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Amari Cooper, T.J. Yeldon and Blake Sims are long gone. For that matter, so are Landon Collins and Xzavier Dickson.
Thanks to the NFL draft, both sides of the ball at Alabama was depleted. Now the Crimson Tide need more than just one or two players to emerge, they need a few.
This week we're looking at four breakout candidates for the Crimson Tide in 2015, two on offense and two on defense.
O.J. Howard, TE, Jr.
The skinny: By now, anyone who pays attention to the SEC has heard about Howard. They've read about his prodigious talent, how he's part of a new wave of tight ends who are big enough to block defensive ends and fast enough to run by linebackers. They may have even seen those skills on display when he's caught the ball and broken free into the open field as he did on a 52-yard touchdown against LSU in 2013. But those moments for the former four-star athlete have been few and far between.
It's a harsh reality for someone entering his junior season, but it's a reality nonetheless that Howard has not lived up to the hype. He's 6-foot-6, 242 pounds and runs like a gazelle. But what good does that do without the production to back it up? In 2013, he caught 14 passes for 269 yards and two touchdowns, which isn't bad for a true freshman. But as a sophomore, he had 9 fewer yards receiving and no touchdowns. His 17 receptions weren't enough to rank among the SEC's top-10 tight ends and were half of that of Steven Scheu, Evan Engram and Hunter Henry.
High expectations: But would anyone be the least bit surprised if all that changed in 2015? Of course not. Expectations for Howard haven't gone anywhere. He's still penciled in as the starter, after all. If anything, the anticipation for his emergence as one of the league's best tight ends has increased. While he'd still have another season of eligibility to work with after this one, it feels like now or never.
So on to the reasons for optimism, the least of which being that he is still big, strong and fast. But other than his innate skills, he'll have a new quarterback to work with, and we all know the best friend of an inexperienced QB is his tight end. If Howard becomes the safety valve for Jake Coker or whoever ends up starting under center, his numbers could skyrocket. What's more, he won't have to contend with Amari Cooper being everything to Alabama's passing game as he was in 2014: the deep threat, the third-down threat and the safety valve. With Cooper out of the picture, things could open up for Howard.
If there's one final reason to believe Howard's best is still ahead of him, it's Lane Kiffin. The second-year offensive coordinator has gotten the most out of his playmakers everywhere he's been. In the case of Howard, splitting him out wide at receiver could be the answer. Then again, maybe he needs to have more short passes thrown his way where he can run after the catch. But whatever it is, you get the sense that there has to be an answer out there.
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Dog owners are being warned of a potentially fatal infection dogs could pick up from flooded areas of Kent.
A Maidstone veterinary hospital has experienced a surge in concerned owners over the past two months since heavy rain left many parts of the county under water.
Leptospirosis is an infection that can cause fatal diseases in dogs - picked up by bacteria, particularly in stagnant water - and can also be transmitted to people.
Nigel Davies, from Newnham Court Veterinary Hospital, said: "The main concern is bacterium called leptospirosis, which causes fatal diseases in dogs and it can be transmitted to people.
"The big problem is that it's a bacterium which normally dies in winter when it's cold.
"With the excessive flooding, there's the potential for animals and people to be infected with diseases that aren't usually a major problem..." - vet Nigel Davies
"But when you have lots of stagnant water lying about, the bacteria can last and it can live quite a long time."
He added: "In conditions of flooding like this, the rodent population is displaced and the main factor of the bacterium is rodents, rats and small wildlife rodents."
Mr Davies said staff in Bearsted Road are receiving at least three queries a day from worried pet owners about how to protect their dogs from contaminated water.
"They're concerned," he said. "Obviously their dogs can pick up diseases from the flood water and they basically want to know what they can do to prevent any infections.
"People are worried about their homes, they're worried about their children - they tend to forget that dogs can pick up infections from dirty water.
"With the excessive flooding, there's the potential for animals and people to be infected with diseases that aren't usually a major problem."
Mr Davies is now urging all dog owners to avoid walking their dogs in areas that have been badly flooded.
He said: "Try to avoid contact with stagnant water. Try to not take dogs where there is lots of water that's been lying about for a while.
"If they've been into dirty water, just give them a rinse. Especially if you use warm water - you'll kill the bacteria.
"I think the important thing is not to panic, but just to be aware.
"People should also take basic precautions - as this this disease can affect people as well. If people are getting their hands dirty in this water, they should wash their hands too."
