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Mike Pruitt, President and CEO of Chanticleer, commented, "Our most recent international Hooters restaurant which opened in February 2012 in the Emperor's Palace Casino in South Africa, which had a net cost to open of approximately $700,000, has been a tremendous success. In just the first 4 1/2 months of operation, it generated revenue of approximately $1.1 million and operating income of approximately $180,000, or 16% of revenue. With the recent successful completion of our $11 million secondary public offering, we are now positioned to continue our plan of taking the iconic Hooters restaurant brand to our exclusive international franchise territories."Outlook: Mr. Pruitt remarked, "We have exciting things happening in the second half of 2012 and beyond. As previously announced, our new Hooters in Budapest, Hungary will open to the public on August 27, 2012. Our planned location in Surfers Paradise, Australia is currently under construction and will open by year-end. New Hooters openings in 2012 will total four, increasing our number of international Hooters locations to seven. We will continue to focus on opening new Hooters branded restaurants in our exclusive international franchise territories and plan to have at least 12 units opened by the end of 2013. We envision Chanticleer Holdings could grow to have more than 75 Hooters locations in our current exclusive international markets."
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The government is also scrutinizing a grower, raising the possibility that contamination could have occurred before peanuts reached the processing plant, which passed its last inspection by the Georgia agriculture this summer.
Peanut Corp. has recalled 21 lots of peanut butter made at the plant since July 1 because of possible salmonella contamination. The company, which suspended peanut butter processing at the facility, said none of its peanut butter is sold directly to consumers but is distributed to institutions, food service industries and private label food companies.
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The CDC said the bacteria behind the outbreak – typhimurium – is common and not an unusually dangerous strain but that the elderly or those with weakened immune systems are more at risk.
The salmonella outbreak is the second in two years involving peanut butter. Salmonella is the nation's leading cause of food poisoning; common symptoms include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps.
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Not a big fan of the Xmen movie Magneto played by Ian McKellen they didin't even begin to show magnetos powers. I will say Bridge scene was heading in the right direction. But what do you think is next for this magneto after lossing his powers?
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Well yes, but i guess i was thinking more details.
AT least i hope he gets his powers back
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There's word of a Wolverine movie, or so i've heard.
Wolverine gets his own movie damm it why not magneto that be awesome
Genocidal villians dont tend to get their own movies, although id watch it if Mags did get his own movie.
Magneto is getting his own movie. Buuuut it's gonna be young Magneto or something. And didn't Mags sorta get his powers back at the end of the movie. I've tried blocking things from that movie out of my mind but didn't he kinda move a chess piece? The loss of powers thing will just be temporary.
I agree that as great as Magneto is, they should focus on someone else if another X-Men movie gets made. I'd love for the Shi'Ar to come. X-Men in space. That'd be something. Colossus vs Gladiator? Space special fx with mutant fx. I'd go see that.
Magneto needs a chance to redeem himself after the first 3 xmen movies
Mighty Magneto says:
"Magneto needs a chance to redeem himself after the first 3 xmen movies"
And then turn on everyone at the end and go back to his same old shtick.
Next movie should be kinda like AoA they have kinda set it up for it already. Charles is dead They need a New Big bad keep people into the movies and Magneto would lead the X-men.
Yeah AoA would be awesome for the next movie
Hate to say it, but it would never happen. There is no way they could sell Apocalypse alone, let alone the alternate timeline stuff, to a mainstream audience. They even kept Magnus and Charles their real ages because they knew they couldn't sell Magneto's regression and Charles being transplanted into a clone to a mainstream audience.
The Magneto movie is going to be an origin movie: His escape from Auschwitz, hunting Nazis, meeting Charles Xavier.
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I hate to say this too, but the bridge scene was probably the worst moment in the movie for me because it was completely out of character. Magneto is a master tactician, why would be leave an open access road at his back? It was pointless, like most of the rest of the film which sacrificed character development for special effects.
As for Magneto power level in the films, before he was reduced to infancy and re-aged to his prime, his power levels were running really low and he was relying in machines to boost them a great deal. His power levels were in keeping with his age in the films.
What do you mean sell Apocolypse? He doesnt need to be sold. There selling the X-Men, not the villain.
