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Opening package was short, sweet, and largely simple. You put some great descriptions in there, well to do to be able to hear those violins and match them with the daunting images presented. Only thing I didnt like a little was the ending focus on Michaels/Trips, but I can easily overlook that because it really is the match that most people, if not everyone, is looking forward to. Plus, those images of a blank and vacant Shawn Michaels stare send shivers down anyones spine. Opening package was bon.
Just for kicks once, just once, I want someone to write out what Hugo and Carlos have to say. Not to say it makes the show worse or better, I just think thatd be so much fun to do. I really want that image of Hugo Savinovich losing his shit in his high-pitched voice in a language I cant understand. But moving on
Opening with DAT IC TITLE match, I see. I will say, from a thematic standpoint, this match is perfect to kick off then night. Backlash is always described as Wrestlemania Fallout The Movie, so it makes perfect sense to kick off with not only a Wrestlemania rematch, but a rematch that is very much different than what we saw the first time in that both men have essentially reversed roles for the most part. Long story short, I thought the choice to have this match first truly is backlash. Also, while were speaking of themes, kudos on Torrie wearing black to now go with the color of her heart. But I take those kudos back because you still havent had JR call Torrie a jezebelle.
Onto the actual match itself, FUCK YES on having Carlito burst right through the gate with all his pent-up frustration. Terrific storytelling not just in that, but having the distraction of Torrie cause Carlito the pain of being on the defensive, which pretty much summarizes this entire feud. Even better in that it doesnt even last too long. Didnt like Kenny recovering that quickly from a suplex on the concrete; I felt that shouldve been felt a little bit longer than that. Great display here to have Kenny target the weakened knee a great deal, seeing as how theres no way hed be able to keep up with Carlito otherwise. Jesus, hes relentless, no? Again, even after Carlito tried to get him some momentum, some great storytelling in that its Torrie who always stops him. And of course to remind us that shes there. Excellent display of psychology with Lito not being duped the same as he was a mania. Sick spot with the mid-air STO after the Frankensteir kickout, both spots making Dykstra look strong and not completely like a spot-picking coward, but good on Carlito to kick out of the sick spot to look strong as well. The finish was overdoing Torries involvement I think, but Ill take it begrudgingly, especially since its a DQ finish to kick off a PPV. Effing great bookends here in kicking off the match with an angry Carlito, then to have him unleash more hell in the post-match to a never more deserving guy. Solid opener that can lead to many leads especially with One Night Stand possibly around the corner for these two. You really are building Kenny into something here, but Dykstra had better watch his back, though. You know the old saying Hell hath no fury like a puffy-haired Puerto Rican scorned.
@ the McMahon ladies gumming up Vinces plan. Just that entire segment, I could picture the look on Vinces face as it goes from completely confident and sinister to grinding his teeth once his plans are completely thwarted. Good stuff, but I still dont think itll change the fact that theyll show up later.
Good little last minute pump-up speech from Jeffery here, but nothing too magical. Its Hardy on the mic. Meh. Moving on.
Nice little transition from fighting fire with fire to This Fire Burns. Read like a comic book. I liked it. A nice basic beginning to the tag team match, transitioning into some solid high paced action is always good. I do like the stark contrast with that beginning to what kicked off the opener, but I liked even more that the challengers actually took command for a pretty big portion of things to solidify the fact that they deserve to be there just as much as anyone. Punk took some brutal offense there with the punt to the face and the POST TO THE FREAKIN THROAT. That one had to leave a mark somewhere. Lots of focus on hang-ups from the champs there, from that throat spot to the barricade spot to the flapjack on the ropes to that one tag team move they do. Not sure what the focus was on that if it was intended too much at all, but nonetheless, great action to show the resourcefulness and teamwork of the champs. Dinsmore looked like a million freakin bucks for a good portion of this, especially when he got the hot tag. The Cloverleaf looked awesome here, but the chaos that ensued at the end was very well done and a great way to get even more heat for the WGTT. You put over the Saints very nicely, but all the while keeping the WGTT not only looking strong, but at the same time severely threatened. Also a tad surprised this one got more time than the IC title match. Still, solid job on this one.
Van Dam promo was full of frustration, as well it should have. Got its point across and got the thumbs working. Me gusto.
DAT BONECHILLIN MICHELS. Also, careful with those squat thrusts, Hunter. We dont want another quad tear.
Best part about reading the lead-in for this match is looking at the banner and seeing the look on Chris Masters face. Dont know whether hes farting or looking at me like I just farted. Poop jokes aside, onto the match with the lightest story of the night. Kidd busting out of the gate came out looking phenomenal, showing the true dynamics of the group. Natalya looked deliciously brutal with her brawl with Melina and its nice that you display the sides to the team like this early on with a big stage the strength, the athleticism, and the feminine brutality. Nice to see Kidd pay for his high-flying antics by getting picked apart, too. These two teams are so alike dynamics wise, but I will admit, I kind of marked out a little for the Masterlock being applied to Natalya. Jesus, I really am a sick bastard, arent I? That aside, a great feel-good ending to that one with everyone getting their licks in and nailing the tag team finisher and also feel good in that finally someone who isnt a heel gets away with the win tonight. Nice establishing win for the Harts co. Post-match focus was very interesting. Could be the beginnings of the breakaway Nitro needs to go for a face run ?
Long live the King? Oh, stop it you. Im blushing
Brackets look highly interesting, although Im personally most looking forward to Haas/Kidd. Dont fail me on that one.
Jesus, I can almost tell Jeff wont be winning this match outright due to the furious amount of offense he displayed from the very beginning as he burned through his moveset, but as it was with Carlito, a very nice choice to have him take out all of his pent up frustrations, although I will note the lack of a count-out during both he and Carlitos assaults. Its no surprise that Hardys recklessness gets him in trouble and it wouldnt be a Jeff Hardy match if it didnt. DAT CHINLOCK~!! Nice use of Match Writing 101 with the heel wearing down the face and whatnot. This was a very by-the-numbers match, and it almost had too much in common with Carlito/Dykstra for my liking. The flow and face motivations were nearly identical, and the finisher spots as well. Perhaps it was intended on your part, but what get out of them being so similar is that, in a way, Kenny and Orton arent as different as Orton panned them out to be, but are indeed much more alike. Thats from a character perspective, but from a storytelling and match perspective it was enjoyable and both men came out looking strong, although its anyones guess where Hardy goes from here. Was a little disappointed Orton didnt punt Jeffs head off. Maybe Jeff and Carlito scratch each others back from here a little bit ? Idk. Jeff and Carlito both will be mid-card blank canvases for you in the coming months, so Ill be watching them more closely than perhaps your main event guys.
