kylewat
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I feel like zeppelin55 is pretty obviously an old AOL name from 1996. It is the band and 55 which I think was my jersey number at the time.
As for actual names, my parents couldn’t agree on a name, or they hadn’t picked one yet. Unfortunately for them, I was 5 weeks early. At the hospital, my dad runs into an old acquaintance Dewey Hodges. He was also at the hospital having a son, my dad asks what they are naming him? He responds, “Kyle David.” My dad liked the name. It kinda helps he was named David. Kinda. Last month a coworker comes up to me to tell me that his friend Kyle Hodges just had a kid days before me. He didn’t know the story, but knew we shared the same birthday (his brothers as well).
As for the newborn, Ozzie is just an excellent name. My wife was very worried that I liked it too much since my taste is generally abstract and obscure.
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I will play. I can't promise my play will be good with a newborn and wife yelling at me, but I'll probably have a decent amount of non working time in the winter anyway.
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33 minutes ago, aqualizard said:
The arguments about how fast you can do something using saved gamestates is silly... it factors out skill and focuses on having the time (and OCD?) to do something absurd. Legitimate entries should not allow this. (Short of video taping the event in real time to be reviewed, I am not sure how to prevent saving gamestates though?)
Now, how long would it take someone to score 10 goals on a Gens without saving gamestates? With the user choosing teams (like DET vs ANH)? I would say anything less then 3 minutes is good, and less than 2:30 is amazing! 2:30 would average out to 15 seconds per goal. Pretty good. I imagine if you got extremely lucky, and had weeks to kill, had OCD (among other mental issues), and won pretty well every face off, you might even crack 2 minutes (12 sec per goal). Now, for 10 sec/goal average, that is 1:40, and I do not think this would be statistically possible even with all the luck and weeks of attempts.Edit: I just can't let this go... I think to crack 1:40 you really would have to win every face off. If faceoffs are assumed to be 50/50, you will win 10 in a row roughly 1 in a thousand attempts (where each "attempt" is a set of 10 tries). I don't think any non Rain man human would have the patience to restart over and over every time the lost a faceoff... but if they did, I think it would take many months or years to crack 1:40...
The problem is even a bit harder than that in my estimation. There is a chance that even if you win the faceoff the skater occasionally bobbles it leading to a turnover (how my loss to AJ happened in Ko94 in OT :-(; it is a disaster because everyone moves into offensive position! ) That would lower the chances of routinely getting a 7 second goal.
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12 hours ago, The Dopefish said:
I had an idea for a "speed run" of sorts: how fast can you get each one of your team's players to record a point? I was just trying myself: in 20 minute periods, with no penalties and no line changes (besides editing the lines after each player records a point), using skip's 2017 playoff ROM, I was able to do it with the Penguins against the Predators with 10:11 left in the third period.
I had ideas on expanding on that and making something like a points system, based on
- how quickly you complete the run
- how efficiently you complete the run (i.e., in as few goals as possible)
- if the run is done in a shutout
- and so on
But for now, I'm curious to see how quickly everyone can do this!
Some of the rosters are much smaller than others. If you look in the instruction booklet you can see them listed. I believe the expansion teams have what looks to be about half the players of some other teams.
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On 5/25/2017 at 5:24 PM, IceStorm70 said:
#FakeNews
Alternative Facts!
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On 5/4/2017 at 0:14 AM, The Russian Rocket said:
4/5 is not an elite shot. 4/6, 5/5, 5/4 and 6/3 are elite shots. JR is a better C checker and his 5 SHP is much more precious than the 6-5 agi drop vs elite GC players.
As for TK, well he got that 99 locked speed.
Mogs is just better than Yzerman and at 6 agi the 1 extra weight doesnt mean much.Does the 5/4 shot exist?
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Having read this trifle of a thread, I agree with FPB. I don't see how Gartner can be ranked so highly by Plabax and have Modano so much lower. IMO his modano rating is fine but Gartner is way too high. It seems to me Plabax prefers righties to the point that he minimizes Bure's greatness.
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So I can easily score consistently in 7 seconds using save states so I could get the record to 70 seconds of game time or 1:10. What that means in real time I don't know.
The 2,3 second shot I may have only seen once or twice, and by accident.
I've never personally, I don't think, done a 5 second goal. I have done the 6 second with a pass shot. Maybe it was 5. The only reason I did it was desperation though. In a speed run, with save states it could be a could way to go about it. If you are using save states, I'm pretty sure you can win every faceoff.
Oh and as for Aqua's question with the deke, I don't think it can be done in 6 seconds. 7 for a regular shot.
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16 hours ago, The Rexer Show said:
New to this forum. Can anyone tell me how the online leagues work or how the online play is done. I would like to play against others online.
Thank you
The Rexer Show.
How online leagues work... I've been here for years, and I barely know! We play using Gens, kailerra and generally hamachi to provide an IP. So the classic league is not running this spring, but the other leagues are kinda more you gotta find who runs it and get in. You need to get a test game before to show you know how to setup the game for online play.
We also have a discord channel now. Don't really know how to get you there other than it is #nhl94 I think.
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Hate plablegs.
will play whatever. That isn't an option.
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Good work FPB, obviously a couple easy goals given up by myself in Game 3 or whatever it was. My execution was a bit off and you see a couple missed opportunities, but really defending against Jagr and Sandstrom proved extremely difficult. Jagr's size, stickhandling, and passing to Sandstrom proved too much. I was terrified to leave to Sandstrom open for a second, and even if I did go to try to cover Jagr he was constantly doing a wobble instead of handing over the puck! As well both of them knocked my lightweights around.
Good luck the rest of the way.
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On 4/18/2017 at 8:52 AM, aqualizard said:
Thanks for the heads up and link, Jer_33. Related to your advice, you can also look at AJ's updated lineup thread, and see his notes with CB checking.
