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Among the pseudo-intelectuals, idioms can be something mysterious and worth dissecting.
Take the idiom 'better the devil you know..' which appeared in Tun Dr Mahathir's blogpost recently. The article was titled 'Change' and it goes like this:
1. In his campaign to become President of the US Barack Obama promised change, "time for change", he said.
2. He promised to close down Guantanamo Detention Camp.
3. He promised to stop trials of detainees by Military Courts.
4. He promised to pull out from Iraq and Afghanistan.
5. And many more.
6. Now four years into his first term he has failed to keep his promises.
7. Guantanamo is still holding so-called terrorists; still torturing them. No military courts but no trials by civilian courts either.
8. Instead of pulling out from Iraq and Afghanistan he approved a "surge" in the troops sent to this area. Later he pulled out some troops but American soldiers are still in the two countries.
9. Making promises during campaigns for elections is easy. Keeping them is a different matter. The best hope is that people's memory is short. They would normally forget the promises.
10. Now the opposition in Malaysia have copied Obama and is promising change.
11. Give them a chance they say. The BN has ruled this country for 55 years. It is time to change. They will change this into a welfare state. Everything will be free. No fees for education. No tolls. Large subsidy for petrol. 20% royalty to oil producing states etc.etc.
12. The Socialist and Communist have tried this welfare state idea. They failed. Malaysia has no ideology. But the reality is that the Government needs money in order to develop the country and to subsidise living cost for the people. But when Government foregoes taxes, tolls and fees, it will have less money. But it will have to spend more on running an maintaining utilities, expressways, schools, operational and development cost, pension etc.
13. So where does the Government get necessary funds?
14. Borrowing is okay if the money is invested and giving a return. But borrowing money in order to just spend will lead to non-payment of debts.
15. That's what happened to Greece. It's bankrupt now. The whole of Europe cannot put it back together again.
16. Admittedly the BN has ruled this country every since independence. But look at the record and compare it with other countries which gained independence at the same time. Compare it even with the developed West. They are in deep financial trouble and try as they might, they have not been able to overcome the crisis.
17. Remember 1997-98 crisis. The then Deputy PM and Minister of Finance tried the IMF solution without the IMF loans. Banks and companies were faced with the threat of bankruptcy from non-performing loans. Imports cost more. Cost of living shot up.
18. The track record of the Minister of Finance then was bad although there is a fondness of claiming success brought about by other people as his success. PNB, UIA were part of the claim.
19. Now as leader of the Opposition he is claiming to bring about change. What good change did he introduce when he was in the Government? All he was interested in was getting up the leadership ladder of UMNO in order to become Prime Minister. How he achieved his objective does not bear scrutiny.
20. Five years to give a trial as Government is dangerous. Many things can be destroyed in five years. Besides the Opposition as Government will ensure there will be no return for the BN. Officers in the Government will be used to "gempar" (threaten) whoever tries to change Government.
21. Already we see this person who claims to fight for free speech suing and resorting to the courts to shut the mouth of his critics. Other powers of the Government will be similarly abused. Nepotism and cronyism will be employed as indeed they are in the party he now heads.
22. The record is there. Malaysians must not allow themselves to be hoodwinked as I was hoodwinked by the appearance of religious piety in the past.
23. The BN has listened to the people and has changed many laws and policies. All that the people need to do is to urge the BN to carry out whatever change the people desire.
25. Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.
The article has 25 paragraphs but it seems what bothered Pakatan was the last paragraph – the English idiom which verily means "it is wiser to deal with someone familiar, though you may not like them, than to deal with someone who you do not know, who might be worse."
Even the seemingly intelligent Nurul Izzah kept harping on this. I guess it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt (another idiom).
It has been more than a week since the article was published and the absurdity of this has not died down.
Was it such a confusing article that people could not understand the gist of it? That promises by those who are not yet in power can have devastating effects if they are not carefully planned and comprehensively thought of. Please read the article again.
It is very shocking and an insult to intelligence that most leaders in Pakatan are jumping on the bandwagon to ride the wave this idiom has created. This wave was created because the Pakatan leaders have no answer to the other 24 paragraphs of that article; those are 24 paragraphs of undeniable facts. They just have no answer for it. And in their petty, topsy turvy simple mindedness of a brain, they spun a simple idiom to suit their agenda.
The devils and angles in the idiom are merely metaphorical. How deluded are they to think that Tun Mahathir are actually referring them as 'angels'? Holier than thou again are we?
Today, a former civil servant by the name K.J. John wrote an article in The Malay Mail to twist what Tun said earlier. I doubt he even read Tun's original article.
The devil we do know!
(the first few paragraphs are just some psycho-babble pseudo intellectuals always try to impress upon their readers)
A friend alerted me to the "'devil we know' versus the one we do not know" quote by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. My friend says, "He knows the devil and has had enough of the devil that he knows!" I am not sure who he is actually talking about but I have my suspicions!
