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But the current economic crisis has resulted in tremendous pressure on the labor officials from the rank and file, who are bearing the brunt of the crisis through massive job loss, health care termination, home foreclosures and evictions. And although much still needs to change, hopeful signs are sprouting up on the horizon.
For example, in the past several years, organized labor has been passing one antiwar resolution after another. This year the AFL-CIO called for "speedy withdrawal from
But the significance of these resolutions goes beyond a mere symbolic gesture. They represent a break with the official policies of the Democratic Party, since these wars are now Obama's wars. By breaking with the Democratic Party on war, the labor movement is taking a step in the direction of independent political action. That is, rather than cementing itself entirely to the Democratic Party, which is controlled root and branch by corporate
Another important crack is also surfacing. Given the severe government budget deficits on the federal, state and local levels, which have resulted in massive layoffs and reduced public services across the country, unions are taking up the demand of taxing the corporations and the rich in order to raise revenue and save jobs. The Washington State Labor Council has produced a strong resolution calling for taxing the rich, as well as the San Francisco Labor Council, the California Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, the
Taxing the corporations and the rich is a demand that Democratic Party functionaries like to say is "off the table." That means one is not even allowed to discuss it, which is tantamount to denying it any reality. The reason for this stern rebuke is transparently clear: Democratic Party coffers are filled with billions of dollars donated by corporations and the rich. Their donations make those from organized labor pale in comparison.
A third crack in the relation of organized labor to the Democratic Party is breaking through. The Troy (New York) Labor Council has called on the AFL-CIO to organize a demonstration in
In fact, the AFL-CIO itself is already calling for a government-initiated jobs program. Its new president, Richard Trumka, recently observed: "Every day, it becomes more urgent that the federal government step up to the plate with bold actions to boost job creation. Such action should include urgently needed fiscal relief to state and local governments, community jobs programs, additional investments in infrastructure and green jobs and credit relief to small and medium-sized businesses. Failing to act puts us at very real risk of a lost generation of hard-working Americans who can't put food on the table and bright young people who never realize their potential."
As long as organized labor maintains any semblance of its partnership-with-the-employers approach, working people will be compelled to sacrifice for the "good" of the company. If the business moves to another country to take advantage of cheap labor, workers must passively accept their layoffs. If a company orders massive layoffs while requiring the remaining people to work twice as hard, workers will not be allowed to protest. And if wages and benefits are slashed to the core in order to raise profits, workers must submit in silence.
As the above cracks in the partnership testify, however, there is a growing recognition that the interests of workers and their employers do not always converge. And if these trends continue, they will culminate in the recognition that in fact the interests of workers and their employers stand diametrically opposed. First and foremost, businesses produce for a profit. On the other hand, people work simply in order to make a living. The higher the wages and benefits, then the higher is the standard of living. But the profits of the employer are proportionately lower. Therefore, any partnership with the employers will be forged at the expense of the workers. And there can be no doubt that the partnership philosophy has produced uninterrupted loses for the workers during the past four decades.
But if the interests of working people and their employers do not converge, it makes little sense for labor to operate within the Democratic Party, given that corporations and the rich control the Party. In the final analysis, in order for working people to effectively pursue their own interests, they will be compelled to organize their own party — a labor party — that can operate exclusively for them.
In order to encourage these developments further, we urge readers who are in unions to raise resolutions in their locals calling on the AFL-CIO and Change to Win to organize Solidarity Day III in the Spring 2010 in
Below is a Sample Resolution:
Whereas — despite the so-called economic recovery — the economic crisis for working people has continued unabated with growing unemployment and rising home foreclosures and evictions,
And whereas this economic crisis has resulted in the underfunding and degrading of public education and social services,
And whereas the government has bestowed billions of dollars of bailout money on the financial institutions whose recklessness and greed created this economic crisis,
And whereas there is growing opposition to the wars in
And whereas these wars are costing billions of dollars each month,
Therefore be it resolved that the San Francisco Labor Council call on the AFL-CIO and Change to Win to organize a Solidarity Day III march on
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How to Grow Artichokes
comments (26) April 25th, 2009An artichoke plant, which can spread into a silvery green fountain up to 6 feet across, makes a bold, handsome addition to any garden. Best of all, perhaps, this gem of a vegetable can be grown much more easily and in a wider range of climates than you might expect.
