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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Whither White Wolf?
Here's a clear caveat: I am not really a White Wolf fan. Neither am I an ill-wisher, they just don't make a lot that interests me. For a long time, their games were too angsty, and then they were just dull. Modern/urban horror was never a big draw for me, and much of the "edgy" fiction rounding out each product reminded me of those kids in high school who wore all black and smoked clove cigarettes outside the gym (not that there is anything wrong with any of those activities by themselves or in tandem, but they don't seem to produce superior verse, if you follow my meaning). Werewolf was ok, but not much else scratched that itch.
Do not get me started on Exalted, which….ok, let's just not get started on Exalted, yeah?
I've read Ryan Dancey's opinion on it all, and I've seen the threads at Big Purple detailing the apparent demise of White Wolf, and if you think about it, it is striking. Of course, White Wolf's decline is only compared to where they were. This is a company that owned the 90's. Even if they go Print-On-Demand and pdf only, there are likely still many more active players of White Wolf games than of all the small-press games reviewed here combined.
I think White Wolf is one of those companies that a certain subset of people want to see fail; they never could get past the whole Storyteller "Roleplaying, not ROLLplaying" stuff and the existence of Mark ReinDOTHagen. So if they're perceived as not as strong as they were, people are going to jump all over that.
Really, what we have this point is less titles being put out and a widespread perception that the company's market share/player base has dwindled. We aren't insiders, so that's what we have to go on.
Well, a lot of companies aren't as strong as they were. The 4th Edition of D&D hasn't seemed to have made the splash of 3e (though, as a side point, the guy at the FLGS last week said the D&D Encounters program is going very strong). Of course, those of us online tend to have a slightly skewed version of the gaming landscape, anyway. (A novice wandering into RPGnet, for example, would think that Exalted was the most popular RPG, far above any other one).
White Wolf is now part of a company making video games. If they can find a reduced publishing model to work with that, great. If not, well, they're hardly alone on the list of gaming companies that have fallen by the wayside. The impact to me is probably a somewhat decreased likelihood of getting drunk again at Gen Con and stumbling into the middle of a Vampire LARP. The impact to their fans would depend on what sort of production schedule was allotted to White Wolf's remaining employees.
If nothing else, it would be nice to see more of what a writer/editor like Jess Hartley could do with some of the other games that are out there.
15 comments:
- STUFFER SHACK said...
I have played too little of white wolf to have an opinion, though that little experience was not a good one. I have always wanted to try it again in a diffeent group.
- April 6, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Tourq: Yeah, most of their stuff was just never really my speed. But they definitely created a dedicated fanbase, and for a while challenged D&D. That's no mean feat.
- April 6, 2010 at 9:42 AM
- Mike Schulz said...
The thing about the doom, gloom and demise threads about WOTC, WW or just about any other RPG that annoys me is that any comparison to their 90s or even early 00s output is ludicrous.
PDFs, File Sharing and MMOs have totally changed the RPG landscape. Whether you think the changes have been net positive or negative, they've happened.
And its not just the RPG industry. There are scores of film, television, publishing and music corporations that will never, ever, approach the level of business they were doing 20 years ago; regardless of the quality of their output.
And as someone who works in TV, all I can say is c'est le guerre.
And just to make my comment overly long... On the whole, I find that I like the a lot of White Wolf games better in theory than in practice. Their mechanics just don't tend to really support their proposed style of game play, in my opinion. Then again, hordes of gamers disagree with me.
That said, I'm digging the 30s LA Vampire game I'm currently playing in.
- April 6, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Mike: I think you've hit it pretty well there. The current situation is not like it was in the early or mid-90s. People wanting production along those lines are bound to be disappointed.
- April 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM
- Theeo123 said...
I have opinions on White Wolf that are... a bit on the passionate side, try to bear with me.
part of my problem is that the current white-wolf Team, hs Zero, count them Zero of the original members who developed the game. Rein-haggen, Greenburg, many of the big names you saw in the credits of the early works, are not there anymore. the guy, who invented the system, is not there anymore. It reeks of a Gygax/TSR type situation.
mind you this is all my opinion. But the game stopped being what it used to be a long time ago, and the "new" world of darkness, I hate with a passion unlike most.
Now I'm not one of those fanboys "Oh my favorite clan is gone" or "this isn't as cool as it used to be" although in many cases valid points. I have problems with the base mechanics, and rules presented, the overall tone of the game.
The original game was supposed to be about a certain modern Horror, but it wasn't necessarily all this Emo, sitting in a corner moaning & wailing about lost humanity stuff. Sure, that was an option, and if that's what you wanted, more power to you, but there WERE other options, other WAYS for character to deal with his condition. and these other methods, were well supported by the ongoing meta-plot and the rules.
Now... Frankenstein has Babies, and they have to feel really really bad about existing at all.... I'm sorry Promethean, but WTF?
The moderns games/rules, do not give you really the option ,of playing a character that has come to terms with what he is, or god forbid, someone who was happy bout being immortal in the first place. Is this how everyone wants to play? no, of course not, but I'd rather have the choice, than to have a certain outlook and moral rightousness, pounded into my head by force.
