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Album Rating: 2.5
I want to listen to this for the sole reason of experiencing this magical growing-on deal that everyone else is experiencing.
Album Rating: 4.0
I want to listen to this for the sole reason of experiencing this magical growing-on deal that everyone else is experiencing.
It's good, but I doubt I'll ever listen to it again - the only used album I still listen to from time to time is the debut
Album Rating: 4.0man you have me pumped for this CD now...how did all of you guys get it so early? where can i do the same?
Album Rating: 4.0It's streaming on their Myspace page and it is officially released on Monday.
Album Rating: 3.5It's decent. Certainly bearable over their previous work. I used to be into these guys when they just had their S/T but I fell out of it when I realized there were bands that did it better. I still think the singer has a obnoxious voice.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThis is very close to be as good as the first for me, but not quite just yet.
Album has very slowly grown on me. It still has a bland feeling to it though. Branden's drumming is definitely missed. Alot of the songs just have that samey feeling to them. I still think the self titled is their best followed very closely by Lies for the Liars (that album took almost a year for me to really really like).
love this album. really some great stuff...
So, the single sucks and sounds vaguely like a crappy AFI song?
AFI crappy? Willie what is this bs you speak of
Album Rating: 4.0I speak of the gayness that is AFI.
Gay they maybe, but great artists they are.
Album Rating: 4.0I just don't like the vocals. He used to sound like an angry chipmunk, now he just sounds... well, I think we covered that already.
album art is trashy
Album itself is trashy.
Listened to it a few times and it hasn't grown on me one bit. Going to give it a break, come back to it and see...
I don't listen to any of their past albums anymore, only a few songs from each. This one I'll
probably listen to in its entirety.
Album Rating: 3.5I like growers, I'm gonna give this a listen sometime...
Wow I still haven't listened to this yet...I'll try to give it a spin today or tomorrow. I'm liking the cover art tho, so its off to a good start.
Album Rating: 4.0I can't believe I'm saying this but...
The Used's Artwork >>>>>>>>>>>>> Brand New's Daisy. There, I said it.
I figured it out, it's the drumming that is turning me off. Branden >>>>>>> Dan
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NV40, There was a gloss map modification written for Doom 3. It was about 3 lines of code. That eliminated the plastic problem and you can simulate any material with the gloss maps. Also, at one point Id software had the *FULL POLYGON* models running around in the game...I mean the ones they made the normal maps out of. It ran slowly, but it worked.
Also, in a JC email I posted, D3 engine also has HDR, all that's needed is better integration with the systems, but it works well enough.
Finally,all textures in D3 are 256x256. Now imagine them all at 1024x1024 and the character textures at 2048x2048.
The Engine is the most advanced out...period. Whether the game makes use of it well, that's another issue.
I hate how people like the moron who wrote the article can't separate engine from game. Hell, i'm 14 years old and I can do it.
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Gainesville, Siesta Key, Savannah, New York, Chicago, Key West. I like to plan trips. I make itineraries! Sometimes I won't even say what I have up my sleeve (Hi..um...can you meet me at the airport...and pack a bag)
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Gator football; Boating; Sunday Naps with the air conditioning turned down to 60; Im also a BIG fan of practical jokes (No, really, I'm sorry, I don't know why your refridgerator is packed with pudding cups!?)
I'll be honest, in the fall, I watch A LOT of football. As the calendar moves into spring, I like to spend time outdoors (and on the water, if possible). Summer is for traveling (and avoiding the Florida heat).
I just downloaded The Great Gatsby. I haven't read it since high school, so I'm looking forward to getting back into it. Also reading a John Wooden book on leadership.
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A University of Missouri doctoral student has developed a technique that uses digital imaging of soil samples to take some of the guesswork out of wetland identification.
(AP) -- For the past decade, NASA's Mars exploration strategy was to follow the water.
A new study reconstructing thousands of years of fire history in the southern Appalachians supports the use of prescribed fire, or controlled burns, as a tool to reduce the risk of wildfires, restore and maintain forest health ...
William Holmes was at his desk at a downtown San Francisco engineering firm when a message from the U.S. Geological Survey flashed onto his computer screen: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake had struck 10 miles from the Haitian ...
When the Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off from the moon, they left behind not just the small steps of men but a giant pile of equipment and junk for all of mankind.
Antibiotic resistance in the natural environment is rising despite tighter controls over our use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, Newcastle University scientists have found.
Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission.
