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Fantastic job, both by gyroball and mcd. Also as someone who's been lurking and following the super league on and off since its inception as a spinoff of Smasher's 2003 cubs LP (blessedly outdated by 2016) I can second the rec for people to join it if they're interested at all in baseball stats, crazy storylines, regular attempts to break the system, and/or Eri Yoshida
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I finally started reading this just in time to get caught up before the grand finale, what a ride. I almost want to try and get my dad to read this, since he is an absolute baseball nut and he'd love all the historical asides and in-jokes, but the obscure video game stuff might be a bit over his head...  I think favourite part was just now with the Marxist critique of the apocalypse. It's actually pretty spot on, anyone who doesn't know what Universal Basic Income is yet should go look that up ASAP.
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Oh, but everything is about Capitalism.
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That was certainly something and I'm glad it ended before dragging itself in the mud for a while longer and becoming less interesting. Well done. Both of you.
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I feel like we should have a smilie of Bobson saying, "gently caress that." as a coda. Otherwise, thanks for the LP! My favorite little touch of that finale was how The Machine had baseballs instead of feathers on his wings. 
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That went exactly as expected and was all the more glorious for it (and yes, the commentators mentioning the game going on around them was the icing on an already excellent cake). Amazing game, superb LP. Thanks for all the effort to keep us up to date on baseball trivia too. I assume a lot of work went into that, so I thought it would be important to let your team know that this reader, at least, greatly appreciated it.
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This has been an amazing ride. Thank you.
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I learned more about baseball in this LP than I did in three seasons of the Super League. So, thanks for that. On the other hand, I attribute all my success in the Super League to willful ignorance and not making lineup changes. So, in the words of Bobson, gently caress that.
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Well that owned, thanks for the LP. Some out-of-date thoughts: - Sadaharu Oh got mentioned in passing and I think he had a pretty good baseball career? Won a national high-school championship (a huge deal in Japan) and led the NPB in homeruns for a long time, though I think there was a pretty big asterisk on it by the end - The Cubs finally won the world series against Cleveland the season after this game was made after something like a 108-year drought, and it also guest starred a New York Yankees closer blowing the save in game 7 - That whole dragonslayer gag was incredible
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NGDBSS posted:I feel like we should have a smilie of Bobson saying, "gently caress that." as a coda. Otherwise, thanks for the LP! My favorite little touch of that finale was how The Machine had baseballs instead of feathers on his wings. The background needs some touch up work but I feel like I've captured the spirit of the request for a smilie/gang tag/whatever: 
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This ruled. Thanks McD. Hey gyro, looking back, is there anything you wish you could change? Or add?
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I made one, too. Was gonna post it yesterday, but I hosed up one of the borders and had to re-upload.
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Yours is significantly better 
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Oh, are we dicking around with graphics now? Sure, this seems like a good thing to do with my time as 2 AM approaches.
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Sydin posted:Yours is significantly better Aw, thx. I wasn't trying to show you up!  It took probably an hour to put together and I didn't want it to go to waste.
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Out of curiosity, does the bad ending change much if bobson gets 3 strike outside and ends the world to win the world series or likewise walks a batter before beaning the machine?
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Great game and LP, thank you for sharing it! Big ups to SAS baseball Twitter legend Gyroball
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Both the game and the LP were fun as hell good job, my dude
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Estuans interius Ira vehementi. Estuans interius Ira vehementi. RODRIGUEZ! RODRIGUEZ!
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This was wonderful. Thank you for LPing it, McD!
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Incredible. I... I don't have any other words for this, really.
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curiousCat posted:Incredible. I... I don't have any other words for this, really. gently caress That
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Safer Carlos Rodriguez made me loving die. then so did everything after, especially the "barbecue vegetables" line.quote: quote:A House representative from Arkansas recently submitted a constitutional amendment to allow Dugan to run for president, despite being born in a Japanese video game.
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Hold on...TheMcD posted:
...but that is basically all Bobson et al did at certain points. I mean, I guess as long as the coach doesn't find out it's all gravy, but still. Either way, drat fine LP and drat fine Game. Enjoyable and I learnt a lot about baseball.
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...But, Mo, you have a clause in your contract forbidding contact with existential mystery.
