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A little more than a week ago the Berkeley Stags baseball and softball teams hoisted region championship trophies into the air for the first time in two generations of BHS sports. For the softball team it was their first region title ever and for the baseball players it was a feat accomplished for the first time in half a century.
Ten days later, these magical seasons have come to an abrupt close. Both the Stags and Lady Stags made earlier exits from the Class AAA state playoffs than they would have liked.
A walk off base hit spelled the baseball team's doom in the bottom of the seventh in the District VIII finals 2-1 against Socastee. The Stags were soundly beaten by the Braves earlier in the tournament and battled back to the finals just like last year, with a 10-0 win over Darlington to set up a rematch in the two-and-out tournament.
While in 2012 the Stags rallied to beat Cane Bay twice to win the District VII championship, this year that rally fell short in the game one loss to Socastee.
After the Braves took a 1-0 lead from an unearned run in the home half of the fourth, Berkeley's Andrew Lockliear stymied the Socastee offense, scattering just four hits and shutting the Braves offense down over six and 2/3 innings of shutout pitching.
In the top of the seventh, the Stags rallied to plate a run and knot the score at 1-1.
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Second baseman Chris Wrenn's hard grounder to short was mishandled for an error and Dress raced home with the tying run.
"We put ourselves in position to win ball games," said BHS Coach Landy Cox. "This team has done that all season long."
Against Socastee though, the win wasn't meant to be.
In the bottom of the seventh the Braves loaded the bases with just one out on a pair of walks and an error. With the bases loaded and just one out, the Braves' Dylan Thompson singled to center to plate the winning run and end Berkeley's magical season.
"If you would have told us we'd be 23-4 at this point in the season, I wouldn't have believed you," Cox said. "These are a special group of baseball players and while next year's team of juniors will be a loaded team of seniors, it will be this group of guys that they'll talk about for years to come."
The Stags will bring back virtually everyone, except their four seniors, Andrew Lockliear, Brandon Browder, Chris Wrenn and Joshua Clarke.
The Stags finish their season with a 23-4 mark and a Region 8AAA championship.
"We'll be back next year," Cox said.
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This is more fun than a human being ought to be allowed to have (as Rush Limbaugh says). Peter Pike is an anti-Catholic Presbyterian who makes no bones about his very strong detestation of yours truly. Apparently he was itching for a way to "get" me, after being mentioned in a recent post of mine about the many young earth creationists among anti-Catholic Protestant apologists. But it has backfired on him. Here is the entirety of the post that he wrote at Steve "Whopper" Hays' Cryablogue site (posted at 8:18 PM MST on 9-23-10):
Yet More Proof That Dave Armstrong is Dishonest
Too bad for Dave I can post my comments in a forum that receives far more than double the hits per day he gets, so when he deletes them it only means more people read them. Here's a comment I submitted:
Adomnan said:The truth apparently hurts Dave, as he immediately deleted my comment. But now the world knows what he tried to hide.
This is enough to put you in the "nutjob" category. Anyone who believes that YEC is "credible" is a kook.
Adomnan, have you ever heard of me before?
But Dave thinks so highly of me that he's placed me "Among Leading Online Anti-Catholic Protestant Fundamentalists." I'm leading the pack here. Right up there with Sproul and White!
It must break Dave's heart to know I don't care about him at all, that I only came here because TUAD mentioned it and I only commented because I found it so hilarious he put *ME* in another one of his stupid lists.
I can't help that he's so incompetent that he forgot how I told him three years ago (back when he called me just a "Lesser-Known Anti-Catholic") that I wasn't YEC. Check it for yourself: http://calvindude.com/dude/2007/10/02/a-lesser-known-anti-catholic/
I said on October 2, 2007:
I really loved this, especially since I'm not even YEC (as if YEC has any bearing on Dave Armstrong's misuse of Scripture).
And now all you can do, Adomnan, is twist a comment I wrote on Triablogue. You didn't read the whole thing, and there's a *REASON* Dave didn't post the whole thing (because he knows if he posts the whole thing everyone will realize he's conducting a shell game here).
Dave doesn't care about the truth, and it's obvious you don't either. You just have an agenda, and a need to twist everything into conformity with your false beliefs.
But who am I to lecture you? Oh yeah: I'm a leading online anti-Catholic.
And you still take anything Dave says seriously? Who's the kook now?
Labels: Anti-Calvinism, Dave Armstrong, Peter Pike, Roman Catholicism
I replied at Cryablogue, as soon as I found out about this charge:
I never saw the comment, let alone delete it. Now that I know about it, I'll be glad to make a whole new post of it, along with your falsehood that I deleted it.
The latter is an honest mistake on your part, no doubt (see how easy it is to grant benefit of the doubt?), but now Pike will probably call me a liar for saying I never saw it.
So it's loads of fun no matter what happens. Always is with you guys.
I saw that Pike commented on my blog at 10:18 PM EST, "Truth hurts, don't it Dave?"
It did seem to be a strange comment. Presumably he tried to post his longer hit-comment around that time.
I had posted at 8:36 PM in the same thread, right before going downstairs to watch TV with my family for a few hours. I came back to my computer at around 10:50. So I have an alibi. Four witnesses: a wife, daughter, and two sons.
It was probably one of those things where Blogger deletes comments automatically for some reason. They were talking about it [at] Boors All recently [link], trying to figure out why comments were disappearing.
But of course, I get no benefit of the doubt from Pike. If his rotgut disappears, I must have deleted it; therefore, it is "more proof" that I am "dishonest."
And more fun for my readers. Thanks!
My reply above was posted at 9:20 PM at Cryablogue (here's the link, in case it is deleted), but the time of comments there is set for MST (since it was 11:20 PM EST where I am writing, from Michigan). Therefore, we know that all of this happened between 8:36 PM EST (the time of my comment in the same thread) and 10:18 PM EST (8:18 MST), when Pike issued his complaint on my blog and the post at Cryablogue (only an hour and 42 minutes). But the entirety of that time I was watching TV with my family on a whole different floor of my house (and I don't have a laptop computer); therefore I couldn't have possibly deleted his comment. I first posted again at 10:53 PM EST, in response to Pike's short comment.