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Sunday, Nov. 8, 12 noon — Part of the Freedom Without Walls celebration at Duke will be a charity 5K benefiting SEEDS in Durham, NC. Participants will donate $15 and receive a Freedom Without Walls T-shirt and water bottle; the run is open to everyone in the Triangle area. SEEDS mission statement is: "SEEDS encourages respect for life, for earth and for each other. We help individuals, neighborhoods and communities grow together through gardening, gathering and education." The funds will benefit specifically the SEEDlings after school program where kids in the 1st through 5th grade can learn about gardening, nature, exercise, and nutrition in their community, as well as get tutoring and help with homework. Look out for sign-ups on Duke's campus as we near the event!
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I like Birds, Cats, Dogs, Exotic Pets, Fish, Horses
It is my dream to retire on a big piece of property and give a home to all the shelter dogs in the world.
The Grove in LA (I also happen to live a 100 yards from it), it's like a mini-Disneyland, which I guess also means I love Disneyland. Other favorites include Gaslamp in San Diego, Venice (what a funky place), and the North Pole (get it, hot spot!).
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
I like all kinds of music, but Coldplay, Foo Fighters, RCHP, and Adelle are some of my favorite artists. I also love volunteering; I help out at the Heal the Bay beach clean ups and spend a couple Saturdays every month assisting local dog adoptions.
Going to the movies, museums, go for long drives and long hikes, hanging out with my kid sister, watching nature shows and documentaries. I also love going out, partying, and seeing where the night takes me. And baseball, it's my favorite sport.
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, before that The Red Queen by Matt Ridley, and The God Delusion. Apparently I really like evolution.
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Of course, the whole point of a Military Unicorn is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world!?
Of course, the whole point of a Military Unicorn is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world!?
... two days ago that had been missing for over six months, not sure how enthusiastic I'd be about this.
> a bunch of thugs (you know who I mean)
No, who do you mean?
You must be pretty young, or have a very selective memory, because when I voiced my objections to the US invading Iraq in 2002 and '03, I encountered quite a bit of intolerance for differing opinions. If you had to choose between being called an asshole and having your company boycotted, or being called a traitor and threatened with physical violence and potentially imprisonment, which would you choose?
I'm writing this post via Firefox, and would agree that this boycott is a bit silly (if I'm going to boycott the products of every company whose CEO has stupid, fucked up political opinions, I might as well pack up and go live in a log cabin in the woods and make my own soap). But laying this at the feet of "The Left" much less Obama is utter horseshit. Hell, I remember when I was a kid in the late 1970's, and my dad wouldn't take us to Burger King because they were supposedly supporting communists somehow.
In that case, I'd say it's clear that he found his 'special purpose!'
See, this is why I'm hesitant to carry a gun; if that were you and me, you'd either be dead, or have a hole in your gas tank.
People like you make me SICK! It's my RIGHT to use MY phone when and where I want in the MAGNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
> respectable career in theoretical physics.
As someone who was a physics major during the late 1980's, who idolized Feynman, watched Buckaroo Bonzai way too many times, and had to repeatedly apologize for Pons and Fleischmann to friends and acquaintances... I find this statement hilarious.
I predict that they're trying to line up an appearance from Giorgio A. Tsoukalos at their press conference, but the fee negotiations are getting out of hand.
> Former fans mockingly dismissed it as 'swiss cheese.'
One has to wonder how cheesy the first few iterations of Facebook would have looked if their source had been open to all.
Because any 'religion' with an eschatology that reads like (bad) science fiction is illegitimate and false. A true religion has an eschatology that reads like a dragons and wizards epic fantasy.
I read that part, and it led me to take the rest of the article less seriously.
In 1996, a ProTools rig itself (not the microphones, etc.) would set you back ~$20,000, between the A/D/D/A converters, the 10K SCSI disks, and a PC fast enough to keep up. Nowadays, you buy a setup with far better sound quality for about $500, and run it on commodity PC hardware. For established artists (who are perhaps still using the same studio gear they bought in 1996 with the royalties from that one hit that got used on the soundtrack of a Michael Moore film), this might be a small factor, but for fledgling musicians recording in their bedroom, it's a big deal. Many people track and mix on such setups (perhaps not Lowery, who may think it's crucial to have that $20K tube preamp to get that 'warmth' when he screams and caterwauls into the mic, but many other people).
It's also worth noting that in 1996, paying DiscMakers for a run of 1,000 CDs of your first effort was a daunting cost. Now you can upload to bandcamp for free, provided you're willing to lose some of the revenue in fees.
