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Ben B. Nixed The Coin - What Does That Mean?
In the past 24-hours I've been reading the postmortems on the Coin; I just watched the Sunday morning shows. In my opinion, the Press is missing the story.
The key sentence from the White House that killed the Coin for good:
"Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit"
I think the line "Treasury nor the Fed", is baloney. It was the Fed, in a message delivered by Bernanke, that caused Obama to back off on any consideration of the Coin. There might have been wiggle room in existing law to print a Coin, but there is nothing that says that the Fed had to take it. And Bernanke said, "No". When Obama ditched the Coin, he did it because it was no longer an option. Bernanke took the option off the table. The WH statement makes it sound as it it was their decision, that's just smoke and mirrors.
What bothers me about this is the timing. Why would Treasury/WH go public with its position on the Coin weeks before the deadline was reached? There are at least 14 days left before the SHTF, so, "Why now?"
Did Bernanke put pressure on the WH with a threat to go public that he was unwilling to accept a Coin as valid payment? If so, the WH would have wanted to get ahead of the Fed, so Treasury came out with the nix.
I think Bernanke got some calls from other Central Banks. They told him it would be a dangerous precedent for America to do this. If there are coins to be printed, it would be better if some other country (possibly Japan) do it first. After all, the dollar is still the #1 reserve currency. The foreign CBs have some say in this.
I also think that Bernanke got calls from Republican leaders. Heavy hitters, like Richard Shelby (R, Al), can get Bernanke on the phone. I'm sure that these folks told Ben that if the Fed facilitated the Coin, they would raise hell. They would rake Bernanke over the coals.
But guys like Bernanke don't just roll over when someone whistles. And old timers like Shelby don't make one sided-deals. So what could have been winked, nodded and agreed to by all of the actors on this stage?
Take the Debt Limit debate completely off the table.
Republicans have everything to lose if they force the country to functionally default on the debt. If they did that, they would get murdered. Kiss-off the Republican party for another eight years. The Reds would probably lose the House bi-elections, and their majority; and they know this.
If Congress passed a 6-12 month extension of the Debt Limit, it would not diminish the Republican bargaining position at all. In fact, it would strengthen their position, and improve their public perception (from the current level of +0.01).
The Debt Limit is not the only line in the sand for Republicans. They have the Sequestered Amounts they can fight over, but even that is a sideshow. The real issue that will trip up the Administration is the need for a Continuing Resolution. The CR is required by law, if there is no budget approved by the House. It is now 1,350+days since the US has had a budget. There is no way in hell we are going to have one in the next 90 days.
If the Republicans want to shut down the government, they have a much better issue to do it over than the Debt Limit. (The CR will do the "job" ) So watch for what appears to be a "concession" from some Republicans this week. Don't cheer too loudly if this happens (the markets will - at first). It doesn't change the fact that a showdown is coming, and it's coming pretty quick. The chance for a big brawl, that ends up shutting the government down, is still very much in the cards.
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Too bad they didn't mint the coin. It would have shown the world what a ridiculous bunch of idiots run this country now and brought the system to its knees.
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Ben nixed it because under no circumstances do you point a country down a path where they realize they could mint their own interest free money.
Get a clue Krasting. There is no law and no Constitution since the POTUS, who is the executor of the laws is illegal. Obama is not a natural born Citizen, since he was born British, of a British subject father--- no matter where birth occurred. Obama and the criminal treasoners in Congress know this full well, and are now consolidating their post republic power. They will do whatever they want until the blood of tyrants and patriots waters the tree of liberty. Untill you and other mainstream media wake up to the fact of the Usurpation, the decline of law and liberty will continue. The MSM useful idiots are covering for the Usurper, Congress and the criminal bankers. The "conservative" media has been threatened to shut up. Others just cannot get their head around the massive constitutional disaster that the dual "election" of the Usurper represents. Have you been threatened to shut up, or are you just not that smart?
Who cares if O is not a US citizen. Other puppets would be found to serve his and congress' function. Your arguments are a useless distraction from reality.
Of course that's not the point (and the fact is that the req. is "natural born Citiozen", not "US Citizen", giving a huge hint that you have no clue what you are talking about). The point is that Obama represents the end game--- the point where our sovereignty is taken away and the Constitution voided. Obama was put in place precisely because has has little or no allegiance or attachment to America--- and to void our sovereignty--- because when the POTUS, who is the executor of the laws, is illegal, then there is no law. Duh.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
I bet they're going to start selling assets this time around. Asset transfer is what this whole thing is all about, isn't it?
The point (made elsewhere) is that the huge QE's buying Treasury debt are similar to platinum coin mintings and Bernanke doesn't want any further mocking of his game.
Noteworthy is that even with these QEs, stimuli, & low interest rates there are still huge budget deficits and debt level breaches and slow growth....how many years does this go on before we say....'maybe avoiding recession should not be our number one goal.'
The gubbament is a cartel partner with the Fed and the feed bag of ursary interest payments the illuminati and the united corporations of america get on the backs of what is left of labor would end. People would realize HEY WHO THE HELL IS THIS FUCKTARD BERNANKE, an unelected pinhead to tell the presidet (who appointed him?) and the other Fucktards on the board?
Wake up americans, end this debt slavery system and make the scum clean toilets like the rest of us.
Thank god the coin nonsense is over (until next time).