It's funny and highly ironic that the Pikester makes the charge about my mythical deletion of his comment at the site that has often deleted mine (as I carefully documented back in January). All my comments are now deleted at Boors All, an associated anti-Catholic site (with great hypocrisy being exhibited there, too, in this regard). I've long been banned from James White's chat room as well; from Eric Svendsen's defunct discussion board, and from "the Polemicist" Tim Enloe's blog (he's now a regular ranter at Boors All). Anti-Catholics (whom Pike hangs around a lot) aren't big on open and fair discussion, with both sides being heard.
The only deletion I have done lately (I very rarely ever do it, excepting unquestionable spammers hawking Viagra, etc.) was two remarks from the inimitable "Turretinfan" in the same thread. He came in and immediately called me a liar for no reason, so I deleted it. But there are plenty of his comments still up in the same thread. The comment I wrote at 8:36 was directed towards him. There are also lots of other highly critical comments that can be observed by one and all in the same thread (especially those from "Truth Unites .... and Divides"), including from Pike himself. If I actually wanted to delete Pike's blast in order to "hide" the terrible truth that I supposedly am terrified of, why would I leave these other things up?
Far from wanting to hide this nonsense; to the contrary, I want to expose it (hence this very post). And I do so because it illustrates yet again, for the umpteenth time, how bankrupt the "arguments" coming from some of our Protestant friends are. When they have no substance, they attack people (and this time with blanks and squirt guns); rather like the congressional Democrats who have nothing positive to offer, and so go around lying about their Republican opponents. If that's all someone can do, I'm happy to help them spread their "message" because it helps the Catholic cause and hurts theirs. That's fine and dandy with me.
The sad thing, Dave, is that you might actually be telling the truth. Blogger does weird things.
But when you're threatening TUAD and have already deleted TFan's comments, and when I post the comment and it *appears* on your blog but an hour later it is the only post that's gone, then all I have to go by is the fact that you're a dishonorable man.
If it were someone else, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. But you used up all the doubt I could give you long ago. After you cry wolf enough, it's your fault I don't trust you.
Dave is a blowhard and a buffoon. I've wasted enough energy on him to last another year now.
As expected . . . This guy really needs to get a life. Let them keep this ridiculous post up if they insist. No skin off my back; it is a classic example of how anti-Catholics "argue": merely making personal attacks and distorting the truth about the facts about others. whom they disagree with. There is nothing they can do about being caught red-handed here. I even tried to mercifully give Pike an out in my reply over there, saying that I thought his was an "honest mistake . . . no doubt", but he didn't take it, and instead chose to reiterate my supposed dishonesty. All he had to do was say it was an honest mistake, retract it, and take the post down. In those cases, I invariably remove my reply-posts as well. But he chose not to, and to dig in and make himself even more small, silly, and foolish.
This is what irrational bitterness does to people. It's very sad to observe. So, failing any rational reply at this point, I predict that they will step up the attacks and try to come up with some other ridiculous charge that anyone with an IQ higher than a fence post could see through in a second. When will these characters ever learn?
Pike (to get back to comedy) can't even get his math (i.e., simple arithmetic: adding, subtracting, and percentages) right. He wrote above: "Too bad for Dave I can post my comments in a forum that receives far more than double the hits per day he gets."
Really, now? That didn't seem quite right to me. I went over to Cryablogue to see what the daily hits were. The average number per day there was 852 as of 12:50 AM EST, 9-24-10. Anyone can consult the Site Meter there to verify this. Anyone can visit my Site Meter, too. At the same time I checked at Cryablogue, my hits per day were listed at 899. Can anyone explain to me how Pike figures that 852 is "far more than double" 899? Now there is a challenge! And I can't wait to hear the explanation. Talk about "new math," huh?
Since Pike wants to talk numbers (he brought this up, not I), I also have achieved more total visitors than Steve Hays' Cryablogue and its army of regular contributors, including the Pikester (whereas I am all by my lonesome self over here!). My total (as of this writing) is 1,450,959, whereas Cryablogue's is 1,344,142. But by Pike's inexplicable yet undeniably dazzling numerical wizardry, of course 1,344,142 is "far more than double" 1,450,959, too! And Catholics aren't Christians. Abracadabra! Pike is pulling rabbit manure rather than rabbits out of his magical hat.
Our two blogs even started around the same time (mine on 2-2-04 and Hays' on 4-11-04), so I have gotten 106,817 more readers visiting my blog over the last six and-a-half years than Hays (with his several associate writers) has achieved, with only two months' advantage.
Looks like Pike's math skills are about as good as his discernment of what constitutes "proof" of supposed deletions and fear and alleged disdain for truth. Maybe even better . . . Perhaps he thinks Pike's Peak is 1411.5 feet elevation rather than 14,115, too, with his odd brand of math?
Lucky for him, then, that I posted his stellar observations at my site in their entirety, so that more folks can read them and be convinced of his "proof" that I am a liar, so that no one would dream of daring to dissent from his pontifications, because, after all, Peter Pike sez so, and like Simon (and Garfunkel), whatever he sez goes!
I'm dying laughing over here . . . the numbers thing did me in, I confess (as if the "proof" claim and all the accompanying jeremiads and condemnations of my character weren't more than enough itself to cause one to double over in utterly helpless laughter . . .).
Uh oh! Now Pike has posted his unanswerable critique on his own CalvinDude site, too! The truth about my deceitful character is out! I'm ruined! What will I do now?
UPDATE: 27 September 2010
God will have to deal with his judgmental cynicism. He's obviously past rational discussion in that regard. I wrote a reply-post, proving that I hadn't done what I was accused of doing.
