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By: Amanda McKee on October 16, 2014
What are they doing? This was my first thought when I saw the hotel staff lined in front of our Matsuyama inn, waving to us, bowing, and smiling as we pulled away. Unaccustomed to this sort of kindness, it took me a moment to understand that they were sending us off in the friendliest possible way. That was before I realized that they'd also supplied us with cookies for the road. This boggled my mind. Aren't tourists just a dime a dozen? Not on the Japanese island of Shikoku.
The smallest of Japan's four main islands, sparsely populated Shikoku is a trove of natural and cultural treasures. Gorgeous coastline (reminiscent of Hawaii) rises to steep wooded mountains threaded with rivers and hot springs. Looping around the isle is a pilgrimage route of 88 breathtaking Buddhist temples and numerous other sacred sites, which draw henro(pilgrims) donning white jackets and conical sedge hats. There are castles and caves and farms and wildlife....
By: Amanda McKee on October 10, 2014
I look up at her hopefully, but she shakes her kerchief-covered head. The dough still isn't thin enough. I'm up to my elbows in buckwheat flour, my arms ache from pushing a rolling pin, and I can't imagine how the raw noodles can get any thinner without disintegrating. We're standing in a kitchen high in the mountains of Japan's Shikoku Island: one American woman who has little experience working with dough of any kind, and one Japanese woman who's been making perfect soba noodles for decades. She sighs, takes the roller out of my hand, sprinkles a little more flour on top of my mess of dough, and expertly, rhythmically, shaves another few millimeters off the top. It's now paper-thin, nearly translucent, and ready to be folded, cut into noodles, and cooked. I stare in awe, then notice that my cooking class compatriots, who have just gone through the same routine with the other instructors, are smiling at me encouragingly.
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By: Amanda McKee on October 03, 2014
I'd been in Japan for only a day when I started taking pictures of my food. I won't lie: I felt awkward pointing my camera at my plates in restaurants, but I had no choice. I couldn't believe the gorgeous presentations of even the simplest items, fueled by rich culinary traditions. I only wished that my photographs could capture the wonderful flavors that my taste buds were registering.
Revelation struck the night of my first dinner in country. We sat at the bar of a charming, tucked-away eatery in the Gion district of Kyoto, chatting with the chef, nibbling on melt-in-your-mouth sushi, drinking deliciously foamy Kirin out of pottery cups, and grilling super-thin slices of beef on a mini ceramic stove. I pulled out my Canon to document the moment, realizing that I may have underestimated the culinary experiences we'd have on this 12-day cultural journey from Kyoto to Shikoku...
By: Amanda McKee on September 29, 2014
Arriving in Kyoto long after nightfall, I have no idea what is afoot. My deadened senses offer no help: 36 hours of subways, airplanes, and buses to get me to the Kyoto train station have left me able only to climb into a taxi and present the name of my hotel in the Hiyagashima district. Luckily for me, my gracious driver—who wears wonderful long white gloves (the norm, as I will discover) and speaks excellent English (a rarity)—chooses the route carefully to give me a taste. "They've just come out," he explains, "and everyone is here to see them." He means the cherry blossoms, my foggy brain registers, and a flash of excitement breaks through my exhaustion. He slows our progress along one of the city's narrow lanes so I can catch my first splash of pink, glowing in the warmth of the street lamps, a crowd hazily silhouetted below. "You timed your trip just right," he adds. I smile, still not grasping what is in...
By: Don George on September 23, 2014
"Life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport is stamped," Graham Greene wisely wrote, but as many travelers know, the act of reaching a border post and getting that stamp can be a life-changing adventure all on its own. Here, eight GeoEx staffers reminisce about border crossings they won't soon forget.
Amanda McKee: We'd been traveling for days through Chile's remote Aysén region, heading toward Argentina. When the road ended at glacial Lago O'Higgins, we took the ferry across and found the lonely border post set amid breathtaking scenery and nothing else. The immigration guards, pleased to have company, stamped our passports and invited us into their living quarters for coffee. Then we spent 24 hours no longer officially in any country, hiking across a mountain pass, camping overnight, and hiking some more before finally reaching the Argentine border post—still...
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Don George is Editor in Chief of Wanderlust: Literary Journeys for the Discerning Traveler. He has been Travel Editor for the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle and Salon.com, and Global Travel Editor for Lonely Planet Publications. Don has published eight books, including Travel Writing, A Moveable Feast, The Kindness of Strangers, and Tales from Nowhere. E-mail him at [email protected]
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The Brooklyn-based bar rockers in The Hold Steady, having just dropped their latest, Heaven Is Whenever album in May, are knee-deep in their national summer tour, with stops all over the U.S. and even the occasional dip across the Canadian border. Their new album has met widely positive reviews, and ... More >>
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2 Houston chefs nominated for James Beard Award
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Two Houston chefs are in New York, for the James Beard Award ceremony.
Hugo Ortega of Hugo's was again nominated for Best Chef of the Southwest.
His Montrose-area restaurant features authentic Mexican cuisine.
"Grasshoppers. Something that's very unique that you can find just here," said Hugo's manager Antonio Fuentes. "Just sautéed with fresh corn tortillas on the side, some guacamole."
Chris Shepherd, the chef at Underbelly, serves weekly menus but always serves his signature braised goat dumplings.
"It doesn't get much better than that. It's great for the restaurant and the city," said line cook Patrick Feges.
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Microsoft now licensing Windows by the user, across multiple devices
Re: it is customers you want
All your data will be stored in the MS cloud so if you want to access it you'll have to pay MS for the privilege.
Adobe already does this with Creative Cloud. You can store your files locally, but you have no way of opening your own Illustrator or InDesign files if your subscription lapses. Amazing how many users are signing on for this voluntary extortion scheme.
I'm sure marketing geniuses in Redmond are watching closely, and salivating.
Microsoft WINDOWS 10: Seven ATE Nine. Or Eight did really
You can't fix stupid.
"This is what Microsoft should have done two years ago with Windows 8."
No it isn't!
Microsoft should have touch-enabled Windows, and/or come out with a mobile OS. NOT crammed a whole new UI, a new programming model, a closed company store, and a new set of totally redundant 'apps' down users' throats.
What's more, Windows 10 doesn't change any of that. Unifying 'Metro' and the desktop only paves the way for even greater confusion, as users try to figure out whether they should be swiping or clicking - or just cruising over to Apple.com to check out Macintosh prices.
