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|Potential Playoff Opponents: Bengals
|01.06.16 at 10:54 pm ET
With the playoff picture set, it's time to size up the possible postseason opponents for the Patriots. We started with the Texans, moved onto the Chiefs. Now, it's time to size up the Bengals.
The skinny: This is the moment Marvin Lewis and the Bengals have been waiting for. They are back in the playoffs for a franchise-best fifth straight season. They have won the AFC North for the fourth time since 2005. But as everyone knows by now, their story won't really begin until they win a playoff game. They have lost seven straight playoff games, dating back to the game against the Raiders that ended Bo Jackson's career in Jan. 1991 in Los Angeles. Lewis has changed the culture from the 1990s but hasn't produced a single postseason win in six tries. They lost both games with Carson Palmer as their quarterback (2005,'09). They have lost the last four with Andy Dalton at quarterback (2011-14). Now, thanks to Dalton attempting to tackle a 310-pound defensive lineman with his throwing shoulder and hand, AJ McCarron likely gets the shot on Saturday night against the arch-nemesis Steelers. The Bengals posted their best season in the 13-year tenure of Lewis, going 12-4. The previous two times they've won 12 games, they lost to San Francisco in the Super Bowl. This is clearly the deepest and most skilled Bengals team in the Lewis era, and arguably the most-balanced team in the AFC. They were a missed second-quarter Mike Nugent field goal away from beating the Broncos in Denver that would've given them the overall No. 1 seed. But as any Bengals fan knows, the little things hurt them in the end and now they must beat a Steelers team in Cincinnati. It would be sweet revenge against a team that tore Carson Palmer's ACL in a similar playoff meeting in Jan. 2006 and sidelined Dalton on Dec. 13.
Offense: On a team loaded with weapons in both the passing (A.J. Green, Mohamed Sanu, Marvin Jones, Tyler Eifert) and running (Gio Bernard, Jeremy Hill) games, the offensive line is arguably the most important unit. They allowed just 32 sacks this season and kept Andy Dalton very clean during the team's 8-0 start. The Bengals placed a priority late in the season on getting Hill going, as his numbers were down from his rookie season of 2014. After gaining 1,124 yards in his rookie year, he gained just 794 yards while carrying the rock nearly an identical number of times (222 in '14, 223 this season). But the biggest difference in the offense this season is tight end Tyler Eifert. He sat out most of '14 injured but this season, he was the favorite red zone target of Dalton and a huge reason why Dalton was getting MVP consideration midway through the season. He caught 13 touchdown passes, the most of any tight end in football (Rob Gronkowski, Jordan Reed tied with 11), despite missing two games with a concussion and another with a stinger.
Defense: The Bengals are led by an impact player at each level of the defense. On the defensive line, they have arguably the most disruptive and athletic defensive tackle in football in Geno Atkins. The sixth-year player out of Georgia finished with 11 sacks, tied with Aaron Donald (Rams) and Kawann Short (Panthers) as the most of any defensive tackle in football this season. He was recently diagnosed with sickle cell, a condition that limited his snaps in an overtime loss in Denver. Throw in fellow tackle Domata Peko and ends Carlos Dunlap and Michael Johnson, and the Bengals can bring plenty of pressure without blitzing. Linebacker Vontaze Burfict has refined his game and leads a very athletic and dynamic group of linebackers. Burfict is constantly around the ball and a fearsome tackler. The Bengals secondary has matured around the leadership of cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones. What might have once been thought laughable, Jones (3 interceptions) has helped lead younger corners like Dre Kirkpatrick and Darqueze Dennard (IR) along with veteran DB Leon Hall, who is now more of a slot corner. The safeties are big-time playmakers and ball hawks in George Iloka, Reggie Nelson (8 interceptions) and Shawn Williams.
|Darrelle Revis isn't letting on if he's going to be 'man'-ing up against Sammy Watkins
|10.11.14 at 9:05 am ET
FOXBORO — Sammy Watkins may think that he'll be shadowed all day by Darrelle Revis but the Patriots corner isn't letting on.
Told Friday that Watkins said that he's learned he'll be on Revis Island on Sunday in Buffalo, Revis said he's not giving away any secrets to the game plan.
"I don't know," Revis said. "I don't know what he heard or what he's been told. It really doesn't matter to me.
"I can't tell you the game plan. I'm looking forward to the game on Sunday. I'm looking forward to us getting the win. That's the main goal. We go up there as a team and we do great in all three phases and hopefully come out with a win."
Revis also downplayed the suggestion that he's finally being allowed to play more man-to-man coverage.
"Whatever the coaches bring to the table with the game plan and what's best for the defense," he said. "That's what's most important is whatever is best for the defense. We all do our job collectively. It's all on the defense, what we can do the best.
