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Fifth seed Kei Nishikori lifted his third ATP World Tour trophy on Sunday, dismissing Feliciano Lopez 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships in Memphis.
"I'm very happy with the way I played today," said Nishikori. "To win this title is an amazing feeling. I tried to concentrate on all the important points. I served really well this week. I was practising a lot and it's getting better. Hopefully I can win a couple more titles. It's been a good start to the year."
The 22nd-ranked Nishikori did not drop a set en route to the title and is the first player from Japan to win the tournament. Two of Nishikori's three titles have come at ATP World Tour 500 events. He triumphed on home soil at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships this past October in Tokyo (d. Raonic).
Meeting for the second time on the ATP World Tour, Nishikori quickly asserted himself as the in-form player, breaking Lopez to begin the match. In an all-around performance, the 23 year old won 79 per cent of his service points and converted four of his eight break point chances to claim victory in 67 minutes. Nishikori improved to 11-2 in 2013 and avenged his third-round loss to Lopez in Barcelona two years ago.
Lopez was looking to win his first crown since 2010, when he was victorious in Johannesburg (d. Robert). The Spaniard dropped to a 2-6 mark in ATP World Tour finals.
"I didn't play a bad match. He was very aggressive from the beginning," Lopez said. "I think he probably played his best. I have no regrets. I tried everything I could and he was just the better player today. I hope to keep playing like I did this week."
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To help fill a model gap that no one told us about, NVIDIA has released its GeForce GTX 560, a slight step down from the Ti variant. Featuring a cut of 48 cores and the potential for wildly varying clock speeds, this card is a strange beast. But, we look to pit MSI's 'Twin Frozr II' against our usual fleet of cards to see where it stacks up in the end.
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Similar to a real game, 3DMark 11 offers many configuration options, although many (including us) prefer to stick to the profiles which include Performance, and Extreme. Depending on which one you choose, the graphic options are tweaked accordingly, as well as the resolution. As you'd expect, the better the profile, the more intensive the test. The benchmark doesn't natively support 2560×1600, so to benchmark with that, we choose the Extreme profile and simply change the resolution.
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As many of you who follow Motoringfile closely already know, I happen to have an OEM backup camera installed in my MINI (see: MINI Rear Camera Review). The rear-view camera produces such a nice image on the navigation display that it started me thinking about if it would be possible to use the backup camera as a video input for other video sources. It would be really cool to be able to play DVD movies (and possibly even play PS2 games) on the built-in navigation screen in my MINI. Well, after exploring the wiring diagram for the backup camera installation kit, it appears that there are indeed a couple of video inputs that can easily be tapped into (see: MINI Rear Camera Retrofit Kit Installation Instructions).
The backup camera installation kit is comprised of the rear-view camera, a small control module, a video switchbox, and the wiring harnesses used to hook it all up. The installation kit is broken up into two components; The rear-view camera parts kit ( P/N: 66 21 0 392 370 – comprised of the rear-view camera, control module, and wiring harness for the camera) and the additional switchbox parts kit (P/N: 66 21 0 303 085 – comprised of the video switchbox and the wiring harness used for hooking the switchbox up to the navigation computer). As luck would have it, it turns out that the video switchbox has two sets of video inputs that can indeed be used to create an external video input feed for your MINI.
One set of the video inputs on the switchbox is used for the rear-view camera and the other set is used for a front-view camera. The really cool part is that if you don't have/want the rear-view camera, you can purchase just the video switchbox kit for around $200 and use it to hookup a switched video input feed in your MINI. The only down-fall to doing it this way is that, for technical reasons, you'll be forced to use the front-view camera's video input feed and it automatically switches off the video signal once the car is moving faster than 10 KPH (this is a typical safety feature that BMW uses to prevent you from watching the video while driving your car). If however, you happen to have the complete rear-view camera kit, then you can hook into the rear-view camera's video feed and get video-in-motion. Since the rear-view camera is designed to work while the car is in motion, it doesn't automatically force the video feed to turn off at above 10 KPH.
Of course the details on hooking up the video input are a bit beyond the scope of this article. However, if you're interested, I'd be more than happy to share my findings with you and tell you exactly what to do in order to hook is all up. Either send me an e-mail, or better yet, post a comment here and I'll do my best to try and explain it all for you. Suffice it to say that it's quite easy to hook up if you have basic wiring skills.
