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Topic: Boba Fett VS Kevin from "Home Alone."
Heh. Well, I was watching Home Alone 2 the other day and lack of sleep and a high brought on by coffee brought this into my mind.
What if Kevin had a price on his head? And Boba was interested.
It seems silly but if you really thought about it, it could end up being a worthy showdown. (Or so my warped mind thinks.) I'd pesonally peg Boba as the obvious winner but I think with Kevin's trap skills Boba might actually have to work for it. I mean, if you've seen the movies, you know that Kevin "shoots to kill" so to speak. The only reason the Wet Bandits aren't killed by his traps is just the magic of movies. Now some traps I know for a fact Boba would see through. For example, if he was opening a door and the doorknob happened to came loose and be tyed to a string, he wouldn't be stupid enough to keep pulling on the string. But I think Kevin might take that into consideration if he was aware of who his enemy was.
So what do yall think? Stupidest VS ever? Maybe, but just give me your opinions.


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The complexity of the upcoming election looks set to make vote distribution central to the outcome. In other words, parties' strengths in Westminster will be decided not just by how many votes they get but also where in the UK those votes are actually cast. This in turn means that the distribution of finite party resources during the election campaign could have a decisive impact. Recent research has shown that effective local campaigning can have a measurable impact on the result in a constituency, which also means that getting the right resources in the right places can be vital.
In the abstract then (as illustrated in Figure 1), we would assume that a party would want financial resources going to their most marginal constituencies, either those that they are seeking to take or seeking to defend. In contrast, there would be little value in a major share of financial resources going to safe seats, whether they are held by the party or by their opponents.
Things do not work out like this in real life, however. This is because political geography and some of the incentives for giving to constituency parties undermine this theoretical ideal. In the case of the Conservatives, for example, one major problem is that their richer local associations tend to be in wealthier areas of the country, which also happen to have the safest Conservative seats. Labour suffers from a different structural problem, due to the party's historic links with the Trade Union movement. The challenge here is that the Trade Unions actually have two distinct and often contradictory incentives. They clearly want a Labour government (which creates incentives for giving donations to the marginal constituencies needed to construct a Labour majority), but they also want long-serving MPs supportive of the trade union movement (creating incentives for giving donations to Labour MPs and candidates in safe seats).
So given these institutional factors, it seems worth asking how the parties are actually doing at getting resources to where they are needed. By combining data from the Democratic Dashboard project, which includes information on political donations given to every constituency in 2014, with Pippa Norris's 2010 constituency results database, it is possible to look at the relationship between total donations and marginality.
The graphs below show the three major parties in turn.
These graphs lead to three observations. First, and most obviously, constituencies across the UK seem to have access to a huge range of financial resources. There are some really big outliers, such as the Conservative Party in Watford, which received more than £234k in donations in 2014 or the Labour Party in Pendle that got £241k (the Democratic Dashboard classifies both of these seats as ultra-marginal, so it is not entirely surprising). In contrast, no donations were declared by any of the three major parties in 211 constituencies in the UK. Second, it is interesting to note that the distribution of the data points in the graph may reflect political circumstances. This is perhaps most obvious in the case of the Liberal Democrats, where the vast majority of constituencies with access to greater resources seem to be seats that the Lib Dems already hold with majorities of less the 12,000 votes. Given the Liberal Democrats current national poll ratings, this might reflect a very efficient distribution of resources, offering the party the best possible chance of constructing a fortress in the seats it currently holds.
The final point relates to the statistical relationship between seat marginality and the donations given to political parties. In the case of all three parties, there is a statistically significant negative correlation between the marginality of the seat and the donations a constituency party receives, as we would expect. However, it is notable that Labour (r=-0.203, p ≤ 0.001) has a slightly higher correlation than the Conservatives (r=-0.197, p ≤ 0.001). This would seem to indicate that Labour is distributing its resources slightly more efficiently than the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats correlation is higher still (r=-0.294, p ≤ 0.001). This is likely a function of the Liberal Democrats having virtually no presence in some constituencies, either in terms of votes or donations. But the shape of the Liberal Democrat graph points towards a fairly efficient distribution of resources, which could prove to be important on Election Day.
