The Possibilities For OOTP Career Play are (Apparently) Limitless

[Ksyrup]

As this thread illustrates...

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57209

[Ksyrup]

I found this to be one of the funniest, yet most profoundly disturbing, statements I have ever read on a sports sim message board. It also reinforces the axiom that you can never satisfy 100% of your customers...

So my initial complaint about OOTP not supporting Death League Style play is valid.

:confused: :eek: ;)

[AgPete]

Injury: 120 Mph Fastball to the Head

Out: Life

:eek:

[Ksyrup]

OOTP: Deathrace 2005

[Maple Leafs]

I think it's probably a fair guess to say that those guys didn't get hugged very much as kids.

[druez]

I don't know what to say and that is hard to do.

[Rizon]

I'm particularly fond of that Rizon fellow from that thread.

[corbes]

Seeing those ghastly sigs over there makes me appreciate how I don't miss them at all over here...

[Coffee Warlord]

Admit it. We all wished there was a death option in FOF so we could send Dean Houston to the grave.

[Anthony]

these are the kinds of people who walk into school and shoot their guns at their classmates.

i'm not saying those in that thread are, just that their personalities are similar to those who have a small value on life.

[Anthony]

Admit it. We all wished there was a death option in FOF so we could send Dean Houston to the grave.

*chuckles* as if you could kill a legend.

[SackAttack]

One man's legend is another man's myth.

[Comey]

Seeing those ghastly sigs over there makes me appreciate how I don't miss them at all over here...
Yes, because a message board should be judged by its signatures.

[Sporkimata]

Dean Houston would slap death in the face ...

[sovereignstar]

these are the kinds of people who walk into school and shoot their guns at their classmates.

i'm not saying those in that thread are, just that their personalities are similar to those who have a small value on life.
What asinine statements. Not all that uncommon for you though. Here's a better one.

It's people like you that end up being shot at.

[Suicane75]

Suddenly the thread over there seems to be the mature one.

[Sporkimata]

Dean Houston would never have approved of a thread like this.

[Ksyrup]

I just found it perverse and funny at ther same time. Mainly the complaint that the game doesn't support "death style" play.

Funny, all this time Marcus has been working on accurate player creation, when in fact he should have been devoting his time to unique and permanent ways to off players.

[Sporkimata]

Why just off them? We need more maiming. WR loses finger, takes a hit on big play receiving.

[WussGawd]

I have to say, after reading that thread, I have a growing sense of understanding why Jim G doesn't listen to *all* of the fan input into FOF. :rolleyes:

[EagleFan]

Imagine if that was a thread in the TPF forums: "My complaint about not supporting Death Leagues is valid..." I think I would have even responded with something that would force me to label myself as a fanboy.

I think what I like the best about that thread is their reaction to our reaction. Like they can't understand why a thread like that would warrant negative reactions. :confused:


Maybe that guy should go over to a NASCAR Racing forum and post a complaint about the game because it doesn't support drivers getting killed in a crash, like say in turn 3 at Daytona. :rolleyes:

[LivnLegend]

One man's legend is another man's myth.

Don't drag me into this!

[Rizon]

Don't drag me into this!

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[NevStar]

Dean Houston would slap death in the face ...

That kid's name was Death?

[Gastric ReFlux]

Could I get a hug? I need a hug.

[Subby]

Jesus people. Didn't you learn anything from the 80s?

Don't cross the streams.

[andy m]

especially when pissing next to someone else.

[Gastric ReFlux]

especially when pissing next to someone else.

Man, that ain't funny to joke about bodily functions.
:rolleyes:

[cuervo72]

Jesus people. Didn't you learn anything from the 80s?

Don't cross the streams.

That would be bad.

[Gastric ReFlux]

This seems appropriate, especially since it is Saint Patrick's Day.

A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
Hypertext Meanings and Commentaries
from the Encyclopedia of the Self
by Mark Zimmerman
A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in
Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for
making them beneficial to the publick.

by Dr. Jonathan Swift. 1729

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great
town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the
roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,
followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and
importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of
being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to
employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their
helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for
want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for
the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number
of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of
their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present
deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional
grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and
easy method of making these children sound and useful members of
the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to
have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only
for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater
extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a
certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to
support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.

As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years, upon
this important subject, and maturely weighed the several schemes
of our projectors, I have always found them grossly mistaken in
their computation. It is true, a child just dropt from its dam,
may be supported by her milk, for a solar year, with little other
nourishment: at most not above the value of two shillings, which
the mother may certainly get, or the value in scraps, by her
lawful occupation of begging; and it is exactly at one year old
that I propose to provide for them in such a manner, as, instead
of being a charge upon their parents, or the parish, or wanting
food and raiment for the rest of their lives, they shall, on the
contrary, contribute to the feeding, and partly to the cloathing
of many thousands.

There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it
will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice
of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent
among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to
avoid the expence than the shame, which would move tears and pity
in the most savage and inhuman breast.

The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one
million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two
hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which
number I subtract thirty thousand couple, who are able to
maintain their own children, (although I apprehend there cannot
be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom) but this
being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand
breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand, for those women who
miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the
year. There only remain an hundred and twenty thousand children
of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, How
this number shall be reared, and provided for? which, as I have
already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly
impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can
neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither
build houses, (I mean in the country) nor cultivate land: they
can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing till they arrive
at six years old; except where they are of towardly parts,
although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier; during
which time they can however be properly looked upon only as
probationers: As I have been informed by a principal gentleman in
the county of Cavan, who protested to me, that he never knew
above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part
of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that
art.


Read the whole of A Modest Proposal by Swift at http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/mdprp10.htm

[rkmsuf]

facinating

[Bonegavel]

I think the experiment is rather worthwhile. Mainly because it is humourous, but also because they will learn a lot about the injury algos.

I say Bravo.

[corbes]

Yes, because a message board should be judged by its signatures.
Precisely!

[Comey]

Precisely!That's the funniest thing I've read in awhile.

And not because it's funny.

[corbes]

That's the funniest thing I've read in awhile.

And not because it's funny.
Rather, because it was...cocky? :confused: