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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declined to comment when asked about the growing controversy surrounding Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).
"Bob Menendez is my friend, he's an outstanding senator," Reid said. "Any questions in this regard direct to him. I don't know anything about it."
Menendez has come under increased scrutiny after a Florida doctor who contributed to his campaign had his office raided by the FBI. Menendez reimbursed the doctor for some flights that were taken on a private jet.
Reid was also asked about whether Menendez had informed he was making reimbursements.
"That's all I'm going to say," Reid responded, cutting off the questions. "I'm not going to say anything."
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Netbot updated with direct Messages on App.net, goes free in effort to spur service adoption
When Netbot was launched back in October of last year, we praised it as a fine client for the fledgling App.net service. Based on the same user interface as the popular Tweetbot client by Tapbots, it's no surprise that we liked the Netbot client. Since then both the service and the app have evolved, most recently with the addition of a File API and 10GB of cloud storage. While no major apps yet seem to have taken advantage of the File API, the previous addition to App.net - a Messaging API - is seeing growing adoption.
To boot, version 1.3 of Netbot recently hit the iOS App Store with support for the Messaging API, adding a button to the bottom toolbar to get you into your App.net messages (in the process pushing the dedicated profile button to the user-selectable fourth place slot). For those familiar with Tweetbot, Netbot's implementation of the Messaging API should be quite familiar. In fact, it's practically identical, save for the 256-character limit that App.net allows. Since Netbot gained push notifications in late October with version 1.1, if so enabled (instructions here) you'll get them for your App.net messages too.
Messaging support isn't the only thing that's happening with Netbot - it's also now free in the App Store, though for "an unspecified period of time", according to developer Paul Haddad of Tapbots. Netbot debuted at $4.99 for both the iPhone and iPad versions. Tapbots lowered the price to literally nothing with the hope of spurring more users to look at App.net. As Haddad said from his own App.net account, the move does appear to have driven a bump of new users to the service. If that will be sustained is another question, though App.net does seem to be on a slow-but-steady rise. It doesn't hurt Tapbots too much, as Haddad pointed out, they're making more from App.net's Developer Incentive Program than they are from App Store sales of Netbot.
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Netbot updated with direct Messages on App.net, goes free in effort to spur service adoption
Why do you guys keep pushing this appnet so much? Do they advertise with you? If so you should disclose that.
What problem is this app net solving for a normal user? Especially at 36$ a year??
Appnet is what Twitter was before it went mainstream. There's less talk about the Kardashians and more talk about higher brow stuff. Some of us like that and it's worth forging a cup of Starbucks once a month.
It's like twitter without the stupid. If you don't know what twitter is supposed to be, then don't worry about it. Not all products are meant for everyone.

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Goose Creek resident Tony Osterman was named an associate head coach for the Pinewood Prep baseball team last month.
Osterman, who has spent more than 30 years coaching baseball throughout the state, will serve under new Panthers coach Jay Buddin.
Osterman was the hitting instructor for the Panthers this past spring.
Tony joined our varsity baseball staff last year and had an immediate impact on our players development, Pinewood Prep athletics director Andy Morgan said. He does a fantastic job at evaluating and teaching the proper mechanics for each players swing and getting them to see the results.
During the summers he also worked with the South Carolina Diamond Devils as an assistant. He is the head coach for the East Coast Baseball Academy and a staff member for the Diamond Prospects since 2006.
While assisting with the Diamond Prospects showcases, he helps young players obtain the opportunities and experiences to expose their talents in front of college and pro scouts.
Osterman has been an employee of SCE&G for more than 35 years and has a degree in Business Science from Southern Wesleyan University.
He was a three-sport athlete at Chicora High School.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Three USC Aiken softball players received All-Peach Belt Conference honors at a banquet on the eve of the Peach Belt Conference Softball Tournament.
USCA junior Kaitlyn White was tabbed to the First-Team at second base, while senior Lindsey Jones and junior India Kornegay were both Second-Team selections.
White has started all 45 games for the Pacers this year. She leads the team with a .310 (44-for-142) batting average.
Jones, a North Augusta grad, has started all 45 games for the Pacers this season. Jones leads the Pacers in slugging percentage (.401), total bases (55) and RBIs (22). She also leads the team with five multiple-RBI games. Jones has 10 multiple-hit games.
Kornegay (13-12) is second nationally and first in the Peach Belt Conference with a school single-season record 262 strikeouts on the 2013 season. She is averaging a league-best 10.44 strikeouts per game.
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Mayor Gus Wilson and Mayor Pro Tem Loretta Lipsey both lost their re-election bids in the Nov. 5 election.
The referendums for Sunday alcohol sales at retail stores won easily in both the city and county, as did Sunday sales of alcohol by the drink in Gray.
The first election results, which included only early voting counts, showed Wilson trailing challenger Stephen Tingen 182-121, and the mayor pro tem position was a dead heat with Lipsey and challenger Ed Barbee tied with 152 votes each.
