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Let us assume you are the raid leader of a ten man raid that is progressing on a new Patchwerk boss. Furthermore, we shall assume that the tanks are doing zero damage (because tank dps versus dps dps is hard to quantify) and are meant to do zero damage, same for healers. The raid's damage therefore comes from the 6 dps. You are getting the boss to 20% health when he hard-enrages and wipes you. How do you propose you, as the hypothetical raid leader, finds out who is slacking and holding the raid back (or if the entire raid needs to step it up, and by how much) if you cannot find out how much damage each player did to the boss?Not necessarily. There are ways to indicate your performance without making them able to be compared across specs and classes. Take for example Skyrim, there are no floating numbers but you still know if you are good or bad at the game.
Reev: So, do I macro /dance into Shield Slam now? Raysere: Yes, I hear it increases your DPS Gold balance gear quality attractiveness to the opposite gender considerably
The focus of the WoW raiding playerbase on numbers is a direct result of WoW's reliance on those types of mechanics.
But, what if instead of seeing:
SomeRandomRogue hits Patchwerk for 198,945 damage
SomeOtherRogue hit Patchwerk for 98,998 damage
TheTankLOL hits Patchwerk for 24,987 damage
you saw:
SomeRandomRogue eviscerates Patchwerk
SomeOtherRogue slashes Patchwerk
TheTankLOL lands a sound blow on Patchwerk
If you keep wiping on Patchwerk at 10% then you can go talk to that rogue that keeps landing Slashes instead of Eviscerations about stepping up their game.
Displaying how close a player is coming to the maximum potential of their class is not the same thing as showing DPS numbers that can and always are compared across classes and specs.
Of course the WoW raiding community would hate this, with good reason: WoW's focus on the existing raid paradigm has attracted people who like that paradigm. Deviating so widely from the existing gameplay mechanics would severely upset the existing playerbase who is there because for the most part, they like that they are getting.
The encounters that I always loved the most were ones where everyone had a job to do that was related to their class. The success of the raid was about completing the tasks that your class was good at in a competent manner, and not about a DPS race.
I guess, my opinion is that when you are creating a raid force, you should be picking classes and specs for their utility abilites (snares, roots, stuns, silences, dispells, heals, etc...) instead of their raw DPS numbers, because while many people love to whip out their ePeen and measure it against other people, I think ultimately DPS chasing is not compelling gameplay.
Of course, that's just my opinion and like arse holes, everyone has one and they all stink.
Reev: So, do I macro /dance into Shield Slam now? Raysere: Yes, I hear it increases your DPS Gold balance gear quality attractiveness to the opposite gender considerably
Could you retrofit such a system onto WoW? Not likely, at least not without a player revolt. But, it would solve the problem of people obsessing over minor differences between classes and specs and instead focus on how they can improve themselves.
Ok, then were are these letter ratings coming from? DPS? Crit strikes? damage taken? It's the same math we already use now. If there was such a system, the mathy-guys would reverse engineer the letter rating, and we'd be right back where we are now. Only with an additional step, which, would get reduced to the same system we have now, anyway.
Reev: So, do I macro /dance into Shield Slam now? Raysere: Yes, I hear it increases your DPS Gold balance gear quality attractiveness to the opposite gender considerably
And even aside from Fetzie's example (or think of it as a subset if you like), you're a DPS in that 10 man raid, and your job is to do as much damage as you can to the boss while not pulling aggro off of the tank. How do you know if you ARE doing your job if you have no numbers to back you up?
If you don't have enrage-timer fights, DPS doesn't matter and if DPS doesn't matter then there's no particular skill involved in BEING a DPS. The very skill of being DPS is putting out as much damage as you can while still managing all the mechanics of a fight...I fail to see how this is non-obvious.
Originally Posted by Gravy
Reev: So, do I macro /dance into Shield Slam now? Raysere: Yes, I hear it increases your DPS Gold balance gear quality attractiveness to the opposite gender considerably
Also, how would you know what stats to stack at that point? Having the right rotation is definitely a critical element, but having your gear prepared properly is too. Affliction warlock for example; there are inflection points/breakpoints where haste and mastery switch priority on gear. With a rating system that only analyzed using the correct priority rotation, you wouldn't know if you are gearing properly. A ret pally in agility gear could score all A's.
"he doens't need healing, he doesn't need healing, he doesn't nee-WHAOSHIT!wtf was that man!". Please stop leaning on TDR. -Teng
"If you don't have enrage-timer fights, DPS doesn't matter and if DPS doesn't matter then there's no particular skill involved in BEING a DPS. The very skill of being DPS is putting out as much damage as you can while still managing all the mechanics of a fight...I fail to see how this is non-obvious."
This is a response to the various people involved so far:
In WoW you are certainly right. My mistake was in any way trying to tie WoW to compelling gameplay.
I'll apologize if you are offended by that statement. Perhaps WoW does have compelling gameplay but the raiding playerbase will not allow people to pursue it. I say that because while a player may find a Beast Mastery Hunter to be far more fun to raid with than a Marksmanship Hunter, but because BM does 5% less maximum DPS than a MM hunter, it is not a viable option.* Therefore the player is required to play the less fun spec in order to participate. This is not good gameplay.
* Please substitute whichever class or spec happens to be on the outs because it does marginally less damage than another spec or class.
So imagine with me if you will, a new MMO RPG called "Not-WoW"...
