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Situated within the Hippodrome Theatre on North Eutaw Street, Hip Cafe is a relaxing venue to stop by for a bite. The menu features a light fare including dishes like sandwiches, salads, soups and more. This eighty five seater restaurant takes reservations online through their website. Hip Cafe is a great venue for some grub before or after a theatre show. The neighborhood employees also frequent this restaurant. Hip Cafe provides catering services as well. Call ahead for more information.
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Grandmother Randolph's Eggnog
This one is exceptional, but is not what you expect from a carton at the store. This is much thinner and lighter. This recipe is designed for he liquor that is in it, and it does not turn out right as a non-alcoholic beverage. This does contain raw eggs, but we have presented this on Christmas Eve and at Christmas and New Years parties for years to hundreds with no ill effects.
Yield: 16 servings ( Serving Size: punch cups )
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- 12 Eggs separated
- 1 cup(s) granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup(s) Brandy
- 1 cup(s) rum
- 1-1/2 quart(s) Milk
- 1-1/4 teaspoon(s) Nutmeg
- In large bowl, beat egg yolks until thick; gradually add sugar, beating until thick and lemon-colored. Add ½ cup brandy, drop by drop, beating. Then add whiskey and rum the same way. Refrigerate overnight, along with egg whites.
- Stir in mink and nutmeg. At serving time, beat egg whites in large bowl until peaks form when beater is raised; fold into milk mixture. Nice with shortbread, pound cake or fruitcake, etc.
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Marines tell spouses clubs: admit same-sex spouses
Wednesday - 1/9/2013, 5:15pm EST
By DAVID CRARY
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Marine Corps has advised its legal staff that spouses clubs operating on its installations must admit same-sex spouses if they wish to remain on the bases.
It's a step that the other service branches have not yet announced as they grapple with how to accommodate same-sex couples following repeal of the don't ask, don't tell policy that barred gays and lesbians from serving openly.
Underscoring the challenges, the Marines' legal advisory _ obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press _ refers to an ongoing controversy at the Army's Fort Bragg in North Carolina where the officers' spouses club has denied admission to a same-sex spouse.
The Marine Corps commandant's Staff Judge Advocate, in an e-mail to legal offices throughout the corps, said the Fort Bragg events had "caused quite a stir" and cautioned, "We do not want a story like this developing in our backyard."
The memo noted that spouses clubs and various other private institutions are allowed to operate on bases only if they adhere to a non-discrimination policy encompassing race, religion, gender, age, disability and national origin.
"We would interpret a spouses club's decision to exclude a same-sex spouse as sexual discrimination because the exclusion was based upon the spouse's sex," the memo said.
A Marine Corps spokesman, Capt. Eric Flanagan, said the Marines cannot directly control the actions of independent organizations such as spouses' clubs, but added, "We expect that all who are interested in supporting Marine Corps Family Readiness would be welcome to participate and will be treated with dignity and respect."
The Defense Department has not issued similar guidance covering all service branches, and for now is taking the stance that the Fort Bragg spouses club is conforming with the existing rules because the non-discrimination clause does not extend to sexual orientation.
Stephen Peters of the American Military Partner Association, which advocates on behalf of partners and spouses of lesbian and gay service members, praised the Marine Corps _ which had been the service branch most uneasy about repeal of don't ask, don't tell.
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Peters said his organization would urge the Pentagon to implement a military-wide policy that would open all spouses clubs to same-sex spouses.
"You can't have different standards with the different branches," he said.
Peters' organization has been one of several groups advocating on behalf of Ashley Broadway, the wife of Fort Bragg-based Lt. Col. Heather Mack, after Broadway was denied admittance into the officers' spouses club.
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I have been wanting to write this post for a while. I get asked this question a lot, so here is my take on which hardware you should choose for your white kitchen:
I would only recommend black if you have black countertops (above).
Personally, I would not want the hardware in my kitchen to be the first thing I notice when I walk in. If you love yours and want them to be visually more important than anything else? Go for it.
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Use brown with brown countertops. These don't stick out visually as much as the black ones do but there are less of them here.
Chrome became the finish of choice in one job a few years ago when I was specifying faucets and pulls for a builder, and it was always the one in stock and the least expensive.
I prefer chrome over brushed nickel because they look the most like jewelry for the kitchen. Obviously this will not work for every kitchen though. If your kitchen is more cottage or countrified (for example) chrome might be too blingy looking.
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I think this category is safe. Not to shiny, not too dark, goes with all your stainless appliances. Can't go wrong really.
Although this kitchen is just pretty, pretty, pretty, I personally think brass is typically too warm to install in a white kitchen. Just like in this post when I said brown goes with cream and black goes with white, leave that tone to a stained wood cabinet. And you'd definitely have to repeat it somewhere as they've done here in the light fixtures.