I remember having dinner at a friend's home and seeing an artichoke on my plate for the first time. I wondered how I was going to eat this intriguing vegetable. My friend's mom showed me how to approach the task. I plucked the leaves, dipped them in melted butter, and tugged the stem end through my teeth to draw off the tender meat. It was child's play.
Recipe: Steamed Artichokes with Lemon Dipping Butter |
Use the right growing technique for your climate
Sources for artichoke seeds |
The artichoke, Cynara scolymus, can be grown almost everywhere in the United States, except possibly Florida, where the summer is too hot. The ideal growing conditions are cool and moist summers and mild winters.
If you live in a climate colder than Zone 8, your best bet is to start new plants each year. If you have a mild winter and mulch well, the artichokes may survive as perennials. Remember, it's the artichoke's roots that need protection.
Using transplants, you can grow artichokes as annuals in cold-winter climates with 90 to 100 frost-free days. I know people who have grown delicious artichokes in Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts. Artichokes you start indoors in late winter or early spring will be ready to harvest from late summer through early fall.
Gardeners who are lucky enough to have the best growing conditions may be able to harvest artichokes throughout the year. For these people, it would not be unusual to harvest 30 artichokes per year per plant.
Artichoke starting options
There are three ways to begin your artichoke garden: with seed, with shoots taken from existing plants, or with dormant roots. Artichokes are easily started from seed in a greenhouse or under fluorescent lights. Starting in February, I seed directly into 4-inch containers. Getting a head start is a vital step in producing artichokes the first year, whether they are grown as an annual or as a perennial.
How to Start Seeds if you're trying it for the first time, it's helpful to read and see how seasoned gardeners approach the task, from selecting seeds to planting, maintaining, watering, and ultimately planting the young seedlings out in the garden. Visit All About Starting Seeds... |
Artichokes feed heavily, so, for each plant, work into the soil one cup of complete organic fertilizer or a shovel of compost or aged chicken manure just before planting. You can also apply 1⁄2 cup each of feather or blood meal and bone meal for each plant. I raise rabbits, so my plants receive a 2- to 3-inch layer of rabbit manure, on which they thrive. A midseason dressing of aged manure benefits the plants, too, if you have poor soil.
As with some other plants, particularly rhubarb, many of the artichoke plants you start from seed won't turn out to be true to the type described on the seed packet. This happens about 20 percent of the time. I always plant extra artichokes so that I can get rid of the odd fellows and still wind up with the number of plants I want. To do this, I cull the seedlings that don't appear to be thriving. Then I cull again at the end of the season, so I'm left with only plants that produce great-tasting chokes or show other characteristics I want to preserve.
Artichoke has a wide wingspan; it's best to space the plants at least 4 feet apart. | |
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To divide an artichoke plant, first use a knife to cleanly separate a rooted shoot. Then dig deeply with a spade to collect the root mass for relocation. You can replant the separated shoot elsewhere in the garden or give it to a gardening friend. |
You can also buy dormant artichoke roots at some nurseries. Where you live determines when you plant these. In frost-free climates, you can plant in the fall or winter. In other climates, they should be planted in the early spring, spaced the same as rooted shoots. These root shanks should be set in the ground vertically, with the growth buds just above soil surface.
Whatever your choice for starting artichokes, the plants will prosper in slightly acidic soil that is rich in organic matter. Full sun is best unless you live in an area with hot summers, then afternoon shade may prove beneficial.
Keep the planting bed moist, and water the plants as they grow. New shoots will arise from the ground each year. To encourage large, flavorful buds, remove all but one or two of the strongest shoots.
Water well for tender chokes and strong plants
The artichoke part we relish is the immature flower head of the plant, which is a member of the thistle family. There are varieties of artichokes available to suit just about every situation. For a reliable grower in cold climates, try 'Green Globe'. This variety produces heavily and matures early enough to be grown in most areas as an annual. 'Violetto', an Italian variety, produces beautiful purple heads with a slightly elongated bud. It matures a bit later, however, and I have found it unsuitable as an annual. 'Imperial Star' was developed to be grown as an annual. Its tasty buds are round, and they mature about one week earlier than those of 'Green Globe'.
