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Stretching out my Point Guard into a Center!

In my previous blog message I mentioned how disappointed I was that the NBA 2K11 My Player doesn't really have a developed end game for the player.  It's up to the players themselves to create and ending and finish the game in style.

Instead of coming up with an ending.. I decided to just re-invent my character from a 5'9" point guard (nickname:  Shorty) into a beastly 7'5" center (nickname:  The Beast!).  He got drafted in the first round!  Quite a difference from the first time I played the game haha.  The problem is... I'm not entirely sure what my center's role will be on the team.. for the most part.. for now... most of the time I'm setting up picks & screens, and blocking & rebounding.  The times I do get to take a shot at the basket is when I'm able to dunk or layup...  (FYI it looks so weird dunking at such a huge height.. hardly have to jump to dunk.. and when he does those super dunk moves.. he does them inhumanly fast lol)

I remember the game mentioning that I get less points to spend if I make my character super tall.. but I don't know if it CAPS my MAXIMUMs for each skill... or if it caps the amount of skill points I get per game/drill.  I can see how capping my skill max's would make sense.. but damn.. my guy is so darn slow! 

Can anyone help me out with my two above/below queries? :D 

  1. What does an Athletic Center do mostly (will I have to accept that I won't be doing as much scoring? :( - Some Centers lead their teams in scoring though right? :D)
  2. Does max'ing my character's height cap his maximum skill points lower than it would be, or does it cap the amount of skill points he gets per game/drill?

Thanks ;D
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My Player "Retirement"

After playing about 7-8 seasons of NBA 2K11 My Player, I wondered what happens at the end... just out of curiosity (I usually don't like to check out "spoilers" for games).  With the way the game is designed, it isn't that easy to just sim to the end of games via a calendar.  You have to pause the game mid-match and tell the game to sim to the end of it.  That means someone has to load up each game and sim; this makes finding out what happens at retirement very boring and tedious.

Searching on google, I found that someone actually did try to find out what happens... well, not really, but the game forced him to retire in a way.  Here is what he found out (Source):

Needless to say, I was very disappointed :/.  Probably even more disappointed than the lack of celebratory video/screen/whatnot I received following a three-peat world series championships my My Player MLB 2K10 Blue Jays catcher achieved.  If the developers don't include any type of reward for people going through My Player modes for a substantial amount of time or gameplay, it's gonna turn people off from an otherwise awesome game mode.  MLB 2K10 at least gives your character the option to retire into the hall of fame (not sure if doing so gives you anything worthwhile to look at - going to play till I'm forced to retire).  I think I'll sorta stop playing NBA 2K11 for now and just play it whenever I get bored of whatever else I'm playing.  Maybe I'll just make a new character and play a different position (power forward perhaps), I don't know... I really like playing as point guard.

PS:  While my NBA 2K11 point guard didn't play as many seasons as the person on the website, after winning my 5th NBA Title with the Heat, the game constantly crashes every time I load up the endorsements section of My Career.  I dunno if it's related or not = /. 
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Jr. Jays Magazine

If anyone is/was a Toronto Blue Jay fan,  you may remember the Jr. Jays Magazine.

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It was given out to kids back in the mid 90's to help promote the franchise, the sport, and good morals/health.
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I remember back when I was younger, I used to love reading these comic digests.  They were a little corny and cheesy, but it catered to my tastes back then :D.  I wish I was signed up with the Jr. Jays.. they had some cool stuff.  The only times I was able to snag myself a copy of the magazine was when the police had representatives come to my school and at family day events to do talks (he would bring some to hand out).
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I'm not really sure what happened to the Jr. Jays.. they just stopped getting published... now it's called "The Magazine."  
 
Spider-Man also had some comics that were geared towards the drug-free campaign and what-not, but it eventually got stopped because the teachers deemed the comics to be too violent :(.
 
 Really wish I had all the copies of the Jr. Jays before they went kaput :(.  I don't suppose anyone out there has any idea where I can find them online?
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Bully: SE: Biology 5

Man oh man...
 
Had such a hard time completing Biology 5 on the PC version of this game.  
The biggest reason for me is:  I don't have a working gamepad with dual analogue sticks (both of my previous logitech rumblepad calibrations went kaput).
 
I've been playing the game using just keyboard and mouse.  The parts where you have to control the scalpel with precision were the toughest without any analogue control.  If I didn't change my control scheme to allow my setup to slow down my movement, I wouldn't have finished!  My scalpel was going all over the place.  I only had 1 second left on the screen x_o (this is after probably about 10 tries or so).
 
So if anyone is out there banging their head on the keyboard trying to complete this, there is hope.  Even if you don't have analogue controls and just WASD movement and mouse, it's doable!
 
If you don't know about the Biology 5 test in this game, it's one of the hardest classes to take, at least from my experience.
 
I'm so glad I'm done with this part of Bully that it actually became my first GB blog post xD.
 
tl;dr:  Despite playing Bully 5 without analogue control, was able to complete Biology 5 using just WASD and mouse. :)

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