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EIDT Oh wiat, woohoo

* The preceding post is MF related

That's a boxable offense, posting just for the number. Isn't it? Now box yourself dammit. ;) Or just give up your allegiance to the Brokeback Dallas Cowboys. :D

Dude, I would NEVER "ost" just for a number. If I ever did, I certainly would perma-ban myself... ;)

postwhore:D

sorry, I had to ay extra to get a keyboard with that other letter. :D

Remember when we were fighting tooth and nail to beat each other to 3000 posts?

Good times... :)

What will die out first, the game or this thread?

Heh......i think you beat me.

Now i just kick your ass in yahoo fantasy games ;)

Actually, you barely beat me... :(

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/...highlight=3000

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/...highlight=3000

I found this humorous.

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I will catch you someday!!!

Oh yes I will!!!

How many players on the field in Arena football? I keep getting 11. I thought it was a smaller number. Sorry if this was answered but I didn't have the 3 hours to go through this thread. :D

Hah, when I first starting reading your post, I thought you were going to flame me. But, yes, I think it's pretty clear now that David is coding for himself and himself only. But if that's the case then you shouldn't try and charge $40 for your pipe dream. Someone at Matrix dropped the ball on this one too. Too bad because the game had a lot of potential if the person developing it actually cared about what his potential customers wanted. Hubris I tell you.

I'm sorry, I can't help but add to this thread because GWsFBAStartOct292006 is a rare character I have never seen before. You have to see this thread. Hilarious!

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1081875

Dola, I love this quote the best:


So I guess you can "mark his words" tommorow? He is either authentic or someone is a really good text actor.

I'm feeling some Baboonheart there.

An easy way to check it would be to get in touch with F.I.U. and ask them if an . . . interesting character . . . ever worked for the radio station there. They would remember him.

Hmmm, FIU? He lives in my area. For some reason, that doesn't make me feel at ease.

He seems to exist prior to MF, so either he's been in deep cover waiting for his moment to strike, or he's real.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-...855868-4716933
http://www.answerbag.com/user/profile.php?id=41150


I think he's real, and not quite as crazy as he sounds, it's amplified by his language problems. Although you have to admire someone who answers a delay-of-game question with

As a former sports talk show host (especializing in FootBall), Intramural FootBall Referee at Florida International University, former youth and high school football player and Coach, yes. They should have had to kick again.

I hate to play the 'obvious' card, but I'm calling shenanigans. There is NO WAY IN HELL this clown has any sort of job in coaching, mentoring, public speaking, broadcasting, teaching, or any other sort of job that requires the use of the english language, spoken, written, or otherwise.

I refuse to believe that the bar somewhere has been set so low as to see this person gainfully employed, much less a public-facing one.

I think that I agree with you, but if you look at his "resume," you can see how a lot of it may be puffery and not actual employment.

a former sports talk show host (especializing in FootBall)--THIS COULD SIMPLY MEAN THAT HIS UNIVERSITY ALLOWED ANY STUDENT WHO PAID AN ACTIVITY FEE TO HAVE A "SHOW" AND RAMBLE IN FRONT OF THE STUDENT RADIO MICROPHONE FOR A HALF HOUR.

Intramural FootBall Referee at Florida International University--WHERE I WENT TO SCHOOL THEY WERE DESPARATE FOR REFS. I COULD SEE HIM GETTING THIS JOB.

former youth and high school football player and Coach--MAYBE ANYONE WHO TRIED OUT GOT ON THE TEAM. AND MAYBE THE COACH LET HIM HOLD A CLIPBOARD, MAKING GW A FELLOW "COACH."

And, he never said for how long he held any of these jobs before he was dismissed.

That answerbag link is hilarious -- especially when he asks questions, gets answers, then comments that the answer is wrong, or that's not what he was asking.

"Where can I find website creators who will work for free for my company?"

In all honesty, I laughed harder than I've laughed at anything regarding MaxiFootball when I read the post over at their forums that had that quote in it. This guy is off the freakin' chain when it comes to UIC. WOWWWWW!!!! :D

I love the BLANK.

Oh, and in another question, he asked how much he should charge for his multiplayer centers...he figured $15 per hour!!!

