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I had tried it at launch, and while having a good time, I was just too busy at that point in my life to really sit down and play.
So i gave it a whirl, after the dust had settled , The game was not F2P at the time and a subscription was needed. I got out my card and subbed to see just how the game had evolved.
These are subject words that i will elaborate on with my experiance (and on going) with Age of Conan.
Story: Enough said here folks, This is top notch story telling, The characters do have voice overs up until you leave Tortage (The starting zone 1-20) This is great for me, I do like getting that quick immersion grasp, being a fan of Howards books i can safely say Funcom did excellent here. The reading doesn't bother me after tortage, In fact, i really like it. 90% of the time i read faster than any voice-over can speak! I did try starwars, Although they claim to be "innovative" with having every npc with a voice. I personally get dull of it. Who cares? Reading is good for you.
Community: The community in AoC is one of, if not the best! Sure they're are a few taints but its very uncommon. Infact people will take time out of their play just to help newer players. I've seen in Global channels where people are offering free blue gear to people leveling whom might need it. I joined a guild during my extensive review/play and i must say, that these people and I have really grown fond of one another. Not only do we ask game related questions, these people care about your day, your life, and your dog! Really though, It's what EQ offered that WoW didn't , a great community! Even if you're not in the same guild you can meet a lot of very nice people out there.
Raiding: Upon reaching level 80 you can start raiding! The raids in AoC offer greater gear (duh!) One key element that i have seen in mmo's today that conan offers is body blocking/surroundment. Some key fights require the raid force to circle the boss/mob so that it cannot escape the circle. AoC doesnt let you "Magically" pass through people, this in itself adds a whole new element in raiding and tactics which must be followed. So lets say you're playing Rift, or WoW and you've gotta run to get out of the green shit, Well its possible to just ghost through people as long as your safe, but in conan if a "teammate" isnt thinking about his "team" and doesnt move for John it may cause extra damage to that player or the entire raid! (Can cause a raid wipe in T3). The raiding is fun, exciting and downright a blast to do! It keeps your brain and YOU! on your toes!
Roleplaying: AoC handles RP very well, With a list emotions that can make your headspin due to its sheer amount, and the Vanity tab (allows you equip a gearset which you favor over the current and still retain the stats!) I'm going to keep this subject light but all in all, Roleplayers are in a safe haven here in Age of Conan. With weelky RP meets you'll get your dose of RP happily.
Combat: The combat is simply amazing, I love the fatlities! Combo's make everything more "Skillfull" Every keystroke can matter here, Conan's combat is nothing like anything out there at the moment, Any melee character you choose offers cone damage with said weapon. For example, If i have 3 enemies right up on me, and I'm using a polearm swinging left to right it's going to hit every single one. Not just your selected target. Certain weapons offer a distance in which they can attack. Daggers being the shortest range require you being very close to the mob. After playing conan then trying out starwars, i simply felt cheated of money because TOR felt cheap, it's a simple warhammer/wow single target/single damage type thing where everyskill is on a global cooldown.
Graphics: I saved this one for last, simply becasue AoC outshines the others in this department. I can only think of ONE mmo which has better graphics overall and thats FFXIV (lol...) TOR's are Fitting, but without a in-game option for AA and having to post-inject it is simply just bad an worse for performance. Hero engine isn't good. sorry.... The dreamworld engine still to this day from its 08' release is mind blowing! It offers an insane amount of options to fully immerse a person. The shadows/godrays/water accoustics simply show how much funcom prides in their engine and using it for The Secret World. Nothing out there offers this type of exploration with this level of detail. NONE! Small shurbs will actually move when walking through instead of you "Magically" passing through it.
I could go more in-depth, but i wanted to leave it at that. I'm sure many Anti-funcom haters will chime in and thats fine. Really, your only helping ;) The launch was rough but most MMO's experiance that, many vets will know this aswell too. The game has changed and only for the better. I highly recommend this game for anyone who is currently bored or just tired of the extensive end game TOR has to offer (lol...) It has some bugs but nothing game-breaking at the moment, in-fact i have experianced only very minor things which would hardly fault as a bug and also seen commonly in many other mmo's.
If you do decide to play, I suggest wiccanna, I currently play there and love it. If you have any help feel to send me a tell if you join in ! IGN: Etzul
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Originally posted by Foreverdream
You pretty much sumed up, how awesome this games community has been, as a former AoC player for 3 years i gotta say i spit on WoW, even GW, comparing my AoC guild and the external guild friends and people i knew on the path was just too awesome, really rewarding community :D, damn nostalgy :(
Originally posted by Thunderous
Funcom didn't pay me a dime, I'm just expressing my feelings towards the game in hopes that new "like minded" players will join in on something they've been missing. Sorry you feel that way bud.
^^ This.
I play AoC to this day. Like it, and I have my friends there. :)
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Originally posted by Thunderous
You know where the door is dont ya
Originally posted by Thunderous
I guess I am payed as well then.
And no, from a person that have played the game 3 years soon, this game has much more to offer than graphics.
The Ultimate Breakdown
Like seriously i hate people that think they know everything about a game just becuase they've played it for a few days, months, nor even a year.
We, the people that have been here for 3 years knows what has been going on, within the epicness and failing, so seriously if you are gonna bash the game becuase it turns down as soon as you get out of tortage, you got 0 idea of what the real game is.
Originally posted by Thunderous
I think your view of AoC is about as far from reality as humanly possible. Funcom took Howard's creation and did a fabulous job capturing the grit and atmosphere of the original stories. In fact I think the artists and designers have elevated the Conan IP as much as anyone since Frank Frazetta and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The main reason I enjoy the game as much as I do is because of the beautifully rendered Conan universe.
Come on, I can see knocking AoC for gameplay short comings, or some technology glitches, but to say it is a poor / pathetic adaptation of the Conan IP is ludicrous.
