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Jennifer & Eric Williams Speak On Basketball Wives 'Drink Throwing' Episode
This morning, Jennifer Williams and Eric Williams called into Power 105.1fm's Breakfast Club Morning Show and talked about the infamous 'drink throwing' scene on last night's episode of Basketball Wives. Last week, everyone jumped on Eric for throwing a drink on Jennifer, however, it was revealed this week that Jennifer threw the drink first. When asked did she think she provoked the drink throwing from Eric, Jennifer responded "I probably did provoke him but so what. If I slap him are you going to slap the sh*t out of me too?"
Check out both sides of their stories on Jen beating up the Eric Pinata, the drink throwing scene and Jen's fall out with Eric's mother below:
On beating up the 'Eric piñata' at the divorce party
JEN: It's a divorce party; it's all about independence and about having fun. I thought it was funny, it wasn't anything serious. I actually thought it was pretty funny.
ERIC: First of all, the knot was upset really, I wasn't upset. It was the knot because they done put the knot back on there. Damn, y'all motherf*ckers done made the knot famous! Besides that I really didn't care about the piñata and the whole exorcist they were doing. It was near a blood sacrifice on that damn thing if you ask me but it is what it is. Through it all, I'm still the topic of discussion.
On the issues between Jen and Eric's Mother
JEN: Well, his mother was very rude to me before we got married. She was like, "You do not have my blessing." We went through a lot. Basically, I got married and she was at my wedding. She never told me congratulations, she had like a stank face the whole time and I never saw her after we got married. That day was the last time I seen her.
ERIC: Listen, that stuff goes on all the time. [It's hard] To get my mother to actually like you all the way but you're going to respect what the f*ck she has to say. That was for your ears and your ears only, it wasn't for the world to hear, ya dig. That was three f*cking years ago, why are you bringing that sh*t up now for a story for yourself? So don't give me the bull! I'm in this f*cking for real, I'm not trying to make a career. You know she's trying to make a career. You see the way they set up the whole show? That sh*t is around me and my emotions and my relationship. She's going out there looking like an alco[holic]. She's drinking the devils drink, they got you talking about condoms this & condoms that. The only thing you're talking out of your mouth about is smashing. Is that a good example for for yourself? She needs to check [her]self. You need to check her too [talking to Angela Yee], that's your best friend that you've known from day one but you let her go down that road like that too..
On Eric throwing a drink in Jennifer's face
JEN: Okay, here's the thing, I know it looks like I threw a drink on him but there's so much to that scene that they edited down. It was quite extensive. I get it that they have to chop it up. So I was just frustrated…we didn't get anywhere. So he walked away, I picked up the glass and I threw it but I threw it in his direction. I was not aiming it at his head or to get on him, I just kind of tossed it and threw it down. I saw my producer over there so obviously I wasn't trying to throw the glass to get it on anyone. But I'm sure it was like an ego thing and his pride was involved. Honestly, in a million years I never would have never thought that he would actually throw a drink on me and it was the way he did it…very aggressive and forceful. I don't know if you guys can tell but the glass actually hit my chin and it was really hard and I was in shock.
Once I got passed the initial shock of him throwing the drink I was like "Wow, okay we taking it there?" So I guess I got to get a little gangster and it was not allegedly that the glass hit my chin. The glass did hit my chin and so it was definitely some form of assault.
I probably did provoke him but, so what. If I slap him, are you going to slap the sh*t out of me too?
ERIC: Listen, I tried to go away. That was really an emotional time when she was talking about my mother. I was emotional then at the time because I was pulling between her and my mother at the same time but I still married her. So for her to say check my mother….
The reaction from everybody in the world might be "Damn, why did he do that," but listen I don't apologize for the reaction. The reaction was good because you motherf*ckers don't know what the f*ck is going on. All the world's opinions really can kiss my ass. I don't care about that, ya dig. I just know what's going on within my life and that my sh*t was the one on TV being exposed and my name being dragged around. Remember the chick is still married, ya dig. She was doing some reckless sh*t on TV. I love that fact because that ain't going to do nothing but help me in court. But on the rest of that stuff, I'm the one going through the situation and all that and if it wasn't for me, nobody on that panel would know about b, so lets keep it f*cking 100.
She's not acting herself and you know it. She's changed 350 degrees. So all that stuff that's going on right now, I don't even know her. So the splash of thy holy water, I had to Baptize that ass, ya dig.
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Try Not To Scream.Thursday, October 04 2012
Todd promises to get revenge for Starr, Johnny tells Carly that he loves Connie, and Tea and John make a startling discovery.
At The Haunted Star Sonny begs Kate to come back to him. Connie fools him for a minute, then mocks him for thinking his love could wake Kate up. She informs him that when Kate found out about her unwanted brat she went on a permanent vacation. Kate and Trey had a confrontation and Trey told Kate he wanted nothing to do with her. Ever since, Kate has been gone. Connie would have left but ruining his wedding was too delicious to resist. He assures Connie they will have her committed and Kate will come back. She reminds him that Johnny is the only one who can commit him. He refuses to let her leave with that rat Johnny. She tells him they will see about that.
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John knocks on Tea's door and she is surprised to see him. He tells her there is something serious they need to talk about. It is about the baby. She gets upset and goes to get him – the nanny let him sleep far too long. She returns, frantic. Her son is missing! She reveals that the nanny is the woman who saved Victor the night she died. John shows her a picture if Heather. She is no nanny. She is crazy. Tea freaks out while John puts out an APB.
At Alexis' house Jason tells Sam he has been working on something important. Suddenly Trey brings in Kristina. She tells them Trey's dad tried to kill her. Jason asks who his dad is and Trey tells him it is Joe Scully Jr. Kristina tells them Trey saved her. Dante shows up and Trey tells him Joe got shot in the struggle. He hands over the gun. Dante tells all of them the wedding didn't happen. Connie is in control and married to Johnny. Trey wonders if Connie was around a few days ago. Dante wants to focus on finding Joe. Jason knows Joe and Tracy are more than friends and Dante leaves to check it out. He instructs Kristina and Trey to get down to the station. John calls Jason and tells him the baby is missing.