The whole company, in general seems to have a different tone. in the beginning ,it was a game, developed by gamers, they had fun, they put joke nicknames for each other in the credits of their books they WERE gamers.
Now, they sue anyone using their name, and they charge, their own players, to use the products they bought. (yes read the Camarila guidelines, you have to pay them if you run a LARP with more than about 5 people)
The whole company now, seems to be more about the business of RPG;s and less bout the games themselves.
- April 6, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Amanda said...
I've played a lot of White Wolf. I played ad&d 2nd edition and Shadowrun pretty much exclusively for my first years as a pen and paper gamer. I think the fantasy adventure and wanton violence was just more fun for me because I was younger. But I don't really remember doing a lot of what I now consider roleplaying some 18 years later. I found internet roleplaying and an mIRC run Vampire the Masquerade game right before I went to college and it was an entirely new gaming experience for me. There was a lot less action and a lot more character interaction and when there was action it was really deadly. I think they are genres that maybe just don't appeal to everybody, but years later I'm still playing many systems, with some iteration of those three games being among them. I was really pleased with the nWoD system itself in particular, which runs much more smoothly and is based off of a slim core rulebook that you can use by itself without ever even bringing in Vampire, Mage or any of the other traditional WW products. I'm actually going to be using that little core book to run a post apocalyptic Fallout style sandbox game pretty soon because it's easy to use.
My biggest issue with White Wolf and all the big rpg companies right now is the sheer volume of product they are putting out. Before the economic troubles I didn't think twice about dropping a hundred bucks on 2 shiny new books but now my family is struggling just to make ends meet. We're not alone, yet companies like White Wold pump out supplement after supplement and I wonder is that really necessary? Is what they're putting out really adding anything to their game or just some extra fluff? A lot of people are I'm sure having to budget what money they have among many different forms of entertainment; movies, books, video games, dvds, etc.
Now, I'm more interested in buying games that you don't need a huge pile of books to run. A good example of one game we're playing the hell out of right now that doesn't have a million books is White Wolf's Scion. They only ever made 4 books and one of them we probably could have done without but we had the cash and bought anyway. The 3 books, Hero, Demigod and God are all you need and they never made any more and don't seem to be planning to in the future. It's a great game, self contained, fun as heck and we played the game for 6 months before we even bought the other books because we didn't need them until then.
- April 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Theeo: Thank you for your comments. It doesn't sound like a fun time for a long-time fan.
I profess that WW is not one of my areas of expertise, but definitely somewhere along the way, the angst and the pity party seemed to take over the perception of the game. I can't tell you when it was.
- April 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- BlUsKrEEm said...
I am one of the angry fans that was really put off by the years of silence from White Wolf. I used to buy a White Wolf book every month, but then releases started getting pushed back months I started buying more OSR material. When books started getting pushed back a year or more I pretty much gave up. I'll still pick up any Requiem or Forsaken material they releases, but where the hell is my "Signs of the Moon"?
White Wolf used to be one of the more open RPG companies out there, but not anymore. This PoD / PDF initiative caught me totally off guard. My experience with the OSR doesn't put me off of the concept, but it would have been nice if the PoD infrastructure was in place before they abandoned traditional print.
Oh yeah and if anyone tries and argue the more time on a product = better quality, I'll remind you of the criminally long errata for Geist.
I really thought Changeling the Lost might mark a turn around for the company, but it feels like they have taken a a nose dive since the line ended.
- April 6, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Amanda: I like RPGs with "optional" supplements. You shouldn't feel a RPG is incomplete without this supplement or that. Thanks for the comment!
- April 6, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- WalkerP said...
Annoying grammar pedant time:
Zach, 'Really, what we have this point is less titles being put out' should be fewer titles.
Mike Schulz, c'est la guerre, pas le guerre.
Okay, my apologies. I can't help myself. On to the topic at hand. I think as others have suggested that times have simply changed. The hobby is evolving into a new form, both in terms of demographics and technology. The culture has changed. Goth is dying out (I'd say that today Anime is kind of the new Goth in that it is the thing to do for lots of non-mainstream youths). And finally the original people behind White Wolf have moved on or out.
I played in a one-shot of Werewolf and it was really a blast. No angst, just our little group trying to defend our territory in the city. We had some awesome butt-kicking moments. I like the mechanic that lets you get seriously badass when you turn into a werewolf.
- April 6, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Mike Schulz said...
Conceptually, I really support the step the NWOD took away from the overly convoluted meta-game madness of the mid to late 90s.
That said, I don't think it has really succeeded in balancing a tight focus with a true tool-kit approach (much in the same way that I think 3rd Edition D&D designers failed to balance its roots with their urge to make it GURPS).
For instance: I really dig V:TR. But I think the way character creation is still hard-wired into clans, and the way clans work, undermines the tool-kit approach of the game. If a GM wants to disconnect bloodlines from clans, so that a pretty Ventrue to be able to sire a nasty Nosferatu, they need to do some kit-bashing, whereas a real tool-kit game would support options like this out of the gate.
Moreover, it still assumes that all GMs will want to maintain the masquerade and a whack of other holdovers from the OWOD days.