"I take one week at a time. Whatever my assignment is, it is. I just have to go out there and play and compete. As a defense, we have to compete and play. It's a challenge but at the same time, you go out there and you just execute your job. I'm just happy to play Sunday. That's my motto. I'm just happy to be playing and playing on Sunday."
|Bill Belichick: Patriots 'stuck together as a team and supported each other'
|10.06.14 at 1:20 pm ET
Emotion can often be a false flag when it comes to forecasting the success or failure of a football team, but it certainly appeared that it played a sizable role for the Patriots on Sunday night.
In the wake of last Monday's drubbing at the hands of the Chiefs, there was a palpable sense of energy surrounding New England. Whether it was provided by quarterback Tom Brady (who played as if his hair was on fire for much of the early going), the Gillette Stadium crowd (one of the loudest in recent memory) or the collective efforts of a team trying to erase the memory of one of the worst losses in recent franchise history, it was in abundance for the Patriots in the 43-17 win.
Coach Bill Belichick wasn't surprised to see his team respond like it did.
"When you had the result that we had Monday night as a team, I think everybody rallied around each other. I mean, who else is there to rally around?" he asked on a conference call with the media Monday morning. "That's all we have: guys that can go out there and play and make a difference. Nobody else is going to make any plays unless we go out and make them ourselves.
"Of course they stuck together as a team and supported each other. That's what any team should do."
To Belichick's point, there was more fire on Sunday night than the team had all season long. That emotion and energy level manifested itself several ways, including their best start of the year, with touchdowns on the first two scoring drives of the night.
"I thought they played hard. I think we've played hard a lot this year, but we were able to execute things a little bit better," Belichick said. "Get off the field on third down, convert some third downs, or fourth downs, as the case may be. So, of course there was more emotion and energy as we were making plays, especially in the first — well, throughout the game, but especially in the first quarter."
Belichick not only praised the play and preparation up and down the roster, but also had kind words for his coaches for their ability to not only digest the Chiefs' loss and put it in the rearview quickly, but to create a game plan for a Bengals team that came into the game as only one of two unbeaten teams left in the league.
"I just think it's tough when you play on the road Monday night," Belichick said when asked about the performance of the coaches. "Get back here at whatever it was, five in the morning and then you go through the tape of the game, which was obviously a painful process. Then get ready for an undefeated team, a team that had given up three points in the first half of their first three games and been pretty dominant. To turn around and get a game plan ready and address some of the problems that we had in Kansas City and all that.
"It's handling the preparation for all the situations ' with only three games, a lot of that is going back and digging through key games and situations from last year to look at tendencies or look at plays you want to run. Again I just think as a staff they did a good job of doing those things on a short week against a good football team that's well coached that gives you a lot of problems on every down and every situation. I thought they worked hard and they did a good job; as did the players."
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|Revis Report, Week 5: On challenges of moving from outside to slot
|10.03.14 at 12:41 am ET
Each week, we'll present The Revis Report, a look at what's on tap for the Patriots cornerback. This week, New England returns home for a date with the Bengals.
Overview: Revis and the Patriots will play their second regular-season home game of the year — and make their second consecutive nationally televised broadcast appearance — Sunday night against the Bengals. The fact that they are on a short week after a brutal road loss probably is a good thing for the Patriots, who will be attempting to avoid a two-game skid after a 41-14 defeat to the Chiefs in Kansas City.
It was an opportunity for a new player like Revis to experience his first awful loss as a member of the franchise. How does he feel about the way the team has responded?
"I think we're very upbeat," Revis said after practice on Thursday. "It's been a short week this week, and we made the corrections and we moved on to Cincinnati. It was a terrible loss for us, but at the same time, it's a short week and we had to move on. I feel like the team is upbeat and we're looking forward to this matchup against Cincinnati on Sunday."
Revis said he and the rest of the organization haven't spent a lot of time contemplating what happened last Monday.
"No, I'm really not looking into it that much. I think this is a winning organization and you just have to move on," he said. "It was an embarrassment. Yes, it was. But at the same time, you have to put it in the past. We have 12 more games left, and we can focus on those 12 more games and we can do what we need to do in those last 12 games. We have a 12-game season, that's how you can look at it."
|Preseason fantasy football rankings: Wide receivers
|08.22.13 at 10:58 am ET
We're back with a look at the receivers. This is our last look at the preseason positional rankings. We've previously covered the running backs, tight ends and quarterbacks. For updates on all these rankings, you can check us out at Rotobahn.com, where we refresh our rankings and cheat sheets frequently.
Let's take a quick look at overall receiver strategy before we dig into the talent pool. When I'm drafting, I break theses receivers into three primary groups.
- The elite, which is comprised of the top seven options.
- The WR2 capable receivers. These are the guys who you project to be weekly starters as opposed to matchup plays. For my money, this groups starts to dwindle as we get close to the 30th-ranked receiver.
