u/illonof-t

Your favorite contiguous stretch of the book?

If you had to pick only one. It must be (mostly) contiguous (and of course, please do say why)

Mine would be from pages 283-299, Orin's backstory that ends pretty memorably with the freeze frame of him getting clattered on the field. I adore the prose so much, DFW really went into flow state for that part (and more broadly the whole page 200-300 stretch), and there are so many hilarious paragraphs like "Orin Incandenza, who like many children of..." or "And but as of that moment, as whistles fell from lips..." and the digression on C.T.

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u/illonof-t — 3 days ago

The mechanics have improved after the update

Nice update. They did something to the off-ball movement and controls but it is now so much more fluid and the players feel more "under control" now, also the Overload playstyle is kinda OP ngl, it seems to me that it is just a more compact and agile Long Ball, which suits me perfectly, and works fine with the same 4-3-1-2 as Long Ball, but where it really shines is the defensive posture, which seems to shut out the opponent completely but requires heightened vigilance with your defensive lines while pressing, and especially, the clearances (ideally as few as possible), having play a dozen matches with it now. (but idk why they added jerky camera cuts to match stoppages)

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u/illonof-t — 7 days ago