Sounded like good-ol Boy Scout Cena to me. Moving on.
Enjoyed the video package, but since Im a stickler for these things, it disappointed me a little. I was hoping for something focusing a little bit more on Michaels descent into what hes become, but maybe I screwed you over when I did the whole Lords Prayer thing a few months back. And maybe Im just being an overanalytic stickler. Anyway, a more than great package to get in the swing of things and set the tone for what should be the most violent and telling match of the night.
There was never any question that this one was gonna be a brawl from the very get-go, so Im glad you didnt disappoint there. Bloody hell, this was got violent in a hurry, but Im not complaining in the least. Im more than psyched to see these two guys going for the kill from the instant. I found that spot where Michaels was choking Triple H out with JRs commentary very telling for this whole thing. Im no biblical expert by any means, but the quick shot idea of Michaels killing someone from a character standpoint would go against god and all of Michaels beliefs, I would assume. Thats how far that son of a bitch has gone in that hes willingly contorting the very beliefs that so drive him. Or that could just be me being an overanalytical twat again. And speaking of looking at it in biblical terms, how about that not-eve-subtle crucifix spot, eh? Beautiful in the sense that not only does it apply to Michaels as he is now, but in the notion that, again, hes contorted his own beliefs to the point where he doesnt even realize hes probably gonna wind up becoming what he hates (if hes whipping the crucified opponent, it makes him the blind persecutor, not the religious martyr he seems to be more inclined with).
Triple Hs fury is one thats gone unnoticed for most of this feud, but Im glad you highlighted it when he just let everything loose on Shawn. This guy almost has as much to lose psychologically as HBK does. You captured him in prime Cerebral Assassin mode here, clearly gunning for Michaels back. Fuckin marked at the Pedigree through the table spot, HUGE moment and holy shit worthy in top form. The gree on the steel steps wouldve ended it and I really wanted to see it, but for obvious reasons, Im glad you avoided it. Michaels comments while in the Figure Four was gold, as it displays not only just how sick a bastard he is, but its actually still in line with Shawn Michaels. I remember him uttering something very similar to that in his match with McMahon at Mania 22. My goodness were the last several minutes of that simply brutal. The signature defiance in Michaels used for dark purposes was excellent, and even Trips last stand was heartwrenching. It ended poetically, if brutally. A damn good match thatll haunt some for a while, I can see. The post-match was infinitely chilling with the scream of Steph echoing in my mind while Shawn gives last rites thats some eerie shit right there, mate. Tripsll be out for a while, but where does that leave HBK to go ? Does he now head the McMahon charge?
Im still curious as to why oldies Shawn Michaels is on the poster and not a more modern version
This scene was beautiful. Most time, PPV segments eat up time or give a last minute spectrum on things, but this one was actually beautiful. Just the emotions between Linda, Steph, and the lack therefore of from Vince were so great, it was almost tragic. Now its not just guys like Michaels psyche in jeopardy, but Vinces as well. Loved this.
After the emotional tugs of the match and subsequent segments before it, I was a tad bit emotionally drained going into this one, which is almost assuredly why it was placed here. Gonna go along with Wolfy and say that it was tough to get into this one because of the drainage and the title change is kind of lost in a way. Will say the entire time, I was actually impressed with Victoria and Beth beating the living hell out of Mickie together for as long as they did. At any rate, very happy that Beth got the win at the title here, although I didnt like that she got it through the predictable means in which she did, but I can more than understand why. Mickie not eating the pin keeps her looking on the up, with more than enough fuel in this one for an Act III. Specialty match at ONS/near future plz.
Oh hey, Claudio. Nice of you to display him in such a manner. Itll be interesting to see where he can break in and rank, especially with a lack of heels in the midcard as Wolfy noted. Lol @ the Swish Aristocrat line.
Solid package for what should be the a cracker of a main event. I think Ive commended you once before on it, but again, some kudos on the delayed introductions to give the match an even bigger time feel. As for the contest itself the feeing out didnt stay too long as they can sometimes, and it was great that they seemed so evenly matched for a great deal of it, opposing the likes back-and-forth likes of some of the other matches on the card. Youve pulled out quite a few German suplexes tonight, Ive noticed. Not saying theres anything wrong with that, just a mundane observation. VAN TERMINATOR, even with no chair, is mark-out worthy. Cena taking a brunt of virtually everything RVD has to throw at him was very much well done, especially in stark contrast to the dark way we saw Michaels using it not too long before. The stuff leading up the Superplex was great back and forth structure. The pause in the action was necessary, seeing as how these guys were going full metal for a while. While I understand Cena kickout of the Five Star and it certainly tells the story of him being able to beat Cena or not, the Five Star has been watered down a bit in this thread and that I dont like. It was one of those finishers I dont think Ive ever seen any one kick out of and several of your RVDs last few opponents have done so. But thats more of me nitpicking than anything. Business picking up from the now uninhibited McMahon clan, and Christ that second announce table spot was sick. The anarchy was nicely done, Van Dam overcoming everything is a nice touch and even greater was with that whole feel-good overcoming the odds moment from RVD into the mood whiplash of him getting planted with the FU. Excellent whiplash of psychology there, only to whip right back when Van Dam kicked out. Awesome win for RVD, especially considering that McMahon and Co. did what they wanted to do, but in the end, it mattered little, as RVD still got his very definitive win over the face of the company.
