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CRESTVIEW — With local officials projecting northwest Crestview will be the city's next area of growth, the City Council took steps toward preparing for the quadrant's expansion by approving a new water system.
Meeting Monday evening in its first business meeting of the year, the council received a report from Michael Bomar, vice president of Tetra Tech municipal water system consultants. The city had directed the company to develop a master plan for Crestview's water system. Improving service to the growing northwest quadrant enclosed by Old Bethel Road was one of Tetra Tech's recommendations.
Bomar presented bids for the system's two components, which he said came close to or below Tetra Tech engineers' estimated cost.
Speegle Construction submitted the low bid, $2 million, for Part I, encompassing drilling the city's new Well No. 9 and building a water tank for it.
However, Tetra Tech was able to strip from the bid "value engineering items … that we do not feel will decrease the level of service for this project," Bomar stated in a letter to the city.
Removing items including a generator and its soundproofing enclosure, and providing a shingle roof instead of a metal roof on the well house, reduced the bid by $91,840.
Evans Contractors Inc., submitted the winning bid of $428,830 for Part II, the construction of a network of water mains. The council unanimously accepted both bids.
Council President Ben Iannucci III asked Bomar if the cost would've been less if only one contractor did the work.
"The reason we broke it out is to save the city money," Bomar said, explaining contractors generally have a specialty, such as drilling, and would in turn substitute the project's other components, charging the city for the project management and the actual work.
The work would likely start within 30 days of signing the contracts with Speegle and Evans, Bomar said.
In other matters, the city:
• Unanimously approved a social media policy for city employees that will govern use of such Internet sites as Twitter and Facebook.
• Unanimously approved a request by Catherine Dortch of the Concerned Citizens Group for city support of its annual parade honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King. City attorney Jerry Miller recommended the group be added as an additional insured entity on the city's liability insurance.
• Unanimously approved Mayor David Cadle's recommendation to appoint Warrant Officer Joann Durm to the Crestview Public Housing Authority board, replacing long-time member Sgt. George Stakely, who recently resigned.
• Unanimously approved a revised returned-check policy requested by City Clerk Betsy Roy. The new policy will protect utilities customers who passed a bad check from having their service turned off on a weekend or holiday when they can't make a proper payment because city offices would be closed.
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Dustin has really taken this fight over. I'm predicting a finish in the next round.
Don't get this, kinda feels like Koch needs to get the finish for the win....
So help me fucking god if Koch gets a gift decision.
Poirier probably won, but i'm a little disappointed in how he just settled in the last round.
Finally, some good cards.
What's with the 29-27 scores? Did they redo score system or something?
I like Poirier a lot, but his standup sometimes scares me since he fights so open. Really fun fight, Koch really needed to do something more drastic to take the third, and he couldn't find the handle.
Was such a Vera nuthugger .............
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What are you most looking forward to in OS X 10.9 Mavericks? [Poll]
iOS 7 wasn't the only star of the show at WWDC 2013, OS X 10.9 Mavericks was officially announced and released to developers the very same day. During the keynote we saw the numerous new features that would be coming to the new version of OS X, including some until now iOS exclusive apps in Apple Maps and iBooks, and a consumer friendly approach to password management with the new iCloud Keychain. But, we want to hear from you guys; what are you most looking forward to in OS X 10.9 Mavericks?
There's a lot to choose from too; improvements to Notification Center, Apple Maps and iBooks coming to the desktop, Finder tabs and tags, iCloud Keychain and the new version of Safari, multiple display support and so much more besides. So, we've narrowed down a few, with an option for something else entirely. We got some great feedback from you on iOS 7, so now it's time to take a look at OS X 10.9! Drop a vote up top and leave us your thoughts in the comments below!
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Agreed ... Maps is nice but the power saving and battery is more important ... Especially w/ my 15inch Retina
Everything. But i'm gonna use the HELL out of Tags.
I'm still on Lion b/c I don't want to give up the RSS feed in Mail, so that is what I would like to see return in Maverick, but I'm pretty sure this is wishful thinking. My Pro is from 2008 so I'm starting to wonder how much more I can update it. I've only got 62GB left on a 250GB drive & I'm starting to get the lovely rainbow pinwheel on a regular basis. Might actually be time to update -- hmm. . . Pro or Air??!? Oh, well. . .
Do we know if Keychain in iCloud will be end-to-end encrypted - as in no backdoor for Apple?
From what I've seen the multiple screen setup is still not that great. You can now choose to have either all the screens move at once with terrible full screen functionality (as it is now) or the new one which requires you to move each screen one at a time but is functional with full screen but then also lacks the ability to span a window over multiple screens. So if you have your setup so that each 'space' has windows over the multiple screens you'll have to switch spaces for each screen to get to your setup.
I hope they work on that a bit more.
What I want- SMB2 support, which Mavericks has. Since Snow Leopard I have not been able to scan from a copier on a network using SMB to my Mac since in Snow Leopard Apple implemented their own creation of SMB. It would not work with lots of copiers. Now they are backtracking and putting in Microsoft's SMB2, which does work.
Readers would be amazed at how many people at thousands of companies all of a sudden had copiers they could not scan from to their Macs, with the only workaround being FTP. Now it sounds like we can use SMB again once Mavericks comes out.
Speed and battery efficiency :)


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My name is Ranieri Paiva , i saw this forum here, if you guys want to know anything about me i can tell everything about my jiu-jitsu history, just send the e-mail address to firstname.lastname@example.com, or if you wanna call me send a e-mail i can reply with my phone#, and the last tournament i did was US national no gi in Vegas end Intenational in vegas as well, where got first place in all of them, i can send my Resume also.
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NY Combat Sambo Style: combat sambo--
Thanks for posting Mr. Paiva. I am not around here much these days, but if you did have any information regarding the Tucci - Sambo connection, that would be great as well.
NY Combat Sambo Style: combat sambo--
NY Combat Sambo Style: combat sambo--
It makes as much a difference as it would with any art. I have been exposed to many arts, but don't claim to teach them, or be champions of them (as Tucci claims). I have cross trained with tons of BJJ folks...can you imagine the shitstorm if I claimed to be a BJJ teacher? I have cross-trained kyokushin on and off for the past 5 years, but don't claim to teach kyokushin.
Tucci may have been exposed to some elements of sambo from other sources, but that is not the same as training sambo. It is actually very simple in this regard.
NY Combat Sambo Style: combat sambo--
For years, sambo in this country was used by many to bolster their resume's because it was un-checkable and exotic (pre soviet fall). People threw it in their bios because they knew nobody could check up on them...even if they had minimal or no experience with sambo. It was often used by folks who were jack of all trades: "well, I have done a bit of all this stuff, so I will just say I am a sambo guy."
Unfortunately, this attitiude has persisted today to some degree.
Historically in this country (1970's & 80's mostly), it was also trained as a wrestling-sport by many wrestlers who simply learned the sport rules (as opposed to the system itself).
Those days are gone and sambo is more and more checkable than ever. Sambo is now known as a complete system like BJJ, Judo, etc. To know it you have to train it.
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Since 1935 the American Legion has sponsored a program designed to instruct male high school students on the workings of the local, state and federal government.
This program is known as Boys State.
For approximately 30 years, American Legion Post 166 in Goose Creek has been an annual participant by sponsoring six to 13 young men from the area high schools.
This year the American Legion Department of South Carolina is denying Post 166 the privilege of participating in this most worthy of programs.
This despicable act is a result of Post 166 refusing to surrender to what it perceives to be the illegal financial demands of assessments and enhancements brought by the American Legion Department of South Carolina, and has resulted in the denial of local young men the opportunity to attend Boys State.
As a result of this the American Legion Department of South Carolina has disgraced the once proud name and reputation of the countrys largest veterans organization.
It is for this reason that I must apologize to the staff and students of Goose Creek High School, Stratford High School, Hanahan High School and Northwood Christian Academy for their being denied this opportunity.
I further feel it is ironic that an organization that exists to promote true Americanism is being tarnished by its own leadership.
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iPad 3 prices, storage capacities rumored to be identical to iPad 2
No huge surprises here, but it sounds like iPad 3 prices and storage capacities will be identical to iPad 2, which were identical to the original iPad. 9to5Macs Mark Gurman has the details:
We've gotten word that iPad pricing is going to be the same across the board as the current iPad 2 models which should be no big surprise given Apple's history – they rarely raise prices. Even better, some countries with currencies doing better than the US dollar should expect to see marginal drops in prices.
This directly contradicts some of the zanier rumors heard earlier in the week, which included seemingly random price hikes and the bizarre exclusion of the 64GB model.
Unfortunately, if accurate, it also means there won't be a 128GB model, which some users have been hoping for. It's possible 24nm 128GB NAND Flash chips are still prohibitively expensive, even in the quantities Apple typically buys.
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Every time this image is posted I am reminded of this scene:
Fezzik: You never said anything about killing anyone.
Vizzini: I've hired you to help me start a war. It's an prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.
Fezzik: I just don't think it's right, killing an innocent girl.
Vizzini: Am I going MAD, or did the word "think" escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass.
Inigo Montoya: I agree with Fezzik.
Vizzini: Oh, the sot has spoken. What happens to her is not truly your concern. I will kill her. And remember this, never forget this: when I found you, you were so slobbering drunk, you couldn't buy Brandy!
[turning to Fezzik]
Vizzini: And YOU: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed, in Greenland?
Puts a smile on my face every time.
Props to you going the effort to type all of that out.
Am I alone in worrying about those who can literally remember every line from movies and can nerdy blurt them out at will whenever they are even remotely reminded on a certain movie. I had a girlfriend years ago, and in either Grease or Princess Bride was mentioned, she'd go off on a tangent, repeating lines for minutes on end, and in some cases, for the rest of a day. Needless to say, I broke up with her rather quickly after she couldn't refrain from speaking every line of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. To this day, nothing annoys me more than when people speak the lines to movies as the movie is playing. A one liner or two, not so bad, but EVERY FRACKING WORD???
Dude, princess bride is a classic! Lol. On a side note I just have no need for 128 gigs in the pad, the 64 is fine holds all music and movies I really need with me... Sure I have about 75-80ish gb of mp3s but who needs that with them all the time, hell who accually listens to that many different songs at once... If the pricing stays in line that's the main thing..
Re: "Unfortunately, if accurate, it also means there won't be a 128GB model, which some users have been hoping for. "
If there ever is a 128GB iPad and/or iPhone and/or iPod touch, that will be the max amount of storage in an iOS device. Possible for all time. Apple wants you to use iCloud. Apple doesn't want you to store all your stuff on each of your devices all the time.
Limiting the amount of onboard storage will help encourage non-iCloud users to use iCloud. That's what Apple wants. iCloud is to Apple in the next decade what iTunes was in the past decade. It's that important.
I was hoping for more storage. I didn't really think it would happen this time around. I want to see them double their current models making 32 gigs the smallest option but keep the entry price point of $500.
I won't pretend to know how much data icloud uses but for people on tiered data plans relying on icloud could be a problem. We're in the process of buying a house where there currently isn't the availability of true broadband. Only tiered satellite or cellular data options. I've loved using icloud but if i'm forced to watch my data consumption, i'm going to be a little nervous every time my ipad has to run to the cloud to get whatever i'm looking for.
I got OG iPad never thought it was worth upgrading to the ipad2. But I'm seriously considering the upgrade to iPad3.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. --- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head coach Wes Moore cleared his bench early and often Saturday at Fleming Gymnasium and all 10 players found the basket as the Lady Mocs put together a 76-46 Southern Conference win over the Spartans. Chattanooga improves to 10-2 overall and 3-0 in SoCon action while the Spartans fall to 3-9 on the year and 0-3 in league play.
Senior Kayla Christopher (Oliver Springs, Tenn.) led all scorers with 19 points making 8-of-12 from the floor and 3-of-7 from beyond the arc while posting game-highs for assists (3) and steals (3). Junior Ashlen Dewart (Spartanburg, S.C.) scored early in the first half with six of Chattanooga's first nine points and closed out with 14 points, six rebounds, three assists, a pair of blocked shots and two steals in 19 minutes.
The Lady Mocs never trailed in the game and the score was tied just once in 40 minutes. Dewart put in the first shot for Chattanooga but it was quickly tied up on a layup from UNCG's Sidnei Harmon. Junior Alex Black (Memphis, Tenn.) drained the first of her three 3-pointers to give Chattanooga the lead for good less than 80 seconds into the game.
The first half was filled with runs including a 15-0 run by UTC to take a 24-8 lead followed by a UNCG 10-0 run to cut it to 24-18. However, Chattanooga scored 12 straight points in the closing minutes of the second half to make it 36-20 at the half.
In the second half, the closest the game would get would be a 15-point margin as the Lady Mocs maintained a double-digit lead through the period. UTC pushed its lead further out with a 13-0 run fueled by Dewart and junior Meghan Downes (Newnan, Ga.) who combined for eight points while freshman Alicia Payne (Memphis, Tenn.) made her first jumper this year with a pull-up from 15 feet. That run put the Lady Mocs up 68-39 with just 4:28 to play.
On the boards, the Lady Mocs outrebounded UNCG 38-35 and had 12 offensive boards to the Spartans 13, but outscored them 13-11 on second chance points. The bench saw more action in the second half as Chattanooga pulled away and freshman Tatianna Jackson (Atlanta, Ga.) scored all eight of her points in the second half and had a team-high seven rebounds in the game.
The Lady Mocs return to action Monday at 7 p.m. at Elon in Alumni Gym. The game will be carried live on ESPN 105.1 FM.


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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that more than 130,000 combat positions will be open to women for the first time in US history.
"Every citizen who can meet the qualifications of service should have that opportunity," said Panetta.
Officials say women already make up 14% of the US military, but now they'll be able to serve on the front lines for the first time.
In the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, dozens of women are commissioned to join the military after graduation each year.
"It takes a lot of courage and bravery. If a man or woman has enough courage to say, "Hey I want to do this for my country," then by all means," said Samantha Oudie. Oudie is contracted to join the Army, where she hopes to become a chaplain.
The Pentagon officially lifted the ban on women in combat Thursday, which has sparked a lot of debate across the country, and on the Texas A&M campus.
"There are high intensity situations, and they're afraid a woman will interfere with a man's judgment in those situations," said Matt Keller, member of the Corps of Cadets. "If a female can meet the standards for certain situations, especially in combat, stress situations. I think it's fine that they're in."
Many also question women's physical abilities.
"I don't know, I have mixed opinions," said Johnny Gustafson. "It's good and all for political correctness, but at the same time, I don't know if women can do 20 mile ruck marches with 50 pounds on their back and keep up with men."
Gustafson is commissioned to join the navy after graduation. He says he hopes decision-makers don't lower the standards for gender equality, because lives are potentially on the line.
Samantha Oudie agrees that women should be held to the same standards. However, she doesn't think women should be limited because of their size of how strong they look.
"I believe that if someone is physically qualified to serve in the front lines, then they should if they want to," said Oudie.
Authorities say some combat jobs may open up to women as soon as this year. Military service chiefs have until 2016 to make their case if they believe women should be excluded from more demanding and deadly positions, like Navy SEALS or the Army's Delta Force.
It's unclear if allowing women in combat positions affects the draft.
"If the draft were ever reinstated, changing the rules would be a difficult proposition. The Supreme Court has ruled that because the Selective Service Act is aimed at creating a list of men who could be drafted for combat, American women aren't required to register upon turning 18 as all males are….If combat jobs open to women, Congress would have to decide what to do about that law," according to the Associated Press.
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The debate boils down to this: limitation vs. freedom.
Some people enjoy limitations more than others. Conditioning has tilted the ratio in favor of those who prefer limitation.
The terms 'freedom' and 'creativity' have been so badly bastardized throughout time that we no longer understand their true value or meaning.
It's a much larger topic than mmorpg's, but I think it's relevant to the discussion nonetheless.
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Originally posted by Iselin
If you are so hell bent into pushing this into the area of the absurd, where is the WoW cooprpg?
If the claim of Raph Koster that ultima has been heavily influenced with dartmud is not enough for you, then i dont know.
And it only shows the shallowness of the discussion, we should be talking abount nvn, if something.
But in the end you are as boned as everyone else, the devs that share your vision, that mmorpgs are just small scale cooprgs are firmly in their seats happy with lobby gameplay as the "logical" improvement over small scale cooprpg.
Flame on!
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"Playing things I shouldn''t be playing since 1977."
It makes you wonder whether we need the "massive" part at all to experience the kind of gameplay we have in MMORPGs now.
I always said that the game that would "take down" WoW wouldn't even be an MMO. That's because the only way to make the games more streamlined and efficient than they already are is to get rid of all the remaining MMO aspects: the persistant world, the guilds, the zones, etc.
If you think about it, the MMO format's greatest competition was from peer-to-peer or "lobby" games, and lobby games have some advantages over MMOs: you get to screen your community, you can get right into the action, play time can be more easily structured, etc. This is coupled with some significant advantages on the developer/business side as well.
If the combat, quests, loot and teamwork is all a player is looking for they, quite frankly, don't need an MMO. So if this massive multiplayer format is going to survive, the player has got to like the "massive" format for other reasons.
Here is the problem though. Every single time people bring up the "other reasons," they get slammed as 'niche' (like roleplay and open world PvP) or 'too expensive' (player housing and customization) or 'not viable for the business model' (crafting important things as opposed to getting them at an item mall).
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Originally posted by Iselin
WoW is an outlier that people need to stop taking into account. The last 8 years of failed WoW clones should show how futile it is to keep thinking WoW style MMOs are viable to anyone other than WoW.
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Sandbox is your only hope for a decent mmo ;)
Heres a thought............
Isnt it kind of hard to take out wow when every game since wow has been wow? Perhaps stop copying and chasing their success and have dev teams set out to make a good freaking game for a change with all the features and long term survivability and you might just be able to do so. But kind of hard to beat wow when your game only last 2-3 months and sucks worse than wow ;)
Glad some sandboxes are coming because i dont even touch these newer themepark games at all. Even older themeparks had so much to offer.
Lobby games? That is your only hope?
Which you actualy already have in mmorpgs...... its called instancing ;) 3-10 players doing a mission or pvp together you normaly group up before hand. Same thing.
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Gaming is a tough industry for those who develope. It costs millions of dollars now a days to develope a game to the standards of todays mmo qualities.
It's tough for developers to make everyone happy and we all know that. There are different types of games for different types of people, but what they are really failing at is remembering that they are artists and what they do is art. Yes at the end of the day they have to make enough money to pay all those involved, and feed their families, and that is a concern of everyone.
They need to stop looking at games in forms of business models and they need to just be creative.
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Originally posted by DavisFlight
Like it or not WOW exists and it's an MMORPG. Denial won't make it go away just like none of the clones did. Personally I don't particualrly like it and would love to see some new creative MMO take its place. But any conversation about people's taste in MMORPG has to include the fact that it probably has more players than all the others combined.
You can slam developers (I certainly do occasionally) for trying to cash in on the WOW formula by making yet one more clone all you want. But it's no wonder they do since people's wallets say that's what they like to play.
There are a lot of people in this forum that come accross as elitist nincompoops with all their contempt for players who like that type of game--that's their prerogative and I seldom bother to respond. But when people start talking about how the MMORPG posting, WOW-hating, sandbox advocates are the majority of MMORPGers I just have to call bullshit.
Originally posted by Iselin
Neither do I and I think the two are melding together to form something that fits the spirit of "MMORPG" very well. I do not wish for the timesinks either but what is missing from the newer games IMO is what older games had: a bigger world that went on if you were there or not. You had to insert yourself in that world, not be programmed in from the beginning. That's why this OP is pretty relavent, it's starts with the world around you.
As far as Smed and EQN I think it will be more upfront than you may think. EQN will be a "play for fee, buy what you want" type of game so other than preorders, which wouldn't come close to covering costs, there really isn't a cash grab to be had. He was careful to say that it will be the biggest "sandbox style..." so it's not going to be 100% sandbox. Taking into account PS2's open world and the tools EQ2 has I think it will go a long way in putting the RPG back into MMORPG. I'll know for sure when more info is released oif course as all we have gotten thus far is hints. The term "sandbox" is becomming a buzz word but adding real sandbox elements to almost any game IMO would make it better.
