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I have to believe that Apple is going to reveal something on June 9 that nobody sees coming. With all the hype and attention centered on 3G, I tend to think that there will be some real gold nuggets in the SOFTWARE, such that current iPhone owners will be just as excited as potential new owners. I have no idea what lies beneath, so to speak, but I'm guessing it will be huge. ALSO, just think about all the non-disclosure agreements that these 3rd-party developers are under ... part of the real beauty may be finally getting to know what some of these major 3rd party releases will be.... You never know. Bring on June 9th!!!!
Update: 10 Million iPhone March
Confusion. Confusion. Did Steve Jobs say Apple would sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, or during 2008?
What's the diff? About 6 months and a 3+ million head start.
See, the first scenario means Apple has roughly 18 months -- from the June 29th, 2007 release day to December 31st, 2008 -- to move the 10 million units. The second scenario allows for just 12 months -- from January 1st to December 31st, 2008 -- to move the same number. Clear? No? Don't worry. Even the Macalope is confused.
What's interesting is that while the first scenario -- the 18 months -- does count the initial 6 month honeymoon surge of 3+ million, that ends up making continued sales a little more pessimistic -- only 6+ million for the entire calendar 2008. The second scenario allows for increasing sales over time, something Apple and their shareholders no doubt expect as more countries, and 3G come online.
Speaking of dozens of more countries and a the most anticipated new gadget on the planet, Macworld's Jason Snell sums up his thoughts for the 10 Million iPhone March thusly:
In my back-of-the-envelope exercise, Apple sells 10.2 million iPhones in calendar year 2008. And I stress, these are extremely conservative numbers. If I had to place a bet, I'd probably say that Apple will sell more like 2.2 million phones in the current quarter, more like 3 million in the following quarter, and five million in the holiday quarter. That guess adds up to almost 12 million iPhones in calendar year 2008.
Conservative is right. In fact, Apple is famous for being conservative, and they're predicting "only" 10 million.
My opinion? iPhone 3G will be a monster.
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Update: 10 Million iPhone March
I am like a 7 year old on Christmas Eve... The anticipation is really starting to get to me — I only hope I am not getting too excited... Knowing Apple as a company of flare though, I really can't see the June 9th news not being big. Like some other blogger said a little while back; Stevie doesn't get out of bed for anything less than HUGE news, and he is giving the presentation personally....
My dream come true would be the announcement of the 2nd gen iPhone, a release date in June, and the addition of MMS, cut and paste, multiple attachments per email, and video recording. Saving web images is already confirmed for FW2.0, so scratch that one... I know I am dreaming for a lot, but that is why it's called a dream, right?
I have a very interesting article on my page about the possible iPhone sales in 2008 www.lantinian.blogspot.com/2008/04/predicting-t-he-iPhone-sales-till-end...
The most interesting bit of info most of us are missing is that Apple reported 1.7 million phones sold untill March 6 not till the end of March.
The second thing is that iPhone sales have reali jumped after Zibri's unlock became popular at the end of February.
Also the March 6 event had increased the sales even more for the following reason.
- people know they can expect to update their current phones with a great software in the future
- developers buy phones so they can test their software
- enterprises buy phones so they can start testing it
In my opinion of the biggest news at Macworld will be that apple will have sold close to 10 million iPhones allready. Apple has started experiencing shortages of iPhones for few weeks now. Most Apple stores and the online store are out of stock.
In any case ckeck my article! See the pattern!
Send from my iPhone
I don't think iPhone 2.0 will be nearly the hit that iPhone 1.0 was. Why? 2.0 is primarily a software update with some added hardware (GPS, 3G) that people may not want or need. Unless something truly novel jumps out in iPhone 2.0 that has not hit the blogosphere just yet I don't see it. Think that in less than a year Apple has made a large-screen display with touch a standard for high-end phones, something Palm could not accomplish with their 10+ year head start. So what could 2.0 bring that would have nearly the same impact on the industry and compel people to rush in droves to buy? I already have an iPhone having been one of the early adopters, but see no reason to upgrade. In fact, I think I will prefer my 1.0 with the 2.0 software update as I will probably have superior battery life to the new iPhone in a smaller form factor. It's as if Moto introduced a fat RAZR in 2006 as their great hope. We all know how the Moto story turned out.


