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There were many who gave alms to Seetha (name changed), mother of Radha (name changed), a two-year old, who was carried naked by her mother. The mother did not clothe her daughter as she wanted to attract the pity of the public towards her boil-filled body.
Seetha, from North India, frequented a few signals in North Coimbatore for many days even as the child's condition deteriorated. While many among the public, as a duty, doled out a few coins or rupee notes, there were a few others who did otherwise. They took the trouble of dialling 1098 of Childline, the lifeline for children in distress.
Childline representatives visited the signals to rescue the child and provide treatment. But their attempts went in vain as the young mother always managed to escape. When Childline realised that it was unable to rescue the child, it sought the help of the city police.
Special constables were deputed to the signals to get hold of the mother. But Seetha eluded them too. It took the police almost a week to get hold of the mother and child and hand them over to Childline. The child was admitted to a private hospital and treated for the boils.
Recounting the experience, S. Uma, Childline Co-ordinator, says this has been one of the most challenging cases for the organisation.
"It was only with the concerted efforts of the police that we were able to rescue the child. Even afterwards, we were not able to take the child for treatment. The mother had a huge group of relatives and others from her native place behind her denying us passage to take the child to a hospital. The public too was not keen that we take the child for medical attention," she says.
Lamenting that it is becoming increasingly difficult to curb the menace of alms seeking, especially that involving children, she says it is only because of alms giving did alms seekers thrive on. The alms seekers also refuse to get rehabilitated and lead a life of dignity.
Once the Chidline rescues a child, it has to be registered with the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), which takes a decision on the future of the child. But in the case of Radha, there were many hurdles.
As Radha was receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital, Seetha and her relatives kept hounding the Childline office for information about the child, promising the officials that they would take care of her.
P. Samson, Chairman of CWC Coimbatore, says that this indeed was a unique case. "The mother and relatives were insistent that they wanted the child back and promised to take good care of her. Since the child was too young, we believed that it was only right for her to live with the mother".
The child has been handed over to the mother on receiving a surety from a local guardian who will keep the CWC informed of the child's progress. The mother has also promised to stay away from alms seeking and take the child to her native in North India.
Childline and CWC believe that if this much effort is going to be needed to rescue each and every child involved in alms seeking, it is going to become a Herculean task. They urge the public to call 1098 every time they find a child seeking alms or an adult using a child to seek alms and not take the easy way of dropping a coin into the extended bowl.
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Fantasy Football Week 5: Start and Sit
Obvious starters:RB Adrian Peterson (Vikings), WR Percy Harvin (Vikings).
Who to start: Kyle Rudolph (Vikings) will bounce back from his two catch, eight yard performance. The Titans have given up seven touchdowns already to opposing tight ends this season.
Who to sit: Don't call it a comeback ... no seriously. It shocked the fantasy world to see Chris Johnson (Titans) ramble for 141 yards against a stout Texans defense. I'm not sure there wasn't something flukey with this performance. First off, it came on 25 carries in a game they were losing from the beginning. His previous high this season was 14. It was almost like the Titans said, "We're going to lose this game anyways. Let's try and get Chris going to give him some confidence even if it doesn't make sense running the ball." I just don't trust him at this point. Actually, this is the perfect time to trade him.
Sleeper: With Kenny Britt and Nate Washington banged up, Kendall Wright (Titans) has really made his mark. The rookie has at least four receptions or a touchdown in three of four games.
Obvious starters:QB Tom Brady (Patriots), TE Rob Gronkowski (Patriots), QB Peyton Manning (Broncos).
Who to start: All four starting receivers are safe bets. Wes Welker (Patriots) and Brandon Lloyd (Patriots) still had good games last week despite the Pats running the ball like crazy -- Welker with nine receptions for 129 yards and Lloyd with a touchdown. Both Demaryius Thomas (Broncos) and Eric Decker (Broncos) are finally on the same page as Manning. Thomas is good for at least one big play per game, and Decker has been a PPR monster, catching 15 balls the last two weeks.
Who to sit: Running backs will be used for blocking this week.
Sleeper: The Patriots have allowed three touchdowns to tight ends the past two games, so expect Manning to target Jacob Tamme (Broncos) heavily in the red zone.
Obvious starters:RB Frank Gore (49ers), TE Vernon Davis (49ers).
Who to start:Michael Crabtree (49ers) should benefit from playing a Buffalo secondary that has given up seven touchdowns to wide receivers this season.
Who to sit:I wouldn't start Fred Jackson (Bills) or C.J. Spiller (Bills) against this defense. Not only are both backs still not 100 percent, but the Niners run defense is even more stout at home.
Sleeper: If Scott Chandler (Bills) has recovered from his concussion, covering tight ends is one of the few areas where the 49ers' defense has struggled this season. They've given up four touchdowns already.
Obvious starters:RB Arian Foster (Texans).
Who to start:Matt Schaub (Texans) and Andre Johnson (Texans) are solid starts this week against a bewildered Jets squad, but make no mistake, this is Foster's game.
Who to sit: All Jets.
Sleeper: No one is going to start him, but doesn't this seem like the week the Jets get down big in the first half, and Tim Tebow (Jets) leads them to a couple of garbage touchdowns in the second half. And then we have to deal with a week of "Will Tebow start next week?" features on ESPN. It feels like it to me.

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text: Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D Full Color Sandstone Conversion http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=53425&th=10710#msg_53425 I'm looking for some help with file conversion and texture mapping. I downloaded 3D files from the BTTF video game and want to print them in color as a birthday present for my brother. The problem is that I have practically no experience with texture mapping and character modeling. Also I don't have the necessary programs to do this. I primarily use SolidWorks, which is about as far away from character modeling and texture mapping as you can get. I know that you can apply color to the models in SolidWorks, but it would be a nightmare to try and recreate the coloring. What I'm looking for is someone who can convert my files into a VRML97 or X3D file with the proper texture mappings. I have two models that I want to print, each one is available as a 3DS, C4D, or OBJ file. I also have the texture files and reference photos. I am more than willing to barter for goods and services. Please let me know if you can be of any help. Thanks! Dan]]> MatarazzoDesigns 2012-08-31T13:12:19-00:00 Re: Full Color Sandstone Conversion http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=53442&th=10710#msg_53442 Paul ]]> stop4stuff 2012-08-31T18:46:12-00:00 Re: Full Color Sandstone Conversion http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=53444&th=10710#msg_53444 If I were to sell these (which again I will not) then I see your point. I believe that what I want to do falls under the "fair use" area of copyright law.]]> MatarazzoDesigns 2012-08-31T19:12:28-00:00 Re: Full Color Sandstone Conversion http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=53446&th=10710#msg_53446 It is not a trick question. You see, for people that hire me, I give them full rights to the 3D model file to do so as they see fit. Now if I am hired to produce a ripoff for 'personal use' I want reasurance that the person hiring me to produce that 3D file is not just going to release it on Thingiverse or whatever website and get me in a big pile of do-do. Catch my drift? Paul ]]> stop4stuff 2012-08-31T19:38:45-00:00 Re: Full Color Sandstone Conversion http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=53976&th=10710#msg_53976 un compress them with winRAR its free i think or 7zip btw Blender 3D free GPL program can import and export .3ds ( true story ) and .obj files and import and export .x3d FYI]]> Reidh 2012-09-13T05:06:26-00:00 Re: Full Color Sandstone Conversion http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=53986&th=10710#msg_53986 I've never used Blender. I'm very familiar with SolidWorks, VectorWorks, and SketchUp but I haven't gotten into the more organic/sculptural side of 3D modeling yet.]]> MatarazzoDesigns 2012-09-13T13:34:31-00:00 Re: Full Color Sandstone Conversion http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54332&th=10710#msg_54332 [edit] Hmmm, I don't think I can do it automatically, as there are lots of "holes" in the mesh that need joining up. So it might need to be done by hand. :/]]> TechyBen 2012-09-21T11:05:55-00:00


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In India, show the finger after voting, get cheaper petrol and food
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NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - Showing the finger can get you a punch in the face in many parts of the world. In India, during this general election at least, it can earn discounts at petrol stations, restaurants, spas, stores and hospitals after voting.