The Treasury can issue currency (and does) under the direction of Congress ... which would retire the nation's debts (and itself at the same time!)
... this Treasury will never issue currency under an administration with the imagination of a doorknob and the courage of a titmouse.
taxes are done...so we're talking spending bills...all of which originate in the House. my "money" (in the form of tax revenue) is not on continuing resolutions but "mark up." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_(legislation)
Two points of view, which also go by the name of opinion, neither of which will be popular with this crowd:
1) Bernanke...he's a good soldier but highly susceptible to the arrogance of the eternal academic. He's bent over backwards to buy time so that Congress and Bush/Obama can do the needful, but he has his limits. His arrogance regarding his ability to buy time, whether any of us agreed beforehand, or even believe he has set in motion an unstoppable tsunami, turned out more right than almost anyone believed possible. What might eventually make him stop, arrogance aside, is that Congress has done nothing and misread both Bernanke and the markets. Congress, so caught up in its own ego, doesn't really see the debt as a problem, because it is so easy to fund at present. With precious few exceptions (ex-Rep Paul, current Rep Issa), Congress doesn't and never will get it. They're all Chuck Schumer ("Mr. Chairman, get to work"). Ben has fired a shot across the bow before, although his shots tend to be almost eponymous (BBs) and easily ignored. Once during H-H testimony he admonished Congress for not reining in spending and by saying the Fed has limits. The last Fed minutes, which rattled equities, bonds and FX temporarily, were probably carefully constructed to remind Congress that it bears the lion's share of responsibility for getting the fiscal house in order, and that monetization has done all it can do and comes with its own set of problems. If BK is right in that BB nixed the $1T coin farce, that's yet another BB from BB saying he can pull back and shift the onus on to Congress. Of course they are too dimwitted to get it and put partisan politics ahead of anything remotely resembling leadership. Bottom line: BB is not going to complete QE-whatever. Instead, he will try to ensure history blames elected leadership for the economic collapse.
2) It is my view few realize the true nature of money. It is not fiat, it is not gold. It is faith and belief and nothing more. It is whatever the majority, or even two parties, agree it is. It is an agreed-upon middleman so that value can be maintained between the time a producer of a good or service sells his production and when he obtains a good or service he does not produce himself. That's it. Government might dictate what it should be, but unless the populace adopts the faith, government is just pissing into the wind. That one is paper, or infinite, and another is finite is essentially meaningless (all elements are finite, but they are assets, not money), because in the end it is all merely faith. Gold doesn't possess any magical power or inherent value. That it has been used historically as a widely agreed upon means of value transfer is of much greater importance to those who used it for that purpose, but they're all dead. They took their faith with them. There is no law or guarantee or certainty that those whose faith matters today---the living---will follow the same path. They may adopt that faith, but may not, just as some adopted Islam after Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, but not everyone did. Today, like it or not, the vast majority of the living maintain faith in fiat, all 180 forms of it currently in existence, which are about half of all that were ever created. It has demonstrated some staying power, with staying power being defined as a human lifetime. Time its popularity with one's own limited time amongst that subset of humanity known as the living, and the farcical nature of fiat matters little. There have been exceptions, and those who maintained faith in a losing cause lost out, but even in these instances (which scare the bejesus out of some people), fiat begot just another fiat. It is possible, however, to destroy faith by carrying things to even more absurd levels, and the $1T Coin was such an absurdity. Again, if BK is correct, BB saw this absurdity, as well as yet another silly and irresponsible way Congress would be able to literally pass the buck(s), and he fired his latest shot across the bow.
I'm not arguing gold won't become the majority faith again, nor am I arguing it might not maintain value as an asset. It very well may do that, but its resurrection is not guaranteed. Also, if one wants to view an example of the limits of gold, one can look at the Balkans of South Asia, otherwise known as India. That cut-and-paste land has always revered gold and may always have possessed more of it than any other nation. That didn't prevent them from countless invasions and colonization over the last few thousand years, and it has not left them the paragon of modernity nor at the apex of living standards. Despite all their gold, only a quarter of their population has access to something more than a hole in the ground to go where the King goes alone. Lesser nations, in terms of gold ownership, have done a heck of a lot better at advancing the standard of living, despite it being based on such an obvious farce as infinite fiat.
When it comes to "money", there is no such thing as logic. One is best advised to leave his assumptions at the door before entering the arena, and learn the rules by seeing how the game is actually being played.
Well said. If you write a book let me know. I want to read it.
Of course the treasury can mint platinum coins and the federal reserve would have to accept them (but of course the fed could turn around and hand them back and demand fiat dollars for them.)
This actually is an idea that could work if they do it right. Mint 20,000 ten troy pound or some such weight platinum coins with a face value of a billion dollars each, mint 2,000,000 troy pound gold coins with a face value of say a million dollars and promise to exchange at that value in perpetuity. A couple million ounce extra demand for the platinum shouldn't cause prices to go up too much and the gold is supposedly sitting at Fort Knox, or West Point or NY Fed or is it Hong Kong or maybe Mumbai? Anyhow, I'm sure they could borrow some more German or Saudi Gold if they can't find any of the supposed 8,000 + tons of gold.
Obviously if they minted these coins that would mean going back to a quasi gold standard and so they would have to rein in the public spending and balance the budget or see the US dollar collapse in value. The platinum coin idea in combination with a gold coin and balanced budget would work.