- WR3-level options. This group goes on and on, and the way to get value out of it is to not tap into it too early. These players start going off the board in the seventh round, and you'll be able to get this kind of value all the way through the 12th and often much later. Patience is usually rewarded with this group.
We'll be getting into the depth and shape of the talent pool over at Rotobahn tomorrow when we start our Drafting In Reverse series. If you like deep sleepers at every position, we have them for you. For alerts to all of our new content, follow us on Twitter @rotobahn. I'll be happy to address your questions there as well. Send them to me with the hash tag #FantasyWEEI. Finally, listen to our wide receiver and running back rankings podcasts.
1. Calvin Johnson, Lions
He's going to score more touchdowns this year. Probably a lot more. Like Adrian Peterson and Jimmy Graham, Megatron gets a tier all to himself atop his position group. He's that good, and he has a QB who can make any throw imaginable. As soon as you just can't pull the trigger on a RB, you go to Calvin Johnson — not a QB. This dude is the truth. Draft him with confidence. I am looking to take him at about 10 overall unless a highly rated back slips.
2. A.J. Green, Bengals
Green's an elite option, because nobody can cover him and because he's the clear-cut No. 1 option on his team. The Bengals got better all around this offseason by bringing in Tyler Eifert and Giovani Bernard. Now there is enough talent around Green where teams can't bracket him and get away with it. He should repeat his 2012 numbers and perhaps improve them some. His QB, Andy Dalton, is just decent, but he's getting better and we should see some more incremental improvement in 2013. Take Green with confidence. His knee issue appears to be over and was nothing serious.
3. Dez Bryant, Cowboys
Injuries worry me with Bryant, because he sells out for the football with little regard for his body, but that's the ONLY thing that worries me. Bryant is a dominant talent, plain and simple. He's now the clear No. 1 option on his team and a threat to score more than 15 touchdowns. If he plays 16 games, he's an absolute monster. Do not hesitate with Bryant. Draft him and enjoy. If you want to take him ahead of Green, I have no problem with that.
4. Julio Jones, Falcons
The freak show continues … Jones is right there with Green and Bryant. Take him over anybody but Calvin Johnson and I have no complaints. He's getting better every year. He's got a solid quarterback and there's going to be more bite in the play-action game with Steven Jackson upgrading Michael Turner's spot in Atlanta. Count on it. Big plays are coming, and more receptions, too.
|Stevan Ridley knows full well Pats 'can't have' his turnovers
|01.11.13 at 6:13 pm ET
FOXBORO — One of the highlights of media availability in the last week has been the Patriots working on ball security, especially Stevan Ridley. Bill Belichick has had Ridley carry a ball in each hand with a defender on each side trying to pry the ball loose. He has been the only Patriot spotted with such focus on taking care of the ball.
Of course, there's good reason for that. There were the two fumbles at the end of the 2011 season, including in the divisional rout over the Broncos. Then there were the two fumbles in back-to-back games this season against the Texans and the 49ers. His fumble on the first drive of the game against Houston could've been costly but Aaron Hernandez raced over and recovered it before the Texans could pounce. He wasn't as lucky the next week against the 49ers. He hasn't fumbled since in 38 carries.
"Can't have it, can't have it," Ridley said Friday. "It's crunch time, man. And turnovers, however they come — fumbles, interceptions, drops, whatever — we can't have that."
Then, he turned the focus on himself.
"I don't want to be that guy that they're pointing the finger at, and saying, 'My bad.' I'm trying to play solid football and play perfect football," he said.
Of course, if Ridley and the Patriots are going to have offensive success against the Texans Sunday, they need to replicate what they did to J.J. Watt the last time, when they held the All-Pro without a sack or a tackle for a loss.
"He's a playmaker," Ridley said. "For us, whether it's in the backfield, catching him on the way out, running routes, whatever we have to do, we have to get away from him, put two hats on him, make sure he's blocked, make sure he's covered up because he's the leader of their defense. If he get momentum, we're going to have trouble all night."
Ridley was then asked about Texans defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and the suggestion that Wes Welker is not the "physical" receiver that A.J. Green is and may not require Johnathan Joseph to cover him.
"I have no idea that he said anything about that but Wes Welker is a very important part of our offense," Ridley said laughing. "We need everybody we can get, and that's somebody who's been on the field for the Patriots for a long time, somebody we depend on in crunch situations so I don't know about his size or whatever that is but Wes gets the job done and I'll be looking be looking for '83' on Sunday."