India's polling stations mark each voter's left forefinger with an indelible dot of a silver nitrate solution after casting the ballot to guard against voter fraud.
In a move to increase political involvement, Young Indians, a group linked to Confederation of Indian Industry trade association, launched the "Show the ink, See prices sink" campaign, which gives discounts and other incentives to people who vote.
"Among youngsters it's become a cool thing to flaunt their fingers after they've cast their vote," said Mr DNV Kumara Guru, national chairman of the group, saying more than 100 businesses had signed up for the campaign.
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The Kalahandi District Police on Wednesday said it arrested four people for allegedly chopping off the hands of two migrant labourers four days ago.
The four arrested include a labour contractor, who is the main accused.
The crime came to light after Nilambara Dhangda Majhi and Pialu Dhangada Majhi, reached the government hospital at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district in a serious condition on Sunday night.
The two were among the 12 labourers the accused had hired from different villages of Kalahandi about a fortnight ago, paying each Rs. 14,000 for work in a brick kiln in Andhra Pradesh. But instead of Andhra Pradesh, the contractors forcibly took them to Raipur in Chhattisgarh for work at a brick kiln. The labourers however, refused and ten of the 12 managed to escape.
Infuriated at this, the contractor and his accomplice allegedly tried to take Nilambara and Pialu back to Kalahandi to recover the money they were paid in advance. At a jungle near Belpada, the accused, in an inebriated state, chopped off the right hand of the two.
The State government said it will bear the duo's medical expenses.
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(I thought about calling this post Thoughts On a Winter Evening — 'cause it sounded poetic, but decided that, although it's really only 7:15 as I begin, it most definitely feels like night. It's January. It's pitch black. I'm going with Night.)
As I drove home tonight — it doesn't matter from where — some thoughts kind of flitted haphazardly through my brain. Which, believe it or not, got me thinking about some things …
Have you ever thought about your train of thought? By this I mean, have you ever concentrated on rewinding what got your brain from where it began to where it ended up? Well, I have. (I bet you knew I was going to say that!) Every once in a while I like to do just that, because it helps me pay attention to how easily my thoughts fly from one thing to another. Someone, somewhere may think it really is totally random, how you get from point A to point G. But it's really not. At least not in my case. I enjoy retracing my mental steps. There's always something that triggers the jump to the next step. Whether it's an external or internal force, it's necessary. And I get a kick out of figuring it out. Every once in a while. I do.
In a related story …
Then I was thinking about the way my mind works, as opposed to the way my husband's mind works. At least as far as I can tell. (His mind is more of a mystery to me than you might think.) As I get older I notice more occasions where I realize I must have been thinking of something important, like something I need to do, but haven't done. At these times, I find that, though the dim memory of such a thought still lingers, I can't put my finger on what it was. But the vague, uneasy feeling stays with me. That feeling that some little monster is waiting, just out of sight, to attack. If only I could remember the thought that triggered it, I could face the little beast with my sword at least at the ready. Because there's nothing worse than realizing too late that you've forgotten to … defrost the meat for dinner, take a child to the orthodontist, or pay the water bill.
ANYway! My point was going to be this: I'm almost certain that Jeff's mind does not weave and spin like mine does. His is most likely working in an orderly, logical fashion. (No, he's not Spock, but … yeah, for all intents and purposes, he's Spock.) I've never asked him about this, but I'm quite sure he's exempt from this kind of scattered thought process. Want to know how I know? I listen to his conversations. And I listen to mine. My little brother used to frequently call out, "Bunny trail alert!" when he and I were talking, so as to keep us from losing sight of the original purpose of the conversation. I don't think I've ever heard anyone yell out, "Bunny trail alert!" when Jeff is talking. So. There you have it. There's my empirical evidence.
There's also this. I don't know how many times throughout one day I find that, though my intent was to put some item away, and I probably actually began the task, I realize that something else popped up that kept me from completing my mission. Just sitting here now I can recall two times this happened yesterday. And that's without even wracking my brain. Jeff, on the other hand … Well, he never puts anything away, so I guess that's not a fair test. But I bet if he did, he'd do one job before tackling another. Probably. (Sadly, we may never know the answer to this.)
So, yep. That's pretty much what kept my brain busy on the solitary drive home. There was no one to talk to in the car, so I thought I'd tell you! You're welcome.


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Big Water, Big FishOctober 31st, 2014
This Fall has been a tale of two distinctly different seasons. During all of September and the first half of October, the weather was warm and dry. Rivers were low, froggy and filled with a Summer's worth of slimy algae.
With the rivers low during the early Fall, salmon began to stack up in tidewater and provided some good early season estuary action. We moved back and forth between the tidewater salmon fishery and the upriver sea-run cutthroat fishery. Although rivers were low, that didn't stop the cutthroats from moving up into the river. They provided fantastic streamer action as usual and filled the void with gumption, while we waited for rain.
When the rains finally arrived in Mid-October, they came with intent and persistence. We have had a solid storm every two to three days for the past couple weeks and have been forced to fish high, Winter type conditions. Most of the leaves and Summer debris have been flushed out to sea. Rivers are beginning to transition from Fall tannic tea-stained water color to a deep green. We've had to pick our days carefully the past couple weeks, with rivers riding the edge of fishable vs. blown out. When we have caught it on the drop, fishing has been good for Coho and Chinook. The size of this year's run is quite impressive. As the coastal systems continue to bounce up and down, we will continue to choose our days wisely and to fish Salmon throughout November before transitioning to hatchery Winter steelhead in early December. We are keeping our fingers crossed that this year's Winter steelhead run follows the wake left behind by the massive Fall salmon run and provides exceptional action throughout the Winter. Time will tell.