I once wrote a manuscript for the CSIS in Washington DC, when they were inviting Asians to write on the "East Asian Miracle." This was what World Bank economists called the "East Asian Miracle Economies" for their extraordinary performance as countries and economies.
Malaysia was considered one of those "miracle economies."
I wrote my manuscript called the "East Asian non-miracle: The case for Malaysia's GEM or Growth with Equity Model." Needless to say, it was not published by CSIS although I did get to present it at a Forum that it organised in Washington.
In the premise of the thesis to the manuscript I began by arguing that World Bank may not have credibility to argue that anything in the world of economics can be "miraculous!" I am no economist, but have at least a basic degree in Economics from the University of Malaya.
The only "equivalents to the concept of 'miracle' from field of theology" that I can estimate are the statistical outliers we talk about in a normal distribution curve.
Therefore, I argued that the best that World Bank economists can do is to argue that "these East Asian Economies are statistical outliers, if they had developed an econometrics index model to classify and categorise all economies on a equitable framework."
They probably did not (in quantitative terms) and therefore, maybe they decided not to publish my critique of their premise! Allow me to use the same argument to discredit Dr Mahathir's "better the devil you know" thesis published in The Malay Mail on Aug 23.
(they probably didn't publish it because this basic economics degree holder were trying to argue on form rather than the substance on what was the East Asian Miracle. Miracles, outliers, they can be the same thing. Maybe CSIS didn't want to engage on superficial arguments. Anyway, he then proceeded to some theology concepts which has nothing to do with Tun's original article…)
First, my question to Tun: "Are you speaking as a human being, or as the former PM, or as a Muslim, or as a Medical doctor, or what? Or, it could be all of the above too!
Nevertheless and regardless, my rebuttal of the same goes! Is Tun speaking about a spiritual ontology and epistemology, therefore what is his methodology for his assertion and thus verification? Once he answers this, my consequential question is, where does he find this worldview which supports such arguments?
Please inform or educate me so that I too can read and understand; is it from politics, or philosophy, or religion, or is it merely the wisdom of Tun from all of the above?
(Why make things complicated over an idiom? Maybe K.J. John has a lot of free time. The next few paragraphs have even more fluff)
The only "devilish language" I know of, comes from within the Abrahamic traditions, and I suspect is therefore well embedded in their worldviews (of ontology, epistemology and methodology as applied in life matters).
My own Christian theology is very clear and explicit that Satan is the Father of Lies; of all things evil and devilish!
However, I also did a search of Google and found the following: The Devil (diabolos in Greek meaning 'slanderer' or 'accuser') is believed in many religions and cultures to be a powerful, supernatural entity that is the personifi cation of evil and the enemy of God and humankind.
The nature of the role varies greatly. It ranges from being an effective opposite force to the Creator at one extreme, where both are locked in an eons long holy war for human souls on what may seem even terms, to being just a comical figure of fun or even an abstract aspect of the individual human condition at the other.
The above is a secular enough definition and is a popular expression found on Google. Based on this definition what exactly is Dr Mahathir saying?
Simple: Tun's main argument in his thesis was a political one about the population not being duped by the Opposition into believing that they can govern the country better because they are not yet a trustable and credible entity because they have not proven their governance capability whereas the BN has been the Government of the Day for the last 55 years.
(My reply to this is at the end of this piece)
Therefore, his quote of this popular English adage was in fact referring to BN and specifically UMNO has the main objective of the speech, especially to a Malay majority audience in Kedah!
(What does Kedah got to do with an article he posted in English, and in his blog?)
Let me alternatively argue why PR has the potential to be an alliance better than the "so-called trusted and tried BN!" I have a few simple reasons:
>> Within BN power has corrupted; otherwise why all the many financial scandals!
>> Within the Cabinet, the PM is no more 'the first among equals'; he was overruled by the Cabinet on his instructions to review Section 114A of the Evidence Act.
>> In both Selangor and Perak, it has been demonstrated that where there is a balanced but a new Governance system with a clear non-corruptibility code; the overall governance of the states has vastly improved. <— (did K.J. John just creep out from a cave in the middle of Amazon?)
Therefore, I would argue that we are better off in the 13th General Election to allow the Opposition to form the Government at the Federal level so that the Rakyat can re-evaluate the true value proposition of the incumbent. I cannot think of any other way to send a clearer message to all parties!
My reply is this – No, we are not better off if Pakatan Rakyat is the Federal Government because Pakatan Rakyat, even though they has not become the Federal Government yet, has already cases of corruption, mismanagement, propensity to abuse laws, shamelessness to lie in public, sex offences, abuse of power and other equally heinous acts etc therefore, to vote them in the next general election will have a disastrous effect on all of us.
I cannot think of any other way to send a clearer message to all parties.
