The Blog for the Sports Gamer Three guys who love Sports Gaming rant and rave about various stuff.

Thursday notes

- Thanks to Dan for keeping the site flush with content while I was busy this week.  I've had tons of stuff going on with work and it kept me from doing much in the way of posting.

Also, we had some server issues last night, so hopefully none of you hit any ugly wordpress error pages.  Oh, well.  We're back up now.

- I also missed the fantasy draft last week, due to the fact that I couldn't get into the draft site on my tablet.  Looks like my team went together pretty well without me though.

I see that there is already a trade waiting for approval, so it's good to see some movement between the teams already.

Should be fun to see how much action we get in a 16 team league.

- Now that the Nintendo Ambassador program is in effect, I grabbed my 10 NES games for my 3DS last night (after the silly amount of effort that is required to do so,) and proceeded to play NES Open golf for an hour.   I can't get over how much I still love playing that game after all these years.   It's been 20 years since it was released and I still enjoy the gameplay as much as I did back then.

It'll be nice to have a way to be able to take the game (legally) with me anywhere and be able to play it without an emulator.

- Well, it's been a long time (since near the end of July) that the Brewers lost 2 games in a row (since July 4th and 5th since they lost two in a row at home,) so needless to say the fan base here is pretty nervous.  As for me, I think a win today will cause all of those worries to go away.  Plus, they get to go on the road to Houston for the next three games, so the ship should be able to be righted very quickly either way.

I did see that Pujols was a nice guy yesterday and went to offer a ball to a fan, and when they tried to take it, he pulled it back.  Classy move there, guy.   Hope that new contract situation really works out for you.

- Deus Ex is still taking up a good portion of my time, but I have run into the most frustrating part of the game...which are the boss fights.

Why would you have a game that would give you the option of playing the entire game without ever having to kill anyone... and then force you to kill the boss characters?  It took me the better part of an hour to beat the first boss because of the fact that I had never killed any of the characters up to that point.  I hadn't used anything other than my tranquilizer gun and a knock out blow to take out anyone, and was having a great time doing just that.

Then they dump you into a boss battle that forces you to throw exploding barrels and shoot the dumbass over and over again.

Hell, I distinctly recall finding a rocket launcher a few minutes before that and disregarding it because of how I was trying to play the game.  That's just a horrible design decision.  Why they wouldn't let you beat the guy by hitting him with 10 Tranq darts is beyond me.  It would be hard as hell to do just that.... grrr.   Way to take an excellent game and really make part of it a painful experience that almost made me quit playing it.

- I'm anxious to see the first college football game of the year tonight as the Badgers take on UNLV at Camp Randall at 7:00 p.m, as I'll be there in person.   There is a ton of hype about Russell Wilson, the former NC State QB, so I'm very interested to see if all of the hype about him is true.

I would have loved to have gotten a few pictures of the game with my new camera, but it's just too awkward to take good shots from the stands, especially at a night game, at Camp Randall.  I guess I'll have to see if I can get a press pass at some point (yeah, right...)

- Lastly, my daughter lost her 8th tooth the other day and the tooth fairy forgot to come during the night.  It took a good 30 seconds to get her to stop crying and then convince her that because she lost the tooth so quickly after the last one that the tooth fairy didn't know that they would have to come back so soon.

Thankfully, the tooth fairy had arrived and left her the normal amount of compensation by the time she got home from child care at the end of the day.

It's amazing to see how much joy she gets from finding a single dollar (a 50 cent piece and two quarters this time) each time she loses a tooth.

What amazes me even more is that she never talks about spending the money.  She just wants to save it.  Hopefully that will stick with her throughout the years.