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"The soul is contained in the voice."
StoryCorps founder David Isay and Krista Tippett have an intimate conversation about their shared love of listening — and the importance of creating spaces to tell our stories to each other. For him, the spaces where two people ask the questions they've always wanted to ask of each other are sacred. Listening, he's learned, is an act of love. Eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.
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Hi Krista, Thank you so much
Hi Krista, Thank you so much for this interview. And thank you David for sharing your wisdom and experience. I have been working on something similar to StoryCorp for some time over here in the UK and only recently discovered both of you. I have been a web designer for many years and have found myself at a cross roads. David, remember when you said about finding your calling? Well, I have been looking for a while now for a new path, and the pull to this kind of expression is becoming louder and louder. So thank you both for inspiring me every day with what you do. You have filled me with a fresh sense of excitement for what I may create. I hope to talk with you both some day. Robbie in London, UK
Thank you, Krista, for yet
Thank you, Krista, for yet another wonderful interview. On Being has become one of the more important things I 'do' each week, and has opened my life to new ideas, new ways of living in this world as we know it. I'm grateful to people like David Isay who heard the call to create StoryCorp. Through hearing the stories of others I think we find that we are all so much more alike than we imagined.
Dear Krista, Although I loved
Dear Krista, Although I loved a lot about this program, I am very disappointed at the short shrift given to David Isay's mother's story. You did refer to her, but not even by name--and it's hard to find information about her on the internet, compared to finding information about Richard Isay. Almost universally, the story of the str8 spouse is unheard in the shadow cast by the high drama of the gay spouse's coming out. Please do a future show that corrects this imbalance. Start with Amity Buxton's "The Other Side of the Closet." Str8 spouses, and children of mixed orientation marriages, are also victims of our society's homophobia. Our lives and worlds of pain should be seen to matter, too. Best, Stephanie
It has been a wonderful story
It has been a wonderful story which I decided to share in spanish language on my blog, La Columna de Jesus. I was really touched on how David found out the night that he listened to his dad's interview the words "my sons" instead of "my books", for me it was the biggest lesson on how the art of listening needs to be effectively accomplished.
Your last show was very moving because both of you have come to recognize a dear friend who was right under your noses all along. You connected on the level of the meaning of your lives.
And while listening, this came to me to say to you.
We, human beings, can only do one of two things. We can think and we can listen. Thinking is manipulating what is in the memory. Listening is connecting with life itself. It is the mention of the interview with Mother Theresa, which brought this thought to me. It is possible to speak from listening and this is like sharing the listening. This is what you and David do.
And I realize that what I do in my work is teaching people to listen to themselves, because in themselves they have everything else that there is. If it is anywhere, it is in them. It starts with the external, shallow layer of thoughts and automatic thoughts in the subconscious. But if you do not stop there and go deeper, you can find everyone else, you can find who you really are, and you can go all the way to the infinity of love. It is all in every single one of us. And it s all yours for the listening.
This was one of Krista's best
This was one of Krista's best interviews! It felt more like listening in on an intimate conversation, in which the two speakers were keenly connected and totally in sync with each other. I will take away insights on how to really listen, and why sharing stories is priceless.
What a beautiful interview
What a beautiful interview with Dave Isay. My son is completing his PhD this spring but told us several months ago he wouldn't be attending graduation because it conflicted with a friend's wedding that was taking place in Italy. It was a difficult moment for his father and I but we knew that he was making the right decision. We then decided that we'd celebrate by attending his oral dissertation (which actually took place last Monday!) but I had a conflict and wasn't able to go. His father and a dear friend traveled to witness and participate in the celebrations that day and I was grateful to be able to view in via my phone. I left it to my son to find a way he and I could commemorate this passage and I was deeply touched when he called a few weeks ago to tell me what he had arranged -- we're meeting in Chicago for him to interview me at the StoryCorps booth in May! After he completed his undergraduate degree, I founded A Place To Turn To a non-profit that supports families throughout the parenting process - because kids don't come with instructions! We provide opportunities for parents to question, learn, explore and integrate what's most important to them into every day life. My son wants to interview me about parenting, our role in getting him to this place in his life, and why I've chosen to devote my time and resources to helping other parents along the way. Of course, I was deeply touched and I have been looking forward to our time together -- so when I heard today's interview -- the tears already began to flow! I will assume there are tissues available in the sound booth -- but will be bringing my own, just in case! Thank you, Dave Isay for your work that has and continues to touch so many lives in such profound ways.
