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Pros: Was awesome, wicked fast while it worked.
Cons: IT DIED!!! Just up and died on me today. Lot's of blue 'garbage' on my screen at POST. BSOD on boot. If I could get into windows, the 'driver not responding' error and recovery OVER AND OVER till windows would BSOD or hard lock.
Uninstalled driver, re-installed to no avail (when I could get into windows)
Popped my GTX 580 in, re-installed drivers, NO PROBLEMS.
I'm honestly stumped has to how this happened. Nothing new done to my system, No OC, no nothing. I just can't figure it.
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*slaps the annoying buzzing gnat out of the air with a rolled up newspaper* oops, sorry Jack. did that hurt? I dare you to post that weak ass comeback on another site. It would get thumbed down faster than you can delete your account out of embarrassment.
suntan lotion and extra socks. Sounds kinda...kinky.
sure, but i've seen sites that go the opposite way, low scores, abusive comments, that tend to drive authors away No wonder you don't post on other sites OoOOOoOOooooOOHhHhhhHHH! Want some aloe for that burn, honey?
If I get one more notification in my timeline that someone has unfollowed me I am going to march my happy ass right down to the Lush Headquarters in fucking Scottsdale Arizona and demand satisfaction.
Un-classy nudes in my inbox will do.
I think I have found some guys deliberately put female in their profile by simply chatting with them. You must be some kind of super detective. Move over Batman, David has arrived.
i could kill you with my thumb, you know. Why, was it in youre but or some thing?
now not know. feel not feal. you're not your. Go a way, your annoying! Their, I said it.
non-copyrighted know I feal stupid as fuck. I hope your happy.
First off, don't use your response to me to engage with Magical_Felix, it just makes you look like a coward and feeds his ego. If you have something to say to him... then fucking say it to him ... not to me. It's never too late to reply to anyone. However, I gave you fair warning dude.Next, a Wikipedia article on copyright? Really?! Did you read what I said? I said you were repeating things almost to the point of plagiarism. Nothing about copyright. Please, don't send links to articles I won't read.As for you not wanting to share "private information"... are you serious? That's your excuse for failing to answer a question. It's not like I asked you for your name, address, social security number, birth date, bank account number, etc. I asked you what country you came from. Considering the size of most countries, that's not asking for a whole hell of a lot of information. You choose to post on public forum then cry foul about your privacy. Truly you're a hypocrite.And I don't need to know what country you're from to know you're an idiot. You are the one who has been using stereotypes... not me.So stop talking about "your country" if you're not going to tell anyone where you're from. Stop using me to make useless attacks at Magical_Felix. If you don't have the balls to stand up to him yourself, that's your problem... not mine. I shut the door on him a long time ago and walked away. I don't care what he thinks about me or says. And honestly, I now feel the same way about you as well. Oh my god haha
As for what Magical_Felix posted, I, trully, don't care. I choose not to reply to his post for two reasons: 1. I've saw too late his reply. 2. I was too lazy to make a double post as I was using a tablet. Nymph is just trying to make you feel foolish for responding to my post. It's a normal thing to respond to posts on a message board. Sure it was insulting but this thread is insulting in that it suggests the US is the world's laughing stock when nothing could be further from the truth.But... Let's just say Nymph is right and it is foolish to respond to me when I post in the manner I posted to you... Nymph isn't someone who should talk. It took her over a year to realize that I would deliberately post in a way to fire her all up and watch her explode then laugh. I mean, the shit I would say was true... But you know, the truth can be embarrassing. You shouldn't take her nonsense seriously. The only reason she can even control herself now is because she supposedly has me blocked (she reads my posts anyway, let's get real) but if she does directly respond now she will look doubly foolish because she is supposedly using the block. That's why she always goes out of her way to say she inadvertently read my posts. Makes her look dumb and dishonest every time. If it weren't for the block feature she begged and begged for she would still be responding so don't take her judgment to heart. But yeah, she uses the "block" because she has to because she was so annoying about it and now I can say whatever I want to her and she can't defend her points. She played herself pretty much.
Look, whoever the president is doesn't really matter. What matters, actually what should worry you, is gerrymandering. That's why nothing ever really gets accomplished.Because of shady gerrymandering practices one party can win more house seats even though they don't win the popular election. In states like Pennsylvania the democrats can win over 50% of the popular vote but get only 5 out of 18 seats. It's ridiculous. Republicans are the monitory of the population but have a majority of the seats because of some "creative" manipulation of district lines. Probably should have posted this in the trump thread or whatever but it's all the same. All these political threads are all about the same shit.
uh huh https://upload.lushstories.com/963684914-democrats-democrats-kkk-racist-political-poster-1278101943.jpg https://upload.lushstories.com/567452619-Illegal-not-a-race-a-crime.png https://upload.lushstories.com/1875624103-Untitled2-300x225.png https://upload.lushstories.com/2000995666-LiberalL-24.jpg As I wonder who it was that "incited" that poor misunderstood guy in Brussels behind the wheel of that truck... Do you and barbilicious realize that this isn't the picture thread part of the forum? For fuck's sake... its bad enough with barbilicious who is clearly incapable of forming a thought of her own but now you too? You're posting on the level of someone who may possibly be mentally handicapped. Try and post a thought of your own. Your stupidity is more entertaining that way. Posting other's stupidity isn't funny or amusing or anything. It's just stupid.
If Melania Trump were a member of Lush, I'd suspend her account for plagiarism. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/19/melania-trump-republican-convention-plagiarism-michelle-obama https://www.youtube.com/embed/5NI1UNNCuAY?rel=0 This is all starting to crossover into the surreal now. Like some Spanish absurdist political comedy from the 70s.