But of course the platinum coin idea was thought of so as to avoid balancing the budget -- a gimmick so as to avoid reality. America appears to be doomed to experience a lot of pain before it faces reality and returns to hard money.
"...to print a Coin"
Interesting , er, coin of phrase there Bruce. Did you happen to read Qbamco Asset Management's latest epistle wherein "the coin" proposal was addressed? If not, I strongly suggest you do.
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (15 May 1952), published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206
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IMO anyone who serioulsy thinks this coin thing was a viable option to anyone from Obama on down is not playing with a full deck. A parlor trick, a thought experiment, a media beach ball, sure, call it what you will, but it was never a serious idea.
The fact that the left was seriously considering it (in public no less) is freightening.
So, now, the USA is the laughing stock of the World ? could be. So what's next for this circus Coin show ? Bread and Circuses ? it is pretty dismal from my perspective.
Either way there will be a spike in bond prices, so get ready to sell on green.
debt is not the problem it is lenders unwilling to accept payment except by more debt paper frn's green gold did everyone just get educated that PM'S ARE money..STILL it is amazing that some dwieb banker can call it off as if he runs washington .. cough cough pay em in constitutional coin, why that's crazy
The government will NOT default on its debt if the debt ceiling is not raised. This is a false scare tactic of the left. Plenty of money to service debt. Stop perpetuating this canard.
Yea big difference from printing treasuries and having them end up at the fed.
Shut the government down and don't let them restart it. We can do just fine without them.
Agreed. Everything in our lives from the moment we awake to the moment we fall asleep is regulated in some way and therefore designed by government decree of one sort or another. It's amazing how bound we are by laws and regulations. There is virtually no pure market for anything anymore. Time to shut er down and try something different.
i'm gonna go over to ebay and see if anyone's put it up for sale yet.
The mere discussion of some magical coin is lunacy. Just the fact that it was thought of, let alone considered shows how phony bologna this entire system is.
And if worse comes to worse, since this option was already decidedly a bad idea, they'll probably make a 1000 of them. They'll only use 1, the other 999 will be locked away and sworn never to be used.
whose idea was this magic coin in the first place?.
"The chance for a big brawl, that ends up shutting the government down, is still very much in the cards"
Ona can hope.
In a world full of unintended consequences creating a Trillion dollar coin was too high up the MAD scale. Once done no stopping the dominos.
It is so MAD that the first domino has already tipped because the scam has reached all the way to the top of finance and the US reserve. We are bankrupt completely because this was considered.
Once it becomes possible to discuss this Coin madness then the world laughs from now on...so there is NO EXIT from the effects of the Coin now. The first domino has tipped over.
It is actually fairly easy to rid the people of world from the banksters debt schemes.The FED is simply stripped of any ability to collect interest on debt by the Treasury.Interest rates which are the sole cause of all economic problems in the world are eliminated.Cold Turkey!That means no more credit card debt,no more mortgage debt etc.Debt can always be paid back but it's the compounding that is the worst part of the interest rate scam that's destroying lives.It is described as usary by all three of the worlds monotheistic religions which are the Jewish faith,the Christian faith and the Muslim faith.It is considered morally wrong.So,with that many people on your side Mr.President Obama and that's an awful lot of folks on this earth,what in hell is stopping you from reforming the world from this economic evil?I personally would want to return to the true economic principle of the Thirteen Colonies.And that's before the British Banks overran their American economy with counterfeit currency.I say,now is the time to do it and now is the time for reform and ushering in a new economic era.
Thanks BK. I was wondering where the Fed was in this whole discussion. No way idiot Obama would have taken this gimmick off the table on his own.
I constitutionally declare ye all to kiss my ass, and all platinum coins to be used to pay off our country's debt!
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The fact is the coin would have been a zero-coupon perpetual treasury bond. It would have been "sold" to the Fed without going through primary dealers, which is a detail, because treasuires are ending up at the Fed anyway.
Making it out of Platinum gets around legal limits on paper treasuires, paper cash and other coins because they just forgot to put Platinum in the list of limited monetary metals. The coin would have violoated the spirit of those limits completely.
But is it functionally any worse than printing up a 1000 year, zero interst $1,000,000,000,000 T-bill? No, not really. They'll be doing more than that this year anyway, after they raise the debt celiing.
thats apples and oranges thinking. this is like the fed taking the nations gold reserve off balance sheet. give the fed a million in platinum coins, the value probably doubles overnight, which makes their balance sheet good, and allows them to dump their bad paper. each successive deposit has the same result.
interest free? think again, this is wildly profitable. the flight from paper would be a stampede, so they can't rush into this. the Fed buys platinum from UST, then makes loans in paper. then you borrow paper dollars from the Fed and its charter banks, and payment is made in PM coins, which are more valuable.
in the final outcome we'll probably have one global standard for currency, but there will be several of those; fiat paper, gold denominated coins, and platinum backed paper currency, and coins. evenutally the fiat paper would be phased out.