As you can see from the following photos, the result is quite spectacular. I was able to setup the video input in my MINI and hook up one of the new thin-line PS2 game consoles to it. The new thin PS2 is absolutely amazing! It's super small size allows you to hide the entire unit within the MINI's glove box. With the simple flick of a switch (also hidden within the glove box) I can now watch DVD movies and play PS2 games right from my MINI's built-in navigation display:
In order to provide sound for your video input, you'll also need to have an audio input as well. This is easily done by simply installing one of the $40 OEM MINI AUX cables (P/N: 82 11 0 153 367) and then hooking up your audio source to it (e.g. the audio output from the PS2 console in my case). Once installed, your factory MINI radio will have a new "AUX" mode (accessed via the "MODE" button on the radio) and this is the mode that will be used to play the audio for your video input. In the following photo, you can see the OEM AUX input jack that I installed in the upper right-hand corner of the glove box (you can also see the small switch in the left-hand corner that switches the navigation computer display over to showing the video input signal):
Lastly, if you're going to use a PS2 console, as I did, then you'll also need a power inverter in order to convert the DC voltage in your MINI over to the AC voltage that's required by the game console. These units are available for around $40-$60 in most electronic shops (such as Radio Shack, eBay, etc.). Just make sure that you get one that supplies enough continuous wattage to run whatever you're going to be plugging into it (I believe that the PS2 console requires a minimum of 79 watts). I ended up getting a DC Power Supply Accessory Kit from Radio Shack (P/N: 22-540) for $6.99 and tying it into the 12 volt switched accessory jack located in the boot of my MINI. I then plugged a power inverter into the adapter kit's 12 volt power supply socket and using it to power the PS2 game console:
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CVRDE Director gives inaugural address at 'Kurukshetra'
Emulating the example set by leading car manufacturers in the world, India's defence scientists are contemplating the development of hybrid vehicles that can use electricity as a source of fuel, said P.Sivakumar, director of the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE).
"Our armoured vehicles currently use huge diesel engines. On the warfront, battle tanks idle most of the time and the fuel engines emit a lot of noise and heat, which can be used to detect their position. We want to use high-performance batteries as a source of backup power. This secondary 'twin engine' can be switched on whenever required. No other country has such a technology at the moment," he said.
Speaking here on Wednesday at the inauguration of 'Kurukshetra 2012', the annual techno-management fest of the College of Engineering Guindy, Mr.Sivakumar said that CVRDE would launch a prototype 'unmanned ground vehicle' with mine detection capabilities by next year.
With the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) working on developing technologies that could be used in low-intensity conflicts, such as the Maoist insurgency, Mr.Sivakumar said that unmanned vehicles that can be used for surveillance and landmine detection are going to be critical requirements in a few years.
"But we require high precision sensors of various types to develop such systems. This is where students come into the picture. There is a crippling shortage of young scientists," he said.
Pointing out that there are about 7,000 scientists working for the DRDO now, he said the plan was to induct at least 3,000 more over the next 10 years. "At least 300-400 young scientists would be inducted each year. Students can sit for the Scientist Entrance Test, and those who qualify will be sent for a three month programme at the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology.
The government is also willing to fund educational trips abroad," Mr.Sivakumar added. Chief People Officer of Cognizant Shankar Srinivasan spoke. The inaugural was followed by a video conferencing session in which Steven Goldfarb of CERN gave a virtual tour of the large hadron collider and the ATLAS experiment which is being carried out at the facility.
The four-day tech fest at CEG would feature a variety of lectures, workshops and hands-on events.
A summit on 'Nuclear energy: Balancing benefits and risks' is also scheduled for this year. For further details, log on to www.kurukshetra.org.in. TheHindu is the media partner for the event.
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NORAD Still Tracking Santa, 45 Years Later
NORAD insiders will never tell you how they are precisely able to track Santa's flight path onto their computer screens every Christmas Eve, but they will let you know where he is at any given moment.
NORAD is a joint U.S.-Canada command that monitors the North American skies and seas from a control center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
The base answered 74,000 phone calls and 3,500 emails from around the world last year, all asking about Santa's where-a-bouts.
A spokeswoman for NORAD, Joyce Frankovis, told the Associated Press (AP) that it takes four months of planning to marshal the 1,200 volunteers, 100 telephones, 30 laptops and two big projection TV screens to properly respond to the inquiries of St. Nick's location.
The 'NORAD Tracks Santa' project tarted in 1955 when a Colorado Springs newspaper ad invited kids to talk to Santa on a hotline. The phone number had a typo and dozens of kids ended up dialing the Continental Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, the predecessor to NORAD.
Officers on duty decided to play along and passed along reports on Santa's progress. It is now a cherished ritual at NORAD.