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Get out your Google and see why The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008, by Mark Halperin of ABC News and John F. Harris of the Washington Post, is causing such a stir on both ends of the spectrum. LINK
Of course, there must be some reason why both Bill Clinton and Karl Rove (not to mention Dick Cheney and scores of top political operatives in both parties) agreed to do interviews about campaign strategy for the book.
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The New York Times' Jim Rutenberg reports on a private, off-the-schedule meeting President Bush had last month with several prominent conservative talk show hosts that "was part of an intensive Republican Party campaign to reclaim and re-energize a crucial army of supporters that is not as likely to walk in lockstep with the White House as it has in the past." LINK
President Bush's latest electronic appeal to the GOP grassroots through the RNC email list begins thusly, "In 2004, you were part of a historic nationwide organization that propelled my campaign to victory. Together we delivered a clear message to the American people about the need to keep our Nation safe and secure, the need to keep our taxes low to continue creating jobs."
Four of the six paragraphs in the letter utilize nostalgia for his successful 2004 reelection campaign as a motivating tactic.
"Like a rock star coming to town," is how one person describes Vice President Dick Cheney's visit to Topeka, KS to the New York Times' Mark Leibovich. Topeka is just one of many stops that has allowed the Vice President to raise $40 million so far this year. LINK
Front-Page Leibo's anecdotal lede is to die for.
GOP agenda:
House Majority Leader Boehner sent his members some messaging advice yesterday in a "confidential" memo obtained by The Note. Boehner declares the Foley matter behind them and his party as back on offense. The three top line messages Boehner encourages his members to sell on the stump:
"- Republicans are resolute in our efforts to give the President the tools he needs to combat terrorism. Democrats are divided and have no national security strategy, except to relent and retreat in the face of adversity. Obstruction is not an agenda."
"- Republicans are the Party of secure borders and strong enforcement of our immigration laws. Democrats are the Party of open borders that will only lead to more illegal immigration."
"- Republicans are the Party that works to keep taxes low and exercise fiscal discipline. Democrats are the Party addicted to tax hikes forever scheming to raid taxpayers' wallets to fund more massive government programs. Their voting record proves it."
Harry Reid and the GOP oppo machine:
John "Shoe Leather" Solomon of the AP writes that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) used campaign funds for the Christmas bonuses he gave to employees at the Ritz-Carlton where he has an apartment, breaking the FEC regulation baring candidates from using campaign money for personal use. LINK
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Philadelphia 76ers center Andrew Bynum will have season-ending arthroscopic surgery on both knees Tuesday. Bynum has not played this season because of bone bruises in both of his knees. The 25-year-old is an unrestricted free agent and may never play a game for the Sixers. ''After many months of rehabilitation and consulting with numerous doctors, Andrew and the doctors treating him determined that this is the best course of action at this point,'' general manager Tony DiLeo said Monday night. ''We will continue to monitor and evaluate his status moving forward.''?? The arthroscopic surgery will be performed by Dr. David Altchek of the Hospital of Special Surgery in New York. The procedure will clean out loose bodies from within the knees in an attempt to alleviate pain and swelling. Bynum was shut down in training camp as a precaution and the Sixers originally hoped he'd be ready by opening night Oct. 31. Bynum said since training camp he would play this season. But after he ex...
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Three people are listed as missing, and over 40 others have been injured, after an intense blaze broke out on a Russian-operated Tupolev Tu-154B in Surgut.
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Train with Gary Roberts & Steven Stamkos
Steve Dangle
July 19 2013 07:49AM
Gary Roberts.
Usually when you come face-to-face with a glare like that, it means you done goofed, or you play for Ottawa. Now it could be because you're training with him and Steven Stamkos.
Wait what?!?! Oh, you heard me.
Gary Roberts as in the man-beast who terrorized the league for parts of three decade. Steven Stamkos as in the guy who sniped 60 goals in a season. You could be hanging out with these guys. Well, not really "hanging out," per se. Allow me to explain…
The offseason is getting shorter and shorter. You can't just let your fitness go to crap in the summer, because once the season fires up again, you'll look like a pylon out there.
Enter: the last team standing
The Nike Hockey Facebook experience at www.lastteamstanding.ca lets players create a team with their friends and show how they're dedicating the summer to training. The page has training videos designed by Gary Roberts, and Toronto's strength and conditioning coach from 2002-2009, Matt Nichol. Obviously, these two guys know their stuff.