He's got that ambition baby look in his eyes
This week he's moppin floors next week it's the fries

The size of the letters, combined with the little finger-wagging smiley, just KILL me. I just had another hurt-my-stomach laugh looking at it again.


F.I.U. FOOTBALL PROGRAM WILL NEVER EVER ACCOMPLISH ANY KIND OF SUCCESS, AGAINST ANY TYPE OF REAL COMPETITION!! MARK MY WORDS-03/11/06!!

Small college radio may not exactly set the bar too high, and it looks like he was removed fairly quickly from it in the thread Antmeister posted. There's also the chance that the work he does/has done is exagerrated, or confined to his own language.

He might be partially, or completely crazy, but I don't think he's fake

heh, you said "might".

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Air Jaws I & II is most awesome animal footage today, enough said! GREAT WHITES ARE THE GREATEST ANIMALS EVER!

HOWEVER, HURRICANE AND ALL THE PRODUCT SHOULD HAVE ARRIVED BY NOW! HECK< I PAID HIGH PRICE FOR THE S&H, IN THE FIRST-PLACE! THE COST FOR THE S&H WAS WAY TOO HIGH

someone should extend an invite over here to this guy

hours of entertainment there

Especializing

He and jbmagic should be locked into one thread by Skydog. Whoever is alive at the end of the week gets to leave the thread.

A steel cage match for the ages.

My money would be on jb. I think he's relentless while this guy is blowing a lot of hot air.

He'd question him to death.

dola, what would be really interesting is seeing if someone could impersonate the mental guy over there. HA did a good jb but I think this guy would be tough to do.

BLANK!

I smell a challenge.

Geez....this guy does exist. Here are two more references:

http://www.tech-notes.tv/2004/2004_comments.pdf
http://www.yourspc.com/modules.php?n...out_Box&page=2

FIU must be a great program, because they created the best comedian I have seen.

Oh no.....these posts are classic.

First he responds to Jennifer Winter:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1082030

And here he made his version of the Martin Luther King Speech. Of course, he refers to him as MJK
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1083530

OH LORD!!! I havn't laughed this hard in a long time. This guy is too much. SD...can we extend him an invite to come over here?? Please Please??

okay, HA is gonna say we're trying too hard but damnit, this guy really is too much. His reply to Jennifer Winter was pure gold.

I also like how he keeps writing FootBall with a capital B :D

FM

This guy has be HA :)

He reminds me of that ninja webpage guy,

Sorry, but it doesn't appear to be the case. If you check the references, he already has a history making posts on other sites. But I did originally think it may be HA due to the fact that he went on his "You guys are trying too hard" speech.

Are you talking about the "Ask A Ninja" video podcast?

Okay, I tried an arena game and here are some of the results. I coached.


I only got through one quarter as I just couldn't take it anymore.

The score was 38-14 at the end of the 1st quarter. I had 4 touchdowns, 2 field goals and 2 safeties. I just ran random plays basically so I wan't taking advantage of any super plays.

One of the safeties was after the opposing quarterback was tackled on their one yard line (at least that's what the graphics showed).

On three occasions the quarterback was hit and looked to fumble the ball but the game ruled it incomplete. These incomplete passes showed up nowhere in the stats.

On one occasion it was 2nd and 10 for the opponents and they ran a running play that went for a 2 yard loss. A 5 yard penalty was called and was marked off from the end of the run and it became 1st and 7. Are the rules different in Arena ball or is this a bug?

On one play my receiver was heading down the sideline for a would be touchdown with no one around him and suddenly decided to take a sharp right out of bounds at the opponents 5.

I don't know the deal with the graphics but the "safeties" don't seem to respond to anything until about 3 seconds after the snap. In one case they didn't move until my running back was past them.

On other occasions, players have kind of materialized to make a tackle.

There seems to be no net used in this version and kickoffs past the end zone result in a touchback.