"It's really ingrained in the NORAD psyche and culture," said Canadian Forces Lt. Gen. Marcel Duval, the deputy commander of NORAD, who pitches in to field French-language calls on Christmas Eve. "It's a goodwill gesture from all of us, on our time off, to all the kids on the planet."
Gerry Bowler, a history professor at the University of Manitoba and the author of "Santa Clause: A Biography," told AP's Dan Elliott that it is also one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa Claus story.
Bowler said that most embellishments never capture the public's imagination because they tend to be ad campaigns or movies that try to "kidnap" Santa for commercial purposes.
He said that NORAD has "brought Santa into the 20th century."
Over 13 million visitors went to the "NORAD Tracks Santa" website last December alone.
"We get e-mails from parents thanking us," said Mike Wilkerson, a network engineer responsible for setting up the phones and computers and keeping them running.
Canadian Forces Lt. General Marcel Duval said that tracking Santa does not interfere with NORAD's other job, which is watching out for enemy threats to the North American continent.
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ECW opens this week with a good video package highlighting the triple threat match last week, where the winner would get the opportunity to face ECW Champion John Morrison in the 15 Minutes of Fame this week. CM Punk won of course. Now we see the opening video which has YET AGAIN changed songs - this time back to the Marilyn Manson song. Speaking of freaks, Boogeyman coming out for the opening match of the night.
Match #1: The Boogeyman vs Jesse Guilmette
Boogeyman came out wearing a long black wig and the new face paint from last week. He spits worms in the face of this poor jobber. Couple of clotheslines and a bodyslam, before Boogeyman heads up top. A big splash finishes this one quickly.
Result: Boogeyman wins by pinfall
Post match the poor guy gets the worm treatment, but Matt Strike comes out and tells him to stop it because the worms are unsanitary, and he is disgusted at the fans for encourage him. He wants Boogeyman out of his life, and he berates Boogeyman for long enough to allow Big Daddy V to attack from behind. He kills the Boogeyman with a running splash into the corner and a samoan drop. Striker screams "More Daddy, more!" which is quite disturbing, and V responds by dropping the elbow over and over again. They both stand over the fallen Boogeyman.
Match #2: Elijah Burke vs Tommy Dreamer
Looks like it's time to start rebuilding Burke after being Punk's personal jobber for weeks. Dreamer clotheslines Burke to the outside early, but gets himself slammed off the apron when he goes out after him. Burke tosses Tommy back in the ring and stomps away on the back, before hitting the handstand elbow drop to the spine for a near fall. Burke with a surfboard type submission, but Dreamer fights out with a back suplex. Dreamer with punches now, before locking in the Texas Clover Leaf but Burke makes the ropes. Dreamer slingshots Burke into the corner and then looks for the DDT but Burke counters. Both men end up on the top and Burke hotshots Dreamer over the top rope before hitting the Elijah Express for the pinfall.
Result: Elijah Burke wins by pinfall
John Morrison is in the back, and Joey asks him what his thoughts are on tonights 15 Minutes of Fame. He says he is the ECW Champion, the guru of greatness, and the shaman of sexy. He can tell by the way Punk is hopping around backstage that he is happy for his shot tonight. Morrison doesn't think Punk can handle it though, because when Punk is waking up at 5am for his "straight edge workout", John Morrison is just getting home. They don't serve diet soda at the palace of wisdom. Morrison says he is beyond good and evil, his fame is infinite, but for you Punk "this is the end". After tonight, no one will remember CM Punk's name. Out comes the Miz with all three girls of the Extreme Expose flanking him, and they sit at ringside and watch again. Miz grabs the mic and says again that he is a chick magnet. Chicks dig him, and their men fear him.
Match #3: The Miz (w/ Extreme Expose) vs Balls Mahoney
Balls with the punch combo early, but then misses a running kick and ends up on the outside. Miz kicks him in the head, and Balls lands in front of the girls. Kelly Kelly looks concerned and bends down to see if Balls is okay. Balls is HAPPY and gets this wacky grin on his face. Miz comes out though and tosses Balls back into the ring. Miz pounds away with punches and stomps in the ring and gets a near fall. Miz tries for a slam but he couldn't lift Balls. He tries again, but this time Balls counters and sends Miz into the ropes. Miz with the boot in the midsection and hits the knee lift + neckbreaker combo which is now called the Reality Check and gets the victory again. Girls in the ring to celebrate with Miz, but Kelly still looks concerned for Balls.
Result: The Miz wins by pinfall
CM Punk in the back now for an interview with Joey, who asks him how he is going to approach his match. Punk says that it's cut and dry, and he will approach it the same way he does everything in his life, with focus and dedication. Everybody knows he is straight edge and his only addiction is competition, so he wants nothing more then to be ECW Champion. Tonight he promises one thing, that John Morrison will never forget the name CM Punk.
