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Another Super Bowl Sunday is upon us! Seahawks! Broncos! Peyton Manning! Russell Wilson! Wes Welker! Richard Sherman! Don't forget about the 4 hour pregame show, the commercials, Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers at halftime, Puppy Bowl X, the MVP, your office Super Squares, whatever poor TV show Fox is going to put on after the game (this year's winner: Brooklyn Nine-Nine); it's a dizzying kaleidoscope of graphics, confetti, chili cheese dip, clydesdale fur, and possible-but-not-likely snow as the country comes to a screeching halt for football.
And I gotta ask… is anybody else just a little tired of the hype?
I mentioned it in last year's column: all of the topics that seem to surround the Super Bowl seem to have so very little to do with the actual game. This year, it's Peyton Manning's "legacy", it's Richard Sherman being very careful to choose his words, and it's Marshawn Lynch now drawing the "tsk-tsk"s from the media for barely participating in the two Media Days. Two weeks of constant noise about this game has produced so many lowlights: why is a woman at Media Day asking players about their time in strip clubs, and how they can prevent girls from becoming strippers? Why are people still arguing about a cold weather Super Bowl, as if there's still time to change it? Why is Skip Bayless still insisting that Tim Tebow could have led this Broncos team to the Super Bowl?
Someone posited years ago that the AFC and NFC Championship games are the last bit of real football for the season. Nobody's talking Pro Bowl, there's no week-long party for people who aren't playing in the game, there's no massive push for commercial time. There's two great football games, played in someone's home stadium, without the hype and fuss. Once the buzzer sounds on the final game, though, they hype machine immediately kicks into gear, and we're left with two weeks of unending hooplah, and barely any of it about the actual game itself.
It's gotten so ridiculous, that companies are releasing teasers to their advertisements. Teasers! And people watch them! According to a poll taken by Hanon McKendry, an advertising and branding agency, says that 55% of adults watching the game are looking forward to the ads either as much or more than the game itself! Do you hear yourself, world? More than half of you are excited to see ads! You know, the things you normally skip over on your DVR!
I suppose my point is that perhaps we're in a football bubble, if I can borrow a term from the financial guys who write for this publication. For all of the complaining about the Pro Bowl (and this year was particularly brutal, thanks to a two-day fantasy draft that stole the idea from the NHL, but missed the good points), it still drew 11.4 million viewers. That's more than Ohio State-Michigan this year. That's more than Game 6 of the ALCS. That's more than the final round of the US Open. That's more than all but one game of the NBA conference finals. If everybody wants it to go away, maybe you stop watching it? The NFL could host a presidential debate and draw 15 mil.
But maybe, just maybe, it's starting to come back down to earth. I mentioned Marshawn Lynch earlier: he arrived at Super Bowl Media Day on Tuesday, at stayed for 6 and a half minutes. Talked to the NFL Network, and left. When asked why, he said "it's not my thing." Now, players are required to participate in Media Day, and he faced a fine if he didn't. So he appeared, and then left. He did the same thing at the team media day the next day. Beast Mode isn't interested in the hype (despite all of the Skittles jokes), he's here to win a trophy. It's almost refreshing.
I like football. College and pros. But much like the Olympic coverage that has too much backstory and too little action, I start to sour on it when it starts eating its own tail. The fever pitch will crest, and just maybe, the Super Bowl can become a football game again, and not a week-long assault on the brain from every which way but the turf.
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Larry Jackson of Summerville was last seen April 27 in the Brownsville area. His skeletal remains were found August 17, by hunters, in a wooded area of Utsey Hill Road in Grover.
According to Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet, the 24-year-old father was reported missing on April 29 by his girlfriend Deanna Dweck and his sister, Tyenesha Bell, to the Summerville Police Department.
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Anyone can see that the town offices really do need more space as it is, so I have been trying to think of a viable, feasible, economical solution. First, there are several buildings currently for sale in town that could be purchased and refitted into town offices for a whole lot less than the select board wants to spend now. John Egan's Big World Pub (+/-$500k), the white building at the bottom of Bragg Hill ($335k), the Wallis Farm ($675k), the Waitsfield House ($495k) right across the street from the current offices. Surely if we started with any one of them, it would cost way less than a million dollars to convert it into the space that the offices require. We are not building a tourist attraction with a revenue stream, we are creating an office space. It's just not rocket science.
Then I thought about why we arehaving discussions about buying more land as well. Currently, the town owns more than 1,000 acres of conservation land and that is an old number. They recently bought that rock by Peasant Restaurant although I find the rationalization for that pretty thin! Now they seem to feel that we need even more property in town. What is going on?
This property purchasing is compounded by the fact that every time the town buys land it comes off the tax revenue income. If they are really hung up on building new, let's use the field on Route 100 across from the Valley Professional Center. We already own that and the site is readily accessible to anyone who needs to look at records.
