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Mercedes have revealed that "high-voltage control electronics failure led to a permanent loss of MGU-K drive" on both their cars at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton looked set for a battle royale for the race victory in Montreal, but the latter reported a loss of power on the 37th lap and it wasn't too long before his team-mate had the same issue.
Both continued to push hard and Hamilton tried to overtake Rosberg, but he made a mistake went and sliding off and then reported problems with his brakes. He nursed his car back to garage, but had to retire.
Rosberg continued and although he managed to pick up his pace, he was eventually caught by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo on the penultimate lap and had to settle for second place.
According to BBC Sport, Mercedes reported that "high-voltage control electronics failure led to a permanent loss of MGU-K drive on both cars in today's race".
Mercedes co-boss Toto Wolff said: "We had a problem with both cars on the same lap. When Lewis pitted, because of the pit stop, the temperatures rose too high in the brakes and he lost them. Nico saved it with a brilliant drive.
"We knew brakes could be an issue, but this particular issue occurred because if you lose the MGU-K, it's much harder on the brakes. And with the rise in temperatures in the pits you end up having a real problem."
Despite the problems with their cars, both Rosberg and Hamilton continued to push hard and asked if the team should've deployed team orders to prevent them from damaging their cars further, Wolff replied: "We can discuss whether team orders will be good. We have followed the philosophy until now till now.
"We had two drivers who were perfect. You could have said maybe freezing order would help the end result, but that's not what we want to do and not what people want to see."
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Problem with the timing is you need to be able to see Ultra's cast bar, which is the part where it depends on what unitframes you use how you get around that, or if it's even possible. You can't rely on someone calling it out, by then it might be too late.
Though in honesty, the people that make the bar mods need to find a way to show these buttons - one way or another, especially if it's an approach Blizzard is going to continue with.
A lot of action bar mods have had recent updates (in the last 3-7 days) to implement the ExtraActionButton. If you are using a bar mod I would recommend checking wowace, curse and wowinterface to see if there has been a update since 4.3 went live.
So I have a question. Someone mentioned having a disc priest go smite build. Does anyone have any suggestions or links to what the build should look like and at the end when they are healing do they typically end up bubbling everyone and if so what of the three healing buffs do you have the disc priest pick up?
A smite disc priest gets the Evangelism, Archangel and Atonement talents, their primary spells are Holy Fire, Smite, Penance and Power Word:Shield.
This is my Disc Priest, I use the Atonement spec. The only real variation is that I spec into Strength of Soul and some prefer Train of Thought.
Red = Best for raw throughput, worst for shielding. Red is the single worst buff to give to a Discipline Priest. It is the best buff to give to a Restoration Druid as they have no shields at all and only have throughput. After Restoration Druid would be Restoration Shaman and Holy Priest, not necessarily in that order.
Green = Best for a direct healing class. Not necessarily bad for any class however they may need to change how they heal. For example you could give it to a Restoration Druid and have them switch to a primarily direct healing model rather than Healing over Time model. Holy Paladin, Restoration Shaman, and Holy Priest would have to change the least to benefit from Green. Most healers dislike Green because of how it functions, requiring them to change how they play, which is why in a two healing model the healer which picks this will be the one to switch to Blue when it becomes available.
Blue = Best for classes which can use, or switch to long cast AoEs. In particular, Discipline Priest is probably the single best choice since they can go into a Prayer of Healing spam continually procing shields on entire parties. The worst class to give Blue to is a Restoration Druid, while Haste does greatly improve the healing effect of their Healing over Time abilities, they don't benefit as much as other classes because they can't cast more spells, being bound by the Global Cooldown minimum (HoTs heal for more, but they don't cast more often). It is better to give the Blue buff to a class which can fully exploit the nature of haste.
At a very high level and assuming all else is equal (such as Player Skill).
If you have a Restoration Druid, you want to give them Red.
If you have a Discipline Priest, you want to give them Blue.
Those two in particular are geared very well for one end of the spectrum or the other (one all throughput, the other is largely shields). Everything else is somewhere inbetween.
The key to assigning healers buffs though largely comes down to their ability to adapt and apporpriately capitalize on the buff if necessary. For example, a Discipline Priest understanding that long cast times are prefered and mana cost is irrelevant once they have the Blue buff will naturally trend towards spamming Prayer of Healing alternating between parties since it will be nearly a 1 second cast at that point and proc shields on the entire group at once and is spammable.
Since one player isn't necessarily equal to another though these priorities can be altered to cater towards what works best for your particular group. For example, Red is also the best buff for a Holy Paladin because the shield caused by their mastery is porportional to the amount they healed. However because a Druid has primarily instant casts that are Healing over Time effects you want to avoid giving them Green or Blue if possible which typically pushes the Holy Paladin to another buff that is less than ideal for them. Ideal for the individual may not be what is ideal for the raid. It is up to the decision makers in your raid to determine what is ideal for you.
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With arbitrary class mixes (as in too many of certain classes - more than 2 of each class is a suboptimal comp), the 2nd choices are holy priest and pally on green, and shamans on blue. You don't really want hot healers (as in druids) on blue, and you really don't want hot-less healers (as in paladins) on red.
Typically you never have more than 1 disc priest in a raid, whether 10 or 25 man. It is simply a matter of how disc works compared to the other 4 healing specs. So for disc I recommend putting your foot down and demand a blue. The other classes work better with going different colours.