A basket full of artichokes may look like an impenetrable harvest, but cooks seeking a delicious meal see a feast. Click here for artichoke recipes from FineCooking.com. | |
Regardless of the variety you plant, you will want to harvest a tender crop. Many factors can affect the texture of the bud we eat, but the most important for bud tenderness is water. Artichokes need plenty of water to produce those big, succulent buds. You may need to water up to three times a week during a hot, dry spell, especially if it occurs while the buds are forming. Like too little water, an unexpected late frost can also toughen or destroy developing buds.
Water also benefits the artichoke plant's deep roots, which are fleshy and become quite thick. They need to be kept moist, especially during the dry months. I mulch well to conserve moisture. Make sure, however, that all that water is going onto an artichoke garden patch that drains well. Poor drainage can cause the crown of the plant, where the stems sprout, to rot. In my area, it's not the cold winter that kills the plant. Sometimes it's the soggy soil.
Harvest artichokes with a cut across the stem when the buds have swelled but are still firm and closed tight. | If you leave some artichoke buds on the stem, they'll flower into stunning purple thistle-like blooms. |
The buds develop at the tips of 1-inch-thick stalks. The terminal bud is normally the largest and the first to mature. It should be harvested with a slice through the stem just below the bud, which should be large, firm, and tightly closed. If a few buds escape your knife, they will open into spectacular, purple-blue, 6-inch thistlelike flowers. Allowing the buds to flower, however, may reduce the plant's vigor for the following year's crop in perennial plantings. And you wouldn't want that to happen with such a delicious crop.
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Now, you must prepare a little bit. Have hedge clippers in hand as well as something to cover the artichokes up. I use raked dry leaves. I cut the artichokes down to about 4-6" tall. Then I coved with the tree leaves. I chop up the artichoke leaves and compost them.
In the spring, when it starts getting close to freezing at night, I start uncovering the artichokes. I keep the leaves piled like a moat surrounding the artichokes, in case I need to recover them because of a hard frost. You can also use an overturned 5 gallon bucket, but I wouldn't use it for the whole winter. They'll overheat during the day and they might start regrowing and then get bit when the temperature drops.
Last winter, I lost one plant but I still have 9 plants that have overwintered for the last three years. I live in zone 6, used to be zone 5.
I just had my first two of the season. Last year, I got over 200 artichokes. They aren't the huge ones you seen in the stores, but I cook many a lobster sized pot full of them.
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Sweetheart Artichokes site has A LOT of GREAT growing info. They show you how easy it is to grow with success! Pretty much anywhere too!
For any questions try their site: sweetheartartichokes.com
The girls who owns/runs the place is great too. If you have questions that are not answered on their FAQs [which is unlikely], you can contact them for the answer and they get back to you promptly! I love it!
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1. For pest-insect infestations I'm a big fan of organic treatments. My first choice is Neem, a tropical plant extract that is safe and effective. It generally comes in a concentrated spray at any garden center/nursery.
2. If you are in a warm climate where the season is coming to a close, you don't need to do anything to your plants. Just let them die back naturally and then next spring do some maintenance pruning (remove dead, diseased, or damaged sections of the plant) to refresh.
3. For anyone still waiting for fruit at this point in the season—that is normal if you are living in a cooler locale. Here in CT we usually don't start harvesting artichokes until late August early September.
4. As for dividing, this article includes excellent step-by-step instructions. If you're planning on moving your mature plant, I would instead try dividing and transplanting the new shoots. Mature plants don't relocate well.
5. Last, artichokes like a fairly neutral pH, so do a soil test and adjust accordingly.
Hope these answers help!
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1. the small buds opening too soon, you need a little more rabbit fertlizer and water if they are not getting the nourishment from the soil they mature compact. they need growth promoters and water.
2. the aphid problem and you want organic.. lady bugs you can buy at the local nursery... if there are aphids the lady bugs will stay and eat the tasty bugs as their main diet. (some bgs are good bugs) or drape them with some ultra fine mosquito netting.
3. the plants growing abilities and contingent on your watering and fertlizing and the soil conditions..... but they grow fairly vigerous from a 6" plant to a 36" bloomer within a few months and grow larger if you protect them from the cold in the winter. (in utah they are on the south side of my house and over winter fine... i protect them with bales of straw as an additional plant saver.