Overall, a terrific showing from the MVP of the last year himself. I think it was the former King who pointed it out earlier, but you do a great job of controlling yourself when it comes to your big shows, unlike some of us who just let it all hang out and never know when to quit. The only criticisms I have for this baby were the flow similarities of Dykstra/Carlito and Hardy/Orton and the placement of the Womens match/title change, but other than that, it was on board as a top-notch effort. I do hope this hangover mode is over now so everything can start coming together in more glorious fashion than it already has. This, fittingly, gets the KingKirby seal of approval, duder
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I think this should be generating at least an 'insertHtml' event?
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Why do you need such event?
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Well, if I could catch a single change event, as I requested in issue #4159, I wouldn't. As I noted in issue #4159, I am currently trying to catch virtual "change" events on two different forms, like this:
oEditor.on ('setData', updateLinksTimer); oEditor.on ('insertHtml', updateLinksTimer); oEditor.on ('insertElement', updateLinksTimer); oEditor.on ('loadSnapshot', updateLinksTimer); oEditor.on ('key', updateLinksTimer); oEditor.on ('afterUndo', updateLinksTimer); oEditor.on ('afterRedo', updateLinksTimer);
I use this virtual "change" event to update, on one form, a preview frame, and on another, a list of the URLs linked via A tags (I also post-process the URLs to verify validity and display the content of the linked page to users for visual verification, as well as adding some other form options to each link).
Since I can't catch the link edit event, it generates a change to the editor content that I can't use to update the relevant fields.
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Last Week: 2-2
The Bisons split their four games in a week interrupted by the International League All-Star Break. The Bisons began the week by dropping a one-run affair against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. Buffalo returned home after the break to take on the Toledo Mud Hens, dropping the opener before winning the final two games in a rain-shortened series.
Jon Niese: Win, 7 IP, 2 H, 2 K, 2 BB
Niese continued his hot hand by shutting out Toledo on Saturday. It was the second time in three starts that Niese did not allow a run and he lowered his ERA in July to 0.41 while the opposition has hit .215 off him in the time frame. The two hits allowed were the fewest he gave up since his June 12 start against the Durham Bulls when he tossed 7 1/3 shutout innings. The left-hander has not recorded a loss since June 7 against the Indianapolis Indians.
Tobi Stoner: Loss, 7 IP, 6 ER, 8 H, 6 K, 4 BB
Stoner failed to back up his best performance of the season but he still worked seven innings and tied his Triple-A high with six strikeouts. It was the second straight start he went seven frames.
Last Week: 4-1
The B-Mets too ran into their respective All-Star Break but kicked off the week with an offensive explosion as they scored 25 runs in their two wins over the New Britain Rock Cats. Binghamton finished the week by taking two of three against the Erie SeaWolves. The B-Mets finished the first half 33-56.
Ike Davis: 9-for-27, HR, 6 RBI, 6 R, 2B, 3 BB
After a bit of a lull, the first baseman picked up his offense this week by clubbing his 11th home run of the season and driving in one-third of his RBI total in 25 games with Binghamton. After hitting .288 in 59 games with St. Lucie, Davis is now hitting .277 with Binghamton with a matching .376 on-base percentage.
Lucas Duda: 9-for-23, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 5 R, 3 2B, 4 BB
Duda is currently riding a 17-game hit streak and doing a little bit of everything with the bat in the process. He homered on back-to-back nights on Friday and Saturday with his best night coming during the former when he went 2-for-3 with a late grand slam that sparked a B-Mets victory. In 17 July games, the left-hander is hitting .359 and reaching base slightly over 42 percent of the time. That comes on the heels of his .228 average in June.
Brad Holt: 2-0, 13 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 10 H, 14 K, 3 BB
The right-hander had his two best Double-A starts this week, pitching deeper than he had since his promotion and racking up seven strikeouts in each appearance. He tossed seven shutout innings on Monday against New Britain and walked one. The opposition is hitting .216 off Holt in six Double-A starts.
Last Week: 2-4
The Mets started the week on a high note with an 8-2 victory of Jupiter and two days later picked up a 10-0 shutout of the Palm Beach Cardinals, but went on to lose their last three of the week—two more against Palm Beach and the series opener against the Daytona Cubs. Entering Sunday, the Mets were 8-12 in the second half, four games back of the Charlotte Stone Crabs.
Stefan Welch: 8-for-25, HR, 6 RBI, 5 R, 2 2B, 5 BB
Welch's hot bat continued since his promotion to St. Lucie as he upped his RBI total to 14 in 12 games and with a .396 average in that time. He ended the week with a 0-for-3 night but recorded hits in eight straight games before that including five multi-hit nights. Welch is 9-for-15 with runners in scoring position for St. Lucie.
Francisco Pena: 6-for-22, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 4 R, 2B, BB
Pena lands in Week in Review for the first time this season after putting together one of his best weeks so far this year. His best night of the week came on Wednesday when he went 3-for-5 with a home run, four RBI and two runs scored. He has hit four of his six homers on the season during July.
Tim Stronach: Win, 8 1/3 IP, H, K, BB
Stronach had, arguably, his best start of his career as he went into the ninth inning before surrendering his first and only hit. He did that, somewhat remarkably, by striking out just one batter. Stronach, who has been with St. Lucie only since June, has given just up two earned runs on eight hits in his previous 13 2/3 innings.
Last Week: 3-3
The Sand Gnats battled tough all week in splitting their six games. They played in four games that were decided by two runs or less-all against the Kannapolis Intimidators—with victories in two of them. The Gnats finished the week by splitting two games with the Hickory Crawdads. The Sand Gnats are now 13-11 in the second half of the South Atlantic League season.
Kyle Allen: Win, 6 2/3 IP, 3 H, 5 K, 4 BB
The right-hander had his best start of the season on Tuesday by blanking Kannapolis for his deepest outing since he went 6 2/3 innings against Augusta on June 14. This season, left-handed batters are hitting just .189 off Allen who is also limiting hitters to a .238 average with runners in scoring position.
Jeurys Familia: Win, 6 IP, ER, H, 4 K, BB
Familia rebounded from a poor start the previous week by giving up just one run on a single hit. In 99 innings this season, Familia has given up 79 hits with the opposition hitting only .218 off him. He has allowed three home runs this season—all to right-handers. The opposition is hitting .183 with runners in scoring position off the right-hander.
