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Orenoyome – Pinterest for Otaku
Posted on June 11th, 2012 by Akky Akimoto
Oreno Yome wo Jiman suru Saito (A website to boast my wife) is a new Japanese service where to post your favorite photos of "yome", which literally means wife, but in Otaku context, "ore no yome" means anything but your real human being wife, on which female character assigned, and on which you put your heart and soul.
On the site, there are already a lot of "yome"s including dolls, posters, collection cards, comics, games, anime DVDs, cellphone straps, pillows, hole toys, etc., etc.
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Anger Management Requirement for Buying Ammo
There are three possible explanations for why liberals don't just repeal the Second Amendment outright: 1) they don't have the votes, because despite the Hope & Change, close to half of the population is still American; 2) by ignoring it instead of repealing it, they are effectively destroying the entire Constitution by demonstrating that it isn't really in force; and 3) repealing it gradually while harassing and humiliating lawful gun-owners is more fun for petty tyrants:
The bill filed Saturday by [Florida] state Sen. Audrey Gibson, D-Jacksonville, would require a three-day waiting period for the sale of any firearm and the sale of ammunition to anyone who has not completed anger management courses.
By way of explanation, Gibson gibbers,
"It's about getting people to think, really, about how much ammunition they need. It's a step, I think, in a safer direction. It's about getting people to think before they buy."
With liberal authoritarians, it's always about need, as in, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Yet if we are free people and pay for it with money we earned, ammo has nothing to do with how much we "need," but rather how much we want — which target shooting enthusiasts will agree is as much as we can afford.
From the outrageous bill:
"It is unlawful to: A) Sell ammunition to another person who does not present certification that he or she has successfully completed an anger-management program consisting of at least 2 hours of online or face-to-face instruction in anger-management techniques," the bill reads. "The certification must be renewed every 10 years."
Gibson needs to receive face-to-face instruction on the US Constitution.
Meanwhile, as wannabe dictators waste everyone's time trying to force gun-owners to jump through degrading hoops, Florida's foreclosure rates are the highest in the nation. Dealing with actual problems isn't as enjoyable as making life less pleasant for people libs don't like.
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Scallops with "Melted" Leeks and Tarragon-Caper Butter
Servings: 4
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon drained capers, patted dry
- 2 1/2 cups dry white wine
- 7 whole peppercorns
- 3 shallots, thinly sliced
- 2 fresh thyme sprigs
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/4 cup whipping cream
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) butter, cut into pieces
- 5 leeks, chopped (white and pale green parts only; about 4 cups)
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/3 cup (packed) chopped fresh chives
- 1 pound sea scallops
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh terragon
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Heat 1 tablespoon oil in heavy small skillet over medium heat. Add capers; sauté until crisp, about 1 minute. Using slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain.
Boil wine and next 4 ingredients in small saucepan over medium heat until liquid is reduced to 3 tablespoons, about 15 minutes. Add cream; boil until liquid is reduced by half, about 2 minutes. DO AHEAD Capers and sauce can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add leeks and 3/4 cup water. Simmer until leeks are tender and almost all water evaporates, about 4 minutes. Mix in chives. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer leek mixture to platter. Tent with foil.
Sprinkle scallops with salt and pepper. Melt 2 tablespoons butter and 1 tablespoon oil in another heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add scallops; sauté until cooked, about 2 minutes per side. Arrange atop leeks. Tent with foil.
Reheat sauce over medium heat. Gradually add 6 tablespoons butter; whisk until smooth, about 1 minute (do not boil). Strain sauce into small bowl. Stir in capers and tarragon. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon over scallops.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department abruptly reversed course Wednesday and dropped plans to ask a private company to give the government access to a nationwide database of license plate tracking information.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that it would be a good start for the federal health care law if 5 million to 6 million people sign up by the end of March, an acknowledgement that enrollments might fall significantly short of the Obama administration's unofficial goal of 7 million.
DENVER (AP) - Colorado's legal marijuana market is far exceeding tax expectations, according to a budget proposal released Wednesday by Gov. John Hickenlooper that gives the first official estimate of how much the state expects to make from pot taxes.
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - In what may be the first college donation of the new electronic currency, a Bitcoin entrepreneur has donated $10,000 worth of the digital money to a Washington state liberal arts college.
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Home Visits Can Reduce Infant Mortality
City program offers nurse and social worker visits to at-risk families in Lindsay Heights.
Walnut Way Conservation Corp. has partnered with the Health Department's Empowering Families of Milwaukee (EFM) program to lower rates of premature births and infant mortality in the Lindsay Heights community.
The program works with women prenatally through the child's third birthday, and has four main goals: to improve birth outcomes, enhance family functioning, improve child health safety and development, and prevent child abuse and neglect.
Although EFM staff members have been working in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood for years, they weren't directly connected to organizations in the neighborhood," according to Tyler Weber, UW population health fellow at Walnut Way and the City of Milwaukee Health Department.
Weber said that the partnership between EFM and Walnut Way can make an important difference. "We at Walnut Way have a strong history of neighborhood engagement, but EFM has the resources to provide incredible amounts of support … to pregnant women and their children and family," he added.
Weber's placement at both organizations made the partnership a convenient one, according to Julie Driscoll, program manager for Empowering Families of Milwaukee. The two organizations began working together during the summer.
"Health and family success has many variables," Driscoll said. "There's child development, but then there's jobs and healthy neighborhoods, and Walnut Way makes sense because they are working on so many of those other big pieces."
EFM assigned two teams, each comprising a nurse and a social worker, to work in the community, according to Weber.
The nurses provide families with health education, including prenatal and dental, but they also discuss matters such as how to detect an infection and who to call if their child needs urgent care. EFM is modeled on the national Healthy Families America home visiting program, which works with "overburdened families who are at risk for adverse childhood experiences, including child maltreatment," according to the website.