In this Not-WoW, there are no levels, and while it is possible to get enchanted or otherwise better gear the differences are marginal, but each piece of gear has various ways to use it that require more or less timing and skill. As you "level up" you gain access to more difficult to execute maneuvers which are more effective, or at least differently effective in different situations. The "higher level" skills are those that require more player skill to execute.
Of course, being a computer game you can't avoid math (I should know that as well as anyone else, because as I type this I am waiting for the Security Admin group to figure out why my service account can't log in so I can finish debugging my application.) but you don't have to show it to the players, and you can make larger numbers tied to things other than gear and levels. Or at least a well designed game can show the math under the hood to the players and still be compelling because there is no "perfect build" for all situations, or even a large subset of situations.*
* If WoW showed all the math under the hood to the players at the start of an expansion, within a week there would be an undisputed best class and spec to play for all situations. It would be possible to definitively say for raid X you need Y1 of class #1, Y2 of class #2, and Y2 of class #3. And any other class makeup is doing it wrong.
Let's continue on our journey with Not-WoW: Say your character learns a skill to wear heavy armor. He decides to swap out his existing light armor for heavy armor. He now moves slower and can't really dodge too well. That's OK because he wasn't that good at anticipating boss attacks anyway. So he's rather not have to worry about them at all. So now, he'll just focus on attacking and let his heavy armor focus on mitigating as much damage as possible while he dishes out as much damage as possible.
He is currently using a short sword and shield. He's not too happy with that because as bad as he is with watching boss animations to know when to dodge, he's only marginally better with knowing when to use his shield to block. And when he's dodging or blocking he can't attack anyway. He's all about the "phat deeps" so he decides to go to use some of this EXP to learn how to use a spear. So he swaps out his sword and board for a spear. His short sword was fast and easy to use (just had to push the up button when he wanted to stab) but could not be used from the front when the boss was blocking, and it did only 20 damage per hit. (not 1-20, not 11-20, but just 20) It could do double or even triple damage if he timed it just right and did the right pattern (up, left, left) but that's too hard for him. With his new spear he can do 30 damage per hit when the boss isn't blocking. However, if the boss is blocking he can use a much more complicated attack pattern (Down, Left, Left, Down, Up) to get through the boss's defenses and do 20 damage. Also, the added range on the spear allows him to stand further away from the boss so he can have more time to dodge if needed.
This is still too complicated for our player. He isn't down with that complicated pattern to use his spear when the boss is blocking, and he doesn't want to dodge anyway. So he decides to go to the two handed hammer. It does 70 points of damage per swing (all he has to do is hold left until the swing is over) and will do 30 points of damage if the boss is blocking (Still just holding down left). It's really slow, but it makes a satisfying crunch when it hits, and it's super easy to use. So he's happy.
Multiplayer brawlers have been doing this sort of thing (perhaps with only a fraction of the depth) for years, so there is no technical reason that it can't be done. It just happens to require a lot lower latency than many MMO companies are willing to pay for. You could distribute the server functions to the clients to improve latency, but that opens you to cheating if you don't design your system really well.
No doubt many of you are scratching your head and asking how that's any different than WoW. The difference lies in keeping the numbers small and balancing them on a weapon type basis. If a short sword in the hand of a rogue is essentially the same as a short sword in the hand of a fighter, then you have balance.* You may need to tweak things until they are balanced, but once you are done, you don't need to re-balance every time an expansion comes out, or a new raid tier.
* The fighter is just working on trying to keep the mob's attention and mitigate damage, while the rogue can get behind the mob and spend time executing a more complex maneuver with the short sword which does more damage.
It will be immediately obvious that some class of weapon is "better" than others based on the numbers. (For example a Two Handed Hammer may do 1,000 points of damage over a 1 minute timeframe against a target dummy and a Hand Axe may only do 700 damage over 1 minute, but if you're fighting a goblin that dances out of the way every time you wind up your hammer swing then it's not all that effective. Or maybe you're a really good player which knows the goblin's moves, you know exactly when to start swinging to make contact. But you still can't do it every time your hammer is readied after a swing. So you put away your hammer and pull out your Hand Axe instead. There is no reason that a single weapon should ever be "best in slot" for your character in all situations.) If that class of weapon can be used by all classes of character, then there is no problem.
Personally, I would prefer a wound based system rather than a pure HP based system. Meaning that if you are hit in your arm, then you get a wound there. Based on the severity of the wound whatever is in that arm swings slower or with less force, or not at all. If you are hit in the leg then you move slower and have a harder time dodging. If you are hit in the head then your character can be disoriented. You also slowly bleed from your wounds depleting a blood pool (much like DayZ or the original X-Com if you are familiar with it) and healers can heal wounds and also restore blood pools. This also means that weapon damage ranges can be from Light, to Medium, to Heavy, to Severe instead of 1 to 100 or whatever. (Sure, light is 1 and medium is 2 and heavy is 3 and severe is 4, but it does not have to be a simple additive mathmatic function. A weapon that does light damage if used properly at the right time can cause a severe wound.) This also allows more interesting boss mechanics, where rogues are slashing the boss's heels to slow him down and the rangers are shootinghis eyes to blind him.