Barbee took a narrow lead when the Gray precinct votes were tallied and then held on to that lead until the final results showed him the victor with 55 percent of the votes. The ending count was 377 to 309.
The final count for the contest of mayor was Tingen 398 to Wilson's 293 votes.
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George McConnell, one of Oxford's best-known musicians, is into a different rhythm these days as he's involved in music, family and working at The 512 bed-and-breakfast. Lucy Schultze visits with McConnell to discuss his involvement with the local bed-and-breakfast and how if affects the rest of his interests. (September 30, 2010, Page 3)


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Cat Tracks: Wildcats win going away in first road game
Sure, you could read the box score and know who won, but we all know that won't tell you everything that happened in a football game. So, we give you 'Cat Tracks', providing you with the analysis, quotes and notes from Arizona's December 1 win over Texas Tech. Final score: Arizona 85, Texas Tech 57.
The Good:
The best way to quiet a home crowd is to get off to a fast start. That's exactly what Sean Miller's squad did Saturday night in Lubbock.
Playing in their first road game of the season, UA used a 24-10 run to close the first half and led 45-28 at halftime. Texas Tech never got within 10 in the second half, as the Wildcats cruised to their fifth win on the season.
There was a lot of good on the night, but three-point shooting and free throw shooting have to be near the top. UA hit 8-of-23 from downtown and 17-of-21 from the charity stripe against the Red Raiders.
The usual suspects -- Solomon Hill (14 points), Nick Johnson (21 points) and Mark Lyons (11 points) -- all had very nice evenings, but it was the play of freshman Grant Jarrett off the bench that deserves some attention. Jarrett scored a career-high 11 points.
The Bad:
The Wildcats are 5-0 and ranked in top 10 for the first since January 2007, so it's hard to be too critical.
However, turnovers kept this game competitive for much longer than it should have been. That's not saying a whole lot about a game that quickly turned into a blowout, but UA turned the ball over 16 times against Texas Tech. Against a team like Florida, who is still on the Wildcats' non-conference schedule this season, that won't get it done.
� The Wildcats' 45 first half points were the most on the season.
� Freshman Kaleb Tarczweksi came into Saturday's game with 21 rebounds on the season. He finished with 13 boards against the Red Raiders.
� Since coming to UA, Sean Miller is now 18-5 in November games.
Coming Up Next:
Arizona won't have to get too use to the road. The Wildcats return home to face the undefeated Southern Methodist Eagles out of Conference USA Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m.


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Oh boy! Check out the touch of geek chic Kyle and Chuck added to their wedding. A zombie (adorable) cake topper and Game of Thrones brews? And a vintage touch? Come one! A bride truly after my own heart!
Couple: Kyle & Chuck
Wedding Date & Location: July 2013 in an old historic school house in Hingham, MA
Wedding Theme:
"Our wedding was sweet, very romantic, a little quirky, and just a blast for everyone who was there. I put lots of my own handmade touches into the day, and we had so much help from our family and friends. I am a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, so three of my cousins sang his song "If I Should Fall Behind" during the ceremony. We had readings from Calvin & Hobbes and The Little Prince, and in my vows I promised Chuck I would fight by his side when the zombies attack. In his vows, Chuck quoted Little Women (one of my favorite books). We also had fireworks at our wedding (a lucky coincidence)"
Dress: Kyle wore our Moon River gown. Kyle writes, "It was perfect. I have always loved Audrey Hepburn so as soon as I saw that dress I knew it would be mine, and when I tried it on in the store it was a storybook moment...I had found my dress! I received so many compliments throughout the evening on how unique and perfect for me the dress was."
Favorite moment from the wedding:
"My favorite moment of the whole wedding was when everyone was outside on the dance floor, and Stand By Me started playing just as the fireworks began to explode across the sky. Chuck and I spontaneously started to slow dance in the grass under the fireworks...such a magical moment. Another really special aspect of our wedding was that one of the oldest cemeteries in the country is directly behind our venue. I love things that are kind of creepy (Chuck proposed to me in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland), so it seemed perfect to have our photographer take some photos of us walking through the cemetery...the pictures came our beautifully and are so unique and so very "us"!"
Take a look at more photos from the wedding and reception here: Kyle & Chuck's Photos
Congratulations to both of you!


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Fifteen seconds — that's how long The Steel Wheels hold a high, four-part harmony note near the end of "Whistle Blows" on the 2013 disc, "No More Rain."
"It tests your stamina, that's for sure," Trent Wagler, lead singer, guitarist and banjoist said and laughed. "That's a fun song.
"Every night when we do that song, it's not always the same length of time we hold [that note]. Because Jay [Lapp, guitarist and mandolinist] moves in the midst of that note, he's the one who controls how long it goes. When he moves, we know we're going to stop soon. There are nights he's feeling really good, and it's a long, long time."
In addition to acoustic Americana roots music, the quartet is known for tight vocals.