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The answer, amazingly enough, is almost all of them.
Parallels in Conception, Funding
It was Bill Drayton, MacArthur genius fellow and head of Ashoka, one of the largest foundations dedicated to supporting social entrepreneurs, who first noticed this correspondence.
The modern social entrepreneur, like his or her commercial counterpart, begins with an idea, for a product or service, and from the start works to build an enterprise with the largest possible impact.
For the social entrepreneur, this means systemic change in society — not a soup kitchen, for example, but a way to build a thousand, self-supporting soup kitchens in 25 countries.
This kind of ambition requires more than just a good heart. It also takes a very astute and forward-looking business plan, a strong startup team, and good business discipline — the same thing investors look for in commercial startups.
Then, in building this social enterprise, the social entrepreneur typically looks for sources of funding. Here, too, the analogy to commercial startups grows stronger by the day as a growing number of foundations have begun to specialize in what might be called seed-round, secondary-round and mezzanine philanthropy.
By this point, its initial vision largely fulfilled, the little social enterprise, now grown large, has become a major force on its surrounding society.
Yet There's No 'Going Public' Day
But now we get to the sticking point.
Commercial startups, if successful, eventually reach what is called a "liquidation" event — that is, they are either bought or they go public with an initial offering of stock — through which the founding investors and employees are rewarded for their risk.
By definition, there is no such event in the nonprofit world. And this would seem to be the break point between commercial entrepreneurs and their social counterparts.
And yet, even here, there may be an analogy. "Going public" for social enterprises may indeed be just that: the moment when they transition from being supported by foundations to being supported by donations from the general public.
Intuitively, this seems correct. After all, the biggest nonprofits — the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, the United Way — are largely supported by individuals and the private sector, not foundations. Thus, they are the Fortune 500 of the nonprofit world.
But that too raises more questions than it answers. For example, there is no comparable to the Going Public Day experienced by corporations. There is no stock exchange for nonprofits, where a market is made on its changing perceived value.
In fact, there is no standardized audit available that can accurately measure the real worth of a social enterprise — one that would take into account such intangible assets as societal impact and good will.
Thus the great wave of social entrepreneurship appears to crash against the shoals of valuation. Until the nonprofit world can get past the valuation paradox, it will likely never be able to completely unleash the power of social entrepreneurship.
That brings us to 2004.
Building the Ranks of Social Entrepeneurs
If you are a longtime reader of this column, you may know that each year at this time I visit the Said Business School at Oxford University and put on round tables for students, and bring along Silicon Valley leaders to teach master classes.


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Montreal Impact sporting director Nick De Sanctis says the incoming franchise have some big names in place to build a very competitive MLS roster.
The Canadian club have already signed the likes of former Inter Milan defender Nelson Rivas, Frenchman Hassoun Camara, former MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Donovan Ricketts and Gambian winger Sanna Nyassi among others and De Santis says there will be further quality signings to come. He has made it clear though that the Impact plan to do things the ŌĆśright wayŌĆÖ.
ŌĆ£Right now, weŌĆÖre just making sure we build this right,ŌĆØ De Santis told the Montreal Gazette. ŌĆ£But trust me, weŌĆÖve got names, big names weŌĆÖve been talking to, but itŌĆÖs got to be right.
ŌĆ£We need to be consistent with what our vision and philosophy is. For fans, sometimes itŌĆÖs hard, because right now everyone is waiting for that big name, but they have to understand at this time, the way weŌĆÖre building, the important pieces weŌĆÖre putting in very key positions is exciting. The fans need to feel that, too.ŌĆØ
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Charles Darwin described the Venus Flytrap as 'one of the most wonderful plants in the world.' It's also one of the fastest as many an unfortunate insect taking a stroll across a leaf has discovered. But what powers this speed? Dr Andrej Pavlovič of Comenius University, Slovakia, has been studying the plants with the help of some specialised equipment and a few unlucky insects.
In the wild the Venus Flytrap grows in the bogs and savannahs of North and South Carolina. This is not a healthy environment for many plants as it is low in the nitrogen to needed to build proteins. The Venus Flytrap has overcome this problem by developing a taste for meat. It has convex bi-lobed leaves with three trigger hairs on each lobe. When something knocks these hairs twice an electrical signal flips the leaves into concave shapes. If the captured creature struggles to escape it continues to tickle the trigger hairs. This causes the plant's trap to close tighter and release enzymes to digest its prey.
Pavlovič looked at how the Flytraps snapped their leaves around their prey and thought that it might cost the plant energy to catch its food this way. To test his idea, he set up an infrared gas analyzer and a chlorophyll fluorescence imaging camera to watch the plants. He used a wire to make a trap snap and then simulated an insect struggling in the closed trap. Then he watched what happened as the plant caught its victim.
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Soul-sucking 'dementor' wasps and 8 other crazy new species
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Latin name: Ampulex dementor
Topics: Nostalgia, The Tree of Life, Woody Allen, Mad Men, Mildred Pierce, Entertainment News
"Nostalgia is denial — denial of the painful present," says a philosopher (Michael Sheen) in Woody Allen's surprise hit "Midnight in Paris." "The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking: the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one [that] one's living in. It's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present."
If nostalgia is indeed a flaw, it's one that many 2011 films and TV programs shared. Some of the year's most talked-about movies and shows gave themselves over to some form of nostalgia — unabashedly reveling in, and idealizing, not just an earlier time, but the artists and artistic styles that we associate with that time, and the rush of emotion that accompanies our fantasies of same. Allen's "Midnight in Paris" — his top grossing movie ever — is Exhibit A. It's an immensely likable reworking of his short story "A Twenties Memory" in which an Allen stand-in, screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson), magically gets to travel back to the time of Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. But it's merely the keynote address in a year of budget-busting, production-design-showcasing, time-tripping cinema and television, a year that invited viewers not merely to experience stories from another time but to slip into them with deep pleasure and savor their restorative power.
"Midnight in Paris," "The Tree of Life," "Super 8," "The Artist," "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," "Hugo" and "The War Horse" were all, to some extent, about nostalgia — about wrapping oneself in the texture of some glorious past, be it an earlier period in a character's own life or an earlier era in filmmaking. Some of the highest-profile TV — successful and unsuccessful — had nostalgia on the brain, wallowing in luxurious sets, costumes, hairstyles, music and slang from the early- and mid-20th century — even as they repeatedly told and showed us that things weren't so great Back Then, whenever Back Then was. The short list includes the glossy but unsuccessful network series "The Playboy Club" and "Pan Am," HBO's "Mildred Pierce" and "Boardwalk Empire," ReelzChannel's "The Kennedys," PBS' "Downton Abbey" and "Brideshead Revisited" and "The Hours." That "Midnight in Paris" quote sums then all up rather nicely. Superficially they're all so different that it seems crazy to group them together — they vary in setting from the very early 20th century to the early '60s, and their tones are all over the map: dramatic, melodramatic, droll, shticky, tragic, horrific, you name it.
