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As it happened: Syria crisis
Key Points
- The UN Security Council's five permanent members discussed a UK-proposed resolution authorising "necessary measures to protect civilians" in Syria
- US Vice-President Joe Biden said there was no doubt the Syrian government has used chemical weapons
- UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Syria conflict had reached its "most serious moment" but inspectors should be given four days to complete their work
- Russia warned that Western-backed military strikes would destabilise the Middle East
- Nato and the UK National Security Council both condemned chemical attacks
- All times in GMT
Hello, and welcome to our live coverage of the crisis in Syria. Western diplomats are trying to build a coalition to support action against the government of Bashar al-Assad, but Russia and China are unlikely to support any action. Meanwhile, weapons inspectors are visiting another site of alleged chemical attacks. Follow us for updates as they happen, expert analysis and colour from BBC correspondents, and comment from you, our readers, of course.
The joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is speaking at a news conference in Geneva.
Mr Brahimi says international law is clear, that a UN Security Council resolution is required for military action.
In recent days, Western diplomats and their allies had seemed to hint that they would take action with or without UN backing. Our legal correspondent Clive Coleman wrote a brief explainer of the issues in international law.
Some tweets from Prime Minister David Cameron about the UK's approach. This is the first of three: "We've always said we want the UN Security Council to live up to its responsibilities on Syria. Today they have an opportunity to do that."
Another tweet from Mr Cameron (2/3): "Britain has drafted a resolution condemning the chemical weapons attack by Assad and authorising necessary measures to protect civilians."
And tweet number three sent from the prime minister's personal account about an hour ago: "The resolution will be put forward at a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council later today in New York."
1043: Peter Hart, Limavady, Northern Ireland
emails: Chemical weapons are wholly unacceptable. But do the politicians ever sit back and think about the people they represent and how they feel about escalating military action? Do they really want to risk WW3? Diplomacy has to be given a fair crack.
A convoy of UN weapons inspectors left the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus earlier. On Monday the team abandoned their inspection when they came under fire from unidentified snipers.
1037: Alex Lawrence
emails: We must not take any military action or supply arms to the insurgents. They are composed of various factions, some anti-west. Arms could be well used against us. We must try and get them to come to some sort of a diplomatic solution, Russia must be involved as well. But don't let us get involved in any military action!
Jill Luis, Surrey
texts: We should keep out of affairs in Syria. It is up to the United Nations to sort it out, not David Cameron. Let us keep out of other countries' problems and not blindly follow America.
Germany is among the Western states supporting the UK's Security Council resolution. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged everyone, including Russia, to "seize this opportunity and contribute to a common stance by the global community against the use of chemical weapons of mass destruction in Syria".
One shadow UK minister has said she could resign if military action goes ahead. Labour MP Diane Abbott said public opinion was against the intervention, telling the BBC: "The British public has seen this movie. They know how it ends."
Alok Kumar Gupta, Bangalore, India
emails: Military action should be considered after thorough investigation by the UN team. It should be debated within the UN and a vote should be taken before deciding about military action. The guilty should be punished since we must discourage the use of chemical weapons but those who are not responsible should not face military action.
Mr Westerwelle's support for the UK's resolution (see 10:39) could see him at odds with public opinion. A survey found that 69% of Germans were against military intervention.
British public opinion also appears to be against intervention, according to a poll carried out for the Sun newspaper.
David Binder
tweets: The Syria/Assad chemical attack was terrible, but what would an alternative government be like? What would they do with such weapons?
James, Widdrington
emails: The massacre of unarmed civilians is not acceptable. Would we want the world to stand idly by if our government turned on us? I think not. Assad should be removed and if the only way of doing so is through military action, so be it.
Before last week's allegations of chemical weapons strikes, few in the West were publicly contemplating military intervention. Now, it's being reported as "when, not if". Here's our break-down of where the major players in the crisis stand.
Alan Walton, Preston
emails: The consequences of this proposed action are far reaching and, without a definitive strategy, the dangers to the whole world are enormous! Possibly the only way to avoid an extremely threatening conflagration that has the potential to engulf the world would be for Obama and Putin to sit down together, for however long it takes, and sort this problem. Russia could solve this problem very quickly by essentially a command to the Syrian regime to stop the use of chemical weapons and avoid a world threatening conflict.
The UN weapons inspectors' convoy was escorted by Free Syrian Army fighters as it drove through one of the suspected chemical weapons attack locations.
Harry, Birmingham
emails: Whatever you think of UK involvement in the second Iraq War, the government acted then because we thought that the Iraqis had WMD. We knew that the Syrians had WMD, and it is almost certain that they have used chemical weapons against civilians. How can we not support military action in that case?
For a reminder of how the latest stage of the crisis kicked off, have a look at our Q&A on the alleged chemical attacks in eastern areas of Damascus last week.
This analysis from the Reuters news agency explains how Syria developed its chemical weapons programme with the help of "chemical brokerage houses" in countries including France and Germany.
Reuters news agency reports that Israelis earlier queued for gas masks in Tel Aviv, spurred by fears of a Syrian retaliatory attack against their country.
One of the most pressing questions for Western diplomats is what to do about Russia, the Assad regime's main ally. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow considers whether Western intervention would lead to a direct confrontation with the Russians.
The UK parliament is expected to vote on Thursday on a government motion backing "appropriate measures" against countries that use chemical weapons. Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander says his Labour Party has not yet decided whether to support the motion, which he says he has not seen. He told the BBC the government carries a "heavy burden of responsibility" to provide its "own evidence" against President Assad.
An unnamed senior US government official has said America will not act unilaterally in Syria, according to the AFP news agency. Any military intervention "would include international partners", the anonymous source told journalists.
James, Manchester
As someone of part-Arab descent, I am completely against military intervention. As our involvement in Libya has shown, the place is no safer now than it was under Gadhafi... The smart move is to stay out of it.
UN weapons inspectors are investigating sites of the alleged chemical attacks which killed hundreds of Syrians. Earlier, they visited another suspected site in the Damascus suburb of Zamalka.
The New York Times is among the news organisations trying to understand why Mr Assad would use chemical weapons. It quotes a military analyst: "What makes military and strategic sense to Assad may not make military and strategic sense to us."
Former UK government minister Clare Short, who resigned in 2003 over the Iraq war, has told the BBC an attack on Syria would not end the civil war. "Let's take time, let's do it right. Stop rushing," she warned.
UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond arrived at Downing Street with military advisers earlier for a meeting of the UK's National Security Council.
In case you missed it, the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus wrote a detailed analysis of the military options available to the West.
The UK National Security Council is meeting in Downing Street now, before a parliamentary debate on Thursday to allow MPs a vote on the issue. The BBC's Norman Smith says he expects UK politicians to "overwhelmingly back" a motion which is likely to sanction "appropriate measures" against those who use chemical weapons.
Outspoken MP George Galloway tweets: "Contact your MP. Tell them NOT to support the murderous attack on Syria. This is urgent. Do not delay. E-mail them."
More on the military strategy pursued by the West. Max Fisher on his blog at the Washington Post seeks to explain why Obama is laying his cards on the table rather than trying to keep the element of surprise.
