MLB 2K9

[Tonker]

Tdubbs is just frustrated that the real-life cheat codes Tucker Max gave him aren't working, and he still can't defeat the Crying Yourself to Sleep level.

Meanwhile, Weebs and the custom-made Game Genie that he built at college are dominating the virtual world.

This post is a beautiful thing.

[TDubbs]

Tdubbs is just frustrated that the real-life cheat codes Tucker Max gave him aren't working, and he still can't defeat the Crying Yourself to Sleep level.

Meanwhile, Weebs and the custom-made Game Genie that he built at college are dominating the virtual world.

It's hard as shit to try to push those buttons with the controller in between your buttcheeks.  YOU try it.  Not to mention that level is crazy hard.  Soon, though, I'll be on Don't Get Emotional When You Ejaculate, and it'll be smooth sailing from there on out.

[Kermit, B.]

If you PS3 guys are interested in getting this, the preview for the PS3 version sounds pretty positive.  The fact that they don't mention framerate problems is huge, considering the PS3 version of 2K8 apparently had a far worse framerate than the 360 version.

Thanks Al.

No problem.  See you in the bleachers, Chad.

[Pre]

I've been wondering something, Pre...

Do you compose your Desipio posts in Notepad with word wrap turned on or what?

Nope.



I was going to leave it at that since the answer is pretty lame, but basically there's lots
of text boxes out there which will turn your long fancy line-wrapped text into blocks
by inserting line breaks for you.  Then, if someone with a smaller window setup views
it, the text looks like shit.  A lot of early email clients were like that.  I really hate it when
that happens so I'm particular about keeping lines short and balanced myself.  After I
write something I manually balance all the line lengths.

Also, I write a lot of software and that tends to make people kind of particular about
formatting.

[Tank]

I've been wondering something, Pre...

Do you compose your Desipio posts in Notepad with word wrap turned on or what?

Nope.



I was going to leave it at that since the answer is pretty lame, but basically there's lots
of text boxes out there which will turn your long fancy line-wrapped text into blocks
by inserting line breaks for you.  Then, if someone with a smaller window setup views
it, the text looks like shit.  A lot of early email clients were like that.  I really hate it when
that happens so I'm particular about keeping lines short and balanced myself.  After I
write something I manually balance all the line lengths.

Also, I write a lot of software and that tends to make people kind of particular about
formatting.

These text boxes don't do that, though.

The only reason it occurred to me to ask is that these line breaks make it hard to copy and paste your Weebs hate into the HJE ShoutBox for everyone else's amusement.

(And, yes... That is just the sort of thing we spend most of our days doing over there.)

[Philberto]

Isn't it like cheating?  I guess if the stitching showed up better on the pitches they wouldn't have to do something like this.  I never played MVP 2005, so I don't know how great it was.  To me, it takes away from the challenge of recognizing the pitch.  You can argue that recognizing the stitching and noticing color are similar, but the former seems like the bigger challenge.

Nitpicking, I know.

Well I'd be very impressed if someone could recognizing the stitching on a video game baseball and decide the pitch type.  Maybe it would be possible on a slow pitch speed on a very large high-def TV.  It's hard enough to tell if the damn thing is going to be in the strike zone, let alone which way it's rotating.

MVP's system worked really well, but ultimately was a bit too easy.  I believe each pitcher had one specific rating that determined how well they hid their pitches.  Hitting against most pitchers on the Pirates was simple because you'd know the type halfway through their windup and it was just a matter of judging location once you knew what the pitch looked like.  I really liked the system, but it was too easy.  I prefer it over something like The Show, because knowing exactly where the pitch will be through some on-screen target is pretty lame.  It's fine from time-to-time when the pitcher just fucks up, but it's a lot more fun and rewarding to actually be able to read the pitches.  I liked MVP so much because I actually got good enough that I felt like I was really in control when I played.  I could recognize the type of pitch and location, and then pull it, slap it the other way, or do whatever I needed to in that situation.  With the 2k games, no matter how much I played, I never really felt like I was controlling the outcome of the AB.  It was just a matter of timing the swing and then waiting to see what happened, which more often than not was 500 foot bomb.  In MVP, I knew when my swing would result in a single up the middle, a double down the line or whatever.  They really need to update that game...

I'm not sure how it worked in the past but that is not really the way it is on this year's game. You can guess the pitch and location, then if you guessed the location right, it will tell you. If the pitch type was guessed correctly, the "hit box"  flashes red, so very similar to this year's MLK9. I don't think it falls in the "lame" category but we all definitely do.

