DLD 10/28/09 - Nintendo continued + a few other links

Urban thinks that Giambi was released partially because he didn’t really like Bob Geren.

Curse you Geren! Giambi sucked but I would have rather kept him than Nomar.

I think I already covered this one on the last DLD, but Final Faaaaaaaaaaaantasy 3!!!!!

http://www.cracked.com/photoshop_89_the-collateral-damage-video-games-never-show_p21

Still quite possibly my favorite game console of all time. (It and the Playstation 1 are neck and neck.) I have so many memories of so many SNES games that it’s more than a little bit ridiculous.

That said, two points of discussion: 1) I maintain until I’m blue in the face that Super Mario Kart is superior to all of its later incarnations. (Particularly Mario Kart 64, a game that always left me feeling empty.) What do you say, micdog?

2) How could you forget Tecmo Super Baseball? Such a ridiculously fun game, and one that made crazy use out of the SNES’ Mode 7 scaling. I call shenanigans!

I remember renting it from the video store first, then getting it after really liking it. I recently got the DS version and have been going through it again.

I vaguely remember that the outfielders could jump really high if they jumped from certain spots on the ground…

You say

and the ATP believed him

The ATP accepted Agassi’s version of events

I don’t think the ATP believed him. I think they made a decision not to pursue it.

Someone on Silver & Black Pride proposed a protest at JaMarcus Russell’s house, and not only are the mods okay with having that kind of discussion, but the poll is neck and neck about it. 39 people on S&BP are in favor of protesting in front of JaMarcus Russell’s home. I still can’t believe it.

http://www.silverandblackpride.com/2009/10/27/1103833/protest-at-jrussells-home

Here’s the article on Desme referenced in Urban’s blog. I didn’t know that Desme was the third-fastest player in the A’s organization, and has an above-average arm. Assuming that’s accurate, it sounds like he can stick in center to me.

I’m going by this link: http://www.insidethebook.com/woba.html

If I’m not mistaken, I’ve gotten this as the basic wOBA calculation:

(0.72xNIBB + 0.75xHBP + 0.90×1B + 0.92xRBOE + 1.24×2B + 1.56×3B + 1.95xHR) / PA

Is there something I’m missing here?

I’m being a HUGE dork and trying to calculate wOBA for the players in my fictional baseball league (shut up. I’m cool.)

Player X: 14 BB, 1HBP, 21 1B, 0 RBOE, 4 2B, 0 3B, 4 HR, 98 PA

Using the formula above: (10.08 + 0.75 + 18.9 + 0 + 4.96 +0 + 7.8) / 98

42.49 / 98 = .433 wOBA?

Audiosurf. Another $15 indie game. It plays sort of like a cross between F-Zero, Bust a Move, and an awesome music player’s graphic visualizer. Select any song on your hard drive, and the game generates an F-Zero type rollercoaster track for it, where the intense, heavy parts correspond to fast downhill sections, and the softer, gentle sections of music play out as uphill, calming sections of track. More than any other game probably ever, it has literally infinite replay value.

The sound sucked, the graphics were only fair-to-middlin’, and the gameplay was about as fun as getting a wedgie during a swirlie. But it featured the X-Men so I just… kept… playing.

That was a pretty cool scroller/puzzle combo of a game.

And for a really badass scroller/fighter game: Knights of the Round. I loved that by the time you leveled your knight up to the highest level, he had incredibly goofy over-sized armor because each successive level had to give him bigger/better armor.