The old axiom in writing is your protagonist (hero) is only as good and plausible as your angatonist (villain). If you can't get your audience to believe in your villain, emotionally invest in him and the threat he presents, then they will not invest in your story. A mainstream audience is simply not going to buy a 9,000 year old cybernetic mutant. People who have not read the comic books will sit in the movie theaters and say "Now they've just gotten silly." and ticket sales will tank.
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Ohh, I wasnt aware you could see inside people's heads. They said the exact same thing about Star Wars, the original. "Nobody's gonna want to see a movie with a giant furry thing and this will be the end of Sir Alex Guiness's career. Why wouldnt non-comic book readers buy into Apocolypse, he's a villain all the audience has to know is, he's powerful and he's a mutant. Its the 4th movie, most people going to see it, arent going to be clueless as to whats going on.
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There's a big difference between the complete departure of the SciFi/Fanatsy world of Star Wars or Lord of the Rings and the more "realistically/scientifically based" X-Men. As I said, they kept Magnus and Charles their true ages because Singer was smart enough to know he couldn't sell age regression and clones to a mainstream audience at the same time he was trying to sell mutants.
And you need to establish your bad guy beyond, "he's a bad guy". Even Star Wars did that. Establishing Apocalypse would eat up serious screentime, and then you want to sell alternate timelines on top of it, that somehow fix themselves?? You'd need at least two films, maybe three. (Hell, they couldn't even turn out a decent film trying to balance the Dark Phoenix and Cure storylines) I just don't see it happening. I especially don't see any studio going for it. There are far more adaptable villains and storylines in the X-Verse that could be developed before 'Pocky and AoA.
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You are seriously over thinking this. Look at Sin City, it was a huge success, now those who read the comics knew the back story to all the characters, but they didn't take the time and explain all there history. I've never read a single issue and I loved it. And I'm sure I'm not alone. Like who the hell was Josh Harnetts character? Who did he work for? I bet people that read the comic know, and I also bet there's alot of people like me who don't know and don't care.
Once again I refer to Star Wars, general Grevious was coughing and holding his chest, I went to see it in Detroit and over half the audience didn't know why, of course if you watched the cartoon network and saw the 2 minute shorts then you knew why. My point is you don't have to flesh out a character to the tie. People who have no idea who Apocalypse is will be satisfied with what ever explanation they gave for the movie, it would be people like you who think the movie has to follow the comic to the letter that would have the problem.
With AoA you wouldn't try and tell everyone about different timelines i agree with you most people wouldn't understand. However with Xavier already dead in the movies all they would have to do is introduce Apocalypse into the mix. They would go exactly with the AoA story just some of the Basics. But you are probably right they won't do it.
Wow guess i wasn't paying very close attention to the movie and missed that.
Mighty Magneto says:
"With AoA you wouldn't try and tell everyone about different timelines i agree with you most people wouldn't understand. However with Xavier already dead in the movies all they would have to do is introduce Apocalypse into the mix. They would go exactly with the AoA story just some of the Basics. But you are probably right they won't do it."
Xavier did'nt die at the end the whimped out and has him transport into an other body ! but they could just kill him off and continue from there.
it is after the credits on last stand
Yeah,. I heard about Turner on the project months ago, have no faith in him since all he has done are cheap knock off films, none of which are in the comic book genre,
I've also read some of the rumors about the script and if they are true he's is so far off base it's not even funny.
And I have no confidence in Goyer as a director. He's is also responsible for Blade: Trinity and Crow: City of Angels. Batman Begins is the only thing of his long C/B-list career that he has done right and even that I wasn't overly thrilled with (o.k. the Dark City script was good) and I don't think he is right guy for this project. He doesn't seem to deal with real world stuff very well and Magneto is one of the Marvel characters the most grounded a real world events which is what makes him so dramatically powerful.
What I would love to see is someone who actually knows and respects the genre with screenwriting experience, like J. Michael Strazinsky or Joss Whedon, script and direct. This? This is just Hollywood throwing action writers and directors at a film because "It's just a comic book film".
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Yeah, with X3 not doing as well as the previous two films, studio execs are going to be very cautious going into X4, if they go into it.
It would be possible to sell Apocalypse as a mutant with total control over his molecular structure and has this crazy ideal of "That which survives...", perhaps with a cult of followers called his "Horsemen". But I think they would have to dump the age and the cybernetic aspects of the character and the alternate timeline.
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Dude, we're not talking about an audience that knows these character's back stories. We're talking about the suspension of disbelief and what it can take. Sin City was filled with humans, or people who were only slightly more than human. People could roll with that and took it as the Noir homage that it was.
