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Is BlackBerry's iPad competitor about work or about Play(Book)?
BlackBerry maker RIM didn't name their new iPad competitor the BlackPad as rumored, they named it the PlayBook while at the same time saying it was geared towards enterprise. PlayBook may be a football reference but football isn't enterprise and the first thing anyone will read is "play" not "work". Why not call it WorkBook then? Why not give it a UI more suited for business than the flashy eye-candy we saw in the demo video, which has "give us your consumer dollars" painted clearly all over it? Why not give it a powerful, native, C-based SDK to write for rather than HTML 5 and Adobe Air?
RIM no doubt wants the high-profit consumer market Apple has grabbed with iPad but knows their traditional base and best hopes for early adoption are with their existing enterprise customers. That's a powerful if decidedly mixed bag of hurt when it comes to marketing.
Will they be able to leverage it into a one-two punch against Apple on both sides, or will it just confuse people, turning off business by being too slick and turning off consumers by being too serious?
We know it will be facing off against iPad 2, and maybe iOS 5 come 2011, so regardless of the "play" name, the BlackBerry tablet has its work cut out for it.
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Is BlackBerry's iPad competitor about work or about Play(Book)?
Playbook is actually a common business term, as in: strategies in a business campaign.
in terms of the SDK, a native POSIX-compatible SDK will be available nearer to launch. the WebWorks SDK is to get developers started and is aimed (more) towards web developers. what many seem to be missing is the relative ease with which iOS developers should (and possibly will) be able to port their applications to the PlayBook's OS.
As an iOS user and developer, the PlayBook certainly has me interested, especially since the PlayBook is QNX-based. some interesting possibilities could result from RIM's decision to purchase QNX such as in-car entertainment with seamless integration of RIM's devices. other possibilities such as integration with TV sets, set-top boxes, payment kiosks etc could potentially give Apple a good run for their money. And if this motivates Apple to improve their products and integration, I think we all win. Kudos to RIM for offering better competition than Google ever will.
just to add, the reason for RIM to announce the PlayBook so early (I'm guessing) before availability is that it was announced at their annual developer conference which is held at the same time over the last three years (and to get the SDK in the hands of developers as soon as possible).
@Concerned Citizen: no doubt they pre-announced so devs have time to work on apps for launch. Apple announced iPad in January, original iPhone in January as well and shipped in June. It's smart even if it shows your hand. Apps are more important.
PlayBook may be a term used by business but it's not a business term. BusinessCase is, for example. RIM will need more than business to make this device a 10,000,000+ seller and part of that is consumer appeal. What CrackBerry Kevin calls bridging from 9-5 to 5-9, day and night, work and play device.
Netbook, Macbook, all the [anything]book devices have a marketing resonance, adding play is clearly a message beyond being inside football.
Spec wise? Who cares really if its a dual core or whatever. It's how the OS operates. If its smooth or whatever.
Cameras? You know ipad 2 will have that. RAM? Goes back to OS.
Resolution? 1024 x 600. Ruh roh. That sucks. So much for the specs that will really matter.
Bottom line though, tell me why i need a 7" slab over a 3.5-4.3" slab. Especially one with a worse resolution than my iphone 4?
Part of the reason i could justify getting an ipad is due to its size, HD resolution, and it runs the same OS as my phone.
This is RIM's version of a webOS tab. A pretty poor one. Hopefully HP has something much better in mind.
I do give RIM credit for the new OS. It takes guts, vision, and a strong hand to replace a rather entrenched Blackberry OS to this new QNX-based OS. Hope they will follow through and replace BB OS on all RIM devices. They may finally be able to leave the thumb board behind, left to some sort of Blackberry Classic model, and the all new Blackberrys will be slate candy bars with multi-touch capacitive screens and soft-QWERTY keyboards.
The 1 GB RAM spec is rather interesting to me. It's tantamount to crazy as it's a rather margin busting thing sort of thing to do. Next year's sweet spot is 512 MB. Either the new OS needs the memory or RIM's got some gusto here.
Then again, the 7" 1024x600 screen is a mistake. Any 16:9 like aspect ratio screen on a tablet sized device is a mistake. Those 128 pixels matter. It's a human thing. It's a train track width sort of thing.
@Shrike RIM has confirmed that the QNX-based OS will replace the Blackberry OS on all devices, starting with OS 7 (used as a stepping stone) but a full replacement is clearly still a while off. This makes things even more interesting.