I'd say naming his band Camper Van Beethoven was the harbinger of things to come. He's smart and witty, but Lowery's a not-great-looking guy who doesn't sing that well, and if we're being honest, never wrote a song after "Take the Skinheads Bowling" that had anywhere near as much commercial potential... probably on purpose.
I'd say he had a pretty good run. The music industry was littered with guys 10+ years into their careers, who played to an increasingly "more selective demographic," long before mp3 was a file format.
The issue is indeed simple, and you've completely missed it.
We see 10 cops investigating the Chief's kid's missing phone, while the police can't even be bothered to file a report of an ordinary citizen having their phone snatched right out of their hand. We see thousands of people needlessly losing their homes to banks that have perjured themselves by 'robosigning' documents, and the DAs settle with the banks for fractions of a penny on the dollar; meanwhile, Bernie Madoff rots in a real, not-Clud-Fed prison for having the temerity to rip off rich people.
We are supposed to be equal before the law. In theoretical legal sense, we are, but in a practical sense, when it comes to enforcement, we are not. As the public becomes more aware of this, they are angered, and rightly so.
Ho ho ho! I'm thinking Goldman Sachs ability to repay in such a timely manner might have a little something to do with the $182B bailout to AIG, seeing as GS was AIG's biggest customer of its credit default swaps, and those AIG stakeholders were made entirely whole, whereas as of earlier this month, AIG still owes about $45B to the US taxpayers.
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Plotterkill Fire Department Chief and County Fire Advisory Board Chairman John Tobiassen talks to Schenectady County Legislature Chairwoman Judith Dagostino on Tuesday, July 10, after the county approved a central dispatch plan.
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'Bird' Off the Derby Trail; Wagering Suspended
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Wagering on Raymond Cottrell, Sr.'s Birdbirdistheword, winner of the $1 million Delta Jackpot (gr. III) at Delta Downs in December, has been suspended for the April 12-15 Pool 3 of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager after trainer Ken McPeek ruled out a run by the colt in the "Run for the Roses" on May 5.
McPeek told Churchill Downs officials on Wednesday that he is "regrouping" with the 3-year-old son of Pure Prize and the colt is no longer a candidate for the Kentucky Derby.
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600 it's good but, too little compared with 1320 of Movistar in Spain:
3G Speed Test Canadian Style! Rogers is Faaaast, eh?
Taking my cues from Dieter, I just ran my freshly (and thankfully) activated iPhone 3G through its http://inetworktest.com and this is what I got:
600kbps baby!
Okay, that was the 3rd and highest of 5 sequential attempts. Test 1 and 4 were 405kbps and tests 2 and 5 were 545kbps. Rogers does claim to invest heavily in their network (which they remind us every time we pay the monthly network improvement surcharge!), and 3G pretty much covers the greater Island of Montreal, where I am, so maybe they're at least putting some of the massive amounts of money we fork over to good use!
Speaking of Rogers, please forgive me making a quick shout-out to everyone who was in the line at Fairview, Pointe-Claire (especially those who are readers of TiPb!), and to the staff who remained friendly, classy, and courteous through Rogers continual plan changes, server crashes, and iTunes activation all leading to me -- who was first in line -- finally getting out some 3 hours after the store opened! (Next time, tell head office to call up Google for some pipes, b'okay?)
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It's happened again. Another arson in Roswell this week, this time it was an RV. And as KOB Eyewitness News 4 found out, investigators are hoping a new radio commercial from Crime Stoppers will finally lead to an arrest.
"Roswell it's time to get an arsonist off the streets."
Crime Stoppers wants to get the word out.
"We want to catch whoever is doing this arson, there are numerous cases so far and just a couple two nights ago."
This new message is hitting the radio in Roswell. Since October, at least 20 vehicles have gone up in flames. The most recent was an RV Sunday morning.
"I think that they ought to sit there and just catch whoever it is burning these cars, I mean it's ridiculous," said Henry.
But it's not just vehicles. In a couple cases, the flames spread to three homes.
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Montez thinks someone knows something. He hopes the Crime Stoppers reward will make them come forward.
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"I mean that's one thing about the Roswell Police Department, they can't do it by themselves, they need help simple as that," said Montez.
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Kalil becomes seventh Vikings Pro Bowler
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Kalil, a left tackle taken with the No. 4 overall pick in last year's draft, has been named to the Pro Bowl to replace injured Washington Redskins tackle Trent Williams.
Kalil started all 16 games in his first season with the Vikings and lived up to the expectations that came with being a high draft pick.