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- Russian predicative clefts : tensions between semantics and pragmatics (2006)
- Russian predicate cleft constructions have the surprising property of being associated with adversative clauses of the opposite polarity. I argue that clefts are associated with adversative clauses because they have the semantics of S-Topics in Büring's (1997, 2000) sense of the term. It is shown that the polarity of the adversative clause is obligatorily opposed to that of the cleft because the use of a cleft gives rise to a relevance-based pragmatic scale. The ordering principle according to which these scale
- On the Syntax and Pragmatics Interface : Left-peripheral, Medial and Right-peripheral Focus in Greek (2004)
- The present paper explores the extent to which narrow syntax is responsible for the computation of discourse functions such as focus/topic. More specifically, it challenges the claim that language approximates 'perfection' with respect to economy, conceptual necessity and optimality in design by reconsidering the roles and interactions of the different modules of the grammar, in particular of syntax and phonology and the mapping between the two, in the representation of pragmatic notions. Empirical and theoretical considerations strongly indicate that narrow syntax is 'blind' to properties and operations involving the interpretive components — that is, PF and LF. As a result, syntax-phonology interface rules do not 'see' everything in the levels they connect. In essence, the architecture of grammar proposed here from the perspective of focus marking necessitates the autonomy of the different levels of grammar, presupposing that NS is minimally structured only when liberated from any non-syntactic/discourse implementations, i.e., movement operations to satisfy both interface needs. As a result, the model articulated here totally dispenses with discourse projections, i.e. FocusP.
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- The present volume contains papers that bear mainly on issues concerning the topic concept. This concept is of course very broad and diverse. Also, different views are expressed in this volume. Some authors concentrate on the status of topics and non-topics in so-called topic prominent languages (i.e. Chinese), others focus on the syntactic behavior of topical constituents in specific European languages (German, Greek, Romance languages). The last contribution tries to bring together the concept of discourse topic (a non-syntactic notion) and the concept of sentence topic, i.e. that type of topic that all the preceding papers are concerned with.
- A preliminary bibliography on focus (1995)
- [I]n its present form, the bibliography contains approximately 1100 entries. Bibliographical work is never complete, and the present one is still modest in a number of respects. It is not annotated, and it still contains a lot of mistakes and inconsistencies. It has nevertheless reached a stage which justifies considering the possibility of making it available to the public. The first step towards this is its pre-publication in the form of this working paper. […] The bibliography is less complete for earlier years. For works before 1970, the bibliographies of Firbas and Golkova 1975 and Tyl 1970 may be consulted, which have not been included here.
- Analysis of a Cayuga Particle : ne:' as a Focus Marker (1994)
- A feature of the Northern Iroquoian languages is their especially rich inventory of particles. This paper is concerned with one particle in the Cayuga language which has a widespread distribution and performs a broad range of apparently unrelated functions. The particle ne:' is commonly .translated as 'it is/that is', 'this' or ' that'. In other instances it is translated as predominant stress, or is simply omitted in the translation. The particle can occur in almost any syntactic or semantic environment, but it is not obligatory in any context. The various functions that have been suggested in the literature include indication of declarative mood and assertion, marking of emphasis, focus or contrast, and expression of predicative and deictic force. I argue that the particle ne:' can be described successfully if its distribution is considered from a wider perspective, taking into account discourse structure and variation in scope. Its analysis as a focus marker can account for the variety of apparently unrelated functions. The analysis is based on a detailed study of the particle' s distribution in spoken language using a database of five Cayuga texts by four different speakers, including three narratives, one procedural text and a children 's version of a ceremonial text.

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Ukraine's Heart of Steel
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Ashe County Middle School: Ellie Swibold and Megan Howell
Mountain View Elementary: Jacob Wingler, Hannah Phillips and Anna Blackburn
Westwood Elementary: Emma McGinnis, Luke Osborne and Lennon Riley Henderson
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COMPLETE. All HUMAN! Bella and Edward story!!!! Bella is 17 and her parents died in a roller coaster accidnet(ok i picked that because its diffrent) and she has to take care of her 2 year old brother, Max. They move to Forks and thats were she meets the Cullens and the Brandons.
