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In a large, wide bowl, using a large rubber spatula or a handheld electric mixer, mix the confectioners' sugar and the almond flour with 1 of the egg whites until evenly moistened.
In a small saucepan, combine the 1/2 cup of granulated sugar with the water; bring to a boil. Using a moistened pastry brush, wash down any crystals from the side of the pan. Boil over high heat until the syrup reaches 240° on a candy thermometer.
In another large bowl, using clean beaters, beat the remaining 2 egg whites at medium-high speed until soft peaks form. With the machine at high speed, carefully drizzle the hot syrup over the whites; beat until firm and glossy. Beat in the food coloring until the meringue is bright yellow.
Stir one-fourth of the meringue into the almond mixture. Using a rubber spatula, fold in the remaining meringue. Transfer the meringue to a pastry bag fitted with a plain 1/2-inch tip; pipe onto the prepared baking sheets in 1 1/2-inch mounds, spacing them about 1 inch apart. Tap the sheet and let dry for 15 minutes.
Transfer the meringues to the oven and immediately turn off the heat. Bake the meringues for 5 minutes. Turn the oven on to 400° again and bake for 8 minutes, until the meringues are puffed and the tops are firm and glossy. Transfer the baking sheets to racks; let cool completely.
Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, whisk the remaining 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar with the cornstarch. Whisk in the passion fruit puree and the cream. Whisk over moderate heat until thick, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat; whisk in the white chocolate until melted. Let cool slightly, then whisk in the butter. Let cool completely.
Carefully peel the meringues off of the parchment paper. Spoon the filling into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch tip. Alternatively, use a resealable plastic bag and snip off a corner. Pipe the filling onto the flat sides of half of the meringues. Top with the remaining meringues and serve.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., August 17, 2009 - In response to the Supreme Court's action directing a Georgia federal trial court to review the facts in the case of death row inmate Troy Davis, Religious Action Center Associate Director Mark J. Pelavin issued the following statement:
We applaud the decision of the United States Supreme Court to order the Georgia district court to reopen and issue a new ruling on the capital case against Troy Davis.
The Reform Movement opposes the death penalty under any circumstances, but the application of the death penalty in a case where a defendant's guilt is in question is particularly distressing. The lack of physical evidence against Mr. Davis and the new information that has surfaced since his trial suggest that the initial proceedings did not sufficiently explore the facts of the case. We are proud of the role Reform Movement rabbis and activists, especially those in Georgia, played in calling public attention to Davis' case.
Mr. Davis was convicted for the murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savanna, GA, despite the fact that there was no physical evidence, no DNA, no smoking gun, tying him to the crime. On top of that, since his trial, 7 of the 9 witnesses in his case have recanted their testimony, some citing police pressure to testify.
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The dress required some extra protection against any possible wardrobe malfunctions. "There are a few very strategically placed pieces of tape, yes," she revealed.
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New 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' Trailer Debuts On Facebook
When director Edgar Wright called on the online "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" community to help the film's official Facebook page reach 100,000 fans last week, Bryan Lee O'Malley's longtime readers knew it was just a matter of time before the goal was met and the Internet at large would be rewarded with a brand-new trailer showing off additional SP footage. That time, my friends, has come at last.
The video went live (extremely) early this morning on FB, speedily amassing thousands of comments from Pilgrimphiles for its 2 minutes and 32 seconds of footage, which expands pretty heavily on the initial SP teaser. There's more action, more romance, more dialogue and just generally more of the Oni comic blown up on the big screen.
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Opening Ceremony, Spike Jonze Using NYFW as Theater Platform
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New York Fashion Week is right around the corner, which means major fashion brands are gearing up to rip the runway. One such brand- Opening Ceremony- has garnered a reputation for showcasing conceptual productions for their fashion shows. The company has collaborated with director Spike Jonze in the past to create fashion capsules for two of his hit films, but this years Jonze will be partnering with Opening Ceremony for a different kind of production- a one-act play.
Instead of a conventional fashion show, Opening Ceremony will this year be using the runway as a theatrical platform. The play is the brainchild of Jonze, who will be co-writing it along with actor and screenwriter Jonah Hill; Jonze will also be serving as director. Though the storyline and original script are still being finalized, Opening Ceremony cofounder Humberto Leon says Hill will not be acting in the production, which will include both models and actors donning the looks from the fall collection.
In past years, Opening Ceremony has created a company-branded mini mall, featured a wall of surging chocolate, and threw a multi-level party with a performance by Lil Kim, but this upcoming Fashion Week will be the first time the brand has worked with Jonze since his Academy Award win for the film Her. The show is scheduled for September 7.
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Reflecting on my experiences as ASID president and what those experiences might mean, I'm both inspired and distressed. And I'm beginning to think that's okay—that maybe this contrast of feelings can be construed as a healthy tension, and that the sources of my distress represent a chance to move forward, rather than serve as a roadblock to success.
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Never one to keep her opinions to herself, Miley Cyrus wants to make sure that Indiana Governor Mike Pence knows exactly how she feels about the new Religious Freedom Restoration Act he just signed into law.
The "Party in the USA" babe took to her Instagram account to publicly criticize the act, which states that private businesses and organizations have the right to allow their religious convictions to inform their decisions.
Stepping out for a fun-filled evening, Miley Cyrus showed up at Omnia Nightclub at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Sunday night (March 22).
The "Party in the USA" stayed pretty low-key and stuck to her VIP table where she and a group of friends drank Grey Goose vodka and Patron tequila. At one point, Miley also hopped inside the deejay booth to say hello to guest spinner Questlove.
She loves a good party and when Miley Cyrus heard that her pal Mike Will Made-It was performing at the South By Southwest Festival, she knew she had to be there.
There's nothing like a night out with friends to lighten the mood, and on Monday evening (March 16) Miley Cyrus looked like she was in the mood for some fun.
The "Party in the USA" songstress showed up at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood and seemed a bit subdued, likely caused by the photos of her boyfriend Patrick Schwarzenegger cavorting with a brunette babe in Cabo San Lucas one day earlier.