Playbook sounds like a business tablet to me.. Just because it has PLAY in it doesn't make it a kid's tablet.. I'm sure they included that word there to appeal to the consumer.. but It definitely will not turn off business folks..
That being said .. I don't think it's gonna be successful.. I just don't think Blackberry's demographic is interested in a tablet..
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This Stuff is Legit I can't believe I was able to make legit Jerk Chicken. TWICE! This stuff is perfection in a bottle. All I did was follow Walkerswood recipes from their site and I was able to make 3 pounds of jerk chicken that was on par with the best jerk chicken I've had north of the islands. I will definitely be buying again! Just a word to the wise, use about a tablespoon of the seasoning per pound of meat if you can't handle super spicy foods. May 27, 2014
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Central Alabama Edges Odessa for DI Men's Golf ChampionshipMay 17, 2013
LUBBOCK, Texas – The 2013 NJCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship came to an exciting conclusion Friday evening at The Rawls Golf Course in Lubbock. After trailing in the team standings throughout the tournament, Central Alabama Community College fought back edge Odessa College (Texas) on the tournament's final day by one stroke. The national championship is the seventh for Central Alabama's men's golf program and first since its three consecutive titles from 1999-2001.
Odessa held a one-stroke advantage on CACC 866 (+2) to 877 (+3). Central Alabama had four players shot par or better on the tournament's final day, including a 68 Andrew Klasing to lead a team score of 283 (-5) and move its four-round score to 1,150 (-2). The Wranglers, however, slipped to second in the standings with a team score of 285 (-3) on Friday, which set Odessa back to three-over at 1,151 (-1).
Alex Mahlik led Central Alabama with a team best 283 (-5) to finish in a tie for sixth overall. Andrew Klasing finished in a tie for eighth with a three-under-par 285.
While Central Alabama and Odessa were battling for the team title another was taking place for individual medalist honors. Heading into the final round on Friday, five golfers were tied for the overall lead at five-under-par (211) but none would end up winning the title.
Sitting in a tie for ninth after three rounds at 213 (-2), Akse Olsen of Wallace State Community College (Ala.) turned in his best performance of the four-day event with a five-under-par 67 in the final round to push his total for the tournament to 281(-7). Meanwhile, Meridian Community College's (Miss.) T.J. Morgan carded a 70 (-2) on Friday to tie Olsen for the lead.
The two participated in a playoff on the No. 18 hole. Morgan bogeyed the par five hole while Olsen made par to emerge as the 2013 champion.
New Mexico Junior College's Elliott Whitley, Iowa Western Community College's Jose Pelayo and Keith Greene of Brevard Community College (Fla.) finished in a tie for third place at six-under (282).
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1999: a toy year for the whole family?
Thursday, December 09, 1999
1999: A Toy Year for the Whole Family?
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December 3, 1999
McFarlane Toys' action figures have been called "the most warped," "scariest," "best horror/fantasy," and are perhaps best represented by the award-winning Spawn lines. But in 1999, McFarlane Toys broke the, er, mold by releasing several action figure lines based on licensed characters from the Beatle's Yellow Submarine, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Sleepy Hollow. Even Techno Spawn, the latest Spawn series featuring hybrid animal figures, is being bought as much by kids and parents wanting something unique for the holiday season as by traditional Spawn fans.
This year has seen initial and complete sellouts of a number of different figure lines: Sleepy Hollow, Yellow Submarine, Metal Gear Solid, some Austin Powers figures, KISS Psycho Circus and more. Movie Maniacs II, now nearly sold-out, is like most McFarlane Toys figures: Hard to find soon after they hit store shelves.
What makes 1999 different? Our research shows that McFarlane Toys are typically bought by males between 15 and 35; but many collectible figures released this year have been purchased by guys older than 35. Characters first seen in the late 1960s and early '70s, such as the Beatles figures from Yellow Submarine, and Movie Maniacs characters Michael Myers from Halloween and Norman Bates from Psycho all appeal strongly to people in their 30s and older. And women of all ages have been buying figures from this summer's box office smash Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as well as Yellow Submarine and the first-ever likeness of Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane from the current hit Sleepy Hollow.
While McFarlane Toys won't be forgetting its roots, look for more figures to break the mold and more of what has made the company famous, from classic rock stars to popular comedy, horror and cult movie figures, and kids characters.
