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Bay Area homeowners are facing unprecedented levels of financial stress in the wake of the current recession and recent housing market collapse. In all major metropolitan areas including San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, home ownership, once the passport to long-term financial security, has become a nightmare for many homeowners. Mortgages written at the height of escalating property values and employment security are no longer viable.
For years, California homeowners confronting escalating mortgage payments and declining property values have essentially been at the mercy of their lenders. Because of the unprecedented nature of the current mortgage crisis, legislation simply did not exist to mandate bank loan modification and foreclosure procedures in a way that would ensure any sort of level playing field for the homeowner.
On July 11, 2012, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Homeowner Bill of Rights into law to bring fairness, accountability and transparency to the state's mortgage and foreclosure process. This Act, which will go into effect January 1, 2013, is a first step in providing struggling homeowners with safeguards to better ensure that their legitimate concerns can be addressed within a somewhat fair and predictable procedural framework.
Up until now, banks have had unfettered power to initiate foreclosure proceedings at any time after a mortgage default. In a practice referred to as "dual tracking," a bank could advance the foreclosure process on a whim, whether or not a final decision had been made on loan modifications being sought by borrowers. This practice has exacerbated the anxiety and uncertainty of homeowners facing potential foreclosures and loss of their homes.
The new Homeowner Bill of Rights makes it illegal for a lender to initiate foreclosure proceedings (including the filing a notice of default or notice of sale, or by conducting a trustee's sale) until a final decision has been made on the borrower's loan modification request. This procedural safeguard will ensure that borrowers and their attorneys will not feel unduly pressured to push through the loan modification process as quickly as possible for fear that a foreclosure action could commence at any time.
In addition, the Homeowner Bill of Rights requires that banks appoint a single point of contact for borrowers who is empowered - or at least has access to final decision makers - to render a decision on a borrower's loan modification request. Up until now, lenders could essentially create layers of customer relations personnel through which borrowers would have to navigate to eventually have their concerns addressed. The amount frustration encountered by most homeowners in this scenario has likely caused a large number of homeowners to prematurely abandon the loan modification process and ultimately lose their homes.
While the California legislature deserves credit for passing these homeowner safeguards, the language of the Act still contains many vagaries that will require legal representation to successfully negotiate. Whether you are facing foreclosure or are just embarking on the loan modification process, it is important that you fully understand your rights and how these rights might be affected by the Homeowner Bill of Rights. For a free consultation to learn more, please contact the foreclosure attorneys at The Pivtorak Law Firm at (415) 484-3009, or click here to submit a confidential inquiry online.
Though laws in the area of foreclosures and short sales have heavily favored lenders in the past, more recent legislation has begun to slant towards the empowerment of individual homeowners. For example, in July 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law SB 458. This new law, applicable to short sale transactions in California, provides that holders of second mortgages and more junior liens must accept as payment in full the proceeds of an agreed-upon short sale.
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Last June, after an electrical fire gutted their century-old Brooklyn home, Steven Lawitts and Nancy Ranger counted their blessings. No one was hurt, and they expected their homeowner's insurance would cover them. Even though they had been careful to maintain their replacement insurance policy with inflation protection, they didn't bargain on the estimated $50,000 needed to upgrade their original plumbing system, which couldn't be replaced as it was but had to be brought up to code. "Turned out our policy didn't cover that," says Lawitts.
A whopping 61 percent of American homes are underinsured by an average of 25 percent, according to a recent report by Marshall & Swift/Boeckh, a company that tracks building costs in North America. Anyone with a mortgage must carry some form of home insurance, and more than 95 percent of homeowners do. But, like Lawitts and Ranger, these families may eventually find that even though they're insured, they will be responsible for substantial out-of-pocket costs if they're forced to rebuild and don't want to settle for a lesser home than the one they were in.
One cause of underinsurance is confusion about what's covered by very different policies with very similar names. Here's an overview of the most common options, so you can determine what's best for you.
Insurers also offer extended replacement policies, which add a cushion of an additional 20 percent to 25 percent of coverage to the value you and the insurance company agree to insure your house for. Depending on the amount stipulated, replacement and extended replacement policies "can both be good deals," says Jeanne Salvatore, vice president of consumer affairs at the Insurance Information Institute, in New York City.
In addition, there are supplements to those policies that you can use to customize your coverage:
The key to getting the coverage level you need is to select the right coverage amount. Homeowners often assume that since they were able to get a mortgage on their homes, their current protection is adequate, but that's not true. Some homeowners are covered only for the amount their home cost them to buy, not the total price of reconstruction. To get a more accurate idea of what it would cost to rebuild your home with the same materials inside and out, your best bet is not necessarily an insurance assessor or a real estate agent but local home contractors and builders, who will be able to assess more accurately the cost of rebuilding (which is often not the same as market value). To get a ballpark figure, call several nearby companies in the industry and ask for the price of construction per square foot.