"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Demo"
^^This. No doubt that the IP have grown with the art added to the Hyborian world by Funcom.
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Thought this forum was about the MMO age of conan. That one is subpar to everything aside from graphics but best of luck with TSW.
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i honestly feel like people are not giving this game a proper chance. the game is simply great. the bugs suck (no doubt) but they are not game breaking. i really dont care much for its graphics, but i do like the gameplay.
I think much of the negativity comes from disgruntled PvPers, or players from a long ago launch who can't let go of a grudge.
"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Demo"
Originally posted by Thunderous
How exactly does the game instantly become crap after tortage? Simply because minor quest/npc characters dont have a voice? That is whats keeping you from going further?
Please....Elaborate on how this game goes to "crap" after tortage. Anyone thats leveled to 80, and gave the game a full chance will relise that this game offers something unique which others dont.
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Originally posted by Foreverdream
I agree with some of your points and dis agree with others. GRAPHICS- Excellent, the best of any mmo. STORY- Very good, although after awhile it becomes a bit repetitive but over all quite good. It is clear they put all their marbles into Tortage, which may have seemed like a good strategy at the time, turned off alot of people who wanted the voice overs to continue. The voice overs and story line are not as good as TOR and of course after Tortage you get your WOW wall of text, that being said the story line is much better than WOW. COMMUNITY- This is where Conan takes a big hit, I played on a PvP server and this may have had something to do with it, but I have never seen more wacked out teen agers on a server before, the global chat was gibberish and the community was really bad. RAIDING- Did not do enough to really comment on it buy why do you have to wait til lvl 80 to do it. CRAFTING---- The fact that the op does not even mention it says it all. Poorly implemented an after thought at best and they refuse to make it better. COMBAT----- Great if you are a melee character, the best combat of any mmo, not very good if your are not a melee character, one of the weekest of any mmo for PvE. However if you are a Melee character you will be seriousely gimped vs a non melee in PvP, although the combos are great fun in PvE they take to long to implement in PvP.
This being said Conan is a very good game, I dont like it as much as TOR but that is my opinion, I think the developers have made alot of bad decisions and that is a shame. After Tortage, Crafting , Meleee vs Non Melee-this is what they should have been working on, if they did it would be the best mmo out there
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Originally posted by LuckyDucky
Which is true - I am one of them, but I am proud to tell you this: Age of Conan PvP was too intense for me, too realistic in terms of playing an RPG and "living / being" your character. It felt so "real" to get harassed in this game like in no other I have played in my MMO career since Meridian 59. And the bad part of those feelings were the major point. I had nice times in this game, but there were more bad ones than the goodies. Including the non-excisting endgame at launch. Of course this is just me.
And this comes from a PvP LOVER! who rather likes X vs 1 fights, rather than team-fights. So speaking from a more than fair perspective.
But from what I can recall from AoC is a pure unfairness in which your getting thrown in. Getting ganked was so uber-mean in this game, like no where else. And from the words of my friends, they had all the same experience^^ so maybe, just maybe here in this forum there might be some fellas aswell, who know what it mean to get ganked and harassed in AoC.
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I tried the game after the swtor beta weekend and still enjoy it. Especially the mini dungeons (only take 20 minutes to clear) are well made.
And no I'm not getting paid for saying I like this game. (Though I wish I was..)
I have an entitlement delusion - because I have this strange idea that my 50$ should have the same value as anyone else's 50$
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One other thing the F2P model is very bad and not nearly as good as Lotro or Fe about on a par with eq2 F2P which is to say bad LOL
Originally posted by eddieg50
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Originally posted by Thunderous
Just because someone writes something positive, they have to be on the payroll... you pessimistic brat. I happen to fully agree with the OP, troll.
*this is the cleaned up version of my reply... as clean as I could get it.*
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I'm thinking about rerolling on Age of Conan. I've played it for a while back at release but due to limited time i had to quite. I'm going to roll on Fury server since i'm from the EU. Any idea on how the population and if there are any casual PvE guilds around there?


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ON CAMPUS: Stryffeler to lead FAU into Greenville
Senior defensive end Andrew Stryffeler (LCHS) has been voted as one of the four 2013 team captains for Florida Atlantic University and will lead his Owls into Greenville Thursday night to face East Carolina University. Head Coach Carl Pelini commented that he admired Stryffeler's lead-by-example attitude and hard work ethic through pre-season. Stryffeler started at defensive end this past Friday night as Florida Atlantic fell in their season opener to the University of Miami, 34-6. Stryffeler saw action in six 2012 games, recording eight tackles and one quarterback hurry. In his career, Stryffeler has played in 18 games and has been among the Owls' two-deep since arriving in Boca Raton. Thursday night will be the only trip to North Carolina this season for Stryffeler and the Owls. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30.
Aaron Mellette (SLHS) and the Baltimore Ravens dropped to 2-2 after losing their final pre-season game to St. Louis, 24-21. Mellette recorded five receptions for 70 yards, finishing as the Ravens' third-leading receiver on the night. Mellette completes pre-season as Baltimore's second-leading receiver, hauling in nine catches for 140 yards and two touchdowns. His pre-season performance and hard work was rewarded Saturday afternoon as he was notified that he had earned a roster spot on this year's team. Baltimore will open the regular season Thursday at 8:30 p.m. as the Ravens travel to Denver with the game to be broadcast on NBC.
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Danny Dillon (LCHS) and Dalton Brown (NHS) and Campbell University (0-1) had their season opener spoiled by UNC Charlotte as the 49ers cruised past the Fighting Camels, 52-7, in Charlotte's inaugural football game. The game was also the first for both school's head coaches, Mike Minter for Campbell and Brad Lambert for Charlotte. The Camels will make their home debut on Saturday as they play host to the University of Virginia Wise at 6 p.m.