But there's something basic and significant connecting all of them, and I think the connection is more aesthetic than historical. It is, as Paul said, about the need to escape the present, and not so much about the particular of the past that's being escaped into. It's about tactility — a fear that the virtual world is displacing the real one, and a corresponding conviction that a cinematic or televised re-creation of the past — however stylized or "unreal" — can feel somehow more real than whatever we're living through now.
To borrow a literary analogy, the texts of these productions were often overwhelmed by the illustrations; even as the plotlines showed us how cruel life could be, and how ignorant and venal the characters were, the viewer's eye still feasted on those dresses! Those hats! Those cars! Those hissing vinyl records spinning on those elegant Victrolas! And of course the white beams of light slicing through cigarette-befogged darkness in movie theaters and casting black-and-white images up on big screens, images shots on honest-to-God film.
Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" and Michel Hazanavicius's "The Artist" both worshiped, even fetishized silent cinema, or more accurately, the idea of silent cinema, and the era that spawned it: a time of steam engines and big black automobiles and stony-faced men in hats and long coats. Like the boozy, smoky, wood-and-wool-and-brass tableaux of "Mildred Pierce" and "Boardwalk Empire" and ABC's intriguing if ultimately unsuccessful "Pan Am," these films were not so much about the historical particulars of a time or place as the re-created, fantasized texture of it. Anything prior to the 1990s could still be considered a remnant of the Industrial or Machine Age, an epoch in which things were physical and present — when they were indisputably and obviously there, and not some incredible digital simulation; when some person, or some machine run by people, made things, and when even popular culture was something you could touch, or that you at least knew you could touch: a book, a film, a record. Until as recently as 10 years ago, even television was shot on tape, and could (in a pinch) be cut on tape, with a razor blade and tape — just like film, or a construction paper collage.
That's all gone now, or going away soon: This was the year that major camera manufacturers announced that they would no longer make new motion picture film cameras. This same year we learned that the days of film itself were numbered. Some sources claim it will be extinct by 2015. Major distributors just don't see the point of producing it any longer, now that everything is being shot, edited and shown digitally. Major studios announced that they would begin phasing out rentals of actual film prints, because it was too expensive and bothersome to store, maintain and ship them — and besides, now that everything has been converted to ones and zeroes, what's the point?
This was also the year that we started to hear very serious rumblings about the end of media as a physical object that one could hold in one's hand: not just the vinyl records and 35mm film prints that old timers like yours truly love to blather on about, but the supposedly more cold and forbidding late 20th century versions, such as videotapes and CDs and DVDs. Those are on their way out, too, if reports — and the maneuverings of industry giants such as Netflix — are to be believed. It'll all be virtual soon, an endless stream of data held on gigantic servers in undisclosed locations and "licensed" to us for private use on our computers and mobile devices and perhaps soon in the chips that will be installed on the brain stem of every American newborn, along with the port that allows them to jack into the Matrix.
"All men fear death," says Ernest Hemingway in "Midnight in Paris." "It's a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven't loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same." The film's tone is rather jokey as he says this, but from the intensity in his eyes you can tell he's not kidding — and if you read the words in plain black-and-white, divested of lush celluloid images and piquant music, it sure does feel like a line from a manifesto, or a lament.
Allen ultimately deflates the very nostalgia that his movie indulges; the film's comic climax takes Gil and his girlfriend Adriana, a '20s Frenchwoman, back to Paris during the Belle Epoque era, the period that she worships as brazenly as Gil worships the Paris of her own time. "I'm from the '20s, and I'm telling you the golden age is la Belle Epoque," she insists. But really: "Midnight in Paris" is not a hit because of the director's clear-headed attitude about the blind worship of earlier, supposedly more interesting times. It's a hit because of the clothes, the music, the cultural references and the comic star power of the Paris writers and artists we've read about in school. It's a hit because it's a warm bath in another era, and a blessed escape from this one.
J.J. Abrams' Steven Spielberg pastiche "Super 8″ was not merely a paean to the filmmaker's adolescence in the late '70s and early '80s — an era that spawned such early Spielberg classics as "Jaws" and "Close Encounters" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "E.T." — but a valentine to the last great age of analog media, the Carter-Reagan-Bush I era, when records were on vinyl and films were shot on film, and both could be looked at, lifted, touched. Abrams went so crazy re-creating Spielbergian, late'70s lens flares that there were times when the actors' faces were partly obscured by horizontal bands of blue light. A telling moment at a drugstore showed the teenage hero waiting to get his Super 8mm film back; in the days — days!! — leading up to that glorious moment, he looked as anxious as a young father in some mid-20th century sitcom, pacing around in a hospital waiting room and smoking cigarette after cigarette until the doctor arrived with the good news. And while Abrams' "Super 8″ was playing in multiplexes this past summer, Spielberg himself was finishing his epic "War Horse," which is set during World War I but strains to evoke the shots, camera moves, music, pacing and tone of a 1940s Hollywood prestige picture. (During a recent New York preview screening, Spielberg said he was hugely influenced by 1940s John Ford films, particularly "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "How Green Was My Valley.")
"You'll never be a great writer if you fear dying," Hemingway tells Gil in "Midnight in Paris." "Do you?"
"Yeah, I do," Gil replies. "I would say it's my greatest fear."
A more ruminative, searching, open-ended take could be found in Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," a Proustian reverie by way of suburban Texas in the 1950s and '60s. To watch this movie is to be completely immersed in the mind of another person: ostensibly the narrator, Jack (Sean Penn), but really Malick himself, a generous filmmaker who seems to be remembering his own past because he can't remember anyone else's. It's a tough movie in some ways, filled with confusion, pain, regret and messy Oedipal resentments and desires. But ultimately the look and sound of the film eclipses all of that. What predominates is an overwhelming, at times helpless-seeming urge to escape this horrible, sterile modern prison of virtual being-and-nothingness, and go back to a more casually physical time, a time when you could stay outside all day and all night without your parents worrying about your being raped or doped up or kidnapped by sex slavers or organ thieves or converted to Shariah Law or whatever bugaboo is obsessing modern parents at this very moment; a time when you could fall down and scab your knees, tear-ass through woods and vacant lots, roll around in grass, even strap a poor frog to a rocket and then feel horrible about it later, then come home and clean the dirt out from under your fingernails and sit down to supper with Mom and Dad, who maybe didn't know quite what to do with you, and perhaps even resented you at times, but loved you unconditionally.
Well, maybe not your parents, but somebody's.
