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"All I was concerned about was my career and fighting. This defines me as a person. It is what I do. I've come to a point now where I've been in the UFC for a long time but I still haven't had a title shot. I still haven't been a world champion. I still feel like I've got a lot to prove in the sport. Because I've been around a while, I'm towards the higher end of the pay scale as well. It's my career, it's my job. That's what I do. I just bought a house. I was like, 'Shit, is this where it ends?'"
And if the rest of the Middleweight roster thinks Bisping will come back hesitant and gun shy once he returns to the Octagon, think again, because "The Count" plans to come out guns blazing when he gets the green light.
The circumstance, and time off, has made him hungrier than before.
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"In some ways, this is going to be best thing to happen to me. I know it sounds like a cliche, but I had my career almost taken away, and it made me realize how much I still have left to achieve in this sport. If time was called on my career right now, I wouldn't be happy with what I achieved. Yes, I get some notoriety and put some dollars in my bank account and whatever, but I want a lot more out of it than that. I want to stabilize my future and my children's future as well. So this has really made me even hungrier than ever."


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"We came out flat," Chattanooga head coach J.D. Kyzer said. "We managed to tie it up early, but just couldn't keep up the momentum."
Charleston got on the board first with a goal by Nicole Koretsky in the 16th minute to put the Cougars up 1-0. That lead was quickly dissolved with an equalizer from senior Lauren Wilson (Columbia, Tenn.) on a corner kick from classmate Becca Smith (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) to make it 1-1 at the 16:53 mark. The goal was the first for Wilson.
The Cougars tallied goals by Maryam Buazza and Kate Twohig in the first half to make it 3-1 at intermission.
In the second half, Charleston went up 4-1 on a goal from Sarah Cardamone at the 68:36 mark. The Mocs responded with its closest shot on goal as Smith's shot hit off the crossbar. She picked up the rebound for a second shot but it sailed wide.
The Cougars added their fifth goal in the 85th minute on the first goal of the year by Victoria Fichman on a header just under the crossbar.
Smith led the Mocs with three shots while Wilson had two shots with one on goal. Freshman Hannah Wyatt's (Soddy Daisy, Tenn.) lone shot was on goal for the Mocs sixth of the game. Freshman keeper Lauren Thomas (Germantown, Tenn.) recorded 11 saves on the night.
"I'm very pleased with Lauren and her abilities," Kyzer said. "She made some really good saves and has done a great job, but we can't expect her to make saves on the six yard line every time."
Chattanooga will remain in Charleston to take on The Citadel Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. Live stats and streaming video will be available through the soccer schedule page at GoMocs.com, the official website of Chattanooga athletics.
1. COFC Nicole Koretsky (3) unassisted
2. UTC Lauren Wilson (1) Becca Smith off corner kick
3. COFC Maryam Buazza (2) McCallie Jones
4. COFC Kate Twohig (2) unassisted
5. COFC Sarah Cardamone (4) unassisted
6. COFC Victoria Fichman (1) Kate Twohig
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As the first in a series of events, Catholic Extension, along with the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM), hosted The Transformative Power of Faith: Responding to Pope Francis Call, a panel discussion featuring compelling examples of work being carried out in the margins of society which transformed the lives of its community members. Motivated by Pope Francis call for Catholics - and moreover all people - to be advocates for the poor and agents of change, the panelists shared stories of the work that led to their inclusion as either recipients or finalists for Catholic Extensions Lumen Christi Award. The national honor recognizes those who have devoted their lives to serving the poor and to fostering Catholic communities that build faith, inspire hope and ignite change, often in the countrys poorest areas. Their stories showcased powerful examples of how faith plays an important role in public life.
The panelists were accompanied by individuals who were either mentored or inspired by their leadership. A wealth of information was shared as Fr. Mark Massa, S.J., Dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, moderated the panel as part of his annual Deans Colloquium on Religion and Public Culture. Each year the Deans Colloquium provides an in-depth discussion of current events and important topics impacting Catholics and society.
Sister Mary Susanne Dziedzic, CSSF, is a Felician Sister serving in Kingstree, a rural, impoverished town with an environment of both racial and religious prejudices. Dziedzic and two other Felician Sisters began their outreach more than 20 years ago with an after-school tutoring program for neighborhood children that eventually led to many other ministries including a food pantry, clothing closet, hot meal program, cooking classes, home repair program, legal advocacy and medical services. To carry out the work, the sisters brought together churches to create an army of volunteers from 11 different denominations.
The sisters were like an extension of our family and our community, said Kevin Cooper, who grew up in Kingstree and was mentored by Sister Susanne. He later went on to graduate from college and now returns to volunteer his time to the sisters ministries. They changed the perception of our community and I love them for that. Anything that Im doing now is just a product of what they have done in our community.
The Rev. John Hatcher, S.J., has served as head of the St. Francis Mission, a Jesuit ministry among the 20,000 Lakota (Sioux) people on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, for 10 years. He feels his life-changing efforts to promote sobriety and build community while maintaining the Lakota traditions are merely the result of fostering the strong beliefs already held by the people with whom he lives and serves.
I feel the pope will, and I am hoping, issue some kind of a directive on the importance of the fact that God existed in these cultures before we showed up, Father Hatcher said, resulting in an eruption of applause from the audience.