|Patriots Potential Playoff Opponents: Cincinnati Bengals
|12.29.11 at 3:03 pm ET
With the Patriots attempting to secure a No. 1 seed in the upcoming playoffs for a second straight season with a win against the Bills Sunday, it's time to start sizing up their possible postseason opponents. This is the fourth in a weeklong series of features on the rest of the AFC playoff teams. Today, we look at the Cincinnati Bengals:
The skinny: No one expected the Bengals to do what they've done this year, namely post their third winning season in the last 21. But the Bengals did something before, during and after the lockout they rarely do — they cleaned house with personnel, keeping a young core on defense and building around rookie quarterback Andy Dalton and rookie receiver A.J. Green. They fired Bob Bratkowski — the wildly unpopular offensive coordinator. They let Terrell Owens go off and focus on reality TV and Twitter, and of course, traded Chad Ochocinco to New England, remaking the image of the franchise. They had the incredibly good fortune of a bitter and disenfranchised Carson Palmer holding out, forcing them to go with Dalton at quarterback to start preseason. They had even better fortune when Oakland's Jason Campbell broke his collarbone 48 hours before the trading deadline, creating a market for Palmer. Owner Mike Brown and his daughter Katie Blackburn finally made the smart football move and traded Palmer for a first and second-round pick. Even if the team needed a 2-for-1 ticket promotion to sell out their final game this Sunday with the season on the line again the Ravens, the worm finally appears to be turning for a Bengals team that is built around young talent. This is a young team that has already exceeded expectations and is playing with house money, even if they house is half full.
Offense: Much has been made of the success — and rightfully so — of Dalton leading the Bengals to a winning record in his first NFL season, and doing it with a group of talented but still young skill players around him. Dalton injured his throwing hand in the opener and it was Bruce Gradkowski throwing the game-winner to Green against the Browns. But Dalton served notice against the Bills he was no ordinary rookie, helping the Bengals erase a 17-3 halftime deficit and leading them to a 23-20 win on a last-second field goal. But just as important to Cincinnati's success has been the hiring of Jay Gruden as the offensive coordinator, replacing Bratkowski. Gruden — the younger brother of Jon Gruden — came from the UFL's Florida Tuskers, where he was the head coach. Jay Gruden brought in a West Coast philosophy that has been the perfect fit for Dalton, targeting tight end Jermaine Gresham much more than Palmer did. The throws underneath to Gresham, along with the power running game of Cedric Benson and Bernard Scott, has opened the outside for superstar-in-the-making A.J. Green. The rookie first-round pick (fourth overall) out of Georgia has proven to be a one-man wrecking crew, often beating double teams and coming down with acrobatic catches. Dalton is the first rookie since the merger to throw for 20 touchdowns and win at least eight games. With 63 catches, 1,031 yards and seven touchdowns, Green is having best rookie season for a wide receiver since Randy Moss in 1998. Of course, Green doesn't even have the most acrobatic catch on the team this season. That distinction belongs to Jerome Simpson, who somersaulted an stunned Darryl Washington and nailed the landing in the end zone for a perfect touchdown. The Bengals weakness offensively comes in the red zone, where they convert TDs just 47 percent of the time, which puts them at 24th in the NFL.
Defense: While the Patriots earned the reputation as a no-name defense early on this season, the Bengals have done likewise but have had even better results. They spent the middle part of the season ranked No. 1 in the NFL in overall defense, led by defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer. They have slipped to sixth but still possess a formidable front seven and their base 4-3 defense, while not nearly as well known as the Giants, is as capable as any in the NFL of generating pressure on the quarterback by themselves. It starts with Domata Peko and Geno Atkins in the middle. They feature Frostee Rucker and Robert Geathers on the edge. They back that up with Michael Johnson, Jonathan Fanene and Carlos Dunlap. That is quality depth on the D-Line. Zimmer loves to mix it up in terms of bring extra pressure and will often send the safety or corner in from deep coverage to add to pressure up the middle. This is where things could get dicey for the Patriots, if the Bengals have sort of success getting Brady off his spot in the pocket. The Bengals have done a remarkable job of replacing the losses of corners Jonathan Joseph (free agency to Texans) and Leon Hall (Achilles tendon Nov. 13). Stepping up has been none other than Adam "Pacman" Jones. In addition to helping former Patriot Brandon Tate on kick and punt returns, Jones has shown why he was taken in the first round by the Titans in 2005.
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One of my favorite perimeter and area tasks is my perimeter and area robot activity. I used the task as a performance assessment, and it is a huge success every year. I love activities where my students get excited and have the opportunity to apply all they have learned. I wanted to share some of my students' creations!
I always start the activity by pretending that our class has received an official letter from NASA. I make a big deal out of opening the envelope. I act very secretive, because of course, it's a top secret mission, and everyone always gets so involved in the project. NASA asks students to build a Perimeter and Area Robot. The catch is that each body part of the robot must be a specific perimeter or a specific area. I have students cut out the pieces from one centimeter grid paper and glue the robot together on large construction paper. Since I originally created this pack, I have since added multiple versions for easier differentiation. One version is for perimeter only, another version is for area only, and the third version combines area AND perimeter.
The task is available at the following link.
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MourningReigns posted...Do you REALLY believe this could pass? I mean, please look at the big picture and put this into context. A bill like this will never pass, especially in the economy/job market the USA is currently in.
