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So last week, I got some of the picks correct and some of them wrong. For instance, I predicted that the Bills would beat the Colts 38-30, but the final score was 27-24 Bills over the Colts. I predicted that the Seahawks would beat the Rams 27-10, but the final score was 30-20 Rams over the Seahawks. I predicted that the Bucs would beat the Football Team 31-16, but the final score was 31-23 Bucs over the Football Team. I was so close on that prediction! I predicted that the Titans would beat the Ravens 35-17, but the final score was 20-13 Ravens over the Titans. I predicted that the Saints would beat the Bears easily 41-23, but the final score was 21-9 Saints over the Bears. I predicted that the Steelers would beat the Browns 33-24, but the final score was 48-37 Browns over the Steelers. The Steelers offense had 4 turnovers and the Browns got up to a 28-0 lead because they took advantage of the Steelers mistakes. That is what you are supposed to do in order to win the game. The Steelers offense however started to get it going in the second half, but it was not enough to overcome the 28-0 deficit. So, I got 3-3 picks correct which is a tie.
Now, let’s move on to the Divisional playoff game picks, shall we?! The first game I will predict is the tomorrow’s Rams @Packers game. The Rams defense was outstanding against the Seahawks and they are about to face a really tough team, quarterback Aaron Rodgers and his dangerous offense, but without their offensive lineman David Bakhtiari which is a big lost. But the main question is can the Rams defense slow down Mr. Aaron Rodgers and his main weapons on offense? Well, I don’t think so because I think the Packers will find a way to win and go on to the Championship game with a win over the Rams 38-23. It is hard to beat the Packers especially when teams have to go to Green Bay in a playoff game and the weather may be a little cold for both teams especially for the Rams. I just don’t think the Rams can deal with the weather situation. The next game I will predict is the Ravens @Bills game on Saturday night football. I actually think the Ravens can take down the Bills in a really close game 29-23. I just think the quarterback for the Ravens Lamar Jackson will run all over the Bills defense like he did against the Titans. The next game I will predict is the Browns @Chiefs game. I think the Chiefs will win this game over the Browns 41-32 in a close game. The last game I will predict is the Bucs @Saints game, a divisional rivalry game. These teams will play each other for the 3rd time of the season. The Saints have swept the Bucs during the season and it helped the Saints win their division. I think the Bucs will keep this a real close game by scoring some points, but I think the Saints will score little more points and beat the Bucs 31-28.
So, my playoff prediction is the AFC Championship game between the Ravens and Chiefs and the NFC Championship game between the Saints and Packers.
So, what do you guys think about the Divisional round picks?!
I would like to hear some comments, thoughts, or opinions down below!
Stay tuned for Divisional round pick updates.
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Time sure is moving like (Black) Wally West taking a jog to school. Nevertheless, it's that time for the a new installment of Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review (MWIR)-airing every Wednesday at 8pm eastern, thanks to the good folks at BTalk 100. The topics set to be discussed are: surprisingly, Pixar's Soul starring Jamie Foxx despite the addition of simultaneous factors like streaming and COVID-19, outperformed Warner's Wonder Woman 1984 in China; Marvel Studios head honcho, Kevin Feige is giving more clues regarding what thematic direction the Black Panther sequel will take without its star actor, the late Chadwick Boseman; shocker! Dburt picks up on a forgotten topic pertaining to his recent interest and foray into cryptocurrencies as well as black American history's connection to cryptology; oh and speaking of crypto...did you ever hear about the early investor worth 220M in bitcoin but he can't touch his fortune?; well it looks like Marvel can't help themselves-Miles Morales' version of Spider-Man will purportedly tackle his own spin of the Peter Parker "clone saga" storyline; the 9th annual Black Comic Book Festival starts....TODAY. And yes, its virtual. Does Netflix/Shondaland's Bridgerton do a disservice to British black history by fantasizing how race is depicted during Britain's Regency era?
Respected actor, Harry Lennix (The Blacklist, Man of Steel) recently revealed that he will be assuming Martian Manhunter character in the forthcoming Zack Snyder Justice League HBO Max film; Lastly, noted comic editor/graphic novelist and friend of the Afronerd Radio show, Joseph Illidge, wrote an interesting piece for Medium.com entitled, Fear of a Black Batman and the Comeuppance for White Supremacy.
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“Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.“
There is a generation of gamers who honed their skills on internet browsers. Many kids with mice and keyboards flocked to their preferred domain. Perhaps you were a frequenter of Addicting Games, Armor Games, or Newgrounds.
I, myself, spent most of my time on OneMoreLevel, always telling myself that I’d only needed to play well “one more level.” There were platforms and RPGs, sports sims and visual novels. There were licensed properties and original ideas and clones of those original ideas that were circulated in an attempt to capture those coveted clicks. There were empires founded on this bit of software and we are starting 2021 by watching them fall.
Of course some of the more popular games have been archived so to speak. Some have found homes in proper releases on Steam such as the zombie scif-fi RPG, Sonny.
Others have migrated over to consoles as is the case with N: The Way of the Ninja and The Fancy Pants Adventures. Some you can still download like Need from Madness and Radical Aces (although, those aren’t true Flash Games, instead being created with the 3dvia player, but their software is similarly dated). Concerted efforts from BlueMaxima saved more than 38,000 flash games before the software was retired. Only time will tell which ones were truly lost to time.
The (not exactly) old adage goes “once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever,” but the shuttering of Flash Player is not the first instance of digital impermanence. Gearbox’s Battleborn is also shutting down this month after it had been removed from stores in November 2019 after failing to escape from the large shadow cast by Overwatch.
Destiny 2 vaulted a nontrivial portion of its game just three months ago. Epic’s Paragon was deactivated in 2018 due to the company funneling more resources into its beloved battle royale, Fortnite. And Paragon fans are lucky that Epic was generous enough to release all of its assets.
When Toontown shutdown in 2013, some of its fans banded together to recreate an unlicensed, free-to-play version of the game. And this is to say nothing of the hundreds of multiplayer servers that have been laid to rest, refashioned and repurposed.
Video games are uniquely susceptible to just… not existing. Books can go out of print, film reels and pressed records can be destroyed, but video games exist largely in an ephemeral state. Zeroes and ones on a hard drive, files sizes that grow exponentially with the complexity of the game. It’s not a simple matter of copy/pasting. When you are playing a modern game, you’re playing a unique instance that some other players will never get to experience and, if they do, it’s still only an approximation that took an untold amount of resources and effort to get to happen. See the vanilla World of Warcraft servers. See a ROM hacker adding in a digital patch to simulate a hardware upgrade for the SNES.
It is an endeavor, and one that has no easy solution. Whether it’s the Library of Congress, the National Video Game Museum, the Strong Institute, or the Videogame Heritage Society, there are several organizations dedicated to preserving these interactive art forms, but will be unable to capture their kairos, their timeliness. Videos games are predicated on people playing them and if they aren’t played, they’re not really games.
Somewhere, there are a handful of PlayStation 4s with a copy of Kojima’s PT. There are PlayStation 3s and XBox 1s with copies of Destiny stuck in the pre-Rise of Iron crucible meta, with Touch of Malices that will not rotate because last last gen consoles couldn’t support it. There is a ROM of Pokemon Blue that thankfully has the ability to store more than one save, such that a young gamer does not have to fear their younger sibling overriding their level 99 Venosaur and Mewtwo (and I’m sure other treasured companions) with a fresh save. Technology has made it possible to archive *almost* everything, but it is still incumbent upon us to make the effort to document the games that we love, lest they disappear in a flash.
But I suppose that’s just part of the game we call life and we get to choose to keep playing.
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