just a thought
What the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke think doesn't matter. All that matters is what Obama wants to do and what SCOTUS thinks (if it came to that). The law states that platinum coins are printed at the discretion the Treasury Secretary, and the Treasury Secretary answers to Obama. If Obama wants the coin to be minted, it gets minted. If not, it doesn't. (As to who may or may not be pulling Obama's strings in such a decision, that's another whole subject area.) If it gets minted, it would appear the existing law makes it "legal tender for all debts, public and private". Since the Fed is holding US debt, the Fed legally can not refuse to accept such coins in payment of that debt. The only legal-approach-way for the Fed to reject the coin (and not face whatever "enforcement actions" Obama wishes to throw his way) would be to dispute the legal tender status of the coin, in which case this thing likely eventually ends up at SCOTUS for a decision. The Fed, however, may be inclined to not take this to court, or if they do they will mysteriously leave the best legal argument against the coin out of their presentation. And that best legal argument against the coin is that any law granting legal tender status to such a coin is unconstitutional. And that is because the states do not have the authority to make any money be legal tender except gold and silver, and the federal government does not have the authority to make any money be legal tender. But the Fed can't make that argument, because if they win on that argument, the legal tender status of the Federal Reserve note will be effectively (if not explicitly) struck down by the same decision. (The other way for the Fed to avoid accepting such coins is to simply dump all of the treasuries they currently own on the open market. It would not be the first time that a central bank retaliated against the government -- see 2nd central bank vs Andrew Jackson.)
For those who haven't seen the law yet, it's Section (k) of 31 USC 5112: "The Secretary may mint and issue platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coins in accordance with such specifications, designs, varieties, quantities, denominations, and inscriptions as the Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, may prescribe from time to time." Note that "specifications" (amount of platinum) and "denominations" (face value), as well as "quantitites" are all left up to "the Secretary" -- i.e., congress has already given the executive branch all the power it needs.
If Obama authorized the minting of a legitimate coin, The Bernank has to take it. To refuse is to invite impeachment. Yes, all civil oficers, including Federal Reserve officers, can be impeached. Obama nixed the coin because he does not want to give the Republicans an easy out. He wants for force them to raise the debt ceiling. He will not accept any dodges or alternatives.
And the "power to coin money and regulate the value thereof" is pretty clear. Congress can force Bernanke to take the coin.
You can't seriously believe Obama is in charge of the FED can you? They, and their shareholders, (the PM dealers who benefit from the debt) are in charge of all the decisions. If he tried to deny them their usury he'd be as dead as Kennedy and his brother (and almost Reagon-they blew that one-but got their message through loud and clear). The name of their game is bailout and its method is public and private debt. Read Griffiths, "the Creature from Jeckl Island" if you want to understand who's really in charge, not the pablum of MSM.
The FED is a private anticompeitive banking cartel-think organized crime for the closest analogy-although they aren't as smart and will blow up the fiat, fractional reserve ponzi we call a financial system sooner than later. When trust is broken all the kings horses and all the kings men won't be able to put it together again. How will you know this trust is broken? The mother of all bank runs as in 2008. Then its time to try sound, gold backed money again.
Obama doesn't call the shots, The Bernank does. Hank Paulson went to Bush (just before he left office) and Obama (just before he took the oath) and said the banks need almost a trillion dollars now or else 20% interest rates and martial law. It was settled within a week or two. There was no debate about it or presidential address on whether it should or shouldn't be done. Imagine how many years it would take if they debated adding a trillion dollars (or deducting a trillion) from the annual deficit.
Obama just wants to let them know to put on their Air Nikes and start walking toward the fiscal cliff and not wait on Obama. He didn't want them to come back later and say they were waiting to see how this coin thing or 14th amendment thing turned out before they jumped. They don't need to wait until midnight of the last day to raise the debt ceiling. They really don't need to raise the debt ceiling 1 month at a time for drama either, because they'll probably screw that up. They need to pass a budget.
I have a coin. I stamped $1 Tril on it. Goin to the store now.


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8. "It's a Wonderful Life for Rich People, Thanks to Republicans"
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6. "Mel Gibson's Rant-Filled Hanukkah"
5. "How the Grinch Stole Obama's Birth Certificate"
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This is great news for NZ Business - finally a company who can put out awesome speeds & *NO Data Caps* - absolutely fantastic.
Just wish they could do a similar deal for Residential Customers! :)
Budding Crown fibre participant Vector is offering super-fast, uncapped fibre now - at least for Auckland businesses in reach of its cable network (view it on the National Broadband Map here; the company says its network passes 19,000 businesses in Auckland and Wellington).
The new business-grade product operates over VectorFibre's MetroEthernet service and allows direct internet access either through a customer's existing ISP or by connecting to the network directly.
VectorFibre's MetroEthernet service will be priced by bandwidth capacity (that is, speed), not the amount of data used - with connection options running up to a stonking 100Mbit/s for downloads and uploads - or around five times the speed of the fastest DSL plans.
In a statement, the lines company-turned-broadband-provider says there are no restrictions on the total volume of data traffic:
"Another key feature is that the split between national and international data is irrelevant as customers can use as much of any data type as they need for the same rate – there will be no additional charges for using more."
Plans are highly customisable, said Vector, which has not published pricing on its website, and a sales rep phoned by NBR was not immediately able to front with rates. TelstraClear sells 25Mbit/s fibre plans from $229 a month.
The new fibre plans will be offered direct through Vector (for larger customers), and through partner ISPs including Orcon, Maxnet and FX Networks.
NBR understands this is the first time Vector has sold fibre plans based purely on capacity.
A spokeswoman said Vector had an earlier product called Net Flex which provided uncapped data – but users needed to specify how much data they needed in advance and it was only for national data volume: "The key difference that is that the new product - InterNet - provides uncapped data on national and international data."