"The Tree of Life" ends on a beach that might represent the afterlife or that might simply be a metaphorical or figurative space — a place where all Jack's most beloved fellow beings can gather in one place and just be loved, admired, embraced. It's a place where the virtual becomes real and the dead return to us, if only for a moment. A place where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
"That's what the present is," Gil says in "Paris," responding to the quote that opens this article. "It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying."
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Sextuple Jeopardy
In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu draws a distinction that is useful in thinking about the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Montesquieu distinguishes between the structure of government, which he calls its "nature"--for example, monarchy, republicanism, tyranny--and the spirit that animates it, which he calls its "principle." For monarchy the principle is honor; for a republic it is virtue; and for tyranny it is fear. The structure, to use a simple analogy, is like the type of a vehicle--for instance, bicycle, car or train--and the principle is the fuel that makes it go (leg-power, gas or electricity).
The "principle" that has fueled the assault on Clinton has been constant throughout and is easily identified. It has been the zeal of the political right in general and of the Republican Party in particular to damage or destroy the presidency of Bill Clinton. The structures of the campaign, however, have been many. They include sexual harassment law, an independent prosecutor and the impeachment provision in the Constitution.
This restless search by an implacable faction for a variety of weapons to use against the President has resulted in a novel situation. The law forbids double jeopardy, but Clinton now faces, if my count is correct, sixfold jeopardy.
The first, of course, is the Senate trial, in which Clinton is likely to be acquitted because the Founders required a two-thirds majority to convict and the attacking party holds only fifty-five of the Senate's hundred seats. This insufficiency has sent the Republicans in search of forms of punishment within its reach.
The second is impeachment itself (as distinct from conviction and removal), which Republicans wish to interpret as condemnation, as if it were now enough to accuse someone of a crime in order to brand him guilty. The problem is that the public, according to every measure of its opinions, condemns Congress for impeaching the President much more harshly than it condemns the President for his misdeeds.
The third is censure, favored by the Democrats, who want to register their disapproval of the President without removing him from office.
The fourth, which has been invented more or less on the spot, is the idea of voting in the Senate on a so-called "finding of fact," by which the Senate would formally define the President's bad behavior even as, in a second vote, it would acquit him. Inasmuch as this "finding of fact"--more accurately named a "finding of conclusions" or a "finding of guilt" (inasmuch as the relevant facts were all found long ago)--can be passed by a simple majority, it amounts to an end-run around the inconvenient two-thirds rule.
Some Republicans, though, are unsatisfied with this innovation. Senator Orrin Hatch, for one, worries that if the Senate "finds that perjury and obstruction of justice are not removable" it would send the message that the Senate does not take these offenses seriously. He accordingly invented a variation of the fourth form of jeopardy, in which, after voting the censorious finding, the Senate would simply suspend the trial permanently, depriving Clinton of his acquittal. As part of this now-final judgment, Hatch would buttress the punishment value of impeachment by having the Senate go on record to the effect that "Impeachment Without Removal" (the apotheosis of this sanction through the use of capital letters is Hatch's own) would be designated "the highest form of censure." Here, in a perfect inversion of the rule that a person is innocent until proven guilty, mere accusation (impeachment) is formally transmuted by senatorial declaration not only into conviction but into the sentencing as well.
While all these constitutional novelties were being considered in the Senate, the never-sleeping Ken Starr was concocting a fifth form of punishment--indictment of the President even while he remains in office (as he will for two years after a failure to convict him in the Senate). Taking upon himself the power of judging Presidents that the Constitution gives to Congress, he was in effect saying to the Senate, "If you don't convict him, I will."
The sixth--and, perhaps, most keenly desired--form of punishment is the public humiliation of the President, not only before today's citizens but before all history. With this demand, we leave the realm of law and politics behind and approach the psychosexual substrate--the smoldering, sulfurous, hidden core--of the scandal. Is there any pejorative in the English language that has not been applied to Clinton? Not since Hitler finished himself off in his bunker, it sometimes seems, has a public figure been excoriated as Clinton has. Just last week, Senator Robert Byrd, heaping up damning modifiers and metaphors with a repetitiousness that betrays obsession, announced that he sought a censure that would be "indelibly seared into the ineffaceable record of history for all future generations to see and to ponder"--a condemnation that "can never be erased" and, "like the mark that was set upon Cain, it will follow even beyond the grave." And A.M. Rosenthal, outdoing in promiscuous fury even this verbal flogging, demanded, vampire-like, a judgment on Clinton that would leave a "bite mark" on him "through history." To which one can only add that if the teethmarks are Rosenthal's, poor Clinton will be at risk of rabies.
However, the main instrument of humiliation was the insistence by the House managers that the Senate either hear live witnesses or release videotapes of their depositions. Defending this demand, manager Asa Hutchinson commented that "only people who have been affected by this real-life drama, speaking from the heart," can sway the senators' "judgment." And Hutchinson's fellow manager Ed Bryant has famously declared, "Wouldn't you want to observe the demeanor of Miss Lewinsky and test her credibility? Look into her eyes?"
Did the managers unconsciously remember, perhaps, that the entire scandal began with Clinton looking into Lewinsky's eyes? Perhaps they had been afflicted by a similar longing. Like psychoanalysts, it seems, they wished to revisit--indeed, to re-enact--the scene that caused the trauma. Isn't it somehow the measure of the folly of this crisis that, in obedience to a pathology we cannot quite put our finger on, the trial perhaps cannot end until almost the entire US government--the House managers, the full Senate, the Chief Justice of the United States--has, following in the misguided, reckless footsteps of Bill Clinton, gazed into the vacant eyes of Monica Lewinsky?


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So after a looooong wait on hold yesterday evening to Disney (very unlike disney btw) we booked our Disney trip!
We were put through to an English lady who had moved over to the States 8 years ago, she was really nice actually.
Anyway, we have opted to fly out on 20th September next year from Gatwick. We haven't confirmed an airline yet, it will either be Virgin or British airways.
We are stopping in Old Key West and after some really good advice we have requested that our rooms are block 62/63 or 64. We requested similar last year at Coronado Springs however we were placed the furthest away from where we asked so I am not holding my breath.
Talking of great CM's yesterday, after we went through the booking we got talking about how it was the first trip for one of the party. Later in the phone call she said 'oh I notice one of you are celebrating a birthday, is this the same person who is going for their first time?'. I responded with a 'yes' and she said 'great' I have made a note for the resort to hold something special for her in either the room or on the front desk on your arrival'.
When I checked the inovice there was an entry which said 'Celebration' and the cost blanked out.
So that's going to be a nice little surprise for her.
We have now got the task of working out how the dining plan works properly and what we can and cannot have etc. So I fully expect to be picking all your brains.
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A 40-year-old man was stabbed and then shot dead before being robbed of his belongings at Sadar Bazar railway station here.