RAW Rebound plays, highlighting Mr McMahon STRIKS BACK against Congress, the IRS, the Hypocrisy of the news media, and his own family. The package ends with Vince finding out he has an illegitimate child with BABY MUSIC playing in the background. This was a great video and I LOVE THIS ANGLE. We also see a recap of Stevie Richards getting a couple of wins over Thorn in the last couple of weeks, and now Joey interviews him. Stevie starts talking about being in ECW a long time, but doesn't get many words out before he is blind sided by the Vampire and suffers a beat down. Main event up next.
Match #4: John Morrison (c) vs CM Punk - 15 Minutes of Fame Match
Big CM Punk chants before the match starts. The bell rings and the clock starts ticking. They lock up but no man gets the advantage. Morrison is wary of Punks kicks. They trade a couple of holds now, and chain wrestle on the mat for a bit. Crowd is getting into it as Morrison locks in a chinlock. Punk fights him off and gets a one count before locking in a headlock of his own. 12 minutes left as both men look at the clock. Morrison takes over with some kicks, before Punk counters in the corner and hits a nice springboard dropkick. Running leg drop gets a two count for Punk. A couple of kicks followed by the Pepsi Twist by Punk gets another near fall. Morrison comes back with a body slam and the wacky spinning leg drop. Punk fights off the ground with a kick, but Morrison with some kicks of his own now. Punk comes back himself and clotheslines Morrison to the outside and hits a plancha to the outside. Morrison dropkicks Punk off the apron when he tried to come back in, before looking for a suplex off the apron. Punk counters though and hits a suplex of his own sending Morrison crashing to the outside as we take a commercial.
4 minutes left on the clock after commercial, and Punk fights out of a headlock and gets a backslide for a nearfall. Jumping leg lariat from Morrison gets a two count of his own. Morrison misses a corkscrew moonsault off the second rope and both men are down. Punk with a few strikes now and a roaring clothesline. Knee lift + bulldog combo followed by a springboard clothesline for a near fall and the crowd can't believe it. 2:15 left as Punk goes for another roll up. Step up enziguri gets another near fall. Morrison counters a clothesline into a backbreaker/neckbreaker combo and Punk kicks out with just over one minute remaining. CM Punk chants as the crowd tries to get Punk over the line. Punk lands on the ropes after a slingshot attempt, and Punk goes for a diving sunset flip for another near fall. Punk lifts Morrison up for the GTS, but Morrison counters out and looks for the springboard kick, but slips off the ropes. He hits the kick anyway and Punk kicks out much to the delight of the crowd with 30 seconds remaining. Punk counters the corkscrew neckbreaker nicely into the GTS and hits it this time. He gets the pinfall with 5 seconds remaining and the crowd explodes. Punk earns a title shot at Summerslam.
Result: CM Punk wins by pinfall
Overall Thoughts: Another good ECW as the Morrison / Punk fued is really starting to gain momentum and the crowd is into it. The main event was a great TV match and the best these two have done together. The crowd was into it and the countdown clock added to the match. CM Punk will get another shot at the title at Summerslam. I enjoyed seeing Big Daddy V killing the Boogeyman, but I'm not sure i want the fued to continue. Storyline starting with Kelly showing concern for Balls tonight and I pray to God that she falls in love with him or something. THUMBS UP again this week.{plug}


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How can we talk about this tragedy without mentioning black on black crime?
If this involved a white person killing three blacks (or visa versa) race would be made an issue in the discourse.
However, it appears to be a dirty little secret that we are killing each other in record numbers. We don't want to discuss it. We are ashamed. When we hear about a crime on the news our first thought is "please don't let it be a black guy who did it. Not another black perp walk". We are in big trouble.
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Another curse was reversed and a pair of teams (USC and New England) could lay claim to dynasty status. But the biggest story of 2005 may very well have been the biggest story of the decade — Lance Armstrong's seventh straight Tour de France win.
10. NHL season put on iceFive months to the day after the NHL made the decision to lock out its players in an attempt to re-work the sport's collective bargaining agreement, a second fateful decision was announced — the cancellation of the 2004-05 season.
"It is my sad duty to announce that because a solution has not yet been attained, it is no longer practical to conduct even an abbreviated season," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said. "Accordingly, I have no choice but to announce the formal cancellation of play."
It would mark the first time ever that an entire season had been lost to labor strife in American sports history — and it would doom the NHL to second-tier status for the remainder of the decade.
