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Hi everyone! Today I just want to remind y’all that tomorrow is the NFL Draft! This year’s draft will take place in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL Draft will run from tomorrow to Saturday. I am excited about which players will be drafted by the NFL teams! The NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will be the host of the NFL draft as usual. You are going to hear people booing at him when he announces each pick. Now, this year’s draft is going to look the same as it did last year when every team gets to select the player, they want virtually meaning they will be doing it on zoom. So, the Jacksonville Jaguars will be the first team to pick in the first round. I think they will take Trevor Lawrence, a quarterback from Clemson. I also think the 49ers or the Falcons will take the quarterback, but of course it can change because there are going to be teams that will be trading up and down which happens every draft year. The Arizona Cardinals are going to be picking at No. 16 in the first round. I think they need to draft a corner-back since Patrick Peterson is now gone to the Minnesota Vikings. Caleb Farley the corner-back from Virginia Tech was set to attend the NFL draft, but when the test results came back on Covid, he tested positive. But I think he is good to go, however, he has some injuries. He battled sciatica (pain that radiates along the sciatic nerve through the hips and buttocks and down each leg) throughout his first-team all-ACC season in 2019, eventually missing the Hokies’ last two games, and underwent a discectomy in February 2020 to remove a small part of bone. He recovered and resumed training, but opted out of the 2020 season because of COVID-19 concerns and to prepare for the draft. I don’t think that the Cardinals should draft a guy who has some serious injuries like Caleb Farley, but this guy There’s no denying that Farley is a tremendous talent. He defended an ACC-high 16 passes and registered four interceptions in 2019 despite missing the final two games of the season with an injury.
Farley is also a plus-size corner-back at 6’2″ and 197 pounds, which undoubtedly has teams interested.
Of course, they are other corner-back options for the Arizona Cardinals such as Patrick Surtain from the University of Southern Mississippi, and Jaycee Horn from the South Carolina Gamecocks. The concern is that the Dallas Cowboys who are picking at No.8 may take one of those guys and they would be gone by the time the Cardinals pick. The question is do the Cardinals trade down to get more picks or try to move up in front of the Cowboys? I think its best to trade down to acquire more picks and possibly select the best player available. The Arizona Cardinals need to address their defense by drafting a corner-back, but they should not try to draft Caleb Farley because of his injuries.
So, we will see what happens tomorrow when the NFL Draft starts tomorrow!
What do you guys think about the NFL Draft?!
I would love to hear lots of comments, thoughts, opinions, concerns, or questions down below!
Stay tuned for NFL Draft updates.
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[This article is based on an Early Access build of the game, and may not reflect the final product.]
Into The Pridelands
One of the most integral concepts to Afrofuturism is community. Characters at the center of Afrofuturistic stories are part of other lives and lands whose fate is tied to their own. Living this connection between Afrofuturism and community is the core of Heart Shaped Games’ We Are The Caretakers.
Style is another undeniable part of Afrofuturism, which WATC has from jump. The opening screen features rainfall glittering off the stylish armor of one of the titular Caretakers. Once the player chooses their Caretaker’s presentation (masculine or feminine), the game drops immediately into some on-the-job training.
As stewards of the land of Shadra, the Caretakers’ most immediate concern is the rhinoceros-like Raun. Investigating a grisly poaching, the player discovers a baby Raun. Your newly-elected Conductor decides instead to name and enlist the foundling to help hunt their parents’ killers.
Trial By Combat
Players highlight and move their party across the Shadran plains in search of the criminals. Scouting before crossing into new areas reveals points of interest, such as Raun poacher traps to disarm or towns to interact with. Catching up with the poachers drops you into the turn-based tactical combat portion of the game.
The game has an auto-battle configuration that allows you to set attack patterns, but what’s here is classic turn-based strategy. Rather than the stats of traditional RPGs, Stamina and Will are the party’s basic resources. Stamina acts as health for your party members: both battle and travel across the map can deplete it, but restoration is as simple as visiting a town.
Will as a stat doesn’t have this problem, but your enemies’ reserves can be much harder to deplete. Reducing either stat to 0 with your party’s skills will make a combatant take a knee. This gives the player a number of choices for the defeated. ‘Shake Down’ makes the opponent run their pockets before they flee, while ‘Wound’ removes them from the game entirely.
‘Detain’ is the option that leads to more interesting play. Between missions, your squad returns to Caretaker HQ. Here, players can customize the compositions of their teams by accepting new recruits and leveling their class types. Research points can be acquired for upgrades to make combat and exploration less difficult.
Passing sentencing on those detained from battle is the most interesting mechanic by far. The Reputation stat takes into account the Caretakers’ standing with Shadra at large through each judgment. Will players release offenders with an appropriate penalty? Or perhaps accept a bribe on the offender’s behalf?
Beyond Wakanda
Players’ most likely course of action, though, is to retrain these poachers as new Caretaker units. As you build more squads of Caretakers, they can be dispatched across the map to help accomplish several mission objectives at once. Accomplishing these is further complicated by the fragility of the game’s current Early Access builds.
Crashes occur frequently, and with saving only possible between missions this can lose significant progress. Combat at this stage could also use some work. Attacks feel weightless due to simple animations and missing audio cues. Between steady updates and a Discord for feedback about the game, the developers are addressing these concerns.
We are the Caretakers is not a Black Panther simulator, and it’s not trying to be. By using real-time strategy as a way of focusing on detail, they’ve managed to envision Afrofuturism as a process rather than a destination. WATC’s Shadra holds promising potential to let players see what it takes to build & maintain a community beyond colonization.
7 out of 10 Baby Raun
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