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Joined: 11/05/10
Originally posted by Nevulus
When levelling isn't the point of the game (at least not as much important as in other games of its kind), you guys are looking at it the wrong way.
Getting to 80 isn't really a benchmark in this game. Anyone should have seen it the moment they realize they can do lots of stuff at level 2 than a same leveled player in WoW, SWTOR, TSW, Tera, Rift, etc.
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Joined: 6/15/04
Originally posted by nuttob
That's just not accurate. It's an MMORPG, therefore Progression is one of the MAIN game systems/designs that makes an MMORPG. It also is the main avenue of having LONGEVITY in any MMORPG. This game is lacking Longevity in massive doses. There is no Meta-Game with GW2. While GW1 annoyed me with the lobby based mission hubs and instanced zones they at least got the longevity part down right and there was a ton of Meta-gaming to be done on skill builds alone.
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Joined: 12/01/12
Originally posted by Daddydazzle
My god that would suck. I have casual outings 2 or 3 times a week. I couldn't imagine no life but MMOs. I get an MMO to escape the boredom that is the DoD. I couldn't imagine...sitting in front of the laptop all day sunday or saturday. Too many other lucrative options.
Sorry you got blown up. I couldn't live with myself. I have to get out and have some casual outings every once in a while...experience life...not tech.
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Originally posted by grimal
While I wouldn't tout SWTOR as being worth going back to over any other game(extreme lack of diversity in leveling) you have a point about the trinity. I thought I would enjoy the gameplay GW2 brought to the table with parties and no true tank/healers but quickly found I hated it and wanted trinity gameplay asap, especially in dungeons. Trinity gameplay just allows one to focus build characters more and feel like they are contributing to the group. In GW2's current form I feel lost half the time and useless the other half, mostly as I'm running back mid fight 5 times on 1 boss along with other members of the party just to take the next party members spot as he dies to the that same boss and does the death run back to us and repeats ad nauseum until the boss is dead. Yeah, it's just dumb and doesn't really work.
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Joined: 11/13/04
This is the flaw of every mmo since wow. It is all so fast paced it is ridiculous. I miss spending hours on low level content. Having a single fight last more then a couple seconds. Nice long epic fights where you just barely survive gave the game a epic feel. More newby zones with rich story developement. Also another thing that most games just cannot figure out is people hate cookie cutter games. More character options the better. The more choices we can take with our characters the more they will mean to us than just an other X class and class with the best gear for that level. Why do they think that we want to play a characters that all seem to be the same. Just saying if they dont start listening and stop trying to copy wow's success the industry will end up dieing.
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Joined: 9/13/11
Originally posted by elocke
Is that so? I always thought what makes it an MMORPG was it being an Online Role Playing Game that is Massively Multiplayer. Weird... its almost as if thats what the letters stand for too. The definition of an MMORPG is VERY broad, the elements that set it in that genre are minimal. If Borderlands were massively multiplayer and online-only, it would be an mmorpg. Camera view, linearity, combat, longevity, setting, controls, crafting, gear progression, etc. wouldn't change the fact that it would be an rpg that would be massively multiplayer online.
nuttob is right, if you don't like it don't play it. Just don't try to say there is a right way and a wrong way to make or play a game, as that is 100% based on opinion. In fact, your logic of "this is what it needs and what should be because that is the norm and what I'm used to." is a huge (if not the biggest) reason why there are so few games of the genre willing/trying to branch out, try new things, or innovate.
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Joined: 9/13/11
Originally posted by NBlitz
Not at all subjective. Graphic quality is based on technical limits and power of processing the visuals. You're mistaking graphic quality with aesthetic or art-style, which is as you said highly subjective. How good the graphics are, on the other hand, is based on facts and numbers. I doubt you are going to argue that math is based on opinion as well.
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Joined: 4/19/08
Nowadays there are so many good games out there theat I as altholic have no problem to migrate to another game when leveled all my alts to max. Once enjoyed a lot 5man's in wotlk era. That joy was killed with cata and lost all interest. No need. After I'm done with all my 11 alts (+ few from horde side) will have just to select which one will be next, Rift, Gw2, swtor, ....
Level 80 now what ? Um...... World of warcraft Mist of Pandaria that's what. Sad for some but true.
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Joined: 2/12/12
Originally posted by botrytis
Saying you put in 200 hours doesn't say much. 200 hours doing what? Were you focused on leveling, or were you doing other things? Did you spend time helping others out and such?
Certainly whatever way you played works for you so long as you enjoyed it. But saying "It took me 200 hours to hit level 80 therefor your argument is wrong" is kinda moot, considering not everyone plays the same way. Someone for whom progression is their favorite part of the game is going to level in less time than someone for whom more social or side activity is preferred.
People have this bad habit of comparing all other play styles against their own, as though it's some standard for all else to be held to. It's not.
If someone enjoys the sense of constant progression, and they're hitting level cap far more quickly (which, let's face it, many have), then that could very well be an issue for them.
And anyway, to have reached level cap in 200 hours is not a very long time for a MMO, which are ideally designed to last for years. Some people can knock out 200 hours in less than 1 to 1.5 months.
This is another problem with MMORPGs these days, they're not designed for longevity anymore. They're designed more like glorified single player games where you race through them, get through end game, get bored, and move on.
Worse, people seem to expect them to be that. When I see people saying things like, "You wouldn't get more than a couple weeks out of most single player games, so getting even a month from a MMO is already a good deal", I just shake my head. Comparing a game that is traditionally, by design, intended to last many months, or even years, against a game that might last 50 hours, if you're lucky, is the wrong way to look at it. MMOs are long-distance marathons to some remote landscape, not short-distance sprints to some finish line.
A MMO that you can "finish" in a month or two is shallow and incomplete.
And please, no one come back with the typical hyperbolic retort about "people living in their mothers' basement grinding every day for a year" as a counter-argument. That's not a valid retort and it's rarely (if ever) even close to accurate.
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Joined: 8/31/06
Originally posted by BlueSage13
Joined: 3/03/12
If though this is a "Critical" column the amount of sugar coating makes my stomach hurt. This reminds of when people felt like they had to say "GW2 is a good game" at the begining of every critical thread.
"The strongest type of character progression in Guild Wars 2 is visual. This is where ArenaNet really hit a home run. As your character becomes stronger they will need better armor and weapons."
I feel they completely missed the mark her for the first 79 levels. I made a thread awhile back showing my toon looking exactly the same at level 50 as it did at level 14. The variation in armor sub 80 is a bismal. It was a corner cut, and it's a real sore point.
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Joined: 2/09/08
I have level 80 guardian who is currently persueing exotics. I also started an ele who is only level 17. Content is not GW2 problem. In fact there is a rediculous amount of things to do. However this game is not for the I play 40+ hours a week gamer. ANdr can't keep them happy without imposing gear treadmills and grind of more traditional MMOs on the rest of us. I will be playing far into the future because.
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Joined: 5/23/06
Why do people need to get on a gear treadmill to play a game? When did video games become about gear and not fun? Im having a blast with my level 80, doing dungeons, fractial runs, crafting. Great thing is because there is no gear tiers I can access all contant with green and rare yellow con gear. I have more to do at 80 then most MMOs I have played over the past 15 years of MMOing I have done, just because I am not locked out of content.
This is before you even get into polishing your crafting, exploring (big world) meta events like killing Dragons. Large chain events that the community is always going to play because they are fun with great rewards. This is even before you get into sPvP and WvW and I am having a blast playing them even with the tweeking it needs. This game is fun.
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Originally posted by elocke
Game tastes are subjective.
But the removing of the trinity without replacing it with something else was a huge mistake on ANET's part. A clear example of simply changing a mechanic for the sake of changing it with zero afterthough afterwards. Combat is confused and utterly without any strategy. I absolutely hated the dungeon experience.
If you are going to remove something that has worked, provide an alternative. Removing for the sake of removing is lazy and uttetly poor planning.
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Joined: 1/04/05
Originally posted by grimal
Why do you need to replace the trinity? The idea is not to use any mechanic like that. Each individual has to heal themselves as well as protect. It makes the game less - pew, pew, pew - like RIft, WoW, etc.
The evade mechanics in GW2, also make it play more like PvP, which you do have to move otherwise die.
Originally posted by bcbully
Totally agree here. I had about four different choices of armor looks on both my toons sub 80. Really emphasized the repetitiveness of this game when I basically looked the same the whole way through.