José and Digna Lopez, Director of Migrant Ministry and Director of Hispanic Ministry, respectively, in the Diocese of Stockton, Calif., are a lay couple serving a community that is home to migrant workers and a growing, youthful Latino population. Training and supporting more than 15,000 people annually, they also are deeply involved in programs that give young people alternatives to lives of drugs and violence.
When speaking about the events and ministries that he and his wife host for the community, Jose shared: These events are a big reason for our community to show their faith and celebrate their faith outside in the streets like Pope Francis - Papa Pancho - invited us to make noise outside.
The panel discussion was co-sponsored by the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and Catholic Extension, a Papal Society with a mission to support and strengthen poor mission dioceses (Catholic dioceses that cannot financially sustain themselves) throughout the US by providing funding and resources through programs and services investing in people, infrastructure and ministries. Since 1905, Catholic Extension has contributed more than $500 million to 91 poor mission dioceses and parishes.
The Boston event is the first planned in a series in conjunction with selected universities on the East and West Coasts. Catholic Extension hopes that by sharing best practices of the faithful responding to Pope Francis call to serve, more people outside of the mission dioceses may be exposed to the transformative power of faith in communities.
One of the things thats so exciting about the work at Catholic Extension is how it really brings the whole Catholic church in the United States together, said Catholic Extension President Rev. John J. Wall. To be able to take these powerful stories that we witness all the time when we go to these mission dioceses and bring them back into the community and let people experience what we experience is such a wonderful gift, he added.
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To make the most of lobster season and the two-day Sport Season, remember these basic regulation points and easy techniques to nab some bugs.
- Lobster season runs from August 6 through March 31, with a two-day Sport Season—better known as mini-season—beginning at 12:01 a.m. on July 30 and ending at 11:59 p.m. on July 31. Every diver must have a Recreational Saltwater Fishing License ($17) and a Lobster Permit ($5). Just about every tackle shop and Wal-Mart can issue these, taking just a few moments. When it comes to mini season, it's safe to assume you will be stopped by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, regardless if you catch anything, so be prepared.
- Divers and snorkelers must display a divers-down flag while in the water, and it must be stowed immediately upon exiting the water. Divers-down flags—which bear a red rectangle with a white diagonal stripe slashed across—must by 20 inches by 24 inches minimum when displayed on a boat, while the flag must be 12 by 12 when attached to a float. Boaters: Stay a minimum of 300 feet away from a diver-down flag.
- While on the water, fishermen may not exceed the daily bag limit—12 per person per day during mini-season; six per day per person during regular season. During mini-season, the bag limit extends onto land, with just 12 allowed on Wednesday, doubling on Thursday (unless in the Florida Keys/Monroe County, which limits daily catches to just six).
Here, we run through a few techniques on catching and measuring lobster:
How to Make the Catch
When catching lobster, for the most part, you aren't just swimming up to bugs and putting a net on them—that would be too easy. Lobster hide during the day, foraging and migrating from rock pile to rock pile under the veil of night, so when diving during the day, you'll need to scoot these little buggers out of hiding.
You will hard-pressed to get lobster coordinates from a seasoned diver or online (and if you find some online, they are probably bogus). Mapping these honey holes, as they are called, is a time-consuming and expensive endeavor, and they are often aggressively kept secret. With that said, you'll need to get out and explore for yourself.
Lobsters prefer tight, dark spots that are large enough for them to maneuver in a pinch. Look for rock ledges, coral heads, rock piles and manmade debris. These spots can be as shallow as 10 feet to as deep as 150, with larger finds usually lurking in deeper water. When searching structure, keep an eye out for protruding antennae—it may be just a small portion, so eagle-eyes are needed. Once you spot a set or lots of honey holes, dive down and access the situation. Antennae might not be visible from above, so if there is a dark alcove, it's best to investigate. And when there is lobster, there are usually more, so be vigilant—use a tickle stick, a piece of equipment for coaxing lobsters out of hiding spots. Spots with multiple exit points are also good to search—easily escapable shelters are key.
Once spotted, lobster need to be addressed properly so as not to scare them. Although lobster walk forward, face first, they are much quicker when swimming backwards. When spooked, a quick thrust of their powerful tail will easily rocket them 10 feet at a time and at a significantly quicker clip than a diver can swim. So try not to spook it; you can waste a tank of air in no time chasing a lobster from spot to spot.
Once you've spotted the lobster and examined its position and hiding spot, using the tickle stick in a sweeping motion, gradually and delicately encourage the lobster out of its spot. This is where that crook comes in handy—if you get behind the tail, you can essentially dictate the lobster's movement.
Once dislodged and in the open, using your other hand, place the net behind the lobster, head flat and firm on the ground or rock. Once the lobster is lined up, tail facing the net opening, tap the tickle stick in front of the lobster's face and get ready. If all goes to plan, it should rocket into the net opening—but it's not over yet. The lobster will continue to swim, trying to break free, so either grab the bugger or hold the opening flat to the ground, trapping it in the net until you can get a good hold. Lobsters are quick and surprisingly strong for their size, so it's best not to underestimate.