This business about having to be in the village is silly; the village is a charming part of town for our guests. We need offices, not a visitor center. Beyond that, it seems that they have forgotten where the Fayston town clerk's office is and that works fine.
That is when the light bulb went off. Bingo. The records! All those file cabinets crowding up the town office. In this age of available technology why aren't we discussing storing our records on a server? There is lots of evidence that it is probably going to happen at some time anyway; it is the wave of the future. We already have a secure storage vault for the hard copy records in Middlesex provided by the state anyway. Let's use that storage for the precious hard copy paper records and let the public information be truly public!
Why don't we discuss spending funds on having all our records scanned and filed and stored on a server? It is all public information and I am sure that once digitizing was accomplished, it would cut way down on the manpower services as anyone who needed anything could simply get on their computer, find instructions for a search and find what they need at their convenience. For anyone who can't do that at home, we could afford to put a computer in the town office and with all the new space they will have it won't be in the way so the staff can help someone who is technology challenged.
Warren has already made a good start of it with their town website. We could take that concept and expand on it to include deeds, permits, span numbers, tax bills and all of the other public documents that attorneys, realtors and other people might want to find. People could search, locate and then print records for themselves. They could download permit applications, find minutes of meetings, keep up with what was going on directly rather than wait until Thursday for a paragraph here and there on a week's worth of activity in the office. It is so much simpler than having to go to the office and spend time digging through books and files in the town office.
We would only need to keep a minimum of current records as hard copy in the building.Other documents could be scanned, posted to the web directory and then delivered to the Middlesex vault for safe storage. Without all the file cabinets and books in the vault, we could renovate the space we already have or rent/purchase and existing space for the offices. I am betting on close to a million dollars of tax dollars saved immediately.
So today, after reading the paper, I would like to thank everyone who voted to give us more time to think this project over! I also see the argument that we might get a $750,000 grant towards a new town clerk's office. Well, rather than spending $900,000 to get that grant, perhaps we could use the grant funds to build ourselves the required website and to do all of the scanning and filing of our online documents for people to access. We would probably still have enough money left over to move into office space on higher ground since we no longer need a vault.
Vermont has made it clear that the technology initiative is important, so let's lead that way rather than wait until it gets to us. How would it feel if we incur yet another huge tax burden for this office and then four years from now there is a statewide initiative to store records digitally!
So let's discuss that as a concept before we go off spending another enormous round of tax dollars on yet more land and yet more construction that will eventually go digital in the future anyway! Just a thought.
Cunningham lives in Waitsfield.


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- The Lady Mocs stay in first place in the Southern Conference race with a 60-46 win over Samford tonight ... UTC improves to 19-3 overall and 12-1 in league action while the Bulldogs drop to 11-11 and 8-5 in league play.
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I had my daughter at 33 weeks due to HELLPs and am 28 weeks in with our second! Yeah! But I'm also getting more paranoid.
My BP has risen from a pre- pregnancy average of 106/67 to now getting daily reading of 120/80 and around there. My platelets have dropped from my first apt labs 201 to 170 (but some drop in platelets during pregnancy is normal, as with every symptom of PE/HELLP it seems) and I'm having some "funny headaches" that's more just like a fuzzy kinda dizzy weird feeling. No protein in urine though.
I'm switching OBs because mine again seems to think that nothing is wrong and not concerned that my BP is going up although two weeks before I had my daughter my apt BP was 122/78 and when I got to the hospital it was 180/153. SHe ignored every symptom I had told her the first time around including fast weight gain and super bad swelling-edema that she never once looked at.....I thought maybe she learned but I am thinking not....
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Did your right sided pain just start suddenly - I only remember the horrible pain that finally made me go in with our daughter that day that just kept getting worse. I've been having mild right sided pain that tends to be more in my back for maybe two weeks now that goes away at times but is there every day for at least a couple of hours. My doctor hasn't checked liver enzymes (another reason I'm switching)
Am I crazy to think that I should be seen more often? I was told this was a new pregnancy and have been seen ever 4-5 weeks. How often we're you seen so I can make sure my new OB seems to be doing the right thing?
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Summer CD of local music to benefit American Red CrossWritten by Sanya Ali | | firstname.lastname@example.com
What do you get when you mix a newspaper, a group of talented artists and a deserving cause?
You get Toledo Free Press' second annual summer CD, "Red, White & You, Too!," which released July 3 at Frisch's Big Boy and Ralphie's restaurants across Northwest Ohio.
As editor in chief, Michael S. Miller has established two major philanthropic musical projects: a holiday CD for Make-A-Wish Foundation and the summer CD, which benefits the Disaster Relief Fund and Service to Armed Forces wings of the American Red Cross of Northwest Ohio.
"On a professional level, because the community has responded so strongly to Toledo Free Press and its mission, we have an obligation to use our format to give back to the community," Miller said.
Miller had a personal experience with the Red Cross in July 1985, when the apartment building he and his family lived in caught fire.