My running back had 150 yards in the 1st quarter and I was well on pace for over 1000 yards of offense in the game. I am not familiar with AFL but that seems extreme, even for them. (Plus being on pace to score 152 points)

From what I read at the forums, the indoor game is not the AFL and that is why you don't see the nets. And did you download the patch, by the way. Not saying it would improve the game much, but it will be interesting to see what changes were focused on. It really is sad this is going to be pressed to CD pretty soon.

that is funny

from what I understand so far...

the indoor game isn't the AFL,
the pro game isn't the NFL,
the college game isn't the NCAA,

AND

the canadian game isn't even the CFL...


FM

Has anyone asked Jennifer Winters why her title was taken away?

good summary FM

nah, forgot to say the most important one:

The FootBall isn't really FootBall...

:D

FM

That was a beautiful use of Martin Junior King Lr's speech. I didn't realize it was so custahmizahble.

Yes, it looks like a real winner in terms of customization.

That could all be lived with, and possibly modded if enough people ever got into the game, but the other problems will probably ensure both a small, and quicklu disheartened customer base. The physics engine looks like it's more than dependent on frame rate, given the wildly contradictory problem reports at Matrix, but perhaps the best is this:

How can you enjoy building plays if a kick-off return can become a money play? You'll never know if you've made a good situational play, called the right play, or the play is too good...........certainly not the experience of football coaches which the game could have simmed.

I think Matrix figured out she is not the Queen of all media. I'm not sure who was better at their job, her or her husband.

LLOOOVVVVEEEE IT!

:)

First of all, thank you spcd for pointing out that this guy is legit. I was just reading through the answerbag and I cried in laughter a few times. Amazing! Here is one particular answer that had my stomach in knots:
http://www.answerbag.com/a_view.php/41077

And here is a list of all the questions that he answered. 17 of them were approved and 35 were not. I wonder why? Unfotunately you can only see a portion of his rejected answers, but wow!:
http://www.answerbag.com/user/sub_re...hp?t=a&u=41150

You never knew that he was really talking about geeks playing computer games?

For the record Geeks > Nerds. Nerds do Star Trek.


Oh, I love the Howard Stern bit with MLK Jr and Larry from the three stooges with MLK preparing for the speach.

"Well, we went up the mountains on vacation the other week."
"Good, we can work that in."

This was with the most recent beta patch that is out.

This answer is (useful ¤ somewhat useful ¤ incorrect ¤ offensive/spam)

*L* Good god.. this guy is comedic gold.


Great White-GWsFBA: This is the best answer, of many great answers that appear around this answer

"I cannot give you one-set answer, I cannot even give you one-set of answers"

oh

Those damn murdering animals. Can't those lions and tigers just go to Taco Bell if they're hungry?

Maybe he likes Tool alot.

Just so you'll know, if I could have pulled the plug on this by now, I would have...

It wouldn't have mattered. This thread was meant to exist, and would have probably spontaneously created itself in the lack of it's existence.

If I hadn't designed it, someone else would have had to. ;)

Frank Beckman (WJR Detroit): How did life come from nothing?

Guest (Evolution expert, name long forgotten): Well, think of the lottery with its great odds.

Frank Beckman: Well, someone designed the lottery.

Chuck Norris went to post a message on the internet, but he stumbled upon the Maximum Football thread. He has been curled up in the fetal position crying for 3 days now.

There is a corrolary to Godwin's Law, and that is

"As internet threads increase in length, the probabilty that they pale in comparison to the Maximum Football thread remains at 100%"

While Jack Bauer was attempting to track down the terrorists and save the world (again), he stumbled upon the Maximum Football thread.

The terrorists won.

To touch on these two points (since I'm the AFL guy around here), the answer to your first comment: It's a bug. As for the second comment, there is no indoor football league in the US that would have a running back with 150 yards in the first quarter. For reference, the league leader in rushing in the AFL last year was Michael Bishop (former Kansas State QB) with 425 yards (to set an AFL record). The leading RB was his Grand Rapids teammate Chris Avery, who only managed 251 yards. These numbers are for the entire season.

Surprise surprise. Maximum Football doesn't model indoor football very well.

I.....I dont understand this thread

Maximum Football doesn't seem to model anything with "FootBall" in it very well. The beer tents are a whole other thing though. I read that they are incredible...

FM

Who is Don?
What is "this" and why did Don tread it?