Obviously you HAVE to work out with the other healers before the fight starts who gets what. Red comes first, then green, then blue. The crystals drop with Ultra's health, so the better dps the faster the crystals will come down. In the RF, where communication is sadly not the strongest, we (or atleast me and some of the other healers I've done it with) generally use recount to figure out what our comp is and snatch up the crystal buffs based on that.
Also, in note of what Quinafoi said about the decision makers in a raid: Never let anyone who don't heal, or atleast regularly play a healer, ever make decisions about healing assignments, or in this case the healer buffs. Always work that stuff out with the other healers. Real healers know how they prefer to heal, and which way of healing works best for them, and therefor it is easier for the healers themselves to work out the assignments, and the buffs. As long as someone knows the crystal buffs, or as I normally do it which healers are preferential for each colour, then figuring it out is easy.
If you regularly run with the same groups, it's not a big deal to decide who gets what, but when you pug you need to work things out with the other healers or it can go real bad. Nothing worse than someone telling the druid and holy priest to watch the tanks when you got a shaman, a paladin, and a disc priest in the raid (just a sample from one BH25 I pugged).
Blue should go to Discipline Priest. Holy Priest, Holy Paladin, and Restoration Shaman can use blue as well. Restoration Druids should avoid blue.
Green is sub-optimal for every healing class. More for some than others.
Red is ideal for anything that isn't a Discipline Priest.
How you determine your priorities will largely come down to minimizing how bad the green buff is. Because of that you typically end up with a priority system like this for the red buff.
Restoration Druid
Restoration Shaman
Holy Priest
Holy Paladin
This priority system is because green is significantly worse for a Restoration Druid than a Restoration Shaman, a Restoration Shaman than a Holy Priest, a Holy Priest than a Holy Paladin. Red is the best buff for all four of these, but assuming player skill is identical in order to maximize the raid benefit. What is best for the individual may not be best for the raid. This is the general priority system that should work most of the time, however, individual skill level may change how you decide (a good player will be good even if sub-optimally buffed and a bad player will be bad even if optimally buffed).
"In anything, if you want to go from just a beginner to a pro, you need a montage." /w TankSpot WTB Montage for Raiders.
So I saw the idea for a disc priest doing atonement/smite and was intrigued; if this is viable would they get the red crystal (to double their healing output?) Or else which crystal would work best?
A disc priest can do smiting regardless early in the fight because healing demand is trivial until much later in the fight so unless your cutting healers from the normal number they should probably be doing this anyway. Additionally if you allow your other healers to get buffs first you allow them to keep up with rising raid damage without requiring the discipline priest to switch to exclusively healing until later in the encounter, thus getting more damage on the boss. This is another reason why Discipline typically prefers to get the blue crystal. Atonement only heals one target at a time and the majority of damage in this encounter is raid damage so long term single target healing will not be ideal.
"In anything, if you want to go from just a beginner to a pro, you need a montage." /w TankSpot WTB Montage for Raiders.
Disclaimer: I've been doing heroic for quite a few weeks now, my stance on this might be skewed by that, but I am fairly sure that that statement is true regardless of the difficulty, unless you SHOULD be doing heroic and aren't.
My point remains, while smite spec is decent for this encounter, it's not something you do the entire fight. The very fact that you can afford to have a healer DPSing is related to the rate of damage your taking, not whether or not that damage also heals. You could have any healer DPS if you have more healers than required to heal the damage you're taking at the start of the fight. It's just discipline is designed in a manner where doing DPS may also provide a small amount of healing.
The discipline priest should not be smiting because it's good healing. A discipline priest should be smiting because more healing is not needed early in the fight. You don't smite because it's good healing. You smite because you don't need to heal at that moment.
The person's reason behind smiting is flawed. They are looking at it from a healing standpoint and trying to buff it. Instead they need to realize that the Discipline Priest should smite because they don't need to be doing their full healing potential in the first place. If they want to realize their full healing potential, they will have to use actual healing spells, which towards the end of the encounter will be required.
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Firstly, apologies for the larger than usual gap between this posting and my previous blog; I have been very busy! Many aspects of the project are nearing completion and the presence of the woodland project at St Fagans is becoming more and more obvious. So here's what's been going on…
The path through the woodland has been dug and the panels will be with us in the next few weeks. I'm very excited about the panels as they have a lot of brilliant hands-on learning displays such as a wind-up arm that plays bird song and a load of models of footprints, feeding remains and droppings of woodland mammals! It looks like the path will be ready sometime in June and it promises to be an excellent addition to the museum.
The website too is near completion and will be live in a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to watching the birds as they come and go, and am curious as to which species we'll get visiting our feeders and nest boxes. The pond cam should be a delight too, and I can't wait to have a go at filming newts!
This week has felt like the first week of summer with temperatures reaching 23 degrees Celsius. I took a group of visitors on a bird walk at 5:30am on Saturday to celebrate international dawn chorus day and it was a great success. As well as resident species we also saw migrants such as Blackcap, and the songs of Chiffchaff have been ringing around since late March. The woods are full of birdsong as the birds sing to mark their territories and attract a mate, and birds with beaks full of nesting material have become a common sight. There has also been a riot of colour in the woods over the past month with the blossoming of spring flowers such as primrose, lesser celandine, wood anemones, garlic mustard and bluebell. The trees too have begun to blossom and grow fresh green leaves and the canopy is getting thicker every day.
