TERY COME FORTH AND TAKE THE MANTLE

bishop injured? this series just got a whole lot worse for the lightning

That was a surprising round, the closest series imo was tampa vs new york and that winded up being a 4-1, the chosen team (washington) was eliminated by a, while less so than before, still hot pittsburgh team, and even though I thought the stars/blues game was incredibly one-sided (on the Blues), with Dallas' 3 wins coming by one goal and STL's wins coming in blowouts, it went to a game 7. Weird how things worked out, but the Sharks winning was the only series that made sense. Good series to watch too.

- Penguins over Lightning in 7: This series comes down to a lot of variables. If the Penguins had the fire they had at the end of the regular season and the beginning of playoffs, this would be a no-brainer. As it is, though, they lost that dominant edge against Washington, but still have the strength in my mind and the unreal play of Murray to beat out the Lightning. Tampa's defense corps is far greater than Pittsburgh's, Pittsburgh's stars are sure to finally pick up the slack and triumph offensively, and the goaltending duel between the pretty solid Bishop and the streaking Murray will be interesting to watch. Neither team is particularly tired, so in my mind it'll come down to Murray. If he keeps this pace up, Pittsburgh will win for sure. If he's decidedly average or worse, I give the edge to Tampa.

- Blues over Sharks in 6: The Blues get a good enough break after game 7 that 14 playoff games shouldn't be a big deal in terms of getting tired. The Blues beat out the reigning champions in a close-fought series, completely outplayed Dallas in almost every game (including in losses) despite going to a game 7, and Elliott has been near unstoppable. The Sharks aren't really a super specialized team, something you need to win the cup and definitely something you shouldn't be fighting so close with Nashville for. Nashville is designed to outgrind and outsmash the offensive juggernauts, not so much against teams like SJ. I'd say Blues in 5, but the Burns factor is pretty unreal and should be a Conn Smythe favourite if the Sharks make it out of this round. For the Blues' sake, I really hope that isn't the case. SHOULD be the easiest series for the Blues so far, but you never know.

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in honour of FFX being released on steam today

loved playing with them before decent dudes revived, would definitely recommend all of them.

holy shit this just made my week

Civ VI was confirmed today. As much as I'm always excited for another Sid Meier game, I'm not as excited as I was a couple years ago (or last year? I don't remember) when Beyond Earth was announced, since it was supposed to be the spiritual successor to Alpha Centauri which is by far one of my all-time favourite games. Sadly, although it had a few new features that weren't terrible and a strange new skin, it was pretty much another Civ V game so I'm not going to pre-order VI or anything like I did with BE. Anyone hyped for VI?

the decent dudes confirmed alive let's go boys

i'm not a fan of when people act facetious with that "i love you yapper" quote

EDIT: i only mentioned the one thing since it was relevant and didn't want to inflate anything but i can go on with examples

to be fair to griff, your team told me that you went into stvs of games i played in and trashtalked me pretty hard exile even though i've never interacted with you so even though it's not a big deal it's not unheard of

but that aside griff idk why you're saying other people are being toxic when every interaction i had with you when you tried out pocket two seasons ago was either you being pretty caustic in mumble or telling us to pick you up over who we decided to pick over you. the team is really chill as far as i saw when i tried out a couple weeks ago, even though exile doesn't like me he seems cool in mumble too

like i said in my pred, the ability for holtby to go huge or for some washington's premier offense is more of a streaky thing, and I highly doubt they'd get lucky 3 times in a row because pittsburgh is the decidedly better team on average (WAY more playoff exp, better talent overall). i do think holtby or ovechkin have one more carry game in them before washington falls, though. plus, it'd make my pens in 6 prediction accurate :^)

thankfully the STL series hasn't been close since the first game. they still played a lot better in game 2 but somehow weren't getting the goals they needed, and it's obvious dallas is feeling the wear and tear from playing against the big boys on STL. unfortunately, this is going to grind the blues too, so if they don't finish the series quick then the strain on their own bodies would make the CF pretty hard.

have a bunch of offers and a possible decent dudes revival, would still take tryouts but only if it's like mid IM so I don't get added by a bunch more people (trying to keep track of like 8/9 leaders X_X)

sombrez: TFTV is fuckin salty
sombrez: Facepunch > /r/tf2 > TFTV
sombrez: If Valve can forgive Max Box (considering they have zero tolerance for cheats), why can't TeamFortressTV forgive you?

go subscribe to him already

also lol I wondered if axio would post, but I didn't expect a full roast

he's asking for donations, even though it's not direct it's as if he's using this "supposed" leak to make money so he can go to PAX

idk even if he did help or make as much of an impact as he says he did, which I find incredibly unlikely given that miggy downplayed it and he's a hell of a lot trustworthy than this attention whore, it's really dumb that he's indirectly trying to make cash off of it for PAX. if he tries to help out the community in some way, cool. it's a good thing to do despite the fact that people like me would never forgive him for the damage he caused before, but instead of being humble he's grossly begging for attention over a claim that I highly doubt is true.

disgusting is a word I'm using a lot today, i'll use it once more :]

disgusting player