But Steve, what's in it for me? I'll tell you, whatever your name is!
Not advanced statistics - The argument against renaming "Corsi"
Cam Charron
July 16 2013 10:31AM
Regardless of what you call them, there are going to be a lot of people that simply don't want to adopt certain statistics. There's a small push to rename the stats we have now—Corsi, PDO, Fenwick, whatever—to more user-friendly acronyms that explain better what the statistic details.
I don't think that's a particularly wise thing to do. There are already thousands of people that read #fancystats articles and don't keep up with the day-to-day backroom arguing between hockey's online group of statistical analysts, that mostly play out on Twitter. I think "Corsi" will be more intuitive the more it's used and the first time that a smart network host or personality decides to make use of it on-air.
Can goalies control the number of rebounds they allow?
Rob Pettapiece
July 15 2013 01:42PM
A while ago, I looked at whether skaters (or goalies) had any ability to generate (or avoid allowing) rebounds. With only one year of data, I concluded that "there definitely seems to be an individual goaltender skill in avoiding rebounds, but whether that skill matters is up for debate." This is an updated and improved version of that study, focusing just on goaltenders.
The Ilya Kovalchuk Hall of Fame debate
Cam Charron
July 12 2013 11:56AM
Some discussion on Twitter early Friday afternoon after Ilya Kovalchuk's Hall of Fame candidacy in the wake of his surprise retirement from the National Hockey League. It's worth noting that Kovalchuk's career is not quite over yet: he's still 30 years old and has a few real good productive years left in Russia and probably a couple of Olympic games left in him as a real key contributor. Without the NHL playoffs to restrict him, I can see him being a very key figure in Russia's World Championship bids each year as the European leagues are intelligent enough to end their seasons beach weather hits and players are freed up to go to the Worlds each year.
I'm a proponent "for" Kovalchuk. I think that his international resume, including two World Championship golds, and what's to come, will more than make up for his lack of playoff success at the NHL stage. Really, he's played just 32 playoff games, because he spent most of his North American career toiling away in Atlanta.
Reviewing the NHL Entry Draft 1990 to 1999
July 10 2013 09:57AM
When one thinks of the 90s and NHL drafting it usually draws up images of a draft wasteland, devoid of the flash and skill we enjoyed in the 80s and centered on the occasions like the one above. There were two catastrophic draft years in the 90s, both of them near the tail end. The decade of NHL drafting from 1990 to 1999 was something of a paradox where the overall numbers of NHL players actually stabilized remarkably, but simultaneously delivered few elite-level talents to the league.


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Warner Bros/DC. is reported to have begun resurrecting plans for a Justice League movie before The Avengers hit theaters this past summer, but it was the overwhelming success of Joss Whedon's Marvel comic book movie blockbuster that cemented the studios' decision to move forward with their own superhero ensemble venture. Will Beall (writer of the much-buzzed-about Gangster Squad) is currently working on the script for the JL movie, while the search for a director is ongoing.
While it's seemingly a given that Justice League will reboot the Batman franchise (in the aftermath of Christopher Nolan's trilogy finale, The Dark Knight Rises), there has been some uncertainty about whether or not key new elements from the Superman mythos – featured in next summer's Man of Steel – will be sustained in Beall's script. Part of that can be attributed to Warner Bros.' ongoing battle with co-creator Joe Shuster's estates over the character rights (after their previous agreement runs out this year).
The LA Times expects development on Justice League to meet that target date, as progress should accelerate in the aftermath of the court victory for Superman rights. It appears the studios' plan is indeed to take the opposite route that Marvel took to shared universe construction. JL will therefore be the first in a new wave of DC movies to hit theaters after Man of Steel, with the subsequent films arriving in the forms of standalone vehicles for JL members such as Wonder Woman, The Flash, and possibly a rebooted Green Lantern arriving sometime thereafter (assuming JL proves to be a satisfactory success).
The ball is now in Warner Bros./DC's court, in terms of the risks and daring moves the studios are willing to take with Justice League (in addition to forgoing five movies of buildup, like what The Avengers had). We've offered our own advice on such matters as how to go about assembling the DC shared universe, how to properly reboot Batman post-Nolan, and even how incorporating an unusual DC anti-hero like Lobo could be an important maneuver to help set apart JL from Avengers. It's now up to Warner Bros./DC to find a candidate as qualified for the directing job as Joss Whedon proved to be for the task of bringing Earth's Mightiest Heroes together on the big screen (free advice: people like McG and Brett Ratner really don't seem to meet that criteria).