9. Woman driver
Danica Patrick was not the first woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500. But the fourth female to give it a go at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was definitely the best.
Driving for late-night star David Letterman's Rahal Letterman Racing team, Patrick became the first woman to lead a lap at the fabled brickyard and her fourth-place finish was easily the best by the fairer sex.
That is, until she finished third in 2009.
8. The Golden Bear heads into hibernationShy of a 65-year-old Jack Nicklaus adding one last major championship to a resume that already had 18 of them on it, you couldn't have come up with a more fitting farewell for the Golden Bear.
Nicklaus played his final round of major championship golf at the 2005 British Open at the birthplace of golf — St. Andrews' Old Course. That gave him one last opportunity to walk across the Swilcan Bridge, a 10-minute ovation still ringing in his ears as he drained a birdie putt on No. 18 for the final stroke of his storied career.
Speaking of only fitting, how appropriate was it that the next Jack Nicklaus (aka Tiger Woods) would end up holding the Claret Jug two days after the original one said goodbye to competitive golf for good?
7. They protest too muchThe image is indelible. O's slugger Rafael Palmeiro angrily pointing at a congressional committee investigating steroids and Major League Baseball and unequivocally denying having ever used them.
"Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids, period," Palmeiro said. "I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never."
Even more than Mark McGwire's refusal to talk about the past (even though that was precisely the reason he'd been brought before the committee) and Sammy Sosa's sudden inability to speak English, Palmeiro's denial would become the watershed moment from those hearings.
That's because just five months later (and 10 days after he joined baseball's exclusive 3,000-hit club), Palmeiro would test positive for a performance-enhancing drug and receive a 10-game suspension.
6. USC doesn't have to shareOne year after having to settle for just a share of the national title due to some fuzzy math courtesy of the BCS computers, USC's football team was feeling understandably selfish in 2005.
And the Trojans didn't leave anything to chance during the 2004 regular season, finishing unbeaten and assuring itself a spot in the 2005 Orange Bowl.
Once there, they didn't leave anything to chance either. With Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush and Mike Williams leading a high-powered offense, USC rolled up 38 points before halftime en route to a 55-19 rout of Oklahoma and a controversy-free title.
Well, unless you ask fans of the undefeated Auburn and Utah squads.
5. Katrina hits New OrleansThe Louisiana Superdome, home to so many big sporting events from Super Bowls to Final Fours, took on a much more important role in the wake of the devastation wreaked upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
For several days, the home of the New Orleans Saints became the home for approximately 30,000 refugees from the storm — a so-called "shelter of last resort." Images of the damage done to the dome — a large section of the outer covering was peeled away by the winds — perhaps most effectively demonstrated the devastating power of the storm.
It would be more than a year before the Saints were able to return to the Superdome.
4. Roy Boy gets his titleWhile at Kansas, Roy Williams was universally regarded as one of college basketball's premier coaches. But there was one blemish on his resume: the lack of a national title.
In fact, given the quality of Williams' Jayhawks teams during his tenure at the school — his 1997 squad was considered one of the greatest in college basketball history, but was stunned in the Sweet 16 — that blemish was threatening to overshadow an otherwise sterling coaching career.
But in just his second season at North Carolina, Williams erased any doubts about his ability to win the big one.
In Williams' fifth trip to the Final Four as a head coach — and his first since returning to his native North Carolina, where he had honed his craft during 10 seasons as an assistant coach to the legendary Dean Smith — he finally got to cut down the nets.
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Fans of Chicago's other team had waited even longer than Red Sox Nation to experience the thrill of World Series victory. The White Sox hadn't won it all since 1917, two years before several members of a heavily favored Chicago team conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series.
At the start of the 2005 season, it seemed unlikely that this White Sox team would end the drought; most observers picked the team to finish fourth in the AL Central. But led by feisty manager Ozzie Guillen, the White Sox won 99 games in the regular season, then rolled through the playoffs, dropping just a single game en route to the title.
2. Patriots gamesThree was certainly the magic number for New England in 2005.
Playing in their third Super Bowl in four seasons, the Patriots brought home their third Lombardi Trophy — with all three wins coming by the same three-point margin, each courtesy of an Adam Vinatieri field goal.
New England's 24-21 triumph over Philadelphia in Super Bowl XXXIX marked the first time a team had repeated as NFL champs since John Elway's Broncos did it in 1998.
More significant, in an age where parity rules and returning to the Super Bowl with the degree of frequency that Bill Belichick's squad has (let alone winning it as often), the title may very well have conferred "last great dynasty" status on the Patriots.
1. Lance in seventh heavenLance Armstrong's first Tour de France win was one of the signature moments of the 1990s. His seventh may very well have been the greatest sporting accomplishment of this decade.