Bill Gates, drugs and the internet: Top 10 Larry Ellison quotes
Re: Love him or hate him...
No you don't.
You can thank Brit funnyman John Oliver for fixing US broadband policy, beams Netflix
Re: Wait, what?
Glad that somebody pointed this out. Oliver isn't that funny, his personality gets annoying over a full show, and he's been on the case with net neutrality for, what was it, five minutes?
I tend to like Reed Hastings, but he's not being very bright, singling out one Johnny-come-lately celebrity endorser rather than the battalions of campaigners who've been fighting this fight on his behalf, day in and day out for years on end.
Brit Sci-Fi author Alastair Reynolds says MS Word 'drives me to distraction'
Re: Call George RR Martin!
I think it's WordStar he uses. (WordStar 2000? Not the best version, anyway.) Personally, I was wooed away from WordStar 3.3 by Borland's Sprint, which picked up WordStar's UI, ran faster (even in text mode under Windows) and added a mass of new features.
Of course, this was back when there was actual innovation going on. Word essentially stopped evolving in the mid to late 1990s. After Word 2003, the product actually started to backslide, becoming harder to maintain, more buggy, uglier, and far more annoying to use, while offering no meaningful advancement whatsoever.
Re: Clippy is gone in name only.
Very true. Microsoft can't wrap its collective brain around the idea of giving working writers really powerful tools. Instead, they target some 'dumb' user, and do everything they can to make them even dumber. They're like that person who tries to help you by taking over. "Here, let me do that - it'll be quicker."
Not even scratching the surface
I've written several non-fiction (published!) books in Word, and hundreds, if not thousands, of long articles. I've created some macros to help me out, but it's still agonizing. The problem with ALL the options mentioned in this article is that they are just word processors. They fundamentally do nothing more than WordStar did on CP/M. For long documents, Word and LibreOffice offer little advantage over something like vi.
What they should have evolved into by now is document processors. Something that can truly help with structure and content. For example, I'd like to be able to attach metadata to paragraphs, identifying the source of the information they contain. This is a perennial problem with typing up research notes: you lose track of their origin. I'd also like something far, far beyond the miserable 'outliner' in Word. I continue to use Ecco for outlining and tracking various types of content, but having it integrated with a proper word processor would be an enormous help. (LibreOffice has no outliner at all, demonstrating its utter lack of ambition to be anything but an inferior clone of Word.)
These kinds of tools I'm talking about would be of even more benefit to the non-professional writer. Most people never learn that with anything longer than a a single sentence, structure must come first. The only tool that ever attempted to place structure first was Lotus Manuscript. It was full of great concepts, but buckled under the limitations of its character-based user interface. There are also writer's tools, such as Scrivener, which are promising. But last time I looked, Scrivener lacked such indispensable features as macros, or in fact, any form of customization. (Again, its creators seem to think they're 99% done, even though they've yet to replicate even the basic features of Word.)
Microsoft is operating as if Word already had EVERY FEATURE that a word processor could ever have, and the only thing left to do was to monkey around with the UI (making annoyingly needless changes even where the long-standing approach was already optimal). Application software development has generally stalled, because of their attitude, but nowhere is this more apparent than with Word and word processors as a category.
Larry Ellison looks out from his island paradise and thinks: I wanna buy the LA Clippers
Re: How to make basketball interesting
You're close... all you need are height classes, as in boxing you have weight classes. Then the game might actually become interesting. (Naah... probably not.)
'Arrogant' Snowden putting lives at risk, says NSA's deputy spyboss
Re: You seem to live in a world of black an white...
If things truly always moved towards being black and white, then surely human society would've just stagnated in year -10.000.
Exactly. Look back 100 years, 200 years. We've come a very long way. Right now, we're on a downward part of the curve, but it's not a vicious circle, it's an upward spiral.
Re: NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett: Go To Jail. Go Directly To Jail…
Anonymous coward sez: "Everyone yells "Disband the NSA" until the next terrorist attack occurs, then it's suddenly, "We need security!"
On the contrary... a great many people, myself included, are saying loudly and plainly: "Disband the spies, police and military, and by all means, bring on the terrorists!" These mushrooming government agencies are a looming threat over every aspect of our daily lives, whereas the actual danger from terrorists has never been more than vanishingly small.
We need to do as much to protect ourselves from terrorism as we do to protect ourselves from lightning strikes and bathroom accidents. Anything more is a waste of taxpayer dollars, and the thin end of totalitarian government over-reach.
Re: Of course NSA puts USA at risk
Charles Manning sez: "When they do this, they increase the hostility towards themselves and thus increase the likelihood of attacks."
Works out perfectly, then. More spying and more 'interventions' abroad mean more hatred against the US and more terrorist threats. More hatred against the US and more terrorist threats mean we need more spying and more 'interventions' abroad. Repeat, as long as you like.
It's kind of beautiful, really... in a monumentally evil, Mephistophelian kind of way.
Q&A: Schneier on trust, NSA spying and the end of US internet hegemony
The problem won't be solved by political pressure, but by economic pressure. Nobody gives a crap about my privacy... but there are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake even in the short term - and orders of magnitude more, in the long term, globally. As Schneier has rightly pointed out, our economy runs on trust, and the NSA has rather foolishly destroyed almost all of it.
If I was Satya Nadella, I'd immediately announce that Microsoft was going to bat against the US government's security policies, throwing at the problem just as much money, and as many lobbyists, as it takes. Same for the heads of Google, Apple, AT&T and every other big US corporation. They have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. If they don't do it, some other nation will - their big IT companies will get together with the government and establish procedures to build user-verifiable trust. Once that happens, Silicon Valley will never again be the center of the digital world.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if it was Russia that did it first?
Wii got it WRONG: How do you solve a problem like Nintendo?
You're not helping
"Yet that would mark the end of Nintendo as an innovator and originator of hardware. We all saw how well that went for Sega."
Sega is doing just fine. It could be doing much better, if it hadn't gutted itself financially by fielding two totally unwanted hardware platforms (Dreamcast, Saturn).
Mike - you blame Nintendo for being deceived by the success of the Wii, yet you unquestioningly accept the more fundamental error, dating back to the NES and SNES, of thinking that Nintendo ever was or ever will be a hardware company. Nintendo brings only negative value to hardware. They've never made money on hardware. They've created hardware, as needed, to sell their great GAMES. That's a risky proposition, but workable. Making hardware when it's NOT needed is madness. Attempting to "innovate" in hardware -- when you're fundamentally a software company -- is suicide.