In addition to health education, nurses and social workers use the Parents as Teachers curriculum, in which parents serve as the model for their children.
"A lot of what we work on, and our goal, is working on parenting," said Sarah Olsen, an EFM nurse.
There is some crossover between the responsibilities of nurses and social workers, according to Olsen, but the social workers' main task is to connect families to resources. "They help families navigate the healthcare system, find housing and jobs, and other things they struggle with," Olsen added.
Marion Davis, a single mother of four, was referred to the program by her doctor when she was pregnant with her 1-year-old son. Davis said her social worker helped her to talk to her son "like a man" when she's upset with him. "I don't have to yell," she added.
Davis, who has been participating in the EFM program for almost two years, said she already knew a lot of the health information the program provided. "At first, I was like, okay, what do y'all want?" said Davis. "I was going to back out until I got to know the social worker, and the way the program works and the nurse."
Felicia Hayden, health project coordinator for Empowering Families of Milwaukee, noted that it takes "finesse" to make the first introduction. "Sometimes families do not want home visiting services because of lack of trust or rapport with the home visitor," Hayden added. "Families may not have a clear understanding of what the program is, services it provides or the home visitor's style.
The EFM program started in 2006, and will be funded through 2015 with the Family Foundation's Comprehensive Home Visiting Program Grant awarded to the City of Milwaukee Health Department by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families.
The EFM program serves 33 families in the 53205 and 53206 ZIP codes, and about 15 families in Lindsay Heights, which includes portions of both ZIP code areas.
In total, EFM serves 215 families in 11 ZIP codes, with a capacity of 300. Families are primarily African American, live in single-family homes and have incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level.
The 11 ZIP codes have the highest rate of infant mortality and premature births, and are low-income areas. Teens and women who are pregnant or have infants up to two months old, and are living in one of the 11 ZIP codes can participate in the EFM program, according to the health department's website.
"The biggest reason the health department has implemented programs like this is to prevent infant mortality," Driscoll said.
African American babies are three times more likely to die than white babies within their first year of life, Driscoll added. Although the infant mortality rate is staggering, she is confident that EFM's services to families are making a difference.
Davis said the program has given her hope.
A high school dropout, she said the program has been a big motivation for her. She has taken her GED (General Education Development) test, and is taking classes at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). "If my social worker had not been here, I don't think I would've taken any tests," she added. Davis credits the social worker for encouraging her to go back to school and complete her GED tests.
"What we see and hear from families is that our home visitor is the only person that's consistent in their life; someone who believes in them and does what they say they're going to do," Driscoll said.
She added, "Home visiting is a very powerful service. Research shows if we (work with families) in this specific way, we'll get positive results."
This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee.
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Swingin' Musical Revue The All Night Strut at the Welk Resort Theatre
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From coast to coast, folks of all ages are rediscovering the lindy hop, the shag and the tango. Yes, swing's the thing—and nowhere more than in this classy, sassy musical celebration of the 1930s and 40s. This is a show filled with jazz, blues, bebop and classic song standards that thrill the heart, tickle the funny bone and raise the rafters. An international hit, The All Night Strut is perfect for the new generation of swing fans as well as die-hard devotees.


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OFFICIAL HQ UPDATE: You Say You Want a rEVOLution!Submitted by mindtrance on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 10:10
From the email sent out this morning:
"January 30, 2008
Every movement in history has faced some time of testing, some experience that either forges it into something strong and unified, or forces it to fade away into the history books as another failed experiment.
Dr. Paul has written to you that we are heading straight for Super Tuesday. Our opponents are free to beat up on each other and wear themselves down while we gather our supporters and prepare to storm the convention with delegates.
Last night, over 60,000 people stood up and asked for an end to the runaway violation of our liberties. But contrary to the impression you may be getting from the mainstream media, no national delegates have yet been won in Florida. Those delegates will only be awarded between February 6 and April 30 at delegate selection caucuses, and many of those delegates will be supporters of Dr. Paul.
Ron Paul is the only candidate not to give up on any state in the Republican race, and just as we competed strongly in overlooked states like Nevada and Louisiana, so too will we compete in Maine, Minnesota, and other states that the so-called "top-tier" candidates are content to ignore.
Now, as the focus shifts to Super Tuesday, Rudy's campaign is crushed, Huckabee is losing momentum by the day, and McCain and Romney are fighting over who is the most liberal.
We've been here before. In 1776, despite a courageous effort at holding onto the city, George Washington ceded New York and quickly retreated to New Jersey.
1777 brought the British recapture of Fort Ticonderoga, as well as American defeats at Brandywine and Germantown.
And then, during the winter of 1777-1778, Washington and his army faced perhaps their most humiliating moment, forced to endure a harsh Pennsylvania winter with limited supplies at Valley Forge.
The American revolutionaries dealt with their defeats, focused on their goals, and emerged from Valley Forge as a force that would defeat the most powerful nation on earth.
Our momentum is building. Each one of us, from Dr. Paul himself down to the grassroots supporter who donates the last $5 he or she can give, is focused on the goal.
Early in the struggle for American independence, George Washington wrote: "Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages." Even then, Washington realized that a fierce struggle for self-government can only be won with a spirit of determination equal to the challenge.
Today, in the midst of our new revolution, let's consider Washington's words once again. The task before us is enormous. The foes of liberty are deeply entrenched, and they will not relinquish their power without a struggle.
But fighting in our favor is the unconquerable human spirit, the innate desire to be free. We must embrace this inner strength, dig in our heels, and persevere, just as Washington and his rag-tag colonials, the first American grassroots patriots, did before us. And if we must pass through a Valley Forge or two along the way to victory, let those times of testing temper the steel of our determination.