Kalil is the second Vikings rookie to make the Pro Bowl, joining kicker Blair Walsh on the NFC squad. Other Vikings who will play in Sunday's Pro Bowl include defensive end Jared Allen, fullback Jerome Felton, linebacker Chad Greenway, running back Adrian Peterson and tight end Kyle Rudolph. Kalil, Greenway and Rudolph are replacement additions.
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The lightweight Powertraveller Solarmonkey Adventurer solar charger combines an efficient solar charger with an internal battery, perfect for world travel to places where electricity may be scarce.
Strap the Powertraveller SolarMonkey Adventurer to the outside of your pack and plug in your dead smartphone before starting up the trail. By the time you get to the top, your phone will be fully charged so you can snap some photos of the summit and send them to your pals back home. The shock- and water-resistant clamshell-style solar panels will fully charge the integrated battery pack in 12 hours of solid sunlight exposure, and the included carry case protects the device when it's packed away. The 5V USB output and a variety of included adapter tips allow you charge all your favorite devices with just the power of the sun.
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2) In large bowl, combine flour, butter, nuts, 1/2 cup sugar, the salt, and extracts.
3) Mix, with hands, until thoroughly combined.
4) Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 1 hour.
5) Make Vanilla Sugar: In electric blender, combine cut-up vanilla bean and 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar; cover; blend at high speed about 8 seconds.
6) Combine with remaining confectioners' sugar on a large sheet of foil.
7) Shape cookies: Form dough into balls, using 1 tablespoon dough for each.
8) Then, with palms of hands, form each ball into a roll 3 inches long.
9) Place, 2 inches apart, on ungreased cookie sheets.
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11) Bake 12 to 15 minutes, or until set but not brown.
12) Let stand 1 minute before removing.
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The ideology of many Democrats is virtually indistinguishable from the Marxists of old. Problem is that terms like "marxist" and "communist" are out of favor, so they choose new, less scary labels like "progressive".Hide replies
Marxists can't even agree on what they themselves are, aside from their hatred of Democrats. So, go ahead dude, connect the dots :-)
Fat Cat nailed it.
Nailed his thumb to the board...
Sorry, but i've stopped giving a #$%^ what somebody who voted against the Violence Against Women Act thinks.
Our dumbest senator today voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Fire Johnson for complete incompetence.
can't spell moron without ronHide replies
thank you for the deep laugh, felt good. yes indeed, he's sharp like a Nerf basketball.
What idiot thinks that just because you name something the "violence against women" act that it's automatically a good idea? Has the entire Democrat Party devolved into a bunch of simpletons? I suppose Russ Feingold was unpatriotic for voting against the Patriot Act? MoronsHide replies
idk, painting everyone in the democratic party as "marxist" somewhat "simpleton'
I'm not sure what else to call someone who supports Obama. Feel free to distance yourself from him if you don't like it.
VAWA first passed in 1994. It was re-authorized in 2000, and again in 2005. Over the course of those three - now four - votes in Congress, *plenty* of "moronic" Republicans managed to find reason to vote in favor of it.
so what? There were Democrat majorities in some of those years, bobby, if this bill was such a slam dunk WTF happened? Fail.
Who's "bobby"?
...and of course, George W Bush was the President who signed that 2005 re-authorization.
So your point is any bill that some Republicans vote for and some vote against must be a slam dunk? Is this how you analyze every piece of legislation?
I agree that the name chosen for a bill as more of a PR move than anything else. However the fact that the bill once had strong bipartisan support and now doesn't shows how many republicans have "evolved". Given what a few republican idiots said about women in the last election it is understandable, if not necessarily fair, that some of us wonder if those now against this bill have similar views towards women.
If the bill has such strong bipartisan report, why are we still talking about it in 2013? Why wasn't it made permanent after its introduction in the nineties?
"If the bill has such strong bipartisan report, why are we still talking about it in 2013? Why wasn't it made permanent after its introduction in the nineties?"
Authorization and appropriation are the way Congress 'spends money'. Re-authorization is necessary to continue paying for that which VAWA provides.
Who in the last election advocated violence against women?
Who in the last election advocated violence against women?
Saying it's "God's will" if a raped woman becomes pregnant certainly implies that he believes God thought it was OK.
No actually Russ was only senator who had enough sense to vote against an Act that takes away freedoms unlike Johnson who votes to deny them.
Are you making my point, jants?
Diaryea, just because some idiot makes a comment which everyone distanced themselves from does not mean there is any support for his position from mainstream conservatives. You are a fool if you beleive that.