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Can we calculate the value of nature like we value economic output? Do you think this approach will help protect the world's natural resources, for example by altering attitudes to sustainable development?
Your questions and comments formed an important part of the debate at the Natural History Museum held on 25 January 2012, where a panel of experts discussed the issues. You can watch a video of the debate recorded on the night.
It sounds like it's possible, at least for certain services. But how widely the approach can be applied is a different issue.
I'd be interested to know how the TEEB project came up with the figure of '153 billion Euros per year' for the cost of crop pollination by bees and other insects.
One of the approaches to ecosystem services evauluation its to say how much would it cost if these services were not there and people had to do it instead? In some parts of China because of insecticide regeims this is actually happening - cherry trees being hand-pollinated to ensure fruiting - huge costs in manual labour which are quite unfeasible in western terms.
Similary maintaining a clean water supply to New York was looked at by asking the cost of the cleaning plant to purify the water mechanically. They found it would have cost more than 10x the cost of keeping the watershed of the Catskill Mountains in good shape and letting nature - the tree cover - do the job. New York put its investment in keeping the environment in good order - it made sound economic sence. The same applies for bee pollination estimates, when you look at the area of croplands which insects polinate, take a baseline cost on what you would have to pay for this to pollinate by another means, or look at the losses that would ensue if these natural bee pollination services were not avaialbe and crops failed as a result.
Jonny, I think I was of the same view - very sceptical. However I realised when no value was applied nature was abused. Take rainforest, if its only percieved value is as cut timber or cleared land for agriculture then is has no chance against market forces which favour the latter. However if there is a valuation on the forest's ability to feed, fuel, provision, shelter and medicate local communities; to provide clean air and water; to be part of the production of nutrients for soil fertility; and especially to sequester carbon and help mitigate carbon emissions - then the perspective changes. Actually when you add up these tangible benfits they exceed the profit of the alternative use options - and governments in particular begin to understand the value of the asset that is being lost. Then there are the tourism benfits of keeping forests as special places for people to go to - in many countries this is a major part of their foreign exchange earnings.
Non of this takes away from the fact that the forest has intangble benfits, they are beautiful, they are places where other species have their lives, they are places with a spiritual responance for the cultures of indigenous people etc. So these are value-added in this context. Interestingly there is also increasing evidence of how green places also directly improve people's wellbeing, emotionally and psychologically - relieving stress and helping people's health. This too is being looked at in terms of how this impacts on and offsets the costs of national health bills etc.
The key issue for me is that in our very imperfact world the big decisions are made by financiers and by politicians, making money and responding to human needs are the main drivers and 'nature' is way back in third place. What is happening with the ecoystem service accounting approach is that it is moving the spotlight. At an international level for example there is the realisation that all the aspirations for climate managment or for green and equitable sustainable develoment will come to nothing unless the underpinning natural ecostem services are restored, maintained and enhanced. Its not an either or situation, if we dont take care of nature it wont take care of us - and humans will fare very badly as a result. What we need increasingly is economic and political strategies which recognise this and respond to it for the sake of people and the planet.
Using ecosystem services as the justification for protecting the natural world is, as other commentators have said, an effective short term tool to get politicians and decision makers on board. However I believe that it's ultimately short-sighted, and reinforces the consumer culture that has got us in this mess in the first place.
If we view nature as a commodity it's value can not only go up, but down, just as every other commodity does. However unlike other commodities if the price crashes and we lose some of our assets - habitats and species - we won't be able to get them back any time soon.
What is a green economy?
I've heard the term 'green economy' bandied around a lot lately. I'm sure if you speak to different people it will mean different things. For instance, if you ask an economist they might look at the number of people employed in green jobs in the environment sector. This is not straight forward as this sector includes industries that ultimately take from nature, like some energy companies. A green economy has to benefit nature also. Is there definition out there that we should all be working towards?
The definition of the green economy is still emerging - and we hope by exploring this issue extensively in the Earth Debates we will help this move forward and increase awareness and understanding.
Most simply, a green economy can be thought of as one which is low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive. Currently, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) defines a green economy as one that 'results in the improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities'. Growth in income and employment needs to be driven by investments that protect and restore our ecosystems so that their services remain intact for people today and for future generations.
NO, nature has no price, and..... we should try and save it.
Think about it.
One person's spiritually meaningful may not be so for the next - so arguments on these grounds can be difficult. This doesn't deny there importance and attempts to measure the value of nature do achknowledge these as important considerations without trying to quantify what is very subjective. What we should remember is that more economic value mechanisms are in addition to these other values which are to do with what people hold dear and how we should feel ethically as stewards of the natural world. So efforts to identify economic value need not be at odds with less tangible ways of valuing. How a culture regards a sacred landscape is in addition to the other values which are perhaps more accessible to measuring.
Your other point on pharmacutical benefits is hugely important - our planet's rich biodiversity at a genetic level has huge potential for novel uses for people. This is not just in medicine but is a huge number of other areas too, so as we loose species we loose this potential and this is too our detriment. There are international efforts which try to recognise this - such as focusing conservation efforts in areas of high species diversity. This issue is of huge political interest too - if these genetic resources can be preserved then who benefits - the native people's who have used them traditionally? The developing countries which are being asked by the developed west to protect their forests? The developed world companies that want to exploit these resources in products on the market? This thorny area is known as the Access (to biological/genetic resources) and (who) Benefit Sharing (ABS) issue and is key to sustainable development issues as it is both about protecting natural resources and, where they are exploited, how equitable this is done.
Some really intereting points coming up - I hope these emerge in the debate discussion. Of course we would say that nature is beyond value, but unfortunately that is often not enough to protect it in the real world as it is generally true to say that what we dont value we don't look after.