The end result is that V:TR is great at making vampire games that are sorta like V:TM games, but it doesn't really support other approaches to the genre.
And given the popularity of True Blood, Twilight, et al, I think this is a real failing on the part of the NWOD.
- April 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Mike Schulz said...
In my heart, I knew that war was feminine. I feel great shame because of your bilingual pendantry...
- April 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@walkerp: Oh dear. Grammar: The Correcting. ;)
Werewolf was a pretty decent time when I played, as well.
Thanks to all for the comments!
- April 6, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Norman Harman said...
Having been a huge EVE fan I've read much of what they have said regarding purchase of WW. Here's what they've said on purchase and what they've want from WW.
1. Eve fiction both in game, on site, and print novels was picking up in big way. They saw WW as a pool of experienced writers to expand that.
2. They also hoped WW designers would help them craft more(Eve's growing faster than it can hire creatives), and more compelling missions (aka adventures) and dialog for Eve.
3. They very, very strongly hinted at a MMORPG based on WW property. WW have mentioned "secret project" since.
4. Gaining an "office" in USA was small part of it too.
I'm fairly certain any "decline" has been intentional as the parent company has retasked WW employees onto projects it deems more profitable than churning out more angsty game supplements dead tree or otherwise.
- April 6, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- Amanda said...
Maybe it's because my Storyteller is really awesome, but our Vampire games have never been really goth-y. They've all been focused on themes like horror and politics. There's not a whole hell of a lot of room for angst when you're a small fish in a tank full of sharks. But I think that any game system gets labeled depending on the experiences of the people who play it. For instance, if you only ever played d&d and it was only ever a hack and slash kill things and take their stuff game, that's what you would think it's about. Where another group might run a d&d game in which dice hardly ever get rolled, there's a lot of roleplay and combat is rare and there's a sweeping epic storyline.
I do kind of agree that it's still very much tied to a class like system. All of the branches of the White Wolf tree are except the very bare bones core book. I've come to the conclusion that I in general want to play games without classes/clans/schools/tribes etc whatever at all. I'd rather come up with a character concept or idea that doesn't require being pigeon holed into some kind of labeled template.
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I thought people would be impressed in that the other team has to miss for Murphy to get those defensive rebounds.
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I thought people would be impressed in that the other team has to miss for Murphy to get those defensive rebounds.
Fair enough.
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Yes, the numbers are low. Like Murphy, guards often play on the perimeter. Unlike Murphy, they often penetrate to the paint on offense. Murphy will never even come close to a 'good' average of offensive rebounds. He does do a fine job on the defensive boards, however. Except for that last sentence, I believe we can agree on the other statements? If you wish to characterize him as not a good rebounder on the basis of ORs, that's certainly your prerogative. I just think there's an element of illogic there.
Anyway, I'm not worried about a categorization, I guess. Just glad he pulls the rebounds down at a nice clip....that's .344 per min played for Troy vs .275/min for Jeff. Hibbert is at .214/min played. Rasho at .193 per min played. Those figures do not include the last two games.
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no power forward/center should average 1.3 orpg in a month where he averaged 36mpg. i find that despicable. i also believe in something called a cheap or easy defensive rebound. those that jason kidd has made famous. but maybe that's just me, as usual.
Don't know if it's just you. I know a lot of people don't care for a big man that plays away from the post, and the inevitable effect on their stats, one assumes. The other side of that would be to ask how many threes a low-post offense PF manages to tally. Few to none? Is that despicable? Or a natural consequence of their role in the offense?
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%3FG = percentage of field goal attempts that were three-pointers
%OR = percentage of rebounds which are on the offensive glass
For each of the past 5 seasons the percentage of Murphy's shots which have come from downtown has increased while at the same time the percentage of his rebounds which are on the offensive end has decreased. Looks like a pretty strong correlation to me.
i'll admit, i do miss one of my favorites elliott lydell davis. dale is my standard for a power forward, unless you have yourselves a malone, barkley, boozer, etc type of offensive threat at that position. i suppose one's opinion is dependent on how they view the role of a power forward or the system they prefer. still, even rik smits had better offensive rebounding numbers than murphy, and as well all know, smits was consistantly getting outrebounded by mark jackson.
running a team inside/out is how you win championships. so imo, murphy should rarely be touching the 3 point line. jim o'brien's system is not conducive to winning.
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What about that post is trollish to you?
In this system Murphy will never get the ORPG you want. I agree I like crashing the boards, but the way this team plays half-court defense they have to slow down opposing transition. It is a quick fix that will be and has been exploited by teams.
I agree that Murphy will never be an Orebound hawk. But to say that his Defensive rebounds are useless, and then saying the best Point Guard since Magic Johnson is an overrated player, is unfounded. Yes OReb are good. But there is a cost at crashing the boards.
The leading team OREB per game are.
Portland 13.2
Philly 12.7
Timberwolves 12.5
I have been trying to find Fast Break points per game but could not find them. If someone knows and can determine whether I am insane about this or not please divulge. Please.
I think several posts complaining about Murphs rebounding is trollish, as is the idea that Murph should "rarely be touching the 3 point line."
