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Obtaining an edge in investing is important in order to make it in the stock market. One has to find the right strategy that works for them, or otherwise they would not stick with it when times get tough. One strategy that rewards patient investors no matter what the stock market does is called dividend investing. A good and a consistently growing dividend payer that rewards investors with dividends throughout all market conditions, is a must own, since it does not expose its investors to the whims of the market. This also minimizes the risk that investors would have to sell off chunks of their portfolio during adverse market conditions in order to fund their lifestyle. By purchasing the right stock at an attractive valuation, a dividend investor could ignore flash crashes and market volatility and instead simply focus on fundamentals in order to be successful. This strategy does require time and commitment, including searching for hidden dividend gems in such places as the list of weekly dividend increases. Last week there were eight companies which announced their intentions of growing their distributions:
Citizens Holding Company (CIZN) operates as the bank holding company for The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia that provides commercial and personal banking products and services in Mississippi. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 4.8% to 22 cents/share. This marked the eleventh consecutive annual dividend increase for the company. Yield: 4.80%
Graco Inc. (GGG), together with its subsidiaries, provides fluid handling solutions to manufacturing, processing, construction, and maintenance sectors worldwide. It operates in three segments: Industrial, Contractor, and Lubrication. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 5% to 21 cents/share. This marked the fourteenth consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend achiever. Yield: 2.20%
Enbridge Inc. (ENB) engages in the transportation and distribution of crude oil and natural gas primarily in Canada and the United States. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 15% to 49 cents/share. This international dividend achiever has raised dividends for 15 years in a row. Yield: 3.40%
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (LECO), through its subsidiaries, manufactures and resells welding and cutting products worldwide. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 10.70% to 31 cents/share. This dividend achiever has raised dividends for 16 years in a row. Yield: 2%
Ecolab Inc. (ECL) engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and service of products that clean, sanitize, and promote food safety and infection prevention. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 13% to 17.50 cents/share. This dividend achiever has raised dividends for 16 years in a row. Yield: 1.50%
Deere & Company (DE) provides products and services primarily for agriculture and forestry worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, and Credit. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 16.7% to 35 cents/share. This marked the eight consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend challenger. Yield: 1.80%
J&J Snack Foods Corp. (JJSF), together with its subsidiaries, manufactures nutritional snack foods, as well as distributes frozen beverages to the food service and retail supermarket industries in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 9.30% to 11.75 cents/share. This marked the seventh consecutive annual dividend increase for this dividend challenger. Yield: 1%
OGE Energy Corp. (OGE), together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy and energy services provider offering physical delivery and related services for electricity and natural gas primarily in the south central United States. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 3.5% to 37.50 cents/share. This marked the fifth consecutive annual dividend increase for OGE Energy Corp. Yield: 3.40%
I was once again able to uncover a hidden dividend growth stock, which was missed by the dividend achievers index. The company is Citizens Holding Company (CIZN), a small bank with a market capitalization of just 88 million dollars, which trades a few thousand shares per day. The low volume alone makes the company "unfit" for the dividend achievers index, despite the fact that the company has kept growing distributions throughout the worst financial crisis since 1929. Back in March 2010 I uncovered Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), which has deliver a total return of over 27% since I analyzed the stock. I will be analyzing Citizens Holding Company (CIZN) in a future post.
Full Disclosure: Long HIFS
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Funny you should be looking at Citizens Bank. I looked at this myself several weeks ago when I ran across it in one of my dividend scans on Baseline. I grew up near the banks headquarters but that was a long time ago. From what I can research, it is small, less than a billion in assets, and perhaps a candidate for a take-over one day. I can find zero research on the company by any analyst as it is just too small for most of them to care, esp. with the low trading volume. I am impressed with how they went through the banking crisis, but I'm sure there lending policy and investment portfolio's are very conservative, a good thing for a bank. Do seem to be expanding statewide though slowly, another good thing. Might be worth a shot for a small position.
Did you ever look at Watsco after I mentioned it awhile back? Though it is now out of my price range to add to positions.