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George, an assistant professor at Hopkins where he also serves as director of its CT Perfusion Laboratory, says a CTP takes three seconds or less of actual scanning and, if done correctly, involves an average radiation exposure of about 8 millisieverts. A SPECT test, he says, averages between 10 millisieverts and 26 millisieverts, and cardiac catheterization ranges between 2 millisieverts and 10 millisieverts. The 320-CT scanning device has at least five times the speed and power of the 64-CT scanners in widespread use elsewhere.
The scanner's software compares ratios of brightly dyed blood flows between the innermost and outermost layers of heart muscle, where the effects of arterial narrowing first appear.
As part of CTP imaging, each patient is injected with a chemical dye containing iodine, known to light up on screen when struck by the scanner's X-rays. Lower concentrations of iodine will show up as darker regions, indicating constrained and reduced blood flow, the underlying cause of chest pain, than brighter regions where blood flow is more uniform and free flowing.
To enhance the image, blood flow to the heart is sped up through chemical injections of adenosine, which causes the blood-pumping organ to beat faster.
Previous research by the team among 60 patients with suspected coronary artery disease showed that using dual testing with CTA and CTP had almost the same statistical predictive values as SPECT, prompting the team's latest investigation to see if the dual tests were as clinically useful as SPECT.
George cautions that CT scans are not a substitute for catheterization, but are "an alternative diagnostic tool" physicians can use to "get a real picture" of the extent of coronary blockages and their effects on blood flow, especially when physicians need both sets of information to make treatment decisions.<
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BURTON and Essex will collide this weekend when stars from a popular TV show visit the town's Bullit nightclub.
James Lockie and Diags, stars of The Only Way is Essex, will be appearing as the special guests of Burton DJ Nathan Dawe when he presents KOKO at the High Street club on Sunday.
Other guests include Donae'o, who sings Party Hard and I'm Fly, and Gracious K, who sings The Migraine Skank.
There will also be fire-breathers to welcome people to the night.
Nathan, who has performed at venues around the world in recent years, said: "I have always made it clear that I strive to remain local, and I really want to give back to the town and the nightclub that kick-started my career.
"My agency FridayFlava and myself have come together to devise an event complete with a huge lineup, both musically as well as including two TV stars.
"We have a lot of secrets in store on the night, so we hope as many people as possible join us to enjoy this Bank Holiday Sunday event."
Nathan recently performed with Lateysha and Jack from MTV show The Valleys.
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This particular set was recently sold with this description:
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November 18th, 2011 #1
Bringer - Taking the next step
Hi! ca.org! Im Nico, im 20 years old and im from Sweden.Im currently studying 3D graphics, but i recently realized that i want to work with conceptart instead. It wasent until this summer i actually started to practise, making life studies,paintings from reference, reading artbooks etc. Im starting this this sketchbook so that i can get more critique on my work and take the next step with my art.
I really need good critique, as i seldom get it (Not because im awesome, its because dont know much people that actually can give it to me)
First out is a portrait im currently workings on. I used a photo as reference and its all done in PS.
And down below is mashup between a Heavy from teamfortress 2 and the supportclass from BF3 !
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Here's another study i did today of an italian bascinet helmet.
Im quite satisfied with the helmet overall but the chainmail is unfinished and just messy, It takes so much monotomic work to get it done. If anyone got any tips on how to paint chainmail. Please, let me know!
November 21st, 2011 #3
Great work so far. On the portrait careful about the lighting on her clothes--that area looks really flat compared to the detail in her face.
The metallic feel of the helmet's really good though. Keep it up!
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November 24th, 2011 #4
Im currently working alot on faces and portrait. So i challanged myself to draw one self-portrait (using a mirror as reference) each day for the whole week, and see how it turns out. Ive done 4 portraits, and this fifth one is the best so far.
Please comment, i would really need some feedback on my faces!
November 24th, 2011 #5
Cool stuff! Your rendering is good, keep doing studies like that one you did of the armor. There's no substitute for relentless practice.
The main thing I would suggest for you is to work on your understanding of facial anatomy and proportions. On the most recent study, the nose seems mispositioned and the eyes are a little large. Things like proportion and anatomy are best learned from lots of observational drawing. Just keep practicing and keep posting, you're doing good so far!