We can certainly see the spritual and heath value of nature as intrinsic, important and very difficulat to price (economists have tried to price the health value by looking for example at how people enjoy green spaces and how this improves mental wellbeing and cuts down on state medical costs). We can begin to measure the wider value by looking at its many natural services too - for example a forest provides oxygen, filters dirt particles from the air and captures the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide; the forest is a source of food and medicines, timber, fuel and fibre for local communities; the forest cover storeswater and mitigates risks of flood or drought. So when we look at the forest like this we soon see its standing value is greater than its value as cut timber.
So do set some land aside as places of natural beaty or as nature reserves because of its intrinsic value - but that is a relatively small part of nature. If we realise nature does so much more towards our economic wellbeing we will be increasingly prepared to do more to ensure its protection. For example insurance companies are getting more interested because of the costs of increased flood damage where the natural cover has been lost.
An important issue is to descrimintate between the meaning of value and price. Pricing mechanisims could mean that those who exploit nature most have to contribute more to its managment and restoration. This way for example water utility companies (who own much of our uplands) have a vested interest in protecting peat bogs and heather - as these ecosystems store and clean water which goes into reservoirs; this keeps the company's water treatment costs down, and this land management cost become incorporated in water pricing to consumers. Another big example is in carbon markets - where users of fossil fuels pay a price - a carbon tax - to restore and replace forests - which then capture carbon (as well as provide widerl natural service benefits).
Non of this is perfect, but in almost every case studied the value of natural resources, when considered in this way, significantly exceeds them being replaces by single human alternatve use of the land; forests provide more value than oil palm, mangroves provide more value than shrimp farms; forests more value than cattle grazing etc. So valuing and in some cases pricing give decision makers who care for environment a strong line of evidence, and tools to so compel politicians and finaciers to consider looking after our natural resources - nature.
An interesting topic. I gave a talk on this theme at TEDx Yerevan titled, "Redefining Our Economic Systems: Could a Forest Be Worth More Than a Gold Mine?" Here is the TEDx video which I hope will contribute something to this very timely conversation: http://youtu.be/ehpa1BTULVE
Valuation of resources is a useful decision making tool but it is specific to given situations. For a fully-rounded view of the sustainability of an eco-system, lifestyle etc. you also need to consider ecological limits.
I tend to think of limits in terms of budgets - an ecosystem has a "budget" that determines how much disruption it can absorb before falling apart. For example, a rain forest has a specific regeneration rate and it would be best for the logging rate not to exceed this level.
In practice, the budget may be absorbed by a number of developments, each of which were decided upon via a specific price or value judgement. However, each should be made with a view to their contribution to use of the budget.
From a different perspective, you can give yourself a carbon or financial budget and use it to ensure that the various price or value judgements you make don't together exceed the replacement rate of your budget (e.g. monthly wage). If you spent all your annual income in January, you'll be broke the rest of the year or in serious debt very quickly!
Can we "put a price" on family values ? On motherhood ? On community spirit ? On patriotism ? I think not... these are "human institutions", their benefits are often "public goods", they are all VALUED very highly by society, but they have no PRICE because they don't trade in markets, and indeed cannot because their values are either communal or public goods. VALUATION is a human institution too, and it is practised both with AND without using economics. Was economics involved in declaring national parks in UK and the USA over a century ago? No ! Is economics involved when a community in India believes in a "sacred grove" nearby and will give life to defend it ? No! But economics IS the currency of policy today, so estimating the ECONOMIC value of many such 'natural' public goods and services DOES help our politicians make the right choices to defend them.
This debate's title (âCan we put a price on natureâ) unfortunately conjures up a neo-classical, narrow, reductionist view of nature that the several hundred co-authors of TEEB (including myself) are opposed to. TEEB is about bringing the VALUE of ecosystem services into public policy, into local administration, into business strategy, into consumer behaviour. We can do so by always recognizing, sometimes demonstrating, and sometimes (more rarely) capturing the value of nature in the form of payments. Our website www.teebweb.org has links to over a hundred examples. (Or if you're short of time, just spend 14 minutes on my TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/pavan_sukhdev_what_s_the_price_of_nature.html )
This debate is clearly not about "demeaning" or "commoditizing" nature. So if possible, how about a revised Debate title such as "Valuing Nature" or "Natural Capital : from Theory to Reality"? I know that our popular media & less educated journalists just LOVE the testy mercantilist twang of the phrase âputting a price on natureâ, and they have used it dozens of times since TEEB began. But surely, "NaturePlus" is not just any media ? It is special, it is Natural History Museum, itâs a place where my daughters (and millions of others every year) learnt and still learn about nature. So please can you be different ?
Anyhow, enjoy the debate, warm regards, Pavan Sukhdev (Study Leader, TEEB)
It is great to have this contribution from you Pavan – the Museum very much supports the efforts of TEEB which have made a huge contribution to bringing this thinking into the fore. In fact, we chose the title intending to tease out the very issues you highlight. We hope the debate will encourage exploration of how we can better see the benefits that we receive from nature's services. How do we measure their significance? And how do we better take account of them in the decisions made at all levels in society. And crucially how does this fit into wider aspirations for a greener and more equitable economy?
Thanks again.
Nature and all its natural resources are "Priceless", something money cannot buy. The non-renewable resources, if once exhausted cannout be found and brought back even if the entire world economy stood up and pooled in together. So what is really needed to "Pool-In", all the possible efforts to save Nature and Protect its' natural resources from exhausting. We need to formulate our knowledge into wisdom and we need to act now.
This Generation has to make the sensible choice to preserve this priceless treasure for the future generations...rather feel sorry about the situation we are already in...
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Ambassador Cosmo Foundation- India
Student Member Emirates Environmental Group Dubai
Student The Millennium School Dubai UAE
The question should be: can we put a value on nature? This would guide us to discuss the differences between price and value. If it is taken for granted that value means price, the discussion is by default in the spider's web of 'market valuation'. A very different perspective comes up if look first at the nature of value. The basic question turns to: is every value a monetary value? Please, mind the gap.