Make sure you choose a combination of pulls and knobs, knobs for the doors and pulls for the drawers. If you have some skinny drawers at the top, install two knobs instead of a pull which sometimes looks too tight depending on which one you use. Check out my pinterest boards for pulls and knobs I like.
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These tall types should be obtained and put into worldwide trials. Some trials should involve side-by-side comparisons with kenaf.
Bioabsorbents Pith, as we've said, comprises a major part of the stem. In kenaf it is proving suitable for animal bedding, oil-absorbents, chicken litter, kitty litter, and potting soil. Okra pith samples should be gathered and compared with kenaf's. For these purposes, the two crops are less in competition than in cohoots. They can undoubtedly be marketed together and perhaps even mixed, thereby building a bigger, broader, and safer base of supply. Demand for bioabsorbents like these is likely to soar, both for the needs of environmental health and public health around the globe.
Horticultural Development Although there has been considerable selection and breeding of okra, it has emphasized the production of immature pods. The rest of the fantastic genetic diversity within this species is basically untapped, or even unexplored. That situation should be changed, and fast. Germplasm needs to be gathered up not only in Africa but also in Asia and other regions that know the crop.
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early chipset initialization (Error 1d) - I had this error for a long time too, and no one, even on the eVGA website (my mobo) knew or could spell out how to fix it. Your info here was GREAT! insta-fix. Turns out my brand new board came with the old bios, and doesn't properly support the ram speeds/voltages, even though they are the factory defaults. SUCK. I put just one stick of ram in the S3 (last ram slot farthest from the processor) and VIOLA it boots now!
!@$!@ if I didn't spend soooo much time on this.
I am rather uhappy that eVGA would both release a mobo with this kind of stupid bios error, and then on top of it not even mention the fix anywhere on their site! I hope word of this gets around, cause it seems to be a pretty common problem.
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Teaching Horses How To Bow the RIGHT Way?
I want to start teaching Penny some tricks, because she seems like a little the circus type of pony, haha. So, I thought I would start with something that, from what I have heard, is fun and relatively simple :) I have heard that there is a good and a bad way to train them how to bow, and I was wondering how to do it the good way?
You want to teach her to bow down on one knee. There was a thread entitled "stop teaching horses to bow like this" I think, in this section...
here it is http://www.horseforum.com/horse-trai...ses-bow-37603/
This is how I taught my yearling.
First, makes sure you have lots of open space, and you have no other animals that will get in the way. As well as a nice soft cushy ground.
I stood on Gracie's left side, and I had her lead rope on her right side draped over her neck. Facing her just like I would to pick her hoof, I grabbed her left foot, and gently tugged on the lead rope, tugging her face to the right and backwards, and the lead rope pressure on her neck asked her to come towards me. AS SOON as she lowered her left knee [knee, not hoof] I released and walked on. We came back to it a minute or so later and repeated the process. It only took her a few tries. She has a harder time bowing on her right knee, but I can walk up to her halterless, pick up her left foot and "tickle" her in between her front legs and she'll bow. =]
**I just want to put my 2 sense in here, give them a different cue to bow and not the same one as picking up their feet. (With Romeo I tap him on the chest and say "Bow") So that when your farrier comes to clean them up, they don't bow on him! lol!
Thanks so much, all of you! I went out and worked with her before I read ricci's post and didn't have much success xD Part of the problem was that even though I lunged her before the lesson, she was SO hyper, so then I took her into the big pen and swung the rope and she TOOK OFF and did about 10 laps of full blown gallop a million miles and hour lol!
The cue is scratching between her front legs, but you can't really teach to bow without manipulating their body to show them what you want first. First it was manipulating her body, then a combination of foot, tug, and chest, then just foot and chest, and then just tickling her chest. It's much easier that way, otherwise your going to spend hours poking a horse and hoping it does what you want. o_O
Also, she still picks her feet up fine, and won't try to bow unless you ask with a tickle. =]
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Rupert Murdoch will not be adding Time Warner to his media empire after all, as 21st Century Fox announced Tuesday it was withdrawing its bid to acquire the rival company. In a statement, Murdoch, Fox's CEO, said concerns about the impact a festering deal would have on the company's stock price, combined with Time Warner's disinterest in striking a deal, convinced him to yank the offer.
"Our proposal had significant strategic merit and compelling financial rationale and our approach had always been friendly," he said. "However, Time Warner management and its Board refused to engage with us to explore an offer which was highly compelling."
Time Warner last month rejected an $80 billion bid it considered an attempt at a hostile takeover. Yet the rejection was seen by some as simply the prelude to continued negotiations and, ultimately a deal. Had such a deal gone through, it would have joined the two largest cable providers in the country. Jon Terbush
A new CNN/ORC poll found that Americans have a favorable view of George W. Bush — more favorable, in fact, than their view of President Obama.