Nor have I ever mentioned following comic book to the letter. We are talking about basic storytelling principles you would learn the first day in any creative or screenwriting class.
With a mainstream audience that hasn't read the comics, it would take a lot of convincing to make Apocalypse work and the alternate timeline stuff? There's no way you could sell both in a single film.
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I just dont see any reason why Age of Apocolypse wouldnt work.
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I've had this idea for a while now, since the first Xmen. Apocalypse is already there, just watch the scenes with Senator Kelly and listen to Magneto's comments.
There is nothing saying the movies have to follow the comic books exactly and really, so far they haven't and people have still paid to be entertained by it. Where I see the movies go big is when ever the director, cast, and crew treat the subject matter with some respect, rather than a campy and corny feel.
The premise for "Young Magneto" movie makes me cringe.
they sold clones in stw wars even named the movie attack of clones, no stinger was a comlete does A$$$ who f$$Cked one of the greatest comic book crossover to movies(can you say phoenix..stinger sucks)
this is the movies you just do, lots of movies have beeen made like that. where no plots of whatver where in, you come not knowing and leave either like whoa, or wtf.
if you follow your way of looking at it, than the movie will be a flop, but if you go for broke it may be a flop
please tell me you not a exective, or movie maker....
Sync, different universe with completely different technology. The X-men universe is not nearly as technologically advanced as the Star Wars universe, it's supposed to take place "a short time in the future" right? You don't see any landspeeders running around do you?
So no, Singer was very smart in not trying to sell the mainstream audience on mutants and clones at the same time.
P.S. X3 was directed by Ratner, not Singer.
Dark Alpha, because the mainstream non-comic book reading audience wouldn't buy it. It would break their suspension of disbelief.
The X-men Movieverse is established as something that is only slightly off, maybe a step or two, away from reality. "A short time in the future". There aren't any aliens or M'Kraan crystals or time travel established. The technology is only slightly ahead of our own, not light years ahead as it in in the Star Wars universe. Heck, the X-Men Movieverse doesn't even have magic established. It's a very basic and "realistic" universe compared to the comic books.
Now if an non-comic book reading audience, after sitting through the first three films, walks in and all of a sudden there this entirely new tech (and unless you want to waste the time establishing Legion and/or Rachel, it would have to be tech) that is lightyears ahead of anything in their experience in the first three films, that suddenly takes the story so far out into left field with a villain they have never heard of before pulling all the strings...they may not be able to follow. Their suspension of disbelief may be broken, they stop being emotionally invested in the story (ie. caring about what happens), and the film tanks.
That's why AoA won't work, that's why no studio exec would touch it. It's simply not accessible to the mainstream audience. There are far more readily adaptable villains and storylines in the comic book that could be converted to film before you go that route. You have Operation Zero Tolerance, the Hellfire Club, Genosha, Mutant Massacre, Omega Red, the Upstarts (who were vastly underused IMO), and so on.
For the same reason, the great classic Days of Future Past (Which IMO, was infinitely cooler than AoA) would also have to be laid aside. How the heck do you sell that within the context of the first three films that were so grounded in reality couldn't even include the cosmic Phoenix force and instead turned Jean into an Multiple Personality Disorder (though that was closer to the original Dark Phoenix Saga)? Heck, I'm a huge Magneto fan and I loved House of M, but I know there is no way in hell I could sell that to a mainstream audience. "Reality altering mutant"? Half the audience would walk out laughing their heads off.
After giving it some thought, you could bring in 'Pocky and Sinster, but would end up so heavily altered it might piss fans of those characters off.
I trust me, I feel you guys on this one because I would love to see Warlock on screen, but as the Movieverse is established, there's no place for him.
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I don't know why you think people would go to see an X-Men movie and go that's to far out there. I can see purple shapshifters and a guy with metal claws, I'll even buy a giant room that has life like holograms, but there's no way something like Apocalypse could happen. Come on, that doesn't make any sense. They could some up Apocalypse in a thirteen minute montage complete with the voice over, just like the Mummy Returns when there talking about the Scorpion King.
We can argue all night, but theres no way to tell either way. I cant read peoples minds, and I really have no idea why Hollywood execs do what they do, I mean Galactus as a giant cloud? Spiderman's closer to the near future than the X-Men are, and there going from to really belivable villians, to a tar suit from space and I dont hear any non-comic book people going Awwww thats fake, that could never happen. Its the movies, anything can happen.