To Krista Tippett - of course
To Krista Tippett - of course, thanks for the program and the wonderful interview with David Isay - To Jan Cloninger - THANK YOU for what you wrote on the comment page of Krista's conversation with David Isay - congratulations to your son as well. I'm interested in your organization A Place to Turn To - I teach teachers how to use technology. I agree that, "...kids don't come with instructions!" - thanks again.
Thank you for this show, as
Thank you for this show, as it was a wake up call for me. For most of my life I've been told that I'm a good listener. Lately I've been at the point that if I got that feedback one more time I'd scream. Thank you both for the reminder of the gift of listening. If I am known as that, I want to live into it. I want to provide that for others as they call me to be that for them. Now that I reflect on my life lately, I haven't been as happy and grounded as I know myself to be. Perhaps, avoiding being a listener, as I've done lately, has cost me experiencing joy in life. Hmm. Thanks for listening as I work this out ;-)
Hi Lisa, and anyone else
Hi Lisa, and anyone else moved by the call to deeply listen,
I have become a facilitator bearing witness as Isay talks about by training to be a facilitative mediator. I now work for the community nonprofit that trained me, though I get as much fulfillment carrying those skills with me in my personal relationships and random encounters. Many community conflict resolution centers like the one I work for exist throughout the country, and are able to be Listeners for their communities because the people they train choose to stay on and volunteer their skills to the center's programs. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a sweet way to convert your natural skills into an invaluable community good. If that is of interest to you, you can find a center near you at www.nafcm.org, and ask about their training programs.
As I have pursued this work over the years, I have come to realize that this kind of Listening (and the curiosity it requires) is essential to hold hope for the future -- to get us beyond the current cultural emphasis on intolerance, polarization, broadcasting our views vs exploring others'...
Please, anyone who is moved by this interview: practice listening, as Tippett says -- it is a gift we all need.
The Story Corps came to our
The Story Corps came to our home town. I scheduled time with my husband and was looking forward to sharing our love story. In early January a week before our special date, my sister's medical condition changed significantly and I left town to care for her. I was blessed to have had the opportunity to be her caregiver over a 3 month period and we were able to bring her back home where she died on April 7, 2014. The wonderful gift I received was the circle of amazing friends that I shared space with over those months. I had the opportunity to meet her friends and receive the gift of love from them. Someday I will visit the Story Corp. Until then I lived that intimate space and for that I give thanks.
There is so much truth in
There is so much truth in "Listening is an act of love." Perhaps that is why I feel such an abundance of love. So many of my friends are amazing listeners.
Thanks, Dave and Krista, for a wonderful show.
Krista - check out Dr. Rick
Krista - check out Dr. Rick Bommelje's research on Listening Leaders.....another inspiration in how listening is as important as talking...
I think it's more interesting when you enter your soul through the stories you tell. Through changing views and documented recordings, it seems that we interview the image of someone one that we have in our hearts, because once again we allow people to conversate into our own being. David, after many years if finding a passion can document more than someone who is just starting or doing something remarkable, but capturing the passion within. Based on the themes, we grow as individuals, but also in remember acne of those who we have listened and learned. W are all under the human condition, we are all harbors of our own stories. We relate to those who we look up to. David is someone who gives more than just the reason of secrets between the people we were what we thought were larger, but each story is a new piece to our puzzle.
