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#901
Console Gaming Discussion / Re: MLB The Show 18
May 26, 2018, 09:46:20 PM
Additionally, I'm slowly but surely realizing that any low pitch I need to be later on, pitches up I can get away with being early depending on the pitch, and middle is about normal.

Also, I can barely hit pitches inside, and especially not pitches inside and low.
#902
Console Gaming Discussion / Re: MLB The Show 18
May 26, 2018, 07:36:52 PM
I've also tried changing my camera to the strike zone 3 cam, to try to get a better look at the ball.
#903
Console Gaming Discussion / Re: MLB The Show 18
May 26, 2018, 04:19:35 PM
Yeah, I just tried flick + PCI indicator, but I was just getting "Too Late" constantly. I can't spot the ball, move the cursor and swing nearly fast enough.

The thing that scares me about the pure timing element is how it aims. Sometimes my swing timing will be good, but I'll swing over or under the ball or miss. And yeah, sometimes it's because it's outside the zone, but not EVERY time.

You're absolutely right about that subtle difference between 92mph and 95mph and so forth. I think my biggest issue is when a guy's #1 pitch is the 4-seam or 2-seam, then yeah, I'm sitting on the fastball (plus DeRosa constantly saying "in the majors you hit off the heater"). I'm awful at swinging at any breaking pitch that's outside the zone away, too, which is a separate issue.

I have this irrational fear of being afraid to miss on the fastball. I don't want to be late on it, I don't want to swing and miss it, and I don't want to take one and just let it by me if it's in the zone. And obviously that affects my timing when he does actually throw a breaking pitch or a changeup. But that's baseball, I guess? I refuse to bump the difficulty down to All-Star, but I would like it if my player wasn't a chump also. Granted, it's his first year in the majors so maybe it's supposed to be like this (especially being a late round draft pick) but it's also hard to improve my ratings when I can't get a hit.

And yeah, I think another of my issue is I can't really "solve" the pitcher. I can't predict their rhythm, and usually when I try ("He threw a changeup away and low, so here comes a high, inside fastball") it never ends well.
#904
Console Gaming Discussion / Re: MLB The Show 18
May 26, 2018, 01:19:53 PM
Quote from: Crewe on April 11, 2018, 09:54:46 PM
ok, so you can choose flick or pure analog. Tried flick, but Im used to pure analog where you have tio pull back to time your step, but at least we got that figured out lol

I may have to go back to Pure Analog over the flick, because I've been having a lot of trouble seeing the ball lately and I am way too early on my swings. I think the extra second it'll take to start my stride would help a lot. Do you find that's the case at all?

It's weird, because I'm a streaky hitter. I was up over .340 for a while actually, and I'm all the way back down to like, .240 now in August of my 4th season. Got traded from Pitt before hitting the Show, made it to the Bigs in my 4th year when they traded me in the off-season to the Rays, who traded me after like, two or three months to the Astros, where I currently play in right.
#905
Chit Chat / Re: The Top 5 Thread
May 24, 2018, 05:06:01 PM
Quote from: Crewe on May 24, 2018, 12:43:19 AM
I assume you mean the "happy" 21 chapter ending?
As for Orange, I like both, but prefer the film. Which, as I understand was based on the book that published only 20 chapters, leaving out the lighter ending.

You know what, I did not know the book was originally shortened in the US. I thought Kubrick had deliberately left out the "happy" ending. I see now that Burgess, the author, was upset at the US publisher for not including the chapter to begin with, not with Kubrick for excluding it. I've had my wires crossed on this one.
#906
Chit Chat / Re: The Life Thread
May 23, 2018, 11:39:03 PM
I moved across the country about 2 weeks after flying out to get an apartment. Do what you gotta do, Crewe.
#907
Chit Chat / Re: The Top 5 Thread
May 23, 2018, 11:37:28 PM
I almost went with A Clockwork Orange except I absolutely hate that ending. The book's ending was better.