People talk about how quiet he [McKey] is, but hes really been helpful. He gives a lot of insight to players in how to guard certain teams and what their weaknesses are. The whole team listens to him, and it makes my job a lot easier. Having players like him is what pro basketball is all about for me. Larry Brown
I agree that is not trolling. He is at least preferences his beliefs and civil doing so. Even though there is disagreement.
Using words like "despicable" does not promote civility.
People talk about how quiet he [McKey] is, but hes really been helpful. He gives a lot of insight to players in how to guard certain teams and what their weaknesses are. The whole team listens to him, and it makes my job a lot easier. Having players like him is what pro basketball is all about for me. Larry Brown
Are you saying that only a despicable troll would use despicable to describe a player's game? :smile:
He just said that the way a player plays is despicable. He didn't say that Troy is a despicable person because he can't get "real" rebounds.
I do think that the Spurs philosophy of emphasizing defensive rebounds over offensive ones doesn't seem to hurt. Defensive rebounds not gotten by Murphy could potentially be offensive for the other team.
I don't understand why oReb would be such an issue in this case. Especially since if Murphy really wanted to oReb, he could just plant into the post there and then could get exploited on defense. =/
In TJ's defense, a lot of the times that he drives he's looking for someone to pass it to in the paint but most of the time, no one is there. He's good at drawing the double-team but no one cuts to the opposite side of the floor. He was pretty good at this with Toronto and Chris Bosh was the recipient of most of those passes.
I'll give you another example of what I'm talking about. Think about Chris Paul and how Tyson Chandler sets the screen and then heads to the hoop and CP3 hits him with a pass right at the basket. When TJ runs this play, the screener always seems to pop out for a jumper instead of heading to the bucket. It's more difficult to drive the lane and throw a pass back behind you and that's usually when TJ turns the ball over.
Every now and then, Rasho or Foster will screen and then roll to the basket and this usually leads to a dunk, a layup attempt, or foul shots. Murphy never rolls to the basket, he almost always pops out after a screen. So it's half TJ's fault and half the fault of the players around him, IMO.
When Pacers' shots go up, it is either Foster or Rasho who crashes the offensive glass- that is the team rebounding scheme. No one would accuse Rasho of being a better rebounder than Murphy, but he has more offensive rebounds per minute because of their roles in the team rebounding. Conversely, when opponents' shots go up, you see Rasho blocking out and Troy going for the defensive rebound.
Kevin Garnett gets only 1.5 offensive rebounds per game. I have never read anyone critical of him for that.
but complaining about murphy's offensive rebounding is like someone else complaining that dale davis' 3pt% was awful -- this simply is/was not a part of their respective games. rik smits was similarly a poor offensive rebounder but because he played closer to the rim than murphy, he tended to get a few more (being 7'4" didn't hurt). he isn't prolific and in the past i too thought many of his rebounds were more of the "fall into his hands" variety. watching murphy this year, it has changed a bit -- he has been more aggressive the defensive end when it comes to rebounding. they're not all cheap.
as for the touching the 3pt line... like it or not, murphy is a weapon from that distance and so he should be out there. it may not be your idea of championship basketball but it's what we've got right now and i challenge you to find anyone that believes jim o'brien (or for that matter, troy himself) will be around when the next time the pacers are being mentioned in championship talk.
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Complain all you want, but any win by a team in our position who's missing their best player is a good win.
Here's some things I learned last night:
- Jeff Foster is not the worst offensive player on this team. That honor goes to Maceo Baston.
- TJ is capable of taking over a game single-handedly. He made some bad decisions and did a lot of things that made me cringe, but he had the biggest mismatch on the court, he knew it, and he exploited it to the best of his ability. There's absolutely no way we'd have won that game without him.
- Quinn pointed out that Jack is a different player (much less aggressive) playing with Ford. I agree. Something's been wrong with Jack lately. I don't know if it's a lack of confidence in his offense or what, but it's not a good thing. At least before when he was turning the ball over he was doing it while scoring and being aggressive, now he's being tenative, not shooting the ball well, and still turning it over.
- Dunleavy has either reverted to his Golden State form or is playing at way less than 100%.
- Daniels needs to start playing better if we're going to get some offers for him.
- This team, without Granger and with the current rotations, is becoming very uninteresting to watch.
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You basically said what I was thinking. Foster is the O rebounder and Murphy is the D rebounder.
Is it just me or do others notice Jack and Ford seem to get numerous rebounds during the game? I seem to notice it being more of the D rebounds vareity.
Perhaps you should coach....
Quite a few. But most nights he's not going to hit those shots, and on those nights it's turnover turnover turnover.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Picking A RPG System Part 2: Jekyll & Hyde
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Oh, how true, how true. In my quest for a new generic RPG system and in general, I fight against the two polar opposites of my nature. In many cases, I am mercurial and changing to the point of ludicrousness. By day, the sweet kindly GM holds sway, considering player input and maybe even giving credence to the thought of shared GMing duties. But at night, a horrific, wonderful madness descends upon me, and the baser demons of my psyche are put on the gaming table for all to see.