Politico notes that the poll, released Wednesday, marks the first time Americans have expressed favorable opinions of Bush since April 2005. Fifty-two percent of poll respondents said they viewed Bush favorably, while 49 percent of Americans viewed Obama favorably.
Forty-nine percent of Americans viewed Obama unfavorably, meanwhile, compared with 43 percent for Bush. Disapproval of Obama's job is increasing, too, CNN notes: 52 percent of respondents agreed that things in America are "going badly." Fifty-three percent of respondents disapproved of how Obama is handling the economy, while 63 percent disapproved of how Obama has responded to ISIS.
The poll, conducted from May 29 to May 31 via phone, surveyed 1,025 Americans and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. Meghan DeMaria
Now that President Obama has signed the USA Freedom Act, the National Security Agency will start collecting telephone metadata en masse again for six months, until the new system is up and running. At that point, phone companies will have to store that information — length of calls, numbers dialed, not content — for an unspecified amount of time, and the NSA and other spy agencies will need to get a court order to search through it.
But what about the years of phone records the NSA has already amassed? It's not clear, The Associated Press reports. "Obama administration officials have not said what they will do with those and whether they will continue to search them." AP does have other, more definitive answers in its Q&A about the Freedom Act, which you can read for further information. Peter Weber
On Wednesday, at the close of an international summit in Paris on fighting Islamic State, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the 9-month-old U.S.-led air campaign has killed more than 10,000 militants. "We have seen a lot of losses within Daesh [ISIS] since the start of this campaign, more than 10,000," Blinken told France Inter radio. "It will end up having an impact."
You might have noticed the future tense. Along with criticism of the U.S.-led air campaign among U.S. conservatives, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi complained to the conference that the international community isn't doing enough to help Iraq fight ISIS. "At the start of this campaign (we) said it would take time," Blinken said. "We have conceived a three-year plan and we're nine months into it." Peter Weber
On Monday's Daily Show, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal said he didn't think the U.S. deserved blame for creating ISIS and politely dismissed Jon Stewart's theory that the battle against Islamic State is a convoluted rematch of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. But this is Jon Stewart's show, so on Tuesday, he elaborated on that theory.
Stewart started out by playing clips of various Republicans accusing President Obama of creating ISIS by pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, which, he noted, was set in motion by George W. Bush. That wasn't Stewart's only problem with the Obama-did-it charge, but he didn't stop with tracing ISIS's roots to Bush's 2003 invasion. Using the GOP's proposed solution to ISIS — arming some faction — Stewart took a look back at America's poor track record in the region. "America is like Wile E. Coyote," he said: "Every time we send a weapon into the desert, it ends up exactly where we don't want it to end up."
The short version of Stewart's history lesson is that the U.S. armed Iraq's Baathists against Iran in the '80s, fought Iraq's Baathists in the '90s and '00s, and are now essentially allied with Iran against those same Iraqis, now rebranded as ISIS. Stewart's version is more entertaining and detailed. You can watch below. Peter Weber
On Wednesday, Interpol issued "red notices" for two former FIFA officials and four sports marketing executives, adding them to the international police agency's most-wanted list at the request of the U.S., which has warrants out for their arrest. The two FIFA officials, former vice president Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago (pictured) and Paraguayan official Nicolas Leoz, have already been arrested in their home countries, though Warner was released. The red notices mean they travel abroad at their own risk. The four sports executives are from Argentina and Brazil. Peter Weber
On Tuesday, a police officer and FBI agent in Boston shot dead Usaama Rahim, 26, a Boston resident who police said had been under 24-hour surveillance by anti-terrorism investigators. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said the agent and officer had approached Rahim outside a CVS to ask him about "some terrorist-related information we had received." Late Tuesday, FBI agents arrested a man named David Wright in the Boston suburb of Everett in connection with the Rahim investigation.
Rahim pulled out a military-style knife and approached the officers, who backed away and drew their guns, Evans said, and the officers fired when they felt Rahim was threatening their lives. He said there is video of the encounter. "We believed he was a threat," Evans said of Rahim. "He was someone we were watching for quite a time — constant dialogue between us and the FBI. The level of alarm brought us to question him today. I don't think anyone expected the reaction we were going to get out of him."
Ramon's brother, Ibrahim Rahim, an imam in California, disputed the police account in a Facebook post, saying police shot Usaama Rahim in the back. "He was on his cellphone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness," Ibrahim Rahim added, and his last words were "I can't breathe." You can watch Evans tell the police side of the story below. Peter Weber
With Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce, showing off her new female body on the cover of Vanity Fair, Jon Stewart was preparing for the worst. "It's especially brave of Caitlyn Jenner to do this publicly, because we all know the media," he said on Tuesday's Daily Show. "They're awful, and now we're going to have to listen to a lot of people saying awful things about this." Except that, with few exceptions, people said really nice, welcoming things.