An interesting debate, perhaps the most important question being the last one put by a member of the audience, concerning the acceptance of there being environmental limits to our use of resources.
In simple terms, I take this to mean that all of us in the industrialised world need to reduce consumption. And we all know that there is a great deal of 'fat' to be trimmed from our current lifestyles. But this is going to be the hardest 'sell' to the policy makers of Governments and corporations, our current economies being entirely based on consumerism.
I have some optimism that it can more easily be sold to the consumer - a positive case can indeed be made for quality of life over consumption. So this might be an area where we work for change despite the policy makers and their short-term search for the environmentally impossible - 'sustainable economic growth' for parts of the world that are already way beyond their (and other's) environmental limits.
While accepting that 'business-as-usual' is no longer an option, I did think the panel seemed uncomfortable at addressing this central issue. We can design all sorts of strategies for managing resources, while alleviating inequalities and protecting the environment, many of which I would accept as being tactically necessary. But we must not forget the issue closest to home - WE NEED TO USE LESS STUFF.
There are estimates that 1/3 of all food produced for people on this planet is wasted post-harvest. Similar issus apply to other products - such as water - are equally poorly managed. So a significant part of being beyond our planetary boundaries is simply because we are so inefficient and wasteful - this has been allowed in the past - but now as we value these resources and see the consequences of being profligate we will have to change (and business are perhaps seeig that by beng ore efficient they wil have an edge). It has been suggested that all the world's poor could be lifted out of undernourishment if just 25% of this wastage was actually recovered.
So in this respect the developed world could be making dramatic leaps forward by being more efficient and cutting down on waste. In the developing nations technology transfer countries could make a dramatic impact on peoples wellbeing and at the same time they may joise avoid some of our worst mistakes. In this respect we would be making dramatic steps to wards living within our planary boundaries - without it necessarily meaning a hugh change of quality of life, Quite the contrary it could dramatically imporve our wellbeing - but we do have to work hard for this vision to be better understood.
The distinction (I think!) between thinking in terms of value compared to limits and resource use is fundamental. A resource may be "the Brazilian rainforest" or "fresh water" or "rare earths", which can either be valued or assessed in terms of limits and sustainable usage (budgets).
As I mention in my post above, I think they are different ways of tackling the problem. You need different information in each case and the meaning for the person/organisation making decisions is quite different.
We must not put a price on nature, it is to preacious and think of it being throughn away. Just think, do you want nature turning brown!
A great, short talk on the topic that's well worth a watch: "The Economy, It's Nature's Business" by Eva Zabey, WBCSD, is online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQOej5_Euo. Eva argues that we should use the economy to guard the environment as part of the way we work it. She talks about how the services provided by natural ecosystems are not accounted for in today's economy because they're not appropriately valued and yet we all depend on them. And she urges that it's time to get better doing the maths necessary to value ecosystem services and make informed decisions, concluding "Environment versus the economy is so passé. It's environment in the economy!"


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I was there at the beginning of DAoC, and beta tested WAR and subsequently played for a month or two.
WAR was two games overlaid, that is why it seemed too instanced. Imo, war was first a collection of BGs. You flew to the Dwarf world to get in some BGs, you flew to the Elf world to get in others.
This pattern was thus stamped on to the pve/rvr lakes world too. This created a non-communicative, non-linear, non-progressive feeling to the entire game. My belief is Mythic alone was responsible for this, and I think it was a misguided result of WoW chasing.
Public questing has proven to be a revolutionary MMORPG feature, but I think RvR Lakes could prove to be even more important . WAR had most of the pieces to make a truly great game, but the pieces were arranged very, very poorly due to the developer's hard on with BGs.
The real innovation of WAR was an overall model for games, (one which ESO failed to see)
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Joined: 7/15/10
Originally posted by krage
This ^
Advanced Member
Joined: 6/14/11
I remember when people hyped this game...LOL
The comments about this game has been said so many times (The Good,the bad, and the ugly).I am surprise it did not close it doors years ago..
I retired retroactively..Haha
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Joined: 3/04/09
For me, the gates will open.
I was looking at old patch notes yesterday. I got pissed.
If you look at the patch notes for the early patches before choppa and slayer came out, it shows them tuning warrior preist and bright wizards with the exact same %'s as sorcerer/Disciple of Khaine. I remember when the game was first coming out, there was the issue of way more Destruction players than order players. Soon afterwards, they introduced offering more xp and such to the side with less population. That didn't work.
Call me crazy I remember patch notes that said things like:
"Bright wizards blah ability does more damage"
"Sorcerer's blah ability does less damage"
"Warrior priest not heal themselves when hit"
"DoK still suck most of the time"
Not exactly, but I remember a serious tuning across the board making order more powerful. Then of course everyone started playing order. Except people like me, cause I think Orc's are freaking awesome. Cause they are.
But what pissed me off is either at the time I was stupid and could not read, or they went back and made it look like all the classes were treated the same from the very beginning, but there were suppose to be different classes, not mirrors (even though they were similar, which was cool), so that wouldn't really work.
Does anyone else remember this?
Hard Core Member
Joined: 6/08/12
If it were Mythic, then I might be a little sad, but since it's EA, screw em and good riddance.
Mythic didn't mess up this game, EA did.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/18/10
potential + ea = disaster
might as well be a Blue Jays fan.
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
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Joined: 10/13/05
It lacked focus and tried to have too many areas (instanced pvp, open world pvp, public quests) where you needed lots of people to get things going.
From early in development to about midway, all you heard about was instanced pvp scenarios and public quests. Then they released it for some open testing (to a lot of DAOC diehards I think) and got complaints about no open world pvp. So they added that.
Then when it was released everyone just did scenarios so they balanced against that and for open world. Etc. etc.