There are some big caveats to these graphs. The donations data is from 2014. Much might have changed in the first few months of 2015, with political givers becoming more aware of the key election battlegrounds. It should also be noted that this dataset is based on donations, not spending. So a safe seat with lots of resources might choose to spend its money hiring a mini-bus to allow its party members to deliver leaflets in a more marginal seat, for example. An additional problem is the line between national and constituency campaigning. As Liberal Democrat blogger Mark Pack has pointed-out, UK campaign finance law allows for lots of "ersatz local campaigning" that is actually regulated at the national level. Finally, the analysis presented here is rather crude. It would be interesting to build a more complex dataset, employing other variables that might be important to constituency party fundraising (such as whether the incumbent in a constituency is a nationally high-profile politician or whether a Labour MP is trade union sponsored, for example).
Nonetheless in an election with ultra-fine margins where local campaigning looks set to be hugely important, even this limited analysis points towards some interesting questions about how effectively parties are distributing resources.


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Tamiflu resistance in avian flu victims sparks concern
Dec 22, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – A new report says oseltamivir-resistant forms of H5N1 avian influenza virus were found in two Vietnamese girls who died of the infection, raising doubts about the antiviral drug that many countries are counting on to help protect them from a potential flu pandemic.One of the two girls died even though she started receiving oseltamivir (Tamiflu) within the first 2 days of her illness, the recommended window for effective treatment, according to the report in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The other girl was not treated until the sixth day of her illness.The authors of the report say their findings suggest that a higher dosage, longer treatment course, or combination with other antiviral drugs may be necessary to ensure the effectiveness of oseltamivir.Roche, the manufacturer of oseltamivir, agrees with that assessment and says that studies of the safety of a higher dosage are about to get under way.Second study weighs in on stockpilingIn a separate article published today, a group of experts who have been monitoring resistance to oseltamivir and similar drugs says the evidence so far—including the New England Journal report—does not suggest that stockpiling of the drug is useless."The available data do not indicate that potential oseltamivir resistance should be a deterrent to its stockpiling for pandemic response," says the report by Frederick Hayden and other members of the Neuraminidase Inhibitor Susceptibility Network (NISN). It was published online today in Antiviral Therapy.The report on the Vietnamese patients was prepared by a team from the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Hong Kong University, with Menno D. de Jong of the Vietnamese hospital as first author.Their study focuses on eight patients who were treated for confirmed H5N1 infection at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases between February 2004 and January 2005. Throat samples were collected from the patients for analysis at admission and later in their illness. H5N1 infection was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction.All the patients were started on oseltamivir the day of admission to the hospital, which varied from 2 to 8 days after the onset of illness. They received the recommended regimen of 75 mg twice a day for 5 days. Four of the patients died.The researchers did a sequence analysis of the H5N1 virus's neuraminidase gene to look for resistance, signaled by the substitution of tyrosine for histidine at amino acid position 274. This mutation was found in two patients, a 13-year-old girl and an 18-year-old girl.The 13-year-old was hospitalized the day after she fell ill with a fever and cough, which was also the day after her mother had died of H5N1 infection. Despite oseltamivir treatment, the girl's condition worsened on her fourth day in the hospital, and she died of severe pneumonia on the seventh day.The viral load in her throat was higher by the time of her death than it had been earlier, which, along other laboratory evidence, suggests that "the development of drug resistance contributed to the failure of therapy and, ultimately, the death of this patient," the report says.The 18-year-old was hospitalized and started on oseltamivir 6 days after she had fallen ill, but she died after 2 weeks in the hospital. Nonresistant H5N1 virus was found in a sample taken 2 days after she was hospitalized, but the resistant form was found 6 days later.Although the connection between viral resistance and the 18-year-old girl's death was less clear than in the case of the 13-year-old, "The presence of replicating virus after 14 days of illness suggests an effect on the outcome," the article says.It also says the viral load in throat specimens from the four patients who survived dropped quickly to undetectable levels during their treatment."Our observations suggest that at least in some patients with influenza A (H5N1) virus infection, treatment with the recommended dose of oseltamivir incompletely suppresses viral replication," the authors write. Consequently, "Strategies aimed at improving antiviral efficacy (e.g., the use of higher doses, longer durations of therapy, or combination therapy) may deserve further evaluation."Tamiflu manufacturer, study authors commentRoche, Swiss-based maker of Tamiflu, released a statement today agreeing that such strategies deserve