If Ron Paul is to continue his fight for liberty to the Republican Convention, we need your help in two critical ways:
1. Become a precinct leader today: It's easy, but more importantly, it's vital to Ron Paul's success: https://voters.ronpaul2008.com.
2. Donate: Just as the Continental Congress supplied General Washington's troops in the field, we too must raise as much money as we can to equip our grassroots supporters.
Help us win this revolution and usher in a new era of freedom, peace, and prosperity. Donate today: https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate.
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Go Dr. P.
Thomas Paine December 23 at Valley Frorge said...
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
bump it goes so fast
this will fire us up
let us keep this up here to inspire more of us
bump it
Oh rats, here I thought I was going to hear John Lennon!
*** God bless Ron Paul ***
* Ron Paul For President *
*** God bless Ron Paul ***
* Ron Paul For President *
I needed this message. I am fired up! WE ARE IN THIS TO WIN!
I have three big magnetic signs on my van. Much bigger than bumper stickers and easy to see and read!
The Fantasy World
We have been recently accused on this website of living in a fantasy world because we believe Dr. Paul actually has a chance to win this election. My argument with this person is that, in order to affect great change, we must be willing to sacrifice our reputation, our treasure, even our lives in the face of certain defeat and setback. Real change has never been brought about by the naysayers. Only if we continue supporting Dr. Paul with our time, talents and treasure will Dr. Paul be able to seize the opportunities which will arise in his way during the next few trying months.
Make this time in American history a time of greatness. Live in that fantasy world until fantasy becomes reality or, to risk a quote from C.S. Lewis' work "The Silver Chair":
. . . We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world.
Just as Puddleglum stood his ground in the face of overwhelming power, let us endure all things that come against us so that our "fantasy world" may someday become a reality.
Read the above post with the old Beatles song playing in the
Revolution by the Beatles
You say you want a revolution
Well you know we all wanna change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know we all wanna change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be
Alright, alright, alright
You say you got a real solution
Well you know we'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know we're doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be
Alright, alright, alright
You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know we all wanna change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know you better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Go President Paul!
'In accordance with the principles of double-think it does not matter if the war is not real. For when it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, but it is meant to be continuous.' (George Orwell, 1984)
I 3VOL The Valley Forge Reference
I've been reminding myself about how down all the troops there must have felt almost every day since the primary season began. They were improperly clothed -- many without shoes, extremely cold, suffering rampant disease, and watching their fellow soldiers die. The despair must have been overwhelming, yet they persevered against unimaginable odds to win their freedom!
F'K the old media. We are in this to win!
Viva la r3VOLution!
You've already GOT a Revolution!
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Daniel McCarthy, Internet Communications Coordinator
Jonathan Bydlak, Fundraising Director
Frankly, Gentlemen, I do not believe phrases like "quickly retreated," "most humiliating moment," and "dealt with their defeats" are at all appropriate, helpful, or needed right now.
As I wrote in response to the very first Daily Dose, this missive, to me, is pretty prose, off purpose.
Holy Mackerel, men, RUDY QUIT TODY, AND ADMITTED DR. PAUL WON THE DEBATES!
Can't you write something jubilant?
Forgive my ignorance but I have a Q:
God is still in control...
Hello, this is my 1st. post--just registered. If Ron doesn't win the nomination then, can we "write him in" on the November ballot? If so, then, maybe we can continue our efforts to educate people about his message and help them realize that ANY candidate who is a member of/sympathetic to the CFR (and what the CFR is) automatically cannot be trusted. To me, that is the primary issue---the CFR wants/lusts after one world gov't. The wars in the middle east and the North American Union are steps toward that goal. The Islamo fascist problem has been a carefully sculpted situation to excuse any type of military action and diminishing of personal liberties.
If I can write him in, I'll step up my efforts to educate those still in the Matrix.
God is still in control...
If you think this thing is over in November
Then you haven't been paying attention.
It starts in November.
Something about this newsletter really inspired me. I've been putting off becoming a precint leader, but I am now going to do it when I get home from work and head my local Revolution! I am in thousands of dollars of debt but I will donate more, and then some more!
I remember when the November 5th money bomb started circulating. I was one of the first hundred to get on board. I was so excited about the idea so I started posting it all over YouTube about three times a day, every day. I had to open new accounts constantly because my account kept getting banned.
This newsletter has revived my fervor. I'm giving my all for Ron Paul!
Just Donated!
I'm giving $50 today and $51 on Feb 1st Which is my birthday too! :D
We have a good start to the day on donations. let's hit 4 MILLION TONIGHT!
thanks everyone who's becoming precinct leaders.
Mine too
Feb 1st is my birthday too
Happy birthday.
So I asked the family for no gifts , just money to donate to RP
We will fight them
This is not going to be easy. The enemies of the republic - corrupt self serving polititions, David R., the international bankers, the owners of the Federal Reserve Corp., globalists, and internationalists will not give up power and money easily.
Individual personal liberty to live one's life as one darn well pleases is sweeter than honey and well worth the sacrifice. When people tell me that Dr. Paul can not win, I tell them that is not the point. This is just the first battle in the long war to save the republic. There will be many set backs, but liberty and the American republic are the crowning achievment of mankind and worth saving.
I am humbled to even be a part of this revolution with people like you my brothers and sisters.
Stay The Course...
Stay The Course fellow citizens. There is much strategy to winning against such odds. Find out how to obtain information to keep yourself motivated. The fact that our civil liberties are being stripped away should be enough to keep you motivated.
Do not get lost in the deceitful words, smiles, etc. of those who are running against Ron Paul. Contrary to the corruption of the old stream media and those who have been conditioned to think and operate with them. Freedom will reign. It will take sacrifice and commitment. Do not waiver. Stay strong, and fight with intelligence.
Ron Paul is the only candidate that is not just a face and or suit. He is the real deal and his walk and talk now and before speaks for it self. No other candidate can touch him.