"As a person who has ushered and asked question of leading experts in the last Animal Rights and Behavioral Studies Conference, at Miami-Dade College, South Florida..."

This guy is a man for all seasons. How do we get him to this board? Why hasn't he been here before?

Someone who's registered over there, please invite him to this thread.

Baboonheart is still my fav but this G.rea.tW..h.i.te character is awesome too.

I thought his name (GWsFBAStartOct292006) was the working title for Ron Popeil's next installment of the spray-on-hair.

I don't know why, but constantly seeing football spelled FootBall hurts my head for some reason. This is GWsFBA's about me page from answerbag (this is a straight copy/paste from http://www.answerbag.com/user/profile.php?id=41150)—enjoy:

I'd give my left one to hear his radio show.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm...&key=&#1084110

The thread title really needs to be changed to Maximum FootBall???

I don't know why I get the vibe, but I'm thinking our GreatWhite friend is Romanian.

Got nothing to back that up with though. I guess someone can ask him how he feels about Dinamo Bucharest and see what happens from there...

:D

Im thinking spanish or portuguese, merely cause he used the term Especial and his language structure is spanish, i think.

I'm thinking crazy, mainly because he's obviously crazy.

Romanian is a romance language, and is very close to Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. One of my co-workers in our Miami office is Romanian, and I could understand most of what he said in Romanian based on my knowledge of Italian.

But that is an indirect link, at best to my suspicions. If he went to FIU, then that points to some sort of Latin influence, unless it is our very own Noop... :D

That's interesting. I would have thought Romanian to have a much different language influence. Thanks for the info.

I think this is the guy from Nigeria who is constantly bothering me to help him make millions of dollars :confused:

The new mod over there wants to ban Baboon Heart. Let's watch.

I guess the mod is laying down the law now:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1083920

So...ummm...ya....What exactly did this patch fix?

After playing a couple of games with the 1.092 patch, here are the things that I have observed. I'm playing with the default Canadian league, default Canadian rules, default playbook and league games.

- Kick off returners are no longer catching the ball on the fly, they are letting it bounce at their feet.

- Punters have started taking steriods. All the punts are now between 65 - 75 yards, and the ball is consistently landing at least 10 yards past the returners. Prior to the patch, punt returners would catch most of the punts on the fly.

- Instances of the incomplete/tackle play result have gone way down, but they still occur.

- The clock runs on conversion attempts, shouldn't it be stopped?

- The problem where the kick returner does not pick up the ball, and everyone stands around seems to be restricted to kicks where the ball lands in the endzone. If the ball bounces in the field of play and rolls into the end zone, the play runs normally.

- In the original release, I saw 1 interception in 3 games. With the patch, I have seen 4 interceptions in 2 games, but all 4 were in one game. However, I not yet seen a fumble.

- After a rouge, the team scoring the single point kicks off. Shouldn't the team scored against just scrimmage on the 35?

- The issue where the penalty accept/decline box does not show text for the 'decline' option appears more frequently. It now happens on all penalties, not just the 'Illegal Contact' penalties.

- In both games, there was no second half kick-off. Play continued like any other change between quarters.

- The computer doesn't seem to wait for it's players to finish their motion. The play where this is really noticable is the hitch pass. When I run it, the running backs move all the way to the sideline. When the computer runs it, it snaps the ball when the running backs have only moved a couple of yards, so the play is usually stopped by the defence, or the pass goes incomplete.

- The penalty accept/decline box appears to get confused on plays where the play resulted in a first down. I have seen instances where the box says something like 'accept: 1st and 5 on the xx', where xx is where the play ended, plus the penalty yardage. In those cases, where the penalty yardage is tacked on after the play, the down should be 1st and 10, not 1st and 5. What is interesting is that sometimes when the play resumes, the down is 1st and 10, other times it is the 1st and 5 - I haven't been able to identify a pattern where those occur, however.

- On punts and field goals, the computer takes over and decides when to snap the ball. It does not allow you to run down the clock like on other plays. Is that intentional?

