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I bought MVP Baseball 2004 for the GameCube based on a numbe of positive reviews. I should have read more reviews. Ugh, this game is annoying.

To start, you must play a "franchise" just to play a season of baseball. I don't want to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates for 10 years - I just want to play my way through a regular season (and maybe some postseason action). That's it. The game is a memory pig - I don't think that all of the options would fit on a standard card, and true of most GameCube games, the damn thing can't look at slot B!

You can't warm up a pitcher while you're at bat. That's ridiculous. Fielding is silly - the opposing team's outfielders leap and dive at least ten times a game, robbing me of hits, yet my outfielders act as if they're afraid the baseball is radioactive.

Hitting is weak - you can attempt to hit "better" by moving the stick in the direction of the ball, but Acclaim's "aimer" thing works ten times better (especially when you can toggle between power and contact hitting modes). EA's attempt is weak and really takes all of the fun - and strategy - out of hitting.

If I were reviewing this game, I'd give it a 5. It looks nice, it plays fairly well, it's got a lot of options, but it's just too damn annoying (or completely wrong in the case of my bullpen management!).

Question: LaunchBar or QuickSilver?

My Answer: LaunchBar for now. I'll look at QuickSilver another day. I tried it now and it just didn't feel right.

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I like this site: NSCoder.com. It's pretty unique, creative, and seemingly rather simple. Kudos to Ms. Brett (who, last I saw, needed a roommate at WWDC).

Yesterday, while walking towards a mall entrance, a girl asked me if I had a lighter. I didn't, but if I had, I'd have walked over, opened the lighter for her, and lit her cancer stick cigarette. Had it been a guy, I might have tossed him my lighter and kept on moving. Both would be equally acceptable (in their situations). This is the difference between men and women. Well, one of a few million.

The girl made the comment that if she didn't get a cigarette soon "she would just die." I found this strange, given that she was talking about the lack of a cigarette. She was cute - an 8 at least - but the whole cigarette thing put her in the sub-6 range at best. Ick.

I really don't like smokers. I also, as a guy, like to toss things to people. 🙂

Question: Do you celebrate Easter? Do you get a basket with candy in it?

My Answer: I used to. I also used to go to Sunday school. Nowadays, however, I'm just happy that malls are closed and people stay home. 🙂

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Question: Did you attempt to post a comment while Interland was busy screwing the pooch on me this evening?

My Answer: Fuckers. 😛

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Today I picked out some new furniture for my living room. Rob's getting the "old" couch and loveseat, and I'm getting this:

The couch is very, very (very) comfortable.

Question: If elections were held today, who would you vote for? Who do you think would win?

My Answer: Myself. Bush. That's as close as those two will ever get - and I used to consider myself a Republican. However, as a fan of people who aren't big flaming idiots, I'll never be a fan of Bush.

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I didn't think renting storage space was so costly. $83/month gets me a 5 x 15 non-A/C storage space for my kayaks. $83/month! My last year of college that's almost what I spent on food each month. Jeepers! The bum of it all is that, as I'm storing my kayaks, I won't need about eight of the ten feet I'm provided in the vertical direction. I may make some kind of rack, though, and house the kayaks one above the other or something like that, leaving room on the side for… Hell if I know. Can you sublet a storage space? 🙂

Question: Do people commonly misspell your name?

My Answer: Grrrrrrrrr. 🙂

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I think it's funny that I've been labelled an "old timer fascist" by someone who's too cowardly to post a real name. On Slashdot, of all places. Some facts, as always, are in order:

1. I've never moderated cocoa-dev. Hell, I haven't even posted in months.
2. I did moderate my own Cocoa-Pro list, but never banned anyone (except for one guy who had a spamming virus).
3. I'm hardly an Old-Timer. I'm 26 and got into serious Mac programming in 2000.
4. Cocoa-Pro has not been in existence for months.
5. My name is not spelled "Eric."
6. Scott is a good guy.
7. Aaron is a good guy.
8. Both of them have written books, and my name appears on one of them. Both books are very helpful and very much geared towards helping developers get started with Cocoa.
9. I've never had much conversation with Marco, but he's probably an OK guy too.
10. I can be a bit of a prick sometimes. Who isn't? I don't go around posting drivel like this chap has, though.

This person has gone off on a rather baseless rant and it is amusing on a tragical/comedical platform. This person, though not quite deserving of pity, certainly needs a few more (correct) facts before deciding that I'm an "irrelevant idiot."

Question: If the best men's basketball team played the best women's basketball team and both teams tried very hard (and didn't put in scrubs), what would the final score be?

My Answer: 127-24. After watching the best two women's college teams tonight, I have a hard time thinking of five sports in which a woman is better than a man. Figure skating: tie. Uhhh… pool? I dunno. The best men are better than the best women. Yes, as you gravitate towards the middle ground areas, the separation is less. Men run faster, jump higher, hit golf balls further and tennis balls harder, etc. Who can refute that? Not anyone who looks at the facts.

Am I trying to piss some people off? A little bit, yes. I'm not interested in men's basketball, but it seems to me that women's basketball needs less airballs and more scoring. 67-59? Wake me up when it's over. Yawwwwwwwn.

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Question: Do you own a DV camera?

My Answer: I now own two: a Sony DSR PD150 and a Sony DCR PC101. I picked up the latter today for $250 new! It used to sell for $1399.

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Question: Do you rent movies?

My Answer: Sometimes. Given that my friends seem to be cheapasses <grin>, I end up having to rent a lot of the movies I want to see. I should go to the movies by myself more often. It's not the stigma that keeps me away - I just usually say "hmm, stay home and get work done or go spend $9 watching 30 minutes of ads and then a 90 minute movie? I'll choose A."

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Question: What is your favorite euphemism for having sex?

My Answer: Whenever someone tells me that they "made love" I ask if they would mind whipping up a batch for me. That doesn't make that my favorite euphemism, because I've gotten far more pleasure out of "doing the wild monkey dance" and other more childish phrases. I can't say I have a favorite among them, however.

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