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#RingTheBell Luzardo Truther

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

JT is trolling so he doesn’t have to play meaningful baseball

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

Sigh

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

Why can’t we score like a normal team

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

It’s like he’s still here

[Phillies Tailgate @PhilsTailgate]

Happy 22nd Birthday to Phillies top prospect Aidan Miller!

[Zack Meisel @ZackMeisel]

A couple changes within baseball have led to an uptick of — how do I put this delicately — foul balls to catchers' nether regions.

"It takes your soul with it."
"You have to be a tough motherfucker."

Catcher in the Writhe: A deep dive into gonadic grief
https://t.co/fsIaudLmyp

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

I’ll be honest with you man, this game would suck go buy a vr headset or smth

[MA @M_A_Hooray]

When are we getting huge news for FOOTBALL FANS - where EA actually simulates the experience of playing QB (not seeing through the back of their heads, scanning defenses pre-snap, choosing a region of the field as their 1st read, and making progressions thereafter).

A groundbreaking Madden (where player Intelligence/Awareness would be king) would have the following:

1. Defenders disappear from the screen while the QB's back is turned from them.

2. QB's should not immediately see the entire defense/receivers across the field until after completing their first read.

2b. Imagine beginning each play by using the right stick to scan the field from left-to-right (and vice versa), where defenders appear/disappear from sight as the QB's eyes scan the field in preparation for the play.

2c. QB's like Brady/Manning would have cones of vision that are practically 2/3 of the field, whereas Kyler Murray would have 1/5 of the field.

2d. Wherever the cone of vision is left at the snap of the ball is where vision will immediately be available for the QB.

2e. After .5/1.0/1.5 seconds (DEPENDING ON AWARENESS RATING), the remaining players on the field (outside the initial vision cone) become visible.

3. User defenders should only see players on the field that are directly in their line of sight. If a player is running down field in-step with a receiver, they should have to press the Left Trigger to peek back at the ball/QB.

3b. Peeking back at the QB/ball would incur a slight speed penalty (reduced for PLAYERS WITH HIGH AWARENESS).

4. If an opponent is spamming the same glitchy/overpowered plays (more than 2-3 times per half), their offensive player stats should be drastically reduced - meanwhile the defender stats should be boosted.

4b. When selecting plays on offense, a warning would appear (perhaps the play art surrounded by a red/yellow box) indicating that selecting that play will result in a penalty to their team's stats (for that particular down).

5. A hot route mechanic be introduced that allows you to instruct any receiver to delay the start of their route by .5/1.0/1.5 seconds.

6. Merge the practice and game mode in Franchise. 6b. The practice begins with a bare-bones field and colorless uniforms.

6c. As plays are successfully executed:
* The gameday uniforms (preselected before gameday) begin to come to life.
* The stadium begins generating atop the once empty fields
* Fans begin filling the stands
* Once the desired amount of reps are completed, the player presses a command for the gameday to kick off.

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So long as EA grants omnipotent vision to user QB's/Defenders (granting eyes in the back of their heads), Madden Football will never come close to capturing players that process the field quickly/efficiently.

If players realized that much of the field would be blind to them (LIKE REAL LIFE) unless they had a high-IQ quarterback/linebacker/DB, they would suddenly stop coveting physical traits alone (which are useless if they are oblivious to the game going on around them).

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

@MillsTwitch Lack of effort from the devs to include solo players or do you think it’s a bug that can be fixed?

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

@MillsTwitch What a shame I was hoping the offline reviews would be great, wanted to love it

[Matthew @sponhourm]

No baseball again 💔

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

@77KeenAce77 Couldn’t believe my eyes I didn’t know people fucked so heavy with all the jrpgs and I legit got thumb wrestling

[Cade Onder @Cade_Onder]

ACTIVISION GIVE ME BLACK OPS 1 AND 2 ON MODERN CONSOLES WITH MULTIPLAYER AND ZOMBIES AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

The whole coastal elite thing is unfortunately completely true for sports

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

What they did to the Dunkin 6 dollar meal deal is wrong.

[Coney @CONEY]

Rhythm Heaven
10 year old game
10 year old game
Thumb wrestling
6 year old game
1 year old game: Switch Edition
Fire Emblem
MINECRAFT
Game announced a year ago, no date or gameplay
10 year old game
Remake

[The Ten Thousand Man @slime_machine]

nintendo direct sucks. i’ll never get to see some sort of cel shaded anime character in distinguished regalia but also with a bit of an attitude unbecoming of royalty

voiceover: this. is the kingdom of bunko

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

We wanted Mario baseball fuck you

[Wario64 @Wario64]

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (remake) announced, coming 2026

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

This is truly the corniest thing of all time. Humiliating way to spend your team’s historic Finals run

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

Uploading an entire Major League Baseball game on here is just incredible stuff

[Gayest Tone @gayest_tone]

That “my bagels Jewish” line isn’t some “whimsical” thing it’s a forced meme created by a sports betting service for their stealth ad

[Nick 🦜 @BirdTalksBall]

@tablesetterspod Any vote not for machado is puzzling, even if he turns it around and has average production, that contract is another beast