Swans- Bella(17), Max(2)
Cullens- Esme(39), Carlisle(40), Jasper(18), Rose and Edward (17, twins)
Brandons- Jen(37), Adam(37), Emmett(19, flunked 2nd grade), Alice(18)
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After i found out that my parents died I had to take car of my baby brother, Max. It has been 3 months since they died and I couldn't take living in the same house. So I decided that we would move to Forks. My dad used to live there before he meet my mom. My parents both were rich from there parents money. I had no family left well exept Max of coarse.
"Bella I'm ready!" Max said in a baby vocie walking to me. He was very smart for his age.
"Okay lets go!" I said picking him up. I walked outside of our house and put him in his car seat. We lived in Pheniox so it was burning hot when we got in the car.
When we got to the airport we went thourg secuirty and boarded our plane.
"Bellwa I miss momma and daddy!" Max said and started crying after the plane took off. I picked him up and rocked him back and forth.
Our mom and dad, Renee and Charlie, were never home because they both worked for the police department. But we still saw them every once in awhile. A nanny would take care of Max and I. But since they died I would have to take care of him. It was the begining of summer when they first passed so I would take care of him 24/7.
"Me too Max but mommy and daddy wouldn't want us to be sad!" I said and he stopped crying. A few hours later the plane landed. Max was sleeping so I picked him up and walked off the plane. I got our bags, we didn't bring a lot. We were just going to buy new stuff. I got a car shipped here from Itally. i put Max in and drove to our new house. It was pretty big for just the two of us. It had 3 floors, 8 bed rooms, 5 bathrooms, a kitchen, a game room, a living room, family room, and a pool in the backyard.
When I pulled in the front of the house Max woke up. I got out and helped him and held his hand as we walked to the front door. We didn't have any neighbors our closes ones were a mile away.
"Bella theres no bed or anything!" Max said as I showed him around the house.
"I know Max. We have to go shopping for that!" I said.
"'kay!" He said.
After we were done looking around we got in the car and drove to Super Target. I got a cart and put Max in the baby seat.
"First thing on the list is fruniture!" I said walking to the furniture(ok i know that target might not have beds but lets say they do!)
I got a queen bed and Max picked out a crib. It was going to be delivered later. I got light blue covers and Max dark green.
"Bella, Bella!" Max said as I was pushing the cart towards the food section.
"I want that!" He said pointing to a bouncy ball. I gave it to him. He started playing with it till he dropped it and it bounced to two ladys. One looked my age with blond hair and the other one looked about 39 with carmel colored hair. She looked ever motherly.
"Here you go!" The motherly women said giving Max his ball.
"Thank you!" Max said smiling.
"Thank you." I said too.
"You're welcome." She said. "What a handsom young boy! How old is he?" She asked smiling at me.
"He's two. He's going to be three in a month." I said, I usally talk too much when I meet new people.
"Are you his mother?" She asked.
"Mom, why are you bothering people again?!" The blond one said walking to her mom, I guess.
"Sorry!" She said about to walk away.
"No you weren't bothering me. And no he's my little brother but our parents died so I guess you can say I'm his mom. Oh my name is Bella and his is Max by the way." I said putting out my hand for her to shake.
"Oh I'm sorry for your lost. I'm Esme." She said shaking my hand.
"Hi, I'm Rosalie." The blond girl said shaking my hand.
"Nice to meet you both. We just moved here so I'm buying stuff for the new house and school." I said.
"What school are you going to?!" Rosalie asked smiling.
"Forks High."
"I go there! I'll show you around and you can meet my friends!" She said.
"Who's going to take care of Max?" Esme asked.
"I'm going to take him to day care."
"I can take care of him if you'd like?" Esme said.
"She loves to take care of kids!" Rose said.
"Yeah that'd be great it you'd like!" I said. That'd be way better then taking him to day care. And she doesn't seem like some kind of weirdo.
"Yeah I'd love to!" She said. I gave her my phone number and she gave me hers, her house phone number and the address.
So what'd you think?! Please comment!
Chapters 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 (which are the chapters that caroline posted) got deleted so I'll summarize them for the new readers (if there are any)
2: It was in Bella's Pov when she dropped Max off at the Cullen's house. Then she meet Edward, Alice, Jasper, and Emmett. She also meet Jessica who already hates her.
4: Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Edward met Max. Edward played with Max.
6: The next day Esme calls Bella at school saying Max is sick. Edward to her to their house and they took Max to the hospital to see what was wrong with him.