If K.J. John thinks that all Pakatan Rakyat states are angelic and none of the malignant examples I stated above occurred, then he is perhaps the mostdeluded and blindsided academician ever to grace the pages of The Malay Mail.
I have a malay idiom for him to chew on, dissect and digest and to write a whole thesis about it – "Hitam-hitam tahi minyak dimakan juga, putih-putih hampas kelapa dibuang."
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"He actually started yelling at us, saying really terrible things, curse words," said Sudipta Devanath.
Fellow student Ruby Li told Van Osdol, "(Ibrahim) said, 'Go back to your own country' and 'China is the worst country in the world' and really bad words."
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Ham told Van Osdol he initially thought Ibrahim was joking.
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The students said they hope the lawsuit sends a message to Ibrahim and any landlord that would discriminate.
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Ask A Teacher: Look, Appear and Seem
Welcome to Ask a Teacher–a new program where readers ask questions and teachers answer them.
Have you ever noticed that English is full of words that have similar meanings? In today's Ask a Teacher, Mika from Japan asks how to decide among three verbs that all mean "give an idea about something."
Here is her question:
I don't understand the difference between "look," "appear" and "seem." If I say, "His new haircut makes him appear younger," is it correct?
我不太理解look、appear和seem三者之间的关系。如果我这样说:"His new haircut makes him appear younger",这样对吗?
Hello Mika and thanks for your question!
You can use "appear" in that situation, but the better verb would be "look."
Let me give you the reasons why.
We use both the verbs "look" and "appear" to talk about a condition we have observed. In your sentence, you can see with your eyes how stylish the man's new haircut is. You also see that it gives his face a more youthful shape.
But "look" is more informal than the verb "appear." Your sentence sounded informal, as if you were talking to a friend.
In contrast, you might see the word "appear" in writing, or hear it in formal speech, such as an official news report. For example, a news reporter might say, "The suspect appeared to be fleeing the scene."
As that example shows, "appear" is commonly used to talk about events and facts.
Your third choice, "seem" also means "to create an idea or impression." But "seem" does not suggest a direct observation. For example, you and I may have talked on the phone, and you told me about your great new job and recent vacation. Afterward, I could say, "Mika seems happy," even though I never saw you smile.
Keep in mind one other difference among the three words. "Seem" and "appear" are often followed by an infinitive verb, such as "The baby seems to want her bottle..." or "The man appears to be waving."
还要记住三个词的另一个差异。seem和appear后通常接不定式,例如"The baby seems to want her bottle…" 或者 "The man appears to be waving"。
But, in everyday English, the verb "look" is often followed by an adjective. For example: "He looks tired."
但在日常英语中,动词look后通常接形容词。例如"He looks tired"。
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On a Marine Day national holiday I should do something useful with myself. How about removing the links to resize my metal watch band?
Great fun!
At first I thought it might be more difficult than it looks. My watch band has a split pin configuration but the pins are straight and flush with the edge of the band.
My tools for this delicate operation are :
1. pliers
2. blue-headed thumb tack
That's it!
First thing I did was remove the pin on the clasp to make it easier to access the links. It's optional though. I think I could've left it attached.
You have to be careful. These pins are spring-loaded and it shot out to the wall. Lucky for me it was easy to find. Make sure you don't hover your face to take a better look either. One of these aiming for your eye could be nasty.
The pins in this band weren't that easy to push out. Using the pliers as a hammer on the thumb tack I was able to punch the pin out slowly. You have to push the pins OUT in the same direction as the arrows on the underside of each link!
I used the edge of the table which wasn't a great idea. The gf isn't too impressed with the dents (albeit small ones) I made.
A better option I used later on was a phone book to absorb the hits. Once enough of the pin came through I yanked it out proper with the pliers. All in all I had to remove four links to fit my wrist.
Putting it back together was just the reverse of what I did. I put the pins IN the opposite direction of the arrows this time. Sometimes I pushed the pin in from underneath with the phone directory, or with some extra hammering with the pliers so the pin was again flush smooth with the edge of the band.
For a first attempt I think I did really good. I looked at a few other sites to do the procedure including this one to make sure I didn't mess it up.
It feels good to fix things with my own two hands. "Look Ma, I can fix stuff!"
She's gonna be real proud of me now. It wasn't a total waste of a national holiday after all.
Monday, 21 July 2008
Watch Band Resize
On a Marine Day national holiday I should do something useful with myself. How about removing the links to resize my metal watch band?
Posted by Jimmy In Japan at 11:50 pm
Labels: watch band resize
2 comments:
- Robin said...
Dude! You totally saved my. Just bought one of these and was a bit confused how i i was supposed do adjust it. I was minutes away from prying the links open with a pair of pliers!
- 5 January 2009 at 02:15
- Jimmy In Japan said...
Glad I could help.
Some of those pins can be a bitch to hammer out. It's not too hard though. Prepare to damage a few tacks in the process!