consideration. The company said some data already support the safety of using a higher dosage of the drug, and clinical trials assessing the efficacy of a higher dose are scheduled. Roche is collaborating with the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) on that research, the statement said.Tran Tinh Hien of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases, one of the study's authors, says Vietnamese health officials are already recommending increasing the dosage of oseltamivir for avian flu patients, according to a Reuters report published today."We still recommend the use of Tamiflu for bird flu cases as soon as possible and at higher doses as there is no replacement yet," he said. He added that the Vietnamese Ministry of Health has increased the treatment period to 7 days from 5 days.The article published today by NISN, the experts who have been monitoring resistance to the neuraminidase inhibitors, say the new findings do not contraindicate stockpiling of oseltamivir, but much more research is needed. The neuraminidase inhibitors include oseltamivir and zanamivir (Relenza).The group said no one knows how often resistance emerges in H5N1 patients being treated with oseltamivir, and the clinical consequences of such resistance are also unclear.Many H5N1 patients treated with oseltamivir have died, but in most cases treatment was started late, after pneumonia had already developed, the report says. Some evidence suggests that the emergence of oseltamivir resistance early in treatment may lead to treatment failure, but more studies are needed.The group also said there is no indication that H5N1 viruses now circulating in birds are resistant to neuraminidase inhibitors. Further, the likelihood that oseltamivir-resistant strains will spread in the community appears low, in contrast to the situation with two older antiviral drugs, amantadine and rimantadine, to which ordinary flu viruses are often resistant. In animal studies, the article says, the mutation that confers resistance in both H5N1 and H1N1 viruses reduces infectiousness 100-fold and reduces viral replication more than 10-fold.The NISN statement also says that all avian and human H5N1 isolates tested so far by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been susceptible to zanamivir. However, zanamivir, which is inhaled, has not been tried in human H5N1 patients.Despite this, "Inhaled zanamivir would be a therapeutic consideration if oseltamivir resistance were likely to be present," the NISN members write. They also say the drug would be "an appropriate choice for pandemic response stockpiles."Other experts offer opinionsTo infectious disease expert Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, the report from Vietnam "reminds us again that none of us know how much drug [oseltamivir] we have in the stockpile." If a longer, higher-dose regimen is needed, a stockpile now described as 3 million treatment courses is actually smaller, said Osterholm, director of CIDRAP, publisher of this Web site.Osterholm also said the report suggests oseltamivir resistance can have much graver consequences in H5N1 cases than in ordinary flu. In the latter, drug resistance has not been associated with treatment failure or a severe outcome, but "with H5N1 this may be a very different outcome," he said.Osterholm called for clinical studies of the use of oseltamivir very early in the illness and at a much higher dosage than is used in ordinary seasonal flu. If that approach improves outcomes, it would have "tremendous implications for how we get Tamiflu to patients in a timely manner," he said.A WHO official said the resistance findings are "not necessarily alarming" but do point up the need for more information, according to the Reuters report."What really is critical is understanding whether the way we are using the drugs contributes" to resistance, said Keiji Fukuda of the WHO's global influenza program.Some resistance is expected whenever antivirals and antibiotics are used, Fukuda said, adding that using too-small doses or too short a treatment regimen can promote resistance.De Jong MD, Thanh TT, Khanh TH, et al. Oseltamivir resistance during treatment of influenza A (H5N1) infection. N Engl J Med 2005 Dec 22;353(25):2667-72 [Full text]Hayden F, Klimov A, Toshiro M, et al. Neuraminidase Inhibitor Susceptibility Network position statement: antiviral resistance in influenza A/H5N1 viruses. Antivir Ther 2005;10(8):873-7 [Abstract]See also:Dec 22 statement by Roche


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I discovered two eclipse plugins for Flex / Flash Development:
Joa Ebert released a FBDT, a plugin to create Pixel Bender filters that is compatible for Flash CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and After Effects CS4. (I attended last Saturday's workshop with Lee Brimelow and he mentioned that there are some limitations to Pixel Bender development for Flash CS4 [e.g. no loops] in coding the pixel bender filters.) Since most developers use an external IDE e.g. Eclipse, this is very ideal instead of using the one that Adobe provides.
Rich Tretola blogged about a new Eclipse plugin for Flex code formatting (for Actionscript and MXML). This is great for those who want consistency in presenting their code.


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But some high-profile incidents aboard ship have led to rough sailing for some cruise lines, with a new survey showing that 18% of passengers report experiencing a problem on their trip -- and walking away unsatisfied.
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Conducting its first report on cruise line consumer satisfaction, the global market research company wanted to see how the industry ranked in customer service relations after a series of events that captured headlines.