8:Everyone finds out that Edward's a match. Edward asks Bella on a date.
10: Edward and Bella went on their date. Edward took her to the medow and had candles and a picnic.
12: It was in either in Jasper's or Alice's Pov (i forgot) Jasper told Alice that he wanted to keep the baby and would awalys be there for her.
And that was the summary to the missing chapters!!!
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Peter Sheldon Yozell of East Warren, Vermont, and Weston, Massachusetts, died peacefully at his home with family by his side on Sunday January 22, 2012, at the age of 89. The Mad River Valley was a very special place for Peter. He and his wife Jeanne first came to The Valley in the late 1960s and a few years later built their home in East Warren. Peter loved his pastoral view and the sunsets over the Green Mountains, the Fourth of July in Warren and the many incredible people who became their cherished lifelong friends.
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After watching Laura Prescott's Publish Your Genealogy Online on Friday I spent much of the next day rethinking my approach to my nascent website (started in 2010 and still not live - surely the longest gestation period ever). My website focuses on several different family groups of 3 or 4 generations. I use a free site (great price) but have been so frustrated in my efforts include graphic layouts or reports generated by my software program, Legacy.
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"One more win and I should fight for the title," dos Anjos told MMAFighting.com. "I won my last five fights. Im in the UFC for five years, so I deserve a shot at the title after my next win."
Grant is still recovering from a concussion, which first caused him to pull out of an Aug. 31 title shot against then-champion Ben Henderson, then forced him out of a Dec. 14 bout with new champion Anthony Pettis. Dos Anjos thinks he already lost the right to fight for the title.
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That author is overly dramatizing things in this article. Not very serious.
About the endgame : it has never been about what to do at endgame with successful MMOs, but how to do anything, so in most cases : good combat mechanics that makes me want to play again various stuff. And GW2 is precisely delivering on that point.
People should stop being delusional about endgame : nobody's gonna magically bring you a fresh new game when you end the game. Because hey, you just ended the game. So it's all about giving you the same content, but with another level of difficulty, just like in any videogame. So in a genre where combat is 90% of your time, you'd better have good, not boring, easily renewable combat mechanics.
This is the first game since WoW : TBC where I'm totally fine with imagining myself juicing my lvl 80 time only with fights, may they be old content re-run. All the other recent MMOs (including latest WoW xpacs) where I got fed up with the game, it started with the combat mechanics boring me from a certain point in time. And I could guess that boredom from the first hours of play (because they weren't fresh enough). Here, it's not the case at all, I just want to fight with my Thief for hours and hours.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
If only internet 'journalism' was subject to some sort of editorial rigour....
Perjorative language and the use of absolute statements to deal with what at best amount to informed guesses is very poor.
I will deal with each part of the article in order;
1. Will the Community Be Weak?
He starts well enough here - making a valid point many people are worried about. He doesn't however point out the rather obvious fact that judging community interraction from a beta - where there are no permanent guilds, targetted resource farming, dedicated dungeon grouping and grouped people who know each other (not to mention dedicated RP'ers running events) is not representative.
2. Can the Endgame Keep Players Happy for More Than a Couple of Months?
Claiming that 'innevitable claims of boredom' will occur a month or two after launch after addressing what he thinks endgame will involve in one sentence is as ridiculous as comparing the game to SW:TOR - 'cleared in a matter of days'. The clear implication here is of course that large numbers of players will clear the content in a matter of days and then innevitably complain. He fails to address the WvW PvP, the DE/downscaling content model, nor does he have the slightest sensible thing to say about the dungeons or the scale of challenge in the unseen highest level zones. There is simply no balanced assessment here - it is two assumptions piled on top of the smallest of foundations. This would be inadequate enough in a forum post - never mind an article on a major media site.
3. Will the Lack of a Trinity Actually Work?
This one is just amazing. In BWE2, having personally grouped with a 'ragtag group' (as he puts it) and having downed the 'Eater of Ghosts' in that explorable iteration of the Ascalonian Catacombs I was both impressed and pleased at the level of difficulty, the skill and cooperation shown by the group I was with and the innovative ways we managed to deal with things. Having to think about how to make our collective abiities 'fit' over a soution and radically change who did what in each boss encounter was a breath of fresh air. Sorry - all dungeons in all MMOs at first are multiple wipefests if they are well designed. It takes time and effort. This guy clearly likes his challenges dumbed down. Implying that the Dev's he was playing with were 'experts' in PvE and therefore the no-trinity model doesn't work is a the laziest form of tangential reasoning - and entirely invalidates this part of the article. A clear case of garbage in, garbage out.
