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Quote from: joyful1 on August 16, 2008, 05:41:20 AMActs 9:5And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.Some versions of the bible and the Greek do not contain that phrase?CLV "Ac 9:5 Yet he said, "Who art Thou, Lord?" Yet *He said, "I' am Jesus Whom you' are persecuting.Greek literal " He said yet any (who?) you are master (Lord) the yet I am Jesus whom you are Chasing (persecuting)
Acts 9:5And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Ok, I'll await your instructions on how to move sideways in time. lol But, so far, what I'm seeing is God raising up his sons to bind the strong man. I think that is what has to happen 'fast enough.'21And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
Hi TB this is where we separate in what we see, I do not believe that in another time line I made a choice or will make a choice that is responsible for changing my past or erasing my memory of events along this time line. That type of scenario would do away with my mans need for Christ in this time line.
Therefore in this time line I do not need God, do not need Jesus, do not need the Holy Spirit and can live like the devil, why? Because in another time line I have already overcome and this time line will be taken from my memory and changed by the time line in which I did need God did need Jesus did need the Holy Spirit and walked in a holy life.
My past will never change, and as Paul says "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus".
The WORD states that there is NO VARIANCE in the WORD... (Heb 13:8 / James 1:17) so it is YOU which challenge the statements of the Bible, not me...If the WORD says that It does NOT VARY (James 1:17)... and that GOD DOES NOT CHANGE (Mal 3:6), and that GOD CANNOT LIE (Titus 1:2)...
This is already beginning to weary me... but because God shall propose an "if/else" prophecy... does NOT conclude there are multiple pathways... It only states that one pathway can lead here, ...and the other -- there.
(speaking of aliens, I assume you've seen the new crop circle on milk hill, England, drawn on 8/8/08 in the shape of a 1000 foot figure 8?)
Google the phantom dna effect."You will be happy to get the news from Gregg Braden, author of The Isaiah Effect and Awakening to the Zero Point. At one of his all-day intensives on Sunday, October 14, 2001, here is only a SMALL portion of the information he covered.The title of this program was Healing Hearts~Healing Nations: The Science of Peace and the Power of Prayer.Braden started off discussing how in the past we lost huge amounts of information from ancient spiritual traditions (when the library at Alexandria burned we lost at least 532,000 documents), and that there may be information in those traditions which could help us understand some of the mysteries of science. To this end he reported on three very interesting experiments. Braden started off as a scientist and engineer, before he began pursuing these larger questions.EXPERIMENT #1The first experiment he reported was done by Dr. Vladimir Poponin, a quantum biologist. In this experiment, first a container was emptied (i.e., a vacuum was within it), and then the only thing left in it were photons (particles of light).They measured the distribution (i.e., the location) of the photons and found they were completely random inside the container. This was the expected result. Then some DNA was placed inside the container and the distribution (location) of the photons was remeasured. This time the photons were LINED UP in an ORDERED way and aligned with the DNA. In other words the physical DNA had an effect on the non-physical photons.After that, the DNA was removed from the container, and the distribution of the photons was remeasured again. The photons REMAINED ORDERED and lined up where the DNA had been. What are the light particles connected to?Gregg Braden says we are forced to accept the possibility that some NEW field of energy, a web of energy, is there and the DNA is communicating with the photons through this energy.EXPERIMENT #2These were experiments done by the military. Leukocytes (white blood cells) were collected for DNA from donors and placed into chambers so they could be measure electrical changes. In this experiment, the donor was placed in one room and subjected to "emotional stimulation" consisting of video clips, which generated different emotions in the donor.The DNA was placed in a different room in the same building. Both the donor and his DNA were monitored and as the donor exhibited emotional peaks or valleys (measured by electrical responses), the DNA exhibited the IDENTICAL RESPONSES AT THE EXACT SAME TIME. There was no lag time, no transmission time. The DNA peaks and valleys EXACTLY MATCHED the peaks and valleys of the donor in time.The military wanted to see how far away they could separate the donor from his DNA and still get this effect. They stopped testing after they separated the DNA and the donor by 50 miles and STILL had the SAME result. No lag time; no transmission time.The DNA and the donor had the same identical responses in time. What can this mean?Gregg Braden says it means that living cells communicate through a previously unrecognized form of energy. This energy is not affected by time and distance. This is a non-local form of energy, an energy that already exists everywhere, all the time.EXPERIMENT #3The third experiment was done by the Institute of Heart Math and the paper that was about this was titled: Local and Non local Effects of Coherent Heart Frequencies on Conformational Changes of DNA. (Disregard the title! The info is incredible.)This is the experiment that relates directly to the anthrax situation.In this experiment, some human placenta DNA (the most pristine form of DNA) was placed in a container from which they could measure changes in the DNA. Twenty-eight vials of DNA were given (one each) to 28 trained researchers. Each researcher had been trained how to generate and FEEL feelings, and they each had strong emotions.What was discovered was that the DNA CHANGED ITS SHAPE according to the feelings of the researchers:When the researchers FELT gratitude, love and appreciation, the DNA responded by RELAXING and the strands unwound. The length of the DNA became longer. When the researchers FELT anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the DNA responded by TIGHTENING UP. It became shorter and SWITCHED OFF many of our DNA codes! If you've ever felt "shut down" by negative emotions, now you know why your body was equally shut down too. The shut down of the DNA codes was reversed and the codes were switched back on again when feelings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation were felt by the researchers. This experiment was later followed up by testing HIV positive patients. They discovered that feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation created 300,000 TIMES the RESISTANCE they had without those feelings. So here's the answer to what can help you stay well, no matter what dreadful virus or bacteria may be floating around. Stay in feelings of joy, love, gratitude and appreciation!These emotional changes went beyond the effects of electromagnetics. Individuals trained in deep love were able to change the shape of their DNA. Braden says this illustrates a new recognized form of energy that connects all of creation.This energy appears to be a TIGHTLY WOVEN WEB that connects all matter. Essentially we're able to influence this web of creation through our VIBRATION."Psalm 96:1O SING to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth!