After you've decided on your best policy choices, shop around. Even within a city, policies, coverage and prices vary widely. Independent insurance brokers, who work with multiple agencies, may be able to handle much of your preliminary legwork, and their commissions are usually paid for by the insurance companies.
Finally, once you've gotten the coverage you want, review it regularly. The details of policies can change from year to year, so be sure to read the updates from your insurance company. "When you get your renewal notice, do a side-by-side comparison," recommends Jim Hurley, director of public information for the Texas Department of Insurance. And be sure to factor in any home improvements you have made. If that new deck or renovated bathroom hasn't been reported, it won't be rebuilt.

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Like Toy Story 2. Intended as a 60-minute, direct-to-video side project, it was deemed terrible by director Lasseter just eight months before it was due at Disney. "We were all distracted by making A Bug's Life," says Stanton, a cowriter. "All films have their sucky period. It's just that this sucky period was too sucky and too late." They gutted the film and adapted the digital models and layouts to entirely new animation and dialog. "It was brutal, but Toy Story 2 was the defining moment for the studio," says Catmull. "We decided we could never fall into the trap of thinking, Oh we'll produce crap and great movies. Making two kinds of films is bad for your culture. You can't do great work in the long run if you think that way." Released in late November 1999, Toy Story 2 went on to earn $120 million more than the original.
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Try this: Take all the CG films since 1998 and subtract Pixar's movies. There's Antz - a film rumored to have been ripped off by Jeffrey Katzenberg from Lasseter's A Bug's Life concept. (Bug's, released a month later, made twice as much as Antz.) There's Shrek, based on a William Steig book, which took in balefuls of cash, as did Ice Age. And there's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, an "extremely ill-conceived" motion-capture film, says Catmull, that was made for an estimated $137 million and took in $32 million domestically. That amounts to one break-even rip-off, two hits, and one roaring failure.
Now try to subtract Disney from Pixar. Not so easy. Lasseter and Bird both did stints in the Magic Kingdom, as did Sarah McArthur, an executive producer of The Lion King who currently oversees all Pixar film production. (Stanton, incidentally, got turned down three times by Disney: "I couldn't get in the door," he says.) The reason we even recognize Pixar's name is because of Disney's unparalleled worldwide brand. (It's an axiom in Hollywood that there are only two real brands: Spielberg and Disney.) And Disney's distribution clout is a big part of Pixar's success.
If Jobs and Disney CEO Michael Eisner fail to resolve their conflict, Pixar will be looking for a new distribution partner. (Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox have already expressed interest.) Disney is hedging its bets. Next year, the company will release Valiant, an animated tale chronicling a lowly pigeon that becomes a hero in Britain's Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. The film, produced by John Williams (Shrek, Shrek 2) and Neil Braun, isn't just Disney's first date in an increasingly open relationship. It ushers in a wave of cheaper, faster, independent digital animation that will compete with Pixar films. In addition to Valiant, Braun's Vanguard studio is already developing two other CG-animated movies at half the cost of a typical Pixar movie (Valiant is budgeted at $35 million) and in half the time.
But it's never been about cheaper, faster, independent at Pixar. "People here love the characters, and they're aware that these films, if done correctly, are living things," says Bird. "If you refer to them as product or franchises, you get bitch-slapped."
There's a moment in almost all Pixar films that is a metaphor for Pixar itself. It's that rousing moment of collective action close to the movie's end: The Frankentoys rally to save Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story; the ant colony in A Bug's Life, inspired by the circus insects, stands up to grasshopper thugs; the netted fish in Finding Nemo pull together to swim, ingeniously, down. This is Pixar's own take on the rescue story: the point when everybody rescues one another. Art as a team sport. "Directors look over each other's shoulders, but they're not trying to impose a tone or a style," says Bird. "It's like everybody is helping me sharpen this knife."
It's late, and Bird has to get back to Mr. Incredible. There's flappy clothing to figure out and sweatboxes to get to. But before he goes, Bird insists that Pixar's technological prowess has nothing to do with why he's here. "My friends from 2-D animation thought I was selling out to 3-D when I came to Pixar," he says. "I told them, Look, I'm not going to Pixar to work on computers. I'm going because I know they will protect and nurture the most important thing I've got: my story."


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Farmers not Happy (are they ever?)
Farmers are just like University Students, never happy, but looking at this recent spat with Transpower, it looks like Farmers have a right to be pissy with the Electricity company equivalent of the Soprano family.
The gist is this – Transpower wants to upgrade their lines – Farmers want compensation (I'm guessing for damage to their property/cost to have them on their land?) and Transpower says that in terms of rights to free access, this was all settled in 1950 legislation. Which seems a little disingenuous because the 1950 legislation only guarantees access for service maintenance work, not a complete upgrading of the entire grid.