Stewart was pleasantly surprised, for a moment. "It's really heartening to see that everyone is willing to not only accept Caitlyn Jenner as a woman, but to waste no time in treating her like a woman," he said, and that's not all good. It was a small jump from congratulations to ogling, then comparing Jenner's sexual allure to other Hollywood women. While we're at it, Stewart sighed, "why don't we throw in a little slut-shaming with a dash of 'Eh, she's probably not that hot in person'?" And they did. You can watch below. Peter Weber


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Wednesday will be a busy day for Bethlehem Central High School sports fans.
Both the girls soccer and volleyball teams will try to defend their Section II Class AA titles against representatives from Shenendehowa. The girls soccer game starts at 6:30 p.m. at Stillwater High School, while the girls volleyball final takes place around the same time at Queensbury High School.
The Bethlehem girls volleyball team enters Wednesday's match against Shen with a 17-1 record that in-cludes a 3-2 victory over the Plainsmen earlier this season.
Shen is going to be a very tough match, said Bethlehem coach Lisa Kniffen. "All five games we played them were very close. I don't think there was more than a four-point margin in any of those games."
Bethlehem's girls soccer team enters its championship game with an equally impressive 17-1 record. The Lady Eagles defeated Shen 1-0 in their only regular season meeting Oct. 1.
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Are you all revved up and ready to go for the 2013 college football season? Week 15 is here, and that means it's time to break down all of the NCAA football odds that you have in front of you to sink your teeth into!
And then there were three… There are just three undefeated teams left in the nation, and all three will be putting their perfect records on the line in this, the last week of college football's regular season.
The biggest winner of the bunch over the course of the last several weeks has been the Florida State Seminoles, who have gone from the team that no one figured had a shot of beating the Clemson Tigers three months ago to the team which is #1 in the country with the best chance of winning the National Championship. The Seminoles have only had one game this entire season that they didn't win by at least four touchdowns, but that's the margin which they are favored by in the ACC Championship Game over the Duke Blue Devils. This is the best season the Dookies have had in years, and they were proud to celebrate the ACC Coastal Division championship after beating the North Carolina Tar Heels last week. Still, they are the biggest underdogs on the board in Week 15, and they are surely in a heck of a lot of trouble, as they go in search of their first BCS bowl game in school history.
In fact, there isn't another game on the docket which features a point spread of more than 13.5 points. The team favored by 13.5 is the Baylor Bears, who are favored over the Texas Longhorns in the last game ever played in Waco. Baylor will move into a stadium on its campus next season, and it would love nothing more than to win a share of the Big XII title this year in the last game played at Floyd Casey Stadium. Texas still has its sights set on the BCS as well, and a win in this game would at least keep the door open for that to happen.
The bottom line for both of these teams though, is that they both need the Oklahoma State Cowboys to lose on Saturday as well. The Pokes are 10.5-point favorites over the Oklahoma Sooners, and winning this game would give them the Big XII title and the trip to the Fiesta Bowl, at absolute minimum. There is still an outside chance to get into the National Championship Game, but it would take a whole heck of a lot for that to happen, and even all of those things happening still doesn't guarantee a thing. Bedlam is a weird series though, and the pressure is going to be squarely on the backs of the Pokes in this one. They have everything on the line. A loss, and the team can't win the Big XII and will probably end up in the Cotton Bowl at best. A win, and it's off to the BCS. Oklahoma knows that it will have a case to be in the BCS with a win as an at large, though it can't win the conference crown due to the fact that Baylor and Texas are playing against each other on Saturday as well.
The Ohio State Buckeyes are involved in what might be the most intriguing of the conference title games this week, as they have a date with the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday in Indianapolis. The Buckeyes have won 24 games in a row, the longest winning streak in the nation by 11 games over Florida State's 13. They only have one win against a team ranked in the Top 25 right now, that being a seven-point escape from the Wisconsin Badgers. That's going to have to change in this one. The debate will rage forever and ever as to who would deserve to be in the National Championship Game if the Buckeyes were to win this one by a close margin, and that's what the oddsmakers are thinking will happen. OSU is -6 in the Big Ten Championship Game over the Michigan State Spartans, who have quietly been amongst the best teams in the country. MSU has a very slight chance to play for all of the marbles as well, and it knows that winning this game is very possibly the only way to get into the BCS. However, if the Buckeyes go to the title game and the Spartans end up staying in the Top 14 of the BCS, there is a good chance that this game will literally have no bearing whatsoever on the bowl game which they will go to. Sparty would be off to Pasadena either way for the Rose Bowl.