TBI am not advocating this attitude at all. In fact, if you live like the devil you will burn in Hell. But as per the entire concept of universal salvation, Jesus will eventually heed your request for a chance to correct your mistakes. None the less, it is much better to cultivate mutability of the past by walking the holy life now than it is to wait until after we are dead.
am not advocating this attitude at all. In fact, if you live like the devil you will burn in Hell. But as per the entire concept of universal salvation, Jesus will eventually heed your request for a chance to correct your mistakes.
Google the phantom dna effect. This article is from newmediaexplorer.org. In this experiment, first a container was emptied (i.e., a vacuum was within it), and then the only thing left in it were photons (particles of light)..... Twenty-eight vials of DNA were given (one each) to 28 trained researchers. Each researcher had been trained how to generate and FEEL feelings, and they each had strong emotions.What was discovered was that the DNA CHANGED ITS SHAPE according to the feelings of the researchers:When the researchers FELT gratitude, love and appreciation, the DNA responded by RELAXING ...
Gregg Braden says we are forced to accept the possibility that some NEW field of energy, a web of energy, is there and the DNA is communicating with the photons through this energy.
Pneuma and Paul,TB answered some of those questions already when I said the reservation I hold, and why I do not completely believe in TTR, is the importance of Jesus Christ. At the same time, I can see what you are saying, and I see the misunderstanding of what TB says and what you are thinking he is saying. So I believe you are going to need to slow down because you are already refuting something that TB has already said he doesn't believe. This discussion is going to require a lot of patience on both sides.
WilliH, This is a constant problem when something 'new' (new to the person recieving it, not new idea at all) is presented. The person will rejected right away on the basis that it is different from what they knew. I have to make this note, everything including TRADITIONAL interpretation of God's Will is CONJECTURE. The more you deny the possibility based on your opinions on what is conjecture and sci-fi and other imaginative qualities, the more you must apply this to your belief and realize that it is also conjecture.
That is why, instead of condemning a view because you feel or think or believe it is not true, you should be demonstrating why your view is true and compare those two views and point out the rational error in the view that disagrees with you. Everything you presented does not address what TB wrote, it is just your opinion of what you think TB wrote and your hasty generalization that what he presents is sci-fi.
I spoke with my family concerning this, pastors of 25 years. Though my mother did not accept it for her own reasons, she was honest enough to realize that it is possible. My father, though did not accept it for his own reasons, has a very simular view of how it works in which both TTR and his view have agreeable tenants which could make it true. There was no condemnation of the view, htere was no down right rejection of the view, every person had their opinion and stated what they believed and by the facts, arguments and conclusions, one could make up their own mind what is true and what is not true.
Everything else, casts doubt on your own belief as being conjecture and a figment of your imagination... and that is a road you do not want to go down.Craig
In your post to Willie you also mention free will, and say you believe in man having a free will, I agree man does have a free will.And if you say God determines which time line CHANGES which then free will is an illusion just as some believe.
If a person cannot refute a theory without being accused of holding too dearly to the bible then it is a stacked deck intended to slight a devotion to Gods written word with the thought that Gods word is not "really" needed.
I am already seeing an accusation towards willie for holding to the written word too closely. If indeed I have misunderstood this, then I will stand corrected and I do apologize if I am hindering this discussion in a premature manner.
QuoteI am already seeing an accusation towards willie for holding to the written word too closely. If indeed I have misunderstood this, then I will stand corrected and I do apologize if I am hindering this discussion in a premature manner.That is because WillieH put his foot down almost right off the bat without biblical support for his disagreeent and then demanded TB to repent and the proceeded to use Scripture in a fashion which had nothing to do with what TB presented and TB was only pointing this out.