Our regular round-up of Chinese media has a Syria focus. It quotes the state-run Global Times as saying: "Forces around the world that oppose external military intervention should unite to prevent as far as possible the US, UK and others from launching air strikes against Syria. If they cannot stop this, they should openly support the Syrian government to engage in resistance."
US Foreign Policy magazine claims on its blog that the CIA listened in to "panicked phone calls" as a Syrian defence ministry official spoke to the leader of a chemical weapons unit "demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people".
For those of you who missed UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's news conference earlier, we have put together some excerpts.
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner tweets: "Syria crisis presents massive challenge to western intelligence agencies, having got it so spectacularly wrong in Iraq."
Mark, Stroud
emails: Just a thought, but say the UN inspectors come back with proof that it is the "rebels" that had the chemical weapons and used them, what military action would we use then?!
Iraq has put its security forces on high alert ahead of any military strike against Syria, according to the Reuters news agency. "All political and security powers in Baghdad, the provinces and all over Iraq, announce the highest level of alert," Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said.
After being shot at on Monday, the UN convoy of weapons inspectors in Damascus has reviewed its security. It is using both fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army and government troops for protection.
Reuters news agency quotes Syria's deputy foreign minister as saying Britain, France and the US helped "terrorists" use chemical weapons in the conflict.
The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen tweets: "On the road to #Damascus. Stopped for a nourishing chicken shwarma in Chtaura." And later: "Passport office unusually quiet. Not so many entering Syria. But light traffic leaving too on road to Beirut."
The Times of Israel news website reports that the Assad regime is "abandoning command centres and government security offices - sites that it suspects will be targeted in a possible Western strike". It cites unnamed activists in a report in the Al-Arabiya news organisation.
A warning from Russia - the Syrian government's key ally on the UN Security Council. "Discussing some sort of reaction by the Security Council before UN inspectors working in Syria publish their report is at the very least untimely," first deputy foreign minister Vladimir Titov told the Interfax news agency.
A big factor for UK politicians deciding their position on Syria will be the stance they took ahead of the Iraq war, says the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson. "A decade on from Iraq, a British prime minister finds himself under pressure thanks to the desire of an American president for swift military action," he writes.
Human Rights Watch says in its daily briefing that it takes no position on the intervention, but instead calls for any intervention to observe the law. Executive director Kenneth Roth says: "Military action carried out in the name of upholding a basic humanitarian norm - you don't gas children in their sleep - will be judged by its effect in protecting all Syrian civilians from further unlawful attacks, whether chemical or conventional."
The UK's National Security Council meeting has concluded. Foreign Secretary William Hague was among the senior political and military figures leaving 10 Downing Street earlier.
A tweet from Prime Minister David Cameron following the National Security Council meeting: "The NSC agreed unanimously that the use of chemical weapons by Assad was unacceptable - and the world should not stand by."
Huge diplomatic efforts were made to expand the mission of the UN's team of 20 chemical weapons inspectors in Damascus, writes the BBC's Yolande Knell from Beirut. Now, as Western powers discuss the options for punitive military action in Syria, it looks increasingly likely that the experts' work will be overlooked, she reports. Read more of her analysis in our main news story.
The Israeli government has authorised a limited call-up of army reservists in reaction to the crisis. An official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office told the BBC that although the likelihood of Israel being drawn into fighting with Syria is very low, Israel must prepare for that scenario.
Leader of the anti-EU UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, writes for the Daily Express explaining why he opposes "yet another military operation that will risk the lives of British troops and the safety and security of British interests at home and abroad".
The BBC understands the meeting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in New York is now underway.
The Western military alliance Nato has met to discuss the crisis in Syria. A statement from the general secretary said the use of chemical weapons was "unacceptable and cannot go unanswered". The statement added: "We consider the use of chemical weapons as a threat to international peace and security."
Some more detail on that accusation from Syria's deputy foreign minister that the West was behind the chemical attacks. "Armed terrorist groups used sarin gas at all these sites," Faisal Al-Miqdad said. "We repeat that the terrorist groups are the ones who used them with American, British and French encouragement. This encouragement should stop," he added.
BBC state department correspondent Kim Ghattas
tweets: If there is a strike, won't b before inspectors out of Syria "@AFP: #BREAKING Ban says UN inspectors 'need four days' to finish in Syria"
A spokesman for UK Prime Minister David Cameron has issued a statement following the UK's National Security Council meeting. "The NSC agreed unanimously on a recommendation that the Cabinet will consider tomorrow," the spokesman said. He added that there had been "unanimous backing" for the government's approach and that ministers had "agreed" the Assad regime was behind the chemical attacks.
Heavily-armed rebel fighters were alongside the convoy of UN weapons inspectors on their visit to suspected chemical attack sites earlier. The inspectors have now returned to their central Damascus hotel, Reuters reports.
Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor
tweets: Perfect blue sky en route to #Damascus. Perfect weather for satellite surveillance. They're up there somewhere
"Let [the inspectors] conclude their work for four days," UN chief Ban Ki-moon tells reporters in the Hague. A spokesman said this meant four days in total, which suggests the team needs until at least Friday to complete their inspection.
In an essay published in Cuban state media today, former president Fidel Castro warns of disastrous consequences of any military attack on Syria. He calls the British government "lackeys" for sending planes to Cyprus, and criticises preparations to bomb "the patriotic forces of heroic Syria" whilst allowing thousands to be killed in Egypt after a "crude coup d'etat".
UK Prime Minister David Cameron tweets this picture from inside the earlier National Security Council meeting:
And in Israel, orthodox Jews were among those collecting gas masks earlier as talk of military action continued.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi accuses the West of fabricating reasons to attack. "Western countries, starting with the United States, are inventing fake scenarios and fictitious alibis to intervene militarily in Syria," he was quoted as saying by state television.
If you're struggling to keep up with where each country stands on the Syrian crisis, the Guardian have published an interactive map explaining just that.
UN weapons inspectors returned to their hotel earlier after visiting one of the alleged chemical weapons targets under the protection of rebel fighters.
Following on from the Syrian PM's accusations (see 14:25), late on Tuesday Syrian state media put out a full statement by Foreign Minister Walid Muallem denying that the government had used chemical weapons.
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond says "the case for military action" has "not yet been made".
The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera tweets: "No plans for a UK document on Syrian CW intel at moment despite speculation. Memories of Iraq dossier loom large in Whitehall it seems."
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has just spoken to journalists. He rejected comparisons between the situation in Iraq before the allied invasion, and the current situation in Syria, where he says "a crime against humanity has been committed".
Bloomberg News
tweets: Oil reaches two-year high amid speculation of American-led military strike against Syria
More quotes from William Hague (see 15:10). He called on the UN Security Council to "shoulder its responsibilities" on Syria, adding that the international community would still have a responsibility to act, even if no resolution is agreed at the UN.
Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor
tweets: Damascus seems quieter than on recent trips. The city is awaiting decisions made elsewhere. War about to move into a new phase
The BBC's Anna Holligan tweets this picture from outside the Peace Palace in The Hague, where a small group of protesters are registering their anger at the use of chemical weapons, as well as other issues.
Following the examples of Iraq (see 12:49) and Israel (see 13:33), Turkey has now also reportedly put its armed forces on alert. Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said "all options" remained open and that Turkey will take "whatever measures necessary within the framework of its own strategic interests".