Here are a few of the back-and-forth struggles I have on what I enjoy in gaming. Good thing it's ok to enjoy more than one gaming style—right?
Rules-Light vs. Rules-Heavy
I loves me some Risus. It's one of the most fun, fast one-shot RPG systems this side of anything. And occasionally, I want a loose, light framework to maneuver in—not some huge list of conditional rules that require lots of page flipping. On the other hand, I can appreciate a good rules structure, one that clearly defines consistent mechanics. My general rule seems to be that if I have a light system, I add stuff on. If I have a heavy system, I gut the crap out of it. I end up in the middle, feeling somewhat dirty.
Random Roll vs. Point-Buy
Roll it! Let the fates decide! So what if your Fighter has a laughably weak Constitution score? It builds character, pun intended! Wait! Reverse that! Let's maximize everything using point-buy, so you can play the character you want. You have 2 points left over and want to learn Basket Weaving? Fine, just fine! Goodness, what a well and carefully-built character. It's a shame he's missing A HEART.
Skills vs. No Skills
I appreciate the freedom and player ingenuity that the lack of a skill list can provide. It's one of the reasons I enjoy Swords & Wizardry and Microlite74 so much—it's one more impediment to getting down to the nitty-gritty that's out the window. However, I grew up on games with skill lists, and many players like a quantifiable risk of what they want to do. Rolemaster and Rifts or Red Box?
Lots of Dice vs. Less Dice
On one hand, I love the idea of one simple roll to determine the outcome. Get the hell out of the way of the game, dice! But man, like a big portion of the fun in the hobby is about rolling dice. D6s, D8s, D100s, D20s, and yes, even the poor, oft-forgotten D12. The dice are a part of the experience, for a lot of us. Plus, games with lots of dice give me another reason to visit Gamescience.
The only place I've really trended one way would be Player Narrative Control vs. Centralized GM Power, where I definitely skew well towards the latter. I'm a fascist, I know. But at least I'm not a monster.
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- WalkerP said...
Ha ha! Hilarious post. I think you speak for many of us when you break down your two-sided personality. I wish mine were so cleanly divided between night and day. Rather, I'm going back and forth in my head every 10 minutes!
- February 10, 2010 at 8:45 AM
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- February 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- Snals-at-Fleas said...
Ha. So I'm not the only one with this kind of mental disorder. :)
- February 10, 2010 at 9:03 AM
- Zachary The First said...
Not even close, my friend. I suspect we are Legion.
- February 10, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- da Trux said...
good post. i've been wrestling it the same issues for a while now. i grew up on rules-heavy, skill-listed, GM-centric games, but now find myself in an awkward position: i spend more time trying to find ways to streamline rules-heavy games than i do playing those games.
- February 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Carpe Guitarrem said...
I think that embracing both types is totally viable, and not necessarily a bad thing. It's all about variety. Rules-light and rules-heavy systems, for instance, teach you to think in new ways. Rules-light teaches you to elaborate on your actions and condense them to their bare essentials, while rules-heavy teaches you to use the tools you have to create magic.
Personally, though, I prefer lots of skills and lots of dice, for a few reasons. Maybe that's why I'm totally into World of Darkness right now.
- February 10, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Zachary The First said...
Oh yes, both have their merits. I can run Risus, turn around and run Rolemaster without batting an eye. It's about the group wants, too.
- February 10, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- James V said...
My general rule seems to be that if I have a light system, I add stuff on. If I have a heavy system, I gut the crap out of it. I end up in the middle, feeling somewhat dirty.
Ah, the curse of the rules tinker! I too suffer from it, though I wouldn't say I'm really suffering when I do it. :)
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- February 11, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Sean said...
Good to know I'm not alone in any of this - next step, join a self-help group!
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IT provision is an increasingly important issue in helping universities recruit and retain students. With tuition fees currently averaging £9,000 a year, students are looking for the best possible value for money and attend open days armed with lots of questions about resources and expectations of access to all the latest kit, wireless infrastructure and apps.
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Viglen was the incumbent supplier, having handled the previous upgrade in 2007. Five years on it won the refresh contract against stiff competition from other suppliers on Lot 3 of the National Desktop and Notebook Agreement (NDNA) Framework. The NDNA was formed in 2009 when six higher education purchasing consortiums got together to create a framework to simplify the tendering process. The framework helps HE institutions find the best supplier by listing only those who have already passed rigorous evaluation and testing, so that the final decision can be based on more project-specific criteria. Viglen is rated number one on Lot 1 (desktops), number one on Lot 2 as supplier of Toshiba laptops and number one on Lot 3 (one stop shop) for the supply of both. As well as being deemed best value on the NDNA Framework overall, in the mini-tender for Plymouth University, Viglen again proved to be best value and best positioned to deliver this complex project, winning in a 5-way pitch.