And as the Church matures in the higher dimension of time, I see no reason why God could not shift the message accordingly, much as the students of a school get a slightly different message at each grade level.
Willie, I too agree that you are a brother in Christ, but as you say: "when it comes to your WORDS, that is an entirely different matter..." In particular, I ask that you not misquote scripture, or make inconsistent or strawman arguments in your haste to rebut me.
First, an absolutely unchanging God could preside over octillions of versions of history with octillions of different but otherwise invariant versions of the Bible. This possibility has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the question of whether or not God changes. As such, your reference to the variance of God is a pure strawman argument.
The real issue is whether you are willing to accept the quantum logic that God uses in the design and operation of reality, or whether you are going to reject quantum logic and remain ensnared in linear/worldly logic. Again, I ask you to consider the possibility that the transcendence of God is so great that this multiplicity might be possible.
Second, Heb 13:8 / James 1:17 talk about the invariance of God, not about the invariance of the printed word, and as such you have misquoted scripture in a fundamental way. Please note that I am not advocating variance of the scripture in any mundane sense, but I am making a careful distinction between the transcendent WORD that is Jesus, and printed word that we read from. And since you are obviously confusing these in your thinking, I rightfully accuse you of bibliolatry, something that I see closely related to your rejection of quantum logic.
Third, I have never ever accused God of lying. In fact, I have used the truthfulness of God as a premise for what I consider to be a reasonable interpretation of scripture. In this regard, I believe the implication of free-will is so strong within the Bible that I use the premise of God not telling a lie to assert that it is a scriptural concept. More on this below.
Fourth, this statement is totally inconsistent in that first you say that we can not conclude that there are multiple pathways, and then you state that one pathway leads here, and the other there.
Yes from a mundane perspective they are hypothetical pathways. But unless you are going to say that man has no freedom whatsoever to choose between one hypothetical path and another, the only reasonable conclusion is that God has absolute foreknowledge of every hypothetical pathway that humans might choose, something which necessarily implies the existence of multiple timelines even if they are only "hypothetical" from a mundane perspective. From a quantum perspective, however, they are not hypothetical.
And before you jump out of the frying pan and into the fire by totally denying the human freedom to make choices, please note that there are dozens if not hundreds of references in the Bible to words like "will," "willingly," "voluntary," and "choose." Indeed the very word "freewill" is itself in the Bible. Go check it out at the Crosswalk Hebrew Lexicon: http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/ Granted not every use of these words is a reference to the human ability to choose, and further granted that the Spirit of God sometimes influences the will of a person, but this does not negate the fact that the Bible systematically affirms the ability of humans to make choices.
Lastly, in regard to your claim that "free will" is unscriptural (i.e. the freedom however limited to make choices), please check out the following link: http://www.ocis.net/~rmckay/FWHRWILL.htm It is not only a universalist link, but the longest most thorough exposition of the relation between man's will and God's will that I have ever seen. It explores both the issue of free-will and its relation to salvation in great detail, and quotes hundreds of passages. He makes a critical distinction between God ruling man's will directly, and God ruling man's will indirectly via what to the mundane mind are very obscure means. I agree 100% with what Mr. McKay is saying, and am trying to describe the underlying mechanism. If you agree with what he says, we have no disagreement about free-will. If you feel I am saying something different than what Mr. McKay says, I will endeavor to better explain the fundamental agreement between what he says and what I say. If you disagree with what he says, please come back with a very well thought out rebuttal. But please, no more tirades.
That is because WillieH put his foot down almost right off the bat without biblical support for his disagreeent and then demanded TB to repent and the proceeded to use Scripture in a fashion which had nothing to do with what TB presented and TB was only pointing this out. If I did what WillieH does, I would be getting a phone call from Gary.


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No multiplayer for Just Cause 3 at launch, but hope isn't lost just yet
It took a group of hard-working modders to add multiplayer functionality to Just Cause 2 with the hugely popular JC2-MP mod, eventually released by publisher Square Enix as DLC for the open world action game.
Considering the mod's subsequent success, it's strange to hear that Just Cause 3 won't ship with a multiplayer capability at launch. Avalanche CCO Christofer Sundberg explained why to Game Informer recently.
Former Virtuos employee lists 'Just Cause 3' on LinkedIn profile
Avalanche Studios is still a busy bee with their Mad Max game in the works, but fans are also eagerly awaiting a new Just Cause. So far the studio hasn't made anything official to fans of the series.
However a former employee of Chinese outsourcing studio Virtuos lists Just Cause 3 on their LinkedIn profile, alongside Kojima's two Metal Gear Solid 5 titles.