Find out your own personal strengths and weaknesses and move forward,spreading the message that Ron Paul has brought back to life.
I hope this helps any who have any doubt at all.
Victory is never won in a single battle. There are many battles faught in different ways before the victory is won..
Have a great day and Stay The Course!
we can win
we must even look beyond the primaries our true efforts of educating the masses applies to all americans democrat republican and most importantly the half of the voting population theat has given up on both . Let's run some stand out you tube style ads and grab thier attn.
The sweet taste of Patriotism and Hope. 2/1/08 Give til it hurts. If we don't, the pain will be much greater in the years to come. Go rEVOLution!!!!
That My Friends...
...is leadership. I don't see any of these others running for President being able to give a pep talk like that, simply because they don't stand on principle.
It takes a man of character to avoid being a man of politics.
I can barely afford it, but
I can barely afford it, but I am eventually going to donate the full $2,300.
I think it is so important the every one of us "max out."
Over 88,500 donations have been received in the past 30 days.
If everybody donates at least $51 on Friday, Feb. 1st - Ron & Carol's 51 wedding anniversary $ BOMB - we can raise millions.
This $$$ Bomb could go nuclear if everyone chips in $100
Want to raise over $9 Million in a single day?
E-mail Ron's latest message to a friend who's been "on the fence," or hasn't donated. Then talk to them about the upcoming money bomb on the 1st of Feb.
$1 for every year of marriage!
At least $51
Give some love, for peace.
NEVER underestimate the power of $51 given by a single person.
Never be afraid to ask simple questions.
This post needs to be on the
This post needs to be on the front page as a sticky, they haven't posted it yet.
Can someone tell me HOW?????
The logic that many delegates awarded in Florida will be Ron Paul supporters, and "we will storm the national convention with delegates" both need some kind of evidence to back them up. Based on our numbers in Florida, those people already elected as delegates are clearly NOT supporters of Ron Paul, whether they have been assigned or not.
As far as other delegates go...I'm still looking.
Love the enthusiasm, steadfast in my support, comitted to the campaign....just don't like being BS'ed... even by my own family.
"Luctor et Emergo" - Struggle and Emerge
FL Delegates not assigned yet? Can someone explain how it works?
MSM kept saying "winner takes all" and showed all delegates in the McInsane column. What's the real deal?
Go President Paul!
'In accordance with the principles of double-think it does not matter if the war is not real. For when it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, but it is meant to be continuous.' (George Orwell, 1984)
How does 'delegates Work? Needs answering please.
No takers on the above question?
'I always thank of all you canvassors and precinct leaders and delegates who were at the front line and caucuses.
Good luck out there &Thank you. You're a gift.
I set aside $500 as well even though I don't have any tax rebates coming. I also signed up as a leader last night. :)
I'm giving big on Friday, Feb 1st.
I've put aside 500 for Friday, Feb st. We can do this. We need to do this. Let's do it. Let's do it for Freedom. Anyone else put aside some money, whatever the amount. It doesn't matter.
Everyone can do 5 dollars at least.
Don't let someone rule your life from cradle to grave.
Don't let McCain or Romney or anyone else sell your country down the tubes with illegal immigration, illegal wars, high taxes, government intervention, raging inflation, and the like.
Ron Paul is asking for your support.
I am begging for your support for Ron Paul. Let's make Feb 1st a day to remember.
Three essentials of success
Purity, patience and perseverance
HQ has called for donations
HQ has called for donations and precinct leaders. We MUST step this up a notch.


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i hope those release!
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The Nike Kobe 8 "Milk Snake" popped up out of nowhere yesterday, immediately registering a blip on the radar of a good lot of folks who probably aren't used to batting an eyelash at Kobe Bryant footwear. The Black Mamba himself is one of the select few to already acquire the pair, as Kobe was seen at his own basketball camp with the anticipated pair on feet. As mentioned at their initial arrival-there's a colorway that sounds pretty similar on the Nike release calender, but there's not been absolute confirmation just yet that this is the same. Continue reading and chime in down in the comments section with your feelings on the "Milk Snake" Nike Kobe 8.
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i hope those release!
Another amazing original animal print. Always fashion forward. Nothing compares to the KB collection.
Stupid ass name for his shoe.
My nigga Mamba. Kicks are on point fa real tho
Lebrons ankles > Kobes ankles
I wonder how much those kids had to pay, in order to go to that camp? It would be nice if he did something free for inner city kids every once and a while.
them shyts hard....no question!
theyre cool
These are flavin'!
why does kobe wear his shoes like they're 2006 p rods though. WTF.
@airjordan1980 HA! Lebrons forehead > kobes forehead :)
@airjordan1980 stupid .... Kobes rings > lebrons rings
This is a capitalist society! Get with the program.
@ilovewordplay cause he cant play
Lebrons forehead > Kareems forehead
Lebrons Final MVPs > Kobes Final MVPs (2014)
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That Michael Ironside AMA
If you are not familiar with Reddit, it's… well, let's just say it's a thing. A thing that occasionally has "Ask Me Anything" threads from famous people, like Michael Ironside. You might be familiar with him from his work on Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Or, you know, any of the hundreds of classic movies he's been in, including Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and Free Willy.
In any case, in his AMA he related had a rather interesting story about Splinter Cell:
Q: Hello, Mr. Ironside! I have to say that I liked your voice work as Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell series. How do you feel about Ubisoft's decision to not use you in the newest game? Also, any stories about your work on the games?
I think it's a great idea for Ubisoft. They've gone to motion capture, and this spring I will be 65 years old. I don't think anyone wants to pay money seeing a 65 year old Sam Fisher bounce around on set, killing and stumbling while he kills people. I wish them all the luck. I hope that franchise has a long and storied future.