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text: FAST FOOD NATION By Eric Schlosser New York: Harper Collins, 2002 INTRODUCTION what we eat – p. 3 OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES, fast food has infiltrated every nook and cranny of American society. An industry that began with a handful of modest hot dog and hamburger stands in southern Cali- fornia has spread to every corner of the nation, selling a broad range of foods wherever paying customers may be found. Fast food is now served at restaurants and drive-throughs, at stadiums, airports, zoos, high schools, elementary schools, and universities, on cruise ships, trains, and airplanes, at K-Marts, Wal-Marts, gas stations, and even at hospital cafeterias. In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2001, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and re-corded music — combined. Pull open the glass door, feel the rush of cool air, walk in, get on line, study the backlit color photographs above the counter, place your order, hand over a few dollars, watch teenagers in uniforms pushing various buttons, and moments later take hold of a plastic tray full of food wrapped in colored paper and cardboard. The whole experience of buying fast food has become so routine, so thoroughly unexceptional and mundane, that it is now taken for granted, like brushing your teeth or stopping for a red light. It has become a social custom as American as a small, rectangular, hand-held, frozen, and reheated apple pie. This is a book about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made. Fast food has proven to be a revolutionary force in American life; I am interested in it both as a commodity and as a metaphor. What people eat (or don't eat) has always been determined by a complex interplay of social, economic, and technological forces. The early Roman Republic was fed by its citizen-farmers; the Roman Empire, by its slaves. A nation's diet can be more revealing than its art or literature. On any given day in the United States about one-quarter of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant. During a relatively brief period of time, the fast food industry has helped to transform not only the American diet, but also our landscape, economy, workforce, and popular culture. Fast food and its consequences have become inescapable, regardless of whether you eat it twice a day, try to avoid it, or have never taken a single bite. The extraordinary growth of the fast food industry has been driven by fundamental changes in American society. Adjusted for inflation, the hourly wage of the average U.S. worker peaked in 1973 and then steadily declined for the next twenty-five years. During that period, women entered the workforce in record numbers, often motivated less by a feminist perspective than by a need to pay the bills. In 1975, about one-third of American mothers with young children worked outside the home; day almost two-thirds of such mothers are employed. As the sociologists Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni have noted, the entry of so many women into the workforce has greatly increased demand for the types of services that housewives traditionally perform: cooking, cleaning, and child care. A generation ago, three- quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants — mainly at fast food restaurants. The McDonald's Corporation has become a powerful symbol of America's service economy, which is now responsible for 90 percent of the country's new jobs. In 1968, McDonald's operated about one thousand restaurants. Today it has about thirty thousand restaurants worldwide and opens almost two thousand new ones each year. An estimated one out of every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed by McDonald's. The company annually hires about one million people, more than any other American organization, public or private. McDonald's is the nation's largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes — and the second largest purchaser of chicken. The McDonald's Corporation is the largest owner of retail property in the world. Indeed, the company earns the majority of its profits not from selling food but from collecting rent. McDonald's spends more money on advertising and marketing than any other brand. As a result it has replaced Coca-Cola as the world's most famous brand. McDonald's operates more playgrounds than any other private entity in the United States. It is responsible for the nation's bestselling line of children's clothing (McKids) and is one of the largest distributors of toys. A survey of American schoolchildren found that 96 percent could identify Ronald McDonald. The only 1 fictional character with a higher degree of recognition was Santa Claus. The impact of McDonald's on the way we live today is hard to overstate. The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. In the early 1970s, the farm activist Jim Hightower warned of "the McDonaldization of America." He viewed the emerging fast food industry as a threat to independent businesses, as a step toward a food economy dominated by giant corporations, and as a homogenizing influence on American life. In Eat Your Heart Out (1975), he argued that "bigger is not better?' Much of what Hightower feared has come to pass. The centralized purchasing decisions of the large restaurant chains and their demand for standardized products have given a handful of corporations an unprecedented degree of power over the nation's food supply. Moreover, the tremendous success of the fast food industry has encouraged other industries to adopt similar business methods. The basic thinking behind fast food has become the operating system of today's retail economy, wiping out small businesses, obliterating regional differences, and spreading identical stores throughout the country like a self-replicating code. America's main streets and malls now boast the same Pizza Huts and Taco Bells, Gaps and Banana Republics, Starbucks and Jiffy-Lubes, Foot Lockers, Snip N' Clips, Sunglass Huts, and Hobbytown USAs. Almost every facet of American life has now been franchised or chained. From the maternity ward at a Columbia/HCA hospital to an embalming room owned by Service Corporation International — "the world's largest provider of death care services," based in Houston, Texas, which since 1968 has grown to include 3,823 funeral homes, 523 cemeteries, and 198 crematoriums, and which today handles the final remains of one out of every nine Americans — a person can now go from the cradle to the grave without spending a nickel at