Avalanche Studios working on "several surprises" for 2015
Avalanche Studios, the team behind Just Cause 2, has announced on its website that it will be moving to a larger office in Stockholm, and that it has "several surprises" in store for 2015.
"2015 is set to be the biggest year since the inception of Avalanche Studios more than a decade ago,"
"2015 is set to be the biggest year since the inception of Avalanche Studios more than a decade ago,"promises the developer.
Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Mod to launch on Steam later today, gets launch trailer
JC2:MM, the free fan-developed multiplayer mod for Just Cause 2, is to be released today on Steam. A brand new launch trailer provides some idea of the fun to be had.
New Avalanche Studios dev diary hints at new Just Cause
A trip to Costa Rica by Avalanche Studios has been exposed in a new developer diary, where they show staff capturing the abundance of jungle wild-life and even make sure there's plenty of ocean footage.
It's all for "reference material" and research in their "upcoming open world games," and the captured sky is partially used in Mad Max. They mention Just Cause and how important water simulation is.


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I will wait until I see what they are doing with EQ3
SoE is a big corporation and works very diffrerently from the average MMO developer, they are the EA of MMOs.
The way they work is through numbers, graphics, marketing briefs and board meetings, that's why they've been so crap in the past 8 years.
Let's not forget that like it or not SoE created 2 of the most iconic MMO in history EQ and SWG......................Smedley should think about that instead of chasing the ghosts (WOW)
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Originally posted by ste2000
I think DCUO and PS2 already demonstrate that they arent chasing WoW
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Originally posted by tixylix
Can't say it was Star Wars as well.
apart from the intro, stormtrooper armor and swoop bikes everything else could be replaced by different named mobs andnoone would notice.
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why does everyone have to chase wow just trae wow like it is...that dying whale out in the middle of the sea that all the other predators pick pieces off of till it dies. SOe unfortunatly is a conglomerate of studios, not every studio works on their games and some suck. That being said smed said the assets from SWG were going to be utilized in a new sandbox, he just didn't say when. SOE is being careful they took alot of financial blows the last 3-5 years and they see the trend of huge ip failures and they are approaching things differently. What hasn;'t changed is the gamers belief that eithe rthey should get everything free or everything should launch perfet out of the box, until that changes no amount of studio wizardy will change gaming
so say we all
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Originally posted by strangiato2112
DCUO is a console MMO, and a F2P one.
PS2 is a MMOFPS
None of these games can actually chase WoW, just by their concept.
If you think that SOE will not be chasing after WoW or atleast it's sub base with EQ3 you are out of your mind.
Originally posted by strangiato2112
When I say chasing WoW I mean making games eazy mode, very casual to attract the widest possible audiance.
DCUO is a s casual as it can gets, and pretty shallow.
PS2 at the moment is nothing special, they lost a good chance to make a real MMOFPS, again they've been very economical with the MMO features and focused more on features belonging to mainstream games like CoD and BF3.
A bold and innovative way to use Planetside IP would have been to make EVE on earth (or any planet of the galaxy of your choice), or even Darkfall
As it is now PS2 is a way to cash in on the popularity of FPS like Battlefield or Call of Duty.
I am playing Beta but really I can't see why I should pick PS2 over CoD.
So, in my view SoE hasn't changed yet.
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Originally posted by ste2000
Well once again the memory of SWG is proving to be far larger than the game ever was itself. Funny how nobody talked about it when it was around and nearly nobody played it by todays standards even before NGE. In a game that peaked around 10k players at Friday prime time you'd think by all the talk today that SWG would pull in 3 million players if it came back. Complete and total lies.
The entire point to EQNext (and why it isn't called EQ3) is that it is an attempt to hearken back to the original EQ game. That alone says something about the direction of the company. It seems apparent that SOE at least has garnered an understanding that they must preserve their own IP's and to stop copying other companies successes. The proof will be when EQNext is released and if it truly is something "old school original" and is actually good or not.
Someone else mentioned about how Planetside 2 should have been a more sandbox sci-fi mmo. This is rather hillarious seeing how it is designed to be a FPS mmo and changing it would make it entirely a different genre game which sort of ruins it's whole concept. Not all games can be exactly what you want. It would be like being disappointed that a Star Craft game wasn't a sandbox mmo. I'd say that that person was rather out of touch.
The only evidence I have bothered to pay attention to is comments toward more sandbox elements in mmos, Vanguard not being a complete wasteland like it once was, that EQNext will be an attempt to bring back the IP to it's origins and actually introducing new social tech into mmos. All of those sound pretty decent and if SOE continues to focus on their core IPs and customize them to their core playerbase they should be moving much more into favor over EA and Activision these days.
I think it is more a matter of SOE having to be completely incompetent not to move far more into favor over EA and Activision. You'd almost have purposely self-destruct to be as bad as those two companies.
You stay sassy!