These people have nothing better to do than make crazy bills up. They don't want to actually work together to make a better nation since it would blur party lines. Instead, they just like throwing crazy **** against the wall and seeing if it sticks.
Most of these bills are made up just to piss off the other party.
I finally won a mod dispute. Too bad it got overturned a day after my suspension ended.
MourningReigns 4 years ago#122
Runner_style posted...
thetrixter99 posted...dankanefan posted...Shineboxer posted...Who cares, I'm not a peasant.
Like your signature.
I finally won a mod dispute. Too bad it got overturned a day after my suspension ended.
CammyApple 4 years ago#123
IHeartMetroid posted...
ComfortablySad posted...
Shouldn't you still be off accomplishing nothing by "occupying" something or getting up in arms on forums over the next pipa or sopa or whatever the rage of the web is this week.
What I stated is true. Dislike it, ignore me. In two weeks no one will remember this anyway. Your smartphone is vibrating. You have a Facebook update to respond to.
MourningReigns 4 years ago#124
CammyApple posted...
IHeartMetroid posted...ComfortablySad posted...
Pipa Middleton is hawtt.
I finally won a mod dispute. Too bad it got overturned a day after my suspension ended.
Shinobi120 4 years ago#125
SoaringDive posted...
And this is why you shouldn't choose to live in America. Well, one of the reasons.
What would be a better country or place to live in, in your opinion, because I'm thinking about getting out of here myself.
ComfortablySad 4 years ago#126
Shinobi120 posted...
SoaringDive posted...And this is why you shouldn't choose to live in America. Well, one of the reasons.
If you don't mind long winters all of Scandinavia kicks ass.
Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old.
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king_madden 4 years ago#127
MourningReigns posted...
CammyApple posted...IHeartMetroid posted...ComfortablySad posted...
negatory....she is average though.
While I want people to stop buying used games, I dont agree to this. i wish gamespot can be shut down though.
Not changing sig until Drew McIntyre wins a Title. (07/12/12)
Yeah no way this gets passed, if the Supreme Court case is an issue of someone reselling text books... who honestly cares?
Basically a random student is undermining a College Cartel where they sell Textbooks at 10x face value and make insane profits. Seriously colleges have no reason to pull crap like this when they charge so much tuition, I remember A Business book was $250 for 1 semester....but they get away with it, sounds like they are butthurt they are losing profits because a student is buying them dirt cheap (like Colleges do) and reselling them for a decent price.
This case has no chance, It would be like Gamestop selling new Games for $120 dollars, but you found a site that sells them for $40, you purchase them and sell for $60 on ebay, is that a crime? No. If Gamestop has a problem with that they can charge $60 like rest of human beings.
Companies try this all the time, for example verizon and other companies tried to sue Cricket phone or whatever for interfering the their data ranges or something, when in reality they were just trying to shut down competition
This court case is laughable. I hope more people catch onto the students methods of textbook purchases and follow suit.
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Sounds great to me. I don't approve of used media sales, hope it passes.
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These days a lot of videogames use licensed music in their soundtracks; sometimes it's a great pair, like Guitar Hero / Rock Band, others it just doesn't make sense like, for example, Halo 2.
But as I listen to the new Silversun Pickups album (Neck of the Woods) I'm reminded how I came to learn of this awesome band and so many other artists and/or groups I listen to because I heard a track or two in a videogame.
So where do I begin? I guess it would be the first good CD consoles, the Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn, since I never owned a 3D0 or a Turbo Grafx CD (or Turbo Duo) and didn't get a SEGA CD until 2004 or so.
I really can't think of anything from the Saturn, and I didn't get a Saturn until September 17th, 1999. So that leaves the PlayStation. My first would have to be Soundgarden from Road Rash. That was after I got my first PlayStation in January 1998. Yeah, a bit late to the party on both the game and music, but it still counts. Then in spring of 1998 Gran Turismo got me into Garbage. The next item on the list would be Tony Hawk's Pro Skater in October 1999 on the Sony PlayStation, which really got me listening to Primus and The Dead Kennedys.
Fast forward a few months to February 2nd, 1999 with the release of Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast. I was already a fan of The Offspring but never had heard of Bad Religion, but became an instant fan.
(When I started writing this I had more ideas in my head. It's early. Need coffee)
Now in the era of the PlayStation 2 / Xbox / Dreamcast / GameCube, it's all blurring together. I'd like to organize my thoughts, but it's a pain in the arse. I can say that in all honesty that on the Xbox I played a ton of games using the Custom Soundtracks feature.