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Outside of Houston is the historic suburb of Conroe, Texas. Perfectly located on Interstate Highway 45, this community is the ideal place for anyone looking for a quiet Texas town to experience the local lifestyle. Conroe combines the urban amenities residents desire with a small town atmosphere.
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There is a taste of Cuban cuisine and history at Victor's Cafe in the heart of the Theater district. Rachel Wharton from Edible Manhattan magazine filed the following report.
You can go to the Theater District, not just to see a play, but to get a taste of Cuba. For 50 years, Victor's Cafe has served as a hub for Cuban favorites, like addictive black beans or the shredded beef stew called ropa vieja, which means "old clothes" in Spanish.
But the restaurant has long been more than just a place to eat, says co-owner Monica Zaldivar, whose grandfather Victor del Corral, opened the original in the Upper West Side in 1963.
"He and my grandma Eloina started the first restaurant on 71st and Columbus. And then it became extremely popular with Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand and John Lennon and Yoko Ono would go, and it just became a little cultural hub. And everybody loved it," says Zaldivar.
Not only was Victor a great cook, but he was also a great host, commissioning works of art for the restaurant, hosting bands and encouraging artists and celebrities of all kinds to come and eat or dance.
In fact so many people did that Victor's eventually moved to the current location, a much bigger space right in the middle of the Theater District, a neighborhood Victor loved.
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text: AHRQ National Advisory Council Subcommittee (SNAC) on Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP Programs Slide PresentationThis is the text version of a slide presentation by Kathleen Lohr and Timothy Brei titled AHRQ National Advisory Council Subcommittee (SNAC) on Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP Programs presented on November 13, 2009. On this page:CHIPRA Quality Measures: NAC Subcommittee DiscussionCHIPRA—Title IVCMS, AHRQ, NAC, and Subcommittee RolesKey Players for SNAC WorkSubcommittee ChargeTimeline to January 1 Posting for Public CommentKey Points about Process (I)Key Points about Process (II)SNAC Nomination and Scoring ProcessKey Features of the SNAC Public ProcessConceptual Framework for Scope of Core Measurement SetConsensus on Criteria DefinitionsConsensus on Criteria Definitions (continued)Consensus on Criteria Definitions (continued)Consensus on Criteria Definitions (continued)SNAC Recommended Quality Measures (continued)Recommended Topics by Rank (per SNAC priority score) (I)Recommended Topics by Rank (per SNAC priority score) (II)Recommended Topics by Rank (per SNAC priority score) (III)Multiple Conditions RepresentedMeasure Areas by CHIPRA Legislative TopicMost Measures Focus on Prevention/Health PromotionMost Measures Cross All or Most Age GroupsAll but One Measure is for Ambulatory SettingsTopics by Data SourceMajor Issues Identified by the SNAC (I)Major Issues Identified by the SNAC (II)Other Factors of Interest (I)Other Factors of Interest (II)Discussion QuestionsSlide 1. CHIPRA Quality Measures: NAC Subcommittee DiscussionNovember 13, 2009National Advisory Committee MeetingKathleen Lohr, PhDTimothy Brei, MDSlide 2. CHIPRA—Title IVImage: The upper half of the first page of the document for 123 STAT. 72 Public Law 111–3—FEB. 4, 2009, Title IV: Strengthening Quality of Care and Health Outcomes.Slide 3. CMS, AHRQ, NAC, and Subcommittee RolesImage: Chart shows the relationship between the Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), the AHRQ National Advisory Council (NAC), the Subcommittee on Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP Programs, the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Slide 4. Key Players for SNAC WorkSNAC Co-Chairs:Jeffrey Schiff, MD, MBA Minnesota Department of Human Services.Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH, University of Washington.AHRQ Staff:Denise Dougherty, PhD, Senior Advisor, Child Health and Quality Improvement.NAC Members:Timothy Brei, MD, FAAP.Kathleen Lohr, PhD.Members:Another ~ 20 experts from clinical, Medicaid, CHIP, quality measurement, research, and policy fields.Slide 5. Subcommittee ChargeIdentify initial core health care quality measurement set for Medicaid and CHIP programs and in doing thisProvide guidance on criteria for identification of initial core set.Provide guidance on a strategy for identifying additional measures in use for consideration.Review and apply criteria to compilation of measures currently in use by Medicaid/CHIP.Slide 6. Timeline to January 1 Posting for Public CommentImage: A timeline shows the following events:January 2009: Law passed, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (CMS-AHRQ) partnership established.July 2009: Subcommittee Meeting #1.September 2009: Subcommittee Meeting #2.October 2009: First full draft of initial core set for Federal review.November 2009: Revised draft to Secretary.December 2009: Revisions if needed.Final for posting (Dec. 18).Slide 7. Key Points about Process (I)Three major criteria for selection of measures - Validity. - Feasibility. - Importance.Philosophically, preferred to leave an "empty chair" than to recommend quality measures that simply were too weak.Sought breadth where possible.Sought familiarity with or use of measures on part of Medicaid programs and/or SCHIP programs.Recognized nothing was going to be perfect.Slide 8. Key Points about Process (II)Short amount of time AHRQ had to do this.Immense effort AHRQ staff and the SNAC Co-Chairs over the summer. Intense