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BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL Delaware 78, UNC 69
NEWARK, Del. — Elena Delle Donne scored 33 points in her final home game, and Delaware rallied past foul-plagued North Carolina 78-69 on Tuesday night to advance to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.
The sixth-seeded Blue Hens (32-3) trailed 50-42 with 15:31 left before coming back to extend their school-record winning streak to 27 games and eliminate No. 3 seed North Carolina (29-7). Delaware will next travel to Connecticut to face second-seeded Kentucky in the Bridgeport Regional semifinals Saturday.
Trumae Lucas scored 20 for the Blue Hens and Danielle Parker contributed 14 points and 13 rebounds.
Waltiea Rolle scored 23 points for the Tar Heels.
Kentucky 84, Dayton 70
NEW YORK — A'dia Mathies followed up the worst game of her career with one of her best, matching a personal high with 34 points to lead second-seeded Kentucky over seventh-seeded Dayton.
With Kentucky (29-5) clinging to a 46-44 advantage early in the second half, Mathies scored 10 points during a 16-3 run to help the Wildcats take control of the game.
Andrea Hoover scored 22 points to lead the Flyers (28-3).
NORFOLK REGIONALDuke 68, Oklahoma St. 59
DURHAM, N.C. — Elizabeth Williams had 16 points and 12 rebounds, and Duke rallied to beat Oklahoma State in the second round.
Haley Peters added 15 points and 13 rebounds while Tricia Liston scored eight of her 13 in the final 6-plus minutes and Chloe Wells also finished with 13 for the second-seeded Blue Devils (32-2). They advance to face sixth-seeded Nebraska in the regional semifinals on Sunday in Norfolk, Va.
Liz Donohoe had 14 points to lead Oklahoma State (22-11).
OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONALLouisville 76, Purdue 63
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sara Hammond had 21 points and 10 rebounds to help Louisville advance to the Sweet 16 for the second time in three years.
The fifth-seeded Cardinals (26-8) will play either top-seeded Baylor or No. 8 seed Florida State on Sunday in Oklahoma City, their fourth regional semifinal in the last six years.
The fourth-seeded Boilermakers (25-9) had a five-game winning streak snapped and have lost in the second round three straight years.
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A true level 80 is doing more damage and can take more damage, that's what I want, that's why I'm grinding my way to 80.
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I don't get it. I just don't get it. Why do players see everything as grind? Games take effort, and when you look at things as work, that effort can be seen as grind. However, a fundamental part of RPGs is the acquisition of experience, usually by completing tasks. To some extent, there will always be grind. I really suggest players that don't enjoy this play style to go elsewhere. I'm not trying to be snarky here, but it's annoying seeing people complain about grind because there are quests that require you kill X amount of whatever, etc. It's the nature of the game. You can't expect FPS games to not have shooting or player killing, so don't expect RPGs to not have leveling.
Guild Wars 2 does have grind and things to work towards, I look at both as a positive thing. They've avoided making essentials unobtainable and lessened the grind for those things. However, they give you plenty of achievements behind the grind and make it worthwhile. As long as the grind doesn't become like LoTRO's virtue system, I'm fine with it.
Novice Member
Joined: 9/08/11
It's weird to read these responses. I won't disagree that there is no grind in GW2, of course there is. But it doesn't feel like that to me. I got to level 80 and I actually don't remember how I got there... I just did bit of that and bit of other, pretty much what I felt I'm up to at the time (apart from brief copper ore grinding to push forward my crafting).
Maybe one big difference, I don't actually count gathered exps or levels... I just do stuff I want at the moment and exps and levels somehow naturaly come themselves.
Also why can't you go WvW and level up there? To me it sounds much funnier than grind those levels the way you don't like. So yeah full 80 does more damage... but you will get there eventually, even if it takes longer, who cares if it's fun time? For me I'd rather spend an hour of fun time, than 10 minutes of boring grind.
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Joined: 10/02/04
For me as the heart quests where so boring the game is even more of a grind than others.. i had fun for about day donig quests and then i realsied they where some of the most boring repetative quests i have come accross in an MMORPG..