At least four countries have issued travel warnings to its citizens of the dangers they may face traveling in the United States: The Bahamas, The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and New Zealand.Let's face it. We've descended to the status of a dangerous third world country in the eyes of other nations. Who cares... Do you care that I think it's beyond weird that you photoshop your head on other people's bodies? No, you don't. As much as I think this country has a lot of problems (just like every other country) It is far from being a "dangerous" country to visit. I do not care what the Bahamas thinks of us. Seriously, the Bahamas... Issuing warnings when a lot of those islands are dangerous as fuck. Get real. Oh no, the governments of NZ, Bahrain, and the Emirates think America is too dangerous to visit because of the police. That makes so much sense, what are we going to do? Holy shit without their tourism money we might as well just all kill ourselves. Fucking Bahrain.. please. You're probably more likely to die from food poisoning or get hit by a car on the lawless roads over there than getting brutalized by a cop here while on vacation.
https://upload.lushstories.com/2015050100-14_worst_movie_posters_ever_5.jpg Obviously you didn't watch that movie because it's fucking awesome. Hard boiled is John woo and chow yun fat's fucking magnum opus. Look, art is subjective. I get that.But... YOURE WRONG
I lol'ed
B A N G Bang but with a reach around because I'm a gentleman and a squire.
ok this issue was effecting Chrome on Android. i've just uploaded a patch, let me know how it goes.2 > 1 > 0 right Buz? Dude, the shit you do sounds like such a pain in the ass... I don't say nice things often. But, good job; good job keeping the site running. Sounds like a lot of work. Sounds like a fucking NIGHTMARE. But you get it done. Good job dude.
Thanks for the warning -- I'll start stockpiling Slim Jims and Red Bull for the impending Armageddon. You are not getting it. You fucked with wellmademale. You're not surviving the apocalypse. You're fucking doomed. He's going to shove the internet right up your ass and piss on your corpse. Wellmademale ain't no joke. He's a fucking predator. Get to the choppa bro.
The Passion of the Christ. That belongs in the BDSM section. You should know better. Keep the site tidy, dawg.
I've embedded responses in your original text: You gone and fucked with the wrong wellmademale. He's not only wrapping his head in tinfoil right now but his entire body. He's gonna read what you said and come slay the living fuck right out of you. He's going to put fingertips to keys on his grey plastic molded keyboard and fucking wreck every single thing you said. You have poked a straight up Internet dragon. RIP
You should always watch porn with choir girls from church. But avoid Mormons. They are just too physically demanding. cleanse yourself https://upload.lushstories.com/581521115-8ed747880708c2467f0214454ef40b7cec6ce886662932f5cf49d02cd6fb1675_1 (1).jpg
You deserve somewhere between high fives and a kick up the bum!D x We'll meet in the middle and I'll give your bum a low five.
Look at each section below and say which is the odd one out, and why . I'll write a flash erotica story for the winner! 1 St. Paul <--- this guy is the only non sinner of the bunchJacksonMontpelierLincolnNew YorkRichmondRaleighTopeka 2 TinBronzeIronMagnesiumGold <---- this one will get you laidSilver 3 Tiger Woods <---- has slayed more pussy than all the others combinedDustin JohnsonJustin RosePhil MickelsonRory McilroyAngel Cabrera 4 Winston Churchill <---- flyest hats in the gameMargaret Thatcher Dennis Thatcher Gordon Brown Sarah Brown David Cameron 5 Rita OraPope John Paul IIMother TeresaKing Zog <---- only guy who has the guts to fight supermanElvana Gjata 6 IndianaIllinoisKentuckyNorth CarolinaVirgina <---- more slutty chicks per capitaWisconsin 7 King penguinGalapagos PenguinEmperor PenguinRockhopper PenguinAdélie Penguin <---- has way more #1 hits than the other penguins Gentoo Penguin 8 FreezerFridgeDishwasherMicrowaveToasterFood blenderWashing machine <---- only one that can give a woman an orgasm 9 PeachBanana <------ same as aboveCoconutCherryMango 10 ChampagneSherryGuinessCognacAbsinthe <---- contains wormwood Chardonnay Rules The judge's decision (i.e.) me, is final The deadline to have your answers (in this thread) is 15th August, 2016I retain the right to confiscate Katie's pantiesIn the event of a tie, a tie breaker/spanking will be used to decide the winnerDanielle X I would like the character in the story to have a big butt.Thank you.
One time I clicked on a porn because it specifically said that the pornstar was going to be doing her first anal on screen. I made sure I was alone, I got my tissues ready, lit a fucking summer breeze scented candle... I watched the whole thing and there was no anal to be found anywhere in this 25 minute long LIE. I was so dissapointed that I didn't even find a new video to jerk off to. I just put my rig away and went for a walk to clear my mind.
All I see is wellmademale yelling at some kids to get off his lawn and the kids ignoring him because they are busy with their phones. Lol
What then, differentiates you from the murderer, or from those who used a robot drone to murder him 'on the domestic battlefield'?That's exactly what Ben Franklin was getting at, and it lies at the very heart of what I stated earlier. Let's just ignore our constitution and give up the rest of our rights, hand them all over to the authorities so they can do anything they want to us.To keep us safe (in their version of safe). You do realize that the constitution is just an old piece of paper that the people in power can chose to ignore or use to push their own agenda at any given moment. I mean, look up the definition of amendment. You talk about giving up your rights... You really don't have any rights. You have an illusion of rights. Even if the government decided to burn the constitution and the american people started a revolution and by some act of god won (yeah right) there would be a new constitution made and a new government would take over and it would just be the same shit again.Go on a killing spree... get robocopped.
Looks nice. The way it works can have some unwanted consequences though.For instance: I usually open Lush in a separate window in private mode, that I can hide behind a regular browsing window if necessary. I can imagine that more members do something similar, depending on where they are. These notification show up on top of every else, whether the tab that runs Lush has focus or not. So it essentially gives away the fact that Lush is running, even when that window is hidden. Don't be that creepy ass dude at the coffee shop logging into adult sites in public. For fuck's sake, man.
While it was deplorable that those five were murdered by Michah Xavier Johnson - has anyone given a moment's thought about Mr. Johnson being summarily murdered/dispatched/judged and tried on the spot - by a robot drone/bomb?Mr Johnson's 14th amendment rights were not just trampled upon, they weren't even thought about. Which means that we as society, by not saying anything about this particular situation - are agreeing to surrender our own 14th amendment rights.It's also one of the most blatant uses of a militarized drone to kill an American citizen.So, while it was a terrible situation perpetrated by Micah Johnson - it was an equally terrible decision by whichever agency condoned and ordered Mr Johnson to be dealt with as if he were an ISIS combatant.No apprehension, no trial, no judgement, no incarceration. Does it not make you want to know who made decided to implement this fucked up 'solution'?Side note link: How America's Police became militarized. The 1033 Program. It's not like they could just shine a light for batman to show up, apprehend him alive and put him in Arkham asylum. What else were they supposed to do? Wait until he ran out of ammo? Wait until he killed another cop or himself? Would you storm in there and read him his rights? Please.