I think that they just needed to put their foot down about what type of game it was. With the 3 different focus areas, they were screwed because none worked properly without enough people. If you were into scenarios, they took too long to pop if not enough people. If you were into public quests, you could never get past the first stage without enough people. And open world pvp in a ghost town is no fun.
I think they just split their player base up too much relative to the size of their servers. Maybe if they had a Champions-Online-type 1 server setup they could have survived, but too much of the game became an unplayable ghosttown and their rebalancing wasn't helping clear the confusion about what the actual focus of the game was.
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Joined: 5/22/07
Originally posted by Eolex
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Joined: 9/16/11
They are just fail. And unethical to boot. Also VERY unprofessional.
Can you believe that they actually deved the f2p model only for carrie to say "nah! I don't like it! Scrape it. But this here{sth marginally important}...". She also shat all over the expansion. Right before the planned testing of counts+Lizardmen, she said that she was bored of WAR and that they needed sth different. Thus WOH came to be. She spent expansion budget money+scraped the actual expansion only for that piece of nothing. Can you believe that? Not even speaking about the fact that XBLAs were more important to her than WAR. Hell, even some unimportant meetings were more important to her than WAR. It all culminated with the famous "WAR contains a LOT of boring CRAP". I still don't have any comment on that...idk to call it. Statement? Nonsense? Suicide? Now riddle me this after you learned(or remembered) all of that:
What kind of management is that?
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Joined: 10/19/09
Wow you never even mentioned The BIGGEST mistake Mythic made, which was denying their was any imbalance in PvP even in the face of overwhelming community gathered evidence that something was wrong. First you had a bright wizard DoT that could stack an unlimited number of times and to further compound this problem magic resistance gear did not actually work. Both problems were denied by Mythic and some of the most passionate community members who dared to repeatedly post evidence were banned from the forums.....
You cannot make a PvP centric game and have such glaringly obvious imbalances/exploits in the game and deny their existance.
I Recall when I finally left for good. I think it was about 6 months after launch, the above problems were still not fixed and still being denied by the devs. I was participating on the defending side of a T4 siege. The attacking team was literally made up of over 90% bright wizards who tore through our defenses with a rediculous speed & I remember just dying in seconds over and over to stacked dots which you couldnt remove or defend against with gear, trying to outheal them with potions that just couldnt beat the bugged DoT stacks. The Siege Ended and I thought screw this I will go PvE, an hour later I was dozing off at the Bland PvE and logged out.
I went to the Forums to vent & found yet another large ongoing thread on the subject had been deleted and the OP banned so I didnt even bother posting. The following weekend I logged in one last time to say goodbye to the few Guildies still playing, logged out & uninstalled the game. Other players all accross the world were doing the exact same thing in droves.
WAR has actually survived longer than it deserved to IMHO it did however teach me one valuable lesson. The lesson was that players subscription money is not used where it should be on 90% of MMO's and it is pointless to buy and subscribe to a game that launches incomplete in hopes they use your financial support to fix it because they never do.
I saw the marketing of this game at launch and I was not impressed.
Selling anything Games Workshop to me was always going to be tough, due to the way they consumed the UK role-playing hobby in the 90s in order to replace it with their premium lifestyle wargames product lines.
If they were seeking to draw cash from the UK market they essentially would need to focus on pricing set at the level of pocket-money received by UK teenagers and tie the playing of the game into shop activities in order to get people to be bothered about the game.
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Joined: 7/04/08
What made me stop playing WAR..
1. Incredibly linear world. It was like a single winding path and that was it.
2. PvE and Public Quests were mostly garbage. Some will say DAoC was an RvR game and others will say it was a good game. I am the latter. DAoC had underrated PvE with some great dungeons and for a change of pace I dabbled in RvR ( I would say the majority did this imo ). WAR had nothing for PvE.
3. Terrible engine. Oh man.
4. Class imbalance. It was a joke from day one.
IMO if WAR had a better designed world and better PvE it would still be kicking.
Novice Member
Joined: 8/24/12
Peeps can say what they like but I loved WAR. After the initial failure of a launch i found that many people weren't happy with the game, which to be fair at the time was way better as to compared to the competition. RvR was bloody great!
The fact remains that if the devs weren't pulled of this game right after launch alot of the issues could have been sorted out. Instead a skeleton crew of devs (or a dev singular) was left to gather the pieces of what was a mega epic fail of a launch with the rest (commenters will correct me- being transferred to SWTOR was it???).
Warhammer lore is some of the best IP out there for MMORPGs and to see the last game from this IP being closed down is mos def something to whine about. WAR could live on as f2p simply on the power of the IP. The last ditch attempt to turn WAR into a mini moba instead of dealing with some of the issues in the game is just an example of how this IP was mismanaged gtom the get go.
I cant wait for a game that pays justice to the IP. This IP is literally harder to mess up than Star Wars and still I think WAR was better in many aspects than SWTOR!
Whytf do I have to wait for 2014/15 for a decent WARHAMMER IP game.... ??????
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Joined: 8/30/09
Oh yeah, Warhammer...Talk about all the stuff they promised and hyped that never was in the game, not to mention the management of it..
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Joined: 8/29/08
No F2P killed this game. I loved everything about it at the start when i played it. It had a great balance between cartoonish and spooky dark content. It had fun moments and serious moments. Battles were epic even fi they became "meh" at some point..u still had an urge to go in and stomp ppl. The enviroments were also extremely well done and the transition between enviroments even better.
I would have definitely went back to play it, no doubt about it, if it was F2P. What did they do instead? they did some side...random..pvp whatever game. Not cool. Waste of money and a major experiment fail...but i guess that's part of experimenting.
...and here i was hoping they would make it F2P to go back and have fun. The game was VERY good but management has killed it. I won't buy 40k since it goes live because i want to see player reactions. Lost faith in the name "warhammer" whoever it might work on it because of the hands down stupid manangement the first mmo had.
