What if? The Madden Way – Prologue 2

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The second half of the season was fairly uneventful for Liam right up to last week when he was awarded Player of the Week award for passing 347 yards with 3 td and 1 pick with astonishing amount of 55 attempts. Unfortunately the Browns struggled and finished the season with disappointing 4-12 record and Liams person was linked with being kicked out during the off-season as Magician wasn’t picking words when ripping the franchise to bits and pieces. Yet with 4114 passing yards 19-17 td-int, completing 55% of his passes for 6.4 yards Liam hoped there’d be coaches there willing to train him and turn him into a star.
In Buffalo, Marcin had a disappointing end to the season, missing few games out. He finished the year with 44 catches for 615 yards and three scores. He knew the team would let him walk as all the glory was a on Sammy Watkins who he didn’t agree with at all. His Bills cracked into play offs with 9-6-1 record where they’d face the Colts.
Grumplet put a solid coaching year behind him and led the team to 11-5 record to face Bills in wild card round. They blasted through the Bills with 52-28 dominant win just to crash in divisional round against San Diego in close game decided by last minute touchdown to give the Chargers the win 45-38.
AFC Championship was won by the Chargers who soundly beat the Pats 32-21. NFC Championship went to Green Bay who came away with victory at Seattle 27-23.
The Super Bowl 50 seemed to lack atmosphere and the whole week leading up to was flat. But before that happened, there was time to announce yearly awards across the league during NFL honours night.
That’s where things got really bizarre as the Head Coach of the Year award went to Griswald Grumplet and everyone was just shocked since he did have some success with Indy but every one knew it was mainly down to players doing their thing. Anyways, when they were announcing the MVP the place went nuts and after people realised they heard Russell Wilson’s name things gone quiet and everyone was just confused as hell. The Seahawks had a top scoring offence but it was riding on backs of two running backs, Marshall Lynch who ended up leading the league in rushing yards with 1639 and Rawls who led the NFL in rushing touchdowns with 17 (jointly with Williams from the Steelers). No one could understand how handing off and looking cool earns you an MVP but hey. Life!
Marcus Mariota and Jamie Winston became Offensive Rookies of the Year in their respective conferences with D. Perryman of San Diego and E. Kendrich of Minnesota earned the defensive honours amongst the rookies.
Big Ben led the league in passing yards with 5027 of them and he also snatched the passing touchdown crown with 36 scores through the air. Can Newton was the most accurate with 71% passes completed and he also had the highest passer rating at 108.7 whilst Eli Manning got sacked the record 78 times and he was still alive.
Other achievements worth mentioning were those of: A. Brown leading in receiving yards (1721 yards and 111 catches), Jordy Nelson (1590-105) and Larry Fitzgerald (1393-81) split the leadership in receiving touchdowns with 14 each.
Kelvin Sheppard of Miami was the league leading tackler with 152 while his angry teammate Such led the NFL with 17 tackles for loss. Justin Houston grabbed himself 19.5 sacks and Darrelle Revis was the top interceptor with 8 picks.
Thomas Davis (Carolina) blocked to field goals during the season and K. J. Wright was the only one recording a safety….
And finally, night after the award ceremony Packers squared off with Chargers and had a solid and sound victory 44-33 to take Lombardi Trophy to Lambeau Field.
And Aaron Rodgers was named the Super Bowl 50 MVP. Then the lights were off and the world was already preparing for another crazy season.

Ford Mustang 2+2 Fastback – Friday’s Drive

 

Technology is great, unless you’re a nature lover or you’re a person constantly puzzled by it. But still, the evolution of certain elements of our lives is just brain boggling and at times it just makes me silly. Especially the virtual world where the technology advanced so far that it made me a car driver! And it made me able to drive variety of cars and if I went onto driving a real car, I’d probably run over an old lady trying to hit that apex like nobody’s business.
Anyway. Back to my initial thought of gathering cars enthusiast and video games fanatics in one place where we could perhaps discuss different ideas about cars or racing them in our virtual worlds. It’d be fun but since I’m here all by myself at the moment at least, I should create some stuff to get your juices flowing.
My go to game when it comes to cars is “Project CARS” which I never gave enough time dye to various reasons but at any time if I fancy some driving, crashing, setting up car or racing I go to PCars.
Today I wanted finally get a bit more feel for one of my latest purchases, a couple of DLC packs and I got stuck.
The reason I got stuck is the Ford Mustang 2+2 Fastback, that was made in USA in 1966 and is a RWD Front V8 little beast.
I like most of the American street tanks as I call their old classic muscle cars. They are fun and they are dangerous.
Given the fact I only use a PS4 controller, I can’t really immerse myself fully but I’m used to using my imagination and I must say, that driving that little beast was awesome fun, especially in first gear when its arse would wobble, wanting to jump out in front of the bonnet. The car definitely settles quick enough once you’re in second but still keeps you on the toes through twists and bends as it doesn’t like them very much like most of American cars. They hate the turns.
In game menu the Ford’s listed top speed is 225kph so I took it on Mojava Test Track to see how long it’d take to reach its top speed. It didn’t take long and I even exceeded it, you can have a look at its top speed (and then coming to full stop) in this short clip.

I haven’t made any special adjustments in the car setup so I was surprised to see the top result which only makes me wonder if I can squeeze a bit more out of it or perhaps make it even more fun to drive. I’ll try to keep you updated and in the meantime I’m going to go and think about what I really would like to do with thus particular bit of space that I’ll commit to cars and Project CARS.
And if you happen to love building models then perhaps this one will catch your interest. It is amazing how much different stiff you can fund out there once you start digging.
And to finish the entry off, enjoy the picture of my over speeding through some hills and saying hello to a nasty barrier.
Until we meet here next time!

 

The Heirloom – Graham Masterton

The action of “The Heirloom” is fast, swift with plenty of fear and quite a healthy dose of sex, like with many books by Masterton. There is also a demon to keep us company and to keep us guessing.
Ricky loves dealing with antiques and this is his way of bringing income home, so there is no surprise that he gets very happy when one Sunday he strikes a very good deal with a stranger that visits him with plenty of furniture. Hidden in all of that treasure there is one unique piece, a richly chiseled mahogany chair. And it is heavy!
Ricky finally manages to drag the chair inside of his house and still remains puzzled as to why the item is of such enormous weight. In a meantime, the evil slowly stars creeping out in form of trees dropping their leaves, temperature in the house being extremely low.
Masterton slowly builds up a lot of tension in a reader while Ricky is trying to figure out his latest purchase. The dread is only becoming more troublesome as more gore events start to happen in neighbourhood including some fatal victims.
Our protagonist meets David who really trues to buy the chair off Ricky for his client which only wakes more suspensions in our character and soon the duo starts working together and a secret that David keeps to himself , once revealed might lead to dramatic events…
The price is the life of Ricky’s son and then it could even cost lives of many more people…
And the chair… What about the chair? Well, in “The Heirloom” which isn’t really that long, Masterton grabs one by the neck from first pages of his novel and he doesn’t seem to want to let his reader be let off so perhaps the best way to find out what is wrong with the chair is to grab that book and discover it for yourself,
I had already done it. Will you dare it too?