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Sunday, January 7, 2024
Sunday morning routine: Sipping coffee, with ESPN NFL Gameday playing in the next room; no fantasy research or line-up finalization; my team got shook and took partly due to injuries, partly due to miscalculating QB free-fall during the dynasty draft; another story, another time.

Highlight music playing on NFL Gameday? That iconic ESPN football highlight music used in NFL 2K5 when Chris Berman would narrate halftime highlights. As I have watched modern companies over the years attempt ... Read More
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Badges Have Grown On Me
Posted on October 3, 2023 at 10:47 AM.
Initially, 2K badges and MyLeague (now MyNBA) did not go well together. The heavy-handed badges took much of the basketball strategy and nuance out of 2K because Attributes were deemphasized. Upon introduction, Mike Wang in an interview envisioned badges contributing mightily to, the game within the game, team-building. Early iterations left me cursing as the AI would lose its mind and realistic games were ruined by arcade-like badge-fests. In the early years, it made better sense to disable the ... Read More
Thursday, May 11, 2023
AI Game Development
Posted on May 11, 2023 at 11:51 PM.
This is a long watch. The bottom line: AI is a tool. Humans will still be responsible for editing and the final product.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
The Modern Age Of Player Injury
Posted on March 23, 2023 at 10:28 PM.
JxmyHiroller's essays are a regular part of my YouTube basketball diet. A couple of years ago he pointed to a possible correlation between landing on one straightened leg after a dunk and knee injuries among NBA players. Now he has further food for thought on injuries in the modern NBA. In NBA 2K8, I played with the Injury slider at 100. I got an incredibly accurate total number of players on my league injury list total; if I recall correctly it was somewhere between sixty and eighty, which would ... Read More
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
I Felt A Little Ashamed
Posted on March 14, 2023 at 08:09 PM.
Just completed a massive dragon fight in Skyrim. I have a mod running that increases the number and lethality of the dragons attacking as they, as a faction of sorts, become "pissed" at your character taking out their faction members. I had just finished a couple of missions near Riften and was full of loot that needed upgrading and selling for mounds of gold septims that presented the opportunity to train my character and upgrade equipment, much like MyPlayer.

The aforementioned ... Read More
Friday, February 24, 2023
NBA 2K Invited Me Over For Dinner
Posted on February 24, 2023 at 04:43 PM.
I entered, dapping everybody, glad to meet and share a meal once again. Everything looked great and smelled even better. Then without warning, the host laid a gigantic turd in the middle of the dining table. Once again, I am stuck at this stupid screen as I was a few months ago after an update (see graphic below).

I do not get what VC does for MyNBA. Almost from inception, I have collected 100,000 or more coins playing MyLeague or MyNBA only to not cash them in. I am not interested ... Read More
Saturday, February 11, 2023
And, ChatGPT says:

There are several basketball statistics that could potentially relate to a player's future potential, including:

Points per game (PPG): This measures a player's ability to score points and is often used as a key metric for evaluating offensive performance.

Rebounds per game (RPG): This measures a player's ability to grab rebounds and secure possession of the ball for their team, which is an important part of both offensive and defensive ... Read More
Monday, January 16, 2023
Today's ChatGPT question
Posted on January 16, 2023 at 07:58 PM.
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Happy Martin Luther King Day: I am a happy camper as my fantasy team "Game... Blouses" secured last week's game Sunday night, and is bustin' it today!
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
More professional development for the end-user...
Posted on January 11, 2023 at 09:59 PM.
...or how the gaming landscape evolved to its present state. Surprise, surprise, it has always been about the money. I have not seen that as a problem in forty years of video gaming: Development teams have to eat and pay bills. It is the marketing teams that screw everybody: This gives a little context. It is a little long, so listen while playing a game.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Learn a little something
Posted on October 16, 2020 at 07:18 PM.
Was having problems with the box-score and realism. I have always liked Hall Of Fame difficulty because the AI really seems to adapt and attack almost in a cut-throat manner. That is hard though in the early weeks of a new edition because it takes awhile to learn the tuning and intent of the game by Development.

Now, some of you might laugh, but the last couple years I will start Hall Of Fame with all of my Attributes set at 100, then based on a winning score differential I will reduce ... Read More

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