But when you are negotiating with the Sopranos, they tend to give you offers you can't refuse – Transpower has responded by threatening legal action.
This from the Herald
More than 50 South Auckland farmers will refuse Transpower access to their properties this summer, beginning a new battle in the war between the power giant and the rural community. Transpower last night threatened legal action if it was refused access. Communications manager Chris Roberts said that, if access were refused, restoration of faulty lines would be put in jeopardy and long power cuts could be the result. But Auckland Federated Farmers say that "unless access and easement agreements with annuities" can be agreed upon with Transpower their gates will remain shut to linesmen.


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Eugene, OR (SportsNetwork.com) - Elgin Cook and Richard Amardi netted 14 points apiece off the bench to lead No. 14 Oregon past Cal Poly, 82-61, from Matthew Knight Arena on Sunday.
Johnathan Loyd, Joseph Young and Damyean Dotson all scored 13 points as Oregon (7-0) won by at least 15 points for the sixth straight tilt. The Ducks shot 9- of-19 from behind the arc.
"We're very good at finding everybody. Everyone just dropped the ball off at the right time. No one was selfish," Dotson said.
Brian Bennett was the lone Cal Poly (2-5) player in double figures with 11 points, as the Mustangs dropped their second straight. Ridge Shipley, David Nwaba and Maliik Love all added nine points.
"It comes down to athleticism - they have unbelievable speed," Cal Poly head coach Joe Callero said.
Nwaba's jumper opened the scoring Cal Poly's first possession, but Young came back with a triple and Oregon never trailed after that.
Dotson sank triples on the front and back end of a 9-0 Ducks' surge for a comfortable 20-9 advantage seven minutes into the contest.
Midway through the first, Loyd made three treys and Young added another around a Joel Awich free throw for a 36-18 lead.
The Ducks led by at least 10 points the rest of the way.
Oregon won the rebounding battle, 35-27 ... The Ducks look to stay unbeaten
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Chesney/Zellweger wedding photo
Only because Kenny is from Luttrell, near Knoxville, am I posting this.
AP - "This photo from Carolina Herrera shows country music star Kenny Chesney kissing the hand of his bride, actress Renee Zellweger, wearing her Carolina Herrera designed wedding dress."
Man, she's hot. How did she hook up with a goober like that? Oh, wait. Over to you, Mrs. Bubba...
It's kind of hard to tell where her dress ends and the skin and hair begin...
Why couldn't Kenny marry someone good? I mean really. She's not even attractive (and it sure didn't help her any that she dyed her hair blonde...leaving it dark would make her look a wee tiny bit better). No only is she one of the worst looking celebrities, but also, SHE DATED JACK WHITE! SICK.
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder
maybe Kenny isnt seeing very well latley.
You all are Shallow cruel people!!
You do not personally know either of them; yet are so quick to judge someone on their outer looks!
Just because they are celebrities does not mean that they should be judged, let alone publicy commented
upon in such an immature and mean way!
As long as they 2 of them think the world of eachother and are happy nothing anyone says or
thinks matters! Come on people GROW UP!
It is wonderful to see 2 people so in LOVE! Kudos for Kenny and Reene! May God Bless and always keep you as much in love as you were on your Wedding Day.
what WAS he thinking?
are you serious? i think she is a doll.
Hmmm...what a surprise...she filed for an annulment already!
She's divorcing him now, claiming FRAUD. Hummm....easy to guess?


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Jeff Dunham
For a comedian, the ability to deal with hecklers is a vital skill. Effective engagement with the more belligerent members of your crowd can make the difference between walking off-stage with your head held high or cowering off in shame – depending on the circumstances, it's been known to make or break careers. In this respect, stand-up comic Jeff Dunham finds himself in a somewhat unique position. He's a ventriloquist, a rare enough profession in this day and age. However, when audience members get a head full of steam, it's often the puppet, not Dunham himself, who takes the heat. "I do come across that situation every once in a while," he says with a laugh. "I know how to handle myself when it does, and I won't say I look forward to it, although I definitely don't fear it."
One recent and particularly mortifying example of this took place at one of Dunham's corporate gigs. "I was performing for a big company in a room full of hundreds of people," he says. "I was making fun of the boss, but I wasn't paying much attention to his wife, and she's the one I really should have been watching out for." The more pointed Dunham's jokes became, the angrier the seething spouse became. "The point came where she'd had enough so she launched herself onto the stage, put her finger right in the dummy's face, and started shouting at him that he shouldn't be so rude to her husband," he says. "She was really shouting, and she was dead serious. People laughed and it was really awkward, and eventually she stumbled back off the stage and the poor boss was just sitting there with his head in his hands, and the show went on. These are the kinds of situations I find myself in from time to time."