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Chase Arrington (LCHS) and Gardner-Webb University (1-0) opened their season with a win over Furman, 28-21. The Runnin' Bulldogs will be on the road Saturday as they travel to Huntington, WV to face Marshall in a 6:30 p.m. contest.
Darcus Elliott (NHS), Ashton Gaines (SLHS), Ulyess Upchurch (LCHS), Cody Lanier (LCHS), Pete West (LCHS) and UNC Pembroke will open the 2013 season Thursday night at 8 p.m. as the Braves host national runner-up Winston-Salem State in front of a national audience as CBS Sports broadcasts the game.
The following players and teams will compete in their season openers on Saturday — Michael Reives (SLHS) and Averett University will travel to face Hampden-Sydney for a 1 p.m. game. Tony Marsh (CCHS), James Foushee (LCHS), Reese Setzer (LCHS) and Guilford will face Tre Wells (LCHS) and Greensboro College in the 17th Annual Gate City Bowl to be held at Grimsley High School at 1 p.m. T.J. Lett (LCHS), Austin Johnson (LCHS) and Brevard College will take on Presbyterian at 2 p.m. Dequan Swann (LCHS) and N.C. A&T will have the nightcap, making the trip to Boone to face Appalachian State at 6 p.m.
Brian Stryffeler (LCHS), Freddie McCullum (SLHS) and Wingate University will still have to wait another week before beginning their season. Wingate will take the field on Sept. 14th when they host St. Augustine's at 1:30 p.m. at Irwin Belk Stadium.
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Ben Grossfuss (LCHS) and Lynchburg College (0-1) opened their 2013 season with a 2-1 loss to Richard Stockton University in the Roanoke College Tournament. The second game against Averett College was postponed. The Hornets will return to the pitch this weekend with two doubleheaders in the Shellenberger Classic. On Saturday, they will face John Carroll University at 1 p.m. and then play the winner of Marymount and Roanoke at 3:30 p.m. On Sunday, they will face the winner of John Carroll and Roanoke at 1 p.m. and then play Marymount at 3:30 p.m.
Brady Heath (LCHS) and Methodist University opened their 2013 season with an overtime loss to Birmingham Southern 4-3 last Friday. The Monarchs played Rhodes University on Monday and will travel this weekend to Galloway, N.J., to face William Patterson University on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Richard Stockton University on Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
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Olivia Sturdivant (LCHS) and Kennesaw State (1-3) went 0-2 this weekend in Chapel Hill as they participated in the Carolina Nike Classic facing two top-ranked teams in 12th-ranked Duke and No. 1 North Carolina. In Friday night's matchup, Duke would slip away with a 1-0 win over the Owls. Sturdivant stayed in goal the entire 90 minutes, collecting seven saves. On Sunday, Kennesaw State faced its stiffest competition of the year in the form of the defending national champions and current No. 1-ranked Carolina Tar Heels. Carolina would win 3-0 as Sturdivant again played goalie throughout the entire game, collecting five saves in a barrage of 18 shots on goal. The Owls will take the pitch again on Friday as they travel to Atlanta to take on Georgia State at 7 p.m.
Jill Davis (LCHS) and High Point University fell to 0-2 on the season as they were defeated 3-0 by William and Mary last Friday night. The Panthers hosted Georgia Southern yesterday and will face UNC Greensboro Friday night at 7pm before traveling to Elon on Sunday for a 7pm match.
Anna Swindell (LCHS), Erica Davidson (Lee Christian), Haley Bryant (Grace), Makaila Gillum (Lee Christian), Alisha Adkins (SLHS) and the CCCC Cougars fell in both matches this past week, losing to Davidson CC on Tuesday and Wake Tech CC on Thursday. Erica Davidson looked particularly impressive in the Wake Tech matches, registering four assists and three kills. The Cougars will return to action on Sept. 17 as they host Wytheville CC.
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Mollie Schrull (LCHS) and Meredith College opened their 2013 season with a win as they finished first in the four-team St. Andrews Invitational last Friday in Laurinburg. Schrull finished 33rd out of 40 runners with a time of 25:51. The Avenging Angels will travel to Wilmington to compete in the Seahawk Invitational at 6 p.m. Friday.
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Editor's note: According to information provided Wednesday by the Summerville Police Department, the following suspects were still at large. All photos provided by reporting agency.
Name: Pamela Messervy
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Age: 50
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Elkin, coming off its first victory of the season over Alleghany, came out on fire. The Elks grabbed an 8-6 lead at the end of one, using an outside game.
Bethany Turner drilled Elkin's second trey of the second quarter to start an 11-4 burst as the Elks took a 22-16 edge into the locker room.
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Darion Dobson added 12 points for Starmount, while Miracle Walters finished with seven. Morgan Randleman tacked on six points. Courtney Beals recorded a team-high 20 points to lead Elkin, while Brown added 16. Makayla Dimmette pitched in with eight points.
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CRESTVIEW — Denzel Ware's on-again, off-again football recruiting process seems to be drawing to a close.
Ware, a rising senior and three-year starter on the Crestview High School football and basketball teams, has been full of surprises in recent months.
Last winter he committed to play football at Florida State, but shortly after the commitment, he withdrew from school and went to his childhood home in Opp, Ala.
Shortly after arriving in Opp, he committed to play at the University of Kentucky.
By the time the school year ended last month, Ware had re-enrolled at Crestview and withdrew commitment to Kentucky. Then, on a recent visit to the Kentucky campus, Ware again committed to the Wildcats — and he said this time, the commitment is sticking.
"I was going to stay with the first commitment, but that was without checking it (Kentucky) out," he said. "I was going to wait and go up there to check out the campus and meet the coaching staff, as I did with Florida State.
"I went up there in June, and I always had a great deal of respect for coach (Mark) Stoops (former Florida State defensive coordinator).