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I marinated the shrimp in lime juice, olive oil and cilantro. For the mango salsa, I used 2 mangos diced, 1/2 red onion, minced, lime juice and a pinch of cayenne.
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Mateys, climb aboard to learn about one of the most famous pirates who savaged the East Coast, hiding, stealing, marauding and causing trouble along shanty villages on the S.C. and N.C. sealine.
To get in the mood, I turn on a pair of EU ultimate ears Mini Boom speakers with its Bluetooth connection. Now I'm playing a CD of ocean waves crashing. Make yourself a virgin tropical drink.
The Little River Chamber of Commerce advertises the history of this area by including its past as including Blackbeard, the infamous pirate.
"The small protected harbor was a haven for shipwreck survivors and pirates who needed a place for rest and repairs," writes retired history teacher Blanche Floyd on the chamber's website.
Smithsonian Magazine's February 2014 issue has just released newly discovered information about Blackbeard. The article reports Blackbeard and his men camped on North Carolina's Okracoke Island, according to the Davidson College Archives.
The new article gives the tale of Blackbeard overtaking two ships which were twice the size of his ship. The article reports these two ships would be the last ones he overtook three months before he and his crew were to die.
This article was written by Colin Woodard who has written four books, including "The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Carribean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down." This is what the new NBC drama "Crossbones" is based on. Woodard writes for the Portland Press Herald, and he won the George Polk Award for investigative reporting last year.
He has written "The Republic of Pirates." Another book of his is "The Real Pirates of the Caribbean."
"The Last Days of Blackbeard" is the name of the new article. "An exclusive account of the final raid and political maneuvers of history's most notorious pirate," the article is subbed.
The new information involves 18 men on the Rose Emelye, a French merchant ship the night of Aug. 23, 1718. They had been onboard 167 days since leaving Nantes and traveling through currents and winds in the Atlantic to Martinique. They offloaded French cargo and took on cocoa bags and sugar barrels, just refined.
Going home in the Gulf Stream, they were near the La Toison d'Or, a French merchant ship. Then someone saw sails on the stern, and in three hours it became dark, and the ship was coming closer. It was a small ship, but they sensed trouble. Capt. Jan Goupil was about to meet three cannon muzzles.
He and his crew of 17 men got the Rose Emelye's four cannons ready. The article reports on the tiny sloop there was a tall, slim man with a long black bear yelling an order.
"His helmsman threw the tiller hard to lee, men released ropes, and, sail briefly flapping, the strange vessel suddenly swung hard about, shooting by in the opposite direction," the magazine reports. The Toison d'Or had no arms, and pirates suddenly jumped aboard.
The article notes Blackbeard is the most famous pirate, above Capt. William Kidd and Sir Henry Morgan, "privateers." Blackbeard died in a sword fight on a ship with Royal Navy sailors.
Have you heard of Assassin's Creed with its new video game series "Black Flag" at Wal-Mart? The author was a script consultant. Look for "Black Sails" on Starz. It started in January. Check out "Crossbones" on NBC with John Malkovich as Blackbeard, based on the author's book.
Pirates hovered around the Bahamas doing deeds around 1713 to 1720. There were female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and the gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet. Calico Jack Rackham dressed up like a prince. There was Charles Vane. There was a base in Nassau.
You could not trust anyone back then with the black market thriving. Bandits were the thugs of that day.
It was in early December 1716 that Blackbeard was Hornigold's lieutenant with his own eight-gun, 90-man pirate sloop. His name then was Edward Thatch, not Teach. It was a typo first made by the Boston Newsletter. He didn't kill anyone until his final fight with the Royal Navy, but most people called him a monster.
Stede Bonnet, 29, gave his ship, "Revenge," to Thatch. Bonnet, son of a rich Barbados family, had been injured. He had hired a crew of 126 men to help him run away as a pirate. His family made money from planting sugar. He did not have experience and had kids, three, at home. Maybe he was mentally ill, the author says.
"A Pirate Looks at Forty" by Jimmy Buffett is a good tune to listen to while reading about Blackbeard.
Tim Bullard, 58, has a book published by The History Press of Charleston, "Haunted Watauga County." He is married with a son, Conor. They live in Winston-Salem, N.C. He also has a column in the North Myrtle Beach Times and has won a S.C. Press Association feature writing award and a N.C. Press Association writing award. His web site is www.timbullard.com.