"It was the American Red Cross and the United Way that sheltered and clothed and shoed and blanketed and got my little family back on its feet. I've never forgotten how quick those organizations were to respond," Miller said.
The first summer CD came out in 2013 and raised more than $10,000. Miller said he hopes the amount raised this year is even greater and the CD's impact is felt across Northwest Ohio.
"I want [listeners] to be excited by how much local talent there is," Miller said. "I want them to hear these songs and say, 'What a band. What a vocalist. What a great song.'"
What's new?
Since last year's CD launched, CEO Tim Yenrick said the Red Cross has used the funds throughout its disaster services unit.
"The dollars raised from the CD were very important to us this year," Yenrick said. "Obviously with the intensity of our winter this year, we saw a marked increase in disaster services. We responded to home fires and weather-related incidents."
Yenrick said he believes the CD is a fun way to bring attention to the organization.
"I think it's a very unique way to raise dollars and also to get our mission message across in the community," Yenrick said. "[Our mission is] to alleviate human suffering during disasters and individual crises."
Yenrick was a fan of last year's CD project; his favorite tracks were Chrys Peterson's "(Sittin' On The) Dock Of The Bay" and the Put-in-Bay trilogy of songs. He said he has even higher hopes for this year.
"I'm pretty excited about all the original songs," Yenrick said. "[Miller] does such a great job of working with the artists and I'm sure it's going to be an outstanding CD."
Yenrick extended his personal thanks to Miller, Toledo Free Press Publisher Tom Pounds, the artists, media sponsor Newsradio 1370 WSPD and Frisch's Big Boy and Ralphie's restaurants for their support during the project.
"I know Miller has worked very hard and the local artists are just great in working with us on the project," he said.
Yenrick said he wants the public to know that the Red Cross is steadfast in its dedication to Northwest Ohio.
"We are here, ready to respond, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day and we appreciate financial support," he said. "We also appreciate our volunteers who provide 95 percent of our service in the community. We're always here ready to respond to a natural disaster and to work with our military families and to provide health and safety training throughout the community."
Amanda Aldrich, communications specialist for the area Red Cross, said she regards altruism highly.
"It's genuine selflessness and heartfelt compassion," Aldrich said. "It's looking outside yourself and offering what you have — talents, time, money — to make things better for someone else. It can be big or it can be small, but everything you do can make a difference."
A Red Cross success story
On Sept. 7, Tina Zeiter was preparing to celebrate her daughter's wedding. The event was set for the following week at Zeiter's house. Family gathered and worked tirelessly to prepare the space for a memorable day.
No one could have foreseen what happened at 12:30 a.m. Sept. 8.
Zeiter awoke to her grandson's cries and found the house enveloped in smoke. Her first thought: Find grandchildren Chase, 9, and Savanna, 4.
"Before I realized it, I had swallowed a big gulp of heavy, black smoke," Zeiter said. "I didn't think to cover my mouth at the time, only to get the kids out of the room. I grabbed the kids; Chase was still on the bed and was helping me look for Savanna on the lower bed. He could see her only because she had put light-up bracelets on her bear's wrist and she had the bear beside her, still asleep."
Zeiter's family made it outside, but the emotional toll the incident took was massive.
"It's almost as if you go numb," Zeiter said. "Even today, I can still feel the emotions go through me. It's almost unexplainable; it's like you are falling and can't stop and no one is there to catch you. You just go through the movements, answer the questions, but you are in a daze. To have the weight of responsibility on your shoulders alone for the safety of your own children and grandchildren, as well as the loss of your house is unimaginable."
Zeiter said from the moment she stepped out of the house, Red Cross of Northwest Ohio was ready to help.
"The Red Cross helped by arranging a place for us to stay for the first two nights and providing us with a debit card to be used to purchase food and clothing," Zeiter said. "We only had the pajamas on our backs when we left the house. I had grabbed a jacket in my bedroom as I raced out, but that was it. We didn't even have shoes to wear."
What really stood out to Zeiter was the emotional support she gained from the organization.
"It was when I finally sat down in the truck and listened to the volunteers that I finally began to cry," Zeiter said. "It was like I needed to be strong in front of my family, but my family wasn't in the truck. The Red Cross team was very comforting. I felt as if I didn't have to bear all the weight, that someone else was going to take charge now and tell me what to do."
Since early this year, Zeiter and her family have been living in their newly renovated home, courtesy of contractor Cousino Harris.
"When I wake up in the morning or when I go home at night, I am struck by the sense of appreciation I have for the people who have touched my life and have been there for me, whether it be the Red Cross as a support, the contractor rebuilding my home, the insurance representative, [or]friends and family that have been there to support me and my family. I am truly thankful for their role in my life," Zeiter said.
The proceeds from this year's CD will help guarantee that, in the event of such tragedy, the Red Cross can again step in and spare a family some of the pain.
"People should know that those working for the Red Cross are clearly very special people," Zeiter said. "Most of us may never cross paths with the Red Cross, but those of us who will, the Red Cross is as much of a financial support, providing food, clothing and shelter, as they are an emotional support."