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Originally posted by SnarlingWolf
While I don't agree with your hostility - why come to a place where people post their opinions about games and get snooty when they do so? You make no sense and then proceed to make a hypocrite out of yourself by offering your opinion. Well done. However, you did say something that I have thought for a long time.
It could have been made properly.
That was a trend it seems for quite a few games, EQ2, WAR, AoC, SW:TOR, etc to get out the door on a time line as opposed to when the game was actually ready to ship. Hopefully we have seen the end of that trend. I feel most of these games would have done a lot better had the producers finished them prior to shipping them.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
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Joined: 8/25/02
WAR wasn't all that good anyways. Now if they had closed DAOC, I would be sad, one of the best MMORPG's ever made.
Back in June they announced 6 month sub plans were disabled, 3 months later the games closer in December...Yeah, thanks for the 6 months notice..... :o
I take it it wasn't worth them repurchasing the Warhammer license kinda similar to SWG when Sony shut it down as the license was expiring anyways.
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Joined: 8/18/06
I feel like it is a lot simpler than what people make it out to be. This game just played really poorly. It felt stiff and clunky. Games like this and SWTOR just have an awful feel to them when you play. Not saying had they smoothed things out it would have been better, but if the most basic of foundations are off, you aren't going to retain people long enough to fix anything.
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Joined: 7/18/10
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One thing that always bothered me was the title: "Warhammer: Age of Reckoning" a useful acronym: WAR, but it always made me think:
"That is not Warhammer - that is shoe-horning some bs in..."
Indeed the design was wow 2.0 not warhammer. Also tech issues(memory leaks etc) with the RvR huge battles not working properly. Indeed I remember some story about Mythic seeking to sue Gambryo the engine they were using. Then as above those patch notes rebalance class x.
From the players pov, what you experienced in the first week was probably nearly the same for the rest of the time you played or at least the first month with just repetition ie choose class/area and do the same pvp mini-games or the pve public quest nodes. I think PvE was quite solitary too.
That all said liked the lore and graphics representation of warhammer those were very fun to see realized eg the locations. But also the hopping around the map from lake to lake was really bad too.
I think the migratory guilds also put paid to it: "back to conan, back to wow, back to aion etc!"
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Loved this game when it first came out and loved the first tier of PVP. Then I hit the second tier of PVP and the huge class imbalance issues killed it for me. Never got to the third tier, made a bunch of alts and PVPed at the first tier until I got bored and moved on. So much potential...


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--- DARREN HAYDAR: Leads the AHL with 14 points and shares first in the league with six goals during the postseason, which includes netting a playoff-high two goals and three points on Sunday in Game 3 against Iowa ... Matched a postseason franchise record four assists and four points in Game 2 on Friday ... Collected 87 points (39G, 48A) in 63 career Calder Cup Playoff matchups
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--- Forwards DARREN HAYDAR (4A) and JASON KROG (G, 3A) each posted four points while MARK POPOVIC netted two goals and a helper
--- Netminder MICHAEL GARNETT recorded 26 saves
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(at) Chicago 7, Iowa 0
--- Ahead 2-0 after just 63 seconds of play, Chicago never looked back as netminder MICHAEL GARNETT turned aside all 28 shots he faced to help the squad to a 7-0 victory over the Iowa Stars in Game 1 of the West Division Final
--- Left wing COLIN STUART's four-point effort (G, 3A) and rookie JORDAN LaVALLEE's two goals led a pack of five Wolves that posted multiple points


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County youth who intend, or are interested in showing livestock at the 2013 Pushmataha County Junior Livestock Show must have those animals at the Pushmataha County Fairgrounds in Antlers on Thursday, Dec. 13, between 2:00 and 6:00 PM.
County Livestock Show Committee members will be present to verify that the exhibitors have possession of the animals, and that ear tags, tattoos, and ear notches are correct. In addition, all swine must have a negative Pseudorabies test at the time of nomination. For more information, contact any livestock committee member, FFA advisor, or the Pushmataha County Cooperative Extension Service located at 306 SW B Street, or call (580)298-5563.
Oklahoma State University, U. S. Department of Agriculture, State and Local governments cooperating. Oklahoma State University in compliance with Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 11246 as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and other federal and state laws and regulations, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices, or procedures.
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Cary Ammons was a standout baseball player for Southeastern from 1996-to-1998, earning back-to-back All-American awards as well as being named the NAIA Player of the Year in 1997.
Over a three-year career he stamped his name throughout the pitching section of the Southeastern record book. At the time of his induction he owned outright the school record for career wins with 39, the record for career strikeouts with 333 and most career complete games with 29. He also shared the record for most shutouts in a career with 10.
As a sophomore, he reached heights that few can brag about at any point in their careers. He rewrote the single-season pitching records on his way to earning NAIA National Player of the Year honors and the first of two NAIA First Team All-American awards. He would also go on to win the first of back-to-back Southeastern Male Athlete of the Year honors.
That season he posted a 16-1 record with 134 strikeouts on the hill while adding a .347 average with six home runs at the plate. That season he set or matched five single-season pitching records, including wins, strikeouts, innings pitched, games started and complete games.
He hit the ground running for Southeastern, posting a 9-1 record as a freshman while piling up 72 strikeouts and a 2.61 ERA. At the plate he posted a .347 average which was third-best on that team.
After tasting defeat once in each of his first two seasons, Ammons would reach perfection as a junior with a 14-0 record and 134 strikeouts. He also added another stellar year at the plate with a .340 average that included nine doubles, three triples and three home runs. That year would also propel him to his second-straight NAIA First Team All-American honor as well as his second Southeastern Male Athlete of the Year Honor.
He left Southeastern before his senior season after being drafted by the Kansas City Royals. He would eventually graduate and go into education and at the time of his induction is the superintendent for the Antlers Public School System.