"All four of us in the band grew up in some kind of Mennonite family," Wagler said. "One of the things that gave us in common was growing up singing harmonies."
Wagler, Lapp, fiddler Eric Brubaker and upright bass player Brian Dickel show off their pipes during a cappella numbers in concert.
"That's something that I think is fun. You see people taking bluegrass or old-time music in a different direction, and I don't think I've necessarily seen a lot of people taking the a cappella part of those traditions and really own that necessarily, and that's something we like to do," Wagler said during a call from his Virginia home.
Gathering around a single microphone on stage also is something the band enjoys.
"I think the single mic, you have a love-hate relationship with that thing," Wagler said. "It's problematic because of sound. It's a struggle; it's not always easy. And yet we've continued to come back to it.
"When you sit in a place and watch four people gather around one mic all night long, there's something about that coming together; there's something about that unity that happens," the singer-songwriter said. "There's a certain flow that you have when you're playing around a single mic that becomes choreography that also becomes a sort of physical harmony that you have to do if you're going to make it sound good."
The Steel Wheels will roll into Ann Arbor for an 8 p.m. show at The Ark on Feb. 14. Tickets are $20. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Fans can look forward to hearing new tunes.
"There's one song that I think is particularly appropriate to Valentine's Day that I think we'll probably do at The Ark, and it's called 'Every Song You Sing Is a Love Song.' That one is a waltz," Wagler said. "It really comes from a very personal place, going and seeing that performer. For me, it is typically a female performer who is singing, and just falling in love; it's just watching that person and every note is so beautiful.
"So I got this notion of the songwriter and what they're trying to do with the song sometimes and what the audience actually experiences or feels is not always consistent. You can be singing this painfully, woefully, bluesy breakup song that thematically is just dark or desperate, and at the same time, the audience is just hearing your voice, they're hearing the melody and just doesn't care about the theme, just loves it, loves you, loves just feeling love.
"And that's where this song came from, just this performer, every song you sing is a love song no matter what you try to sing, that's what I hear."
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ShakinDave.com is a website and real-person, real-time map mashup that gives you a potential glimpse into the future. Using a camera mounted on his glasses Dave Rheingold broadcasts live from the streets of New York and shows you in live time what he's seeing. He pipes his personal video AND audio to his website so you can tune into the action. Here is a list of all the gear he uses:
* Tablet PC (Motion Computing)
* EVDO card
* Video glasses
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* USB analog-to-digital video capture board
* GPS receiver
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For software, he uses a Windows XP Tablet, Windows Media Encoder, VZAccess Manager, and a custom-written application that transmits the GPS data and displays it using the Google Maps API. All of this results in a live video and Google Map that shows Dave's real time location. The result is pretty engaging. Sure, it is just Dave walking around, but between the video, sound and the way you can follow Dave with the Google Map, I have to say it's all pretty cool. Dave doesn't broadcast in a 24/7 format so he offers an alert service so you can be notified by email when he starts his personal broadcast. He is expected to be broadcasting today (April 26th) between 1 and 2 pm Eastern time (GMT -5).
Google Maps Mania IDEA: A major sponsor like Coke, or Verizon should try to get in on this and sponsor this real person website phenomenon. It's reality TV on demand, and mapped. Think EdTV.
Of note is a similar application like this called "Where's Tim." Where's Tim tracks the movements of Tim Hibbard through his mobile phone. While it's minus video and sound, it does have a PILE of bells and whistles: mileage for the day, RSS feeds and Google Earth viewing to name a few.
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Free stuff is always good, but even better during the holidays. That's why, the spawn.com prize patrol hooked up with Nitro Records and the band AFI (A Fire Inside) to give away signed Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty figures in a contest that runs through Monday, Dec. 24.
If you're looking to get your hands on one of the highly sought-after MGS 2 figures, and you're into punk rock or even if you're not, click on http://www.nitrorecords.net/news/newsdetail.php?sid=61.
There will be six winners chosen randomly at exactly noon Pacific time, Dec. 24. Each winner will receive one Metal Gear Solid 2 figure signed by Todd, plus a signed CD copy of AFI's current album, The Art of Drowning.
According to the January 2002 issue of Alternative Press magazine, "AFI's music conjures images of a mosh pit in a cemetery, where ghoulish punks stir it up on the graves of Jane's Addiction and the Misfits." The magazine also lists AFI's upcoming album in "Fast-Forward: A.P.'s Guide to the Best of 2002."
Contest winners will be notified by e-mail on Christmas eve, but the product won't ship until January, so you may have to break down and buy that Chia Pet® after all. And, don't forget to check out the spawn.com Web feature on MGS2 at http://www.spawn.com/features/mgs2/.


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Saturday, November 30, 2013
B.J. Grevey scored a game-high 25 points to lead the Bishop England Battling Bishops to an 87-46 win over the Coastal Christian Cougars Friday in day two of the Military Magnet Thanksgiving Classic.