While diplomats in New York mull action against the Assad government, the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus asks how far could Damascus defend itself against the sort of attack that is being planned.
Almost two million Syrians have fled the country since the conflict began in March 2011. Refugees often end up in camps like this one in Iraq's Kurdistan region. To get an idea of the sheer scale and size of a Syrian refugee camp, you can take a tour of Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp and explore our in-depth graphic.
There's been no word yet from the UN in New York. We believe the five permanent Security Council members are still talking. No formal vote or wider meeting is scheduled for today.
People in Damascus have been stocking up on bread, dried goods and canned foods fearing food shortages in the event of military strikes, Reuters reports. "We live in the capital. Every turn, every street, every neighbourhood has some government target. Where do we hide?" a nurse sitting in an empty clinic told the agency. "People have been in the habit of stocking extra food since the conflict began, but now people are buying huge amounts of food and water," says a resident named as Rula.
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville tweets: "Syrian opposition here in Lebanon claims that Assad regime is commandeering trucks to move people and resources in advance of any attack."
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Damascus: "Anyone who lives in Damascus will be a little bit nervous. There have been reports that people have moved out. You do get a sense that the people here are waiting for decisions that are being taken a long way from here."
The BBC's Richard Galpin tweets: "Whatever reassurances #Israel govt gives its citizens, next few days here will be nerve-wracking for population if Syria is attacked."
Our Middle East editor continues (see 16:18), saying that there will be pressure on the countries that want military action to allow UN inspectors to come forward with their own conclusions first: "They have to win a political battle and show that they did all they could. If they don't, it will be messy and create further complications down the line."
Ghanem Nuseibeh, senior visiting fellow at King's College, London
tweets: Syria crisis show again that when push comes to shove in the Middle East, the eyes of the world turn to London.
Assaf Aboud BBC Arabic reporter
says Syrian government departments are continuing their work as usual, the shops continue to receive customers and the streets of the Syrian capital remain choked by traffic. Read more of his analysis in our main news story.
Syria's UN envoy Bashar Jaafari has reportedly asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon to order the team of inspectors in Damascus to investigate three alleged rebel gas attacks on the Syrian army. He described the attacks as "three heinous incidents" that took place in the countryside of Damascus on the 22, 24 and 25 of August.
The BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has put together a video explainer of the likely response by Syria to any military intervention.
Israeli troops are taking part in a drill in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, as the authorities call up reserve troops ahead of possible military intervention. Israel has allegedly already carried out three air strikes on targets in Syria this year.
What might military action in Syria look like? How would foreign intervention be legal? How might President Assad respond? How did the alleged chemical weapons attack in eastern Damascus unfold on 21 August? For explainers, backgrounders, analysis and more, you can visit our special report on the Syria conflict.
To recap on the day's events, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council met to discuss a proposal from the UK authorising "all necessary measures to protect civilians" in Syria. Envoys have not released a copy of the draft resolution or briefed journalists, and more discussions are expected over the coming days.
We're wrapping up our live coverage of the Syria crisis for today. Our news front page will continue to be updated with all the latest developments.


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It was not until the end of November—two months later—that she got the page from Sam's case adviser about the Boost Plus. She confessed how nervous she had been, but not on account of his appearance. His face was rippled, like wax that had been blown by a gust of wind just before cooling, and the sides of his nostrils were fused to his face; but the brown eyes that looked out from underneath the hardened mask of melted flesh weren't the eyes of any monster. She'd seen photographs of him from before: rock climbing, in a tank top with his crew team, looking gorgeous and smug as hell. If they'd met a year earlier, she's not sure she'd have fallen for him. In this respect, the fire had changed him for the better. By the time she met Sam Brown, he'd had the ego burned off.
By March, Sam was able to go jogging again. So he and Amy started running together, talking, and finally one day, while they were stretching, Sam stopped and said, Look, if we're going to keep hanging out like this, does that mean we're dating? And Amy said yes, she thought it did, and then he said that he was of the opinion, given how short life was, even if they were both still in their twenties, that if he was going to date somebody, he felt it ought to be with marriage as an ultimate goal. Did she think she agreed with that? Amy said that yes, she thought she did. And so they continued jogging and dating until the end of April, when Sam proposed.
A month later, they ordered a cheesecake and flowers and got married in a friend's backyard. Sam's brother, Daniel, was best man. A few weeks later, they had another reason to celebrate: Sam received word he'd been promoted to captain. He and Amy didn't go on a honeymoon right away, because Sam was scheduled for surgery to cut the scar tissue away from around his mouth. The result was he got back the semblance of an upper lip. That was followed by another surgery where microscopic holes were poked all over the skin on his face and neck to try and break down the scar tissue that was threatening to swallow up his features. But the scar tissue just continued to grow thicker. While he was suffering through his post-op recovery, Maani contacted him to say that if he was still interested, he could come back in for another dose of SnowWorld. He needed to demonstrate it for a few visiting officials. Sam leapt at the chance. He didn't care if he had an audience.
But once he donned the goggles, the experience fell short of what he remembered. It still did an okay job, but now, somehow, the distractions—the music, the demonically happy snowmen, the exploding penguins—felt more like sensory overload. That, but also, he wasn't a patient in this hospital anymore, nor was he caught in that lonely gray limbo of an apartment. He had a real home now, where Amy and a little peace and quiet were waiting.
The next Easter, in 2010, Sam and Amy finally managed to take a proper honeymoon, to Hawaii. One afternoon, swimming in the hotel pool, Sam was in one of those rare moments where, without medication, he felt no pain, felt like his old self, and he didn't harbor a doubt in his mind as to why the most beautiful girl at the hotel was sunning herself on a towel, waiting for him and only him. She made the world around them bloom into something that not even the best VR architect could ever have conceived. There was no beating this actual water, this actual sun, this actual wife. Then this actual kid, this 4-year-old shit who'd been porpoising around, came up for air right in front of Sam, and you could see the kid thought he'd come face to face with the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Maybe if it had been another time, Sam would have let it go, but this time, jerked so abruptly out of his bliss, he snapped: "You know, if you don't wear sunscreen like your mother tells you, you'll end up looking like me!"
Soon after they got home, Sam had to go back into the hospital to have tissue expanders surgically implanted. That was in May. A tissue expander was basically an inflatable silicone balloon that went just under the skin and was gradually pumped full of saline over several months. The tension caused the cells to grow more skin, which the surgeon could then harvest and graft onto his face. It was somewhat like getting a breast implant, except the bags were rectangular shaped, and Sam was getting four: two under the soft skin on both hips and two on his upper chest, below each shoulder. It was slow torture, every bit as excruciating as it looked, and lasted right up until the final procedure—the first step of which was to remove most of his face.
A week after surgery, the graft was going south. There were dark areas, gray patches. They waited another week just to see, but when they took off the bandages, the graft had turned black. The scarring from that surgery too now began to grow with a vengeance, thick and red, hard as exoskeleton. Soon he could not move his face at all. This made it easier for him to conceal his emotions and harder for Amy to see, in the following weeks, that he was slipping away.