On the WoW topic I think WoW is a great game and shouldn't be bashed as much as it is. It's the cheap, shallow copies that have come after that are the problem. WoW itself, though not giving much into being an individual, is a pretty open on where you want to adventure (see level). There are many other titles for a better RPG experience such as Vanguard and EQ2 but WoW has it's own charm that is hard to resist sometimes.
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Originally posted by Beatnik59
well have said it before, Diablo 3 and the sort of game, is the kind of "MMO" most people seem to want, it have the 100% solo, 100% group, it have the auction house, the group play let you flash your uberness....ofc the individual person can point out things they do not like, but that happen no matter what game you talk about...
not to claim this is all that I would want...
D3 doesn't have a "world" though and no matter how many people like the game and it's features that doesn't make it more of an MMO. This has nothing to do with the quality of game itself, I think it's pretty fun, but that doesn't change what it is and isn't.
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To be clear, D3 most definitely has a virtual world and players have avatars in that virtual world. The sharing of that world is limited, and the world is not persistent, but it does have a virtual world.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
One that has a "massive" amount of people around in the same space? I thought the shared space was for one group but I may be wrong.
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No, it's just a virtual world. As I said, the aspect of being shared is very limited, and there's no persistence. It's definitely not an MMORPG. It might be an MMO, depending on your point of view or how the idea of an MMO has been presented to you.
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I'm not even sure Blizzard classifies the game as an MMO. It's a multiplayer action RPG.
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Originally posted by Banaghran
Naw - no flame but, again, a good smile.
I've been playing video games for a long time. (old M59 player and I go back farther with other "non-internet" games but that's far enough IMO) Oh and I've been programming computers longer than I've been playing games on them. One of those first "pen & paper" changes was where we wrote all those dice randomizers into programs to handle it for us. I also haven't played a pen & paper game for decades.
Over the years these MMO's have shown just how weak they are at building communities - which was a cornerstone of playing both table-top models and pen & paper games. If you have a friend that joins the game but who doesn't have matching times to play that you do, they won't be able to "catch up" and game with you.
The roots to the tabletop games were based upon people working with others who arranged to be around at the same time for *ALL* their progression - that is no longer the case with computer games. Yet the advancement model is still used all the time and this model could use some revamping - even if it's along the lines of the current 'chase the carrot' gearing up.
It's a different environment than those old games.
Those games didn't have independent advancement. As such, what happens in these computer games is that players advance at different paces and, at some point, you get to choose whether to stop advancing or dump your "friends" and keep progressing by finding others to hang with - not necessarily "better people" just other players, often with some you'd prefer not hanging around outside of "progression".
That sucks.
As I mentioned I have a history with computers and the technologies used in these games is fascinating. It's about at the point where it can do things that would have been impossible to envision even a couple years ago.
A brief simple idea, with huge amounts of complexity behind it:
Instead of "leveling up" and "gearing up" - how about the chance to become part of the lore of a world and both physically, as well as within the recorded history of the world - actuallying being able to be recorded as changing it with your character/group?
Save a city and they record your deeds. Discover a new place and help found a city there... That kind of stuff vs "levels" and "gear". Gear which is only good until the next expansion - levels that the cap is raised every now and again.
Instead, you actually change the world you are playing in - really change it. And where you can have a friend or family join you almost instantly upon their joining the game "in the thick of things" vs spending days or weeks trying to help them catch up and such.
The technologies to do this currently exist but haven't been stretched in these directions.
It's not something that most look at. The current paradigm of "carrot on a stick' is so heavily ingrained in the industry that looking at changing it is not something that most think of.
Yet having players able to have their characters written into the history of a game. Having them able to actually change the face of a world that will still be noticed years afterwards? ...
I played EQ and at one point I had a huge reputation on my server for being exceptional at what I did.
I played WoW and when TBC shipped, I was one of the top 3 most viewed profiles on the north american server's due to some of what I did in that game.
I played Rift for a bit and was in the top 5 PvP players when they first published their listings in that game.
All ancient history and meaningless. All the stuff I got, all the levels and ranks I earned -- nothing but personal memories about it and no marks showing in those worlds. There may be a handful of folks that might recall some of the stuff I did if I brought it all up to try and remind them but none of it means anything with respect to how long I played and what I did back then.
If a game world came out where the players actually could change the world itself, leaving signs of their having been in it - that would be different in ways that might offer alternatives to "grinding levels" and such.
Even games like EVE online only leave "community" markers of what those players have done online. New people joining have to be told of things that happened, it's not part of the "game lore" and there are no signs those chars and groups ever existed once they are gone.
The ability to do this exists and would be quite different. You wouldn't "grind for rep" nor "grind for levels" nor any of that. You'd play the game and what you did would change it in ways others would see and such changes could be very lasting - for years or even the life of the game.
A bit different type of motivation. Changing a game world so everyone could see the changes you helped bring about.
Think that might be a motivation beyond "Got the White Dragon Scale from Vox!" or "got the Eye of Sulfuras from Ragnaros!" or any other now worthless piece of "ubah rare" junk that someone got many, many years ago that nobody cares about these days?
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Originally posted by Eleazaros
You seem to long for some technical revolution, but you yourself are stuck. Stuck in the concept that the online community is you, your neighbor and his brother, stuck in the concept that if you dont do a thing at the same time, you and your friends are not really working together, stuck in taking the shallow and simplistic concept of modern mmos as the standard, thinking that it was always like this, probably because you were always at the top, while nowadays everyone has your passing experience in the games.