The Viglen solution involved a cradle-to-grave desktop PC and laptop fleet management service. Firstly, all the old kit had to be data destructed, taken off site and either disposed of in line with WEEE legislation or returned to the leasing company. Then, prior to delivery, Viglen began asset-tagging and configuring the new kit with the University's disk image, including 250 different applications. Then came the deployment to the desktop, which involved supplying 3,100 Viglen Genie Slim desktops, 550 Viglen Genie Medium desktops, 6,600 Philips monitors, 160 Toshiba Tecra laptops, 1,700 Toshiba Portege laptops, 1,860 Toshiba docking stations and 2,000 Ergotron laptop stands. At this stage the asset tagging was completed and recorded on a SharePoint portal deployed onsite on Toshiba Android tablets to give Viglen and university staff a complete record of all the equipment by serial number and allowing identification of its network point, room location and primary user details. When a PC moves, Viglen can update the database to include the PC's new location details and any other changes.
Implementation of the contract came with a bevy of challenges unique to a live university environment. It is a bit unusual in several respects and we needed a supplier who could handle that, said Joe. For example, different staff have different types of computers — it's not vanilla, like supplying a bank. Overall it was a huge logistical exercise making sure all the right equipment was in
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The university is a varied environment, including medical and clinical laboratories, as well as administration offices. In addition to the main site at Drake Circus in the centre of Plymouth, the university operates more than 15 remote sites up to an hour's drive away — as far as Redruth in Cornwall to the west and Taunton to the east — which were all included in the refresh. It had to be business as usual at every location throughout the installation, when Viglen engineers were installing as many as 150 new machines a day in students labs and 50 devices in staff areas. As well as the requirement for top quality customer service to meet the high expectations of university staff and students, the whole job was time critical. The installation window was August to December 2012, with all the student kit needed in place for the start of term in September and the staff kit in straight after that. Viglen completed the work in time and on budget.
The response from our users has been overwhelmingly positive. The customer experience has been good, with minimal disruption to schedules, said Joe.
This total refresh of all devices means the whole university is now using Windows 7, with the very latest Intel Core Architecture so that log in is faster and all the devices are delivering higher performance. In terms of technical developments, we are futureproofed for the next four or five years, this time we added 50 per cent more laptops for our professional staff and installed docking stations to allow them more flexibility around mobile working. This encourages hot-desking and more efficient use of space. said Joe.
At the same time, the new devices are more efficient and use far less power. The university estimates a 60 per cent increase in power cost savings for its IT fleet — equivalent to 3.9k tonnes of CO2 — over the five year period of this new contract, even before turning on the power management facility. Support staff can also monitor usage and power manage devices centrally — for example make all the devices wake up or go to sleep at a particular time.
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Mrs. Summerford's husband was the head preacher at the Church of Jesus with Signs Following, but he was unable to cast out his own demons. A heavy drinker, he was prone to fits of passion over his wife's infidelities, real and imagined. He was also a snake handler. And on the fateful night, he went to his wife in a drunken stupor and demanded that she tell him the truth. When her answers did not satisfy him, he forced her at gunpoint to thrust her hand into a rattlesnake cage! But the drama was just beginning...
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Ian Lloyd's article on building the perfect 404 error is wonderful. Now, if only I had control over our web server, perhaps I could employ some of these suggetions… Alas, part of being a county library is that our site sits on the county server. I think it's the same pretty much everywhere. But, for those of you lucky ducks who do run your own server, this article will prove to be most helpful.
This made me smile, but then again, I am easily amused.
At last! A new site, Free-After-Rebate, lists all those great free after rebate deals that Circuit City, Office Depot, & Office Max run from time to time. I can't tell you how many slim jewel cases I've gotten that way. As long as you're willing to fill out some paperwork, xerox some stuff, and wait 6-8 weeks, it's a great deal. This site goes on my Favorites list for sure.
BBC reports that Japan has just sentenced Monotori Kishi to a year in prison for distributing obscene literature. Kishi has naturally appealed the decision. I don't know how many Americans are familiar with manga as genre, but most of it has sexual content. Something I didn't know is that 45% of books and periodicals sold in Japan are manga. I find this decision quite frightening, and an act of censorship on its purest level. If anyone can define pornography for me, in a way that everyone can agree to, let me know, ok? I've been looking for that elusive definition for quite some time now.
Alright, so I'll indulge my loving users' need to know my top 25 feeds. The links are directly to the feeds, for all ya' big RSS freaks, and I know you're out there. Yes, I like Wil Wheaton. Scoff away
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PC World's article says it all. I know our library gets a lot of e-commerce users, so anything targeted at PayPal users is bound to come up at the reference desk.
OK, so the # of feeds I'm getting just went over 100. I officially cannot live without RSS now.
Fellowes has developed keyboards and mice with an antibacterial substance (Microban) built right into the plastic. I think these have the potential to be ideal for libraries. The additional cost is nominal, and one of the biggest complaints we get from patrons is about the health issues surrounding public workstations. Definitely something to keep an eye on…
Anybody like Snopes.com? It's a spiffy urban legends site, that debunks or bunks (is that the opposite?) random urban legends. Things like:
Is the FBI's "Department for Illegal Internet Downloads" sending out automated warning messages via e-mail?
Did Indonesian villagers really capture a 49-foot, 983-pound python?
Did a man laugh himself to death while watching television?
Does the "BVD" in BVD Underwear really stand for Boy's Ventilated Drawers?