- 6 January 2009 at 01:18


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Here's an old friend of mine. He's speaking of In a Wicked Age but it's a great general topic across my games:
Quote from: PorterO on February 02, 2008, 05:14:15 PM
So there's no mechanic for the power of persuasion? I can see how that would be good in the sense that it compels the players to roleplay any verbal interaction. However, it has the down side of reducing all conflict to physical contest. Or am I missing something? Could the old lady in Rustin's example choose to roll dice yet narrate any success she has as delivering a particularly compelling argument? One that leads to the town fool realizing it's a good idea to get a free meal when he can? Or can she only mind fuck him enough that he capitulates to her demand (ala Hannibal Lecter)? We create characters who posses physical gifts that exceed our own, why not give them rhetorical gifts as well?
Here's where I'm at. The games I'm thinking of - Dogs in the Vineyard, In a Wicked Age, Poison'd, Synthia - do two things that make mechanical persuasion problematic. Thing one: they expect you to play your character with some passion, based on your identification with her. Thing two: they set your character and the other players' characters strongly against one another (Dogs least so, but even Dogs occasionally).
In Dogs, you can be like, "what's at stake is your conviction about polygamy," for instance, and then you can roll dice on me, and we raise and see back and forth, maybe escalate, and let's say eventually that you win. My character's conviction was up for grabs, you won it, so I'm obligated to play my character convinced. For the most part this works out fine, because a) my character's conviction is probably a minor point between us, overall, and b) all those raises and sees were an argument. Your character presented her case, and sometimes my character admitted her point. At the end, even if your character's argument didn't convince
, I can see how it might have convinced
my character
, and play accordingly.
In the Wicked Age, though, the dice are too fast and there's no time for an argument to develop and resolve. So if you were able to say "I convince you of blahblah ... clatter clatter ... win!" then I'd be in the position of having to play my character convinced, without having any clue what convinced her. Worse, I'd have to do it when you were convincing her of something
very significant
between us - something directly affecting our best interests.
So for the Wicked Age I decided that playing your character with passion would win, and if that sometimes disadvantages the player with less social skill, well, same as in Dogs - if you're losing the argument, throw a punch.
In Poison'd, same problem with the fast dice and the potential significance of conviction, but I solved it in a different way. In Poison'd, the solution is bargains. You want me to do something, you don't have to punch me - make me a deal. Accepting a deal gives me some mechanical power over you going forward, so if I like the deal I'll surely take it. The significance of
falls aside (which suits the subject matter well), replaced by the significance of who's promised to do what for whom, and who's making good and who isn't. There's no need for persuasion mechanics because persuasion in Poison'd boils down to buying people.
And in Synthia, there's a whole additional problem. (For those of you who don't know, Synthia's a game I haven't released yet, based on Blade Runner, about cops and sex androids.) Synthia absolutely needs to have good, working seduction mechanics. If I'm playing the title character and you're playing the cop, I have to be able to get you in bed, if I win the dice, even if it's not in your character's best interests.
So my solution to that problem solves the persuasion problem as well. In Synthia, if I win the dice, I say "I seduce you" or "I persuade you of ___," and you say how.
say what my character must have done to get yours into bed, or to get yours to change her mind. That way, playing her as seduced or as persuaded isn't difficult - you know exactly what happened and how it worked on her.
So Porter, make sense?
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I've had some fun with persuasion in IaWA. The way I run it is this, if someone beats someone in an argument, they offter the loser a deal: Come around to my side and do things my way, and suffer no or reduced damage. If you take it, well, you were convinced. If you don't, you take damage as your resolve and confidence is shaken, but refuse to budge despite having your arguments blown out of the water. Like I have seen some times IRL.
Example from AP:
The fated avenger of the defeated clan is on his way across the moors with the black spear of vengeance to lay waste to the enemy lord and all the seed of his loins. Trouble is, the avenger's (dead, now ghostly) sister was forcibly married to the lord, and had three children. Her ghost appears before him and attempts to persuade him to spare the children. Dice roll, she wins. He has to accept that if he kills his nieces he's doomed to Hell. He takes the damage, saying "I admit that this act will doom me to Hell, but honour is more important than salvation". Chilling stuff, as I recall.
This way, actually being persuaded is chosen by the player, and the clever persuader will make sure that this is not totally incompatible with Best Interests.
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Yeah, Vince, that really helps clear things up. I recognize that it's a particularly troubling problem, and I think you've done a good job of accounting for persuasion in each of your games (though in different ways). I look forward to
. I think that mechanic could work very well; it gives the persuading player an avenue of non-physical conflict but at the same time protects the persuadee's right to define his or her character.
Thanks for the example Troels. I think you demonstrate how persuasion
be used in IaWA, though the players must understand that unlike other games, persuasion cannot be used to force a player to act/believe, only to punish him/her if he/she doesn't act in a particular way. But, if I understand it right, even if I choose a physical means of conflict I ultimately get to the same result: act, or I'll smack you with the stick. In that sense physical and verbal conflict are on the same level, and I can live with that.