Fortunately, physical confrontations like this are a rarity for Dunham at this point in his career – from the small comedy clubs where he started out, he now plays to sold-out arenas around the world. The venues may have become significantly bigger, but Dunham says that his act remains fundamentally the same. "The entertainment value is the most important thing to me," he says. "When I first started doing arena tours, my number one concern was how I would connect with the audience, and even more simply than that, how everyone would be able to see. We have video screens for that, so people can get a good view of what's going on, although ultimately the comedy comes from the spoken-word. It's all about the conflict and tension on stage, the acting and reacting. Whether you're 100 feet away or 25 feet away it works, and you get a great show."
In the past, Dunham has ruffled feathers with the wilfully offensive tone of his comedy, however he insists that he is an equal-opportunity offender, and that those who are paying attention will realise that his number one target is always himself. His appearance in an episode of the cult-comedy show 30 Rock seemingly acknowledged this. "They were doing an episode that had a bad ventriloquist in it and somehow thought of me!" he says, chuckling. "They just wanted someone to play this very goofy part, and the thing I loved about it is that I was making fun of them, but also myself. I'm a man who gets up on stage with a doll and makes it talk – that's not a serious profession, and I don't take myself at all seriously. People get upset at me for picking on certain things, certain groups, but I always ask them to take a step back and watch my entire show. I make fun of myself more than anybody else."
Every comedian has a line that they refuse to cross, and when it comes to his material, Dunham certainly has his. "There are certain subjects that you can joke about and certain subjects you know you shouldn't," he says. "For example, disasters where a lot of people were hurt or killed, or any kind of abuse. Those things for me aren't funny. Child abuse, spousal abuse – there are too many victims of that kind of thing, and those are areas I would just never go to." At the same time, he says, there are universal subjects that everybody laughs at. "Marriage, children, health, being fat – these are things that a lot of people confront on a daily basis, and you know you can joke about. If you make jokes about a bad marriage or a divorce, there are probably a few people who will be stung by them, but the majority will laugh, and when it comes to something like that, I'm okay with it."
Dunham will return to Australia next month with his Controlled Chaos tour, and I ask him what exactly fans can expect from this. "Well, for anybody who's seen my show before, it's not going to be the same," he says. "We've just finished shooting a new special which is due to come out in October, and a lot of that new material will actually be in the show that I bring down to Australia with me. It's stuff that people have never seen before, and it's going to look and feel completely different. More than anything, though, it's going to be a lot of fun, and the audience will definitely get what they pay for and more."
Jeff Dunham brings his Controlled Chaos tour to the Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday August 21.


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-- Hornswoggle tweeted the following after Tuesday's SmackDown tapings: "Hospital...ER...'nuff said"
-- CHIKARA returns to iPPV on June 2nd, with CHIKARAsaurus Rex II - How To Hatch a Dinosaur.
-- ROH runs two iPPV on WrestleMania weekend, which you can order at GFL.tv.
-- Here are the updated cards for the shows…
Night One:
*ROH champ Davey Richards vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong
*El Generico vs. Kevin Steen
*ROH Tag Team champs The Briscoes vs. TMDK (Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste)
*Lance Storm vs. Mike Bennett with Maria Kanellis
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*ROH Blind Destiny Challenge
*Eddie Edwards vs. Kevin Steen
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Reese's 1 year pics
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She is the spittin' image of her Mama, and so cute!ReplyDelete
Great photos =) I love your baby bump ones too, I'm so jealous - I went into labor two days before my shoot...
Wow they look so adorable!! Love the flapper look :-)ReplyDelete
Shut up. These are just precious!ReplyDelete
BEAUTIFUL pictures! Love your daughter's '50s flare ;)ReplyDelete
Very cute. And the little one isn't too bad either :pReplyDelete
You are beautiful!!! I LOVE these photos.ReplyDelete
ohmygoodness! How cute are those photos!!! love it!ReplyDelete
you, my dear, look like a model. cut figure, girl!ReplyDelete
these pics are awesome. it's always a nerve-wracking deal, family pics, which is why we probably don't get them done often enuf.
oh my gooooooddddnnessss... so adorable...ReplyDelete
These are to DIE for! Love the pearls and the hat and all of it!ReplyDelete
so amazing! love them! and you look gorgeous, too!! xoxoReplyDelete
hello, dear sweet friend..you must know i adore you =)ReplyDelete
i know you are super blogger and i can totally see why..
youre the sweetest ever..
but anyways, just wanted to let you know i "tagged" you in my post today.. so maybe you dont like that kinda thing, or do... either way, its there..
just in case =) xo
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Oh my word!! You guys BOTH look adorable. I just can't get over how cute 5ohbaby's little pigtails are :)ReplyDelete
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Then again, I haven't been getting much sleep at all this month.