I guess a quick rundown is in order.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – PlayStation 2: I guess you can say everything. Well, I mean I heard most of it all before, but it does have a killer set of soundtracks.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – PlayStation 2: while still most of this music I had heard before, but still just a set of amazing soundtracks.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 – PlayStation 2: even though I had already heard of Bush from their mid-1990s debut "Sixteen Stone," NFS: HP2 rekindled the flame with the killer track "The People That We Love." (Plus it was just an extra treat to finally have Rush in a videogame)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 – PlayStation 2/ Xbox: Motorhead. I heard the song Ace of Spades before, but never got around to digging deeper.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 – PlayStation 2/XBOX: AC/DC. As with Motorhead I have heard them before, how could I not? But I dug deeper yet again.
I know there's more from the Sony PlayStation & PlayStation 2, SEGA Saturn & Dreamcast, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube, and I'll update as I remember.
Now on to the current generation of consoles:
Need For Speed: Most Wanted – Xbox 360: I forget the song, but the only gem on that otherwise bland soundtrack was something from Disturbed, a band I still like to this day.
The elephant in the room, Guitar Hero & Rock Band – Xbox 360: Where to begin?
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock:
- Die Toten Hosen
- White Zombie
- The Killers
Guitar Hero World Tour:
- Silversun Pickups
- Airbourne
- Dream Theater
- The Allman Brothers Band
Guitar Hero 5:
- Kings of Leon
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock:
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- Red Rider
Rock Band:
- Molly Hatchet
- Queens of the Stone Age
- OK Go
Rock Band 2:
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- Panic! At The Disco
Rock Band 3:
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- The Zombies
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What if on your page you had like a 3d armatar,you could change his clothes and give him a weapon,but all armour games realeted i mean.And like you could duel other players and he could lvl up,not a big mmorpg,just going to pages and fighting with your friends,Godd idea?
As I have said before, that is not a bad idea...
But that takes a helluva lot of code. And time. And potentially money.
I could maybe see the interactable armatars if it ended up not looking cheesey. Like those things you see in adds. Winkies or something? You know what I mean.
I agree 100% on that, Devoidless. A very interesting idea, but I think it is a fantastic idea. It would add more variety in the armatars. Too bad this would be very hard to do, but I would not give up on this idea!
Hmmm Thats sounds pretty cool but if it ever happened i dont know if the duelling would follow. Or maybe if you went into battle your points were like weapons say like 100 points to fire blast (but u didnt lose any) and if u won u got like 10 points or sumthing
I like the sounds of that. 1 problem is though that armortars would lose their simplicity. I like the way the system works.
Ya this would be a great idea but the dualing thing would IMO wreck the armuters and all of that would be vary hard to do. ~ I like the idea thought, to smaller extent.
Yup GaNgStA is rite. The customizing would work but not the fighting part
I think that the game could actually work, with a bit of work. But simple 3D armatars wouldn't be bad at all.
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This movie was so plagued with problems right from its conception that I can't discern a single good reason why it was made. Except one: Could it have been... money? Of course; whenever money is involved, good sense goes swirling right down the can.
First, you have a potential sequel to an Oscar-winning film and your director and your main star decline to participate because the book fails to meet their lofty expectations. What do you do? Personally, if I'm producer Dino De Laurentiis, I go up to Jodie Foster and say, "Who the hell are you to tell Thomas Harris how to write his books? Stick this where the sun don't shine," and then hand her a butt plug made out of crushed glass. Did De Laurentiis do that? Of course not. He stuck a pen between his butt cheeks and asked Jodie where he could shake his ass to make the script better.
After rewriting the script to accommodate Foster, De Laurentiis then discovered that Foster had conveniently committed to another project. What does he do then? He gets Julianne Moore to take the role. Okay, whether Julianne Moore is more or less capable than Jodie Foster is irrelevant. What is relevant is that every last person in the audience is going to see the film and hear Clarice Starling's name associated with Julianne Moore and ask themselves, "Who is that chick who isn't Jodie Foster?" Movie ruined.
Apparently, what nobody liked about the book was the ending, which portrayed Hannibal and Starling going off together. So, they changed it. First of all, I agree the American public is too stupid to understand why that ending worked in the book, but that doesn't mean you spoon-feed audiences whatever it is you think they want. Screw with their minds once in awhile. Bore them too much, and people like George W. Bush get elected president. Second, there was a scene in the book where Lecter suckles on Starling's breast. I'll be goddamned, but I was living the rest of my natural existence to see that one GOD DAMN scene, and it wasn't there, and I'll be skewered sideways if I'm going to let anybody get away with that.
Also changed from the book: Mason Verger (Gary Oldman) -- who, as the only living victim of Lecter, is trying to capture him -- has a bodybuilding lesbian sister in the book who's not in the movie. I'll be goddamned, but I was living the rest of my natural existence to see a movie with a bodybuilding lesbian and I'll be GOD DAMNED if I'm going to let anybody take that away from me. Another change from the book: Lecter undergoes plastic surgery so that he can walk around Italy without being identified. In the movie, he has no surgery. The difference? Apparently in the film, the stupidflu has swept through Italy, rendering the Italians completely oblivious to everything, like easily identifiable mass murderers roaming their streets.