involvement, interest, contributions of the people on the subcommittee. Notable collaboration and collegiality with a sister agency (namely the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS]).Slide 9. SNAC Nomination and Scoring ProcessInitial measure identification.Delphi I—Validity and Feasibility.SNAC definitions of - Validity. - Feasibility (with reliability). - Importance.Understanding of a "core, grounded, and parsimonious" set.Broad measure nomination.Delphi II—VFI.Ranking process.Final vote.SNAC key issues.Slide 10. Key Features of the SNAC Public ProcessTransparent.Multiple stakeholders per CHIPRA.Public comment including public nominations of measures.Focused on measures in use per CHIPRA.Evidence-informed (per CHIPRA) SNAC Delphi processes June and August.Slide 11. Conceptual Framework for Scope of Core Measurement SetGrounded → Intermediate → AspirationalMeasures Measures MeasuresConsensus of the subcommittee to focus on choosing grounded measures.Grounded: N ≈ 10-25, currently feasible, many already in place.Intermediate category: N = ?, good specifications, some states already using them.Aspirational: needed measures to fill in the gaps.Slide 12. Consensus on Criteria DefinitionsValidityMeasures must be supported by scientific evidence or, where evidence is insufficient, by expert consensus.Measures must support a link from structure to process to outcomes.The measure must represent an aspect of care that is under the control of health care providers and systems.The measure should truly assess what it purports to measure.Measures supported by evidence from unpublished data should be considered for inclusion.Slide 13. Consensus on Criteria Definitions (continued)Feasibility The data necessary to score the measure must be available to state Medicaid and CHIP programs. — Administrative data, medical records data, survey data.Detailed specifications must be available for the measure that allow for reliable and unbiased scoring of the measure across states and institutions.Slide 14. Consensus on Criteria Definitions (continued)Importance The measure should be actionable.Cost of the condition to the nation should be high.Health care systems are clearly accountable for the quality problem assessed by the measure.The extent of the quality problem should be substantial.There should be documented variation in performance on the measure.The measure should be representative of a class of quality problems: "sentinel measure" of QOC provided for preventive care, mental health care, or dental care, etc.Slide 15. Consensus on Criteria Definitions (continued)Importance (continuted) The measure assesses an aspect of health care where there are known disparities.The core set should represent a balanced portfolio of measures and be consistent with the intent of the legislation.Improving on performance for the core set of measures should have the potential to transform care for our nation's children.Slide 16. SNAC Recommended Quality Measures (continued)by Ranking based on SNAC Priority Scores, Legislative Topic, Condition, Age Group, Setting, Source of Data.Slide 17. Recommended Topics by Rank (per SNAC priority score) (I)1 Immunizations for 2 year-olds (National Committee for Quality Assurance [NCQA] measure).2 Frequency of ongoing prenatal care (NCQA measure).2 Emergency Department Utilization—Average number of emergency room visits per member per reporting period.3 Annual number of asthma patients (> 1 year-old) with > 1 asthma-related ER visit (S/AL Medicaid Program).4 Body Mass Index documentation 2-18 year olds (NCQA measure).5 Well-Child Visits (three NCQA measures): (1) first 15 months of life; (2) third, fourth, fifth and sixth years of life; (3) Adolescent.6 Total eligibles receiving preventive dental services (EPSDT measure).7 Adolescent immunization (NCQA revised for 2010).8 HEDIS CAHPS 4.0 including supplements for children with chronic conditions and Medicaid Plans.9 Timeliness of prenatal care (NCQA measure).Slide 18. Recommended Topics by Rank (per SNAC priority score) (II)10 % of live births weighing less than 2,500 grams.11 Rates of screening using standardized screening tools for potential delays in social and emotional development.12 Follow-up care for children prescribed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Medication Continuation and Maintenance Phase—National Committee for Quality Assurance [NCQA] measure).13 Annual dental visit (NCQA measure).13 Child and adolescent Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)—suicide risk assessment.13 Annual hemoglobin A1C testing (all children and adolescents diagnosed with diabetes).Slide 19. Recommended Topics by Rank (per SNAC priority score) (III)14 Chlamydia screening 16-20 year-old females (National Committee for Quality Assurance [NCQA] measure).14 Followup after hospitalization for mental illness (NCQA measure).16 Cesarean rate for low-risk first birth women.16 Access to primary care practitioners, by age and total.16 Use of clinician & group primary care CAHPS survey for practitioners participating in Medicaid and CHIP (CAHPS family of measures).17 Total EPSDT eligibles who received dental treatment services (EPSDT).17 Pediatric catheter-associated blood stream infection rates (PICU/NICU).18 Pharyngitis: appropriate testing (NCQA measure).18 Otitis media with effusion: avoidance of inappropriate use of systemic antimicrobials.Slide 20. Multiple Conditions RepresentedConditionNumberMultiple conditions (e.g., vaccine-preventable)5Pregnancy and childbirth4Social, emotional, mental health conditions4Dental3Upper respiratory infection2Vaccine-preventable diseases (multiple)2Overweight1Asthma1Diabetes1Sexually transmitted infections1Preventable infection (e.g., vaccine-preventable)1Slide 21. Measure Areas by CHIPRA Legislative TopicTopicMeasurePrevention/health