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This past week I bought a brand new (Verizon) PalmOne Treo 650. So I am officially back in the PalmOS camp, and happy to be there. I want to thank everyone for their input as I looked for my next PDA. As you will see when I write about it later, the 650 or any other PDA is not perfection, but it really seems to be excellent and well-built.
But in this article, I'll talk a little about my impressions of PalmOS after my brief stay on the "dark side." And, of course, I'll talk a little about the conversion process. After the trials and tribulations of going from PalmOS to Pocket PC, I wondered whether it would be difficult going the other way. So far, not really. It has been a bit time consuming, but easy due to a few factors...
It was pretty easy to set up everything. I don't like software that simplifies by not telling you exactly what's happening behind the scenes. That info should be available if you want it, even if it's not the main info on the screen. If files are being queued for hotsync, then say so. If existing data on the device will be maintained with the first default hotsync settings, then let us know that. If an application is only putting the installer on the Palm, tell us that. And if there is anything at all being installed by an application that will not be deleted automatically when the application is deleted, by all means tell us what files are there and whether or not we can delete them. You know, it's MY memory. And in the case of the Treo 650, it's pretty scarce. I'd really like a list of all files that come with the 650, so I can distinguish things that are "piling on." In fact, every app ought to have documentation to let you know what files are created or installed for that application, by version. I don't like carrying around files like "Temp Install Data 320" and "Jack" and "TinyChart" on my PDA and not being able to delete them because I don't know what they are 100% percent. I guess this is a computing issue, not just PalmOS and not just PDAs. But I just don't understand why no one has solved it yet. Doesn't anyone else want to be able to keep their machine "clean"? Believe it or not, I miss ActiveSync. Wow. That is something that really amazes me. I don't miss the sync errors without an error message or error log telling you what record had a problem, but I do miss the constant synchronizing. With Palm Hotsync, you have to sync everything when something gets changed that you want to have updated on both sides (unless you go to the bother of changing the custom hotsync properties). No a big deal, but a bit of a nuisance when doing all the installs to set it up initially. The biggest issues with going back to PalmOS for me are going to be the drop off in PIM applications, and the lack of a nice PC-like file system. With regard to the PIMs, there's no comparing Pocket Informant on PPC and the built-in PIM apps, or DateBk5, or Agendus. Pocket Informant is a great program. It works great and it looks great, and it has all the right custom preferences. The Palm apps get the job done, but are not as easy to use, not as easy to see what's what, and are basically pretty ugly. Because this is one of the most important things any PDA will do, I don't know why PalmSource doesn't work with someone like the Pocket Informant people to build something like that on PalmOS that can be added to the OS bundle, or at least bundled by device makers with the device. It just makes me shake my head when I think about the state of PIM apps on PalmOS. As far as the file system, yes, I know that PalmSource considers a PC file system to be an inappropriate model for a PDA. But as a user, I'm afraid I like it because of the way it changes how I work with files. For one thing, it means there's no learning curve, and you don't have to worry about .pdb extensions or wonder what kind of file is in that .pdb. For another, a "regular" file system means that I can keep files organized in folders so they are easier to work with. And finally, it makes it so much easier to integrate with my PC files. For example, on PPC, a program called Tombo has folder based hierarchical sets of text files to keep info in. There's a desktop app that you can use on your PC, but you don't even need it if you have ActiveSync and NotePad because you can just edit them from your PC and ActiveSync keeps everything matched up with your PDA. It works great. I don't care what's under the covers, but I like it when it looks like folders and files when I see them. Palm may be moving that way with the mobile manager category. I hope so. What do I like about PalmOS? Well, I've always had a special place in my heart for Palm. But I also do like the simplicity, even if it's in a sort of retro fashion. It's not flashy, and almost reminds you of Notepad as opposed to MS Word. I'm sure I use Notepad a whole lot more than MS Word, even though eveyone agrees that MS Word is much "better," at least in capabilities. But I enjoy it more when I use Notepad. The Zen of Palm is real, and there's always an emphasis on usability and tap count reduction. The beginnings of one hand operation are impressive even though not all apps fully support it. Project Rome is going to bring much more ease of use to the table in future Palm devices, especially for one handed operation and for small screens. It's hard to put into words, but Palm is just plain "nice." Stay tuned for more. I'll be sure to give my first impressions on the Treo 650 phone itself. 