So after going up and checking it out at a camp and seeing the Commonwealth (Stadium) and all that, I had my mind set ... I wanted to play there after meeting other top commit players from Ohio."
Almost every scouting service agrees that Ware is one of the better weakside defensive end prospects in the Class of 2014.
Recruiting website 247 Sports ranks the 6-foot-3, 220-pound athlete as the 47th best prospect in the country, the fourth best weakside defensive end and Florida's eighth best player.
However, "I don't get caught up in that star stuff too much," he said. "A lot of them have me as a threestar, but ESPN has me as a four-star and No. 8 in the ESPN (among weakside defensive ends). 247 has me as a four-star.
"All I have to focus on is trying to win a state championship at Crestview High School and a national championship at the next level."
Ware, who said the Wildcats will play a four-man defensive front, said he is being recruited primarily to play defensive end. He also has been told there are certain defensive schemes where he will see action at outside linebacker.
"I'll be multiple moving from spot to spot," he said. "I may be at end one play, and then I'll drop back in coverage the next play. I really don't know what plans they have on how they are going to use me.
"I just know right now, from the camps they had me work with the outside backers ... they had me as a pass rushing defensive end. I know I'll probably be a third-down guy with my hands down going to the quarterback."
Ware said his basketball background would help him at linebacker when he must rotate his hips quickly to change direction and defend on pass player or get in position to tackle.
Ware's Opp experiment only lasted a few months before he realized he needed to be back in Crestview.
"I was born and raised in Opp, but it's just the relationships I built with my team and the love that I have here," he said about why he returned. "I started (high school) here with these boys, and I might as well finish out here with these boys.
"The Opp boys can't replace the guys I have here in Crestview."
It hasn't taken Ware long to warm to new Bulldog coach Tim Hatten.
"I like him (Hatten) better than (former Crestview) coach (Kevin) Pettis," he said. "He's a nice guy. He's won championships on the next level, and he knows how to get it done.
"Most people only come to Crestview with goals of getting people into college, but he wants to win. He has brought that winning attitude into our minds, and now is the time to prove he's the best thing to come to Crestview."
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My concern is that the GI's staff involvement, while great so far, will suffer a dropoff sometime in the future (hopefully far future). I think one of the great things about this site is the GI staff's involvement. I hope the same level can be maintained as time goes on.
Yeah, I'll admit that in the old forums we rarely ever saw the GI staff there. Once a month Joe would post the online community question for the magazine, and every once in a blue moon Nick or Jeff would poke their heads in, post once or twice, then disappear without a trace.
Because nearly everything we do will involve the site in some way, and because this new site is so much easier to run and participate in, I think your fears are pretty unfounded. This is as much a part of our work day as anything else.
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Good, I'm glad to hear it! That was really the only thing I felt was missing from the old forums. Glad to have you all aboard this time around =)
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Saucepans and Stew Pots: Study Says Consumers Ditched Treos for iPhones. Sorry, Palm
Alas, poor Palm. You just can't seem to get a break these days, can you? First came that whole embarrassing Foleo fiasco (or Foolio as I like to call it), an ordeal not to be repeated. Then your long overdue Palm OS replacement gets pushed back, twice, not to appear for another 18 months. Now comes this latest report, certain to deliver yet another vigorous blow to the nuts.
The bean counters at NPD Group, who watch consumer buying habits like the Chinese Secret Police, have determined that a very large percentage of early iPhone owners migrated from Smartphones, particularly the Palm Treo and T-Mobile Sidekick. In fact, the study shows that consumers were ten times more likely to have abandoned a Treo in favor of iPhone. Which totally has me laughing my ass off at the numbskulls who so adamantly asserted that iPhone will NEVER attract Smartphone users, in a vein effort to write off any threat. Fear the fruit, boys. Fear the fruit.
Four years ago the Treo represented the pinnacle of mobile computing design and innovation. Today, it's the Amish horse and buggy of Smartphones. Carriers may just as well give them away as Christmas ornaments for subscribers to hang on their trees. Nobody wants one.
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Saucepans and Stew Pots: Study Says Consumers Ditched Treos for iPhones. Sorry, Palm
I never could carry a Treo. Too bulky.
In other news, my iPhone battery has given up and wants me to pull the plug. Figures I'd get the freak battery that only lasts 3 months and 16 days.
I mean, I'm sure it'll last longer, but only if I charge it every 6 hours.
Former 650 user here, and man am I happy to be rid of it. Bulky case, balky software --- bleah!
Lets see. Im using an 3 years old Palm Zire 72 as GPS solution (with an external bluetooth GPS receiver), have Bluetooth A2DP (iPhone, dont know what the heck is this), a lot of games, I can see a lot of video files encoded in with a lot of codecs (not only .MOV), I can edit Word and Excel documents, I can see PDFs, I can NAVIGATE to internet (and not that tiny litle browser what iPhone have), chat with my friends (real chat and not via sms) and also a lot more things. And if there is something that is missing you have a lot of useful and REAL SDKs (not iPhones web based useless development invironment) whith who you can develop your needed app to use OFFLINE (without the need to have a conection to internet to use a notepad aplication). To swith to iPhone? Whell, I dont think so.
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Newton 100>Newton 130>Various Palm Pilots>Various Cliés>Treo 650(excellent)>Treo 680(terrible)>iPhone 8GB
which is the best so far.
The Newt OS was a work of genius, way ahead of its time - and sadly way ahead of a processor that could run it at a decent speed.
The Palm OS which was once the best thing since any kind of bread is now a horrible unsupported mess. Happy to see the back of it...
you don't like iPhone? Think yours is better and iPhone is crap? Then get the hell outta an iPhone blog and go back to your palm blog dipwad! You think you found someplace to come drop your wounded bull$hit about your dying phone and disparage the iPhone then go find someplace else boy, your trolling crap couldn't fall on more deaf ears.