Mmorpgs were not weak in building communities, you were, probably charging towards old naxx instead of helping a clannie mine dark iron (mandatory jab at the evil elitist :) )
Communities are not built around an achievment, but around the effort towards it, whatever the goal might be.
Effort in the broadest sense of the word.
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Meh. I just remember this major difference between Ultima Online and games today.
Ultima Online was about adventuring. Grabbing some people and wandering off to go do this thing or that thing today. Yes some people spend hours on hours grinding skills in a house somwhere to build their pvp character. The vast majority just played the game.
Modern MMO's are about grinding to the top as fast as possible and aquiring shinies along the way. It's all about the UBER gear. Everyone has to have this item or that to compete. Every looks the same. Everyone does everything the same. Lets all min/max our way to maximum effectiveness. If you don't have XX build and XX items then you are worthless.
This attitude seems to dominate among MMO's these days. I think the last MMO that which did not have this emphasis very strongly was Fallen Earth. I remember some class contention but very little and I don't remember much this class was mandatory and that class sucked. Fallen Earth was just fun to PLAY. It wasn't a min/max grind and crafting was pretty dang fun.
I also enjoyed playing Wurm, EVE, and Darkfall. Those were also games where I could simply PLAY the game and immerse myself into whatever I was doing. I wasn't spending hours grinding away endlessly to achieve maximum effectiveness. I played the game, enjoyed what I was doing, and advanced as I played.
These days it's all about advancement. People are not even content locusts because ultimately they don't care about the content these days. Players these days race to the top as fast as they can and then get bored because there is nothing else to do and they don't understand immersion or sandbox content.
I don't fault the developers. They create a product that people buy. I blame the gamers who allow themselves to follow this ultracompetative mindset. People don't care about the storyline anymore, they don't care about crafting, they don't care about adventure. Time and time again they rush into grinding to the top so they can participate in whatever crappy version of PVP the developers are hocking off on the masses.
What happens? The ultracompetitors as one person once put to me "scream, throw the chess peices around, poop on the game board, and strut around declaring that they've won the game". Then they get bored and quit. Subscription numbers drop and leave behind the rest of us. The developers sink so much money into catering to the people who just quit, that they can't afford to run the game and then it dies.
I think if a developer came along and designed a modest game for the casual or long term player it may not bring as much money in, but it would probably last longer and be more stable in terms of number of players.
If you look at games like Darkfall, Ultima Online, Shadowbane, Wurm, Salem, Haven and Hearth,EVE, you would probably find the same community playing them all. In nearly every one of those games, I've found clans or individuals who follow all those games and end up in the next incernation developed along those lines.
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Originally posted by lizardbones
Classification is just a label.
It is classified as an online ARPG, but it shares a lot of players with MMORPGs like WOW, and its play style is very similar to the wait-in-city-for-dungeon-pop.
At least it's correctly labeled and sharing a RMT auction house doesn't count lol. Does it really matter? No but in the sake of arguing, which is what seems to happen when this comes up :), the amount of "massive" is how many avatars can be at one place at one time. Not a virtual auction house or chat room. If that answer is four then I'm sorry, that isn't massive IMO which is based on my understanding of the term.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
Classification helps us fine tune the search for the entertainment that suits our tastes. The labels are there for good reason.
And my god "wait-in-city-for-dungeon-pop"? What an awful concept for a genre capable of so much more. So wasteful and so shameful. Genre killer on the loose.
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Originally posted by Banaghran
Naw - you seem to miss a bit of what I'm saying is all and I go ... ??? at some of what you say there.
Effort towards goals, without succeeding = spinning your wheels. Both are part of it. "Milestones" style in long term efforts. Yet what prevents groups from remaining cohesive is all the "advancement" that goes on as this or that person can or cannot be in the game as much as someone else -- time "in-game" pushing you beyond what your friends can keep up with.
No, I was not always at the top and not there for long in most cases. It takes a great deal of time to stay "up there" and that is a sporadic deal for most. Yet critcizing something with a view that hasn't seen it from "on high" is taken differently and, incase you didn't notice in my post, What I bring up is elimination of a great deal of that "on high" attitude - by pointing at the flaws of it.
As for the technologies - they exist. There is no "revolutionary advancements" needed. They just haven't been implemented in a way to enable what I described. Some of the technologies aren't that old but all of what I described is possible to do these days.
Think about it this way - you have stand-alone games with different "models of progression" and various ways they work that combine progression in different ways.
One such model is like The Witcher -- choose a path and the world changes but it still has the progression model in it of "stuff" and "levels". Yet the story in the game is of importance as you move through it.
A different type of "progression" can be seen in a game like Spec Ops: The Line. Equipment is there for all from the start and you may find you'll use "starting equipment" at the end of the story. There are no levels, no XP, etc. The focus is going through the story to the end. (not the nicest story but an example of lack of gear & levels while still having a "game world" you "progress though".)
Now let's look at what I describe.
No gearing up being of improtance. No leveling up being of importance. Everything doable within minutes of joining the game.
Does that sound like your typical MMO elitist attitude?