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Review: Rachel Bilson in the CW's 'Hart of Dixie'
The CW's new "Hart of Dixie" (it debuts tonight at 9) is several familiar kinds of shows in one. Most obviously, it's a fish-out-of-water story of a big-city doctor - in this case, Rachel Bilson from "The O.C." as young New York heart surgeon Zoey Hart - trapped in a small town with an unfamiliar culture. (Think "Northern Exposure" or "Doc Hollywood.")
It's also what Fienberg likes to call a Vocational Irony Narrative, in which a character's strengths in his or her professional life turn out to be a huge weakness personally. Here, this theme is voiced by an older surgeon who explains that Zoey is too cold and remote to qualify for a prestigious fellowship, telling her, "If you want to be a heart surgeon, then you've got to work on your own."
And in her search for her own heart - which eventually takes her to the fictional town of Bluebell, Alabama, where she inherits half of the local medical practice from the kindly country doctor who ran it - Zoey is also becoming the latest heroine to try to help the CW find the heart it left behind when the network was created out of transplanted body parts from the WB and UPN.
The CW has been here before with "Privileged" and "Life Unexpected," two shows that tonally felt like throwbacks to the kinder, gentler WB days rather than the the cold, cutthroat WB aesthetic embodied by "Gossip Girl." Neither of those shows succeeded, but "Hart of Dixie" at least has Bilson, as well as, ironically, a cadre of "Gossip Girl" producers, with Leila Gerstein as the creator and head writer.
Bilson isn't particularly believable as some Cristina Yang-style surgical robot, but that's just the excuse to put her on the bus to Alabama, where she gets to show off the likability and comic chops she displayed for four seasons as Summer Roberts on "The O.C." (also involving most of these producers). She helps cut through the formula cliches, and the broad-bordering-on-cartoonish town of Bluebell(*), where the accents are thick, the gators roam free (and have names like Burt Reynolds) and the good-mannered people don't know quite what to do with an impolite interloper like Zoey.
(*) Though, to be fair, even the better WB dramas were sometimes guilty of this. Stars Hollow on "Gilmore Girls" - which existed on the same Warner Bros. backlot where "Hart of Dixie" will shoot all episodes after the pilot - took a while to evolve beyond a Rockwellian fantasy village.
The pilot introduces a lot of potential friends, allies and lovers for Zoey, including Scott Porter as a hunky lawyer, Wilson Bethel as the bad boy to counteract Porter's good one, Jaime King as the local belle of the ball (named Lemon, of all things), Cress Williams as the ex-jock mayor (and Zoey's landlord), and Tim Matheson as the doctor who shares the practice with Zoey and wants her gone, ASAP.(**) (The pilot also heavily features Nancy Travis as the practice's administrator, but she won't be back due to her commitment to ABC's upcoming sitcom "Last Man Standing.")
(**) Think of him as Tom Amandes on "Everwood," perhaps this show's closest WB analogue.
It's a good cast, and Porter in particular works very well with Bilson. The show just needs to find a way to transcend both formula and Southern stereotypes, then wait and see if there really is an audience for this kind of show anymore on the CW, or if the network long ago chased away anyone who enjoys a bit of sentiment with their attractive young stars.
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IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® offers a test management feature that gives you tools to plan, organize, and define a particular set of tests, including varying configurations that need to be run for a given test cycle. This enables you to closely track testing progress so that you can manage resources and schedules. This feature also provides a mechanism for measuring quality according to metrics reported across several key areas.
If you set up ClearQuest with the Enterprise schema, ClearQuest test management is included. If you set up ClearQuest with any other schema or a custom schema, you can apply the ClearQuest test management package to use the features described in this article.
In this first article we take the reader through the main features of ClearQuest test management and provide guidelines for implementation that take into account the structure and organization of the test team.
In the second article we take the reader through a step-by-step implementation of ClearQuest test management in a real-world environment. Note that this article will not cover product installation, but instead will cover the creation and organization of test assets after ClearQuest test management has been installed. It brings the reader through a full test cycle from creation of the Asset Registry to reviewing Test Logs.
Getting started
Before deploying ClearQuest test management, think about answers to these questions:
- What is the size of the organization that will be using ClearQuest test management?
- Is the testing organization geographically dispersed? If so, how are the testing responsibilities split or shared among remote sites?
- How many projects or products will you manage?
- What scripting tools (if any) will you use?
- What are the requirements for testing across configurations?
- What is the duration (calendar days) and scope (number of tests) in a typical test cycle?
- What metrics are necessary for status tracking?
As you read through this article, choices that you need to make in terms of how you organize your ClearQuest test management deployment will depend on the answers to these questions.
ClearQuest client software options
ClearQuest offers several different client software options. Not all ClearQuest test management features are available on all clients; therefore, the role of the user determines which client is the best choice. These are the ClearQuest clients that are available, along with notes on usefulness with ClearQuest test management:
The Eclipse-based clients show a hierarchical tree view of the test assets, called the TestManager view. Planning and visualizing the relationship of test cases to test plans is difficult without this view. For this reason, most ClearQuest test management users should choose one of the Eclipse-based clients.
- ClearQuest Eclipse rich client platform (RCP): As all of the Eclipse-based clients do, this contains the TestManager view. You can create test logs from the RCP client, but with the ClearQuest 7.0.1 release and later, you cannot run any of the test scripting tools except IBM® Rational® Robot. This client is a good choice for test managers, who may not need to run scripts, or for test teams who use ClearQuest test management for recording results but do not use any of the scripting tools.
- ClearQuest Eclipse Rational Manual Tester shell: From within Rational Manual Tester, you can connect to a ClearQuest database. If your role requires you to develop test scripts in Rational Manual Tester or to execute Rational Manual Tester scripts, this is the client to use
- ClearQuest Eclipse SDP shell: From within the Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP), you can connect to a ClearQuest database. Rational Functional Tester and Rational Performance Tester run on the SDP. If you plan to develop or execute using either of these scripting tools, you will need to utilize the SDP platform.
- ClearQuest Web: If your site plans to make the ClearQuest database available via the web by installing the ClearQuest Web service, you will be able to view ClearQuest test management data via the ClearQuest Web client. However, the TestManager view is not available from the web client and you cannot execute scripts from the web client. It is adequate for viewing query results and for recording test results when you aren't using one of Rational's scripting tools.
- ClearQuest native Windows client: As with the ClearQuest Web client, the TestManager view is not available. adequate for viewing query results and for recording test results when you aren't using one of Rational's scripting tools.
