Lightning Flik

Silva goes up to a team, then goes back down. It's kinda funny and sad. Edit: And I'm so happy I picked up Uribe. He's been just awesome.

My greatest achievement was beating Chrono Trigger in under ten hours (9:59~!), no dying, doing every little thing to get the best ending, and might I add that it was a non-plus game. Yeah, who's the man?! ...ok, it's about all I got besides playing about 100+ RPGs and beating about that many.

It comes close to NG in difficulty. Not quite there, but almost. From what little of this game I have played.

I'll just ask once here to be safe: Trade to send A. Kearns and J. Lieber from Fear The CHEATLIST~! to Small Red Machine in return for C. Delgado, with C. Silva being dropped. Approved thoroughly, correct? I'm just checking bases here.

Hm... Toughie choice, as you point out. Hm... Hopefully I will resign with LVJ (unless you can do that, but that would technically count as a "trade" as I'm trading away my Free Agency and I don't want to waste anyone who wishes to make a trade, if it does work). Shall be interesting. Hopefully, my team will make it in though.

I realized it after I typed that all out and added the line "And I'd take words over money any day. As long as they can get me real life things that I need." Everything happens for a reason. That's a constant I find in life, so there is a reason for all this to have happened. What that reason is, I'll find out later on.

Dude, I was just told that as I was told the condition of my Grandfather's health. And I'd take words over money any day. As long as they can get me real life things that I need. And frankly, I'd like the job. I hate my current one, plus this one would give me some job security as it would be full time work. That and anything has to be better than "unofficial janitor". That... And I just want to go one month without going "there goes my next paycheck for groceries" or "well, I wish I could blow this on something I want since I earned every dime, but we might need it sometime down the road, so I must save ever penny I earn"... It's not fun that way, living out your life wondering just how you survive. It doesn't help when you've got 10 other people to worry about (the whole rest of my famliy, humans and animals). As for my Grandfather, he's doing alright. That's not saying much, since he is in poor health still, but he's slightly better today. He'll live for awhile longer, but I don't know how much more. However, I've got the feeling it might not be that much longer.

Ok, only let it go if we all agree on it. BTW, Evo, what's my chances of resigning with LVJ after this season?

I'd say yes, but I'm not sure you should. My team is 16 GB now. However, if you want to, ask Evo to make it happen. And I guess having Hunter behind me isn't so bad, but he should've been hitting better not worse.

You are not getting my pitching staff, you bastard. No matter of persons will give you my staff.

Same, as I just got back and apparently that will be my punishment. Suitable, I guess... ...got something good that might've happened. My Uncle Ted found this place called Beaver Plastics (go for the jokes, I need a laugh), but apparently they are desperately needing to hire people and it's $12/h and if I'm there for 5 years, I can get my schooling paid for by them. And my Uncle said that I'd get to $20/h in no time at all. It's also full time and pretty simple work... So hey. Maybe I'll actually have something to smile about here soon if I get it... Cause it certainly ain't my Murphy's Law life at the moment.

Due to the effect of Murphy's Law of "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong...", I won't be handing in a match for today's show. One of the two things is the fact that I'm trying to sign up with a college I applied for and was successful in getting approved. However, every little detail seems to become this stupid thing I must hunt down to get, like transcripts, tax recepits, and student loans. It's not been fun. Nor entertaining. However, the main thing that went wrong is my Grandfather's pretty much on his death bed or so we were told. We're going to find out later today just whether he's got a few months or a few days. After being told this yesterday, I just stopped trying to write, my heart just wasn't into it after that point. This doesn't excuse not having my match done, but I felt I should let you know why it won't be in and probably why if you do see me on AIM or get in contact with me, I probably will just be about responsive as a slug for the next while.

Knocking them back with plungers works. And yes, Atlanta sucked only because I was overshadowed by others greatness and could never be given my true change to shine. That, and I wasn't all that great back then. But seriously, we need a good pitcher. Let's see if we can't convince Ann to join our team. I've got a good feeling about her joining with a team that can do the job on offense, like ours.

...dammit Hunter, I knew the name. But seriously me and you go on a tear, win like five rings and then everyone will want to be on our glorious team.

...Duran, a long time ago, I actually picked my picture for Eddy J. I ain't about to find that post, so do it for me. Kidding, kidding. That guy that played Angel will be my guy who is Eddy J. Happy?

About the only Canadian cities that can even be considered near tortured is either Ottawa or Regina. That's about it.

Considering my HR is 9 for fucking excellent, I don't think that's possible. If I could just get my strikeout zone better, then I'd be rocking the place, as I'd get a ton of walks, steals, and hits. Do you walk him and then let him steal a base (to which he'll score)? Or do you let him hit and hope a pop out? Actually Duran, I don't think James is a one season wonder. If you check my stats from every year, I've been on a statistical climb ever since year one. It's been long time coming, and probably means I'll peak around year 34-35. So I expect to be awesome for awhile. Oh and hopefully I go hitting after Hunter. I'd score even more RBIs that way.

I basically have died in all but the H2H league. That's not surprising considering I'm not really that skilled in my MLB knowledge and henceforth am bound to get smacked about.

Interesting. You've got two highly stealing players, both that can get scored and hit, and you've just probably put them on the same team. Do I smell a contender? You bet I do. Welcome to the Las Vegas Jokers, Hunter. Proud to have you finally on my team.