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Originally posted by Tamanous
The 10k players on a Friday night were from unconfirmed reports which Smedley even denied. Unless you can find actual confirmed counts on that somewhere...I wouldn't speak of total and complete lies. Maybe we should look at SWG's Xfire numbers!?! ...
Originally posted by Tamanous
Well you seems to forget that the MMO audiance in 2003 was 20 times smaller than it is now.
WOW made MMOs mainstream, and as soon as WOW launched SWG was virtually killed with the NGE treatment.
So 95% of today of MMO players never had a chance to play the original SWG.
Secondly MMO technology those days were at the start so games like UO, EQ, and SWG were pretty much limited compared to today industry standards, but their vision and concept were (and are) pretty unique.
Those 3 games (plus DAOC and AC) have very distinctive playstyles.
Same cannot be said for today MMOs which are so similar to each other that the only difference between them is the name
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Originally posted by Muke
all ships was in the movies, almost all races was in the movies, jedis/lightsabers was only in SW movies, a lot of the animals was in the movies
those that dont understand the difference are people that arent and never were Star Wars fans and never seen any of the movies
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Originally posted by strangiato2112
We are MMO players,, of course we don't live in reality,,, what you think this is,,, VH1 or something?
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Originally posted by Jonoku
Actually the opposite is true, making a new IP for sci-fi is easy, its high fantasy thats hard to do.
The core of Sci-Fi is plausability, you simply paint a picture of future technology/science in a way that sounds believable. And since our understanding of the world around us still keeps evolving so does sci-fi. A sci-fi IP from 10 years ago will look differently than a sci-fi IP would today, current day knowledge about dark matter, black holes or the estimated amound of habitable planets will greatly influence it. Just one tiny example, the notion that aliens would attack earth for its resources ... quite common theme. Nowadays we know that there is a planet no 50 LYs away from earth that consists almost entirely of diamond, about 3 times the earth mass of diamonds ... how much karat would that nnugget be? And oxygen? Made by trees and stuff, probably pretty rare right? Not really, infact its even more common than dirt out here. Water? Forget it, thats just hydrogen + oxygen, extremely common, and again there are entire planets out there consisting almost completely out of water. A current day sci-fi writer who did his homework(and all the good ones do), would feel just silly to come up with a story like that. Same for that whole "lets fly into that black hole, its a shortcut", haven't seen that in like 15 years because people would just shake their head at stuff like this today. May aswell shoot someone to the moon in an projectile of some really big gun.
Just take a look at the variety of very good and different sci-fi IPs out there, from david webers to gene roddenberry's or TV series like babylon 5 if thats more your thing.
And star wars isn't really sci-fi, it kinda lacks the science part. Besides it doesn't even pretend to be set in our future(or even the universe we reside in), which is a mark of low fantasy(i.e. completely made up world). Its just a story bout a farmer boy finding out about his special heritage, becoming a knight and going to fight the big evil who turns out to be his father whose love for his son overcomes the evil in him and they defeat the bad guy together. Of course daddy dies, but everyone is happy(even the dead). Don't get me wrong, i loved SW as a kid, but its not exactly deep ...
And yes, i think SoE changed somewhat. Maybe they have become more humble, finally accepting that a good niche product is better than producing yet another failed wow contender. Well atleast i hope so, there should be SOME limit to human thickheadedness after all.
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NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by Larsa
They haven't be so good to EU customers with the transitions to ProSieben. DCUO was a mess, EQ2 and others are in a delay currently because of the mess with DCUO. SOE were becoming generally rude to EU customers with this deal, probably getting fed up with all the negativity of it all, but no excuse if they want to be seen as professionals
Also EU customers have had to pay a sub to each game since about March, as can not get All Access. If you want to pay for a sub to DCUO, EQ, EQ2, Vanguard it costs £38.96 per month, when beforehand could get all of them for £13.99, and the cost of them per month under ProSieben costs £11.99 instead of £8.99
As for Planetside 2 and EQ 3, they are no longer worthwhile, as will be under ProSieben. I doubt these games will ever be available under SOE, to save transitioning. When they launch, they will be immediately under ProSieben.
SOE are good, and I would be committed to them for life, but they will no longer exist for us in EU, and ProSieben is the worst. If I was in the US, I may even boycott SOE games, for their treatment to the EU
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I'll definitely be trying PS2, hopefully this time around it won't be perma-broken for me (Planetside 1 had horrible graphic glitches on my computer, where almost every wall was invisible - not as fun as it sounds, since I didn't get to see what was happening on the other side either =P).
Of course if Defiance is out by then... >.>
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Originally posted by superniceguy
Ugh, I didn't read that before replying... guess Planetside 2 is out for me too then.
I HATE it when some company delegates the handling of their EU version of the MMO to some charlatans who charge you through the nose for utterly crappy service. (I'm looking at you NCSoft/Aion! With your US Aion version that's truly F2P while the EU version has to pay GameForge to be able to do ANYTHING!)