Vector has put a limited amount of information about its new plan on its online here.
A full list of Vector partners is here.
A rep for Orcon, included in Vector's list of channel partners, said the new fibre plan was "not something that we have discussed with them [Vector]. As such, not something we are planning on selling any time soon."
It is great to see more initiative coming from the network providers - we support Vector in this. NATCOM has been supplying unlimited domestic and international data (on all plans) to business since 2005. We're providing unlimited fibre Internet not only in Auckland and Wellington, but in all metro locations throughout NZ. Our fixed-rate plans also include optional security & content control, plus reporting, monitoring, public IPs and 24/7 SLAs at no extra cost.
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Hmm... A way of telling where friendlies are would be nice, perhaps a map of something.
Else it's quite good, 'cept weapons feel a little flat to me.
Not entirely sure what to say here... I'll just shoot from the hip: I'm currently a young male, living in Denmark. My aspiration is getting an education as a character animator and I'm currently bettering myself with that goal in mind. I guess it goes without saying that I enjoy drawing and, well, games. I've yet to decide if I want to pursue a career within cartoons, games or movies, or perhaps something entirely different. Other than that I'm a pretty down-to-earth guy. If there's anything you wish to know, feel free to ask away. Thank you for taking your time to read up on me. Cheers.
Hmm... A way of telling where friendlies are would be nice, perhaps a map of something.
Else it's quite good, 'cept weapons feel a little flat to me.
Sounds good.
Also sounds like you're quite a small team working on this (3 including yourself).
Not that I'm capable, but rather out of pure interest, I'd like to ask if you're actively searching for teammembers, since this project sounds a little big for a 3 man team.
Anyhow, good luck.
Awesome, and truly befitting.
Hope to see a lot more of your interesting updates in the future.
Don't work yourself to death Craka :P
But it does indeed look and sound intriguing.
I wish you the best of luck, and I'll keep an eye out for updates on this one.
That's one pimped beard.
I enjoyed this update, and I don't even have the game, nor tried it.
God damn, that t-rex's got some fantastic animation behind it.
Seems like your animator's got some amazing care for details.
Looks brilliant, in-engine vid looked good too.
If you've got steam open and running, then close it and start it up again.
The game should turn up on your list of games in steam.
There seems to be a lot of sudden disconnects, without any following message, too.
Gameplay feels solid when playing, however, freezing during loading and parsing (I'm a patient guy and that wasn't a simple long loading-time) as well as untimely disconnects (asking if router ports are properly configured, which they are, and this being only game that ever had any problems with said router) as well as rare times where establishing connection to some servers seem to be a problem too.
But gameplay was good.
Fantastic guys. Pat yourselves on the shoulder and get a breather while kicking our arses ingame.
Another great update.
Awesome video, gave a good view of what you have in mind.
And kudos for your concept artist (of course, the rest of you, too) for the amazing concepts. They're fantastic and have a great deal of atmosphere.
Very nice.
Looks good, aye.
I agree with KodY about the realism. Somehow the colours of the explosions reminds me of "oil-explosions" and looks a little out of place.
A little brighter might do the trick.
Meh, I've voted for Overgrowth. I'd really wish I were able to preorder it, unfortunately there's currently a few problems with my bank and buying things online, from outside of my own country.
Hope I get it sorted out at some point, since I'd love to play around with your editor (I'd prolly just fling stuff over edges or from high places... childish, I know).
Good luck, hope you take this one home.
Oh, good. Seemed out of place.
Gonna make it harder to hit, too.
I'd imagine fun increases exponentially with player numbers, ye.
Can't wait to see what kind of things you'll be doing with it.
But I sure hope it will be playable with e.g. 4v4 and still maintain its fun gameplay, since I can imagine an open map with screams coming from some where in the distance, sneaking up on you can be fun too, especially if you're only a few people playing.
Oh ye, btw, that's glowing-head thing you've got going, is that how you intend for it to look in the finished game?
Since I think a couple of glowing eyes might look even better.
Makes me think of the Blood Suckers from S.T.A.L.K.E.R... those buggers had me close to peeing in my pants nearly everytime.
Looks great, I definitely see potential in this.
A little more polish, as you said yourself, and it should be very decent fun.
I'd call her Diordna.
Ah, I never knew release were this close. Anyway, having followed this mod for a while I can easily say "Congratulations, guys" You've done an incredible job at creating something of quality even above many retail releases.
I'll certainly be enjoying the fruits of your labours upon release.
Sounds like you've taken a well-considered decision about the future of this game.
This also sounds like it will be easier to manage for the players too.
Good luck and keep up the good work.
Nice concept arts, on par with the renders.
Looks humongously awesome!
Looks neat.
Looks great.
As far as I remember this project is made to sponsor another project of theirs.
Well, I'm just glad if it helps.
Looks fantastic.
Pardon my double posting, but I think I found out why it seems a little off.
The effect of the guy hitting the floor simply doesn't feel violent enough.
The head and arms doesn't seem to actually smack down on the ground as violently as you would expect when jumped and pushed down by the weight of a raptor.
Don't know if that helped.
Well, I don't think reaction time would be much of a problem, if you'd noticed the raptor prior to it's leap it would probably only require some getting used to in order to avoid it, if you hadn't seen it yet it could possibly be solved by implementing some sort of way to fend it off from the ground (an example would be how you defend yourself from dogs in CoD:MW).
