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GameStop UK is offering pre-orders for the Players Mega Pack 1TB PS4 bundle
It could've been called 'The Remastered' bundle
Nov 18
// Vikki Blake
GameStop UK is offering the Players Mega Pack console bundle for £290.
Silent Hills
Silent Hills was going to be similar to The Last of Us
Cancellation makes 'no f**king sense'
Oct 14
// Laura Kate Dale
Oh hey, it's that time again where we get to learn why Silent Hills would have been the perfect best game ever if it had not been cancelled. Hooray for more quotes about this cancelled game. So, according to Guillermo De...
The Last of Us
Naughty Dog clarifies The Last of Us 2 rumours
'I guess Nolan North was kind of right'
Sep 23
// Vikki Blake
Naughty Dog has clarified rumours regarding a sequel to 2013's highly acclaimed The Last of Us. Talking to Official PlayStation Magazine (via GamesRadar), Neil Druckmann explained that while a sequel may have been discus...
The Last of Us sale
The Last of Us sale starts tomorrow, Clicker statue up for pre-order
Outbreak Day 2015
Sep 22
// Darren Nakamura
Canonically, Outbreak Day -- the day when the Cordyceps fungus got out of control and dramatically altered the world in The Last of Us -- occurred on September 26, 2013. We're coming up on the second anniversary of that fatef...
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Folks are awfully jumpy about The Last of Us 2
Sep 17
// Kyle MacGregor
[embed]311178:60409:0[/embed] This isn't the first time this has happened, either. A few months back, Nolan North, speaking at Tampa, Florida's MetroCon, said "I know they're doing a Last of Us 2," causing a similar stir. However, neither Sony nor Naughty Dog has officially confirmed the existence of a The Last of Us sequel, but judging on how some corners of the Internet have reacted to these potential gaffes, you might have thought the companies distributed a teaser trailer or something of the sort. It makes sense that Sony would want to do a follow-up. The Last of Us was highly acclaimed and presumably made a lot of money; plus, publishers these days don't often go around creating new intellectual properties without aspirations of a potential blockbuster franchise in their eyes. It will probably happen. Someday. Eventually. There are literally billions of reasons for it to. But it isn't confirmed just yet. Not officially. So maybe hold your horses before shouting "THE LAST OF US 2 CONFIRMED" on Twitter or an Internet comment section somewhere. Good lord.
It isn't official until it's official
The much rumored "The Last of Us 2" hasn't reached "Half-Life 3" levels of ridiculousness, where every whisper surrounding the property results in scores of people saying a sequel is confirmed, but... No, actually, we're alre...
The Last of Us
The Last of Us soundtrack coming to limited vinyl collection
Nice art for nice music from a nice game
Jul 21
// Joe Parlock
Mondo has announced it will be a selling a limited edition, 4-vinyl collection of The Last of Us original soundtrack, with artwork by artists Olly Moss and Jay Shaw. The collection will include the music from both The Last o...
Playstation Now UK
PlayStation Now is finally available in the UK
The beta has begun
Jul 16
// Laura Kate Dale
Attention UK PS3 and PS4 owners with a fast internet connection, PlayStation Now is finally available for you to try. It's time to stream games over the Internet in what is likely to be lower than native quality and with addi...
The Last of Us
Naughty Dog devs thought The Last of Us would ruin the studio's name
It obviously didn't
Jul 14
// Brett Makedonski
The Last of Us was the game that proved to a lot of people that Naughty Dog could handle a mature narrative. Its writing explores the human condition and examines the child/guardian protective emotional bond. Upon relea...
Forum Werewolf
Destructoid forum Werewolf: The Last of Us edition
Fear the Fireflies
Jul 09
// Darren Nakamura
Over on the Destructoid forums, there is a tradition that began years ago and still continues to this day. We play Werewolf. For those unfamiliar, it's a social deduction game in which a small team with a lot of information i...
Shenmue 3
Uncharted 4 concept artist creates Shenmue print
Buy a print before July 17 to support the Kickstarter appeal
Jul 09
// Vikki Blake
Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us concept artist, John Sweeney, has produced an exclusive print to support the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter. There are eight large prints (24H x 47W) and 100 smaller prints (16H x 31...
The Last of Us 2
Nolan North lets slip The Last of Us 2 is coming
Nolan North's a pretty fun-gi... eh...
Jun 30
// Joe Parlock
I know most of us assumed it was coming after the massive, massive popularity and success of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us, but Nolan "The Voice of Fucking Everything" North has accidentally let slip The Last...
Last of Us standalone
Standalone Last of Us: Left Behind out now for PS3, PS4
May 12
// Jordan Devore
Naughty Dog has sliced apart The Last of Us. If you're curious to try Left Behind, the prequel story starring Ellie and her best bud Riley, you can now do that without committing to the larger story (or Factions multiplayer)....
Last of Us: Left Behind
The Last of Us: Left Behind will be available as a standalone on May 12
For a shorter, equally brutal experience
May 01
// Darren Nakamura
Left Behind was a great piece of story DLC for The Last of Us, filling in a portion of the main story that is glossed over and providing a clearer look at Ellie's origin. Any who want to try out the three-hour episode as a ta...
This PlayStation 4 bundle at Dell is priced to move
$550 worth of goodies for $400
Apr 22
// Dealzon
Dell must have a truck load of these PlayStation 4 The Last of Us Remastered bundles because it's pricing them to move. In this solid priced bundle, you'll be getting about $550 worth of stuff for only $400 (plus applicable tax because someone's gotta pay for the damn pothole down 5th Street and lord knows it's not Steve).
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Zen distilled stories
Apr 14
// Darren Nakamura
I wrote a thing about The Last of Us last week, and despite the use of measured language, there were accusations of extreme opinions on either side. Come on, people. That is not very zen. Find your nirvana. In this series, w...