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Hi Krista, I had to work on
Hi Krista, I had to work on Easter Sunday (officiating at a wedding!) and couldn't go to AM worship. I also had only one brief Easter podcast on my ipod to cover my 3 hours in the car. I listen to NPR all the time, but FM, so I didn't think of your show, but I stumbled upon it. Your interview with Dave Isay easily made up for missing church that day. I loved both of your honesty and your insights on listening. I loved (and grabbed) the Bonhoeffer quote, make a note of what Mother Theresa said about listening, and made a plan to check out any books that you or Dave might have authored. I don't say this lightly: You truly ministered to my soul, and made for a very special start to my Easter day. (I kept expecting you to mention Henri Nouwen - on listening - but I'm sure it was just for lack to time. The show reminded me of him on the topic of loving listening and the need that the average person needs to be really heard, and loved that way. Listening, solitude, silence - it could be so many shows. (Which reminds me, I'm going looking for your podcast right now!) Thanks so much. Bill
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
Dear Krista,
Thank you for this wonderful interview with David. My late Dad's priorities were shifted drastically after his second battle with cancer. During that time he started saying I love you! frequently, and as a result it has become part of the style of most of his children and grandchildren. Blessings!
Talking about listening, I
Talking about listening, I was wondering if you have ever done an interview on the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) , a Quaker initiated project which started initially in prisons. Listening is a key peacemaking tool in AVP.
Dear Krista,
Dear Krista,
Thank you, again, for another wonderful opportunity to "eavesdrop" on your amazing conversations, this time with David Isay. The conversations flow so naturally through intimate pathways and sensitive nuances. The conversations you evoke and distill on your show are sacred listening time for me, made more sacred now thanks to David's perspective that the soul is contained in the voice.
Thank you for allowing these vessels of listening, for being the sacred container, for offering us the opportunity to sip from the chalice of listening of so many wonderful souls. Your programs are part of my Sunday Soul practice and my go-to place for when I seek inspiration and awarenesses. I always find it here with you and Trent, and crew. Excellent work! Thank you!!!
Great interview! Thank you
Great interview! Thank you for bringing the personal side of Dave Isay to so many people. He is SUCH a VERY special person who is changing lives one person at a time. He is a genuine, true friend and I am so blessed to call him my friend.
I loved this interview. On
I loved this interview. On Being is such a special program -- thank you for the beautiful work you do.
Question: I would love to be able to hear that original radio segment David talks about that he did for WBAI. Is it available anywhere? I'm not finding it easily via Google.
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Another fabulous interview
Another fabulous interview Krista, thanks so much. I LOVE StoryCorps. Wonderful stories/interviews from Dave Isay. Stories or 'ordinary people' are more interesting to me than all of the hullabaloo about Hollywood stars. Just like people on HONY, the average person, when approached with respect and compassion, will open up and so much honest raw emotion flows . . . it is beautiful. We are so blessed to have people like you and Dave documenting these stories with sound. Makes me want to do this with my 80+ year-old mom.


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A while ago I came to the realization that when I was talking about gamification I wasn't talking about the same thing as everyone else. I'd been thinking of writing this post for the last few weeks, but the latest episode of Let's Make Mistakes with guest Stephanie Morgan really forced the issue on my clackity-clacking. It's an insightful and entertaining discussion of the whole idea, so go listen to it. I'll still be here when you're done.
So Gamification is all about adding game mechanics to the (virtual) world. Badges, point totals, trophies, winners and losers. It appeals to our basest selfish/competitive natures to make us engage with your service–hopefully obsessively.
When I first heard about the concept, I had a full-on misinterpretation of what it was. Gamification = making things game-like. So I figured it was all about playing, interacting, strategizing and exploring. I wanted a gamified website to be a framework that's complex and multi-level enough to react in interesting and unpredictable ways to creative inputs. One that has a distinct atmosphere and some kind of a story to tell. Because that's what I like to do in the games I like. I like playing and having fun more than I like winning.