"Hannibal" is just another book adaptation the filmmakers should never have bothered with if they weren't even going to try to get it right.
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Published 07/05/2010
British Airways could be facing a fresh threat of strikes in its long-running row with cabin crew when the result of a fresh ballot is announced.
Thousands of members of Unite have been voting on the latest offer aimed at ending their bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, with a "strong recommendation" to reject.
Cabin crew staged a series of strikes last month which caused travel chaos for thousands of passengers and cost the airline tens of millions of pounds.
Tony Woodley, joint leader of Unite, said in a letter to the cabin crew that BA was treating staff like second-class citizens, "branded" for going on strike.
Mr Woodley said the reasons the union was urging rejection were the failure of BA to restore travel concessions taken away from those who went on strike, and disciplinary action against more than 50 union members.
"The charges in the great majority of cases are entirely trivial and barely worthy of a slap on the wrist, let alone the sack.
"This evidence of victimisation and draconian punishments - in some cases directed against your representatives - render worthless the words in the offer designed to rule out such behaviour."
Mr Woodley added that Unite had lost trust in BA's commitment in finding a solution to the dispute, saying: "Any agreement is only as good as the integrity and sincerity of those putting their names to it. By their actions and behaviour throughout the dispute, and continuing to this day, it is impossible to take BA management's words at their face value.
"I have had a considerable experience of strikes and disputes. Normally, the sort of issues we are referring to here - the removal of sanctions imposed during a strike, the speedy and sensitive winding-down of all but the most genuinely serious disciplinary issues arising from a dispute - are straightforward matters of industrial common sense, dealt with swiftly once the issues of substance between the two sides have been resolved.
"Yet in this case it is precisely on these issues that management has proved most intransigent of all."
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Thank you. I cut the flower shape and the leaf shapes out of copper. Then I annealed the flower to get it pliable and shaped the petals a little before enamelling it. I think the dappling effect is from the different colors of enamel I used. I also made a "pattern" in the center with a lighter color.
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During a heroic run, I saw some powa alert on my brewmaster. It looked like a bit like Crimson scourge ( Screen ) but yellow -obviously, like it's beer. I thought it was to say that I had moderate stagger, but I couldn't reproduce it.
Any idea ?
During a heroic run, I saw some powa alert on my brewmaster. It looked like a bit like Crimson scourge ( Screen ) but yellow -obviously, like it's beer. I thought it was to say that I had moderate stagger, but I couldn't reproduce it.
Any idea ?
idk... only thing ive seen is the green dragons (in mistweaver spec)
Oh yes, there is a method to my madness O.o
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@OP: Dunno if you have been testing parry vs dodge vs agility, but I did a little testing and I found that I ended with more avoidance stacking parry and mastery gems.
Based on your experience so far, what tendencies do you have regarding flagcarrier preferences in rbg and a first comparison between Monk and warrior as the preferred fc in the end of this xpac. Thx for your info
in detail, as i think, monk mastery is the only one directly useful against caster damage but i cannot evaluate the mobility of monks under pressure, eg slowed with rogue sitting on you
I play rbg on 2100 rating, i am not a very skilled player, so 2100 is more or less the upper limit i am able to achieve, so in your opinion, would a reroll from warrior to monk be recommendable?
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maybe that helps,
please any consideration to my question
EDIT: Okay I've done a couple ones... @statue, @guardian, @minion. None of them work. It's possible it isn't able to be macroed at this point.
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Ok....so....Blizzard said they want us to choose between 2 handed or one handed...I have been tanking heroics and stuff, and I find both sides to be equal when it comes to threat and what not, but for the life of me I can't see how stat wise anyone would choose one handed. since blizzard has decided to make 2 one handed weapons have less total stats then a 2 handed. Unless they make secondary stats more important then Agility and Stam, 2 handed will always be better.
I'm the minister of mistakes. I'm the shaman of sh*tstorms. If there was a f**k-up pope. I'd have a 3 foot hat!
When arguing online I like to use big words. Because by the time they're done googling it, they have forgotten what their point was.
I'm the minister of mistakes. I'm the shaman of sh*tstorms. If there was a f**k-up pope. I'd have a 3 foot hat!
When arguing online I like to use big words. Because by the time they're done googling it, they have forgotten what their point was.
Just checkin!
And yeah, I agree. I like the choice... though I will probably be doing 2h for nostalgia purposes.
Hmmm, not sure about the Brew changes in the latest build :S
Mastery is going to be a pretty weak stat for us.. ~0.2% per point shifted to the DoT, seems kinda low, considering we have 30%(?) baseline, and then 20% from shuffle, that's already 50% can you REALLY see anyone bothering with Mastery, considering your need ~5 point for a SINGLE % swap? Not to forget it doesn't increase parry anymore either, although we DO get a further 5% from Swift Reflexes.