Measure Twice
Once you've got the bug, measure to ensure it's a keeper. According to FWC regulations, a lobster must be measured immediately after being caught and before being taken out of the water. The carapace—the hard, non-segmented portion of the lobster that contains the head and vital organs—must be larger than three inches, ensuring that the lobster is at least two to three years old and sexually mature for at least one season.
To measure, remove the lobster from the net and hold firmly—it will try to kick away or scratch with its antennae. Place the measurement gauge between the eyestalks on the front of the carapace—there is a small ridge to butt up against—and extend it to the end of the carapace. If the carapace extends beyond the three-inch mark on the gauge, then it is a keeper and can be added to the catch. If the gauge extends past the carapace, release the short back to the wild.
On top of size, divers must check for egg-bearing females. These are strictly off limits, and if it's on the boat and you get caught, you'll be fined $500. Let it go to proliferate the species.
Distinguishing an egg bearer is easy. Simply turn the lobster over, and pull the tail strait. If there is a cluster of eggs along the underside of the segmented tail—they come in a range for colors, starting orange and soft and growing darker as they solidify to a maroon/brown—let her go. Florida spiny lobsters are prolific breeders, with size determining their reproductive proclivity. According to Oceana, the largest international nonprofit dedicated to ocean conservation, a female as small as "8 cm [roughly 3 inches] may carry up to 230,000 eggs, while a 40 cm [about 15.75 inches] female can carry up to 2.6 million." Like all marine life, reproduction is a numbers game, and the number of larva lobster that reach maturity is a mere pittance to these numbers.
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- Run Time: 80 Minutes
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- Language: English
- Studio: Rhino Theatrical
- DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005
- Subtitles: English
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
- Genre: Documentary
- Color: Color
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There are very few times of the day when the grainy, archival black-and-white footage of Hitler's Germany and his reign of terror can't be seen on television's history-based channels. Adolf Hitler's totalitarian regime used the propagandistic abilities of the new film medium to full effect, and countless hours of footage, filmed most notably by the masterly Leni Reifenstahl, are used over and over in historical documentaries. However, to our modern eyes, viewing images of him in color rather than black-and-white is surprising and jarring. HITLER IN COLOUR presents a fascinating compilation of previously unseen color footage recently excavated from private film collections. Woven into a narrative through eyewitness accounts, and with descriptive voiceover from award-winning actor Brian Cox (RUSHMORE), the documentary brings new depth to some of the most traumatic years in world history.


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Congratulations are in order for Thatcher Howard! He was recently honored at the Black Engineer of the Year Annual Conference in February 2010 as a Modern Day Technology Leader.
It was here in the Orlando Science Center that Thatcher found his true calling, to become an Electronics Engineer. On a spontaneous trip to our facility as a young child, playing with the motors, generators and hands-on exhibits inspired him. He returned to his South Apopka home that day and began rebuilding new toys out of broken ones and incorporating his experience into his designs. Knowing that his family would never be able to afford college, he relied solely on his education to pull him through towards his dream of becoming an Engineer.
After graduating from high school, Thatcher Howard joined the Navy and began Aircraft Electricians School. Leaving the Navy in 2001, he moved on to DeVry University and received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering. Currently Thatcher works for Northrop Grumman as an Electronics Engineer and has been influential in regards to Northrop's Electronic Systems Laser Program.
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Vt group to seek ideas to encourage girls, womenBy WILSON RING
The Associated Press | May 01,2013MONTPELIER More than two dozen Vermont residents will work together over the next six months to look for ways to help young women and girls overcome obstacles to success.
Those obstacles were identified by researchers who interviewed 210 young women from 28 Vermont communities.
The group, which announced its plans Tuesday at the Statehouse, said it would seek solutions to problems including a lack of exposure to a broad range of career choices, a lack of personal financial skills and fears of living independently.
The goal of the 28-member task force is to prepare the report in time for the Legislatures 2014 session. The groups first meeting is scheduled for late May.
Vermont Works Executive Director Tiffany Bluemle said young men and boys face many of the same challenges as young women and girls, but women are still twice as likely as men to live in poverty. And it comes despite increasing evidence that girls and young women are outperforming boys and young men in school.
I know plenty of girls who are extremely intelligent and are going places, but they dont necessarily know where they are going, said Annalee Beaulieu, 16, of Underhill, a junior at Mount Mansfield Union High School who hopes to become a politician and spoke at Tuesdays event.
So while someone can definitely be smart, theres a difference (in) knowing what you want to do with your intelligence and just having it. I think we really need to make more of an effort to get girls and women interested in careers that they wouldnt traditionally consider.
The report, called Enough Said, identified a variety of factors that keep girls and young women from performing up to their abilities, including a lack of exposure to science, technology and mathematics studies and fields not traditionally filled by women.
Young women do have barriers to this, said State Treasurer Beth Pearce, who will be a member of the group. They do not have the practical knowledge, they havent had the same ability to access (information about) careers and familiarity with that. Weve got to find solutions to that and work together.
Education Secretary Armando Vilaseca said that earlier Tuesday he visited Lamoille Union High School in Johnson, where he met a young woman studying heating, ventilation and air conditioning. She was the only girl in the program.