Now the proof is even more compelling, because I found his missing post in the spam folder. I am now restoring it, as well as eleven other comments. As it is restored in the original sequence of comments now, in the thread, it is seen that his comment occurred at 10:01 PM EST on 9-23-10. Pike then complained at 10:18 and posted his hit piece about my dishonesty. It took him seventeen minutes from a comment that didn't appear, to conclude that I had deleted it and was proved "dishonest." Even my later explanation was futile. Perhaps he will give it up now, but I won't hold my breath.
Today, it was absolutely proved that I didn't delete the comment that Pike claims I deleted, thus providing compelling "proof" that I am allegedly "dishonest." I put a post up explaining all that: [link]
Someone explained on my blog how to access the Blogger spam folder. I went over there and found Pike's comment. It occurred at 10:01 PM EST on 9-23-10. It's now restored in the YEC thread, along with six others in the same thread and five others elsewhere.
Sorry to disappoint the conspiratorialists in these parts. Ironically, 8 of the 12 comments placed in the spam folder were from Catholics, not Protestants.
There is no way that I know of to go back and re-insert a post from the past, with the original date and time and original person who posted it.
If it is possible to do that, I know nothing about it (and I doubt that it is possible: if it is, someone can tell me how it works). Therefore, if anyone sees the re-added post in its original place, this comprises proof, in my mind, that:
1) I never deleted it, and
2) that it was indeed in the spam folder (placed there automatically by Blogger, not myself), so that when I okayed it, it reappeared in its original place.
Go see it for yourself: [link]
Seeing is believing! And a lie and slander of another person is a lie and a slander. A=a. Pike again has a chance to repent and make this right. Will he do so? Or he can dig in even deeper, like Nixon and Clinton during their scandals, and make this a hundred times worse than it ever had to be.
This was posted at 3:21 PM MST 9-27-10 (5:21 EST). Shortly thereafter it disappeared: probably (another irony, if so) because of Blogger spammer policy (in which case it is in Hays' Blogger spam folder and can be restored). I believe that Blogger sent it there because I provided two URLs in it. Later I reposted a link-free version, and it appeared, dated "9/27/2010 3:51 PM" [MST]. But within three minutes, it was gone, too (it was gone by 3:54 MST). Did Pike or Hays delete it? Maybe; maybe not (maybe it was Blogger). I sent the following test-post:
Dave (since my last two posts disappeared).
It was still there at 4:00! And at 4:01! And 4:04! And 4:08. That suggests to me that Blogger didn't take it out (though there may be a delay). Maybe this is left up because it has hardly any content.
By an odd coincidence, Pike had posted just five minutes before I originally did (3:16 PM MST). Check out this sad masterpiece of derisive contempt, where he makes the astounding claim (complete with the obligatory diagnosis of mental illness) that it is entirely possible that I deleted his post and lied about Blogger having removed it):
Dave still get's it all wrong. I am anti-Dave Armstrong.
He's the one who thinks he's the definition of "Catholic."
And, Dave, I'm leaving everything up because it shows what a pompous ass you are, nothing more. (Besides, I'm not convinced I did make a mistake either, since you have the character of a charlatan and you are the kind of person who would delete a post and claim Blogger did it.) Anyone can read our exchange and see that for themselves.
But you really do need to get therapy, Dave. This is not an insult. This is an honest assessment. I've never met anyone with as over-inflated ego as you have. Everything, everywhere, is always about you. It's like the world is a giant conspiracy. If I sneeze, it's because of you. If I quote something Steve says, it's because I'm an anti-Catholic.
Doesn't your pathetic little world ever get boring for you? Expand your horizons. Turn off your computer and leave your basement occasionally. Then you'll see that the world doesn't revolve around you, and you are not some great mystic champion for the Truth. You are a lesser-known wannabe who's only claim to fame is crying a lot about nothing.
You're not on my radar, Dave. I don't follow you. I don't seek out your posts. I don't read your blog. And before you start soiling yourself with how I wrote this post, I merely point out how easy it is for your obviously diseased mind to forget this was a response to your slanderous post about me.
I didn't initiate your post calling me an anti-Catholic YEC. I did't [sic] go to your computer and pen those words.
You did.
Now deal with it.


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A matter of 'Trust': Gregg steps from Agent Coulson's shoes to director's chairWritten by Jeff McGinnis | | email@example.com
Sometimes you have to finish something before you really understand why you wanted to do it in the first place.
Clark Gregg was sitting in a theater at the Seattle International Film Festival in early May, watching the premiere of one of his movies. This was not, in and of itself, an unusual occurrence for the 52-year-old actor. Gregg has attended more than his fair share of big premieres over the past few years — ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe had been born and a certain S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Phil Coulson became, rather surprisingly, one of its most beloved figures.
This premiere was different. This wasn't a bombastic superhero epic where the fate of the world was at stake. This was a small independent film, made on a shoestring. Gregg was still playing an agent, ironically enough — a down-on-his-luck showbiz representative of child actors, looking for that one special client who could relaunch his career. And he wasn't just acting in this one. Director: Clark Gregg. Writer: Clark Gregg. This film — "Trust Me"— was his baby.
But even with all the work he had put into it, Gregg didn't completely realize why he'd been so compelled to bring this story to the screen — not until he watched it that night. He hadn't understood how personal it was for him, and how much it said about his own life.
"I went, 'Oh, God. That's what made me write this.' It's about how having a daughter, or a child that you love, can completely change who you are. And I have a 12-year-old daughter, and it never occurred to me that that's what was driving me to write this. But here, two and a half years after I wrote it, that's clearly what was motivating this."
The To-Do List
"Trust Me" tells the tale of how Gregg's character, Howard Holloway, stumbles across a child-star-in-the-making named Lydia (played by newcomer Saxon Sharbino) and attempts to launch her career despite pitfalls and surprises that come from both inside and outside the movie business.
"I was writing a bigger piece about a bunch of different kinds of stories, about grown-ups and children and Los Angeles. And it was just going to be an epic that would never get made. And this one felt different," Gregg said in an interview with Toledo Free Press.