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Your art is really nice! I think maybe the eyes are too big and not quite in the right place, in your self portrait i think smaller eyes would make it look more realistic. (you might just have big eyes though). In the first picture of the girl it seems as if her left eye is too far from the bridge of her nose and there needs to be more of a concave in the inner corner of the eye. What do you think?
November 25th, 2011 #7
ebonysmith - Thank you! I dident realize until now that her eyes are way to much apart from each other.
Kurtzund -Thats exactly my aproch right now, ive skimmed throu a few books on the subject, and im trying to observ the "shapes" of the face. And try to analyze why part of the face look like they do.
Here's a little something ive been working on today. Im a bit proud because i dident use much reference for this. Mostly took the pose and the color from my own mind! But there is still some issues with values and especially the hand holding the ipod-thingy.
November 30th, 2011 #8
Ive actually took the time to learn some basic perspective theory. So i painted this mobile artillery thingy.
December 13th, 2011 #9
More workdrop! Hell yeah...
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Originally posted by alkarionlog
because you dont know what the difference between rp and none-rp is actualy the difrence between them lol. the diffrence is you dont know what the diffrence is. am i makeing sence to you ? i suspect not :)
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This article really does go too far in trying to malign RPers in general. It is a poor article and, as others have said, reads like something that was written in anger due to recent events. You've written about everything negative about RPing that you could think of, and almost nothing positive.
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Originally posted by Adamai
It's not something i am exactly proud off, it's not something that should be done in any circumstances. But then again whatever one does it offends somebody. If you too critical somebody disagrees if to agreeing/positive somebody disagrees. Often in insulting way. Our actions could be concidered as stealing one's freedom of choice.
But what comes to the type of roleplayer I am?
Let me illuminate my position as guild leader in such situation, I had in my command the largest roleplay/raid guild upon the server. I believe that guild leader needs to have level head and calm nature in any stresfull cirumstances. Not even the wiesest person is a good leader if he can't controll his emotions. We could say that a leader is required to take drastic mesures to ensure his guild members that their in good hands.
In my view: The person, broke rules of the server and the eula with her beahviour. I could just have ignored her, but in such situation where there are 50 people, you can't decide that the situation doesn't occur when it does. So can I ignore situation if my guild & others don't? Answer is simply a NO as majority reacted to situation I was forced to do so aswell. Most people were absolutely furious, I did break role for sake of rules and said that he/she is breaking rules.
However as even then my actions/words offended somebody. I was in position to make the call, to take the action. What do you choose, your own morale screams deciding to report and ignore. Others didin't think so. I could have used my leader's power to ask people to ignore however, I decided to be loyal to roleplay and others.
So I did what was required, took the action. In terms of roleplay, everybody refered her/him as monster. In such fantasy setting, monsters die. Even city guard would killed the monster, so in the setting's spirit. It was radical action however that's something I deemed nessasserry. So is the right choice to ignore every situation of not my liking?
If this all makes me disgusting/dislikable roleplayer or likable strong figure is for each to decide. Idealist can claim I am wrong, laywer can claim the same, judge might agree with me. In a way there is no right or wrong. Wrong is when one takes law upon his hands, right is when one let's the law deal with situation, but if there is no laws or rules that dicate what is illeagall? Perhaps roleplay lore nazis are right, as they set the tight rules? Perhaps it's the casualists whom are right? In the end of the day everybody lost in that situation.
A reason why I brought up the rules and tools, is simply the fact that roleplay situations often dictate you to grey area that is between good taste and straightout against the rules. I personally believe that I did the right thing, made the right call. As people become bloodhungry pack of mindless beasts when their safe heaven is stepped one.
In other words, all is about point of view. But in the end of the day, what is really right? to allow one roleplayer to ruin it for 50 others, or do as the 50 believe to be right? I have no preset layer of answers for that question.
But please don't judge me upon one opinnion or one action.
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Originally posted by Disdena
Well, Disdena (and others), the Subject title was "Cult of (Multiple) personality" not "RP in MMO's the goods and the bads".
Or as the opening sentence on the news-page says:
"MMORPG.com's Jaime Skelton uses her Player Perspectives column this week to talk about the darker side of the role-playing sub-culture in MMOs."
Really, after that sentence how could you not have expected the focus to be on the darker or more frowned-upon/annoying aspects of RP?