Both animations look good, however, the attack animation seems too... "light". The jump seems good and the way it bites his head too, but it doesn't "feel" as if there's any weight behind the attack.
Kinda as if the raptor doesn't weight anything.
Perhaps speeding the animation up slightly from the moment the raptor begins "descending" til the moment it bites the guy's head would help that.
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The fair occurred in the field house on Camp Liberty, Aug. 19 to help Iraq restore its economy.
"We are establishing a relationship to work together," Cpt. Angela Smoot, High Point, N.C., contracting specialists, 46th Engineer Battalion, Joint contracting command Iraq/Afghanistan, said. "We are building bonds; that's why the theme of the event was titled, 'Forging Partnership Through Procurement."
The event had more than 70 Iraqi vendors displaying their business capabilities to Servicemembers and civilians. The businesses offered services such as cleaning, laundry and maintenance. Other businesses offered construction, gravel and general supplies.
"I was expecting a few vendors," Air Force Master Sgt. Allen Matthews, lodging section chief, 447 Expeditionary Force Support said. "To my amazement it was above my expectations. All vendors were very professional in how they offered to show their products to someone as a customer."
The JRCC has a system called the Joint Contingency Contracting System where Iraqi vendors register online to begin the process of gaining business opportunities with government venues. Vendors are trained through conferences, e-mails, face-to-face contact and phone calls on how to conduct business.
They are then given advisement on how to begin their business. They are assisted through translators and liaisons. Coordination is important to proactively solve any problems with both parties. Ensuring legitimate businesses with the proper registration is the final method put into affect.
"I do think positive results will come out of this," said Smoot. "It was really helpful for the VRCC to see new vendors. Many units came to me and said that they had made contact with new vendors who provided the same services with better prices."
The JRCC is planning a similar event for the Women-Owned Business Program to fight poverty and provide business and economic education to sustain livelihood and communities.
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Bouncing back: Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) comes in from the wilderness to save the world again with the help of Chloe O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) in 24: Live Another Day.
Four years on, Jack Bauer shows he hasn't lost the touch.
WELCOME back, Jack Bauer. You know, you were my late father's favourite modern-day TV character. I think he liked the way you dedicated yourself to and sacrificed so much for the protection of institutions and people who didn't always give a damn that you did all that for them.
People might call it naive, we preferred to think of it as principled and selfless. Sometimes I think he saw a bit of himself in you.
One thing my dad didn't like was the way you were left out in the cold at the end of eight years of fighting the good fight, painted in a bad light, hunted by the people you used to work for.
When we'd finished watching the series' final episode, he said something to the effect of "Poor man. Such ungrateful people."
But we agreed that sometimes, someone has to do the right thing even when it is unpopular (and unsanctioned), and gets you neck-deep in crap, because that's the real hallmark of integrity. (In fact, if you look up "integrity" in the dictionary ... no, wait, you can't; because Jack is probably using the book to beat Habib Marwan's location out of a known associate.)
It's a shame Dad is no longer with us, because I'm certain he would get a big kick out of the now-airing 24: Live Another Day, where Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland, who hasn't missed a step) is once again putting it all on the line for a bunch of (mostly) ingrates.
There was supposed to be a movie after Season Eight, but that never happened. So now we've got this 12-episode "limited event television series", with events still occurring in real time, only with (presumably) some leaps forward during the day.
Four episodes in, and 24: LAD has been a gripping ride so far.
This time the action is set in London four years after Season Eight. The "event" opens with Jack getting caught by the CIA.
As always, our intrepid counter-terrorist agent has a play in ... er, play. His capture turns out to be a ruse just so he can get into the CIA London office and spring another familiar face, Chloe O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), from confinement.
The larger story here is that Margot Al-Harazi (Game Of Thrones' Michelle Fairley), the widow of a terrorist who was killed in a drone strike, is plotting to deliver some bitterly cold revenge in the form of hijacked drones which she intends to use on civilian targets and on visiting US President James Heller (William Devane).
Margot is so driven by revenge that she is willing to exploit her daughter Simone (Emily Berrington) in any way necessary to get what she wants.
Even to the extent of having her married daughter sleep with a genius hacker to make sure he completes his drone-hijacking doohickey; and chiselling off a finger or two from Simone when her husband Naveed (Sacha Dhawan) develops an attack of conscience.
Adding to the cauldron of complications so typical of 24 is Chloe's revelation that her husband and son were killed (she was the intended target) because she helped Jack disappear.
And just so we know that the Free World is still in safe hands even without Jack Bauer on the job, we have CIA agent Kate Morgan (Chuck's Yvonne Strahovski) as the Only Person Smart Enough to figure out what Jack is up to.
But, since you simply cannot be a good 24 character without being professionally hamstrung in some way, Kate is also a disgraced agent about to be shipped home – her husband sold secrets to the Chinese and she failed to notice.
From Benjamin Bratt's dodgy CIA station chief to Tate Donovan's overeager Chief of Staff, Michael Wincott's squinty-eyed "infoterrorist" to good old Kim Raver as the president's daughter (who, y'know, suffered so much because of Jack but can still be counted on to take his side), the supporting cast is as rich a group as any in the best seasons of the series so far (those would be four, seven and eight, IMHO).