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Bertha Emma Blanchard, 89, a longtime resident of Waterbury, passed away in the comfort of her family at the home of her daughter in Duxbury on Thursday evening, October 27, 2011. Born in Waterbury on March 31, 1922, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin H. Joy Sr. and Christie (Doubleday) Joy. Bertha married Ralph W. Blanchard at the Advent Christian Church in Colbyville in 1947. Ralph passed away on January 9, 1981.
Bertha attended Waterbury High School and following her marriage was happy and busy as a homemaker and raising her family. A longtime member of the Advent Christian Church, she was active in the children's ministries and the Women's Home and Foreign Missions Society. She very much enjoyed hosting visiting missionaries in her home and reaching out in fellowship to her neighbors on East Street. Following the closing of her church in Colbyville she attended the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church which is now known as the Green Mountain Community Alliance Church in Duxbury. Her favorite pastimes included playing the piano and the accordion, which she did by ear, and reading the Bible.
Having been spared the difficulties of the recent floodwaters in Waterbury, she recalled being carried on the shoulders of her father at the age of 5 as they left their flooded home on Randall Street in 1927.
Bertha is survived by her children, Barbara Jean Carter and her husband William of Duxbury and Frederick R. Blanchard and his wife Deborah of Waitsfield; four grandchildren, Lisa Palmer and her husband Eric of Waitsfield, Amy Denis of Waitsfield, Bonnie Dalager and her husband Philip of Spencer, IA, and Jason Blanchard of Winooski; eight great-grandchildren, Daniel, Jacob and Isaac Palmer, Michael and Connor Denis, and Carter, Jackson and Malcolm Dalager; a brother, William Joy of Calais; as well as nieces, nephews and extended family. Bertha was predeceased by four sisters, Annis Burgess, Avis Warren, Charlotte Joy and Arlene Leland, and two brothers, Maynard Joy and Benjamin Joy Jr.
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BAKER — Ask Baker girls basketball coach Brian Wagner and he'll be the first to tell you there's no such thing as an ugly win.
"A win is a win," he said. "I had a buddy tell me, 'Winning is the best deodorant,' and it certainly is. It (a win) leaves you smelling good the rest of the week."
Baker's 55-42 win over Central on Monday might not have been a thing of beauty, but Wagner wasn't about to complain.
"We had some bright spots," he said. "We had a very good third quarter.
Central has a tendency to be physical and we have a tendency to be aggressive as well. I think it (the uneven pace of the game) had to do with the fact that we missed some easy shots and threw the ball away."
Even with a slow start shooting the Gators (14-6) jumped to a 9-0 lead in the first five minutes of play.
Cassidy Anderson, who led all scorers with 20 points, scored the game's first basket with 7:13 left in the first quarter. A Sarah Hudson 3-pointer with six minutes left in the period made it 5-0 and a Kathryn Quigg free throw made it 6-0.
Anderson finished off the run with a 3-point basket of her own and Baker led 9-0 with 2:44 left in the first quarter.
The Jaguars finally got on the board with 2:28 remaining in the first quarter when Makayla Simmons scored a basket for the first two of her 18 points.
Baker led 12-7 at the end of the first quarter and stretched the lead to 27-16 at the half as Bethany Chestnut took over for the Gators scoring seven of her 15 points in the quarter.
Chestnut remained hot in the early stages of the third quarter as she scored Baker's first two baskets in the period.
Anderson then took over again for the Gators scoring six points in the third as Baker led 44-24 after three.
Central tried to threaten in the fourth quarter, but the Jaguars couldn't get the Gator lead into single digits as Baker held off the charge to take the win.
The win kept the momentum going for the Gators as they prepare for next week's District 2-1A tournament at Freeport.
"The idea is to peak at the right time and certainly we have played our best basketball in the last week-and-a-half," Wagner said. "Hopefully we can continue that."
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Smart meters are being installed across Vermont by Green Mountain Power and other electrical utilities, and many are still unaware of what they are and why they've been the subject of so much controversy.
At some point most of us received promotional material in the mail from GMP, complete with promises of more reliable electricity and energy savings, but there's another side to "smart meters" that you deserve to know before one is put on your home.
Starting with the basics, smart meters are a new type of electric meter that are being installed as a result of $69 million in federal grants. Smart meters will have the ability to keep close track of energy usage and, in theory, the consumer can then use this information to save money.