Ram Prakash, a resident of Jind in Haryana, reached Sadar Bazar on board the Ferozepur Janata Express train and was climbing the stairs towards the exit way when he was intercepted by four men around 2 p.m.
They tried to snatch a bag from Ram Prakash. When he resisted, they stabbed him about four times and then shot him. The robbers decamped with the bag. "Witnesses told us that they also heard a gunshot. There is a wound in his armpit that appears to be a gunshot injury," said a police officer. The victim was rushed to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
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On Ashtray, a cut off 2012's Rugby Thompson tape, Harlem-repping DJBooth regular Smoke DZA invited fellow THC-lovers Domo Genesis and ScHoolboy Q to join him as he burned some gas in his whip. The experience was so enjoyable that, on his latest feature, he recruits two more high-profile smoking buddies for a redux. On Legends in the Making (Ashtrays Pt. 2) Smoke DZA, New Orleans mainstay Curren$y and Pittsburgh heavyweight Wiz Khalifa pass a blunt as they reflect on their rising status in the hip-hop game. Returning from part one, Harry Fraud provides a hazy, sampled backdrop for their bars. This record isn't attached to any larger project, but fans can hear more from DZA, Spitta and Fraud on their new collaborative EP, The Stage. Additionally, watch our pages for further details on the headliner's currently unscheduled forthcoming full-length, Dream Zone Achieved.
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Based on this week, it seems like reports of OSU's demise have been greatly exaggerated. If Rola indeed comes back, they got:
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[RELEASE] Grandchase X Elsword Voices
[RELEASE] Grandchase X Elsword sound files ( Japanese )
Hi guys this is a project that i have been working on for quite some time now, and have finally completed it, so i decided
to share these sound files with you guys for entertainment purposes
Here are the extra korean sound files to be replaced in the resset folder of your grandchase ( only if you are not using korean voices )
which contain Dio, Zero, Rama etc korean voices :
Cos i figured it would be weird if some english voices started popping out of nowhere when the entire game is in jap/korean =_=
For starters editing any kom files is pretty much against the rule in grandchase or elsword ( or any of kog's games)
so do this AT YOUR OWN RISK. Dont blame me if you get banned or anything.
Though these voices can ONLY be heard on your own computer ( meaning the other players in the game wont hear it)
and also, other than the edited files which are japanese, the others are all KOREAN ( not english or brazilian )
The files edited are mainly GC sound files, and some in the resset folder.
Generally i replaced almost all skill voices ( like raven walker or meteor etc ) with Elsword voices, and all extra voices, ( like taunting or the voice when you start a dungeon etc ) But please note that the voice files in grandchase is MUCH more than elsword, meaning some of the extra voices might be repeated, but i made sure that none of the skill voices are repeated, so as to not confuse the gameplay ( but by doing this i couldnt replace some skill voices ), however almost all commonly used skills have their voices replaced so dont worry =D
So how to change the voice file? First download all of the kom files that i edited :
Next, for lass, arme, lire and sieghart 1st job ( without st ) voice, they are contained within sound_korea, sound_korea3 and sound_korea 4
for Sieg ST, sieg 2nd to 4th job and Mari 1st to 3rd job voice, they are contained within the other remaining files, like skill_sieg1, char_mari, Char_Sieg 2 etc.
For the first category,
the sound_korea series, replace them with the files in the sound folder of your grandchase.
For the second category,
the char_something series, replace them with the files in the resset folder of your grandchase.
NOTE: Only replace them after the patcher is finished/gone, or else the patcher will patch the original files again.
A tip would be to use the bypass patcher method, by creating a shortcut of your main.exe, and select properties from the new main.exe, go to the target address and input __kogstudios_original_service__ after a SPACING and click apply.That way you can get into the game without going through the patcher, by clicking on the new main.exe.
AND REMEMBER TO CREATE A BACKUP FOR ALL FILES YOU REPLACED. unless you want to have a fun time patching them the next time you login.
Back to the main topic. The character voices that are changed are as follows :
Lass to Raven, Arme to Aisha, Lire to Rena, Sieghart to Elsword and Mari to Eve.
( For more info on elsword, google or youtube is your best friend )
I listed the skill voices i changed below, please note that some grandchase skill names that i do not know are replaced with a brief description of the skill, so dont be alarmed =_= and sorry if i missed out anything.
In any case, this should be working on all versions of grandchase, if i am not mistaken.
NOTE: Chung's ( the newest char in elsword ) japanese voice is not yet released, so dont ask me why i didnt put them in grandchase....( and anyways his voice is too childish for grandchase...i mean the korean one)
---LASS--- ( to Raven ) Voiced by : Mamoru Miyano
1st Job: Thief
SpiningSlash ( Cash ) --> Flying impact
Tradwarm ( Cash ) --> Nuclear
ShadowStranger --> Charged Bolt
Hornet Sting --> Maximum Cannon
Thunder Slash --> Cannon Blade
Fatal Fury --> Wolf Fang
Final Strike --> Seven Burst
Guardian Strike ( Cash ) --> Guardian Strike
Raven Walker --> Magnum Blaster
2nd job: Assasin
Frenzy Sword --> Berserker Blade
Splash Explosion --> Power Assault
Deadly Sharp --> Shockwave
3rd job: Dark Assasin
Invisibility --> Earth Break
Hyper Sonic Step --> Hyper Sonic Stab
Unlimited Blade --> X Crush
4th job: Striker
Rage Cutter --> Arc Enemy
Phantom Blade --> Valkyries Javelin
Blade Spirit --> Bloody Excel
---ARME--- ( to Aisha ) Voiced by : Rie Kugimiya
1st Job: Magician
Stone Curse --> Hell Stone
Meteor --> Meteo Call
Magic Shield --> Binding Circle
Reverse Gravity --> Hold Person
Lava Flow ( Cash ) --> Infernal Wave
[ Cash Dark Magic mp1 suck mp skill ] --> Ageing
Athena Sword ( Cash ) --> Death Field
[ Cash Dark Magic mp 2 lightning skill ] --> Lightning Bolt
Gorgos Flame ( Cash ) --> Blaze Step
2nd job: Alchemist
Bomb Drop --> Blind Attack
Killer Cloud --> Dark Cloud
Blockbuster Explosion --> Dark Fireball
Magic Shield --> Binding Circle
3rd job: Warlock
Tornado --> Cyclone
Blizzard --> Blizzard Shower
4th job: Battle Mage
Fire Bust --> Chain Burst
Shockwave Force --> Plasma Cutter
Deep Impact --> Hell Drop
Ice Ball --> Magic Missile
Freezing Spear --> Gust Screw
Air Blast --> Gust Storm
---LIRE--- ( to Rena ) Voiced by : Yui Horie
1st Job: Archer
Arrow Storm --> Perfect Storm
Ice Arrow ( Cash ) --> Freezing Arrow
Sharp Shot --> Sharp Fall
Stardust Rain --> Violent Attack
[ 3rd Cash skill ST Pink Lazor ] --> Aerial Tornado
Explosion Arrow ( Cash ) --> Dive Kick Bombing
Wind Ward ( Cash ) --> Wind Ward
2nd job: Crossbowman
Fan Shot --> Humming Wind
Dance Tempest --> Assault Kick
Harpy Hunt Shot --> Crazy Shot
3rd job: Arch Ranger
Hyper Shot --> Guide Arrow
White Wind --> Spinning Kick