I think you Democrat/Progressive/Socialists need to look in the mirror and see what you've become. Obama's ENTIRE platform is taking from those according to their means and giving it to those according to their needs. That is exactly what socialism is. I don't know what you think it is. The socialists in Europe aren't afraid to call themselves socialists, what is your hangup with the term?Hide replies
he's not a socialist. he's not a marxist. he's a centrist.
if he were a socialist, the banks would be under state control right now, bank CEO's would be prosecuted, and we would have a public healthcare option. but we don't, because he's a centrist
He stood for a single payer system; he just couldn't pass it. He is on record as supporting it while he was in the Senate.
You could not possibly get the banks under state control without more time or more power, that doens't mean he doesn't support it. Just look at who he hired to administer Dodd Frank.
if he can't get his ideology passed, why are you so pissed off?
Who said I was? I am agreeing with Ron Johnson that socialism is alive and well in this country.
you're acting like a child, you're trolling for comments, you're calling democrats simpletons...usually people who aren't pissed off don't do that.
Your buddy thinks posting "mo-Ron" is adding value. Yes, I do think posting something like "anyone who votes against the 'violence against women act' is dumb or incompetent" is a simpleton. If that were not the case, all I'd have to do is introduce bills with nice sounding names. How about "Feed All our Childred Act" or "Keep Our Pets Safe Act" or "The Affordable Care Act"? Everything in those bills must be a great idea, right? If so, why weren't they already law? All I'm asking is for you guys to think a little deeper than skin deep on these issues.
you mad bro?
I'm not mad at anyone, although I am a little concerned about my children's future.
you sound mad, bro...
I will be fine no matter who is in charge, psy. Don't worry about me.
you really need to find something else to do
RyanIN2016 read the Acts of the Apostles that's what the first "Christians" were. The RC church that became the State Religion under Constantine bears little resemblance to the Original one.
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You've got to stop watching those Glenn Beck videos, dude. It rots the brain.
Ahhh, Glenn Beck too. Have you missed any straw men? Let me know if you ever get confident enough to discuss facts.
Right - Obama is advocating a violent overthrow of the government that will result in government ownership of what is now private property.
Can one brave "democrat" on this board explain to me exactly what a socialist is and how that is different than what Obama has been pushing for five years? Just one.Hide replies
ok, we have one coward. Any brave ones? Anyone?
Two cowards. Make that three cowards.
Five cowards and counting.
Obama belives that a working man and his wife ought to be able to afford decent health care for themselves and their children. And that he should not be forced into bankruptcy if he or one of his family should incur a large bill for medical services. That is not socialism, it is empowerment, and helps everyone. It also is entirely consistent with Christianity. If you want to say that Jesus was a socialist, that is your privilege.
Tosajohn, I believe that as well. What does that prove?
RyanIn2016 (For what, exactly? He has absolutely zero chance to be nominated for President unless about a dozen other potential candidates drop dead, and in any case he is a loser.) Logically, if you believe what the purported socialist Obama believes, then you are a socialist. Or else maybe Obama is not.
The fact that you believe Obama is a socialist proves you have no idea what socialism is comprised of.
I'm waiting for one of you geniuses to tell me.
Barak Obama is a two time President of the United States Paul Ryan is nothing more than another tea-party failure vice presidential candidate!! Did not see him get the nod for the party rebuttal tonight he is fading faster than Sarah Palin did. I think maybe you need to go with Rubioin2016 Ryan is a has been and so is Ryanin2016
and facethefacts with another fail. Ironically, no facts at all were provided to support the base case. not a one. Just some comment on Sarah Palin and Rubio, as if that somehow adds some value.
Ryan ... Ryan ... Merriam Webster dictionary defines socialism as: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. Now I ask YOU, how does that fit what Obama has "been pushing"?
Hilarious. Even Fox's VP Bill Sammon asserted the whole Obama thing was hot dogs he threw out out the townies hillbilly feed to get them excited, while Sammon himself admitted that Obama as socialist was ridiculous.
Last time I checked Obama never advocated or worked toward government ownership of the means of production, the central tenant of socialism.....
Buzzz, wrong. That is not a central tenant. Control and ownership are two different animals.
central TENET; not tenant....
Correct, I copied ICHH's mistake.
"Socialists generally argue that capitalism concentrates power and wealth within a small segment of society that controls the means of production and derives its wealth through a system of exploitation. This creates a stratified society based on unequal social relations that fails to provide equal opportunities for every individual to maximise their potential,[11] and does not utilise available technology and resources to their maximum potential in the interests of the public."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SocialismHide replies
Wikipedia is your source of info? Why am I not surprised!