A volunteer's perspective
Bo McComas has been a volunteer with the Red Cross for years.
"When I retired, a friend of mine said I might want to consider the Red Cross because I absolutely love helping people," McComas said. "I decided to advance and I'm a volunteer supervisor now. I just love it."
McComas assists in the local Disaster Action Team, which deals with fires and other similar incidents. He also flies around the country to assist in repairs following tornadoes and hurricanes.
"I'm also a Service to the Armed Forces (SAF) worker," McComas said. "When there is a death or an illness in the family of the servicemember, the Red Cross will give the notification to the servicemember. I follow up and make sure the servicemember was able to make it home."
The past year has seen much activity for McComas.
"I have responded to three natural disasters and I have reached four house fires," McComas said. "I'm in the middle of five SAF cases as we speak, doing follow-ups for the military."
McComas said people should become aware that the Red Cross does projects with the intention of letting victims recover at their own pace.
"We offer shelter, food and clothing," McComas said. "We actually give them a credit card. That makes them independent and allows them to do their own recovery."
This year's CD donations will ensure volunteers like McComas have the means to assist in future disasters.
Artists take control
"Red, White & You, Too!" is different from previous Toledo Free Press charity projects because almost every track is an original both written and performed by the artist.
"I've always relied on cover songs because they're well-known and it's an easier sell," Miller said. "When music began to come in for this year's summer project, the originals were so outstanding and they were so professionally recorded and produced, I lost that fear."
The selection process was extensive, as Miller had to sort through the nearly 40 submissions to find the songs that really spoke to the theme of the project.
"My methodology is to play them in the car, everywhere I go, which means in the middle of January's deep freeze I'm playing these summer tracks," Miller said. "Only through repeated exposure can you figure out how they fit together and how they work off each other."
Miller said he has worked with a few of the artists on previous projects, but many new voices grace this year's summer disc.
"It's easy to get comfortable and rely on some of the same artists," Miller said. "I know they would answer the call. For the health of the project and for my personal interest in the project, working with new artists is an important step. It's important to challenge yourself and not get complacent or too comfortable."
While summer CD staples Kyle White and Pat Dailey (who Miller said is the definition of summer music) did make this year's tracklist, Miller said he made an effort to include newcomers whose contributions really stood out.
"Having new groups like Thirsty Houligans, Zak Ward or Birds of Chicago contribute really did freshen up the project for me personally and I hope that is communicated to the listeners as well," he said.
Mighty contribution
Matt Feher, professionally known as Mighty Wyte, has been donating studio time to Miller's CD projects for several years.
Though he said his role is much greater on the Christmas CDs, the Red Cross project also benefits from a good deal of his input.
"I basically assist with final engineering, assembly, trimming any 'dead' space at the front or back of any song, making sure all artist and song information is correctly entered and 'CD Text' is enforced," Feher said. "I burn the final 'Red Book' and give it to Miller for final inspection before it's sent out and pressed."
Feher first got involved with these projects a few years back because Miller is a close friend. Giving back to his community is something he strongly endorses.
"I can help a lot of people and some great causes," Feher said. "It's one of those things where I can turn grains of sand into pearls."
Giving to charities like Red Cross, Feher said, benefits everyone in the long run.
"People say 'Treat others as you wish to be treated,' but rarely practice it," he said. "So to help someone or some charitable organization out just makes good karmic sense."
Feher also commends Miller's dedication to his charity projects.
"Miller takes on a great deal of the workload when it comes to all of these projects," he said. "He's entirely too humble about how much work he puts into these things and how much time and effort goes into these CDs.
"He's an amazing guy and he's insanely busy," Feher said. "So to get a few hours a year to just work with him on a project is pretty fun."
Feher said he is proud of this year's project and that the team who worked on it was dedicated to creating an amazing CD.
"Me, the other engineers who work on the audio and the people who contribute music work very hard to create a quality catalog of music," Feher said. "We're not selling hack-job recordings of poorly arranged material. Everything is produced as well as it can be, engineered as well as it can be and packaged like any other off-the-shelf CD."
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We live in a military community here in the Bremerton-Port Orchard area, and the history of our county is peppered with those who have worked at the Naval Shipyard. This week one of our "Rosie the Riveters", Pat King Harms was in the Kitsap Sun article written by Keeley Smith entitled – Calendar honors Port Orchard resident's wartime shipyard work.
For the past three years The Washington Women in Trades website has offered for sale "The Rosie Legacy" calendar (I believe they still have some older issues) to the public. This year's theme is A Good Hand and Mrs. Harms is the June 2011 calendar girl.