Then there is the SEC, where both the Auburn Tigers and the Missouri Tigers are going to be vying for a potential trip to the National Championship Game as well. The winner will have at least a little bit of a gripe to be in the National Championship Game, though Missouri's case is really going to be shattered if it can't hop over the Alabama Crimson Tide, who are idle. Auburn, of course, is coming off of that miracle of a victory over Alabama in the Iron Bowl, one which shifted the whole national landscape tremendously. Missouri is only a narrow loss against South Carolina away from being the clear cut #2 team in America right now though, and it should not be underestimated. It's sad that the winner of this game will go to the Sugar Bowl in all likelihood, and the loser will be forced all the way out of the BCS in spite of a miraculous season. Auburn was voted fifth in the SEC West by the media at the start of the year. Missouri was voted sixth in the SEC East. Auburn is giving a point and a half in what should be the best game of the day.
There are plenty of other games out there this week that will have a bearing on what happens the rest of the way, especially in the BCS. The Louisville Cardinals are -3 on the road against the Cincinnati Bearcats in a game which the winner could still earn a share of the first ever AAC title. The UCF Knights already have their share, but they can win it outright and lock down a place in a BCS bowl game, most likely against the SEC winner, if they can beat the SMU Mustangs. That game starts the week off the board, but it should be an interesting one, knowing that SMU is fighting for a spot in a bowl game. We already saw last week what happened when the Fresno State Bulldogs had a BCS bowl bid on the line on the road against a team which was playing for its bowl eligibility…
Speaking of BCS bowl eligibility, what about the Northern Illinois Huskies? They continue to fend off every challenger necessary to get back to the BCS for the second straight season, but they could have a tough one coming against the Bowling Green Falcons on Friday in the MAC Championship Game. These MAC title games tend to be close affairs, and Friday isn't expected to be an exception. NIU is laying three at Ford Field, and a win would almost certainly put the Huskies back in the BCS for the second straight season, most likely this time to play against the Big XII winners in the Fiesta Bowl.
Finally, we'll talk about the Rose Bowl, where either the Stanford Cardinal or the Arizona State Sun Devils are going to take on most likely Michigan State in Pasadena. This is the first time that a team from the Pac-12 South has hosted the Pac-12 Championship Game, and Sun Devil Stadium is going to be rocking for sure for this one. The Sun Devils are laying 3.5 in this one at home against Stanford in a game with huge implications. The loser will be holding its breath about getting an at large bid to a BCS bowl game, but in all likelihood, if there is a second team from the Pac-12 that gets in, it is going to be the Oregon Ducks, not the loser of this game, a team which would then have three losses. There's a heck of a lot of money and prestige on the line on Saturday night in the desert.
Fresno State is favored by a field goal over the Utah State Aggies in the first ever Mountain West Championship Game, though that game completely lost its luster when the Bulldogs were beaten last week by the San Jose State Spartans in the regular season finale.
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Thomas Mortensen debuts his editorial stylings with this new article entitled "Evolution of Classes". He looks at where this classic construct is headed.
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class system is dieing. It is not they way of the future. More and more MMO's
need to be more open ended and allow more options for players to play they way
THEY wish to play, cobbling together skills they wish to have.
The use of a class system from DnD (PnP not online) was a
mistake, in The original DnD systems the GM created the content, this was a
never ending supply. In an MMO this is not the case, the content is static, and
never changing regardless of the players ability or actions, hence the reason
you see the "lack of content" statement. In PnP DnD this would never
have been a phrase used, because that state was imposable to achieve, due to
the fact that the game (The GM) would adapt to you.
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funny, in the whole article, no mention of SWG. Pre NGE it was the archetype of how to run characters, you could play a pure crafter fairly easily, and the image designer and entertainer became integral to the game in a unique way. coupling this to the combined auction/ vendor mechanism you had an almost perfect internal economy. The skill system worked a dream as well.
This is not an anti SOE rant, just a comment on how it was the best system and as far as I can gather has not been replictaed anywhere.
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I very much hope that you're right, I deeply dislike the class system and am hopeful that this old lame system will die sooner rather then later. I beleive people will always prefer the freedom of a skill based system. I think the only real reason the class system has existed this long is its easier on developers, and the money-men (the ruin of all good gaming) are always pushing to get that product out the door 3 months ago (and at well before it's actually ready to be shipped). But then it's also high time that the box-on-the-shelf model of selling games was thrown out the door.
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I agree with you. The Class / Level System is old and uneventful. The best 2 mmorpgs i've played were Ultima Online and SWG (early on). Neither had neither class restrictions or a level system.