an independently owned business. ... p. 8 In the potato fields and processing plants of Idaho, in the ranch-lands east of Colorado Springs, in the feedlots and slaughterhouses of the High Plains, you can see the effects of fast food on the nation's rural life, its environment, its workers, and its health. The fast food chains now stand atop a huge food- industrial complex that has gained control of American agriculture. During the 1980s, large multinationals — such as Cargill, ConAgra, and IBP — were allowed to dominate one commodity market after another. Farmers and cattle ranchers are losing their independence, essentially becoming hired hands for the agribusiness giants or being forced off the land. Family farms are now being replaced by gigantic corporate farms with absentee owners. Rural communities are losing their middle class and becoming socially stratified, divided between a small, wealthy elite and large numbers of the working poor. Small towns that seemingly belong in a Norman Rockwell painting are being turned into rural ghettos. The hardy, independent farmers whom Thomas Jefferson considered the bedrock of American democracy are a truly vanishing breed. The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers. ' The fast food chains vast purchasing power and their demand for a uniform product have encouraged fundamental changes in how cattle are raised, slaughtered, and processed into ground beef. These changes have made meatpacking — once a highly skilled, highly paid occupation — into the most dangerous job in the United States, performed by armies of poor, transient immigrants whose injuries often go unrecorded and uncompensated. And the same meat industry practices that endanger these workers have facilitated the introduction of deadly pathogens, such as E. coli 0157:H7, into America's hamburger meat, a food aggressively marketed to children. Again and again, efforts to prevent the sale of tainted ground beef have been thwarted by meat industry lobbyists and their allies in Congress. The federal government has the legal authority to recall a defective toaster oven or stuffed animal — but still lacks the power to recall tons of contaminated, potentially lethal meat. I do not mean to suggest that fast food is solely responsible for every social problem now haunting the United States. In some cases (such as the mailing and sprawling of the West) the fast food industry has been a catalyst and a symptom of larger economic trends. In other cases (such as the rise of franchising and the spread of obesity) fast food has played a more central role. By tracing the diverse influences of fast food I hope to shed light not only on the workings of an important industry, but also on a distinctively American way of viewing the world. Elitists have always looked down at fast food, criticizing how it tastes and regarding it as another tacky manifestation of American popular culture. The aesthetics of fast food are of much less concern to me than its impact upon the lives of ordinary Americans, both as workers and consumers. Most of all, I am concerned about its impact on the nation's children. Fast food is heavily marketed to children and prepared by people who are barely older than children. This is an industry that both feeds and feeds off the young. During the two years I spent researching this book, I ate an enormous amount of fast food. Most of it tasted pretty good. That is one of the main reasons people buy fast food; it has been carefully 2 designed to taste good. It's also in-expensive and convenient. But the value meals, two-for-one deals, and free refills of soda give a distorted sense of how much fast food actually costs. The real price never appears on the menu. The sociologist George Ritzer has attacked the fast food industry for celebrating a narrow measure of efficiency over every other human value, calling the triumph of McDonald's "the irrationality of rationality." Others consider the fast food industry proof of the nation's great economic vitality, a beloved American institution that appeals overseas to millions who admire our way of life. Indeed, the values, the culture, and the industrial arrangements of our fast food nation are now being exported to the rest of the world. Fast food has joined Hollywood movies, blue jeans, and pop music as one of America's most prominent cultural exports. Unlike other commodities, however, fast food isn't viewed, read, played, or worn. It enters the body and be-comes part of the consumer. No other industry offers, both literally and figuratively, so much insight into the nature of mass consumption. Hundreds of millions of people buy fast food every day without giving it much thought, unaware of the subtle and not so subtle ramifications of their purchases. They rarely consider where this food came from, how it was made, what it is doing to the community around them. They just grab their tray off the counter, find a table, take a seat, unwrap the paper, and dig in. The whole experience is transitory and soon forgotten. I've written this book out of a belief that people should know what lies behind the shiny, happy surface of every fast food transaction. They should know what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns. As the old saying goes: You are what you eat. 3


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Zenzô Matsuyama | (screenplay) & | |
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Jumpei Gomikawa | (novel) (as Junpei Gomikawa) |
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Shigeru Wakatsuki | .... | producer | |
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Chûji Kinoshita | |||
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Yoshio Miyajima | |||
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Keiichi Uraoka | |||
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Kazue Hirataka | |||
Production Management | |||
Shigeru Wakatsuki | .... | production manager | |
The Human Condition (Ningen no jôken) is a 9,5 hour long epic film
trilogy directed by Masaki Kobayashi, based on the six volume novel by
Junpei Gomikawa. The trilogy stays true to the novel's composition by
being divided into six parts, meaning that each of the three
installments are split in two parts, in between which are
intermissions. Both parts in the first film begin with the same opening
credits sequence, showing us some stoneworks portraying dramatic
imagery (the similar intro opens all three films). The three movies,
each long 3 hours or more, are called No Greater Love, Road to Eternity
and A Soldier's Prayer.