What the hell does this even mean? The ESRB rates, you know, potentially offensive content in games, not game quality. And how often is it badly mistaken on what should be rated as E, T or M? Plenty of games have gotten the wrong type of rating, just because of a single thing in the game. That's what I mean. This new system to be given credentials to games or whatever will be looked at with distrust and with negativity. My suggestion would be a group employed by the publisher (WBI), occasionally rotated, and with identities unknown to the outside. Confidentiality agreements and so forth. Exactly how to recruit them would be the issue. A mix of casual, hardcore, and maybe former game magazine reviewers might work. Game mags have their reviewers usually use their real names and provide contact info. You don't see a difference? That actually would be the best of every world, but you won't get anyone to commit to that because of confliction of interests between the publisher (they'd like the game to actually be good), the reviewers themselves (if they don't like a certain genre, they can slam it good) and of course the game developers (who just want to make a ton of money, really). I'm not sure what the last part was trying to mean. Explain, because I obviously am missing something this late at night. If you have a multi-console game, except for the GBA it's the same flippin' game except for hardware limitations. If you have a PS2 and an X-Box, generally you'd be an idiot to buy a multi-console game on PS2. The exceptions would be something like Soul Calibur II, with exclusive features. If there's a difference between multi-console games enough to dip below the minimum, then the games overall were borderline to begin with, right? True. But I was more meaning, if there is an RPG on the XBox and an RPG on the PS2, do you know how many RPG fans will actually give the RPG on the PS2 a better score than the XBox RPG, just because it is on the PS2? Or an XBox fan hailing an RPG as the greatest RPG ever, even though it really is just pretty damn good. ...and yes, I basically just named the two big ones on both systems, and I will now have to defend that. But that's another thread for another time. Never ever consider a GBA licensed movie game to be good. They are few and far inbetween because too much is tried with so little. ^ I'd answer that, but down there v Andrew, you just said that it isn't perfect. Obviously, the complications I speak of are apart of what isn't perfect. You have to think of these things to make sure you can make this plan work at least to the point where there isn't any question about how it goes about it. ...I couldn't think of the initials for the system being used for the rating system for games.

About freaking time they use that name. It was the only name of a PPV I liked. But why on the 19th? Why not closer to the 31st?

If we are going to create a "true" quality control board for gamers, we'd need an intangible group of people with no outside agendas and not able to be bought. The chances of that are about the same as finding some few folks exactly like Link (Legend of Zelda). Just ain't happening. Besides, who exactly does this board respond to in terms of regulation? If it is a seperate entity, it'll be treated as a joke thanks to the ESRB. If it responds to the three major console systems and the PC, then we start having people sway their votes to the preferred system of choice or the one buying their ratings. Yes, the above situation isn't a good thing to happen. Sadly, it is also apart of what is going on in the real world with other reviews that happen every time, practically daily. It just gets the video gaming industry up to date.

Oh, I see. I never checked out Gamerankings so I didn't know. On the downside, I expect this to work out kind of like high school kids doing just enough to get a C. Unfortunately, that STILL would be an improvement as licensed games go. Enter the Matrix wasn't quite as bad as ET, but it deserved a similar vomiting-up by the game community. However, a company bearing the Atari name doesn't give a shit about quality. Color me surprised. The first Matrix should've stood alone. It would've been fine if it had, and not been tarnished by any of the mockery that was accomplished by the sequels, its game, and The Animatrix. It all depends on what the reviewers use for rankings, as they probably will use Gamerankings as their database (why else say, average score of 70% for reviews, unless that was how they were doing it). Most reviews that are placed onto Gamerankings system are of the out of 5 rankings. Therefore, it is quite easy for a game to crash and burn. However, since the out of 5 ratings usually get .5 it kinda hacks the process. So we may see that problem, may not. But at least someone is making the effort to get us better games. Actually, Atari saying that they would rather give the company like WB cash, instead of Quality product, probably did not sit well with many gamers. I know hearing that, it'll make me question the next Atari product I purchase. Don't worry about Enter The Matrix, I couldn't stand more than 30 minutes myself. Then again, I stopped playing Jet Li's latest game when its controls were just plan awful. Considering it is just an average of ratings of reviews, it is very fair. If you'd like to look at a certain review (only via site, magazine reviews you need to buy the magazines), you can check. This way you can fairly figure out which person has given a fair judged look at the game. Actually, on the contrary. If a company that was licensing stuff to me was more concerned about quality rather than quantity, I'd rather bring out the quality, as the games that have the quality are remembered much better than the games of quantity. Look at many of the "cult" classics that have come along, that use this philosophy. How many of those can you recall knowing much about the game? Compare that to "Enter The Matrix". Which would you recall better? That impression is what licensing/producers should be looking for. If you can tap into a core audience and give them something to make them continually come back to you, then you need not have to make the one shop stop game that gets you a shitload of cash. You make more with the confidence of the consumer behind you and willing to be there for all your products.

Um... Yes, Atari made a zillion people buy it. However, do you know how fast you alienate your consumers if you pull off that shit? Pretty badly. I think WB really doesn't want to do that. ...then again, we've got that Catwoman movie that's a fucking joke. BTW, did you like Enter The Matrix? What? You did? Well it doesn't matter what you felt about the game. Why? Because you are someone who is online voicing his opinion on the subject, right here and now. Therefore, because you are one of the "some people" who did or didn't like it, your opinion is therefore invalid. If WB is intending on doing this, then they should probably use (and probably are) Gamerankings.com. It takes the ratings of every place that has done a review (that has done a review on the game and has notified the site about it) and compiles it into an average score. Best way to get it done.

Don't give them any ideas... In another twenty years, will there be any Canadian teams other than Toronto? I mean, my city certainly can't support a team (finacially, not that we don't watch our hockey) and the general feeling across the board is the same.