4. Is There an Infestation of Bugs Waiting to Happen?
Way too much 'biblical catastrophe' language used here - he laces this entire section with doomladen 'innevitabilities' without the slightest reasonable justification. Bitterness exploding on a massive scale? Catastrophic backlash? All this based upon the statement - "if the guesting system fails". Having witnessed a single failure of a single feature in a single beta he cries DOOM! This is about as bias as one can get whilst still trying to look neutral (at least to the most undiscerning of audiences at any rate....).
5. Is Combat Interesting Enough?
The only WOW which should be indulged in this part of the article is the reaction to having the combat part of GW2 compared to WoW combat.... stating that it is dissapointing compared to TERA and too much like WoW is yet another illustration that this review is backed by little more than a cursory glance at combat footage rather than significant hands on experience. The closest combat I have ever played compared to GW2 is Age of Conan - one of the things Funcom actually did right in that game. The experiences in combat the author talks about here are overwhelmingly at odds with the experiences of countless beta players and reflect the limitations of the reviewer far more than they do the game.
I will quote the last paragraph of the article verbatim - as it makes my point for me;
"Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself?
I have seen less bias critiques by the offices of politicians slagging off their election opponents whilst simultaneously trying to make their candidate seem statesmanlike.
I've had my morning cofee and am in a good mood - so I'll review this review with a generous score;
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he died alot !!! ???? Mmmm :p i don't die at all with the people i played ( ranger , grd and necro )
Originally posted by Aerowyn
So anyone with concerns or criticism "just doesn't get it"? I see.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
Originally posted by Sideras
I don't pvp and don't like it in GW2. Having pvp as your "end game" activity isn't my idea of fun.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
Originally posted by Ackbar
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
Originally posted by Ginaz
Why don't you read my detailed post - no point accusing critics of the article for 'automated' one-line responses to criticism of the game with a one-liner yourself - thrown in after a detailed response posted just before you.
You cannot take exception to short unsupported statements based on the qualifying words 'seems' and 'feeling' with your own one-liner which nevertheless speaks in certainties - it blows any credibility your post has clear out of the water.
Labelling the author of the article as the representative voice of 'anyone with concerns or criticism' is deeply misleading - either intentionally or unwittingly. I have seen many posts critical of elements of the game supported by evidence and logically and reasonably argued. These respondents you criticise and negativel label are not addressing them - they are addressing the obvious bias in the article.
Read the article, try to take a balanced view and THEN post.... otherwise, ironically, you only demonstrate the same extreme bias you are criticising.
Originally posted by Caliburn101
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
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"A strange game. The only winning move is not to post."
Oh "Hark hark the dogs do bark." A blog writer posts something about GW2 that isn't pure Kool-aide drinking prose and here you all are once again to pile on like a ton of bricks. Haysoos Mirimba! Do you guys ever really listen to yourselves!?
"Well in my opinion, that guy's opinion is rubbish, he has to be a complete moron!!"
Disagreeing with the guy is fine, but why is it that everytime someone posts some ideas that aren't lock step with yours you rabble immediately decry that the person in question must just be a no talent ass clown with no earthly idea of what he is talking about, as if your petty and mean spirited opinon is somehow more justifiable than their . . . petty and mean spirited opinion?
And before someone pipes up with the reply of "Well because he IS a no talent fuckwit", you might want to think back to a couple of months ago when some of you were jizzing all over his article where he outlined why GW2 will be better than SWTOR. You sure seemed like you felt he was of sound mind and body back then, but now he has voiced his O P I N I O N that perhaps GW2 might have some of the same issues every other fucking MMO has had at launch, you people go all Jekyll and Hyde on him.
I seriously think that some of you need to get a grip, turn the hysteria down a couple of notches, and remember the old handsaw about opinions, assholes, and the comparableness there of.
Oh and "Rabble rabble rabblle, burn the witch!!! etc."
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Everyones a mmo vet these days :P
Originally posted by Caliburn101
Very well said! But you have to keep in mind that those are his opinions and from his article it tells me one thing.