I have to confess I'm not a gamer. And when they sent me the contract for the very first game, it was quite lucrative, and I said "absolutely, I will do this." I thought it was going to be like PONG, and I would just have to introduce it.
My wife, actually, went out and bought a brand new SUV with some of the money.
When I got the script, it was very stiff, very inflexible, and very blood and violent.
And I didn't want to do it. And told them I was going to give them back their money. They asked me what would it take to keep me on the project, and i said we would have to change the character, and give him some type of humanity. To their credit, they sat me down with the game creators, and we came up with the present Sam Fisher, who had an empathy and was not just a 2 dimensional killing machine. And we got as much humanity, I think that that format will allow.
And my wife didn't have to give back her SUV.
ALso, what happened is, when you're doing games, usually it's one person in a booth doing their work, creating their character, and then the next person goes in, you usually never get to work or meet anybody. On the first 2 games, we brought the cast in, and we all did it together, so we had a sense of humanity. That was one of my stipulations.
I said "Working is like making love, if i do it by myself, it's just masturbation. I'd rather have the other cast around." And I think the proof is in the pudding, the game has had a pretty good set of legs on it.
I confess that I have never actually played any of the Splinter Cell games, which I realize makes highlighting this anecdote a little weird. Still, it is a bit encouraging to hear that by virtue of a single person, a group of developers were able to come together and change what would have (undoubtedly) been a more one-dimensional experience into one with a lot more texture. Somewhat less encouraging was the fact that Ubisoft felt like the killing machine script was good enough at the beginning, but I'll give them a pass here.
In any case, this is still one of the best AMAs I have ever read. This Christian Bale story, this Starship Troopers trivia, these Highlander 2 moments with Sean Connery. Way good.
Gamer Demographics Over Time
The Entertainment Software Association puts out a PDF every year with a variety of gamer statistics, such as average age, gender, and so on. I started looking them up in support of an argument I was going to make, realized the data might have proven the exact opposite thing, then decided "what the hell" and tossed it up into a Google Doc. Here are some simple graphs that may or may not prove useful to someone, somewhere:
As you might notice, the average age of gamers plummeted in 2012. This was a result of the ESA changing the wording of their questionnaire, turning anyone who played one hour per week of a game on a smartphone or iPad into a "gamer." Incidentally, people who played 10 hours per week were considered "serious gamers," which I believe automatically applies to anyone who has ever played an MMO. It's kinda funny though, in that playing games more than an 1.5 hours/day is "serious," but (Americans) watching more than 5 hours of live TV a day is average. Casuals, indeed.
The above chart is a breakdown of the three age ranges into percentages of the whole. This is where my original argument got tripped up. You see, I was trying to refute the "these days gamers are getting older/having kids/etc and thus have less time to play" argument. I mean, it makes sense as a talking point when speaking to one's own peer group, but the average number of years a person has been gaming hasn't increased all that much (see chart 1). In this chart however, it's pretty clear that the under-18 crowd went from about 35% of all gamers down to sub-20% across seven years. So yeah, maybe we're all growing up. Or more older non-gamers are joining, which may as well be the same thing.
If you are wondering what happened to 2012-2014 numbers, well, the ESA decided change the age ranges for basically no reason. Seriously, under-18, 18-35, and 36+? I mean, I guess that isolates the COD crew better? I'm not going to bother with a graph for just those three years though, so here is a table:
I included the 2003 data in there simply because it happened to have those same age ranges on it.
Finally, here is a gender chart for the curious:
And there you go. Hopefully that was useful to someone, somewhere. If you want to see the figures yourself, the Google Doc includes links to all 14 PDFs. Go nuts.
"Indie Devs are People Too!"
A little more than a month ago, I wrote a largely throwaway Saturday post called "Indie Devs Are Kind of Assholes" in which I criticized Falco Girgis for his response to an internet troll on Kotaku. Specifically, he wrote this (emphasis added):
You know, half of what you said was actually fairly useful, but then the other half went into opinionated, biased, tangential bullshit, and you lost me entirely. Bump mapping? Have you LOOKED at our Kickstarter? Our sprites are CLEARLY bump mapped, and they're also specularly highlighted. There's even a section clearly describing that. Our later screenshots are also all billboarded and are entirely aligned to camera-space. Your divine wisdom would have been appreciated considerably more if you had refrained from being a total douche in the end… I was actually going to ask for your email and talk development with you… But instead I think I'll just head on back to Kickstarter and watch the money roll in for this abomination of an indie RPG coming to a Dreamcast near you! Funny, considering the majority of the backers are coming for the Dreamcast, then OUYA is doubling our funds from $150k to $300k. ;)
My overall point was that the stuff I highlighted in red is him just being an asshole and is otherwise dumb to say in any context.
Well, somehow Falco found the post this past Friday and decided to defend himself in the comments, with Facebook backup. Which was interesting for a whole host of reasons, but I'm not going to encourage you to check his recent (public) timeline or anything.
The Team Falco consensus seems to basically be summed up by this:
We're just people and will respond as human beings. If indie devs acted like you expect us to act the there would be a whole lot more examples of Phil Fish and to a lesser extent Notch.
In other words, these sort of responses are just people being people.
The problem is that you cease being "just people" the minute you become an entrepreneur publicly selling a product. Or take any job whatsoever. I do have a little sympathy for people like Notch after the fact, but that might simply be because I didn't follow his public comments too closely; if he was anything like Phil Fish or Falco here, he deserved the shit he got up to and including his meltdown. Not that I think he's exactly crying into his $1.8 billion right now.
I am not trying to set myself up as some sort of paragon of good behavior. Who knows how I would have reacted in a similar situation? Maybe exactly the same… or worse! But that is all besides the fact that, objectively, those were all monumentally dumb and utterly unnecessary things to say. For anyone, in any scenario. The anonymous hater was put in his/her place with facts within the first five sentences – everything that came after was just him being an asshole. Any sort of "he was under a lot of stress" apologetics not only highlights the underlying lack self-control (or crippling insecurity), it is also a blank check to internet trolls everywhere. "Maybe they were just stressed when they told you to die in a fire."