Although I am not well versed in rosters, I will give a stab to start things off.These teams will get a big bump up:
NYR (with heavyweights Messier and Tikkanen (and Lightweight Gartner))
PIT (with heavyweights 66, Jagr, Francis and Tocchet, plus solid D in Murphy and Ulf)
BOS (with heavyweight Neely and Ruzicka, plus #1 heavyweight D-man Bourque)
TOR (all of a sudden there is a place for hard shooting Andreychuk and Clark)
I will say a new order, from best to worse, as:
CHI
BOS
MTL
PIT
DET
NYR
BUF
TOR
....still thinking
So speed still kills, and NYR are still flawed. What is wrong with NYR? A chronic lack of accuracy. They become better, but still having the best shooting forward with 3 SHA is just hard to be elite. For the same reason, Detroit remains nasty. Buffalo belongs ahead of NYR IMO for that reason. Also the beezer isn't very good.
I think you are leaving out LA which gets a huge bump up with Robitaille, Blake, McSorely, and most importantly Sandstrom goes from pretty good, to unbelievably good.
Pittsburgh and Boston obviously get huge legs up. and Pittsburgh probably becomes the best team.
I think Chicago goes down, down. Roenick suddenly has sidekicks, but being able to routinely take him down makes the combo less impressive than some of the others IMO.
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1 hour ago, Darko99 said:
I send you a message Aqua. I scheduled with CBK for this week.
Need Zep FPB and Habs. I m not workin this week so can be around late if we schedule something.
Thursday around 1:30 my time? Eastern US Time. so something like like 1930 I think local France time?
Or I could do first thing in the morning.
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30 minutes ago, kingraph said:
How about Thursday night, 9ish?
I'll make that work.
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I need Darko, KingRaph, and Brutus! Got FPB scheduled. I know Raph and Brutus like to play late, so let me know if one night works, or maybe this weekend.
Hartford is on a roll and the Whale needs to eat! Also, Casey rocks.
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I very much like Brutus' quality over a 'consistent' number of teams.
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Plabax found the (laggy) PlayStation version of the game included on what NHL 2006? He enjoyed that and then found the forum I believe.
As for the theory of 'slacking' causing dropouts. There have been a few cases of that namely this Ba55ist character. When i joined, I got kicked out of a league for 'slacking.' I probably didn't read the rules, but still expulsion didn't endear me to the community. I don't think I got a warning either.
If you look back at couple years ago's classic results: there were to and C players! I think classic is the best way to get people interested. Even after playing classic, i didn't know there were other leagues and honestly if classic ran perpetually I'd probably just keep playing classic and skip the draft leagues. A draft league adds even more time to what is already a pretty decent time commitment as well as adding a learning curve.
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12 hours ago, Brutus said:
my Blue Line 5 hole bombers, I've come to terms with it's an anything goes type site.
Obviously. The 5 hole slapper is so lame. Does it give you joy watching that weak dribble through the goalies legs?
19 hours ago, Depch said:There was nothing to be done there. I switched to the D-man there, but Coffey was skating forward and the momentum just carried over, impossible not to commit. That wasa good strip by Plabax before the situation and a prime example why I say it's defence that creates opportunities for offence. Some people just see the good offence or the possible result from that, but miss the play that leads to it, defence is super important.
Agree 1000%.
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26 minutes ago, kingraph said:
Not sure I follow the question "did Depch make a mistake coming across?".
Hawerchuk gets a pass to get into the offensive zone, and he's ahead of the play. Depch starts to skate with him to the left boards to try and set up a scoring opportunity (I assume), and while doing so the puck gets tipped away from the AI defender. Depch then immediately tries to gain control with Coffey, but gets clobbered by Davydov (#11), which subsequently leads to the breakaway.
Are you saying Depch made a mistake coming across the blue line? Also not sure about what you mean skating backwards? He was down by 2 goals with under 2 minutes to go, so I think he was doing the correct thing.
So I said I wasn't sure if he made a mistake; I said I would do it differently. He's in a bad position IMO that is unlikely to get much better. With all of his forwards on the same side of the goal, and the defense well positioned, skating across the ice inside the blue line isn't going to open up any passing lanes. It is simply an attempt to try to maintain control and get into a better position. The play that I really am pointing out is an aggressive (and obvious to a good player) play at the boards to create the break. My point in talking about skating across was to ask, "Is this just bad luck or is it preventable?" or even, "is it a something that creates an advantage? "
So that is the situation that I retreat over the blue line and exit my own zone because when you are in that position, not much good happens. I'm really the only one who does this, so I understand that it isn't a mainstream viewpoint. It can also end the same way that it did as well, giving up a break.
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thank you. I think it is extremely hard to do. alot of the game comes from knowing how to put yourself in position. Depch gets extremely snake bit with both the goalie falling over especially the second time (the other was a good hard play.) Then Gilmour plays like he is cold as ice!
One of the easiest pointers I see is at like 27:40; the puck is firmly inside the blue line which will pull the d men into the offensive zone, and then the loose puck headed towards the boards. Did Depch make a mistake coming across? Not sure. I personally would have skated backwards but I'm in the minority with that one. Plabax clearly jumps on the opportunity to create a pretty much insta break. Similarly the last Gilmour one timer at 28:06 is setup by the pass before the one timer.
Anyway, I love watching these. Thanks
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2017 NHL'94 bud of the year!
in NHL'94 Community
Posted · Edited by kylewat
Bud of the year doesn’t go well with persistent drama. I think you are often right, but it is part popularity contest. Right???
I have no idea what @slapshot67 did but thanks anyway!
Edit: I didn’t realize we were talking about the runner up list. Plabax for runner up!