The Last of Us multiplayer DLC is not okay
Apr 06
// Darren Nakamura
Taking a look at the options, some of it isn't too offensive. New gestures for $2.50 apiece? Fine. New hats at $7 for a bundle? Sure. We can all lament the fact that this cosmetic content would have been free, perhaps locked behind a cheat code in years past, but I won't fault anybody for giving some extra money to wear a plague mask. I'm not about to pony up for any of it, but it doesn't affect me that some people are willing to. No, the more serious infraction here is in breaking one of the tenets of competitive multiplayer. Those who pay more should never have an advantage over those who don't. Unfortunately, that's exactly what the tactical weapons and survival skills bundles provide. Though it isn't utterly imbalanced with the premium content in play, the new guns and perks are often better than the base game counterparts. Not only that, but the loading screens are littered with advertisements, outlining just how great the new weapons and skills are. The Frontier Rifle sits in between the Semi-Auto Rifle and the Hunting Rifle in terms of damage and fire rate; it takes two shots to down where the Semi-Auto takes three and it has a better fire rate than the Hunting Rifle. There are benefits to the default weapons. The Hunting Rifle can one-hit a full health enemy with a headshot where the Frontier Rifle cannot. The Semi-Auto Rifle can get three shots off before the Frontier Rifle can get two. However, comparing only body shots, the Frontier Rifle beats out the Hunting Rifle in fire rate. Taking recoil and staggering of a face-to-face encounter into account, it is often easier to land two shots with the Frontier Rifle than to land three shots with the Semi-Auto. The Tactical Shotgun exists in a similar space as the Frontier Rifle. It isn't unequivocally better than the comparable base game weapons, but it enjoys some advantages. The most obvious benefit it has over the Shotgun and the Double Barrel is increased range, able to down in two shots from a range that either of the others would fumble to do anything worthwhile. Less apparent is that it can be equipped as a starting weapon where the other long shotguns are both "purchaseables," only attainable during a match after scoring enough points. Embedded in that purchase is the opportunity cost of not saving up for ammunition, weapon upgrades, or armor. However, the most egregious offender in the Tactical Weapons pack is the Crossbow. It's difficult to measure the advantage it gives because there is no other comparable weapon. It fires silently like the Bow but doesn't arc. Nominally, it can down in two shots, but it has a special ability that makes it absurdly powerful in some situations. After hitting an enemy with it, that enemy will bleed until he heals or is downed. This also lets the shooter see where the target is and what he's doing during that time period. In effect, it can be a delayed one-hit kill. If the target has no health kit, he's toast. If he has a health kit and he starts healing, the Crossbow user can see the opening and move in for a sidearm or melee kill. Even if the target isn't downed, it still takes him out of the fight for a brief period of time as he retreats and heals. All from a single, silent shot. The Risk Management Survival Skills pack is also difficult to compare, since it adds unique abilities to the mix. Still, aside from Lone Wolf (which rewards players for striking out away from teammates), the skills included are all pretty enticing to me. As a player who focuses more on support than kills, Lucky Break (get more ingredients and items from cache boxes) and Second Chance (cheaper armor after multiple deaths) both would fit my play style well. Jack of All Trades bundles other skills together for fewer loadout points than they would be piecemeal, which appeals to the deal-seeker in me. It skirts the edge of pay-to-win without crossing that line, but it still feels wrong. The downloadable weapons and skills are not unequivocally better than the standard ones, but having more options to choose from does allow for greater adaptation to variable combat conditions. Premium content in a competitive multiplayer title doesn't have to feel this slimy. The paragon of the idea is probably Team Fortress 2, which has been incredibly successful despite its wealth of purchasable weapons and items. On the surface, the two situations look similar; in both The Last of Us and Team Fortress 2, there are guns with functional changes that can be purchased for real money. In practice, there are several design differences that add up to keep TF2 feeling fair where TLoU does not. One thing that Team Fortress 2 does with its weapons that The Last of Us could is to make it possible to acquire them through play in addition to by purchase. A lot of the weapons and survival skills in the base game are unlocked by collecting parts through play; there's no reason the downloadable extras couldn't be included as unlockables or even as random drops. Less easy to translate are the specific game design elements that allow TF2 to get away with purchased weapons. TF2's large team size (compared to TLoU's four-player teams) allow for any discrepancy to be absorbed. If an overpowered weapon showed up in Valve's shooter, it would be on just one of twelve or sixteen opponents. Not only that, but the faster gameplay allows for quicker reaction; changing class or loadout in response to a particular weapon or tactic is much more tenable in TF2 than in TLoU. On that note, Team Fortress 2's class-based system still trumps any advantage a purchased weapon could afford. Sure, a Spy might get some equipment that lets him costume change more quickly, but he's still going to be beaten by a Pyro flame-checking his teammates. On top of all that, there's the immutable fact that Team Fortress 2 is a proper free-to-play title. It costs nothing to play, where The Last of Us potentially cost players $60 (or more for those who bought the original and upgraded on PS4). Adding free-to-play elements into a paid retail game would feel sleazy even if it didn't have measurable gameplay effects. To reiterate, I think The Last of Us has fantastic multiplayer. In a market full of "me too" shooters emulating Call of Duty or Gears of War, it does its own thing. The problem comes with the feeling that I need to spend extra money (on top of the money the game itself cost) just in order to compete. It isn't exactly pay-to-win, but it leans in that direction, and Naughty Dog does the game a disservice with this unnecessary cash grab.
Where was the uproar about this?
[An earlier version of this piece had an inaccurate statistical description of one of the downloadable weapons. The offending paragraph has been updated for factual accuracy.] I know, I'm late to the party. Despite being inte...
The Last of Us actress 'wasn't prepared for the positive' response to Ellie's sexual orientation
Mar 13
// Laura Kate Dale
[Small spoilers below for The Last of Us.] When asked if she would be interested in reprising the role of Ellie in a future The Last of Us sequel, she replied simply with an energetic "Oh fuck yeah!" before apologizing to the amassed journalists for her use of language. When pushed on the issue and asked how she would go about portraying an older Ellie, she cautiously told us: It just depends if they want to revisit the story again. Ellie could go either way, [Joel] lied to her so you don't know how she would take that -- would she be mad at him, would she be okay with, there's many places you could go. Interestingly, we also learned that while Ashley Johnson has done on screen roles in huge projects like The Avengers, she is still recognized more often for her work voicing Ellie. I probably get recognized for The Last of Us more than anything, which is crazy because it isn't physically my face. Last of Us has changed my life in so many ways and we shot it for over three years so, and including the DLC I guess four, so being part of something for that long and the experiences you have, the relationships you form, I wouldn't change it for anything, it's one of my favorite things I've worked on. Considering Johnson was up against some pretty tough competition for this years Best Performance award including Kevin Spacey and Troy Baker, we asked her how she felt about her win and if there were any nominees she expected would win the award instead of her. I feel good, I mean I'm kind of a little overwhelmed I guess, shocked and um, yeah. Struggling to find my words. Everybody up for the award was awesome obviously, that's why they were all picked out. For me Troy Baker, and I'm not just saying that because I know him, but his character in Far Cry 4 was so ridiculous and amazing. Melissa Hutchison, I'm such a fan of those games, she's just incredible. Obviously Kevin Spacey, he's a pretty good actor. Those first two in particular though they both really stood out to me. Even though Ashley Johnson had just won a BAFTA for her performance as Ellie, we asked her if there were any aspects of her performance that she looks back on and cringes. There are definitely times playing through Left Behind where I wanted myself to get out of the way. Ellie would just get right in the way and I'd be like "just fucking move." She'd start whistling randomly and Clickers are right there and it's like "Okay they're right there can you please just shut up because now they're definitely going to hear us." Just as our time talking with Ashley was coming to a close, we decided to ask her a couple of ending questions about Left Behind being a coming out story for her character. Firstly, we wanted to know how she felt watching players learn that her character is gay. Usually when I try to tackle any role I know early on in the process what the sexual preference of that character is because that can be a huge part of who they are. With Ellie it was something that wasn't ever really discussed. I think with Ellie growing up in this world it wasn't something that was every really necessarily brought up. When we finally got to the DLC and Neil Druckmann told me what he wanted to do, I was like yeah of course, that completely makes sense for who Ellie is and why her relationship with Riley was so important to her. I was surprised by the way people reacted. We didn't know how people were going to respond and I think I was more prepared for the negative comments. What I wasn't as prepared for was the positive ones. I've had so many men and women come up to me and told me things sometimes they haven't even told their parents. It has profoundly changed my life. We finished up the interview by touching on the critical reception that Left Behind had. I wanted to know if Ashley Johnson thought Left Behind would have won the BAFTA for Best Story if Ellie had been in a heterosexual relationship rather than a homosexual one. I don't know, I think for me it's just hard to answer because now that's who Ellie is and that is what it is. I know that Neil didn't want to make that decision based on trying to make a crazy statement of get any kind of controversy. It was just a character based decision and I think that relationship did have a big impact on people. I don't know, but I'm really going to think about it. I think they definitely took some risks with the story. I think if you told most people Left Behind was just the story of two teenage girls hanging out and figuring out their place in the world, I think a lot of people wouldn't be interested in playing that. I think after the full game came out and players had a chance to connect with Ellie, I think they wanted to know more about who she was. I sat down with Neil and he told me what the story would be and he just sort of said to me "I think Ellie is gay, this is her story. I think Riley was her first love and that's the story that I want to tell" and right then I was like "Yeah, I'm on board, let's do it." I think in general the story is focused on their love and that relationship and the importance of that which excited me a lot.
An interview spanning high and low brow material
Last night Destructoid attended the videogame BAFTAs in order to do some hard-hitting journalism. Speaking to Ashley Johnson following her BAFTA win for Best Performance for voicing Ellie in The Last of Us and its story DLC L...
Last of Us film
Last of Us film 'pretty faithful' despite 'some big changes'
Rinko Kikuchi for Joel
Jan 27
// Steven Hansen
The Last of Us writer Neil Druckmann is working on the screenplay for the upcoming film and he's just finished a second draft, along with a table read with "a bunch of actors," according to a Game Informer interview. Sam Raim...