No, we can criticize people behaving badly regardless of why they did it.
Walking away from this exchange and having read Notch's farewell post, it's pretty clear that one does not simply make videogames; when you pick up the developer mantle, you get all the baggage that comes attached. Is that fair? Maybe, maybe not. I'm certainly willing to admit that gamers seem significantly more likely to publicly air grievances than, say, Walmart shoppers or whatever. At the same time, this is also what you signed up to do, whether you knew it at the time or not. And now that you know, it's up to you as to whether the literally infinite reservoir of internet malice is worth responding to every single time.
I recommend not doing so. And especially not in a manner indistinguishable from original source.
The Littlest Things
In the midst of a bout of gaming ennui, I find myself coming back time and again to PlanetSide 2. The game has some serious structural issues – to say that it's still in Beta is somewhat less of a joke these days – and there is every indication that a sustainable population might not be there for too much longer. I created characters of each faction back when you were unable to have multiple factions on the same server, but a series of server merges have resulted in all three being on the same one (out of two) NA server.
In fact, going by that website, Ps2 has gone from 28 servers worldwide down to… 5. My routine when booting up the game is to filter the four continent maps by Ally Activity, and only choose to play if one continent has more than three hexes with at least 24+ friendly player activity. It is… not guaranteed, even during EST prime time.
So why am I still playing at all? It's a good question, and the only real explanation is this: the Phoenix Launcher.
My "main" character was initially a member of the Vanu faction, which is based around laser/plasma weapons. Each faction has access to "empire-specific" weapons that have no real analog amongst the others. Technically all non-NS weapons are unique, but the difference between the LMG that has more ammo vs the less-ammo-but-higher-damage vs the middling one without bullet drop is not all that great. The empire-specific weapons are a whole other ballgame though.
The difference between the empire-specific rocket launchers is perhaps the greatest in the game. The Vanu have a charge-up laser launcher that has basically zero travel time. The TR have a lock-on rocket launcher that fires five rockets in a row. And the NC? The Phoenix Launcher, which fires a camera-guided and steerable rocket.
I have "quit" PlanetSide 2 several times already, for a number of reasons. But lately I keep coming back for the Phoenix Launcher because it is about the most fun I have had in a FPS… at least in a while. Which is bizarre because only the Heavy Assault class can use the weapon, and it is not as though I spend all my time playing just that class. It's like the mere possibility of my being able to steer a rocket up over cover and around the cliff the enemy tank is hiding behind is enough to get the juices flowing. I'll repair the base turrets as an Engineer and play Medic to forward a base assault just to set up the opportunity later to ride some rockets around.
In the abstract, I clearly enjoy the base gameplay too. And that's true. But without the Phoenix Launcher, that would not have been enough for me to justify my continued play.
I cannot quite decide if that is sad, or precisely the way things should be.
New MMO Players Are Old Noobs
In doing the research for the last article, I came across this interesting August interview with Tom Chilton. It is a sort of "past 10 years, next 10 years" sort of interview, but here were the quotes I want to draw attention to:
Q. Each expansion clearly serves the game's existing audience first, but there always appears to be a secondary goal of either driving new player sign-ups, or winning back lapsed accounts. Warlords of Draenor looks like it's especially designed to win back lapsed players. Would you say that's a fair assessment?
A. [...] We are also trying to make things easier for new players. We have an improved tutorial. We've definitely found over time that the players we're getting now are far less familiar with the standard MMO-slash-RPG mechanics than the players we got years ago were.
Frankly, that's the biggest difference in terms of our subscribership. It's harder to keep the funnel of people coming in to offset, inevitably, people not playing anymore.
So we're making a lot of improvements there, teaching people how to move their characters, how to look around, and how to turn their first quest in, because we're seeing that's where huge amounts of people drop out.
Back in September, I posted a similar Q&A session with Ghostcrawler who basically said the exact same thing:
I'd like to know what Blizzard considers to be the big barriers.
Well *I* consider the biggest barrier being it's a 3D WASD game with a movable camera. (Bashiok)
I agree. So does a lot of data. (Source)
Back to the Chilton interview though, he makes a point about how… well, let me just post it:
Q. Going back to the subject of 10 years, and talking about changes in the subscribership, different playstyles and different expectations, have you seen a shift in your demographics?
Chilton: We certainly have. Our demographic has gotten a lot older over time. A lot of that is because we have a lot of players who've been with us for 10 years, and now they're 10 years older than when they first started playing. Our age has shifted up over the last 10 years.
That has interesting implications in that essentially the playerbase becomes more casual over time. As people get older and have kids and careers, they have less time to spend on playing the MMO.
It definitely influences how we evolve the content and trying to make sure that there are good ways to engage with the game that aren't massively time-consuming.
Now, it is a pretty well-tread argument that players get more casual over time, for exactly the reasons mentioned: you got older, out of college, kids, more obligations, and so on. But I find it a little weird when combined with the prior quote from Chilton insofar as most of the new players coming into WoW are having issues with camera movement and turning in quests. I mean, unless WoW is literally your first RPG, you would think that most everyone coming in would have experience with similar mechanics from literally any other RPG in the last 10 years.
All of which is leading me to believe that, perhaps, most of the new players coming into WoW are precisely older people who haven't played many (or any) RPGs prior to this. It could almost be poetic, if the players who started playing 10 years ago (and kept going) are recruiting their now-older non-gamer peers into the game because those are the only people they know. Hell, you can almost imagine this as a geologic strata forming: the MMO layer being compressed by the MOBA layer of slightly younger players, followed by the Minecraft generation.