They now have an RSS feed that highlight new urban legends. Slap me silly and call me happy–another feed of joy!


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Last week, I tried to predict which title churches and deaconries the new cardinals would be getting. While much was guesswork, I did succeed in making a few reasonable guesses: Sant' Atanasio might go to Cardinal Muresan or Cardinal Alencherry; Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario to Cardinal Dolan or Cardinal Collins; San Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello to Cardinal Eijk; San Bernardo alle Terme to Cardinal Alencherry; San Giuseppe all' Aurelio to Cardinal Woelki; San Gerardo Maiella to Cardinal Duka; Santissimo Redentore e Sant' Alfonso in Via Merulana to Cardinal Dolan or Cardinal Collins; Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio to Cardinal Ries. I also suggested to San Patrizio would remain vacant and that San Teodoro would go to a cardinal with some link with the Orthodox Churches.
Well, in the end I guessed right three times: Cardinal Allencherry did get San Bernardo alle Terme, Cardinal Dolan got Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario, Cardinal Muresan got Sant' Atanasio.
Here is the full list of new cardinals with their title churches and deaconries
- Fernando Cardinal Filoni, Cardinal-deacon of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio
- Manuel Cardinal Monteiro de Castro, Cardinal-deacon of San Domenico di Guzman
- Santos Cardinal Abril y Castellò, Cardinal-deacon of San Ponziano
- Antonio Maria Cardinal Vegliò, Cardinal-deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio
- Giuseppe Cardinal Bertello, Cardinal-deacon of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia
- Francesco Cardinal Coccopalmerio, Cardinal-deacon of San Giuseppe del Falegnami
- João Cardinal Bráz de Aviz, Cardinal-deacon of Sant' Elena fuori Porta Prenestina
- Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien, Cardinal-deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino
- Domenico Cardinal Calcagno, Cardinal-deacon of Santissima Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina
- Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi, Cardinal-deacon of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
- George Cardinal Alencherry, Cardinal-priest of San Bernardo alle Terme
- Thomas Christopher Cardinal Collins, Cardinal-priest of San Patrizio
- Dominik Cardinal Duka, Cardinal-priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro
- Willem Jacobus Cardinal Eijk, Cardinal-priest of San Callisto
- Giuseppe Cardinal Betori, Cardinal-priest of San Marcello
- Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Cardinal-priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario
- Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki, Cardinal-priest of San Giovanni Maria Vianney
- John Cardinal Tong Hon, Cardinal-priest of Regina Apostolorum
- Lucian Cardinal Muresan, Cardinal-priest of Sant' Atanasio
- Julien Cardinal Ries, Cardinal-deacon of San Antonio de Padova a Circonvallazione Appia
- Prosper Cardinal Grech, Cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria Goretti
- Karl Josef Cardinal Becker, Cardinal-deacon of San Giuliano Martire
As you will have noticed when comparing this list to the one in my previous post, there are five new deaconries and one new title church on the list. The Holy Father is free to create and abolish such churches as he sees fit, of course, but it's interesting to wonder why some titles remain vacant as new ones are created.
Cardinal Eijk's title church is San Callisto, located in Trastevere. The church itself dates from the 17th century, although there has been a church dedicated to Saint Pope Callistus I since the 8th century. The holy pope himself reigned in the 3rd century and was martyred and buried on the site where his church now stands. As cardinal-priest of this church, Cardinal Eijk succeeds Corrado Cardinal Ursi, the former archbishop of Naples who died in 2003. The later Popes Pius VII (pope from 1800 to 1823) and Gregory XVI (1831 to 1846) also held this title church.
It is a fairly small church, as Roman churches go, with a single aisle and chapels on either side.
In essence, a cardinal will have little to do with his title church or deaconry, although some are tasked with the financial upkeep of their assigned church or deaconry. All such churches, though, will prominently feature the coat of arms of their cardinal-protector on the facade.
A week from now, the Catholic Church will gain 21 or 22* new cardinals, and they in turn will each get a cardinal title or a cardinal deaconry. In an earlier blog I explained that cardinals who are ordinaries of a diocese will usually be made cardinal priests with a title church, while cardinals in the curia will be cardinal deacons with a deaconry. But we won't know which cardinal will receive which title or deaconry until the actual consistory, when they'll receive them together with the ring and the red biretta.
But all of the above certainly does not mean we can't guess, of course…
Ten of the new cardinals will be cardinal priests. They are the heads of major (arch)dioceses and, in one case, the archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. Cardinals-designate Santos Abril y Castelló, George Alencherry, Thomas Collins, Dominik Duka, Wim Eijk, Giuseppe Betori, Timothy Dolan, Rainer Woelki, John Tong Hon and Lucian Muresan will receive one of the following 13 title churches, listed in the order in which they became vacant.
- Sant' Atanasio. Entrusted since 1872 to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, a fact that may well be reflected in the choice of cardinal-protector. Cardinals-designates Alencherry and Muresan seem likely, as they are both archbishop in a non-Roman rite Church. Saint' Atanasio has been vacant since 1984.
