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My life concerning writing is this exact process.
My mind is a jumbled mess but I didn't get write today so its bleeding on through. I think I haven't reached my mental "point of no return" though. I liked the way this came out.
I hate reading and immediately thinking, "Ugh, why didn't I think of that first?"
It's odd how certain lines are so perfect and beautiful. I only have a few I've ever written that I'm proud of. I need to write more. It's a wonderful feeling being able to own such written words and say you made them as they are.
I'm asking for writing help on Figment for shits and giggles, but I may be scaring people away.
Last night, of all nights, I got a sudden idea. A sudden urge I certainly had to act on.
You know those nights? You're just laying in bed, ( rather early in my case) and you have this sudden idea. It won't let you sleep. It won't let your brain calm down. Characters fall from no where and their story lines completely unfold before you. All you can do is merely write.
You get up immediately, run to the nearest computer or notebook, and just jot down everything. Those few ideas turn into hours of typing. You've suddenly got paragraphs and those shitty characters you thought about during lunch just became the most interesting folks you've ever not formally met.
I'm the only one who does this? Okay.
I finished this movie up this morning and oh my.
When I think of Nicolas Cage, I usually think of Con Air and Face Off. Crazy shit happens and my mother has seen them forty-nine times. But in this film, Nicolas Cage plays both himself and a twin who happen to be aspiring screen writers.
I thought I was going to kind of dread it, but the plot actually kept me there. Hell, it kept me awake at 3 in the morn and that's hard to do when I'm that tired. Meryl Steep does as amazing preformance as usual and is looking as beautiful as usual, Nicolas Cage just as good, as well as Chris Cooper.
Maybe this movie put me in good spirits to write again. I have so much inspiration and a solid idea I'm currently doing research for. There is one part in the movie where there is a seminar and the speaker comments on the horrid sloppiness withh voice overs in writing.
What's your opinion on them?
Multiple chapters, etc. ,etc.
The song Love is a Place by Metric always reminds me of the first full book I ever wrote.
Now, I was in 6th/7th grade with decent vocabulary for my age and a daredevil attitude. I thought stories merely came from your head, were written on paper, and you winged it all the way through. I had no clue how to organize my thoughts into something readable.
To this day I still can't read that story I wrote.
Bri by Jalisa
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I also wrote a series of short stories in elementary school based around the world of neopets, which I DID read to my class every week.


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The next time Doug loses his voice, Rob will take the Critic's place.That or just do the talking. Because, lets face it, it's going to happen again and Doug seems to be running out of ideas. He's done one video mute, he's done a silent film, and he's called in Spoony and Linkara (and Microsoft Sam!))
Doug is dyslexic.That would explain the more ridiculous of his spelling errors. Plus, he does say his spelling is like "crossing a dyslexic with a complete idiot." Doug is obviously not a complete idiot, so...
The Nostalgia Critic Took a Level in Jerkass because Doug is suffering from a Creator Breakdown.Think about what's happened in recent years: Spoony, one of Doug's closest friends and one of the original members of the site, broke down his connections with Channel Awesome and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. A number of his friends/fellow reviewers have suffered break-ups(Spoony, JesuOtaku, Linkara..), the deaths of family members/friends(Nash) and fellow contributors suffering breakdowns(Spoony). The threat of SOPA and a number of dubious internet laws having the very real possibility of shutting down the site he's worked for, with bountiful Fridge Horror of this leading to the effective death of the free internet, and maybe far far worse if you take the absolute worst case scenario. And of course, Justin Carmical, one of the happiest members of the site and the oldest shooting himself. Perhaps all this, combined with the pressure of being a celebrity, is hurting him. Perhaps the Critic's Character Derailment is a sign of this.
The Nostalgia Critic
The Nostalgia Critic is Clayton Forrester.He's tall and skinny with a goatee. He changes his name often, and the place where he posts his videos is nondescript. He's Doctor Forrester. He's showing us these horrible '80s/'90s movies to find the one that drives us insane, and thus use it to rule the world. His comments are because, after seeing Joel and Mike and the Bots "riff" on movies, he decided to try it himself. This "The Bum" guy? He's what happened to Dr. Earhardt.
The Critic will become Dr. Forrester.After years of the Critic seeing bad films, he loses it and becomes evil. Then he shows others (Joel, Mike, and the bots) what it felt like to be him.
The Nostalgia Critic and Roger Ebert are different reincarnations of the same Time Lord.If NC is the first reincarnation, he has decided to continue review films, but want to do it in a more humorous way. If Ebert the first one, he has tiered of just reviewing bad films and decided to be a serious reviewer instead. But he stills unleashes colourful insults to bad films when he encounters them.
The Nostalgia Critic sold his soul to the Devil...a.k.a. Teddy Ruxpin. Well, think about it. At the end of the Halloween '08 special, that demon bear ostensibly killed the Critic; how else would you come out of a conflict with Satan except by selling your soul? Further proof: the number of times he's come back to life. Sure, Optimus Prime brought him back once, but the sheer number of times he's died and come back is absurd. It's even lampshaded by Chester A. Bum in his review of the fight. We really see the fruits of this little deal later on, in the Final Battle with The Angry Video Game Nerd, when the Critic, well, shoots lightning and resembles the devil, with no real explanation. He then resembles a different devil and bellows DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE at the end of his Goodburger review, with, again, no real explanation. Stretching the WMG a little further, at the end of the Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 Disney Villains, he puts Chernobog at Number 1, likely at the request of Teddy Ruxpin. It seems Teddy objected to the review anyway, most likely disliking the Nostalgia Critic's apparent pleasure at the heavenly light the devil is no match for; either that, or Teddy was objecting to the Critic saying that if the devil had a form, that's what he would look like, because that cute little creepy plush teddy bear really is the Devil's true form, which is of course why his computer was possessed at the end of the video.
The Nostalgia Critic is really Scout.I'm not really sure what my reasoning is on this one, I was half-asleep and maybe a little drunk when I came up with this idea. They have similar hats and issues managing anger. I believe there was something about the respawn technology slowing the aging process and bringing the NC back on the multitude of times he's died. That's all I got.
The Nostalgia Critic is Kyon.Put glasses, the hat, and a goatee on Kyon, you've got the Nostalgia Critic.
The Nostalgic Critic has a closet black guy fetishHe said he would go gay for Keith David's voice, and has a brief Ho Yay moment with Will Smith in one of his other reviews. He also calls Ernie Hudson so charming he's like a black Clark Gable.
The Critic is a CIA experiment gone horribly wrong.Years ago, in a secret lab, a group of scientists attempted to make a young man named Doug into a fighting machine for the CIA. They kidnapped him from high school and subjected him to all kinds of mental tests, which included analysing information like films and images. However, Doug was quite sarcastic and cynical. In his cell-hotel-room...thing where the CIA kept Doug, was a TV. Doug watched a lot of TV, including film channels. One day, Doug was injected with a hormone to make him fly into a rage at the slightest provocation. Anything illogical or remotely frustrating caused Doug to spin wildly out of control. He escaped the film room and back to his cell, where Batman and Robin was playing on the TV. Doug, still under the effects of the drug, bore witness to the 'Bat Credit Card' scene. And something in him snapped. He began foaming at the mouth and screaming 'YOU BASTARDS! YOU GAVE MY HERO A BAT! CREDIT! CARD! I'LL FUCKING SNAP YOUR NECKS!' He stole a guard's gun and began shooting randomly, killing multiple CIA agents. Doug became a fugitive, and ran all the way back to his parents' house, where the drug wore off. But Doug was a changed man. In the years the CIA had him in their custody, Doug had aged and become more intelligent. Deciding that Doug was no longer his identity, he vowed to review the crappy things he had seen on his CIA TV, and much more (including Batman and Robin, which gave him an 'episode' later on), adopting the name 'The Nostalgia Critic', and using his new, CIA-trained powers for entertainment, not evil. The CIA did discover him at one point, and they recruited The Angry Video Game Nerd to assassinate the Critic, but the Critic survived, at which point the CIA just gave up and went on to very secretly sue Seth MacFarlane for American Dad!! The Critic still suffers 'episodes' from his CIA treatment. These 'episodes' can be seen here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The Nostalgia Critic will become Gordon FreemanEvident through the following: short hair, goatee and glasses for one. Also, he destroyed a DVD copy of The Neverending Story III with a crowbar, and sometimes he tends to lose his voice. Perhaps at a future review, he'd be at a rage so bad that he would lose his voice for good. After that, instead of watching shitty movies, he will move on to Theoretical Physics, go to MIT, and wind up working at Black Mesa after graduating.
