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- GhostlySnow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+144dang steroids
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+79"CPU" in games refers to the computer player.
- usernameistaken, on 10/12/2007, -15/+83@Terc
Do us a favor. If you've never played a video game, don't include yourself in the discussion. - mavsman78, on 10/12/2007, -1/+63I guess it makes the game more true to life
- ScottJG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60Didnt you watch? He climbed the ladder that was right there!
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48Well Mr. Burns had done it
The power plant had won it
With Roger Clemming Clucking all the while
Mike Socher's tragic illness made a smile
With Wey Boggs lay unconcious on the bar-room tile
We're talking softball
From main to sandiego
We're talking softball
Manning Lee and Ken Sego
Ken Griffy's grotesquely swollen jaw
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law
We're talking Homer, Ozzie and the Straw
We're talking softball
From main to sandiego
We're talking softball
Manning Lee and Ken Sego
Ken Griffy's grotesquely swollen jaw
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law
We're talking Homer, Ozzie and the Straw - daurkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42That is so funny and it would piss me off so much that I'd really try to get my money back.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -14/+54I just wrote a 10yr old song from memory and you point out a few spelling mistakes.
not cool. - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46You wrote a ten year old song from a cartoon from memory, and you're calling someone else 'not cool'?
- dangerousLEH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35haha, oh man, did anyone else think of the softball episode of the simpsons where darrel strawberry did the exact same thing as this video?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30This is not an EA game.
- schlemmsy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27I'm really struggling not to get involved in this but I can't seem to help it.
CPU is, or at least was, often the default title given to the computer-controlled player/opponent in arcade games. This was generally the case where a number of players can be onscreen at the same time.
An example of this would be Track & Field:
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/T/wTrack_&_Field.png - H3BR3W, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27Or you could just digg unnecessary ***** comments down with regular ole' Digg V3.
- anguijm, on 10/12/2007, -15/+34OK smartypants, did you really think he meant the CPU (processor) gained some crazy athletic ability wrt its vertical leap. If that happened I am not sure the height of the processors leap would be the big news...maybe the fact it was leaping.
Some diggers need to get a ***** life...Japanese people talk around things all the time....it is assumed that the listener is smart enough to figure out what the subject is. In English(at least on DIGG), however, people seem to think that whatever someone says is exactly what they meant in any situation. - shakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15CPU has been the name for NPCs in game consoles for thirty years.
As far as I know the term NPC come from dungeons and dragons. In the original table top dungeons and dragons game there are non-player characters managed by the dungeon master. In video games NPCs' AI is calculated by the CPU so they are CPU-controlled characters. - briguy200, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18He didn't write a 10 year old song, he recited a 10 year old song.......and those aren't spelling mistakes. You got 7 out of the 9 players names wrong. DO'H It almost makes the song funnier that way.
- monkeymad2, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20I was expecting the processor to leap out of the 360...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10These are some of the funniest comments I've ever read on digg. Kudos to everyone involved :)
Leaping cpu's. I love it. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9MLB 2K6 is made by Take 2 interactive.... MVP is EA's baseball game... but they lost the MLB liscense this year so they went to NCAA...
- scottkuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! Thumbs-up!
- skywake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10never heared of an NPC being named CPU1, CPU2 ect? you need to get out more... or maybe i need to get out more...
i think i need to get out more... sorry, carry on... - rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Haha. Neat bug. Looks like it's not a jumping bug, but it just has to do with grabbing the top of the wall, which works in 95% of the stadiums out there. I guess the programmer forgot a few lines....
if (stadium_location == fenway){
allow_wall_grab = false
} - BiteTheHand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Unless you are moored41, you didn't recall the lyrics from memory. You just went to some random page, copied the lyrics over, screwed up and then got defensive about it.
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thesimpsons/softball.htm - kmarchiori, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11NPC? yeah, maybe if you're playing an RPG. Maybe CPU player, but CPU is close enough. I figured it out, why couldn't you, Terc?
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Dude needs to visit /. more often :)
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15Alright guys I'll give. I'm not a big gamer, I shouldn't have commented, it's just that the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "CPU" is a processor, not an AI controlled player. Great glitch though.