What I suggest is a change in focus and removal of things thta prevent one from joining with friends to do things at the same point in the game when you have different amounts of time you can spend in the game.
A game world that doesn't really have a story - it's one where the story is created by you but not in some "personal only" format. One that actually is etched into the game in ways that everyone in that world can see.
E-peen style brag rights for those into that? As a player's story builds and expands, the in-game history would show it and it would be recorded in the game world.
A change from the current MMO "persistant world = static world" to "persistant and ever changing" but the changes being due to the players actions that also actually change the game - like some standalone games only changing/maintaining it for everyone.
Think of it this way - each major fight would be like "waking the sleeper" or "opening the gates of AQ" - individuals and groups and entire server populations working at events and such but things in the game world actually changing as these happen.
Yet not "fixed" style but where these changable areas and such, are all based upon the players doing it and scale from the small 'clear out the bandits' near a town, or on the roads between towns, around to massive efforts but where it is recorded into "the game lore". Again - not "static" style but that quest/event happening 1 time - then other such quests & events occurring "elsewhere".
Very different approach but one that has been hinted at by some MMO's recently yet they all fall back to this older "elitist" model that doesn't encourage the "comfort level" teamwork that this model would allow for.


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A Message from Xavier University President Michael Graham, S.J.
"Xavier University Athletic Director, Mike Bobinski, has accepted the Athletic Director position at Georgia Tech.
Mike will remain at Xavier until March 22. Mike joined the Xavier family in 1998. In his 15 years with the University, he has provided tremendous leadership for our student athletes and athletic staff. Xavier's graduation rate for student athlete is 97 percent, which ranks us 11th in the nation. Xavier's men's basketball team is one of only four teams that have made the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 four times in the last five years.
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Georgetown native Bill Oberst Jr. will play a key role in Wednesday's episode of Criminal Minds.
Oberst, who has lived in Hollywood pursuing acting jobs since 2008, will guest-star with Adrienne Barbeau and Tobin Bell in the episode titled "Blood Relations."
Oberst said he cannot reveal much about the episode, but the official synopsis states "two murder victims are found in a backwoods community in West Virginia." During the episode, investigators must determine which one of them could be responsible for the deaths.
"To say more would spoil the watch," Oberst told the Georgetown Times this week.
He said he landed the role in part because of previous film work he has done.
"The director of this episode, Matthew Gray Gubler is also a filmmaker. I'd done a small role in a film for a director friend of his, who suggested me to Gubler for this character. You never know what will lead to what in this business - a good argument for always doing your best," Oberst said.
When asked if there is a chance he will have a recurring role on the series, Oberst simply responded "I'm happy enough just to have been there once."
Oberst should be happy. Criminal Minds is a hit series for CBS. Last week, it was the most watched show in the country in its time slot, according to TV by the Numbers. It was also the 12th most popular show nationwide for the week ending March 23.
Through the years, Oberst has starred in and appeared in more than 100 films and television shows, but, he said, Criminal Minds is his biggest small-screen role to date.
"Prior to this the biggest television exposure I've had was the docudrama Sherman's March on The History Channel and the Michael Landon Jr. TV-movies The Shunning and The Confession on Hallmark Channel," he said.
Oberst has portrayed a wide variety of characters during his career but in Hollywood he has become known as the "King Of Indie Horror" because of his numerous thriller movies in which he has appeared.
He was asked what he hoped the Criminal Minds appearance will lead to in the future.
"I'll leave that up to the Lord. He's the best agent a guy could ask for. The doors He opens are the only ones I want to walk through (it took me some time to get that through my thick skull.) As I say, you never know what will lead to what. He's in charge." Oberst responded.
He said he is hoping one of the movies he has already filmed gets a nationwide release soon in theaters or on maybe as a TV movie.
"It's called The Retrieval. It's set in the South during the waning days of the Civil War. I play a bounty hunter who wants a freeman and former slave for the price on his head," Oberst said. "It treats our history with respect and is a powerful family-friendly story. I'm proud of it."
The movie - which Oberst filmed last year - will open at a New York City independent film theater Wednesday - the same night as the Criminal Minds episode.
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Douchebag of the Moment: Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Flabby old man laments that option of pretending to be a secret agent now eludes him because Daniel Craig has a six-pack.
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Well, that's five minutes of my life I won't get back.
Mr Cohen seems sadly unaware of the fact that Sean Connery ("my kind of Bond" - his words) was a 6'2" former bodybuilder and Mr Universe bronze medallist.
Was it just me or was he lamenting the fact that youngsters are taking physical exercise?
I wonder if he actually knows what a protein supplement is and does?
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you heartless bastards, can't you see?! Mr Cohen has spent a lifetime doggedly pursuing the ulitmate in sexual
predationpresence - the creepy old professor. Only to have his dreamchance of utilising his cultivated sophistication snatched heartlessly from his forlorn, weak hands by young, unsophisticates who merely got of their arse and did something instead of engaging in unproductive self-glorifying banter!
I mean, with all this ripped gym junkies running around how is he supposed to
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This guy is eating sour grapes because a fictional character has an exceptional physique? What the ****?