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This is interesting. I'm getting kind of tired of my cell and have been thinking about making the leap to either the 650 or the Razr. The latter is being offered free with a carrier switch to Cingular, but the contract is 2 years, and I've not heard great things about Cingular in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The 650 intrigues me because I could give my T3 away to my friend who plays with mine all the time and desperately wants one. Two birds, one stone. Unfortunately, TMo doesn't carry either of these units yet. The Razr is coming in July, but I don't know what kind of upgrade they'd give me. Probably will not be a freebie. I'm interested in your experiences with Verizon. How's the service? How's the reception? Did you have to sign a 2-yr contract? Which plan did you get? And welcome back to the darkside. It's sunny, eh? |
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Chicken Soup with Mushroom Dumplings
Posted By Linda Capeloto Sendowski On October 12, 2011 @ 12:19 AM In Cookbook,Holidays,Rosh Hashanah | No Comments
Rich and fragrant, chicken soup is liquid gold. When you make soup, start with fresh ingredients, real chicken, vegetables, and water. You don't need bullion cubes with all that extra salt and perhaps other artificial ingredients. I make a large pot of soup and freeze some of the pure golden liquid for future uses. With Sukkot coming, and eating outside the plan, soup is a good thing to put on the menu to ward off the chill in the night air.
Serves 15 to 20
One very large stock pot
10 quarts water
2 whole chickens 3 to 4 pounds each
3 large parsnips, peeled and washed
6 medium carrots, peeled and washed
2 large yellow onions, peeled
2 leaks, trimmed and washed
5 stalks celery, washed
1 bunch parsley, washed
4 whole garlic cloves, peeled
2 sprigs fresh dill
Sea Salt & fresh cracked pepper [1]
[2]Place water in stock pot over high heat and bring to a boil. While waiting for water to boil, prepare chicken and vegetables. Clean chickens very well, removing any excess feathers. Discard gizzards and necks. Reserve livers for another use. Place chickens in stock pot. Bring water back to a boil, skim all foam, and scum as it rises to the top. Discard foam and scum. While you are skimming soup, continue preparing vegetables. Cut parsnips, carrots, and leek in halves. Slice onions by making a cross but not going all the way through so that they will stay whole. Cut each celery rib in two or three large chunks. Tear off parsley leaves from stems. When there is no more scum forming, and soup looks clear, add washed and prepared vegetables. Throw in garlic cloves. I leave the vegetables in big chunks so that they are easily removed when the soup is finished. [3]
[4]Let the soup simmer for 2 to 4 hours and skim the yellow fat that rises to the top and coagulates. If you make this a day or two before you need it, you can refrigerate soup and all the fat that remains will congeal on the top where it is easy to lift off.
Remove all chicken, bones, and vegetables before using stock. Discard bones, skin, and mushy vegetables. Season clear stock with salt and pepper to your taste before serving. You can serve this as soup by adding matzo balls or noodles, and adding back in some chicken, shredded. It can be the base for any kind of soup such as tomato, or mushroom, vegetable, or you can use it when recipes call for stock. [5]
For Mushroom Dumplings:
14 ounces of white button mushrooms
16 ounces shitake mushrooms
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 large shallot
3 large garlic cloves
1/ 2 cup finely chopped parsley
Sea salt to taste
Freshly ground pepper to taste
3 tablespoons Tio Pepe light sherry extra dry (kosher)
1 package of, wonton, gyoza, or pot sticker wrappers, about 2 and 1/ 2 inches square size [6]
8 to 10 green onions or scallions, thin ones, washed dried and sliced thin on an angle
Clean mushrooms, slice in thin slices and then, cut crosswise into small dice. Pre-heat a large sauté pan on high. Mince shallot and garlic. Add olive oil to hot pan and immediately add mushrooms. Stir mushroom with two wooden spoons or bamboo stir fry paddles. Mushrooms should not release any liquid but just turn golden. Add in garlic and shallot, and then stir. Add in parsley, stir. Season with salt and pepper. When mushrooms are sticking to pan and thoroughly cooked, deglaze with Tio Pepe. Remove pan from heat when Tio Pepe has evaporated. Place cooked mushroom filling in a bowl to cool off.