Gathering his famous friends together once more to garner support for a cause close to his heart, Sir Elton John hosted the 23rd Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in Los Angeles, California on Sunday night (February 22).
Given her ongoing penchant for nudity, it's not exactly surprising that Miley Cyrus has entered a short film in the upcoming New York City Porn Film Festival.
The new three-minute flick is called "Tongue Tied" and features the "Hannah Montana" babe writhing around in bondage-style garb, complete with black electrical tape covering her lady pillows.
She's the undisputed queen of cell phone selfies and last night (February 8) Kim Kardashian had her iPhone at the ready as she took her seat at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
She's never one to miss out on a swanky shindig, and earlier tonight (February 8) Miley Cyrus showed up ready to party at the 2015 Grammys.
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How Did Some Rutgers Future Scholars Spend Their Summer Vacation? Meeting the First Lady
Most summer programs include day trips; most do not include a chance to meet the First Lady of the United States. But that is exactly what happened to a small group of New Jersey high school students participating in the Rutgers Future Scholars program (RFS). RFS was one of only 15 programs selected nationally to share their outreach strategies and summer programming during National Summer Learning Day in Washington, D.C. The RFS students got to meet First Lady Michelle Obama as part of the First Lady's Reach Higher Initiative, and provided demonstrations of RFS summer learning programs.
Two students from the Rutgers University-Newark RFS program, Hassan Haywood (pictured above wearing a red sash) and Shannon Thomas (second from left), were among those who participated. Haywood and Thomas are both rising seniors at Newark's Arts High School.
The June 20 event was sponsored by the National Summer Learning Association whose mission is to connect and equip schools, providers, communities, and families to deliver high-quality summer learning opportunities to our nation's youth to help close the achievement gap and support healthy development.
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Outfit for Work – Kate Spade, YSL and a Princess Leia bouffant bun
Here is what I wore to work yesterday. Kate Spade dress and the trusty Karolina heels. The scarf is old J.Crew. In the past I wear the dress with several long, J.Crew outlet pearl and gold necklaces and some Kate Spade sparkles studs. I like the dress. It's basic but has a bit of pop. I felt the crazy, cinnamon roll hair was ok because it wasn't on top of my head like a satellite. It was in a more normal spot on my head but not wound up tight like a librarian. Then I was carrying my YSL animal print bag from Christmas. It's been so cold and my regular coat won't do. I was wearing my knee-length North Face coat outside. It's just like wearing a sleeping bag and I love it.
I sometimes, no, a lot of the time struggle with what to wear and what is appropriate. I think it's because of my age and where I'm at in life. I work in a conservative environment. But essentially, I'm the "creative". People would rather see me looking pretty but appropriate. People find these pops of color approachable. They like to see a fun bag. But nothing in their face. The YSL is a touch loud but animal print in moderation is appropriate in my opinion. It's not like it's a dress. Since owning that bag I've felt a bit like a pregnant person who complains about strangers touching their belly. Strangers come up to me and want to PET MY BAG. It's frightening and creepy.
As I've said before I don't wear pants to often and I certainly don't wear pant suits. So unapproachable. So boring. My thoughts about work clothes and age appropriate clothes are vast. I could write a thesis about this topic. Maybe I put to much effort into the process? But I think its more about a whole package when you do what I do. I've found that these pops of color open the door to the knowledge and the relationship building I bring to the table. Human nature is a funny thing.
The last couple of days have been a big mountain to climb with some success at the end yesterday. Maybe it's all just in my mind but when I feel good about the outfit I'm wearing I feel more prepared to get the job done. As a person who loves fashion and clothes it's just always something I think about. The issue is almost, how to be memorable, but not. The clothes don't wear you, you wear the clothes.
I don't think I'm totally getting my point across, but I am trying to open up a bit of discussion. What makes you feel good when you go to work? What is your favorite outfit for presentations? What do you think is appropriate? And by that I mean the look, the price, the brand. And even though I'm not a parent, how do you balance your work wardrobe with your mom wardrobe if that is an issue for you. My mom was always dressed up when we were kids so there was no issue.
Twitter might have been a better forum, but I'm trying people! Deep thoughts about clothes over here.
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I totally agree with you — color/prints are approachable. I work at a tech startup but in a client service function, so approachability is key.
For me working in a university science lab it's totally different end of the spectrum. Jeans/cords/chinos are the expected. I used to dress up more, but getting random holes in clothes from chemicals, etc. put an end to that quickly. Some people still roll in wearing character tees but I try hard to at least wear nice pants and a sweater most of the time. If I do end up out in industry someday, it'll be a major change to wear heels on a regular basis
I love this dress! I don't own any DVF but you are inspiring me to look into it.
I rarely ever wear pants to work either (usually jeans if it's a really casual day). If I'm in court or at a more formal meeting, I wear a suit with either a skirt or a dress. My "business casual" consists of skirts or dresses too. I always feel more comfortable being "over" dressed than erring on the side of too casual. I agree with you on bright colors and prints too, I try to use these to make the professional looks more fun. I definitely put a lot of thought into how I present myself at work. Like it or not, litigation is a boys club and women are judged by how we look.
"Strangers come up to me and want to PET MY BAG." – you sound like me and my fur coat. I often wish I had a protective cone so people could back the hell off!


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In the past two decades, the public sector both in Australia and overseas has undergone a period of intense change. The focus has been on efficiency, effectiveness and value for money of public sector operations. The methods by which governments account and report on their operations has received scrutiny. While Treasuries and Departments of Finance in each Australian jurisdiction have traditionally formulated the reporting and accounting rules used in the public sector, since 1983, with the formation of the Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (PSASB), the accounting profession has become involved in the setting of accounting standards for the public sector. Several researchers have suggested that a 'contest' exists between the accounting profession and the government regulators for control over the public sector accounting standards process. This paper explores the processes whereby the public sector in Australia formulates its financial reporting policies by examining the interactions between the PSASB and the government regulators in each of the Australian jurisdictions. Policy community and policy network theory are used to argue that neither group 'controls' the process, but rather that policy is formulated by a `cooperative' grouping of accounting professionals from the central agencies of Treasuries and Departments of Finance and the PSASB. The paper concludes that this method of policy formulation has implications for the content of policy and for the access of stakeholders to the formulation of that policy.