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I just suppose if I asked myself why? I wonder how many IOS and Android users would be receptive to the use of BB applications or firmware on their devices.
It is difficult for a die hard IOS user to change to something especially where a great many of us are ex-BB users to begin with.
BlackBerry Secure Work Space coming to iOS and Android
Blackberry recently previewed a service called Secure Work Space which aims to bring a BlackBerry Balance like feature to iOS and Android. Basically, you'll have secure applications for productivity apps such as email, calendar, and tasks. Employees that are part of a BYOD initiative would be able to have separate personal and business apps on one device if using Secure Work Space.
According to CrackBerry, the service will be managed through BlackBerry Enterprise Services 10.
BlackBerry has long been praised for their security features and bringing it to 3rd party devices makes it easy for IT companies who are already familiar with BES to implement it on almost any device an employee may have even if it isn't an actual BlackBerry device.
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I just suppose if I asked myself why? I wonder how many IOS and Android users would be receptive to the use of BB applications or firmware on their devices.
Probably more to encourage IT and businesses to adopt rather than general consumers. Knowing that your employees will have pretty robust support from blackberry no matter what platform they use will make blackberry much more attractive. As well, I wouldn't be surprised if as people use it, and if it is implemented well, it ends up driving some fraction of users to blackberry itself.
I will check it out, sounds pretty cool
I love the concept of this. Is it, or will it be possible for small businesses, or solo freelancers, to accomplish this? I'd love to be able to "turn off" work in the evening and weekends and then "turn it on again " during business hours. I'd pay a fair price for this luxury.
A separate phone number for each would be great too. Just my 2 cents...
This is an interesting play by Blackberry. Where Apple has thus far been highly protective of its 1st party services (imessage, facetime, icloud, etc.,) and Android manufacturers do the same, locking their differentiating services into only their devices, blackberry seems to be opening up to cross platforming their stuff. Wonder if they will go so far as bb messenger.
I think its a smart move. They are later to the game and have to pursue a strategy that is unique. They can't play the same way apple and android manufacturers play. Will be very interesting to see how this works out for them.
That's interesting. They are trying to grab some of the iOS and Android users who are on the fence of which new phone to buy; however, I do not believe Blackberry will be completely open. They will give a little bit to iOS and Android as a teaser to bring people back to Blackberry. Personally, although I doubt it will happen, I would love to see BBM on iOS and Android.
Their current strategy is coming together really well. I'm looking forward to their growth to stimulate competition.
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Weird, doesn't let me post what I want to post. Oh well. Guess my comment is deemed "unacceptable". Hahaha
Looks interesting. I wonder how much control it will give the business owner over other content you can have on your device?
since so many people bring their own devices this is great news. let's hope bbm will be multiplatform
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MLB Series 30 comes out swinging with familiar faces in new places…And we have the images to back it up! This off season was a wild ride as the top two free agents available switched teams, tilting the balance of power in the NL and AL.
Albert Pujols, the 3-time MVP, and 2-time World Series ® Champion, took his talents to the golden state and can be seen with a new pose in his Angels uniform.
The other monster free agent, Prince Fielder, followed in his father's footsteps to Detroit Rock City. One of the most prolific home run hitters in the game today is featured in his brand new Tigers jersey swinging for the fences.
MLB 30 also brings back two boppers from the north east with all new poses. Jacoby Ellsbury is featured for the second time after he posted a fantastic 2011 season for the Red Sox which saw him bat .321, with 32 home runs, 105 RBI's, and 39 stolen bases.
Curtis Granderson, the Yankees All-Star Center Fielder, turned in the best season of his career in 2011, slamming 41 home runs and knocking in 119 RBI's.
No line would be complete without some flamethrowers, and MLB 30 features two of the best: Justin Verlander , the 2011 AL Cy Young and MVP award winner is featured in an all new pose.
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Gucci Mane Arrested For Pushing Woman Out Of A Moving Vehicle [Details]
I've heard some crazy Gucci Mane stories over the last few years…from him punching a lady dead in her face at a show, to him recently tattooing an ice cream cone on his face…but this latest arrest might just take the cake.
Gucci Mane was arrested yesterday morning in Atlanta from an altercation that occurred on January 28th. According to the incident report, Gucci picked up a woman at South Dekalb Mall in his white hummer after asking her if she wanted to go to breakfast. The 36-year-old alleged victim, says that though she had never met Gucci before, she was familiar with him as an artist, so she agreed to go with him. After they began driving for a bit, she realized that he wasn't taking her to breakfast so she asked him "where are we going". Gucci allegedly told her that he wanted to go to a hotel and that he had $150. The woman refused and told him, "take me back to the mall, I can make my own money".
Reportedly, while the vehicle was still in motion, Gucci leaned over and opened the passenger door, then attempted to push her out of the Hummer. When he got off the highway and onto the shoulder, he was able to push her out of the vehicle while it was still moving. The woman was later taken to an Atlanta Medical Center where she was treated for soreness and pain.
On Friday, while checking in with his probation officer, it came to the P.O's attention that Gucci had an outstanding warrant for his arrest, and he was taken into custody without incident. He is currently still on probation after serving six-months in prison from an aggravated assault conviction in 2005 after a man was murdered during a shoot-out. With the new charge, he is looking at a probation violation and could be doing hard[er] time.
This isn't the first time Gucci has been disrespectful to a woman but I have to ask…
What sane lady would get in the car with a man she didn't know, that just happened to be a celebrity, but has a laundry list of past arrests, did some time in a psych ward, all for some bacon, eggs and a hash brown. We have to do better..


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With Friday's school tragedy in Newtown, Conn., still fresh in everyone's minds, a beefed-up law enforcement presence in all Carroll County's schools was a welcome sight to most parents Monday.
Various officers from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, Hillsville Police Department and Virginia State Police made sure all of the county's schools had extra protection Monday. Sheriff J.B. Gardner said his department would continue to keep additional officers in the county's schools as much as possible, in addition to the three school resource officers already in place at Carroll County High, Carroll County Intermediate, and a roving officer for the elementary schools.