This argues against having classes of characters at all. You should freeform your character based on how you like to play. It may become apparent that a character armed with a sword and shield is more effective against a boss than a character who slings fireballs (down, down-right, right - Hadouken) but that other boss down the hall is really easy to hit with fireballs, but blocks swords really well, unless you time it just right. And maybe you can time it just right, but not every player can.
I'm sorry, but a combination of buttons to execute one move doesn't sound that interesting to me. Setting up abilities is fine as long as there is value in every button you press. Button combinations for a single attack sounds like dance dance revolution for a combat system. This combat system sounds much more suited to a console. A console hack'n'slash MMO might be a neat idea but is definitely an entirely different animal than wow.
"he doens't need healing, he doesn't need healing, he doesn't nee-WHAOSHIT!wtf was that man!". Please stop leaning on TDR. -Teng
Each keystroke could be meaningful because the better you time it and the more accurately you understand how the boss is defending itself the more effective your attack can be. Further if it was just a DDR style mechanic, then you could just program your fancy keyboard to do it for you and take that element of skill out of it.
Imagine if you will, the longer you hold down an individual key the more power your attack has. However, you can't hold it down too long of you miss your window of opportunity. And if you don't like memorizing keystrokes, you can just use a simpler weapon that does slightly less damage, but has a much easier attack pattern and can more easily take advantage of a window of opportunity.
where not smarter... hahah most people i meet on a day to day baises as a IT pro couldn't figure there way out of a box.. so its not that.
If blizzard didn't remove states like block value and so on the game would be harder to figure out. As far as raids in vanilla there where no so called guides...
THe case is not people are smarter.. its the fact the game is easier to play.
I guess my take on this subject is this...
I pay $15 per month to play this game. I will play it the way I want and if someone does not like it, then that is just too bad.
I do not use guides, simcraft or even watch encounter videos. I figure out stuff on my own and I always have.
Sorry. I'll formulate a real reply when I can stop laughing over all of this....
Ok. Now that I'm at home and at a keyboard instead of playing catch-up via tablet, I'll submit a "real" reply. (So chill out Kren....)
1) The title should be changed to "Are We Too Smart for WoW?" as this stuff is not for all MMO's across the board. By and large, many of these issues really only pertain to WoW and "WoW-clones" that utilize the same underlying structure for gameplay. More on that in the next section.
2) This..... attitude..... is so mind-numbingly arrogant and hypocritical, I've been struggling over the past hour now trying to sort out my thoughts as to where to even begin.
I'll start with this..... how did Heroic Ragnaros go for you Lore? I seem to recall someone's raid team having a hell of a time with that. Were you guys too smart for that one? This concept of "too smart for mmo's", a lot of it hinges on how WoW is played currently. With all of the mods, UI changes, data collection, spreadsheets, theorycrafting, and the like. Blizzard COULD honestly change things to make the game much more difficult by not allowing these things. Problem is.... they already opened Pandora's Box and there's no way to close it without the collective elite of WoW screaming and howling like stuck pigs. In that sense, this argument is hypocritical. It's not much different from a professional football player who is using steroids and other PED's to get an edge over the competition stating that, "the sport is too easy".
I understand arguments such as ones Ion would propose, and I do get that. How can you gauge improvement without quantification? Without a lot of those extra tools, the improvement factor becomes muddy. The situation in the game becomes a very binary one, and it's not even tied to one person then.
Consider.... if you had none of that data..... raid kills become a simply yes or no equation. Did this GROUP (key word) kill the boss? It becomes very difficult to assign blame or to troubleshoot the performance beyond "try harder". Beyond that, the individual members won't have fast and ready quantified data on hand to show whether "they performed better or not". You lose a lot of that individual "reward", in that players really don't have instant gratification of seeing a job well-done.... assuming they wiped. They don't have feedback beyond the game essentially telling you that you failed by showing your corpse laying on the field of battle.
Yet, at the same time, we deride players who don't use these performance-enhancing devices. They're not doing everything they can to win. The flip side of that is..... the people who ARE using these..... do you not realize you are really doing everything you can to make the game EASIER? You really are!.... whether you accept that or not. And yes.... that is a "perception". I'll gladly admit to that..... because there really are two different ways of seeing that.
When was the last time some of you tried playing the game and taking on some of these challenges without performance-enhancement? When was the last time anyone here tried to tackle a challenge without........
- previewing a fight on video?
- using something other than the stock UI?
- using something other than the stock information feed?
- using macros?
- threat management information?
Chances are?.... I'd bet probably 90%+ of the TankSpot population hasn't done this since the first month/year of playing WoW.
Yet, people want to whine/cry about how it's "not challenging" and how they're "too smart" for it?
Maybe some of you really need to take a step back and get honest with yourselves about things. Yes..... I "get" the argument that some will level back at me in kind. Say, Aggathon for example. The common argument of "you have to do everything you can to maximize your toon's performance in order to win, or you're not trying hard enough/not interested in winning." I get your point man. If the goal is simply TO WIN AT ALL COSTS..... well shit..... you might as well sit down and develop a program that will automate your gameplay as much as possible! In fact.... hell, we should automate the whole raid team as much as possible! Have a mod that makes all of the ranged dps automatically target a specific mob and hammer it! Make a mod that automatically pops cooldowns in a sequence as necessary to survive a boss fight!
In some ways..... yes. You guys are too smart for it because, given the opportunity, you all built better mousetraps. You guys all went deer hunting with laser-guided missiles in a fenced-off area stocked with deer, and where the deer can't escape.