Bishop England (1-1) fed off its defense most of the day, applying a full-court press that forced 19 steals. The Bishops dominated the boards, outrebounding the Cougars 42-20. They'll pulled down 25 defensive rebounds a limited Coastal to just four offensive.
"We challenged them with a goal of cutting down on the turnovers and doing a better job on the boards and I think we did that today," Bishop England head coach Bryan Grevey said. "From the first player to the last, I thought we really did a good job of defending, rebounding, and running our sets."
The Bishops scored the first eight points of the game as part of a 13-2 run through the opening four minutes. Grevey caught fire in the second quarter, turning in 13 points to help the Bishops open a 50-27 lead by halftime.
Dillon Corbett finished the day with 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds for the Bishops. Taylor Howell added 12 points, four rebounds and three assists, while Reed Fosberry led the team with five steals, four assists and just one turnover.
Bishop England increased the pressure in the third quarter, stifling the Coastal ball handlers in the backcourt. The Bishops outscored the Cougars 19-4 in the quarter with the only Coastal field goal coming from a Raquan Gregg three at the buzzer. Gregg led Coastal with 23 points but received little help as only three other Cougars scored, and none in double figures.
"Defensively, we had a goal in mind and we accomplished that," Grevey said. "Any win is a good win. We've practiced hard and these kids really deserved a victory. Hopefully we can get another one tomorrow."
Bishop England advances in the consolation bracket to play Garrett Tech at 3 p.m. Sunday for fifth place the final day of the tournament. Garrett rolled past Lincoln 100-46 Friday.
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With the future of MMO's looking grim we can all crack a smile to the last great MMO to jump on the bandwagon and grief it to death: Darkfall Unholy Wars
The sweet, sweet end of MMO's. At least we get to enjoying ripping each others heads off and sieging each other to oblivion while we watch MMO style games die.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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Originally posted by -Zeno-
I think it is a little early to be calling for the death of MMOs.
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Originally posted by worldalpha
Yeah because they have been dead for a few years now already- For this to be the "death" of MMOs you would first have to resurect MMOs which would possibly spawn a religion...Imagine what THOSE fanboys would be like. =P
Ill bump your promo because I applaud the grassroots effort.
There are still deep MMOs out there worth playing, look at EQ2.
Originally posted by worldalpha
MMOs are already dead. Only the shadow of them remain, ie WoW, The Secret World, LOTR, FFXIV, etc
You mean static world and quest themepark MMOs are dead? New ones, yes. Old ones, no.
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Who the hell cares anymore?
One person says this game is, another says that one is.
I'm going to bed.
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Originally posted by Aelious
Honestly I'm not sure what you mean by that. Which ones are still alive? Because the ones I liked are dead and they are from a long time ago. Yes, people still play them. Are they the same games? No
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I really wouldn't hype darkfall uw, just because of how hyped darkfall was. I mean would you be hyped up on warhammer online 2? ;)
Also, on a side note, i doubt MMO's are going any time soon. If something drastic does happen, it will be a lack of demand for them and current ones will close up and a few polished one will retain a degree of players. Then what will happen is the current generation of players will make an independant developement team to make a MMO people want to play, sort of like a resurgence of the late 90's. Then those companies will continue to grow, and then big names will jump back in and water down the scene again. Everything works in cycles!
Even that is shakey, because while I do think we are finnally seeing a drop off of huge AAA MMO releases after GW2, we still have Titan neverwinter, and, ESO. What might happen is the devs will cut back on funding to make them, leveling the playing field for said independant devs to have a shot at it, who knows it could happen! (the war z, I is looking at you to be the start of this!)
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Originally posted by Magiknight
I have to agree. Even WoW has changed to the point that it doesn't even resemble the game it was in 2004. EQ, DAOC, UO, Lineage II and many more older games have been transformed into shadows of their former selves because they have been "Modernized" over the years. The only game that has been really true to it's core principals throughout the years is EVE Online but it's not the type of game for everyone. Pretty much every pre-2005 game has been changed so drastically that they bear little resemblence to what they were originally. I've tried going back to some of the MMOs of the past that I loved but what they've become just makes me die a little inside each time I log in.
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Is DF2 going to be as big of a cheatfest as DF1 was??
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Originally posted by Aelious
this nostalgia for "the good ol' days of MMOs" is ridiculous. i've played since m59 and while i have a faint feeling of nostalgia, for my first days raiding and pvp'ing, there is just no way those game can compare to today's MMO's. its just this human psychology to somehow think that things were better in the past and what is new is inferior or doesnt match what i've grown up with. resistance to change. gone are the timesinks, gone is the buggy AI, gone is the 8bit meshes. today we have greater tools for community, for guild's, servers are larger and games far more "massive". combat has evolved and storytelling much more of a priority.