"From the beginning, it felt like an unusual mashup of kind of a comedy of desperation, about this former child actor, and a film noir about the brutality of a certain part of show business. It never was meant to be an exposé — I don't think it's representative. It felt like a story that was representative of an idea about success and stardom."
Though Gregg has plied his trade as an actor for decades now — from performing in small off-Broadway productions to consistent roles on TV and film — he is no neophyte behind the camera. In addition to writing the screenplay for the 2000 Michelle Pfeiffer/Harrison Ford thriller "What Lies Beneath," Gregg made his directorial debut with a 2008 adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel "Choke." (Gregg also wrote the screenplay.)
But while in "Choke" he had a relatively minor role on camera, in "Trust Me" he is the lead, which, combined with his other responsibilities, was even more pressure than he expected.
"The most I've ever experienced. And at the same point, it was so laughably too much to handle that it became kind of funny. It was just you're so thrown out of an airplane without a parachute, and a couple of napkins that you might be able to use to slow your fall, that you can only laugh and see if there's a way you can pull it out. And I woke up nightly leading up to this, thinking of directors or actors I could give one of the two jobs to.
"And yet, I had this vision for the piece stylistically and for the role — and I felt the guy needed to be as old as I am for you to really buy that this is his last shot. And my partner, Mary Vernieu, really pressured me to not give up the part. And she's kind of dependably brilliant about these kind of things.
"I got there, trying to get through a 20-day shoot of this ambitious, odd movie, and I realized that I was going to feel just as vulnerable and over my head as Howard Holloway did," Gregg said. "For all the things I might sacrifice, it was going to work to support the performance."
I love trouble
The similarities between Howard and Clark first became clear to Gregg as he was working on the original story, a piece of work that resists easy classification. "Trust Me" merges elements of comedy and drama into a tale that sees both the humor and the tragedy of Tinseltown.
"It came out of me that way," Gregg said of the script. "Like life. Like some stuff I've been through and survived in a very different sphere, which is, everything's fine, and you're trying to work on something and collaborate on something, and then suddenly there's a lot of money involved, and things get dark. And you find out what you stand for, and what your dreams are, and what you're willing to do for them, and what you're not."
Gregg answered a lot of those questions himself as he was working to make "Trust Me" a reality. "I had a lot of people say, 'We won't. This doesn't fit into a category. It's kind of two different things at once. And we won't give you the money to make it unless you change it.' And I couldn't. I was lucky to have a partner who liked it, and really kind of believed in what we were trying to do," Gregg said, referring to fellow producer Vernieu.
"Because I felt like a lot of the movies that I loved that walked that line, a lot of them were in the '70s. And I wanted to try and make a movie like that. I wanted to try something new, and not try to fit something into a box. I think that the purpose of independent film is to try, you know, to not succumb to those kind of commercial pressures and to try something risky. And that's what we went for."
Brightest star
They say that 90 percent of being a great director is finding a great cast. If that's true, Gregg is an impressive director indeed. In addition to the "name" actors that fill key roles in "Trust Me" — Amanda Peet, Sam Rockwell, Felicity Huffman, Allison Janney, William H. Macy — Gregg's film also features great performances from its unknowns. Most crucial of all is the role of Lydia, Howard's hopeful superstar, played by Sharbino.
"Mary and I, and our other partner Keith Kjarval, agreed if we didn't find someone that special — one of those people who people would go, 'Who the hell is that?' — if we didn't find someone like that, we wouldn't make the film," Gregg said. "For a minute, that's where we were. And when I hear people, so many people, have been touched and blown away by Saxon, and I still can't believe that we found her. Because I didn't believe that we would.
"One of the smartest things of the many that Mary talked me into, was how important it was to have Lydia and her father Ray played by actors that weren't household names. That we didn't know enough about. Because there's kind of this unknown quantity to Howard, and the movie is very much seen through Howard's eyes.
"So to find this brilliant character actor, Paul Sparks — who I had seen on 'Boardwalk Empire,' and remarked on — to kind of realize that that was the same person that I was looking at on this tape that Mary presented, who in real life couldn't be more different than his 'Boardwalk' character, and is this kind of very masculine, soft-spoken Oklahoman. When we found both Saxon and Paul, that's when I felt that we had a shot at making the movie work."
The air that I breathe
Gregg is promoting "Trust Me" during his hiatus from "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," the ABC series that resurrected Agent Coulson following his untimely demise in 2012's "The Avengers." There's no doubt that the expansive fan base he has earned during his time wearing Coulson's suit and shades has helped shine a light on Gregg's other work. And it's clear he's thrilled by the response he's gotten from Marvel devotees.
"The cool thing about the friends that Agent Coulson has made, and that I have made since Agent Coulson became a part of my life, is there's a real deep connection. Because Agent Coulson, in the Marvel world of superheroes, is the guy with no powers. Who's a bit of a nerd. Who's probably been to a Comic-Con like I have. And there's a real ownership — they brought him back to life when he died, with their human cry. So there's a connection between those people and I, and it's one that I'm very honored by."
And whether it be through "Trust Me," "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." or directly via his presence on Twitter, it's clear that continuing to connect with people is a big part of what drives Gregg as a person.
"I spent most of my 20s doing plays in New York and it was really amazing, the greatest education. An intimate relationship with an audience that's missing in film sometimes, most of the time. And then suddenly, there's this way to connect with the people," Gregg said. "I had taken up Twitter when my wife (actress Jennifer Grey) was on 'Dancing with the Stars,' and found out that people kind of liked Agent Coulson.
"And suddenly you see the stuff you worked so hard on, in a vacuum, in a soundstage, to make it good, and make it real and make it work, and see that blowing people away, or in some cases not. It's really — it's a connection with people you're trying to work for. And one of the reasons I came out to Hollywood is because it's communication, it's a form of communication. And at its deepest, it's even a form of nonverbal, emotional communication with, you know, an unimaginable number of people.
"And that's why films are exciting. You can reach so many people. You can touch and inspire them, if you're lucky, the way that I have been touched and inspired by other people's films and television."
"Trust Me" is available On Demand and will be shown theatrically in select cities beginning June 6.