"For the immediate future, you will see more uniformed deputies in all of the Carroll County Public Schools. There have been no threats received to any school or any student that we have heard, or been made aware of, this is simply being done as a precaution. Our kids deserve a safe place to learn. Our teachers deserve a safe place to teach," Gardner wrote on the deparatment's facebook page. "If your child comes home tomorrow and tells you the police were at their school today, it's probably true. With God's help, it won't be for the wrong reason. You'll probably see deputies, Virginia State Troopers, Hillsville and Galax police and even conservation officers."
Gardner said he prays that no such tragedy as the one that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary will ever find its way into one of our local schools.
"Please, please if you ever hear of anyone planning such a thing, take the time to tell someone," Gardner wrote. "The life you save may be your own child's."
Gardner himself spent much of the day at St. Paul School in Cana on Monday. Many other officers, such as Deputy Shannon Goad, were at schools on their day off. Gardner said officers wouldn't be in schools every moment of every day, but as much as possible for the foreseeable future.
"We have them covered the best we can. Most of the officers volunteered. They asked me what they could do on their own time to help. It's been a tremendous response," Gardner said. "It's the right thing to do, and when I put it out to my folks they jumped in line. We are going to try to spend as much time in schools as we can. We hope it's not just a one- or two-day thing. I've asked them to eat lunch with the students, talk to the classes and walk through the halls. We are all invested in these schools as we all have children or grandchildren in the schools. Everybody has the same goal in mind – they want our schools to be safe."
Gardner said he was asked Monday if officers in the schools would be a permanent thing. Aside from school resource officers, the answer is no. To do that, there would have to be funding for 10 more positions, Gardner said.
"My guys have been trying to prepare for this, but you can never be completely prepared. Whatever we can do to make it safer, we are willing to do. l would love to be able to put them in every school. I can easily justify spending the money to put them in the schools, but the funds are just not there," Gardner said. "And it's still not the complete and total answer. If you look at Connecticut, that is a school you have to buzz to get into, but he just shot through the window. And unless you had somebody standing there with the same type of gun to defend the school, there's still not much that could have been done. We don't want it to be that way, but that's the reality. I think it's a great time to sit down as a community and a nation to have serious conversations about it to come up with an answer instead of throwing money at a problem because that doesn't solve it."
Hillsville Police Chief Greg Bolen said officers from his department visited each school in town Monday morning. The beefed-up presence of law enforcement was received extremely positively, he said.
"Kind of like J.B. said, it was a piece-of-mind deal," Bolen said. "I spoke with a teacher at the high school with a child at the elementary school and they said they sure appreciated it. It made them feel a whole lot better when they dropped their child off at school."
Bolen said HPD officers rode around periodically all day at each school to make sure everything was fine and that nothing unusual was taking place. He said the HPD will probably start to make it a standard practice to have extra presence in the local schools.
"We have actually been working the school zone in the evening, the crosswalk in front of the intermediate school. I talked with J.B. and Mike Combs, the school resource officer, and my experience being at that school in the evenings are kids are walking, texting, not paying attention to traffic," Bolen said. "So I asked J.B. if he didn't mind, we would love to help at the crosswalk, and he said that was just fine with him. Since December 3 we have been working the crosswalk and we will continue to. We've got to help each other out on these things. It's a whole community thing, not just the town or just the county."
Bolen has been teaching a criminal justice class at the high school this semester. Ironically, he said he just finished a segment on Dec. 10 about the school shootings at Columbine and Virginia Tech.
"We go over mindsets and indicators to look for – changes in mood and clothing. We try to put the kids in a scenario where they have to come up with an escape plan if they are trapped in a room," Bolen said. "My point in doing it is not to scare them, but hopefully to prepare them so if something like that does happen they have an idea of how they are going to escape if they see a gunman. It just gives them a better understanding, and we had nothing but positive feedback."
Virginia State Police 1st Sgt. Mike Musser said members of his department wanted to work with HPD and the Carroll Sheriff's Office as a way to increase police presence in the schools. Just like the sheriff's department has the school resource officer program in place, Musser said state police has an SOS (Safeguarding Our Schools) program where each trooper is assigned to respective schools in their area without resource officers. Those officers will periodically check on those schools.
"They are not able to stay an entire shift, but we like for them to stop in and touch base with staff and to be seen," Musser said. "I've asked them today to go by as many schools as they possibly can during their shift and still maintain their responsibilities. I wish all the agencies had the resources and finances to where they could put an officer full-time in every single school."


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It never ceases to amaze me the ignorance of some people, especially these so-called hunters who oppose certain weapons and magazines. AK-47s andAR-15s ARE in fact used by some hunters. Do you know that some hunters use black powder rifles? Do you know that some hunters use a bow and arrow?
I'll bet you don't know that some hunters even hunt wild boar with a spear-that's right. Google it and see for yourself. As for large-capacity magazines, the choice of size is up to the hunter. If he wants to lug around the extra weight, that's fine with me. As for non-hunting uses of large-capacity magazines, I call your attention to the August robbery of a North Augusta gun store. Three armed robbers crashed their vehicle into the front of the store and started to steal weapons. The store owner, who lived in the back, confronted them with his semi-automatic rifle. He emptied his 30-round magazine, and had to retreat to his bedroom to get another and reload. He killed one robber, and the other two fled. He needed a large-capacity magazine to protect his store, his wife and himself.
I challenge you gun-haters out there tell him face-to-face he doesn't need a large-capacity magazine. Finally, I want to address you so-called NRA members who support an assault weapon ban.
I'm tempted to flat-out call you people liars, but I'll offer this suggestion instead: just quit. That's right, if you really are a member and don't like the NRA's position on weapons or large-capacity magazine bans, just quit. It's a free country – or, at least it used to be, no thanks to liberals.
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