Sure you can do other things to lvl like WvWvW pvp err wait no i cant massive Qs.. oh wait i can craft.. err well when i was playing trading was broke quite a bit.. oh wait i can do the so called amazing dynamic events.. sure some are fun but others are just as boring as heart quests..
I always say if you find a game a grind dont play.. and im sticknig by my words and not playing.. but i had to post to say NO gw2 has not got rid of the grind.. sure you can lvl in different ways but they are not the first to do this..
Novice Member
Joined: 7/10/05
Level 34 now. Just finished a level 25-35 area and compelted everything except the vistas. No crafting, no personal story, no pvp. And no grind at all. Well, killing the same creatures over and over get's a bit boring but that's it. I also like how I have to do only one level appropriate area without pvp, crafting and personal story so I can save the others for alts.
Novice Member
Joined: 7/10/05
I see no grind. Most of the hearts I get by accident, there are more ways to get them then is listed in the explanation text.
The only thing which feels a bit grindy is having to kill NPC's over and over because they spawn really quick. and killing them takes a pretty long time to die. Especially when you are exploring an area, trying to jump on places, looking for hidden caves, etc. it can be a bit "grindy" having to kill yet another Spider 10 seconds after you killed his friend.
But that's it.
Novice Member
Joined: 8/20/11
.. Hmmm so basically they pull a blizzard tactic and let grinding seem and be less tedious.. Can't complain
Novice Member
Joined: 12/24/07
Can I just say that people who play mmorpg's complain about them the most. It SOUNDS like you guys want to play single player games like ffxiii or god of war, because there is no way for a developer to put as much variety as you are asking for into an rpg with current technology.
I've played WOW and LOTRO, and I've played games like Maplestory and FLYFF. Big difference in the level of grind. If you compare LOTRO or WOW to GW2? BIG DIFFERENCE in AT LEAST the visibility of the grind. I'm completely aware that i'm killing x amount of centaurs or wargs, and sometimes i look at the bar sayin "come on come on". But its not a chore and sometimes i'll do a quest again before hiking off to find the next outpost, group of dynamic events, skill point, vista.... oh yea, i leveled up. cool.
Arenanet has made a big departure from what is around currently and were not even talkinng about the combat anymore, and honestly i'm pretty satisfied especially considering there's no monthly charge.
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Joined: 9/04/12
Originally posted by Leethe
Well to me DEs and hearts are mind numbing tasks.
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Joined: 4/27/12
The opinion of a penguin.
Well, it's slightly subjective. I thought the hearts and the DEs were some of the most grindiest content I've ever played. Although I only did the starter zone DEs.
Opened a can of worms here..... This thread isn't doing GW2 any favors, perhaps if the title of the thread was different and the article..... Ah nm it all points toward GW2 is not grindy when in fact it is. Leveling is grindy its just the nature of it. It's grindy on purpose though and that is also the nature of mmo's. They want you to play thier game and become vested in the tike you spent playing. It's why wow always gets its base of players back. People are established there, they put a lot of time in and its easy to go back and not have to grind through a ton of levels. If you already didn't have a level 80 it would be a grind if and only if you had never leveled or played an mmorpg before.
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Joined: 8/21/04
Logic be damned!
Grind is how you define it.
When there is a break in DE's and I don't feel like seeking out Hearts, I explore, gather, and craft - got 22-24 on a toon last night going from 48 Armorsmith to like 115 (inlcuding exploration XP, gathering XP, killing XP for mats/stuff in my way, crafting XP, and daily acheivement XP.)
I've probably been lurking for way, way too long.
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Joined: 2/02/04
Practice is a bloodless battle, Battle is a bloody practice.
So all the people saying that the hearts and DEs are mind numbing must think WoW and every mmorpg is terrible right? If you are grinding in crafting your doing it wrong, use the discovery method and it speeds things up. Basically what I'm saying is why the heck are any of you here if you are complaining about things that are in EVERY mmorpg?
I have never felt like the hearts are mind numbing why, because I actually enjoy playing the game. This game is one of the few mmorpgs that is fun at every level, you don't have to wait to start having fun. The combat is a lot more skillful and the combo system is a blast when you start using it properly. All the people rushing to level 80 should chill out and enjoy the freaking journey. This rush to level cap is what is going to make you think the game is a grind, because your so focused on your level that you can't enjoy ANYTHING your doing in the game.