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Joined: 5/23/06
Originally posted by grimal
But did you have fun playing the content? Remember playing Mario Brothers for fun? Looking the same all the way through the game and not caring. End game are you having fun in GW2? Is the content well done? What does it matter if you get better gear that makes you DDs 5% more powerful when the mobs have 5% more health? Thats a false progression to keep you on a gean treadmill. I agree more new styles would be nice but more powerful, no. Its time to get beck to the roots of why we played video games... fun!!!! Its the content that matters not the gear.
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Originally posted by BurninatorX
I beg to differ. I'm aware of the differences between graphics and aesthetics but many aren't. So when I see someone talking about "better graphics" almost always they mean aesthetics. Right or wrong?
Going off on that is why I said "highly subjective." Aesthetics, subjective. Right or wrong?
Talking about the technical aspects, it is better than what? Pretty vague and open to interpretation. Better graphics than WoW, yes. Better graphics than say...Final Fantasy XIV, The Secret World, etc.? Nope. Right or wrong?
Originally posted by Nanfoodle
Yes I had fun. But it would have been even more fun with more looks to choose from. I don't play for endgame. I play these games for character progression. Gear is tied to that.
Also, I don't remember everyone playing "Super Mario" for "fun" past the first few times. After that it was how far you could get.
It is getting really old when people keep using that as some sort of deflection.
And for the record, yes, Galaga was fun, Space Invaders was fun. But the drive to keep playing them was to see how far you could progress. Fun is something that happens along the way. It is a by-product, not the goal in itself.


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Wolves hosting Kevin Cheveldayoff Night on Feb. 16
The Chicago Wolves will honor former general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff -- the architect for all four of the franchise's championship teams -- by raising a banner bearing his name to the Allstate Arena rafters prior to Chicago's 7 p.m. game against Lake Erie on Saturday, Feb. 16.
Wolves Reassign Blain to Idaho
The Chicago Wolves have reassigned defenseman Jeremie Blain to the ECHL's Idaho Steelheads.
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The Chicago Wolves host their third Beer Tasting Fundraiser from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the RAM Restaurant and Brewery in Schaumburg.
Wolves Sign DiDiomete, Send Miller to Missouri
The Chicago Wolves have signed left wing Devin DiDiomete to a Professional Tryout Contract (PTO). In addition, the Wolves have reassigned center Kenton Miller to the Central Hockey League's Missouri Mavericks.
Brad Hunt Replaces Brett Sterling on AHL All-Star Team
Chicago Wolves defenseman Brad Hunt has replaced left wing Brett Sterling on the Western Conference team for the 2013 Dunkin' Donuts American Hockey League All-Star Classic, which takes place on Jan. 27-28 in Providence, R.I.
Schroeder and Vandermeer Swap Places
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Veterans, Active Military Admitted Free For Chicago Wolves Military Appreciation Nights
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Sr. Janet Harris '60 tackles juvenile justice with a blend of faith and relentlessness that has freed the innocent and raised awareness of the injustices in a flawed system.
Everything about Sr. Janet Harris '60, P.B.V.M., speaks of gentleness. A blue fleece beret covers her snowy white locks, wire-rimmed glasses frame pale blue eyes set off by fine lines, and her body is swathed in a double layer of creamy pastel sweaters over a flowing skirt. Her voice is so soft people sometimes lean forward to catch her words.
That's usually where the illusion ends.
"I always say God is a mystery. A mystery and a pain in the butt," she says, her words lightly tinged with the tones of her Bronx childhood. "But I am stubborn. I am like a mountain goat that just puts one foot in front of the other. Because I have the big picture. I've been in those prisons and I know what they are like."
Not the words one might expect from an 80-year-old nun, but then Sr. Janet is one of the most outspoken and tireless advocates for juvenile offenders in the United States. She once grabbed a judge by his lapels in an elevator to get him to grant a young man's lawyer more time to prove his innocence. (He did.) Another time, she walked across a crowded Beverly Hills restaurant on her knees to get Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley to help with a gang reform program. (He didn't.) One friend describes her as a velvet hammer. Another describes her—fondly—as "a pest." An occasional four-letter word slips through her lips, usually in reference to some prosecutor, lawyer, or judge she finds misguided. Friends and colleagues say it is this blend of perseverance and pigheadedness that has made her instrumental in winning fair representation, trials, and sentencing for countless incarcerated young Californians.
"The first time I met her, she made the comment, 'We plant seeds and sometimes they fall on hard ground,'" says Duane Noriyuki, a longtime friend and colleague. "That is something that has stayed with me. It is part of my admiration for her. She has faced a lot of hard ground but she is dedicated to planting seeds where she can."
That dedication has earned her awards and national recognition—among them are the honorary degree USF awarded her last December for her unstoppable pursuit of justice for children and the accolades she has received for founding InsideOUT, a writing program for incarcerated youth in Los Angeles' juvenile detention centers. Yet in what her associates describe as typical of her modesty and acute sense of opportunity, she has used the spotlight to highlight the injustice she sees in the way our society deals with young offenders.
In 2007, there were approximately 14,000 young people detained in California state and county facilities. California is one of 42 states that allow children to be tried as adults for serious crimes. USF's Center for Law and Global Justice reported that in 2008 there were 245 California minors serving life sentences without the chance of parole. The United States is the only country in the world that allows such sentences for juveniles, according to the center. "As for our California criminal justice system, I am sorry to say it is more like a limping horse headed to the glue factory," she said when accepting the honorary degree from USF.
Sr. Janet's dedication to young people in trouble began not long after she graduated from USF in 1960. While teaching in an East Los Angeles elementary school, she volunteered in a home for delinquent boys. "They were so real," she says of those boys, many of whom were gang members. "They were pretty angry. I just felt very connected to them because they were so gut honest. Authentic. They had suffered a lot, so what they said was really to the bone." She spent time with the boys almost every day after school for years, building relationships with them, their families and, eventually, their children.
It was the beginning of a lifetime built on listening to young people no one else seems to hear. In return, the teenagers bestow on her a trust they give to no one else, sharing with her in words and in letters things they tell no one. Most are from poor families, and many are immigrants who get caught up in the gangs that prey on their neighborhoods. They are all too often ignored by society, but not by Sr. Janet.
In 1989, she took that interest one step further when she took on the role of chaplain at Los Angeles' Central Juvenile Hall. When Noriyuki, at the time a writer for the Los Angeles Times, came to profile the petite, slender nun who had the attention and respect of so many tough kids, Sr. Janet asked him to lead some of the boys in writing exercises. InsideOUT was born.
"A lot of these young people have within themselves something that needs to be heard," Sr. Janet says. "If you grow up without someone to hear you—a teacher, a mentor—you shut down. They develop that devil-may-care attitude and they join gangs. In the program, they are heard on a very profound level and they feel safe and affirmed. They begin to see themselves as a person, not just as a criminal."
InsideOUT now has 42 weekly classes in Los Angeles juvenile detention facilities, with 27 teachers and 400 boys and girls. The kids write stories, poems, essays, plays—anything they want—and then read them aloud to each other. "She gives them hope," says Sr. Rosina Conrotto, head of The Sisters of the Presentation, and the person Sr. Janet credits with supplying the emotional and financial resources to start InsideOUT. "She is able to work through all the garbage they carry to help them find a sense of self worth, dignity, and hope. Society looks at these kids as evil and she tells them they are good."
One of these kids was Mario Rocha, a then 16-year-old whose case brought adult sentencing for youthful offenders national attention. In 1996, Rocha was at a party when some gang members began shooting. Soon, Martin Aceves, 17, lay dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. Another young man was shot in the hand. Witnesses identified Mario as the shooter.
Mario, a first-time offender, was sentenced as an adult to 29 years to life for the attempted murder and 35 years to life for murder. In juvenile hall, he entered Sr. Janet's fledgling writing program, and everything he wrote, Sr. Janet felt, was contrary to the district attorney's portrayal of a cold-hearted, gang-banging murderer.She sensed an injustice and it energized her. For the next two years, Sr. Janet pored over the 13-volume trial transcript, questioning prosecutors and seeking an attorney who would take Mario's case pro bono. It took two years but she finally got through to Latham and Watkins, a prominent L.A. law firm, and several attorneys, including Ian Graham.
"If Sr. Janet knows of an injustice, she will not stop until the case is taken as far as it can go," says Graham, whose forthcoming memoir, Unbillable Hours, describes how his work for Mario at Sr. Janet's request caused him to abandon corporate law for juvenile law. "That is the only way, barring changing legislation, that change gets made. You get one case overturned and you go on to the next one. Not a lot of people have the fortitude to do that, but she does. And at some point, there are going to be enough of these cases overturned that the laws are going to change and she is going to be a major foundation of that."
