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It didn’t matter because Les Éléphants had Drogbas and Toures to keep lesser players off the pitch.Įxcept in goal. The likes of Aruna Dindane and Steve Gohuri couldn’t help but play as though they belonged in a different league than Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba. They shared the burden of expectations without possessing the skills or physical gifts to turn that hype into reality. It was crueller still to Les Éléphants’ squad players. The past decade was cruel to the megastars of the Ivorian “golden generation,” who could never assert their dominance on the international stage. It was unfair and it was unfortunate, and, as always, Boubacar Barry was right there as everything fell apart. Ivory Coast was eliminated from the World Cup. Samaras’ penalty slid past his outstretched hand. Greek forward Georgios Samaras enthusiastically fell over Giovanni Sio’s leg. Then, as so often happened with Ivory Coast’s “golden generation,” everything went wrong. Les Éléphants were holding on to a 1–1 draw in the second minute of injury time. That afternoon, Ivory Coast only needed one point from their final group match against Greece to advance into the last 16 of the World Cup. On June 24th I decided that soccer is a stupid game, and me and Boubacar - we were over. I went through my inbox and deleted every half-written pitch to an editor in which I’d begged for a thousand words and maybe a couple bucks to extoll Barry’s underappreciated qualities. I tossed the outline I had written for an article about “ one of international football’s most loveable, tragic figures” in the trash. I often don't get English puns but that's because I'm not a native speaker.I gave up hope of ever writing an ode to Boubacar Barry on June 24, 2014. Again kinda ambiguous as far as stupidity goes since it's again a case of 'you can suddenly move what you couldn't before'. Strangely I don't remember having issues with the 'noob bridge', probably because the game tells you that there's a dash button.Īlso there's the bottom of the Wood Temple in OoT, didn't realize you could turn that room. Getting stuck for a looong time because I didn't see the gap in the wall leading to the Ice Beam and even thinking I did something wrong by going down the red shaft with the floaters and restarting was though. Neither was thinking Zero was a girl, that's the fault of the character designer.

#STUPID GAME MOMENTS HOW TO#

I'm not sure I count not figuring out how to use the morph ball for quite a while (I got the cart from a flea market so no manual) or not realizing that otherwise static blocks are suddenly pushable in some instances in Link's Awakening (blocked me in the first dungeon) as stupid since neither of them was intuitive. I was so frustrated that I didn't log on for close to a year after that. I was in a party with a friend and explained what happened and he asked why I didn't just fly in front to aggro it. By the time I got back a different paladin had tagged it and got the mount.

So I dismounted, hit it, got hasty with my clicking and instead dragged bubble off my action bar and deleted the icon, and fell to my death. I felt pretty dumb.Īlso, same game, I found the Time-Lost Proto Drake and in my nervousness and excitement I thought the best way to tag it would be to dismount in the air, hit it, bubble (which makes zero sense because it'd drop aggro), and then continue the fight after landing.

I can't recall if that was exactly the case but I know I simply never used it on any encounters prior to that.

I'm fairly certain I actually DID know about the ability but I didn't have it on an action bar or ever used it because I thought it dropped aggo, similar to Divine Shield. I told him I had no idea what ability he was talking about and we had a rather awkward minute or two. Played a prot paladin in World of Warcraft for a couple years before I even realized I had the ability Divine Protection when we were prepping for the Mimiron fight and the MT was explaining to me the fight and telling me when to use it.