were important. Due to roster reasons a lot of goalies, even top ones, wind up spending time in a league where they don't get health insurance in the off-season. Before the strike a lot of ECHL players weren't even making minimum wage, hopefully the increases caps puts an end to that, but it's not guaranteed to. Franchises need to put more resources into growing their own. (And also one reason Grubi cleared waivers was because of how we made his contract to double as an insurance policy, because we take steps to keep our goalies within the franchise. It's like if you take goalies seriously, you wind up with top goalies and not dumpster diving)
A LOT of teams have goalie problems and it's like... it's really obvious how this all came about: treating goalies like an after-thought.
* Some people doing Serious Data Driven Analysis of the Kraken really pull shit like not taking into account how young the team is and how some of those zeros are from when the team literally didn't exist. Or weird cherry picking to surgically remove Matty Beniers and Nikke Kokko from the data. Or both! Why are people like this, and why are they all so obsessed with tanking? If they want a team that tanks and gets players like Celebrini, San Jose is right there. Go be a San Jose fan. A new franchise can't do what they did even if there weren't a dozen other problems with deliberately tanking right now.
One of the problems of learning hockey is the weird data bros with agendas who spend so much time and effort trying to win people to their POV. Some of what I know about hockey is from them swooping in to try to teach me How Hockey Works and me going 'that don't sound right'.
* Kraken are probably doing a trade soon to tighten the roster, make room to get Melanson back. I'm not the only one basically staring in the direction of the GM until the situation is fixed. Will be interesting to see who, especially since we want a smaller roster. Hopefully the trade goes will for us.
I could try playing it, but much like the original Phas, the game's demo is fucked and you need to learn how to play via outside info. Unless they finally fixed it.
The game is at least 50% a Phas-like.
* Sens fans saying they 'had no choice' but to sign Reimer really need to stop. Grubi cleared waivers last year. Sens are the franchise that originally drafted Daccord and then just didn't develop him at all. The goalie market is thin, but add in fumbling chances at good goalies and also failing to develop them? Goalies take longer to cook. That's one of many reasons why the recent ECHL strikes were important. Due to roster reasons a lot of goalies, even top ones, wind up spending time in a league where they don't get health insurance in the off-season. Before the strike a lot of ECHL players weren't even making minimum wage, hopefully the increases caps puts an end to that, but it's not guaranteed to. Franchises need to put more resources into growing their own. (And also one reason Grubi cleared waivers was because of how we made his contract to double as an insurance policy, because we take steps to keep our goalies within the franchise. It's like if you take goalies seriously, you wind up with top goalies and not dumpster diving)
A LOT of teams have goalie problems and it's like... it's really obvious how this all came about: treating goalies like an after-thought.
* Some people doing Serious Data Driven Analysis of the Kraken really pull shit like not taking into account how young the team is and how some of those zeros are from when the team literally didn't exist. Or weird cherry picking to surgically remove Matty Beniers and Nikke Kokko from the data. Or both! Why are people like this, and why are they all so obsessed with tanking? If they want a team that tanks and gets players like Celebrini, San Jose is right there. Go be a San Jose fan. A new franchise can't do what they did even if there weren't a dozen other problems with deliberately tanking right now.
One of the problems of learning hockey is the weird data bros with agendas who spend so much time and effort trying to win people to their POV. Some of what I know about hockey is from them swooping in to try to teach me How Hockey Works and me going 'that don't sound right'.
* Kraken are probably doing a trade soon to tighten the roster, make room to get Melanson back. I'm not the only one basically staring in the direction of the GM until the situation is fixed. Will be interesting to see who, especially since we want a smaller roster. Hopefully the trade goes will for us.