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We had a "Rosie" in our family too. My aunt Jeane Moline Davis worked at a Tacoma shipyard as a riveter if my memory serves me correctly. Aunt Jeane is on the far right in the photo from the WWII era above. My mom, Joan worked in a meat market during the war while my dad (her fiance at the time) was overseas. Pretty sweet job for mom and her parents considering the meat rationing. Mom and her coworker would deliver meat to one of the old Seattle restaurants, and they would take their own cut of meat along and the restaurant would cook it for them! It was my aunt Joyce though that probably had the most dangerous job. She was an Army nurse and served in Europe on the front lines.
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I quit hunting in orr due to getting diminishing returns because everything there is a risen and you cant complete daily achievements on risen alone either..
This area is suppose to be tough and gritty and we are suppose to be outnumbered afterall its the bad guys backyard and i love that feeling but not all the time...
Anet really needs to add more varied content similar to soundforge only just for level 80s to make this game more fun over the longhaul..
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Originally posted by gessekai332
It sounds more like you are just going around blindly white knighting Arena Net, because the OP did not contain false information, simply an opinion based on observations. Observations that were confirmed by other posters in this very thread.
If you like a cluttered trash zone, thats your opinion. Some of us do not, which opens the doors for discussion, which fortunately shuts down others attempts (like your posts) to censor valid information.
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OP have you tried reasoning with them?
Originally posted by BadSpock
Annoyance is subjective (well I suppose difficulty is as well really), but for me it is just tedious/annoying and not difficult in the slightest. Having mobs crammed in like sardines does not make it feel like a warzone.
The fact of the matter is you can quite easily move about without being at any risk of dying at all. But you are at constant risk of pull, get up and walk, pull, get up and walk, pull, get up and walk.
If people are being honest, pretty much anyone you see who is actually going somewhere and not farming, simply blasts past all the mobs. They get pulled/stuned and then just hit a debuff/buff, ignore all the mobs and charge on through. The sea of mobs adds nothing but an annoyance factor.
Well that's not strictly true, you can drag agro on top of people who are afk or farming nodes or stood too close to camp entrances. Funnily enough, as people just charge through everything, quite often you will see people dumping agro on people quite unintentionally.
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Perhaps the most ironic thing about this thread, is that if the OP ever got his wish about Orr, we'd likely see it followed up with a complaint about how easy to games' PvE is. You can't have it both ways.
While there are parts of Orr that can get annoying (especially the ones with a lot of CC and jumping involved), it's all manageable if you know what you're doing. There are quite a few skills every class has to handle situations like that, and even ones that lack stability (necromancer) have other ways of running around freely with minimal trouble.
It all comes down to knowing your skills, and using the right skills, traits, and weapons for what you wanna do. If you just wanna run around & gather, or get to someplace quickly without fighting, then equip the skills for it. Bring things like swiftness, stability, and teleport abilities to travel ground quickly. If you want to do Mass AoE damage, then spec for that instead. Every class can fulfill all these basic roles, and you don't need to spec into them for them to be effective.
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I agree to a large extent. In such a superb game, when one region bucks the trend and exhibits horrible design decisions for mob placement, density and difficulty, it really, really shows. I love the look of the environments in this region, so the environmental artists did their job well. Many of the DEs I've participated in have been fun, if they aren't suffering from the same over density flaw as the zone. However, the mob placement and density feel like a throw back to the worst of the old paradigm MMO grinders and is so comopletely incongruent to the rest of the game it's disheartening.
Other games have successfully pulled off "masses of enemies" with out it being a massive headache for players. They've done so by designing enemies that are underpowered individually, but always attack as a group to provide a reasonable challenge. This gives the player the experience of fighting off waves and waves of enemies, with out it being a chore or annoyance, but rather providing an opportunity for the player to feel that their character has become pretty powerful.
In Orr, you face lots and lots of enemies, but they are all full power, if not souped up due to massive amounts of crowd control, and the effect of massive numbers is provided mostly by mobs standing around in a mine field pattern, looking completely stupid in a game that usually provides much better context for it's mobs in their placement and activities.
I haven't gotten to the final steps of the personal story, but it saddens me that this seems to carry over there as well.
The Orr region needs a massive overhaul. Some mobs actually have proper placement and context within the environment. A design sweep should identify those and flag them as acceptable, then every other mob in the region should be deleted and placement begun afresh by the developers that have shown the most skill at natural, organic mob placement. I'd love to have roving mobs of undead that provide a proper level of difficulty for a swarm, to provide the feeling that Orr is literally swarming with undead. The rest of the mobs should be placed with the same care given to the rest of the game, not the "shot gun" pattern of mob dispersal that's the hallmark of poor game design.
This will take time, but a mea culpa now, with an outline of changes to come, would go a long way with the community and greatly benefit the game.
To be fair, some areas with in the region of Orr zones are fine, but by the time you reach the third zone, things have reached a critical mass of horrible. It's not like the entire region needs to be nuked and redesigned from scratch. However, it's clear that in the rush to launch the game, someone fell back completely into the old design paradigms that the game otherwise does such a great job of squashing. I've seen very, very few comments anywhere in support of the current zone design, it's close to universally panned in the community with even a marked absense of the typical L2P blowback such criticism usually attracts in other games.