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Well, having lived in L.A. for 20 years and worked as one of the "little people" around "Industry" for a while, I can tell you to a certain extent how majority of studio execs think.
Like skittish elephants.
Slow to change, terrified of investing the millions it takes to make a film now in something that doesn't have a guaranteed return. And after the way X3 tanked after it's opening weekend (67% drop, the second biggest post-Memorial Day opening drop in film history), they are going to be very skittish regarding anything involving the X-Men franchise. That's why their opting for the Wolverine film instead. Logan is arguably Marvel's most popular character (it's either him or Spidey) and a guaranteed moneymaker.
Example: Lord of the Rings is the second biggest selling book of the 20th century who popularity spans generations and cultures all over the world. Built in audience.
Peter Jackson had to spend years shopping it around Hollywood before he would find a studio that would allow him to make it as anything more than a single 2 hour movie.
I attended a SAG event featuring a sit down with Hugh Laurie (who is the single most incredibly sweet, charming man I have ever met, completely different than his TV personae) and someone asked him if the current plethora of remakes Hollywood was churning out meant that Hollywood was out of ideas. He responded by saying that it was out of nerve. Big studios are scared of investing in anything new, different, or risky. That's why the Indie film industry has really taken off in the last 20 years and why there are a ton of smaller movie production houses popping up. It's the only way some of these stories get told because unless the studios can forsee themselves making a heaping profit at least in the hundreds of millions, they aren't interested.
Time travel is risky. Look at what happened to films "Timeline" and "The Time Machine". They both tanked at the box office. Most execs are going to look at that as say "Hell no." "Frequency" is about the only film involving shifting timelines that has done relatively well in the last 20 years, but that doesn't involve actual time travel and it was relatively inexpensive to produce.
Oh, and that Hugh Jackman/Meg Ryan romantic comedy…I forget what the name was. That involved time travel, but I think the legion of fans who went to see it were romance novel readers who were panting over Hugh Jackman.
Anyway, it would be a hard sell to studio execs and I just think trying to sell a mainstream audience who does not read science fiction or comic books on Apocalypse and time travel/shifting timelines at the same time would be too much.
The only way I could see this working is if they do it in a Days of Future Past way, in which someone's mind is sent back to their earlier self (as Kitty Prydes was) or by altering AoA to such an extent that no one who is a hard core fan of that crossover is going to be happy.
As I said before, you could introduce Apocalypse as a regular mutant (not 9,000 years old, not with alien cybernetic implants) with complete control over his molecular structure with a cult of followers called the Horsemen who believe the "That which survives.." manifesto and is trying to bring about "The Age of Apocalypse" and somehow, someone in the X-Men gets a glimpse into that world… that would include introducing someone like Blindfold or bringing Jean Grey back to life.
But again, the story would take place in the "here and now" trying to stop Apocalypse and his followers from getting that future, not in that distant future trying to undo it in reverse as the crossover did.
That's about the only way I could see this selling to both the execs and the mainstream audience. The question then is how much alteration to the characters and the story are you willing to see to just to get some piece of it onscreen?
P.S. The Mummy Returns doesn't introduce new elements really. They introduced magic and psuedo-Eqyptian mythology in the first one. They just added a character into it. They weren't dropping in aliens or timetravel or anything that had not been introduced in The Mummy.
As for what the audience will buy or not, uhm...well, first of all, I didn't know Spiderman 3 of FF:2 had opened. Did you get to see a special showing of these films or something?
And I've explained how you can't "just do anything" in films and expect them to to be successful. There has to be a world they can believe in. Look at how slowly the world of the Matrix is actually introduced and developed over the course of the first film, which was really nothing but a run up to the real story in Reloaded and Revolutions which did not alter that world, the laws of that universe, in any significant way. They didn't add magic, for example, they still functioned under the same "laws" established in film one. The other things you have to have are characters the audience can sympathize with and relate to (which is why X3 fell on it's ass) and a story the audience can follow and believe in. Take any of those three legs out from under the stool and the film, T.V. show, play, opera, book, comic book, shadow puppets, whatever piece of fiction you are creating falls flat on it's ass.