[Jon]

I've been wondering something, Pre...

Do you compose your Desipio posts in Notepad with word wrap turned on or what?

Nope.



I was going to leave it at that since the answer is pretty lame, but basically there's lots
of text boxes out there which will turn your long fancy line-wrapped text into blocks
by inserting line breaks for you.  Then, if someone with a smaller window setup views
it, the text looks like shit.  A lot of early email clients were like that.  I really hate it when
that happens so I'm particular about keeping lines short and balanced myself.  After I
write something I manually balance all the line lengths.

Also, I write a lot of software and that tends to make people kind of particular about
formatting.

These text boxes don't do that, though.

The only reason it occurred to me to ask is that these line breaks make it hard to copy and paste your Weebs hate into the HJE ShoutBox for everyone else's amusement.

(And, yes... That is just the sort of thing we spend most of our days doing over there.)

We love our Weebs hate over there.

[*In a Nutsack]

Isn't it like cheating?  I guess if the stitching showed up better on the pitches they wouldn't have to do something like this.  I never played MVP 2005, so I don't know how great it was.  To me, it takes away from the challenge of recognizing the pitch.  You can argue that recognizing the stitching and noticing color are similar, but the former seems like the bigger challenge.

Nitpicking, I know.

Well I'd be very impressed if someone could recognizing the stitching on a video game baseball and decide the pitch type.  Maybe it would be possible on a slow pitch speed on a very large high-def TV.  It's hard enough to tell if the damn thing is going to be in the strike zone, let alone which way it's rotating.

MVP's system worked really well, but ultimately was a bit too easy.  I believe each pitcher had one specific rating that determined how well they hid their pitches.  Hitting against most pitchers on the Pirates was simple because you'd know the type halfway through their windup and it was just a matter of judging location once you knew what the pitch looked like.  I really liked the system, but it was too easy.  I prefer it over something like The Show, because knowing exactly where the pitch will be through some on-screen target is pretty lame.  It's fine from time-to-time when the pitcher just fucks up, but it's a lot more fun and rewarding to actually be able to read the pitches.  I liked MVP so much because I actually got good enough that I felt like I was really in control when I played.  I could recognize the type of pitch and location, and then pull it, slap it the other way, or do whatever I needed to in that situation.  With the 2k games, no matter how much I played, I never really felt like I was controlling the outcome of the AB.  It was just a matter of timing the swing and then waiting to see what happened, which more often than not was 500 foot bomb.  In MVP, I knew when my swing would result in a single up the middle, a double down the line or whatever.  They really need to update that game...

I'm not sure how it worked in the past but that is not really the way it is on this year's game. You can guess the pitch and location, then if you guessed the location right, it will tell you. If the pitch type was guessed correctly, the "hit box"  flashes red, so very similar to this year's MLK9. I don't think it falls in the "lame" category but we all definitely do.

Heh.

[Kermit, B.]

I've been wondering something, Pre...

Do you compose your Desipio posts in Notepad with word wrap turned on or what?

Nope.



I was going to leave it at that since the answer is pretty lame, but basically there's lots
of text boxes out there which will turn your long fancy line-wrapped text into blocks
by inserting line breaks for you.  Then, if someone with a smaller window setup views
it, the text looks like shit.  A lot of early email clients were like that.  I really hate it when
that happens so I'm particular about keeping lines short and balanced myself.  After I
write something I manually balance all the line lengths.

Also, I write a lot of software and that tends to make people kind of particular about
formatting.

These text boxes don't do that, though.

The only reason it occurred to me to ask is that these line breaks make it hard to copy and paste your Weebs hate into the HJE ShoutBox for everyone else's amusement.

(And, yes... That is just the sort of thing we spend most of our days doing over there.)

We love our Weebs hate over there.

It's Weebs' birthday today, you dicks.

[Jon]

I've been wondering something, Pre...

Do you compose your Desipio posts in Notepad with word wrap turned on or what?

Nope.



I was going to leave it at that since the answer is pretty lame, but basically there's lots
of text boxes out there which will turn your long fancy line-wrapped text into blocks
by inserting line breaks for you.  Then, if someone with a smaller window setup views
it, the text looks like shit.  A lot of early email clients were like that.  I really hate it when
that happens so I'm particular about keeping lines short and balanced myself.  After I
write something I manually balance all the line lengths.

Also, I write a lot of software and that tends to make people kind of particular about
formatting.