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COMICS: 'The Complete Don Quixote' offers hilarity
It's always difficult to translate a classic work from one medium to another. But with "The Complete Don Quixote" (SelfMadeHero, $27.50), English illustrator Rob Davis not only makes it look easy, he makes it hilarious.
Credit where it's due: "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha," by Miguel de Cervantes, is often called the first modern novel, and is usually near the top of "best of" lists in every genre in which it qualifies. Which is a lot! Cervantes covered a lot of literary ground in both form and content, as he examined themes of deception, subtly addressed class warfare, broke the fourth wall for both himself and his characters, pondered the nature of reality ... well, the list goes on and on.
And he did all this with enormous wit and humor, even bestowing upon the world the classic comedy duo of thin straight man/pudgy idiot (Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, David Spade/Chris Farley).
So Davis — who has illustrated for newspapers, children's books and English comic-book strips like "Judge Dredd" — had a lot to work with.
But even so, he did an outstanding job, one that had me laughing so loud and so often my wife started reading over my shoulder.
Davis is an insightful and accomplished cartoonist whose playful style is perfect for "Quixote." Consistent with Cervantes' themes, he juxtaposes a fairly complex depiction of Quixote's face with a simplistic, circle-and-dots depiction for Sancho Panza.
Quixote, living a complicated fantasy, is the more realistic of the two; Sancho, a simple man rooted in the real world, is the cartoon. And by placing the two together, it invites the reader to ponder the role perception plays in "reality" ... while simply being amusing in its own right. I think Cervantes would approve.
Further, Davis embraces Cervantes' destruction of the fourth wall and gleefully jumps up and down on the rubble. The book begins with Cervantes himself addressing the reader from his jail cell (yes, he was really jailed at one point), symbolized by word balloons arising from a barred window. That simple image invites the reader to surrender suspension of disbelief, while simultaneously putting the writer at enough of a remove to continue it. In short, we are being let in on the joke while being asked to pretend there is not one — while being aware that we are pretending!
That clever idea could become tiresome in the hands of a lesser writer, but instead becomes funnier and funnier as the complex weaving of fiction with reality escalates.
Complex, yes, but not stuffy and joyless. Instead, Davis never fails to entertain, even at his most academic. In one scene, for example, Quixote and Sancho enter an inn where an unnamed couple (who speak in Londonese slang) are discussing a phony second volume of "Don Quixote" that came out before Cervantes managed his own — one written by a rival that insulted Cervantes at every turn.
The two decide that the phony Volume Two isn't as funny as the genuine Volume One, with the young man proclaiming of the fake Volume Two, "Don Quixote's not the man he was in this book!" Enter Don Quixote, whom both characters address without batting an eye, urging him not to follow the events of the faux book. Flipping through it, Quixote decides he is offended and agrees, changing the direction of the narrative at the behest of the readership!
"Bye!" says the young lady in the inn. "Try to be funnier for the rest of Volume Two! We like it when you're both funny!" Alas, most readers and historians agree that the genuine Volume Two wasn't as funny as Volume One either.
At least the young lady can take comfort in appearing in the genuine article.
Deconstruction of narrative isn't the only joke in "Don Quixote" — in fact, most of the humor arises from the ever-escalating situations and farcical dialogue, which Davis plays for maximum effect. In one scene, a clergyman dressed as a woman (for noble reasons, of course) confronts a girl dressed as a shepherd boy, and demands without a hint of self-awareness, "What kind of stunt are you pulling here? What is the meaning of the cross-dressing?" And there are the more famous scenes, like the ones that gave us the phrase "tilting at windmills" and the name (and meaning) of "Lothario."
Honestly, "The Complete Don Quixote" is a joy from start to finish. By mirroring and accentuating Cervantes' themes, Davis should delight "Don Quixote" purists, casual readers and everybody in between.
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[MLS: Week 6] The hottest team in MLS is FC Dallas, which has started out 4-0-1 to open up a four-point lead on second-place Real Salt Lake (the only other unbeaten team at 2-0-3) in the Western Conference.
Nothing new here: FC Dallas started out 4-1-0 in 2013. It went 8-2-3 through its first 13 games, then won just two of its last 17
It will look to continue its hot start when it hosts the Seattle Sounders on Saturday night. FC Dallas leads MLS with 13 goals in five games and has done it without any
contributions from Colombian winger Andres Escobar or Uruguayan forward David Texeira, who were supposed to tear up MLS
but have no goals and no assists between them and have been on the field for only 163 minutes.
MLS: Millionaire club up to 12 players
Fortunately, others have picked up the slack. Five players
have scored two or more goals, led by Jamaican Je-Vaughn Watson with three goals and an assist. Mauro Diaz has two goals
and three assists, and the young Argentine is making a strong case for being the best playmaker in MLS.
TRIVIA. New FC Dallas coach Oscar Pareja did not have much luck against the Sounders, currently fifth in the Western Conference with a 2-2-1 record, when he coached Colorado. The Rapids' 5-1 win
over Seattle in October was the high point of their surprise 2013 campaign but it was their only win in six regular-season games in two seasons under Pareja against the Sounders. Seattle also ousted
the Rapids from the 2013 playoffs with a 2-0 play-in win that turned out to be Pareja's last game in charge of Colorado.
Also worth watching are two other matches involving top 5 teams
PHILADELPHIA-REAL SALT LAKE. The Union is only 1-1-3 for fifth place in the Eastern Conference, but it has played some very good soccer. The game
should mark the Philly debut of Andrew Wenger, who was acquired from Montreal for Jack McInerney but was suspended last
weekend. Jeff Attinella will again start in the Real Salt Lake goal for the injured Nick Rimando, and RSL will have to
go without starters at three other positions with Joao Plata and Robbie Findley out up front and U.S. national team
players Tony Beltran and Luis Gil also sidelined. The good news: Chris Wingert
and Sebastian Velasquez are back.