The Critic will succumb to Alzheimer's when he's older
The Nostalgia Critic is a masochist.He's said himself that the only thing he'd get out of The Lost World is that he's a glutton for punishment.
The Critic is manic-depressiveIt would make sense. He can be heavily depressed, reasonably sane and mature, an excited little boy or completely batshit angry-crazy all in one episode.
The Critic used to have an Ultimatrix.Doug was given one in an attempt to give Ben more help. Unfortunately, it was even less stable than Ben's, and glitched. Thus, he has his own human form, but carries mental traits from his Apoplexian form and explosive powers from a Prypiatosian.
The Nostalgia Critic is a fictional god-being.That is to say, the Nostalgia Critic is a work of fiction, but exists in between the real world and fiction as a whole, as a God that transcends both fiction and reality. He has godlike control over all works of fiction, as long as they are crappy and he reviews them. This is where he gains his power. This also explains how the Critic survives life-threatening injury. He survives it if he wills himself to.
The Nostalgia Critic is Karkat Vantus in disguise as a human.They both cuss like sailors, they're prone to frequent and infantile fits of rage, and neither Karkat nor the Nostalgia Critic like very many people that much. Let's face it, Nostalgia Critic basically has the spoken equivalent of Karkat's constant allcaps rage. But why has Karkat dropped internet trolling to review movies? Because he wants to show us all how awful the movies and shows from our human childhoods really were.
Critic has bulimiaObsessed with his looks? Check. Low self-esteem? Check. Gets unneeded Hollywood Pudgy crap from Fan Dumb? Check. Eats a bizarre amount of food? Check. Vomits a lot and easily? Check. Has a skinny frame but slightly puffy cheeks? Check.
At some point in the future, the Critic will descend.He has Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence, but there's a time traveling Future!Critic running around. It's possible, some time before in THE FUTURE, before the seahorses take over, he is no longer needed to sustain the plot hole, so he returns to the physical world, but by then, it will be long after his character's existence as a protagonist has ended and he's only a secondary character.
The Nostalgia Critic has gone mad with powerThe Critic's time as the fabric of the universe itself made him a lot more confident and threatening, hence the eerie and sometimes outright terrifying depiction of him in The Review Must Go On. Time will tell whether this new aspect of him will stick, or how much he'll retain the humility learned as Donnie, but the Critic seems to be a lot more aware of who's running the show, and what he can do if things don't go his way.
Critic turning evil is the underlying storyline leading up to the fifth year anniversaryWe know Doug could never give up his Character Development boner, nor Rob for plot. We have everything he did in The Review Must Go On, maiming the cat in The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, slip into creepy patriotism and Politically Incorrect Hero mode more times than you can count, acts like he Would Hurt a Child in The King and I and The Cat in the Hat, and even gets praise from the devil in the latter, something not even Ask That Guy could get.
Critic is going to pay hard for his violence towards EvilinaHe's being written by Doug "child abuse is the worst sound I can think of" Walker, Critic was like the sworn protector of kids before the reboot, and considering Evilina's relationship with her father, no way is he not going to find out eventually.
The Critic's coming back wrong is eventually going to turn out to be a Take That against the people who shrieked so loudly for him to come back after he earned his happy ending.With An Aesop about how sometimes it's better for a series to be canceled than to continue as a shell of itself.
Related to the above: The Writer is intentionally screwing The Critic for his manipulations in The Review Must Go OnBecause The Writer felt browbeaten into going back to the Nostalgia Critic, he decided to derail The Critic's Character Development as revenge.
Critic's world and the Demo Reel world are starting to collide.There's been a lot of �The Review Must Go On� references in the reboot, but the beginnings of �The Christmas Tree� and �The Wicker Man� homaged the beginning scene exactly, Critic is definitely getting crazier, Malcolm hits his crotch with the bat Rebecca used to kill the turkey, the Ethereal Choir from "The Dark Knights Begins Rising" keeps playing when he's abused or threatened, and most importantly, a miserable-looking Karl and Quinn are in the bar (that, as a bonus, is the same one Critic hallucinated in The Shining) at the end of the latter episode.
Critic's soul was left in the Plot Hole/PurgatoryAs people have pointed out, the Critic has been acting a lot more like a jerk in the recent run, and more violent than usual. It can be interpreted as Doug doing a Take That against the audience who demanded the Nostalgia Critic's return, but it can be said that something happened when the Critic was taken out of Purgatory. Rather, his soul is still in the Plot Hole while his body was sent into Purgatory. A similar thing happened in Supernatural, where Sam starts acting more violent and depraved because his soul was still in Hell while his body was on Earth without his soul. It is either this or...
Doug was a Jerkass Genie and Literal GenieThe fans wanted the Nostalgia Critic back? Doug gave them that wish - the Nostalgia Critic reverted back to what he was in the beginning completely before all his development as an individual.
The Critic's Past
The Nostalgia Critic was abandoned at the altar years ago.Years ago, The Nostalgia Critic as a young boy had overprotective parents who refused to let him watch movies. Every time he says he enjoyed or disliked something as a kid, he's referring to something a friend showed him. When he grew up, he met a woman who was an amateur movie critic. They began dating, and every week, they would watch a bad movie together, making jokes about how bad it was. Eventually, they decided to get married, but That Guy, the Critic's Evil Counterpart kills her on the wedding day, leaving the Critic at the altar. Now, the Critic is bitter, still not knowing what happened to his fiancee all those years ago. Even to this day, however, now having learned what a good movie is, he continues their Bad Movie tradition in the form of movie reviews.
Alternatively, he was raped.
The Critic has had a bad experience with holograms
His dad left at some point.And by that I mean Daddy Critic, not Daddy Walker. Think about it, other than the Abusive Parents talk which involved both of them, he's mentioned his Dad once and that was only a line in the commercials special about what he would think. Which could also serve as a reason why he's so attached to his mom, even though she's been established as being just as horrible.
The Nostalgia Critic's parents are the parents of the magic gun.There's no indication that they haven't tried to find another way of harnessing their dark god. Let's face it, they'd be seen as monsters by the Critic.
His parents spoiled him.To make up for their many, many shortcomings. He's mentioned begging them for anything he liked in a commercial, he loves Christmas (although still believes in Santa) but is never satisfied with his presents afterwards and they took him out for a nice meal whenever he got a A-.
The Other Guy spent most of time with nicer relatives of the family.We know from Critic liking his granddad that nice-ish relatives exist and even though The Other Guy is an asshole with problems (like being proud to admit he's the Critic's puppet master), he's still much calmer and more responsible than his brother. So while Critic as a kid was in a constantly bad environment, he had a better childhood.
Daddy Critic had a Hair-Trigger Temper.It would explain Critic's own childish temper tantrums, why he punished him so badly when he mouthed off once and why Critic clings to his mom (who in turn sounds like a Why Did You Make Me Hit You? kind of abuser).