She was asking me, Why arent there more? She had an answer, by the way, to a certain extent, that theres not enough exposure, particularly at the early ages for nontraditional careers for both young women and for young men, said Vilaseca, who called for more career pathways for students and ways to make school more personal.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER The state Public Service Board on Friday announced it would fine Vermont Gas Systems... Full StoryMONTPELIER Less than a month after Vermonts out-of-state inmates were moved from a private... Full StoryA confidential memo obtained by Vermont Public Radio shows that the Agency of Education is still... Full Story
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A mid-size nylon string with a Sitka spruce top, rosewood back and sides, and Taylor ES-N electronics.
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MMORPG.com Warhammer Online Correspondent Tom Giblin pens his debut article on the recent Mythic Entertainment announcement that four classes and four capital cities had been cut from the game.
Over the multi-year development cycle of a game, many things change.
Read the whole thing here.
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Sometimes absurdity is the best route back to reality.
Quality over quantity. I agree with the cuts, and appreciate the honesty with which they were announced to us.
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Ya just go watch the interview with AOCs Erling whatever and see what company really knows what they re doing. Mythic is doing it right.
As long as it means the game will actually be polished enough and not feel like it's a beta then I completly agree
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While dissapointed, I fully support the Mythic decision to release a better, if smaller, game. After the recent round of buggy, unfinished, broken POS MMORPG releases (you know who you are), I am looking forward to another Mythic title that has more quality and polish.
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I'm a tad out of the loop....which classes were being cut? I agree with the cuts so as not to overstep their capabilities at launch. A solid MMO vs a broken one will surely keep me interested enough to spend countless hours playing to my heart's content.
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I dont really care the citys being cut out of the game. If I remember correctly WoW has/had 3 capital citys too in the original game. As the other citys were less interesting most people gatherd in Ironforge rather than Stormwind or Darnassus. So having only 1 capital city at the beginning would be so much of a loss.
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Hope there is an open beta.
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Pain is fear leaving the body..
Lets hope this doesn't become a new marketing tactic for future MMOs. Promise the world. Screenshots, gameplay videos of characters, writeups on home cities.. Then just say we can't make them great so we are giving you this instead. Cheer me for my sage wisdom for not meeting my goals.. Meanwhile I will devote teams to go to gaming conferences, put out the word to hire GMs instead of more designers/ coders, divert programmers to create strange things like plungers which smash a player who strays off the remote corners of the gaming map and such..
Don't get me wrong, I am going to play the game. I expect a LOT from it now. I just can't wrap my puny brain around the fact they had the resources of EA behind them and they could not pull it off.
I just hope game companies don't overpromise/ underdeliver BUT admit the cuts before launch so lose little PR as a tactic.
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I would infinitely rather see them launch a good, solid game with well-rounded classes and zones than try to launch poorly developed classes or sparsely populated areas. How many of us were excited to play Vanguard with all the promised features only to find that they were either broken or poorly developed. Nothing is more frustrating than to have all the hype about a game and then have the reality not live up to the promise.
I applaud them for having the guts to step up well in advance of launch to say "Hey...we want this game to be great and these classes/cities would not have made the cut". The same people who are threatening to not buy the game are the same ones who would have been lighting up the forums with "My class suxxors" if they had launched a poorly developed class. Or they would have been screaming that "there aren't good enough quests/armor drops for my class" if they had launched the cities incomplete.
The developers made the right call. So your class that you have dreamed about playing since the dawn of Warhammer 40000 isn't in the game. Get over it and play something else until the next expansion comes out when suddenly a lost race of greenskins will be discovered on some island somewhere and the Choppas will be back in the game.
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After what happened to a lot of us with our purchase of AOC I welcome the changes Mark announced. I'm also glad that Mark didn't wait until after the game was release. Imagine buying a game that had this great PVP idea, posted it all over their website, developers Youtubing the way everyone was going to fight these big battles only to buy the game, that had it posted all over the box and nothing, you have nothing, no real pvp, no big battles.
Now if Mark would have done that they would just put themselves in the same boat AOC is in now. 700K sold, 500K leave after first two months. It's better to have 250K to start and build to 1, 2 or 3 million from there, it's how Blizzard did it. Get a good basic game out there and build from that. People are getting bored with WOW, I know I am, and if you are upfront and honest with us we will buy your game and if the game is polished we will pay you 15 bucks a month to play it, O and we'll tell our friends who will tell their friends and so on.
Thanks Mark, like the way you handled this dude.
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You would be surprised how few people care about what you have to say.
Tom Giblin got it right when he said,
I believe that we as gamers have expectations of every MMO in development that have gone beyond reasonable.
The MMO community is a jaded bunch, so used to past failures that we're getting pickier and pickier about what we choose to spend our money on. Our cynicism with most gaming companies turns any potential bad news into a reaction of, "OH GOD, HERE WE GO AGAIN". But who could blame them for feeling cynical with the lack of the industry's innovation in the last several years?
Mythic, as the article stated, is doing something differently this time out: They announced the cuts early and spent a lot of time in face-to-face interviews at conventions explaining the process behind them. And the answers weren't canned either. This is a team that is not afraid to be honest with the public at a time when 99% of companies are downright scared of negative publicity.
It's that confidence -- not the "cheesy melodramatic marketing hype" confidence that Funcom's Erling Ellingson uses with Age of Conan, but the real, thoughtful confidence the Mythic team seems to bring -- that has rubbed off on the player base.
