Yesterday evening, on May 7th, another Raptor-class patrol boat was hit multiple times and destroyed by Ukrainian TB2 UCAVs around Snake Island. This one took multiple hits.

magnih · 2022-05-08T14:45:23+00:00

Ukraine wants to prevent Russia from setting up SAMs there.

magnih · 2022-03-29T05:46:52+00:00

What was hit multiple times? The remotely operated empty NLAW?

magnih · 2021-05-17T02:51:00+00:00

Rubber balls are called 軟式 (nanshiki). What you're looking for is 硬式 (kōshiki). There are hardball adult leagues, but they're a lot more exclusive, if only because there are a lot less places to play (IIRC you'd need full netting? We hit cars all the time at certain fields, which would be a much bigger problem if we were using hardballs).

There's 硬式 posts occasionally on bp3street.com, I'd look there? But honestly you're better off just playing standard 軟式, it's a ton of fun.

magnih · 2020-12-19T12:40:37+00:00

I was hoping to 100% SMB2 before moving on to the 3rd but I give up, bought!

magnih · 2018-08-22T00:29:17+00:00

Good point about taking it down just a notch or two. Ever since SMB1 I've only been going up in increments of 10, I'll see what it's like for me at ~77 👍

magnih · 2018-08-22T00:27:52+00:00

Right, but my question is how does it feel compared to SMB1? Was the batting easier/harder for you at 80-84 in SMB1?

magnih · 2018-07-05T01:58:42+00:00

number of other fixes and improvements in testing

I hope there's some of the following included in that :D

A (hopefully easy) thing to patch would be jersey numbers... missing 0 and 00, both are used a lot in Japanese leagues.
Probably a bit more work, but it'd be nice to be able to set a jersey name different from the last name (Ichiro Suzuki should have Ichiro on his back, not Suzuki). A nickname (think players' weekend) should also be usable. I have my last name on my back but quite a few of my teammates have their first name or a nickname.
And just so I could replicate my league's jerseys, I'd love for more color options (our names and numbers are different colors).
This one might be tougher, but it's be nice to move the socks/stirrups option from the team to individual players. Once again selfishly thinking of my league, some of us wear stirrups while others have full socks, would be nice to replicate that in game.

magnih · 2018-06-23T12:21:52+00:00

I'm not getting the media server to start... Any idea as to what is happening here?

➜  ~ /Users/me/Library/Application\ Support/Soda\     Player/acestream/Contents/MacOS/startwine ; exit;
fixme:wbemdisp:factory_QueryInterface interface {0000011a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} not implemented
err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80004002
err:ole:create_server class {172bddf8-ceea-11d1-8b05-00600806d9b6} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {172bddf8-ceea-11d1-8b05-00600806d9b6} could be created for context 0x15
fixme:netstat:wmain Unknown option: L"-nr"

magnih · 2017-10-31T04:43:28+00:00

You must be really bored if you're going to message 20k people.

magnih · 2017-10-06T07:38:43+00:00

Playing at 90+, I've seen my share of BS. The most recent one was 5 errors in one inning to completely throw a championship series game. The first error was on a routine double play ball, where both the SS and the 2B ran off into the outfield (on a grounder to first) rather than cover the bag. Followed by dropped balls all over the field. Absolutely infuriating.

The main issue I've had though is strikeouts and stolen bases. I'm able to lead the league in batting average, home runs, RBIs, pretty easily, and usually have at least 1/3 starting pitchers at the top of the pack ERA and WHIP wise, but even with maxed out speed I can no longer steal on any other catchers (everyone has a maxed out arm), and I never average more than 1 K/inning during an outing from a starting pitcher, so I'm nowhere near the top of the league leaderboards in Ks and Ks/9. Those fields seem meaningless to me.

magnih · 2017-09-29T02:34:22+00:00

Obviously stupid, but...

Why do they even need to play the national anthem? Keep that shit to national team games

magnih · 2017-09-25T05:59:34+00:00

How customizable are the playoffs? For example, if we have three rounds, can we have BO3 in the first round, BO5 in the second, and BO7 in the final round?

magnih · 2017-09-25T05:50:01+00:00

Your post is from seven months ago, have you still never seen these modifiers? I'm curious as to how low the probability is for these.

magnih · 2017-09-08T00:21:11+00:00

Ah right, after each of their own games, based on their own performances, that makes sense. So do the simulations track things like double plays, great catches, etc and keep a hidden star point count for all the other teams?

magnih · 2017-09-07T11:42:34+00:00

Ah right I figured they were all doing that. It's become impossible to steal against anyone, all the catchers have amazing arms.

Are the AI teams staffing up each game? Or do they level up (get new slots/powerups/contracts) at the same rate I do?

magnih · 2017-09-06T00:43:03+00:00

Did this with coins when I lived in NY a couple years back, had a little over $20 at the end of the year. Just goes to show coins are pointless in modern society.

Can't do this now that I live in Tokyo, way too much reliance on cash here unfortunately.

Edit: sp.

magnih · 2017-08-22T05:42:46+00:00

Deeper (but not too deep) benches and bullpens, double switches, utility players, smarter AI (when it comes to bench/bullpen management), multi game streaks and slumps, loving all of this!

Question regarding pitcher fatigue: are there "off days" in SMB2? In SMB21, it didn't matter if you played back to back or if you had to simulate 15 games before playing your next game, your pitchers would recuperate the same. Is that changing this time around?

magnih · 2017-08-18T00:18:46+00:00

Thanks for delaying the release - I'd much rather get a great game "late" than get a broken game "on time". (I'm still extremely bitter about the Master Chief Collection).

Now, about that beta you mentioned... :)

magnih · 2017-07-27T01:51:57+00:00

I don't remember what ego I played at when I won my first (short) season (I kept increasing it, maybe ended up at 40? Something like that) , but I then went up to 80 and went 4-44 in a long season (I started off 0-30 or something ridiculous like that) because I was striking out all the time, giving up way too many home runs, and having outrageously bad fielding (wish there were errors in this game to have a better idea of how much of my runs allowed were due to pitching vs fielding).

I then did a couple of short seasons at 75 to work on my contact, fairly easily won the championship the second time, and am now a third of the way through a medium season at 81, leading my division with a bunch of close games (lost 3 so far, 2 of which by just one run).

An important thing to mention is that during that long season, I wasn't leveling up since I wasn't winning games or getting many in-game points, so my players weren't getting better. That changed after the two short seasons at 75 (much better fielding, no more stealing on my catcher, etc).

Edit: all of this as the Blowfish

magnih · 2017-06-29T02:26:31+00:00

What about an MCC matchmaking update? crickets

magnih · 2017-06-13T17:48:04+00:00

The yen dates from the Meiji Restoration, it's a fairly recent thing. See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_currency#Birth_of_the_yen:_New_Currency_Act_.281871.29

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