Every mmo from theme park mmos, to sandbox mmos are going to have grindy aspects. But it is largley your perception as I haven't felt like I have been grinding at all I have just been enjoying the heck out of the combat and exploring new areas.
This game has largely gotten rid of the grind, I can get 4 levels in one sitting and I don't even realize it. So I greatly disagree with people who say this is a grind. You could say anything is a grind, really, mario is just running and jumping, shooters are just shooting people etc.
Point is basically I think that if your calling this game a grind your playing it wrong, your not enjoying the content you have and are just waiting for level 80. Just learn to enjoy every level and the grind will disappear. If you think hearts and DEs are mind numbing and grindy then stop playing mmos, as the hearts have had some of the most interesting "quests" I have played in an mmo. Doing math for the asura, making from potions, healing soldiers, sure they start overlapping but I have never done stuff like this in an MMO before, and each heart moves so fast I never feel like I'm spending hours at 1 heart, its more like 10 minutes.
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Joined: 6/01/04
I hit level 30 and have only barely explored 3 maps (one level 1-15 and 2 level 15-25). I am having a blast playing and by no means has it been a grind. I haven't even found myself looking at my XP bar and then DING, I level. I'm extremely happy with the gameplay experience. Granted, I am a casual player, so your experience will vary, but honestly it is a refreshing MMO. Some days I just want to explore, some days I want to kill stuff, some days I just want to do quests, some days I want to help others in big events, and some days I just want to craft. The crafting is probably the only grinding part of the game and I can avoid that by keeping my crafting level in line with the areas I am exploring and adventuring. So in effect, I am supplying my crafting habit through adventure. I have no plans to rush to 80 or the end game. I find the game to be fun in all levels and I see no reason to rush it.
-- Farlin
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Joined: 9/18/10
i lvled a lvl 30 warrior only by gathering stuff and completing map 100% with out killing anything unless iam force to do it ,
you dont have to grind to level
but yes in the end u will grind ur gear in dungeon but that ur choice,
Novice Member
Joined: 10/25/11
To me personally this is the least grindy MMO I have ever played. All MMO's have grind to them. It's part of the game. Maybe every MMO should make a special server where every character you make is instantly maxed out. I wouldn't play on one, but from some of these posts on only wanting to reach level cap it might just be for you...
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Joined: 4/03/12
Not only is the grind NOT removed, your character's evolution is so slow and subtle that aside from opening a couple of skill slots in the action bar, the game feels identical at 5 as it does at 35. Which compunds the feeling of repetition.
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Joined: 3/15/05
Tbh lvling is grindy. And crafting is outrageously grinding. I am kind of liking the game, but the amount of fanboyIshness around it is annoying. The myth about not having quests, grind, leveling through events etc etc is starting to grow old.
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Joined: 5/18/12
I am not sure why people try to differentiate one grind from another. The truth is, no matter what you do in a game, everything is a grind to some degree or another by the very nature of it. PVP is a grind for rank. PVE is grind for loot. Crafting is a grind for skill and product. Playing is a grind for recognition and fame. Everything in gaming is a repetitious act, and therefore a grind.
Sometimes I wonder why people harp on getting rid of the grind (intense repetitive whatever) in games. If you don't want to grind, stop gaming and enjoy life and the grind that comes with that.
Get rid of grind? Impossible.
I can walk around tyria and auto attack with my longbow, I did it last night, in the world events there was only one time I didn't get a gold medal and I leterally didn't even have to move, just pressed the number one key, my charr warrior would eventually aim in the right direction, got my medal though. Pure grindy also should note there was never less than 15 grinders with me at a time.

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I was robbed at the US Open Tennis Matches yesterday.
Okay, you say, so what's new? Anybody who buys a cup of coffee at the US Open has been robbed.
But this isn't about the food courts.
This is about a very nice metal water bottle of mine. The US Open took it from me at the gate and they didn't give it back. They stole it.
They would say they confiscated my Kleen Kanteen for the good of Everyone. God knows what heinous explosive (or erosive) compound it contained. Imagine the impact it would make on the head of Maria Sharapova, hurled onto the court during one of her shrieks.