And seeing as how he finished third in his 2009 comeback, we wouldn't put it past Armstrong to deliver one more magic performance in the decade to come. But it was the 2005 Tour de France that very well may remain his crowning achievement.
Armstrong had — at that time — declared it would be his final Tour. And he was determined to walk away on top. He did just that, leaving us (or so we thought) one last image of him as a competitor, decked out in the yellow jersey for the remainder of history.
Even if Armstrong was not content to walk away from his sport at the pinnacle, his comeback this year hardly diminished (if it did it all) the unprecedented feat of winning arguably the most grueling event in all of sports seven straight times.
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Thanks very much for your guess. What makes you say girl? Just out of curiosity
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How far are u in these pics? they look similar to my 8 wk one
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no way to tell from these pictures. but i'll say boy just because.
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Originally posted by Moaky07
1) Not once in my post did I mention the word "sandbox". Please don't read things that aren't there.
2) Sandbox =/= PvP. A sandbox only implies that the player is not coralled from one zone to the next like cattle. There CAN be PvE sandboxes, or even hybrids of sandbox and themeparks. Sandparks, they're commonly called.
3) I love PvE. Don't be so quick to make assumtions about people. Or rather, I should say I love PvE done well. See, like everything, PvE can be done well, or it can be done poorly. Now whats well or poor is totally a matter of opinion, but when PvE hasn't changed in 8 years, it does become stagnant.
GW2 has playable hairy-chested humans and will beat The Secret World by a long shot. SWTOR failed hard. MoP panda's will make Chuck cry as we get closer to the end of the world. Pac-Man is still fun. Can you believe that?
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Originally posted by DecoyTrooper
Some children mouth off to their parents. Green Tea is a flavor of ice cream. If a cat dies once it apparently loses all 9 lives at the same time. Real life doesn't have a reset button. A cookie is just a cookie but Newtons are fruit and cake. Not sure where this is going, please elaborate.
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Originally posted by Banaghran
Well across all MMORPGs, the service has grown, and is probably still growing.
Like cellphone companies, the market is saturated. There just aren't many people left with interest in the product who don't have it yet. It's possible cell revenue is still growing quickly, but customer count growth has undoubtedly slowed.
Unlike cellphone companies, the market is immensely fragmented. Customers are spread across a hundred different MMORPGs.
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Originally posted by Axehilt
Well, and how about, say, 2001-2010, was the market not saturated and fragmented by your standards? The market was not saturated and fragmented for Aion and in a broader online games sense for Minecraft.
To me it sounds like a cop out, like managers of a 6 season tv show arguing that the ratings went down because the show is old, not because half of the writing staff was fired last year and the main actor is on drugs and it shows...
Or as usual, saying that wow went from popular to old in a time of few months around the launch of wotlk :)
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Originally posted by RefMinor
I think there is a lot of truth in this. When media was less varied and more limited, people had to use their imagination more. But we are constantly bombarded with media these days and it has really stifled individual creativity.
Originally posted by Terranah
Why is that a "problem"? People are looking for entertainment in games, not ways to train how to think and imagine new ideas.
I use ZERO imagination when i watch the Avatar and have tremendous amount of fun leveraging James Cameron's imagination. Is there a problem?
I think there are 3 issues at stake....
1) It's easier to MARKET a good game (or movie, etc) then it is to make one. Thus alot of games fall far short ot the expectations setup for them from the spin/hype machine that thier Marketing Dept. builds for them.
2) MMO's have moved from the "Entreprenuer" stage to the "Commodity" stage. This means they are being produced by different people with different sets of dynamics in place. "Entreprenuer's" are by nature risk takers. They are individuals who have a particular idea or concept that they BELIEVE will be successfull and this belief is often based on nothing more then intuition. They thrive in exploring new and unproven business models/verticals. They are usualy experts in the subject matters of whatever business they are engaging in...and will often follow thier "vision" and are motivated by a passion and faith that vision will be successfull. As such they are constantly experimenting and trying new ideas and concepts. There are many failed entrepenuers and failed projects among entreprenuers but when they do hit upon a success it will likely by novel, fresh and outstandingly executed.