Mario—the subject of the 2006 documentary film Mario's Story—eventually had his conviction overturned. His new lawyers argued that his original attorney failed to adequately defend him, and they uncovered a new eyewitness who testified the shooter fired with his left hand. Mario is right-handed. After 10 years in jail and two years on bail, he was officially a free man in October 2008—a rare reversal.
Today, Mario is 30 and an undergraduate at George Washington University, where he is studying communications. He credits Sr. Janet's commitment to him for sparking his own passion for advocacy. "She is one of the greatest examples of human loyalty and spiritual dedication," he says. "For her, religion is not something you read, it is something you experience by giving yourself to the struggle of other people. To this day, she is one of my heroes."
Mario Rocha, 30, spent a decade in jail for a murder he didn't commit. Thanks in large part to the perseverance of Sr. Janet Harris '60, Rocha's conviction was reversed in 2006. Here he shares a commentary he wrote while still imprisoned.
"Sweet Dee," I had written when the roof began to rumble. Lying on my stomach, pencil in hand, bare feet in the air like a teenager in love, I tried to go back to my letter, but the noise above kept on growing louder with every second, forcing everyone in the cells around me to pause in our thoughts and actions.
As the beating and banging continued above, the sound of silence crystallized down below till somebody screamed, "Dale gas, homies!"1 And slowly the flames of ignorance and hate broke out, causing even the quietest of souls to scream out in anger against the senselessness: "Radio, radio, radio!"2
But the will of the weak-minded had prevailed. The sound of flesh beating flesh and bodies bouncing off the walls created an instant uproar.
Those who could only hear and imagine what was going on inside those other cells where black and brown were mixed pounded the steel bars that held them back. And while others screamed out racist stupidities back and forth like kids in grown men's bodies, I simply shook my head in disappointment, in disapproval,in disbelief. How could we, the brown and black captives of the Los Angeles County Jail system, be fighting each other after so long in the same struggle?
"Sweet Dee," I tried to go back to my letter, "How I wish that I could hear your tenderhearted voice and look into those luminous brown eyes…" But it became too hard to concentrate, too hard to ignore the negativity and violence all around, too hard to pretend that the riot was not happening. Delicate cursive letters became dark strokes of frustration; heavy, sweaty palms smearing the pencil lead as I tried... but just couldn't.
"Camaradas!" I screamed out. "Have some dignity, por favor."
In the whispering shadows of the aftermath, I spent that long Thursday night mad at the fact that, in my powerlessness, my views mattered not to the mighty makers of war, that, in my criminal discredibility, I was just another follower who should not have a voice—until I spoke out!
Then, the ceiling, who could hear my thoughts loud and clear, finally responded, saying: In a place where the captors are still allowed to beat and bully the weak without reprisal, to trash any and all of our personal belongings with impunity, to delay delivery of our mail indefinitely, isn't it only right that the cages of inhumanity should rattle?
I remembered how Frantz Fannon3 explained that when the oppressor becomes so out of reach in the minds of the oppressed, we can only unleash our fury at one another.
"How long will it be till I see your pretty face, my precious Diana?"
How long will it be till we the see the face of our true enemy, my people?
1. Translation: Give it gas, homies! Slang for: Go for it!2. An expression used through the county jail to calm the noise.3. Author of Wretched of the Earth, a revolutionary classic about the war for liberation against French colonialism in Algeria.
No longer a juvenile hall chaplain, Sr. Janet now splits her focus between individual cases, legislative reform, and InsideOUT's foundation. She chooses which cases to pursue based on more than just a feeling the child is innocent. "Things happen and you say, 'This is wrong,'" she says.
"I don't think of it in legal terms. I just think this (child's situation) is sinful, this is wrong, this is evil." It's a word she reserves for California's Prop. 21, passed in 2000, which raised the penalties for crimes committed by youth. "It ties the hands of insightful judges with integrity and locks them into vending machine justice," Sr. Janet says. "It is evil."
She fights that evil with the weapons she says God gave her—intelligence, persistence, and an energy that belies her age. "She does not have weapons like money or influence," says Mark Salzman, who turned his four years as an InsideOUT teacher into a book, True Notebooks. "The only way she can get people to look at kids who would otherwise be invisible is by not giving up. She will keep coming back to her point, coming back to you."
And at 80, she is not ready to slow down. She begins every day in her South Pasadena apartment at 5 a.m. with a cup of coffee and a Psalm. Her favorite is Psalm 127: "Unless the Lord build a house they labor in vain that build it." "In other words, unless God is part of the process, you can't do it alone," she explains. "You are in a partnership with God. I feel that closeness."
Then she makes phone calls—dozens of them everyday—to lawyers, judges, reporters, prosecutors, anyone she feels will help advance the cause of exonerating a young person she feels is innocent. Afternoons are often spent driving her 1996 blue Toyota Corolla to the downtown Los Angeles courthouse via sidestreets as she doesn't trust her reactions on the freeway anymore. She parks at the city's edge—downtown parking is $18, she says, scandalized—and takes the bus to every hearing, every appearance of one of her kids. Currently, she's working on three major cases, including a mentally handicapped young woman serving a life sentence for a murder Sr. Janet says she did not commit, but was too afraid to stop or report.
"Janet is absolutely committed to saving as many people as she can," says Claudia Graciosa,
who spent six years teaching in InsideOUT. "She has never turned away, never said, 'I need to take a break.' She seems to believe that eventually the justice system will work if you just keep at it long enough. She has made a commitment in her heart and her mind to be there for those kids and she's going to stay until she feels she is done."
Much of her strength can be traced back to her time at USF and the time she spent among its Jesuits. "I have always been very inspired by their dedication, not only in education, but in social justice," she says. "I just have great regard for how they live out the spirit of St. Ignatius. They are truly an inspiration." She recalls that on her first day as a school teacher, she came across a prayer attributed to Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, that sticks with her to this day: "Teach us, Good Lord, to serve thee as Thou deservest; To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds."
She put that prayer to the test last year when she broke her hip. But instead of letting the injury get in the way of her work, she simply made calls from her hospital bed. She knows the work—the overall reform of the juvenile justice system—will not be done in her lifetime. While speaking before a college screening of Mario's Story, she was asked what keeps her going. "I said it is because I know God has a sense of humor," she recalls. "And whether we are young or old, smart or dumb, He can use us." She then tells how Sr. Annetta, her one-time superior, took her aside one day for a gentle reminder. "She said to me, 'God destroyed an army with the jawbone of an ass. Just think what he can do with a whole one.'"


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Weaver's Kills Lead Hawks
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Buffalo, NY – In a match played at D'Youville College, the Hilbert Hawks volleyball team lost to Kean University (NJ) 3-0 with set scores (25-23, 25-16, 25-21). Kean then lost to D'Youville in the night cap 3-0 (25-16, 25-18, 25-12).
In his second match back from injury, freshman Adam Weaver (Stow, OH/Archbishop Hoban) led Hilbert with 10 kills. Fellow freshman Fred Sickau (Eden, NY/Eden) followed with 8 kills (.312) and senior Dan Wolfe (Rochester, NY/Irondequoit) came up with 12 assists. RJ Sykora (Stow, OH/Stow Munroe Falls) finished the match with game-high three blocks.
Hilbert travels to Thiel College in a rematch of their late February home match which Thiel took (3-1) when the Hawks were short-handed due to injury.
On Friday, March 18th, the Hawks (1-20, 0-8) will be honoring their two seniors, Dan Wolfe and RJ Sykora in their last home game of their career. Please stop out and show support for these two fine men.
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Life on Cloud Kepler: GPUs and Heterogenic Computing
For Jen-Hsun Huang, the smooth talking silicon scion that presides over NVIDIA, his company shouldn't be constrained to just building progressively faster GPUs for progressively better looking videogames. With great GPU computing power comes great possibilities; a hyper-efficient transistor packed chip shouldn't be limited to making games look better through dynamic shaders and more complex ray-tracing.
One of the big ideas emphasized at this year's GTC 2012 keynote was the power of Kepler in cloud applications, and Mr. Huang demonstrated some of these applications in ways that are sure to be the iconic takeaways of the conference: Windows 7 running on an iPad; 100 nodes running on a single sever; a Macbook Air running a high-end edition of the 3D animation software Maya; a shooter with current-gen graphics being played on both a television as well as a tablet ' delivered to both platforms via the cloud.
For NVIDIA the future of computing exists in the cloud, a place where computing will be heterogeneous and applications hardware agnostic. Of course parts of this concept aren't entirely new, as the first instances of enterprise computing were based on the same paradigm of a powerful servers and low powered terminals. The obvious change since the early days of terminals and mainframes is the incredible advancement in processing speed that led to the modern P.C era, and now more recently the 'post-P.C' era that some, most notably Apple, have been prophesying.