It was therefore Illegal. And so, the young bag-searcher removed it from my backpack.
Which was also Illegal this year. My backpack is a small, ugly, little-old-lady Vera Bradley red-hankerchief-print creation, fraying near the top of the straps–which the young bag-searcher instructed me to tie together so I could claim it was a purse. I could then hang it from one shoulder or the crook of my elbow. Which is uncomfortable, but Legal. Rather than carry it on my back. Which is comfortable, but Illegal.
This year.
Last year, the US Open considered the same backpack Legal because it was small. Large backpacks were Illegal.
Last year, they also permitted me to bring in my Klean Kanteen.
But sometime between then and now, both the bottle and the little backpack became Illegal.
Big bags are still Legal this year. I can carry a bag as big as last year's Illegal oversized backpack. If it looks like a bag, not a backpack. If I hang it from my shoulder or the crook of my elbow.
I can carry a big umbrella my big not-a-backpack bag. One with a stout wood handle and a metal point. I can put a heavy cane in it. I can put a solid, old-fashioned cell phone in it. I can carry old tennis balls in it.
That would all be Legal.
But not my tattered little cotton backpack. Or my light metal water bottle. Or even the plastic water bottles that the US Open stole from other customers.
If I need water, I have to re-mortgage my apartment like everybody else and buy a bottle of Evian at the food court.
Why? I asked the young bag-searcher, as I took a last drink of potentially explosive (or erosive) water from my Klean Kanteen.
It's the rule, she said.
But: I could keep it, she said: I could walk to the other end of the outside grounds, stand in another line, pay five dollars and place my bottle in a special locker, then return to the back of this endless line to once again permit the young bag-searcher to look through my former Illegal backpack/current Legal strap-knotted purse.
Then, at the end of the day, I could stand in line with the other tennis fans who'd brought Illegal booty into the park, to reclaim my bottle.
How about that?
Hmm. I'd already waited in line in the hot sun for a half hour. The locker was far away. It would cost me five dollars, to save a bottle for which I had paid twelve.
So I stood by while the US Open stole my $12 water bottle.
Five years ago, I suffered a similar theft. The Logan Airport TSA stole my mini-leatherman.
Okay, you say: Why on earth would you try to board a flight in a post-9/11 US airport carrying a miniature folding tool that you could have twisted into a pair of scissors with menacing 3/4-inch blades that you could then have used to hack out a pilot's jugular vein?
Was I crazy? Was I stupid?
Was I…a Terrorist?
No, Gentle Reader: the truth is that I was not boarding a flight at all. I had been asked to come as a volunteer member of the Massachusetts First Response team to Logan Airport, where I would pretend to be gravely injured as part of a Mass Casualty drill.
I got up obscenely early that morning, gassed up my car at my expense, and drove to Boston in the rain. I parked in a designated off-site hotel parking lot, pocketed my keys and took a long ride on a shuttle bus to an unused hangar in an obscure and deserted corner of the Logan compound.
I walked into the hangar.
Two grim-faced TSA members told me to empty my pockets. They saw my mini-leatherman attached to my key ring and demanded that I hand it over.
I had not detached it and stowed it in my car, which was now far away. Why would I? I was not flying: this was a Mass Casualty Drill.
Give it here, said the TSA worker.
Why? I asked.
It's the rule.
She did not even offer me a special locker.
So I stood by while the TSA stole my $20 mini-leatherman.
The theft of my water bottle by the US Open was not a felony. Nor was the earlier theft of my mini-leatherman by the TSA. Both were Legal thefts, and I suppose they were my fault. This is the US, my country: the Powers That Be in my country invent rules for the good of Everyone. In my country, the Powers That Be are only trying to keep Everyone safe.
I know this.
But I am a flawed human being. Both of these Legal thefts have made me unreasonably angry. This is because they affected me personally.
And so, I rail about them in my blog.
I do not write about the ease with which a random stranger might tip a flask of arsenic into my water supply. I do not rant about the likelihood that somebody could smuggle anthrax onto the Q train. I do not even mention that explosive (and erosive) substances might be spirited aboard an airplane in multiple three-ounce containers. Or that the TSA checks the soles of one's shoes, but not the soles of one's socks. Or that you can hide an explosive (or erosive) compound in a hollow tennis ball and sneak it into the US Tennis Open in a Legal big bag.