He no longer accepted that this was his reality. He couldn't. He even wondered sometimes, fleetingly, whether Amy was a dream, perhaps generated from the same place in his mind that, under the influence of ketamine, had built those minarets and mazes and phantom ships. The last time, ironically, that he could have known, really known, without a trace of doubt, where he was, was in Afghanistan, after his gunner, Jensen, had rescued him but before the morphine, when he was curled in the back of a Humvee, headed to the helicopter landing zone. In dust kicked up by other vehicles, the driver had gotten lost, and Sam had still somehow mustered enough clarity of mind and enough strength, or at least enough adrenaline, to rouse himself from the backseat, radio for coordinates, and tell the driver where to go: due south three and a half kilometers. He leaned forward to jab at the GPS with his finger. "Look, we are right here." He was just as stunned as the driver to see his own flesh smeared on the glowing screen. Outside, through the armored windshield, the last gray specks of daylight glimmered in the dust rising from the poppy fields. That was the last time Sam could have said for sure that any map in his life could correlate to one and only one world, virtual or otherwise.
He became a recluse, hardly ever leaving the house. What was interesting was that he no longer really feared pain. Not physical pain. He had chosen to be strict with himself about getting by now on lower doses of drugs. He had learned to escape into his own mind, where there was a quiet chamber awaiting him, a peaceful void without a soundtrack or flying snowballs, but also without Amy or anyone, where the pain only came through like a distant muted voice that he could choose to ignore.
Then, one evening, he and Amy sat down and watched a movie together called, of all things, Fireproof. The movie was about this firefighter and a nurse whose marriage is about to dissolve. The firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, gets injured while saving a girl from a house fire. He's brought to the hospital where his wife works and where she's been flirting with a doctor who doesn't know that she is married to the firefighter (since things had already gotten really bad, bad enough that she no longer wore her wedding band). By the time the credits rolled, Amy was sobbing.
Sam found himself suddenly panicked at the thought of losing her, the one person who had made his life bearable. If he was going to win out over self-pity, if he was going to save his marriage, he'd have to recommit to the only world that mattered. The others were all cheap phantoms. Mazes of smoke and ash. Because this world, the one with meaning, the one where he was a lucky bastard just to be alive, this world that had the deepest and most unforgiving kinds of pain that you could not even fucking believe—well, he, for one, would not have rid himself of it for anything.
Last July, Maani and Hoffman published the results of the study in which Sam Brown had participated. Echoing the civilian studies, soldiers reported significant drops in pain while immersed in SnowWorld. Time spent thinking about pain, which is an inextricable contributor to actual pain, dropped from 76 percent without SnowWorld to 22 percent with SnowWorld. Amazingly, some of the biggest drops were for the most severe levels of pain, which went against every previous expectation. Since then, SnowWorld has received a good deal of enthusiasm from several well-lit corners of the Pentagon. At least one four-star general, after seeing the results from the ISR study, has gone so far as to say that he foresees a day coming soon when VR pain distraction might become standard care. There is nearly equal excitement about Hoffman's other applications, including one called IraqWorld, a virtual-reality exposure therapy he built to treat soldiers with PTSD.
Hoffman knows that more studies need to be done before VR becomes a regular part of a medic's field kit. To that end, he and his colleagues at HITLab are now using $7.5 million in NIH grants to further investigate how VR affects the mind and how better to apply it in clinical situations. One part of the study is looking at using small doses of ketamine to enhance the sense of presence. But he is confident that eventually, as the technology becomes more sophisticated, VR will be exponentially more effective. Soon, he predicts, VR worlds will be customized, personally tailored, and as in social networks or Second Life, they'll allow patients to bring along other people—a vet's mother, girlfriend, buddies. Hoffman imagines programs that will tap into a patient's happy memories—of a ski vacation or a honeymoon or a morning rowing on a river, sunlight dripping from the oars.


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Vampire Biology
By J.C. Clark and Mortimer Promelion
Vampires: once considered beasts of legend (and still considered such by the general public), these enigmatic monsters seemed to capture the imagination of humans the world round. On almost every continent you can find folklore about some creature that disguises itself as human to feast on human blood. We now know that, despite these myths fantastic qualities, there is a basis in fact to the vampire, as well as a wide family tree of these dastardly bloodsuckers. While almost all known types of vampire are actually human victims afflicted with a virus, there is one species the living vampire, if you will that is actually a subgroup of our own species, whose blood is the root of the plague. The origins of this species go even higher, into planes of reality we have only started to comprehend. This essay will briefly summarize the origin of vampires as well as the various types of them that have been recorded by the various agents here at Area 51. As this is pertinent to the super soldier project, this essay shall remain classified until further notice.
Ethereal Beings
Ethereal Beings is a filler term used to describe a group of intangible and seemingly sentient forces that, from time to time, have appeared on our planet. These creatures are mysterious to say the least, and what little is known about them is not fully understood. They can apparently travel through more than four dimensions, being unlimited by time and space. In their natural state they have no physical shape, instead being made of a strange sort of energy. Then can take on a physical form, often taking shapes that seem to actively spit at the laws of physics. They are important to this summary because they are necessary to create Langsuir or, more specifically, the host species from which the virus comes.
The various ethereal beings found throughout the cosmos can spawn with humans when they take physical form. In addition to being incredibly rare, these couplings are made somewhat miraculous by the fact that the intercourse will result in a hybrid offspring offspring capable of sexually reproducing at that. These beings, a subspecies of human, have been termed Homo sapiens moroi, or moroi for short (Moroi means living vampire). This is an appropriate moniker as Moroi are not truly undead, although they are the source of the original strains of the Langsuir virus.
While Moroi are little different from normal humans when exposed to sunlight, when out of the suns rays they exhibit many powers of a supernatural nature (note: I have qualms with calling these powers supernatural, as it lacks a scientific connotation. However, since we have not been able to fully explain these powers yet, it is so far the best term to describe them). A moroi will be roughly twenty times as strong as a human of the same size and shape. They are also innately more intelligent, with long and refined memories. Moroi exhibit an advanced healing factor: they can heal injuries almost instantly, including most complex structures (the notable exception being their hearts, which are vulnerable yet able to heal at an incredibly slow pace). This healing factor also allows moroi to live incredibly long lives (at least several centuries, and there are even scattered reports of moroi living for millennia) by keeping them in a state of endless youth, with most moroi looking like 20-30 year old men and women. A more gruesome feature involves the morois feeding face. Their teeth can switch from a normal humans dental array to something more akin to a box full of upright nails; this is the result of both a biological and psychological trigger, generally having to do with the thought of blood or feelings or anger. Their shape changing ability is not restricted to their faces, either. Moroi can shift their form (and, with some work, other matter around them) at will, although they cannot exceed the original mass and number of atoms in their new forms. Any unused mass or atoms will continue to exist as a thick green mist that follows the moroi.
All of these powers and enhanced abilities stem from a high amount of what we have termed as ethereal energy: the energy that the ethereal beings are made of (this energy is likewise the source of the supernatural powers of the undead vampires that descend from moroi). While it has been found that all organisms produce small amounts of this energy, moroi produce vast amounts of it, which allows them to reshape matter much like the ethereal beings that helped spawn them. It is the use of this energy that allows moroi to exhibit the shape-shifting and levitation powers of the vampires of legend.