In an enterprise environment, the logical conclusion of the 'post-P.C' era is the beginning of the 'bring your own device' era. The company P.C, much like the company car, as Mr. Huang pointed out during his keynote, is quickly fading into obsolescence' a technological relic of the past.
The solution to the obsolescence of the P.C is a powerful, scalable cloud computing system. As was demonstrated during last Tuesday's keynote, this system is the so called VGX: a GPU for cloud computing based on NVIDIA's Kepler architecture.
'Kepler is a big deal for computer graphics, but an even bigger deal for high-performance computing; we're going to put the GPU in the cloud.' Mr. Huang remarked about the VGX. '[NVIDIA VGX] is a technology that virtualizes the computing environment such that irrespective of your computing device, we can provide access to the corporate technologies and data that you need.'
As explained on stage, the core of the NVIDIA VGX technology is Kepler's ability to create a virtualized GPU. Previously, GPUs had to be tied to a specific application. Now, in a Kepler world, GPUs don't have to be tied to a display nor dedicated to a particular application.
The obvious enterprise application of such a GPU is life on cloud Kepler: a change to the way that enterprise networks embrace the 'post- P.C' world, and make personal computing nothing more than a software layer is virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Citrix has been a provider of VDI solutions of yore, but these have suffered from the ills of high latency and relatively low processing power.
With Citrix's next generation virtual network computer ' or 'receiver' ' application on a Kepler based virtual GPU datacenter, it will be difficult to discriminate between using a virtual or local computer ' save for the local hardware. In a demo onstage, NVIDIA demonstrated how an iPad could easily run Windows 7 (an extraordinarily bizarre sight), and how a low powered Macbook Air could run a high-powered animation application used on Industrial Light and Magic render farms to make changes to scenes in real time.
As NVIDIA is more commonly known for video cards that drive P.C games, an obvious application of the VGX technology is gaming. NVIDIA is implementing this with the GeForce GRID, a cloud based system of game delivery that has an average latency dramatically lower than the competing service OnLive.
'It will now be possible for game-service operators to offer bundles of games for approximately $10 a month, similar to movie-streaming services,' Mr. Huang said onstage.
NVIDIA claims that this latency is somewhere within the range of 50ms: 10ms for capturing and encoding input, 30ms of network latency, and up to 10ms of decoding the video stream.
The only hardware gamers will require is a device capable of decoding an H. 264 video stream, as NVIDIA executives explained at a post-keynote press conference.
'Where we used to render from frame buffer and copy to the CPU for compression and streaming, here it's already streaming right out of the GPU, saving encode time, not to mention copy time,' Mr. Huang explained at the post-keynote press conference. 'By compressing and streaming in parallel we've taken maybe a couple hundred milliseconds of lag, and reduced it to something that's the same performance and snappiness as a game console.'
'Anything that can play YouTube can run GeForce Grid-streamed games,' Mr. Huang told the crowd.
On stage, two gamers competed against each other in the MechWarrior-esque shooter Hawken: one gamer was using an ASUS Transfomer tablet, while the other had a controller connected via USB into a smart T.V. NVIDIA's executives made a big deal about this, emphasizing that 'the cord was the console' when the gamers took to the stage.
The advantage of the Kepler powered GeForce GRID is that the capture and compression happens on the GPU as opposed to the CPU, reducing latency. And on stage, latency was an apparent non-issue as the game looked as smooth as a console or P.C games save for some compression artifacts.
This cloud technology from NVIDIA looks promising, and Mr. Huang could certainly fashion his company into a 'great-power' in the technology world instead of a mere 'middle-power' if he executes this play properly. However, without further details of when VGX, as well as the GeForce Grid will be available for implementation on mainstream systems and definite answers on how they will deal with the bottleneck of bandwidth this is only promising technology ' not a real world solution.
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House gives early nod on preschool billBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | May 01,2013MONTPELIER House lawmakers gave preliminary approval Tuesday to legislation that would require every school district in the state to provide publicly funded preschool to children as young as 3.
In a 97-43 vote that split mostly along party lines, advocates for early education won a victory they say will expand opportunities for kids during a critical period in their lives. For lower-income children especially, supporters of the legislation say, the bill would provide the head start needed to promote academic success later in life.
By investing in high-quality early education instruction, we create the foundation for learning that cant be replicated later in life, said Rep. Sarah Buxton, a Tunbridge Democrat. Unfortunately, not all children have the early foundational supports that can help prevent lifelong difficulty with learning.
Critics, however, said that however worthwhile preschool may be, lawmakers should not impose upon districts a new mandate for which local property tax payers will be picking up the tab.
Rep. Heidi Scheuermann, a Republican from Stowe, said its ironic that the House just last week voted out an education finance bill aimed at bending the spending trajectory in local schools.
We were talking how we were going to control spending, and we were blaming ... local school boards for voting on budget increases and spending increases, Scheuermann said.
Less than seven days later, she said, the same lawmakers are passing legislation that will necessarily increase local budgets.
We cant ask our residents to pay more, Scheuermann said. And yet the state is now forcing us to do that.
Gov. Peter Shumlin seems to share at least some of the opponents concerns. The Democrat said he supports efforts to expand publicly financed preschool offerings. But he stopped short Tuesday of endorsing the Houses approach.
There isnt a Vermonter who doesnt agree that pre-K is incredibly important. The question is how do we pay for it? Shumlin said. Weve got to do it in a way that doesnt adversely impact property tax payers, and thats the balance were trying to find.
Shumlin and lawmakers look to have at least another year to figure it out. With less than two weeks left in the session, the legislation approved by the House on Tuesday is exceedingly unlikely to get through the Senate before the fall of the gavel.
But proponents of the plan say the budgetary impacts wont be nearly as pronounced as critics fear. All but 40 of the states 270 or so school districts already provide at least some publicly financed preschool; those programs now serve about 38 percent of the approximately 11,300 kids age 3 and 4.
Rep. Adam Greshin, a Warren independent, said that whether the Legislature acts or not, Vermont is already heading down the road to universal pre-kindergarten, as districts respond to demand from constituents. In fiscal year 2016, the first year the legislation would take effect, the Legislatures Joint Fiscal Office predicts an annual fiscal impact of only $1.2 million.
Estimates from the Agency of Education project that pre-K enrollment percentages will plateau at 60 percent by 2020 and add $9.8 million annually to statewide school spending a drop of water in the $1.4 billion public education bucket.
The legislation wouldnt mandate enrollment in preschool, only that it be available to parents who want it; the bill calls for at least 10 hours of publicly funded preschooling for 35 weeks a year.
Rep. Johanna Leddy Donovan, a Burlington Democrat and chairwoman of the House Education Committee, said shes convinced the additional expenditures will, in short order, result in downward pressure on budgets for special education.
Donovan said its also a matter of fairness. In districts without publicly funded preschool, she said, children from well-to-do families likely arent missing out on education. Its the kids from low-income families, Donovan said, who are forced to go without.
Not everyone is convinced that the fiscal impacts of the mandate would be so benign, especially for towns in which parents opt in high numbers to avail themselves of the cost-free option.
Rep. Cynthia Browning, an Arlington Democrat, said that if lawmakers think preschool is important enough to mandate, then they ought to be willing to fund it as well.
Instead of leaving property tax payers to pay for the preschool-related expenses that will be built into their tax rates, Browning said the Legislature should allocate general fund revenues to offset what will otherwise become an unfunded mandate from Montpelier.
Rep. Margaret Cheney, a Democrat from Norwich, one of the districts that doesnt offer publicly funded pre-K, said she agreed.
I think the underlying issue here is not its value, but how we pay for it, and essentially whether we want to expand what the property tax pays for as opposed to the general fund, Cheney said. And I think thats a very legitimate point, which I agree with.
Rep. Chris Pearson, a Burlington Progressive, voted against the bill out of concern that it would undermine the public education apparatus that has adopted a growing role in delivering preschool services.
Under existing law, its left to schools to decide which pre-K programs theyll fund. The legislation approved Tuesday would allow parents wider choice and permit them to enroll their children in qualified private settings outside the geographic boundaries of their home district.
Buxton, the Tunbridge representative, said more than 70 percent of children under 6 live in households in which all adults are working.
Improving enrollment rates in preschool, she said, will mean giving parents a range of options. She said the bill was carefully crafted to ensure that public dollars wont be used to pay for placements at facilities that deliver religious instruction.