First off, Daniel Craig as 007 is a damn male role model. 44 and in great shape? Hell yeah! We should all strive to be that good to ourselves. That shot in Casino Royal when he emerges from the surf? Psychrometers spiked off the charts as every panty in the free world moisened when that hit the screen. And he isn't some roid freak or over-groomed, metro-candyass either. He's a naturaly healthy looking hunk-o-man. Effing MALE ROLE MODEL.
Women want to **** him, guys want to be him. That is EXACTLY the crtieria required of a lead man in a straight action film.
Choen misses the point completely when he complains that Bond is "too good looking". Bond isn't a real person anyways. He's a fantasy designed to appeal to all sexes and orientations in the audience. Which brings me to my next point;
Bond's role as a fictional chartacter; This guy is super human. He can outfight anyone (unless the story requires otherwise). He can seduce any woman and turn the tables on even the most calculating and ruthless honey pot ever to skank her way across the Brandenburg Gate. He wins machine gun fights with a piddly .380 acp cap gun. He can operate any vehicle. He can deductively reason on the fly and MacGuyver his way out of any situation under any kind of stress that a "fantasy dilema" can throw at him even if he's only got a few seconds to do it OR DIE!!!!! He can defuse anything. He can use any weapon. He's more agile than an olympic acrobat and has more stamina than long distnce runner. His luck never falters (unless the story requires it...) He does all this in a worsted wool tux which is never stained or ruffled(also unless the story requires otherwise...).
Finally, on top of all this completely super human fantasy action; "He's got really nice abs".
Seriously. All the over the top suspension of disbelief required to take the Bond ride and Mr. Choen's big caveat is the six pack?
Whatever, mang.....
IMHO. We are tipping right over the edge into a new Renaisance. The renaisance man of old was a jack of all trades. An artist, an engineer, a mathematician, a writer and a warrior. He had to be mentally competant (to create the great works) but also physically tough (to handle the "burn-a-fool tendencies" of the less enlightened around him). The exploits of the Medici family are a fine example of such people and the complicated times they lived in. As participants in a new renaisance we should expect to see more multi-disciplinarians with a decent six pack. It take brains to build a future, and it takes brawn to fight back the barbarians. Simple as that. A well rounded man has both.
To get to the point, while 007 is a fantasy character, he represents the miriad of disciplines required to be a "number one man" in todays world. He's quick whitted, exceedingly resourceful and can handle himself in a fight. He also looks sharp enough to spread his genes. These are all positive qualites to emulate. I for one think it's good that young men have this role model in counterpoint to say, 50 Cent?
Choen want's us to believe that a man must choose one discipline over the other in life. Mind or body. This is hardly true. While it is difficult to read on a treadmill, it is not so difficult to watch a film, listen to music or experience a book on tape. The internet has exposed all of us to the world at large for better or for worse. In any case it is virtualy impossible to insulate yourself from other cultures and their knowlege in todays modern world. Even total "meat heads" are still going to have a high degree of literacy and cultural exposure compared to their counterparts of a hundred or even fifty years ago. People are simply more concious of the world around themselves these days and have almost unlimited access to knowlege on a global scale. That means (oh horror of horrors) some physically exceptional people are also going to be quite smart. And as long as current trends continue, their ranks will swell.
For this reason I think the future man looks more like Dany Craig (smart and able) than Dicky Choen (past it and jealous).
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Ted Parge, Executive Vice President, Interim Director of the Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action
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The Grypshon team won first place in the Startup Weekend Toledo competition. The competition took place from Sept. 20-22 at the Nitschke Technology Commercialization Complex on the College of Engineering campus at the University of Toledo.
The Grypshon team of Tom Burden, Patricia Law and Kathy Worthy won the startup competition with the only physical product among the seven finalists. The team developed a proposed business around friction mats designed for use in the maintenance of military and commercial aircraft.
The idea was the brainchild of Burden, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, who works on jet aircraft at the 180th Fighter Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard base at Toledo Express Airport. The Celina, Ohio, native is also a mechanical engineering technology student at UT.
Grypshon is the name chosen for the product Burden demonstrated during the team's presentation to the judges in the final round of the competition. The friction mat is designed to provide a safer work environment for airmen who must stand on jets to perform maintenance and service.
Law, a mechanical engineer, and Worthy, a medical sales representative, joined Burden to comprise one of the smallest teams in the competition. They had never even met Burden prior to the competition, but said they were extremely impressed with his idea.
While the judges met in seclusion to select the winners, Burden and his team had an opportunity to meet with Don Wedding, a local patent attorney and professor in the College of Business and Innovation at UT, to discuss the patent process.
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Burden said the next step for the startup will be to concentrate on obtaining patents on the product and try to sell it at trade shows hosted by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Tom's parents, Tom and Sally Burden, who came from Celina for the final presentations on Sept. 22, said they were very proud of their son and his invention.
Startbox, a business designed to help people complete craft projects, finished second in the competition. Cloud Control, a source for storing files at multiple locations from a single point of access, placed third.
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Prior to the final presentations, Joe Gough, an entrepreneur in residence for Rocket Ventures, offered the participants some advice on how to pitch their ideas, products and companies. He told them that investors invest in people more than ideas and that they shouldn't be afraid to ask for advice and referrals.
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Startup Weekend Toledo began with 90-minute presentations on 25 original ideas for companies and products. The teams worked on development of the individual ideas during the 54-hour event.
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