Notes and Errata of Mark of the Asphodel

Pennant Race, Presidential Race... no, what really matters is who represents Fire Emblem in SSB4!

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:02:39 GMT

I have seen the light.

I have converted to the side of "Bring Back Roy!" for the sole reason that advocates of Sigurd, Lyndis, and random Tellius characters have driven me to it.

[Well, that and I understand Roy and his significance to Elibe and Fire Emblem now, and didn't in 2008.]

I mean, the sole reason I got a GameFuqs account is to screw with people who still parrot the hivemind assertion that Sigurd is the most popular and beloved Lord in Japan. I think the evidence stacked against that claim is bleedingly obvious at this point, so I'll just point out that fan polling indicates that, the last anyone checked, Sigurd wasn't even the most popular blue-haired mounted lance user in his own game, much less more beloved than, uh, Marth.

Also, I've soured on Krom and FE13, so I kind of hope Sigurd 2.0 doesn't make it in, either. :/

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How 'bout them Tigers? Right now it's 6-0.

Can't gloat in advance, but I will point out that the Yankees with their bloated zillion-year contracts have the oldest average age of any major league baseball team (33) and that most of the Yanks' stars are quite a few years above that. So you've got a team made up of broken-down warhorses who can't do what they did five years ago (especially now that some of 'em aren't juicing), and these no-name kiddies who've been brought into the playoff roster now that the big names are benched, injured, or out to lunch.

The wheels were gonna fall off sooner or later, and this turned out to be the year. Even Boston's laughing now, fercryingoutloud... mostly because A-Rod ain't on their payroll.

I'm not gonna laugh until nine innings are over. Mercy rule, anyone?

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October Non-Surprises

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:20:39 GMT

The Guardian's live-blogger was complaining about a lack of drama to tonight's ALCS game.

No shit. This series is FE4 "Second-Gen strategy" bad.

"Throw Holsety at it!"

By which I mean the Detroit Tigers pitching strategy appears to be "Put Justin Verlander in for nine straight innings every time he takes the mound 'cause our bullpen can't be trusted."

Throw Verlander at the Yankees, cross your fingers, and hope Raul Ibanez doesn't "crit" him in the ninth inning.

Too bad for the Tigers that pitching rotations, unlike FE4, take fatigue into account. :P

ETA: Well, that last inning was reminiscent of a Todd Jones nail-biter, but Ibanez didn't crit Phil Coke, our non-closer closer. And Cano finally hit the damn ball, go figure.

You'd think that pennant race baseball would be good baseball, but this is just kind of boring for all that I spent the last two hours hitting the "refresh" button like a rat banging its food bar. Watching multiple innings of nobody hitting nothin', night after night, is not that great. At least the Giants scored seven runs off the Cards last night.

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October Surprises

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:41:13 GMT

I love the way the national press, especially the New York-centric press, wails and moans about the dire shape the New York Yankees are in and how horrible the entire situation is.

Perspective: you suckers are in the American League Championship Series. So you're already in better shape than all but two teams in the AL and all but four teams in Major League Baseball. This is why nobody outside of New York actually likes you pinstriped pricks-- because if you're not winning the World Series every damned year, it's a tragedy!!!111eleventy-one.

Screw you guys. The Oakland A's were happy just to get to the ALDS, because everybody wrote them off before the season began.

OK. Derek Jeter breaking his ankle was not a nice thing to see. At the guy's age, it may well be the end of his career. It's not pretty and very squirm-inducing even if you hate the team's collective guts.

Now, if A-Rod had broken his leg and been out for the season, y'all would've breathed a collective sigh of relief and maybe busted out the celebratory champagne because that guy's become a jillion-dollar liability and it appears his body's shot even on a good day. And the rest us wouldn't have cared because A-Rod's an asshole and did I mention nobody actually likes you guys?

But A-Rod is part of the reason that empty seats in Yankee Stadium during the pennant race and the total inability of your batters to hit stuff (unless facing Detroit's own Papa Grande, whoops) do not constitute a tragedy for anyone with an iota of perspective. You paid for him, and he's your problem. A-Rod on his own costs how much more than the entire A's roster? Yeah. Screw you guys.

A Tigers/Giants World Series would make me very happy, but any season in which the Yankees get sent home during the playoffs is good in my book. I hope Justin Verlander and company can get this sewn up before the ALCS shifts back to New York, but we do have that little issue of a closing pitcher (ain't got one) and hey, people choke. So the Yankees aren't actually toast even now.

But to hear the Yankee-friendly press whine, you'd think they finished dead last in the AL or something. They're sore winners and sore losers and that's why nobody actually likes them.

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