That in mind, I'm going to jump to Blizzard's defense for once (you can mark this date on your calendar).
They've been designing games that, despite all of these performance tools and data gathering devices, will STILL STUMP PEOPLE for at least a week or so. (From what I understand, the first raid bosses in MoP's initial tier dropped after about a week). That..... honestly.... is a bit of an achievement. That they can still throw up obstacles that will trip up seasoned raiders, some of which, who have been playing at a high-level of gameplay in this game and in this system FOR YEARS. Again..... Blizzard COULD make things immensely more difficult. In fact, frequently in cases where they do.... say, through the use of RNG.... they take a beating from a LOT of people because they're "no longer playing fair" in the eyes of those people.
WoW is what it is now, and the chances of Blizzard undoing a lot of these things in an attempt to "fix it", ..... it's just not going to happen. Not without alienating a lot of people. And even then, even though it'd probably make things more challenging again...... the voices of some will elicit the "sheep" to parrot their own cries of "foul!".
Blizzard..... frankly.... is kinda f**ked. They can't change the gearing system from what it is to make it more challenging (evidence: people who cried over Blizzard mentioning doing a stat-crunch)...... and please don't kid yourself.... the gear is just another way of "making things easier". Sure.... it improves performance. Not by the player actually DOING things better..... but by making the numbers bigger. Blizzard can't undo the whole "modding" thing. Not at this point. Not without causing outright revolt. And they are really pretty damn limited on what they can do to make bosses/encounters more interesting. Sure, they will come up with clever things now and then..... but by and large, as has been stated in the past by MANY people here and elsewhere..... Blizzard reuses the same mechanics over and over again in different combinations to create "challenge"...... which WE subsequently "nerf" through methods mentioned above.
Oh, and please realize that Blizzard IS trying to "play fair" with you all. They could at any moment change stuff and make it insanely hard. They've created a set of rules, and keep creating new opponents. They've been approaching this entire problem from really only one direction, when they honestly could do a flip and start making things nasty. A fine example?..... They could change the way threat works on bosses and direct it to drop threat every so often and actually go after the REAL threats..... kill healers, then dps. Or create bosses that adapt their own strategies. Oh.... you guys are taking this approach? Ok.... next phase in 3...2....1 and the boss now does something completely different that no one has ever seen before. Hahaha.
Blizzard..... sorry to say this but you're screwed, because you're dealing with human psychology at this point. Even if something MIGHT be good for the game or for a player, you have to somehow deal with the overarching set of beliefs that these people have adopted that prohibits or interferes with them behaving differently. (If you care to understand where I'm coming from, go look up a little bit on cognitive therapy.... in a nutshell, people will do and act on things because of an inherent belief, and not necessarily on evidence)
That all said.....
My suggestions? As I'm a believer in never making complaints without having ideas for fixing them.....
1) Stop playing WoW if you feel you're too smart for it. Find something else that "challenges" you. I promise you, the real world has challenges. You might lose a little though..... so be prepared.
2) Get over yourself. Accept WoW for what it is, realize that you're playing a game that you have "figured out", and take it in stride. Stop being a drama queen over this shit and try to ENJOY it. Freakin' loosen up a little. Let people have fun and play "beastmaster hunter" because they actually enjoy it. Honestly......when was the last time you actually ENJOYED WoW.....? As in, kid-at-the-playground running around playing spontaneously and just having fun, without some sort of carrot needing to be dangled before you?
Realize that in some sense.... your actions run counter to what you are claiming to want.
If you claim that you want a challenge...... then make it into a challenge. Don't just sit and whine that "waaaaaaah... I'm too smart and this is too easy" when you're playing something with the videogame equivalent to a cocktail of meth and 'roids.
3) My last suggestion is for Blizzard. Learn from your past. Don't repeat some of these mistakes in Titan (whatever it'll be). Go into it with a clear plan as to how you want things to go from start to end..... and set some limits on things. Just because a player suggests it or whines about something doesn't mean it'll make the game better in the long haul.
Anyway. That's my two cents. I know a lot of you will gloss over a little of this and disregard it as bullshit. You'll also be the same people stuck bitching about this issue endlessly. For the rest, I hope I gave you something to think about, and maybe enjoy the game a little more.
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No one tanks in a void.........
I will say this..... there's some seriously deep irony to this Weekly Marmot. I hope that there are some who can appreciate how some of the stuff that we (yeah, even me, as I did a lot of this crap too) do that is really counter-intuitive to what we claim to want from WoW. That, and some of what was said pissed me off pretty good.
No one tanks in a void.........
Working out a winning strategy within the parameters of the game is not "metagaming", it's "gaming".
"Metagaming" is going outside the parameters of the game in order to win the game. Win trading would be metagaming, deliberately throwing a match in order to earn a lower seeding and avoid a specific opponent in the next round of a tournament would be metagaming, getting yourself suspended from a meaningless game in order to ensure availability for a later meaningful game would be metagaming.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Advanced or intermediate algebra? Honors or basic geometry?
When it comes to high school math, the labels may not really matter -- or necessarily predict what's in the textbook.
Those revelations are part of the Education Department's new study of high school math courses, released Tuesday. During their review of almost 18,000 high school students' records and textbooks, the investigators found as many as a third of the textbooks weren't about the subject printed on the cover. And within the subjects, the course titles were subjective and didn't really reflect the courses' difficulty.