Eric Beaulac: 1-1, 13 2/3 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 14 K, 5 BB
Beaulac has found his rhythm and it continued last week as he backed up a three-run, eight-inning performance with 5 2/3 shutout innings with one hit allowed with seven punch outs in each appearance. The eight innings he three last Monday was a season-high. In four starts this month, Beaulac is 3-1 with a 1.82 ERA with 32 strikeouts against eight walks.
Last Week: 3-3
The Cyclones got off to a rough start in the week by dropping a game each to Staten Island and Williamsport by a combined 15-7 score. Brooklyn, however, rebounded for three wins in its final four games including two one-run victories and an 11-3 blowout. Entering Sunday, Brooklyn is 21-9 and in first place by three games over Hudson Valley.
John Servidio: 5-for-13, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 3 R, 2B, BB, SB
The Brooklyn outfielder's batting average continues to hover around .200-.220 but he provided some thump this week when he belted two home runs and drove in three runs in Friday's blowout victory. He now has six home runs on the season which ranks him second in the New York-Penn League.
Brandon Moore: Win, 8 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, 9 K
Moore has pitched his way into becoming the Cyclones' most dependable starter by again going eight innings and striking out nine, the second time this season he has done both. For the season, Moore is now 4-0 with a 0.97 ERA (4 ER, 37 IP), a 33/2 strikeout-to-walk ratio and .171 opponent's batting average.
Last Week: 2-3
The K-Mets continue to tread water despite going 2-3 on the week with wins over the Bristol Sox and the Greeneville Astros. Both wins required the K-Mets to score double digit runs as they combined for 25 runs in their two wins. The K-Mets are now 8-16 on the season.
Alonzo Harris: 9-for-22, 3 HR, 6 RBI, 8 R, 2B, 3B, 2 BB, SB
Harris continues to rake as he has done pretty much since the season began. The speedy second baseman ran his home run total to six on the season which ties him for first in the Appalachian League tied with four others. On Saturday, he went 3-for-4 with three runs, a triple and his first two-walk game of the season. Harris hit five home runs in 104 at-bats last season in the Gulf Coast League.
Last Week: 1-4
The rookie league Mets picked up a one-run victory over the GCL Astros to begin the week, but ended up dropping their remaining four games including two one-run losses. The GCL Mets are now 12-10 on the season, three games back of the first-place GCL Marlins in the East Division.
Richard Lucas: 6-for-18, 3 RBI, R, 3 2B, 2 BB, SB
The 20-year-old, 2007 fourth round pick who was injured for most of 2008 finally got back on the field with the GCL Mets before heading off to Kingsport. In 38 games last season split between Savannah (31 games) and Kingsport (seven games), Lucas hit .185 (27-for-146) with three home runs and 16 RBI.
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MIGS 2007: David Perry's Lessons On Free-To-Play From His Year 'Off'
November 28, 2007 | By Mathew Kumar, Leigh Alexander
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After over twenty years in the game industry, developer and Shiny Entertainment founder David Perry (
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) decided to take a year off -- which meant he ended up directing six MMOs, consulting on licenses, getting a game development degree, starting a game investment company, GameInvestors.com, and even becoming a member of the press.
He could have learned to say "no," but in his keynote lecture at the 2007 Montreal Games Summit, Perry decided to share what he did learn in his 12 months "off" about the free-to-play business model, lessons from Asia, and useful time investments for game developers.
The Early Years
Perry opened his discussion with some personal background -- pointing out his home town on a map of Ireland and showing a childhood photo of himself with his sister, he explained that he wanted to be a Concord pilot as a kid, but found out at an early age that he was far too tall to fit into the cockpit comfortably.
His first game experiences were with a Sinclair ZX81 home computer, which saved and loaded programs via an audio cassette player. Unable to afford the tape recorder, Perry bought magazines for the game listings, and used to type in the code of games just to play it once. It was very, very painful, he recalled.
His first published game, from Mikro-Gen, was
, one he converted but didn't write, and noted that
's main character was supposed to be Mikro-Gens mascot -- so, as the new guy at Mikro-Gen, he had to dress up as the character and hand our flyers and stickers at trade shows.
Said Perry, If you started your career without having to wear a costume and hand out stickers, consider yourself lucky!
Fast forward a bit to Perry's first licensed game
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
. They called them Hero Turtles in the UK because they wanted to save children they thought ninja was too aggressive," explained Perry. "I preferred the Spanish version it was called
Tortugas Ninja
! Much better.
Next he discussed another of his projects,
, and how he used rotoscoping for the characters -- "We made a mistake, as we took all of the footage in front of a shed. We had to do a lot of work to work around that," he recalled.
If youre wondering why everyone in
is so tall, thats because theyre all me," added Perry. "And the man Im hitting with a plunger there is actually the head of [EA Los Angeles] now.
He noted that
, his next game, made over $120 million, and said,
was made in 100 days. And so we actually made over $1 million for each day we worked. I wish I could work on more games like that!
He then discussed the
games noting that they had problems with a lesbian kiss from
Matrix Revolutions
and the ESRB. His excuse was that as it was the
, it was actually two computers kissing and the ESRB bought it!
Life After Shiny
Perry discussed the sale of his Shiny Entertainment studio to Atari in 2002, and noted that while they did a lot of cool thing, they also did a lot of uncool things -- like Atari-themed underpants -- and their stock price kept dropping. He found he couldnt get funding at Atari for the huge projects he wanted to make, and so he resigned and waited for Atari to
sell Shiny
to Foundation 9 a process that took almost a year.
Perry's next decision? Take a year off. He described the work he was doing on his blog, and his forum where he was answering game development questions for students, and how he began to travel from university to university giving talks. Next, he began GameConsultants.com.
Ive actually kind of stopped doing this," Perry said. "I still do it, but Ive really slowed down. In fact, mostly what I do is share my list of contacts. Just go on LinkedIn and add me, and youll get access to everyone in the industry. Perrys LinkedIn database is about 5 million contacts -- about 30 percent of the entire database.
He consulted on EAs
Simpsons Game
, and also thought about trying to make credit cards for gamers My favorite is the Pong card who wouldnt want that? He said.