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"Cruises in general are not something you get on to go from point A to point B," Faza says. "It's more for the experience."
Problems on cruise ships can vary from complications with a passenger's food to the steward being late to clean your cabin, says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor-in-chief of x.
Disney Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean International and Holland America Line came in first, second and third, respectively, in customer satisfaction, while Carnival ranked last in the report of eight cruise lines.
The survey measured seven factors that affect a customer's experience: service, state of the room, food, the efficiency of boarding and departing on the ship, entertainment, cost and excursions.
"When you're on ship for a long time, there are bound to be problems," Faza says. "I think the biggest thing as a company is the ability to recover."
When Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas had a fire in May, the cruise line didn't waste time in notifying customers of its recovery plan. Less than an hour after the fire was extinguished, company representatives tweeted details that passengers would receive a full refund of the fare paid and a certificate for future sailing.
Though cruise lines are catering to the majority of their passengers' needs, Faza says the firms need to be more aware of positive and negative feedback and work on customer retention.
Customers are often voicing their opinions regarding service through social media.
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Ever wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
Of course you have. We all have.
Ever wake up on the wrong side of the bed, and then have to be cheery? Like, interact in social media? Write an engaging blog post? Put together a lovable email marketing campaign?
Ugh. Those are the times you wish you could shut out the world, or at least channel a little of your inner snark. Well, the good news is you can do that once in a while, and your marketing results may even thank you for it! Sometimes, it's good to embrace the negative -- whether it's shutting out audiences, casting a villain, or even just a less than cheerful attitude. (Trust me -- this will all make sense in a second.)
So, here we go ... if you ever wake up wanting to shut out the world, here's how you can take it out (positively!) in your marketing.
8 Opportunities to Be More Negative in Your Marketing
1) Create Negative, or Exclusionary Personas
Let's start with something a little bit easier to swallow than just being a total grumpy pants -- exclusionary personas. Exclusionary personas, sometimes also referred to as negative personas, are kind of like the opposite of buyer personas -- they're the personas of the people you do not want to target in your marketing.
This is about more than just recognizing that not everyone in the world is a potential future customer -- it's about recognizing that your marketing attracts certain types of people who totally clog up your funnel, waste your sales team's time, and will never become customers. Why won't they ever become a customer? Could be a lot of things -- they don't have the budget, or they're just fans of your content or social media presence. Or maybe they do become customers, but they cost you a ton of money; for instance, they could have a high acquisition cost, or a high propensity to churn.
In this case, it behooves you to identify who these folks are so you can ensure you either 1) stop creating content that draws in the wrong people, or 2) let them keep reading and engaging with your content to help you spread your reach, but keep them from getting rotated to sales reps using methods like assigning them a low lead score.
2) Leverage Exclusivity
This is the VIP, red-carpet tactic we all know and love (or love to hate). When you tell someone they can't have something, or what they want is scarce, it often makes them want it more. You know, the whole "playing hard to get" thing we've all either been victim of or practiced ourselves at one point or another in our love lives. This just so happens to be a common sales tactic, but marketers can use it, too. Tell prospects they can have an offer ... but only for a limited time. Or only for the first 10 that respond in social media. Heck, you don't even always have to tell them what it is. The 11K Club, which I wrote about in more detail in this post about leveraging exclusivity in your marketing, launched a campaign where they asked people to sign up for something -- but they couldn't tell you what.
I totally signed up.
This tactic is particularly popular with savvy ecommerce shops, too -- ModCloth, for instance, frequently sends me emails letting me know that an item I like is so popular, it's almost out of stock. "Oh no! Everyone else is snagging it! I have to get it before I'm left out!"
The moral of the story? Leave people out once in a while. If everyone gets something, it's not as special. And when you go VIP, the ones who do get it feel uber-special. (There ... we just turned a negative into a positive. See?)
3) Craft Negative Titles and Headlines
I don't know what this says about human nature, but there's an undeniable correlation between page views and negativity. Consider these titles that showed up while scanning CNN's homepage today:
- What you get wrong about BBQ
- Worst U.S. cities for allergies
- Ivy leagues accepting fewer students
- Could our favorite flavorings be damaging our DNA?
- Beware the parental overshare
These are about clicks. No question about it. We all know the news has gone the negative route for years, and they do it because it works.