"We have heard about grade inflation. Now we have course title inflation," said Linda Rosen, chief executive officer of Change the Equation, a coalition of business leaders pushing higher math and science standards. "Learning the course titles don't have much meaning in terms of high expectations and rigor is quite problematic. It's counterproductive if we provide impressive names but rather meaningless transcripts."
The findings have consequences for college-bound students. Admissions counselors look not just at grades but also at coursework on students' transcripts.
The findings also suggest that many elementary teachers are not preparing students for high school-level math and that many students who complete Algebra I and Geometry courses are not prepared for future classes, either during later high school years or in college. Educators at all levels are being forced to leave students behind or spend time on remedial material.
Parents and school administrators alike also should read the findings carefully. Simply enrolling students in the most difficult-sounding course is no guarantee they are receiving the most rigorous instruction or even using a textbook appropriate for their level. And schools, which spend millions on textbooks each year, might not be making the best investments during a time of limited resources.
The report graded textbooks on three different levels: beginner, intermediate and rigorous. But those labels didn't always match up with how schools labeled their classes.
The study found that 73 percent of students who took an Algebra I course labeled "honors" were actually using a curriculum that would be appropriate for one called "intermediate" course. And students who signed up for a "regular" course were more likely to receive a rigorous curriculum than those who enrolled in one called "honors" by an almost 2-to-1 margin.
In geometry, students who took "honors" courses were about twice as likely to receive intermediate textbooks than rigorous.
"You want the course title to reflect reality," said Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and chairman of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. "If it's going to be honors, it should have some special meaning."
The researchers found that 65 percent of algebra courses focused on that subject while about 35 percent focused on elementary- and middle-school math skills or other topics that would typically be taught in other high school courses.
Similarly, about 66 percent of geometry courses covered that subject while 34 percent focused on other math topics, such as elementary- or middle-school math skills or algebra.
Part of it is because students are arriving in classrooms unprepared.
"The reality is: not all kids we get in high school are ready for algebra," said Dale Nowlin, a math teacher from Columbus North High School in Columbus, Ind. "You fill the gaps as you can."
The National Center for Education Statistics, the Education Department's data arm, based their results on looking at 17,800 students at 550 public schools in 2005 and then their 12th grade math assessment years later. The researchers also examined about 120 different textbooks and curriculum during that period.
"We had a very detailed picture of what the students had to do to pass those courses," Jack Buckley, National Center for Education Statistics chairman.
But the picture, he acknowledged, was incomplete.
The results were only representative for students who earned diplomas. Those who did not complete a traditional high school program in four years were not included in this study, nor were students who took Algebra I or Geometry courses while in the eighth grade.
In 2005, 78 percent of all high school graduates took an Algebra I class in high school and 20 percent took it before entering high school. In that same year, 83 percent of students took geometry courses in high school but just 1.5 percent took the class before high school.
The analysis also did not look at teachers' tests, but merely questions included in the end-of-chapter review questions. There is no way of telling if teachers used those textbooks as a roadmap or how their lessons mirrored their texts.


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Late last Friday night, hipsters all over the world uttered a cry as their favorite social networking app, Instagram, hit the fritz. For a few hours foodies were unable to document the artisanal designs swirled in their morning cappuccino and fashionistas had to keep mirror-snapshots of their outfits to themselves. Tweets (hashtagged as #instatrippin) uttered fears of [...]
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Inauguration of Jim Reynolds as 18th President Set for March 22
Ceremony to Be Webcast Live at 2 p.m. on College's Website
March 18, 2013
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James M. Reynolds will be installed as Wilmington College's 18th president during an inauguration ceremony Friday (March 22), at 2 p.m., in Hugh G. Heiland Theatre.
Due to limited seating, this event is by invitation only, however, the ceremony will be professionally Webcast and available on the College's Website. (INAUGURATION WEBCAST)
Wilmington College announced Feb. 15, 2012, the appointment of Reynolds as the institution's 18th president. He served as interim president during the previous six months, succeeding Daniel DiBiasio as the College's top executive.
Robert E. Touchton, chair of the Board of Trustees will preside at the ceremony, which will include music by the College Chorale and greetings offered by representatives of the faculty, staff, student body, alumni association, community/Wilmington Yearly Meeting and Reynolds family.
Following the presentation and installation of Reynolds as president, he will present his vision for the College titled "Not By A Leap…"
Reynolds, who holds a Ph.D. in biology from Illinois State University, came to Wilmington College in 2007 to serve as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty.
His background reflects academic achievement and administrative excellence.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Drake University, he obtained a master's degree in zoology from DePauw University. From 2003 through 2006, he was academic vice president and dean of the faculty at Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, Nebraska. Previously, he held various teaching and administrative positions at his undergraduate alma mater, including associate dean and interim dean of the College of Pharmacy.
His scholarly work has been published extensively, and his classroom excellence has resulted in six "Teacher of the Year" awards. He was awarded a fellowship from the American Council on Education while at Illinois Wesleyan University and a postdoctoral research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.
Reynolds and his wife, Sue, have been married for 33 years. They have two daughters, Erin, a sophomore at Wilmington College, and Amanda, who recently earned a master's degree in marriage and family therapy from Pepperdine University and is a therapist/office manager for The Solstice Clinic in Los Angeles.