This all comes with drawbacks, of course. The production of ethereal energy consumes vast amounts of iron and carbon far more than a normal human body can produce on its own. To counter this, Moroi have developed a quick way to gain iron from prey: blood drinking. As blood is high in hemoglobin (and thus high in iron), the consumption of vast amounts of blood allows Moroi to support their otherwise iron deficient body. This is why Moroi have an instinctual and physical need to drink blood. The blood must be mammalian; human blood is particularly nutritious, although it has an odd side effect on the vampires system that is similar to alcohols effect on a humans thought process. A moroi that drinks human blood will lose its inhibitions and often degenerate into a homicidal rage and bloodlust.
Moroi can only be killed a few ways: decapitation, the impalement of a silver stake (or any pointy object made of silver) through the heart, or cremation. Decapitation works because it separates the Morois head from its heart, where the ethereal energy is produced (without the energy the head cannot regenerate and will thus die). Silver absorbs ethereal energy, thus cutting off the vampires supply and keeping it from healing. Additionally, any wound made by a silver object to a vampire will take quite a while to heal, as the affected area will reflect any energy that tries to heal it. Note: any blow to the heart will generally incapacitate a Moroi, sometimes knocking it into a coma for weeks or months. They will not be fatal, however, unless the wounding object was made of silver OR the wound was followed by cremation. This includes wooden stakes, even though they are perhaps the most famous implements of destroying a vampire.
Moroi also seem to universally dislike the smell and taste of garlic, although it does them no harm. Sunlight does not kill moroi; instead it simply removes most of the powers that set them apart from humans, although they still can only be killed by the aforementioned methods. The reason for this is unclear. Some believe that sunlight cancels out most of a vampires ethereal energy, though this remains to be proven.
Objects of faith cannot damage Moroi physically, but can be a good psychological attack if the Moroi in question is religious, since the Morois need to drink blood and urge to prey on its kin often leaves them with a pessimistic outlook on themselves. Many Moroi tend to believe that all the things they view as morally just be it a higher power or simply other people unanimously hate them for what they are (many also revel in this belief one specimen was so enamored of his low opinion of himself that he reacted violently whenever he was complimented). It is unknown if this is an inherited mindset or one caused by their upbringing. Since their ability to change shape is controlled by their conscious mind, this unconscious fear of righteousness can occasionally make them physically hurt themselves in the presence of religious objects if the vampires in question are religious, occasionally to the point of suicide.
It should be known that most, if not all moroi are mentally unstable individuals, many of whom exhibit psychotic and sociopathic tendencies. While there are scattered reports of benevolent moroi, none are very reliable, and as such it seems that the moroi genes are linked to several psychological abnormalities.
Moroi do not show up in mirrors. This is not because they lack souls, but rather because the ethereal energy they produce creates an aura that keeps their light waves from being reflected. Why humans and animals can see them is up to debate, although it is possible that even the small amount of ethereal energy produced by normal animals is enough to see penetrate the aura generated by moroi.
There is a telepathic bond between a moroi and every vampire spawned by it, directly or otherwise. For example, any strigoi made by a moroi is psychically connected to it. If that strigoi creates a vampire of its own, that new vamp is both telepathically connected to the strigoi and to the moroi. A moroi can always find its spawn and, whats worse, control them if it deems it necessary, able to override its offsprings own will.
Non-vampire Moroi Offspring: Dhampirs and Varcolacs
When two moroi mate they have a 50% chance of producing another moroi vampire. They have a 25% chance of making a human, which is known as a dhampir. Dhampirs produce higher amounts of ethereal energy than normal humans (though far less than a Moroi), giving them lesser forms of the enhanced strength and long lives their parents enjoy. Dhampirs are also noted for having a vampire sense: they can instinctually tell the difference between a normal human, a moroi, and the various species of undead vampires. In the past many dhampirs became vampire hunters, partly because they were damn good at it and partly because they generally had rocky relationships with their psychologically unstable parents.
The last quarter of probability would result in the creation of a new ethereal being, with the powerful creature being born in its physical form. These creatures, called Varcolacs (a term which also refers to a particularly vicious breed of werewolf, as well as the name of several goblin kings) tend to be gigantic, vicious, and destructive monsters whose mere presence creates a black cloud that eclipses the sun for miles. Thankfully, moroi are very rare creatures, and as such few varcolacs have come into existence.
The infectious nature of a morois blood is made all the more nightmarish by its adaptability. Langsuir, the virus that results from the mixing of vampire and human bodily fluids (generally blood), has several different strains. The main strain follows a steady path: a moroi sires a strigoi, a strigoi sires a vrykolakas, which in turn sires a ghoul that will eventually produce a revenant (flesh eating zombie), who can only sire other revenants. However, different strains of the virus can be produced if conditions are altered.
The most common strain of Langsuir made by a moroi creates a strigoi. This strain is the base upon which almost all other forms of Langsuir mutate. As such, almost all vampires in the world owe their existence to a strigoi.
To create a strigoi, a vampire baptism must occur, in which a moroi feeds a human its blood before killing them (most strains of Langsuir remain dormant until the death of the victim). As the vampires blood is digested by its victim, a virus that lies dormant in the Morois blood cells is released into the humans bloodstream via the small intestine: the Langsuir Alpha Strain. It is important that the moroi only feeds the human once before killing them, as repeatedly giving a human its blood may result in a mutation of the strain, creating a new virus and different vampire as a result. A strigoi can do several variations of this same ritual in turn, each one producing a different strain. The most complicated version of this ritual, in which a strigoi feeds a human its blood every night for roughly an entire year, will actually result in it creating another strigoi, making it one of only a few vampires that can create new members of its own strain.
Strigoi tend to be roughly half as powerful as the moroi that made them. They are only 10 times as strong as a human being their size and shape, produce half as much ethereal energy (which is still quite a lot), and are not quite as intelligent. Their healing powers are just as strong as their moroi ancestors, but they also have the same limitations. They can change shape with just as much malleability as a moroi, unlike most other undead vampires.
Sunlight, as with moroi, saps the magic powers from strigoi, turning them into what they would be without Langsuir: corpses, albeit corpses that do not rot. Like moroi, this does not change how one must destroy them in the slightest (the same methods used to kill moroi can be used to deal with strigoi). Strigoi almost exclusively prey on human beings, as it stabilizes them far better than animal blood, drinking the later only when no human is available.
There is a bizarre subspecies of strigoi in west Africa called the Obayifo. Almost identical to a normal strigoi, it is notably different because its armpits and anus have phosphorescent bioluminescent patches, making those areas glow in the dark. While this may seem rather goofy for a dreaded blood sucker, obayifos have slightly stronger offspring than normal strigoi.
If a moroi feeds a human its blood on more than one occasion before killing them, a different strain of Langsuir will be the result. This will create a strzyga, which is both superior and inferior to a strigoi, depending on how one looks at it.
Like strigoi, strzygas are roughly half as strong as their moroi sires. They have 10 times the strength of a proportionally equal human, heightened intelligence, and the half the ethereal energy output of their moroi creators. In addition, they had two rows of teeth in each jaw, much like a shark, which distinguishes them from all other vampires. However, their greatest strength is the fact that their hearts share the near-instantaneous healing factor the rest of their body sports. Although the myth that they have two hearts is a fallacy, they are nonetheless immune to the most famous of vampire disposal techniques: the impalement of the heart. Thus they can only be killed by decapitation and immolation.