Our stance got a... change 1/2 health and energy bonus, but increased DR
Shuffle got a nerf, what was Brew avoidance before compared to now?
Gift of the Ox got a buff to it's heal, AP scaling ftw.
Sanctuary of the Ox also got a buff, seems I was right before, with both the damage required, and the shield scaling with our AP (and thus our Vengeance) we'll be getting smalled, but more regular sheilds in 5mans, and more spaced out, but much larger shields in raids, which is probably a good way to make the shields useful in both situations, without being OP/UP in either.
Then we have the new Elusive brew.. which I like.. ALOT , seems like a cool mechanic, and will make the crit we're bound to get on our gear a bit better(I'm guessing our prio will be something along the lines of Parry>Dodge>Crit>Mastery>Haste, unless Haste increases regen by enough to put it slightly over Mastery). So every crit give ~2 charges, based on attackspeed (hopefully with no ICD) and 15 stacks turns into 15 seconds of 30% dodge... seems like a pretty cool idea to me, makes our mitigation a even more interesting, which afterall was their aim this Expac .
Overall I'm a little...concerned, but cautiously optimistic. It looks like we pretty much have the full toolkit now (although we still don't have a 50% DR cd, only tanks without one iirc), it's just a case of tweaking the numbers till we're balanced.
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So i tanked a few heroics yesterday and one thing I noticed was the fact that the Elusive Brew stacks have only a 30 sec. duration which imho is far too low. By only using autoattack on a 85 dummy (you gain Elusive Brew stacks through autohit crits) i never had more than 6 stacks (maximum 15) of Elusive Brew.
In the heroics i could never use it when i wanted or needed it because the stacks i had were already expired. I see Elusive Brew as the Brewmaster's counterpart of Tigereye Brew or Mana Tea of which both stacks have a 2 min. duration while Elusive Brew stacks only have 30 sec.


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LOOOL yea i guess so.
I tryed one on my ps2 n it ****ed it up completely had 2 get it replaced.
but if u say a led lasts forever then i dont mind
But out of all honesty i wouldnt like a sound reacting one because of all the irregular flashes..
loool this just BACKFIRED at me >>>
Wii17 wow....
Originally Posted by mk_south_london
i will never buy that sh**
I bet u that the wii's led lights r short lived enough thats why nintendo never made some crap like that. umm leds are never short lived
Pointless it's cool lol
Energy Wasting what 1 watt? lol
Your light wont last a year!!! 1 year = 8 765.81277 hours Leds last 100,000 so atleast 11 years (also your light on your pc is on constantly and guess what it's an led , i have 3, 2 blue power led's contantly on and 1 red hdd indicator constanly flashing and seeing as my comp is and allways on server it has been on for the past 5 years almost non stop)
I hope u can replace them you can duh, like the mod toad has completed
OMG YOUVE GOT A LED LIGHT...YOUR PIMPING it's just for show and kind cool i.e pc lights
Distraction while gaming if you get distracted by a light your a retard, it's coz of people like you lights on the outside of cars were banned
HOW CAN YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT THE WII OVERHEATING THEN GOING 2 BUY A CHIP???? won't make a bloody difference
Makes your led lights look broken ummm broken would mean they never come on....
If your answer to the above statement is : u can turn it off u know!....THEN WOTS THE POINT OF BUYING IT coz umm maybe u want to sleep at night... duh
Your not really gaining anything out of a pulsing light its cool, you dont really get anything out of a remote cept less exercise coz u can't walk 3 feet to the tv
I swear it will interfere with the sensor bar anyways no leds arent uv light so no
Yea instead of playing the game im gona watch the light.....now how about that for some entertainment umm it's jus to impress and cool to look at while someone else i playing
This chip would only be good if it actually STAYED ON during gameplay only...and no unnessecary blinking would be nice ! thought you said it was pointless and the led's will die now you want 1 on constantly talk about a contradiction, plus the blinking is sound activated
As for what you decide, up to u but ill rather keepmy default wii led lights, its better then them blowing up a year later do it then but i bet your led's will outlast your wii
lol i didn't mean to flame you i was just pointing out facts, sorry if it came off smartass, im tired and in a bad mood
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Investigators at McGill University are disputing the decades-old theory that oxidative stress causes aging. Using C. elegans, they found that disabling their ability to get rid of the buildup of reactive oxygen species (ROS), did not actually decrease their lifespan as was previously thought.
The team disabled five genes responsible for producing a group of proteins called superoxide dismutases (SODs), which detoxify one of the main ROS. Earlier studies seemed to show that decreased SOD production shortened an organism's lifespan.
The McGill University team, however, observed the opposite. None of the worms showed a shorter life span compared to wild-type worms. In fact, one variety even displayed an increased lifespan.
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