Writers Guild Award
Big names dominate Writers Guild Award nominations
Two Assassin's Creeds, Alien, and The Last of Us DLC
Jan 13
// Brett Makedonski
Anyone that's of the belief that mainstream videogames are often devoid of great writing will need to look somewhere other than the Writers Guild of America for vindication. The organization's nominees for Outstanding Achieve...
PS4 bundle
Buying a new PS4? If so, you're gonna get The Last of Us too
Not to be confused with The Last of Us 2, because that doesn't exist
Jan 13
// Brett Makedonski
Sony's sweetening the pot a bit for any prospective PlayStation 4 buyers. Beginning in the coming days, all PS4s will come bundled with a code to download a copy of The Last of Us: Remastered. The inclusion of Naughty Dog's m...
The Last of Us
Naughty Dog milks The Last of Us with more DLC
Crossbows and ski goggles and viking hats! Oh my!
Dec 09
// Kyle MacGregor
The promise of the subject line was alluring; the email's contents utterly deflating. Deadly new additions to The Last of Us multiplayer, Naughty Dog promised. Would it be a three-way firefight between Fireflies, hunters and...
Why I love The Last of Us multiplayer, in a nutshell
Nov 26
// Kyle MacGregor
Luckily, I'm well-stocked and have a plan. I have a shotgun, body armor, explosives, and a two-by-four if anyone gets too close; I'm a walking arsenal in a world where you're lucky to scrape together a full clip. I have a defensible position, and I've laid trip bombs at the entrances. They'll need to walk through an explosion or two if they want to come get me. That's my hope, at least. My teammate gets picked off out in the open. I'm all alone now. A sinking feeling sets in. My chances of pulling off an unlikely victory are dwindling with each passing second. They could just run out the clock. No, they'll charge my position. Look, here's one coming around the corner. I surprise him with a shotgun blast to the chest and finish the job with a rifle round. I'm still outnumbered, though, and they now know exactly where I am. Here they come. One sets off a trip bomb, buying me precious time to reload. My latest victim, I surmise, is getting healed by his teammate. Dare I go for the kill? Sure. What do I have to lose? Woah! As I approach them, a Molotov cocktail flies my way. But the throw is wide. Thank God! Quickly, I return the favor, engulfing the pair in deadly flames. My heart is pounding. Two enemies left. Still outnumbered. Always outnumbered. Twenty seconds. It's do or die. One enemy rushes straight at me. My shotgun makes quick work of him. Now it's mano-a-mano. I see a blip on my radar and dart toward it. There's no time to think. A bomb sails my way. I run through it, desperately, then take an arrow to the chest. My body armor now gone, I manage to get one shot off, lighting up my final foe at point blank. Victory! [embed]284285:56457:0[/embed] The Last of Us multiplayer is filled with little moments like these, harrowing times that see players walk along a knife-edge. Some will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Others will succumb to the pressure. Maybe they'll just get plain unlucky. Oftentimes it doesn't matter how talented you are. A cohesive team can fell even the toughest of opponents. The outcome really doesn't matter. All I care about is the intoxicating feeling that comes before. The feeling of blood rushing through your veins. The adrenaline. It's the reason I play the game, the reason I shall continue to play it for years to come. Come join me sometime. It's a blast.
The intoxicating rush of everything hanging in the balance
We're outnumbered, down to our last pair of lives. The clock is ticking; it's as much of a threat to my team's survival as the four armed men bearing down on our position. I don't like our chances -- not one bit -- but moments like this, they're the reason I play the game.
The Last of Us GOTY
Sony: Last of Us actually deserves its GOTY Edition
Game of the Year Edition for The Last of Us hitting PS3 in Europe next month
Oct 25
// Kyle MacGregor
Just like every other game these days, The Last of Us is getting a Game of the Year edition. However, unlike some other games, Naughty Dog's latest probably deserves one, Sony argues. "With over 250 Game of the Year...
The Last of Us
The next multiplayer maps for The Last of Us will be free
Naughty Dog's way of saying thanks for putting up with matchmaking woes
Aug 21
// Jordan Devore
Naughty Dog has been working to address issues with long wait times in The Last of Us' multiplayer matchmaking and while progress has been made on that front, there's more left to do. "Over the last two weeks, we've discovere...
Naughty Dog is throwing a Photo Mode contest for The Last of Us Remastered
How's that for extra motivation?
Aug 15
// Jordan Devore
Capturing cool, beautiful, or otherwise standout moments in videogames can be such a joy, and I'm hopeful that more developers will follow the recent examples set by inFamous: Second Son and The Last of Us Remastered by inclu...
The Last of Us
Here's some new junk to outfit your characters with in The Last of Us Remastered
Just in time for the Season Pass to be over
Aug 07
// Brittany Vincent
The Last of Us Remastered released last week and the first DLC bundles have been released. On August 5, the Grit and Gear Bundle was released which includes six new items which are: Skull Cowboy Hat Welding Mask Fire Weldin...
The Last of Us
The Last of Us: Remastered shoots to the top of the UK sales charts
Fourth largest launch ever on PS4
Aug 04
// Brett Makedonski
In the weeks leading up to the release of The Last of Us: Remastered, Sony said that "a huge portion" of PS4 owners hadn't previously played the original version on PS3. It seems that's certainly the case in the UK, or a...
Called to duty
Called to duty: Two Naughty Dog designers join Infinity Ward
Aug 01
// Steven Hansen
A couple of Naughty Dogs have gone to join Riley the Call of Duty dog at Infinity Ward. Twelve year Naughty Dog veteran and narrative design lead Taylor Kurosaki split to the nationalistic shooter factory, he announ...
How to stop sucking at The Last of Us multiplayer
Jul 30
// Kyle MacGregor
Running Running is terrible. Do not do it. You wouldn't run in the single-player campaign. A clicker would eat Joel's face before he could even break a sweat. Running in multiplayer is similarly stupid. In a game about stealth and survival the last thing you want to do is tell the enemy where you are. And this is exactly what running does. Should you not heed this sage advice, you'll pop up on the opponent's radar. This is not a good thing. Unless it's a life or death situation and you need to get away quickly, running just isn't worth it. You're liable to have someone creep up behind you and shiv you in the neck. That someone is me. People who run are my favorite. They are easy to kill. Don't be my favorite. Medical malpractice Again, this game is about survival more than anything. Getting kills is good. Staying alive is better. And if your chief goal is not dying, your secondary mission should be preventing your teammates from doing the same. It doesn't matter how good you are if one of your pals is draining your shared bank account of lives. So, how do you do that? Well, death is a two step process. First you'll get "downed," which means you get to crawl around on the ground for a bit while bleeding out. However, should a friend amble over to your soon-to-be corpse, they can help get you back on your feet. This allows you to keep on truckin' and your mate will get some points for the trouble. It's a win-win, really. I've bled at out people's feet before, though. Some people will just refuse to heal you for no good reason. Don't be one of these people. These people are the worst. Stealing kills The second stage of dying is "executions." While bleeders are crawling around, you can shoot at them or stomp on their head or whatever sick thing your heart desires. Doing this means their teammates won't be able to rescue them. It also earns you some points. Now, points are just lovely. They let you buy things like shotguns and body armor. I like shotguns and body armor. So, naturally, stealing someone's ability to get some goodies by swooping in and taking the products of their hard-earned murder is kind of a dick move. This isn't the biggest deal in the world, but you might want that guy you stole from to help you later on. And maybe he'd rather let you bleed out at his feet while he messages you homophobic epithets over PSN. This thing I do to be a jerk Sometimes you and an enemy will both "down" one another simultaneously. The hope in these situations is that one of your pals will save you. It doesn't always happen, though. Say all your buddies are on the other side of the map and you're certain to die. In these instances I'll position my body in such a way that it prevents my fallen foes from getting extricated by their comrades. Basically, if I'm going down I'm taking you with me. I'm a jerk like that. Maybe you have honor, though. Or maybe I'm the person you "downed." In these cases you may wish to reconsider. I do not enjoy getting my just desserts. Lone wolfing it In team sports, being selfish is generally discouraged. A solid unit is likely to outperform a group of folks running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. In terms of The Last of Us, wandering off on your own only to find yourself surrounded isn't a great feeling. I'm guilty, of course, which is why I find myself in situations where I use my dying body to prevent my enemies from being rescued. This is mostly because that one guy in my party won't stop running and keeps giving away my position while I'm trying to sneak up on someone and shiv them in the neck. Ugh. That guy obviously didn't read the first rule listed in this article. Pretending to be a DJ This one is just a personal pet peeve of mine. Right now, there are 167 different people around the world letting a mess of others know just how crappy their taste in music is via tinny headset mics. These people deserve to die. You know, someday. Peacefully in their sleep at the ripe old age of 87 and surrounded by loving grandchildren, I hope. But maybe before that day arrives they'll be walking by a puddle and a car will splash them with muddy water. Comeuppance. Other than that, the best advice I can give you is to keep your head down, be sneaky, and shoot to kill. It's a brutal game and you're probably going to suck at it for a while. You'll get better, though. Maybe. As long as you don't run. Running is just awful.