That and Faux News is all that RWNJs have to compensate for their lack of critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, they don't even understand what it means to have critical thinking skills (Ryanin2016 is rushing to Wikipedia right now...)
Oh, mom, you slay me with all of your fact filled retorts. Not. You are just another intellectually bankrupt old lefty who can't make a point without using Fox News or Koch Brothers as a crutch.
@Ryan .. Wikipedia provides a disclaimer because there is no fact checking nor peer review of anything posted on its site ... meaning that anyone can post anything on the site. It is not considered credible, even by itself. WIKIPEDIA MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY ..... Find that statement in their disclaimer here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer
Ryan ... Merriam Webster dictionary defines socialism as: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. Now I ask YOU, how does that fit what Obama has "been pushing"?
Really? Healthcare. Auto industry. Banking. Gun manufacturers. Oil and gas industry. Boeing. Making the federal government 30% of the economy.
Ryan you sincerely are an idiot if you believe that!
A socialist is someone on the far left and takes the extreme position, just as many people on the far right take the polar position. I think you confuse socialism with liberalism. As much as you might want to deride Obama he was the most moderate of any presidential candidate. Romney was moderate before his campaign but made the fatal error of thinking he needed to cater to the Tea Party to win the Republican nomination. If a Republican does not kiss Tea Party behind they will act like a spoiled brat and run a third party candidate. This is why the Republican Party will continue to lose ground until it reinvents itself and comes closer to the middle.
You are absolutely nutty. Nixon was a centrist. Kennedy was a centrist. Bush41 was a centrist. These guys have nothing in common with Obama.
"Centrist" is a relative term that needs to be looked at within the context of political views of the time. Lincoln was justifiably considered enlightened in his views toward slavery but today someone with his views would be considered racist. In his first term Obama angered/disappointed many on the left for what was seen as his attempts to appease the right and as such would be considered "centrist". In his second term it would appear that the centrist label wouldn't fit as he's moved to the left as he was running for re-election and has since been governing.
Racism has nothing to do with politics.
That sounds like a pretty darned good description of what's been happening in our country for the past 40 years...under BOTH parties. Maybe we need some real socialism instead of this duopoly of Democrats and Republicans.
Wisconsins own version of the three stooges mo-Ron Johnson / Paul Ryan / Scott Walker need I say more?Hide replies
Nope, here's your sign.
At least the stooges tried to be funny. What those three are up to isn't funny at all.
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Id go back instantly. And never look at the shit mmo's that are out atm ever again.
Fine, we'll compromise. I'll get my way & you'll find a way to be okay with that.
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"If at first you don't succeed, give up, it ain't gonna happen."
Originally posted by medmarijuana
I never saw the appeal to Pre-CU...It was kinda dull and had little playability...A bit too imagination intensive, I'm one who needs a bit of content. I prefer it the way it is now.
Total MMOs played: 174|Enjoyed: 7. >:|
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Originally posted by Palebane
Have to agree with this, the whole gaming community has changed dramatically and nostalgia is a tricky siren. I will remember my SWG experience from launch to CU. I met some great friends, had some wonderful exploration experiences not repeated in any other online game. At least that's what my mind tells me. ;)
Going shopping in other people's homes getting to know them and when they restocked. The excellent PvP battles on Tattooine. Exploring Corellia and Naboo for the first time. Getting comfortable in the popular cantinas and BS'ing with folks.
Watching players finally get close to discovering how to unlock Jedi... and the sad day when we learned how ridiculous that was.
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Joined: 3/08/04
Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
The whole reason SOE enacted the NGE was because no one was playing this damned game, despite having one of the strongest IPs on the market.
If as many people had played as now whinge about it they wouldnt ever have had to do it.
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Topic Moved: The conversation seems geared more towards SWG (pre-CU), rather than SW:ToR.
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Joined: 8/22/09
SWG was a long winded grinder in a world that was largely computer generated; where a few people could control an entire game economy and where a couple of vets formed a tightly knit community that was darn hard to get into as a newbie.
It's redeeming factors being exploration that could last you a while and the diversity you seemingly had, until you hit a brick wall of grinding yet again.
Go back to it? Hell no.
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!
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I would go back.
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Originally posted by Moaky07
mine are in BLUE
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MMO sandbox games are as exciting as watching paint dry.
Originally posted by willvas
For someone that belongs in the sandbox camp, you sure arent the epitome of a "bright" person.