In reality, smart meters don't actually save electricity. Vermont Electric Coop, which began installing smart meters in 2005, has said that they haven't seen any decrease in energy usage, despite this large-scale investment. Some states have decided against them; Connecticut's attorney general advised against their installation after it was discovered that each meter cost over $400 and the costs took over 20 years to recover.
Instead of saving money, after receiving a smart meter, many customers have reported electric bills going up. The utilities dismiss this, attributing increases to a warmer summer, a colder winter, or changes in energy usage inside the home. This doesn't explain why so many residents from British Columbia to Alabama have complained of bills shooting up 200 to 300 percent, from one month to the next.
In the Mad River Valley, as well as in most of Vermont, the utilities will be installing wireless smart meters, which emit levels of RF (radiofrequency) radiation that concern many independent scientists, who warn that long-term exposure can lead to serious health issues.
In California, where wireless meters have already been deployed, thousands of health complaints have been reported with symptoms including migraines, ringing in the ears, heart and circulatory issues, difficulty sleeping, depression and memory loss.
Recently the American Academy of Environmental Medicine released a position paper calling for immediate caution for wireless meter installations. The paper states, "More independent research is needed to assess the safety of smart meter technology" as "patients are reporting to physicians the development of symptoms and adverse health effects after smart meters are installed on their homes. Immediate action is necessary to protect the public's health."
Utilities downplay the RF levels emitted from wireless meters, some even going so far as to say they emit less radiation than the human body. This is factually misleading and prevents customers from understanding what the meters actually do.
Current advertising campaigns compare wireless meters to cell phones and other household devices, asserting that the meters emit much less radiation than what we are already exposed to on an everyday basis.
Independent expert Daniel Hirsh Ph.D., professor of nuclear policy at UCSC, examined the evidence and determined that it's actually the other way around: wireless meters emit 50 times morewhole body RF exposure than a cell phone.
Another area of controversy is how often these smart meters emit radiation. The utilities claim that they only transmit every six hours for a few seconds at a time. While this is technically true that they only transmit data for such a small amount of time, what they fail to disclose is that the smart meters continue to emit pulsed radiation all day and all night.
Utilities repeatedly have claimed that the meters comply with FCC requirements But the FCC "guidelines" were adopted in 1996, based on research published prior to 1986. The research studies used continuous wave RF, not the kind of modern pulsed radiation that is emitted from smart meters.
Over the last 30 to 40 years, a large body of scientific literature has reported such effects as double strand DNA damage, increased cancer rates, thyroid disruption, lowered melatonin levels, which can lead to sleeping problems, leakage of the blood brain barrier, heart and circulatory problems and cognitive and neurological impairment.
In May 2011, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified all RF radiation as a Group 2B possible human carcinogen, the same category as lead paint, exhaust fumes and DDT.
Several independent investigators have measured radiation levels here in Vermont and elsewhere and found that smart meters emit levels of radiation that are thousands of times higher than background levels. Particularly concerning are residences with multiple meters or homes that are close together.
Wireless smart meters are reported to interfere with medical devices (i.e., pacemakers, insulin pumps), as well as household electrical appliances such home security systems, causing them to malfunction.
If all of this wasn't enough, there are also privacy and security issues with smart meters. Many reports show that they capture very detailed information and specific electronic signatures of appliances throughout the home. A Department of Energy Privacy Report indicated that "an observer could discern the behavior of occupants in a home over a period of time, whether a home is occupied, how many people live in it, daily schedules, whether homes are equipped with alarm systems, medical equipment, or expensive electronic equipment."
While the utilities assure us that they will protect all this information, in today's world in which cyber attacks have compromised the data of many companies, and even the Department of Defense, I'm not convinced that Green Mountain Power is impenetrable. Wireless networks are notoriously insecure and even former CIA director James Woolsey warned that smart meters are a risk to the national electric grid.
The good news is that the Vermont Legislature and the Public Service Board have required utilities to allow customers who may share these concerns to "opt out" of the wireless smart meter installation programs, and to do so for free. We encourage you to inform yourself, and make your own "smart" meter decision.
Ray Pealer is a community health advocate from Calais, VT.


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August 19, 1951 – April 25, 2013
Former Lyons resident Gary Wayne Walker passed away in Hay Springs, Nebraska on April 25, after a three-month battle with cancer. He was sixty-one years old.