This comes with a drawback, of course. Strzygas have a tendency to rot, requiring a lot more human blood to sustain them than their contemporaries. They also cannot infect others with Langsuir, leading several to christen them the sterile vampires.
When a strigoi performs a normal vampire baptism (i.e. feeding its victim its blood once), the result is a vrykolakas. Vrykolakas, like strigoi, turn into corpses when in daylight. Unlike strigoi, they rot in this form, and cannot turn into living people. They instead turn into demonic, troll-like monsters with gargantuan fangs, although its still an improvement from a lifeless cadaver. They can alter this shape to some extent, although they will always come off as a brutish caricature of whatever they were trying to imitate.
Vrykolakas have five times the strength of a human their size and shape (although one with their ape-ish would be hard to find), advanced healing, half the ethereal energy output of the strigoi that made them, and slightly above average human intelligence. The same methods used to dispatch a strigoi can be used to kill a vrykolakas.
A subspecies of vrykolakas is found in west Africa, produced when the strigoi sire was an obayifo. Nearly identical to the normal species, this vrykolakas, called an Asanbasam, has bones, teeth, and claws made of iron, making it slightly stronger and sturdier than the normal breed. They are generally found living in trees.
If a strigoi mixes cow blood with its own and feeds it to a woman three times before draining her of her blood, the resulting vampire will be a churel. They are similar to vrykolakas in power, except they take the form of a human instead of a rotting corpse during the day. Appearance-wise, they look like an attractive woman with one major difference: their feet are backwards, with the heels pointing forward. There are no male churels. Also, while a churel is not sterile like a stryzyga, it can only infect humans with the churel strain of Langsuir, unlike other vampires who generate a new strain.
If a strigoi feeds a female victim twice, drains it of its own blood, and skins the dead body before it reanimates, the resulting vampire will be a soucouyant. This vampire takes the form of an elderly woman in the daytime. At night she sheds her skin and transforms into a bat-like creature that is surrounded by fire, giving her the appearance of a flying fireball. This is advantageous, as fire will do her no damage in this form, forcing a would-be vampire slayer to use the more hands-on attack methods. It also makes decapitation tricky as the neck is well protected. Luckily, this does come with a drawback, as a soucouyant must put its human skin back on before the sun rises, or else her own fire will consume her. Soucouyants have no other powers.
Like churels and soucouyants, mananannggals are strictly female vampires. A strigoi must feed and feed on a woman every night for two complete lunar cycles to create one, draining the victim on the last night immediately after tearing her in half horizontally (with one half having two arms and the other having two legs).
By day mananannggals look like normal, beautiful and mature women. At night, however, they separate at the same area they were torn in half, leaving their legs and pelvis to suck blood. Mananannggals are half as strong as the strigoi that sired them, intelligent, and possess an amazing healing factor. They can survive decapitation, although a heart impalement or fire can still do them in.
In addition, if a mananannggal is separated from its lower half come daybreak, it will die. This is because its separated form is inherently unstable, being loosely held together by its ethereal energy. Like most vampires (ghouls and their spawn being the sole exception), sunlight severely weakens the mananannggals ethereal energy generator, destroying it completely should the vampire not be in one piece when struck. Like vrykolakas, mananannggals can create a new strain of Langsuir, although all its offspring strains share the same flaw.
If a vrykolakas performs a vampire baptism, regardless of how it is performed, the end result is always a creature called a ghoul. Ghouls, regardless of gender, stand between eight and ten feet tall. Unlike other vampires, the ghoul strain of Langsuir (and all strains derived from it) does not wait for its host to die. It actually instigates the expiration of its host, first with flu-like symptoms and ending with a violent seizure. When the victim reaches the final stage of the pre-mortem illness he or she will tear off his or her own face, as well as all external organs related to reproduction and the rearing of children. The victims skin rots off as he or she expires from these wounds. Mid-expiration the victims ribs and pelvises grow in size and prominence, giving the monster a false emaciated appearance. A strange, moss-like fungus-y substance will grow in the skins place, giving ghouls green, flakey skin. In the final moments of the transformation, which can last several hours or even days, the ghouls lower jaw will grow tremendously, giving it a horrific overbite. The ghouls jaws will bristle with fangs, with some in the lower jaw getting over a foot in length.
The intelligence of ghouls is up to debate. They tend to be rather brutish, existing only to devour flesh, living or otherwise, and preferably human. They are often easily outsmarted, yet can be fiendishly clever on occasion. However, a ghouls hunger is its main driving force, and as such they can always be misled by the promise food.
Killing a ghoul is simple. Ghouls are only powered by their brains, as their transformations reduce their hearts and other vital organs to a thick black acid used to digest their victims. The destruction of a ghouls brain, then, is the only way to kill it, and can be achieved by any weapon. Fire is also effective, as it paralyzes ghouls while it consumes their bodies, eventually working its way to their brains. Decapitation will kill a ghouls body, although the head will still be alive so long as its brain is intact.
Ghouls cannot change their shape like other vampires, although they can go through a metamorphosis of sorts. While ghouls can live alone easily, they must have a leader if they are to live in large groups. Generally this leader is the vrykolakas that sired them, which they will follow until it dies. Should that happen, the ghouls will fight bitterly with each other until only two remain in one piece. These two will then wrestle, each taking care not to gravely injure the other. The victor will devour two thirds of the slain ghouls, with the loser eating the other third. These two survivors will then mutate. The loser ghoul will gain two to four feet in height, and his body will grow to make him proportionally equal. His talons will grow larger as well, and its jaw will further mutate into an even more gruesome overbite. The mossy skin over its sternum will fall off, as will the sternum itself, and his ribs will grow to fill in the gap. In short, this ghoul will become a Grendel.
The victorious ghoul will grow even larger, becoming elephantine in size. Its overbite will dwarf even the grendels in size and grotesqueness as its head become disproportionately larger. The ghouls arms and legs will not grow as much as the rest of it, turning into stunted appendages that are mere shells of their former selves. Its ribcage will open and release a mass of thick, green tentacles from its chest, turning the ghoul into a Grendel Matriarch. The matriarch will find a nest site while the grendel hunts for prey, bringing some of its kills back to its mother. The two can both create new ghouls on their own, as well as produce two species of lesser vampires.
Sired by mananannggals, pennanggalans are nearly identical to their sires. Both are strictly female, take human form during the day, heal quickly, and leave parts of their bodies behind at night. However, while mananannggals stalk with complete upper torsos, a hunting pennanggalan hovers with only its head, lungs, heart, and digestive tract. While this may seem a poor survival strategy, a pennanggalan is immune to decapitation and heart impalement. Its organs can also move on their own, with its intestines catching and strangling victims before its head makes the kill.
Like mananannggals, pennanggalans need to reunite all pieces of their bodies before daylight. This is hard, as their organs tend to bloat when they feed. A smart vampire hunter can slay one simply by hiding its body. Fire is also effective at slaying them.