Perry went on to describe his open letter for game development book rights owners, asking them to give their books to him for an online wiki I started this and I realized, 'this is a full time job!'" Perry recalled. "So I need to get more people to help me with it. Its for books that go out of print, for when theyve stopped making money off it.
Perry now writes articles for Business Week, and is on the board of the Hollywood and Games Summit, where he gave a talk earlier this year. He also took a few classes. "A lot of them aren't very good, but here are a few I recommend," he said, citing screenwriter David Freeman's advanced class for writing.
Additionally, "Id never heard of this before - its called Wizard Academy, and its unbelievably expensive, but you have to take a branding class with Roy Williams. Dont pay for it, but if a company is willing to send you, go to it!"
He also discussed One Big Game -- If you agree with
what their plans are
, get involved and help them out.
Entering The World Of Free-To-Play
Next, Perry recalled, he got in touch with a man named Howard Marks. Explains Perry, "He bought Activision with Bobby Kotick, and this was when Activision was totally destroyed. They bet the farm on CD-ROM, and this was at a time when cartridges were the main way to sell games- but it paid off. Hes just bought Acclaim and is betting the farm on free-to-play games. Now, people who bet the farm are impressive to me.
Perry said that free-to-play games are a concept they decided to look at because they were a major way to play games in China and the rest of Asia, and China's game industry is growing faster and faster and catching up on the US. So he decided to go to China to check out the game development community and visit the China Joy Expo.
Its an anything goes-atmosphere," he said, showing images of people selling luggage on the show floor to demonstrate. Next, he showed a picture of Chinese clowns at the Expo. "When then I saw those clowns, I felt real sorry for them, because I remembered those days."
He went to see a company and give a talk, and he showed an image of him with the entire staff, all of them staring at the camera rather intensely. "See how all of these people are looking at you?" Perry pointed out. "They really are looking at you. Theyre watching everything you do, and playing every game you make, and theyre analyzing it and learning from it. Its actually a little spooky.
He then went on to describe his work with Nexon's Korea-based dancing MMO
, and how he became interested in it and interested in localizing it for the US. After speaking with the developers and giving them some hints and tips, he suddenly ended up with them asking him to take control of 3 MMO teams in China.
Putting More On The Plate
Perry continued, "So suddenly, remembering this is my year off, I suddenly have 3 fully-funded MMO teams in China. And I dont speak any Chinese, so thank God for their producers!
He described some of the interesting things they do in the game to build community, such as punishments for losing. Losers, for example, might have to wear panda suits. Now, youd think what the hell is that, we have to get that out of the game for America," says Perry. "But the thing is that it works as an ice breaker it makes people start conversations and laugh about it together.
He described how in the game, people can become couples, enter couples competitions and even have virtual marriages which could lead to virtual divorce.We have teenagers getting 'divorced!'" Exclaimed Perry. "Its crazy! The big question is, will it work in the U.S., though? I have no idea.
He discussed some complicated licensing issues. "In China they dont care about copyright," he explained. And the team ended up doing a deal with Warner music group. Its an example of the new relationships that we are forming now that are trying to push free-to-play forward," Perry noted.
Perry moved on to discuss Seoul and the Gstar expo. compared to China Joy its a little more sedated, but its pretty similar. He showed an image of a girl in a padlocked cage, with attendees doing push-ups to win the girl, and Korean developer speed dating where one can meet developers and be shown their game in a kind of speed-dating setting -- lots of small, two-person tables with laptops, he explained.
He talked about going to visit GameHi because he liked the look of an FPS they had,
Sudden Attack
-- "and they had this MMORPG that I liked the look of, and so suddenly, boom! I had another MMO! it was called
, and it had this Korean story which we rewrote entirely a 4000 page story - and called it
, and released it in the USA for free. And most importantly, it had no development cost. The game immediately charted and its only in beta! It charted higher than
Lord of the Rings Online
Monetizing Free Games
In-game advertising is something that they dont find very interesting over there, but here its different, Perry continued. He discussed how he went to a Raiders game at McAfee Coliseum and how the stadium was covered in billboards and other advertising around the field.
Players will have no problem with advertising if you dont charge full price for your game and then include a little bit of paper that tells people that youre sending their IP address to agencies and cover the game in adverts," Perry joked, referring to
player backlash over
Battlefield 2142
Another condition required for players to accept in-game ads is that you: "Dont delay or interrupt the gamer at any time with advertising, or require them to click anything to get rid of it," cautioned Perry. And finally, he advised, "Give them something valuable in return - obviously a free game is great. Make advertising an exchange."
He concluded, "If you compare this to TV, TV fails on every point. Thats why TV is dying and were going to kick TVs butt."
The Evolution Of In-Game Ads And Item Sales
He then discussed how in-game advertising has evolved from banners and static billboards into advertisements interwoven with the story, and noted that they take great pains to offer optional advertising that the player can turn off. We want to say that our game is totally free, so players can turn it off - but gamers who turn it on receive an XP boost," explained Perry. "96 percent of gamers want the experience boost.
Perry also highlighted four key points regarding item sales. Firstly, don't charge too much. Secondly, don't upset the game balance -- in other words, don't make winning something that can be bought. Third, don't take what Perry calls "the velvet rope" approach, by disabling the fun parts and making players pay to unlock them. And finally, don't allow hackers, bots or fraud to devalue everything.
we actually have a jail, so you can walk by and actually see the bots in jail, Perry said.
He then discussed ideas for selling items, and noted, The point is that you might not like any of these, and think they suck, but these are all ideas that are being experimented with. It really it is the Wild West.
Going Down The Wrong Road?
Perry expressed that the rising cost of games is a move in the wrong direction. There is a growing wall in front of poor gamers, and every year we place another line of bricks on the top of the wall to make it harder for them, he said. But wealthy gamers want the full experience and money, so how about flexible pricing?
According to Perry, the only truly honest model for games is "crappy games = zero sales." He added that: As long as the free games from China stay bad, then theres no problem, but if they start to get it right -- create an
Assassins Creed
, a
Mass Effect
, a
Super Mario Galaxy
-- and for free, then were going to be in real trouble.