and EQ2? deep MMO? lol what a horribad trainwreck of badness. the class system was designed by a monkey. not to mention about 90% of the 12092109210 skills you have, and 5 of the 6 hotbars on your screen, are redundant and absolutely unnecessary because the dungeons are AE facerolls. group dynamics? need for CC? debuffing? rofl no. get a tank, pull entire rooms of mobs and spam a heal. EQ2 has more in common with Diablo2 than it does EQ1. raids? omfg bad. and boring. and scratch your head wtf moments from invisible AEs. 99% of the game is solo content. and grind? ya you better get ready to grind AA. have fun doing repeated Dailies.... more than even in WoW. Lore? welcome to the most generic cut and paste storylines; even now their trying to keep the cash cows happy by releasing Sleepers Tomb (again). oh by deep you mean housing instances and crafting minigames? mmm ok. and the engine performance ... holy fuk bad. and the management of that game is just a travesty - get ready to have PAID expansions crammed down your throat before even 1% of the playerbase can complete even a PORTION of the current high end raids.
yep the good ol days.. rofl fuck that
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The last great MMORPG?
It has never been made.
It has no levels. It is free to play and it has a cash shop.
Developer makes a huge seamless empty world. The world is totally devoid of cities, buildings/structures dungeons NPC, Monsters, quests or anything other than a basic creatures and plants. The basic creatures are limited in population and only exist in areas they would be normally found. The developer has pre defined the areas and set the spawn points so the creatures will populate based on their number and behavior. example – wolves are predators therefore they hunt for food. Rabbits eat veggies and so on.
All content is player generated.
The world terrain is preset and has a basic texture design with flora and trees but still can be modified. The terra forming tools will allow making adjustments to the basic design but not drastic unrealistic changes that are glaring eyesores. The terrain rule is that the terrain has to conform to a realistic expectation for the world theme, extreme glaring designs, sexual objects from terrain or vulgar designs will not be allowed. The developer can over ride any designs and reset the terrain if the rule is violated.
The player can own a section of the world on a first come first server basis which they BUY from the developer as a claim in the world. They get a basic tent, campfire and a starter kit to build their buildings and form their land. The basic kit contains enough tools to allow a varied design but not a deviation from a theme (any theme that the developers has decided, science fiction, high fantasy to medieval. The ENTIRE world is based on one theme). In order to USE the kit they have to submit so much wood, stone and dirt that they have harvested from their land or public lands. The amounts are based on a realistic number so the character can build anything from a small hut to a giant castle including bridges and roads they can place the objects they make anywhere on their land but they have to make adjoining land match at the boundary. The player can sell their buildings they make to anyone and the developer gets a percentage for maintaining the world. The player can sell their services to terraforming landscape and so on in the market board on the website also.
The characters of the world are basic models with basic clothes for appearance and basic armor basic armor is not changed except though modifiers which will be based on which creature they were acquired from or which spell was cast by what an enchanter had designed which is based on a set finite table the developer would allow. All spells, combat arts are submitted for approval. The basic character is made in a external program by the player and had no limits other than the sliders of the external program BUT only if the player has bought a character right can they modify the basic model. Players make their own animations which they can sell to others. The program takes the basic model and does morphs to the mesh so everyone sees your avatar as you have made it. Any animation is allowed but some will marked house only under the clean art rule stated in land design. The limitation is endless because you could make different races and different variations of the race/sex anyway you want but you are only allow ONE character in the world.
The character also gets to select a profession. Based on this profession they get access to an external program to make appearance items. The external program allows you to make appearance items which the character can sell to other characters but all characters can see the appearance item (appearance items include clothing of any type, weapons, bows, siege equipment and so on or anything the player would equip or use. Rule is that the item created would need to be in the profession the character picked. The item must comform to the world theme The limitation is that the character MUST harvest items in the world to make it based on its properties. Again there will be house only appearance items which may be offensive these items a character can only wear in their house Including nudity.
The players are allowed to make their own NPCs, quests, Buildings,Dungeons but everyone can use them as these are all public areas. These are approved based on design, content and difficulty which is per defined by the developer.
One section of the public areas is deemed PvP where player could attack anyone but outside this area there is no PvP allowed at all except sport duels or arenas which are open public areas that can be seen by anyone. There are no closed areas in this world except the players house which has privileges.
Developer makes a simple interface of 10 hotkeys and a simple chat system for local chat. Players make any other chat rooms and have to maintain them. The interface could be modified but not the world predefined functionality.
Originally posted by Magiknight
You wrote this (sorry, I was on my phone at the time):
Originally posted by Magiknight
So what you meant was the MMOs you like are dead? I took "MMOs" to be all encompasing and was pointing out that the genre is not dead but the same design of "zone 1, quest, level, level" designed games are probably dead as in not getting made much from here on out. The pendelum swings. With the unfortunate turn of events this year we may see a return of the old school feel. Call it retro, we'll see.