Don't make these mistakes
Have you played The Last of Us yet? Maybe, maybe not. You probably should, though. It's really a lovely game. And it's now on PS4, which means there's an actual reason to use that thing as something other than a Netflix deliv...
What's Up: Unreal Tournament, AC Unity, X-Men trading cards, DOOM II RPG
Jul 29
// Max Scoville
This one's for you, Morph.
Today there are a bunch of new trailers for games like Assassin's Creed Unity, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and The Last of Us Remastered (which is on sale) but Bill and I would rather talk about superhero cartoons from twenty years ago, and guns we can't remember the names of in Unreal Tournament.
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70. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
I know the Tracker is the Target Finder what I was implying is the Thermal is a more effective scope to use as a target finder.
I should have phrased it better.Rexens_View (in response to malditor) Member
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71. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
Also the Thermal in Ghosts is vastly different to BO2's thermal hybrid.
One is Green Nightvision with yellow body heat the other is thermal infra-red in gray-scale which shows players significantly better than it's predecessor.Rexens_View (in response to malditor) Member
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72. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
I disagree.
Your ping to your local ISP test server is in no way indicative of how your P2P matchmaking experience will play out.
The host may be 2,000 miles away from you where as the local ISP server is usually very close.
Then you have to factor in the hosts internet connection plus packet loss, congestion etc....
I agree with your point about the map integration splitting the player pool.
It is splitting an already small player-base into tiny ones where you have a significantly reduced good connection chance.
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73. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
I can play on really well on shaped internet speed @ 256kbs.
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74. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
You know you can always take extreme examples to try to disprove something but the fact that you used an extreme example proves in fact it is in fact true. Fact, if I have a 5ms ping to my ISP router and the next guy has 100ms and everything else is equal my connection will be better. If you want to claim you are right because you are looking at exceptions to the rule you really haven't added anything to the discussion.rainmaker6 (in response to Rexens_View) Member
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75. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
Damn you are stupid.
Extreme examples ? I call it reality mate.
Fact, your ping will be 5ms BECAUSE the test server is so close.
Try assigning a long and mid distance test server and see what you ping is.
Nothing is ever equal when you are taking into account hundreds if not thousands of variable that make up data connections.......
Fact, if I have a 5ms ping to my ISP router and the next guy has 100ms and everything else is equal my connection will be better
FACT: Your ping most certainly does not mean your connection will be better to the host.
If the host has a 100ms ping TO YOU then you will have a 100ms ping TO HIM.
If some random guy has a 100ms ping then it is TO HIS TEST SERVER, not yours (unless you call him and say "designate test server XXX and tell me your ping").
Otherwise I could designate my neighbour as a test server and I would have like a 1 or 2ms ping which has no bearing as to my connection to someone on the other side of the country.
A ping measured from a commercial or interdependently hosted test server is not indicative to your peer-to-peer connection to someone else's router/console.
Stop making ridiculous, made up statements Rain then claiming them as fact without researching.
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76. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
That will be the death of COD.ANWRambo (in response to llarc84) Member
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77. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
Oh my God how I agree with you right now. I don't think I have ever been as mad at this game then I was a few minutes ago. Damn near slammed my controller on the ground, thought about it and realized I didn't want to end up with a broken controller because of a broken game, and took my pillow and slammed it on my bed multiple times instead. Why? Because of the sh**ty spawns.
I really don't get it. With most of the maps being medium to large size, how do you explain or even come close to justifying spawning a guy right next to me multiple times in a row? I mean seriously. While Infinity Ward is busy getting Snoop Dogg or Snoop Lion doing voiceovers for the game, how about fixing the f****ing respaws. I swear its super hard to enjoy playing this game anymore and I'm so very very close to getting back whatever money I can for it and moving on. At least I would still have all the other Cods to play. I honestly like this game, but its hard to keep supporting it sometimes.
The spawns, the matchmaking, the lag, I don't know, its just like it all of a sudden got very bad every since the new maps went into the regular rotation. 1 step forward, 2 steps back with IW. I get it, their trying to save their game by making it more desirable to buy with the all cool DLC, but please fix the problems it has. That will make it plenty desirable for me.
Rant over.llarc84 (in response to ANWRambo) Member
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78. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
The thing is with the spawns, it usually happens when one or two people from the opposing team decide to rush a spawn and with the rest of the team getting multiple kills at once, making a temporary spawn trap. I have a game from yesterday, which something similar happened. Given I was the player rushing, but will it will literally show players getting killed and spawning pretty much in front of me leading to another kill. You have me on PSN anyway, I will post the gameplay later on and you can see it for yourself.DocChoi (in response to llarc84) Member
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79. Re: The community will be what kills Call of Duty
Just because two completely different things have a time limit and a score included... does not make them comparable. I was really hoping you would explain it to me. If someone is going to tell me I'm wrong about something, at least tell me why I am wrong.
So tell me how a NFL game is the same as a TDM game.
Last time I checked, NFL games had a time limit, with no score limit.
TDM is a game that is supposed to be won by score limit, with a time limit to keep a game from dragging out to silly lengths, same with most games mode really.
So like I said earlier, when TDM has no score limit and plays to the timer, or when a NFL team can win in the 3rd quarter by score limit, you can compare them. Instead of saying you cannot explain something to me, why not enlighten me. If you can tell me why that is wrong, I won't argue the fact. Nothing wrong with providing an insightful post to someone who is confused about a matter. Is that not one of the reasons the forums are here?Mikenasty_1 (in response to Bubbakush) Member

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little A artist
I'm jealous of those people who know what they want to be when they grow up. Even more so if they've always known. At age 6, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was "a horse." By the time I finished high school, I wasn't much better prepared for the world.
I took the scenic route through college, so it took me a bit longer than most to graduate. I was 25 when I graduated with a BS in Physics, and still I had zero idea what I wanted to do with my life. I sort of fell into a job as a network administrator for a small security company. I stayed there for a couple of years and then started working for local government. Over the years, my responsibilities here have changed.
During my tenure here, I've had some times when I detested my job so much that it made me depressed. As part of our employee assistance program, I was able to see a career counselor. She gave me a litany of tests in order to determine what field might be proper for me.
After several weeks of tests and exercises, the results came back. According to my personality and temperament, I should be an artist. I do like to make things. I've always considered myself more of a "crafter" than an "artist". I didn't make anything that I considered "art". I knitted a bit, sewed, and did other general "crafty" things. I believed that there was no way that I could support myself as an artist. I declared that I was entirely too addicted to eating and having a roof over my head to consider a career as an artist.
My counselor told me something that has come to be my motto. If I couldn't be an artist as my career, I needed to create things in my spare time to feed that need or else I would forever be unhappy. It's absolutely true. When I get super depressed, I can look back at the last few weeks and will realize that I've not made anything. All I have to do is pick up a project and make a little progress on it and my happiness returns. Or I can take an art class. I just have to give my brain something creative to work on.
These days, I call myself "craftmaster" of my own tiny label. I still dabble with many different mediums, expert at none, but I am beginning to see myself as an artist. I am not an "Artist", but definitely an "artist".
I still don't know what I want to be "when I grow up". But I know more about myself and what it takes to make me happy. That matters more than what I do to pay the bills.