MLS: Sporting KC loses Opara for season with ankle injury
TORONTO FC-COLORADO. Toronto FC is second in the Eastern Conference behind Columbus with a 3-1-0 record after its 2-0 win at the Crew, while Colorado, fourth in the Western Conference
with a 2-1-1 record, also won last weekend on the road with a 2-1 win at Vancouver. Toronto FC's injury list is long and getting longer as Michael Bradley
joined the group of players missing from practice earlier in the week with injuries that included Jermain Defoe, Canadian youngsters Doneil Henry and Jonathan Osorio and Spaniard Alvaro Rey. The Rapids have scored seven goals in four games
-- five directly or indirectly from the penalty spot, plus two Jose Mari bombs -- without their attack yet hitting high gear. Of concern, second-year Panamanian
star Gabriel Torres has no goals, no assists with only one shot in four games.
The USA 20:
M Kyle Beckerman, Real Salt
Lake, at Philadelphia
D Tony Beltran, Real Salt Lake, at Philadelphia
M Michael Bradley, Toronto FC, vs.
M Brad Davis, Houston, at New England
F Clint Dempsey, at FC Dallas
M Landon Donovan, LA Galaxy, vs. Vancouver
M Maurice Edu, Philadelphia vs. Real Salt Lake
D Brad Evans, Seattle, at FC Dallas
M Luis Gil, Real Salt Lake, at Philadelphia
D Omar Gonzalez, LA Galaxy, vs. Vancouver
GK Bill Hamid, D.C. United, vs. New York
F Eddie
Johnson, D.C. United, vs. New York
GK Sean Johnson, Chicago, at Montreal
D Michael Parkhurst,
Columbus, at San Jose
GK Nick Rimando, Real Salt Lake, at Philadelphia
D DeAndre Yedlin, at FC Dallas
D Clarence Goodson, San Jose, vs. Columbus
F Chris
Wondolowski, San Jose, vs. Columbus
D Matt Besler, Sporting KC
M Graham Zusi, Sporting KC
MLS WEEK 6, Schedule:
Saturday, April 12
4 pm ET
Philadelphia vs. Real Salt Lake, Univision Dep. MLS LIVE
Toronto FC vs. Colorado, MLS LIVE
Montreal vs. Chicago, MLS LIVE
5 pm ET
England vs. Houston, MLS LIVE
7 pm ET
D.C. United vs. New York, MLS LIVE
8:30 pm ET
FC Dallas
vs. Seattle, MLS LIVE
10:30 pm ET
LA Galaxy vs. Vancouver, MLS LIVE
Portland vs. Chivas USA, MLS LIVE
Sunday, April 13
3 pm ET
San Jose vs. Columbus, UniMas
MLS Standings:
9 Columbus 3-1-0 7/4
9 Toronto FC 3-1-0 5/4
8 Sporting KC 2-1-2 5/4
6 Houston 2-2-0 7/6
6 Philadelphia 1-1-3 6/6
4 D.C. United 1-2-1 4/6
4 New England 1-3-1 2/8
4 Chicago 0-1-4 8/9
4 New York 0-1-4
2 Montreal 0-3-2 5/9
13 FC Dallas 4-0-1
9 Real Salt Lake 2-0-3 8/4
8 Vancouver 2-1-2 8/5
7 Colorado 2-1-1 7/5
7 Seattle 2-2-1 9/8
5 Chivas USA 1-2-2 6/10
4 LA Galaxy 1-1-1 4/2
3 Portland 0-2-3 7/10
1 San Jose 0-2-1 4/6
MLS: Leading Scorers
4+3 Clint Dempsey, Seattle
4 Vicente Sanchez, Colorado
4 Erick Torres, Chivas USA
3+2 Je-Vaughn Watson, FC Dallas
3 Alvaro Saborio, Real Salt Lake
3 Federico Higuain, Columbus
3 Kenny Miller, Vancouver
3 Will Bruin, Houston
3 Jermain Defoe, Toronto FC<


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We use the Weldon House for private get-togethers, group stays, and events. We offer special rates for groups that want to come and rent out the property. We also use the Weldon House when we have big events and don't have enough rooms here at the Blackthorne.
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Re: Confused about replacement rules
In article <5l8tjg$cs7$1 at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, bleile at fli.sh.bosch.de
(Thomas Bleile) wrote:
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returns b x + x^2 instead of expected b x + a is well explain in the
Appendix A.10 of ReplaceAll entry in the Mma book. It says:
"The first rule that applies to a particular part is used; no further rules
are tried on that part, or any of its subparts".
What you might want to do is Expand at expr /. {x_?AtomQ^2->a}
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OAKLAND—If you are a David in a land of Goliaths, you'd better learn something fast: You cannot beat the big boys at their own game.
In baseball, that means you cannot outspend the competition; you won't outbid them for big-ticket free agents or even realistically expect to keep your own homegrown stars long-term. That means you must be nimble and quick, and sometimes, just maybe come up with a plan that will change baseball.
The Athletics may have done just that the last couple of years, defying all odds to win back-to-back American League West titles. For that creativity and nimbleness, Billy Beane is Baseball America's Major League Executive of the Year.
Beane, the general manager of the A's, does not have a fancy stadium or enormous local media deals. The A's play in the still financially suppressed east side of the San Francisco Bay, sharing the only remaining multi-purpose stadium in the game. That stadium became something of a joke this year with several sewage problems, including one in the coaches' offices that third-base coach Mike Gallego called, "A volcanic eruption of sewage."
The place stinks, often literally. So when you have sewage, make sewage-ade. Or something like that.
Beane and his front office and coaching staffs have come up with a way to compete that defies the way the game has been played. Almost from the beginning, back when Ty Cobb and Harry Hooper roamed outfields, baseball has been a game of starters and bench players. Sure, there were a few platoons here and there. But nothing like this year's A's, where four positions in their starting lineup regularly used platoons and four players shared three outfield jobs.