No Greater Love introduces the main character Kaji, a pacifist during
the chaotic mess that was Japan during WW2. To avoid being drafted, he
moves to Manchuria with his wife, where he becomes a labor camp
supervisor and clashes with the oppressive nature of camp officials and
their lower-ranked men.
Masaki Kobayashi's films often feature individuals against an
oppressive and totalitarian system, be it the feudal Japan in Harakiri
and Samurai Rebellion, or WW2 occupied Manchuria in The Human
Condition. Kobayashi himself was drafted into the army and sent to
Manchuria during the war, meaning that the character of Kaji is not far
away from the director himself. Some people accuse the trilogy to be
too melodramatic - well, if that's how Kobayashi saw the situation, and
he was there, I don't have much of a big problem over it.
Kaji is brilliantly portrayed by Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the most
versatile Japanese actors. He handles the role fantastically and lives
up to the challenge of carrying the entire 9,5-hour plot on his back.
Michiyo Aratama, who played Michiko, is perhaps more well-known for her
role in Kobayashi's Kwaidan.
The Human Condition offers some brilliant widescreen composition and
magnificent B&W imagery, as most Kobayashi films do. The film has some
problems, though, most of which are of strictly technical nature.
First, some of the violent scenes were filmed awkwardly, like the
whipping scene listed under IMDb "Goofs". Second, because the entire
cast was Japanese, the Mandarin spoken by the miners is very
unrealistic (doesn't bother me personally, but it's still there).
Third, the mining conditions are surprisingly underplayed and were even
harsher in real life. Fourth, the music is sometimes too annoying, loud
and even useless in several scenes.
But overall, this is definitely a film you have to check out if you're
into Japanese cinema, WW2 films, or epic films in general.
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I'd be interested in this. Only yeast I have right now is WL SanFran yeast.
I think this is a great idea for local people. I wouldnt trust any shipping comapny to get a frozen sample to you still frozen. That being said, shipping slants is the much better way to go.
Ender I'm Smelling a lot of IF coming offa this plan
I would ship in a foam cooler with dry ice. That is how my research lab receives things so I have a surplus of small foam shipping containers.
Give a man a beer and he will ask for more. Teach a man to brew and you can ask him!
I was just planning on shipping them (sometime soon before it gets too warm) and then pitching whatever I got immediately into a starter to propagate it. On the other hand I suppose I can find dry ice somewhere.
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That might work out but it was 90 here today. I do agree though, pitch it as soon as you get it and it really might not even matter if it is a bit thawed. Well, I'm still in.
Seems like there is good interest in doing an exchange. I have 8 dram vials of WLP400 and WLP013 available. I'll be preparing a few vials of Wyeast 1469: West Yorkshire and Wyeast 1728: Scottish Ale in the next week or so. Currently, I'm freezing although I may try slanting as well.
I just did my first freezing round yesterday. WLP380 WLP500 WLP566 WY3787 Top-cropped S-05 Going to assess viability before I swap though, so I'm not trading anyone bum vials. If all goes well then, I'm down.