I closed my eyes and five minutes passed before they opened. A jumbled heap of unorganized words, I somehow formed into sentences. With fluidity and form they created a poem, yet now that I've imagined it, I seem unable to write it down. I feel that if this thought of mine is spread across a page, that it will be tangible, that it will be real. Therefore I keep it hidden in a far pocket of my mind, so that it stays a fantasy, a simple dream of mine.
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"This is not what it is only baby scars, I need your love like a boy needs his mothers side" Second and Sebring by Of Mice and Men
A lot of people have been asking me what this means to me, or why I got this tattoo.
I'm influenced by a lot of music, but hey, who isn't? These lyrics stuck out the most. Not because my mother has passed away, but because I could never even imagine what it would be like. She has always been here for me by the end of the day. Whether it was self harm (as you can see), new medication, hospitalization, countless therapist and doctors, not eating, not sleeping and being both parents because I never had my real father around. I put it over a set of self harm scars, the ones that stuck out the most so I could look at the tattoo and see a wonderful song, instead of a bad time. So I could say 'This shit isn't deep, its nothing, it truly is only baby scars' I hope whoever sees this can maybe think the same thing when they are in a rut. I'm not here for any ones attention, just here to help anyone I can.
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Was just thinking about the top players drafted in the 2007 amateur draft and who they would compare favorably (production-wise) to if they stay healthy. This is based on my magic eight ball that I just bought and from what I've read on them. I'm not too good with pitcher comparrisons so any opinions will be helpful. Please feel free to add others!
David Price- a healty Mark Prior comes to mind
Mike Moustakas- Jeff Kent, but breaks out earlier
Josh Vitters- For some reason Adrian Beltre pops into mind (minus that one season)
Matt Wieters- Joe Mauer with less .avg, plate discipline and more power
Matt Laporta- I'm tempted to say Manny-lite. Maybe Justin Morneau???
Jason Heyward- David Justice
Rick Porcello- Beckett is often used as a comparisson.
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An interesting article from Sports Illustrated. I grew up in Springfield so I guess I always knew that people (Cards fans) hated the Cubs. A Cards fan even compares Rhyno to the anti-christ. Oh yeah, and Cubs fans are called Ferris Bueller wannabe's.
Some other stuff is said. I just need some more words, Read the article. It's good stuff. Word.
Maybe the Cubbies aren't so lovable after all- Joe Posnanski


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January 10, 2007
Albany -- The Albany Police Department's number two cop is retiring, and will take the job as Chief of Police in Metter.
Major Bobby Hooper, the Uniform Division Commander for APD, has been with the Albany Police for 28 years. He was interim chief in 2005 until James Younger was hired.
Hooper says he did not want to retire until APD recovered from a shortage of officers. Hooper said " It's a young department, but it's a good department. Citizens can feel safe and confident about the department. It's on the right track."
Major Hooper will take over as Metter's Police Chief February First. He will lead a department of 22 officers.
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Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by procedural level generation, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics and permanent death, and typically based on a high fantasy narrative setting. Roguelikes descend from the 1980 game Rogue, particularly mirroring Rogue's character- or sprite-based graphics, turn-based gameplay that gives the player the time to plan each move, and high fantasy setting. In more recent years, new variations of roguelikes incorporating other gameplay genres, thematic elements and graphical styles have become popular, and are sometimes called "roguelike-like", "rogue-lite" or "procedural death labyrinths" to reflect the variation from titles which mimic the gameplay of traditional roguelikes more faithfully.
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Early roguelikes[edit]
Early roguelike games put the player as the role of an adventurer in a high fantasy setting, exploring a multi-level dungeon. The player moves the character across the tile-based dungeon level, fighting monsters and collecting treasure until they find a stairway to the next or previous level. Gameplay is turn-based, with the player moving the character one tile or performing one action, with all the other monsters then taking their turns. Actions performed by the player usually required a single keypress, but in-game menu systems would allow for more complex actions, such as equipping armor or transferring items between containers. An important facet of roguelike games is the randomness of the game. Levels are procedurally generated each time a new game is started, and special magical items like potions or wands are named by random descriptor ("a bubbly potion", for example) until the item is identified, with the descriptors being shuffled each game. Another core feature is the concept of "permadeath"; players may save the game state between sessions, but this saved state is overwritten immediately on reloading, such that if the character dies, the player cannot restart from earlier in the game.
The interface for the original roguelikes, played on UNIX-based terminals, would use ASCII or ANSI characters to represent the top-down view of the dungeon. Traditionally,
@ would be used to represent the character,
#, and
- to represent the floors and walls of the dungeon, and
< and
> for stairs. Other letters and symbols would be used for monsters and items, such as
D for a dragon. With more modern systems, these simple ASCII graphics were augmented with detailed tile set graphics. Isometric-based graphical front ends have also been developed.