Let's hope people's expectations aren't so overblown that they get disappointed because a "great" or "excellent" game isn't "perfect".
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I am totally in support of the cuts as well. I would rather see things done right and introduce the other later.. As stated earlier "quality over quantity" will make the game go further as a whole.
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Sometimes just throwing more money at a project doesn't actually solve the issue. Take Windows Vista as an example.
We need more quality releases to "help" restore some of that lost faith in the genre. Lets all hope Mythic can do it, and from what I read it seems as if they are going to at least try to do so.
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While I do appreciate the honesty of Mythic in their disclosure of the cities and classes cut, I do not like that much their attempt to pass to us this news as partially good news.
I do not see anything good in having less cities and less classes.
Mark Jacobs argument was that as they cut 4 cities, they can concentrate on the last 2 to give us something awesome, but I do not see that as a positive, because WE were expecting to have 6 awesome cities, from what we had been told about.
So it is not that we pass from 6 good cities to 2 awesome cities, we pass from 6 awesome cities to 2 awesome cities, a net loss of 4. I would have appreciated more if Mark Jacobs would have not tried to sugar coat the pill by trying to make it seems as a good thing that the game is smaller.
The classes cut might also seem a small things, after all there are 20 classes left, right? WRONG!
2 of the classes removed are TANKS. anyone that has played mmorpgs knows well enough how important tanks are to the PvE (and PvP in WAR) groups. "But you still have 2 other tanks on your faction!"
Indeed, that is correct, but this is WARHAMMER, not "insert generic fantasy game here". It is one thing to allow the other races as an ally, it is another matter entirely to HAVE TO DEPEND on them to work as a group! The Imperial Army does not need Elves Swordmasters to go to battle! And neither should Imperial players have to depend on the charity of the other races to do fun stuff!
I'm sure countless people were looking forward to having all-Empire or All-Dark Elves guilds, now you can still have those guilds, but you won't have tanks in there. Also, how nice will it be starting as an Imperial character and not having tanks in the newbie areas? "But people can travel from the other areas as well!"
Yes, indeed they can! But! first we do not know how easy it is to do so, reports talks of a long run to move zone, second, WHY would they? Oh, if you convince a friend to play a Dwarf and come to play in human zones, well, great for you, but I do not forsee many dwarves/elves wanting to move to Empire areas right off the bat. They prolly want to see their own race areas first and who can blame them? I certainly can't.
Sure, later on things will get better, a few months down the road, prolly when the cut classes will be introduced (if they get introduced of course).
Finally, here we are NOT talking of content that was just in the air or a mere thought in the Devs' minds. These classes were not promises, they were reality. Many people played those classes at various game days, conventions and they were available in Beta (At least I think they were) for testing. Existing content was cut here.
In the end, the game will suffer for this. Maybe not much and surely it was the right decision but as we are not supposed to overexagerate this cut, let's also not discard it as minor, inconsequiental and just forget about it.
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"In recent memory I can't recall any game developer announcing cuts to a game several months before it goes live."
Non MMO's:
The Witcher
Still a short list, but it does happen. Because as the correspondent said, there would be hell to pay, if they pulled a bait and switch after release.
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Yeah I respect your opinion but one thing has been nagging the back of my mind. I've always thought that tanks in MMOs are unrealistic. Why should the giant beast attack you instead of 9 other friends who are hurting it? Because you have heavy armor and use some taunt, like calling its momma fat? Now, I'm not saying this will be the case, but it'd be cool if it was...listen to what you said.
"2 of the classes removed are TANKS. anyone that has played mmorpgs knows well enough how important tanks are to the PvE (and PvP in WAR) groups. "But you still have 2 other tanks on your faction!
Indeed, that is correct, but this is WARHAMMER, not "insert generic fantasy game here". It is one thing to allow the other races as an ally, it is another matter entirely to HAVE TO DEPEND on them to work as a group! The Imperial Army does not need Elves Swordmasters to go to battle! And neither should Imperial players have to depend on the charity of the other races to do fun stuff!"
Mythic is not inexperienced, this isn't their first MMO. They are more than aware of the problem of removing two tanks. Again, I can't confirm or deny this, but why should WAR have to be like "insert generic fantasy game here" when it comes to tanks? What if the PQ content and the low/mid-level PvE content for the races with missing tanks was not quite so tank dependant? I know, this is breaking the holy trinity of tank, DPS, and healer, but it'd 1) force DPS to stay on their feet, 2) force healers to stay on their feet, and 3) be more realistic.
I dunno, I guess just part of me hated sitting in the back in those WoW raids clicking three buttons (max) because I was DPS. I could pretty much close my eyes and do it (unless the boss had alot of AoE/reactionary attacks, which some did, but it still felt boring after a few times). Am I alone in this? Probably, haha. I don't like dying, but I like doing more than spamming a few attacks because one heavy armored guy is drawing all the attention away.
Order of the White Border.
From playing alot of MMOs I've come to the realization that if you have a solid concept, polish really doesn't matter. Atleast at launch. Patches are a developers best friend. Personally, if the WAR cities were soo horrible they needed to chop 4 of them before launch; then it wasn't worth it in the first place to include them..
I think it's going to be another AoC. Wayy to much hype put forth by the devs and not enough actual game...
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You cant always make people happy...