Critic and Ask That Guy's parents wanted twins, but not two boys.Critic's pouted about growing up as a girl for a short time. Ask That Guy's complained about how dying with your parents would get them yelling at you to die more manly-like. Mommy and Daddy Glasses more than likely pushed them into the set gender roles when the boys didn't want to, thus setting them both up to be Sissy Villains.
He got attacked by a pedophile when he was little and is now repressing it.Let's look at what he's said and how he's acted in the past. He says defensively that he was an early bloomer, he's desperate for any kind of attention and has had a generally unsafe sex life for a very long time, he's complained about being ugly as a child (so would want someone to like him), his parents did the sensible thing for a change and taught him about stranger danger, he was curious enough in the commercials to call suspected pedophiles and didn't hang up despite being disgusted, and in Hook he assumes everyone has repressed childhood memories. Plus, it would fit the Adult Fear-laden/Hilariously Abusive Childhood angle he's always taken.
The Overly Long Gag of the Critic's "mother�s uncle�s nephew�s father�s brother�s sister�s cousin�s son�s grandfather�s great aunt�s niece" dying from the Star Trek Generations review actually happened in the Critic's past, and is the same Melissa from the NES Godzilla CreepypastaThere are no words...
Three Amigos
Ask That Guy With The Glasses, The Nostalgia Critic and/or Chester A. Bum
That Guy With the Glasses, The Nostalgia Critic(s) and Chester A. Bum are all clones......of Douglas Walker. The status of their clone progenitor is unknown. But in the TGWTG 'verse, perfect human cloning exists (see Linkara's X-Men #424 review). This explains why NC, CAB and TGWTG can all be seen in the same conversation and why NC keeps coming back even after being killed several times. Or maybe Optimus Prime just likes dying for him :)
The Nostalgia Critic, That Guy With The Glasses and Chester A Bum are all the same people.But of different time periods. In the near future, the Critic will review a movie so irredeemably bad it wil make the Garbage Pail Kids movie seem ''decent'' by comparison. He will lose his f*** ing mind and become That Guy With The Glasses. Later he'll realise how horrible a person he's become and jump off a cliff. When he wakes up his brain will be damaged and with no money becomes Chester A Bum. The Future Nostalgia Critic is when Chester A Bum finally gets his CHANGE! and will have enough money to get a therapist. Thus reverting to his old self
Ask That Guy is the Critic's biological father.It would explain why they look the same. For that matter, the Bum could be Ask That Guy's kid as well.
Ask that Guy, Chester A Bum and the Nostalgia Critic are (or were) split personalities.Specifically, of the original Doug Walker. In order to escape the abuse that life has given him, Mr Critic developed two different personalities. Ask that Guy essentially serves as an outlet for his more violent and disturbed actions, while the Nostalgia Critic provides an outlet for his cynicsm and Man Child behaviour. The original personality became Chester A Bum, who, thanks to the other two personalities diverting all the pain and rage, became happy all the time. However, several events would end up seperating the three. Ask that Guy became a more independent entity after selling his soul to the Devil, and gained the ability to gain a temporary physical form. This, combined with punches in time and hypertime destabilisation ended up fully seperating the three personalities. Now that the bonds are broken, their personalities have become more unstable.
Ask That Guy and Chester A Bum are future versions of the Critic, respectively.The Critic is already one big woobie, and more than a little psychotic. In one timeline, the Critic broke down into despair due to his miserable life, and lost his job. In order to deal with this, he ended up taking a bunch of drugs, and get himself a whole new personality. This is why Chester loves every movie, even Twilight. On the other side of Hypertime, he plain old broke, had a Heel-Face Turn and became Ask That Guy. Hence why Ask That Guy retains many character traits of the Nostalgia Critic, yet on a far more demented level. Both Chester and Ask That Guy have been sent back in time by the other Channel Awesome crew. They want to ensure that neither side becomes the Critic's future, by scaring the Nostalgia Critic straight. The "future Critic" is in fact an Alternate Universe version of the Critic, from a world where his parents were actually decent people. He's in charge of this whole operation, and is writing wrongs in various universes. He's also the Champion of his universe, and was one of the first to fight off Lord Vyce.
The Critic, Ask That Guy, and Chester A Bum are brothersBoth the Critic and Ask That Guy had a Hilariously Abusive Childhood, with several notable similarities. Chester also seems to have had a rather bizarre past (if his "I (insert joke here) once!" lines are any indication). I think they suffered the same terrible childhood together and just deal with it differently. Chester turned to drugs to forget his experiences, ending up as a homeless addict with so many confused memories that he honestly isn't sure what did and didn't happen to him any more. Critic chooses to wallow in self pity, becoming a Jerkass Woobie in the process, and takes his frustration out on nostalgic movies and TV shows as a way of rebelling against his own childhood (hating not on his own experiences, but the entertainment from the period that reminds him of it). He also subconsciously tries to retroactively ruin the childhoods of others out of jealousy, by tearing down their pleasant memories of the past. Ask That Guy...he quite simply went mad. Understandable, really. Also, all three of them kinda look alike.
Chester A Bum will one day review a movie that even he can't give a positive view.We know its possible-despite being the antithesis of the Caustic Critic, Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 proved so bad that he was struggling to give it a positive review. Clearly there is a point where Chester has to admit "this is a bad movie." Given how bad Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 was, I shudder to think how bad this movie will be.
Critic & Chick
Nostalgia Critic and Nostalgia Chick are secret long lost twins!Just like He-Man and She-Ra! If they ever find out about it, then they are gonna be pissed.
Other Characters
Ma-Ti is actually a manifestation of The Nostalgia Critic's abused/abusive subconscious.His history clearly shows he has seen a lot of terrible cartoons on television, but it were his memories on Captain Planet that created this "unimaginary friend" based on the character Ma-Ti. He simply made him up just so he could torture him and suppress his thoughts on those crappy toons. When this guy, now known as Nostalgia Critic, finally found a way to express his opinion on those cartoons through the website, Ma-Ti saw this as a clean shot to get back at him for all the years of endless mind torture.
Ma-Ti left the Planeteers on less-than-amiable terms.If this troper had to guess, it involved being a Romantic Runner-Up, the matter of What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?, and/or the rest of the Planeteers Jumping Off the Slippery Slope at some point.
Ma-Ti will be brought back from the dead.However, he will Come Back Wrong, Horribly Wrong.
As part of the theory that the Nostalgia Critic is becoming mad with power, Black Lantern Ma-Ti will be what pushes him over the edge.Each time something bad happens to Ma-Ti, it usually foreshadows something big(and usually bad) will happen to the Nostalgia Critic. In the third anniversary Ma-Ti died, and the Nostalgia Critic began a plummet towards the Despair Event Horizon. In the fourth anniversary Ma-Ti became the Plot Hole, and the Nostalgia Critic became the universe. The final straw will come when someone(possibly a surviving General Zod who plans to use the power of the Black Lanterns to kill Ma-Ti) or something(possibly what's left of Spoony's black ring after Linkara merged his Black Lantern and clone selves). Seeing his friend twisted like this and out for his emotion-rich heart in Critic snapping. Also, the Nostalgia Critic likely doesn't know anything about Black Lanterns since he's not a major comic fan, which will likely result in his heart being ripped out. Instead of joining the Black Lantern Corps(though his body might for a brief minute), being in the afterlife will unlock power obtained from the Plot Hole, and blast away the undead Ma-Ti(or at least transport him away, possibly to form a Black Lantern army of other dead people the Nostalgia Critic has an emotional connection to him). Finally, a Black Lantern Ma-Ti yelling "HEART" while ripping them out is too good a pun not to use.
Rachel and Malcolm
Other Planeteers will appear.Malcolm can play Kwame and Rachel can play a brunette Linka (since she's more interesting than Gi)
The Devil and Evilina will team up with Mara Wilson at some point.