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I think that's the important thing to see, that in IAWA you can get the "stick" to beat someone with in negotiating alternatives to dice lost narrating a physical action or a social/emotional etc. action, you are not limited to imagining only fights and wrestling and races as actions. The social/emotional etc. actions should be "intense" though to bring out the dice and warrant the resolution, such as "inciting passions" in the text.
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Quote from: Troels on February 06, 2008, 10:20:51 AM
Her ghost appears before him and attempts to persuade him to spare the children. Dice roll, she wins.
I'm confused. What concrete action did the ghost take that the avenger's player not want to happen? Weren't they just talking?
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Quote from: lumpley on February 06, 2008, 09:22:35 AM
In Dogs, you can be like, "what's at stake is your conviction about polygamy," for instance, and then you can roll dice on me, and we raise and see back and forth, maybe escalate, and let's say eventually that you win. My character's conviction was up for grabs, you won it, so I'm obligated to play my character convinced. For the most part this works out fine, because a) my character's conviction is probably a minor point between us, overall, and b) all those raises and sees were an argument. Your character presented her case, and sometimes my character admitted her point. At the end, even if your character's argument didn't convince
, I can see how it might have convinced
my character
, and play accordingly.
Possibly an aside, possibly highly salient (still not sure as I write this):
In our Dogs game last night, we had two "persuade" conflicts:
* A three-way Dog-on-Dog argument about how we'd dispense with a town that's about 40% steeped in generational heresies (i.e. "kill 'em all" wasn't on the table, and we wanted to preserve
notion of a Faithful town, if not Right Here In This Valley--AP might follow)
* A conflict between us Dogs and the Main Sinners as a climax conflict.
My Dice Say You Agree
In the Dog-on-Dog conflict, we basically threw dice after we'd been in normal discussion, about when it started turning into exasperated argumentation about "no, we DON'T have to kill every sinner, even if we can" and such. No one was Saying Yes, so we Rolled Dice; fair enough. I won, FWIW, and my plan was ratified: distribute the Faithful families to three or four "solid" Faithful towns while taking the Main Sinners to Bridal Falls so that the Prophets and Ancients could figure out how sin and heresy can be missed by Dogs and Regional Stewards for generations(!).
You Can't Handle The Dice!
In the Main Sinners versus All Dogs, what was at stakes was "Do we Dogs agree with their interpretation of The Book?", which included, but was not limited to, the notion that a girl should be in wedlock before her first period, else she's "unclean" and should live apart, unmarried and in squalor. Pounds of dice fly because this is a group of Sinners, demon dice were set to Heresy, and they had half-a-town's worth of free dice, here-to-fore unused. And we're REALLY good at invoking our Traits, now. Net result: I win the conflict, but only after both other Dogs have to give, which opens up my first question:
1) Two Dogs give on "do we agree with their interpretation" but the remaining Dog wins the stakes. So, do NONE of the Dogs now agree, in spite of Giving (remember: the stakes were "WE agree"), because I won the entire conflict?
Now, post-game, another player and I are pondering some slightly "unfun" feelings he'd gotten during the game. We managed to ferret out his feelings as follows:
He is accustomed to his character's beliefs being inviolate. However, he Gave in both conflicts because (a) he wasn't willing to harm other Dogs to win the first argument and (b) he wasn't willing to do violence on old, deluded men to win his convictions about The Faith (sort of befitting his convert, Mountain Folk character). And that was my epiphany (which might be bullshit, but it felt epiphanic):
Dogs put him into a player-versus-character, internal conflict over "I always control My Guy" versus "My Guy just wouldn't go that far!" THIS--I tried to tell him (ranting and slurring a bit)--was The Good Shit about Dogs: "It put YOU, the player, into a moral quandary, through your belief not only about PLAY MODE but about in-character RIGHTEOUSNESS." In short, the mechanics forced him to deal with a non-fictional issue of play tradition versus a fictional ethos, which in turn fed back on the mechanical. He COULD have pulled a lot more dice, but he wouldn't, so he had to suck up the jar to his character's beliefs and how he'd have to play the character henceforth (or at least on the second conflict, if the answer to 1 above is "Correct, none of you are persuaded, in spite of two of you Giving").
2) Am I full of shit?
I mentioned that he was kind of at a disadvantage because he didn't realize that he could have requested a Line against such persuasion conflicts, basically making them verboten for his character, so that he could play the way that he liked / wanted / was used to doing.
3) Is that horse shit or apple butter? (Why does talking about Dogs bring out the Southern in me?)