Perry said he has no idea why he hasn't self-destructed after his busy year, but offers a few suggestions: "Every day make sure youre doing something to grow your career. And if you have time -- you wont think you have time, but you can make time -- try to pay something back into the industry.
In answering questions, he noted that Chinese companies were worth billions of dollars, and could lead to a lot of disruption: "You should not be surprised if Epic or someone gets bought by a Chinese company," he cautioned. "And how would you feel if that would happen? Im not trying to be all doom and gloom, but there is a lot of disruption is possible.
Also in response to a question from the audience, he made a response to Jonathan Blows
ethical questions
about MMOs. "Its hard to argue with free," Perry said, "People saying, 'Im not paying for this unless I love it.'
Concluded Perry, After 25 years in the business, Im stunned as to how wide-open this business still is. There are so many creative ways to still make a difference.
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The actor won three Emmys for his portrayal of mob boss Tony Soprano on the hit HBO series. He most recently appeared in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.
Steven Van Zandt, who worked with Gandolfini on The Sopranos, issued a statement that read: "I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time. Maureen and I send our deepest sympathy and love to Deborah, Michael, Lily, and all of Jimmy's family."
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Using tinc VPN
We've been doing some work where we really needed "direct" machine to machine access between an number of staff and their local file servers. The obvious way to approach this sort of thing is to use a Virtual Private Network technology, but which one?
There are a lot of VPN solutions out there. Quite a number of proprietary ones, and of course the usual contingent of "it's-free-except-that-then-you-have-to-pay-for-it". In both cases, why anyone would trust the integrity of code they can't review is quite beyond me.
We've used OpenVPN for some of our enterprise clients, and it's quite robust. Its model excels at giving remote users access to resources on the corporate network. Technically it is implemented by each user getting a point-to-point connection on an internal network (something along the lines of a
10.0.1.0/30) between the user's remote machine and a gateway server, and then adding routes to the client's system to the corporate IP range (ie good old
192.168.1.0/24). That's fine so long as the assumption is that all the servers on the corporate network have the gateway as their default route, then reply packets to 10.0.1.2 or whatever will just go do default and be sent back down the rabbit hole. Gets messy with things like Postgres if your remote developers need access to the databases; in the configs you do need to add eg
10.0.1.0/24 to the list of networks that the database will accept connections from.
Anyway, that's all fairly reasonable, and you can set up the client side from NetworkManager (install Debian package
network-manager-openvpn-gnome) which is really important too. Makes a good remote access solution.
Peer to Peer
But for our current work, we needed something less centralized. We're not trying to grant connectivity to a remote corporate network; we're trying to set up a private network in the old-fashioned frame-relay sense of the word — actually join several remote networks together.
Traditional VPN solutions route all the traffic through the secure central node. If you've got one system in NSW and another in Victoria, but the remote access gateway is in California, then despite the fact that the two edges are likely less than 50 ms away direct path, all your traffic is going across the Pacific and back. That's stupid.
A major complication for all of us was that everyone is (of course) stuck behind NAT. Lots of developers, all working remotely, really don't need to send all their screen casts, voice conferences, and file transfer traffic into the central corporate network just to come all the way out again.
The 1990s approach to NAT implies a central point that everyone converges to as a means of getting their packets across the port address translation boundary. Things have come a long way since then; the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing and dealing with the challenges of internet telephony has also helped a great deal. Firewalls are more supportive and protocols have evolved in the ongoing attempt to deal with the problem.
Meet tinc
So the landscape is different today, and tinc takes advantage of this. According to their goals page, tinc is a "secure, scalable, stable and reliable, easy to configure, and flexible" peer-to-peer VPN. Uh huh. Because of its peer-to-peer nature, once two edges become aware of each other and have exchanged credentials, they can start sending traffic directly to each other rather than through the intermediary.
$ ping 172.16.50.2
PING 172.16.50.2 (172.16.50.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=374 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=179 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=202 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=41.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=5 ttl=64 time=45.4 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=6 ttl=64 time=51.3 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=7 ttl=64 time=43.3 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=8 ttl=64 time=42.3 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.50.2: icmp_req=9 ttl=64 time=44.2 ms
This is with the
tincd daemons freshly restarted on each endpoint. The first packet clearly initiates edge discovery, key exchange, and setup of the tunnels. It, and the next two packets, are passed across the Pacific to the central node. Ok, fine. But after that, the tunnel setup completes, and both edge nodes have been informed of the peer's network addresses and start communicating directly. Nice.
See for yourself
Watching the logs under the hood confirms this. If you run tincd in the foreground then you can specify a debug level on the command line; I find "3″ a good setting for testing:
# tincd -n private -D -d3
tincd 1.0.13 (May 16 2010 21:09:47) starting, debug level 3
/dev/net/tun is a Linux tun/tap device (tun mode)
Executing script tinc-up
Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 655
Trying to connect to einstein (184.108.40.206 port 655)
Trying to connect to newton (184.108.40.206 port 655)
If you give it
SIGINT by pressing
Ctrl+C then it'll switch itself up to the exceedingly verbose debug level 5, which is rather cool.
SIGQUIT terminates, which you can send with
Ctrl+. If you're not running in the foreground (which of course you'd only be doing in testing),
# tincd -n private -kINT
does the trick. Quite handy, actually.
Performance is respectable indeed; copying a 2.8 MB file across the Pacific,
$ scp video.mpeg email@example.com:/var/tmp
gave an average of 31.625 seconds over a number of runs. Doing the same copy but sending it over the secure tunnel by addressing the remote machine by its private address,
$ scp video.mpeg email@example.com:/var/tmp
came in at an average of 32.525 seconds. Call it 3% overhead; that's certainly tolerable.
Despite my talking above about joining remote networks, an important and common subcase is merely joining various remote machines especially when those machines are both behind NAT boundaries. That's our in-house use case.