By contrast, people running the show in a "Commodity" type market, really have no interest or passion in the particular product that they are producing or a particular vision... they simply have an interest on getting the best Return On Investment that they can. They often have little or no direct expertise/knowledge in the subject matter of the product itself. Rather they have expertiese in business processes and market analtyics which they believe they can apply equaly well to any given product vertical whether it be games or toilet paper. The person calling the shots in this sort of situation is as likely to have run a Toilet Paper company for thier prior job as to have anything to do with gaming...they may never have personaly even played an RPG...and have no particular desire to. What they do have is experience in anlayzing past performance, metrics and market analysis.... and they use these to drive thier decision making process. The "Commodity" people are FAR less likely to have the same rate and depth of failures as the "Entrepenuers" ....at the same time they are highly unlikely to reach the same heights of success....and rarely if ever will the products they produce have much that is fresh or new or highly innovative to them.... usualy they will be a rehash of some past success (or what is percieved as such) with perhaps a few small variations or improvements added to it. By nature "Commodity" type people are risk averse...and this becomes exaggerated when the investment budgets in new products involve very large amounts of capital (as they have in MMO's today).
3) The MMO market is very large and diverse and has a wide audience with many different tastes. However the budgets to produce major new products have become so significant....require such a length of time that the money is sunk into the project before realizing some return and are percieved as so risky by nature that it becomes difficult to get funding for anything that is PERCIEVED to cater to anything other then the broadest possible segment......and because of the historical success of a certain number of games (primarly 1 huge one) that are Themeparks, it has become "common wisdom" that is the market segment you have to go for in order to be successfull. Even though there may well be enough of an audience that is interested in other types of games....it's difficult to get significant funding to try to pursue those audiences...just because of the limited prior history that exists for those type of Products. Most of the existing examples are either very very old....made when the MMO audience as a whole was far more limited in scope.....or are very small budget, independant projects that are neccesarly going to have a difficult time scaling up to a large auduence due to resource constraints.
Originally posted by nariusseldon
Not so much a problem as an entirely DIFFERENT form of entertainment. Some people like reading/watching stories....other people like writing them....others like both. But they are entirely different sorts of entertainment.
Personaly when I play MMO's, RPG's, and games in general...my preferences run to playing a more active role in the CREATIVE aspects. For the PASSIVE role...I prefer movies or novels as a medium instead. Nothing wrong with people who's tastes run differently. Alot of us are just rather dissapointed that we have a fairly meager set of offerings geared toward our tastes at the moment.
Originally posted by GrumpyMel2
So there is nothing wrong with people who play games to just hack & slash and have fun.
There is very little creative aspects of MMOs for players because, in my opinion, most are interested in CONSUMING content, not creating it.
BTW, how can you be creative in playing a RPG like Skyrim? You just follow its stories and do its quests. There is ZERO creativity involved. Don't tell me choosing which quest to do first is creativity.
It's a well beaten horse thats for sure. but still a valid drubbing is required. sadly,developers don't interface with many human beings so they don't come here for ideas much. since they spend a great deal of time watching family guy or sports teams and drinking lattes at starbucks whilst surfing animal porn and telling what little friends they have how they are abused at thier current gig because they only make 250k a year and still don't have a company car.
Point is I agree with you mainly.
until the mighty beast and large fluke called Wow which was made possible by angry revolting SWG vets falls...we will never cease to stop beating this horse ever.
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I have found a great deal to satisfy my creative outlet while continuing to be able to do the rest that these games have to offer while playing Everquest 2.
Player made dungeons that others can visit and earn exp and goodies while the builder earns accolades and tokens,
Player housing with the ability to not just decorate with quested and crafted items, but spaces to build whole villages and parks and architecturally unique buildings.
Both the dungeons and the housing have easy access for other players to visit and add a thumbs up if they like what they see.
This game is constantly evolving and growing into one of the finest examples of it's genre available.
Originally posted by nariusseldon
Obviously alot more limited in Single Player Games then Multi-Player Games because alot of creative activity in games is based on interaction with other people. However, even with single-player games there is room for creative aspects in how you build a character and how you interact with the games environment and/or story arcs. The openness with which the game design makes a big qualitative difference in what DEGREE the game supports the players creativity.
For example, Skyrim is much more supportive of player creativity then DA2 for example.
Even if we look at something as simple as in Skyrim you get to choose your characters name and aren't given a pre-defined backstory...you are just presented with the situation of your IMMEDIATE circumstances. Compared to DA2, where your characters name must be "Hawke" and your entire characters backstory is predefined (or so I understand it to be....only played DAO personaly). Something as simple as this can make a BIG difference in a games appeal to people who are more interested in creative aspects.
There is nothing wrong with people who play games for whatever reason they choose to play them.... which are many and varied. As long as people derive entertainment from a game...that's fine.... but just as people are different, they derive entertainment from different things.
I believe a big part of the reasion why todays MMO's tend to limit creative aspects is.....