Organizing ClearQuest test management assets
When deciding how to organize your test assets (and, more specifically, the collection of test plans and test cases), start by thinking about ways to categorize and group them. You can envision many different ways to group test assets -- one may be by product or project, another may be by tester, another by the type of testing, for instance. There really is no limit to the range of possibilities. Thus, the question becomes what will enable you to make the most out of the features available in ClearQuest test management and to ensure that the tests are managed as efficiently as possible? The sections that follow describe a model that works well, along with alerts about common pitfalls to avoid as you structure the test hierarchy.
Understanding the asset registry
The asset registry is the largest container for grouping test assets in ClearQuest test management. The proven model that works well, based on internal use of ClearQuest test management by IBM test teams is to treat the Asset Registry as the container for all test assets related to a specific project or product. For a particular project or product, several test artifacts and resources are shared, including these:
- A specific set of test plans and test cases
- A specific set of features to cover
- A common release or testing schedule, or both
- A common pool of testers
- A specific set of supported platforms
There are specific features in ClearQuest test management for tracking each of these artifacts or resources. In the sections that follow, you will see how to use existing types of record to cover these common areas.
One common pitfall to avoid is creating separate asset registries for different releases of the same product. When you do this, you immediately set up a hierarchy that requires you to duplicate test assets from one asset registry into another, separate asset registry as you move from one release to another release of the same product. You wind up with a ClearQuest test management environment where the test assets grow exponentially with each new release. You end up not being able to take advantage of tracking execution history of a specific test case over several releases, because the execution log results are not copied when a test case is copied. And finally, you end up losing the efficiencies that ClearQuest test management offers for reusing test assets from one release to another.
If the test hierarchy that you are designing requires you to copy test assets as a normal course of moving from one release to another or one version to another, this should be a red flag that you probably are not using ClearQuest test management as efficiently as possible.
Another pitfall to avoid is creating a separate asset registry for every user. Unless users are operating so independently that they are working on separate projects with separate release schedules, a different asset registry for each user is not advisable. Standard ClearQuest test management forms allow you to assign an owner to each type of test asset. This is a better method for tracking which tests belong to whom, as well as overall testing progress by owner.
Using iterations effectively
An iteration in ClearQuest test management allows you to identify a specific testing cycle, along with start and end dates. When iterations are managed and used properly, you get some of the greatest benefits of ClearQuest test management. Iterations enable you to track progress for multiple testing phases of the same product that may be running along parallel development and testing cycles. Iterations also enable you to make the most of test case reuse.
The purpose of the iteration record is to allow you to "tag" other test assets in a way that associates the asset with a specific test cycle. Test plans, test cases, and configured test cases can all be tagged with one or more iterations. Then you can generate reports that show you which test assets were (or will be) used for a given test cycle. Iterations created under a given asset registry apply only to the assets within the same registry.
You can make using iterations even more powerful if you use a structured naming convention. A meaningful naming convention that identifies not only the specific test cycle but also the minor and major release that the test cycle belongs to will help with metrics reporting across not only the specific test cycle, but across larger releases. Let's follow an example of how to develop a naming convention:
- Start by determining the smallest unit of a test cycle that you would bother to track. Tracking testing progress with an iteration in ClearQuest test management requires you to create an iteration, and then to select some number of configured test cases to associate with the iteration. For this reason, iteration durations are likely to last at least a few days.
If there is a test run or a test cycle that would identify a specific test to be completed in shorter durations or more frequent test phases, consider using test suites to track the effort.
- Name the units in consistent syntax that helps you track them. Let's say that, during the Construction phase of development, you expect to run two test cycles that consist of mostly functional testing. Then, during the Transition phase as you prepare for release, you expect to run two more system-level testing cycles and one final regression cycle. You might come up with labels something like these for each phase:
- Construction: Two functional verification test cycles, labeled as
- Transition: Two system verification test cycles and one final regression cycle, labeled as
TSVT2, and
- Construction: Two functional verification test cycles, labeled as
This convention, alone, might be sufficient if your product or project is a one-time custom development effort. However, if you expect the product that you're testing to have new major releases or minor maintenance releases, you need to reuse as many test assets as possible.
- To facilitate reuse, prefix your iteration cycle with the something that identifies the major and minor releases to which the test cycle belongs.
As a result, iteration names would resemble this one, which indicates major Release 4, Version 2, Transition System Verification Test cycle 2:
This way, you have one test case that can be tagged and, therefore, tracked for more than one release, even if the releases are running in parallel. It also enables you to open up a configured test case record and view test run result history for test cases across several versions and releases.
Let's say that you have more than one asset registry to track more than one product, and both of these products are participating in a specific major release. Using a naming convention that includes the major release allows you to query across multiple assets registries to view test results for a given major release.
Establishing a naming conventions for iterations is crucial to enabling powerful and effective metrics reporting. It is also the key to facilitating reuse of test assets, which makes using ClearQuest test management more efficient.
Iterations are specific to the asset registry in which they are created. You can have an iteration belonging to one asset registry with the same name as an iteration belonging to a different asset registry. When browsing iteration names for reporting, ClearQuest automatically adds the asset registry name to the beginning of the iteration name to distinguish one from another.
Establishing file locations
File locations are records that hold paths to external files, including test scripts. File Locations point to network shares, and they can include IBM® Rational® ClearCase® versioned object bases (VOBs). There are two types of external files that ClearQuest test management uses:
- Test motivators
- Test scripts
Before setting up file locations, consider these factors, because the answers to these questions have implications for how you establish your file locations.
- What scripting tools are being used?
- Is the environment geographically distributed or not?
- Is versioning of scripts a requirement?
Test motivators are documents that may relate to the test effort, such as a project schedule, a requirements document, or a project plan. If you want to link Test Plan Records, or other test assets with these 'project drivers' then you would establish a file location for your test motivators. This is really an optional feature and ClearQuest test management can be deployed successfully without establishing file locations for test motivators.
ClearQuest test management supports direct execution of test scripts generated from IBM® Rational® Manual Tester, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, and Eclipse TPTP tests. If you plan to use any of these script formats, you will need to establish file locations.
If your environment is not geographically distributed, you can use a local network shared drive or location to store your scripts. If your environment is geographically distributed, but the division of responsibility is such that individual sites develop and execute their own scripts for their own areas, then you can get away with having a separate file location for each site. You could name them to indicate the location. For example, within a given asset registry, you could have a file location named Lexington RFT Scripts and a file location named Bangalore RFT Scripts. As long as people in Lexington do not need to access or run scripts in Bangalore, this will work fine.