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April 19th, 2013
It is well-known that on a certain evening in Hamburg, a summer night in 18__, a concert was held which permanently afflicted all in attendance gravely and irreversibly. No one knows—or will tell—how such a collection of instruments were made to play in harmony; no one knows—or will tell—how such dumb constructs of wood, brass, and bone came to possess such powers as they had.
Some whisper that the Devil himself was the conductor that night; others say no, it was merely a man (Herr Manfred Fleigruben, of the Hamburg Academy, according to the programme) who somehow picked up Charon's baton instead of his own. No person who attended the concert could ever shake the shadow of despair from their shoulders henceforth, and many became wretches from that evening till the grave.
In the years since the incident, no full account has been made of the particulars. Contemporaneous articles speak vaguely of the concert's 'effect', or allude cryptically to its 'consequence'. The sole surviving copy of the programme in the Royal Library has now faded into illegibility, presumably due to poor paper-storage protocols in that darkest sub-basement of the Reference Archive.
It is said that all attendees of the concert died childless—even those who had already had children. The concert hall itself burned to the ground within a month; Germany was at war with France within the year.
Yet tales remain. Forensic analysis of surviving roof-beams (long since up-cycled into Frankfurt dining-tables) have revealed minute vibrational impressions left in the soft Bavarian wood. Eight years ago, a stack of copper photogravures from that night was unearthed in a Helsinki flea-market, labelled simply as 'ihmisiä musiikilla'. And time-travelling tourists have left no end of oblique references to the event in various classified advertisements throughout the decades.
Like many of the marvels from before the age of film and electronics, the concert exists as a ghostly impression upon history, an ill-remembered, fading scar on humanity's craggy, lumpen corpus. We shall spend one year opening that wound to see what jewels it may contain.
Here, for the first and only time, is what was heard on that evening, a night black, without any stars.
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Our store closes for the year after Friday, December 19.
Those of you who subscribed to Cards Against Humanity's special Ten Days Or Whatever Of Kwanzaa promotion this year will be receiving a special Funny Pages Zine — a newspaper comics section with a bunch of holiday-themed comic strips in it!
This year I was honored to be asked to participate as well. Here's a preview of the comic I made:
You can read the whole thing here!
All of this year's (and last year's) comics are on the Funny Pages Zine tumblr.
OBLIGATORY CALENDAR UPDATE: As of this writing, 57 copies remain.
The 2015 calendar is off to print! I'm really proud of it!! (Click these images for a closer look)
I drew 29 pictures of weird orchestra members, and my regular collaborator Max Shepard has painted them. They look pretty sweet. And of course there is a story too — the terrible, forgotten legend of the Concert of Conscience.
If you're not familiar, the annual calendar is a tradition around here. It started way back in December 2007 when I decided I wanted to make a calendar, and because calendars are only really useful for a short time, I figured I'd make it limited-edition (and thus SUPER FANCY).
The 2008-2012 calendars were hand-screenprinted; then, for the 2013 edition, I changed over to the hook-based, two-cards-up "progressive" design, and a watercolor aesthetic.
As of this writing, only 82 calendars remain (of the limited run of 250). All calendars are individually signed & numbered. We expect to start shipping them within 7 days. Get yours now!
Over at my TopatoCo store I've got a bunch of rad stuff too, including this new mug:
Based, of course, on this classic comic about drug addiction.
TopatoCo has a million packages a minute moving through their hands, so they have set up a series of very precise shipping deadlines worth taking a look at!
Over at my in-house store (where we sell the greeting cards and calendars and stuff), we'll be accepting orders through December 19 before shutting down for the holidays.
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The Aliena's video has been deleted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For 3.3 I am looking forward to:
- The LFD system helping me find groups to instance with inside of my battlegroup. Of course, the new achievements and pet that go along with it certainly doesn't hurt
- The Corehound Pup pet!
- Of course, the new ICC instances are looking pretty sweet. Can't wait to try them out.
For Cataclysm:
- I'm mostly looking forward to taunting the zillion new Worgen players with my Worg Pup (Worg Pup - Spell - World of Warcraft)
- On a more serious note, the redesigning of the original Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms will be really cool, not only because I'll get to fly everywhere now, but I'll get to "rediscover" the whole world. Pretty cool!
(If you haven't noticed, I'm a bit of a pet fiend, haha)
The Aliena's video has been deleted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aliena's video will not play, says is removed due to terms of use violation...
the thing im most excited for btw is getting exalted with the goblins for their mount in cataclysm, Go-Karts ftw!
as a loremaster granted by achievement and countless addicting years in the warcraft universe (going on 9 now since i got my first wc game) and hours of surfing and reading articles on wowwiki, in both cataclysm and 3.3 I'm looking forward to the resolution of the major lich king conflict and the further ahead solving of the deathwing issue... not to mention ventures into the elemental plane, more titan good stuff... worgens! zomg.. too much awesomeness!
and yes, aliena's video is down. due to violation of youtubes terms of use?
In 3.3, I would have to say I am most excited for the expanded LFG system. It'll be awesome to experience some of the old school dungeons without having to be ran through them by a high level. Additionally, if you have an unusual work schedule, it will be easier to find groups for dungeons. Overall, the new LFG system is a buff to fun, for everyone of all levels and all timezones.
