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https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ikaruga-switch Got this today on the Switch. Its an overhead shooter with a bit of a twist and yes its a classic. I remember playing this on the GameCube when it came out, pretty short but the real challenge is using the polarity switch to chain which isn't as easy as it looks.

One day they'll have these things fight themselves so people can watch and enjoy the madness that ensues. What's very cool about this tech is that months ago (I am thinking 10 months) this thing couldn't even play DOTA much less make the kinds of ridiculous decisions its making now. If you have ever played DOTA watch the strategy this machine uses and the relentless pursuit it takes to fuck over its human opponents. I can't find a link to the original video suffice to say this thing didn't come out of the gate winning games like it is now, it learned that making trades on resource management versus ganking (ganging up on enemies) and spot hitting NPCs was the right thing to do, then it got smarter and decided to hit very early to see what would happen. When that failed after a few tries it then discovered the art of building up strategy points by amassing weapons on tracks and then it went to the amateur circuit to play against lower level DOTA players till it got to the video above. Someone rightly said it when this thing was showcased, "there is one thing this machine can do that a human can't. It just won't stop learning and its execution is flawless with whatever it learns".

Wait has this just come to consoles? I thought they did that almost a year ago when it was out on Steam as well.

https://kotaku.com/pubg-opens-a-website-called-fix-pubg-1828180181 Typical game development attitude. Yes, we know its broken but here instead of fixing the issue we shall make a site where we can further 'discuss' the issue.

Still think we're bring in Fekir? I do agree with the new signing looking sharp. When we go Shaqiri everyone was thinking he'd be the same lump of coal he was at Stoke but he's actually been very lively and is contributing rather well in pre-season lets hope it continues into the domestic run as well.

I say definitely play them. The first one in particular is very good, the second one where you play Death ramps up very slowly but as War the experience is better. Plus, its a good platformer which has good replay value as well.

Saw the highlights and we looked very good. Sturridge looks a whole different player and seems ready to fight for a place. Mane is the sharpest of our front three at the moment (not from a goal perspective but from just running and chasing) and best of all we have a midfielder in the middle who can actually disrupt play very effectively now in Keita. Can't wait for the season to start now.

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2018/08/loris-karius-could-be-offered-route-back-to-bundesliga-as-liverpool-consider-sale/ Rumor flying around that Karius might leave which I don't think will happen but who knows.

Did he really say that Martial had a baby but he should be with the team? I saw a press conference where he talked about his daughter's graduation and how he had to miss it because of work. He's also come out and slammed the time they've had to spend in pre-season as well so I am guessing hes not happy with something (shocker). This is his third year so the wheels will start to come off slowly but surely. Wonder who he'll use as a target this time.

I like the idea and while I can get behind the system being capable of resetting what is more interesting is what happens when you stack choices on top of each other to balance or cleanse out issues that already exist in societies or niche-communities that have already been disrupted. It's still miles away from Black Swan event forecasting that theoretical Economists use for predicting why changes happen to societies based on trigger events but its a start in the right direction. I can see this really benefiting politicians only if the system is closed and isn't really used by any entity to shift societal distress based on a model that is the current society that people live in. The bigger issue also lies in the fact that the entities in the system will probably never really behave like people do in the real world simply because they are singular entities with a goal-set that drives towards outcomes based on how the environment treats them. As opposed to real people who can make drastic decisions based on extraneous factors that even AI can't completely comprehend and bleed into its own logic due to logic-failure and system shutdown. I can't remember where I read this but there was talk about systems designed for failure instead of success and how they were trying to bring the two together to build autonomous systems which can use these two extremities to mimic real societies but once again far far away. I wonder whether this system would have predicted that Trump would be president? Probably would have considering it had very little to work with. Great read as always @nudge

I think its easily put into context with one sentence. "It's all they really have"

i remember being in college and people streaming games but most of the people I hung out with that supported a Serie A team either went to Juve or inter. There was an exception which was Lazio and he was a bit on the eccentric side.

Kind of odd you mention that because when I lived in Abu Dhabi there was a huge Roma/Inter following with some spurts of Juventus and over here (in India) I find more Juventus fans than anything else. I do however remember that when I was younger I'd see a lot more AC Milan fans right about the early 90s. I can't really remember what it was like in America although I'd imagine for some reason that they'd be more like Australia with more Inter/Juve fans too because I can't remember meeting too many people who followed AC Milan there either but that might just be coincidental once again.

Any particular reason for that? Or just something that came up as a coincidence?

I remember that Inter side well. I also remember watching another player that was there for years, Zanetti, and how much I liked watching him play too.

Think @Berserker likes them but I could be wrong about that. It is a little strange to me because growing up they were a serious powerhouse in Europe. Taking what was said above into context it does make sense actually. I can think of only a handful of members who actually follow Italian football passionately on here.

Always found it weird that such a great club never really had any presence on this forum. Not hard to see why no one is really interested in them anymore as their fall from grace has probably shunned off a lot of would-be supporters.

I actually hope Shaqiri works out for us. Has the pace and the will sometimes to do some serious damage on the flanks. If he gets bedded in like the rest of the players no one thought would do well this is going to help in the longer run to nullify the problem of losing pace and energy later on in games.

Please tell me thats not who I think it is.

Sigh the saga of a goalkeeper is going to last us all through this transfer window. Are we even linked with anyone worthwhile?

https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/9/17549176/darksiders-3-release-date-apocalypse-edition Darksiders 3 has an official release date and editions announced as well. Love it.

Tell you what, I watched that game and was thinking "Don't fuck this up don't fuck this up" and to be fair there were some really good penalties in there.