For an example. Compare X-Files to Babylon Five. When he was writing and producing the X-Files, Chris Carter had a massive audience in the palm of his hand. The problem? He didn't know what the grand conspiracy was. He would drop hints and show things and then refute them in later episodes and A. people got sick of it and B. it became apparent that he didn't know where he was going with it, just failing around week by week for whatever was "cool". The audience dwindled and instead of going out with a bang, the X-Files went out with a sickening whimper, begging to be put out of it's misery.
"Lost" appears to be headed in the same direction.
J. Michael Strazinky, on the other hand, had all of Babylon Five's major and minor plot arcs mapped out in advance. He actually had a binder 3X5 note cards with multi-episode arcs, season arcs and the entire grand scheme laid out before he even started shooting in regular production. Now, despite the fact that it was pure SciFi and the network was trying to kill it, JMS was able to not only hang onto his audience but gain more viewers over the course of time and wrap up all of his major story arcs on a half season's notice when the WB dumped the show a season early (he was later able to find a home for the final season on another network, but all the major storylines had been wrapped up in season four). "Sleeping in the Light", the final episode, remains one of the most beloved episodes among fans. And like The Matrix series, he stuck with the established rules of the world he created. Even when magic introduced, it's technomages: people who use technology to simulate magic.
So you can't just "do anything" and get away with it. There are rules. There's more to telling a story and hanging onto your audience than "oh, that would be cool".
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>>>The movie is book-ended with two scenes in Poland at the 60th Anniversary of the Auschwitz Liberation. These events take place within the timeframe of the first three X-films and will reunite Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.
The opening takes a cue from Bryan Singer's X-Men, where a young Erik Lehnsherr crumples the Auschwitz gates. Erik is subjected to horrendous experiments by a team of scientists led by vicious Nazi Dr. Kleinmein.
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The action switches to Israel where Erik searches for a man well known for helping Holocaust survivors. He finds him playing soccer: Dr Charles Xavier…<<<
So...Goyer is purposefully writing anything positive or sympathetic about the character out, any motivation he might have beyond rage, and turning him into Hannibal Lecter/Anakin Skywalker: a complete unsympathetic prick. Not only is he a murder before his family dies, but he's indirectly responsible for his family's death. Sweet.
Never mind of course that If he had found a Nazi in a Ukranian village in the 1950's, he probably would have had a lot of help killing the guy. Hell, they would have thrown him a parade afterwards. 27 million dead left a very bad impression of the Nazi's on the Russian (and Ukranian) people.
And by killing his wife rather than having her abandon him, Goyer has removed the single biggest reason for Magneto's alienation from humanity. He had experienced blind, murderous intolerance in the Holocaust. But because his [wife, the woman he had known and loved for years, who's life he had saved at least twice, the mother of his child, left him at the moment he needed her most because he was something "inhuman", he "knows" in his heart that it doesn't matter how good you are, what good you have done, or what you are about. The incident burned the idea that human's hate and fear difference no matter what into his subconscious. That incident is a extremely critical foundation point to the character and Goyer is chucking it out the window.
And Nazi hunting, in all of Magneto's 40 plus years in comics books, Nazi hunting was part of a single twelve page add-on story attached to an X-Men reprint. That was it! And it's not a foundation point of the character!
And I love the way they are just tacking what is arguably the single most important relationship in Magneto's adult life on the end...at a soccer game. Not a mental hospital in Haifa, a soccer game. Way to make both characters shallow! Well done indeed.
Screw you Goyer.
And screw Marvel Studio's and Fox for attaching this hack to a picture about one of the controversial and dramatically compelling characters in Marvel Comics. I don't need to see my favorite character on screen so bad that I will take the bastardization of his character. I'm staying home and reading my comics.
And of course, all this "Nazi hunting with cool special effects" ignores the potential dramatic impact of a movie about a terrorist in a real world where terrorism is a major concern/topic of conversation. Marvel could have had a film that put them on the map dramatically the way V for Vendetta did Vertigo/DC. But Goyer would rather make a cheesy action/special effects flick that everyone will forget within a month. Like the rest of the films Goyer directed. (Blade Trinity anyone?)
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the actions was not really cheesy, i love x-3, the only dc movies are good are batman begains and v for for vendetta, superman return was a letdown, i like x-3 better then superman returns, that's just me.