I whole heartedly agree with the ppl who say quality over quantity. You ALWAYS hear of ppl bitching about how buggy the game is, how bad the performance of the game is and than go on into a tangent of /cancel threads on the forums cause of bugs an such.. Mythic has a wonderful background of releasing a polished game such as DAoC. If anyone has played that, you know how well they do things and how well the game will be. Im excited for War as I miss the days of castle sieges and massive battles that DAoC had. The "pride" for your own realm was amazing as you saw ppl flocking in massive packs to hold back the enemy invaders. God that was some fun stuff and Im glad its coming back!.
People always bitch when a game releases and then the company decides to not add stuff for some reason. I personally would rather have them do what Mythics doing by taking them out BEFORE the release and try to polish all of the classes/cities more. Than release them. People might bitch that its just for money. Its a business... Thats the whole point of making these games is to make money if you guys havnt already figured that out. Theres just different ways how companies go about doing it. Some might be more honest with what their doing while others(Funcom) may have no damn clue as to what their doing. I honestly thought Funcom was going to do a wonderful job with AoC after the many years of working on Anarchy Online. But I started to see a trend with their patches as they progressively got worse and worse. Performance went down the shitter... But thats a whole different story, Back to War.
And to those bitching about the class removal. Theres still 20 classes... Thats a lot, It may not be the classes you want in at release but still. 20 Classes is still more than most games out there.
All in all, Im glad what Mythics doing. Their being responsible and letting the community know whats going on behind closed doors. Many other companies wouldnt do what their doing and just hold onto it until release. Im not this so called "Fanboi" nor am I a "troll". Im just stating my own personal opinion about their decision. By the way, Those fuckin terms fanboi and troll are so fuckin lame.. Grow the fuck up for christ sake.


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I'm sure that we'll hear that Will Smith doesn't recycle his diet lemonade cans, or Hugh Jackman is afraid of sharp objects. Our perfect idols will eventually fall, and it's interesting to see how much grace will be retained once the rubber hits the tarmac.
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With Richard Garriott's big announcement today of his new RPG in development and with the successful funding of the PlaneScape RPG, it appears the RPG is on the rise. We've got some thoughts to share about this most recent development. Read on!
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I know I'll probably get flamed for this, but I would love to see Lord British bring back Tabula Rasa in some incarnation. That man has such ideas. And I really wish him luck and pray to God that old school MMO's start to come back again.
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It is a double pleasure to gank the ganker.
I like the idea of Kickstarter getting some niche products developed without the big name publishers that people hate *cough* EA *cough* dictating how fast they will do it and what corners they will have to cut. The closest thing to DAoC 2 that is out there is being delivered by Kickstarter, so that can't be a bad thing. On the other hand, I wonder how many little companies that can't actually deliver these games will come to Kickstarter and get funding just because they have a good idea and demo and either fail to deliver or just keeping coming back to the trough again and again.
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Ahh devil ether.
Where the *&^# is my jetpack?
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Veni, Vidi, Converti
These 3 are worth a look. Love the more direct communication/interaction with the devs and at least these guys genuinely are interested in what the players can say and come up with from pricing to design and so forth. :)
"Oh, sugar, you just gone and done the dumbest thing" did not see this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0
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I'm sometimes surprised by the amount of venom the "suits" get from the gaming public. Don't mistake that as whole-hearted support for the big businesses involved in game publishing, but if only for sake of balanced arguments, consider the role that "suits" play.
How many games only saw the light of day because some guy with his eye on the money told his bright-eyed designer that the game "has to ship now". Yeah - it might have released buggy or unfinished, but at least it released.
Could Vanguard have used a couple more people with a firm hand on Brad making sure he hit milestones? Probably. What about Garriot's complete re-imagining of Tabula Rasa in the 9th or 10th hour?
Designers are idealists and all about big-picture ideas. Sometimes they need backing by people who aren't drinking the Kool-aid and have their eyes on the mundane things like money and timelines.
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Originally posted by ScorpionOne
TR remains my favorite MMO to this day. However, Mr. Garriot's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist to those working on a TR emulator. Which puts him in the same class as Apple imo - greedy, proprietary bastages...
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There is something about kickstarter that makes me feel ill. Maybe its just the ammount of risk involved. I mean, whats stopper ng people from just collecting the money and running off with it?
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Only time will tell if kickstarter is really going to work out for games. So far I haven't seen a completed game thats been funded through kickstarter, maybe I'm just not informed well enough. There seems to be an awful lot of money being thrown at some of the developers, and I'm worried its all going to go to waste.
Or as someone said they'll just keep coming back to the trough. We've already seen some games start second or maybe third rounds of funding through kickstarter, which to me seems to be go completely against what kickstarter is. You get funding once, and then make good on those promises.
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Originally posted by adrikthorsen
He's protecting his IP, which is never a bad thing in my opinion. It also could mean that he has plans to do something with it at a later time.
More on topic:
The idea of Kickstarter or crowdfunding games is interesting, but will it really allow as much creative freedom as we are hoping? Perhaps it will allow for too much creative freedom. Many ideas are great in theory, but fail miserably in practise. How are we, the gaming public, to determine what is ultimately a bad idea or a great idea? These companies can decide what to show us and when, so it's going to be a huge risk to put money towards games. Moreover, if you look at what some of the bonuses for the different levels of donations net you, some folks will be tempted to toss hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a gamble. Of course, it's their money.