promotion11Management of acute conditions5Management of chronic conditions5Family experiences of care2Availability/access2Duration of enrollment/coverage0Most integrated health care setting0Slide 22. Most Measures Focus on Prevention/Health PromotionImage: Bar graph shows the following types of care:Prevention/Health Promotion: 12Acute: 5Chronic: 5FEC: 2Available: 1Slide 23. Most Measures Cross All or Most Age GroupsImage: Bar graph shows the following age groups:Perinatal: 30-2: 30-3: 16-Adolescent: 6All: 10Note: SNAC voted to include all well-child visits (ages 15 mos-13 y) as one measure. Perinatal measures are for babies; they are not counted separately here as adolescent measures.Slide 24. All but One Measure is for Ambulatory SettingsImage: Bar graph shows the following settings:AMB [Ambulatory]: 24Inpatient: 1Note: Ambulatory includes Emergency department; dental care; specialty care.Slide 25. Topics by Data SourceImage: Bar graph shows the following topics by data source:Admin: 10Hybrid: 9Survey: 2Birth +: 2Other: 2Note: Admin = Admin only; Hybrid = admin + chart.Birth + = Medicaid enrollment plus birth certificate data.Other refers to 2 dental EPSDT measures.Slide 26. Major Issues Identified by the SNAC (I)Standardization of duration of enrollment measures.Standardization of the denominator across measures.Expansion of use of measures for the whole Medicaid/ CHIP population.Improved disparities reporting.Slide 27. Major Issues Identified by the SNAC (II)"Empty chairs" Most integrated health care system (medical home).Specialty care.Inpatient care.Care for substance abuse.Mental health treatment.Measures of integration of care with services outside of the health care system.Health outcomes.Slide 28. Other Factors of Interest (I)Quality assessment and improvement for federal(insurance) programs is hard, complicated.Issues are very broad: e.g., including dental, mental health, prevention, populations, settings, etc ...Medicaid and CHIP programs differ markedly in what they already do and likely can do at the moment.Wide range of Probable funding from their states.Access to data now and/or what is now reported to them.Types of health care systems that deliver care (managed care plans v mostly private practice or whatever).Centralized v. decentralized ways the programs are administered in different states.Slide 29. Other Factors of Interest (II)The CHIPRA quality measurement activity is voluntary at the momentbutSkepticism that things will stay that way and not become mandatorysoSNAC wanted to be careful about numbers of measures, complexity, and other factors.Slide 30. Discussion QuestionsComments on the recommended core set or the SNAC process?A model for the Subcommittees of the future?NAC interest in next phases of AHRQ CHIPRA work?Other? Page last reviewed December 2009 Internet Citation: AHRQ National Advisory Council Subcommittee (SNAC) on Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Medicaid and CHIP Programs: Slide Presentation. December 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/chipraarch/nac111309/lohr_brei/index.html


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Exclusive Interview: That Guy
"That Guy" has been ruining gaming groups with a huge array of specialized talents and tricks since 1974. It is estimated he has destroyed more D&D campaigns than puberty and having children combined. We are pleased to have him sit down with us for a special exclusive interview. That Guy, welcome.
TG: Thanks. Just in case this interview is actually some sort of ambush, I have to inform you, I am proficient in the seven martial arts, and was thrown out of Special Forces due to professional jealousy.
RPGB2: I'll have to keep that in mind. Mr. That Guy, what would you say your RPG system of expertise is?
TG: All of them, of course.
RPGB2: I see. And how do you normally demonstrate this expertise as a player?
TG: By yelling at the GM that he is doing it all wrong.
RPGB2: How do you view the other players?
TG: Well, to be fair, only roughly half are idiots. Another quarter simply need my continual interruptions and advice to play their characters properly.
RPGB2: And the remaining quarter?
TG: If they are ladies, they obviously find me attractive. You may label any remaining males as idiots, communists, fascists, Jesus Freaks, heathens, "sheeple", or all of the above.
RPGB2: Let us address the ladies who "obviously" find you attractive. What attentions do you lavish upon them?
TG: Uncomfortable touching, arm or back rubbing, or standing within a personal space area so small it would make an overly cordial Indian uncomfortable.
RPGB2: Ah. And does this stop you from screaming at them when they do something you perceive as wrong in play?
TG: (blank stare) No.
RPGB2: To date, Mr. That Guy, what has been your longest duration as a player with any one gaming group?
TG: A Rifts game in 1997. 4 sessions.
RPGB2: Your second longest?
TG: A Living Realms module at Gen Con last year. 4 hours.
RPGB2: Have you ever chipped in for pizza?
TG: No.
RPGB2: What about when you're the one who suggested pizza?
TG: No.
RPGB2: What about when you're really the only one eating the pizza, because you threw a fit when they wouldn't get your favorite toppings?
TG: No.
RPGB2: When people complain about you, what are they?
TG: Bigots.
RPGB2: Because of….?
TG: Either my ancestry or my medical condition…
RPGB2: Both of which are…
TG: Self-diagnosed.
RPGB2: Thank you. Mr. That Guy, let me pose a question to you. Your campaign group has decided to play a classic fantasy game, one set in Professor Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Your compatriots are playing a haughty Elven Ranger, a star-crossed Human Fighter, and a plucky, yet ultimately doomed Hobbit Thief. You will play…
TG: A ninja in a trenchcoat.