So, I'm still not sure if this is salient to your thread or a thread-jack--split it, if need be. But I felt like the use of persuasion backed by mechanical force in Dogs is possibly it's best element for pushing a player to decide What's Right, not only in fiction but in play mode. I've never seen other games do it so well--sure, even Hero has a Persuasion skill, which can be aimed at a PC; D&D has friggin' Charm Person. But only Dogs gives you the means to push and say, "No way, Jose!" but those means REQUIRE you to take fictional actions that could be far, far worse ON YOU, the actual person, emotionally or in terms of personal pride.
Heck, if I'm wrong about how that all works together, I don't wanna be right....
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PLEEEASE, can I get an answer to those questions? Pretty please? (If we run Banthas, I expect a lot more Persuasion stuff to crop up, as Jedi are primarily diplomats, in all but the mid-Classic period.) I'll... I dunno... I'll do an editorial pass of the next revisions for free, or whatever. Walk your dog? (heh)
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Oh come on. The answer is: sure, whatever.
If everybody agrees to the stakes, they stand. If you lose them, well, now you have to believe whatever you agreed to believe.
Now the unfun part worries me. Did your friend REALLY agree to the stakes? If he did, why wasn't it fun to lose them?
Personally, I don't like conflicts about PCs' internal states, nor about future actions. I think they create distance between you and your character where there doesn't need to be any (I suspect that's what was going on with your friend), and they're usually a sign that somebody's calling for dice before there's a real conflict. But whatever, if everybody agrees to the stakes, they stand.
Oh and in a multi-way conflict: strictly, the person who wins the conflict gets the resolution of the stakes. If two Dogs drop out but the third Dog wins, that third Dog wins.
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I'm sorry, "oh come on" was rude. I take it back.
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February 18, 2008, 11:35:57 AM »
No worries--I am accustomed to exasperating people and can take an "Oh, come on!" from time to time. I know that I am being a bit dense....
Quote from: lumpley on February 15, 2008, 06:04:46 PM
Now the unfun part worries me. Did your friend REALLY agree to the stakes? If he did, why wasn't it fun to lose them?
I guess he didn't recognize that, yep, his character's beliefs would have to change somehow, if the stakes are "Who's solution will we follow?" Maybe he took it too "binary" though--he could have assented to let me take the lead on The Plan while, in his heart-of-hearts, knowing that it's "a bad plan" or "we're doing this the wrong way." Heck, being a Mountain Folks convert, he could have easily explored the notion of "deferring to the expertise" of my Dog who was "Raised By My Whole Town, From Birth, To Be A Dog (2d8)." Perhaps the internal-to-the-player conflict that I thought was The Good Shit was really a misdirection; TGS should have come about from in-play events and challenges, NOT from internal-to-the-player tension between rules enforcement and "traditional" self-determination in RPGs (even though it's not all that "traditional," really, given railroading and Charm person and Persuasion and Seduction skills and...).
Personally, I don't like conflicts about PCs' internal states, nor about future actions. I think they create distance between you and your character where there doesn't need to be any (I suspect that's what was going on with your friend), and they're
usually a sign that somebody's calling for dice before there's a real conflict
. But whatever, if everybody agrees to the stakes, they stand.
The bold part makes me wonder still more (I really am trying!): We didn't go to Dog-on-Dog conflict over the town's fate until we'd, literally, gotten into OOC argumentation--we were out-of-character, getting louder, not budging on obvious points (e.g. "Dog's Autonomy" does not necessarily and always engage "Dog's License To Kill"). We weren't Saying Yes. So we Rolled Dice. Conflict had a loser; loser didn't like that he was expected to play as if he'd lost the stakes. So is this group dynamic issue, a Social Contract problem, a Line problem (as I said above: "Line: Don't set internal-state stakes with me"), or what? From your reply above, I'd guess Line. So next time we play, we talk about that Line.
Oh and in a multi-way conflict: strictly, the person who wins the conflict gets the resolution of the stakes. If two Dogs drop out but the third Dog wins, that third Dog wins.
I hate to say it, but that doesn't answer my question as I read it.
Third Dog wins. Check, that's me. I win what? Stakes. Stakes are "Do We Dogs Agree With Them Sinners?" I win, so I negate the verb: "We Dogs DO NOT Agree With Them Sinners." Thus, none of the three of us are convinced... those two who gave just ran out of arguments (or patience, but weren't exasperated enough to kill) and dropped out, even as I rallied with a stunning turn of phrase, bit of logic, and invocation of authority... which brings the other two back around to The Right as I've defined it while winning the conflict, much to their relief (assuming they want to remain Dogs and not become heretics).
That is what makes sense to me. Giving does not mean losing, in multi-versus-multi. Rather, it means that you no longer can contribute and are praying that the remaining folks on your side can win the day.
Thanks, as always, for beating me over the head with a rock until there's a big enough hole to let in understanding....
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First part: cool. One way I've constructed that kind of conflict in the past, that's seemed to work, is "what's at stake is, do you go along with me?" "Go along with" makes it clear that if I win you do have to do what I want, but you don't have to change your character's convictions.