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|Please forgive a very CLUELESS question: I have a small galley kitchen on a slab and bounded by load-bearing walls, that seems unredeemable without major structural work. One of the ideas I've come up with to try to avoid drilling into the slab would be utilizing some of the space in a utility/laundry room that runs parallel to the galley. The general idea would be to move the laundry machines to the galley (making it into a hallway) and utilize the current laundry space plus a bit of space stolen from the adjacent family room for the kitchen.
There are currently pipes in both spots, but I don't know if the specifications for draining a laundry differ substantially from those for a kitchen sink. Does this sound generally possible, or are there technical plumbing considerations I'm missing that would rule out even considering this kind of a switch? The laundry seems to be tied into the main plumbing stack where all the rest of the first and second floor plumbing is. The kitchen sink currently drains through a slightly smaller pipe into the slab. Both drains seem to be vented through the same route.
Someone on the Kitchens forums suggested that in fact switching the laundry to the current kitchen drain is probably not viable, since the required pipe sizing would be different. If that's the case, I'll either drop the idea entirely or consider other possibilities for moving the laundry machines. Running parallel to both the galley kitchen and the laundry/utility room is a very long, fairly large bathroom that the previous owners put in the 1980s as a first floor master bath - it has a ridiculous giant jacuzzi tub that we only use as mid-winter entertainment for our kids and could easily live without. I'm just not ready to remodel that whole room at the same time as the kitchen, and I don't love have a laundry in the bathroom either, hence the thought of situating it in a hallway.
BTW, I have no intention of doing any work myself - I have zero knowledge or DIY skills. Anything that gets done in my house will be done by a licensed professional and with proper permits. I just am trying to consider my options, and utilizing some of the laundry space for the kitchen might allow me to place a small kitchen out of the main line of traffic through the house rather than smack dab in the middle. Still, knowing what I CAN'T do is just as valuable as thinking about what I can do. Thanks for any advice!!
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I love when internet culture sneaks into real life
I love internet culture so much. I should expect nothing less from computer science students, but I still love it. I feel like I'm in some secret club that only the cool kids know about. Good to know we have silly comment trolls for tangible objects.
(And I apologize for the crappy photos. Only had my camera on me, and I got out of my exam at 9 pm)
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LOL, that's great.ReplyDelete
I'm waiting for Second, Third, Fourth, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!ReplyDelete
Awesome. There is a new one outside Lilly too. Finally, only a year after the no-flyers-on-the-ground rule went into effect, they're listening to us about needing places to post things.ReplyDelete
"I feel like I'm in some secret club that only the cool kids know about."
Me too. It's quite silly, seeing as a bajillion people know about it, but it's fun nonetheless.
- LaurenMay 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM
YES! I love all of that.ReplyDelete
That's pretty awesome. Of course, a creepier thing that always weirds me out is when I'm going around someplace, and I hear someone say something that -directly- references something that only a limited section of the internet knows of.ReplyDelete
Bonus points for it not being at a place like, I don't know, an anime convention, or any particularly geeky location.
Andre: by the CS building on Purdue's campus is at least fairly geeky, but I agree. :-]ReplyDelete
I didn't know that they finally banned sidewalk postings. Probably for the best... I don't know how many times I took longer routes to things during particular weeks to see what was going on around campus. :-P
Sorry, I was vague. I meant if the reference in general, not this particular one, was in a not particularly geeky place. I agree completely that this one here was in a geeky place.ReplyDelete


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- 1Jun 14, '12 by txredheadnurseIn my state at least most LTC administrator students do an internship prior to graduation. That is a great time to network and make yourself known to other facilities within the corporation of your host facility and/or get word of mouth going (in a positive manner) about you to other area adminstrators. I see quite a few job postings for LTC administrators in my neck of the woods. Many of them do request experience but some of the bigger facilities have asst administrator positions which are ideal for getting that critical experience.
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TERA is shaping up to be a huge hit with international audiences, and nowhere is this more evident than in En Masse Entertainment's willingness to reach out to fan communities outside the U.S. The latest example comes courtesy of TERAHispano, as they recently sat down with En Masse COO Patrick Wyatt for a round of questions regarding everything from microtransactions, to account security, to lag.
Wyatt has lots to say in the lengthy interview, and among the more interesting nuggets is the fact that En Masse expects TERA to ship with an M-rating. He also touches on performance issues, pointing to the Focus Group Tests as evidence that lag won't be an issue for the game's action combat system. "When we built the first Western servers for TERA, we selected a QA datacenter just a few miles from our offices in Seattle, which meant that European players who joined our Focus Group Tests were playing on servers over 5000 miles away. Based on the forum posts, polls, and informal surveys from those events, we didn't see lag problems," Wyatt says.