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:) I'm an RP'er and a guild leader, and what you just described is something I have to work very, very hard to avoid. My guild is on an RP server in EQ2, and, when I first started there, I had this imaginary place in my head where everyone would just RP with me wherever I went, that it would grow organically ... much as it had in MUDD's I'd played in the past. Alas, this was a vicious lie.
Now, as a guild leader of an RP guild, I have to work hard to provide a friendly, drama-lite environment for the people in my guild, and this usually means vetting candidates very thoroughly on top of their application. I have everything from silly RP'ers to very serious types, and some hard core types along with raiders, but because my main criteria is a. did your mama teach you manners? and b. Do you attract drama or repel it? and c. Are you nice? Everyone pretty much gets along. Sort of. Most of the time. Hah hah
I don't know if that's snobby or not, but I've had members come from other guilds and RP experiences who had pretty much been beaten and bullied to a pulp. I've had to tell people to leave my guild who have gotten so caught up in their own sense of importance that they were bullying other guild members, and I've turned away RP'ers who were so snobby they thought they would 'fix' my guild.
It says a lot about a community when you and a few of the other guild leaders see their jobs as providing 'safe havens' for people. The entire community isn't necessarily this way, but there are enough danger zones that it can be scary for a new player who really only wants to join in and have fun. I've developed a new appreciation for my boss at work when she's had to fire someone, because my main job in game is to act as a kind of peace keeper and facilitator of fun. When I see drama stirring, I make no apologies for quashing it with a giant hammer.
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Originally posted by cyphers
I hope you don't think I'm nitpicking at semantics here, but in order to have a "darker side", there would have to be a light side. What Jamie has written goes a long way in trying to prove that there is no light side. She went past the point of claiming "there's a light side and darker side to RP, here's the darker side" and well into "all RP is bad" territory.
Don't be fooled: it's also a quiet lie.
Here, she's talking about what she just described in the previous paragraph: roleplayers who explain the ins-and-outs of RP, publicly RP, and invite others to join in for fun. Even if you accept the rest of her article — that hardcore RPers are bad because they are elitist, cliquish, and "full of vitriol" — it doesn't make any sense to malign the people who are encouraging RP in a way that anyone would approve of. She takes the people who gently instruct, encourage, and host welcome-all events, and accuses them of being a lie. Not misleading, not a rare exception, and not naive about the actions of their roleplaying peers. A lie. She claims that people who RP in an acceptable way, the people on what you could otherwise call the lighter side of the role-playing sub-culture, have ill motives at heart and are acting kind and welcoming only as a deception. She flatly denies that a lighter side of RP can exist at all.
There are three basic groups: the casuals, the rule-breakers, and the hardcore. Casual role-players (aka "softcore") are the majority group. This is a catch-all term that includes players who may only role-play once in a while, to those that role-play on a more regular basis but are a little more relaxed to the 'rules.' They may be the ones who do things simply because it's something else to do between waiting on a dungeon or engaging in PvP, or while they're doing other things. It's simple enjoyment to them, and they generally don't care how other people might view them.
There's no need for me to break down the last two groups that she mentions, as she describes them as evil-incarnate. But in glossing over casuals, she reveals the depth of her convictions that the dark side of RP is the only side. She says that casual RPers are the softcore ones, people who either do not roleplay all the time, or who do not follow the supposedly sacred cardinal rules. As there are only three groups that she thinks roleplayers fall into, the only way to avoid being classified as a bad one is to not roleplay all the time, or to roleplay the wrong way. Phrased another way, if you are in character more than occasionally and you follow commonsense RP conventions, you are automatically a blight on the server community. This is another flat denial that there can be a good side to RP; the only way to do it right is to do it wrong or to hardly do it at all.
I could go on but there's no need. Enough people have already seen (and commented) that this is a vindictive article containing a lot of generalizations that have no basis in fact. Jamie has no shame in playing armchair psychiatrist, laying on plenty of loaded phrases like "the fake lives they're leading", "their sudden, secret emotional needs", "dwell in a fantasy world", "turning away others to feel better about themselves". For shame. The claims that she makes about cliquish hardcore RPers turning on their friends are so outlandish and so bizarrely specific (especially towards the end) that I really can't help playing psychiatrist myself and claiming that she's talking about actual events that recently happened to her personally and have nothing to do with the rest of the RP community on that server, in that game, or anywhere in MMOs.
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Originally posted by kevorkianj
I don't believe a dedicated server is neccesary. The group you are with determines how much you role-play, some wan't to role-p[ay as if they were King Kear, others just wan't to go out and wack something.. If you match your play style to that of the rest of your team, It has been my experience, being flexable, keeps the fun going with out the Drama.some seem to thrive on.