1 ) I didnt dictate what human nature is. Society as a whole are consumers. I dont have to substantiate my claim with anything other than sub numbers.....sandboxes are lacking vs themepark games.
2 ) Again sheer brilliance at work....reading comprehension would of made you realize I meant a noob to MMO gaming. It grew from onset? Um I dont believe so skippy. A slight deviation around the 300k mark, and started dropping off after a few months. Nothing to indicate a sustained pattern.
3 ) Wrong and wrong. Played for a few weeks during CU, and couldnt stand it. Being an EQ player, I dont know where you get off claiming I want "easy mode" gaming. There was a heck of a lot more content in EQ than there was in SWG.
4 ) I dont think so. I ran all over Tat, and it was as barren as could be save player built structures. You do that in EQ, and there will be various areas to fight mobs in. A number of which offer unique loot for completing said content.
5 ) Do you even know what "straw man" means? Google it. Your insistance that I am attempting to talk for everyone down to the claim of "I enjoy easy mode themeparks" are all straw man attacks. They give you a non-factual basis/position to attack my comments over.
6 ) I mentioned EQ pertaining to sub numbers....and you went off on a tangent about AC. Which would be evident if you hadnt wiped the original posts. Dont even try to compare our responses.
7 ) This thread was in a forum I participate in. I wouldnt be partaking in the vet forum, but figured I would clear a few things up. Had this thread been in this forum, where it belongs, I wouldnt of bothered responding to it. SWG didnt bother me so much. Didnt like it, so didnt play it. Was dissapointed it was a roleplay paradise, but seeing as I had a MMO it didnt matter.
It is the actions of the vets these past 5 yrs that have drawn my disdain. There is a regular in this forum... (one who does a video blog, dressed as a clown)... that has contacted my teenage daughter at least 2 times on Facebook/myspace in a basic cyrberstalking act. Next time gets him a run in with the poiice. He isnt the only one that makes me scratch my head. IMO several vets have been overdue a forced intervention with DR Phil for yrs now.
8 ) in prior posts I listed 5 themepark MMOs that held a sustained count of 300k+ NA subs for year(s). ONly one sandbox has done the same. It is ROLEPLAY vs ROLLPLAY....what do folks enjoy. I say the subs indicate folks enjoy ROLLPLAY more. We have seen a bunch of games launch without polish/content/what-have-you do bad...sure. You think folks should pay for games like STO/WAR/whatever? When TOR launches, it is going to shoot past EVE basically overnight. Not to mention dwarfing the numbers SWG pulled in. Even though STO and WAR(wast WAR PVP based?) didnt hold subs, they each sold their share of boxes...earning the investors back a good chunk of money.
9 ) 50k subs for a game that has been out for 6 or 7 yrs, and did good during its prime, is fine....life support mode. If you think a new launch, with 50k subs, is going to cut it for a AAA title you are nutz.. Which is what a number of sandboxers demand....a AAA title. As you had indicated, 50k subs is fine....it isnt. It makes no senes from an investors standpoint.
10 ) I have played one themepark(MMO for that matter) for more than about 6 -8 weeks...that was EQ1(01 til 06). We had an expansion every 6 months, so no clue where your claim of running out of content comes from. An open world themepark allows the Devs to reconfigure existing areas, and add to it. If they wish, they can add all new areas. Where as SWG devs spent their time trying to rebalance/fix things constantly. I believe JTL and RoW were only 2 expansions before NGE(ToOW launched like 2 weeks before NGE), and JTL was an add-on game....thus one expansion in 2 yrs for ground portion.
Asking Devs to make AAA sandbox titles is like trying to get fine dining on a McDonalds dollar menu budget.
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Originally posted by vesavius
Pre-CU game was packed with people. Every major city you went to was loaded. Once they got people to move out of them, it turned the game into many small communities and that's what ruined it for me. If they "SOE" concentrated on improving the game instead of completely changing it, it would be a top MMO now. What's dissapointing is that SWG-PreCU look's more legit than SWToR. I like Star Wars games but I don't think I'll be playing a MMO one till it's complex and detailed like SWG Pre-CU.
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Originally posted by Moaky07
Originally posted by Elikal
Just because the system had some flaws, doesn't mean the core of the game wasn't great. The player interdependance was a good thing for community building, but it needed a lot of work. Hell the whole game needed a lot of work in to many areas to name.
It could also have greatly benefitted from some real content. Be it quests, "dungeons" or whatever, there needed to be more tools for players to interact with the world. Yeah the game was lacking in content, but it didn't need the combat upgrade to fix that, it just needed the developer to make the right choices about how to fix the game.