He probably played for five minutes and probably had zero intention of buying the game let alone playing it.
Seeing he compares it to WoW makes no sense to me, your going to compare games that are out and seven years old to a game that hasn't even launched yet? This is someone who played WoW as a first mmorpg and thinks that it was WoW that started the genre , I love the article that you wrote to counter his , to me that is a perfect review of the reviewer and you sir should take his job, because this guy apparently doesn't know how to do it.
Well done!
p.S I cannot wait for GW2 , breath of fresh air for a vet that has been playing MUDS/mmorpg for 18-19 years hell ya!
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If only "legitimate" journalism did, too.
Hopeless Cause, Don Quixote. No source is above being attributed with an agenda. Not any actual agenda, mind you, stirring suspicion is sufficient...
Fox News, ABC News, New York Times, Washington Post-- We're having more fun of sneering at their perceived biases than following their actual news.
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Originally posted by Tardcore
Clearly he's had some sort of mental breakdown since the glorious sermon he wrote about GW2 being better then SWTOR . Why else would he have turned away from the truth and light of ANET?!
Now stop writing this dribble because your opinion is rubbish and mine is clearly not rubbish.
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Originally posted by Caliburn101
If the article had been filled with praise then you would be touting as an outstanding work. It is an editorial blog about some of the potential weaknesses in GW2's design. I am a GW2 fan, but I am not so blind that I can't see that these are potential issues. There is no right or wrong when it comes to an opinionated blog and even less so when he addresses some valid concerns. Your feeble attempts to dismiss them are laughable at best.
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they did it very well for guild wars 1 and they didnt even have a store at first :) dont worry kitten, the milk will be ever so purfect
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Originally posted by Mephster
Yes they have. However, as someone else mentioned most of these complaints are about items that Anet has said that they do not want in the game (trinity, gear grind, etc.). I agree with most of the criticism and that is why I won't make GW2 a keeper. I respect ANet for doing something different but look what happened to the other "different" game - TSW. GW2 will make money, a lot of money, but it won't be the next WOW.
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The gamespy article is well written and the 5 concerns are reasonable concerns.
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Originally posted by Drachasor
Yes, but sadly there are many on this forum acting like it's something much much bigger.
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The concerns are not unreasonable; on the other hand, if GW2 can't solve those issues, than I would start to think they can't be solved. E.g. people bored at endgame - how can you address that if making the entire game re-playable and scattering new content throughout it doesn't work?
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Originally posted by GamerUntouch
Agreed. His misunderstanding of the Trinty or how the role he chose to fill was actually an asset of the current system and not a throwback to the Trinity was one example of that.
Summed up well by Caliburn101 in this post.
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Originally posted by Scarlyng
1) How can you include SWTOR in this example when the LFG tool was just recently implemented? Communication has been an issue ever since MMOs have gone mainstream. Developers can throw whatever tools they want, but if the community doesn't want to talk, they are not going to.
2) Agreed, the game (when compared to a SRPG) is comparable price-wise for content. However, they are competing against larger MMOs. I, personally, am not really looking for an MMO to play for only 40-50 hours. I'd rather play one with a much longer sustainability. Subscription cost for me is not an issue. If I want a bargain, hell, I'll pick up a F2P title.


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Watching the fight, I felt like Hendricks won but it was a pretty close fight. The first round, Hendricks landed those elbows when GSP over-committed to the single which pushed the round over the edge for him. However, having GSP win the 3rd and 5th round after that really brutal 2nd round was pretty impressive.
Either way, I think it's time for GSP to hang them up. He took a lot of damage in the Condit and Hendricks fight, and a fair amount in the fight with Shields. He's definitely lost something, and he's got nothing left to prove.
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"If a man with no arms and a man with no legs started learning karate, the same light bulb would appear over every head in Japan. Thats right: Glue them together and see if it can kill a panda."
Sure, if that's what you want to call the worst drubbing that GSP has had inflicted upon him by a challenger.St-Pierre has overcome adversity time and time again. Hendricks presented an admirable challenge on Saturday night, but that's all it was. At the post-fight press conference, St-Pierre repeatedly stated he left everything in the cage.