I'm extremely happy with the new release of patch 3.3: Fall of the Lich King. This whole expansion has been progressing towards this final moment, the epic battle against the corrupted arthas, who has become the Lich King. I know that blood runs cold when many dedicated WoW peeps speak of him, for Blizzard has done a terrific job of instilling his sense of hatred and fury into arthas' character; however i find him the most bit interesting. It seems the tormented find themselves in peace when they are on the opposite side. Arthas is all the same, and his ruthless savagery has gone widely recognized through this past year. I am pleading to Blizzard that they have not fallen out on us now, and that they have made or will make the battle against Arthas as epic as the lore behind him is. Because honestly, we cannot deny that lore-wise this has been the most entertaining and spectacular expansion of the two.
With that said, Cataclysm has some extremely high standards to live up to. I'm not sure if they will be able to tackle this amazing feat, but Blizzard never dissapoints. As one of the many fans of the, "War of the Ancients" trilogy, i am ecstatic to learn how deep they delve into this magnificent ocean of lore. With the great work they've done with WotLK, it's only been a matter of time before they surprise again, and Cataclysm seems fit to do the job.
Have a great Holiday season everyone!!!!!!!!!!
What I'm most looking forward to in Cataclysm is one of two things. First I'm already falling in love with the idea of being a Gnome Priest because of the awesome intellect racial, and come on... its a Gnome. The thing I'm most looking forward to however is the Guild Leveling System. Its by far one of the most revolutionary ideas I believe WoW has come up with since Dual Specialization. I'm not quite sure how its going to change the way guilds do raids, but I think it will have more end game end guilds pushing further to be at a higher level than other server/world end game and put a strain on additional raiders to push to their optimal level. Also Deathwing's back? All I can say to that is. Awesome.
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I'm excited for the new content that will actually make a guild think instead of the tank-n-spank as is known as ToC. Brings back the essence of a guild - knowing your member's play-style.
i do not know why but i cant watch alienas video :s it says "This video has been revmoed due to crime against the userconditions" (directly translated from swedish).
For this weeks murloc and marmot contest:
"At once, Infinity got a "brilliant" idea: he would stop Death at his own game: by killing him. He set out to plan the manner in which he would accomplish his goal!
And by that i ofcourse refere to killing the lich king
Given an infinite universe and infinite time, all things will happen. That means that every event is inevitable, including those that are impossible.
Im looking forward to having the whole world turned upside down and being able to explore something new, and on a flying mount at that.
What I'm most excited about in Cataclysm is Worgen. Ever since I was a lad I've had an obsession with werewolves, whether in film, fiction, video games(druids in Baldurs Gate and in D2 xpac), RPGs(WoD and D&D), CCGs(Rage), tabletop wargames(Confrontation - Devourers), you name it. I'm a fursuit short of a furry, essentially. Not sure yet if I'll race/faction change my current 80 warrior/DK or just reroll from the beginning, but I will definitely be playing a Worgen melee class come xpac.
edit: Sorry mods for the double post, I meant to edit that into my post above, but it slipped my mind.
I can't wait to see the Saurfang Cleaving everyone's face!
I'm mostly excited with 3.3 being a way to start anew with my raid group. I had issues with a bad guild for most of Ulduar and half of ToC and was unable to get a well put together group until a few weeks ago. I'm happy that Blizz is making it a bit easier for us to catch up instead of having to spend weeks clearing Ulduar and then ToC just to be able to see Icecrown.
Going into ICC and my main toon being a tankadin I think I look forward to standing toe to toe with Arthas and my guild mates at my back (Arthas' back in case of rogues) and FINALLY taking down the big bad meany that really started it all. I mean what a high it will be to finally say we killed the Lich King! Cataclysm will be an all new adventure unto itself. I completely look forward to Heroic Deadmines! I know it sounds cheesy but I enjoy the old world instances so much with all the time and thought that was initially put into them to make them so challenging and rewarding to work your way though with a giant group of friends every week just haven some fun. Thats my 2 cents.
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The most I am looking forward to is rerolling as a new class (Rogue to Paladin) to play a different role in raids. I have been playing a Rogue since Vanilla WoW and am now sick of dpsing in raids and dungeons. It will be very interesting playing a healer and going through all the new content because I will be experiencing all the new content through a different perspective. I really cannot wait to raid through Grim Batol because I am really interesting in Dwarven lore.
I'm most excited for the new fishing contest that opens up in Dalaran in 3.3, which will undoubtably very contested. The reward is a Heirloom ring, this will be the last Heirloom I need to make a full set of Heirloom items for my up-and-coming Worgen Rogue. (Thrash Blade, Dal'Rends both with Crusader and two of the HP trinkets) Should be amazing.
What can be more exciting in Cataclysm than being
"An American Werewolf in World of Warcraft"
(Says a horde guy )
Missed last contest, but im uploading a caption for the fun :
Whoops, looks like I posted this in the wrong thread before, lol. Anyway what I am looking forward to most in 3.3 is being able to send heirlooms across faction.......maybe now I will lvl an alliance character.


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Amp up your game room with the Trademark Global Ultimate Game Room Combo with 2 Beer Logo Bar Stools and Table (XX9800). This three-piece game room set features a contemporary design that is accented with a full color beer logo on the tabletop and stool seats. The design also includes a chrome finish that adds a little elegance to its casual appearance.