[7]When filling is cool, open package of wrappers. Place one wrapper on work surface. Prepare a small bowl of water to dip your fingers in. Dip you index finger in bowl of water, then paint one right angle edge of the wrapper dough with water so that when you fold the dumpling it will stick together. Place one teaspoon (the kind you eat with) of mushroom filling in the center of dough and fold in half to form a triangle, leaving one corner un-stuck. [8] [9] With the longest side of the triangle facing you, fold in the two points collapsing one point into the unsealed opening of the other point. Seal with water. Fold over top of the triangle and place dumpling on a plate sprayed with olive oil. Repeat until you have made enough dumplings for as many bowls of soup as you have guests, times three (three dumplings each). [10]
[11]Bring a large stock pot full of water to a boil. Salt the water with a half a teaspoon. Place dumplings in water and cook for about 3 to 4 minutes. Carefully remove dumplings and place on a plate sprayed with olive oil. You may make dumplings a day ahead and refrigerate. [12]
To serve soup, heat soup, place three room temperature dumplings in bottom of soup bowl, ladle hot soup into bowls. Garnish with slivered green onions, scallions. Serve. [13]
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Doctor Strange would win. His powers are on par with Silver Surfer and he's been fighting demon lords like Dormammu and Mephisto by himself in which Jin can't defeat any of them.
Is this a joke?? Doctor Strange wins here. His powers are on par with Silver Surfer like what @MarvelAvengersAlliance10 said. Let's compare Jin with the Devil Gene vs Doctor Strange.
Jin with Devil:
Laser beam eyes?? Those lasers just shoot on straight line
Flight?? Oh come on, Strange doesn't need wings to fly. he can also teleport in which Jin cannot do.
Doctor Strange:
Sorcery: His sorcery skills are on par on Silver Surfer's power level.
And also, he has fought demon lords like Pluto, Dormammu, and Mephisto. Can Jin handle any of them? NO!
Doctor Strange has this...
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Again, what is this?
Fight takes place in New York City, but warped into Underworld. Who will win?
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Strange wins though, in a stomp. I love Tekken, but no one from the Tekken universe can mess with Strange, even the depowered Strange pictured.
Doctor Strange alone can solo the entire Tekken Universe
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We are a desperate group of gamers: I know, we are all desperate for a really good MMORPG but if we continue to support these crappy games we will never get the industry change.
Only you can stop this by not supporting the games until they deliver what they promise. Yes, of cause, this genre of games do improve and get better over time but why throw money at them NOW when you have no way to tell if any of the features ever going to be delivered. Why not wait until all the promised features are delivered and then buy it? I know, its crazy how much sense this makes but for some reason we are idiots (i include myself) that throw money at half assed games in the hope "They will fix it after release" because "an MMORPG is never finished" and "They said they will add [insert feature X here]". THIS HAS TO STOP NOW! __________________________________________________________________________ Crowdmilking: This year will be no different than the last 10. The only thing that is changing right now is that every one of them tries to get as much money as they can before the game is actually released. A new trend that is influenced by the Kickstarter crowdfunding movement. I call it "Crowdmilking".
_________________________________________________________________________ The Revolution has to start now, this year, or we will be stuck with more and more of the same money grabs and boring themeparks for decades to come. (ps: don't take the revolution thing litterally please, this is about bad practices of gaming companies not about starting a revolution)
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Great, Occupy MMORPG! Please, count me out. Top Games Played in 2014: World of Tanks, World of Warcraft |
The problem with your approach for me, is that I would feel like a total tool following you.
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2010/QBlog190810A.html |
I agree. Now if the paid beta is like AoW. More polished and more content than 3 of last years games put together, for $9... I'm crossing the line and buying in... Let's talk about NDA too. NDA means your game is bad plain and simple. http://www.twitch.tv/sunshineNB |
Originally posted by waynejr2 And why exactly is that? See, this is the problem. Think for yourself not follow. How about you make your own decisions and stop following anyone? After all it's your decision what you do with your money and time. All i am saying is that something needs to be done or things will never change. Only we can change this, or are you saying it will magically fix itself eventually? |
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Originally posted by bcbully I'm sorry, what? to OP, this whole stink again?, listen i get it, but posting here about this "great" "finding" isn't going to change ever MMORPG player. The majority of people playing MMORPGs keep buying, so they'll keep producing, unless u can get everyone that stills plays MMOs after leaving WoW you're screaming at, basically, no one. |
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Originally posted by june32nd No idea what you are talking about. There is no "great" "finding". I am making an argument to take a step back and look at what is really happening. Not screaming at anyone either. Unless you have a counter argument or add to the discussion there is no need for you to post. |
What's the problem with beta's and public beta weekends? Why you can't try the game yourself, skip the reviews and make your own opinion? Your experience with game is too small to do it? I seriously don't get it, no offence.