The reviews during "Nicolas Cage Month" will include subplots involving Rachel's departure and the arrival of her replacement.Its been revealed that Rachel is leaving Channel Awesome because she's moving back to her home state of California. Now, the way I see it, the first review on the 7th will be Rachel's final appearance as a cast member and will center around her being Put on a Bus, while the second review on the 21st will focus on the rest of the NC Cast finding a new girl to take her place. I didn't include the Editorials for the 14th and 28th because the Editorials are, for the most part, separate videos from the Nostalgia Critic's show.
Despite her moving away, Rachel will make a guest appearance every once in a while.You never know.
Hyper Fangirl isn't going to get what she wants.While she shouldn't anyway because stalking still isn't okay when it's female > male, but in Doug's vlog of �The Suitor�, he talks about how much he hates the �if I love you to a creepy extent then you'll love me back� clich�, and that he enjoys any show trying to prove how that's a bad idea.
Tamara, Malcolm and Rachel aren't real peopleAnd it's not like Critic's talking to nobody, but they exist just for him and when he needs them (for instance, they forced him to do The Lorax and they don't show up for the next two episodes, instead we get the ego-stroking he wants and that they just can't provide with a fangirl and Willy Wonka), Doug confirmed in the Disney Afternoon commentary that Critic treats them like toys which feeds into his need for power, Rachel left and hasn't been thought of since, he's had to put them in glasses to make them smarter, Tamara is literally there to be a more violent Satellite Love Interest, Kyle and Paw were confused when he talked to Rachel and Malcolm in the Les Mis�rables review, and as the reboot is teaming with "The Review Must Go On" references, it'd be more weird if something wasn't happening.
Douchey McNitpick
Douchey McNitpick is AutisticOr rather Douchey is one of those bastards that claim to have Asberger's on the net to gain sympathy while trolling.
Douchey McNitpick is why Death Is Cheap.Douchey exists solely to be a troll. Through Noodle Implements, he stole a Lazarus Pit. He modified it so that being dunked in it wouldn't make you insane. Whenever the Nostalgia Critic is killed or kills himself, Douchey throws him into the pit, thus resurrecting him- so he can troll some more. Alternatively, he is the Grim Reaper in disguise, and doesn't bother to keep him dead for the same reason.
Douchey McNitpick and John from The Room Movie Dot Com are related.They both look similar and both scream 'Noooooooo!' in a whiny voice while flailing wildly. They both also seem obsessive in nature (Douchey picking out every little mistake with the Nostalgia Critic and John defending Tommy Wiseau's image).
Roger, The Guardian Angel
God was being sarcastic when he told Roger angels couldn't be killed.Unfortunately, Roger didn't pick up on it and ended up the only killed angel.
Roger will come back and give Critic an epic What the Hell, Hero? speechHis last appearance was in Scooby-Doo, where he was pissed at the Critic for always making mistakes, but was also kind when it mattered, pushed him into taking a chance to make his life better and implied that he'd always be watching over him. Critic's practically given up on what he learned in that episode and beyond, and is now the devil's favorite. Roger must be wanting to smite his ass.
Melvin, Brother of the Joker
Melvin survived.After being "killed" at the charity drive, he simply went into hiding to avoid further vengeance for his suckitude. Plastic surgery fixed his scars, but to hide the rest of his features he took to wearing a mask. Now he torments Spoony as... Chuckles the Fucking Jester! Alternately, he was Chuckles first. Do you wanna know how he got those scars? Burton the Robot fired a laser at him while he was holding that CD in front of his face. As he runs off crying, you can see shards and quite a bit of blood coming from the area around his mouth.
Zack/Jack the Psycho Maniac
Zack the Psycho Maniac is NOT Zack the Lego Maniac.In "Revenge of the Commercials", the Nostalgia Critic believes that Zack the Lego Maniac grew up to be Zack the Psycho Maniac, a mad bomber who attacks him at the end of the episode. Despite this assumption, they are not the same person. Zack the Lego Maniac, as seen at the 7:08 mark, likely grew up to be a completely different psycho: DOCTOR INSANO!
The Nostalgia Critic tries to review the Star Wars Holiday Special every yearIt would explain why he didn't believe it existed until forced to review it. But it drives him mad every year, so Santa Christ has to wipe his memory every time.
The first two movies the Nostalgia Critic thought that Ma-Ti was talking about were...
NC and Spoony will do a camera-to-camera review of Highlander III: The SorcererTo mirror his crossover with Linkara.
The Critic will resolve his issues with Doug after reviewing Doug's 1st movie.Maybe reviewing the lackluster film based on the show he hates the most will help him get over his problems.
The Critic WILL ACTUALLY HAVE A CROSSOVER WITH NASHIn his commentary for the Simon Sez review, he said that he was planning on doing two more crossovers by the end of the year. He, then, made a gag about wanting to have a crossover with Nash in the Doug's First Movie review. This gag was foreshadowing for a future crossover review that he'll be having with Nash this year.
Linkara's cameo and Star Trek Month...He won't make one. There will be cameos from others. However, Linkara will be completely absent. However, the first Nostalgia Critic episode after that he'll interrupt complaining how the Nostalgia Critic cut him out, but NC will cut him off.
The Nostalgia Critic's final review will be the last movie before his cut-off point.What better way to end Doug's tenure as the Nostalgia Critic then with a movie that he considers the last bit of nostalgia for him?
The Nostalgia Critic will review Nostalgia.Come on! He's the Nostalgia Critic, it only makes sense that he reviews something that's in his name.
The Scooby Doo movie review will be the end on Nostalgia Critic... or is it?This is gonna be dated already by next week (written on 15th of August 2012), but... It is certainly played like an ending, the Star Trek homage, the existential crisis, Roger the Angel, Doug's comment when posting it on Facebook ("We've had our laughs, but as we all know, all good things must come to an end...") However! He has recently signed an exclusive content deal with Blip.tv, and To Boldly Flee is just around the corner. This could mean a Re Tool of the show after the special, or something we don't know.
The Nostalgia Critic's post-Flee Transformation into a Muppet is canon.While conceived as a Throw Away Gag for The Nostalgia Chick, Doug will embrace the Critic's new status as a Muppet as a way to bring back the critic for special events without really bringing back the critic.
The Nostalgia Critic will review The Angry Video Game Nerd Movie.And because of that they will have their biggest battle EVER
List possible reviews he will do in the future.
The holiday special worse than Eight Crazy Nights is�
Peter Soulless will return in the Critic's review of The Lorax.
None of the Lorax review was real.Instead, it was the Critic's Happy Place where Seuss movies weren't the Deal with the Devil (and the person who made the deal isn't getting tortured because of him), but Black Willy Wonka's master plan to get everyone reading the books again, and he himself isn't crazy or broken like he's been progressively getting, but could get on his high horse with no calling out. Because lookit, it's been established that he has hallucinations, Doug had confirmed just a little over a week beforehand that Critic was the bad guy and deserved every comeuppance, Tamara and Malcolm (the characters who had made him review it) weren't around, Lorax watching is in the middle of nowhere, the fangirl Take That was just meta, there were too many parallels to both the movie and the Chick's review not be making some kind of point, his speeches were backed with an Ominous Music Box Theme and both focus group guys had killed themselves previously.
The #1 New Halloween Classic will be Return of the Living Dead.Barely qualifies as a guess. We know it's an 80s bomb than became a classic, and this is the only reason it wouldn't be anywhere else on the list.