If your environment is geographically distributed, and remote sites need to access the same set of scripts or motivator files, then you need to have these files stored in a multi-sited ClearCase VOB. The file location is then established to point to a ClearCase VOB, and that single file location is used by all sites accessing that particular asset registry.
If versioning of scripts is a requirement, then you must store your test scripts in a ClearCase VOB. ClearQuest test management maintains a record of the view profile that you were using when you executed a script, and this gets tied to the iteration. If the script changes from one iteration to the next, you can open the specific version of the script that was executed for a particular iteration. In this way, a history of exactly what was executed throughout the history of that particular test case is maintained. If auditing is a major concern, then consider using Rational ClearCase in conjunction with ClearQuest test management.
File locations are specific to the asset registry for which they belong. This is another reason why it makes sense to build your asset registries based on projects, because you would expect the script files for a given project to be located on a shared resource. Otherwise, you would have to establish the same file location in every single asset registry, rather than specifying it once.
The configuration record allows you to identify a collection of variables that make up a unique instance of a given test environment. Before creating configuration records, you must first establish a set of environmental attributes and define the possible values for those attributes. For example, if you know that you need to test on operating systems of varying languages, you might define a Language attribute. Then you might create values such as English, German, Simplified Chinese, and so forth. If testing across different OS types is important, you might create an OS attribute, and then create values such as Windows, Linux, and UNIX. Specific versions of these operating systems could be built into the existing values, or you could define yet another attribute called OS Version to capture more specific variations of each OS. After you capture the possible permutations using attributes and values, you can select combinations of these and create a configuration record.
As you can tell, you can use the configuration record to capture very basic system attributes, such as OS type and version or memory. You can also use it to define significantly more complex environments that may include client browser type and version, server system, Web server, database type, and database version, as well as integrations with other applications, and so on. It is really important to give a lot of thought to how you establish your configurations. If you have too many attributes and you define them too granularly, then you wind up with such a large number of configurations that maintenance of the list becomes unwieldy. You also diminish the usefulness of categorizing tests with configurations if every single test case in your asset registry is assigned to a different configuration.
If the application under test runs only under a specific controlled environment, you do not need to establish different configurations. Instead, you can use ClearQuest test management with a single default configuration.
One other important thing to note about configurations is that they are shared across all asset registries. If you establish your asset registries based on product or project, and these projects share a similar set of configurations, then having one common set that can be used globally is a very convenient feature of ClearQuest test management. However, if the configurations required to support different asset registries vary greatly, then you need to come up with a naming convention so that you can distinguish which configurations apply to which asset registries. You could prefix the configuration names with abbreviations for the asset registry to which they belong.
Organizing test plans and test cases
Test plan records enable you to categorize and group related test cases. Test plans can contain test cases or other subplans. Assuming that your asset registries are named for products or projects, a good model to follow for categorizing test plans would be to name them for product components or feature areas. If portions of your testing span several feature areas, another hierarchy suggestion is to name test plans for the type of testing being performed (for example, System Test, Performance Testing, Install Testing, and so on). These models can be used together, with some plans named for feature areas and others named for test types. This really depends on the organization. As with the asset registry, avoid creating test plans that are named for or specific to a particular release.
Test plans
As mentioned previously, test plans can contain test cases or other test plans. There are no specific guidelines for how to arrange test plans. If you can effectively group related tests into subplans, then do so. However, avoid excessive nesting, because that can make reporting more difficult. It also can make browsing in the tree view more cumbersome.
The latest version of ClearQuest test management sorts items in the Asset Browser alphanumerically. This enables you to organize test plans, subplans, and test cases in a logical order by inserting a numeric prefix in the name. As an example, you can then create a hierarchy of plans, such as this one:
- 01_Install Plan
- 02_Security Plan
- 02_01 Login Child Plan 1
- 02_02 Users Group Priv Plan 2 (and so forth)
- 03_Editor Plan (and so on)
A hierarchy such as this also enables you to report the status of test cases belonging to a specific plan, as well as test cases belonging to that plan's child plans.
If ordering of test plans and test cases is not important and using the numbering system seems too cumbersome, another method for reporting across all test cases belonging to a plan and it's child plans is to use one of the custom fields under the Legacy tab to specify a keyword that can be used to query test cases. For example, you could tag all configured test cases under the Security Plan, as well as those under the Security Plan's child plans, with the label
SP in the custom field of the configured test case record (under the Legacy tab).
Test cases and configured test cases
Test case records are where you identify information pertaining to a specific test. The information about the test case that is most important are the headline, which is what will show in the file directory (tree view), and the description, which will identify the purpose of the test case.
Test cases are children of test plans. Each test case record must belong to a single parent test plan record. Test cases are the parents of configured test cases. Configured test cases are created when you relate a specific configuration to a specific test case. You can do this by selecting a test case in the tree view and choosing the Add configuration option. You can also open a test case record and associate configurations with it, if you'd rather do it that way. When you do this, the tree view is immediately populated with specific configured versions of the test cases.
If you are using test scripts, and you expect that the same script can be used for each configured version of a test case, then it is best to add the script to the parent test case before adding the configurations. That way, the configured test case will inherit the script identified in the parent test case. This saves a lot of time when building up your collection of test cases. If you require different scripts for each configured test case belonging to the same parent, then the scripts can be associated after you create the configured test cases.
Reorganizing test assets
As your test cycle evolves, you may need to move test cases from one test plan to another. To do this, you can simply reassign the parent test cases:
- Select several test cases simultaneously.
- Open one, and change the parent plan.
- Then click Apply all.
This will change parents of test cases to the new plan selected. The only thing this changes is the relationship to the parent of the test case record. No new records will be created. The test cases will now show under their new parents in the tree view. This action does not move any associated script nor other external documents.
Duplicating a test case does not retain any reference to the original, nor does it copy references to test logs. Test logs can be associated with only a single test case. Therefore, if you have a test case that has been executed for a given release, and then you copy that test case into a new folder for a new release, the copied test case will not retain any log information. You will be unable to easily answer the question of whether or not that test case has ever been run before and what the previous result may have been. As mentioned early in this article, it is best that you do not use the Duplicate feature to replicate a group of test plans and test cases when you move to a new release or iteration. It is much better to maintain a single set of test plans and test cases for your project, and tag them for each iteration, as described in the previous section, Using iterations effectively. This way, you simply need to open a configured test case and view the associated logs to see the execution results history across all releases.