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Why WWIIOL (Battleground Europe) is nearly dead
Yes, I said it, WWIIOL is nearly dead. It lay on the table with IV's in each arm, pain killers pumping through out its system, and closest family in the room over seeing the last few breaths.
It is a sad deal, but to one of the thousands of players that have "been around a while" it's nothing of a shock. You see, WWIIOL has been dieing for YEARS. Sort of a slow death with not so many signs of pain either. Oh, don't get me wrong, the last couple years have been pain filled. Forum rumbles, mass quitting, staff leaving, server crashing, game instability, and the ever important "shut up there is nothing wrong" attitude shoved in the player base faces during it were the neon lighted signs of the time. But before the last couple years it was pretty good times.
Enough about what we already know. Now on to the cause of this…..
These are just opinions of mine, but some pretty strong indicators turned me to writing this report and stating these items. I'm not a professional writer as you can already see, but I still wanted to point out some things that might be used yet to save some aspect of the game or some other game/community teetering on the edge of death.
CRS is ultimately responsible. There is no way around it. Its missteps, blindness, and stubbornness are the #1 reasons this game is nearly dead.
You see, in any business, you must have a solid core to work with. From this core foundation you can build an empire on. CRS had this I believe and worked on the building quite well for many years. At some point though, they fell into the thinking that they knew it all, or at least that is how they were perceived by the community, after all they were the first MMORG large scale map game developers right!!! The requests of long time players and really the overall community fell upon deaf ears. Yes, you see, CRS was not in the wrong, ever (in their own minds). They brushed it off as a "few" upset people that got killed online over and over to many times and were just venting. Yes, that's it! It's not us, they thought, its just those stupid people out there (our customers). "F" them, they are not programmers or marketing majors……..we are smarter then they!
Well, that perceived thinking went on for 4 years. More people barked, so that meant there just were more crazy people out there trying to kill off CRS and its ultimate game that would never die.
The problems that the community saw and seen coming were there and are what the game is dealing with now. CRS dug a huge hole for itself and in some respect are still blaming the community for its woes.
The lack of players does not have anything to do with lack of community support. Being around 10 years is proof enough you had support, CRS. You had builders (some didn't even get their statues). The lack of players is directly related to your opaque and most times offensive approach to any criticisms you received about your game or your staff. Its similar to a restaurant severing bad meal after bad meal and when someone complained about the meal and the prices you yell back at them, call them names, and then shut the door on them and have someone else tape their mouths shut.
That is horrible customer service. And many many former customers were treated that way. Another horrible way to keep people around. The funny part is this, for what? To muzzle people that were pointing you in the direction of what needed to be changed. But CRS would not listen. At this point they were still not in the wrong.
You ignored HUGE game issues and perused "easy" eye candy updates hoping you'd trick people to hang around longer and help fund this "game". You even managed to draw up some "americans" and post it all over the place to gain more people, a gamble that did not work out. Sort of like borrowing money to build on to your shop but never having the cash flow to afford the payment on the initial loan….then going in and talking the banker into a "little more money" because "we are close to turning the bend".
WRONG. Bad gamble. You never turned the bend.
You promised and again, your promise fell short. The Americans are STILL NOT IN GAME and you are still ironing out stability issues and some sort of political axis situation with the Americans entering the real map. No Americans but the axis get new semi autos to add to all their toys already in the game for YEARS!
What a mess. More people leave. Less people come and stay. Your employees start to get nervous and leave (move on to better things).
Now we get to the point where the business cannot even do the work anymore because times are so bad. CRS begs those that they nearly choked out 4 years prior (the squads) to help manage, control, and train the flow of new people to the game. The bad thing is that this flow of noobs from the terrible placements of advertising (limited) brought in the worst assortment of people maybe in the history of the game. Numbers of retained people had to be horribly low, as they were never published. From my understanding maybe 1 out of 100 or so stayed and ended up paying some sort of sub costs. But at least you can brag and post graphs (terrible graphs) about number of new people inflow.
This leads to that lovely sub costs. The highest anywhere. Did we mention all the sever issues and dropped promises?? Now we want to charge $17.99 for it. Yeah, we know, you COULD get it cheaper….you just got to sign up for a year or so and that way CRS could burn through you money fast still trying to pay that intial loan from the crazy banker off on the gamble that did not "turn the bend".
Yes, that's it. Help us pay for our mistakes and just deal with a game that isn't running well. DON'T YOU WANT YOUR GAME TO LIVE!!!!!! (that come back got old quick).
So, some still pay and hope for better days. Several hopeful "this will save us" tries were made (that china mess and RA) but the reality of it all and something that was known by all involved is that the numbers were failing, miserably. It was dieing and dieing fast.
So, as the game is laid down on the ER bed….and its breath is slow and heavy panic sets in on the family. Suddenly confession is a good idea. Maybe it will save them. Maybe having everyone donate will bring a miracle. Maybe more money will save it now. Maybe. Maybe not.
But, money will only save jobs for a while. The end is near. We all will pass in time. This game is just going to beat us all at it. Money is not going to save it. Numbers would but CRS has chased all the good ones away. New younger kids don't want this type of play. Not in mass numbers anyways. Plus, it's really nothing new. It's the same game and same graphics just in a different box and different map area. It's the same thing you cannot sell on WWIIOL Campaign side…..but you've masked it well.
Maybe trying to break neck market to some short attention span kids will keep the oxygen on another year, but at sometime it might be best to let it pass. It would be more humane. Better for the family. Better for the community.
You guys let the game die 4 years ago. I commend you for trying to save it now that is so close to being dead. I imagine all family do that when their close ones go or are close to going. I've seen it in my family. But I say just let it go. Maybe that's what it wants.
You should have listened to your community earlier and been more open to them earlier. Not chased squads away and killed squad play. You should have had a better community leader and customer support team….since the customers pay your wage and pay for your hobby of making this game and making it work and stay working. You should muzzled DOC and kept him from the eyes of the public and the ears of them to. He's one of the most rude and asinine people I've ever talked to at times and really made your company look horrible in the forums, on the main page, and in gamers forums. I personally had 15 people hooked on this game that all left directly because of DOCs posts.