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With recent advances in web technology, that sort of interactivity is becoming more and more common. Now more than ever the web is filling with designs that reward exploration and allow for a much deeper level of input and response than just scrolling text and images and clicking links.
This is like in those games where you're creating a story, you're making new connections, trying new things. That's what I want gamification to be. That's the fad I want to see. Rather than treating the user as a point-hoarding, competition-stomping, reward-addicted automaton.
I find what's trending now under the banner of gamification to be gimmicky and occasionally irritating, but goddamn it sure does work. The currency of likes/follows/reblogs on sites like facebook, twitter, tumblr, youtube (and especially klout) leverage the basic principal of number accumulation. It's been used to build fabulous communities like stackoverflow and quora. I think it appeals to a similar part of the brain to the one that loves top 5/8/10/15/50/200 lists. If we abstract all the meaning and nuance of something (longdesc) to a number that can be mathematically compared to other numbers (int), it's just easier to store (for computers as well as people).
I know the basis of games is that simple earn-points-to-win model. And the basis of playing games is to win. I'm getting carried away. It's my own fault that I am drawn into 'games' (board games, video games or card games) with complexity and an opportunity for creativity, that have more than meets the eye. I have to remember that a lot of people are happy to play D&D to slaughter Orcs and loot them with the hope of a +4 sword to replace their +3 and that's their prerogative. Even though I'm the guy who wants to find out what the Orcs are doing there in the first place and figure out how to trick them into telling me where they got that +4 sword and maybe if I'm lucky they'll share that braised skeever recipe with me. I like a game that will allow me even a sliver of that. I don't want to just click cows, ya know?
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But here's another thing. It's easy to get sucked into a simple, monotonous game. But I don't find many people who actually prefer those types of experiences to the kind that I'm talking about. They just don't find them as much or they take too long to draw them in.
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During "Politics", Arthur arrives in Liberty City to attend a family meeting regarding the matter of aiding "rich people people upset by the recent problems at The Exchange". Thomas orders Johnny Klebitz to kill him as he arrives at Francis International Airport in order to secure Arthur's fortune for his re-election, ordering Johnny to stage the killing as if it is a terrorist attack to avoid being implicated. Klebitz then proceeds to the airport and executes Stubbs.
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http://mmajunkie.com A bout between a pair of bantamweights has been added to the UFC's return to Denver.
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UFC 150 takes place Aug. 11 at Denver's Pepsi Center and features a main event lightweight title fight between champion Benson Henderson and former champ Frankie Edgar, a rematch from their UFC 144 main event. Main-card fights air on pay-per-view, while FX and Facebook are expected to carry the prelims.
Stone this past month picked up a split decision win over Dustin Pague in the preliminary-card opener of UFC on FX 4 in Atlantic City. That gave the American Top Team product two straight wins in the UFC following a submission victory over Donny Walker in September 2011.
Perez, who fights out of the Jackson/Winkeljohn camp in Albuquerque, N.M., is coming off a win in his UFC debut this past month at the TUF Live Finale in Las Vegas. In that bout, which opened the card, referee Kim Winslow ruled that John Albert had verbally submitted to a Perez armbar – though Albert said he didn't submit and Perez said he never heard anything. That victory upped his win streak to six fights, including a five-fight run before signing with the UFC.
In addition to the lightweight title fight between Henderson and Edgar, UFC 150 on Friday added a lightweight bout between former teammates Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone and Melvin Guillard to the main card. Jake Shields also makes his return on the card, facing Ed Herman in a welterweight bout. And Rousimar Palhares takes on recent middleweight title challenger Yushin Okami.
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Brave lad. Thanks for going through this - I had a shot at it for a while and managed to get a few basic animations going but it was heavy going. I'll be very interested to see what you make of it. Repped for bravery!
Its time I did it.
Its time I actually took a real good look at the application Blender which is the Open Source full on, packs a mighty punch, 3D rendering package.