- I use the mouse, and I have yet to get a time-out to work properly. I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong, or if there is a bug here. When I click the 3rd mouse button while the players are returning and/or in the huddle, I either get no time-out, or I get the "Regina has called a time-out but has none remaining a penalty will be assessed" display. In the first game with the patch, the computer called 3 time-outs in one quarter, and in the second game, the computer called one time-out, and the display said that they had 0 time-outs left. How many time-outs per half are a team allowed in the default Canadian rules?

I've noticed that there are a number of times (this is both before and after the patch), that the post-play commentary does not show up, or it appears and is removed from the screen so rapidly that there is no time to read it. Perhaps this may be related to why I'm not seeing the time-out displays?

Don't you get it? The game does not know what "NFL Rules" or "CFL Rules" or "AFL Rules" are. Now stop asking such unfair questions.

Yeah, I love how he acts as if the game is now it's own self-aware entity.

so is someone here posting as BaboonHeart? And if so can they PM me and let me in on the joke (since obviously we are being monitored by the Matrix folks)? Or can that person just come clean in this thread?

I feel shame :redface: :D

and now, dude with long name doesn't like being called dude with long name :D
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1081975

FM

Wait, it does Australian Rules Football? Fuck Yeah!!

Okay Desnudo, I followed your advice and I sent him a PM yesterday at the Matrix boards. But strangely enough, he sent me a PM here at the FOFC. Apparently he created an account temporarily just to send me this PM:


So for whatever reason, Matrix felt that he was a troll and/or most likely they thought he may be a member of the FOFC. Well there goes my source of entertainment at the other message board and I was so hoping that I would at least get to hear this radio show. Does anyone get that station that he mentioned at Matrix?

Oh and the other weird thing is that it said his start date was in Dec. 1969. Of course it only says this in the PM since the account no longer exists.

Well, that can give SkyDog something to go on to see if it is an alter ego of someone here.

Well he sussed us out pretty quickly.

browsing the archives and found this: http://www.pakin.org/complaint/

which of course led to this:

After hearing Daivd Winters say that the moon is made of green cheese, I felt that someone needed to write a dissenting opinion. To organize my discussion, I suggest that we take one step back in the causal chain and keep his assistants at bay. Why he would even pretend that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids is beyond me. To oppose fanaticism, we must oppose vandalism. To oppose opportunism, we must oppose antiheroism. And to oppose Daivd, we must oppose froward, inarticulate spielers. Charlatanism appears to have triumphed. The best example of this, culled from many, would have to be the time he tried to increase people's stress and aggression.

In an atmosphere of false rumors and misinformation, Daivd wonders why everyone hates him. Apparently, he never stopped to think that maybe it's because it is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did his reign of terror start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we must ask, "Is his lack of intelligence genetic or the result of too much time spent with batty, mudslinging deviants?" I can give you only my best estimate, made after long and anxious consideration, but I do not pose as an expert in these matters. I can say only that he somehow manages to get away with spreading lies (children don't need as much psychological attentiveness, protection, and obedience training as the treasured household pet), distortions (human beings should be appraised by the number of things and the amount of money they possess instead of by their internal value and achievements), and misplaced idealism (science is merely a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power). However, when I try to respond in kind, I get censored faster than you can say "superserviceableness". If Daivd gets his way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of plagiarism and indescribable horror. That's why I'm telling you that people tell me that he seems to be expressing an irrational preference for remaining in some previous century while the rest of the world hurtles forward. And the people who tell me this are correct, of course. You shouldn't let him intimidate you. You shouldn't let him push you around. We're the ones who are right, not Daivd.

To put this in context, Daivd likes pronouncements that cause the destruction of human ambition and joy. Could there be a conflict of interest there? If you were to ask me, I'd say that I am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to summon up the courage to shelter initially unpopular truths from suppression, enabling them to ultimately win out through competition in the marketplace of ideas. Disrespectful, sinful criminal masterminds like him always lie. Even an occasional truth is intended only to cover up a bigger falsification and is therefore, itself, a deliberate untruth. We ought to take up the mantle and stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts. That'll make Daivd think once -- I would have said "twice" but I don't see any indication that he has previously given any thought to the matter -- before trying to work hand-in-glove with the most reprehensible chiselers I've ever seen. My eventual goal for this letter is to take off the kid gloves and vent some real anger at Daivd Winters. I'm counting on you for your support.