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Gallery: Marshall University's 1969 football team
The 1969 Marshall University football team had a 3-7 record under coach Rick Tolley. On Nov. 14, 1970, Tolley, along with 74 Marshall University football players, coaches and fans, died in a plane crash upon returning from East Carolina University, where the team had just suffered a heartbreaking 17-14 loss.
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From 1966 to 1983, Marshall's football program suffered a dismal streak of losing seasons. In 1984, Marshall won its two final games on the road against Illinois State and East Tennessee State to finish with a 6-5 record for its first winning season in 20 years.
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(Information from the 1969 Marshall media guide. Numbers might not match the photos.)
10, Pete Coleman, DB, Junior, Stratford, N.J.
11, Ted Shoebridge, QB, Sophomore, Lyndhurst, N.J.
12, Bob Harris, QB, Sophomore, Cincinnati, Ohio.
20, Richard Lech, HB, Sophomore, Columbus, Ohio.
21, Craig Greenlee, DB, Sophomore, Jacksonville, Fla.
22, Tim Deeds, DB, Senior, Coal Grove, Ohio.
24, Kevin Gilmore, HB, Junior, Harrison, N.J.
25, Nathaniel Ruffin, DB, Sophomore, Quincy, Fla.
26, John Hurst, FB, Senior, Live Oak, Fla.
30, Dickie Carter, HB, Junior, Man, W.Va.
31, Willie Bluford, FB, Sophomore, Greenwood, S.C.
33, Jerry Stainback, MLB, Junior, Newport News, Va.
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35, Dave Cyrus, LB, Junior, Coal Grove, Ohio.
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51, Larry Brown, G-LB, Junior, Atlanta, Ga.
52, Dave Griffith, DE-LB, Junior, Clarksville, Va.
53, Larry Nelson, LB-HB, Sophomore, Donora, Pa.
54, Richard Dardinger, G-C, Senior, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
55, Scottie Reese, LB, Sophomore, Waco, Texas.
56, Dave Weston, T, Senior, Pittsburgh, Pa.
60, Tom Howard, G, Sophomore, Milton, W.Va.
61, Mark Andrews, DE, Sophomore, Cincinnati, Ohio.
62, Jeff Angle, G, Sophomore, Logan, Ohio.
63, Tim Bentley, G-LB, Senior, Pittsburgh, Pa.
64, Jim Willey, G, Sophomore, Huntington.
65, Tom Brown, G, Junior, Richmond, Va.
66, Pat Norrell, G, Junior, Hartsdale, N.Y.
68, Jim Adams, G, Senior, Mansfield, Ohio.
69, Calvin Ball, C-LB, Senior, Ripley, W.Va.
69, Danny Gordon, T, Sophomore, Raleigh, N.C.
74, Jim Sly, DT, Sophomore, Iaeger, W.Va.
75, Mike Bankston, T, Senior, Atlanta, Ga.
76, David DeBord, T, Junior, Quincy, Fla.
80, Dennis Blevins, SE, Sophomore, Bluefield, Va.
81, Roger Childers, DB, Sophomore, St. Albans, W.Va.
82, Jack Repasy, TE, Sophomore, Cincinnati, Ohio.
83, Skipper Williams, DB-K, Senior, Pembroke, Va.
84, Larry Carter, TE, Senior, Dunbar, W.Va.
85, Roger Vanover, LB, Sophomore, Russell, Ky.
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The Crofton man who allegedly called himself a "joker" and was arrested Friday for threatening to blow up a postage machine supplier in Lanham, has been admitted to the Anne Arundel Medical Center where he is receiving mental health care, Prince George's County police officials said.
Neil Edwin Prescott, 28, was charged Wednesday with misuse of telephone facilities and equipment. The misdemeanor charge carries the possibility of three years in prison and/or a $500 fine, said Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks in a statement Wednesday.
Prescott was taken into custody for allegedly threatening to "blow everyone up" at postage machine supplier Pitney Bowes in Lanham, from which officials say he was about to be fired.
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County Police Chief Mark A. Magaw said his agency received a call July 25 from the suspect's supervisor, who said he had been threatened twice over the phone.
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By Kolten Parker : January 28, 2014 : Updated: January 28, 2014 6:04pm
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Rick Dyer, 36, says he killed an 8-foot-tall Bigfoot in San Antonio in 2012 with a 30-06 rifle after he lured "the Beast" near his tent with a set of Wal-Mart ribs he rubbed with a secret ingredient.