When you're old enough to get a job kid and buy your own phone rather than have your mommy & daddy give you their hand-me-downs, and after a year or so when you've saved enough french fry money to buy a phone come back and tell us which phone you bought. And then disappear again.
Nothing like an ignorant basher finding a blog for a phone they don't own to come and reassure themselves that since they can't afford the blog phone they have the best piece o' crap they can afford.
Now back to bashing Steve for the next item on the agenda.
I can NAVIGATE to internet (and not that tiny litle browser what iPhone have),
What exactly are you referring to when you say NAVIGATE? You find it easier to tap on the browser icon or what? Because your implication that Palm's Blazer browser is somehow magically superior to Safari is laughable at best and fallacious at worst. That's like comparing a motorized wheelchair to a Lexus luxury sedan.
Palm's web browser, much like the operating system it runs on, is a toy that is best summarized in two words: Fisher Price. Now run along and play with your toy. There's a good boy.
You need to address him properly or the SP (Steve Police) will be paying you a visit. It's "The Steve."
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I had been planning to wait until there was a 3G iPhone, but I was having so much trouble with my Treo 700p (Verizon) after a recent update, that I chucked it and bought an iPhone. I love the iPhone, but I do miss (a) copy and paste and (b) the ability to search contacts, events, etc. for text. You'd think those would be easy additions for the iPhone.
I am actually doing this, lol. I have a 700wx with Sprint and my contract ends in a week so I am going to go get the iphone yay!. I have been reading about them and looking at accessories. I found this site:http://www.theiphoneshoppe.com/
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I have sat in the office of Easley High School Principal, Dr. Tim Mullis, and watched his eyes swell with emotion when discussing the at-risk children of this community.
I have sat in city council meetings and watched Pickens City Mayor, David Owens, greet everyone with a smile, thank them for coming, and call them all by their first name.
I have interviewed local business owners like Joe Lesley, owner of Joe's Restaurant in Easley, who after 40 years of business exchanged the recognition of his own hard work and sacrifice for the acknowledgement of the men and women in his community.
In an interview over the summer, Joe offered this statement, "For us to be successful here, it was the people. It's been wonderful. The people have been wonderful to us in Easley. It couldn't have been any better."
To better a community means that its people must invest something more than their time.
As a reporter in Pickens County, I have spent the largest portion of my time interviewing men and women who were interested in working for something beyond their own concerns.
It has been the vision of this county to create something meaningful, a place where a bustling Main Street crowds with familiar, friendly faces, a place where neighborhood homes are always open and under the watchful eye of the community.
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When I woke up Monday morning and went outside to let my dog out, I felt a welcome touch of fall in the air.
The calendar says we still have another four weeks of summer, as fall doesn't officially arrive until Sept. 22, but at least Monday was a reminder of cooler, milder days and nights to come.
Many of us associate the start of the football season with the beginning of the fall season, and for many years that was the case.
As late as the 1970s, most high school and college football teams didn't start their seasons until mid-September.
College football's expanding season was brought on in part by cable TV and the need to fill air time in the first few weeks of September.
High school season inched earlier in the year, as more schools started playing the game and the playoffs expanded from three to five games in the larger classifications. With the way things are set up now, the state championship games in Florida's four largest classifications won't be played until Dec. 13 and 14.
Florida high school football teams play their first official games of the season this week, but the season started last week in other states.
I'm sorry, but I just can't wrap my brain cells around playing a regular-season game earlier than Labor Day weekend.
I miss the days when, even in Florida, the first cool breezes of autumn marked the start of the football season. There was something wonderfully innocent about those days; then again, I was young and the world seemed to be a kinder, friendlier place — unless you were playing an archrival on their home field.
Of course, there can be no turning back the clocks to yesterday or yesteryears of long ago.
Football falls now start in the summer, and life moves at a quicker pace.
I'll be in Baker on Friday to watch the Gators host Graceville. A week from Friday, I'll be at Jack Foster Stadium as Crestview High welcomes the Choctawhatchee Indians to town.
My dance card for the next 11 Fridays is full with high school football games. And, if I'm luckY and Baker and Crestview have successful seasons and make the playoffs, I can fill a few more Friday nights in November and beyond.
By the time football season ends, I'm hoping there will be a chill in the air and frost on my breath on Friday nights.
Football season is here and the seasons are changing, but Friday nights in high school stadiums across the state seem to forever remain the same.
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Following some of the recent launches of pretend to be mmorpgs, some having few of "mmo" and nothing of "rpg", i again felt stranded and lost in this land, pushing me back to that very first time when i left my sweet "that other game" in persuit of something i lost after a given expansion in that same game.
That crusade led me to try game after game, in a continuous search for that missing piece, and oh boy it was expensive, both in time and money spent.
Now, years later, i find myself in the same situation.
Not that i cant cope with the vastness and beauty in the world of EVE, or the soaring winds of AION, but i was missing the "rpg" element in my character, so much that i was already looking for a single player rpg...good God.
But i hadnt lost my faith yet, and GW2 is still a bit away...2 months....
So i decided to once more gird for battle.
With an eye out for some interesting upcoming launches, like "The Repopulation" and "Path of Exile", and with GW2 on the horizon, i decided to thin my list to two choices: the game i never played and should had "Vanguard" or the game that i stoped playing and still dont know why "RIFT"
How to decide? Simple, the old coin toss trick, Mr. Harvey Dent style. "Pling"....RIFT it is.
So now...
Reactivate my account: simple
Subscribe: simple
Download client: simple and fast
Get in the game: easy cake
Now, i dont want to sound too much of an idiot, but i am one, because this game was sitting here the all time and i dont know why i was not playing it.