Now, you shouldn't throw out some inflammatory headline just to get clicks -- if you're going to get negative with your titles, you have to back it up with some solid content that actually merits that bombastic title of yours. Here are a few examples that worked out extremely well for us:
- 15 Things People Absolutely Hate About Your Website
- 13 Hilarious Examples of Truly Awful Stock Photography
- Your Mom Hates This Blog Post
- Does Google Hate Small Businesses?
4) Create a Bond Over a Shared Negative Experience
Alright, now we're getting warmed up! So you're throwing out some negative titles, but have you considered drawing that negativity into your content? When you draw on a negative situation in your content -- particularly right in the beginning -- it can actually help reader retention and engagement. Some marketers are afraid to stir up negative feelings in their reader, but it can actually create a shared experience and tap into a level of emotion that some may not expect to get while reading marketing content, particularly if you're a B2B marketer.
I mean, that's why I started this post the way I did -- getting up on the wrong side of the bed is an experience everyone I know can relate to. And sometimes, it's easier to form a bond with someone over a shared negative experience than something warm and fuzzy.
But be forewarned -- once you have a bond with the reader based on a shared negative experience, it's crucial to shift the mood to something more positive and solution-oriented. People like to know they're not alone (misery loves company), but most don't like to dwell on the negativity.
5) Cast Some Villains
Just like we can all bond over a shared negative experience, so too can we bond over a common enemy. Casting a villain has been a common marketing tactic for years, and I'm not just talking about the Hamburglar. Villains can take more subtle forms, playing on common tropes -- the dopey husband, the nagging girlfriend, the jerk boss. These take common experiences and personify them in order to elicit a feeling in the consumer, and help tell the story you're trying to tell. For a great example of using multiple villains in your marketing, just check out Career Builder's 2009 Super Bowl commercial, brought to my attention via Graeme Newell and 602 Communications.
6) Stir Up Some Controversy
This one's not for the faint of heart, but if you feel confident about your brand, your PR team, and your position on an issue, you can take a controversial stance on a popular topic. This does a few things for your marketing:
- Positions yourself as a thought leader (only if your thought was a good one -- so try to make sure it is)
- Sends a ton of traffic your way
- Helps you define your brand
- Drives natural PR
- Elicits strong emotions, both positive and negative
That last one is what I want you to pay the most attention to. When you take a staunch position on a polarizing issue, you will have people that despise you for it. You will also generate some seriously ardent supporters. If you're going to play the controversy game, be prepared to deal with both, because while some results could be really exciting for your brand, some backlash will inevitably come with it.
7) Use Data to Build a Case Around Why Something Stinks
Let's start this off with an example, since we did this just this morning in our blog post, "Why the Blog Post Is the New Ad Unit." The beginning of the post included this data point:
While clickthrough rates (CTR) are not the only metric by which you can measure a banner ad's performance, typical online banner ad units achieve a CTR of 0.10% according to MediaMind's Global Benchmarks Report, and that figure is on a downward spiral due to banner blindness, among other things.
You build a case around why one thing stinks (banner ads) ... so you can show why something else is awesome (blog posts). This can be made even more compelling if you have two data points that demonstrate a stark contrast; the juxtaposition of positive and negative paints a pretty dramatic picture in readers' minds, and the succinct data points make it easy to quickly demonstrate the bad versus the good.
8) Make Fun of Yourself
Finally, turn that negativity inward. A little self-deprecation can be fun for others, makes you seem more human, and actually might make you feel better about your slip-ups. After all, we all have them, and it's important to learn how to make light of your mistakes. For example, this very feeling was the impetus for a blog post we wrote several months ago: our very own Marketing Hall of Shame. In it, we detailed some of our dumbest marketing mistakes. It was helpful not only in the "being-the-first-to-laugh-at-yourself" way, but because people can learn from these mistakes, and hopefully not have to repeat them.
When Negativity Backfires
All this being said, it's important to always consider whether your negativity is going to backfire. Are you being an unadulterated jerkface? Is this negativity going to be lost on your audience? Does your buyer persona really hate this kind of stuff?
For instance, something that almost always comes off as totally petty and unnecessarily negative is bickering with competitors. I mean, think about how annoying political ads are; you certainly don't want to come off like that. I think one piece of advice from my childhood can sum up how you should approach bickering with competitors:
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
Yes, even if they started it.