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Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction Specimens |
Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kerley, Barbara. Extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy) New York : Scholastic Press, 2010 (OCoLC)734733972 |
Named Person: | Susy Clemens; Mark Twain; Susy Clemens; Mark Twain; Susy Clemens; Mark Twain; Susy Clemens; Mark Twain |
Material Type: | Fiction, Primary school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
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OCLC Number: | 306798935 |
Notes: | Excerpts from Susy's actual diary appear inside separate mini-book inserted throughout book. |
Awards: | A Junior Library Guild selection |
Target Audience: | Elementary Grade.; 1090 |
Description: | [45 p.] : col. ill. ; 32 cm. |
Responsibility: | by Barbara Kerley ; iIllustrated by Edwin Fotheringham. |
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From The New York Times: What if your child wrote a book about your life? How would the story of your days read when channeled through those shrewd, -judgmental eyes? Would you seem like God when God walked in the garden, or would you seem like Papa Doc, the tyrant, the crafter of rules and breaker of -treaties? This is what happened to Mark Twain. His 13-year-old daughter, Susy, in secret, chronicled his life. From her notes, the source of a great new book -- \u201cThe Extraordinary Mark Twain\u201d -- you can conclude either that he was the best father who ever lived, or that he was simply favored by his era, that time before muckraking memoirs and celebrity-daughter tell-alls. Or perhaps a bit of both. Written by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, \u201cThe Extraordinary Mark Twain\u201d began with one of those tantalizing tidbits writers sometimes stumble across. Kerley, whose previous works include \u201cWhat to Do About Alice?\u201d and \u201cWalt Whitman: Words for America, \u201d happened to spot a footnote about a \u201cbiography\u201d that Susy, Twain\u2019s eldest daughter, had written. \u201cI was immediately intrigued, \u201d Kerley writes in an author\u2019s note. \u201cHaving been the parent of a 13-year-old girl myself, I know they tend to call it like they see it.\u201d Kerley has used Susy\u2019s text, from a notebook filled with the neat cursive of the day, to construct a kind of dual bio-graphy, the story of Twain and the story of Susy telling the story of Twain. Every few pages, Kerley includes samples of the journal, minibooks stapled to the spine: \u201cHis favorite game is billiards, \u201d Susy writes, \u201cand when he is tired . . . he stays up all night and plays. . . . It seems to rest his head.\u201d Twain is the great hero of American literature, the father of us all, the author of \u201cThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, \u201d but also the world traveler and story-spinner. K Read more...
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Independent Belgium before World War I
The National Congress had decided that Belgium should be a monarchy, but finding a king proved difficult. In the end, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, who was related to the British royal family and who became engaged to the daughter of the French king, was acceptable to both Britain and France. On July 21, 1831, Leopold ascended the throne, promising to support the liberal constitution, which gave the greater part of the governing power to a parliament elected by property owners. Some days later, the Dutch army invaded Belgium. The Belgians, who had no regular army, were defeated, but the London Conference agreed to intervention by the French army, which forced the Dutch to withdraw. The conference then decided to divide the provinces of Limburg and Luxembourg, assigning part to Belgium and part to the Netherlands. William I refused to accept this settlement. The Belgians, therefore, continued to occupy Dutch Limburg and Luxembourg until William finally relented in 1838. The eastern half of Luxembourg became the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, while the western half became a Belgian province. In 1839 the Dutch government officially recognized Belgium in its borders of 1838.
In the short run, the revolution had a detrimental effect on the economy. Separation from the north resulted in the sudden loss of the large Dutch market, including the colonies. The Schelde River remained closed until 1839. The Belgian government addressed the crisis by launching a vigorous policy of internal investment. In 1835 it inaugurated a railroad line between Brussels and Malines, the first to operate on the continent. The Antwerp-Cologne line, completed in 1843, opened great prospects for the Belgo-German transit trade. In 1844 a favourable trade agreement between Belgium and the German Zollverein ("Customs Union") completed this strategy.