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I like Orr. Loved the concept and design of this area. Those giant undeads are hilarious.
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Originally posted by halflife25
Respawns and the static mobs are not what makes Orr difficult. They are however what make you think twice about running around in random directions. It's suppose to be an uphill battle. It's suppose to be difficult to move around for the Pact. It's suppose to be the main base of operations for an entire Undead army! The best part is 3/4 of Orr still isn't even in the game yet..
The events in Orr are crazy difficult to complete on your own for the most part. Try defend Shelter's Gate on your own when 4 Veteran casters come at the gate after 5 waves of 15+ undead wiped out the NPC's helping you. Try take the gates of Arah or the Temple of Melandru/Grenth with only 5 people.. it just isn't going to happen. It demands some sort of coordination. You can to a lesser degree zerg your way through parts of the zone but when it comes to the Temples and Arah I have seen the events fail horribly on numerous occassions.
Originally posted by Zezda
The Temples and Gates of Arah have nothing to do with the complaint about general mob placement. With regards to those though, ofc it is going to be more difficult to try and solo something that is meant to be done by a larger group. But if content is only difficult when you are trying to complete it with fewer people than originally envisioned, then something is clearly wrong.
General mob placement is the issue for some and it certainly doesn't make you "think twice". It just makes you press speed/debuff ability every so often, whilst rolling your eyes about the six pulls in succession that have never actually threatened to kill you, just get on your tit ends.
It isn't difficult to move around at all unless someone trains mobs onto you, or you fall asleep at the keyboard, so I am amazed anyone is dying in there outside of trying to solo champs or DE vets. Travelling through it though is quite often highly annoying.
The times I die while traveling are few. It happens when I get knocked back into another group of mobs, mobs respawn while still fighting at the most inopportune times, people's trains add on to my fights, or I run into those sword/shield creatures that play pinball with me to death. Veterans I can usually handle, but sometimes find myself facedown. When I do die, though, I have a long trip back to where I died fighting the same mobs again every step of the way if the last waypoint is under contention.
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I must say, those teeth-grinding last 10 levels from 70-80 are really, really tiresome. Fight, fight, fight... for every damn centimeter. Yes, there are other zones than Orr, but overall, where is the fun any beauty from the early levels? It's all serious, war-ish and deadly.
Yes, I too feel worn out and tired of the fighting and the confounded difficulty of the last 10-15 levels.
Why are they always catering some hardcore nuts? :(
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When I first reached Orr, it was hell. Gone was the carefree, freeform wandering around. From the Straits of Devastation onwards, I had to fight for every step of progression all the way. Mobs everywhere, quick respawns and easy adds if I wasn't careful. The Orr zones seriously did have a different vibe to them. I started to despair and wonder if I'd really be able to finish them, if even traveling became such a fight all the time.
However, after a while I noticed that I adapted to that new rhythm. Became more alert while overviewing my surroundings, quicker in spotting safe spots, started to use the friendly NPC's as wandering safe places and mob shields, had my skills rdy for traveling and moving around that gave a boost of speed when needed or dealt with CC effects. In general, I changed my way of moving through zones until it was almost as free in operating in a zone as before, but in a different manner.
In a way, it reminded me of EQ where after harsh lessons, you also adapted to learning how to move and behave in dungeons, traveling across giants' zones and other tight spots, until they became a new second nature.
Sometimes you have to allow a new difficult situation time, for you to pick up and adopt ways to deal with it effectively, until you reach the point where they become second nature and you might look back after a while and wonder, 'was this and that what I was so hindered and beaten down by?'
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I think Orr is brilliant. It's a mad, chaotic scramble all the way and I love it. I'ts been done exactly the way it should be, considering it's the last area and the home of Zhaitan and his horde of risen followers. If Anet had made it any easier it would be just another boring MMO.
I don't think you need to be some "hardcore nutcase" to be able to cope with Orr, you just need to be awake and looking at your screen.
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Facts do not require fiction for balance.
One does not simply walk into Orr.
I can't believe no one has said that yet. That being that, I love it on my mesmer. Greatsword with scepter/pistol works rather well for me, enough for 100% completion on all of Orr and only Arah to do to finish the story. (Just waiting for a sufficient window of time there...) The undead everywhere are a challenge, and seeing, for example, a Champion Risen Giant or the like and knowing that I need to stay aware or he'll do unpleasant things to me... yeah, good stuff. It's not your typical MMO PvE set of zones, that's for sure. Only thing I'd recommend to the OP is to bring a friend to help along.
Oh... beware the undead chickens.
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Originally posted by DMKano
You could if you built him defensively, but you're more than likely rolling as a GS HB/Frenzy Warrior or Evis Warrior.
My warrior can easily take on four-five Orr mobs simultaneously and never drop below 50%.