- San Callisto. Vacant since 2003, but with a long history as a titular church. Past cardinal-protectors came mainly from Italy, but also included cardinals from other European countries.
- Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario has been vacant since 2008. Named for Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron of the Americas, a future cardinal-protector may come from either North or South America. Likely, then, are Archbishops Collins or Dolan.
- San Felice da Cantalice e Centocello was only held as a title once before, by South Korean Cardinal Kim Sou-Hwan, who died in early 2009.
- San Patrizio. A national church of Ireland, a future cardinal-protector will very likely come from that island. It will remain vacant for a while longer, then.
- San Giacchino ai Prati di Castello. Previously held by Cardinal Alfrink, one of the mere two previous cardinal-protectors, will this title be given to Archbishop Eijk?
- San Bernardo alle Terme. Another title church with a long history as such. Its edifice and annexed monastery are maintained by the Cistercians, which is no clue to the identity of a future cardinal-protector, since there are no Cistercians in next week's consistory. The previous cardinal-protector was Cardinal Vithayatil, so his successor as Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabarese Church, Mar George Alencherry, could conceivably be given this title as well. But then again, he may just as likely not.
- San Marcello. A long history of 63 previous cardinal-protectors from all over the world reveals nothing about the identity of its future cardinal-protector.
- San Giuseppe all' Aurelio is a fairly recently created title church, held by only one cardinal-protector,. He was Berlin's Cardinal Sterzinsky, so Archbishop Woelki has a decent shot at this.
- San Gerardo Maiella was the title church held only by Cardinal Swiatek, so perhaps another Slavic cardinal will succeed him, in the person of Archbishop Duka.
- "Regina Apostolorum" has been vacant since last July. It's three past cardinal-protectors have all been Italians, but most of the older title churches have a strong Italian history when it comes to cardinals assigned them.
- Santi Marcellino e Pietro is yet another ancient title church with cardinal-protectors from various nations. It has been vacant since August.
- Santissimo Redentore e Sant' Alfonso in Via Merulana, vacant since the death of Cardinal Bevilacqua a few weeks ago, has a New World history, having been held by two Americans and a Bolivian cardinal. Collins and Dolan again come into view.
So we can make some educated guesses, but nothing is certain when it comes to the assignment of title churches. The Holy Father is also free to create new titles churches.
The same really goes for cardinal deaconries, to be assigned to cardinal deacons. Of these, there are 11 or 12* on the list of the consistory: Fernando Filoni, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Antonio Vegliò, Giuseppe Bertello, Francesco Coccopalmerio, João Bráz de Aviz, Edwin O'Brien, Domenico Calcagno, Giuseppe Versaldi, Julien Ries, Prosper Grech ( and possibly Karl Becker). Currently, there are 11 vacant cardinal deaconries, so if the list of names in the previous line is correct, all will be assigned (and a new one may even be created). We must also not forget that the Holy Father will decide to create one or more of the assumed cardinal deacons as cardinal priests instead, or vice versa. Anyway, whatever may happen, let's take a look at the vacant deaconries:
- Santa Maria in Cosmedin. An ancient basilica that has been vacant since 1967. It has had no less than 64 cardinal deacons that we know of.
- San Giovanni Battista Decollato was ever only the deaconry of one Italian cardinal and has been vacant since 1988.
- San Teodoro is an ancient church which is also used, by papal permission, by the Greek Orthodox community of Rome. Maybe its future cardinal deacon, its first since 2000, will have some link with the Orthodox?
- Santissima Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina vacant since 2006, has had a single Italian cardinal deacon.
- Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio has had a single Venezuelan cardinal deacon and has been vacant since 2007.
- Sant' Elena fuori Porta Prenestina, vacant since 200, has had two cardinal deacons, one from Ghana and one from Canada.
- Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia has been a titular church since 1011, switching several times between a deaconry and a title church. Vacant since 2009, it has been assigned to 35 cardinals.
- San Ponziano is another deaconry which has had a single cardinal deacon. It has been vacant since November of 2010.
- Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio is held by the Salesians and is connected to a boarding school for the arts and industries. One of its two past cardinal deacons was Belgian, so maybe Archbishop Ries will get this title.
- San Cesareo in Palatio, once the title of the future Pope John Paul II. It has been vacant since September.
- San Sebastiano al Palatino has been awaiting a new deacon since the death of Cardinal Foley in December.
The cardinal deaconries are much harder to predict than the title churches of cardinal priests. But the title churches together form a living memory of the rich history of the Church in Rome. As titular priests and deacons of these churches, the new cardinals are part of this history, which is also a history of the Church's unity with the pope as the visible sign.
* We'll probably have to wait and see if Fr. Karl Becker is among the new cardinals on the 18th, as reports about his health are conflicting, as is his attendance at the consistory.


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It is time to address spatial apartheid in the United States. Society shapes its cities, and our cities in turn shape us. But when it comes to making decisions about the shape of our cities, communities of color historically have not participated in proportion to their numbers. Such decisions are routinely made by society's most powerful—businesses, upper-income families, and elected officials—who lack the consciousness and incentive to consider the impact of their decisions on vulnerable populations.
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