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Why are we inviting you to this early edition? Because our players are our most important critics and our biggest cheerleaders. You get us! You embrace our wacky weirdness and you love our games as much as we do. Because of that, we’re committed to providing you and the PvZ community with the highest quality experience we can.
Keep in mind, PvZ: Battle for Neighborville’s modes and features are already final. By giving our biggest fans a chance to come in now, we’ll be polishing performance as you play to ensure our scaled experience is running at peak levels for launch and beyond, making the PvZ: Battle for Neighborville experience the best it can be. Thanks, neighbor!
Here’s what you’ll get with the Founder’s Edition:
Exclusive Founder’s rewards for the first four weeks when you log in each week
A special Founder’s price of $29.99
A dedicated Discord channel where Founding Neighbors can share thoughts with our development team
Updates on new weekly gameplay experiences through News from Neighborville posts and our weekly PvZ developer livestream Live from Neighborville
The progress you make in the Founder’s Edition will roll over at launch
Here’s how you can get involved:
Get the digital-only Founder’s Edition – only available for purchase until September 30, 2019
Play through six weeks of content as new parts of the game go live, including new multiplayer modes, free-roam regions, and more from September 4 – October 17.
On October 18, enjoy all the same content as the $39.99** Standard Edition product at no additional cost
Go here to buy the Founder’s Edition
Wendy and I went out to Phoenix, Arizona for the Grove Family reunion on the weekend of June 7th. After the weekend of fun family activities, we drove to Sedona, the Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas. Here are some of the pictures from that excursion.
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Question: How did “The Big Bang Theory,” which had two pilots and an inauspicious start, connect with viewers?
Chuck Lorre: We stumbled out of the gate pretty hard in the beginning, and it took a while to find the voice of the show. Remarkably, we came along at a time when the audience wanted to see a show about characters that were outliers. Despite the fact that they were Caltech scientists, these were people who weren’t fitting in. And that sense of estrangement is something I think people identified with. You don’t have to be a prodigy to feel left out.
Q: What allowed “Big Bang” to remain so popular for so long?
Lorre: It begins with this remarkable cast. Each one of these characters as played by the actors is so endearing and remarkable and specific in their own way. The relationships changed, and I think that breathes a lot of life into it. … Turning the show over to (executive producers) Steve Molaro and Steve Holland expanded it greatly because their sensibilities were different than mine, and that was really good. The Steves had the creative freedom to move the show in different directions that kept it fresh.
Q: What stands out about your “Big Bang” experience?
Lorre: For 12 years, there was no drama. It was people coming to work every day, having a good time and looking out for each other. It was wonderful. I looked forward to going to table reads, rehearsals and shoot nights and I think everyone involved felt the same way. We were lucky. It was a gift to be part of something like that for so long and to enjoy it and feel grateful the whole time. It just doesn’t happen very often in his business.
Q: Did you want the show to continue past this season?
Lorre: I would have supported it had it gone either way. At a certain point, I kind of felt that decision was not mine to make.
Q: How significant was Jim Parsons’ decision not to go beyond this season?
Lorre: When Jim announced this would be his last year – that’s an obvious decision as an artist, to try other things, play other characters – then we had to make a decision: Do we want to do the show without him? The real thing is: Do we want to do the show without any of the principal characters? I was of the mind that the ensemble was perfect the way it was, and I didn’t want to continue with a major absence.
Q: Would you have been happy to continue a couple more seasons?
Lorre: Absolutely. We’re still having a good time, and I’m really proud of the work. And a lot of people had gainful employment. … There are many reasons to keep it going, so when you ask: Am I OK with it ending? No. I’m grief-stricken that it ended, but at the same time, I’m proud of what we did. I’m grateful that we get to do it.
Q: Is there any chance of a spin-off featuring “Big Bang” characters?
Lorre: There was lots of talk about it. CBS and (producing studio) Warner Bros. were very vocal about wanting to find a way. I wasn’t against the idea, and I’m not against it, but it has to be because it’s creatively an exciting idea, not because it’s economically important. … At the moment, we’re not discussing anything going forward, but if I’ve learned anything, it’s that I cannot see the big picture. I don’t know what’s coming next.
Q: How important is the show’s connection to fans?
Lorre: When you go to Comic-Con and people respond to seeing the cast, you go, “Oh, this means something. This is not a frivolous exercise.” When I was growing up, there were shows that were deeply important to me, like “Star Trek,” “The Smothers Brothers,” “Laugh-In” and “Get Smart.” To be involved in a show that means something to people, it’s special. It’s a rare thing.


The NFL saved the best for last for Pittsburgh. The Steelers schedule has a relatively harmless early stretch punctuated by a Week 7 bye, but close with three of their final five games against future Hall of Fame quarterbacks — Philip Rivers’ Chargers, Tom Brady’s Patriots, Drew Brees’ Saints. The league’s late-night darlings from 2017, Pittsburgh is slated to play in eight nationally televised games this time around; that’s half of its season in prime time.
Thanks to a random but significant quirk, the Steelers could have the AFC North wrapped up by midseason. How? They play five of their six division games between Week 1 (Cleveland Browns) and Week 9 (Baltimore Ravens), and only one more over their final eight games. If the Steelers perform well in those games — and, overall, they have the NFL’s easiest first half of the season based on opponents’ 2017 winning percentage — they could bury the Browns, Ravens and perhaps the Cincinnati Bengals early and provide all three little chance to make up ground. Pittsburgh’s final division game will come in Week 17, at home against the Bengals.
You know the drill by now. There will be a lot on the line in the Steelers’ home game against the Patriots, and Pittsburgh has lost the last five meetings to New England since 2013. Last year’s controversial finish aside, this has been the toughest test for most of the decade. A trip to New Orleans will be a battle of Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Ben Roethlisberger and Drew Brees, and a trip to the Black Hole to face Jon Gruden and the Raiders could rekindle that classic rivalry.
The Chargers have to make a cross-country trip to play the Steelers. As for the Chiefs, they haven’t beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh since Dec. 21, 1986.
The road game against Jacksonville should be interesting. That’s the team that beat the Steelers twice last year and upset the pecking order in the AFC. Something else to watch: Pittsburgh has lost just three AFC North games in the last three seasons It shouldn’t see much of a slide in 2018.