Stuffed Bread
Back in the mid to late 80s, there was an Italian restaurant in town called Enza's. I never set foot in the place, but every so often my Pop would bring home a loaf of their stuffed bread for dinner. Enza's has existed in Lexington at various times over the years, most recently they were in Eastland Shopping Center, but they're gone from there now too. Internet research tells me the owner was Enza Morris. The stuffed bread is a loaf of white bread containing 3 meats (at least when my Dad picked them up) and some cheese. You eat it with their marinara sauce.
For the last week or two, stuffed bread has been on my mind. I used to make it back in the mid nineties, and I think I did a fairly good job. I don't think I've made it for the last 20ish years though. I probably burned myself out on it at some point, and then it just disappeared from my brain. I got to the point on friday that I was totally obsessing about it, so I knew for sure that I'd have to make it this weekend. Turns out, I had to make it twice.
The biggest problem with stuffed bread is that you have to know several hours ahead that you want it. It's not hard to make, just time intensive.
It's more method than recipe. So, I'm going to give you the step by step. Some of my pics are sideways, and some of them out of focus, but you're getting them anyway. I'm sure you'll get the drift.
Salt crusted potatoes
Recently, on some cooking show or other, (I watch a lot of them) we saw salt crusted potatoes. On friday, we attempted them. Super easy and very yummy.
Start with some small potatoes. I think that the recipe I found called for fingerlings. I used some sort of small golden potato that Kroger had. Put them in a saucepan with enough water to cover and a handful of kosher salt. Boil until done, then pour off most of the water and return to heat. Continue cooking (but watch so they don't burn) until the water has all evaporated and the salt is sticking to the potatoes. Scrumptious!
The recipe I found called for brushing off most of the salt. We didn't do that. We also didn't make up any sort of weird sauce to go with. We just ate them with a little butter.
I will definitely have to remember this one, it was so easy.
Pig Pickin'
My favorite cake is a wonderful thing. I adore it so. My auntie who is such a great cook came up with the recipe one million years ago when dinosaurs walked the earth and I was maybe a teen. She's not a restaurant style cook, she is one of those fabulous church ladies who show their love through food. I've been told that she makes the best chicken n' dumplings on the planet, but I don't much care for chicken and dumpllngs, so I don't have much frame of reference.
Anyway, she brought this cake to some family function or other and ever since then it has been my favorite cake, I sometimes make it for my birthday. I thought I'd share with you. I'm guessing the recipe probably originally came from Kraft foods, due to how many of their products are included.
Pig Pickin' Cake
1 box yellow cake mix
1/2 cup oil (I use vegetable)
4 eggs
1 can mandarin oranges
1 cup coconut
1 cup pecans
Mix all of these ingredients together (including juice from mandarin oranges!) and spread between 3 cake pans. Bake @ 350F for 30-35 minutes. Let layers cool. Then frost with:
1 large container of cool whip
2 boxes instant vanilla pudding
1 can crushed pineapple
Throw all of these ingredients into a bowl and mix (including pineapple juice) then spread on cooled cake. Refrigerate cake.
I managed to give most of my cake away, so I didn't have to eat it until I was sick of it. Since Sparks doesn't like it, that leaves a lot for me to eat.
the quest for the perfect pizza crust
A couple of weeks ago, while watching The Worst Cooks In America, I saw them make pizza dough from scratch. Surely the recipe they gave them was foolproof, right? I decided to try it out myself.
I tried for the first time last week. My crust was rock hard. I think that is due to rolling it out.
I tried that same recipe this week, adding a bit more moisture (I had trouble getting all of the flour mixed in last week) and not rolling it, just forming it by hand. I decided to forgo the pre-bake this week, thinking that may have contributed to the hardness. This time the crust was a bit doughy in the middle, but overall much better. I probably should have given it a pre-bake this time. *laughs*
My facebook friends have been full of suggestions and links to recipes. This morning, my pal Charley showed up at my desk with his wife's pizza crust recipe. I'll definitely give it a shot next. It doesn't even require rise time! It does, however require "pizza yeast". I didn't know such a thing existed.
Last week, post rock hard pizza, I wanted something chocolatey. Really, I wanted a chocolate souffle, but that was just way too much effort for 9pm on a tuesday when I'd already spent the last 4 hours cleaning the kitchen. Plus, I didn't want to make something huge that would hang around for days. I ended up settling on a recipe for chocolate lava cakes that made exactly two. I used this recipe. It took all of about 3 minutes to mix up and was great. While it was baking, I threw some freezerburned raspberries into a pot with some sugar and turned them into a nice sauce (they were only a little freezer burned) and whooped up some sweetened cream. The recipe was so awesome that I repeated it the next night. I need to repeat it once more, I've got just enough raspberry sauce left for about one more round.
If next week's pizza crust is a winner, I'll post the recipe. Until then, here's the text of the recipe for those fine lava cakes.
Chocolate molten lava cakes for two
1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 TBSP butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar, plus extra for garnish
1 egg
3 TBSP all-purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 TBSP Nutella (optional)
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Generously grease 2 ramekins with non-stick cooking spray. Place the ramekins on a baking sheet and set aside.
In a medium, microwave-safe bowl, melt the chocolate chips and butter in the microwave for about 1 and 1/2 minutes. Stir every 30 seconds until smooth.
Add the powdered sugar and mix until incorporated. Then add the egg and whisk until smooth.
Stir in flour and vanilla extract and mix until no lumps remain.
Evenly distribute the batter into the two prepared ramekins and put the baking pan into oven.
Bake the cakes for 12 minutes.
Remove the cakes from the oven and let them rest for 1 minute before inverting onto a plate.
Dust with powdered sugar and a dollop of Nutella if desired. You can also garnish with berries, ice cream or chocolate sauce for a super indulgent treat!
Yield: Two servings
The wire core bracelet tutorial
A livejournal friend asked me how I go about spinning wire. I took photos of the whole process from wire to bracelet. There are a million pics under the cut.
the spun wire bracelet
A few weeks ago, I saw a very lovely bracelet in one of the fiber/spinning communities on facebook. I loved it and thought that surely I could replicate it. I watched a couple of videos on youtube about spinning fiber onto a wire core. That was my project for the last Second Saturday Spin-In. Spinning onto a wire core isn't really as tough as I thought. The only snag is getting the fiber to catch as you start spinning. But once it's started, it goes pretty easily. I used a "demented batt" from my local yarn seller/dyer, Lunabud Knits. It has lots of colors and sparkles in it so it makes for a crazy yarn.
Then, I went to my local bead shop, Dandelion Bead Connection, and asked the owner of the shop for some help on what to use as a core and how to attach my hardware. He helped me out immensely. I sat down on Sunday and attacked the project. It was surprisingly simple!
For starters, I created my "core". The guy at the bead shop had given me a giant black rubber o-ring, like 8 mm diameter and 4 feet long. I cut off enough to go around my wrist. Then, I used the dremel to drill some tiny holes though the rubber about 1/4 inch from each end. I secured my wire into these holes and created small rings on each end. it didn't matter that they were ugly, the fiber wire covers them up! Once each end had a loop, I started wrapping the bracelet with the fiber covered wire. This process is a bit tedious and gives me a cramp in my hand but isn't difficult. I just had to be sure to wrap it tightly. As you can probably see, my "yarn" was a bit thicker in some spots than others. That just adds to the beauty, I think. Once the bracelet was wrapped, I put a wee bit of glue on each end just to keep it from unraveling. Then I used split rings to attach a clasp. I like the toggle clasps best for bracelets. I find them easier to connect one handed than the others.
My only regret(?) about this bracelet is that the o-ring is a bit more rigid than I would like. It is kind of stiff feeling on my wrist. I think that once I've used up all of my o-ring supply (I have enough to make a half dozen or so bracelets) then I will try flexible tubing.
I enjoyed this project so much that I may make a handful of these in the coming weeks.
lettuce wraps
I totally and completely adore PF Chang. I could eat there weekly. I don't think that I've had anything there that I didn't like. The local one went through a phase for a while where the spring rolls were overly greasy, but the last couple of times I've been there they'd corrected that.