The Christmas Special
The Christmas Special was Santa Christ's story.Think about it. He opened and closed the episode out like he was reading a story and the last time he was around, Critic accidentally went shooty-shooty. So why would he consider him to be anything more than a "dirty rotten bastard" who nobody would miss? And the other's grumpy-hate reactions at the end are strangely reminiscent of their whole "wanting him dead" thing for Kickassia note . True, this would prove that Santa Christ isn't all-knowing, not taking into account the Chick's childhood fucked her up good or the fact that Ask That Guy messed up his life happily on his own or even that Critic usually hates reviewing for making his life suck. It would also say that Santa Christ is slightly petty and indulges in grudge fantasies, but you can always take that as adding a bit more ambiguity to a Parody Sue. Everybody wins!
The Christmas Special was a dirty trick played by God.Why did he do it? Maybe he still felt bitter over the events of The Ten Commandments vs. The Prince of Egypt. Maybe he was punishing the Critic for letting Santa Claus die in his nostalgic commercial special. Maybe he's just a dick. The point is, God felt like making the Critic feel rotten, so he redirected his guardian angel's pathway to a random reality, possibly realities, where everything worked out for the TGWTG crew, and the guardian angel.
The God in Roger's alternate future is the Nostalgia CriticEven the Nostalgia Critic would've benefited from not existing. Of course, the present-Critic doesn't know about that.
Every single person on the site would have been benefited by the Nostalgia Critic's non-existence
Some things are far worse for people because of the Critic's non-existenceThis is going both off the above and the special:
Quebec convinced Alaska to withdraw from the U.S. and become a part of CanadaWhich is why Angry Joe had no qualms blowing it up along with the rest of Canada. It's also why he singled out Quebec.
The Christmas special was a massive Xanatos Gambit by Lord VyceLinkara may be the champion of this universe but sooner or later Vyce would have to deal with Doug. Given that the Critic can beat the Angry Video Game Nerd, the man who killed Bugs Bunny with his bare hands, Vyce likely knew that even his powers would be trumped by cartoon logic of that magnitude. So he created the special as an illusion, with two possible outcomes in mind. 1. It would completely break the Critic's will/and/or drive him to suicide, getting him out of Vyce's way. 2. To plant seeds of doubt in Doug's mind, as a contingency in case Linkara manged to defeat him. As the Critic has traveled in time before, Vyce's plan is that eventually the events of the special will get to him. In a fit of despair Doug will travel back and erase himself from existence. Without meeting the Critic Linkara will become the Corrupt Corporate Executive we saw in the special, never meeting Liz, Harvey or 90's kid or obtaining any of his equipment and powers, effectively undoing his defeat of Vyce. This will all culminate in the next anniversary special, where Vyce now rules our world, forcing Rob (Turned back into a Dinosaur as a punishment for opposing Vyce) and the Nerd will launch an effort to return the timeline to normal by trying to convince the Critic his life was worth living. The TGWTG crew will help or hinder them, as some will prefer their new lives and others will sell out to Vyce. Alternate Linkara will sell out to Vyce for profit, with Liz having to give him a "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight.
You're A Rotten, Dirty Bastard was a Test Of Character.Not for the Critic, but for Roger. You see, God decided to train Roger for the rigorous job of being an angel. Due to the fall of Satan, all angels need a morality test. Since God was pissed off at the Old Versus New: Ten Commandments video(he took it as the Critic not thinking he was badass), he used the Nostalgia Critic as his target. Roger was unaware that the reality he visited was a world that was already vastly different than our own, and the Nostalgia Critic's non-existence didn't have anything to do with it. It was purposely made deceptively worse than the regular world(Angry Joe is President Evil, Nostalgia Chick is a Stepford Smiler, Linkara is greedy...). And in that reality Roger was God's best friend, and a dead ringer for His replacement. Through this, Roger's greed and self-serving nature was exposed. The Big Bad in Suburban Knights is the ultimate fate of Roger-banished to the mortal plane as punishment. Alterations in personality are due to Roger being reincarnated over the centuries.
The Room Review
The seahorses are responsible for the disappearance of The Room reviewsYes, the Nostalgia Critic exposed the seahorses' intentions to Take Over the World, so naturally the seahorses had to make the video disappear. The disappearance of Obscurus Lupa's review is just the seahorses covering their tracks, and making sure everyone will blame server problems, overzealous lawyers, or other problems. But we're on to you, seahorses! Thanks to the Streisand Effect, lots of people are going to see that video anyway. Your diabolical schemes will never come to fruition!
The Room reviews were taken off because...
John from The Room Movie Dot Com will appear in Old VS. New: War Of The WorldsIt's been delayed thanks to The Room issue. Seeing as this video will require "Copyrighted Images" from TWO movies it's bound to piss off John, who just got a new job at War Of The Worlds Movies Dot Com. Perfect opportunity to eviscerate him again for The Room issue again.
The seahorses are able to conquer the world because...The world peace resulting from Critic's review of Zeus and Roxanne means there is no longer a need for any form of military. The seahorses will attack after a generation or so of peace.
The Room holds the secret to stopping the Seahorses.That's why even in their time the movie is banned. Wiseau was Obfuscating Stupidity, so no-one notices his fool-proof plan to defeating seahorses is in the movie's coding. He removed it because the seahorses were blackmailing him
The Seahorses are led by John from The Room Movie dot ComAnd The Room is outlawed in the future so that no one will slander Tommy Wiseau's beautiful existence by watching him.
The Seahorses are actually benevolent rulers.Hence why no-one has tried to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. The seahorses are peaceful rulers, and as such people have no problem with them. They were only after The Room because they have spent their time eliminating any bad movies. This is the reason why Future Critic created time travel-he needs to review them for his job.
Chuck Norris returns in Old vs. New: Ten Commandments vs. The Prince of EgyptAs Vengeful God. Not exactly happy that He chose love and peace God over badass God, and He and Mako still hasn't gotten over the Sidekicks review. He is also the father of Santa Christ and He's not pleased with fact that the Critic shot him in Kickassia.
Nostalgia Critic's gun is magic.The Nostalgia Critic was able to do things like kill Santa Christ and shoot at people in a video and nearly kill them. He could even kill an angel. It is more subtle than Linkara's magic gun but it has powers beyond comprehension.
Boomer...Will live. They can rebuild him. They have the technology.
General Zod will return for new videos around the holidays in 2011.Because of the Awesome!
Critic has a thing going on with Maven
Scatman Crothers will become the new MakoIn Raiders of the Story Arc: Transformers, NC mistaked Jazz's voice actor, the late Scatman Crothers, for Bill Cosby because of how he sounded. He then proceeded to dub Jazz's line with an impression of Cosby. Obviously, fans of Crothers won't take this joke lightly and give NC some harsh emails, like when he made fun of Mako's voice acting in TMNT.
Crossover/To Boldly Flee timeline theoryThe Maven's Count Chocula Review takes place after To Boldly Flee, considering the Critic's new Beetlejuice teleporting powers, but before the Chick's Cutthroat Island review, considering he is now a Muppet and talks to Chick again about succeeding him.
"Ma-Ti" was pissed off against Ted Turner because he chose China to represent Asia instead of India.
Future!Critic being able to build a time machine comes from his experience from merging with the universe.
The Demo Reel cast and studio will appear in the new episodes.* Unless Channel Awesome lost the studio Demo Reel was made in, the new episodes will take place there, so they can use the bigger space for more elaborate jokes.
What the Critic and Nerd were doing in TokyoWe all know that both of them were in Zettai Karen Children: Unlimited But what were they doing there?
Critic hates The Mask TAS because it dedicated an episode to bashing AnimaniacsIn his Son Of The Mask review, he takes a moment to insult and demean the animated series based on the original Mask film. Given his habit of fawning over Animaniacs, coupled with The Mask spending an entire episode insulting that very show�
There will be no Editorial on November 19th.Like the Les Miserables review, the ending of the latest Commercials Special features a cliffhanger to what the Critic's next review will be (Man of Steel). For those who remember, in between the Les Miserables and The Last Airbender reviews, we got a "Top 11 Adult Jokes We Never Got As Kids" instead of the usual Editorial because Doug was busy with the latter. So judging from all that, Doug will probably be so busy with the Man of Steel review, he won't have time for another Editorial and will instead just do another mini Top 11 countdown list.