None of that really describes what's going on with the FPS genre or console games, but it's a convenient narrative I'm rolling with.
What Are Those Titan Devs Doing Now?
Adam of Noisy Rogue brought up an interesting point recently regarding the cancellation of Titan:
Nobody outside the Blizzard bubble knows what Jeff Kaplan is doing right now. Apart from him there are over a hundred other developers and designers that have been working on Titan for almost seven years. It's a lot of talent. [...]
Hey, yeah, what are they going to do with all the people who were working on Titan?
So what we know is that Titan had 100 developers working on it last August, until it was slashed down to 30 when it "went back to the drawing board." Mike Morhaime said they moved the slashed devs over to Diablo and the Blizzard MOBA. But then I got to thinking: wasn't the dev count on WoW beefed up recently? Indeed it was, as reported on 8/25/13:
The team size has increased 40% and another 40% increase is planned, which will hopefully allow for a new content patch every month, a new raid tier every three to five months, and an annual expansion.
So the timeline makes sense that a lot of those Titan devs were moved over into WoW in addition to Diablo and the MOBA. But then I came across this Icy Veins interview with Tom Chilton from August 2014 (emphasis mine):
Q. You announced repeatedly that you would release content faster: "every 6 months", "no more ICC". Obviously, that did not really work out, so we were just wondering what caused it.
A. That is definitely fair criticism. We did a good job earlier in Mists of Pandaria, having the content come at a more frequent intervals, and certainly we had hoped to have Warlords of Draenor out a couple of months ago. The reality is that scaling up the number of people that we have, to work on multiple projects at once has slowed us down. Honestly, it should have not come as a surprise to us. We increased the size of the team by 50% and the majority of those people had never worked on World of Warcraft before or any other MMO, so it is really difficult for them to create content right away, without getting up to speed. So we ended up redoing a lot of the content that we were doing for Warlords to make sure that we would get it at the quality level that we would expect.
Now I'm not sure what to think. Did Blizzard hire a whole bunch of brand new developers for the WoW team? Were the 30 core devs left behind on Titan the only ones with WoW experience, e.g. Kaplan, etc? We do know that Blizzard is already designing the expansion after Warlords right now, so perhaps the new guys got relegated to Warlords and the core-crew is working on whatever Orcish masturbation fantasy is undoubtedly next ("Thrall's child is all grown up and mad with power!"). I mean, Jesus, it's been World of Hordecraft aside from that one brief period of time in Wrath. And it's arguable that the Taunka and Horde Death Knight quests were far superior to what the Alliance got.
I'm not bitter or anything.
By the way, while I was
Googling researching this post, I came across this rather interesting picture:
This slide came from the Hearthstone fireside chat back in November 2013, with those numbers representing the team sizes of those three games at release. In other words, vanilla WoW had 60 people, Diablo 3 had 75, and Hearthstone 15. Supposedly Diablo 3 is in a better place these days, but it kinda tells you a lot about the relative worth of even Blizzard developers when you have 75 people collectively cranking out the clusterfuck of Diablo 3 on release. More is less, it would seem.
Impression: Shadow Kings: Dark Ages
So, Shadow Kings: Dark Ages is a F2P browser-based game (there is also a mobile version) from Goodgamestudios that bills itself on being an MMO. I suppose that definition could work if we assume that games like Clash of Clans and Castle Clash and so on are MMOs as well. One thing that Shadow Kings does have over the others is a sort of world map which determines who you can attack rather than it being a random match-up.
One thing that is conspicuously and absurdly missing compared to other such titles however is, you know, combat. No, seriously, there is a planning stage for combat – allowing you to assign attackers and siege equipment to the left, center, or right flanks – but all actual combat is handled instantaneously off-screen in a generic battle report. You can use your mages for espionage or sabotage, split your forces to attack a city from three angles, give your troops ladders and battering rams, and the result is… this:
Without an actual visual combat system in place, all of the traditional trappings of this genre of game are exposed in sharp relief. For example, there is a city-building aspect to the game where you need to balance wood, rock, and food production to keep keep the war machine moving. But since you never actually see your city being attacked, the placement of buildings within the city is entirely irrelevant. Which means enemy city layout is irrelevant. Which makes the various troop compositions you can recruit largely irrelevant. Which leads you to question what the game bit is even supposed to be.
Near as I can tell, Shadow Kings is Progress Quest with a snappy app interface and copious amounts of in-game purchases to speed things up. There is a quest system to sort of guide your various actions, but it does not take too long to start running into build times measuring in the hours. Building takes time. Upgrading takes time. Recruiting troops takes time, sending them out to attack something takes time, combat is instant and off-screen, and then there is the return trip home.
In additional to the RMT Gems, Gold is another resource that is only generated when you "collect taxes." You do so by picking a time interval from the given list, and then clicking on the Collect Taxes button at the end of the timer; leave it inactive too long and you will lose an escalating percentage of the amount you would have gained. In a bizarre (or dare I say novel) twist, you actually get rewarded more the shorter the timer happens to be. For example, right now I can collect 5g after 3 minutes. Or 15g at 15 minutes. Or 20g at 30 minutes. Obviously that is to encourage you to stay logged on to secure these funds, but that sort of runs counter to the entire rest of the game in which you are better off queuing a bunch of actions and either Alt-Tabbing to do something else or simply closing the Tab altogether.
It should also be noted that 5 hours is the longest time interval that you can collect taxes… for free. Picking 8.5, 12, or 24 hours as intervals to collect taxes actually costs Gems, with the latter being the equivalent of about $0.35 (assuming none of the frequently advertised Gem sales).