No doubt, by the time the clock counts up to 23:59:59, a good number of these people will have received their respective comeuppance, viewers would have been treated to more explosive action, and (hopefully) some good things will happen to our hero. Such as his daughter not showing up at all. (That would be good for the viewer too.)
The writers have been doing a bang-up job of propelling the story along thus far. With a limited 12 episodes to cover one of Jack's typically long workdays, they have made every scene count – less time also equals less filler.
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Did you miss Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 back when it released on the Playstation 2 in 2008? Don't own a PS Vita to play the awesome Persona 4: Golden version that was released in 2012?
Well, I've got some good news! Atlus U.S.A. has announced that the PS2 version of Persona 4 will release on the PSN tuesday! They even stated that the game will release 3 days before the game events, so "super-dedicated players" will have the possibility to relive Persona 4 following the game calendar events!
2013 Gaming in Review: What were the best games this year?
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We can all agree that 2013 was a wonderful year for gaming. With all the awesome games releases, plus two new consoles, we had our hands full!
In this post, I'll detail the best games I played this year as well as some others I have yet to enjoy. Of course, keep in mind that I didn't play all of this year's releases. For example, I still haven't played The Last of Us or Grand Theft Auto V (shame on me!). But I've played plenty of other games, namely a lot of RPGs, and after telling you my best games of the year, I will want to know yours!
[Vita Review] Persona 4: Golden
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Inaba—a quiet town in rural Japan. A normal teenager arrives at the station to begin his year-long stay in the countryside, only to be welcomed by the news of a dead TV announcer. Shortly after, another body appears, mysteriously hung from the top of a telephone pole. The cause of death is unknown, with no leads on the suspect… As the peaceful community is thrown into turmoil, the urban youth and his classmates wander into a strange, surreal place covered by a thick fog…
Persona 4: Golden is a Japanese-RPG for the Playstation Vita developed by Atlus. This game is an enhanced port of "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4", a Playstation 2 game that was released in 2008.
This is the first game in the "Persona" series I ever played, and I'm very impressed by its huge scale -the story runs for almost a full year- and its very solid RPG mechanics. I'm around 50 hours in the game, haven't finished my first playthrough yet, and I'm still amazed by how fun each moment spent in this game is!


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The early Han period (early 2nd century BC) tombs of a noble family excavated from 1972 to 1974 at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province are among the most important archaeological discoveries of the past quarter-century.
The tombs contained the remains of the Marquis Dai, his wife and son, and their most prized possessions. Over 3000 cultural relics and a well-preserved female corpse were unearthed, attracting wide attention home and abroad.
Among the relics were bright-colored lacquer wares representing the highest level of craftsmanship, fine silks showing amazingly accomplished weaving techniques ,and inscriptions on silk demonstrating knowledge and wisdom of the ancient sages. Of all the remains, the most astonishing was the corpse of Xin Zhui, the wife of the first Marquess of Dai, which was extremely well preserved. Most of the artifacts including the corpses can now be found in the Hunan Provincial Museum.
The eastern tomb, Tomb No.1, contained the remains of Lady Xin Zhui. The western tomb, Tomb No. 2, was the burial site of the first Marquis of Dai, Li Cang. He died in 186 BCE. The Han Dynasty had appointed Li Cang as the chancellor of the Kingdom of Changsha. The tomb was plundered several times by grave robbers. Tomb No. 3 was directly south of Tomb No. 1, and contained the tomb of a man in his thirties who died in 168 BCE. The occupant is believed to be the son of Li Cang and his wife.
Part I. The Mummified Lady
The eastern tomb, Tomb No.1, contained the remains of Lady Xin Zhui in her fifties. Her mummified body, weighing 34.3 Kg at 1.54 high, was so well-preserved that researchers were able to perform an autopsy on her body, which showed that she probably died of a heart attack triggered by an acute cholelithiasis.
She outlived the occupants of the other two tombs. Despite the fact that she had been buried for about 2100 years, her skin and parenchyma were soft and flexible and the joints could still move. Her eyelashes, vibrissa, and left eardrum were also complete.
An analysis of the anatomy shows that the visceral organs were well preserved. The corpse possessed Type A blood, and blood clots were found in the blood veins. In her esophagus, stomach and intestines, 138 1/2 muskmelon seeds were found, indicating that she might have died shortly after eating a melon.
The excellent state of preservation could be attributed to the airtight sealing and the deep burial, which created a low-temperature, anoxic and germ-free environment. In addition, the 80 litres of fluid inside the innermost coffin might have served to inhibit decomposition.
Part Ⅱ A Glimpse of the Silk Kingdom
During the Han dynasty, silk was continuously exported to West Asia and Europe, earning China the crown of "Silk Country". A variety of silk textiles were found in Tombs No.1 and No.3, including thin silk, fine silk, gauze, damask, brocade and so on. In particular, the four-season clothing unearthed from Tomb No.1 demonstrates both the clothing of the noble ladies and the weaving technique of her time.


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Beware the current wave of early-'90s nostalgia that has Q Magazine listing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as the best single of all time. Beware also this critic, as I wax hyperbolic about the great local indie-pop explosion of 1991-93. That said, hear me out on one point: In 1993, when the 24 Bar still existed and the Uptown Bar still mattered, 'Sota-pop standard-bearers Lily Liver were worth all the hopes their fans pinned on them.