Originally posted by thefounder
Okay Dr. answer me this. If the "current" design of MMOs is so much better than in the past then why are they failing left and right minus two titles? Greater tools for community? Really? I agree with you but too bad the design for the rest of the game makes the tools near useless. More massive? Actually the world maps have gotten smaller in some sort of digital dehydration synthesis. Could you really compare the combined maps of EQ with that of Aion or Swtor? The world is no longer a "world" but a molded park where every step is taken into account and "gone are the timesinks". I agree that combat and storytelling and combat has evolved, evolved to where that's all that's important and your "story" is the same one as everyone elses.
I agree with you that with the technology we have better games can be made, they just haven't been making very good ones trying to reach the WoW mountain IMO. It's not being nostalgic or asking for corpse runs again. It's about making a game and a world that people actually want to stay in, not level through. Don't look now but companies also want that so, hopefully, they've gotten the memo: "WoW clones =/= WoW money". Make a game that matters over years and you'll be sucessful.
Your earlier comments completely explain your rant on EQ2. Yes I was referring to the whole game, not just combat which is what makes EQ2 so special. It has a ton of dungeons, content and story driven raids but it also has a lot meaningful things OUTSIDE of combat.
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Originally posted by Aelious
i wouldnt call EQ2 "deep"... its more like a "bottomless morass of suck"
and woe to the fans of EQ lore if the same dev team is working on EQ Next.
I would agree that EQ2 was NOT the true successor to EQ. was like they said to the fans "hey, mind if we just repackage the EQ lore in a new game called WAX DUMMY FANTASY EXTRAVAGANZA?"
blindly loyal EQ Fan: "SURE! HERES MY CREDIT CARD!"
and yeppers, i was one of those fools ;(. ny guildmate said it best - "EQ2 is the fat ugly ex girlfriend you dont like or respect. but its still hard to breakk up with her."
Originally posted by thefounder
This guy thinks that new things are automatically better than old things. Progress is inevitable......believe that if you want. Just because something is new does not mean it is better. The people of today certainly don't have the nerves to live in many time periods of the past but they sure can navigate their war around Microsoft Office.
The "greater tools for community" you speak of actually obliterate community. Being able to group with anyone and everyone as easily as possible destorys all feeling of distance and meaning between different characters. The larger servers are being used to create instances of every zone you go into. Once that happens then the entire idea of a persistant world goes away. Everytime you go into a zone it could be a different instance. "Evolved combat" simply means I can do anything and everything in a fight including healing, damage, tanking, and jumping around. The story telling of SWTOR just makes me sad.
So you don't like EQ2 because of the player models? That's the only bit of actual criticism you offered other than to say it's not the natural successor to EQ, which I agree with. I'm not sure what you assumed I meant by deep but there are more varied activities and content to go through In EQ2 than many other MMOs out there, successor or not. That's what i mean by deep. Vanguard is closer the EQ successor but lacks in a lot of places as compared to EQ2 IMO.
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Originally posted by thefounder
You got it all wrong Thefounder,
It's not about nostalga.
It's not about " the good ol' days.
It's about auto group features, cintamatic videos and personal stories, and very easy mode. This takes away from comunities. NOTHING WRONG WITH ADDING FEATURES, BUT THE ONES THEY ARE ADDING ARE CRAP !....Why log in after 30 days if the mmo is really a solo game with others on the screen !!!!!
I'm still enjoyig GW2, I belong to a very popular guild, but the guild really has no reasion to exist in a so called mmo like this. It's silent ever since everyone learned all the features, and just a little grouping for WvW, but not much.
Thefounder...I'm not sure if your playing GW2 or not. But what ever newer mmo you are playing, can you tell me that you would have a reason to continue playing it after you learn all the features six months down the road ?
An mmo is about surviving is a hard land with others. AND THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE THIS IS WITH AN OLDER MMO.....But most went F2P. So now there is nothing at all.
- No reason to make friends
- No reason to join a Guild
- No reasonreason to have a friends list
Why play GW2 after November, December or January, when you know everything about the game and played each class that intrigues you. Then again your more open minded and not resistant to change....So I guess you will be playing a game like GW2 five months down the pipe :)


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"I thought we had a great day today, there were a ton of positives," said Matador head coach Avery Anderson. "I was proud of the way every member of the team competed and stepped up. We competed with pride to represent our program."
Amongst a slew of personal-bests for both CSUN squads on Friday, Nicholas DiMartino reached the podium in the men's long jump after finishing second with a season-best 25-4.75 (7.74). DiMartino capped a busy afternoon by qualifying for Saturday's finals in both the 100 and 200 meters.
Donovan Toban added a fourth-place finish in the long jump with a season-best of 24-1.75 (7.36) and Jory Rucker was fifth with a best of 23-7.50 (7.20) which gave the Matadors 17 points in the event.
In the other field event finals on Friday, the men's team got a scoring performance from Gavin Fallen in the discus (4th, 165-3) which added five points to the team tally.
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In track prelims, the Matador men and women advanced a good number to Saturday event finals. Le'Shel Vines clocked a season-best 11.64 to lead a quartet of Matador women into the 100 meter final. Hafsatu Kamara ran a season-best of 11.71 while Chiza Eze (11.86) and Marie Veale (11.88) will also battle to see if CSUN can reclaim the Big West 100 meter crown.