I remain completely and utterly amazed that a team of game designers could construct what could otherwise be a competitor for Clash of Clans/Castle Clash minus the one prevailing, absolutely critical component of player agency: combat. Arguably, there is really no game here. It is a creature of meat and bone with no internal organs. I am trying to imagine a company in which the art, music, and UI teams all finish their work (and it's pretty good work) while the team in charge of the gameplay walked off the job. Even if it were something simple like watching your little dwarves wail on the walls for a few minutes, I feel like that might have been enough; I mean, beyond troop placement at the start of a battle, you don't have any control over your dudes in Clash of Clans either. But with combat missing, there is really no context in which to place all the timers you end up having to wait (or pay) to wind down.
So… err… yeah. That's Shadow Kings: Dark Ages in a nutshell.
Unlikely Encounters
There are a lot of tropes in RPGs that go largely unexamined, but I experienced one in Dragon Age 2 recently that seemed especially egregious: the impossibly unlikely encounter.
Now, you know how it is, you are walking around town and just so happen to stumble across a conversation between a woman looking for her son and guards clearly not interested in searching for him. What were the odds you would be walking by that one-minute exchange in the middle of a sprawling city? It's a trope, but I can forgive that out of necessity; how else could you really set up such a quest organically, right? I'm not talking about those sort of encounters.
No, I'm talking about the part in Dragon Age 2 when I run across a band of Elvish assassins confronting a human along a desolate path on the Wounded Coast. The human is apparently a former werewolf who inadvertently killed the mother of the main Elf assassin, but the Warden from the first game has cured his lycanthropy. You get the choice here between letting the assassin finish the job, defending the man, or trying to shame the Elves into leaving. I did the latter, got paid 50 silver by the grateful man, and both parties left.
Err… what?
This wasn't even a quest. It was just a goddamn throwaway encounter miles from any sort of civilization and/or rational explanation for how the two people could have met one another just in time for me to waltz by. It wasn't like this dude was trying to assuage his guilt by watching the beach. As far as I can possibly determine, there was no reason for him to be there at all; he was not a trader, nor hermit, nor on the run. I would have been infinitely more sympathetic with my suspension of disbelief if this occurred in the city. Or in a cave he was hiding in. Or as part of a plot-line or rumor which suggested someone was looking for a former werewolf. Instead, this scenario gets more and more ludicrous the longer I think about it.
I mean, sure, most of the quests that I have seen in Dragon Age 2 so far seem rather unlikely. Who exactly is going to trust a complete stranger who was conveniently eavesdropping on your conversation in the first place? Actually, it might be fun for there to be an RPG in which all of these sort of tropes are subverted; some sort of deranged, manic dude cavorting into the middle of groups of people and "completing their quests" based on random snippets of dialog. But, man, that Wounded Coast encounter is on an impossibly absurd level of its own.
Titan Felled
I spent about 10 minutes coming up with various clever variations on Titanfall and Attack on Titan, but alas.
Blizzard has killed Project Titan after seven years in development. That Polygon article is overflowing with choice quotes.
"We had created World of Warcraft, and we felt really confident that we knew how to make MMOs," Morhaime said. "So we set out to make the most ambitious thing that you could possibly imagine. And it didn't come together.
"We didn't find the fun," Morhaime continued. "We didn't find the passion. We talked about how we put it through a reevaluation period, and actually, what we reevaluated is whether that's the game we really wanted to be making. The answer is no."
Some would certainly argue that Titan isn't the only project they can no longer find the fun/passion for.
"Are we the MMORPG company?" he added later, in conclusion to that line of questioning.
Morhaime answered that last rhetorical question quite simply: "We don't want to identify ourselves with a particular genre. We just want to make great games every time."
Like… wow. (Err… no pun intended) That has "exit strategy" written all over it. And speaking of that:
Throughout the interview, Metzen and Morhaime suggested that the recent trend of smaller-scale Blizzard releases like Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm has played a part in the company moving away from Titan. [...]
He explained that Hearthstone had helped the studio realize that they don't need to fit themselves into the box of only making products of a certain scale.
I didn't get the chance to mention it earlier, but Hearthstone hit 20 million players. Or "players," whatever. It is still 10 million more than they had in March. While it's tough to actually come to any sort of definitive conclusions about the significance of those numbers given how it's a F2P game that is hitting mobile devices, it is clear that it wasn't just a flash in the pan. If this analyst from CinemaBlend.com (…err) can be believed, Hearthstone could pull in $30 million in revenue this year… which is basically 14% of what WoW brings in yearly. Not bad for a team of 12-15 people.
Back to Titan though, being cynical is easy and mostly safe. However, I am beginning to agree with Gazimoff of Mana Obscura in that this might be the death of the super-genre MMO. "We won't see another heavyweight MMORPG released by a major studio in the next two years." I was going to say that EverQuest Next sort of proves that wrong, but that is probably a bit more than two years out, and who knows if it even gets released at all; Landmark might just cannibalize it, if it doesn't cannibalize itself first. But surely there is something else… oh. Maybe not.
Whether you are celebrating the news – perhaps hoping that more tightly-focused niche MMOs will spring up in the vacuum "as they should be" – or lamenting the loss of AAA tourism, I do want to take a moment to mark the occasion. Because it is an end of an era, or another sign of it at the least. And while we can sit back and suggest that WoW "ruined" "real" virtual worlds like Ultima Online or Everquest or whatever, I do feel a bit sad to think that what we have is it. Specialization is great and all, but when I look at the ex-WoW guild member friends I have made, I see a group of people whom I have never consistently played any other games with. The "super-genre" WoW was pretty much the extent of our shared gaming interests; there is some tiny overlap here and there, but getting the hardcore Civ, the Team Fortress 2, and The Sims players all together as an officer core for a 5-year old guild was goddamn magic.
Titan was unlikely to have rekindled things for my disparate, dispersed cohorts, true. Sometimes things just reach their natural conclusions. And maybe there is something to be said about making friends with more similar interests in the first place. Still… I can't help but feel a loss, somehow.


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