Hardware is expensive, risky and only marginally profitable. It's a business for experts like Samsung... maybe even Sony, on a good day. (Walkman, yes; PS4, no.) These companies can be efficient enough and expert enough to survive on thin margins. They're big enough to gamble billions on risky product choices. (And even then, they can fail spectacularly.) Nintendo is beyond stupid to get into that meat grinder. (As is Microsoft, for another example.)
If instead of building the Game Cube (never mind the Wii), Nintendo had aimed its next wave of franchise titles at readily available hardware -- Xbox, PS, PC and mobile -- they'd be rolling in profits now. Instead, they're stretched too thin to even produce more great games. They're going to go down in flames... by attempting to innovate in hardware.
Great software will ALWAYS be more important -- and more profitable -- than the hardware it runs on.
Mars rover Curiosity snaps 'pale blue dot' image of Earth, Moon
Re: distinct
Seems to me the image enhancement worked just as it should. But in any case, thanks very much for the link to the full-size pic. It should have been included in the original article. I am constantly amazed how little use news sites make of the linking abilities of the Web. Are they afraid we'll find something more interesting and never come back?
Why Microsoft absolutely DOESN'T need its own Steve Jobs
Absolutely right about Apple - it's Google that's winning the race, and doing so because it's offering the virtues that used to be Microsoft's, such as (relative) openness and responsiveness.
There once was a unified vision at Microsoft: to deliver the hottest technology to the user, faster and cheaper than anyone else. There are many examples. Support for the 386 processor. Protected-mode multitasking. Big memory and 64-bit processing. The Windows PC succeeded because it offered more horsepower, sooner and cheaper than the competition. It was never the sexiest, but it was always the best overall value. Now Ballmer has become dazzled by overpriced consumer devices, forgetting that it was power, not pizzazz, that made Microsoft successful.
Ballmer's tenure at the helm has been dubbed "Microsoft's lost decade". An unflattering term that is misused by many who blithely ignore that Ballmer's tenure still saw Microsoft grow profits by an average of over 15 per cent per year to a company with a net income of $23bn. We should all hope to fail so well.
Baloney. Ballmer reaped those profits by allowing the company to coast on momentum. Now the momentum is gone, and competitors who kept their foot on the gas are far ahead. Ballmer allowed Windows and Office to languish, while turning a huge lead in mobile devices (including both handhelds and tablets) into a total disaster. That's not the kind of FAIL anyone should aspire to.
Android in FOUR out of 5 new smartphones. How d'ya like dem Apples?
Re: Microsoft market share not growing?
fishman said: "So the growth of Windows Phone has been at the expense of Windows Mobile."
Exactly right. And at the expense of BlackBerry. Have you ever met anyone who would even contemplate giving up their iPhone for a WinPhone?? It is to laugh.
As far as that 150% growth... that's mathematically inevitable for any product that's starting from scratch. (Growth from zero market share to 0.01% is literally infinite, but completely meaningless) In reality, Microsoft is spending billions to subsidize its meager 3.6%, while Apple is making a juicy profit off its 12.1%. The two are much further apart than the high-level statistics suggest.
Microsoft's mistake was even thinking about competing with Apple, when Google is the big, fat target. And the one taking business that should have been Microsoft's, based on qualities like (relative) openness and friendliness with third-party hardware OEMs. If Microsoft had smoothly evolved Windows Mobile, perhaps making it play nicer with Windows proper, today it would BE Android.
Sony's new PlayStation 4: Early faults ENRAGE some buyers
Re: Silly squabling
"And yet they are priced at a fraction of the cost and remain the standard news games are developed for..."
Let me stop you right there.
First, you need to own TWO feeble, nearly-identical systems in order to own "the standard(s) new games are developed for." Otherwise, you will miss exactly half the exclusive titles. Second, in order to get the full experience (e.g. multiplayer, or Netflix) you have to play for online access - for the entire life of the system. Third, you WILL need to upgrade the internal storage almost immediately. Add that all up, and a nice mid-range PC starts too look like a pretty good bargain.
Moreover, with 65 million users, Steam is a comparable market to either the Xbox 360 or PS4, and therefor just as important a "standard" for game development - and literally INFINITELY more attractive to developers right now than either the Xbone or PS4, which are starting with an installed base of roughly ZERO. If those new gizmos don't sell like hotcakes this Christmas, everyone who does buy one is going to be a very sad little kiddy next year.
Re: Silly squabling
I find it hilarious that people are rushing out to buy two consoles that are not only internally identical to (feeble) PCs, but internally identical to each other! While remaining totally incompatible with each other, with the PC, and even with their own previous generations. ROFLMAO was never a more appropriate acronym.
Sure, there are (very) minor differences (cache memory). And there is some (minor) benefit to faster memory access (offset by the meagre 8GB allocation of unified memory - my PC has 18, and it's trailing edge). But the fact remains, the Xbone and PS4 COULD have been released as competing OSes running on stock PC hardware. Of course, nobody would have given them a second look. As pieces of laughably inadequate, completely redundant hardware, they're a litmus test for the gullibility of the gaming fan.
Mozilla CTO blasts WC3 plans to bless anti-piracy DRM tech in HTML5
Re: a solution is required
"The point is, Minecraft is a one-in-a-million occurance where a developer hit it big first time."
Minecraft is far from the only example. It's just the most over-the-top lucrative one, so far.
"How many great games that we know today would not have existed had the studios that made them not gained any revenue from prior titles?"
Nobody is arguing against software creators getting paid. But history does not guarantee immortality to any one business model. The old model where you could sell exactly one product to one consumer broke when the 'cost of manufacture' and 'cost of distribution' dropped to zero. That world is gone, and DRM won't bring it back. The only option is to move forward and evolve new business models. Crippling new, transformative technologies has never worked.
Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected
Hey, Steve... it's MicroSOFT, not MicroPHONE...
If I owned a cash cow like Windows, I'd certainly take better care of it and pay it more attention. Instead of always looking for some other pet project to play with...
Can Microsoft's U-turn stop the Xbox 360 becoming another XP?
Re: @ge
@ge said: "So before anyone starts countering your argument I think they should keep this in mind as well; with consoles you can't be sure that the thing you bought will continue working as you expected it to."
When Microsoft 'upgraded' us to Windows Genuine Advantage, I turned off all auto-updates on my PC. I've never regretted it, and frequently congratulated myself on the horrors that have passed me by. On a console, alas, this is not an option.