Finally, he reiterates that TERA will not be a microtransaction-based title, and also discusses GameGuard and alternatives to the intrusive anti-cheat software.
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Posted: Aug 31st 2010 4:23PM Slob Zombie said
I read the title quickly as having something to do with Tera Patrick. Don't act like you don't know who that is.
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 4:30PM Slob Zombie said
It also makes sense that she'd be talking about M-ratings. Know what I mean!Reply
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 5:02PM (Unverified) said
Glad I wasnt the only one who thought that.Reply
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 5:03PM Its Utakata stupid said
...though I did laugh. :)
...though I did laugh. :)
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 11:35PM (Unverified) said
only reason I clicked on this topicReply
Posted: Sep 1st 2010 2:58AM EngadgetSoFunny said
I googled "Tera Patrick" to see what the big deal was all about. I understand now. I too am disappointed this article does not feature large pictures of Tera Patrick in the usual attire.Reply
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 4:28PM bate said
I was lured in by Tera Patrick as well. Quite dissappointing.
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 4:32PM Kamokazi said
Wow, didn't know they were considering GameGuard for TERA....thank god they went away from it. That created soooo many problems in Aion that they ditched it. I'll take the occasional aimbotter over that any day of the week.
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 10:38PM ColRoofles said
GameGuard causes problems and is insanely easy to circumvent. It took me a few minutes to find instructions on how to disable it so that I could play Aion beta, as the game wouldn't run otherwise. I don't see an anti-cheat software this flawed catching any cheaters. The only thing it's ever been good at is getting on legit customers' nerves.Reply
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 4:46PM Mode7James said
TERA Patrick = M-rating
I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who got this - nice job Title Maker!
I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who got this - nice job Title Maker!
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 4:51PM Dranaerys said
This article seriously needs MOAR brunette pornstars. X-Rated ones, not M-Rated ones. :P
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 5:06PM Its Utakata stupid said
...M also stands for "My toon's thongs are on too tight" rating. :)
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 6:04PM mandarin said
I was tricked! Damn you Patrick
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 6:18PM Khaiser Soze said
MMMMMmmm Tera Patrick
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 8:54PM toychristopher said
I am looking forward to this game.
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 9:40PM (Unverified) said
I'm about to scar your mind.
That Castanic looks like Madonna.
That Castanic looks like Madonna.
Posted: Aug 31st 2010 10:37PM Langx2 said
They said the exact same bs for AION and it was all a bucket of hog wash. Lag will always makes a difference until someone starts developing active time traveling technology and integrates it into the game engine. It's insulting that they would even try to get away with lying about something so obvious.
Posted: Sep 1st 2010 7:54AM lizardbones said
There's a difference between a game with constant lag issues and a game with the occassional laggy blip. They are talking about lag during combat. If they limit the number of things doing stuff during combat (i.e. instances) then the lag will be controllable.
That doesn't mean that they'll have no lag in the major player hub with 2,000 people all hanging around. I bet the Europeans on the North American server will experience lag. If it doesn't affect combat or instances then it may not be a real big deal.
That doesn't mean that they'll have no lag in the major player hub with 2,000 people all hanging around. I bet the Europeans on the North American server will experience lag. If it doesn't affect combat or instances then it may not be a real big deal.
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WHOA.... it has been a WHILE since I logged in here... however, as soon as I did, I realized how much I've missed this place...
I wish I could chime in that I have been doing AWESOME... but it's just not the case. I have had a rough few months.... To make a loooooooong story short
i DID complete the 5K I signed up for in June :) That was exciting....
In May I had a miscarriage, that was...... sad... and I kinda fell off the face of the Earth for a while. I'm sad b/c I allowed myself to go back into that state of... well... eating whatever I want and not exercising at all - just feeling bad for myself. It is overrated.. and.... I'm over it. I feel like crap, I look like crap... and I am not looking forward to my favorite season. Ugh.
I'm in school now so I leave home at 8 and do not return until after 8, so, it's a long day.... but... I don't care, I refuse to go back to that depressed place anymore.. it's sad there and... I don't want to be sad anymore. I'm doing great in school, so far, and I'm looking for positivity all around me.