I have been using my 3D laser scanner and it dumps out zillions of points and poly's and its all geared up for light-wave 3D which is an excellent package but my copy is old and there is one major drawback which I assume they have fixed and that is it has a 65K polygon limit. Its also single threaded and lacking many if not all that important features. I like the sound of particle effects, volumetric lighting and radiosity... mmmmm
So I know a bit about 3D apps but nothing at all about Blender so I have started to play with it. Several people have asked about it - including me - on these boards and so I thought that I would share my learning experience so that others can get a leg up on it and also maybe if anyone else would like to follow and path-beat the way with me then you might pick up some extra points that I miss and can add to the blog. So lets get this straight - this is no tutorial !!!
So lets start and try to get it up, render something of the right size and save out a render. After that I would like to be able to model some basic shapes and then texture them up. After that we will see where we go.
So here is the base page:
and the download is here...
I looked for a 64bit version but I could not find any so I DL'ed the x86 version and it installed easily. I set the local files directory to the install directory but in all else I just chose defaults.
When its run you are given a screen with a cube on it and a camera and a light all set up. Even this I think is an improvement over the last time I tried it as I could not figure out the UI.
Looking at the blender wiki...
... help and intro it talks about the UI being a bit different from most apps. This is true and the main reason why I gave up last time. Interestingly it says that you should use it with one hand on the mouse and one hand on the keyboard. They call this ohomohok !
That was interesting because Del and I were discussing how my ViewingDale uses this approach and he gave up on the UI for the same reason that I gave up on Blender. I know that I can use my app real fast and this is what blender is saying is why they do it this way too. So I really need to do this now just to prove a point to myself !
The next thing they go on about is the mouse. They insist on a 3 button mouse and bizarrely its the middle button that allows you to move around. I.e. No move no App. No 3 button mouse no App. This is a bit annoying as I use a trackball which does have the third button but its not so comfortable as the other two. Anyway - be warned - you NEED it to run.
Ok we install and run it up and you get two windows on the task bar, one is a DOS type on windows machines and the other is the main app. You leave the DOS window alone or minimize it. If you shut it then the main app shuts down.
Now we have our cube on the screen. First thing I tried was the middle mouse button which does do what it says but the backdrop is set to Ortho (parallel background lines) view not perspective so you can get pretty confused about depth right off the bat. Whether its the norm I don't know but I set it to perspective view using the menu. The number keypad controls the view so 7,1,3 does top bottom and side and 0 is camera view. I like this a lot. On LW you look at all four at once but you quarter the view space. Having a quick way to get around the object is very very handy.
So we have our camera view and if you hit render on F12 then it renders it. Its smallish but seems alright. Hit F10 and get the scene properties and there is the render size and format. So 4000x3000 for me with PNG. Great. F12 again....
So wheres the save render option ? Took me a while to figure this out but the render window is supposed to stay open so now we have three on the task bar. Press F3 and you get the option of where to save and what filename. Its obviously not a standard windows UI here so there are some foibles which I would guess those Linux guys would not see. Save the file and there it is and I can look at it in PSP. Great so job done.
When I shut it down and reopened it was back to small render and JPEG again so I changed back again and this time saved the scene using the menu at the top of the main window. That seemed to work when I opened the app and loaded the scene in again.
So far so good. More to come I expect in the next few days.
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Brave lad. Thanks for going through this - I had a shot at it for a while and managed to get a few basic animations going but it was heavy going. I'll be very interested to see what you make of it. Repped for bravery!
I tried Blender once, and gave up, sticking with POVRay (which, I'll admit is NOT easier to use, but I already know the script format from years ago...)
Looking forward to the on-the-go-tut! Consider recording 5 minute screen casts detailing your progress....
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Thanks both of you and I agree that its notable as not being easy to use but I know it is a powerful program so the rewards would be great. The screen casts are a good idea. Often I am just messing with it randomly and getting some eureka moments which are distilled. You wouldn't want a screen cast of all the faff tho. The scripts run on Python tho so ill be looking for some help in that dept later on. I am a Perl nut and know that Ruby and Python are popular and probably more powerful but its another effort to learn another language isn't it.