By permitting a parent to enroll their child in a pre-K program that works for them we expect that the enrollment in pre-K education will grow, Buxton said.
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According to local law enforcement officers there has been no sign of the two women missing since Friday.
Searches were mounted for Desia Rae George, age 33, of Fries on Friday and Saturday, according to Carroll County Sheriff J.B. Gardner.
"The sheriff's department, along with Carroll County Search and Rescue, searched around her house, along Iron Ridge and around Byllesby Dam on Friday," said Gardner. "Saturday, the community of Fries got together at the park and searched any place they thought she might be."
When George was first reported missing, it was thought she might have an infant child with her, but later the child was found to be with its father.
The other missing person, 15-year-old Desiree Travers, may be in the company of Carlos Enrique Rena, 22, according to Hillsville Police Chief Greg Bolen.
"We, at first, thought we were looking at a runaway, but it's gotten a little more serious," he said.
Reyna is wanted on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but that charge is from a previous incident, said Bolen.
Travers reportedly left her home between 10:30 a.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday. She is 5'6" tall, weighs 145 pounds, and has brown eyes and hair.
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The Bulldogs are an affiliate member of the SoCon in wrestling only. GWU dropped to 4-8 on the year and 2-4 in the SoCon with the loss.
Freshman Nick Soto (Spring Hill, Fla.) opened with a 12-0 major decision over Cortez Starkes at 125. Ranked No. 18 in the nation coming into the match, Soto improved to 19-6 overall.
Freshman Marvin Lopez (Cleveland, Tenn.) followed with a decision at 133 before senior Dean Pavlou (Cleveland, Tenn.) had the first of four Mocs pins at 141.
Junior Alex Hudson (Marietta, Ga.) won his third straight match with a 4-0 decision over Ryan Medved at 149, giving UTC a 16-0 lead through four matches. Alex Medved got Gardner-Webb on the board with his pin over sophomore Trey Stavrum (Chattanooga, Tenn.) at 157. Those were the only points for GWU in tonight's match.
Senior Josh Condon (Powder Springs, Ga.) took away any momentum GWU may have built with Medved's pin, by posting a fall of his own at 165. Condon put Justin Guthrie on his back in the first period to give the Mocs a 22-6 lead. Senior Robert Prigmore (Southlake, Texas) clinched the win with his 2-1 win over Gray Jones in overtime.
Senior Niko Brown (Kissimmee, Fla.) continued his strong season with his team-leading eighth pin of the year at 197. Brown, ranked No. 19 in the nation, is a team-best 22-3 overall and 10-0 in dual matches this season. Sophomore Kevin Malone (Carrollton, Ohio) closed out the match with a 3-0 decision over Travis Porter.
The Mocs continue their weekend road trip at Appalachian State on Sunday. UTC faces the Mountaineers at 2:00 p.m. (E.S.T.). ASU is currently second in the SoCon at 3-1 and is 6-4 overall.
Chattanooga 40 - Gardner-Webb 6
125: Nick Soto (UTC) - MD 12-0 - Cortez Starkes (GWU) - UTC 4-0
133: Marvin Lopez (UTC) - Dec. 9-2 - Robert Golde (GWU) - UTC 7-0
141: Dean Pavlou (UTC) - Fall 6:28 - Davante Andujar (GWU) - UTC 13-0
149: Alex Hudson (UTC) - Dec. 4-0 - Ryan Medved (GWU) - UTC 16-0
157: Alex Medved (GWU) - Fall 4:17 - Trey Stavrum (UTC) - UTC 16-6
165: Josh Condon (UTC) - Fall 1:50 - Justin Guthrie (GWU) - UTC 22-6
174: Sean Mappes (UTC) - Fall 4:48 - Hunter Gamble (GWU) - UTC 28-6
184: Robert Prigmore (UTC) - Dec. 2-1 (OT) - Gray Jones (GWU) - UTC 31-6
197: Niko Brown (UTC) - Fall 2:11 - Vincent Salyer (GWU) - UTC 37-6
285: Kevin Malone (UTC) - Dec. 3-0 - Travis Porter (GWU) - UTC 4-0


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The work week is upon us, which means another installment of MiddleEasy's Sunday Morning Rumor Mill. For you, maybe -- but everyday is a work day over here.
So after UFC 163 many of you expect us to provide some answers to life's most puzzling questions. Well we do our best with what we have. Don't look at the SMRM as some sort of divinatory device. It's just a collection of rumors that we've heard over the week that may or may not be true. That's it.
Now, on to the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill.
.According to Tommy Messano, the UFC edited Lyoto Machida's post-fight speech to remove a part about Lyoto asking about the UFC ruleset following the judging from last night's UFC 163.
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Now that google is an English word, we can't help wondering where does the spelling come from. There are many explanations, but here are 5 of the most credible versions.
1. "We chose our system name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol."
[ Anatomy of a Search Engine, the paper that describes PageRank. ]
2. "Googol is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web."
[ Google's Corporate site now ]
3. " 10^100 (a gigantic number) is a googol, but we liked the spelling "Google" better. We picked the name "Google" because our goal is to make huge quantities of information available to everyone. And it sounds cool and has only six letters. "
[ Google's Corporate page in 1999 ]
4. As Larry Page, the co-founder of Google.com narrates:
"Lucas Pereira: 'You idiots, you spelled [Googol] wrong!' But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell 'Googol' 'Google', so it worked out OK in the end."
[ Probably the correct version. ]
5. "The original founders were going for 'Googol', but ended up with 'Google' due to a spelling mistake on a check that investors wrote to the founders."
[ Wikipedia's opinion ]
{ Inspired by a discourteous commentary. }
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STARKVILLE, Miss.--Shalyn Claggett, associate professor of English, has been named Mississippi State University's 2012 Humanities Teacher of the Year by the College of Arts & Sciences and Mississippi Humanities Council.
Claggett will offer a public lecture on her humanities-based research Monday, Nov. 26, at 3 p.m. in the forum room on the fourth floor of Shackouls Honors College's Griffis Residence Hall: "The Animal in the Machine: Projecting and Policing Pleasure in Victorian Magic Lantern Shows." Her talk will be free and open to the public.
As the MSU Humanities Teacher of the Year, Claggett receives a $500 honorarium and will be recognized at Mississippi Humanities Council's annual spring awards banquet, which honors the contributions of humanities faculty with a teacher of the year award at each of the state's junior and senior public and private postsecondary institutions.
Not only is Claggett a Victorian literature specialist and Vanderbilt University doctoral graduate, she is also an expert in Victorian culture. Her research has appeared in numerous journals, including "Studies in English Literature," "The Henry James Review," "Prose Studies" and "Victorian Literature and Culture."
In addition to her English department teaching duties, Claggett serves as program coordinator for the MSU Institute of Humanities and is working on two books.
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Make a WORLD,
I agree with every word of the article!. My first deep luv of MMO's was the original EQ during it's golden age (just prior too, and including Kunark). All the distinct classes, and races and their individual starting areas, wonderful! I want to see a return to that! and I want Magicians something like they were, with the different summoned pets which were distinct. EQ2's equivalent didn't have it, not at all... I so hope $oE doesn't screw this up... I have serious doubts as from the images so far it looks all too WoW-ified... We will soon see!
I can definitely do without the fae! Also no dragon-people, not needed already have the wonderful classic Iksar!
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Make a WORLD,
Originally posted by Tjed
"I've been burnt too many times. " Ha! I know exactly what you mean, feeling exactly the same myself!
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All it takes for evil to succeed is for the good to stand by and do nothing
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Me not nice Dino! Me bash brains!
The funniest thing to me about this discussion, and the previous about what we want in EQN, is that what many people want (probably without even realizing it) is a return to Vanilla WoW. That's probably why Vanilla WoW was the huge success that it was. :)
Before the WoW haters jump all over this, I'm not saying that EVERY person wants a return to Vanilla WoW, or that Vanilla WoW was perfect and should be copied exactly, because it should not. All I'm pointing out is that what I'm reading in a majority of replies, and the main article, are things that Vanilla WoW either had or had something very similar.
5) Zoning - Vanilla WoW had a seemless map. You could move from zone to zone without loading screens. This made the world feel really big and real. While it's true that Vanilla WoW did have instanced dungeons and raids, it was somewhat balanced out by the fact that it also had many large areas throughout the world that acted similarly to open world dungeons. There were places such as the castle in Arathi Highlands that had group quests with good rewards and also elite enemies that required teamwork. There was the Troll temple in the Hinterlands that was the same way. These are just two examples.
Additionally, there was no instanced PvP and that led to the epic Tauren Mill/Southshore battles.