Darth Vader said: "I am altering our deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
If you've bought DRM'd film files from Acetrax, here's the bad news
Re: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Regarding Steam - it's all about trust. Unlike other vendors, Valve has actually given people a fair deal, and slowly built up their trust that the system will not be abused. That's not a defense... just an observation.
No, you don't (quite) own your Steam games. But you do often get a better price, if you wait for the frequent and very dramatic sales. Games are NOT locked to a particular piece of hardware. On the contrary, you get the ability to install the game as often as you like, wherever you like, on PC, Mac or Linux. You do get the ability to play the game (almost?) indefinitely offline, once you've initially validated it onilne. Horrible corrupting malware is NOT installed on your computer. In fact, game installation is easier, more reliable and less intrusive than with a disc-based copy. (DRM is not even mandatory... Steam simply makes it available to each publisher.)
This is all on the plus side. The potential downside is not completely erased. We can't know what might happen if Valve were to go bust. But I think you'll find that some 50 million users are fairly convinced that if Valve ever does go out of business, it will unlock all the games before it 'turns out the lights.'
This highlights a key fact about DRM. It is not only wrong in principle... it's typically ALSO executed unbelievably badly. 'DRM done right' would have been accepted by the public without a murmur. Steam is one of the few examples. Ironically, we won't be able to make a final judgment on Steam until it does someday disappear.
Microsoft: All RIGHT, you can have your Start button back
Thanks, LoCatus! After 200+ comments, at last the perfect response.
Re: Microsoft had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8
Not even the most desperate Windows 8 booster can claim that Win8 has been any kind of stimulus to the market. Windows 8 isn't helping to sell PCs, and it certainly isn't helping to sell Windows tablets, or Windows Phones.
Microsoft could survive this kind of 'wet firecracker' release back when it really did have the world by the throat. But today, it's under the gun. PC sales are sliding, and companies like Apple are picking up the slack. At this point, 'good enough' just isn't good enough.
Microsoft really needed to 'hit one out of the park' with Win8. Instead, it has failed to motivate droves of PC upgraders, failed to carve out a significant niche in mobile devices.... while at the same time alienating corporate customers and droves of die-hard fans. Just how much more epic could the fail have been?
CURSE you, EINSTEIN! Humanity still chained in relativistic PRISON
Re: Quantum, eh?
As far as I can see, the findings presented in the article simply show an unrelated confirmation of Relativity, rather than a specific refutation of the possibility of Collapsar travel. Moreover, there remains a great deal we do not understand - such as why 95% of the Universe remains unaccounted-for, or why Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can't be reconciled. For starters. Milk and sugar in mine, thanks.
Re: Us2them
First, while Man is obviously dangerous to Man, it is the height of hubris to think the Universe is losing sleep over our popguns and petty bickering. Second, Man is no more violent than, say, bacteria. Or my cats, which fight constantly, for no apparent reason. Third, eternity is a very long time, and there is a great deal we still do not know.
Judge scolds Apple, Motorola for using court as 'business strategy'
You're on to something, Eradicate, but I think preventing people using the patented concept is still too much power. I prefer Martin's elaboration: use it or lose it. All 'IP' law should work that way. If nothing else, it would eliminate the 'copyright limbo' that now imprisons so many creative works.
Still wouldn't stop Apple from patenting the rectangle, though. That needs real reform in the patent process.
Oi, Microsoft, where's my effin' toolbar gone?
1 Rafayal: "And you can do the same in Word 2007 upwards."
Do what - customise the toolbar? I hope you're not referring to that miserable handful of squinty little icons you can add, incongruously, to the title bar of the window...?
Build a BONKERS gaming PC
Whether or not you assemble it yourself, the important thing is NOT to buy a packaged PC from any of the brand-name vendors. These companies use commodity components purchased at rock-bottom prices, in order to fatten their slim profit margins. When you spec out a rig yourself, you can cherry-pick top-notch brand-name components, for only a little more money. This makes a vast difference in performance, and more importantly, reliability.
Too many PC purchasers don't realize that having a trusted logo on each component is far better than having one familiar logo on the outside of a box full of no-name rubbish. I think it's a big reason that PC sales have slumped - too many consumers have been burned by junkpile brand-name PCs.
Trip the fight fantastic
Re: A few comments
Ironclad said: "Plus joypads suck, keyboards and mice for teh win."
This is the key, and belongs up top, way ahead of clock speeds, cores, or polygon capacity. The 'console' as we know it is defined by a painfully 'low-bandwidth' user interface, the ubiquitous gamepad. This feeble device is the chief constraint on console gaming. It offers basic four-way directional control, and a minimal number of buttons, thereby severely restricting the human-game interaction. Witness the Sony PS4 launch, where we saw nearly photo-realistic characters jerking around like insanely detailed 3D versions of Pac-Man. Rendering just doesn't matter - there is simply no way the player can move their onscreen avatar with anything resembling real-life fluidity.
There's another point, equally important. Gamepads have the wrong TYPE of control. They control velocity, not position. Rotation, not angle. (It's a first-derivative thing, if you recall any high-school calculus). This is simply NOT the way humans think and move. When I turn to my friend, I'm rotating to THIS angle... not STARTING rotation, waiting, then STOPPING rotation. Similarly, if I aim a weapon, I don't START sweeping to the right, then STOP. I turn a few degrees right. I turn TO a given location, not AT a given rate.
Taken together, the limitations of the gamepad result in dumbed-down games. Good console games are built around those limitations, so players may not notice what's been done. But the richness and depth of a PC game like ArmA, or Flight Simulator, or Civilization, or even Battlefield, is simply not on the menu. (It's easy to think of other examples.)
Add the openness of the PC ecosystem, and the gap widens still further. The new 'social' features of the PS4 emphasize this gap, rather than narrowing it. Yes, you can press "Share." On the PC, you can connect to multiple services simultaneously. You can count on developers finding new ways to deliver games, sell games, tie games into resources that don't even exist yet. You can count on a 'mod' community inventing anything the developers miss. (And in turn spurring commercial development to new achievements.) This vibrant ecosystem will always produce faster evolution than a console monoculture.
To go back to the car analogy, it's more like the difference between a train and a helicopter. The train can switch tracks, at pre-determined points. It can go faster or slower. The helicopter can wander freely in three-space. The train is constrained by a cumbersome switching system, operated by a very limited number of corporate bodies. The helicopter can be privately owned, and hence upgraded or modified, taken 'off the grid,' to locations not served by the rail network.