Either in the middle or end of 2014, he'll have filled up the Big Lebowski jar to the topAnd he'll blow his money quickly.
If Malcolm had been the one that had to be replaced instead of Rachel, he would have been replaced by......Orlando Belisle Jr.
Chester A. Bum and Douchey McNitpick are......somehow related.
The review on 10/21/14 will include a crossover with JonTronHow else would you explain JonTron appearing in-person for the 2014 Nostalgia-ween intro?

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Have you been to the Fab Lab yet?
If not, you're missing out on one of Tulsa's new hidden treasures. The Hardesty Center for Fab Lab Tulsa, which just celebrated its first anniversary, is just one of 53 fab labs spread out across 17 countries. The next-closest one is in Kansas City.
Even Texas doesn't have one.
Fab labs are centers loaded with the latest in fabrication technology that can allow you to make almost anything cheaply and easily.
Nathan Pritchett, executive director of Fab Lab Tulsa, said the 300 current members are from a wide spectrum of fields. There are tinkers looking to give their hobbies a boost, engineers making their designs physical for testing, entrepreneurs prototyping new products, artists wanting to bring their inspiration to life in a new way and many more.
"There's a lot of people in town with ideas, but they didn't have the tools to bring them to life," Pritchett told me.
Students are finding out how rewarding it can be to learn how to make things for themselves. Schools, groups, clubs and organizations are sending middle through high school students for a hands-on tour, with 150 dropping in on one recent day, Pritchett said.
He's lost track of the huge volume of things Tulsans have invented there, though he still has plenty of examples. A sign- maker used the precision milling equipment to make a sign for Spirit Aerosystems. A local artist uses the mills to cut and stain wooden bow ties.
An inventor used a 3-D printer to fabricate hundreds of pieces for a prototype child's car seat. Another entrepreneur was able to create extremely detailed figurines for a prototype board game he hopes to sell. (He previously had to contract an overseas manufacturer to make prototypes for him.)
One enterprising person was able to use the machines to make a fully functional spinning wheel for yarn. Want to make one of your own? That design, as well as thousands of others, are shared online.
Better still, the $125 yearly membership includes materials you might need - computers loaded with designing software, circuits, wires, LED lights, motors and more in the electronics lab, recycled wood, acrylic and other materials for the laser cutter and plastics for the 3-D printers.
The lab has done well in its first year. Pritchett said they've been able to increase their 2013 budget by 30 percent and hope to emphasize the design side of things more.
New types of hardware and increasingly sophisticated software are sparking a revolution in personal manufacturing, and we're lucky enough to be able to experience it at Fab Lab Tulsa.
App of the week: Star Wars Angry Birds (Android, iOS, Windows Phone)
One of these days I'll be able to stop writing about Rovio's apps, but as long as they keep being innovative and absurdly popular, my hand is forced. I keep thinking they've finally taken Angry Birds as far as they can go, but they keep proving me wrong.
It's not just that the birds and pigs have Luke Skywalker and Stormtrooper getups. The birds now have Star Wars powers and things like lightsabers, Force pushes and blasters add a surprising amount of strategy to knocking blocks over on pigs. It's especially satisfying to use a lightsaber or a shoved mirror block to reflect a pig's blaster shots back at him.
Microsoft executive's departure may not be such an odd move
By now you've probably heard that Steve Sinofsky, head of Windows, suddenly stepped down from Microsoft. That's a very odd move - who leaves a company a couple weeks after a major product launch with no notice?
It might seem like the company is panicking over the reception of Windows 8, but there's more to this story if you dig deeper. All Things Digital reported that the company had been preparing for his departure since before Windows 8 launched. Neither Sinofsky nor CEO Steve Ballmer gave any hints as to why, but Ballmer did say that his replacement, Julie Larson-Green, has a "proven ability to effectively collaborate and drive a cross-company agenda."
I think that statement is the key. Sinofsky was famously hard to work with and tended to structure the company around sheltered and somewhat combative segments that didn't communicate.
On top of that, he clashed with many other Microsoft execs who all left in 2010, such as former chief software architect Ray Ozzie and Microsoft Business division head Stephen Elop. Worse, he ran off Robbie Bach and J Allard, the former heads of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division and the fathers of the successful Xbox gaming console, and canceled the tablet device they were developing even as the iPad proved to be a monster hit.
Add it up and it seems that Sinofsky had simply become more of a liability than an asset to Microsoft. The jury is still out on Windows 8's legacy - and the timing is definitely odd - but I'm not convinced his departure is a sign of failure.
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All You Need to Know About Google Play's New PolicyPosted on October 3rd, 2014 by Cassidy Smith
At the end of September, Google introduced a new Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement. While Google updates their policies every few months, this particular change is rumored to be a reaction to the European Union's crackdown on Google's policies. Google maintains that they will terminate the account of any developer who does not agree to this new policy.
Here's what Google Play developers need to know:
(Note: This change doesn't affect StartApp or any of our services. We are 100% compatible with all of Google's advertiser policies)
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It's Time to Get Serious about COPPAPosted on September 19th, 2014 by Cassidy Smith
Since early 2014, there have been whispers across the mobile app industry that the Federal Trade Commission, an American agency that regulates trade and enforces consumer protections, would begin cracking down on app studios and developers who were in violation of the US COPPA laws. This week, a number of websites and apps have received fines from the agency and the FTC is serious about cracking down.
Here's what developers need to know:
What is COPPA?
COPPA, or the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, is a law created in 1998 at the start of the internet revolution. COPPA is intended to give parents control over the information that is collected from their children when their children are on the internet or using apps. Intended for children under 13, the COPPA law requires websites and apps who intend to collect, use, or disclose personal information about their users to do the following:
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How to Update to StartApp's new SDKPosted on August 13th, 2012 by Megan
After months of anticipation, our new SDK has finally arrived!
This brand new SDK has some great new changes that benefit you, the developer, as well as the end user. These changes have already been tested on over 10 million live downloads and is ready to be used right now!
New End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) screen
The EULA screen will show the user the access points that will be added on the device and give them the option to Accept or Skip.
- If the user accepts, the user will receive the search icon and continue to your app.
- If the user skips, the user will continue to your app and the EULA screen will appear the next time your app is visited.
100% Compliance with Google Policy Change
Google Play recently released the updated version of its content policy, with an emphasis on ad behavior. We have already been working with industry leaders like TRUSTe and Lookout to protect your privacy. This new SDK is 100% in compliance with the new policy change and was the first of any mobile ad network to be compliant.
To take advantage of these changes, and continue generating income from your apps, all you have to do is follow the 4 simple steps below.
Much Lighter SDK
This version of the SDK went on a diet. We removed the excess fat and now, instead of 900K, this SDK runs on only 300K.
1. Download the latest SDK from your Developer Dashboard.
2. Make sure to follow the new instructions PDF found in the SDK zip file.
3. Test your app to make sure you see the new EULA screen and that it's working as intended.
4. Update your app in Google Play and make sure the StartApp disclaimer text is in …
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Six Ways StartApp Protects Your UsersPosted on August 1st, 2012 by Megan
As reported today, Google Play updated their content policy for developers. The policy includes stricter guidelines about privacy and ad behavior within apps. Luckily, we anticipated such changes and our latest SDK, released today, is 100% compliant with all of the changes made by Google.
StartApp cares about your apps, your users, and your privacy. Here are the six ways that we work to protect all three.