Duplicating of test assets is a handy feature if, for example, you create a certain folder structure for organizing test plans, and you want to use this as a template of sorts for other test plans in the project or in a different project under a different asset registry. You can create the placeholder once, then duplicate it for each test plan (with the idea that the headline and other metadata will be modified as the plan is actually developed).
Ownership of test assets
Test plan, test case, and configured test case (CTC) records all have an Owner field. By default, the person who created the asset is the owner. If you use the ownership field, by assigning users ownership of test assets, it is easy to create queries that allow you to track status. Because configured test cases are what you will actually run, it is a good practice to set ownership on CTCs appropriately. Users can easily create queries to view their own CTCs, thus they can easily see what needs to be executed. Likewise, managers can run queries and reports to check status by owner for an entire team. If there is a change in resources, it is very easy to multiselect records from a query result and change ownership of several CTCs to a new owner in batch mode.
States of test assets
Test plans, test cases, and configured test cases each have a State field. The available states differ, depending on the asset.
For test plans, there are three possible states:
- Draft (default)
- For Review
- Approved
For test cases, there are two states:
- Draft (default)
- Planned
Configured test cases can have three states:
- Draft (default)
- Implemented
- Blocked
It is important to understand that there can be only one state setting for a given test asset. This is a limitation of the test management schema. You cannot define a different state for an asset in each iteration. If you work on only a single iteration at a time, this is not an issue. However, if you have overlapping or parallel test efforts, where you might be executing an approved test for one iteration while planning the next iteration, then you may want a way to identify more than one state. If your planning requires you to modify the CTC to account for new functionality, you might want to change the state of the CTC from Implemented back to Draft. If you do this, the test will show as Draft even though it clearly was implemented for the prior iteration.
It is important to understand that the State setting has no effect in ClearQuest test management other than as a way to label a test asset with a certain state. There is no special functionality that is related to the State field. For this reason, you may not need to bother setting states at all. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Fields option under the Legacy tab to identify different states for different iterations.
One area where the State field comes in handy is if you want to identify a set of test cases as being blocked. If there are blocked tests, you can select several CTCs simultaneously and mark them all as blocked at one time. You can then use the Blocked field to easily query on which CTCs are currently blocked.
Understanding the Latest flag
As described earlier, ClearQuest test management allows you to associate multiple iterations with a single configured test case. As you run tests and record results, you identify the iteration to which the result should be applied. During the course of an iteration, you may rerun a single CTC several times with different results. To track the final verdict, the test log record has a field called Latest, with a value of either True or False. When you commit a new test log to the database, ClearQuest runs a search to determine whether there is an existing log for that same configured test case, for that same iteration. If it finds one, it sets the Latest field to False on the old test log record and sets the new test log record to True. For a given CTC and iteration, there should be only one test log that has a Latest flag set to True. Likewise, each iteration can have a verdict for a given CTC.
As you will see in the section on reporting in Part 2, it is important to understand the Latest flag. When you report on results, you need to make sure that you include only test logs where the Latest field is set to True, so that you are certain to always get the latest test results for the iteration that you are reporting against.
Closing one test cycle and starting a new one
Part 2 walks you through how a test team can set up ClearQuest test management using the standard schema and complete a full test cycle, from planning through execution. With the infrastructure, hierarchy, and naming conventions in place, moving to the next iteration or test phase becomes very straightforward.
- First, identify the next phase by creating a new iteration, following your established naming conventions.
- If test cases that were run before will need to be rerun for this iteration, just tag these test cases with the new iteration to identify them as Planned.
- Typically, a few new test cases may need to be developed for new features, or existing test cases may need to be reworked somewhat. You can make these changes and additions, and then tag the new or modified tests with the new iteration. (Note: If an existing test that needs to be modified for a new iteration also needs to be retained for a different iteration that might be running in parallel, you can create a new test for the new iteration. If this is a common occurrence, where you have to retain more than one version of a script for the same CTC, then consider storing your scripts in a ClearCase VOB.)
- Modify your existing queries to filter on the new iteration.
- Begin testing and reporting in the new iteration.
As you can see, moving from one iteration to the next is very simple. With careful thought and planning of your ClearQuest deployment, including the practice of establishing meaningful naming conventions, you will truly be able to unleash the full benefits of ClearQuest test management.
- Find out more about the test management capabilities in IBM Rational ClearQuest: Run and analyze software tests with Rational ClearQuest Test Management, an IBM® developerWorks® tutorial by Brian Bryson (October 2006).
- FAQ: Enterprise Test Management with IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7
- Enroll in RT210: Essentials of Test Management with IBM Rational ClearQuest V7.0. Build test plans, test cases, and test suites that contribute to a successful test effort. The robust reporting capabilities of IBM Rational ClearQuest allow you to easily view the status of your testing and the quality of you product. These capabilities are available in the IBM Rational Software Development Platform via a ClearQuest plug-in (test management package). Students can also complete lab exercises to reinforce critical concepts and tool functionality. The focus is on the practical application of IBM Rational ClearQuest to resolve common test management challenges. This is self-directed, self-paced online learning with rich media content, including interactions, quizzes, and virtual labs. Fees for Web-based training (WBT) courses are per user, and each user gets access to the entire collection of courses for one year.
- Enroll in RS120: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.0. This online course introduces you to using IBM Rational ClearQuest to track change requests. It covers the basic concepts involved in change management and how IBM Rational ClearQuest facilitates creating change records, controlling the change management process, and communicating status to project stakeholders using queries, reports, and charts. This is self-directed, self-paced online learning with rich media content, including interactions, quizzes, and virtual labs. Fees for Web-based training (WBT) courses are per user, and each user gets access to the entire collection of courses for one year.
- Visit the Rational software area on developerWorks for technical resources and best practices for Rational Software Delivery Platform products.
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Guests driving to the property should contact this property in advance. Please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
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Self parking costs EUR 9.50 per night
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Hotel is on busy street so no leaving windows open at night. Room was tight for 2 adults and 1 18 year old, would not recommend for families. Bathroom glass door had 3-4 inch gap at bottom so if privacy a concern this would not be for you. The additional bed for our 18 year old was more for a toddler, not worth the additional price since he is considered an adult. Breakfast was the highlight of this hotel.