Of course, even that strained comparison falls short of capturing the actual gulf we're talking about. A gulf that will continue to widen, given that the growing power of the PC will not be constrained by the human interface, while the advancing clock cycles of a PS4 or even PS5 will be increasingly wasted, as far as gameplay potential.
Adobe thinks outside box, nixes retail Creative Suite packaging
Re: I'd rather own it.
Thus spake MachDiamond: "...how many times have OS upgrades been released only to find some massive bugs when it is used in the real world?"
It's actually worse than that - not just a question of bugs, but of actual malice. When Microsoft foisted WGA on Windows users as a "software update," I turned off auto-updates on all my software. And have never looked back. There is no way I'm going to give any company the authority to modify software on my computer - simple as that.
Ten serious sci-fi films for the sentient fan
The article does hit the high points, but some of the choices are impossible to justify. Close Encounters??? It's barely SF at all, and surely one of the dumbest, most tedious, insipid films of all time, in any genre. Star Trek?? A great franchise, to be sure, and a fairly noble intent in this first big-screen adaptation. But NOT a good movie. Planet of the Apes? Allegory, yes. Fun, yes. Science...? Hardly!
Meanwhile, lots of truly important films are omitted, that offer much more in the way of both SF ideas and cinematic merits. Here are a few suggestions: Metropolis, Island of Lost Souls, Destination Moon, Timecrimes, The Andromeda Strain, The Man in the White Suit, The Man from Earth, Colossus: The Forbin Project, 2010, Things to Come...
A few others have been mentioned in previous posts, but I'm sticking to 'hard' SF that works well as film. I do have a high regard for Primer, but it seems more surreal than scientific, to me. Frankenstein Unbound, at the opposite extreme, is another close call... a very under-rated film, but a bit more allegorical than scientific. A better case could be made for Alien, which has a strong SF basis, despite its horror trappings...
Mark Shuttleworth: Canonical leads Ubuntu, not 'your whims'
Re: leading down a sinkhole
Couldn't agree more. Shuttleworth is deliberately muddying the waters here. It's not the *idea* of a more-commercial Ubuntu that people object to, but the specific way Shuttleworth is doing it... by adding spyware, or building a UI that's needlessly unfamiliar.
Listening to the core audience does NOT make a company weak. There's a difference between leadership and sheer bloody-mindedness.
Ubuntu 13.04 beta touts search privacy - before it hooks in eBay, IMDb etc
"Hate" is the wrong word. Try "disappointment," "disillusionment" or "dismay." Ubuntu has long been the de facto standard-bearer for Linux on the desktop. It's a blow to see it going off the rails in some key ways. Too many once-great companies have self-destructed over the years, with the first symptom being an arrogant belief that they no longer needed to listen to their core customer base.
Re: A lot of work...
Anonymous Coward grunted: "For example, it's also illegal in Finland, Canada and Australia."
Slight clarification... In Canada, 'bypassing digital locks' is illegal, but owning (or downloading) the tools to do so is not. No Canadian has ever been 'done' for watching a DVD in Linux, and under the newly-revised copyright law, there's essentially no chance that anyone ever will.
Windows Phone 8 hasn't slowed Microsoft's mobile freefall
Re: History
Robert E Harvey sez: "I've not forgotten what carp WM6 & 6.5 were..."
Actually, WM was a great OS, for its time. Powerful. UI a bit limited, but easily upgraded. Tons of superb apps (we called it 'software,' back then). MS should have evolved WM into the niche now usurped by the bizarro WP. Instead, it threw away backward compatibility (previously a company hallmark), and threw a sizable population of WM users under the bus. A couple of years from now, they'll probably do the same to everyone who swallows the current WP pitch.
Re: Who would have thought?
spazinvader sez: "Ha ha. Please come back and post here once you have actually started using Windows 8."
Been there, done that. And yes, you really do get thrown back to the "same old crufty desktop" for a lot of 'real work. For instance, how about file copy? I think that qualifies as 'real work.' Or making configuration settings that are inexplicably not available from the Charms bar? Pretty real. Or how about running Office - even the very latest version? Yep, still on the desktop, and cruftier than ever.
Nokia's Elopocalypse two years on: Has Microsoft kept its side of the bargain?
Re: ELOP FAIL
Anonymous coward theorized: "Actually the latest Gartner figures show that WP phone sales are still climbing steeply and that they just went over 3% of market share....Whilst it hass taken a long time, they are on course to gain a substantial chunk of the market..."
Your "on course" assertion is a unwarranted and highly optimistic extrapolation from a very small data set. Looking through the other end of the telescope, 3% has to be seen as a puny achievement. It shows that WinPhone has entirely failed to set the market on fire. And at this point in history, nothing less will suffice.
Getting from, say, 1% to 3% required nothing more than sweeping up a few adventurous geeks and die-hard fanbois. Making a serious dent in Apple or Google's 30-40% shares is quite a different matter. It would mean wooing strongly-committed customers away from platforms they already know they like.
The various comparisons to Zune in this thread are apt. The fact that Zune wasn't a terrible product is exactly the point. As with WinPhone, Microsoft was very late to the party, and offered very little new benefit to shift customers who'd already had time to establish strong allegiances. And on top of all that, Microsoft did a terrible job building the ecosystem, demonstrated monumental ineptitude in its marketing, and generally confused and alienated everyone.
Fashionably slate
Not 'smart' enough!
Obviously, TV is all about the content. But 'smart' TV does make sense. The problem is, no one has done (or is about to do) it right. A fragmented market of proprietary TV ecosystems and user interfaces is a nightmare, not a benefit to the consumer.
'Smart' TV today is simply not smart enough to be worth the effort.
On the other hand, an Android-enabled TV would make perfect sense. Then the controls would be standard, and the selection of apps would be big enough to be interesting. Integration with tablets or smartphones would be easy... Eventually, I'd have a tablet (or other Android device) on my coffee table as a remote. When the main TV was occupied with content, the tablet screen would let someone browse the channel guide, or maybe watch something else. (A programmable tablet controller would also neatly solved the insane problem of proliferating remotes, over which the AV industry should feel constant shame.)
All easy to do, no new technology required. Unfortunately, no one is doing it.