Could this be the time where the MMO world changes? Could the next couple of years bring us as much change to the genre as 2004 did with WoW? Will one of the notable personalities in the gaming world, like Garriot or Jacobs, bring us the next big thing in gaming, funded by the gamers?
Myself and many others have said over the years that it would most likely be a smaller indie company who brings us the next great idea in gaming. We may be closer to the next big thing.
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The gaming industry certainly goes through cycles... This is not different than any media outlet as mentioned regarding film and music... Kickstarter is basically doing for independent and "first growth" (wine reference) game developers what You Tube did for music and film artists... It took the corporate red tape out and let the fans elevate those who shined, and also trashed those who didn't make the cut... This also watered down things making finding gems like looking for a needle in a haystack. We are seeing this with some respect in Kickstarter.
The MMO industry hit such a stalemate in recent years where a successful MMO went from 100k -500k subs to chasing that WOW 8-10Million subs that WOW created... AAA MMO's develop games trying to capture this "holy grail" audience by investing huge into production value that never mattered in the past such as voice acting and over produced cinematics that try to lure players in like a movie trailer would... But these games are content DEAD... they are all front loaded with story and cinema that makes MMO's feel more like single player games.
The kickstarter revolution which was lead by Brian Fargo (Wateland 2) and his team on the Single player side that lit a fire under many of these "first growth" developers who at this point in their career don't want to be told by people 1/2 their age in the "modern gaming era" what sells anymore... Hell many of these games came out before some if not most people were even born! The Kickstarter movement allows these developers to put their ass on the table and let their long term fans contribute to games made in the devlopers original vision... In many cases they are hugely successful as a result, exceeding KS goals and in some cases even stretch goals...
Richard Garriot as much as I respect his earlier works was one of the first to sell out (to the EA monster) he today is like the George Lucas of gaming... You compare his deeply passionate and complex earlier works like any Ultima prior to Ultima 5 to his recent Portalarium crap it is clear he is only in it now to pay for some more rocket fuel... I can not be sure todays Richard Garriot can produce such a quality experience that was so apparent in say Ultima 4... What I expect now is some Jar Jar Binks hack of a game using "Shroud of the Avatar" (Ultima franchise is now in the EA wheelhouse) to maybe beat Richard Branson to Mars as his passions have clearly shifted...
Garriot at one point (IIRC) touted how "facebook gaming" was the future... except Mark Pincus (Zynga) beat him to it.
I really do not know what to make of this new project but I hope my scepticism is wrong...
P.S. I'm drunk...
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Originally posted by adrikthorsen
Are you sure that wasn't NCSoft? And Tabula Rasa was a hybrid of Garriott and NCSoft design, having been redone just a few times less than Duken Nukem Forever.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
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The general sucking up to the big names in the field gets funny sometimes. You'd think especially that as journalists interested in gaming arena, some folks might drill down for more informed opinons than 'His name was on the box, he's a GEEENIUS!'
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
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Seen this comment made on kotaku about Garriott's game;
"a million dollar kickstarter from a man who lives in a castle, has been to space, and made the lowest tier reward a tribute to himself. eh, no thanks."
Million times this.
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Developers abandon the comfort of big money backers to avoid their tyranny. Why would you believe they'll listen to a peanut gallery when making their indy projects? Kickstarters owe donors nothing more than a good faith attempt. I forsee a lot of really bent egos when developers start making what they want to make, good or bad, not what the crowdsourcing public demands. We may get some really good games out of it and some really epic failures.
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Originally posted by ScorpionOne
Well stated. I very much enjoyed aspects of Tabula Rasa. The base offense/defense against the Bane in particular. UO was one of my first online games, and I enjoyed it, until the Goonie types rampaged out of control.
Tabula Rasa could have been SO much more, if it hadn't become a political foot ball between the upper level suits at NCsoft, and RG. But truth be known, much of his focus was on his trip to space, so I fault him as well.
This video gives some sense of some of the fun that many of us had. Its too bad things turned out as they did.
And this was the original official video.
I hope we can get some good, enjoyable games out of the Kickstarter system, before the various government groups strangle it with their endless regulations to "protect" people.
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Originally posted by birdycephon
"Risk"?? Hell, the worst that can happen is that you lose some money. Do your own research and make your own choices. Don't back a KS project for more than you can afford to lose. I can always make more money. What I can't do is come up with an entertaining game, at any given time.
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Originally posted by Wraithone
Exactly. If anything, you take a greater risk purchasing a $59.99 game based on the multimillion dollar marketing hype that says "Trust us! It'll be good!" By contrast, you see a game on Kickstarter that strikes your fancy, offer up $25, and then you have a voice in how the game will be developed.
What I really love about this KS revolution is that the more niche genres that have gone by the wayside in the mainstream due to homogenization are now able to rise up. A lot of old-school single player RPG fans have been left out of the loop in favor of things like Bioware's dysfunctional romance simulators or FPS/RPG hybrids that rely more on player twitch than character stats. Now, there's Project Eternity, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns (which looks fantastic in a recently released Alpha video) that harken back to the original golden age of CRPGs, and none of that would have been possible without crowdfunding.