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So, the game implied-promised a Margaret Thatcher stand-in. Did I miss it  ?Anyway, yes, great game, great LP, hit me at the perfect moment (2 months after I learned of Jon Bois and somehow let him hook me onto... sportsball stuff.),
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Letting Dugan live is objectively the worst decision you can make in the game lol
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TheMcD posted:- If we have less than five relationship points with Kami, she joins the Philadelphia Phillies as a sabermetric analyst and struggles with the fact that she has been given an eMachines computer to work with. I have to say, as a Phillies fan, this LP has been both funny and brutal to read. The Phillies really were a punchline with Ruben Amaro Jr, AKA "Ruin Tomorrow Junior" as their GM. One could argue that they still are a punchline - they were swept by the Marlins not long ago. Great work though, and thank you.
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This was a hell of a trip, thank you TheMcD.
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Awesome job TheMcD, it was a lot of fun to read through and you did a FANTASTIC job explaining baseball stuff, which is important because the game was written to appeal to the most narrow audience possible. You made it accessible and that's cool, because accessibility was the last thing I was thinking about when I made it. I practically just made the game to appeal to a couple hundred twitter followers I had from SAS/my Let's Play Baseball Mogul threads, but then let it spiral out into something bigger. Really cool seeing it get a LP to bring that all full circle.GrandmaParty posted:This ruled. Thanks McD. This is a hard question. On one hand, I'd change SO MUCH. This was the first game I ever made, and I had no idea what I was doing. I also didn't realize that I was months away from picking up more complex engines and learning to code in a few languages. There is so much I could do now, from more engaging minigames to more full-on genre changes to an actual 2d/3d swap for the Gritty Reboot that I can't list it all. On the other hand, doing all that I would really want to do is probably impossible. RPGMaker cut a ton of corners for me so I could write this story. Yeah, 2019 me could theoretically make this game in GMS or Unreal and really do some wild poo poo, but it would take WAY LONGER and it would never get finished. My real answer is that I wouldn't put in the joke about The Closer being asked to steal the bat which was called out earlier in the thread. I think I was trying to lampshade a situation to make it *less* awkward, but ended up making it worse. edit: I'd also fix the Moose revival/returning to the translator bug; I've been actively scouring some old hard drives for the last version of the project so I can at least do that gyroball fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Assuming they're talking about the "outdoor grill" and not "slow smoking" barbecue. Also man, I called it, despite not remembering that we'd learned a beanball somewhere. 
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gyroball posted:On the other hand, doing all that I would really want to do is probably impossible. RPGMaker cut a ton of corners for me so I could write this story. Yeah, 2019 me could theoretically make this game in GMS or Unreal and really do some wild poo poo, but it would take WAY LONGER and it would never get finished. Speaking of 2019 you, I was looking at the Woodsy Studio page TheMcD linked earlier and, while that's not normally my preferred genre at all, I have been crazily impressed by the writing in this game and am provisionally willing to give one of those a try. Which of those (or any other of your games) might you recommend first to people who loved your work here?
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So why the only the knuckle-curve and excluding the traditional knuckleball (apart from Moose)? RA Dickey, Tim Wakefield, and the Niekro brothers are shaking their heads in disbelief
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Occultatio posted:Speaking of 2019 you, I was looking at the Woodsy Studio page TheMcD linked earlier and, while that's not normally my preferred genre at all, I have been crazily impressed by the writing in this game and am provisionally willing to give one of those a try. Which of those (or any other of your games) might you recommend first to people who loved your work here? So I totally get if this isn't something you're into, but the honest answer has to be miraclr: Divine Dating Sim. I know. I KNOW! it's really funny I ended up making VNs. (We do PG-13 otome games instead of eroge so the irony isn't THAT strong). Still, miraclr is the only game we've done that was, well, silly in the way The Closer is. So if you don't mind Otome, it is largely the same energy as The Closer.
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This game was really something incredible. Thanks for the LP!
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first thing, thanks for running this McD, it was really cool to see all the stuff I missed in my playthrough secondly, serious question gyroball when are we getting a baseball dating sim
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I should also bring up the supplemental stuff I did around The Closer because there are no references in game. Mathenyquest (a Twine adventure about former Cardinals manager Mike Matheny): http://savethecloser.com/MathenyQuest/ Final Kroenke: http://savethecloser.com/kroenke/ (what if The Closer but football and also really short) The Ascension of Randy Choate: http://savethecloser.com/choate/ (FMV game about turning a LOOGY into a starter, probably only works on Chrome)
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Jen X posted:the machine? more like This Machine Kills Everybody
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