1) It's harder to design systems that incorporate player creative imput robustly ( Simple example, if you allow players to choose thier own names. Then when doing game dialogue you must either avoid using that name or create a dynamic lookup element that incorporates that data field into the dialogue....it also makes doing things like VO's and cinematics unable to accomodate that as they are incompatible with dynamic content).
2) As MMO's are big-bussiness now... Developers are afraid to surrender even a tiny bit of control over the user experience to players...as doing so implies a certain amount of risk. It's the same factor that prevents the actors who play characters at Disney's Themeparks from going "off-script" or ad-libbing. In early MMO's the Developers (and the players) had more background in MUD/MUSH & PnP gaming....and thus were more comfortable with and less affraid of allowing individuals (whether Players or GM's) more involvement with the Creative aspects of play....because those were common elements in those other venues.
3) There is a PERCEPTION that players are more interested in consuming content rather then playing a creative role because the one clear runaway success in the MMO world (WoW) emphasized that aspect of play.....so as an example it set expectations among Developers, Investors, Pundits and even Players.
Originally posted by GrumpyMel2
I would not call playing SKYRIM creative. Really, picking a name is creative? In that case, i am 10x more creative in WOW than in SKYRIM since i got to pick it 10 times for alts.
In WOW, you can pick guild names, make a guild tabard, and set a schedule for guild activity. 1000x more creative than SKYRIM.
And whether u r a backstory or not, you follow the quests in SKYRIM. How is that creative?
Originally posted by nariusseldon
Actualy, you don't have to follow the quests at all in Skyrim if you don't want to do so....and you follow them in different ways and can achieve different results that have lasting effects in the game environment....
But really when we are talking WoW vs Skyrim we are comparing Apples and Oranges....as MMO's and SPRPG's are NECCESARLY different animals that are affected by different operating constraints.
That's why I used Skyrim and DA2 in my comparison.
If we wanted to look at MMO's we could potentialy look at WoW when compared to GW2 or the proposed Pathfinder Online, or maybe even something Asherons Call.
For the record, I thing WoW is more supportive of creativity in some aspects then Skyrim and less in others. For me, Skyrim generaly seems a bit more creative....but then again...it's operating under a different set of contraints.
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Originally posted by Banaghran
In 2001 it clearly wasn't saturated. In an extremely simple sense, WOW's first couple years saturated the market.
The US market was definitely saturated for Aion. I claim no knowledge of the asian market, which is the only place it did well.
Not sure where Minecraft comes in. Calling it an "online game" is misleading, given it's predominantly played solo. The 5+ mil sales are the result of the game servicing a previously untapped audience. The 5+ mil sales are also misleading, given that I'm amongst those who bought it yet I really didn't enjoy it much and quit within a week.
WOW didn't go from popular to old as the result of one expansion. It's been a gradual thing. Drama queens were saying it was old and finished during vanilla patches, but only now have the genuine quitters (probably) surpassed the new installs.
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Think of it from the point of view with investors.
They're not usually gamers. They see the stats from early EQ, what WoW did, how modern games like DDO and DCUO managed to turn things around, and how at least monetarily successful clone games like RIFT and SWTOR are.
That's the jist of it.
We're in an era where crowd sourcing funding is viable and a few games are coming based on that model.
Also I think there's enough out there for a lot of small companies to try the unique.
Risk vs Reward for those with the cash to invest is all that really needs to change. Eventually the same ol' won't be a solid green gain and the risk will catch up.
I honestly think that'll have to wait for technology to advance.
I used to play MMOs like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
Originally posted by RefMinor
There you have it.
But worse than that would be watching the overwhelming majority of Transformer fans bash on the other films because they are boring, complicated, make you think too much, etc. And you could vote with your wallet all you wanted, but your ticket purchases would be a tiny drop in the bucket compared to what the majority wanted and spent money on like voracious locusts moving from one new flashy production with shootouts and car chases and BIG explosions to the next.


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There are, of course, two sides to any transaction, the merchant and the customer. Pushing costs to one side or the other is another way to innovate.
Take Bluebird, the payment card from
American Express
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Each mobile payment app that appears -- and
And if you don't think the current players aren't hip to that, you're mistaken. How would you like a credit card with a keypad on it that makes online payments more secure and cheaper? MasterCard is testing one,


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On today's In Focus, Cathy spoke with Riley County USD 378 Supt. Brad Starnes and Blue Valley/Randolph (USD 384) K-12 Counselor, Matt Schreiber. She also talked to Beth Bailey and Marcia Rozell on the Little Apple Festival. Lastly, Cathy was joined by McCain Auditorium Director, Todd Holmberg.
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