What I am going to try next is to make some objects, maybe see if there are some boolean ops, hopefully some extrude, lathe, stretch etc. See if maybe I can make a snowman.
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The dice tutorial is pretty good for getting the hang of subdividing sides, colouring different areas and bevelling. I think that was the most useful beginner tute on the wiki. The one on modelling an eye is a bit of a waste of time if I remember correctly as it was a royal pain to get the texturing right.
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I've tried just about every 3D app out there that has one of those free 30 day trials 'cuz I've always wanted to create virtual worlds. Blender, IMO was neither easier nor harder than the others...it just takes getting used to like everything else. I would like to get back to it so I am really looking forward to how you progress. Good luck and kudos for bravery.
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Cheers guys. Well, for a while I made some objects and started on my snowman. Got a body and head + top hat and then went into the materials and texture editor and got real stuck there for ages. I mean, could they make this UI any harder ? But there are some shortcuts when only once you accidentally come across them make life incredibly easier.
Firstly, I found that LMB on the main window once gave me a context menu but for the life of me I could not get it back and wondered what I did ? Well if you hold the LMB down and keep it down for about a second then it appears and allows you to place down new objects on the screen like spheres and cubes etc.
Another handy thing to know is that whilst they whitter about the one hand on keyboard.... the key stroke to move an object is Ctrl + Alt + G and to rotate is Ctrl + Alt + R etc. ONE HAND ???? Are you kidding ? Only if your Vulcan I think. Well, it turns out that it has gestures built in. So if you select an object by RMB over it you can use LMB near to it and drag a line away from the object and after a short while it picks up the object and drags with it. Also, if you make a mouse LMB arc around an object then it picks up and starts rotating it. No more Mr CTRL + ALT + Key. Dont know as yet what the one for scaling is so I have to resort to Ctrl + Alt + S for a mo.
So adding, scaling, moving and rotating objects is not so bad. Making half a snowman was not all that difficult if you dont mind it looking a bit naff. The spheres come in all blocky. To smooth them out there is an object editing mode on F9 where there is the options to make the object smooth or hard. This fixes up the normals.
I tried the light-wave import and that worked well too. So no prob. It also has a wavefront text file .OBJ import which will be excellent for my scanner.
Right - now materials. These hurt bad. It took me ages to get to grips with even the basics of what it was asking for. I think I have some semblance of it now. Normally in 3D apps you create a material and then apply it to an object. This is no different except that the bit to create a link for a meterial to the object which is the first thing you need to do is in the middle of the UI. Thats under the Link to Object on the materials editor F5.
Then you can set the base col (diffuse to old timers like me) and also the specular color. There is also a mirror color for reflective stuff. Whats obviously missing as far as I can see is that there ought to be an ambient and a luminosity colors in there too. Not exactly sure whats going on there. I think the base color can be applied to the ambient so you can have specular ambient color I think ???? I dont quite get that at this stage.
Then you can set the shader. Theres a good selection. Given I had Lambert diffuse and Phong specular only, having a pull down for each is sheer luxury. Would be good to have a custom option tho. Maybe that will be later. So I kept with lambert and phong for a while as they are nice n easy stuff. Nothings gonna go spectacularly odd with them.
The texture bit threw me for a bit. I thought texture meant what they call material. What texture is for them is some image mapping. You can use built in procedural or image based mapping and whilst I had sphere, plane, cube, blender also has some extra ones which I am gasping for like U/V.
I got stuck for a while but when I read up a bit there is a hidden F6 required to take you to the texture editor. From there you can select the type of texture to use like cloud effect that we all love on this site. All sorts of marble, wood grain etc. Havent loaded an image yet tho.
Finally played about with the mirror and refractive index effects. They were pretty straight forward but you must remember to use F10 for the scene editor and switch on mirror and refractive effects in the renderer or else they just dont come out. Thats similar to LW so I was not caught out there.