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Originally posted by Einherjar_LC
Yup! +1
This is why I dont like to play their games. They are infamous for it. I am okay with changes in an MMO. We have all seen it for years. But to change something so drastically, is just wrong. They were proud of SWG and what they did and said had they released the game as they shut id down all those years ago, it wouldve been a hit.
I dont get it.
I guess Im ancient old school UO style sandbox gamer where I want to live as my character.
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Originally posted by Ashlura
And this just shows what SoE's real biggest problem is: customer ignorance.
They were proud of what they did? Do you even know where that quote came from? It was from a guy leading a team of people tasked with making these changes in a very short period of team. He was proud of how his team was able to bust its ass and meet the deadline.
And its pretty obvious, especially in light of SWTOR, that Lucas Arts was the driving factor behind this, not SoE. And since SoE did not have creative control over the game they really didnt have a choice.
How the game was wow-ified, that was probably SoE. The fact that the game was wow-ified, that was Lucas Arts.
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World > Quest Progression
Originally posted by tixylix
This would be a dream come true for me personally and seems like the perfect way to "make amends" for what happened with SWG. I look at the great things they are doing with PS2 and remind myself that EverQuest is the franchise brand which gets me a little tingly. If EQN is what I think it is, all the signs and comments point to it, I will be buying a Station Pass because PS2 looks fantastic and I have kids that like Free Realms. We'll see though, you never know what will happen until it does.
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World > Quest Progression
Originally posted by strangiato2112
The situation is a bit different now as many companies have thrown WoW wads at the window and most have not stuck but slid down. The key to success now seems to build a game that is NOT WoW lest you swell and deflate within a month. This is my hope anyway since a real alternative would be nice.
The situation with SWG sucked but I can see how it happened no matter who was at fault. Say you sold coffee and had a good customer base enjoying it. Then another company opens up and not only sells many times more than you but also your own customers were jumping ship to join them. What would you do? There are times in business were you have to change with market trends to thrive. In SWGs case with NGE it didn't bring in enough long term to matter and then lost some of the playerbase that was diehard. It was a risk and they paid for it.
I would love to see them release EQN as a sort of tribute to SWG pre-NGE. Let's harp on them until it happens!
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Im nto sure listening to the player base is always a good thing....Sure consider their input ,but I wouldnt want them to change everything anytime someone is whining about it.....


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I guess I could have jumped on the bandwagon and started criticizing Amazon for the issues that it had on Friday with their S3 offering. But part of me wanted to see how it all shook out, what the cause was, what would change, if anything, and how their customers would take it. According to the blogosphere, the Amazon service was down for over 2 hours (which seems to be accurate after reading through this forum thread on the Amazon developer forum).
This official Amazon AWS response clip from the forum seems to explain the outage:
Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of our locations. While we carefully monitor our overall request volumes and these remained within normal ranges, we had not been monitoring the proportion of authenticated requests. Importantly, these cryptographic requests consume more resources per call than other request types.
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As we said earlier today, though we're proud of our uptime track record over the past two years with this service, any amount of downtime is unacceptable. As part of the post mortem for this event, we have identified a set of short-term actions as well as longer term improvements. We are taking immediate action on the following: (a) improving our monitoring of the proportion of authenticated requests; (b) further increasing our authentication service capacity; and (c) adding additional defensive measures around the authenticated calls. Additionally, we've begun work on a service health dashboard, and expect to release that shortly.
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Where would we be without salt?
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Shake the shaker. How many times have you seen yourself or someone you know be served a plate of food and mindlessly begin salting it, before even tasting it? I know I've been guilty of it. I love salt and can think of few meals that couldn't be improved by adding salt. But at least taste your food first before you add salt—especially in restaurants, where for top chefs to fast-food flippers, salt is often the secret ingredient, and adding more of it is probably unnecessary. If you do think it needs a little salt, shake a little salt into the palm of your hand, so you can at least eyeball the amount you're going to eat (not to mention that it'll save your dish from the old unscrew-the-top-of-the-salt-shaker prank). At home, think about dumping the salt shaker and switching to a saltcellar. A saltcellar is a little covered bowl that holds salt. That way you can visually measure a little pinch and not shake out an unknown amount over your food. You might also consider switching to sea salt, or for the gourmets, one of the fancier fleur de sel products on the market. Sea salts generally contain trace amounts of minerals like iron, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and/or zinc. This doesn't boost the nutritional profile of sea salt (try nutritionals like
ActiVit® or Core Cal-Mag™ for effective mineral supplementation), but it offers a more complex flavor so that less may taste like more.