This game, in my opinion, has to be (i say "has" because i havent tried all games out there ofc) the most polished and solid MMO+RPG in the market. Everything in this game screams "we know what we are doing" and TRION sure knows it.
Sure i felt a bit "slow" given the fast paced games i recently played, but once i got the hang of it and decided not to rush the content and simply play it in a way that i could gain awareness of everything that surrounds me, in everything that exists in this world to do, i could simply pickup that old feeling of "presence" again.
Im not reviewing it ofc, and doing so would seem useless at this stage, not giving "pros" or "cons", etc etc, and what matters in the end is that you are having fun playing your game, any game, because "taste" and "opinion" are two words of individual ackownledgement, so dont let anyone tell you that the game you are playing isnt any good...
...well, imo D3 sucks, but thats just me.
So, if you are new to the genre, searching for something else, or not having fun at the moment, RIFT is one of the serious contenders to be warming up your HD for the next couple of months.
And "why should you be playing it"??
Easy, this game is everything you know about many other games, condensed into one package, but with a small tiny remark:
TRION only managed to squeeze in the good parts.
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MMO gamer since 1997
Originally posted by Clerigo
When you start your topic like that you're just asking for flames. Maybe it's your intention to look like a OP thats desperate for thread with a large post count but you simply come off as Baiting tbh.
I understand the excitement for Rift with its new Pvp mode but we can all do with less baiting imo.
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It's a very polished and enjoyable game, for me is the winner in the fantasy-theme-park sector.
I'd be happy if they move from the 100% theme-park toward a more hybrid schema, for example doing PvP with a real huge impact and/or a more player driven economy.
Trion is doing very well, I'm quite sure we'll see HUGE improvements for RIFT over time: I subscribe 1-2 months here and there but the client is always installed and updated :P
Originally posted by Clerigo
I think Rift is the epitome of MMO without RPG
The worst race selection in any MMORPG by a rather enormous margin, and most of the races have no character to them at all.
The game world feels generic, and is designed to be absolutely crammed with content. Trions content addition is mostly cramming even more content in the world. Mobs every two feet give it a very unnatural feel.
The game was designed with a 'game starts at max level' philosophy, so the actual period of character progression is extremely small.
Furthermore, the soul system makes your character have no real identity.
They constantly make changes to the game for the sake of gameplay but to the detriment of lore. This is tricky, as some of the quality of life changes (mercenaries) do make a big difference and its tough to fault them. But cross faction mailing is a bit unneccesary. And then there is conquest, where instead of making a logical 3rd faction (planar invaders?) they made guardians and defiants temporary friends choosing among 3 new factions. The whole thing doesnt make one lick of sense, and there was absolutely no reason why they couldnt have done something different and had 3 faction battlegrounds without being absolutely idiotic with lore.
Trion has consistently put gameplay and convenience (for both us and them) ahead of lore and immersion. For some people this is a big plus. If you dont care about a virtual world and just want to play a MMOG, Rift is one of the best options out there. If you want a rich, immersive game world steer clear of Rift.
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Originally posted by teakbois
Teak, nothing personal. But any decent post seems to get a response from you that is negative in nature. Perhaps if you dislike the game so much you can go to a forum of a game you do like. While your input is invaluable in showing someone who seems disgruntled towards a game. It is better for everyone if you comment with something you do like.
I do not care that you post. But you flame almost every rift posts placed here with good intent.
Please stop.
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As somebody who is not a big fan of the themepark design, Rift is one of the very few that I have thoroughly enjoyed. I think that it's an amazing game that is run by an amazing company. I am currently subbed and will remain so for the forseeable future.
Originally posted by xpowderx
The OP had an opinon that I disagreed with. I certainly didnt flame the OP at all, but I very strongly disagree and its a very important issue because it gets to the matter of why games like EQ and Vanilla WoW are superior to modern games, they focused on the RPG aspects. Especially immersion and a great world. Hopefully Storm Legion can change that.
Its also a pretty sensationalistic thread title, which doesnt help things. WHY YOU SHOULD BE PLAYING RIFT. It should be 'Rift - And why I am playing it'. While I think the OP in this case is being genuine, this forum has a LOT of b.s. and over sensationalized garbage. Theres a post on here about how awesome conquest was and that all 4 of that person's servers had queues because of the patch. Only two of the servers had queues, and one of those queues was for a very short time. I don't even think there were 4 servers that hit high pop yesterday. Posts like that are far from good intent. They are deceptive. Again, I don't think thats the OP's intent here, but there are clearly threads here that exaggerate things or ignore the bad things to get more people to play Rift. You make a post like that, there is a good chance Ill respond.
And I do have helpful posts too. And Ill always recommend someone try and sub back for a month to see things for themselves. But Im not going to sugar coat my opinion (or the facts) like many people do here (although a lot of people atually do believe things, such as 'Rift is doing very well and has a stable population'). And you know what? It probably helps Trion. Because if someone goes in thinking something is going to be amazing because there is nothing but exaggerated raves about it, theres a good chance they will be disappointed. If they go in with a balanced set of viewpoints, they might be pleasantly surprised.
Originally posted by Z3R01
Well im sorry if you felt that way. Was not my intention. But i am giving MY opinion.
About your other remarks, if you view my post history, i rarely start a thread and i dont need atention from you or anyone in this site or in any other site. I came here to post MY opinion.
Thank you.
Originally posted by teakbois
Well, thak you for your reply.
And i got to ask you this: if RIFT is all that, maye you could recommend me a mmorpg that has all those elements you mention? Or at least some of them.
I'm back to RIFT. I stopped two months after launch due to work overload. The game has made such progress while I was gone I truly can see it become a rising star. Should they add housing, it will then be the one mmorpg that will have a chance to survive on a long term basis to my heavy distate for themepark.