Chakra --> GunGnir
4th job: Nova
Charged Shot --> Rail Stinger
Blood Rain --> Multiple Stinger
Burst Shot --> Phoenix Strike
---SIEGHART--- ( to Elsword ) Voiced by : Kenichi Suzumura
1st Job: Gladiator
Iron Crusher --> Mega Slash
Sword Fire --> Sword Fire
Grinding Punisher --> Spiral Blast
Sword Boomerang (Cash ) --> Wind Blade
Mach Strike ( Cash ) --> Air Slash
[ 1st mp 2nd Gp ST skill ] --> Rising Slash
Infinite Storm --> Flame Geyser
Death Belt ( Cash ) --> Wind Mill
Mortal Impact ( Cash ) --> Storm Blade
Honoring Gesture ( Cash ) --> Phoenix Talon
2nd job: Warlord
Savage Attack --> Splash Explosion
Punisher Combo --> Assault Slash
Fire Blaster --> Fatal Fury
3rd job: Duelist
Rule Break --> Double Slash
Rising Weapon --> Triple Geyser
Dread Punisher --> Unlimited Blade
4th job: Prime Knight
Highlander Assault --> Sonic Blade
Soul Edge --> Spiral Blast
Unlimited Blade --> Armaggadeon Blade
---MARI--- ( to Eve ) Voiced by : Mamiko Noto
1st Job: Rune Caster
Buster --> Illusion Strike
Electronic Field --> Electronic Field
Eraser --> Atomic Blaster
2nd job: Gunslinger
Shock Wave --> Sonic Wave
High Power Rush --> Space Wrench
Chaos Beam --> Junk Break
3rd job: Polaris
No Mercy --> Surface Cutting
Call of Ruin --> Generate Black Hole
Extinction --> Genocide Ripper
I hope that you enjoy these voices as much as i do @_@, and if this info is posted to other webbies or forums, please
give credits -_- ....Btw i am a Singapore player in taiwan grandchase and elsword. Enjoy and have a nice day~
EDIT : okay i categorised them into spoilers
Here is the video for all of the jap voices, credits to the video maker MachineZzt
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Update : Well some of my friends are saying that they prefer Sieg's original voice to elsword ( as elsword sound too childish when compared to sieg ), so i created one more file for players who want to have lass, arme and lire's voice file edited to japanese but still want to retain Sieg's original voice. First download the new sound_korea4 here :
When replacing the files,do the exact same thing,just that replace the old sound_korea4 with this new file, and do not overwrite the sieghart files in the resset folder, like char_sieg3 etc , and you are done.
Why go through the trouble of editiing sound_korea4 when sieg's files are in the char_sieggy files? Cause as stated above, sieg's 1st job without skill tree + taunt + extra sounds ( grab etc ) are contained within sound_korea4, so there is a need to edit it, or you will hear elsword's voice shouting and then sieg saying the skill name ( now that isnt very pleasant is it -_-)
Well ok i added these demo clips for ppl who want evidence that these are working....i will add the others at a later date.
Lass to Raven.
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Arme to Aisha
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Thank vodkaa,
Hey could you put those categories into Spoilers?
How to make? >> [@spoiler]
[/spoiler] << remove the @
Also thanks for the release, i will read in depth about this release, i still dont get it
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can we put these files into gc or what? i also dont get it
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Or here is a suggestion.... if you don't wanna do the patch then replace thingy you can use Kyonko's bypasser and loading screen themes (I use it all the time so the KOR voices (by Akashi Moka) won't be patched).
But too bad there weren't any for Jin cuz he is the one I use the most..thanks anyway I'm gonna try this too
And thanks again to all the persons who make my playing of GC more entertaining
note: of course my suggested programs/files weren't mine
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yes you are supposed to replace the files ( copy and paste and overwrite ) into the respective folders after the grandchase patcher ends ( basically after patching ) or can use the bypass method.
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uhhm.. 1 question
is this working in GCPH?
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it is supposed to be running in all versions
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For one who doesn't play Elsword, I have no idea if this is nice to use or not.
I'll be lazy and ask for a quick video to refer to or something of that sort, as it'll help show for us people who don't play Elsword what we may possibly be changing the voices to.
Otherwise, good job xD
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Thanks For This,Nnice Voices.
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@AzureFlameKite well i added a vid of the voices for elsword, but i couldnt record it from the game, as the sound quality of my video recorder is pretty bad, so i suppose the vid in game has to be put off until i manage to get a new free recorder -.-
@Invictuz789 thanks =)
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In a video game, if the developer doesn't want players doing something, then doing that something is impossible. They don't create a complex set of rules to inhibit the behavior, they just make the behavior impossible. FFA PvP looting is a good example of this because it's very cut and dry. Either developers want to allow the behavior, or they don't. It doesn't have to be FFA PvP body looting, it could be any behavior, such as kill stealing or loot stealing.
The question asked was, "How do you stop kill stealing and loot stealing?". I answered that question. If you don't want players kill stealing or stealing loot, you make it impossible. If you allow the behavior, but have a complex set of rules to inhibit the behavior, it means you want at least some of the players to kill steal and steal loot.
It wasn't a fallacy, it was an existing example of how developers do things.
As far as D3 goes, yes, I think players overall are happier because they don't have to worry about their loot getting picked up by strangers. The heaps of useless loot has to do with playing a Diablo game, not private loot piles.
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well as someone who hate shooters, cause I suck at them by now, but truely enjoy playing PS2 with a couple of friends, I absolutely agree that MMOs need to "re-invent" the wheel abit, there need to be features that are created for alot of people, instead of holding on to old idea´s that used to be awesome, because people were ready to accept the flaws, for the good of the fun they had with "their group"
also will echo that D3 is doing "modern MMO" right, it is not what I want from a MMO experience, but it is what "most players" want, there is no reason to have a virtual world, when the instanced content and solo quests is what "matters", atleast in D3 you get to see more of the "game world" than any MMO on a daily basis, ofc it is as short lived as any newer MMO...but atleast I ve been entertained enough to play it to the end, something I havent been able to in "real" MMOs since EQ2.
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Originally posted by Hedeon
Ah, you must be confused; mmos are a type of video gaming genre that have no ending. You can leave them and say goodbye, but that's as close as you're going to get to an ending, not including the dreaded game shutdown.