The Berlin Interpretation[edit]
Due to the expansion of numerous variations on the roguelike theme in the mid-1980s, the gameplay elements characterizing the roguelike genre were explicitly defined at the International Roguelike Development Conference 2008, named the so-called "Berlin Interpretation".[1][2] Some of the "high value factors" used in this definition include:
- Roguelike games randomly generate dungeon levels,[3] though they may include static levels as well. Generated layouts typically incorporate rooms connected by corridors, some of which may be preset to a degree (e.g., monster lairs or treasuries). Open areas or natural features, like rivers, may also occur.
- The identity of magical items varies across games. Newly discovered objects only offer a vague physical description that is randomized between games, with purposes and capabilities left unstated. For example, a "bubbly" potion might heal wounds one game, then poison the player character in the next. Items are often subject to alteration, acquiring specific traits, such as a curse, or direct player modification.
- The combat system is turn-based instead of real-time. Gameplay is usually step-based, where player actions are performed serially and take a variable measure of in-game time to complete. Game processes (e.g., monster movement and interaction, progressive effects such as poisoning or starvation) advance based on the passage of time dictated by these actions.
- Most are single-player games. On multi-user systems, leaderboards are often shared between players. Some roguelikes allow traces of former player characters to appear in later game sessions in the form of ghosts or grave markings. Some games such as NetHack even have the player's former characters reappear as enemies within the dungeon. Multi-player derivatives such as TomeNET, MAngband, and Crossfire do exist and are playable online.
- Roguelikes traditionally implement permadeath. Once a character dies, the player must begin a new game. A "save game" feature will only provide suspension of gameplay and not a limitlessly recoverable state; the stored session is deleted upon resumption or character death. Players can circumvent this by backing up stored game data ("save scumming"), an act that is usually considered cheating.
Roguelike-likes and procedural death labyrinths[edit]
With computers and video game consoles capable of more advanced graphics and gameplay, numerous games have emerged that are loosely based on the classic roguelike design but diverge in one or more features. Many of these games use the concepts of procedural-generated maps and permadeath, while moving away from tile-based movement and turn-based gameplay, often using another gameplay genre such as action games or platformers.[4] As such, the term "roguelike" has been used to describe games that possess one or more of the features of the Berlin Interpretation though not necessarily all of the features. The term "roguelike-like" or "rogue-lite" has been used to distinguish these games that possess some, but not all, of the Berlin Interpretation features from those that exactly meet the Berlin roguelike definition.[5] The phrase "procedural death labyrinth" has also been applied to such games, as they retain the notion of permadeath and random level generation but lack the other high-value factors normally associated with roguelike games.[6][7]
The "roguelike" term comes from the video game Rogue, programmed for Unix-based systems in 1980.[8] Rogue itself derived from concepts from early games, including Adventure (1975), Dungeon (1975), DND/Telengard (1976), Beneath Apple Manor (1978), and several written for the PLATO system, such as the multi-user games dnd (1975) and Moria (1975).[9]
Rogue proved popular with college students at the time, and eventually was included, along with its source code, within the BSD UNIX distribution package. This gave the ability for others to create software forks of the title, adding in new monsters, items, and gameplay features, creating several dozen variants. The expansion was also aided by the availability of the curses ("cursor optimization") programming API that helped users to create text-interface visuals.[10] Most variants of Rogue could be classified into two branches:
- One branch of Rogue developed the game towards the fantasy setting of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, with Moria (1983) based on the complex underground maze featured within Tolkien's fiction. Levels were not persistent; when the player left the level and then tried to return, a new procedurally-generated level would be made; the goal would be to descend to the deepest depths and kill the most powerful monster in the game. Variations on Moria would lead to Angband (1990) (another Middle Earth location), which featured larger levels and more variation in player attributes, equipment, and monsters, and often featured a town level where the player could buy and sell equipment before returning to delve. At least fifty (50) known variations on Angband exist, but maintain the concept of non-persistent dungeon levels and lacking any deeper story.
- The other branch bore out in Hack (1982), where dungeon levels would contain more specialized rooms, such as vaults and stores, and where the player was to seek out the "Amulet of Yendor". The game retained the high fantasy setting but expanded out from the Middle Earth lore. Levels would remain persistent once generated, allowing players to revisit these special rooms. Hack would eventually lead to Nethack (1987), an expansion of Hack but bringing together numerous influences from other cultural works, including those that would otherwise be anachronistic in the dungeon setting. Nethack and its variants would typically feature some fixed story and specific gameplay goals in order to fully complete the game, often necessitated by revisiting the previously explored levels.