I'd like to say, after a very busy and VERY TRYING past few months... I AM BACK!!! :):)
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Sometimes, when I have a rough work out, like I did this morning, I feel kinda bad about it. Like I could have pushed harder, even though I have been SUPER tired and I still have soreness from kicking my own ass during yesterday's workout... So, I came across these and they made me feel really good, thought I'd share. Enjoy :)
Last year I lost 60 lbs before my wedding (90 from my highest weight) - I was sooo happpyyyy!!!! But then.... after my wedding in October, then Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and... the month of January... lol.... I pout on about 15 lbs. UGHHHH... So, I have been trying to work it off. During the month of February, I was focusing on just working on finding the motivation to hit up the gym. I keep track of days I work out on the calendar with a Blue "x". Days I don't are marked with a black "x". I like this system b/c it allows me to look back and see how many days I worked out and times that I struggled. When I compared Feb to Jan, I was quite impressed. I worked out about 15 days in February, which is appx. every other day - not too bad... it's great compared to January, where I worked out maybe 6 days. And this past week I have been feeling very good about getting to the gym or finding time to work out at home. I feel like I am finally getting back that feeling of routinely hitting the gym, and I feel great about it. I haven't been doing much strength training, which is probably why I haven't lost much - I tend to stick to the elliptical .... which is fine, but b/c I do it so often, I think I am becoming immune. LOL. I am one of those people who has a hard time with "variety" I know what I like and I tend to stick with that thing.... but I'm working on it. I used to be a strength training machine - that mixed with cardio did me wonders last year. I know that it works, so I have been trying to get more ST in. So, yesterday, I went to the gym and only did strength training. I did 2 sets of 12 on 9 machines with enough weight that by the last rep that muscle was at exhaustion, which is what my goal was.... but DAMN. My muscles were feeling sore very soon after I left yesterday and today - mannnn.... are my arms and legs soooooooore!!! I feel like every move I make I feel sore in an area I didn't think was possible! .... feels good to be sore - I know I'm building muscle = burning more fat. :)
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I need a support system!!! But it seems like the groups I joing don't have too many active members...
Darn those people.... you know the ones I am talking about. Those people who work out... NEVER but seem to eat ANYTHING they want without gaining one ounce. Gah! Must be nice to devour fast food 6 times a week and then have your jeans fit PERFECT.
They always seem to rub it in too "yeah, I don't have a problem with my weight, I can eat whatever I want" (really, I couldn't tell - you look like a dressed up toothpick) or (and somebody ACTUALLY said this to me recently) "I don't believe in 'watching' what I eat... b/c you only live once and I want to enjoy my food".... really? Well.. if you gained weight just from LOOKING at a french fry I bet your views would change real quick (and did you know you can still ENJOY your food while working on your health journey.... it's CraZyyyyy ;) . LOL. I don't mean to come off as obnoxious but.. I am jealous. Well I am and I'm not.
I am because.. wow.. I just am... I wish I could eat anything without having to worry about if my pants will feel tight in ten minutes. I wish I was blessed with the genes that make me able to lose weight while sitting on the couch eating a double cheese and a McFlurry. LOL.... but I wasn't. Gosh, how easy it must be for them (now) to not have to worry about their weight. I have to WORK to meet my goals and... it is no easy task. It makes a lot of mental power and training... it takes a lot of educating myself on the "why's".. it is difficult... which leads me to my next thought and sometimes I would love to say this out loud to some of those people. "No, you may not have to 'watch' what you eat to maintain a healthy weight.. but... let me tell you... just b/c you can maintain a "healthy" weight DOES NOT mean you are healthy by any means. " Because I have had to adjust things in my life by eating cleaner, working out and educating myself on what true health is... I definitely have the upper hand. My struggles with weight have made me a stronger person all around - and for that I am thankful. And.. those people may be able to eat whatever they want now but.. when we're both 80, and I maintain a healthy lifestyle and you maintain a couch potato style and you've been "eating whatever you want" I would love to see who's the healthier out of the two groups. I may get slightly envious at times, especially when I am really struggling, but I always remind myself that I am on a health journey and they just so happen to be lucky enough to have whatever it is that keeps their weight in check - but that does NOT mean they are healthy. Health is a journey, not a pant size.
I apologize if I come off as ranty today, but I had to get that out.
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