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The Office of Continuing/Community Education at Kaskaskia College will hold KICK classes in June at the Vandalia Campus, located at 2310 W. Fillmore St. in Vandalia.
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If the characters were renamed and the title were different, you would have no idea this has anything to do with Mortal Kombat
I understand time is an issue because the episode is only 12 minutes long, but the writers make no effort to provide background context. At all. The whole thing is ten minutes long if you don't include the credits. Quick summary of what happens, "Kano and his baddies caught Sonya. Let's be rebels and ignore law enforcement regulations in order to go rescue her." Then a fight in a warehouse ensues... roll credits.
Dialogue was... well it was fucking bad.
You may have noticed there's a lot more bad than there is good here. But this is just me. I've read a lot of positive things about what other people are saying about this opening entry to the series. These are just my two cents.
I wasn't expecting a lot from the first episode anyhow. However, I'm desperately hoping that the show doesn't revolve around Jax and Sonya. We didn't get the opportunity to learn much about these characters in such a short time frame, but they simply aren't interesting. Sure, Jax and Sonya are cops, I get that. But good god man, the Mortal Kombat universe does not revolve around law enforcement. They even mention Stryker at one point (why does that shmuck deserve to even be referenced?)
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There has been no racket slamming, no flailing arms and no crying.
Considering the circumstances regular matches against Bellarmines Suzie Matzenauer, Bremertons Iliana Petrova and South Kitsaps Stephanie Davision, all of whom are state contenders complaining would be easy for Olympics No. 1 singles player.
Thats just not how Erika Feltus operates, though.
Shes always positive and encouraging no matter what happens, said teammate and friend Rebekah Kolstad, a junior who likely will replace Feltus as the Trojans No. 1-singles player next year. Shes helped a lot of beginners and encouraged them to keep working on their games during the summer.
With a roster full of youth the Trojans routinely have rotated sophomores into their No. 2-singles spot because of inexperience Feltus has been left to help several teammates learn the intricacies of tennis while facing the top rivals throughout the Narrows League.
(Olympic coach Don Patraw) puts maybe the fourth or fifth best person on the team in the No. 2 singles and hes hoping that I win, the No. 2 gets an upset and (No. 1 doubles) Stephanie (Miller) and Rebekah get that third win, Feltus said. I just try and make it fun for (the No. 2-singles player). Were usually next to each other and I try and get them to smile rather than having them feel pressure.
Of course, we want to go out there and win, but we dont need them to win every match. We want them to have fun and come back next year.
Patraw said he selected Feltus as captain for reasons other than her skill on the court.
I pick the captain and its not always the best player even though she probably is, he said. She provides a sounding board for me on what the team is thinking.
Leadership roles mean making difficult decisions at times.
Im not really there to boss anyone around, she said. Because we had 40-plus people there, he had me check out some of the girls to see if they should be junior varsity or varsity. Thats the most power Ive ever had. Its never been what I say goes.
A cocksure attitude hasnt been a problem for Feltus that type of attitude sometimes is viewed as a quality in a teams top player, too.
Shes gained some confidence when she lost to Petrova 7-5 (in March), Patraw said. After that I think she realized, Hey, I can hang with these people.
Facing Petrova, her classmate, is more enjoyable than competing against Davison and Matzenauer, both sophomores.
Both times Ive taken five games off (Petrova), Feltus said. The first time we played, I was beating her in the first set but she got me. Ive known her for a really long time, so its more comfortable playing her than Matzenauer.
Feltus believes the difference between herself and the top singles players in the Narrows League is simple experience.
It makes me wish that I had started when I was younger, she said. You can see that theyre dedicated to what they do. Obviously, the time theyve put into it has paid off for them.
However, that doesnt mean she just picked up the sport recently.
Both my mom and stepdad played tennis, she said. We all play at the Bremerton Tennis and Swim Club. I played since fourth grade and when high school tennis started, I decided I wanted to focus more and improve my skills with lessons.
The decision meant dropping another sport along the way.
I played soccer for my freshman, sophomore and junior years, but I always ended up playing tennis around that, she said. I decided my senior year that I would rather focus on tennis. Soccer wasnt a waste of time, but I wasnt enjoying it as much.
When shes not playing tennis or watching movies with friends, Feltus is busy writing papers and studying for tests in her advanced-placement classes.
School is important and I try hard in most of my classes, she said. Im an average student.
An average student with a 3.68 grade-point average?
Yes, average, she says.
Most of my friends have 3.9s, so Im average compared to them, she said.
Trading athletic experiences for slightly better grades isnt a trade shes interested in, though.
My parents asked me one day in sixth grade if I wanted to switch, said Feltus, referring to attending Kings West as a seventh- and eighth-grader. They thought it would be a better academic program, but it made me focus too much on academics and I wasnt able to have a life outside of school.
Her next experience will lead her across the Narrows Bridge to a school that has won 13 team titles in the Northwest Conference during the last 22 years.
I went and looked at the (Pacific Lutheran University) campus and I have a couple of close friends going there, said Feltus, who would be coached by four-time All-Northwest Conference player Janel McFeat at PLU. I talked with (McFeat) and shes come and watched a few of my matches. Ive already sent in everything that needs to be sent it, but theres a couple of papers that probably need to be filled out. Its pretty much in the bag.
And while the Trojans may be better next year from watching Feltus battle the leagues best, they wont forget her.
We take lessons together and we probably see each other four times a week at lessons, Kolstad said. Ill really miss her next year when she goes off to college. It will be kind of sad to see her gone.
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Welcome to Hostellerie la Sapinière! This 3-star Alle-sur-Semois hotel is 14.3 mi (23 km) from Sedan Botanic Gardens and 28.8 mi (46.3 km) from Caves of Hans. Chateau de Sedan and Louis Dugauguez Stadium are also within 16 mi (25 km).
Along with free continental breakfast, this hotel offers a restaurant and free WiFi. Guests wishing to enjoy a drink will surely want to visit the bar/lounge. Multilingual staff can provide tour/ticket assistance.
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While he would never admit it, Kings GM Lombardi has been sniffing around Sabres goalie Ryan Miller
If Miller does decide he wants to move on — and the belief is he wants to go to the Western Conference — a league source says there's a team that may interest Miller looking for a goalie: The Los Angeles Kings.
Are the Blues looking at Miller?