Gary was born August 19, 1951, and raised in Springfield, Virginia. He was preceded in death by his parents Virginia Lee and Norman A Walker Jr., and his ex wife Lissa Walker. He is
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Roy E. Reinholds, age 83, of Longmont died of pneumonia on March 8, at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland. Mr. Reinholds was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, to Carl and Arlene (Hallberg) Reinholds. After graduating from Lane Tech high school, Roy worked as a metallurgical lab technician for manufacturing companies in Chicago. He was drafted
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May 6, 1973 – January 26, 2013
Former Lyons resident John M. Veltien died January 26 at his home in Dacono, Colorado; he was thirty-nine years old. John was born May 6, 1973 to John and Tina Veltien in Lyons, where he grew up and attended school. He graduated from Niwot High School. John married Tanya Gajewski and they later divorced. He was currently employed at V&S Molding in Dacono, working as an injection-molding technician. John adored his children attending many
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Ronald D. "Ron" Morton, age 85, of Lyons, passed away in Ft. Collins on February 21. He was born March 13, 1927 in Loveland, to Clarence and Martha (Bell) Morton. Ron served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, he married Georgia Michel in 1948, and she preceded him in death in 1982. Ron married Joanne Ritter in 1984, and she preceded him in death in 2011.
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Dr. Wolf was born December 30, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland to Morris and Anna Wolf. He received his Ph.D. from Catholic University in 1970, his Master's Degree from American University in 1964, both in Washington, DC; and his Bachelor of Science from The University of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1960. Sid was recognized internationally as an author, researcher, spiritual counselor, educator, body worker, and healer. He began his career taking part in landmark studies of the therapeutic benefits of LSD used in conjunction with psychotherapy: treating alcoholics, psychiatric patients and the terminally ill. In addition to his valuable contribution to mental health and medical research, he served his community as the director of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse for
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We are yet to discover the cause of these incidents (have now had three periods of time with scary-high BP, each starting 1 day before my period and ending ~day 3 or 4) but have cleared kidney function and brain aneurysms from the list of concerns. No doctor will believe that there could be a link between menstrual cycle and high BP. It is not a psychological thing as my cycle is totally unpredictable (never been regular in my life).
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Long-time lurker, you know the drill.
I realize that for a lot of people, MMO means a game has to have kickass graphics, but it really surprises me that even the rp'ers have that mindset, considering we tend to get the short end of the the stick when it comes to many MMO designers. In fact, it often feels like we're simply an afterthought in MMO development. First they satisfy the killers with good PvP, then the achievers with badges to show off and maybe a little crafting, then the explorers with interesting areas to raid, and if they have time before production time, they'll throw roleplayers a bone like a dance emote or a roleplaying server in which to herd us.
So yeah, I'm a little bitter, and I expect several of you are as well. What I'm confused about is why the rest of the MMO community haven't made the logic jump that I made to text-based roleplaying MMOs. Wait, don't spit your drink just yet, lemme explain. For me, the bedrock of roleplaying is in telling a good story, like each character is a main character in a book someone's writing. This lends itself extremely well to text, allowing you to describe your facial expression, vocal tone, body language, or even simply movement in great detail. You can choose to be as brief or as verbose as you want, depending on the scene. And, yeah, a well-described character is leaps and bounds more personalized than the limited number of choices that most graphical MMOs offer to roleplayers. Not only are the interactions and descriptions better, but so is the ability to go off of the beaten path. Text is only limited by your imagination, while graphical stuff needs to be actively ignored to allow your imagination to enter.
That said, what is your sticking point with text-based roleplaying that keeps you from using them? There's hundreds out there, often lurking under the names of MMO's grandparents, the MUD and MUSH. They're often at least free to play, and have the best rp I've found anywhere. Thanks.
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I've dipped my feet in this water, but then realized I was the only one swimming. If there were others in the pool, they must have been hiding underwater, because they wouldn't reply when I would shout out.
Feel free to recommend a text based game for me.
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What about a Reading Rainbow MMO? It could have voice overs by Levar and everything.
Am I too old to be making that reference around here?
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Joined: 9/15/08
I love MUDs and MUSHes!
Because they are not burdened by graphics, they offer so much more possibilities. And they are not only for roleplayers – Just like MMORPGs, some muds focus on RP, some are hack&slash, some have very extensive crafting systems, there are PVP muds and PVE muds.