4) Small Map - This was touched on above, but with a seemless world, Azeroth felt HUGE. There was nothing small about it.
3) Limited Scope (Linearity) - Of course this is the area where you could knock Vanilla WoW the most, but for those who played back in Vanilla, you remember that the game was not nearly as linear as it's become. Back in Vanilla there were exclamation points over quest giver's heads when you found them, but they were not marked on the map. You had to figure out where to go to find them, or look on the internet. There were also many different starter zones and an abundance of zones you could level in, such that you could level multiple characters to 60 without repeating the same zone. The game certainly didn't feel "linear" when you played it originally.
2) No Fae! - Well duh! Seriously though, Vanilla WoW had an abundance of races to choose from and had a race to fit just about everyone's idea of what was cool. There were no lame Blood elves or Pandas.
1) Story on Rails - The WoW of today is very much a story on rails as you level up each expansion to inevitably face the major bad guy. This was not the case in vanilla WoW. There was no over-arching villain in Vanilla WoW. Blizzard simply gave us a cool world to explore. Back in vanilla WoW you very much did go where you wanted and made your own adventure.
Beyond these points, vanilla WoW was very challenging, especially when compared to its current version, or many of the current MMOs. There was limited fast travel. No mounts until level 40 and no epic mounts until level 60. If you played vanilla WoW you realize that attaining an epic mount truly felt rewarding and epic.
Vanilla WoW had the roaming higher level monsters that were there to gank and scare the lowbies. There was stiches that would spawn and attack Duskwood. There were the elite Sons of Arugal in Silverpine Forest, along with the elite devilsaurs in un'goro crater. These types of mobs made you feel like you had to look over your shoulder while questing.
Epic gear was truly epic. You didn't get epics handed to you. If you wanted epic gear you had to work for it. I could go on and on.
I'm not saying that EQN should be Vanilla WoW 2.0, simply pointing out that what people seem to want is a return to something very similar to what what Vanilla WoW brought to the table 9 years ago. :)
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Joined: 8/26/06
3, 4 and 5 will really have a major effect on gameplay and general opinion.
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Joined: 4/25/07
Originally posted by Grimlock426
Let's look back at Suzie's article and compare it to your statement:
5. Make MMOs HARD Again
Vanilla WoW - Nope. In fact it was the opposite, compared to EQ or Lineage or FFXI.
4. Give Us Connections to EverQuest and EverQuest 2
Vanilla WoW - Nope.
3. Make Crafting and Active Game, Not Just an Ingredients Checklist
Vanilla Wow - Nope ( I used to do pushups and situps while crafting in Vanllia WoW
2. Give a Nod to the Good Old Days
Remember the days when you weren't simply handed a mount or a skill simply for completing a quest?
Basically that is the exact opposite of Vanilla WoW (well, you had to save to buy your first horse, but the gear, come on!)
1. Create World Events that Actually Change the World
Vanilla WoW - Nope.
So in summary. Huh?
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Joined: 2/19/13
I have to agree on most points. The Fae I never saw as a playable race so I am indifferent there.
Not having really played since Luclin, I still have a load of fond memories from EQ. First time I solo'd the Cyclops in Karana Plains. Getting my Sword of Yakesha. Earning my Ranger Epics before level 40. Becoming a Master Linguist. Peeling mobs. Nobody knows what peeling is anymore. Training Blackbarrow like a boss. My full set of Crusty armor on my Orc Warrior.
Sigh, nostalgia.
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As with every new MMO coming out, I have a feeling there will be a lot of disappointed fans.
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Joined: 8/21/07
Power without perception is spiritually useless and of no true value
Originally posted by viruzex
No they won't.From a design standpoint it would make no sense when you can just make a brown human. Besides didn't you know all humans are from Medieval England?
Have a nice day~
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Joined: 5/14/08
I am sure I will be in the minority on this but zones while frustrating in certain areas of EQ was also what made EQ so great. Each area had its own unique feel and look and frankly I dont think any mmo to date has ever come close to reproducing that and I dont really think its possible in a seemless world. They also served the purpose of mobs chasing you till you left the zone completely which should be a feature in EQ Next. Trains are a big part of EQ history and I would hate to see them gone.
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I agree but I will believe it when I see it since every company today is just trying to give us the cheapest gameplay possible without them putting any real effort in it anymore.
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Perhaps tomorrow will be better.
Missed the MOST important one ...NO CASH SHOP !.
I don't mind zones at all,they can actually offer more strategy to game play,problem is the SOE staff is not so good at realizing ideas outside the bubble.
I don't want to see questing as the most proficient reason to level and attain gear.Choice and if they can put on some sort of thinking cap ,more than just the choice of camping in a group.
No matter how good the game is,if i see cash shop all over this game,it's not entering my HD.
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Originally posted by Asamof
Make all gear crafted. Problem solved.
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Pink, it's like red but not quite.
Originally posted by discord235
Oh hey, first batch of those is coming up in 48 hours, more or less?
Got the team jerseys yet? Still on sale, forum=PVP equipped and ready to go, cheap.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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Me not nice Dino! Me bash brains!
Originally posted by grimfall
Huh? That should be directed at your responses! It's hard to take you seriously at all when it's obvious you didn't even read what I wrote. All of the specific points I made were compared to this article: what we don't want in EQN. You're obviously going back to the article of what we do want in EQN. So the first thing I suggest is that you actually read what I wrote in response to THIS article specifically, with a nod to the previous article.
Even so, let's look at what you wrote.
5. Make it hard - I won't argue that Vanilla WoW was as hard as EQ 1, however compared to most all MMOs released since 2004, Vanilla WoW is VERY difficult. Let's face it, you're not likely to ever see anything quite as difficult as EQ 1 was, but Vanilla WoW certainly had many challenges.
4. Obviously WoW can't give a comparison to EQ. Obviously also though I wasn't say make Vanilla WoW and call it EQN.
3. Make crafting an active game - I'm not going to argue that crafting in wow is deep or engaging.
2. Give a nod to the good old days - It seems to me like you didn't play vanilla wow. Not only was saving for an epic mount a huge challenge, but you WERE ABSOLUTELY NOT given gear. You got epic gear from raiding 40-man dungeons, or from crafting it made from mats that only came from epic dungeons. Towards the end of the vanilla life cycle they started having the 20-man raids that dropped epic gear, but that was still no walk in the park.
1. Give events that change the world - I agree that vanilla wow did not have events that changed the world and that was one of the main things I would like to see different in EQN, or any MMO for that matter.
To summarize, I never said that EQN should just be Vanilla WoW re-skinned. My point was just that a lot of what people want out of EQN was what was contained in Vanilla WoW. I absolutely think there are things that can be improved upon in EQN and I would hope they do, but starting with vanilla WoW as a base and expanding from there, using the EQ lore of course, would not be a bad way to begin.
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You forget the most important thing
we don't want SOE too
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As I mentioned in the wish list thread before, this game is being designed with the PS4 in mind. All other 'wishes' are moot at this point.
The only wish that matters is 'I wish the PS4 wasn't involved in EQN'. Till that comes true, nothing else matters.
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Originally posted by grimfall
Spot on. People can claim that WoW USED to be less linear and harder, but that doesn't change the fact that when it launched it was the most casual, linear, solo ecouraging MMO on the market.
The MMO market has gotten so bad that people are looking back on games that used to be considered primitive and easy, like WoW and Runescape, and hailing them as lost gems. It's sad.
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I remember the first time I bought EQ (right when Kunark came out) and logging in to create my character. I made a Wood Elf Druid and started in Kelethin.
I repeat, those days were the hardest and most fun out of any MMO I've ever played, period. I myself wasn't involved with the story, but there wasn't this crap where you have quests on your minimap popping up. You had to 'hail' a person and attempt to make conversation just to get a quest started. I had never been so lost, but god was whacking bees with a bat fun.
I agree with the article particially up to the instances. Like many others have mentioned, some of the better expansions were the instanced ones. Someone yelling "TRAIN, CHOO CHOOOOOO" while you're puny little group is trying hard as hell to whack the orcs at the ENT, and forcing to zone to the instance to Kelethin, you just can't beat that.
I think instancing if done correctly, like EQ had in a lot of ways, wins a lot of hearts. But I can a point, nowadays I wouldn't want every zone to connect as an instance. Maybe in certain quests, adventures, raids, etc but other than that I don't see much problem with instances.
I hope the crafting is a bit more like a game also. I would like crafting to be somewhat more involved and a challenge, and the rewards be greater for taking some sort of risks. Not just drag and drop and everyone gets the same result all the time. That's just a personal pet peeve though.
