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You might not be able to meet your mates now, but that doesn’t mean friendship and fun stops for these couple of months. There’s plenty of fun – and time to burn – with these free browser games available right now.
Cards Against Humanity
Missed board games night with your friends? A lifesaver has brought the smash-hit card game to the browser, with the same offensive and NSFW you don’t want your parents to see.
Up to 20 players can enter a game room and pick from multiple card decks, from the base game to its expansion packs for hours of fun, minus the shuffling.
Skribbl.io
While this browser classic needs no introduction, Skribbl.io has only become more popular since many countries went into lockdown. It’s Pictionary with a mouse and keyboard. One player draws, while the rest guess type their answers and rack up points. Drawing is terrible if you have to draw on a trackpad. But it makes for even more laughs.
Telegram
Thanks to Telegram bots, the messaging app hosts entire games for groups. Follow the instructions given by the bots that facilitate the game and you’re good to go.
The most famous of these is Werewolf, the detective game where players try to expose the murderous werewolf before another one of the villagers are lynched. Key @werewolfbot into your Telegram group to begin.
You also have @Hangbot, which is like Hangman. The bot comes up with a word and players guess the letters and lose a life for every wrong one.
Cards Against Humanity is also available on Telegram via @chat_against_humanity_bot.
Pokemon Showdown
If battling was always your favorite part of Pokemon, meet a friend on this Pokemon battle simulator. This is Pokemon without the grind. Jump straight into a match with a random or custom team and show your friends who’s the master. Sure, it’s not as refined as what you’ll find on even a GameBoy, but it may good enough for many who just want a trip down memory lane.
Haxball
To put it simply, this is budget FIFA for up to 20 players – and it’s a screaming good time. Like soccer, two teams chase a ball around the pitch and fire it into the goal. It’s not as easy as it looks – approaching the ball at the correct angles to shoot and dribble while everyone is chasing you is tricky, but well worth getting the hang of for those last-minute winners that will have the whole chat room screaming.
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The Town of Salem
Like Werewolf, playersplayers are split into roles – the town, mafia, killers, arsonists and neutrals. Town members are put up against the rest of the villains out to kill them, but no one knows each other’s roles. There’s a Steam version of this too, but who wants to pay when the browser mode is available for free?
Surviv.io
Fortnite, PUBG and Call of Duty may be free on mobile devices, but Surviv.io still finds its place for people who just want to have a quick shootout without the loading time or distractions. Surviv.io is a battle royale game available on web browsers and mobile, pitting squads of up to four players against over 70 other players. With over 6,000 active users at any time of the day, there’s minimal waiting time.
Jigsawpuzzles.io
Puzzles are all the craze at the moment, but they don’t have to be done alone thanks to Jigsawpuzzles.io. Select from a huge catalogue of puzzle designs, from nature to cities, and work away alone or with a friend. If you’re not looking for therapy, get competitive by seeing who can finish a puzzle first.
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Spyfall
Much like Undercover, Spyfall issues words to players who have to answer questions about their word. It’s a tricky play of words, as players need to be discreet enough that the spy is unable to suss out the answer, but also clear enough that they aren’t suspected of being a spy themselves. This is best played with your friends faces in full view on Zoom or Hangouts.
Minecraft: Education Edition
We are cheating here because this isn’t a browser game, but it is worth downloading. Minecraft have made the Education Edition of their insanely popular sandbox free for students. It runs on Bedrock, not Java like the full version, so that means you can’t play or interact with worlds available on the full version. But the thrill of meeting a friend to start a new vast world together is still a lot of fun to be had.
The New England Patriots are one of the most hated teams in all of sports and, unfortunately, it may be for good reason.
Despite having one of the winningest coaches of all time in Bill Belichick and the All-American champion in Tom Brady, there's still a dark cloud that's been surrounding the franchise for over the past decade.
It was reported this morning that the NFL is now investigating if the Pats actually deflated balls before the AFC Championship game against the Colts yesterday, and if these dirty tactics are true, it just reminds everyone of that dirty C-word: cheating.