Also known as draugrs, nachszehrers, the walking dead, and incorrectly as zombies, revenants are vampiric organisms that can be sired by ghouls, Grendels, Grendel Matriarchs, and even other revenants. Unlike most other vampires, a vampire baptism isnt necessary; it only takes one bite, as one drop of revenant (or ghoul, or grendel, or grendel matriarch) saliva contains enough of the revenant Langsuir strain to infect an entire human.
Revenants are essentially shambling corpses. They have all the physical strength of the human they were, and it decreases over time as they rot. Rigor mortis makes their joints rather stiff: revenants can only shamble and have poor motor skills. They cannot change their shape in any way, or even mutate like the ghouls that came before them. A revenant is a corpse from its conception and will be so until it rots to nothing. They have little to no thinking power; to them, the world is made merely of food (living flesh, preferably human) and obstacles (anything else, even other revenants), with them trying to get the former and ignore or avoid the latter. They cannot reason, and are incredibly stupid.
Like ghouls, the only way to kill a revenant is to destroy its brain. Again, any weapon or method will work as long as the brain control of its body parts (including the head it resides in) is ended. Fire should be reserved for disposing of dead revenants, as a living revenant will continue to move after being set on fire until its brain burns away, becoming a shambling torch in the process.
Considering the facts, revenants often seem like a small threat. It is this attitude that gives them power, as underestimating a revenant can lead to careless behavior. Revenants have a highly effective and infectious strain of Langsuir and should be treated with the same care and precision as any other plague bearing species.
Revenants are generally called zombies in modern society. However, true zombies those made by a voodoo curse, are quite a different matter. They are actually just brain damaged individuals (the damage coming from the various chemicals and powders used in the curse) and are much less destructive that revenants. In fact, they are often rather mild mannered individuals. Nonetheless, the term zombie has become synonymous with revenant, as has ghoul, and the three creatures are thus often confused with one another. This misconception has led to many deaths, and will probably lead to more in the future.
Hollow Chest Man
Sired by either a grendel or grendel matriarch, a hollow chest man looks roughly like a ten foot tall mummified corpse that has been slit from its neck to the end of its belly. The creature has no lower jaw. Instead, the creatures razor sharp teeth grow from either side of its slit save for the section that crosses the rib cage. The ribs break through the skin in the teeths place, making the creatures entire torso its mouth. It has no vital organs within its body, as they have all rotted away. Newly formed internal glands secrete various digestive fluids as the fiendish beast searches for prey. These creatures are made exclusively by Grendels and Grendel Matriarchs. Whether a Grendel or G.M. makes a Hollow Chest Man, Ghoul, or Revenant depends on the mood of the creature when it infects a victim; H.C.M.s occur when the infecting creature feels depressed, while ghouls and revenants occur when it is angry or pleased (respectively). They are frail creatures and can be easily beaten into submission, though the only way to truly kill one is to burn it from the inside out.
Sired by a pennanggalan, a nukenubi takes the form of a normal human during the day (unlike its sire, it can be of any gender). At night its head alone separates from its body to drink blood and generally wreak havoc. Like its predecessors, a nukenubi can be killed by being separated from its body at sunrise or by being burned alive.
Crossbreeds: Jiang Shi and Wendigos
There are two hybrids of Langsuir and the werewolf virus, Lycanfenrir. One uses the strigoi strain of Langsuir, resulting in a beast known as a jiang shi. These undead creatures look like a cross of wolf, ape, bat, and human, possessing horrific talons and gruesome fangs. They tend to have white fur, although if the strigoi strain was obtained from an obayifo strigoi vampire the jiang shi will have glowing green fur instead.
The second hybrid uses the vrykolakas strain. The resulting monster, called a wendigo, looks very similar to a sasquatch (a large North American ape), although it possesses the talons of a vrykolakas and a fang filled mouth. These creatures have blood red eyes and an insatiable blood lust.
Both hybrids periodically turn into humans like their werewolf relatives, although this change is not controlled by the lunar cycle. Wendigos retain their urge to eat people even in human form, though jiang shi tend to exhibit more self-control. Both species can be defeated by any of the methods used to kill a vrykolakas or strigoi. However, like werewolves, both species can always return to life if their corpses are hit by the rays of a full moon, making them truly immortal.


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Grouchy, mean, and just plain old critical. I love games second only to philosophy, and I loved games before philosophy. Yes, you could say games brought me to philosophy, and seeking a higher human purpose. Therefore, I want to point out the greatness of games, and that they may yet bring the slavish lot of us to to something higher then distraction.
To spread the joy of gaming through concerned and loving criticism. This is my mission.
Also, I like to cook.
And I admire Tiff, forever.
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Super Star Punishment
on 12.03.2007
Last week I randomly indulged in a nostalgic whim and picked up copies of Super Star Wars and Super Empire Strikes Back off Ebay. If I remember correctly, I used cheats on these when I was a kid, and I think it was justified.
These games have something that we simply dont get anymore, and I dont think it would be allowed. They are punishing and unforgiving. You do not want to die, and you will die. Both games are not amazing, but play fairly well, probably averaging a low 80s in my book. But even on easy these games are hard. You miss a jump, you die. Bosses will kill you if you are not damn careful. Enemies hurt you bad, and only the plentiful health-power ups prevent you from dying. There are occasional cheap deaths, Wampa freezes you, then whacks you, you slide into spiked pit an die. Yet I dont feel totally cheated, as it was my own stupid ass fault for getting frozen and trying to frontally assault a Wampa. Yes, this game says be careful, take your time, there will be no coasting through this game please.
And I like that. Its been a long time since I have screamed damn it! and other stronger words, and cursed the game. But its my own damn fault. This was what most of gaming was like in the 2-d era, especially Nintendo. Yet the negative reinforcement of punishing a playing for being stupid doesnt really exist anymore. Odin Sphere is hard, but death is of no consequence, you just restart the stage, and you die a lot. But I certainly dont feel there is a penalty for death, except maybe having to play for 10-15 minute to beat a stage.
Least to say there might be a wider cultural thing going on here, with positive reinforcement being the way to train your dog, children, etc. Not that I disagree with the method, but the absolutism against negative reinforcement seems a bit much to me. Its useful and quite necessary here and there, and yes I want my games to punish me for playing badly. I do not want to automatically reload after running and gunning to the moment just before I went running and gunning (yes Halo I am talking about you).
In the Super Star Wars games, if you die, you lose all power ups, both health bar expansions and blasters. On each new level you start with minimum health, through retaining blasters. And often bosses are way harder to beat without blaster power-ups and health extensions. Even on easy. So basically, DO NOT DIE. And I like this brutality, it keeps me interested, it keeps me challenged, it makes me want to prove myself by going back and beating the game on hard. There is a real sense of accomplishment when there is more at stake. Beating Halo and games with the similar instant respawn mechanic just becomes more of a chore than something worthwhile. Game death is a passive experience, with nothing at stake but some time.
Perhaps look at it this way. Why is gaming so damn addicting and rewarding? Because so much is at risk. Yes, risk is a fundamental gameplay mechanic that seems to be dying, and I think I am sad to see it go. Sure its not for casual gamers, who would be turned off by the frustration, but this i why I keep going back to my SNES and NES. There is just something there that I cant get in games of the past 10 years, something really rewarding and satisfying, feeling like I conquered a game, rather than just played through it.