Even the Google TV fails, by trying to build some new dumbed-down interface, and a new, restricted app ecosystem. Still, the potential is evident. When I was trying out Sony's Google TV box, I found myself wishing it could play content from my local SMB network shares. Even with the miserable selection of apps specifically approved for Google TV, I was able to find an audio/video player app that did exactly what I wanted. This brought the whole concept to life. Wow - TV that can expand to do whatever I want! (Video calling? Download a Skype app. Don't like the built-in browser? Grab Dolphin, or Firefox.) If 'Google TV simply gave me unrestricted access to the entire Google Play library, under the familiar Android UI - plus transparent integration with other Android devices - I wouldn't want to be without it.
Bottom line, 'smart' TV should be about enabling familiar and desirable capabilities. Not larding on individual, proprietary features that no one asked for, and which make TV harder to use.
Unfortunately, AV manufacturers have no idea how to deliver that future - partly because they're congenitally unable to cooperate, and partly because software is a world they deeply fail to understand. I've long ago given up on Microsoft, which itself has closed, propriety products on the brain nowadays. But Google could step up, and I can't understand why Google TV has been such a feeble effort. The doomsday scenario is that Apple will walk in with a closed, infuriatingly limited - yet moderately usable - product and take over. As they did in phones. For some reason, the TV industry seems unable to learn from that historical precedent.
Still-living, unincarcerated Ted Nugent invited to Barack Obama gig
Re: Duped by the clueless and the media
Anonymous coward sez: "It's always comical to read the opinions of those who think by passing some legislation that the ills of society will suddenly be resolved. Nothing could be further from the truth."
No... what is truly comical (not to mention frightening) is how you can ignore the excellent empirical evidence that proves you wrong. Countries that have passed moderate gun-control legislation have seen dramatic declines in gun-related deaths, and in mass-shooting incidents. There are quite a few good examples... Australia, for one. There's no need to theorize: legislation does work, and need not be draconian.
If you see modest, reasonable gun-control laws as an unbearable infringement on your liberties, you clearly have no idea what civilization looks like.
The original text works
Only a total idiot would think it's okay to pull a phrase out of context when interpreting a legal document. Taken in context, the term "the people" is clearly intended in the collective sense. Had the founders intended to arm paranoid hicks, they'd have said "citizens" or even "individual citizens" instead.
A similar problem comes up with patent and copyright law. The IP industry conveniently ignores the beginning of the relevant clause: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts..." Which renders unconstitutional any laws that demonstrably do NOT "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
Unfortunately, even the most clever language is useless when interpretation is left to rogues and fools.
PR people 'put duty to the public ahead of employers' interests'
Ha Ha
Good piece - it's rare to see such unintended irony. But of course, you could do a similar study about any profession and come up with the same, equally ludicrous result.
Obviously, everyone thinks they're the "organizational conscience." In practice, however, it turns out that everyone's morals are tempered by pragmatism, expedience and the herd instinct. Most of us do the best we can in an imperfect world. Some do better than others.
I've known a surprising number of PR people who were honest and hard-working, who made a strenuous effort to pick clients who let them be that way. And I've known masses of journalists who were happy to go with the flow, to write what they were supposed to write, and, above all, to believe what they were supposed to believe. It's relatively rare to hear an editor flat out say: if you write this, you're history. But it's commonplace to see journalists just sort of accidentally not get promoted, for trying too hard to be the "organizational conscience" - espousing unpopular points of view, or speaking out just a little too frankly about an advertiser's product. Most journalism, is, after all, paid for by advertising. In fact, most of us earn a living, maybe indirectly, by flogging a 'product.'
Bill Hicks certainly wasn't wrong to rail against "marketing and advertising." But PR didn't create the idea of self-serving dishonesty; PR was created by a civilization that values honesty far less than ambition and profitability. The worst excesses of PR truly have been ludicrous. It's useful to ridicule such obvious failings of other professions. As long as we don't forget to be embarrassed at the frequently low standards of our own.
Bob Dylan's new album is 'Copyright Extension Collection'
Kudos, Sony!
I think it's really clever of Sony to issue this unique pro-copyright album in such tiny quantities... ensuring that the only way 99.9% of Dylan fans will ever hear it is to pirate it. Brilliant!! Sony, you've certainly struck a blow for copyright... right to the back of your own cranium.
The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux
Re: Mint FTW
Number6 said: "it's just that they're listening to users a bit better and are producing what people want rather than the "we know best" approach pioneered by Microsoft and taken up by Canonical/Ubuntu."
You nailed it. Disregard of user privacy is a secondary problem. The deeper issue here is that Canonical, like too many other development organizations today, have stopped listening to their user base. In fact, they're acting as though it is somehow 'macho' to ignore any preferences expressed by the customer. I hope they enjoy eating their own dog food, because company's not coming...
Kickstarted mobe charger 'kicked to death by Apple'
"Apple has always been FAR more evil than Microsoft (and I own about 7 or 8 Apple products)."
It doesn't bother you that you knowingly ENABLED them to be far more evil? At least they did it for billions in earnings. You sold your soul just for the sake of having "7 or 8" shiny new toys.
Re: Hmmm
"Basically put, with the EU standard you can be sure the wire from your charger will plug into the port on your device. Can you actually be sure the charger will charge your device?"
Yes, I can be sure, because the standard would make me free to select any decent-quality high-amp charger.
The point of the standard clearly isn't to guarantee that every charger will work with every device, day one. The point is to ensure that consumers are ABLE to buy a single charger that will work with all their devices. Since chargers are already tending to offer the highest amperage needed by current devices, the overall effect would be that most halfway-decent chargers would indeed handle any device.
But that's looking at it backwards anyway. The real point here is that there's simply no reason to have more than one type of connector - except to create an undeserved consumer lock-in. Governments are right to regulate this sort of corporate behavior... given that some consumers will always be idiots enough not to shun it.
Pirate cops bust LITTLE GIRL, take her Winnie-the-Pooh laptop
Sideshow Bob: "Do they give out Nobel prizes for attempted chemistry?"
What happened to comics for kids? Hell, what happened to COMICS?
Re: Oh, how the ghost of you clings
Of course there are reasons why comics "got darker and edgier and complex." But there is a downside. The kind of light entertainment that comics provided from the 1940s through the early 1990s has now essentially vanished. Too many comics today, even some of the better ones, are too much *work* to read. Maus is a great example... I honestly don't *want* to experience the Holocaust as re-enacted by rodents. (Call me shallow if you like.)
Yes, I did very much enjoy 'Y The Last Man.' I see this series as a real ray of hope. Vaughan knows how to spin an entertaining yarn, even while dealing with darker themes. Previously, I was equally impressed with Bendis' 'Alias,' a series that managed to be adult while dealing with superheroes (in the Marvel Universe, no less), and entertaining while working through reasonably mature storylines.