RPGB2: And when you attempt to kill the entire party in the first hour of the first session, what is your rationale?
TG: It is what my character would have done.
RPGB2: Is there any game in which a ninja in a trenchcoat would not be a good character choice?
TG: No.
RPGB2: Ars Magica?
TG: No.
RPGB2: Bunnies & Burrows?
TG: (angry glare) NO.
RPGB2: I, ah, see. Perhaps we'd better move along.
TG: Yes, we should. I have to get to the dojo.
RPGB2: You train at a dojo?
TG: I have made my own dojo. In my room. It is there I train myself.
RPGB2: Well, thank you for your patience. One more question: when you're in someone's home for a game, do you feel any need to be respectful of their dwelling?
TG: Hey, I'm there to game, not to make friends.
RPGB2: Well, I think that sums it up nicely. Mr. That Guy, thank you for coming along. I notice you decided to sit down and get your dice out expectantly. My campaign group will be here in 20 minutes, the police in 10. Please remove yourself from the premises.
TG: Bigot.
23 comments:
- Stargazer said...
I think I had this guy in one of my gaming groups ... O_o
- September 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- Sniderman said...
I am currently giving you a slow golf clap as I nod and smirk. Well done.
- September 29, 2009 at 8:28 AM
- Deadorcs said...
Complete and total win. If you have never encountered someone with even 10% of the fail of THAT GUY, then you have not gamed long enough.
- September 29, 2009 at 8:47 AM
- Wimwick said...
Ah That Guy, we usually leave a space at the table for him in case he shows up. You just never know with That Guy...
- September 29, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Swordgleam said...
This is why I give people blanks stares of horror when they say "I want to start a D&D club at school." Because at least one, and possibly many, incarnations of That Guy go to any given school.
- September 29, 2009 at 9:06 AM
- Thasmodious said...
Yeah they do. And once they find out you game, they will not leave you alone, even while having total contempt for you as a player and person. They want you to fully understand just how epic they are in story after story after story all taken from games they only ever played in their heads.
- September 29, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- Jason Richards said...
Quite good. Quite good.
- September 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Well done, sir, well done...
Verification word is "angst". How did it know?
- September 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM
- Badelaire said...
That Guy pretty much single-handedly drove our Traveller campaign into the ground over the last two years (it ended over this past summer), and I played in his Harn campaign only a handful of times before I either A) bludgeoned him with a beer bottle, or B) dropped out. Sadly, I took option B.
- September 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Gamer Dude said...
Oh that's rich! Love it..
You forgot about fudging the dice when possible and rolling up all of his characters at "home" prior to the session...
Yeah, we've all gamed with "That Guy".
- September 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- rologutwein said...
Your post is all wrong. My ninja doesn't wear a trenchcoat, he wears a duster. Loser. Why don't you try not to suck so much next time.
- September 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- HinterWelt said...
Zach, you are lucky you live so far away or I would have to take time off from my dojo to teach you a lesson in how to roll ten nat 20s in a row beheading your pathetic excuse for a character.
I ran two game shops for 5 years. You have just inflicted PTGD on me...self-diagnosed of course.
- September 29, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Zachary The First said...
Thanks, all!
@Gamer Dude: That's a good one—funny how they roll all those nat 18s at home, huh?
@rologutwein: Not being That Guy, in That Guy's eyes, I really have no choice but to be a loser. ;)
@HinterWelt: I bet! I'm sure Game Store owners witness an eerily similar procession of That Guy coming through the doors.
- September 29, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- PatrickWR said...
Sent this to my gaming group...fought down the urge to send this to all the That Guys I've gamed with over the years...
- September 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Zachary The First said...
@Patrick: There should be a That Guy checklist, to help gaming groups ID. :)
- September 29, 2009 at 12:36 PM
- Chris said...
I do believe you've touched a nerve. Well done.
In my experience, those who exhibit signs of "That Guy" like behavior either want the biggest guns in the party ("...of course I can conceal an M2A1 Flamethrower AND an M60E3 with a full ammo belt under my armored trench coat, what are you, blind?!" ), desire any and all cybernetic implants with the sole justification that it would make their character "even more awesome", or sneer with open contempt at the very idea of a "pregenerated character."
- September 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Ryan said...
Having the biggest guns doesn't make you "That Guy"... insisting that your character have the biggest guns does. Or wanting to play a ninja... or being a 40 year old man with 5-o'clock-shadow, a beret and a Sailor Moon t-shirt...
- September 29, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Oh my goodness...this is hilarious stuff! Had to share with my gaming buddies. Consider yourself linked. This may be the most accurate description ever, as well.
- September 29, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- Giga boy said...
Oh my... I remember having TG in my group.
You forgot he's got a top model cousin he had sex with during a black mass...
- September 30, 2009 at 5:20 AM
- Avatar said...
Congrats dude! Very funny interview :)
May I translate and post it on my blog with refeer to your blog?
- September 30, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- anarchist said...
I'm pretty sure he would have been around before 1974, playing wargames.
- September 30, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Giga: Clearly!
@Avatar: Sure, go ahead!