Kamara (23.83), Vines (23.91) and Lexis Lambert (23.94) all advanced in the 200 meters while Lambert will be the lone CSUN sprinter in the 400 meter final after running a season-best 54.90. Stephanie Hicks ran 14.10 in the 100 meter hurdles which was fifth but advanced to Saturday's final.
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Android devices have had this for a couple of years now and it never went anywhere.
Could or should Apple use the iPhone 5s M7 motion coprocessor to lock out texting while driving?
I've been asked several times this week whether Apple could or should use the new M7 motion coprocessor chip in the iPhone 5s to lockout features like texting if it detects you're driving. It's an interesting idea but not a particularly workable one, at least not yet.
First, texting is only one kind of distraction. You can be distracted by tweeting, searching for music, using turn-by-turn navigation, or any number of things. You can also be distracted by the newspaper or map you've laid out across the steering wheel, the sandwich you're eating, or the makeup you're putting on.
Second, even if we take the view that M7 could mitigate the problem by locking out purely digital distractions, how would it know you're actually driving the car rather than sitting in the passenger or back seat, or sitting on a train or a bus? And if it can be disabled under those circumstances, the same type of people foolish enough to drive while distracted would likely be foolish enough to disable it under the worst of circumstances too.
Distracted driving of all kinds is a lethal problem. M7-based lockout, by itself and as presently implemented, however, doesn't seem like a realistic solution. We'll have to see if things like iOS in the Car offer any better alternatives.
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Could or should Apple use the iPhone 5s M7 motion coprocessor to lock out texting while driving?
I am super-mixed on this. It would have to be able to detect if you are in fact the driver or if you are simply a passenger. I would not want my passengers unable to text while riding, and I wouldn't want to be unable to if I was, say, on a bus or in a subway train because it's detected that I am moving.
Ideally, and this is me in a la la land, people would grow a little self control and focus on the road a little and wait til they get to a stoplight or pull over. It really can wait.
No. I'll tell you exactly what Apple should do: Nothing.
It already feels too much like being in a Nanny State using Apple stuff. They should butt out (not that they ever butted in on this one, since it's your suggestion) and let people do what they want.
I'm tiring of their control-freakery, as it is. Apple: butt out.
Those heartless bastards at Apple, forcing you to use their products. It must be awful. If only there were other companies making competing products you could use instead and not have Apple telling you what to do all the time.
Oh God no! There is no way the device can tell whether it is operated by the driver or a passenger. It will be annoying and get in the way.
Exactly. Great point.
I love how this post poses a question simply to answer it. Obviously you can't. it can't tell driving just motion. So nobody on a New York Subway train, bus, cab riding can use their phone. Nobody as a passenger in any city. lol .That makes no sense. I've heard of studies saying the problem is "distraction" in general not simply texting or phones. They say the get the same problem from people playing with the radio or distracted by food or backseat passengers. All of the following are distractions that cause accidents but i don't see stopping people from changing the radio or talkig to passengers or using their navigation.
Using a cell phone or smartphone
Eating and drinking
Talking to passengers
Reading, including maps
Using a navigation system
Watching a video
Adjusting a radio, CD player, or MP3 player
This has become Rene's stock and trade lately. Just like the "what will apple name the next iPhone"post last week. This crap is just click bait. I've already been frequenting sites like mac rumors more and more. Tipb is getting real weak. The absurdity of this ever happening is laughable for exactly the reasons you listed.
Totally agree of the last 15 articles I've clicked on in the last week I think I walked away non annoyed by reading one. Rene needs to give it a break. Substance over quantity... Seriously debating removing Imore from my RSS feed.
Waste of space..
Mac rumors you say?
Food for thought?? In order for something to be food for thought there has to be something to think about. There's nothing interesting, thoughtful, or worthy of discussion in these types of posts. I challenge you to show me where I'm wrong.
My car won't let the navigation etc be entered while the car is in motion. It's for driver safety, but what if you have a passenger that can safely use the navigation. There are too many scenarios to consider and I can't see Apple making those arbitrary decisions.
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41 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam ban text messaging for all drivers. Twelve of these laws were enacted in 2010 alone.
11 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands prohibit all drivers from using handheld cell phones while driving.
It is the states' job (in the US), not the device maker (i.e. Apple) to enforce the law.
Nothing should be forced. However, I would like to be able to set siri to speak my texts based on sensing motion.
When did texting while driving become one of the "freedoms" we are giving away? Pappy53 is right: take their license away for 30 days for the first offense and for a year on the second. Friend of mine reports the young daughter of an acquaintance has had TWO accidents while texting behind the wheel. Lost the sight of one eye as the result of the second accident. Brilliant!! Do some people simply _never_ learn?