The concept is a team not of starters and reserves, but rather mostly semi-regulars who buy into TeamBall: putting the best for the team above their own statistics and egos. Brandon Moss may have hit 30 home runs, but he would sit on the bench and not complain when the opposition started a tough lefthanded pitcher against whom he would have a diminished chance of success. While there is a scarcity of complete hitters in baseball, there are specialists who feast on certain types of pitchers.
"In Billy's mind, there's always a plan," farm director Keith Lieppman said. "That plan continues to play out because of his attention to detail. It's an overall, big-picture view that takes a lot of components and pulling them all together for the greater good."
There is always a plan—and there is always a time to adjust and update that plan. Beane, of course, became baseball's most famous general manager because of the book and movie "Moneyball."
The concept of Moneyball is fairly simple—find inefficiencies in the system, then exploit them to your advantage. For that early version, much of the emphasis was on finding offensive players who built high on-base percentages and could use that both to draw walks and wear down starting pitchers with long counts. Ever nimble, Beane has adjusted and found something new.
"Because of who we are, and that includes Tampa, it's harder and harder to find ways to be competitive," Beane said. "We have to look at what's available to us and take advantage of that. In a perfect world, you would have a complete player who plays 162 games, but there are only so many Mike Trouts around. So we looked for players with specific strengths, who might have some weaknesses, too, to create one player out of two or three."
Baseball has changed, and dramatically, since the chemically enhanced era of the big home run numbers. Mighty sluggers and five-tool players are harder to find and priced well out of the A's budget anyway. The Mark Teixeiras and Albert Pujols of the world would not head to Oakland with its low budget and sewage-enhanced clubhouse. So there had to be another way.
Even in Michael Lewis' "Moneyball" book—published in 2003—there was talk of two players equaling one, but not on this scale. The realization came after a 2011 season that simply did not work. The A's put together a team they expected to win, acquiring such hitters as David DeJesus and Josh Willingham in the final years of their contracts to complement a pitching staff that had led the AL in ERA in 2010. Yet the 2011 A's were 14 games under .500 at the all-star break and out of contention. Beane and assistant GM David Forst made a bold decision. They rebuilt the team by trading three of their talented young pitchers—Trevor Cahill, Gio Gonzalez and Andrew Bailey.
"I think it became clear the current personnel was not indicative of the formula of winning for the long term," special assistant to the GM Grady Fuson said. "We had good starting pitching and a fairly good bullpen, but the offense was really lacking; hitting homers and getting on base were really lacking."
The revelation was that lefty-hitting Seth Smith and righty-swinging Jonny Gomes made one very good combination. Gomes left for a big contract in Boston after the 2012 season, but the platoon plan grew in 2013: there were combos at first, second, DH and catcher, plus four semi-regular outfielders. Manager Bob Melvin did a remarkable job of selling the team concept to his players, and they bought into the opportunity to be big leaguers on a winning club. The idea has echoed through the farm system as well.
"It's the same in the minors as in the majors," said catching prospect Bruce Maxwell. "We believe in team baseball."
Beane acknowledges that he enjoys the challenge of finding new ways to compete. "Absolutely," he said. "We do sort of see it as a puzzle, and one that you never have solved. The group of people who run baseball teams are very bright people. Any advantage you may have is going to be brief."
When one plan founders, keep tweaking. Find one that works. Beane has been nimble enough to try new formulas, and wise enough to make good calls. And one came with Fuson, who served as scouting director for the A's before leaving for other opportunities.
In the book and movie "Moneyball," Fuson is depicted as sort of a dinosaur, a relic of old-line thinking by old-time scouts. Beane knew better. Fuson became available after parting ways with the new management of the Padres in 2009, and he said, "Billy was the first one to give me a call." So even while Brad Pitt was skewering Fuson in the 2011 film, the real Fuson was helping chart the new course for the A's. It is one of those anomalies that makes baseball so delicious. And a tribute to Beane that he could make such a call. A key part of Beane's success is recognizing the value of good staff members.
"That's the one thing I'm going to pat myself on the back for," Beane said. "It goes back to when (former GM) Sandy (Alderson) was here. We've created a fraternal, close-knit group that buys into what we are doing. I'm usually the dumbest guy in my own room, which doesn't bother me. The intelligence of the people we have is outstanding. There's no hierarchy of what can be said to anybody."
The staff appreciates the situation, and Beane's leadership.
"Billy sets the tone and direction of the entire baseball operations department," Forst said. "And while his fingerprints are on every member of the department and every player that comes through the system, he trusts the people throughout the organization to do their job."
So Beane and his staff have come up with a different way to win—to change the starter/bench concept into a band of specialists who put team first; perpetual underdogs who outfight the big boys. It was innovative and creative: a new way to succeed in a world skewed against them. It is how David could battle the Goliaths.


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Is there any way to achieve the bubble motion effect (available with Particle Array) with Particle Flow?
The problem is that I need the bubble motion but it is hard to control a PArray just using forces. I would rather be able to use Particle flow but i need bubble motion, any ideas?
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX eases after recent rally as energy, financials slip
(Adds portfolio manager comment, updates prices to close)
* TSX ends down 2.85 points, or 0.02 percent, at 15,200.76
* Index gained 0.6 percent in holiday-shortened week
* Six of the TSX's 10 main groups fell
By Alastair Sharp
TORONTO, May 22 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index barely retreated on Friday, with cooling energy and financial stocks weighing, after the index posted gains in four of the previous five sessions.
Investors took a cautious approach ahead of a U.S. trading holiday on Monday, though U.S. dollar strength hurt some energy stocks as crude prices slipped. Energy stocks were five of the 10 biggest negative weights on the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index.
Banks were also among the biggest losers ahead of their quarterly earnings due through the next week.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen provided further evidence that the central bank is poised to raise rates this year as the U.S. economy bounces back from an early-year slump. Continued...


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It is each generations birthright to inherit the ideas of those who came before and leave behind the voice of their time. The inheritance is dual in nature. Gifted with thousands of years of innovation and an abundant planet received at little cost we also find ourselves the captives of thought patterns that have outlived our time. Observation proves that ideas old and new are held in place by structures that order our world: governments, religious institutions and now more than ever corporations. Generation after generation people struggle with these systems as they try to express their uniqueness, adding a distinct fingerprint to an ever-evolving picture of what it is to be human.