The tinc documentation is fairly comprehensive, and there are a few HOWTOs out there. There are a few gotchas, though, so without a whole lot of elaboration I wanted to post some sample config files to make it easier for you to bootstrap if you're interested in trying this (install Debian package
tinc has a notion of network names; you can (and should) organize your files under one such. For this post I've labelled it the incredibly original "
private". Note that when you specify host names here they are not DNS hostnames; they are just symbolic names for use in control signalling between the tinc deaemons. Flexibility = Complexity. What else is new. Obviously you'd probably use hostnames anyway but administration of the tinc network doesn't need to be co-ordinated with people naming their laptop
my-fluffy-bunny or some damn thing. Anyway, on system labelled
hawking I have:
Name = hawking
AddressFamily = ipv4
ConnectTo = einstein
ConnectTo = newton
Interface = tun0
Note that I've got an
Interface statement there, not a
Device one. That's a bit add odds with what the documentation said but what I needed to make it all work. Only one
ConnectTo is actually necessary, but I've got one server in California that is reliably up and one in Victoria that is not so I just threw both in there. That's what your
tincd is going to (compulsively) try to establish tunnels to.
Subnet = 172.16.50.31/32
Somewhat confusingly, you need a "hosts" entry for yourself. Above is what you start with. Each host also needs a keypair which you can generate with:
# tincd -n private -K4096
/etc/tinc/private/rsa_key.priv getting the private key and the public key being appended to the
hosts/hawking file:
Subnet = 172.16.50.31/32
These are the public identifiers of your system and indeed the remote system in your ConnectTo statement must have a copy of this in its hosts/ directory. For nets of servers we maintain them in Bazaar and share them around using Puppet. Central distribution brings its own vulnerabilities and hassles; for very small team nets we just share around a tarball
You don't need the
/32, it turns out, but I left it in here to show you that
tincd is effectively trading around network route advertisements, not host address.
ifconfig $INTERFACE 172.16.50.31 netmask 255.255.255.0
This gets run when the net comes up. You can do all kinds of interesting things here, but the really magic part is assigning a broader
/24 network mask than that given the interface in the
hosts/hawking file. That means this interface is the route to the network as a whole (not just to a single-attached host on the other side of a point-to-point tunnel, which is what OpenVPN does, leaving the
default gateway to sort it all out). Lots of other ways to wire it of course, but one
/24 in RFC 1918 land is more than enough. I've even heard of some people using Avahi link-local networking to do the addressing.
I could have hard coded
tun0 there, I suppose, but they supply some environment variables. Much better.
Now for the California node:
Name = einstein
AddressFamily = ipv4
Interface = tun0
Device = /dev/net/tun
That one I did need a Device entry. Not sure what's up there; it's a server running Stable, so could just be older kernel interfaces. Doesn't matter.
Note again though that the
tinc.conf file doesn't have a public IP in it or anything. Bit unexpected, but hey. It turns up in the hosts files:
Address = 22.214.171.124
Subnet = 172.16.50.1/32
This file must be on every system in the net (that has a
ConnectTo it) — it's how the edges know where to call. So the same file is copied to
Address = 188.8.131.52
Subnet = 172.16.50.1/32
Ok, you get the idea with the public keys, but I wanted to emphasize the point it's the same file. This is what you need to share around to establish the trust relationship and to tell E.T. where to phone home.
Address entry in the
hosts/einstein files spread around is what tells edge nodes which have been configured to
ConnectTo to
einstein where the real public IP address is. You can use DNS names here, and could play dynamic DNS games if you have to (sure, further decentralizing, but). If you have a few machines capable of being full time central supernodes then you'll have much better resiliency.
You do not, however, need to share a
hosts/ file for every other node on the net! If laptop
penrose is already connected in to
einstein and has been assigned
172.16.50.142 say, and
hawking joins
einstein and tries to ping
.142, the central node
einstein will facilitate a key exchange even though neither
hawking nor
penrose have each others' keys, and then get out of the way. Awesome.
And finally, this all works over further distributed topologies. When new nodes join the new edges and their subnets are advertised around to the rest of the net. So if central nodes
einstein and
curie are already talking, and
sakharov joins
currie, then traffic from our
hawking will reach
sakharov via
eintstein and
currie, and in fairly short order they will have handled key exchange, step out of the way, and
hawking will be communicating with
sakharov direct peer to peer. Brilliant.
Nothing stopping you from share around (or centrally managing out-of-band) the
hosts/ files with the Subnet declarations and the public keys, of course; it'll save a few round trips during initial key exchange. Up to you how you manage the trust relationships and initial key distribution.
For completeness,
ifconfig $INTERFACE 172.16.50.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
No surprises there.
Using tinc to cross arbitrary NAT boundaries has turned out to be supremely useful. I have successfully used this from within my office, over 3G UTMS mobile broadband, at internet cafes around Australia, in airport lounges in the States, and even from beach-side resorts in Thailand. In all cases I was able to join the private network topology. In fact, I now just leave
tincd running as a system daemon on my laptop. When I need to talk to one of the file servers, I ping, and it's there.
One surprising benefit was in getting voice-over-Jabber running again. We had some horrible regressions with audio quality during the Maverick release series of Ubuntu Linux. At one point in our diagnostics we found that the STUN algorithms for local and remote candidate IP detection were preferentially choosing localhost virtual bridges with lower route metrics than the default gateway resulting in routing loops. We brought up tinc and since both parties were on
172.16.50.x, Empathy and Jingle chose those as the "best" network choice. Packet loss problems vanished and the audio quality really improved (it didn't finally get resolved until we got a Natty base system, tore out the Unity stuff, and got GNOME 3 and Empathy 3.0 on board via
ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 but that's a separate issue). And as a side-effect we've got some ice on our voice channel. Excellent.
I've since read about a number of other interesting applications. A frequent use case is not needing encryption. While most people would interpret the "private" in virtual private network as meaning "secure", in the old days it just meant a custom routing and network topology layered over whatever the underlying physical transport was. One crew running a large farm of servers on cloud provided infrastructure struggled to enable their various distributed nodes to find and talk to each other. So they disabled the encryption layer but used tinc as a means to facilitate do IP-over-IP tunnelling and giving their sys admins a stable set of (private) addresses with which to talk to the machines. They gave a talk at FOSDEM [their slides here] about it.