@anarchist: I'm sure he existed long before that. When the Prussian officers were in the midst of their Kriegspiel, he was probably there, telling them their regiments sucked and that they were storming across the Seine all wrong.
- September 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- E.G.Palmer said...
Man, I hate That Guy. He hangs out in comic stores also, and pontificates endlessly to the poor bastard stuck behind the counter about movie Wolverine vs comic book Wolverine.
- October 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM


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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA -- The short story: The Crowne Plaza Hotel at 1150 South Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California, provided the single worst hotel experience of my long life of significant travel, including threatening to call the police. It took over thirty minutes to check my elderly and infirmed mother in on Thursday night because the front desk manager was unable to process reservations previously made. By the time he figured out what he was supposed to do, my mother had been standing in the lobby without a room for a very long time. And then, upon check out this morning, I realized that the fellow did not have a clue what he was doing in the first place. The hotel decided to charge me for at least one room that was neither reserved nor used by anyone in my party. The manager on duty told me to come back to the hotel to resolve the situation this afternoon to meet the general manager who then absented himself before I arrived. I have called my credit card company to register possible fraud, since I am very concerned that the hotel used my credit card to pay for rooms that I neither reserved nor in occupied. In other words,the hotel charged my credit card for five rooms, but cannot show who stayed in at least one and possibly two of the rooms. We know that at least one of the rooms was never reserved.
I strongly urge you NOT to book a room at this hotel. The front desk and management are clearly confrontational and incompetent.
I have written a long letter to the hotel ownership company asking that at least they not dispute the fraudulent charge to my account and at best apologize. I further urge the Intercontinental Corporation to review the arrangement it has with this property. The experience of the past four days convinces me never to stay at a Crowne Plaza again. I also will never recommend or encourage any of my friends, business colleagues or associates to stay at a Crowne Plaza. Someone of authority will have to work hard to reverse that view.
I have requested that the management company promptly provide documentation to show who signed in and stayed in the rooms and to reverse the charges on any rooms that were charged to my card erroneously (at least one was charged deliberately even though the hotel front desk and management were repeatedly told that it was an erroneous charge).
This whole matter could have been resolved had the management or front desk simply said, "sir, there is clearly a problem we have to rectify. We will not charge your card for at least room X since obviously it was not your room. We will contact you tomorrow to sort this out." The opposite occurred.
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dan gordon on 05/18/2008:
your simply not telling the whole story. I've stayed there with groups many times and never had a problem. You don't state how many rooms you reserved, how many rooms you planned pay for, how you booked your rooms. A letter of complaint should succinctly state the problem. We know more about your mother then what you actually reserved and what they actually charged you for.
Richard Jacobs on 05/18/2008:
Mr. Gordon: 1. Do you have any relationship with Crowne Plaza? 2. The hotel apparently fraudulently charged me for a room for which no one signed and no one I know stayed in. 3. Check your grammar: your is possessive; you're is an abbreviation. 4. Just because you have stayed with "groups" many times and not had a problem has no bearing on this situation.
Anonymous on 05/18/2008:
Dan, I have also stayed there for biz stuff and meetings over the years. Never once had a problem. Like you I don't see what the Mother in this story has to do with disputing a room charge. Need to hear the hotel's side of this one. If the OP over paid I hope you get your money back.
dan gordon on 05/18/2008:
I was a carpet rep and now in the tour business so no relationship to CP. What it sounds like is they reserved a block of room under one credit card. In situations like that the hotel may not know each name of each resident of each room especially if the poster picked up a # of keys at registration. There isn't enough information.
Richard Jacobs on 05/18/2008:
The hotel charged for at least one room in which no one registered, reserved or stayed. No reservation. No one checked in. No one signed for the room. No one used it. They charged for it. Is that clear?
Richard Jacobs on 05/18/2008:
And one other point: the hotel insisted on booking all of the rooms under the name of one guest because that guest has some sort of club membership. That guest did not make the reservations, did not pay for any rooms, did not have his credit card information down. During the thirty minute check in process for a woman who could barely walk, the front desk officer could not figure out how to remove that person's name from every reservation because "he has a club membership." I explained that this would create havoc when people checked in. They were not checking in as a group, but rather as individuals under their names. This was not a business meeting, but a personal event for which hospitality was extended by me. The hotel did not have any guest sign in or check out. There were four reservations for four rooms, but I was charged for five. And then I and my family were treated with hostility.
Ponie on 05/18/2008:
Did Tom Bodett(SP?) leave the light on for you?
dan gordon on 05/18/2008:
I'll be kind even though you corrected my English you can't even explain the issue clearly enough to understand so what do you expect from CP? How did they get your credit card if the reservation is in someone elses name? YOu don't need to reply, I'm simply pointing out to you that if this is the way you explain your dispute you will never get anything resolved. Also your hostility comes through very clearly, I think you got treated with the same charm as you expressed. I don't think they will miss you as a customer.
Ponie on 05/18/2008:
dan, I think '...including threatening to call the police.' says it all, don't you?
dan gordon on 05/18/2008:
Nice that you feel the same thing from this informative poster.
Mrs. V on 05/19/2008:
Mr. Jacobs, you are coming across as very confrontaional and aggressive. Needlessly.
Dan had only stated (and correctly) that what you had written did not give us all the information.