Originally posted by Clerigo
Everquest 2 and LOTRO probably come the closest these days. LOTRO though can be a bit too slow feeling (its combat can be rather dull, with the possible exception of playing a warden). EQ2 I think is the best all around themepark MMORPG, even if the direction its gone in the last year and a half or so is disappointing. I played one beta weekend up to level 15, but I think GW2 will qualify as well, the cities are absolutely amazing and give each race a clear distinct feel and atmosphere.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Richard Feynman, Nobel-prize-winning physicist
Originally posted by teakbois
heh, I left EQ II to play RIFT. I wouldnt go back. You are right, LOTRO is slow at times. Now I know why you post negative comments about Rift. Familiar statements! Of course it was at the time SWTOR fanbois were around. Its all good, a month or two of GWII and all those players will be playing RIFT. I am glad I understand where you are coming from Teak. Now we know where the source is coming from. The "honest" opinion :-D
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I enjoyed Rift for a few months. It is a good themepark without a doubt. If a person likes themeparks and hasnt tried Rift yet they owe it to themselves to give it a shot imo. I havent even played since about 3 months after launch and I would still feel comfortable reccomending it to someone who I know likes themeparks.
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Originally posted by xpowderx
If you didn't care, you wouldn't have responded to the post....Just saying.
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The wife and I have pretty much stopped playing SWToR and moved back to rift. The game has improved and we both decided to simply start all over again.
We picked a new server, new toons and we are both enjoying leveling up again. The game is not anything new, but it is fun for us. Polished, and we both will talk during the day about what we want to do the next night.
For people that have not played Rift, i again say. You are not going to get something totally new. Alot of it has been done, but what i think Trion did do was take a page from Bliz, take features that work and make them better. All in all we have both subbed again. FOr the time being we will be playing away trying to get to lvl 30 :)
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I'd say Rift is the perfect follow-up MMO for WoW players that are tired of the kiddy-fying that WoW keeps going through. You get the same gear grind treadmill at endgame and gear-based PvP (minus arenas iirc) with better graphics and more choice for viable (although there is always a "best") builds.
Originally posted by xpowderx
Oh i get it, you put honest in quotations because you wanted to imply I have some hidden agenda. I noticed it was actually you the one who posted the fabrication about the number of servers with queues. Someone that blatantly lies about "their" game to make it look like the place to be really shouldnt be calling others out for imaginary agendas.
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Five reasons why I play Rift:
1. Rift is one of the last major titles left where everyone pays the same amount of money to play and everyone has the exact same opprtunities. No cash shops and no publisher sponsored RMT.
2. Trion is extremely aggressive in releasing content. They listen to what the players want and deliver. They are busting their @$$es to keep Rift relevent. I think they are doing a good job.
3. It's moving in a direction. Yes the game was released as a clone. Infact I played the game at release and said it was the game that WoW should have become. I lasted a few months because I needed a break from MMOs. But I have since returned and I can honetly say, that with each patch, the game is slowly but surely coming into its own and less and less like WoW.
4. This new expansion looks Epic. So better to prepare for it now.
5. I just like it.
Originally posted by teakbois
I just have to comment a bit on this , not flaming you but when i tried wow and saw mr t in there and people throwing grenades at me to turn me into him it killed lore and immersion for me . Along with that motorcycles, steam powered helicopters , goblins got what jet packs or rocket launcher? cant remember no thanks. . This is just a few i had to mention. Not saying wow is a bad game but those killed fantasy even high fantasy settings for me .
I know that rift has tech also but at least it fits in with the lore and doesnt go over the top.
Just my opinion of course.
Originally posted by teakbois
Thnx for the reply.
I have played both those games. I wont comment on EQ2 because i havent many positive things to say.
LotRO is in fact a great rpg online, and you cant beat the lore in that game ofc, love it or hate it, the world created by Tolkien is just perfect and immense and no other can match it. What made me not play it, despite some wondeful areas and mechanics,is the lack of an opposing faction.
Also when you comment on RIFTs racial traits when picking a class and you chose to compare them to the ones in LotRO, you should know that you are out of hand there. The point in RIFT is to allow a player to be flexible. If you already bind the player to some form of selection right from the start, the objective is lost. But yes, maybe theres more of "rpg" in LotRO than in RIFT, but still, for me, RIFT has both "mmo" and "rpg" and LotRO has only "online" and "rpg" in it...kind like GW1. But hey, i liked my time spent in LotRO. Great game also.
But that is ofc only my opinion :)


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McGinnis: Cry for "Wolf": Will Scorsese's latest be delayed for silly reasons?Written by Jeff McGinnis | | firstname.lastname@example.com
You may not get to see one of the most anticipated movies of 2013 until 2014. And the reason has nothing to do with last-minute reshoots because the film sucks, sudden script changes or any of the myriad reasons that Hollywood has had for delaying high-profile flicks over the past few years.
No, in this case, the delay might be to reshape a potentially great movie purely for marketing considerations. Now, there's a chance these choices are being made by the film's creator — the best filmmaker of our time — in an effort to make the movie better. In that case, so be it. He's earned the right to make that call. But if he's making changes based upon what he thinks others want, or worse, if he's being pressured to make such changes, then there's a problem.
The movie is Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Jordan Belfort's "The Wolf of Wall Street," a memoir of success and scandal in the corporate banking world. Starring Scorsese's current muse Leonardo DiCaprio and featuring performances from Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Jean Dujardin and more, it was more or less assured that the film — scheduled for release on Nov. 15 — would be a major player in the end-of-year awards season.
Then a few weeks back, word began to trickle out that there might be a problem with the battle plan. Sources like The Hollywood Reporter began hinting that the film might not make its release date, and may indeed be pushed back into the new year, completely missing the Oscar window.