LOIO and The Overthere ... the grinding in groups. That also was what made the game more memorable for me. Not a crazy hard grind like some of your JPRGs, but harder than WoW.


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If you are like me, there is something about the last few weeks of year that makes you want to stop and reflect on the events of the past 12 months. No matter how busy I am I always catch myself looking in the rearview mirror a little as I think about what has been and what might have been.
Part of that reviewing of the past year goes with the territory of being in the media. It doesn't matter whether it's a small hometown newspaper like the News Bulletin or a major network like ESPN, we all love to look back and think about the people and their stories that caught our attention over the previous 12 months.
Many of us have personal stories that never make it to print or on the air. Our own stories of heartache and triumph are those stories that impact our lives far more than a flood in Iowa or some movie star or athlete getting in trouble with the law for the 20th time.
It's not that we don't feel for the flood victims or someone that was killed in yet another senseless shooting, but sometimes we are numbed by our own pain and floods of life.
As I begin thinking about the top sports moments of 2013 in our little corner of the world I know many of you will disagree with some or most of my choices.
I don't mind telling you it can be difficult selecting 10 stories that had the greatest impact on the local sports scene.
Every year there are stories that are easy to pick. A football coach stepping down and a new coach being hired will always be in the top five of any list.
Big wins and district championships also are easy choices, as are athletes signing with a big time university.
It's usually easy picking the big stories to make the top 10, but it isn't as easy trying to decide the bottom five or bottom three.
I just try to get to as many games as I can and see as many athletes as possible.
I usually attend four games a week of some sort from the middle of August until the middle of May. I estimate that I see close to 150 games a year.
As the old Christmas song, "When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter" reminds us, "It takes a little time, you know, to check off one whole year."
I have begun my process of checking off the whole year of 2013 in sports. My top 10 of 2013 will appear in our Dec. 28 edition.
Even as I begin checking off the events of 2013, my mind races to the events and athletes that might shape the local sports scene in 2014.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin's sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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Hi Ladies- I have been lurking for a while and I decided since I was pregnant again to register and introduce myself. I had severe Pre-e with my first child which developed into HELLP syndrome. I was feeling sick and had bad headaches for a while, but since my BP was okay no one seemed worried even though my son was measuring a few weeks behind. At 30 weeks I went into to the dr. and saw a different dr. than my own and told her I was really not feeling well and had headaches that tylenol didn't seem to help, plus I was really swollen. She said my Bp was fine, so I had nothing to worry about and sent me home. She was quite dismissive. That was Tuesday. On Sunday, I woke up at 4am and vomited, like exorcist vomited, and I had the worst headache of my life. My BP was measuring 180/90, so I called the on-call dr. and he said I should stay on my left side laying down and they would get me in to be seen in the morning. About 10 pm I couldn't handle it anymore and we headed to L&D. When I walked in the nurses were stunned that I could even stand up. My BP was 220/118 and going up rapidly. I had already developed HELLP. I had an emergency c-section almost immediately. My son was doing quite well at the beginning, and we got positive reports about his progress every day. We spent as much time as possible with him in the NICU. Then on the third day, his heart stopped and they were unable to resuscitate him. We still really haven't been given a reason why. The dr's say they don't really know and we didn't do an autopsy.
Fast forward a bit, and we are expecting again. We met with an MFM and our regular OB before making the decision to try again. When we did that we had a plan with the MFM that we would switch over to them at 13 weeks, have more frequent U/S, do the LDA, and generally be under close supervision. I have been seeing my regular OB up to this point and things look good so far. We should have switched over this week to the MFM. Here is the issue, our MFM left the practice for a bigger hospital and now the MFM practice is not sure if they want to take us (they have two other drs). I called them a week ago and they said they would check and get back to us. When I called today, they still didn't have any answers for us. We should have an appointment next week, but at this rate I doubt they even call me back by then. When I brought this up with my regular OB, she said they were thinking of co-managing with her. I am really not sure about this, I like my regular OB but she isn't very forthcoming with information. I always have to prompt her for info and she doesn't seem very proactive. Plus the dr. from my first pregnancy who was so dismissive might end up having to deliver if we stay with this practice. Actually, my current dr. keeps telling me that this pregnancy "could be totally normal!" and seems very positive, which is nice, but it seems like she doesn't really think this is a serious issue that should be watched. I had to remind her about the LDA and the 24 hour urine test that was recommended for us by the MFM. I feel blind sided by this dr. issue. We are considering looking for an MFM in the closest metro area, but that would be a three hour drive. There is only the one practice in our area. Any advice?
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Glover Teixeira vs. Phil Davis possible, nothing finalized yet
Neither had the best performance of their careers at UFC 172 in Baltimore, Maryland this past May, but they may just get a chance to redeem themselves. Coincidentally, it could be a bout opposite one another.
According to a report by Ariel Helwani on Fox Sports 1's UFC Tonight on Wednesday, a bout between UFC light heavyweight Glover Teixiera and Phil Davis has been discussed. Helwani noted the bout was possible and if it did take place, would be set for the fall of this year, but nothing has yet been finalized.


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Andrew Z relaunches radio show via smartphone appWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | firstname.lastname@example.com
Andrew Zepeda hasn't listened to Star 105 since Cumulus Media abruptly dropped his morning show Dec. 26 — but not out of spite. His radio is broken.
"The ironic thing is the one car we have, the radio broke the week after we got fired, I swear to God," Zepeda said. "So I haven't really listened to terrestrial radio since I left. I don't have the money to get it fixed. Actually I use my phone. That's what I use for all my entertainment now."
Fittingly, Zepeda plans to relaunch "Andrew Z in the Morning" on Feb. 25 via a free mobile app called Toledo's APP Station.
The morning show will stream live 6:30-9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Afterward, the show will replay on a loop all day.
The show will be the first Toledo radio station exclusively available via smartphone, Zepeda said. The app is available for Android and will be available for iPhones soon.
"We are jumping on a concept that is sweeping larger U.S. cities like Dallas, Los Angeles and Chicago, but has yet to make its way to medium size markets like Toledo … until now!" Zepeda posted on his Facebook page Feb. 18.
Mobile radio apps are the future of the genre, Zepeda said.
"Whether it's Pandora or Spotify, it's hard to find someone that hasn't (listened to something on their mobile device during the past week). Everyone's doing it now," Zepeda said, adding that at least one car manufacturer is planning to incorporate mobile radio apps into its dashboards.
"We're going to be right next to terrestrial radio at some point," Zepeda said. "It's the way the future is going."
The show's cast will feature familiar voices, including Zepeda's wife Michelle, Brandon Doriot, Calen Savidge and Corey W. King.
"It's going to be the same kind of energy we had on the other show, but a lot less restrictions where we can go comedically," Doriot said. "We'll have no real censors. My humor has always been a little edgy. I'll probably gain an inch, but we also don't want to alienate people."
Zepeda said he is confident people will seek out the show because "it is still the best show in Toledo."
"We all have enough personal pride in what we do that we wouldn't launch this if we didn't know we had a really great product to put out there," Zepeda said.
If all goes well, Zepeda plans to add channels featuring local musicians and comedians.
"The cool thing is it's endless the amount of stations you can put on there," Zepeda said.
To start, the show will broadcast from Zepeda's Perrysburg home, but he hopes to find more sponsors and studio space soon. Zepeda also alluded to another project in the works featuring more traditional media that would be announced soon.
Split from Cumulus
Zepeda said he was "blindsided" Dec. 26 when he was told "Andrew Z in the Morning: The People's Show" was being dropped by Cumulus Media. The show had been at the station since July 2011, starting at tiny 100.7 The Vibe before being promoted to a larger signal at Star 105 in March and awarded a multiyear contract in June.
The firing came six days after Zepeda was sentenced by Wood County Court of Common Pleas Judge Alan Mayberry to 30 days at the Wood County Justice Center, with permission to apply for work release, and five years' community control, including no bars or alcohol.
In October, Mayberry found Zepeda violated his intervention in lieu of conviction by participating in a Sept. 13 celebrity charity boxing match at which alcohol was served. The violation meant Zepeda was convicted of three felony charges related to a 2010 break-in at his former business in Perrysburg. An appeal is pending.
"I couldn't have been more blindsided," Zepeda said. "Days earlier, we had conversations with the higher-ups that said, 'Oh, don't worry. Everything's good.'"
It was "a hopeless time," Zepeda said. "There's been some dark times over the last couple years, but I thought, "There's no way to come back from this," Zepeda said. "It's what I've done my entire adult life and I really didn't see an out this time. It was a tough time."