Our SDK was reviewed by Lookout Security, the leading mobile anti-virus software in Google Play. In their recently published Ad Guidelines Report, they stated:
"StartApp provides one of the best examples of transparent and clear notice to users about their practices to properly set user expectations."
You and your users can feel protected knowing that the leading anti-virus software in the mobile industry uses StartApp as a positive example for other ad networks to follow.
TRUSTe is the leading online privacy solutions provider with a broad suite of privacy services to help businesses build trust and increase engagement across all of their online channels.
Over 5,000 web properties including those from top companies like Apple, AT&T, Disney, eBay, HP, Microsoft, Nationwide and StartApp rely on TRUSTe to ensure compliance with evolving and complex privacy requirements.
StartApp had a long and productive process with TRUSTe so that in the end of this process we became the First mobile ad network to have TrustE certification.
In our latest SDK, we have opted to use a EULA screen which appears at app launch and enables your end users to read, understand and accept the additional StartApp product.
This gives the end user freedom to choose if they want to use the …
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Privacy Can't All be Laws and RegulationPosted on May 31st, 2012 by Megan
is of the utmost importance to us here at StartApp. We asked our senior privacy officer, John Berard, to to take a look at the issue of privacy. These are his findings:
Most privacy discussions focus on legislation and regulation. In the U.S., there is a plan to enact a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," in the UK we have seen the dawn of a "cookie consent" law and in Mexico we are hearing debate that will lead to comprehensive legislation. In each case, policy makers are responding to public anxieties over the collection, use, potential mis-use and loss of personal data.
But in recent days, a conference focused on privacy has emerged that is not devoted solely to a public policy discussion of Fair Information Practices or Data Minimization or Breach Notification. It instead promotes those companies, mostly start-ups, which are trying to bring new products and services to the market where privacy is the business model and the goal is creating value for consumers.
Privacy, Identity & Innovation (Pii) 2012 was recently held in Seattle, WA. It introduced us to eight new companies like BrandYourself and SafeShepherd, who seek to give people more control over their personal search results, Gliph and CoupleFire, both focused on allowing friends to share on social media sites without losing control of who they are sharing with, and About One and Sidebark, delivering ways for families and small circles to stay in touch.
As each of us leads a more digital and mobile life, the value we see in sharing information needs to be safeguarded. Because of the many services we rely on in any given day, it is impossible for consumers to bear the burden. And because of …
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StartApp Receives Prestigious TRUSTe SealPosted on April 11th, 2012 by Megan
Fresh off our latest funding round, StartApp has received another accolade to be put onto our mantle piece. We are extremely proud to announce that we have received a privacy seal from TRUSTe.
For those of you who don't know what TRUSTe is, let us tell you! TRUSTe is the leading online privacy solutions provider. Businesses approach them to assist with the building of trust on all their online channels. There are over 4,000 web properties that make use of the TRUSTe solution to make sure that visitors to those sites know that the owners of those sites and media channels are fully compliant with the evolving and complex privacy requirements. StartApp has joined companies like AT&T, Disney, eBay, HP, Microsoft and more to be granted the privacy seal from TRUSTe.
In order to achieve the granting of the seal, StartApp needed to conform to TRUSTe's "Truth in Privacy" framework. The tenets of this framework are transparency, choice and accountability regarding the collection and use of the person information of users/downloaders/visitors. It is well established that the TRUSTe privacy is a sign of privacy protection practices. You can see our seal here!
It was very important for us at StartApp to be granted the seal so that our users would know that the data collected from the user device will not harm the user's privacy in any way whatsoever. StartApp has proven that any information that it may collect will not be Personally Identifiable Information. No link will be created between the collected behavioral data to that of any data that can personally identify a discrete Individual unless that individual has been given the option to allow this and has, indeed, elected to allow such a link to be created. For more information on the TRUSTe rules and regulations, …
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Health & Pregnancy
Possible Cause of Preeclampsia Uncovered
June 7, 2001 -- Even experts admit they're baffled about the cause of preeclampsia, a severe complication of pregnancy that causes high blood pressure and can threaten the life of both the expectant mother and her unborn child. But a new study suggests that the condition may be caused by the body's shortage of a natural compound that causes the blood vessel walls to relax.
Preeclampsia, which occurs in about 5% of all pregnancies, is a rapidly progressive condition marked by a sudden rise in blood pressure, abnormally high weight gain, severe headaches, vision problems, presence of protein in the urine, and buildup of fluid in tissues causing swelling. Because many of these symptoms can occur in a normal pregnancy, prompt evaluation and diagnosis by a physician, followed by prompt treatment when necessary, are essential to preserve the health of the mother and the fetus.
Since preeclampsia can be serious and sometimes fatal, women are often admitted to the hospital for bed rest and close monitoring. They may be treated with fluids and high blood pressure medications until the baby can be delivered safely, which usually resolves the condition.
"It's a major cause of maternal mortality, especially in developing countries where it may account for 80% of maternal deaths," says Valerian E. Kagan, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh, in an interview with WebMD.
Previous studies have suggested that preeclampsia is caused by poor blood flow to the placenta, the protective sack that supplies blood and nourishment to the developing fetus.
According to the new theory, which is described in the June issue of Circulation Research, this inadequate blood supply triggers oxidative stress, a condition in which oxygen compounds released into the bloodstream cause damage to tissues and interfere with the release of the chemical nitric oxide.
Normally, nitric oxide causes the walls of blood vessels to relax, thereby easing blood pressure. So a shortage of the chemical would lead to an increase in blood pressure.
This nitric oxide shortage theory is supported by a recent small study out of the U.K. This study suggests that vitamin C, an antioxidant, may reduce the incidence of preeclampsia because it prevents oxidative stress. Similarly, other evidence suggests that women who have low blood levels of ascorbate, a form of vitamin C found in the body, may be at increased risk for preeclampsia. Although the mechanism is unknown, ascorbate does play a role in the release of nitric oxide.
In the current study, Kagan and colleagues suggest that in pregnant women with preeclampsia, oxidative stress might cause a decrease in ascorbate levels. This decrease prevents nitric oxide from being released when needed, triggering a sharp rise in blood pressure and other symptoms.


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(Words and photos by Steve Kozel)It was a fairly cold Friday night in University City, so I was little surprised at how hard it was to find a vacant parking space in the lot that sprawls behind the shops on the West end of the Loop. The packed lot turned out to be a good indication of the turnout at ... More >>
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Recently I had a discussion with a friend about the "solidity" of the English language in respect to Chinese. (By "solidity" we meant the reduced possibility for interpretation errors and misunderstanding - for which the Chinese language is nutritious and can actually be considered one vast homonym.)
This conversation triggered a question in my mind about homonyms, and when I wanted to search examples for myself, I could only find one or two.
By homonym for this question I mean nouns which have the same pronunciation, exact same spelling, but totally different meanings, e.g.:
Flour - Flower
(different spelling, same pronunciation)
Desert - Dessert
(similar/different spelling, different pronunciation but accent dependent)
Wind (air movement, noun) - Wind (to coil, verb)
(same spelling, different pronunciation but one is a verb)
but more like:
BOW (weapon) - BOW (ribbon)
(I intentional exclude the verbs for the purpose of this question because they are influenced by the time tense, and it is easy for something to occur like "DOVE" (the bird) and "DOVE" (past of dive).)
So my questions are:
How many of these exist?
Please give me more examples (or point me to a comprehensive list if it exists - I could not find one for some reason).
What is the REASON for the existence of those homonyms, except the obvious reasons of foreign-language-imports and historical similarity in use ? (I know it is a difficult question, but still - I try :-) - feel free to ignore that part.)