It's also important to remember that any negativity you draw on needs to be tempered with some positivity. For instance, we learned this the hard way with a post we published a few months ago called, "101 Sure-Fire Ways to Make People Hate Your Marketing." It was a snark fest, but it didn't perform that well, and some readers thought it was just too much negativity. The lesson? If you're going to get snarky, 101 doses of it may be too much. Furthermore, had the balance of the post been tipped more heavily toward positive things, like how to fix these 101 mistakes, the response may have been more positive.
Finally, I think striving to be inspirational should always be an aspiration for marketers. There's no question that marketers capable of inspiring people -- take charity:water's unbelievable case study videos, or even our own founder Dharmesh Shah's deck on creating a company we love at HubSpot -- see unbelievable success from their efforts. In fact, I think if you're able to inspire people in your marketing, the effects last much longer, and are much stronger than any of these negative tactics.
What do you think about getting a little negative in your marketing? Do you ever get a bit edgy, or do you keep it to more behind-the-scenes stuff, like exclusionary personas? Share your thought in the comments!
Originally published Apr 3, 2013 2:00:00 PM, updated July 28 2017
Topics:Marketing Strategy


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Representatives from Sprint, Cingular, and T-Mobile confirmed the basic premise of the attack, which is possible because those services enable consumers to turn off the password-checking function.
Cell phone hacking gained prominence last month when reports surfaced that pop star Paris Hilton's T-mobile voicemail and phone book had been hacked.
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"Odd" doesn't begin to cover it.
Funny, I couldn't bring myself to steal his crap and then he guilt-tripped me about "having stuff taken from him" anyway!
There's just way too much stuff lying around at the start of the game. The joys of inventory micro-management should really be laid on when you're into the game enough not to be scared away by it.
Well, If you think about it, Fallout 3 starts even stranger.
Yeah, I never figured out what was the point in all those silly tests. Didn't mind them, but they were very odd.
Can anyone confirm whether or not the inkblot answers made a difference to your character stats?
At least he got his neck fixed.
What's worse than spending the better part of a week sitting in a doctor's office unconscious and mostly nude? Having the doctor calmly talk about "rootin' around in yer noggin" while his head slides down onto the front of his torso, Shou Tucker style.
That scene is all the more weird with body mods installed; your character is sat there in the buff while amateur head-shrink works his voodoo.
They set up your Tag! skills, but seeing as he immediately lets you change them and then you get another chance when you leave the town boundary it's all a bit pointless.
you mean thats not the regular treatment for someone who has been shot in the head? That old man lied to me
That one is the most horrible bug I've seen ever. Scary too. I mean, if it happened to me, i didn't even know at the start if it was meant to be that way.
I don't know if it is just me, but I notice the NPC bobs their head in a specific way. Depending who you are talking to would make it look awkward to appealing.
That first panel cracked me up.
Well played.
Being born and living through your childhood.
I think that really depends on your definition of strange.
Its only strange if you make it so.
thats the real magic of fallout: new vegas.
i really hate the start of new vegas, in the other games the reason you didnt know anything about the outside world was that you had lived your entire life in a isolated community and all you knew about the outside had been told and retold so many times and to so many people that the information that remained was nothing but a fairy tale, and the combat system, map and information all relies on your pip boy which was either standard issue given out to most residents or a piece of ancient technology passed down trough generations.
in new vegas you have amnesia and some dude just gives you, a complete stranger, this piece of advanced technology for no reason, and thats just the tip of the iceberg of poor writing in this game, i agree that fallout 3 had a ton of problems with its story, but new vegas makes it look like fallout 2.
I say Shamus and Yahtzee should team up to do a proper lets play of New Vegas. Whose with me?
Fallout is probably the only game I don't mind stealing shit from people. Simply because there is no emotional connection/benefit of withholding yourself. Karma is indeed a bitch but NOT in Fallout. It means absolute jack in the end.
I say, steal everything you set your eyes upon!
Ever play any JRPGs?
FF6 [ Awesome game ]
But no, I don't play them anymore. Mind-numbing and totally not my thing/genre. I prefer Western RPG's.
EDIT, I misread someone's post which I replied to so I'm only having the second half of the post I had here:
But seriously, Fallout 2 if you actually think about it, it's beginning is even stranger than Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas. I mean, in Fallout 2 the fact that it was only like 80 years after fallout 1 and you're a descendant of someone who was born in the vault and has tons of experience with dealing the wasteland and yet the tribe you're born into is so pathetic with its lack of science and engineering ability. No wait, Fallout 2 can make sense only if you think that in Fallout one your character had an intelligence of like 1 but maybe a charisma score of 10.