But what I really miss is my monthly fix of Nexus or Zot!. The Lee/Ditko Spider-Man (which still holds up as fiction, amazingly enough). Fun, superhero stuff, with good art and a bit of brains. Today's comics are what the movie business would look like if it consisted entirely of formulaic Twilight films on the one hand, and turgid Angst Lee drah-mas on the other. You need a few James Camerons, Peter Jacksons, John Carpenters, Roland Emmerichs... creators who can churn out fast-paced entertainment that hangs together well enough to keep the brain from shutting down entirely.
It can't be just an either-or choice between Sergei Eisenstein or Uwe Boll.
Re: Dandy, Beano, 2000 AD to Mad Magazine
I've long been a huge fan of the 1960s Fleetway pocket-size comics. Brilliant storytelling. Art rather standardized, but often surprisingly good. Writing always strong. The later stuff you mention was great too, of course - but I found even 200AD pretentious compared to those unassuming, uniquely British books, that wanted nothing more than to provide solid entertainment and a bit of moral uplift. I treasure the few issues I still have - I fear that not many now survive.
Re: Money
When comics became 'collectible,' it was the beginning of the end. When some guy reached past me to grab the *entire rack* of the current Spider-Man issue, because it had a hologram on the cover, I knew it was over.
Most of the fans I've known over the past decade or two have been all too happy to grab the latest wad of tripe just because they thought it would increase in value. I tried to explain that garbage never ages well. That the comics of the 1960s acquired huge value because they were a) intrinsically good, and b) in short supply on account of not having been preserved in large numbers. And that neither factor applied to anything they were buying. Nobody listened.
A 'comic book' used to be 10 cents' worth of disposable entertainment. I used to scribble on them, pick up the best panels with Silly Putty, lend them to friends, lose the covers, keep them piled them two feet high, and sit on them in the back of my parents' car. Now I have them sequentially arranged in hermetically-sealed plastic bags... to remind me of how great things used to be.
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I believe in life before death... So dont forget to enjoy it while you still can.
BAsically it will be, get 5 people and addapt your gameplay to the tools you have, everything depends on the flexibillity of the players.
Most important, you want better players instead of players specced a certain way.
But it will take people ages to addapt to this.
But if they addapt to this, they will find out dungeons will feel different everytime depending on their groupsetup
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I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state of a small city.
LFG - need players willing to be flexible. DPS only types need not apply.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 5/26/12
Originally posted by Alders
Exactly.... Flexible players will be the best players. Those who "want" to play with a single weapon set won't be useful in lots of situations. Those who have multiple builds and experience with most weapon sets will be the best players.
Block the trolls, don't answer them, so we can remove the garbage from these forums
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Joined: 6/10/06
All these fears of Elitists wanting certain classes only, or refusing to take a player because he plays x class can only be overcome by us. The players. We, The Players, as a group, have to stop being such jerks. I've always hated this BS about "such and such a class is no good", or "we can't take this person because we already have 1 of x class". Those arguments have no place in GW2.
So, I'll be looking for "Players" to join groups for dungeons. I don't give a flying f*ck what class they are, they're welcome to join. If that means I end up with 5 of the same class, great! More ammo to fire at the idiots who say it can't be done.
Make the decision now that you won't be "one of those jerks" and we won't have to worry about this sort of BS ruining the game.
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Joined: 1/04/05
In GW1:prophecies, when Sorrows Furnace expansion came out, Mesmers could not get a group because people didn't understand them (Mesmers were always behind the scene - if they did their job well - everything was easy). So, I was one of the people to push all mesmer runs through SF and continuing throughout the game. Now there should be no elitist LFG types in theory (also being in a guild will help immensely).
I look forward to bouncing through the content with guildies, new people, and old players moved to the new game.
Since I have 2 accounts in GW1 - I may do the same in GW2 - not sure yet.
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Joined: 8/08/11
i'm expecting to see quite a bit of "group of 4 LF tank"
or "got 4 just need heals"
i hope i'm wrong though.
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Joined: 5/14/07
I believe in life before death... So dont forget to enjoy it while you still can.
Originally posted by Ramanadjinn
As soon as you see that, find another group, because people screaminf that still have no clue about how to play the game.
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Joined: 6/04/07
For players good enough where dungeons are hard enough , and it really looks like dungeouns will be, there will instead of waisting time lfg, be some time spend where the builds is disscussed and group members are asked to bring certain skills.
For less patient and less selfreliable players, they will ask LFG and seek for a groupcomposition based on the latest famous WIKI build to clear that dungeoun. This will happend no matter how genious system ArenaNet have developed, simply because not every one can handle the possibilities that the system offers. And there will always be a strong tendecy to blame failures on builds and not lack of personal skill.
But the real point is that instead of spending time LFG , in GW2 most people will spend time preparing, discusssing how to adjust the proffesions to bring whats needed to the table.
read how to create a succesfull mmo before posting about GW2. And read tao of ArenaNet before talking about innovation in GW2
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Joined: 10/20/10
All classes have a built in Heal / CC / Nuke, so you cant say that Joe needs to take care of CC and Frodo take care of dps.
If you wipe witha group (and you will) you cant blame any1 except if that players dint use their skills properly or dint heal himself.
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Joined: 3/16/07
Originally posted by Mothanos
I corrected a few spelling bits, don't mind me...
But THIS. This statement sums up how the game differs entirely from a standard WoW-type trinity. Each player is equally responsible for the health of themselves/the team, keeping enemies under control, and killing enemies.
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Joined: 9/14/10
Facts do not require fiction for balance.
Originally posted by Fendel84M
No, it means "Need two more for Catacombs!" That's all. There are no roles anymore... your skills have the damage, control and support aspects (with multiple often on each skill), so it's a matter of using the right skills at the right time.
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Originally posted by evolver1972
I think you either can specc 5 balanced builds or 3 and have one each maxed on a speciality. But the second one will probably work best for guilds, for PUGs is probably balanced characters best.
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Facts do not require fiction for balance.
Originally posted by Loke666
Remember, though, ANet stated that people can try to force themselves into something resembling roles and have a moderate degree of success in the early areas of the game, but they'll fail in the later, more challenging content. We'll see people try to come up with "healer guardian" builds, for example, early in the game... but down the road they'll be the raggled street bums holding the "will heal for food" signs near the gates of Divinity's Reach.