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Originally posted by Volkon
Just move back after they die lol, they explode a second and a half after they die. Like a grenade without the pin or plunger attached.
lol Good one :)
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If orr ever become's easy enough that I can meander up to the gates of Arah while eating fried orrian chicken, I will more than likely quit playing for a long time. I believe in a interview or comicon event, they stated orr was supposed to be lilke invading normandy during WW2, I really doubt they had safe place's back then. For me I love the challenge of Orr, well except the temple of Lyssa event, which is more of a people problem.
P.S. My 1st day in Orr I had 15 silver repair bill total while i was in green's. And I loved every minute of the hellish challenge.
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Originally posted by Elikal
Frostgorge sound? Any dungeon? Any lower level zone (slower leveling, but leveling)? WvW?
I really don't think GW2 caters to hardcore nuts, at least not exclusively. Yes, there are some hardcore zones, but there are PLENTY of casual zones...like the majority of the game.
I could see complaining if the game content was ONLY hardcore stuff, or the vast majority of it was...but that's just not the case. So you really seem to be complaining that hardcore areas exist, which I think is kind of silly.
Personally, I'm glad that there is some hardcore content...it gives me a chance to really put my skills at build to the test. I would be bored to death if all of the content in the game was easy enough that you could half-AFK it.
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Local writers pen novels that move the world's starry-eyed readersWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | firstname.lastname@example.com
By day, they are hairdressers, lawyers, corporate consultants and TV station assignment managers; by night, they pen steamy romance novels.
Once a month, they gather to talk, laugh, share and learn from one another as members of the Maumee Valley Romance Writers of America (MVRWA), a local writers group that will celebrate its 20th anniversary in September.
The romance genre is broad — ranging from faith-based inspirational tales to kinky erotica —but all stories feature a central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending, according to the Romance Writers of America, which has more than 10,000 members in 145 chapters worldwide, mostly in the United States and Canada.
"As a writer, you can project everything you've ever wanted in a relationship into your characters. As a reader, you can basically get lost in other people," said local author Wendy Burke. "I think it's just a way for people to escape."
Burke is the pseudonym of the 49-year-old Springfield Township woman who writes "romance with erotic elements" when she's not working as an assignment manager at a local television station. Her third book was published in February by online publisher Decadent Publishing.
"It's a nice change from 'Man struck by car, more at 10,'" said Burke, who said she has met kindred spirits through MVRWA.
"I found out I'm not crazy, that there are other people who have people running around in their heads that have to be let out. It's been a great resource and a great support," Burke said.
Elizabeth Vaughan of Toledo said writing romance is a stress-reliever and a nice change from the formal writing she does as a lawyer.
The 53-year-old, who writes under her real name, has published seven books, including USA Today best-seller "Warsworn."
"The best compliment I ever got was, 'I stayed up all night reading your book,'" Vaughan said. "I want to craft something that sweeps someone away from their real life for a couple of hours."
Vaughan said she has thick skin as an attorney, but is more sensitive when it comes to her writing.
"If someone would tell me they hate my book, I'd probably excuse myself and go to the bathroom and sob my eyes out," Vaughan said. "I have a very thin skin when it comes to the writing and that's because it's a creative, emotional project. I'm pouring myself out there on the page."
Vaughan said her co-workers know she writes romance and some of them read her books.
"We do tend to play little head games with one another in the courtroom and they've attempted to use the fact that I write romance. I simply lean forward and say, 'Are you offering to help with the research?' and that usually shuts them right down," Vaughan said, laughing.
Dumpster to big screen?
Tony Karayianni and his wife, Lori, write together under the pseudonym Tori Carrington. The Toledo couple has published 54 books and may soon see one of their book series translated to the big screen.
Paramount Pictures has expressed interest in turning their "Sofie Metropolis" series into a movie. The comedic romance mystery series features a Greek-American private investigator from New York City. "Queens Ransom," the most recent book in the series, will be published in September by Tor/Forge Books, an imprint of Macmillan.
The Karayiannis, who were among the founding members of the MVRWA, started writing in the early 1980s after stumbling upon a box of romance novels beside a Dumpster behind a Toledo restaurant. They decided to try writing their own.
It took more than 13 years and 27 rejected manuscripts before their first book, "Constant Craving," was published by Harlequin. Today, their books have been translated into 24 languages with more than 5 million copies sold in 90 countries.
Karayianni — who said he reads more romance novels than his wife — said he has enjoyed storytelling since his childhood in Greece. He would stop to play soccer with friends on the way home from running errands for his mother and have to make up stories to explain to her why he was late.
Karayianni said the biggest compliment he could receive as a romance writer would be one of his stories spurring a reader into action.
"The best thing is to pick up one of my sex scenes and do it," he said, grinning, to laughter from the rest of the MVRWA members.
Deanna Wadsworth, a 35-year-old hairdresser from Grand Rapids, Ohio, writes mainly erotic fiction, including homosexual relationships and ménage à trois.
"When friends are going out, I always say, 'Have fun, don't do anything I would write about,'" Wadsworth said.