/booksnob
#908
Chit Chat / Re: The Top 5 Thread
May 23, 2018, 07:31:53 PM
Oh god gotta do this before anyone takes mine.

5. Some Like It Hot - "Well, nobody's perfect."

4. Sandlot - "I don't believe it! The Jet stole home! The Jet stole home!"

3. Goodfellas - "Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."

2. The Godfather - "Don Corleone."

1. Captain America: The First Avenger - "I had a date."
#909
Console Gaming Discussion / Re: N64 Mini Classic
May 23, 2018, 07:23:15 PM
Those are all super cool. I didn't realize they made cases for all of them like that.

Yeah, I skipped the NES, and even though Nintendo said more of those are coming, even though it can be hacked I think I'll skip it again. Outside of maybe the Mario games I can't see myself really going back that far and playing games.
#910
Console Gaming Discussion / N64 Mini Classic
May 23, 2018, 12:05:43 PM
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/japanese-trademark-filing-hints-nintendo-64-classic/

This isn't a confirmation, sadly, but it certainly makes it look a helluva lot more likely. The NES and SNES used the same internal software for emulation, essentially, so if this one uses that too it should be just as easy to hack as the first two, in which case, having just done the SNES, I would absolutely have to buy the 64 knowing I could add more games to it.
#911
Successfully hacked mine today to add games. Was actually really easy, turns out.
#912
Chit Chat / Re: The Life Thread
May 20, 2018, 04:24:23 PM
Oh man, that's good to know about BC. I keep planning to go to Vancouver to see a hockey game but totally forgot to this season. Ah, maybe next year. I'll also have to keep an eye out to see when a movie is being filmed. That'd be cool to go and see too.
#913
Chit Chat / Re: The Life Thread
May 19, 2018, 05:13:48 PM
Quote from: cflnut on May 19, 2018, 04:49:45 PM
Congrats Buc on your engagement.

This kind of topic has always interesting especially when it's told from a individual's point of view. As being the non-american here I my be to give a different point of view as to how America was seen during the pre-internet years.

That sounds absolutely fascinating. Please do! I'd also love to hear about life in general up north as well!
#914
Chit Chat / Re: The Life Thread
May 19, 2018, 02:57:11 PM
Quote from: TheNorm on May 18, 2018, 04:59:29 PM
Growing up in the 80s, all we ever had were fire drills and severe weather drills in schools. Gotta imagine it was the same for most of you here too. Although one time my freshman year in HS someone called in a bomb threat in the middle of January so that kind of sucked because it was cold but most of us still laughed about it because it was most likely a prank...or someone trying to get out of an exam for a little bit. Overall though, the fire and severe weather drills were the norm for us because hey, you never know.

A few good friends of mine are HS teachers now, and a couple of weeks ago one of them looked a little shaken up. Asked her what was wrong, and she said they had gone through their ALICE training that day. Took me a few seconds to realize that it was active shooter training, and then I was a little shook about it too because this is the normal for kids and our friends now. Now I'm just angry that this is the fucking normal we have to put up with now because hey, you never know.

I don't want to get too overly political or lose the point of this thread, but I will add to this, that apparently 2018 so far has had more children murdered by guns in schools than it has service members killed in combat or non-combat related deaths this year.

And don't get me wrong, I'd much rather both those #s be at 0, but for a fact the students should not be outnumbering the service members (hell, the students shouldn't even have one, let alone as many as they do).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/politics/wp/2018/05/18/2018-has-been-deadlier-for-schoolchildren-than-service-members/?noredirect=on&__twitter_impression=true
#915
Baseball / Re: 2018 Off-Season/Season
May 19, 2018, 11:29:36 AM
Friends of yours Norm?

I'd gloat about the comeback win, but I uh, left at the top of the 7th....look, I have to work early today and I'm not even a Mariners fan, don't judge me!