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Joined: 3/30/11
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
There may be a bit of this kind of thing but it will be specific or situational. Need to keep an NPC alive and active against a dungeon boss - ask people to spec 'heal other' abilities.
Got a boss who does a 1-shot - ask people to spec fast interrupts.
The clever thing in GW2 is that no matter what class you can eventually unlock the ability to fulfill nearly (if not all, given some ingenuity) all 'requirements' PvE might throw at you, so there is not 'lockout' from 'leet' groups looking for certain capabilities based on class or race - merely one based on skill if people pay THAT much attention to it.
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Joined: 3/16/07
For specialists, it's going to depend on how they play.
If you get the guy that says "I'm a healer guys, I'm never getting out of water spec, I don't care, that's all I can do", that peson will fail and bring the team down with him.
If you get the one that says "I'm strongest in water, I'm specced for it, but I'll swap to other roles whenever the team needs", then he will do just fine.
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Joined: 3/03/06
No trinity so everyone is equal right? Wait and see, some classes will soon emerge as being more "equal" than others and certain builds will inevitably be fotm. It's unavoidable in any game like this. The only way to avoid this is to have a completely skilless system for everyone to be truly equal, there really is no other way.
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Joined: 5/17/06
This is in fact the best question to ask rather some trinity BS.
And the answer is a qualfied "No". The reason its "No" is that no one person can really provided enough support/CC for a dungeon.
So maybe a good guardian can provide all the healing you would need, but without a mesmer to Moa or a thief to stun, or whatever other solution, the elementalist in Ascalonian Catacombs it won't matter because you will never out heal that nasty nasty attack they have.
But its a qualified "No" for exactly the same reason. People will need to make sure you are able to do SOMETHING.
Bottom line is this Anet want you to work together to "win" an encounter. This means you will need multiple people with various sorts of support. If a group already has three people with disables they will probably recruit the last person with a particular support thing in mind, might be healing, might be missile deflection.
So you want see constant spam for "LF1M, need tank then good to go". But you may see "LF1M, make sure you have an interrupt and can use it" among a whole host of other variations.
You as an individual who is part of a team are not stuck in one role. Instead you need to be able to apply certain support stuff at key times in conjunction with the rest of your team. Thus people will be looking for things to mesh with the team.
You don't get your ticket into a team by having a 2 second daze. You get your ticket by being able to use that 2 second daze well. Almost every class has some variation on a 2 second interrupt. Some classes can do a bit more than others. But no class is gonna be the "shutdown" role filler. You need at least two people for most dungeons to do that. Same thing with aggro managment. No one tank is the aggro manager, you need to do it as a team and may need to throw in things like cripples or teleports to manage it right or get the boss off someone.
The thing people miss is their are roles yes. But no one person fills those roles. That is the main design divergence.
That does not mean everyone is the "support", you may have 2 mostly DPS and 3 people with a variety of support.
For example one person with some defense healing/bubbles, and the other two are interrupts/snares for nullifying nasty attacks/bad aggro. The DPS are for burning stuff down and have one utility to get out of trouble(some kind of CC break).
When a boss gets on one the DPSers and does a knock down, the DPSer is responsible for popping his CC break. One of the interrupters make sure he is not hit by a super hard hit and the other lays down the snare so that the DPSer can get away and recover. If its really bad the third person bubbles or walls to keep boss off and lays down a regen area for the DPSer.
This is different than a game where you see "LF1M need tank then good to go". Usually that scenario is the sole responsibility of the tank, the healer may help to try and make sure he does not go down. But the "get the boss off and DPS away" portion is the job of the tank. That is what they usually save a forced attack taunt move for. Instead in Guild Wars 2 rather than making the mob act stupid you must counter its dangerous attack or combination of attacks and then recover tactically.
Performing such a counter generally always takes at least a combination of 2 people and may take more. At the same time there are multiple ways to interweave support to achieve the same funcional result.
Decent teams will have some idea of what type of support they would need if they already have 4 people. A guardian or ele or necro can generally put out more healing than a mesmer. If you are going to go for a turtle type strategy you opt for one of those classes and ask for it. On the other hand there is no real reason you need healing at all. You could go for every single person using controls/interrupts. Five mesmers with Moa can make the multiple mob encounters that slaughtered many people in Catacombs much easier. Elementalists don't cast their huge devastating AOE's when they are a Moa bird and you can Moa all three mobs and Moa the ele 3 times with 5 mesmers.
You will most likely start seeing particular team setups get advertised in GW2 rather than the need tank or need healer spam. As strategies become known you will see stuff like "Recruting for IWAY team" or "Need 2 mesmers with time warp for spike team". They will be particular but only in the context of the team build they believe has been proven to work. In some ways this can get more elitist than typical trinity games.
In some ways this type of recruiting can be just as narrow minded and tiresome as the typical trinity system. People will adhere to their pet strategies against all reason and are often complete weenies about it. But the nature of the teams themselves throughout the game as a whole will vary quite a bit.
How can I say this with a decent amount of confidence? Because I have played GW1 and GW2. I can tell from playing GW2 the nature of what is possible and that is leans towards a team build dynamic rather than a role filling dynamic. You can see in GW1 PvP and PvE that this sort of dynamic leads to certain social behaviors and recruitment.
It not all roses and its not always as open as people claim because people are often closeminded and more variation can actuall make people more conservative but there is much more variation on the macro scale when it comes to teams "winning" a dungeon.
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Joined: 8/11/10
For the love of anything you hold dear, STEP OUTSIDE OF YOUR BOX!
The game requires only one thing, 5 individuals that can function as a team.
Yes, some builds will work better then others, but teamwork and people that actually react to combat will always work better in GW2 then 5 class builds.
I'd much rather play with someone that can actually respond to combat, know when to CC and so on then with someone with the perfect build, in this game the builds won't accomodate for player inadequacy.
Edit: Removing the 1st game part.
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Originally posted by Rivalen
I might get banned for this. - Rizel Star.
I'm not afraid to tell trolls what they [need] to hear, even if that means for me to have an forced absence afterwards.
P2P LOGIC = If it's P2P it means longevity, overall better game, and THE BEST SUPPORT EVER!!!!!(Which has been rinsed and repeated about a thousand times)
Common Sense Logic = P2P logic is no better than F2P Logic.
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Joined: 9/21/04
In a perfect world, it would be " Group LF2M players".
In reality, there will be OP classes / specs, so we will see " Group LF4M Melee Mesmers" or w/e is OP at the moment.


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