Motorola Assist. I use it everyday. If I'm in the passanger seat I just dismiss the notification
There have been studies, and some results about all this new technology in vehicles. If you listen to the radio, or an audio book, there is no real increase of having an accident. Even hands free talking on a phone has been debated, but not a big increase if any on having an accident. If you use the system in you vehicle to listen, and reply to emails, and text, even tho hands free, there is an increase of having an accident. You would think it would be the same as talking, but it seems we are more distracted replying to emails, and texting than just general talking all hands free.
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heck no!
As a passenger in a car are you allowed to drink beer? Nope, why? Your not driving. The answer is because alcohol should not be drank in cars. Believe it or not people use to be able to operate in there daily lives without texting. This could save many lives. I wish they would enable this at least as something I as a parent could do to my kids phone so that when he reaches driving age he is unable to use his cell phone while driving. If that makes it inconvenient as a passenger tough.
I think the only way to successfully prevent drivers from texting would be to add NFC (or similar technology). You could have a little device on the driver's side, and if your phone is within a certain distance of this device, you would not be able to text, etc. Albeit this could be bypassed simply by leaning over to the passenger side to text, which is even more dangerous.
yes, absolutely. anything that technology can do to remove any risks to having an accident and god forbid..., it should... for everyone concerned. i think that technology companies such as apple have a moral imperative to do it.
its exactly the same as people holding their mobile phones whilst driving, everybody knows they shouldnt do it, and in the uk its illegal, but you still see people doing it, i then they have an accident, and if they are lucky they will walk away uninjured, but if they not so lucky... then what, they have to live with the consequences of those actions, and may have an impact on family life, work etc
ha ha i didnt say the person shouldnt have the moral repercussions, you made a tragic assumption there, thats why we have a thing called the law, to act as a deterrent from people doing such things, but does it work?
what i am saying is if the facility is there people, because of the pressures of life, will use it. but if the technology is there to stop it, why not use it, and apple have a corporate moral, ethical and social responsibility to do it... if it saves life, and wouldnt it help with the branding as apple as a company.
why do you think apple or any other phone company dont want to display your mobile home screen on the display of headsets of cars???
With a little cooperation with car manufacturers it might be rather easy to detect if the phone is used by the driver of a car or someone else. NFC might do this, sensors in the seat -- something. And since Apple is already working closely with auto folks on iOS in the Car, I see no reason they couldn't add this feature. If they got it working right, I'd be all for it.
Without a doubt since more and more states including my own Florida now has just passed a no texting while driving law, While It will meet with much resistance among many people that think they can still handle texting and driving, i think this would be a huge step if Apple did this because it would be the right thing to do. First people will hate if it were done but after getting use to it, It would be old hat and nothing to it. Apple do the right thing and show how much you care about driver and other people on the road and their safety where your phone stands for 'Lives" and 'Safety of others'.
I think we have all become so entitled that we think we should not be blocked from texting unless for a particular situation(being the driver). Distracted driving is lethal but it is now increased by the introduction of cell phones now smartphones. Yes if Apple did do this only the iPhone owners would be locked out. However when was it a fix the entire issue or don't bother? There is no text, tweet, email so important that it's worth the possibility of hurting oneself or even worst someone else. People will say things like a wife going into labor but cell phones haven't existed since the dawn of time so how did people deal without being connected then? I'm all for it although because of the outcry and media coverage I don't think Apple would do it just yet.
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They should never take the responsibili of adding this feature. Apple would then en themselves up to liability lawsuits. "Yes your honor I was texting, but my iPhone is supposed to block me from texting. My iPhone malfunctioned. It's there fault." Pretty sure Apple doesn't want to get pulled into court every day.
Nope, not their place & I have the common sense to do it when appropriate.......obviously many other people don't have the common sense or self control to not text & drive, but they are (sort of) big boys/girls now & should be responsible for their own actions if they can't follow the law.
How would the phone know you are driving and not a passenger, or on a bus or commuter train?
Its getting ridiculous how people have blinders on and talk only about texting while driving. The issue is being distracted while driving. Whether its feeding kids in the back seat, putting on make-up, tuning the radio, fiddling with the heat or AC, or any number of things.
Where do you draw the line? should Apple have an app that watches your eyeballs and applies the brakes in your car if you take your eyes off the road?
Thankyou mattmatt for a voice of reason. Probably just the reason no laws will take this into account!
Hi. The question is should Apple lockout texting while driving? Answer. No. Technically they could lockout texting while MOVING, but how would device know you were driving or just a passenger in a car, bus or train? It wouldn't.
The should not use it to block people from using their phones. What if you are a passenger in a train? I think that all liberties give responsibilities.
Its called personal responsibility. To paraphrase a Yogi Berra quote, If people don't want to stop texting while driving, you can't make them.
I would like to force it off on my kid's phone though. If they're driving, I want the option to turn it off. If they're commuting/on a bus, I want the option to leave texting on.
It should be an available option. What if u didnt want your teen driver texting while driving.


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