Now all of a sudden you want to show everyone where you are at and why you need what you are asking of them. Partially because that is the legal way to ask for donations and show disclosure, but the other part is now you are starting to get it. The community was not so dumb after all.
I hope praying or whatever you are doing now saves your game. I still cannot believe you are now begging for more money from those that you've treated so poorly over the years. I also cannot believe you've gotten suckers to stick their heads out to give money. Maybe your new community guy is doing his job. Maybe not.
If things fail I hope CRS learns from it on their next venture. Nazi Zombie Reign or whatever is in the works. Keep the sub cost low so people can afford it and continue to afford it. $18 is to much and asking for a whole year commitment is to much also. Don't chase people away and don't act like a dictatorship to your concerned customers. Gagging them only makes them more upset and less likely to ever help you in the future. It did in my case.
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It took me a while to read all through :)
Anyway, lot of things you´ve mentioned - i´ve noticed the same.
Well they are killing (had killed) their game - propably. Many minor and major changes they´ve made in the past chased players away.
It was the best game i´ve ever played (couple years before). Its like entering a bar looking for an "adventure" with a woman, but unfortunatly all of them doesn´t look what you´re expecting. After couple drinks, they magaically turn into pretty ladies.
But this game - hell it was even better than the best looking girl, but now - there cannot be enough alchohol drunken to like the game (mechanics/ruleset/changes and so called "improvements") again.
Yeah, now RA is the great runner - it will be the only big exception, because they started up with 150 different things, but finished none. Ra will be different, because in RA they will change their whole working style - start to work on one thing untill this task is really finished, then they starting the second one .... it is up to you to believe that.
But there is one thing that really works fine - their forum censorship. Posting in their forum critism about the game - they will delete it.
Back to the roots i guess was their latest "task" they´ve started - but only empty words and phrases. They simply give a damn about their paying customer and do what they like to do, which isn´t what their customers are asking for. Some requests shure, they couldn´t do due to technical reasons, but lot of other requests they simply are not willing to do, then there is always that "excuse" - no free time, not enough people to do the job, no ressources (lol, but donating money to social groups last year - there was enough money for that).
See, the crux with rats is - they had a bakery and people liked their lemmon-pie. But they´ve changed their business into a butchery and many people give a damn about their terrible sausage. Many many are asking for having that pie back, but those "businessmen" instead arguing - "Yep, we are glad to announce that our decision is almost exactly the same as our customers are asking for - we proudly present our Ham"
It cannot be said often enough - the game many years before was unique and was providing so much fun for players - still unbeaten by any other game today, but rats decided to make crap of it. It is so sad to see WWIIol going down.
If any serious game company is out there - when rats are pulling the plug from BGE - this is your chance, it is unbelievable what potential in this game is - if developed right and not against the comunity - take this oportunity and relaunch battlegroundeurope. You will have a real bonanza there.
Its not dead yet :)
I thought you were banned axishatr...with someone spotting for your 88 fire?
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I played WWIIOL many years ago, and loved it. That was in the golden days of squad-based tactics.
But I think it's time has passed. There are too many bright and shiny alternatives on offer, many of which require no sub at all. None of the alternatives offer the same level of simulation or open world play, but "modern" gamers don't seem to want that anymore. It takes a special kind of player to hide in bush with an ATG for half an hour
And WWIIOL is never going to be able to compete in the "instant action" genre. The game was not designed for it, and the vast maps and view distance are most likely a hindrance in that kind of play.
Axishatr - why were you banned?
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Originally posted by Stug
Fire does not show the same from person to person so rpetty pointless having spotters.
Originally posted by Woopin
So true.
Which is why I was wondering why he was making up a lie to smear CRS?
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Originally posted by Woopin
Yeah remember when they were promising a server to handle indirect fire? Another broken promise for a broken game.
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I played a few years and quit last year out of shear bordem. Plus none of the squadmates I met when I first joined were on anymore. Only a few of us direhards help out. Great squad and very helpful people. I never did understand the whole way we would deploy and capture. Nothing but zerg fests and allied tanks that were unkillable with any gun at the start of a new map. Glass tigers. Well, I sucked it up cuz it was still fun killing frenchies. I just could not stomach another St Lo fight. Seeing and doping the same thing over and over. On my exit poll, I told CRS if they added more theatres of combat, like Russia or North Africa, I'd have come back. Still waiting and I do not expect it will happen. Hopefully one day somebody will buy out CRS and bring in more dev's to get things rolling.
Roses are red
Originally posted by boobits
Mortars in game that you can spot for?
Sounds like an STO.
Boobits - are you Axihatr too?
I'd still like to know why Axishatr lied about how he was banned..
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Originally posted by Stug
Who? What's your facination with this Axishatr person? No I'm not him/her. And no not mortars, they had said they were trying to develop a way to get indirect fire from the larger at guns and tanks, they said they would put it on a new server due to the power needed. Wonder where this all went? Oh yeah...NOWHERE just like CRS is going.
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This game had a ton of potential but it was a scramble from the begining to make up for a rushed launch.
Remember the total inablility to see anything at night, golf green terrain with nowhere to hide, no real infantry anti-tank weapons. These kinds of problems drove many people away right from the start.
Oddly enough I loved it. Squads that mattered (Canada Corp rules!) and actually worked and trained together. The thrill of sneaking up on a panzer and taking it out with thompson fire through the view slits, truck runs through the enemy back field, 40 minute runs down the rivers to attack a town.
What I think ruined the game was the expansion of the map and over promising features.. There just weren't enough people to justify it and evnough developers to produce it. I remember the mass battles around namur and the other river towns with kamikazee truck runs. (clown cars with 20 infantry in one truck) When the map expanded it most of it was a ghost town.