Second part: don't mind the bolded part! Don't let it make you second-guess your play. I wasn't there, I'm just throwing noodles at the wall.
Third part: exactly. That's what I meant to say.
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*bows* Thank you for the clarifications.
Je comprend maintenant.
It's not my thread to close, but I think I was the one keeping it lurching along to the cliff. I'm done, if y'all are!
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Our research shows almost half of those who had been allocated a home care packagewhom we contacted had not decided on a provider. Why?
Were they merely carefully weighing up their options, not realising that if they didn't choose within 56 days they would need to re-join the queue?
Barry Schwartz, in The Paradox of Choice, found while we think that more choice is going to produce greater well-being, often the opposite occurs. Rather, confronted by an array of options, consumers decide not to decide.
This resonates with UK research which found that "the choice discourse", while resonating with contemporary neo-liberal thinking, often became decreasingly appropriate as people's agency and capacity declined.
So, what should we do for the ever-growing queue of people who have been allocated a home care packagebut, for whatever reason, haven't been able to decide on a provider?
Some consumer groups advocate that there should be "navigators"to help older ns get through the system. A good idea, but with 100,000 people in the queue these navigators will be quickly overwhelmed.
A simpler solution is how our superannuation system works:we are free to choose ourprovider but, if we don't we have a fund allocated by our employer.Moreover, we can change funds at any time.
The same can work for older ns allocated a home care package. Confident and capable consumers can make their own choice.However, those who have failed to elect a provider within eight weeks would have their need for service provision referred to all accredited providers in the consumer's location.
If consumers are unhappy with their initial provider they can always change providers.
After all, providing people with the home care they need shouldn't be as hard as shopping for a daughter's tofu.
Dr Stephen Judd is chief executive ofHammondCare, an independent Christian charity specialising in health and aged care.


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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is asking for the public's assistance during a $8.3 million project to repair the section of State Road A1A that was damaged during Hurricane Sandy in October and the Thanksgiving weekend storms in November. The work is taking place between approximately NE 14th Court and NE 18th Street on Fort Lauderdale Beach, north of Sunrise Boulevard.
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Environmentalists on Tuesday will urge the governors of New Jersey and Delaware to enforce strong new protections for a migratory shorebird threatened with extinction.
TRENTON, N.J. Environmentalists on Tuesday will urge the governors of New Jersey and Delaware to enforce strong new protections for a migratory shorebird threatened with extinction.
Eight conservation groups in the two states are rallying on behalf of the red knot, a species that migrates from South America to the Arctic to breed each spring. The birds' principal stopover is New Jersey and Delaware, where they spend weeks fattening up on horseshoe crab eggs before continuing their 6,500-mile journey.
The environmental coalition will ask the states to ban horseshoe crab harvests for the rest of the year and to keep beaches hosting red knots closed until the birds leave, said Jeff Tittel, executive director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
"The measures we have in place now are not working," said Tittel. "Since the numbers are so bad this year, we have to do more."
The number of red knots has become precipitously low, after declining for years. A recent survey of red knots in South America set the population at 17,653, down from already low counts of 51,255 in 2000 and 27,242 in 2002. Ten years earlier, scientists estimated the red knot population at 100,000.
Eric Stiles, vice president for conservation and stewardship with the New Jersey Audubon Society, said the study suggests that if nothing is done, the red knot population will be at or near extinction by 2011.
New Jersey and Delaware officials have been working together in recent days to determine what, if any, additional steps the two states should take, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bradley Campbell said Monday.
"We're very alarmed by the limited data we've seen so far showing precipitous declines in the red knot population and horseshoe crab eggs they depend on for survival," Campbell said. "The difficulty is, we're working with a very limited data set. It's a tough call given the impact on fishermen whether additional restrictions are appropriate now."
Officials in Delaware and New Jersey banned harvesting of horseshoe crabs from May 1 through June 7, the peak of the crab spawning season and shorebird migration. That action came on top of significant reductions in harvests by Delaware and other states on orders from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
Despite the ban, Tittel said horseshoe crab eggs on the beaches are at record low, "which means the red knots who did make it here may not have enough to eat to put on body fat to make it up to the Arctic to breed."
If the harvesting ban is lifted Tuesday as scheduled, baymen will be permitted to take horseshoe crabs two days a week.
To further help the birds, conservation officers patrolled some beaches to keep people and dogs away. The beach bans also were due to be lifted Tuesday.
Efforts are under way to have the bird listed on the national endangered species list. It is already listed as a threatened species in New Jersey.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. risks a fiscal crisis if it doesn't get large and continuously growing federal debt under control, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.
In its new long-term budget outlook, the nonpartisan CBO said federal debt held by the public is now 74% of the economy and will rise to 106% of gross domestic product by 2039 if current laws remain unchanged. Read the 2014 long-term budget outlook.