Take processed meats out of the process. And I'm devastated to say, this includes bacon. Just two delicious slices contain about 400 mg of sodium. One beef hot dog contains 600 mg of sodium (a quarter of the recommended allotment) and a turkey dog is only a little better at 500 mg. One slice of bologna gets you about 300 mg. Most turkey breast lunch meat is as bad as bologna. And if it's labeled smoked, oven-roasted, mesquite, etc., it's usually code for extra salty. Try looking for the low-sodium varieties or save money by roasting your own whole turkey breast, so you can control the salt content.
Soup's off. Soup is a great low-calorie meal or snack. Unless it's a creamy variety, it's usually low in fat and a good vegetable delivery system. But watch out for the salt content! One cup of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup contains 1,780 mg of sodium. That's almost three-quarters of your daily allowance. Their Healthy Request version is better. A cup of that has 940 mg of sodium. You might think about making your own chicken broth from scratch using fresh vegetables for flavor instead of salt. Make a big batch and freeze or can it for later.
Freeze out the frozen dinner. Men's Health magazine recently published a survey about some of America's saltiest foods and found that Swanson's Hungry Man XXL Roasted Carved Turkey packed in a whopping 4,480 mg of sodium. That's approaching 2 days' worth. It also has 1,360 calories and 70 grams (more than a day's worth) of fat, so there're plenty of reasons not to eat this dish. But several of the lean frozen meals on the market also contain high levels of sodium to make up for the lack of fat or sugar for flavor. And frozen pizza? Fuhgeddaboutit! Two slices of pepperoni will run you about 1,000 mg of sodium.
Can the canned vegetables. Or at least the ones that aren't low-sodium. Manufacturers add as much as 1,200 mg of salt to a can of vegetables for flavor and preservation. Try buying no-salt-added varieties or frozen veggies, which usually have less salt. Or at the very least, make sure to drain the canned veggies well and rinse them in water to try to get some of the salt out.
The usual suspects. I won't even bother depressing you with how much salt the fast food restaurants put in their food, even the healthier ones. I found out that a single flame-grilled chicken breast from my much-loved El Pollo Loco has 617 mg of sodium. Adding up the sodium from my sides of pinto beans, mashed potatoes, and trips to the salsa bar, and my "heart-healthy" grilled chicken meal has racked up over 3,300 mg of sodium. No wonder I have dry mouth all night when I eat there.
So the most important thing to do is check the labels of everything you eat and make sure you're not getting more salt than you bargained for—or as I call it, committing to a life of bland, joyless eating. But, with a little ingenuity, you can find ways to replace salt with other flavors or at least maximize the enjoyment of the salt you do allow yourself. It's also important to remember that as you start to remove salt from your diet, your palate may miss it a lot at first, but if you stick with it, you'll be amazed how much better food starts to taste as you get the salt monkey off your back. Here are some ideas for replacing salt with flavor.
Herbs. And let me say for the record, I know every article about sodium talks about Mrs. Dash, but I don't think it tastes very good. I'd much rather have fresh herbs, either from my local farmers' market or my balcony garden. With herbs like basil, rosemary, oregano, thyme, chives, etc., I chop a bunch of my favorites on Sunday and keep them in a zip-lock bag in my fridge for when I want to sprinkle a little flavor on something. Fresh herbs give foods a lot of zing, and it's fun to experiment with different flavor combinations. Some of the herbs even have their own beneficial properties.
Heat. As much of a salt addict as I am, I'm even more of a hot tooth. And the good news about that is that most spicy peppers and hot sauces are actually good for you, or at the very worst not bad for you. Some hot sauces add too much salt, so it's label-reading time again, and the peck of pickled peppers are better left to Peter of the rhyme. Besides, once you start enjoying chopped fresh (not pickled) jalapeños, you'll wonder why you ever liked those salty old pickles. If you're lucky enough to live in a city with a Penzey's or a similar spice specialty store, they are a great resource for coming up with salt-free seasonings, rubs, and exotic paprikas and curries to give your dishes flavor without a side of hypertension. Another tip while you're weaning yourself off the salty stuff is to make your own seasoned salt blend. Mix a batch with a small amount of salt plus a combination of your favorite herbs and spices. Every time you make a new batch, decrease the ratio of salt to spice a little until, one fine day, you're not including any salt at all. It's like a nicotine patch for saltaholics.
Citrus. While your taste buds devoted to salt may be crying foul, you can delight the sour part of your palate by adding more tart flavors to your food. I'm a big fan of those little plastic lemons and limes (Sicilia is a good brand) full of juice that you can keep in your fridge for a little squeeze of flavor when you don't feel like chopping up the whole fruit. I avoid the reconstituted juices though—they taste a little funky to me. Think about what other veggies, sauces, or dishes could benefit from a little bit of juice. I love lemon juice on rice or couscous. It makes me totally forget about high-sodium soy sauce.