Our inheritance is a complicated one. Today corporations hold in place a hearty structure that contorts the nature of reality into a peculiar form created by one motive, capital. The human experience is meticulously determined by geniuses of psychology and marketing. They work for geniuses of capital. Disguised as choices, we are being asked to do primarily one thing, consume. As inheritors of the mega-mall the spirit of our generation looks for its voice through advertisements, and isles of products.
Industry offers us innovations, if youre lucky enough to live in wealthy country, and material goods can be found in a variety unmatched in history and this would appear on first glance to be a great abundance. Yet world struggles, war and impending environmental disaster have made clear even to the most resistant that material abundance comes at a great cost. The days of naivete are over. The blandness that industry permeates requires a great deal more than our dollars, it asks that we give up our very humanness: knowledge, compassion, community, creativity and our innate connection to all that is natural and innate.
Commodification breeds ignorance. The wheels of the machine of capital, the never ending production, buying and selling of goods requires that people buy objects rather than make them. Simply put makers are not good consumers. The less we know the more we buy. In our time creativity and independence are not profitable, ignorance is! And so we find ourselves a culture of helplessness unable to perform the simplest of tasks, hemming a skirt, or fixing a flat tire, growing food. The skill involved in the making of things, once viewed as a creative endeavor, passed down lovingly from generation to generation are now left to the machine which manufactures most of the goods we use today. The average person is ill equipped to make or fix anything. So far removed we are from the skills required to care for ourselves, growing food, producing power, building a home, that if ever the structures weve become so dependent on should fail our very lives would be in jeopardy.
But Industry would have us believe that our role is creative. Consumers are asked to view shopping as a creative endeavor, when in actuality only the designers and engineers of things play a creative role even if limited by the constraints of profit margins. The consumers creativity is simply selection. We interpret. We choose between things, between styles, between prepackaged lifestyles that we are each to find ourselves residing in chosen from a predetermined set designed by marketing, and this is the means to which weŐre asked to express our uniqueness.
After we play our part and buy our goods we continue to do the work of industry as we transform our very selves into advertising billboards that tote logos and labels on all areas of the body and on goods used in all aspects of living. Branding does a whole lot more than assist in the selling of goods. It creates distinct social divisions. Labels broadcast the spending power of the individual. And so consumers are separated into visible categories that reflect the size of their wallet rather than the expanse of their creativity.
Should we question our role in this process we are reminded that the making of things prevents us from having leisure time. Why spend an hour hemming your pants when you can pawn it off on someone else and obtain more free time for yourself? What follows is the question, what does one do with all that leisure time? The answer of course is we shop. In exchange for our creativity we engage in an entirely uncreative endeavor that offers packaged promises, false experiences and a multitude of ways to escape understanding ourselves through the buying of meaningless objects. These products have come to represent our fears and our unhappiness, each one a small and impotent band-aid applied to fast spreading disease - consumerism.
Often the consumer digs for meaning by purchasing more and more hoping to fill an innate yearning. Yet the more we buy the clearer it becomes that these objects can fill our homes but not our hearts. Industry does its best to turn the meaningfulness into myth. Trend molests whatever we make precious. Little plastic BuddhaŐs swim down factory conveyer belts along with music, culture and art which have been pumped through the commodification grinder.
Less than a hundred years ago things were quite different. What people owned is what they created or what someone they knew created for them. Imbued with the stories of our lives our material goods embodied our creativity and spoke of our community. Before the industrial revolution objects were not likely be tossed to the trash like the heaps of plastic that line our streets and overload landfills today. These objects were made of sacred stuff, the energy and intention of people. You could say that one difference between 100 years ago and today is that 100 years ago we were all makers, that is we made the objects that filled the landscape of our material existence. In less than 100 years we've lost sight of the discovery that the making of things is not an activity to be avoided in order to attain leisure, but rather a playful and leisurely endeavor unto itself.
Naturally when we are makers we are part of communities of people connected through the history of ideas and even the natural world from which all of our materials arise. No maker can exist on their own. Knowledge, teaching and the sharing and collectivizing of ideas are inherent in the creative process. The maker learns that every craft and skill tells a story that involves the evolution of an idea that lead to this moment in time. Time collapses and we sit face to face with our brothers and sisters of the past. If we look back far enough we see our materials as they come from the planet in the form of raw material. From here a maker can see that we can never really take credit for the creation of anything as we are never independent of this history or the earth - the ultimate and only real maker.
As we learn about materials and their origins inevitably we're exposed to the many injustices inherent in our modern means of production. Child labor, harmful synthetic materials and gross wasting of resources are just a few blaring problems in what is today the standard means of production. As our ignorance shatters and our hearts open we become the inheritors of something of real value, responsibility. It logically follows that we must insist that these systems change. With the burden of knowledge comes the promise of meaning if we are willing to do the work. As we make (rather than buy) the objects that surround us the world we live in our lives transforms into lives steeped in meaning. In essence, we create the sacred from the ashes of the commodified.
The world we share is made by makers but these makers are creating under the umbrella of capital and they are the few not the many or the all. As such what is made is also contorted, controlled and dispensed by a small tier of people who hold in balance a system which creates economic categories of haves and have nots. Should a maker come forth with a good idea, one that might benefit the whole of life on earth, the system encourages him/her to franchise, copyright and ultimately horde the idea. As such a once original thought, revelation or inspiration digresses quickly into redundancy. The maker becomes the caretaker of their good idea. Oddly, should a good idea be released into the community to be shared (perhaps through the Creative Commons) the idea would then be free to transform the world. The maker is free to have their next good idea. You could say that capital asks us to assert Ňthis is my last good ideaÓ by suggesting that ideas benefit from being concretized by these systems. In this way the maker is the revolutionary of our time as the maker is in a position to say resist this process, to choose to share, and to say to themselves and the world community Ňthere is abundanceÓ and give their good idea freely knowing that more is yet to come. Nothing masks abundance better than capital.