In its last long-term budget outlook in September 2013, CBO said debt held by the public was 73% of GDP and projected debt would be 102% of GDP in 2039.
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The deficit in fiscal 2013 was $680 billion, the first shortfall below $1 trillion of Barack Obama's presidency. The deficit hit a record of $1.4 trillion in 2009.
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"Such a fiscal crisis would present policymakers with extremely difficult choices and would probably have a substantial negative impact on the country," the report says.
The report lays bare long-term challenges for lawmakers. Spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will be 14% of GDP by 2039. That's twice the 7% average seen over the past 40 years, CBO said.
Entitlement spending has been a point of contention between Democrats and Republicans in years past as the parties have pursued deficit-cutting agreements.
Washington's budget battles have cooled down, however, as deficits have recently declined. Spending levels were set on autopilot for this year and next after a budget deal was struck late last year between House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Patty Murray, who heads the Senate Budget Committee. President Obama and House Republicans have offered budget plans for fiscal 2015, but neither is expected to advance with midterm elections approaching in November.
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf will testify before the House Budget Committee about the report on Wednesday morning. The committee is led by Rep. Paul Ryan, who was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in the last election.
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Washington DC has its fair share of swanky hotels and hotel bars. Add in the word Georgetown and the image conjured up is a pretty specific one. While the new Capella hotel on the C&O Canal looks every bit the upscale hospitality experience you might imagine, The Rye Bar offers something to differentiate itself: a serious focus on rye whiskey.
Headed up by Capella food and beverage director Will Rentschler, The Rye Bar has roughly a dozen ryes behind the 26-seat bar at any given time. From rare bottles like a Van Winkle Family Reserve 13 year or a Abraham Bowman 10 year to standbys like a Sazerac Rye 6 year, which Rentschler favors because it's "great in cocktails," Rentschler aims to curate a selection that offers a bit of variety, including popular bottles like (rī)1, which Rentschler describes as "like biting into a loaf of rye bread," and a rare Willet 4-year that he chose for its super-smooth texture.
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There are also a number of cocktails not traditionally rye based that Rentschler has adopted into the fold by substituting rye. The Ryeding Out the Storm is a Dark and Stormy with rye instead of rum and the Margaryeta is a margarita with a white rye instead of tequila. Cocktail ice is hand chipped from large blocks, or hand pressed into spheres.
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After weeks of taking it relatively easy, there's only one way to look at this week's new releases: Marvel are back to wanting all of your money. But steampunk and weird goodness are available elsewhere.
Marvel are apparently trying to flood the shelves tomorrow, but at least they're doing it with good books from good writers. Fred Van Lente is behind the new Savage She-Hulk and Marvel Zombies 4 series. Jeff Parker is writing the reborn Exiles. Andy DIggle is scripting Dark Reign: Hawkeye, and the wonderful Jason Aaron gets a brand new series, Wolverine: Weapon X in advance of next month's movie.
As if that wasn't enough, there's also a new hardcover collection of the last Dark Tower series, Treachery (not to mention Dark Tower: The Guide To Gilead, a fact-file-ish tie-in) and the first issue of time-travel series Timestorm: 2009-2099.
(Of course, time-travel fans may just be picking up the collection of Doctor Who: The Forgotten, which also comes out tomorrow).
While DC's much quieter new release schedule offers mostly continuations of ongoing events and series - I'd definitely point you in the direction of the second issue of Superman: World of New Krypton, just to see if it measures up to the impressive first - that's not to say that they have no new books of note this week. In fact, the Showcase Presents: Doom Patrol Vol. 1 collection may just be the best thing out this week, a collection of the 1960s team of misfit heroes (Radioactive test pilots! Racing car drivers without a body!) that offered an off-kilter alternative to the then-cookie cutter cleanshaven heroes they were surrounded with. Definitely recommended.
Also recommended is Ignition City, the new series from Warren Ellis that we wrote about back in November that mixes steampunk, Deadwood and the fate of all old pulp heroes when they're not young and dashing anymore. Ask for it by name when visiting your local funny book emporium.
That'll be the one you can find here, in case you're wondering - and make sure to check out the complete list of books reaching stores this week before doing so. If they ask, tell 'em that the ghost of Flash Gordon sent you.


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Being present is not even a skill that becomes second nature like playing the piano or shooting free throws. Being present is a moment-to-moment thing. It's a very subtle skill and requires ongoing attention.
Which is the whole point, really. Being present is all about paying attention. Paying attention to the present moment. Because, after all, the present moment is all we have. The past is gone. The future is not here yet. If we're not in the present moment, we're nowhere.
Being present provides great personal power. When you're present, everyone around you can feel your energy. Their experience of you is that you're a great listener. You become very attractive. People want to be with you. They feel good in your presence, because you are able to be with them authentically.
Being present can start right now, in this present moment.