Also at FOSDEM was a talk by the "Fair VPN" effort, who are looking at improving efficiency of the network when the number of nodes scales into the thousands. Some nodes are "closer" than others so presumably they should be used preferentially; you don't really need to discover information about every other node in the network on joining, and so on. The fact that they were able to use tinc as a research platform for this is fascinating and a nice kudo.
Next steps
So I'm pretty pleased with tinc, obviously. We've had a very positive experience, and I wanted to put a word in. If you're involved in network engineering or security hardening, then I'm sure they'd welcome your interest.
It would be outstandingly cool if we could work out a NetworkManager plugin to set this up on demand, but that can wait for tinc version 1.1 or 2.0. I gather they're working on making the key exchange and configuration easier; what I showed above is obviously well thought out and flexible, but there's no denying it's a bit cumbersome; there are a fair number of little knobs that need to be just right. A fire-and-forget daemon cross-product with some form of automatic addressing would be brilliant. But on the other hand, when you put network and security in the same sentence there's a limit to how much you want to happen without any direct influence over the process. As it stands now tinc strikes a good balance there, and is entirely suitable for an environment managed by properly competent sysadmins.
- Turns out I was wrong about needing the
Interfacestatement. After Dan's post I tried it without one and
tincdworked fine. Then I remembered why I'd done it that way — without an Interface statement the network interface was named for the tinc net label,
privatein this case. Preferring
tun0, I went back to manually forcing it for my own personal aesthetic benefit.


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Lamar County was first settled by several
groups in different parts of an area to the west of Jonesborough and Clarksville.
There was a group on the Red River at a place called Fulton; one near what
is called Emberson now; one to the southeast of there about 12 miles near
where today is the North Lamar school complex; another southwest of that
at the Chisum-Johnson community called Pinhook; and a group of pioneers
to the east of that about six miles at Moore's Springs. Then, in late 1839
George W. Wright moved from his farm northeast of Clarksville to a hill
where he purchased 1,000 acres from Larkin Rattan. At the time no permanent
settler resided on this land. It was on the old road that led from the Kiomatia
River's mouth at the Red River west into the Grand Prairie. Wright established
a store on the northeast portion of his property, on the road. By December
1840 a new county was formed, named in honor of the Republic of Texas President
Mirabeau B. Lamar. By September 1841 Wright's store was called Paris, and
was a local postal office. In August 1844, the county commissioners decided
to take Wright's offer of 50 acres and establish the county seat in the
middle, at the town of Paris.
The area of present Lamar County was within
the boundaries of Red River County at the time of the Republic of Texas.
By 1840 population growth necessitated a new county, and legislation was
introduced by representatives from Red River County. Wright, who had served
in the Third Congress as a representative from Red River County, was a major
promoter of the founding of Lamar County, which was established by act of
the Fifth Congress of the republic on December 17, 1840, and organized by
election on February 1, 1841. At the time, the county included much of what
is now Delta County.
In 1870, Delta County was formed, and Lamar County was reduced to its present size. The county was named for Mirabeau B. Lamar, the fourth president of the Republic of Texas. The original county seat was Lafayette, a small settlement located several miles northwest of the site of present-day Paris. On June 22, 1841, forty acres of land was donated by John Watson for building a proper county seat, but though the town was platted, no lots were ever sold. The county court continued to meet at Lafayette, however, until the Texas Congress passed a law in 1842 requiring that each county seat be located within five miles of the geographic center of the county. Mount Vernon was made Lamar county seat in 1843, but again no courthouse was built. In 1844 Wright, who had purchased 1,000 acres near the settlement of Pinhook, offered to donate fifty acres to the county for a townsite if the county commissioners would make it the county seat. The offer was accepted, and the new town was named Paris. The first term of the county court was held there on April 29, 1844. Paris is still the county seat.
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I am an innkeeper and manage rentals in the area. Guests come from all over to stay here in one of our 7 lake side rentals. I am an artist and I manage all the rentals I enjoy showing all the interesting creations I built into the inn. If I'm not out in the woods or garden I am in the lake or the kitchen. I enjoy cooking for others and creating my own recipes. I love to hunt, spear fish, XC ski, swim, create and design things. I take action on my passions and enjoy quaint conversation. Most of all I want to share my home and cabins and this area of the Chippewa National Forest with others. I live on the 2nd level of the 3 story inn.
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Thuppakki United States of America (USA) Box Office Collection: 1-2 Cr apprx.
Thuppakki United Kingdom (UK) Box Office Collection: Rs. 13,08,319 (£ 15,020)
Thuppakki Australia Box Office 3 days Collection: 20,04,298 (A$ 35,171)
Thuppaki grossed well at USA, UK, Srilanka, Australia, Malaysia and in other countries at the box office collections.
Thuppakki is expected to cross 100 Crore in the box office estimating the total domestic and overseas collections after Nanban which collected 141 crores in 23 days.
Ilayathalapathy Vijay's Thuppaki is doing a great business in overseas market with positive acclamations.
Thuppakki also collected well in Tamil Nadu (45.60 Cr) and in neighboring states like Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh at the domestic collections.


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Citizens National Bank's Payroll Deduction program provides our customers' employees the ability to set aside a portion of their paycheck for savings or loan payments.
On payday, the employer sends Citizens National Bank a single payment for the total deductions plus a list of employees taking part in the plan.
When we receive these payroll transactions, they will be automatically applied to the appropriate accounts. To ensure accuracy, our operations staff balances each transaction. This service has been well received by employers and employees of the companies now participating. People enjoy the ability to automatically contribute to a savings plan and/or make weekly or bi-weekly loan payments rather than making a full month's payment at one time.
We would be glad to help you develop this service for your organization.
Please contact us for further details.


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Vid: Fat Bike Shred
Sandman Bikes out of Belgium clearly think the fat bike platform is worth pursuing, with three different models including the Ti version seen in this video. Fun fact: the Surly Larry 26×3.8″ tires weigh in at 1400 grams and can be run at as little as 6 psi. I don't think I'd want to be pedaling those up the big mountains! Are you tempted, or even tempted by the fat bike? Or is this a "fun until your friends find out" kind of situation?
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