2012 was the best year for MMOs since 2004 IMHO,, had several MMOs with plenty of new ideas for the genre.. i feel 2013 with a slew of promising games coming will build on what we saw in 2012.. I feel 2013 will be the best year for MMOs ever:)
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
Originally posted by taus01 Are you posting this just to be a jerk to the guy who posted earlier another thread titled "This is might be a good for mmorpgs" or something like that? If so, that's a pretty lame thing to do. :/ |
Originally posted by Aerowyn I hope youre right.. Im not holding much stock in Neverwinter or ESO,but games like Archeage,The Repopulation, and maybe Defiance Im holding out hope for. |
Originally posted by tank017 also got wildstar to look forward to and possibly blade & soul and slim chance of black desert as well oh forgot ffxiv RR as well I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
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i dunno. teso's shaping up into something... interesting. archeage is coming our way, as is cu, wildstar, and ffxiv. and that's only to name a few. plus we have a whole plethora of great games expanding (gw2, eve, ps2, tera, etc.). no i'd say 2013 is looking pretty shiny. but hey. time will tell. sure we'll have some flops, but i think we're gonna have some pretty darn decent games this year.
Originally posted by aRtFuLThinG How about you read what i wrote instead of comparing posts or making weird assumptions about my intentions. I have no idea why anyone would search through the forum for similar threads and make a posts like this. Sorry, i just don't understand the point of your post. Maybe if you had something valuable to say or add to the argument? |
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Originally posted by atticusbc I removed the other titles because I wanted to focus on this one. Why oh why are we not in the least bit skeptic about this ? it already launched once and did...how it did. And we wonder why we get crappy MMOs. This right here is why. Maybe the new xiv will be good, maybe it won't. Given its past shouldn't we look at it from the cautious standpoint? UGH...it seems the developrs are the ones who learne to "play the game". develop cheaply, cash in quickly, get out while ahead. I thought we're the players not them. It seems they're playing us. |
Originally posted by taus01 been playing gw2 for over 6 months now and don't see myself stopping anytime so.. game has a slew of new/streamlined ideas for the genre, TSW has some great new ideas as well and you have TERA that brought good action combat as well.. just because you didn't find interest in any of those doesn't mean the year was a failure.. Think its a good lead in to the slew of games coming in 2013 I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
Originally posted by Aerowyn Different strokes for different folks. As 2012 started I was leaving Everquest II behind with a deep resentment over how the game was being handled by SOE and the direction it was taking. I decided to move to Rift for a while as it had been fun to play during the extended outage SOE had due to the hacking instance. I expected that one of the AAA games due to be released would be a good fit and truely exciting. Instead I was deeply disappointed with both The Secret World and Guild Wars II. While these games have found an audience they were not for me. Star Wars was also disappointing. So I stayed playing Rift and had a good time doing so. However things started to look a little shakey around September with a number of changes that started to come into that game. I was reassured by the announcement of the Storm Legion but then had a hot and cold reaction to it. One week excited the next worried and so on until the release and playing through the new content and then starting to do the new end game content. By the end of January it was clear to me that my time in Rift was over, the new producer "Elrar" was taking the game in a direction I did not like. So here I am, and looking at the games that have been announced for this year I am already disppointed. There seems to be nothing on the table at the moment that looks to be worth downloading to my computer. Never mind an MMORPG to play for the next three years. EQnext may be interesting, it may be here by the end of the year. Or not. I have been starting to hear that it will have a strong PvP focus. If so that to will be a game I will not download. It still seems strange to me that in a genre called MMORPG that there are currently no games that encourage first person role playing. The last of these seems to have been the first of these, Everquest. |
Would Join u but your talking mmorpg. my issue is things called Games like The new Aliens game and oh yeah Duke Nukem Forever which are both worst then what your talking about.


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