Through the ages philosophers, artists and cults of a magnificent variety have offered ways to revivify the human adventure. They are the caretakers of wisdom, and visionaries who make apparent the distinctions between what is real and what is the bi-product of the hands and minds of man. They help us find authenticity, meaning, and self-expression. What are being co-opted today are ideas - namely the idea of what it is to be human. Our generation is asked, are we limited and mechanistic or unbounded and creative? It is a task of our time to take back creativity from industry, reclaim independence, replace ignorance with knowledge and accept our own birthright as creators.
Breathing life back into living is no easy task but it does offer great rewards of the spirit. Revivifying the human experience is a mission of purpose, something commodified life has taken from us. What we have to gain is intimacy, creativity, the revival of community, a healthy planet and ultimately happiness. We can each embrace a do-it-yourself spirit and use it to break down the barrier between consumer and creator and by doing so begin to reclaim the creativity that has been lost to industry.
Of course a problem so complex cannot be solved with one courageous swoop, it requires process, one that begins in the context of our current situation and grows from it. Today we sit upon a fantastic resource, the greatest surplus the world has ever seen. In this surplus exists an opportunity to improve the care of the planet and the soul of the individual. Our surplus can be seen as materials to create the new at little cost, without consuming raw materials.
Of course surplus is temporary, perhaps enough to bide us time to relearn how to live in harmony with the earth and each other. But for a time surplus is what is here, and it gives us a starting point, training wheels. No real change can occur if industry continues to perpetuate a need for new regardless of surplus, a polluted planet and destruction to people who share the earth with us. We must face the whole monster, the corporations as well as the governments that support them. Today they are closer than cousins; they are one in the same.
Like all magnificent things the journey begins with a leap of faith, arms in the air, falling back while questioning if there is a net to catch you. This is the task of our time, to scream with full lungs "we are unbounded" not limited and mechanistic. We are creators.
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For some reason I lost it reading this. 4 generations of Sanchos. WHAT
I savescummed HARD in CK2 so I could assassinate or otherwise get rid of bad inheritance lines. Good thing my Intrigue was ballin' or it would have taken forever to kill Sancho IV, V, VI, and VII.
I ended up playing half of Fallout 3 with godmode on because I stopped caring about the combat and more was just interested in the environment and all the little stories in the game.
I probably play more mobile games than console or PC games now. I don't have much time to play anything anymore.
I probably have more fun playing said mobile games than many major console or PC games now. I don't care about story and that seems to be the current trend with major releases. Hopefully I will start playing more when Simcity comes out.
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I never beat a Zelda game.
I gave up on Dark Souls.
I quick saved/quick loaded a lot in certain games to get things I wanted.
I also have gamer raged when I was younger.
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@SirOptimusPrime said:For some reason I lost it reading this. 4 generations of Sanchos. WHAT I ended up playing half of Fallout 3 with godmode on because I stopped caring about the combat and more was just interested in the environment and all the little stories in the game. I probably play more mobile games than console or PC games now. I don't have much time to play anything anymore. I probably have more fun playing said mobile games than many major console or PC games now. I don't care about story and that seems to be the current trend with major releases. Hopefully I will start playing more when Simcity comes out.
I savescummed HARD in CK2 so I could assassinate or otherwise get rid of bad inheritance lines. Good thing my Intrigue was ballin' or it would have taken forever to kill Sancho IV, V, VI, and VII.
I name every single one of my children Sancho. One of my current character's uncles is Sancho II III due to the way CK2 handles randomized names and generations. It's hysterical, because half of the plots are by Sancho, for Sancho, and against Sancho.
I also have two daughters named Sancho II. 'CAUSE WHY NOT.
I have only played one Zelda game which I neither liked nor finished (beat Darksiders two times though).
I have never played through any Mario game.
I have never played Metroid.
I only played one Final Fantasy (XIII) since I don't care for most JRPGs and FF never looked appealing to me (I wanted to make sure FF isn't for me and it most certainly isn't so I put it down after a few hours).
I never finished any GTA eventhough I played all of them.
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I actually use quick save/quick load.
I only do this whenever there's lockpicking, decrypting, gambling, fishing minigames to conserve items & money (Mass Effect, Fallout, Red Dead, etc).
Also, I replaced a scratched PS2 disc with a mint Blockbuster rental disc so I could sell it at Gamestop.
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All I can think is that I've never played Earthbound even though I know I would love it. Same for Mother 3. And that I'm too OCD about RNGs to play Fire Emblem even though I really want to get the new game. Shit sucks.
I reload saves when I play Tactics so I always have most of the guys I originally had at the beginning of the game.
From Vice City onward I reloaded saves instead of buying new guns. In GTA3 I just used cheats.
I've used guides for nearly all of the adventure (point + click) games I've beaten.
I don't play most games that I play to completion (at least this generation).
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I bought Duke Nukem Forever.
I think Bioshock 2 is a better game than Bioshock 1, and that it also has a better story.
My favorite part of Wind Waker is the sailing.
I'll buy a game on 360/PS3 and not beat it, then buy it on PC and also not beat it.
I get bored of Metroid games around half-way through or less.
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I save-scummed in DoomRL and XCOM.
Yup, ton of this. It felt bad, but fuck it.
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- Got the platinum (all achievements) in Mass Effect 1.
- The only Final Fantasy games I have played are FF13 and FF13-2.
- I respectedmy fire mage in Diablo 2 with a mod, cause guess what, Diablo is fire resistant.
- Clipped my way through Half-Life 1 cause I wanted to see that story before playing HL2. Got 2 mins of story and I still haven't played HL2.
- I reloaded my previous saves in the new XCOM so I beat the game with the same 2 squads.
- I never seriously played a Zelda game, played for 20 min.
- I own a Vita with a 32gb card, 20 PSP games, and 8 Vita games. Only game with more than 3 hours is Persona 4.
- I have played Doom E1M1 like a billion times.
- I own WoW.
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I borrowed a copy of Persona 3 FES and never returned it. I'm utter garbage.