I actually think that if there ever was a time to 'bring back' text-based multiplayer RPGs, it is now. We are moving towards mobile gaming, we all own smartphones and tablets and we would love to game on them, but the current offering in mobile MMOs is just horrible. They all want to show off their pretty graphics, and what we get is a bunch of superficial, childlike, linear games. MUDs are perfect for mobile gaming!
Often, the problem is finding the right MUD for you. There are thousands of MUDs, and it can take a while before you find one that you love.
Here's some websites that might help you:
- * Mudstats.com : for a large number of muds, this website shows the number of players currently online and the average number of players per reboot. It also gives a short description of most games.
- * Topmudsites.com : has a very good advanced search and overview of new/updated/popular games
And here's some recommendations for games:
- * If you like to focus on combat, hack&slash & questing, try Aardwolf or Materia Magica. Both are fun to play and have more than 100 players on at any given time.
- * The Iron Realms games (Achaea, Lusternia, …) are also very good (big world, very in-depth, loads of possibilities and things to do, also good roleplay) but they are a bit 'pay to win' – so if you hate cash shops, don't try them
- * If you love long quests that really make you think, crafting and a huge world to explore, try Discworld MUD. This game is also really funny.
- * If you like to roleplay, try Treshold RPG
- * And last but not least, I think Lithmeria is going to be a really good game, it's still in closed beta but they will be going into open beta soon!
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Anyone know one of those old text based solo rpg, like dungeons crawler. I used to play some very nice games like this a decade ago and i kind of miss them. So if anyone know some games like this that are still around, just post them, ty.
Graphic put a very strong limit on your imagination, and i didn't liked Muds very much because at the end most where just a scripting race, and you had to be a coder to do well in those games. At least graphical rpg aren't that much about boting and scripting.
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Don't know about any new text based single player dungeon crawlers (if anyone knows any, i'd love to get recommendations!!), but i would suggest the classic EAMON. On this website you'll find all the info and I think you can even play the game here: http://www.eamonag.org/
If you search on 'dungeon crawl' in the interactive fiction database you also get a couple of games (really old ones too though :)) http://ifdb.tads.org/search?searchfor=tag:dungeon+crawl
Neoddysey's suggestions were pretty good (especially Topmudsites), but yeah, I personally dip into the text-based side for free roleplaying, not hack-and-slash. I'm a bit of a sci-fi nut, so the main game I've been hanging out at lately is an original-theme epic space opera mashup called OtherSpace. If you like the kind of stories like those in Babylon 5, Firefly, Mass Effect, and even some of the old-school Star Wars, it can be a really fun place. If you prefer ultra-realism over the rule of cool, it might not be your cup of tea.
Really friendly community, and the gameplay reminds me a lot of tabletop gaming, with customizable but not out-of-control skills and dice rolling while players run scenes for other players. I also appreciate the variety of scenes they run there. Some days, it's ship battles with the bigbad velociraptors IN SPAAAACE, some days it's mad science, some days it's some guys in a bar, some days it's a small human refugee community in an alien universe banding together for mutual survival, and some days it's just pure silliness.
If you're the type to just jump in and sink or swim like I am, here's a hint. Go here, make a quick 250 word biography for a human from any point in human history (even modern day for super-easy) and rifted into the setting, and you and your character can learn the theme together in-game. That way you can actually decide if you like the game before you spend forever on a theme-appropriate bio. Pick Eiru or Materi Syna for your starting world, since they're the most popular.
If sci-fi isn't your thing, I've had a lot of fun with the LoTR-based Shadows of Isildur ( http://www.middle-earth.us/ ), and the Dark Sun-like Armageddon ( http://www.armageddon.org/joinus.html ), though the latter doesn't allow OOC chatter anywhere in the game, which can get annoying. Very immersive, though.
As for one-player text-based stuff, I don't really know much about that, though I do know they re-released the Zork trilogy a few months back for cheap. You can relive getting eaten by a grue, if that's your thing.
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Originally posted by Requiamer
try nethack.
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One of the reasons I don't play text-based games a lot (I do from time to time though when I'm feeling adventurous) is that I have trouble visualizing the way things are laid out. Sure, landmarks are usually no problem, like "the fountain in the centre of town" or something, but in most of the text-based games I've tried out there's an awful lot of rooms that are identical. "You're in an alley." Go west. "You're in an alley." etc.
Second, most of the ones I've played have been very grindy. Maybe I'm not doing it right, but I've spent a lot of time slaying rats and then carrying their bodies to some NPC for a few coins. That's not fun to me.