Yes, New England has a dirty reputation of doing literally whatever it takes to win, but how much longer will they be allowed to get away with tactics like this?
And what will it take for the NFL to finally do something about it? The full history of their lack of integrity tells us everything we need to know.
2002: Marshall Faulk claims Patriots cheated Rams out of Super Bowl win
Tom Brady won his first championship with the Patriots at Super Bowl XXXVI against the Rams, and Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk was the first person ever to call out Belichick for having just a little too much intel ahead of the game. He said,
I understand Bill is a great coach. But No. 13 [Kurt Warner] will tell you. Mike Martz will tell you. We had some plays in the red zone that we hadn't ran.And a couple of plays on third down that we walked through also. And they created a check for it. It's just little things like that.It's either the best coaching in the world when you come up with situations that you had never seen before. Or you'd seen it and knew what to do.
2004: James Harrison calls out the Patriots for more signal stealing
More claims of the Patriots having impossible information about the opposing team's game plans came in 2004 via Steelers linebacker James Harrison.
He said,
I should have another ring. We were the best team in football in 2004, but the Patriots, who we beat during the regular season, stole our signals and picked up 90 percent of our blitzes [in the AFC title game].They got busted for it later, but hey, they're Goodell's boys, so he slapped 'em $500,000 and burned the tapes. Was he going to rescind their Super Bowls? Man, hell no!
2007: The videotaping controversy known as 'Spygate' rocks the NFL
After multiple accusations of spying on teams, proof of this reality came to light in 2007 when the league finally disciplined the Patriots for recording the Jets' practices.
Defensive signals, formations and different personnel strategies were stolen and the Patriots were finally punished... Sort of.
The Patriots were stripped of their first-round draft pick the following year and fined $250,000.
Bill Belichick was fined $500,000, but the team still got their shot to play in the Super Bowl.
Of course, that was the year the Giants spoiled their perfect season, proving karma is a bitch.
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2015: Legendary coach Don Shula calls out Bill Belichick
The former Miami Dolphins coaching legend, who went head-to-head with Belichick, had a hilarious nickname for the Pats coach.
During an interview, he said,
The embers of competition have cooled some. But they're still warm, if you care to see them. The coach can still can bring it when he wants, like when a forgotten scab is picked with the mention of the current king, New England's Bill Belichick. 'Beli-cheat?
2015: Used illegal plays against Baltimore in divisional playoff game.
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The Patriots came back to beat the Baltimore Ravens in the 2015 AFC divisional playoff game after falling down 14 points.
However, with the use of illegal plays and formations that even fooled the refs, they came back to stay in the title hunt, beating their foes 35-31.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh immediately called out the Pats for something that should've never happened. He claimed,
It was clearly deception. That's why I had to take the penalty, to get their attention so they would understand what was going on because [the Ravens' defense] didn't understand what was going on.That's why guys were open, because we didn't ID where the eligible receivers were at. The league will look at that type of thing, and I'm sure that they'll make some adjustments and things like that.
2015: Accused of deflating balls during AFC Championship game against Indianapolis
Just one game later, the Patriots were accused of even more cheating, and allegedly deflating balls in the AFC Championship game is as low as it gets.
Granted, the Colts were completely outmatched and New England was the better team, but this cheap tactic is all but confirmed, and, according to Bob Kravitz, the team is awaiting league punishment.
Told if a league investigation confirms deflated footballs it will result in lost draft picks. Stay tuned.— Bob Kravitz (@bkravitz) January 19, 2015
According to Kravitz, balls that are deflated are easier to throw and catch. He said,
I initially thought a softer ball would be tougher to throw, but people who understand physics have since told me it would be easier to throw and catch. Naturally, Boston fans went nuts on me, calling me every conceivable name.Nobody is suggesting the footballs had any appreciable impact on the game; it was a butt-whooping.But if the league believes the balls were deflated, expect the Pats to be fined or be forced to forfeit draft picks. Or both. What a day. And it's gonna get longer.