No, these things do not affect me personally.
Not like the Legal theft of my water bottle and my mini-leatherman.


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The Marrington Elementary School Improvement Council, led by school Principal Barb Webber, recently held its final meeting for the year. This year saw the SIC work to plan, review, and evaluate school programs. Pictured are (front row, l-r) Katie Lamb, Charla Groves, Gina Segawa-Scott, Lee Eddings, Tim Payne, MNE School Principal Barb Webber, (back row) John Taylor and Chris Gerry.
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Cowboys, Wet T-Shirts & Trash Bags: A Tale of Three Bon Jovi 'Slippery When Wet' Album Covers
On Aug. 18, 1986, Bon Jovi released 'Slippery When Wet,' the album that would make them international superstars — but not before needing three wildly different attempts to get the album artwork finished.
The record's title also changed during this process. It was originally going to be called 'Wanted Dead or Alive,' after one of the many soon-to-be smash hits it contained. The group posed for the cover all dressed up in cowboy gear in a remote town near Vancouver, Canada, where they were recording. "It looked a little bit put on, and we were kind of unhappy with it," guitarist Richie Sambora told VH1. (A photo from these sessions was used on the 'Wanted Dead or Alive' single.)
Luckily, fate intervened. "As we were driving back to the Number Five — our favorite strip club in Vancouver — our manager Doc McGhee saw this sign on the road, 'Slippery When Wet.'" After watching one of the dancers get into an on-stage shower as part of her act, both the title and the cover photo concept came into view. "We shot this one beautiful girl with large breasts and a (shirt) that said 'Slippery When Wet.'
But they weren't done yet. "The censors didn't let it happen," Sambora explains — although a similar cover was used in some overseas territories. With time running out, the band was forced to improvise. "(The cover) is actually a Hefty trash can bag with water sprayed on it. We held it on both sides and Jon (Bon Jovi) wrote 'Slippery When Wet.'"
Most likely, a great deal of this effort was wasted. With tracks like 'Wanted Dead or Alive,' 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Never Say Goodbye' and 'You Give Love a Bad Name,' the album probably could have been wrapped in actual rotting trash and still sold millions of copies.


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Connoisseurs of fine extra-virgin olive oil praise this one for its lush body and delicate nutty flavor. Reflecting a distinguished culinary heritage, the premium oil is crafted in France using a custom blend of the Mediterranean's finest black olive varietals.
- Ripe black olives from France, Italy and Spain are cold-pressed in a stone mill within twelve hours of harvest.
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A man who is investing billions of dollars in the local coal industry has been implemented in the ever widening Gen. Petraeus scandal.
Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA after admitting he had had an affair with Paula Broadwell. Broadwell had allegedly sent threatening emails to a woman in Florida, Jill Kelley, who she thought may be a rival for Petraeus' affections.
The plot has thickened to include a local connection.
Adam Victor, president and CEO of TransGas Development Systems, is a New York businessman who was managing a multi-billion-dollar Korean business deal related to coal gasification plants. He is also investing $4 billion in Adams Fork Energy, a coal-to-liquid plant planned for Mingo County.
When constructed, the facility that will convert 7,500 tons of regional coal into premium grade ultraclean gasoline, producing 18,000 barrels per day (756,000 gallons).
The project is a post-mine-land-use project of the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority (MCRA).
Victor met Kelley at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August. According to ABC News, Jill Kelley dropped Gen. Petraeus' name, saying that Petraeus had arranged for her to become an honorary consul for South Korea in order to promote free trade.
Victor said he Kelley requested fee to help him broker a deal with Korea. While Victor thought it made sense to have a trusted aide in charge of promoting free trade, trouble came when when Kelley named her fee for brokering the deal. The entire deal was worth $4 billion.
Kelley requested Victor pay a 2 percent fee. Victor said he felt the fee, $80 million, was exorbitant and terminated their relationship.
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Aria (Lucy Hale) and Ezra's (Ian Harding) relationship has been a central part of Pretty Little Liars since the beginning, but lately we've noticed that some fans have gotten tired of their drama.
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