I once borrowed THUG 2 on Xbox from a friend. I had it for over a year, he forgot I had it, and I traded it in to GameStop. I am awful.
I always play games on easy. If there is a way to make the game even easier I will do it.
Challenge is never something I look for in games.
I have bought all three Mass Effect games on 360, PS3 and PC. Oh, and all the DLC on all platforms too.
I really like Mass Effect.
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@Dchao: Usually nowadays if I come across a puzzle in a game and the answer isn't apparent I just google that shit.
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I have never finished a Zelda game or a game similar to Zelda (Darksiders). I can play about 5 hours and love those kinda games, but I get so bored of them so fast.
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I love pac-man 2 for snes. I also enjoyed pelleting pac-dog with rocks...
I've attempted to play Final Fantasy VI on no less than 3 separate occasions, and never finished. Not for lack of love - the first two times were emulators (time went by and I forgot about them), and the third was on PS1.
Optical drive random battle load times?
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I played Twilight Princess.
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My fellow Mario 64 sinner, perhaps this thread will serve as absolution.
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To use something that is legitimately questionable, I convinced a friend to buy Street Fighter IV, borrowed it from him a few days later, lent it to another friend, and have never actually given it back, and it's only been 3 1/2 years. And that... is how I got into fighting games.
Also I've save scummed obsessively before, be it as part of the ultra-BS chapter 24x in Fire Emblem Thracia 776 or my attempts at finishing any Infinity Engine game that isn't Planescape Torment. I feel no real shame in it, and don't think it to be particularly offensive most of the time. Some of those games love being unnecessarily cruel. Really, I'd consider my truest gaming-related sin to be the part where I've never played Dark Souls without getting the Drake Sword, which significantly eases the early parts of the game.
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I saved Kaidan in Mass Effect 1, and bromanced him in Mass Effect 3.
I beat the original Starcraft on PC using cheats on every single level. I later moved on to playing on battle.net. I spent as much time playing games as I did looking in the chat rooms for girls (I hope) to cyber with. I did this for about 3 years, beginning at age 11. When I was 13, the release of Wolfenstein: ET cut down on my SC time, and in 2004 Ragnarok Online presented me with a new place to look for chicks. By age 15, I was done cybering because I was too busy grinding in RO to be bothered with fake sex. I didn't cyber again for a few years, when I had a one cyber night stand with a girl I met on a raid in Molten Core. We took off all of our armor and got it on in Dire Maul. She was definitely a girl because I heard her voice in Vent. She didn't ever log in again, and I swore she would be my last virtual sexual encounter.
I have never once touched a Grand Theft Auto game. I almost bought IV on Steam, but then I didn't.
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I used to play through old RPGs in emulators and use a hex editor to hack the save states. Give everyone in my party max stats, levels, exp, money. I beat Final Fantasy 1 when the final boss ran away from my ridiculously over-powered party.
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I love Super Mario Sunshine.
I find Zelda games boring.
I was addicted to Animal Crossing for six months. I quit when I realized I was (at the time) a 30-year-old playing Animal Crossing.
I didn't play most of the classic Nintendo games from the 80s and 90s because I only played Commodore or PC games.
I wish Capcom would go under because I have never enjoyed any of their games.
I hate this world for what it's done to Ryo Hazuki.
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I enjoy WInd Waker better than Ocarina of Time.
I have never played the original Portal.
I find consoles games to be lackluster and an overall lame experience.
I brought an automatic turret to the third boss fight in DX: HR after getting that chip upgrade. For the love of goodness, I could not beat that boss fight.
I have never beaten FFVII, but I did beat FFX.
I do not like the new Mario games.
I am horrible at strategy games.
I have started, but never completed, Final Fantasy 1-9. I have also started every Zelda game, but only finished Wind Waker.
Oh, and I also got kicked out of a Battlefield 2 'realism' group by arguing with my CO when I was 12 or 13, I took it WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. I understand now why some clans/guilds have 18+ in their requirements...
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I've played up to about three quarters completion in every Final Fantasy (Not counting MMO's).
I've only beaten X-2.
I spent several years thinking of Jonathan Blow as a pretentious douche and referring to him as such a few times, before I started looking into the man more and consuming as many of his interviews and comments as I could. I eventually came to the conclusion that he and his games are anything but pretentious. As Tommy said in Indie Game: The Movie's commentary track "Braid is the fucking opposite of pretentious". I had let the pretentious douchiness of a lot of people who fapped on and on about the game in a certain way that made them seem empty and just tying onto something popular and deep to boost how they think people perceive them color how I viewed Braid and Blow. As I came to discover just how insightful and thoughtful Blow was -- even if controversial -- and how sensitive he was to all that he put into his games and the (often personal.. and yes, I'm sure my two bits of it weren't helping) degree to which he took some of the really shitty criticisms of himself or his game on the internet so personally . . . . I realized I was the total douche.
I'm not immune to that sort of reaction all the time, but recognizing how wrong and unfair I was with regard to Blow is something I try to think about more often before I comment on games or developers as being pretentious, which is something that is pretty fucking hard to accurately define someone else as, when I think about it. I mean, my perception of you as presenting yourself as having more substance than you actually have is just as likely to be a fault of my inaccurate perception than of you actually being shallow, vapid, pretentions, etc.
@Branthog: Seconded. IG:TM really made me feel bad for J Blo. I get that he exudes a certain hipster vibe, but nothing about him seems insincere or pretentious. Overambitious, maybe, but I don't see that as a bad thing.
Same with Phil Fish. He's said some really ill-advised things in the past, but nothing so horrible to deserve the vilification that some folks aim at him.
Granted, I don't know these people, but that's just my impressions of them.
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Me and my sister combined have gotten 100% on every single Lego game together. I'm not sure if this is a sin or an accomplishment, but I'm proud either way.
You are not alone. My and my brother have the best time playing those games and we're both well into our 20's! It started with the Star Wars ones on PS2 and we are currently working on Lord of the Rings. Skipped on the Pirates of the Caribbean one though we don't care much for the films.
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