Mainstream success[edit]
Roguelike games tend to be obscure through the 2000s.[11] However, more recently, other genres have adapted concepts found in the Berlin Interpretation of roguelike games, drawing new attention to the roguelike approach.[2] Action role-playing games such as Blizzard's hugely successful Diablo can be considered types of roguelikes, due to their similar premise: players slash their way (in real time) through increasingly difficult monsters and obtain treasure while traversing deeper into randomly generated dungeons to complete quests.[8] Salon.com's Wagner James Au attested that, when he visited their offices, "Blizzard's designers readily acknowledged their debt to Nethack and other Roguelikes".[12] Moreover, the permanent death feature of the roguelike is retained in both Diablo 2 and Diablo 3's hardcore modes, as well as Runic Games' Torchlight and Torchlight 2 and Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile.
Still, the first mainstream success of proper roguelike games was in Japan, where the genre is now popular. Its success is due primarily to the Mystery Dungeon series by Chunsoft. The series began as a Super Famicom game called Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon (lit tran. The Great Adventure of Torneko: Dungeon of Mystery), which is a spin-off of the Dragon Quest series. The finely tuned game balance, as well as the use of easily recognized 2D animated monsters from a well-known franchise drawn by Akira Toriyama, who is the creator of various hit manga and anime such as the Dragon Ball series,[13] led to the game becoming a sleeper hit in 1993—selling in excess of 800,000 copies.[14] The game was also voted the 78th-best game of all time in the Japanese Famitsu magazine.[15]
Subsequently, Chunsoft has developed the Mysterious Dungeon series by relying on well-drawn animated characters and monsters [16] from easily recognized and well-established franchises.[16] Chunsoft managed to flatten the steep learning curve of roguelike games by introducing multiple dungeons with progressive difficulties, hence delaying the introduction of more punishing aspects of gameplay until later stages (or only after completion of the main plot). In some series, the permanent death feature applied only to the hard mode; this choice has been controversial amongst fans of the older games who prefer more challenging (and arguably more addictive) gameplay. Due to its lower demands on computer hardware, smaller data-size requirement, and the casual nature of gameplay—not to mention infinite replayability—the series has been particularly successful for hand-held consoles and, more recently, mobile phones.
This format resulted in four successful sub-series: the Torneko series based on Dragon Quest, the Chocobo (series) based on Final Fantasy, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series based on Pokémon, and the Shiren the Wanderer series, which is the only one based on original characters. Two failed series were also created, based on the Gundam and Tower of Druaga franchises. The successful series have become "the staple of the Japanese game market".[17] The first Chocobo game, which had a less-punishing save system for a younger target audience, sold in excess of a million copies [18] and the first Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, Blue and Red Rescue Team, sold 3.08 million together, popularizing the core gameplay of roguelikes to a global audience.[19]
The no-save feature of the Torneko and Shiren series has not been universally well received by critics, despite being one of the main features of roguelike games. Worthplaying.com complained that "the worst flaw in any RPG is the lack of a decent save system"[20] and Gaming Age railed that no-save "[goes] against the very foundation of what an RPG should be."[21] Eurogamer, however, accepted that "its sadistic, repetitive nature ....[is] precisely what's appealing about it. The stakes are far higher, making the rewards much sweeter."[22] The latest Mystery Dungeon series to be marketed to the West for console is Shiren the Wanderer 3, for the Wii console, which features 3D-rendered characters. In the West, the game is marketed simply as "Shiren the Wanderer", due to the previous games' obscurity. The game has three difficulty modes: Easy, where half of inventory and all attained levels are saved upon defeat; Normal, where all inventory is lost but attained levels are saved; and Hard, in which all inventory and all levels are lost, and characters are brought back to the entrance of the dungeon to restart as Level 1.[23]
The roguelike genre has also received attention from Independent developers with the release of Strange Adventures in Infinite Space by Digital Eel in 2002, its sequel, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space in 2005, and more recently, Dungeons of Dredmor by Gaslamp Games in 2011. Alec Meer of Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviewed Dungeons of Dredmor, musing that its success might attract more developers to pursue the genre.[24]
In September 2012 Subset Games released FTL: Faster Than Light, a space simulation that has been likened to roguelike games, though the creators note that the game primarily uses roguelike elements to drive the game's larger narrative.[25] The game was successfully funded by a Kickstarter campaign 7 months earlier. The game mostly received positive reviews, holding average scores of 8/10 on Gamerankings and Metacritic. Leif Johnson's review for IGN stated that FTL "demonstrates that the Roguelike genre still has plenty to offer almost 30 years after its first appearance".[26]
See also[edit]
- ^ Berlin Interpretation (definition of a "Roguelike") from RogueBasin, a Roguelike development wiki
- ^ a b Hatfield, Tom (2013-01-29). "Rise Of The Roguelikes: A Genre Evolves". Gamespy. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
- ^ "classic.1up.com's Essential 50: Part 12. Rogue". 1UP.com. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
- ^ Nakamura, Darren (2013-11-14). "Cloudy with a chance of being eviscerated". Destructoid. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
- ^ Marczewski, Pawel (2013-05-13). "What the hell is a roguelike? We try to hash out a definition". Penny Arcade Reports. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
- ^ Doucet, Lars (2013-12-03). "On Procedural Death Labyrinths". Gamasutra. Retrieved 201-03-05.