Other condiments. Other good options from the condiment aisle include mustard, vinegar, and no-salt-added ketchup to make your sandwiches perk up when you're using low-sodium lunch meat and bread (yep, you gotta check the bread labels too). You can get out the blender and make your own spreads by grinding up ingredients like roasted red peppers (low-sodium variety, of course), chickpeas for hummus, or whatever other foods your imagination can come up with. Who needs the salt?
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Sure, we want our hair to look like that of our favorite celebrities, from Sarah Jessica Parker to Beyoncé to Jennifer Aniston to Rihanna. But without a Hollywood budget, it can be hard to know how best to care for our tresses. From musicals about it to controversies about its length, our hair makes a statement, and it can be an important part of who we are—whether we decide to wear it long or shave it all off. (Britney, anyone?) But what is hair, really, and how can we make the most of it?
A brief introduction: a head of hair generally has 100,000 to 150,000 strands of hair, with each strand going through its own life cycle. We lose about 50 to 100 hairs per day. And while that may sound like a large amount, it's actually quite fortunate for us. Imagine if every strand had the same life cycle—they'd fall out together and grow back together! Hair is made primarily of a protein called keratin, which is also found in our nails and even in the horns and hooves of animals. Hair also contains water; fats known as lipids that come from our sebaceous glands and give our hair luster and elasticity; and melanin (the pigment that gives our hair its color—in fact, as we age, our hair tends to turn white or appear grey due to the loss of this pigmentation).
Hair is only nurtured for a short time in the follicle, which is deep down in our skin (in the dermis), and by the time we see our precious locks, they're actually no longer alive! Of course, we can still treat our hair with a healthy dose of TLC to keep it strong and beautiful. Here are a few handy tips for healthy hair.
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"Great tips for hair, when it comes to hair coloring, which products will do less damaged to hair but also give you the best results."
– Maria M, Fontana, CA
"I started using sea salt a couple of years ago, but ended up getting hypothyroidism due to low iodine levels in my body. If you ban iodized salt, unless you frequently eat sea vegetables, make sure that you get an iodine supplement to take its place. Your thyroid needs iodine to make its hormone."
– Denise, Chicago, IL
"It is sad that you people are still publishing this myth that going completely without salt is fine and is all that is necessary to promote cardiovascular heatlh. Without salt, people will die - their nervous system cannot function without sodium and their heart will shut down. If you continue to promote the idea that salt is a dangerous compound to be avoided at all costs, you will continue to see people die in triathlons and marathons after they have failed to replenish their salt levels."
– Heather Franek, Woodbury, MN
"Salt is our friend. Not table salt, but pure, natural sea salt. Without salt, our bodies would shut down. I have done extensive research on the benefits of natural sea salt... in it's purest form. You can't overdose on it and the health benifits are amazing. I bathe in it, use it for internal cleansing, you name it. Table salt, bad. All natual, pure sea salt... great for our bodies."
"All salt is not created equal. Conventional nutrition looks at just a part of the truth, like whole is equal to sum of parts, which is always a lie. This is no exception. Natural sea salts and fermented foods are some of the best, most nutritious on the planet. Likewise, processed, canned, boxed etc are some of the worst and have many downsides. They shouldnt even be legal to sell. BTW they never say to never eat salt in this article, just limit it. That's right on if you don't eat right."
– steve, smithfield, RI
"I wish I would have seen this almost a year ago. I was sitting in my livingroom one night and i felt like I was going to die, went to the hospital and they could not find anything wrong it was happening again. they called it anxiety, I said you are all wrong, one month prior I had surgery and i had alot of frozen dinners that was 2400mg, or more in sodium, the whole month, 2 times a day, my body was over salted and the rest is history, no more feeling like i was dying no more frozen dinners,"
– sally
"The article about the amount of sodium in the foods from these fast food restaurants is very enlightening. We all know that we need some salt, as the article did acknowledge, however, we should try to avoid too much of any one thing. All things in moderation."
– Dawn, Thomasville, NC
"One of the things I like best about these articles is that they warn about the dangers of excessive consumption of salt, fat, etc. and advocate moderation, which is what it's all about with respect to proper health and lifestyle. Keep it up, Beachbody."
– Bill, Las Cruces, NM
"I hope the reader that indicated she had developed hypothyroidism from lack of salt did not get this information from her doctor. If so, she needs to find a new physician. Although decreased iodine intake can be a contributing factor, this generally only occurs in less developed countries. It is more likely that her hypothyroidism is caused by an autoimmune state. Moderation in all things is our best course of action."
– Laurie, League City, TX
"Hair coloration question--I suggest checking with your stylist for advice on what coloration products will work best with your hair type, even if you plan to color your hair yourself. Plant-based products, like henna, are usually a safer bet than chemical-based products but some say the effects are not as long-lasting. Any chemical process can be damaging to the overall health of your hair, and some studies have found that long-term hair coloration can even lead to cancer."
– Carla Lord
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