It wasn't until recently that I tried their lettuce wraps. I'd had them other places and didn't care for them, but theirs were terrific.
Last night, I was hungry (skipped lunch, I do that a lot) and decided to stop by the Kroger and just let inspiration hit. I walked directly in to the produce section and looked around. I was kind of having an urge for a vegetable of some sort. I've been eating a lot of crap this week. There was a lovely little head of bibb lettuce and it told me that it wanted to be a lettuce wrap. I tend to like leafy lettuces more than iceberg. So, I popped on the intertubes and found this recipe. I liked the face that I had all of the ingredients for the sauce, so all I had to pick up were the chicken, mushrooms, and water chestnuts. I used ground chicken instead of chicken breasts and doubled the veggies since I had what I thought was double the meat. I also fried up a few rice noodles, those are scrumdiddlyumptious! Our lettuce wraps were great, Sparks says maybe even better than the ones at PF Chang. We have quite a bit left over, so I'm thinking that I may make some rice this afternoon and have it with the leftover chicken mixture for dinner.
Yesterday, I spent the whole time at work knitting and watching vidoes on the YouTubes since I've figured out how to get there through the fire wall. I finished the first of the January projects. I started the next one while watching The Hobbit (first part) with Sparks last night.
We slept in today until about 12:30 and I've cleaned the kitchen. I'm feelilng pretty good about that. Of course, maybe I shouldn't since I had left all of those dishes sitting for a week. For the rest of the day, maybe I'll play some WoW, I haven't gotten to do that in almost 2 weeks! I was so busy with party prep, the giftmas prep, then giftmas itself and knitting and such that I haven't played since before they connected our realm to another.
There's nothing amazing going on in Yshaville today, I just wanted to share that recipe with you guys. *grins*
40 garlic chicken
I've got a chicken in the crockpot, it's been going for a couple of hours, still needs a couple. For the first time I am trying it without adding a lot of liquid to it. My friend Mari is the one who told me that I could do a whole chicken in the crockpot. We just didn't use one when I was a kid. But a few years ago, just after she'd told me about cooking a whole chicken in one I was at Meijer and they had this crockpot on sale for $10 and whole chickens were on sale that week too! Kismet!
Anyhow, whenever I make chicken in the crockpot, I will throw in a few cloves of sliced garlic. We love garlic around here! Today, I was reminded of the first time I made "garlic chicken".
I was either 18 or 19. Mom and Dad hadn't been split up for too long, so I hadn't been the chief cook for very long. I was still feeling my way through things and learning. Heck, I'm STILL learning, I always will be. I like learning new stuff, especially about food.
It was Christmas day and it had snowed something like 12 inches overnight. The roads were a nightmare. So, instead of making the traditional trip to my Gran's house (90 minutes each way over very curvy mountain roads) I decided to stay home. This was an unheard of luxury for me. It might have been the very first time I'd ever missed Christmas with the whole famn-damily.
I looked through the cookbook for something that I could do with a couple of chicken breasts for dinner since I had a bag full in the freezer. I found a recipe for something along the lines of "40 garlic chicken". In those days I had not yet discovered fresh garlic. The only garlic I'd ever used was the dried/powdered kind. You see where this is going, don't you?
I read on the bottle that blah blah teaspoons equals a clove of garlic. I used enough of the dried crap to be 40 cloves worth and covered the chicken with it and put in the oven. I have to say, that was pretty gross. We didn't eat very much of it, that's for sure. *laughs*
I've come pretty far since then. Now I'm almost never without a bulb or three of fresh garlic in the house and I only use powdered garlic when I'm making a seasoned flour for coating something. I don't even keep the pre-chopped stuff in the fridge anymore. (it has a slightly pickled flavor that I don't care for)
My chicken smells great, I am looking forward to it being done.
comfort food
Often, when I have an awful, no good, terribly bad day I want comfort food. For me that means snooty cheeses. Sometimes with a little fruit on the side, sometimes not. If I'd remembered that I had grapes in the fridge last night I totally would have eaten those, but I forgot.
Our Kroger is in the midst of expanding into a Super-Mega-Kroger that can be seen from space. They've finished the first section of the renovations and have added a Murray's cheese shop. Last night, I finally gave them a proper perusal instead of just glancing as I walked past.
The first thing I found that caught my eye was a Fromager d'Affinois. While I was reading the sign, the fromagiere (ok, I might have made that word up, like a sommelier but for cheese) offered to give me a sample. It was a Prima Donna gouda with a tiny bit of strawberry basil jelly. I was immediately in love!
Prima Donna gouda is drier and sharper than a regular gouda. It's reminiscent of a parmesan, only not quite that sharp. I got a wedge of that and a wedge of the fromager d'Affinois and a jar of that strawberry basil jelly and headed home.
I think that a good cheese plate will always have three cheeses. Any more and you start getting confused, any less and you don't have enough variety. Each cheese should be of a different type, too. One needs to be creamy, one stinky, and one somewhere in the middle. So, I dug in the bottom of the fridge and found a chunk of stilton that had been there for at least a year. No worries, it was still vacuum packed, so it hadn't even molded. Well, it had no more mold than stilton usually does. I added these rosemary crackers from Kroger that I've been grooving on for quite a while.
Lo' back in the stone ages, when I was but a girl, I loved a TV show called Twin Peaks. If you haven't seen it, check it out. In one of the very first episodes, Jerry (who has been overseas) introduces his brother Ben to a butter and brie sandwich on a baguette. It sounded so good at the time, that I just had to try it. I'd never even had brie at that point. It was the most amazing thing I'd ever put in my plebeian mouth. I still love that combination and it's another of my comfort foods.
Fromager d'Affinois is like butter and brie already mixed together. It's creamy and mild and buttery and scrumptious. It is absolutely wonderful. This will definitely become one of my favorite cheeses, and I do lurves me some cheese.
After partaking of my cheese plate and a couple of cans of the "house wine" (otherwise known as Pepsi for me or Mountain Dew for Sparks) I felt a lot less frazzled. I went to bed and read for the next few hours until it was time for sleep. A very relaxing evening indeed!


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BOULDER, Colo. - Freshman Josh Scott scored 14 points in his first game for Colorado, leading the Buffaloes to a 74-59 victory over Wofford on Friday night in the season opener for both teams.
Askia Booker and Spencer Dinwiddie added 13 points apiece for the Buffaloes, who improved to 30-3 in home openers at the Coors Events Center, including a string of five straight. The school unveiled a banner before the game commemorating last season's Pac-12 tournament championship, when the Buffaloes won four games in four days to advance to the NCAA tournament for the first time in nine years.
Karl Cochran scored 22 points to lead Wofford, playing the first of seven straight games away from home to start the season. Spencer Collins added 16 points for the Terriers, who began the season with seven freshmen on their roster.
Trailing by 11 at the break, Wofford opened the second half with a 3-pointer by Cochran. But Colorado responded with a 13-2 burst that Dinwiddie ignited with a breakaway dunk off a steal.
Scott converted a three-point play and Sabatino Chen drained a fadeaway jumper around Wofford's only points in that span, a jumper by Cochran as Colorado pulled away to a 47-26 lead with 15:01 left to play.
Wofford could not threaten the rest of the way.
Colorado led 34-23 at halftime, regaining a double-digit advantage in the last 1:08 of the period when Eli Stalzer scored on a goal-tended basket and Booker connected on a jumper.
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The road to sustainability has lanes for more than just cars
But the political leadership and federal transportation spending priorities are behind the times. Of the $835 million in federal funds administered by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for the nine Bay Area counties in 2006-07, 51.4 percent went to maintain and expand state highways. Only 2.5 percent went for expansion of public transit, and 2.4 percent for bike and pedestrian projects. Overall, Paine said, about 80 percent of all state and federal transportation funding goes to facilities for automobiles, leaving all modes of transportation to fight for the rest.