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Pretty much what I said here when Project Eternity and Shadowrun Returns were just starting their KSs and Wasteland 2 had completed theirs. Kickstarter is the savior for the old school gamer as well as the OS developer. The suits today aren't gamers and could give two shites about what gamers want. They are only interested in what smoke and mirrors can grab the most amount of initial sales with the least amount of effort and time.
Vive la niche! Vive Kickstarter!
I've spent more money on Kickstarter Games in the last 6+ months than I have on actual modern games available in stores and if my favorite developers continue to offer up their deep, fun RPGs in that old school style mode I will only buy games that are Kickstarted as I can reliably see what is going into the game and be along for the ride while it is made. KS allows you to purchase games made on the ideals you find fun instead of gambling your money on what some non-gamng suits / money grubbing investors think is "Paris Hilton Hot".
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I find myself enthusiastic about and worried about this idea.
As a geek, and therefore, an outsider of sorts, I love "independence". Anything that steps outside the normal way of doing things is something I'm ready to give half a chance. The idea of a "grass roots" movement starting the next wave of games tickles my fancy because it seems that we geeks are taking back our own. Lately everyone seems to want to be classified as a geek, and that makes me (at least) who has been a geek all my life, a bit nauseous. I mean all those people who wouldn't have anything to do with me now want to be exactly like me. I guess anyone who finds their "lifestyle" going mainstream feels the same way.
World of Warcraft brought an invasion into MMO space. Quite literally the zerglings came in and suddenly it was hip to be square (Huey Lewis reference) and play a video game online. That's when the gaming companies started to try make MMOs. It hasn't gone well and its left those of us who played MMOs in their infancy (when 200,000 subscriptions was a lot) feeling jilted. For me MMOs were the pen and paper games of my youth come to life and then someone took that and grossly disfigured it into something I didn't recognize. With all that as a given then yes I'm excited to see where Kickstarter takes us, even if it takes us right back to where we were ten years ago.
However, I'm also worried about this because of the amount of imput the playerbase can have. I've been around gaming long enough to know that gamers agree on exactly nothing. Witness Mark Jacob's concept. It's barely passed the drawing board and there are hundreds of posts telling him what people want and don't want in the game. All of those posts boil down to "I want my favorite part of my favorite game in your game." To me its a toss up between which is worse; the suit who pushes an incomplete game out the door or the player base who creates a ten humped camel of a game by claiming ownership of a game by virtue of giving it money to start.
The other thing that worries me is this strange amnesia that Kickstarter has generated. For example, think about how literally just a few years ago the words "Mark Jacobs" were dirty words to people who played DAoC. He was the guy who brought us Trials of Atlantis (the event almost universally pointed to by ex-DAoC players as their reason for quitting), the guy who sold Mythic to EA and the guy who brought us the first attempt at what everyone was praying was DAoC 2, Warhammer. Now out of the blue he dangles Hibernia, Midgard and Albion in front of us again and asks for money and for some reason we're supposed to be willing to shell. Wasn't it just a few years ago that the Tabula Rasa disaster happened? Yet a few flowery posts full of promises and a trailer and somehow all is forgotten?
My point is the people who are leading us in this bold new direction are the very same people that led us to where we are today; suffering under the yoke of bad games generated by mega companies who are trying to produce the next World of Warcraft instead of trying to do something new and innovative. And the crowd they are appealing to are the very same people who felt betrayed by those who are leading us in this bold new direction. Taken in that light I'm not so sure I'm jumping up and down about Kickstarter gaming.
Time will tell, I suppose.
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Not content to merely put BlackBerry App World in the black by buying $500 clock apps, CrackBerry.com found and Mobile Nations chief-of-chiefs Kevin Michaluk has now turned his attention to Google Play... and bought a $200 vuvuzela app.
What makes it worth $200 more than all the free vuvuzela apps littering the former Android Market?
Surprisingly enough, the answer to that question is that the app features a picture of an iPhone holding a Vuvuzela! Hilarious. The developers really should be ashamed of themselves for this one. I also found the app crashed a lot, and though it looked like there was a menu for more options, it never opened.
Lucky for Kevin, Google Play currently caps apps at $200, or he could have been out the downpayment for a Winnipeg house.
Can't wait to see what Kevin buys when his Mobile Nations World Tour hits iOS and iMore.
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DLP Mobile hopes for idiots like Kevin and apparently they found 50+ so far. The world and country is in the worst economic state since the Great Depression, millions of people are unemployed. Millions will fall asleep tonight hungry. But this idiot blows $200 on complete bs. Way to go. Why don't you post a video of yourself donating $200 if you have so much money to blow?
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I also think a great theme song for a remake could be Daughtry's song called No Surprise. Every time I hear that song I think of the book and it reminds me of all the emotions I felt while reading it.
I don't really expect you to remake this movie just because I didn't like it. But it would be nice to see a new version. I see that the people on here loved the movie and I wonder how many of the actually read the book. I know the movie would have to be very long to capture everything that was in the book. But I watched Rose Red-how long was that, like 5 hours. It was a great story. This movie could have been so much better. I was kind of embarrassed because I told my husband how great the book was. I said if the movie is as good as the book I'll be crying like a baby before it's all over. Unfortunately it wasn't.
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