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Originally posted by Dakirn We can agree that her point was about "nerfing yourself early in the game". And in this case, I think we can also take "nerfing" to mean "making a build you hate". I'll give you an actual example... when the game launched, i had a build all planned out that was based on Frenzy and included the ability "Leeching Frenzy" that is a Branch 6, outer wheel ability. After approx 10 days of play, i finally got that ability and found it completely useless. At the time that i got it, approximately 50% of the total APs i had were invested in getting that 1 ability. Which means that I was now using only 50% of my total APs. At endgame, this makes no difference at all since you're gettting APs superfast and you have tons of other abilities to draw from. Now, I sucked it up and went out and over the next week, I made more than enough APs to go down a different line and get a better ability choice for my deck. So yeah, I wasn't "gimped forever" or anything, nor did it prevent me from progressing. But... for a new game.. being 2 weeks in and in effect "losing" 50% of your made progress because you made a bad choice due to not knowing the intricacies of the game's mechanics... well, I don't think it's particularly good for the game and i think it will frustrate many casual players to the point of leaving. Having a "once a month" respec would address this issue and I really don't see what possible harm it would do to the game. The (limited) respec option is more needed to help newbies that aren't intimately familiar with the game, the skills and the system. It's not really needed to help experienced players. It can even be a "single" respec that you get when you hit 200 total AP and then 500 total AP. So limited to early game. Either that or they can improve the training room to allow you to test full decks and to have real mobs that are similar to endgame mobs. because, by god, I pity the person that spends 1000 APs making an Inflict/Hinder based deck and gets to endgame to find out that every one of their high AP abilities is completely useless. "I'd rather work on something with great potential than on fulfilling a promise of mediocrity." - Raph Koster Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO |
Originally posted by nGumbei So, you think the metacritic review score of games like SWTOR http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/star-wars-the-old-republic which got 85 are more representative for the game than the user score of 5.6? Players usually play a LOT more than the reviewers, which is probably why SWTOR got the lousy user score and good critic score. |
To use metacritic you have to read between the lines. I am not going to tell you how to do that here; I don't think it's very good at gauging MMO's anyway. I do think its shows we could have a proper review by now on MMORPG.com. |
I don't quite understand your last sentence, but if you are saying you think the review from this site is going to be good, I do agree. So far they have done a good job of highlighting positive and negative sides of the game. |
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Originally posted by Blackbrrd This is basicly it above. If anything the Secrect World has an extremely low critic score becauses its not a big name developer the way Blizzard or Bioware is. When player score > critic score you almost always have a winner ...... the opposite well.... anyone hear played SWTOR lol ;) |
Ok, they're trying to spin that the combat isn't freaking TERRIBLE... No hope for this review.. |
I agree about the need for respec. It took me awhile to find a build that I enjoyed, and I had spent a lot of skill points before i found it. I decided to start another character just so I could concentrate my skill points in my chosen build. Of course that meant I had to go through much of the content I had already completed, turning the game into a grind at the early areas. |
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Originally posted by Squiggie The muinute repec is offered the game is dead. It takes little time to accumulate points, when building up skill combos one at a time it becomes obvious fast what not to do. The best suggestion is try a few of the decks provided to build against and then experiment. You can also take the decks from all three factions which is more than enough builds to play with !! People are looking for problems that dont exist. ________________________________________________________ |
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Originally posted by zellmer The game is great ....... No hope for you. ________________________________________________________ |
From my experience as long as you try finding the more optional quests and possibly add a little bit of pvp you have plenty of ability points to make a few 'wrong decisions' in the early game. If you simply move to the next zone once you have the gear level or finished the main plot - I assume there is much less room for experimentation. By the time you finished at least the inner wheel for two weapons you should have some idea of what weapons / play style you like best and some idea how skills synergize and build at least a working (if not optimal) deck on your own. The fact that there is no respec and no resurection mechanic fits better the intended game pace imho similar to the limited number of quests and the above average difficulty. There are games that have perfectly streamlined gameplay and I enjoy those games too, but I wouldn't want TSW to go down that route. In those games I enjoyed leveling fast and efficient, yet I'm happy that I have no such urge in TSW. |
I'm quite a sceptic when it comes to MMORPGs in general. I'm definetly a critic of TSW and anyone who saw any of my posts on the forums knows its hard to please me. However I actually consider extending my sub beyond the first "free" month. I enjoy the setting, atmohsphere and the art style. The deck building is fun, even I still dislike the 7 & 7 skills limitation. The animation could use some work, especially when it comes to the variety of them and the awkard movement animations while circle strafing with some weapons. The engine itself could use some optimalisation, but overall I'm having fun which I couldn't say about the few MMo titles I happened to play. |