"Historically we favor the automobile at the expense of all those other modes," Radulovich said at a forum of experts assembled by the Guardian (a recording of the discussion is available at sfbg.com). "It's been given primacy, and I think everyone around this table is saying, in one way or another, that we need a more balanced approach. We need a more sustainable, sensible, and just way of allocating space on our roads."
Yet the Bay Area is now locking in those wasteful patterns of the past with plans for about $6 billion in highway expansions, which means the MTC will have to spend even more every year keeping those roads in shape. Highway maintenance is the biggest line item in the MTC budget, at $275 million.
"We can't pay for what we have now — to maintain it, repair it, seismically retrofit it — so why we're building more is kind of beyond me," Radulovich said. "We continue to invest in the wrong things."
The experts also question big-ticket transit items such as the Central Subway project, a 1.7-mile link from SoMa to Chinatown that will cost an estimated $1.4 billion to build and about $4 million per year to run.
"There are 300 small capital projects we need to see," Snyder said. "That's really the answer. The idea of a few big capital projects as the answer to our problems is our problem. What we really need are 100 new bike lanes. We need 500 new bus bulbs. We need 300 new buses. It's not the big sexy project, but 300 small projects."
The most cost-efficient, environmentally effective transportation projects, according to renowned urban design thinkers such as Jan Gehl from Denmark, are those that encourage walking or riding a bike.
"I think Jan Gehl put it best, which is to say a city that is sweet to pedestrians and sweet to bicyclists is going to be a sustainable city," Fraser said. "So I think focusing on those two particular modes of transportation meets the other goals of the financial viability because they're the cheapest ways to get people around — and the healthiest ways — which I submit is one of the other criteria for sustainable transportation.... And it helps with the social justice and social connections."
In fact, transportation sustainability has far-reaching implications for communities such as San Francisco.
"I think of sustainability in two ways," Fraser said. "The first is sustainability for the environment. And since I have a background in health care, I think of a sustainable transportation system as one that's actually healthy for us. In the past at least 50 years, we've actually engineered any kind of active transportation — walking to work or to school, biking to school — out of our cities."
But it can be engineered back into the system with land use policies that encourage more density around transit corridors and economic policies that promote the creation of neighborhood-serving commercial development.
"If my day-to-day needs can be met by walking, I don't put pressure on the transportation system," Manish Champsee, a Mission District resident who heads the group Walk SF, told us.


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A real classic is on deck for the second installment of Friday Flix. Fear & Loathing has gained such a diehard cult following, it would be wrong not to show it. A journalist and his lawyer start out on a trip to cover something pretty mundane. What ends up transpiring turns into one crazy trip that takes them throughout the western US in search of the American Dream with booze and psychedelics aplenty.
The movie starts at 8:30 and it's just $5 to get in. A small price to pay (really, small price) to hang out with a good movie, good food, friends, and your Mother's. The Tasting Room will be open from 4 until the end of the movie, so feel free to head on in a little earlier!
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iheartengineering found that the key to producing large parts without warping was to maintain a stable ambient thermal environment.
This was especially true because their offices are located in a converted brick warehouse building with concrete floors, lots of drafts, and inconsistent heating during the winter.
To deal with the unstable office temperatures, and to make sure that any objectionable vapors given off by the MakerBot were exhausted outside the building, they constructed a simple housing and venting system.
As a part of the venting design they needed a part to mate between the housing and off the shelf ducting. So they did what any self-respecting engineering firm would do - they quickly designed the part they needed, using open source CAD software of course, and printed it out on the MakerBot.
The special housing allows them to run the 3D printer continuously for hours, and sometimes for days, on end. The stable temperatures result in consistent prints as well as allowing them to produce parts as large as the MakerBot workspace will allow.
The already awesome DARwin-OP humanoid robot just got better. Robotis, the manufacturer of most of the servos, electronics, and hardware that goes into DARwin-op, announced the release of new force sensing feet.
The new feet include built-in force sensing resistors (FSR), and comes pre-assembled as a unit with hinge frames and covers. According to Robotis, swapping DARwin's existing feet with the new foot design should be very straight forward.(more…)
The Aldebaran NAO and ROMEO humanoid robots were featured on television, including interviews with some of the key Aldebaran management team.
For those already familiar with the NAO robot, the program doesn't really present anything new or exciting. It does, however, include some good close-up views of ROMEO - the company's life-sized/person-sized humanoid development project.(more…)
The researchers at Keio University here do some surprising work. They're breaking new ground with user interfaces and communication, both between man and machines, and between people. Their projects usually involve the application of readily available technology in new and different ways.
A good example is the PYGMY robot ring project presented by Masayasu Ogata (Anzai Imai Lab) at the Interaction 2012 Conference held last week in Tokyo.(more…)
Perhaps I'm missing something, it happens some times.
A recent article by Mark Brown on the Wired UK website presents the research being pursued by Yale Song and others at MIT exploring the potential to use hand gestures and body positions in a real time aircraft carrier environment to direct unmanned planes on the flight deck.
Their approach, which in some ways is similar to Microsoft's Kinect system, captures and analyzes the deck crew's body and hand motions extremely rapidly and with a high degree of accuracy in order to generate commands that the robotic drone aircraft can understand and respond to.(more…)
Uncle Bob (a.k.a. Robert Lam) has taught numerous humanoid robot builders how to create smooth, realistic motions, has designed a new and extremely affordable biped robot named "Wahoo".
Capable of smooth walking using only three servos, Wahoo can also be controlled by an Android based smartphone. Uncle Bob has an iOS version in the works as well.
The robot stands approximately 15 cm tall and sports an Android shaped body shell produced on a 3D printer. The servos are low-cost 9 gram types with 6 AAA batteries hidden in the robots legs. Communication with the smartphone is via Bluetooth, so it should be possible to control the robot from any Bluetooth enabled computer.(more…)
Sugiura Machine Design Office's innovative work applying robotics to fashion marketing via their Hina and Hina-Co animated and interactive display mannequins will be featured tomorrow (February 2, 2012) on the TV-Tokyo economic news program "MPlus 9".
The segment, scheduled for broadcast at 8:56 am, will include interviews with Tomio Sugiura, a leading Japanese designer of automated systems including state of the art wind turbines and other complex electromechanical devices. Sugiura is also well known as the creator of Dynamizer, the ROBO-ONE champion humanoid robot.
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At first glance it appears as if all of Philip K. Dick's worst fears about advertising have suddenly materialized in the middle of Shinagawa station, one of the busiest train stations in Japan. The main character featured in a Suntory advertisement for black oolong tea, with purported health benefits, seems to follow each and every passerby looking them straight in the eyes.(more…)


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2007 Hummer H3 Base 5 Cyl 3.7L
Transmissions & Drivetrains
Loud annoying metal rattle under truck.
It sounds like a heat shield for the catalytic converter but I'm not sure. This rattle happens ONLY between 15mph and 19mph. At 20mph it's totally gone. Also it rattles between these speeds whether your accelerating, decelerating, coasting in gear or even in neutral. It must be some sort of shield but maybe someone else has had something similar so I figured why not throw it out there and ask. Any clues???
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It sounds like a heat shield for the catalytic converter or the honey comb inside the cat. If it is the cat, this vehicle is still under the warranty for 8 years or 80 K miles.


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We have had our harbinger of hot. The highs may be comfortably back in the low 80s — or not — by the time you read this, but the long summer scorchers inevitably arrive and bring with them the question of what to drink.
On a 110-degree day, my best advice is to break out the iced cucumber water.
105? A light cold beer might work.
But for all our grousing, temperatures in that range are sporadic and fleeting. For most of the summer a nice bottle of chilled white wine will be the perfect accompaniment to our summer bounty.
For variety, I might chill a Marr Cellars Grenache or pop the cork on a Capay Valley Sparkling Viognier. But I keep the refrigerator stocked with my latest still white finds.