Also, Diablo 3 is a type of video game that was classified many, many years ago. 'Tis not an mmo of any flavour, I'm afraid. While I'm sure the game appreciates the help you're attempting to supply, all of the work was completed some time ago.
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Originally posted by lizardbones
You are still talking about a leveling system, where just a few levels will result in such a huge power difference, that the players effectively are playing different games.
An artificial effort to segregate the population and the world, effectively making the amount of interesting players and playarea smaller for each player.
Originally posted by lizardbones
What do you mean when you say "If players need a particular type of resource that comes from a particular type of mob, and the mob can spawn randomly anywhere..."? Scorpios will still spawn in deserts, right? Cave trolls in hilly or mountainous areas?
Also, why wouldn't you build the system so cave trolls spawn cave trolls, making certain areas cave troll heavy? That is how the real world would work.
Originally posted by lizardbones
Why do you even say this? Do you think I or other readers are idiots? Of course it would not make sense and only an idiot would implement a system like that.
Originally posted by lizardbones
Problem is, as im trying to say, that not everything is cut and dry, loot stealing can be loot scavenging if it happens sufficiently long after the kill, kill stealing can be helping if the original combatant is on the verge of dying.
By your definition, by making everything soulbound, the devs of wow are against you helping your alts, oh, wait, we have heirloom intems...
Private loot IS part of the problem in D3, much more items are introduced into the game, thus the items have to be more useless, more random, so that not everyone is decked out right away in the best items.
And pardon me if i take offense in being told that a full stash of yellows that can be only vendored has to do with playing a Diablo game...
Flame on!
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
and not to mention SOLOABLE YET GROUP SUPPORTED quests and daily quests.
There, corrected that for you.
Originally posted by Rasputin
Because he would not have a argument otherwise.
Its like, dunno, if we started talking about the technical difficulties at the start of wotlk as the biggest argument against instances, ironically creating the EXACT situation the instaces people are afraid of, you are unable to go kill a mob regardless of what you do, because the instance will not spawn.
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Originally posted by Banaghran
Yes. much happier. The QQing would be horrible if someone can ninja my rare 100M legendary drop.
Plus, the same system is also implemented in LFR in WOW. No more loot ninjaing .. it is a great feature.
Originally posted by Banaghran
So? Dropping 100 yellows and then you get a rare legendary (or 100M worth yellow) is the same as getting a rare raid drop after playing for 50 hours.
You get a good item every 50 hours of play.
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For the person who asked the question, it is that cut and dry. How do you stop loot stealing and kill stealing? That was the question that was asked. That was the question I answered.
You're arguing whether or not making certain activities impossible is the right thing to do. That's a different question, one that I didn't answer.
If D3 did not have private loot stashes you'd still have piles of useless gear because that's how they designed the game. I read the developer blog that explained how there was going to be tons of gear. Players are supposed to choose which gear to pick up and which gear to leave. Private gear drops are a response to a specific issue and do exactly what they are intended to do. They don't have anything to do with how much gear each player has in their inventory. They also don't have anything to do with how much gear that gets dropped from each mob or how useful the gear drops are.
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What I said was in response to what was posted. The post said to have random mob sACpawns. If you're controlling the mob spawns so that lions don't spawn in the middle of a pirate village they aren't random. If the post wasn't supposed to read, "random spawns", then it shouldn't have said, "random spawns" and should have clearly stated what was meant.
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Also, I need a name for the technique of picking out one sentence so that anyone reading the post cannot read the posts in context. Anyone have any suggestions?
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There is more than one type of mmo.
GET OVER IT! Move on and live life.
There are a shyte ton of mmos out there now and it would be plain stupid to have the all the same. So many on these boards sound as if they want only one type of mmo ... a massive open world sandbox which would be the only fitting description of an mmo to them.
Yet hardly anyone actually plays sandbox mmos.
Stop being ignorant and look at what is out there, what differences there are and what is to come.
All I see now are cry babies whining about the need for more sandbox style mmos yet when you ask them if they play one now they say "no" and "but if my old mmo wasn't shut down because only 14 players played it I'd still be in a sandbox game!1!eleven!"
Bunch of hypocrites.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
But you dont. The legendary is worth <1m in most cases and my definition of good is much broader than "100m item".
Even in raids you see good drops very often, they are just not for your class, or you have stronger ones.
You maybe get a item every 50 hours you might want to wear, if you would not have already something better bought from the ah, or you would be a different class.
Which is extremely low.
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Originally posted by lizardbones
And what is the merit of offering half-assed solutions? That you feel as clever as most of the beancounters who design mmos these days?
As far as d3, you didnt say "diablo 3", you said "diablo game", which might be all the same for you, but it is not for me. Fair enough?
The developer blog you mention also completely evades the question of overall loot quality (if it is the post i think it is), all it says is "herp derp, if you buy good stuff, you will have to grind more to get upgrades", which is completely different from answering "why drop so many rares if only one of 1000 would be worn by ANYONE?".
Flame on!
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Originally posted by Cecropia
well I am talking about what is popular, which would be "themepark MMOs", and they absolutely have an ending, the company behind the game may release an expansion, but I would expect D3 to get one or 2 of those as well, depending how well they sell, the same goes for MMOs they get expansions as long as they sell, but when the last dragon or what type of monter there is in your MMO is beaten, it absolutely is game over, ofc you can choose to replay the diffrent instances, but it is the end of the game.
you can look at PS2, it doesnt have an end, but then Id argue that there just aint a game, in the game world at all - I do enjoy the huge battles mind you, it is not to really critizise PS2, but imo it is a game world where there is no real game inside of it, if there were no other players, there wouldnt really be anything to do, but it is smart really, real massive gameplay...
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
I gave a solution to the questions asked*. They weren't even new solutions. They are solutions that are already implemented in running games, and they are games that are doing well for themselves. The solutions work as intended.
None of the issues you've mentioned concerning Diablo (any version) has anything to do with private loot. The amount of loot, the randomization of loot and the loot itemization are all issues that exist with and without private loot piles and are all issues that are addressed separately from private loot piles.
* How do you stop kill stealing and loot stealing in an open world game? The answer is that if you don't want players to do something, you don't allow them to do something. If you don't want players to steal kills or loot, you don't allow them to do it.
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Originally posted by lizardbones
You will remember that i replyed to your "they will make it impossible" statement.
Which your original suggestions were themselves far from.
Well, if you want to argue that a feature that increases the amount of loot has no effect on the amount of loot, then be my guest, i will stay back here, at the edge of insanity, making the occasional step back and forth as usual :)
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Originally posted by Banaghran
So in any case, you get a good upgrade every 50 hours or so (depending on your gear level, of course .. it is faster when you have little stuff) ... whether it is a 100M item that you can cash in to get something good on the AH, or a good item drop (which i have done both).
I thought people are for slower progression. YOu really want a good drop every hour? Think about the horrible gear inflation if that is teh case.