- ^ Nakamura, Darren (2014-03-03). "Procedural Death Jam cites Spelunky and FTL as influences". Destructoid. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
- ^ a b Parish, Jeremy. "The Essential 50 Part 12 – Rogue". 1UP. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
- ^ "Fun with PLATO". Armchairarcade.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
- ^ Barton, Matt; Loguidice, Bill (2009-05-09). "The History of Rogue: Have @ You, You Deadly Zs". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
- ^ Parish, J (2004-02-11). "Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon (PS2)". 1UP.com. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ "The best game ever – Linux". Salon.com. 2000-01-27. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- ^ "Permanece vigente Akira Toriyama gracias a 'Dragon Ball'" from Milenio.com
- ^ ドラクエVSファイナルファンタジー 売り上げ対決 from www9.plala.or.jp
- ^ "Japan Votes on All Time Top 100 – Edge Magazine". Next-gen.biz. 2006-03-03. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
- ^ a b "RPGFan Reviews – Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer". Rpgfan.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
- ^ Nix (2007-09-20). "Shiren Wanders Into America – Nintendo DS News at IGN". Ds.ign.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
- ^ "Sony PS1 Japanese Ranking". Japan-gamecharts.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
- ^ Casamassina, Matt (2007-07-25). "Nintendo Sales Update – Wii News at IGN". Wii.ign.com. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
- ^ "NDS Review – 'Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer'".
- ^ "Torneko- The Last Hope".
- ^ "DS Roundup".
- ^ "Three things to get you excited about Shiren 3".
- ^ Meer, Alec (2011-07-19). "Wot I Think: Dungeons of Dredmor". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- ^ "FTL: Faster than Light – FAQ". Subset Games. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- ^ Johnson, Leif (2012-09-19). "Faster Than Light Review". IGN. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
External links[edit]
- Roguelikes at DMOZ
- rec.games.roguelike Usenet hierarchy at Google Groups
- @Play – A column about roguelikes and their various aspects by John Harris at GameSetWatch.
- Roguebasin – The Roguelike information wiki
- Barton, Matt (May 5, 2009). "The History of Rogue: Have @ You, You Deadly Zs". Gamasutra.
- Roguelike Roundup at Kuro5hin
- Introduction to Roguelike Games
- 7 Day Roguelikes
- "Video Games That Embrace Irony and Death" -(New Yorker)


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This is an outtake from Santi's journal, four days after we were there in Lower Manhattan ON THAT DAY. The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Yet another beautiful sunny day here. It's been like that every day since Tues., Sept. 11th. The only day we had clouds, rain and darkness was on Fri. The national prayer day. Felt like Mother nature was joining us in our pain that day.
We went down to Bowling Green today, met Scott there. We tried to get as close as possible to Ground Zero. The smell, the smoke was strong. There were times when I found it hard to breathe, my eyes were burning. Thick layers of ashes were everywhere and on everything. Like the fallout after an atomic bomb. There were solders everywhere. When we got out at Bowling Green subway stop, there were lots of people holding up cards with their address on it. People who lived in the area before 911. They were hoping the Army would let them in to their apts., get some of their personal belongings or bring out their pets. Massive endless roads of trucks carrying out all the debris. One after another. Hard to believe this was happening here in Manhattan, NY.
We tried to walk around some. Talked about how strange it was for us, considering we were just down here, in this neighborhood last Sat. We had done almost the same exact walk around then, looking at converted apts., wondering if we could live down that far from Midtown. How nice and quite, how green it all was just a week ago. Everything had changed now. Soldiers were at every corner, telling you which way you could and could not walk.
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The snowboard-cross and ski-cross races at Cardrona will be solid gold highlights of 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games. The two events feature some of the strongest fields appearing at the Games with likely medal winners too close to call.
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Among the women riders, New Zealand champion Rene Hollis and former Japan number one Natsuko Doi head a wide-open field.
Ski-cross action hits Cardrona on Thursday 27th August with exceptionally strong women's and men's fields. Canada's top five women including world number three Kelsey Serwa, Aleisha Cline and Ashleigh McIvor take on Japan's top three plus the number one athletes from Australia and Sweden – Jenny Owens and Magdalena Iljans who has five Winter X Games medals and six World Cup victories under her belt.
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