My current collection includes several whites I've written about recently, like the Savoie Aprémont (France) and Il Poggio Trebbiano (Italy). I've also written before — but not recently — about the slightly sprtizy Tintero Grancia (Italy). This light and happy wine, a Kermit Lynch import, is made of favorita (a Piedmonte native) and chardonnay, which are fermented separately and then blended with unfermented Moscato. Alive with both fruit and flowers (think lychee and roses), it's the perfect wine to sip on the patio while you watch the sun go down. I might even substitute this refreshing bottle for that beer on a 105 degree day. You can find all three of these zesty and delicious wines at Valley Wine Company for around $10.
To these persistent favorites I've added some new discoveries like the Banyan Gewürtztraminer, which I've been recommending to all my friends, so get a few bottles before they disappear. This is a quality wine at an affordable price (on sale at the Co-op for $10). Made by Kenny Likitprakong to go with the Thai food of his heritage, it pairs well with all sorts of summer vegetable-based dishes, too. And fish. Say "gewürz" and most people think "sweet," but dry gewürz, common in Germany, Italy and France, has taken hold here as well.
(Beware. Even a dry gewürz like this one, can trick the palate into thinking "sweet" because of its low acidity and intense floral and sweet fruit aromas. I've seen sweet-hating tasters reject it after just one sip. But please don't. As you drink — and as you add a bite of bread and brie or a few toasted almonds — that sweet sensation gradually lessens.)
The grapes for the Banyan come from the Arroyo Seco area in Monterey County, and for wine at this price, the result is surprisingly complex. Some friends were so impressed by their first taste that they opened a bottle of Navarro dry gewürz to do a comparison. Halfway through the experiment (that is, after several well-paced alternate sips and some appetizers), I thought the Navarro finish was a bit lusher and more persistent, but the Banyan held its own — quite an accomplishment against a wine twice its price.
Kenny Likitprakong has a reputation in wine circles for his quirky inventiveness. A passionate skateboarder and snowboarder, he doesn't take himself or his unconventional winemaking too seriously. And he tries hard to produce wine that "even a hobo can afford" (hence his Hobo and Folk Machine labels). If you like the Banyan, try some of Kenny's other wines, more expensive than the Banyan (around $20, which I wouldn't necessarily place within "hobo" range) but less expensive than such carefully made, small production, risk-taking wines would usually cost.
I'm also collecting bottles of a Spanish white called Ercavio (Valley Wine Company $10). The winery, Mas Que Vinos, is the project of three winemakers and friends — Alexandra Schmedes, Margarita Madrigal and Gonzalo Rodriguez — who were intrigued by the vineyards near Gonzalo's native Toledo. They renovated an old family winery that had been growing cencibel (tempranillo), garnacha and airèn, a grape native to the area and very widely planted but not very highly regarded because it produced a lot of cheap, bland white wine. But Ercavio, 100 percent airèn, is well and carefully made, the grapes handpicked and cold fermented in stainless steel.
The result is a lively, fruity-but-dry, fun wine that tastes unlike anything else and pairs easily will all sorts of food, including cheeses, chicken, fish and summer vegetable-based dishes. I served it with a beet-lemon-beet green pasta, and both food and wine were the happier for the pairing.
You'll no doubt notice that my summer wine collection is filled with unusual and/or commonly dismissed grapes—jacquère (the Savoie Aprémont), trebbiano, favorita, gewürztraminer and airèn. As I've said many times, it's here that you'll find the best bargains. Sure, there are plenty of easy-to-drink chardonnays and sauvignon blancs and pinot grigios on the shelves, but the inexpensive ones tend toward blandness and monotony. And even some of the most expensive have little interesting to recommend them.
So do experiment with new (which are actually old) white grape varieties while you enjoy the warm evenings, spring onions, bountiful basil, luscious figs, fleshy apricots, juicy peaches and all the other pleasures of the hot season.
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Top 15 free Android medical apps for healthcare professionals
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iHealth Align's $16.95 iPhone glucose meter review.
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Find out if this quick reference app for common endocrinology topics is something you need
The best alternatives to every Fitbit activity tracker
Guide to cheaper but high quality alternatives to every Fitbit product.
FDA approves first seamless diabetes glucose monitoring app
Dexcom received FDA approval for the first iPhone app that can receive glucose information directly from a continuous glucose monitor (CGM).
What FDA developments in Diabetes mean for FDA approval in Digital Health
A recent flurry of FDA approvals suggests a higher priority on speeding the pace of innovation.
Dexcom CES showcase debuts the Meal Memory iPhone app for diabetes
An innovative app that helps diabetic patients understand how different foods affect their glucose levels
Dexcom teases Apple Watch for diabetes monitoring at CES
Dexcom showcased the future of diabetes data streaming directly to the iPhone and Apple Watch.
One of the most underrated wireless diabetes devices, Glooko MeterSync Blue review
The MeterSync Blue enables wireless transfer of glucose readings from over 30 supported glucose meters to iPhone and Android.
New Kickstarter wearable, Hush, aims to outperform other sleep peripherals
These cleverly designed smart ear plugs take a completely different approach to sleep
Figure 1's latest update improves content curation with following & filtering
Figure 1, a medical photo sharing network that we've covered previously, recently pushed out a new update to their iOS and Android apps that should significantly improve the user experience. With version 5.0, Figure 1 now allows users to filter which content categories populate their home feed. For example, a user might prefer to focus […]
Health app Pact saves hundreds on health insurance for healthy living
Pact Health introduces a health plan that saves users up to $1300 on their deductible for healthy behaviors.
iPhone paired continuous glucose monitor device reveals FDA approval challenges
Dexcom's new glucose in the cloud solution reveals FDA approval challenges
Fitbit's new activity trackers separate from Apple Watch with advanced features
Fitbit's new activity trackers will contain high level features, possibly recruiting elite athletes.
Mobile diabetes care is forcing companies to share patient data
Traditional device companies are being forced to share patient health data because of the #WeAreNotWaiting movement.
Wearable health industry is responding to Apple Watch
The looming Apple Watch has the wearable health market responding with a flurry of activity.
iOS 8 update causing problems for doctors using Citrix to access patient records
Physicians who use Citrix to access their EMR on their iPads should be wary of updating to iOS8
Verio sync review, first iPhone bluetooth glucose meter is flawed
The Verio Sync glucose meter is a classic example of hardware and software not meshing.
Apple Watch could revolutionize diabetes care
The Apple Watch presents an opportunity to change the way diabetes is monitored.
Abbott's Euro approved wearable glucose monitor is different than anything on the market
The Abbott Fresstyle Libre Flash promises to eliminate painful fingersticks and pricks.
Telcare Glucose Meter hands on review, the first cellular enabled meter
The Telcare BGM adds cellular and wireless connectivity to the cloud


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Booked this late B&B as all the 'fancy' hotels were charging premiums by then.
Turned out to be far better than my expectations expected - perfect location, tasteful furnishings and a huge room with TV and Wifi. Only downside was that I missed breakfast - starts at 8.00 am and I had a 7.55 am train - but Costa was on route to the station so this was not a problem. A gem of a B&B.
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Chairman Proglio Steps Down to Focus on Running EDF
Henri Proglio, the top executive at France's biggest water and nuclear power companies, stepped down as chairman of Veolia Environnement SA, bowing to pressure to relinquish one of his two jobs.
Chief Executive Officer Antoine Frerot will become chairman, Veolia said in an e-mailed statement today.
Proglio, 61, was criticized by French politicians and corporate governance experts such as Daniel Lebegue, who heads the French Institute of Directors, for the conflicts of interest that might arise from his dual role as chief executive of state-controlled Electricite de France SA and chairman of Veolia. The water utility, where Proglio spent most of his career, said in March he would step down from the chairmanship before the end of the year. He will remain a director.
Proglio said in January he would renounce a salary of 450,000 euros as chairman of Veolia, which would have come on top of his pay at EDF. He took the top post at the state-controlled power producer in November 2009. Until moving to EDF, Proglio was chairman and chief executive of Veolia.
He ran Veolia with "determination, energy and passion," the Paris-based company said in the statement.
EDF and Veolia, both included in France's benchmark CAC40 stock index, have embarked on asset-disposal programs since expansion drove up debt. EDF has a market capitalization of 59.1 billion euros, while Veolia is valued at 10.7 billion euros.