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Rick Dyer, 36, says he killed an 8-foot-tall Bigfoot in San Antonio in 2012 with a 30-06 rifle after he lured "the Beast" near his tent with a set of Wal-Mart ribs he rubbed with a secret ingredient.
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Photo By Film by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin/Image courtesy Rene DahendenHuge, smelly and hairy, this mythical ape-man has vexed believers who say he exists. The California filmmakers of this famous 1967 image said this was the real thing, but doubters have said the creature looked to be holding a metal thing that looked suspiciously like a beer can.
Photo By AP Photo/Sasquatch Research Project, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin/Associated PressThe filmmakers of the iconic 1967 16mm Bigfoot film said the creature was a female, running out of a stream bed in the Six Rivers National Forest in California.
Photo By AP Photo/Daily Town Talk, Todd Drumwright/APFolks in Cotton Island, La., said this 14-inch footprint was left by a Bigfoot creature in 2000. But anthropologists said the track was too shallow for an animal the size of Bigfoot.
Photo By Getty ImagesThis image comes from the 1976 movie, ''The Legend of Bigfoot,'' made by an animal tracker named Ivan Marx who said this really, really was a Bigfoot in Washington.
More shadowy Bigfoot sightings, this time in a northern Georgia forest in June of 2008. Bigfoot Global LLC provided this image.
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Photo By (AP Photo/Ben Margot)Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi holds a photo of what he claims to be the mouth and teeth of a deceased Bigfoot or sasquatch creature during a news conference on Aug. 15, 2008, in Palo Alto, Calif.
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SAN ANTONIO — Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, scientist Carl Sagan famously said.
Those are words Rick Dyer, who describes himself as a "master tracker" of Bigfoot, never has to utter again.
As the website Snopes.com points out, Dyer made similar claims in 2008 when he claimed to have killed Bigfoot. When Dyer revealed the specimen at a press conference, it turned out to be a rubber ape suit.
But Dyer, 36, says he killed an 8-foot-tall Bigfoot in San Antonio in 2012 with a 30-06 rifle after he lured "the beast" near his tent with a set of Wal-Mart ribs he rubbed with a secret ingredient.
"I know it sounds crazy, but it's true," said Dyer, who is coming back to the Alamo City and Houston in February to showcase his catch.
He tows the corpse behind a 40-foot coach in a trailer across the country to show folks just how real Bigfoot is.
"A lot of times they don't believe it," he said. "You can show someone something that is real, but they won't, or can't, believe it because they think it doesn't exist."
Dyer killed the mysterious creature in a wooded area near Texas 151 and Loop 1604, he said Sept. 6, 2012.
After getting "leads" from homeless locals, Dyer set up a tent in the woods and booby trapped trees around his tent with ribs he purchased from Wal-Mart, who in fact does have the best ribs for Bigfoot-huntin', as well as the best return policy.
"I woke up to the sound of bones crushing," Dyer said. "I knew it was a Bigfoot eating the ribs I hung, so I grabbed my cell phone and filmed it."
Dyer then went back to his preferred hunting equipment super store to rack up some more ribs, returned to the danger zone, and lured the Bigfoot back within shooting range.
It's no wonder that Dyer calls himself "the best Bigfoot tracker in the world."
Dyer says he killed the monstrous animal with three shots in the back and neck.
"I have a lot of haters," said Dyer, of Atlanta. "But they can all kiss my a-- … because I have more proof than there's ever been."
"We don't acknowledge that one exists, but if you wanted to shoot and kill a Bigfoot in the state of Texas you would just need a hunting license," Major Larry Young, game warden with Texas Parks and Wildlife, joked Tuesday.
Young said that although it's legal, he doesn't exactly think it is moral.
"It's kind of like shooting a person," he said.
"We can't prohibit anyone from hunting fictional characters, including Sasquatch, Chupacabra and other urban myths," said Steve Lightfoot with Texas Parks and Wildlife.
The master tracker says he refuses to give a hair or meat sample for research, because he already has the proof. He said "a university" is testing the animal, but that he has a nondisclosure agreement and cannot reveal which "university."
Dyer said the locations in San Antonio and Houston and the exact dates still are being worked out.
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Houston Chronicle reporter Craig Hlavaty contributed to this report.
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