You could literally make any type of character you wanted. Crafter/Swordsman, Entertainer/Rifleman etc. So many possibilities. The skill based systems were much more fun to tweak your character with.
Since they didnt have leveling, anyone could join the game and not feel far behind. In UO once your characters were set you could then enjoy playing and interacting in the world. New players could catch up within months and there was no need to have to player 24/7 just to keep up with guys at lvl 60. Your werent buying expansions to gain from lvl 60-70 and then 70-80. You bought the new expansions for new content that was geared at making the world more interesting, not increase the grind.
See the Class system goes with a leveling system. Its tough to have one without the other. However a skill based character without restrictions on what professions you can choose allows for a more open world without a leveling grind.
IMO Skill based characters without a leveling system is much more enjoyable and allows for a less stressful player base. New players can catch up quicker and don't have play ever second of the day to enjoy the game.
You dont want to work on making a 50 lvl fighter. You want to have your character set and then concentrate on the content the game provides. Whether it be quests, wars, raids, pvp, pve etc. Thats the type of game I enjoyed the most and feel most would prefer. I just don't see the thrill in leveling a guy from lvl 1 to 90. Who cares what level you are. I just want everyone to have their characters set and capable of interacting with everyone else.
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If anyone here has played Asheron's Call then they should understand how a skill-based leveling system is. In my opinion, I wouldn't want it any other way. It way truly fun to be able to create ANY kind of character I wanted. Seeing mages running around with plate mail and warriors using high level offensive magic always spiced up the experience. Hell, if all you cared about was running speed and jumping you could raise those skills and be faster than heck and jump on top of buildings. It was always fun to look up and see PvP characters trying to kill eachother while jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Good times indeed...
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I think the author is mistaken in listing only 3 core classes. There have always been 4 core classes. Along with the fighter, cleric, and mage, there have always been rogues. Rogues have been part of these games from pen and paper, through MUDS, and into today's MMORPGs. I dont understand why the author thinks the rogue class is somehow new.
As for the level system vs. the skills system discussion above, I would have to say I would opt for the level system if I had to choose one over the other. However, I would prefer a combination of the two, whereby each level grants you a certain number of skill points to spend.
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This is one of the great things about skill based systems, the ability to be vastly different. Your example is typical of the system. First you have the Spell Casting mage in Plate Armor. Second, the Fighter in Plate Armor who is casting spells. The possibilties are endless. Rather than limiting to 4 classes (fighter, mage, cleric, rogue) we will live with the FOTM. Tank Mages for everyone, except those who haven't learned about the system, then they can be the gimps.
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i am going with the anti-class club here.
another detial is that classes are the main reason we have levels in games (because that determines how good you are AS that class), a factor which usually breaks any PvP expirience:
once you know the end of the fight before it starts (just be seeing who has the higher level), then PvP, a potential exciting expirience, becomes a hirarchy of griefing: people killing people in lesser levels.
this is less of a factor in large scale wars, but still is.
the combination of those two classic D&D factors, classes and pvp, just don't transilate into mmo. they are the major reasons for terms such as "end game content" (when the game isn't soppose to have an end), people thinking about pvp as a griefing tool instead of a gameplay expirience, and ofcourse, the worst notion of all: the tredmill.
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Given the 2 choices here I tend to lean more towards the skill based system. Although while you do have endless possibilities in reality the only people who are different are the PvE players since all the PvP players will have the FOTM "uber" template. It tends to split the game into PvPers and non PvPers since you can't compete unless you have a defense stacker template. On the other hand there was at least SOME differences in builds and for people like myself who only dabble in PvP it was a great way to combine wierd abilities that fit me. Master Weaponsmith / Master Jedi Defender was one of my favorites :-)
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Errr...I am sorry but...this writter...he doesn't seem like mastering his topics to me, no offense meant.
Rogue, a new class? Rogues have always been a vital part of old EQ, not to mention that Thiefs have been a part of old D&D and thereby they have been in all type of MMOs, with rogues names variation and so on (a rogue is an offensive melee character while a thief is usually not very melee at all).
He also fails to mention any form of non-healing, non-damaging, non-tanking supports class. Again, in old EQ, the enchanter class was the second most popular class just after cleric, yet there was far more clerics than chanters available, which result in groups fighting over the chanters ressources.
Pets class, he favors automatically beastmaster-type...*shrug*. I think the writer play a LOT of WoW and very little of others MMOs, or that he forgot them. EverQuest is hardly new and was the most popular MMO in the west for a LONG time.