@Unr3a1,
I hadn't seen anyone's icon like ours before I did mine. I'll probably be changing it soon since I know it's not unique anymore. - chrismcelligott, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Were talking softball...
- admdrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Referring to one of the in game players (in just about *any* game) as the "CPU" or "CPU Player" isn't any different than calling the player character as yourself, especially in sports games.
Examine, for a moment, this:
"I played the CPU in NHL 2K6 and beat it 5-1."
Well, surely it was meant "my player controlled team beat the system controlled team 5-1," but that's awkward to say in conversation.
The system of using "CPU" as the name for a non player controlled team/character/entity in-game has been around for years (if not decades), though it's seemed more prominent on consoles than on PCs. - duketime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Remembering the song is impressive, but he's just obviously not a baseball fan since remembering these players' names isn't a matter of spelling so much as knowing baseball.
Which is cool, I'm a huge baseball fan, but I don't have a problem with non-fans. But thinking "Canseco" is "Ken Sego"? Oy. - duketime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But be careful about using the term NPC! Because then your character is going to be called a PC and we'll get into this mess all over again.
- pt4117, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Those aren't spelling mistakes. Those are the wrong words. I don't know why the correction was dug down.
- ARNick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4About the CPU thing.... I mostly work on Nintendo consoles and most of their first party games (for example, Mario Party) designate the AI opponent as "CPU". Plus, the headline can only be so long. Didn't mean to offend anyone, but the resulting comments have been amusing!
- siq1ne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hahah.. i just have to laugh at the fact that someone corrects somebodys mistakes and gets mad duggdown.
on the brighter side of the topic, i love that episode. ahhh, the simpsons.
if there ever is a time machine im going back to a time when i was a child, and watching nothing but the simpsons.. ill bring the entire dvd collection.. every season 1 through 45. ha. - wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And this is what happens when one publisher gets and exclusive license to a sport. Unimaginitive gameplay, and slopppy execution. Why should Take2 give a ***** about making the game really good. Sports game players really want to play their fav teams and players. Unless you are some kind of fanatic there are very few console players that give a crap about NCAA baseball. So Take2 is the only game in town.
I expect Madden will be similarly crappy this year. Although (if the gameplay is good enough) maybe a generic football game may find a market. - strickdd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You have to wonder what the chances of the ball being hit RIGHT at the ladder!? Astronomical, just like the jump/climb.
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I was thinking that too. Perhaps it's more of an easter egg than a glitch.
- warox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Xertion: It really is a very common name. I can think of Super Off Road for NES where computer players were called CPU as one example.
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7slow motion? f
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it works in other games fine....
- Knice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What I would like to see is the guys reaction when the computer pulled this off. I am sure he was less than amused.
- jedi0utkast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It is amazing how some individuals in their efforts to look cool, only end up looking like some retarded dumbass.
The use of term CPU to make reference to the computer controlled player has been around since the beginning of video games, may not be absolutely accurate, but still is a term that any person who has been playing video games for a little will understand. Making that kind of comment is not only dumb, but demonstrate that a lot of people commenting about video games have actually no idea what they are talking about. - jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3f'real? i hadn't heard this, link to story?
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I had no clue they allowed X-Men into baseball these days...........maybe I should watch it more often.
- GNiMeLF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There's a Small ladder, so in gaming respects. it's possible! *thumbs up*
- rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5omg the cpu hax!
- CheapDigWannbe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At least he used the ladder, and not JUST jump so high in the air.
- tskrilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Major League Baseball 2K6
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Its a cheat a code not a glitch - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OMG, it's the million dollar man!
- TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is a cheat built into the game to let you scale any outfield wall like this- you need to earn "tokens" to unlock the cheat.
Not sure about Xbox360, but it is there in the PS2 version of the game. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There's also MLB: The Show, but that's made by Sony for only the PS2 & PSP... there is a loophole to allow the manufacturers of the consoles to make a MLB liscensed game for their consoles only... Sony took advantage of this; Nintendo & Microsoft didn't feel like coming out with their own MLB games...
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