That in essence is the root problem of the entire game. It was released way to early and has always been incomplete as a result of many bad choices. Pre-CU and CU were abandonded before they were ever given the needed fixes to make the game work.
Originally posted by vesavius
Soe enacted the nge, because they are greedy. People where whining about the game, because it was delivered incomplete and broken and soe never fixed it.
Soe didn't have to do the NGE. That was their choice. They spent two years making expansions and redesigning the game instead of fixing the core game like all the players were begging for, only to wonder why people were leaving.
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Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
Originally posted by saleen
I am sure it was in it's early days.
Didnt last though, hence Lucasarts forcing the NGE.
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Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
Originally posted by Daffid011
nah, they did it because it was underperfoming massively for an MMO based on the biggest IP in the world.
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Originally posted by vesavius
Now its pushing daisy's.....
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Originally posted by vesavius
SWG Pre-CU was only underperforming if you compared it to WoW, which was a runaway success.. SOE wanted a bite of that apple and decided to revamp.. the numbers of players only started falling off with the introduction of the CU.. which was, imo, one of the biggest mistakes ever made, the game was never designed to be level based, and threw away quite a bit of what made the game original compared to other games that were available, the problem was that the people who were in charge of the game, didnt really understand what worked with it.. and what didnt.. probably because they were more at home with fantasy games.. when the NGE was dropped on the players, it was inevitable that the game would fail.. even the few days it was live on the test server drew massive.. i mean really massive. player disproval.. for them to go ahead with it.. wasnt just a gamble.. it was an act of colossal stupidity.. probably ego driven.. SOE paid the price.. their still paying it, because now nobody really trusts them or believes they can deliver.. and the current games they have only serve to sustain that image. SOE.. seem to have fallen off the learning curve..
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If they brought back the original SWG (with some bug fixes..lol) I would go back in a heart beat and would not play TOR. The classes were better, the structure system was better the original Jedi system (with perma-death) was better.
Originally posted by vesavius
A) Many soe employees have flat out admitted the NGE was their idea and not a mandate from lucas arts.
B) If Lucas Art forced soe to make a change that cost the company tens of millions of dollars each year and caused untold damage to their reputation, I am fairly certain soe would have sued lucas arts.
C) It didn't last, because soe was unable to make a functional version of the game with three attempts at it.
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I loved SWG. Easily the keeper of the majority of my great MMO memories. But I wouldn't touch it if they re-released it. For me, at least, hindsight makes everything seem better than it really was. The players are what made this game, not the game itself.
It was buggy, thin on features (for a long time it was not the game I thought I was buying), and I think rubber banding and rollbacks were rampant for a year or two more than it should have been. I mean does anyone actually remember being a BH and having to walk to your target due to lack of faster travel, then to finally find him in the middle of a rock, untargetable? I sure do.
All this pre-CU talk has always eluded the fact that the combat was never actually all that good. It had potential and vision, but never implementation.
That being said, update and modernize this game from a tech perspective, polish the hell out of it, maybe even allow a competent group to run it and I'd be back to live in the world again. It would have no bearing on SW:TOR for me, I'd play both.
A couple other things I'd love, now that we're in Never Never Land (I'll try to keep them SWG related):
- Expanded JTL content to actually keep things fresh. Some faction PvP incentives would have really done a lot I think. Something like taking over space stations and controlling access to certain planets.
-Ship boarding/PvP
-Less to no Jedi. I'd take no, if it means less. Sure, they are iconic and who doesn't want to be one- but now we have SW:TOR, eh?
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I work for the Navy and I am at a Navy HQ command outside the beltway... All Navy and Marine Corps are on the same IT system called NMCI. If I go to google+, it errors saying my browser is too old. According to NMCI, I am on the latest computer system... Windows XP and Browser 7, Office 2007. I wonder how these Navy wonders were able to analyze google+ from NMCI.
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4.In another large pot add whipping cream, half and half and sugar. Mix well till the sugar is completely dissolved.
5.Put the mixture on stove top bringing the mixture to almost a boil.
6.Remove from heat and add the gelatin mixture.
7.Mix well till the gelatin is well incorporated.
8.Transfer this mixture to another bowl and add sesame seed powder.
9.Give it a final mix , transfer to ramekins and refrigerate for 4 to 12 hrs.
10.After it is set, run the knife over the corners to help loosen it and place the ramekins in warm water so that the panna cotta comes out easily.
11.Gently invert the panna cotta onto dessert plate and serve immediately.


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