The problem right from the start was too few resources to implement their whole vision but not enough sense to scale back their promises. The people who wanted strategic bombing waited too long and many got mad and left, people who wanted meaningful navy combat waited too long, got mad and left and a lot of these people would have stayed for other elements of game play if it weren't for the broken promises.
The fact that it has lasted this long shows they had a compelling concept and I still enjoy playing one month a year but they should have remembered the maxim under promise and over deliver.
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I think its funny that something like 3 years ago when I was banned for organizing a walk-out on the axis side because of balance issues. I seen this stuff happening. CRS had a huge amount of support out of the playerbase for a long time. Hell in the first 3 years I watched them tell a couple of people including myself who had a great deal of real world experience with anti-tank weapons, explosives and actual combat, or a gentleman who worked at Aberdene Proving grounds who sent them test information for several of the High Explosive rounds used in the game showing that the game programming was flawed. Instead of just saying, "We nerfed it on the side of gameplay" or saying "we didnt know we will fix it." or just admiting that the game engine couldnt handle it. They instead told many of these people that they didnt know what they were talking about and that DOC had classified US military documents that showed them all the test information they needed.
The biggest issue I had with them was honestly DOCs attitude of he knows everything and is the greatest programmer ever. I remember when they told the AXIS side they were wrong when players reported the AXIS SMG fired backwards. Oh good times....
I gave the game 7 years till I was banned, and I honestly hated to see the game go the way it did. It was one of the best hardcore FPS simulators out there. But it was killed by bad developement choices, and worse coding.
If they had stuck with the original concept of the game and just gave the players the things they promised in the original game book, which I still have, the game would have been the greatest MMOFPS on the market. Instead they gave us things like magic pixie dust bags carried by silent infantry. Or TOW missile launchers used by British Infantry Grenadiers, only worse now by the actual addition of AT Rockets. They still havent fixed the High Explosive model, or the flight engine.
Well there is always waiting for the next big thing.
So much crap, so little quality.
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They just let Rafter go and another person said to be on the chopping blocks too. Thats a programmer and an artist that are leaving.
doc just posted in the forums basically "its over and F U guys"
It's dead.
I'm not bronco but I used him as a mask.
LOL keep chasing tails.
Just like CRS. i mean the company formally known as crs.
xoom=bad for company
doc=bad for company
lies to the consumer=bad for company
having no finacial backing for YEARS and still keeping on so you didn't have to go get real jobs where you'll likely be fired because of your attitudes and decision making skill=bad for company
watching all this go down after being treated like crap by crs=priceless
drinking tea and watching the virtual flames and smoke.......ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
They are lucky they hung on this long with such terrible ideas and leaders.
not to this post. to the game.
The post I made here was too harsh and not my "sober" opinion but rather a drunken rant with some truth spinkled in (or what I felt was the truth at the time
Please excuse me
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I guess you've had a change of heart since 2010.
Originally posted by rendus
Yes, I have been a big time fan of the game and even the company that made it. Game allways had the pontential to be the only game I ever would need ,but there are MAJOR problems with how CRS is steering not only there game but there company.
First problem:
HC (player run high command answerable to CRS ) has ALL the control of the players supply with in which to spawn into the game now that does have its cool factor if your part of the HC,but its too much power in the hands of a few. Some HC members take their responsibility very serious to serve the playerbase and this is not whom I have the problem with ..its those that as soon as they receive the power abuse it at every turn.
Second Problem:
CRS and god love them allways were a hands on company with the playerbase but somewhere down the line they deceided that a $17.99 was a good monthly subscription price for a First person shooter game with a ton of bugs and mis-modeling and power mad HC controlled gameplay. They do offer a cell phone like contract plan that if ya bite can get monthly play for $12.99 but how many people are going to lock into a year plan when the game is so broke and its future very bleak that they might not last that whole year ?
And I do hate to admit the game still can be the most fun you will ever have (till the HC rips the supply you were using out from under you) I find it harder and harder to justify the hit on the wallet on a game that might not be here much longer if they continue to make these awfull descisions
Their path is wrong ...I hope the turn it around but they seem to be playing the fiddle while ww2online burns :(
Well we have seen people posting in the forums about the fun they are having at the moment <shock horror>.
Originally posted by Stug
Well im jaded I know ..I guess it comes from expecting the game to live up to the potential that I saw in it and waiting 10 long years for it to blossem
Ive seen the game in its golden years and this aint those golden years no more.I understand the need to evolve and all but when you leave the niche crowd to play to the masses and bend to far over in doing so I think you see what a mistake that deceision has been.
Far too many shoebox shooteres out there to compete with most with better graphics and NO INSANE monthy sub to play
Yes if you play this game (and it allways has a 14 day free trial) you probably will have fun that is till you really sink your teeth into it and then thats when you start seeing how BAD an idea of allowing another player in control of your very spawning IS.
Then when ya start to pay for the experiance it just seals its own fate .Which is the trash heap of all the other games and companies that lost their sight on the reason they existed so long in the first place...there loyal paying players that used to rush home to play their once GREAT GAME
I dont want ww2online to go away but even a LONG time 10 year subscriber can see how CRS lost their way in the last year or so....people will NEVER pay $17.99 PER MONTH in a world of free to play (especially for a first person shooter) Just aint ever going to happen long term and in the numbers they need to save this game.
I post all this not to kill the game off but in the slim hope that CRS checks these forums out and might wake up before its too late.
I cant post anything like these posts over there ...they aint listening and there mods are over-zealous that they wont entertain anybodies cries to wake up before its too late.
I feel the end is near for us ww2onliners ...though I could be wrong "Vanguard" is still kicking (Star wars galaxies is dead though in the same breath)
Originally posted by Scottman
They provide a simulation that is unique - for that is that too much? I could spend more on cold beer in ONE night than a measily $17.99 per month.
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Why Apple had to close at $500 on January 19
Joe Springer on Seeking Alpha proposed the following theory on why institutional money had a lot to gain by pushing Apple's stock price down to $500 by January 19, and a lot to lose if it had remained substantially higher.