Whooping it all up together I made this and it rendered it with 4 threads for 4 cores in a short amount of time. My old LW is just treacle compared to this and I like the mirror and refraction better in this too. There were always bugs in the version of LW I had.
So its kickin ass right now. Got loads more to discover. Its still a bit painful but not as bad as I first imagined. Parts of the UI still suck tho.
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Great job. I am waiting for some nice top down minis to be rendered... heh...
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Frosting on the Cake is a mission in The Ballad of Gay Tony. It is given by Gay Tony to Luis Lopez. It is played through Johnny Klebitz's point of view in Diamonds in the Rough.
The mission starts showing Gracie, Sharon, Evan and Rocco having a coke hit at Tony's apartment. Luis walks in looking for Tony, who called him in earlier. After having an exchange with Rocco, Luis finds Tony passed out on the floor. After waking him up with a brisk dunk in the bathroom sink, Tony tells Luis that they're going to purchase some 2 million dollars worth of diamonds off a smuggler in Broker. As they leave, Evan decides he wants to go as well.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Go to the docks
- Use sticky bombs to take out the bikers
- Lose the cops
- Drive Tony back to the club
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Drive the Stretch E with Evan to the docks where the Platypus in Broker, where The Cook is waiting. Listen to Evan whine, but try not to damage the limo too much. Once you arrive, a cutscene will start showing the deal going down. At first everything is fine, but soon Johnny Klebitz and the Broker Chapter of the Lost biker gang show up to crash the deal. Luis and Tony will dive into one limo, and Evan with the diamonds jump into another. Now, instead of driving, you'll be riding shotgun, with the camera facing behind the car, and are given Sticky Bombs in order to hold off of the chasing bikers and trucks. Try to aim for their front tires, and destroy roadblock as soon as you get to them. Once you near the Algonquin Bridge an APC will show up, along with a NOOSE Annihilator. Throw as many Sticky Bombs as you can until the APC explodes, and 2 or 3 to drop the chopper. At the end of the bridge, your driver is shot and you must lose the heat, regaining control of the limo. Lose the heat, and go to Hercules to end the mission. The mission ends when Tony tells you that Evan was killed, apparently while bleeting online about his impending doom at the hands of Johnny Klebitz, and the diamonds are lost.
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- Costas - Killed by the LCPD while trying to escape from the bikers.
- Evan Moss - Killed by Johnny to steal the diamonds. (Off-screen)
- The Lost MC members - Killed by Luis (using bombs) to lose them.
- This mission appears in The Lost and Damned from Johnny's point of view. It also explains why the remaining Lost bikers were dead during the chase between Johnny and Evan.
- This is the only time a Stretch E can be obtained.
- This is the only mission where NOOSE actually utilizes the APC.
- If the Stretch E is destroyed or Evan is killed before the deal, the mission will fail.
- In TLAD, Johnny only had a few bikers with him but in TBoGT, he is accompanied by a small army of bikers.
- When the Stretch E is driving of from where the deal was busted, you can see several Lost members and bodyguards fighting.
- This mission, along with Diamonds in the Rough, are the only crossover missions in the GTA IV saga to not involve Niko Bellic.
- This is the only mission in which the Slamvan appears in TBoGT.
- This mission is somewhat similar to the GTA SA mission Reuniting The Families; both missions require the player to fend off pursuers from a car using a weapon, including motorcyclists and a helicopter. Some differences are that CJ uses an AK-47, and had to keep the car from being destroyed, with only police as enemies, while Luis uses Sticky Bombs, and fends off both police and Lost MC bikers.
- During the cutscene where Costas is killed, a police officer is seen shooting at the limo; sometimes he will not fire, although Costas is still killed.
- The Stretch E is immune to the sticky bombs damage, possibly because some bikers may drive too close to the car and if that happened, the results would be fatal.
- Tony is not wearing his glasses during Diamonds in the Rough, but he wears them in this mission.