The band itself might disagree, of course. "We didn't have a plan at all," says singer-guitarist Missy Greer now, remembering how she and drummer Hallie Kaufman, her best friend since junior high school, began the group by banging on pots and pans in her kitchen. "After our first show, we just did whatever concerts people asked us to play," Greer says. Had the girl-girl-boy trio emerged in Boston a few years earlier, they might have become the Blake Babies. The band had its own Juliana Hatfield in Greer, whose vocals were both tough and girlish, even if her lyrics were much simpler than Hatfield's.
But in the postmod Minneapolis scene of '93, simplicity was cool, "pop" was called "the new punk," and anything too stuffy went out the practice-space window. Instead of jangling, Lily Liver zoomed like the Buzzcocks, firing off "a-whoah whoah" refrains about, well, woe. The band used depression as source material for cheery-sounding songs about loss, to catchy, cathartic effect. Now some of these tunes appear on the long-awaited debut album, I've Got You Right Where You Want Me, which hits stores this week.
Recorded and mixed during '97 and '98, the album is as much an anthology of the band's past five years as a current snapshot, and it suffers unevenness as a result. Mature new songs like the rhythmically angular "Way to Go" are set against derivative, early-career standbys ("Va Va Va Voom" is a dead ringer for the Descendents' "Suburban Home"). Still, I've Got You is a milestone, not just for the half dozen or so great songs, but for the terrible setbacks that preceded their recording.
To back up a bit, Lily Liver seemed to coast on sheer enthusiasm and hooks in the beginning; today they admit they "couldn't play." Bassist Rob Burkhardt co-wrote and shared vocals, giving their sound a John Doe/Exene Cervenka-like blend, while drummer Kaufman kept pace. Their high-energy, Superfriends vibe connected with an audience that waited for the band to take the next step.
But they never did. A year after Lily Liver won the 1994 "Best New Band Poll" in City Pages, Greer began seeking treatment for severe fatigue and immune-deficiency problems--the kind normally associated with AIDS, though doctors soon eliminated that diagnosis. (Though recovered somewhat, she's still sick, and reports that her doctors are no closer to discovering the source of her illness.)
The band's stage energy dipped, and the group went on a kind of hiatus, playing short-notice gigs when Greer was able. Burkhardt left the group, then returned more than a year later on lead guitar. Ian Young joined on bass, then left town, and Dan Long took over. For a while, Kaufman and Greer's brother Scott wrote songs in her living room to cheer her up--many of which now appear on I've Got You.
Last year, Scott took his own life, and in the wake of the tragedy, the album was dedicated to his memory. Lily Liver continued to play out, learning to plan around Greer's condition. And though Greer is better now at coping with the waves of fatigue that hit her, she still has to move at her own pace. "I do have to lay down a lot during practice," Greer admits. "These guys can keep going for three or four hours, and I have to stop and go, I'm done."
For everyone involved, putting out the album became a motivating goal, but Greer says its release isn't the end of the story. "I'd been sick for so long, and I hadn't played enough. So I didn't want to lose that stuff that we all worked so hard on," Greer says. "But I wanted to get it down so we could start doing what we're doing now, which is writing more songs. We're starting to get the fun part back." (Peter S. Scholtes)
Lily Liver will perform on Radio K's Off the Record Friday at 4 p.m. They'll also perform a record-release concert on Saturday for City Pages' second Sweet Potato Party, beginning at 9:30 p.m at the 400 Bar. Street Hassle and Puck open; (612) 332-2903.
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Since the audience demographic for a Law & Order-themed Mollycuddle song consists of about one person (me), Guilt Ridden Pop label-owner Keith Moran called me as soon as he got the news that the local indie-poppers had won a fan in Jill Hennessy, the first female star of NBC's detective show Law & Order. Moran had sent a copy of the band's new album, It's Not You, It's Me (GRP), which contains a song called "The Ballad of Jill Hennessy," to the actress, and a flattered Hennessy called back with an offer to join the band on rhythm guitar. No word yet on the band's response. (Peter S. Scholtes)
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Local Dylan cultists may have noticed what looked like a factual inaccuracy in this critic's review of Bob Dylan's 1966 concert film Eat the Document (Outtakes 1/20). The 1966 doc of Dylan's 1966 electric tour of England was mentioned variously as "D.A. Pennebaker's" and "Dylan and Pennebaker's" movie. The film shown at the Oak Street (promoted as "Pennebaker's movie") was, in fact, an edit Dylan and onetime neighbor Howard Alk made from Pennebaker's footage. (Apparently, Pennebaker originally constructed a cut titled You Know Something's Happening, which was displeasing to its subject.) The bootleg copy of the film that City Pages obtained was longer, weirder, and definitely less flattering than the copy Dylan sent to the Oak Street via a Sony Music publicist.
The complexities of this were not lost on Oak Street programmer Kate Steger, who was at something of a loss to explain the film's obscured history. "It's hard to get any information on it," Steger said in reference to the confusion. She was happy to note that Dylan's fervent following and Sony Music's drive to drum up support for their 1998 CD, Bob Dylan Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4), made for three sold-out shows. "After all," she noted, "it isn't very interesting cinema."
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Although Oregon speedster De'Anthony Thomas was the one to receive cover-story publicity for having participated on a Los Angeles youth football all-star team sponsored by rapper Snoop Dogg, Broncos rookie running back Ronnie Hillman was there too.
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