So here is our logic to being patient. It is threefold:
Apple had an enormous amount of call options speculation related to its Summer surge
A huge share of this was calls with a strike of around the current price of $550 and higher that expire January 19 2013
The institutional money managers that wrote those call options and bought common stock to cover will make a lot of money if a) those options expire worthless, and then b) Apple runs after that expiration date
It's an interesting theory that I don't know enough about, one way or another, to provide any commentary on. (We'll ask Chris Umiastowsky to weigh in when he can). Maybe Apple just sucks now and everyone who likes Apple products is panicking and ass covering, or maybe there's a concerted effort to make money at Apple's expense. Often the truth lies in between the extreme.
Any smart investor types out there have any light they can shine on this?
Source: Seeking Alpha via Daring Fireball, Loren Brichter
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Why Apple had to close at $500 on January 19
because the story had to be written and AAPL closed at $500?
It is odd that everyone except the original author is quoting $500 but it's probably best we don't question and just accept these rants.
How is this a rant? It's a theory that may or may not be true, and I'm interested in the discussion, pro and con.
it's a rant because your argument/article doesn't explain why Apple had to close at $500.
Here is your opening paragraph;
"Joe Springer on Seeking Alpha proposed the following theory on why institutional money had a lot to gain by pushing Apple's stock price down to $500 by January 19, and a lot to lose if it had remained substantially higher."
If you read the article, $500 isn't even mentioned. Why aren't you explaining that? Is it the number itself? Does $500 have some significance to you? Do you think the author of that article appreciates you bending his words to match your reality?
Read the article again and look at the activity. The majority of the options are for $600 and greater. Looking at your sources; it's only you and Daring Fireball that brought up the $500 conspiracy. I see manipulation going on, but it's not by large investment firms...
Items like this make it difficult to have a reasonable discussion
Wouldn't more higher priced options, like the 600$ ones, just reinforce the 500$ option argument? Can't moving a stock to a 500$ market level be seen as what's necessary to pressure a stock so as to make money on expiring 600$ options with minimal risk of the stock climbing fast enough to surpass 600$?
But, not knowing how such things happen, if it was so easy to manipulate a stock's price so as to make money on options instead, why wouldn't every stock take a similar beating all the time?
I dont understand the market here at all either. Would be interesting to understand how much of these moves are based on fundimentals, how much on speculation, on manipulation, and how much on the stupid money just aping the moves of the smart money and the speculators.
Me too. I'm not stock smart.
"There is a fundamental conflict of interest on the part of analysts who recommend stocks of the companies that their firms do business with. Until we have a change in the way Wall Street works, this will continue to be an issue. From an investor's standpoint, the best you can do is be aware of it."
- Maria Bartiromo, CNBC
Re: "...maybe there's a concerted effort to make money at Apple's expense."
Most likely. Wall Street is ruled by two instinctive, basic emotions: fear and greed. The greed is revealed when there's an irrational run-up in a particular stock (e.g. Yahoo in the late '90s). The fear is revealed when major investors sell on profit-taking, which triggers the panic-sell stampede (e.g. Yahoo in 2001.)
Many analysts, brokers, and investors are tech-ignorant. Their opinion of Apple was formed in the mid-90s, or if they're younger, their opinion of Apple was formed by reading business school case studies of Apple in the mid-90s. Overpriced goods, niche player. Not any more.
This fear of Apple is made worse by Apple's secrecy. Just a little guidance about margin and product line mix, but no future product plans. Everyone has exactly the same financial data about Apple. So they're either forced to guess where AAPL is headed in the next three months, or they're forced to try and manipulate AAPL by spreading rumors and lies.
Harder to spread those kinds of rumors and lies in, say, the retail sector. Or the energy sector. Vastly fewer moving parts. Easier for everyone to understand, so the BS is more obvious.
Have to agree with you on many points there. That said though since before the new year APPL has been on a slide that may be more than just profiteering. For all the good Apple is there is a perception now that they are not on their A game. Rightly or wrongly that's how many people feel.
What will determine whether it's 700 or 420 depends on what we see in a few weeks. They need the iPad mini retina period and IOS needs a major UI overhaul. Either of those don't happen there are going to me more questions on if the Magic is finally gone with Jobs. For the Faithful it won't matter. That share of buyers though who won't come will.
Its been a lot of years, since I have seen a stock where so many people/companies want to see a company fail like this. A lot of speculators, and a lot of companies have a lot to gain, if Apple tanks. Frankly, even if Apple blows out the numbers on Wednesday, there are gonna be a lot of talking heads, saying its not good enough.
Except that none of this is actually at "Apple's expense", except for the stock that Apple holds in itself. It is making money off of other investors. The negative rumours in the press may hurt Apple, but in the same way that all the other negative rumours that are always in circulation.
What it really sounds like is market manipulation. I mean really, some people said that Apple has to close at $500 or less on this given day, then it closed that day at exactly $500 is really odd.
It shows the imbalance of power there is in the stock market. The fact that stock prices can be decoupled from the actual business fundamentals in order to make people money indicates that it no longer works as it should.
Here is an explanation of why this occurs
the article is called "Apple's $500 Close: It's Not Manipulation!"
The Seeking Alpha article may explain why the stock price was driven down below 550. But it does not explain why the stock price was pinned exactly to 500 for the longest time and into closing. I watched the price action and was the strangest thing in that it was very much like watching your floor boards warp, only more boring. The price would not stray more than 10 or 20 cents above OR below 500. This went on for the last 15 min and the range tightened to 1 or 2 cents into the close and after hours. Someone attached a electric magnet to 500 and juiced it more as the close approached. Max pain
Why make comments like that if you know nothing about the market? What you just said there was proof that you really know nothing about it.
Market makers are buying and selling stock against their option position to be delta neutral. They establish a liquid market but don't necessarily want exposure to either side. If they are short calls they will buy stock against it to maintain that equilibrium. If they are short puts they will sell stock against it. It's that constant struggle from either that side keeps the stock pinned to that price. It's not magic, it's not manipulation persay, just management.


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