Wadsworth's first published book, "Red Riding Hood," an erotic retelling of the classic children's tale, hit No. 15 best-seller on Amazon's erotica list in 2010. Her eighth book, "Accidentally Beautiful," was released this month by Decadent.
Wadsworth said she started writing in high school, but got distracted by marriage and work before rediscovering some old manuscripts during a move about six years ago.
"I just like telling stories, whether I'm talking out loud or I'm writing it. I've been doing it forever. It's just such a part of me," Wadsworth said. "I've got a lot of ideas. I probably have 20-plus books I want to write."
In MVRWA, Wadsworth has found a group of friends who can truly celebrate her successes and commiserate with her struggles.
"When I get exciting news, my husband smiles and says 'Honey, that's great.' He wants to be excited for me, but I can see the fact he doesn't really get it in his eyes," Wadsworth said. "It's nice to be somewhere where they get to share my joy and share my pain without having to explain what it all means."
Although he doesn't always understand the nuances, Wadsworth said her husband enjoys her side job for at least one reason.
"I think my husband likes it after I've been writing sex all day," Wadsworth said, laughing. "If you're writing erotica and it doesn't get you hot, you didn't write it right."
Growing industry
Romance novels generated more than $1.35 billion in sales in 2010, accounting for 13.4 percent of the U.S. consumer fiction market, according to research cited by the Romance Writers of America. That's compared to religion/inspirational fiction ($759 million), mystery ($682 million), science fiction/fantasy ($559 million) and classic literary fiction ($455 million). Romance is also the fastest-growing segment of the e-reading market.
Harlequin has long been the industry giant of the romance publishing world, but Wadsworth said she prefers working with smaller online publishers because there are fewer restrictions.
"As soon as you tell me I can't write something, that's all I want to write," Wadsworth said. "With digital publishing, there's not as many boundaries, and the boundaries that are there, they want you to push them. I'm not a rebellious person by nature, but in my writing I am."
Most romance writers are women and women also make up a majority of the genre's readers. Sixty-two percent of women and 44 percent of men in the U.S. have purchased a romance novel, according to a 2010 consumer survey, with women accounting for 67 percent of sales.
"It's the only genre out there written for women, by women and about women," said Denise Lynn of Toledo, a former computer systems manager who now writes romance full time.
The 55-year-old writes mainly historical and paranormal stories for the Harlequin Historical and Harlequin Nocturne series and will soon publish her 14th book.
"I always want to read a romance novel and end up knowing that love conquers all," said Lynn, whose pseudonym is her real first and middle name. "That's what I hope I get across in mine."
Because most romance writers use a pseudonym, a common assumption is they are embarrassed by their work. That couldn't be farther from the truth, the writers said.
"I'm proud of what I do," Wadsworth said. "The truth is I tell everybody. Well, except my mom — that's different. Sometimes I get into a little bit of trouble because I don't have a lot of filters."
For unpublished members, like chapter president Patrice Kavanaugh of Toledo, MVRWA provides support, networking opportunities and insider advice, similar to joining any professional organization.
Kavanaugh, a corporate brand consultant who writes thrillers with romantic elements, has been writing romance for 12 years and joined MVRWA three years ago.
"They are a great repository for information," Kavanaugh said. "It's hard to learn it all, plus write, plus promote, plus real life. I wish I'd done it 12 years ago."
Academic respect
Nancy Down, head librarian at Bowling Green State University's Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies, said the romance genre is starting to be taken more seriously by academics.
"For a long time, academics haven't taken romance seriously. I think there's something about having a happy ending; people take that less seriously," Down said. "More people are buying romances than any other type of book. It makes sense to study what it means and why people are attracted to reading the books. All the popular culture conferences now have a section on romance writers and literature. There's a lot more articles and books coming out studying the various genres and different writers."
BGSU's Department of Popular Culture was the first of its kind in the country. The school's popular culture library, located on the fourth floor of the main library, was one of the first to build a comprehensive collection of romance books, manuscripts and memorabilia. The library also houses the papers of the Romance Writers of America.
"It's interesting when you go to our collection, you can see how the different roles women played in our society have changed through the years. They are mirrored in the romances," Down said. "In the early ones, women could only have certain careers — nurses, governesses, companions to rich people. Today almost any career you can have can be found in a romance novel. It's an interesting cultural history of our times."
The best thing about the romance genre is there is something for everyone, Wadsworth said.
"It doesn't matter what you like to read — dragons, cops, Westerns, pilgrims, crocodile shapeshifters, something that's going to make you weep and cry, nothing but raw sex — the romance genre's got it covered," Wadsworth said. "And you always get a happily ever after."
Book Lovers event
The MVRWA meets the fourth Saturday of each month. The group will host its annual Spring Book Lovers event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 24 at Sanger Branch Library, 3030 W. Central Ave. The free event will include readings and panel discussions from local authors, free books, free food and more.
For more information, including meeting locations and times, visit mvrwa.net.
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