That wasn't my point. My point that in JRPGs stealing often has no penalties. That is all. I wasn't saying anything about JRPGS actually being good games.
I am unaware of JRPG's allowing you to steal shit. Let alone play in a big sandbox game. But maybe because I don't keep tabs on it anymore, all I remember were turn-based battles and alot of cliche dialogue/storylines.
I miss games like Divine Divinity that allowed you to steal furniture. If it had a weight limit, you could pick it up and put it in your bag.
On a side note, too many games seem to encourage the sense of entitlement that plagues my generation. Oh sure there's a Karma meter, but morality systems are horribly flawed and far too arbitrary to be meaningful.
The GOAT made sense in FO3, even then you can skip it though. I just had a better idea. All that stuff in his house like the SMG and the chem set would make a much better test. He says "feel free to take some stuff, in exchange go help sunny, I'm sick of fixing gecko bites" If you grab the the SMG, guns; grab a nice suit, speech; etc. And there really wasn't a good way to get a pip boy.
I also drank from the doctor's toilet after robbing him blind. Surprised to find a laser pistol and an SMG.
That was awfully sneaky of you...Though i would have done the same thing.
Eh, not so funny really...is it just me who feels that the bits of text Shamus now adds to the end of the comics are to distract your attention away so it doesn't linger on a mediocre joke?
I played pretty much the whole world OUTSIDE of vegas. The game just isn't that good. None of the characters are original or compelling, the voice acting makes you want to claw your ears out and a post-apocalyptic desert looks enough like a regular desert that it really doesn't have the "cool" factor of blown up suburbs.
Plus the vanilla game is almost unplayable without HEAVY modding. And with heavy modding you get lots o crashes.
The karma system it totally broken, you gain karma from kills so you can keep max karma as long as you butcher a few raiders occasionally, whether or not they shot first. However you lose karma for "stealing" from the powder gang prison after you wipe them out.
My mods and the game still needs work:
1. MUTI makes the interface bearable
So yeah a lot of mods, and still need more to make the game good. The crafting system is particularly poorly thought out.
pipboys were not rare at all. They were uncommon, but not rare or something to be fought over about. This isn't fallout 3, the west coast put the pieces back together and started living. Only in fallout 3 are the pipboys rare because the NPCs in fallout 3 were more retarded than the crap glen beck says. Pipboys are practically useless for anyone staying in one place unless they walk around like the courier does.
I recommend Persona 3: FES for the PS2.
It's fantastic, part sim, part RPG, and made by Atlus. Look it up, only 30 bucks too for 120+ hours of (non-standard JRPG) game.
That's just it though; he doesn't give you your clothes back, he gives you his old suits and presumably keeps your clothes.
What he's referring to has nothing to do with you. He's referring to the fact that
Huh? When is that ever mentioned? You don't know anything about Vegas because you just got here, you know being a courier and all
Yeah, I admit that was kinda weird.
to the first point, heres why i think you have amnesia, you don't remember anything about your life prior to waking up at the doc, his robot has to tell you how the guy looked, and a big part of the game is running around finding out where he is and who he is, you dont know where anything is, which you would expect him to do, you know being a courier and all.
i think the pipboy would be pretty valuable to a doctor, for inventory and detecting and locating radiation, wounds and poison on his patience, heck even if it only works on the guy who wears it he could just put it on his patience, look over their shoulder, easily locate the problem and save lifes.
now the poor writing, its that everything just happened before you got there, be it that some important information just imploded, like with the kings, everything they based their gang around just disappeared, no holotapes no sheet music no nothing, and holotapes are build to last, remember in the first game where you went down a nuclear crater and found a working tape, if it can survive that, it can survive anything.
and then theres just the way people act towards you, i quickly maxed out my speech skill, and the things i was able to change by passing a speech test are insane, there could be people who had done the same thing for 40+ years, who believed that what they did was the right thing, they had based their entire life around a certain belief or moral value, but then i came along and said "erhmm, no, you are wrong" and they changed their mind.
i do think new vegas is a step in the right direction for the fallout franchise, but its only a small step, all in all it was a disappointment for me, it didnt have the dark and crushing feeling fallout 1 did, it didnt have the freedom and humour fallout 2 had, and it was not as interesting to explore as fallout 3.
Shamus, why do you even play games if you have so little suspension of disbelief? You'd probably criticize Tetris for "not explaining where all these blocks are coming from."
Pssst. It's not entirely serious.
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