You had not stated in the main complaint how many rooms had been reserved, how many rooms were used, nor how many rooms were charged.
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MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE -- I was attending a family reunion at Crowne Plaza hotel. We asked to be taken to Beale st for dinner in shuttle. We were taken. After dinner we called the shuttle to pick us up and they refused to to do so because Beale st became crowded. We ended up walking back to the hotel during the night alone three women. The customer service was terrible no concern for the customers safety at all!!!
When we receive a service we end up contributing to that person salary! So without consumers some would not have a job!
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CU on 07/05/2013:
Unless the hotel specifically states they offer a service like this, I don't think the prupose of the shuttle is to taxi guests around the city. There are far too many shuttles and far too many guests to allow that. Sometimes you just have to pony up and take a cab.
FoDaddy19 on 07/05/2013:
I think you are mistaking a shuttle service for a taxi service. They are not the same thing. Shuttle service usually takes people to locations determined by the hotel at predetermined times. For example the shuttle van might take people to and from the airport making the trip every two hours or some similar arrangement.
If the hotel ran you and your friends out to a destination that the shuttle normally doesn't go to. Then they went above and beyond what you were entitled to and they should be commended for it. And if that's the case then it would be trifling at best to complain about them not doing something that you weren't entitled to being with. And that would *not* be poor customer service.
It would be poor customer service if they (by their stated policy) were supposed to pick you up. But if they bent their own rules for your benefit by dropping you off when they didn't have to, then complaining that they won't do it again is petty IMHO, and it's one of the reasons that companies these days tend to stick to their policies fairly stringently.
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Crowne Plaza -- fancy name, bad service
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Crowne Plaza hotels are owned by Marriott and the Intercontinental Hotel Group. We stayed in the Crowne Plaza in Guadalajara, Mexico.
We left a wake-up request with Reception, but we also tried to set the alarm clock. The instruction booklet was missing, and we could not set it. We phoned Reception and asked someone to show us. A maintenance man arrived. He fiddled with the alarm/radio/CD player but the wrong wake-up time remained. He left with a promise to exchange it for another alarm. He did not do this, but returned to try to program it again. When the wrong time continued to appear in the display, he insisted that it referred to the position of a CD.
There was no soap in the bathroom. We phoned Reception for soap. When we prepared for our showers, we noticed we had but two bath towels and only one hand towel. Since we had already made two calls to Reception, we decided to make do, and get to sleep as early as feasible. We did not ask to change rooms because we only slowly discovered one deficiency after another, and we were staying for only one night.
Imagine our chagrin when the alarm went off in the middle of the night. Evidently the maintenance worker hadn't known what he was doing. The alarm/radio/CD player looks like an interplanetary visitor. The method of operating it is not apparent to people of normal intelligence. Evidently the trained maintenance people cannot figure it out either.
In the morning we discovered that the coffee maker could not be used because the coffee pot was missing. Anyway, there were no packets of sugar and creamer.
I have stayed throughout the hemisphere in expensive hotels and many other lesser facilities. Not one of them has delivered such bad service. I hope that Crowne Plaza will not blame low-level employees like the chambermaid or the maintenance worker. Who is watching over their performance? Who verifies employees' familiarity with the equipment or competence to operate it?
For a chain with a fancy name, their hotels (if this experience is typical) are the pits.
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KCRovert on 01/21/2007:
In the dozens of hotels I have stayed, I have NEVER seen an instruction manual for the clock radio. The basic process for setting them is relatively standard from my experiences. And if you can't figure it out, and are afraid of being awaken in the middle of the night, why not just unplug it?
With all of your claimed hotel stays, I am surprised you could not figure out how to unplug the clock radio.
Anonymous on 01/21/2007:
Did you ever get the wakeup call?
Marriott is not part of the Intercontinental Hotel Group.
Skye on 01/21/2007:
I also am wondering if they ever received a wake up call??
BobJohn on 01/22/2007:
We had a coffee maker without a pot too. Turns out you put a cup where the pot should be (there is no pot) and you get one cup of coffee. I almost called reception in one hotel but my wife figured out how it worked. We always carry our own travel alarm.
Anonymous on 01/22/2007:
Wakeup call's, coffee machines and clock radio's they all make me crazy so I don't use them. But I think at least from my experience Marriott hotels are a bunch of HIPE! They are over priced for what you really get and I have never had a good experience with them.
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I have been traveling for years and understand the parameters and variations of hotel policies. However what I do not understand is the unprofessional behavior and blatant attitude from customer service representatives or front desk receptionists who have no regard for common manners.
If this is any indication of the way the Crowne Plaza treats potential guests, I hesitate to think of the attitude one would receive when they actually arrived.
I will not being staying at the Paramus, NJ Crowne Plaza or any other in the chain for that matter.
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i_am_canadian on 10/24/2009:
What specifically did they say or do which was so rude and unprofessional?
Ytropious on 10/24/2009:
Going to wager something along the lines of a typical M3C "rudeness" complaint. Receptionist said something innocent and OP found it rude, receptionist didn't look them in the eye (not "rude" under any circumstances if you ask me), receptionist answered OPs questions correctly but failed to do so with a smile and upbeat tone. You could bet just about anything.
i_am_canadian on 10/24/2009:
I'm willing to give the consumer the benefit of the doubt this time, but only if she will elaborate on the incident.
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