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To add my 2 cp I would say that for me, I don't want to play text based video games, I want to play video games with Grafix.
They don't need to be state of the art, they dont need to be so good I have to buy a new PC.
I can role play in a game with grafix just as good as i can in a mud, just takes a little patience & imagination.
why dont more people do that? I can't answer that. All I ever need to RP is other people that want to RP.
It's evolution baby, things progress & change, Muds are still a playable format, just like you can still read a paper book.
But I say this, when the next Wheel of Time book comes out & it weighs 6 pounds, screw it, I will get it on my Kindle that weighs 3 ounces.
Oh, I agree that things are evolving, ferndip, I'm just not sure they're evolving in a direction that favors us as roleplayers (yet). Like you said, you need more patience to roleplay in the current or near-current batches of graphics games. Things should be getting easier for us, as the companies seek to put in more and more features to support rp. Instead, backwater 'obsolete' games like muds and mushes are actually evolving more towards serving us as roleplayers. That's just sad.
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LIfe is a grind already, take it out of MMO's!
i agree with jimmac. All the muds i've tried have not had friendly communities to newcomers. They seem too involved in solo'ing, or involved in their own cliques. Also when you are looking for story, plot, etc, and you are getting nothing from the other players, i find that each room has nothing but descriptive text. This can be excellent, but unlike solo text based adventures, there is never anything to interact with. Perhaps if there was a mud, with a little less 'rooms', and say a hundred areas where quests and interesting storylines could be triggered, i would give them more of a chance. Btw, is there anyone running an actual rpg via this forum?
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if anyone gives Achaea a try I recommend joining Shallam and announcing that you're new over the CT (city talk) channel, I'll definitely help you get started and introduce you to people who like to roleplay.
Use the HTML5 client it has a built in map and other nice features
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Fantasy Ground II
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I am a fan (as the forum name might imply) of Midkemia Online, which is a really good MUD based on the series of books of the same name.
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There are 2 kinds of people in the world: those who don't like dragons and those who enjoy living.
My main issue with MUD's is they are too dependent on imagination, which seems like a good thing, but then you realize it can easily be ruined by players who are awful roleplayers. That seems negligible, because you can always put them on ignore, but then you get spotty conversations and what not when in groups. Overall, that makes much of the experience seem silly and less immersive.
Of course, this is not counting other issues like scrolling text, which for many people, is a problem, because there are those of us who want to continue seeing something, like that orc sitting on a knoll, not scroll some text to read about it because we missed it the first time around. Combat in a lot of games is hampered by that too. Realistically, I am trying to convey that in a very complex MMO, the text would be too much to read, compared to the human ability of simply observing a physical world.
But instead of harping on issues, I would rather discuss the future, and try to promote optimism that things will change. There will come a time when games really do allow us to play out stories, I think we need to just be patient.
But for those of us who desire it, we might as well all settle for less with whatever. I go with LARP's, which really are not bad in theory, but I am still trying to find one where game mechanics don't constantly get in the way of story.
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Well, I think that especially with MMO concepts text-based would pose the problem of not being able to perceive everything that's going on fast or easy enough.
Seeing is the easiest way of getting what's going on - if you have to read through everything, nah...
Too bothersome for most, I guess.
I love reading but even for me that would be too much.
Though I love classic text adventures!
But not MMO style...
I used to play in a Dragonriders of Pern MUD quite a few years ago but what fun! :) There are MUD's still around and I don't have an answer as to why they have fallen out of favour.
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I can see text playing a larger role of some sort, but really some things are just easier to describe with graphics. Consider: You enter a large room with wooden walls, a few pictures hanging up (one is a picture of a cow with a banana in its mouth, another is a picture of a wolf with gray fur, onther depicts an old barn), a stairway down, three openings in front of you, one to the far left, one to the middle-left, and one to the far right. You then see a table surrounded by 6 chairs. Each chair has a red velvet cushion on it. The table has a large roasted pig in the middle with an apple in its mouth. ETC ETC ETC
All of this information as well as several more paragraphs of details could be described INSTANTLY with a picture. That is why a meaningful text-based games really don't stand a chance. If you need to transmit information from the game to your brain, limiting yourself to text just isn't the way to go.
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Aren't there plenty of MUDs that use simple graphics, along with the text to help you visualize what's around you and map the area? Just in case that makes any difference to you guys.