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Engineering Edge Volume 3, Issue 1
Featured Articles
Driving Flanders to Electric Powertrain Innovation
Voxdale chose the FloEFD 3D CFD package that's embedded in PTC Creo as the simulation tool for designing thermal aspects of the Battery Modules because of its ease of use and easy meshing methodology...
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A1 Racing
In 2009, eight teenage students from schools in Victoria, Australia, began an exciting journey that would lead them to meet F1™ boss, Bernie Eccelstone as his VIP guests at the American F1 Grand Prix as winners of the prestigious Formula 1 in Schools Program. More
Accurate 1D Thermo - Fluid Simulation in Real - Time Environments
Flowmaster is able to accurately model a wide range of thermo-fluid systems but these simulations are often not able to run natively in real-time, making them unsuitable for coupling with an HIL environment. However, Flowmaster can generate Response-Surfaces that characterize the behavior of its models. More
Bromley Post-Sochi Update: You don't learn if you're standing still
Laser metrology of athletes is used in conjunction with FloEFD in order to produce simulations upon which design decisions can confidently be drawn. More
Co-Simulation capabilities from xMOD™
As key enabler of collaborative development, co-simulation platform tools (also known as coupling environments or middleware), are finding growing popularity as a means of solving the ever more technically complex challenges that face automotive and aerospace system designers. More
Comparing Tablet Natural Convection Cooling Efficiency
Building an accurate thermal model of the tablet allows the designer to rapidly test the effect of design and material changes without incurring the cost and schedule delays of testing prototypes. This speeds time to market and lowers development costs. More
Driving Flanders to Electric Powertrain Innovation
Voxdale chose the FloEFD 3D CFD package that's embedded in PTC Creo as the simulation tool for designing thermal aspects of the Battery Modules because of its ease of use and easy meshing methodology for complex repeated geometries. More
FloEFD for Cyclone Simulation
This FloEFD CFD study is particularly interesting as the k-ε turbulence model is generally regarded as not being suitable for the swirling flow that obviously plays such a prominent role in a cyclone. It therefore provides an excellent dataset against which to judge FloEFD's enhanced k-ε turbulence model. [ More
Getting Heat Out
If we examine typical military electronics CPU Modules and Mezzanines over the last few decades, what is very clear is that their Power levels have increased dramatically. The VPX, formerly known as VITA 46, is an ANSI standard (ANSI/VITA 46.0-2007) that provides VMEbus-based (Versa Module Europa bus) systems for CPUs with support for switched fabrics over a new high speed connector. More
How To... Get Hot Lumens in situ from FloEFD's unique LED Module
Occasionally a software product or module comes along that stimulates interest in a new technical area and can even prove to be a game changer. Read more about the the LED module for the 3D CFD product, FloEFD. More
Implementing Practical Fan Curves in Datacenter Simulations
Datacenters are among the most energy consuming facilities. The current trend is continuously increasing to satisfy the growing needs of E-commerce and other revolutionary technologies such as cloud computing. We use CFD, to model variable flow devices that exist in a typical datacenter. More
Influence of Power Cycling Strategy on IGBT Lifetime - A Case Study
Mentor's Power Tester 1500A is designed to automate the process of qualifying the reliability of parts to make a good estimate for the power module's lifetime during service, and to identify weaknesses that can be removed during development thereby increasing reliability and lifetime. More
Model Based System Engineering at the Aeronautical Development Agency
Mentor's Flowmaster® 1D CFD software was brought in by ADA as a complementary tool to existing theoretical and physical test procedures. Flowmaster allowed the group to achieve more accurate predictions of system performance at all stages of the design loop. More
New Release: MicReD® Industrial Power Tester 1500A
Introducing the new MicReD® Industrial Power Tester 1500A for power cycling and thermal testing of electronics components to simulate and measure lifetime performance. More
New Release: FloTHERM V10.0
FloTHERM V10.0 is a significant user experience, with several functionality and usability enhancements. More
Seiko Epson Corporation - Empowering Engineers since 1989
By adopting FloEFD, Seiko Epson designers were able to affect designs as they developed, with the confidence that any discrepancies in results would be picked up by the analysis team during testing. More
There's an App for that!
Now that our phones are to the guidance computer used on the NASA Apollo missions, as a flick-book is to a high definition television, it follows that there are more and more mobile applications with the potential to make the life of the average engineer easier. More
Thermal Efficiency: Facebook's Datacenter Server Design
Facebook calculate that over a three year period, new server designs alone will deliver at least 19% more throughput, cost approximately 10% less, and use several tons less raw materials to build than a comparable datacenter of the same power budget, More
Upgrading a Biomass Furnace: A Simulation Driven Approach
In April 2013, Cofely Fabricom E&E was awarded a turnkey revamping contract to improve the reliability and performance of the biomass furnace of the cogeneration unit in Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgium, which is part of the central heat production and distribution across the Université de Liège (ULG) and the CHU University Hospital. More


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CENTREVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Two residential buildings were evacuated in Centreville after heat from an electric stove and a butane cooking stove exploded inside an apartment.
Witnesses tell WRC-TV (http://bit.ly/ZaZwF2 ) that the explosion happened about 4 p.m. Saturday in an apartment on Rydell Road. Investigators say the explosion blew out a sliding glass door. There was a blast but no fire.
No injuries were reported, and no one was inside the unit at the time of the explosion.
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