Game Jouralism rears it's ugliness
on 12.03.2007
The termination of Jeff Gerstmann at Gamespot has erupted quite a response. As it should, and fortunately it is opening dialogue about game reviews and game critics. Some of it is rather interesting, most of it is just bitch fest and a lot of I knew game reviews were all lies anyway. But I think it brings up the discussion of how game reviews have evolves, and that the stakes regarding game reviews, and game sales, are at a point where they are uniquely high, especially since the purchasers of games are more likely then ever to read reviews.
Here is a bit of speculative history. Go back to the 80s and early 90s. When the majority of gaming was a market for kids. Video game reviews were sparse, precisely because there was little market for them. Children, and their parents, didnt want to read reviews of games, they just got they wanted. Game journalism emerged as tips and tricks, I remember subscribing to Nintendo Power in 1992, why? I wanted the level maps, the cheat codes, and also a heads up on what new cool games was coming out. The reviews were something I never paid attention to.
But today, I have a plethora of game reviews. So many I dont bother to read them, I just go to an aggregate like Metacritic or game rankings and base my judgment on that. Primarily however, I focus on 3-4 reviews. EGM, IGN, and Gamespot. And I will usually go in and read these reviews, especially if I am debating purchasing a game. Why? Well I know these sites, and their style of review. IGNs generous scores are offset by Gamespots more critical perspective. EGM, with their three scores for an average, I trust the most because of a long history of reading that mag, and the fact it is an average of three reviewers, so if it gets a 90 or an 80, that is of three opinions, not just one. But fundamentally it can be said that game reviews work, they are not bullshit. And with the perspective that meta review sites give you, you know when a score is out of whack. But all this anger over what review scores mean is another topic of passion. But in my own world it goes something like this.
10- an amazing experience, virtually technically flawless, will probable be a classic, breaks new ground
9 - excellent, perhaps not ground breaking, virtually technically flawless, merits purchase, but does not break new ground
8 - solid, some technical flaws, somewhat generic, probably worth the purchase if you have vested interest
7 - decent, has technical flaws, highly generic, not worth purchasing, but perhaps renting
Thats my rough and 7-10 scale, and anything below it is just degrees of badness I dont want to articulate and wouldnt touch. I must admit I dont will spend by money on anything below average of 9. But Im a snob. Games to me arent about the satisfaction of playing at being some movie character, they are about creating mesmerizing works where I can obtain deep satisfaction from playing. Hence I find a lot of games that are technically brilliant, Final Fantasy, Halo, etc pretty disappointing, but I wont argue on their scores too much. Though Halo 3s 10s were a bit over the top. I chock that up to vested interest, which is really the bread and butter of the whole gaming industry.
Vested interest? The excitement, expectation, and desire that go into a new game. Low review scores shatter this, pre-ordering makes it all the stronger. And the industry banks on it, totally depends on it to an extent that is mind boggling. MGS 4 has to sell a million copies in its first month of release? Yeah when we hear that this is vested interest. And its across the board, both for game makers and game consumers. Fanboyism can be often chocked up to vested interest, and I myself have suffered form it (Xenosaga). But it is the vested interest that is the center of the debate, especially for those who purchased game before the review and want to have their investment justified by others. Game journalism sells itself secondarily on reviews, and primarily on vested interest.
Indeed, why is the previews section before the reviews in a gaming magazine? Its all about generating excitement and informing the public about a new and upcoming product. The reviews are a sort of secondary, but necessary function. They are also the staple of the game journalist, the reason his job can be full-time, and really the bulk of the service he provides the reader. Playing and evaluating the games, so you know if you want lay down your money to do the same. He gets paid to do it, and you can bet its one hell of a chore. Previews are the candy and dessert, reviews are the meat and potatoes. And we live in a sugar crazed world.
Now Gabe of Penny Arcade recently pitied the poor reviewers for Assassins Creed. As much as a enjoy Penny-Arcade, and the great things they do. I do not take them seriously as game critics, and game reviewers. They do satire and sarcasm, and their bites are often precise and sharp, but their comments on games tend towards citing annoyances and sustaining the hype. I have to say I bought Puzzle Quest on their word once, a game I never would have looked twice at, and yes its pretty good, but is not nearly as fantastic as I interpreted them to believe. They arent game critics, or journalists. Their essentially political cartoonists, who do a heck of a lot of good in the world with their charity and PAX. And the political cartoon is a wonderful, if unfortunately dying, thing.
But we expect objectivity from how game reviews, for them to see their the hype and tell us how it is, that is except when we want them to justify our hype. And game makers want to sell their games, regardless of how crappy it is. They would love to go back to the days when games were nothing but hype, and reviews were non-existent no doubt. But this would be horrible for the industry, see early 80s Atari. But with all this vested interest, especially this high-stakes financial interest, it is natural that people will get angry, and people will get sacked.
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1. Take away his pasta until he cries.
2. Replace his pasta with Asian noodles and call it pasta.
3. Burn his pasta.
4. For dinner, give him Chef Boyardee.
5. Make him read Germany's magazines.
6. Pull his curl.
7. Actually, pull his curl slowly with a hot hair straightener.
8. Give him gelato soup (melted and warmed-up gelato) for dinner.
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13. Sign him up for boot camp for a whole summer.
14. Tell Romano that Veneziano loves him.
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So here's the heather being stirred in and the resulting heather tea I woke up to. I was surprised, it's darker than I thought it would be.
Here's the wax floating to the surface from the comb (very easy to skim off)
Interesting. I will have to try this at the end of the summer. cheers, robin850
Lost a little more than expected to heather trub... wound up with about 4.5 gal at 1.062, which is still in the range I expected.
Just took a gravity reading. This stuff is amazing!
About 1.016. At 1.015 you're supposed to remove 1/2 gal of must, steep w/ remaining heather, and return. I went ahead and did it because I was close. The must is still fermenting down to my target SG
For those curious, the time has come. This stuff is awesome, dry like champagne and refreshingly tart. Got lots of great feedback at my club about how refreshing/dry/delicious it is
Thanks for posting this! I am taking a slow and steady learning approach to mead making, but this experiment (and others like it) are definitely on my radar for the future. Wicked cool. I might have to get my cousin to send me some heather from the UK.
Reading Buhner's book, it does not seem to me that the Fogg was what did the fermentation, rather it was some kind of psychotropic moss-type thing. If I am reading it right the moss coexists with wild yeasts on the heather plants. As the ingredients are not cheap I would hesitate to rely on wild yeasts to produce a good tasting mead. I have a recipe similar to yours that I was going to try out too. I have a small jar of heather honey ($12 for 340 grams!) but I don't plan to use the whole thing because it has such a powerful flavor and aroma. I thought I might hit up the local bee keeper for a piece of brood comb to put in there too. I made a tincture of propolis a couple years back and when I added 20 ml to the gallon of mead all the resins and waxes came out of solution to make a big cloud that I had to clear out after about 2 years with some chitosan. I did make an all-heather honey/heather blossom mead that cost me $40 a gallon. It is still aging but the aroma of an empty glass that held the mead will fill the room for days afterward. I also make a liqueur with 52.5% heather mead, 10% heather honey and 37.5% scotch whisky. Excellent!


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