In recent weeks, reports have indicated that Scorsese and his longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker have been working furiously to get the film finished by the end of November, which would allow distributor Paramount to release it on Christmas day. (This would scoot the planned Christmas release — Kenneth Branagh's "Jack Ryan" reboot — back to 2014 instead.)
Why the delay? The primary reason, cited by tons of sources, is simply that the movie is too long. Scorsese is known for assembling initial cuts of his films that run far in excess of their final run time, and the preliminary version of "Wolf" is said to be at least three hours in length.
In a world where some of the most successful films of all time have scraped or exceeded that run time — "Titanic," "Avatar" — the idea of "Wolf" being at that mark doesn't seem like that big a deal, really. Some sources, though, claim the film actually runs even longer than that, which theoretically could be testing audiences' patience and bladder control. Hence the desire to cut it down in advance of the wide release.
There may be another factor, however. The Hollywood Reporter and other outlets also speculate that the film — which, like the book that inspired it, contains some fairly graphic sex, drug use and more — may receive the dreaded NC-17 rating in its current form, which would be the kiss of death for "Wolf"'s box office chances. If this is true, it's yet another example of the glaring need for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to develop a rating that would indicate a film was only appropriate for adults without having the stigma of being pornographic.
When NC-17 was introduced in the mid-'90s, it was a tepid attempt to rebrand the "X" rating — which had long since been co-opted by nudie exploitation flicks — into something that might be acceptable by the mainstream. The first mainstream release to carry the NC-17 rating? "Showgirls." And all the good intentions went right down the toilet and the rating was branded with the same stigma its predecessor had found. To this day, few movies that garner the rating will be given ad space.
Regardless of the reasons behind the delay, I hope whatever work Scorsese is doing on the film is genuinely of his own choosing and the choosing of his collaborators, and not being forced upon him by bean counters or the tendencies of a moralistic society. If any filmmaker has earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to length or the ability to handle sensitive content, it's the man whose vision brought us "Raging Bull," "GoodFellas," "Taxi Driver," "The Departed" and many more.
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Canadian bass music producer ill.Gates will headline tonight's "For the Music" party to celebrate Slipmat Science's ninth anniversary. I spoke with the man about how and why he immersed himself in the world of electronic composition.
Two decades ago, Lane was that upstart kid. He played guitar and piano, but got his first sampler at age 7, went to his first rave at 13, and liked the wide-open horizons of electronic music.
"It just sounded so new and different and fresh," he said. "At that point, I had learned guitar, but I just felt like guitar music didn't really need me. I felt like what I was doing was just kind of a commentary on the history of guitar music.
"I got a sampler and thought, 'These instruments are new. These … have a lot of history left to unfold. This is something I can be a part of,'" Lane said. "I felt (guitars) had been so explored that I was going to have to really struggle to find something new, and I just didn't want to sound like anyone else. I wanted to do something entirely different. I wanted to have my own thing."
I also talked to one of the guys behind Slipmat to get the skinny on that crew's origins. Click here to read them both. (The Slipmat story is on the right, in smaller print.)
Feedback this week is on last Saturday's wonderful Gregory Alan Isakov concert at the PoetHouse in downtown Bend. What a night. Here's an excerpt.
Isakov's set was a blend of old (the downcast "The Stable Song," the throwback jazz of "Salt and the Sea") and brand new (he said he's working on his next album now), plus a stark cover of John Hartford's "In Tall Buildings."
Then there was plenty from Isakov's wonderful 2009 album "This Empty Northern Hemisphere." The Ryan Adams-esque sway of "That Moon Song" got the biggest response of the night, "Virginia May" rode a likable shuffle, and "Evelyn" gave Isakov's crack band — drums, keys, cello and violin — a chance to rock out in their own gentle, orchestral style.
The highlight of the night, though, came mid-set when Isakov did a warm, resonant and drop-dead gorgeous song about the universe's beauty and bruised feet, and then followed it with the title track from "This Empty Northern Hemisphere," which crescendoed into a swarm of strings and falsetto oohs and ahhs. Isakov's band has a firm grip on the power of dynamics, and those two songs showcased every inch of their range.
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Next To New, a furniture consignment store in the Shoppes of Brickyard has expanded their operation to a total of 5,000 square feet of shopping space.
Next To New now features 2,000 more square feet of gently used, vintage and antique furniture and home accessories. They also carry selections of painted and shabby chic furniture and many one-of-a-kind finds.
If you're downsizing, redecorating, have great furniture or home accessories you no longer need, Next to New can sell it for you. They offer a 50/50 split and pay out monthly for the previous month's sales. They take walk-in consignments Monday through Saturday.
Owned by Catherine Moorehead and Cindy Clark, the store came to be in October 2010. The pair were friends and when the store became available for purchase, they went for it.
"Having a partner is essential in a busy environment like this," said Clark.
"It brings good balance, added Moorehead.
And the customers' response to their success and ability to expand not only their space but their offerings, has been overwhelming, Clark added.
"To see a small business doing well is a great reflection on the local economy," Clark said.
"We have really loyal customers, and over 1,500 consignors. We average three to four new consignors a day," she said.
Moorehead explained that repeat customers are their best advertisers. The pair prides themselves on customer service and flexibility. They accept walk-in consignors without an appointment.
Consignors can access their account online. They offer items for three months and reduce the price by 20 percent every three weeks until it expires. Customers can pick up their items that have not sold. The pricing on each item is always reasonable and beneficial to the store owners and the consignor.
"We charge what people are willing to pay," Moorehead said, "and we benefit equally."
A grand-reopening party is being planned to showcase the expansion. An entire wall was taken out to add a bright new showroom, complete with furniture and accessories for every room in the house. A linen room was added, as well as expanded space for bedroom sets.
For more information on Next to New, visit www.nexttonewsc.com or call 606-2715. Find them on Facebook and sign up for their newsletter or visit the store at 2700 Highway 17 North Suite 200.
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