These text boxes don't do that, though.

The only reason it occurred to me to ask is that these line breaks make it hard to copy and paste your Weebs hate into the HJE ShoutBox for everyone else's amusement.

(And, yes... That is just the sort of thing we spend most of our days doing over there.)

We love our Weebs hate over there.

It's Weebs' birthday today, you dicks.

I know. I celebrated by being an asshole in the shoutbox.

[morpheus]

I've been wondering something, Pre...

Do you compose your Desipio posts in Notepad with word wrap turned on or what?

Nope.



I was going to leave it at that since the answer is pretty lame, but basically there's lots
of text boxes out there which will turn your long fancy line-wrapped text into blocks
by inserting line breaks for you.  Then, if someone with a smaller window setup views
it, the text looks like shit.  A lot of early email clients were like that.  I really hate it when
that happens so I'm particular about keeping lines short and balanced myself.  After I
write something I manually balance all the line lengths.

Also, I write a lot of software and that tends to make people kind of particular about
formatting.

These text boxes don't do that, though.

The only reason it occurred to me to ask is that these line breaks make it hard to copy and paste your Weebs hate into the HJE ShoutBox for everyone else's amusement.

(And, yes... That is just the sort of thing we spend most of our days doing over there.)

We love our Weebs hate over there.

It's Weebs' birthday today, you dicks.

I know. I celebrated by being an asshole in the shoutbox.

Just in case you need a link it's here: http://hirejimessian.com/hje-shoutbox/

[Andre Dawson's Creek]

Isn't it like cheating?  I guess if the stitching showed up better on the pitches they wouldn't have to do something like this.  I never played MVP 2005, so I don't know how great it was.  To me, it takes away from the challenge of recognizing the pitch.  You can argue that recognizing the stitching and noticing color are similar, but the former seems like the bigger challenge.

Nitpicking, I know.

Well I'd be very impressed if someone could recognizing the stitching on a video game baseball and decide the pitch type.  Maybe it would be possible on a slow pitch speed on a very large high-def TV.  It's hard enough to tell if the damn thing is going to be in the strike zone, let alone which way it's rotating.

MVP's system worked really well, but ultimately was a bit too easy.  I believe each pitcher had one specific rating that determined how well they hid their pitches.  Hitting against most pitchers on the Pirates was simple because you'd know the type halfway through their windup and it was just a matter of judging location once you knew what the pitch looked like.  I really liked the system, but it was too easy.  I prefer it over something like The Show, because knowing exactly where the pitch will be through some on-screen target is pretty lame.  It's fine from time-to-time when the pitcher just fucks up, but it's a lot more fun and rewarding to actually be able to read the pitches.  I liked MVP so much because I actually got good enough that I felt like I was really in control when I played.  I could recognize the type of pitch and location, and then pull it, slap it the other way, or do whatever I needed to in that situation.  With the 2k games, no matter how much I played, I never really felt like I was controlling the outcome of the AB.  It was just a matter of timing the swing and then waiting to see what happened, which more often than not was 500 foot bomb.  In MVP, I knew when my swing would result in a single up the middle, a double down the line or whatever.  They really need to update that game...

I'm not sure how it worked in the past but that is not really the way it is on this year's game. You can guess the pitch and location, then if you guessed the location right, it will tell you. If the pitch type was guessed correctly, the "hit box"  flashes red, so very similar to this year's MLK9. I don't think it falls in the "lame" category but we all definitely do.

Heh.

Does the cursor glow red when you guess the dream right?

[Kermit, B.]

O.S. just put up a shitload of screens.  All the create-a-player options will make it pretty easy to add guys who aren't officially in the game, like that SCAB Kevin Millar.

Teeth:  CAPPED

[TDubbs]

O.S. just put up a shitload of screens.  All the create-a-player options will make it pretty easy to add guys who aren't officially in the game, like that SCAB Kevin Millar.

Teeth:  CAPPED

My favorite pictures of a tv screen of a video game that hasn't come out yet are the 42 of them of the menu for the presentation settings.  WIND SPEED: 790 GOOGILION MPH!

[morpheus]

O.S. just put up a shitload of screens.  All the create-a-player options will make it pretty easy to add guys who aren't officially in the game, like that SCAB Kevin Millar.

Teeth:  CAPPED

My favorite pictures of a tv screen of a video game that hasn't come out yet are the 42 of them of the menu for the presentation settings.  WIND SPEED: 790 GOOGILION MPH!

I love when TDubbs jumps in here.