Miller, 33, is in the final year of a five-year, $31.3 million contract with Buffalo, which may be inclined to move the netminder, who will become an unrestricted free agent this summer. The Blues are believed to be one of the teams that inquired about Miller last offseason, but it appears that that ship has sailed.
Pat LaFontaine willing to move Ryan Miller before hiring GM
Pat LaFontaine has only been in his new role as president of hockey operations for the Buffalo Sabres a few days, but he's already thinking of how he'll improve the club. The biggest item on his to-do list is hiring a new general manager, but there's work to be done in the interim.
Among the biggest decisions on the player personnel side is what to do with Ryan Miller. The star goaltender is due to become a free agent at the end of the season and is unlikely to want to be part of a rebuild in Buffalo, which could take some time.
The Buffalo Sabres dug into their past in a major front office shakeup on Wednesday, firing general manager Darcy Regier and head coach Ron Rolston and hiring former Sabre Pat LaFontaine as their new President of Hockey Operations and former Buffalo bench boss Ted Nolan as interim head coach.
NHL trade rumours: Gaborik could move
Nov. 5. Hockey Central's insiders report that changes will be coming in Edmonton, although they might not involve former No. 1 draft pick Nail Yakupov — who carries more value than New York Rangers defenceman Michael Del Zotto right now. Ales Hemsky, despite his hefty $5-million cap hit, is more likely to be dealt. Hemsky will be a UFA in July.
Avs could targert Miller is Varlamov goes to jail
Colorado was considered a possible landing spot for Miller during the offseason, but Varlamov put those rumors down by starting 7-1 with a 1.76 goals-against average and .945 save percentage. The Avs appear to be legitimate Stanley Cup hopefuls — they lead the league in goals allowed per game at 1.46 and rank sixth in goals scored at 3.18 — and have 36-year-old J.S. Giguere as a backup.
Sabres are open for business
Impending free-agents Steve Ott, Cody McCormick and Henrik Tallinder could be talked about, too. What the Vanek trade showed is that the Sabres are open for business, but Regier said it's "too early" to know what value they'll have in the coming months.
NHL trade rumours: Could Miller to Philly work?
A summary of the latest trade buzz kicking around the National Hockey League, currently being fueled by desperate teams like the Oilers, Panthers, Flyers and Sabres — all performing under expectations and looking to reverse their fate.
Oct. 28. The seal has been cracked with the blockbuster trade of Thomas Vanek to the New York Islanders for Matt Moulson and a pair of high draft picks. The Buffalo rebuild we've been waiting for is underway, and Ryan Miller should be the next domino to fall.
In no surprise, Vanek says he was ready to move on from Sabres
Thomas Vanek could have been paid handsomely to stay in Buffalo. A source, in fact, says the Sabres were willing to make him the highest-paid player in the NHL.
Next up in a trade is likely Miller
Next up on the NHL calendar – #Sabres trading Ryan Miller. But where to? Few takers for goalie making that much coin.
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The New York Islanders have acquired forward Thomas Vanek from the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for forward Matt Moulson, a first round draft pick in 2014 and a 2015 second round pick.
Buffalo fans want Regier gone
Hockey people know the fans want Regier gone. Whether the team will ax him is another matter. Prominent folks are eager to see what happens.
Are the Oilers and Sabres close to a blockbuster trade?
And just so you know, there was talk Wednesday afternoon that the Sabres were working on a deal with Edmonton that would send Ryan Miller or Thomas Vanek and possibly both to the Oilers in a package that would bring Nail Yakupov and more to Buffalo. Whether it actually happens is another story. But as it stood Wednesday, the two sides had considered, or were considering, a major swap.


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I think Final Fantasy should just die. There are way too many of those games. Hey, Zelda is getting pretty stale, too. Let's trash it!
That makes as much sense as the OP (which doesn't have much sense).
I think all the little Mario spin offs they have done have been really neat and creative (minus something like Dr. Mario, never was a fan of tetris). I REALLY like the sports titles, Mario Tennis for N64 and GC were great, and I played Mario Baseball (GC) to death!
I think Final Fantasy should just die. There are way too many of those games. Hey, Zelda is getting pretty stale, too. Let's trash it!
That makes as much sense as the OP (which doesn't have much sense).
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FF is done i hate to say it but its true i mean how much "new stuff" can you add to the original ones? with the GBA games ya know? i just dont understand it.
IMO, it died after FF7. however the online game wasnt that horribel
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I dont get why people are saying Mario games are getting boring and its the same? They arent the same because all the levels change and everything. Its got the same CONCEPT, but not everything is the same. And if its boring, then fine dont buy it. Let all us normal people enjoy our lives while you play Pong.
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I don't understand how you can say that.Originally Posted by The_Loose_Cannon
They're a lot of stuff you can add, the latest ff game, ff12, is awesome and takes the RPG genre to new heights with its new strategic battle system. I just don't at all see how you can say that about the one of the best RPG series out there.
Just so you know each game has a different storyline, characters, battle system, puzzles, and world. It's like they're all different games with a similar charm that makes them all great.
Have you played all of them or are you just assuming they're getting old because the amount of them?
BTW what's so wrong with re-releasing the old games on GBA? Nintendo did that with LoZ and Super Mario Bros., so I don't see you talking about that as well.
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Yes Final Fantasy DOES deserve to die. Final Fantasy is waaaaaaaaaay overated, and Final Fantasy isn't that epic. Zelda games have great storylines, and have a point to them. Mario games are classic, and Mario will live on forever.
I'm forgetting you guys mostly only play Nintendo systems since this is a Nintendo board, so arguing about FF being a good series is worthless. For all I know you guys could be hating FF for the simple fact the main series are only going to be produced on the PS3.
There really is no use in trying to convince biased fanboys, it'd take too much time.
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I have actually played a Final Fantasy game once and it SUCKS.
So what if I'm a Fanboy? You got a PROBLEM with that?
There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy, but you shouldn't go and spout out things you don't understand.Originally Posted by Nfanboy
You may not like FF, but that does not make it a bad series. It just means you either have different taste or haven't explored it enough because obviously it's considered a great series by a lot of hardcore gamers.
Playing one FF game is only playing one FF game. Here's some news to you, EVERY FF GAME IS FOR THE MOST PART VERY DIFFERENT. There are more than 12, so you should atleast try a little bit of the new and the old before you go judging it as a whole.
Saying you played one FF game and then saying it all sucks is exactly like playing Mario Party and then saying every other Mario games suck without ever playing the others. The same can be applied to Zelda.
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