Most games require cooperation of players to achieve goals. "We must hang together or surly we will hang seperatly." Ben Franklin.
In my worlld, games are played untill they stop being fun..If I am not enjoying the game, why keep playiing..
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Originally posted by cyphers
It doesn't have to focus on the positive side of things, but the article is using a broad brush to try and paint most roleplayers that way. You can talk about the problem people in roleplaying communities without implying that most (if not all) are like that.
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Originally posted by kevorkianj
I got about halfway through the comments and had to quote this one. How many RP guilds have I jooined only to see (()) around everything they /s, /g, /t, and /gu. Then there was the incessant RP in /gu even though we were all on opposite ends of the game world. Yeah, my toon is fighting for her life right now, not sitting in the guild's imaginary lounge.
So what kind of RPer am I? I like playing my character as it exists in game. That's not just guild chat or RP events, that's with the choices it makes.
It's funny that I've experienced players that griefed RPers, but not the other way around...
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Not all roleplaying communities are like that. WoW's is, though. Definitely.
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Lol. Stick to reviewing games and leave the hard-hitting journalism to the pulitzer prize winners, please.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to ignore a line of text and send a private message to someone explaining where they went wrong. It will only become an
If you think being good at something ss elitist that's down to you. Are Olympic athletes, the world's top businessmen and artists all elitist? If you are good at something, anything, don't let those who are average drag you down to their level. We live in a society which favours the lowest common denominator more than individual genius, which is madness.
I have never known a role-player to describe another role-player as lazy or an idiot. Jamie's description of roleplay as some sort of down and dirty fight reveals she has some real issues with those she has roleplayed with. I don't recognise what she is describing at all and it is sad she had to go through that sort of nonsense.
But this is not the norm, I and I am sure most others can say that roleplaying wherever you find it is fun and well worth the effort.
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Originally posted by Noxulus
^ This.
It's obvious that you have an axe to grind with RPers, and your statement of "Heck, I roleplay" reminds me of a racist saying "Hey, I have black friends."
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I understand where the article is coming from, because I have met some extremely rude and insular role players.
But let me say this in their defense. These are role playing games. They have their origin in games where everyone was an actual roleplayer. Then about 11 million people crashed their party, showed up in their type of game, kicked role playing to the curb as an activity for oddwads, while they obsessed only about gear and loot and and leveling. This caused developers to stop caring about roleplayers, and focus their products on the party crashers.
So yeah, they have a reason to be ticked off. Considering how shabbily they have been treated, it's amazing they are as gracious as they are.
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Looks like the RPers have some touchy nerves. White people.
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You know someone realizes they are loosing the argument when the play the "Race Card.". It's a cheap trick which a suprising number of pople fall for.
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So exactly how are roleplayers (based on the original article) any different from any other group of players then? Oh...wait...they aren't. You could ascribe these traits and behaviours to any group or sub-group of players in games (or for that matter anywhere in life) and they would be just as valid.
It isn't roleplayer characteristics you are describing, but human nature. Every group in life has its extremists and it's utter asses. Most groups are cliquish to some degree by the very nature of groups and sub-cultures. Singling any specific group out for this sort of article seems silly and gratuitous to me.
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I would suggest that Jamie uninstall any mmoRPGs on her computer(s), and stick to singleplayer games and CounterStrike clones. She may also want to avoid ventrillo and other forms of chat. In fact, probably better if she just avoids the internet altogether ( better for her AND the rest of us ). This way, her potential to be butthurt and have to whine about it disguised as "writing" will be minimized.
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Jaime is right on. I think she must have spent too much time in PlaneShift. The number of RPers who popped up in this thread to defend RP is about right. RPers have this thing where they all believe that they are not the RPers that cause the problems. Then you get in game with them.
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:25 AM
If not, please list one or more key differences. Thanks.
(I reviewed the product info and live demos of both. I watched the video for "Slideshow". Maybe it's me, but I still don't understand what distinguishes one from the other.)
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:41 AM
you also have another post on this, and since you already have the plugins, this is hardly a pre-sales question. You will see the difference when you install and activate the plugins, and check the differences in the back-end (your wp-dashboard). That is where the main differences are. Slides allows you to add content, not just images, to a number of predesigned layouts, slideshow is an image slideshow with 2 different slide effects,
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