The fact many newer MMOs seems like they don't have place for buffers class doesn't mean it isn't there and available for any devs team looking to have variety in class. Variety leads to different grouping experience, which in turn increase the replayability of the game a LOT. Not only on the aspect of what a player can play, but also on what a player can experience. WoW take an approach figuring that 6 or 7 class was plenty, as the player will not create more than 6 or 7 characters, this is completely ignoring and discounting the fact that peoples will group only with that little amount of variety, which in turn means far less variations in groups type (a smaller group size help this approach a lot, imagine groups of 6 or 8 with only that amount of classes). I want to underline again, in red, just how nice the buffing system in DAoC was (maybe incomplete, but I saw the basics and honestly, that is the single feature from DAoC that I remember the most clearly as been nice).
For example, in old EQ, having 2 characters of the same class was something uncommon. Having 4 characters in two class or 3 in 1 class in the same group was extremely rare. In WoW, having 2 characters of the same class is frequent. 3 characters of the same class is merely uncommon in WoW. This leads to far less diversity, far less replayability. Combine with a smaller grind (nothing wrong there) it make sure that the replayability of the game is much smaller than a game like EQ.
Personnally I believe in the class system, be it in a way like WoW/EQ/DAoC or in a way like CoH. Skills are good and I will not turn away from a MMO with skills, but...class have many grouping edges. First, everyone know what are your basic abilities, which help a LOT to build a group. Second, everyone specialised into a role they personnally enjoy, which helps create bond and friendship...and interdependancy (even if solo is great).
Finally, as to the comment a fighter is dealing low damage, that is true in the MMORPGs, but that is not true in the RPGs at large, where the fighter deal a LOT of damage in the conventional RPGs.
And I didn't even bring the "hybrid" portion, which is nearly completely out of a game like WoW.
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3 archetypes are nice. really. but only as a presets for new players unfamiliar with all skills.
imagine 3 coordinates in 3D space - fighting skills/magic attunement/stealth skills and a player subset of skills he uses - like a point in that space. so one can be jack-of-all-trades but with limited skills in each area or pure class with unparalleled capabilites.
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The four classic fantasy arch-types are fighter, mage, thief, healer.
One big advantage for devleopers in using classes is they can be modelled and balanced using spreadsheets, which is something you cant do for a class less system. So that makes it a lot easier to balance a game for PvP using classes.
In addition as someone else mentioned classes fit people into roles, so if you need specific roles for specific missions you know who to look for. It also means people know generally what their role is and to some degree what other people will expect them to do.
Having levels provides goals for people to work towards, and a yard stick for them to compare themselves to others.
There are ways to provide more freedom using classes - you can have a dual class system (aka Guild Wars, Heroes Journey) or a hybrid class/skill system where you can develop certain skills within your class and you choose which skills to develop.
Mages not being able to wear platemail is not a fault of the class system, its a fault of how games implement their equipment. Take a look at Heroes Journey - you will be able to have mages in platemail, warriors in rags if you want.
One big problem I see in class games is this kill monsters to get loot and experience. I think class systems in general would be way better if there was no experience from killing monsters, and the only experience was from quests.
I also think MMORPG's in general would be better if monsters dropped realistic treasure - hides, bones etc instead of gold, bows swords (unless of course those monsters are using bows and swords).
Online I havent played a game with a skill only system. I have played Guild Wars - and find its dual class system very flexibile and providing many different ways to play the same class due to the skill selection.
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Heheh totaly right. Rogues ( or dont forget they started as thieves in original D&D) where always there.
In today MMOs you actually have this specific evolved generic classes
Tank , ranged damage dealer , healer , buffer/de buffer , pet class and close combat damage dealer ...
rogues ability to stealth (again taken from original thief class) is proving dificult to cope with for many MMOs
Like everybody i largely agree on classless system with no levels - but the main reason why mmos go Class/level is the balancing game. The game designers are just not good enough to manage to balance game without it.
Lastly i would like to add Guild Wars to the list of evolved class systems.
In GW levels almost make no diference. And ability to multiclass is so developed there is almost no end to posibilities...
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Classes are neither dieing nor a cop-out on the developer's side. Classes are a way to give players a role int he group, a way of playing that they like and can easily recognize.
Having a skill-based system makes group-building tedious. It makes character building a choice between a gazillion skills most of which you might have no clue what they do. And you have to pick skills that work well off each other, that have a meaningful combination.
In a class-system the designers have made a choice of skills that work well and they had the option of polishing the gameplay and the skill interaction.
That may not be desireable by people who want to delve into a deep, broad system. People who want to learn it all and make their own choices.
But in classless systems, how often do you have people picking a template from a forum, because they can't handle the choices, effectively going back to classes? Only player-created ones, with no additional polish, no special consideration from the dev side.
There is a place for classless systems in today's MMO market, but make no mistake, there is also, and will always be, a place for class-based systems.