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I have an installation work where I normally start up the computer and the camera and setup everything. This installation will be shown abroad and I will not be present there. Is there a way to startup Max automatically and setup the settings as well without somebody having to go there everyday?
i would think you would want to walk someone through the startup procedure on a new computer at least once (especially the camera connections).
you could probably come up with an automated way of doing it, but you would want to test on neutral computers with the camera connected. once it recognizes the camera the first time, there shouldn't be a problem with an automated startup procedure.
i would stretch it out as long as possible with loadbang and several stages of delays.
a standalone application might be the best solution, but again, you will want to test on neutral computers of the same OS as the show's computer.
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This is a Toshiba P750 laptop, about 5-10 months old.
This is my brothers laptop that has this issue how ever I have the same laptop only different slitely with ram and graphics card.
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Alfred State College women's basketball coach Gina Boyd registered her 300th career coaching win at Alfred State as the Lady Pioneers downed Finger Lakes CC 61-50 in the first round of the SUNY Delhi Tournament.
The Lady Pioneers were paced by three double-figure scorers. Amie Brooks (Pavilion) led the way with 15 points while Shadeeka Campbell (Brooklyn/William Grady) added 14. Nuri Bey (Bronx/Evander Childs) chipped in 12.
Boyd, in her 21st season at the helm of the program, is now 300-216.
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This Day In Wrecks
1915: While fishing northeast of Spurn on the Yorkshire coast, the trawler FV J. Leyman is hit by shells fired from U-25. The submarine allows the crew of the sinking vessel to leave and wait for rescue. The skipper, Danny Crawford, would have yet another vessel (Florence) sunk by U-boat the following year.
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1989: After ignoring several warnings and using a faulty ILS, the pilots of Suriname Airways Flight 764 approach Paramaribo Airport for a landing. The DC-8 descends too low, clips several trees, inverts and crashes. Of the 187 people aboard, only 11 passengers survive. Among the dead are a group of famous Dutch Surinamese football players. Further investigation after the crash revealed the captain was not qualified.
Pictured: DC-8 Anthony Nesty in Feb 1989; crash site
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1946: Near the end of her voyage from Sydney to Glasgow, the SS Georgetown Victory runs aground on Killard Point in County Down, Ireland. All 1400 of the crew and returning troops on board are rescued, but the ship is too badly damaged and later breaks in two.
A firsthand account can be read here.
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1948: British European Airways Flight S200P crashes in North Ayrshire, Scotland, on approach to Renfrew Airport. The pilot of the Vickers Viking, unable to locate an outer marker beacon, flies into the high terrain of Irish Law Mountain. All passengers and crew survive the crash. Partial wreckage of the aircraft Vestal is still visible. (Credits in captions; more photos here.)
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1960: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 breaks up mid-flight while over Cannelton, Indiana. All 63 aboard are killed. An investigation determines that aeroelastic flutter caused the wing of the Lockheed Electra to separate from the aircraft, the second such crash in less than a year.
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1954: One of several fatal crashes of the De Havilland Comet, introduced in 1951, occurs over the Mediterranean when BOAC Flight 781 breaks up in mid-flight, killing all 35 aboard. After a similar crash 4 months later, the fleet is grounded; extensive investigation including reconstruction of the wreckage and pressure testing of another plane reveals the Comet is prone to unforeseen metal fatigue problems, especially at the window corners, leading to explosive decompression.
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2003: In the worst disaster in its service history, the Staten Island Ferry crashes full speed into a concrete pier while approaching the St. George Terminal, killing 11 people. The pilot is later found to have fallen asleep while on medication, while ferry management disregarded rules requiring 2 pilots. The ferry, the MV Andrew J. Barberi, is repaired and returned to service.
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1952: A local passenger train at the Harrow and Wealdstone station in London is rear-ended by an express train, whose wreckage is subsequently hit by a second express train from the opposite direction. The driver of the first express train, which was traveling from Perth, Scotland, had missed prior danger signals; fog may have been a contributing factor. 112 people are killed.
(Source: britishrailways.tripod.com)
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1961: Two months earlier, maintenance workers fail to properly reconnect the aileron controls on a Lockheed L-188 Electra owned by Northwest Orient Airlines. In September the plane takes off from Chicago as Flight 706 and the controls finally break. The Electra enters an unrecoverable right bank and crashes after striking power lines. None of the 37 people on board survive.
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1969: While descending into Indianapolis, a DC-9 operating as Allegheny Airlines Flight 583 is struck by a private Piper PA-28 in the tail. The Piper immediately plummets to the ground; the DC-9 inverts and crashes 12 seconds later in a field near Fairland. All 83 people on board as well as the single pilot in the Piper are killed.
The NTSB rules the accident no fault, and "determines the probable cause of this accident to be the deficiencies in the collision avoidance capability of the Air Traffic Control system of the Federal Aviation Administration in a terminal area wherein there was mixed instrument flight rules (IFR) and visual flight rules (VFR) traffic." TCAS, transponders and better airspace control are eventually required after several mid-air collisions like this.
Pictured: wreckage reconstruction; the crash site; Governor Edgar Whitcomb visiting the site.
Some pictures, diagrams, and aircraft archaeology can be found here. (Please be aware there is a page with some graphic, albeit black and white, photos. )
This Day In Wrecks (yesterday)
1961: Five minutes after takeoff from Chicago Midway, TWA Flight 529 stalls and crashes in a field in Willowbrook, IL. All 78 people on board the Lockheed Constellation Star of Dublin are killed. The wreckage was taken to the TWA hanger at Midway. A missing elevator bolt is later determined to have caused a pitch up and loss of lift and control.
Contemporary news coverage on WNBQ can be found here.
An article on the crash 50 years later can be found here.
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1940: The British 20th Destroyer Flotilla sails from Immingham to Texel during the night on a mine laying mission. When a German force is spotted, they detour to intercept; unfortunately, the flotilla encounters a new, unmarked minefield. The HMS Express is struck and loses 90 men, and when the HMS Esk tries to render assistance, she also hits a mine and sinks. Only one man on board the Esk survives. As the HMS Ivanhoe attempts to pick up survivors, she strikes yet another mine, killing a further 53 sailors. The next day more ships finally arrive to pick up the crew, and further scuttle the Ivanhoe. As they retreat, the HMS Galatea is damaged by a final mine.
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1947: The Norwegian Air Lines flying boat Kvitbjørn crashes in Lødingen, Norway when it hits a mountain in fog, killing all 35 people on board. Remnants of the crash can still be seen.
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1918: After departing Liverpool, the RMS Carpathia, a passenger liner also serving as a troopship, is fired upon by U-55; two of the three torpedoes hit and she begins to sink. Aside from 5 crewmen killed in the initial hit, all aboard are able to take to the lifeboats. They are rescued by the HMS Snowdrop, but U-55 finishes off the Carpathia.
Launched in 1903, the Carpathia is best known for her rescue of the Titanic survivors in 1912. This edition of TDIW is especially timely to me, however, as this past week I learned some new family history. I knew my great-great grandfather came over in 1903 from Hungary on the Rotterdam (also sunk in 1918, by U-151), but I did not know that his parents and siblings followed in 1910 on the Carpathia.
Pictured: The Carpathia at Pier 54 in New York City; the sinking of the Carpathia as seen from U-55
After a distinguished career running the New York-European routes, the Carpathia lies off Fastnet Rock, Ireland. Her wreck was discovered in 2000.
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1918: In what is likely (casualty estimates vary) the worst disaster in US rail history, the No 1. from Memphis to Nashville and the No 4. traveling in the opposite direction collide head on at Dutchman's Curve west of Nashville. The trains are traveling at over 50 mph, and the cars are derailed or crushed. Over 100 people are killed. Blame later falls on the signal operators and the crew of No. 4 for failing to observe proper procedures.
Some survivors and responders were interviewed in The Tennessean in 1998 (warning for graphic descriptions).
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