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Talking about Nix and Penix both being 24; it does hammer home just how different the NBA and the NFL are. The top NBA guys have been in the league 5 years by that age. Nix feels like a reach that high; but if you think that’s your guy… go get him I guess.

And Vikes trade to flip with the Jets. Obviously were worried about exactly what I just said.

I look at Penix in Atlanta and can’t help but think of Desmond Ridder. I dunno man. But looking at how skinny Jayden Daniels is knowing he’s going to Washington and knowing Caleb Williams is in Chicago where QBs go to die; I just think there are going to be a lot of QB busts.

So Chicago won’t take McCarthy… Will the Jets piss off VP A-A-Ron and take a QB???

Man… Captain Kirk would be pissed if he hadn’t already gotten his money.

https://x.com/JFowlerESPN/status/1783133659249193449 Trying to link this in while on my desktop and still can't get the Tweet to appear in the body. Sorry. So anyways, this was an interesting graphic with the "hit rate" by position of first round picks. Unsurprisingly, offensive linemen are the safest picks (also the least frequent) while skill position players have the highest bust rate.

Overdue was also quite good. I’ve always enjoyed Lawrence’s work, but the Library series is quickly becoming a favorite as it evokes emotions tied to the very essence of books for me.

Thanks!

Hey @unJon could you edit the topic title to a general Mark Lawrence spoiler thread?

I didn’t know about Overdue. I will look it up!

I just read Returns before jumping in. Wentworth would seem to share a lot in common with Wobble. Did you ever have a dog that inspired Volente? I also liked the themes of potential and the stillborn child. It wasn’t what I expected to read when I opened up the file to read.

Boy, and a few years ago they had the number one overall pick and you just sort of thought "Here they go, gonna be good for another 5-10 years." And then James Wiseman happens... I don't know about rankings. Top 10, Top 15, a lot of that is splitting hairs. But I know one thing, you can't tell the story of the NBA without Steph Curry. He changed the game and the way it is played at every level.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor 3.40 GHz 32 GB RAM AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

The original FallOut is listed as Playable on Deck. The caution notes just mention that there are times that require utilizing the onscreen touch keyboard and some features do not work with the built in controller function and will require the use of the onscreen keyboard. The positives say that it does utilize Steam Deck controller icons and the default graphics settings work well. To answer your broader question about whether a game is playable on the Steam Deck, that answer is broadly "Yes." Its a PC. Now, it is Linux based PC (that you can dual load Windows onto). So there is hardly anything that you can't play in one shape or another.

Both are listed as “Playable” on Steam Deck which you mentioned…

I saw this bumped and assumed it was commentary on the impromptu signing he did in St Louis this weekend

Book that Broke the World will be arriving for me tomorrow.

I just checked Steam… you can have 3 and NV for a combined total of less than $7.50.

From Wikipedia FWIW

It is number one for the year so far. I assume Deadpool and Wolverine will pass it; but I haven’t seen anything else on my radar that feels like it should be a massive draw. (I’m probably not paying enough attention though.)

Now that the theatrical run is winding down and the home streaming release is two days away, I was checking box office on Dune today and went back to our debate about delaying the release last summer and predictions for the gross. Pretty obvious at this point that delaying it was absolutely the right move. The promotional tour and the positive press it built clearly made a difference in getting the excitement rolling for the movie. My prediction at the time was a bit off: Box office mojo says that the movie has don’t $272m domestic. So I wasn’t far off, but the positive press definitely pushed it above where I thought it would be. At $683m worldwide, it did fall short of the “Billion Monies” that @Deadlines? What Deadlines? and @Calibandar were predicting however. Glad to see we will get a concluding chapter.

They held a press conference at Rupp Arena for Mark Pope’s introduction and had to turn away 5000 fans. We truly are insane. Not bad for a hire everyone was disappointed in 3 days ago.

I’ll post them when I’m back at the office tomorrow. It’s well past the requirements. I did start it up on my Steam Deck without trouble last night.

Did that too.

I've had CyberPunk in my Steam library ever since I bought my Steam Deck, but have never actually played it. All this talk made me decide to install it on my new PC here at the office and give it a go. Installed and the Steam Launcher opened a CDP launcher (I hate launchers that launch other launchers btw). As soon as the game tries to start... it crashes. This is why I've always been a console gamer... they. just. work. So anyways, to the Google machine... I don't have anything running that I feel like should be a problem. I don't have a jsun file. There does not seem to be any Nehemic files running in the task manager (whatever those are). I went searching through my files and found the actual app and tried launching directly. Any suggestions from the group I trust the most for gaming advice on the net? I haven't tried it on the Deck yet. I may do that when I get home. ETA: it has a pop up screen when it crashes that says it has Flatlined and asks permission to send a crash report. But I don't get any error messages.