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Actualy this class is no new addition. The rogue has been a part of the party since D&D tabletop in the 1970s. Our fighter takes the agro, and the rogue stands behind the foe, adding large amounts of DPS. Everquest had the rogue in this more basic form, WoW perfected it for the MMO genre.
Now this is a newer class to join the ranks of support, born out of necessity to the MMO combat situation. The Enchanter (or Controller, in CoH) has the duty of crowd controll. Keeping the adds at bay so the party can focus on a specific enemy without having to take on more than they are ready.
The Class based and the Skill based systems of character development have been in existance since before you all owned computers. These are basicaly the only two forms that a tabletop rpg falls into. There came a time in the late 80s/ early 90s that if you tried to invent your own RPG for publishing, editors stopped looking at it, because it was just more of this same two archetypes with different pictures in the books.
All of this can be traced back directly to its origins in the ancient art of miniature wargame rules, and the stats to be found representing the different ranks andn classes of little men made of led doing battle across hand-painted scenery. It is essentialy the foundation of the game, and as such, it won't be dissapearing any time too soon.
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I personally like Morrowind - Oblivions style of advancing characters and how classes are made. I would like to see that used in more games. Create your own class, even name it, and advance it anyway you like. More games need to do this. Personally i felt Oblivion shouldnt just been converted to an MMO.
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The darker side of the evolution is the trend towards smaller and smaller differences in what the classes or skill combinations can do. In the name of making toons solo viable or game balance, game companies are making the classes more and more alike. The tricky part is they don't necessarily look alike, and they might have different graphics for their attacks or actions, buts thats all just packaging. Its really hard to forge a role in a community or guild when everyone can do almost the same thing. We need more seperation between classes and skill sets, not less, but thats more effort than the game developers are willing to shoulder atm. And if they package everyone to look unique maybe we'll all be fooled anyway right? 6 million toons in WoW are sure falling for it atm.
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No, rogues/thieves are not new to rpgs, but mmorpgs hasnt had too many of them, sure they had a thief character or a rogue character, but they were mainly used as fighers. It was not untill real stealth came into the picture that I consider them a true rogue :D
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I've see 3 systems. Class, Dual Class and Skill based systems. But what about a hybrid of all three? The D20 system used in DnD PnP, SW:RPG and Knights of the Old Republic work well. You have your main class, you can multiclass and you can raise skills related to and unrealted to your class. Based on combinations of all of thsoe, you can take a prestige class, something to work twoards.
SW Galaxies had a good skill based system when it began. Unfortunatley all the crafting, cooking, slicing, dancing and hairdresser skills would not let you enjoy the quests or stories in the game. You had to a be fighter of some skill.
As far as level advancement and PvP, City of Heroes does it well with zones specifically for PvP that make everyone the same level. This means a lvl 20's attacks are just as potent as a lvl 50's attacks. Blancing the class powers are another story, but at least level doesnt mean anything.
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An electronic piano is a keyboard instrument designed to simulate the timbre of a piano (and sometimes a harpsichord or an organ) using analog circuitry.
Electronic Piano was also the trade name used for Wurlitzer's popular line of electric pianos, which were produced from the 1950s to the 1980s, although this was not actually what is now commonly known as an electronic piano. Electronic pianos work similarly to analog synthesizers in that they generate their tones through oscillators, whereas electric pianos are mechanical, their sound being electrified by a pickup and then amplified through an internal or external amplifier.
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The first electronic grand piano was produced in 1979 and patented in 1981 by Wil Decker of St. James, NY. (Piano Nova Co.) It contained the first full touch sensitive keyboard and working pedals (Decker 1981).
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- Davies, Hugh. 2001. "Electronic Piano". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Decker, Wil. 1981. Electronic Baby Grand Piano patent.
- Reid, Gordon. 2001. "Prog Spawn! The Rise and Fall of Rocky Mount Instruments (Retro) Gordon Reid". Sound on Sound (December) (Accessed 21 June 2011).
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- Tünker, Helmuth. 1975. Electronic-Pianos und Synthesizer. Nach industriellen Gesichtspunkten entworfene, jedoch für den Selbstbau geeignete Schaltungen. Munich: Franzis.
- Weyer, Rolf-Dieter. 1973. "Typical Sound Characteristics of Piano Sounds, Analysed on the Basis of Piano Sounds and Piano-Like Sounds". In Papers of the 44th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Central Europe Section (1973): Rotterdam, edited by O. H. Bjor. New York: Audio Engineering Society.


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Election Day is less than six weeks away, and the economy is once again a front-burner issue. Not surprisingly, the political rhetoric about taxes is heating up.
Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, is campaigning on a strong antitax platform. That includes extending President Bush's income-tax cuts, raising the exemption for dependents and cutting the corporate income-tax rate.
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