Matt Spaulding, vice president and market manager for Cumulus Media, agreed the firing was abrupt, but declined to comment further, saying only that "there are several reasons and Andrew is aware of each."
After the firing, it wasn't clear what would happen to the show.
Three cast members, Jerry Pickering aka Avalanche, Steve Reamey aka Gay Steve and Carlos Dias, were offered and took positions at Cumulus Media. Donny Palicki aka Donny P is no longer working in radio, Zepeda said.
Those who remained initially weren't sure they wanted to stick with him for another try, Zepeda said.
"Not everyone was on board at first, but listeners were posting on Facebook, asking 'When are you guys coming back?' and I said, 'You know what? We have to do this because this is what I do. It's the only thing I know. It's what I love to do,'" Zepeda said.
Doriot said it was "disheartening" to see the show's "forward momentum come to a grinding halt" and he had to do some soul-searching before agreeing to do another show.
"When you go through that, it does occur to you that you don't want to continue making the same mistake over and over," Doriot said. "I went a few weeks without really contacting him and when you get away from that and all you read is the bad stuff, it's easy to say, 'This is a mistake.' But then we talked and all that old chemistry comes back and you realize it's a good thing. And if I can make money doing it, I don't see why I wouldn't."
Zepeda said fans of the show are excited.
"It's funny because it drives people who don't listen to the show crazy," Zepeda said. "They're like, "Why do they keep supporting this guy?' I think if you don't listen to the show, you don't get it. You either get it or you don't.
"The morning bond is such an intimate bond with somebody," Zepeda said. "It's when they first wake up and it's usually just you and them in the car. The bond we've had with our listeners over the past eight years is just amazing and they support you through everything. We're just super excited."
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Cavs, Vikings, Eagles advance in CFVC baseball tourney
Southern Lee 12, Westover 2
The No. 2-seeded Cavaliers (20-5) rolled past No. 7 Westover (0-18) in the first round of the Cape Fear Valley Conference Tournament at Southern Lee Thursday night.
Ryan Holmes pitched 4.1 shutout innings and got the win. Christian Wenger went 2-for-2 with a run and an RBI. Trei Chalmers went 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.
Southern Lee played No. 3 Union Pines in the tourney semifinals last night at Western Harnett. Western Harnett will host the CFVC final Monday at 7 p.m.
Holly Springs 5, Lee County 4
Lee County (9-13, 6-9) was edged at Holly Springs (17-5, 9-5) in a Tri-Nine game Thursday. The Yellow Jackets remain tied with Apex for fifth place in the conference. Apex had its regular-season finale slated for last night.
Lee County will host Fuquay-Varina in a make-up game on Monday at 7 p.m.
Union Pines 6, Douglas Byrd 1
The No. 3-seeded Vikings advanced through the first round of the CFVC Tournament, pulling away from the No. 6 Eagles with two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth, in Cameron Thursday night.
Jeffrey Thompson got the win, going a complete game, while going 2-for-4 with two RBI at the plate.
Emmitt Carden went 3-for-4 with three runs, a double and an RBI. Dalton Garner had two hits and two RBI.
The Vikings played Southern Lee last night.
Western Harnett 12, Overhills 6
No. 4 Western Harnett made three wins in three contests over Overhills (6-15) in the CFVC Tournament Thursday night in Lillington. The Eagles (9-11) advanced to face No. 1 Gray's Creek last night.
Northwood 7, South Granville 1
Northwood 9, South Granville 5
The Chargers (18-5, 14-1) got a Carolina 12 sweep over the Vikings (13-8, 10-4) Thursday in Pittsboro. Northwood finished its regular season last night at Granville Central.
Holly Springs 8, Lee County 0
The Lady Yellow Jackets (6-15, 4-12) finished their season and, at least through the 2017 season, played their final Tri-Nine game Thursday evening.
Lee County had its Senior Night for four seniors: Asia Williams, Allie Eyers, Nikki Hoover and Jade Womble.
Gray's Creek 11, Southern Lee 5
The No. 3-seeded Lady Bears (16-6) topped Southern Lee (4-15) for the second time in two nights, this time in the first round of the CFVC Tournament, on Thursday night. Gray's Creek held a 5-4 lead in the middle of the third before pulling away. Gray's Creek played No. 2 Western Harnett last night in the CFVC semis.
Overhills 2, Douglas Byrd 1
No. 5 Overhills (5-15) defeated No. 4 Douglas Byrd for the first time this season in the first round of the CFVC Tournament Thursday night.
Overhills played No. 1 Union Pines last night. The CFVC final is set for Monday night at Western Harnett.
South Johnston 7, Triton 2
No. 2-seeded South Johnston (17-6) bounced No. 3 Triton (14-6) from the semifinals of the Eastern Carolina Conference Tournament Thursday night.
Triton will host South View in a make-up, regular season game on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
West Johnston 13, Harnett Central 3
Harnett Central (8-9, 5-7) fell in a Greater Neuse River game at West Johnston Thursday night. The Lady Trojans played Knightdale last night and will play at Garner on Monday at 7 p.m.


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Rolling Stone (p.81) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best and most comprehensive collection of the band's high points available."
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The Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary with GRRR!, a compilation available in several different formats. The simplest set is a triple-disc compilation containing 50 tracks; there is also a Deluxe Edition containing the same three CDs, along with a hardcover book and five postcards. These 50 tracks also form the basis of a bound vinyl box set, but the Super Deluxe Edition box set is an 80-track, four-disc set with a different track sequencing, a bonus 7" single, a hardcover book, and a poster. In each incarnation, GRRR! traces the rich history of the Rolling Stones from their first single, "Not Fade Away," to a pair of new songs ("Gloom and Doom," "One Last Shot") recently recorded with Don Was.
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No. 2 WVU Set to Take on No. 4 Alaska-Fairbanks
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.– The No. 2 –ranked West Virginia University rifle team will travel to No. 4 Alaska-Fairbanks for back-to-back matches on Nov. 17 -Nov. 18, at the E.F. Horton Rifle Range.
The Mountaineers (7-0, 4-0 GARC) hold a 6-6 series record over the Nanooks (2-1). This is the first time WVU is traveling to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks for competition. Sunday's match will feature a championship-style final.
The two teams hold 24 NCAA titles combined and are the winningest teams in NCAA history. The Mountaineers won their nation-best 14th championship in 2009, and the Nanooks have won 10 titles.
The Mountaineers defeated UAF last year, 4676-4626. WVU has won the last four matches against the Nanooks.
"This is definitely a bigger trip, with regards to the distance that we are going and the travel," says coach Jon Hammond. "Alaska-Fairbanks is a big rival that we will be going up against. I think this will be a really good experience for the younger guys with traveling a long way and competing on the road. It is going to be a new venue for all of us since we haven't been up there before. I don't think there is too much different to prepare for; we just need to be ready to go and shoot our best and obviously take a lot of warm clothes and be ready for a long weekend."
The Mountaineers are coming off two home victories this past weekend as they defeated then- No. 9 Ole Miss, 4720-4624, and No. 13 NC State 4697- 4596. WVU's win over Ole Miss was an NCAA team-score record, and the team's second school record total shot this season.
"We have been working hard this semester and we want to continue to work on shooting good performances and doing the best we can in every match," adds Hammond.
WVU outshot the Rebels in both air rifle (2376-2335) and smallbore (2344-2289) on Friday. Senior Petra Zublasing swept the individual competitions, shooting 599 air rifle and 592 smallbore. Sophomores Taylor Ciotola and Maren Prediger rounded out the top three in air rifle, shooting 595 and 594, respectively. The match was Prediger's Mountaineer debut. Freshman Patrick Sunderman shot a career best 584 in smallbore, while freshman Garrett Spurgeon shot 587.
Zublasing swept both of the competitions against NC State shooting 595 air rifle and 590smallbore .Prediger shot a personal-best 595 air rifle as well. Sunderman, Spurgeon and sophomore Meelis Kiisk all shot 584 smallbore and tied for second place.
"I think the second day will be more of a challenge with shooting two matches back-to-back," concludes Hammond. "I think jetlag will definitely be a challenge; it is something that we will just have to play by ear and see what happens. Shooting the second day with the finals is definitely going to give it more of a championship type feel. It is the end of the semester, and they will be jetlagged from travel. It may be a day where they have to dig in a little bit and fight for every point."
UAF recently defeated then- No. 20 University of Texas El Paso, 4664-4467, on Saturday, Nov. 3, at its home range.
The matches are all expected to go into the afternoon, and results will be posted later at night. A link for live scores will be available HERE.
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