Originally posted by Isane lol, I noticed that you like the game, but I also noticed that you didn't refute his claim that the combat is terrible. |
I do not see what the big deal is with a respec I mean you can just get some more sp to spec up if u make a mistake. I have made a good few mistakes and felt totally gimped but with effort got those things right. Its time to start reading up on the descirptions and what abilities do and to stop expecting to be spoon fed through the whole process. |
I do not see what the big deal is with a respec I mean you can just get some more sp to spec up if u make a mistake. I have made a good few mistakes and felt totally gimped but with effort got those things right. Its time to start reading up on the descirptions and what abilities do and to stop expecting to be spoon fed through the whole process. |
Respec? No needed at all. Before I finished Blue Mountain I've completed Mercenary deck. A friend of mine said that fists were awesome so I decided to try them. I've spent many points just to try them and realizing they are not as good as I would need for PvP so I started to develop hammer during questing in Egypt. APs flow as water, no problem with SP either. Speced QL 10 elementalism, assault rifle, fists, hammers and I'm still in the midle of forth zone. I spend a lot of time for playing but I dont rush. I waited 5 yeares for this game and now I enjoy it. I realy dont think like doing whole content in one month is good idea. I've got time, subed for life yesterday :). We do elite dungeons with cabalist, pvp, hard quests. Good guild is very important. I play on RP dimenssion but there is very little RP going one. At last personal culture and maturity are higher. |
I would disagre with the respec option: it is part of the game. You will eventually get all skills anyway. Earn more points, they come quickly enough. People just dont want to work for things anymore, it makes me sad. |
"The only caveat I have to the social play aspect is the lack of a resurrection option for players who are partied up on a quest. If one player dies, they must respawn at an anima well which could be a vast distance away from where the party was working. There is no way to quick travel to one's party either. Funcom has defended this decision by saying that the ultimate goal is for players to learn to fight in the most effective way possible rather than just concentrating on keeping players alive long enough, or by keeping resurrecting them enough times, to finish the quest (or dungeon). While I can understand the decision to a certain degree, I find that stripping players of the ability to resurrect party members to be a poor one." . I respectfully disagree with your view. It actually offers a bit of a challenge and accoutability for ones actions. It is a fresh change to how easy games have become. I almost expect an "I win" button on the hotbars of newer mmos lol. Anima wells in my opinion are really close by, theres one next to each boss inthe dungeons. All it means, is try to stay alive during a fight. |


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Babies survive today what they wouldn't have survived a hundred years ago. Artificial life support (ALS) brings a baby with at least a 50% capability to exchange its own gases to viability. That is all I've said and all I've meant every fcking time you've erroneously argued it like a sh*t flinging blithering fool.<quoted text>
....and it will NOT have ALS applied. Good, you're getting it.
If the physician DOES determine it possesses the basic lung function to survive with ALS then he will deem it viable and ALS will be applied. He will not apply ALS to a non viable fetus so it can REACH viability....as numbskulls like Bitter and Chicky have claimed.
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NO ! You STILL don't get it. If artificial surfactant was available and a physician felt it could enable a fetus to survive, then he would deem the fetus viable and he would inject it. It would not be injected to "bring the fetus to viability". It would already BE viable. If it were not viable then it would not survive no matter what medical assistance is provided.....and that includes any hypothetical artificial surfactant.
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Great you brought it up before. Want a medal ?
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While developers are plugging away on Windows applications for Microsoft's Kinect thanks to the release of the official Kinect for Windows SDK, Mac users can also get into the gesture control game – albeit in a much, (much) more limited way. Not requiring any additional hardware because it works using a Mac's built-in webcam, Flutter registers hand gestures – well, a hand gesture – to control playback in iTunes and Spotify.
Currently in alpha and available as a free download, Flutter allows music and videos in iTunes and music in Spotify to be played and paused by flashing the webcam a "talk to the hand" gesture. The application runs in the menu bar and allows control of iTunes and Spotify even when they're running in the background. This is probably the biggest plus of the app, at least until it gets some more functionality and compatibility with a wider range of applications – both of which are in the works.
However, without the benefit of a depth sensor like the Kinect, the range of gestures will likely be limited. Nevertheless, having downloaded the app and given it a quick trial it seems to work pretty well. With no calibration required, it registers my open palm in under a second, even in low light. If I was the type to listen to music while I worked, I could definitely see myself using it to save me a few mouse clicks.
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