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On Saturday, Katy Abram spent eight hours driving across Pennsylvania's Bucks County in a rented minivan as part of a last-ditch canvassing effort before Tuesday's election. As the stay-at-home mom from Amish country navigated the roads of Philadelphia's so-called "collar counties", the subject among her fellow activists turned to gun control. Abram casually gestured to her pink fleece sweatshirt. "I'm packing!" she said, smiling. Under her clothes as she drove volunteers door to door in upscale Yardley and middle class Levittown was a loaded revolver, strapped into a holster.
Abram is the policy analyst for the state branch of Americans for Prosperity, a right-wing nonprofit backed by the left's favorite billionaire bogeymen, Charles and David Koch. For her, and many of the approximately 400 AFP members making phone calls to potential voters in Pennsylvania this Monday, gun rights are inalienable. It was Medicare, though, that spurred Abram to start a Tea Party group in 2009 and join the AFP movement shortly thereafter.
"Healthcare reform made me get out of my chair," she said, driving through streets lined with fallen trees and downed electrical lines in Hurricane Sandy's aftermath. "That was like someone walking through my living room."
Healthcare is one of a laundry list of issues at stake this Tuesday — and one that Abram and Jennifer Stefano, AFP's Pennsylvania chair, are eager to discuss with potential voters. On either side of the rented Chrysler they'd taped signs left over from an October rally at the State Capitol: "Hands Off My Healthcare".
Inside the car were bags of door hangers that Abram, Stefano and fellow door-knocker Evalyn Hunter handed out at carefully selected households. Hunter, a mom of two, knows she's something of an anomaly: an African-American woman working toward a Republican victory. It's her devout religion and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion that moved her to abandon President Obama, much to the consternation of some friends and family members.
In the trunk of the car was a generator: the three-strong team decided to kill two birds with one stone, setting up a card table on a residential Yardley street allowing storm-hit residents to charge their phones and laptops. They had flashlights to hand out as well as bags of Hallowe'en candy for local kids who missed the holiday due to the hurricane.
Stefano, a whip-smart self-proclaimed "loud mouth" and regular Fox News guest, was armed with a Motorola tablet loaded with the group's target list of 27 homes within walking distance in each area. "We hit people who think independently and decide on issues," she said. The data, she was careful to point out, was not culled from the Koch brothers' secretive but much-discussed Themis project but rather a separate Get Out The Vote list.
This effort was being mirrored by state-level AFP activists all weekend and through Monday night. The goal is to knock on 450,000 doors and make 2.2 million calls in 18 states. On Saturday, there were over 100 small groups in vans all over Pennsylvania, mostly in zip codes that narrowly turned blue in 2008. The same sort of grassroots fleets spent the weekend and Monday roving too-close-to-call counties in swing states like Ohio and Virginia. "We expect to hit 16 million calls total by Monday night," said Levi Russell, public affairs director at the group's national headquarters.
The three Bucks County activists were careful not to endorse either candidate by name, in accordance with the nonprofit's canvassing policy. (They did, however, flash a thumbs up at a Yardley local who proclaimed "Romney, baby!") "I just don't like telling people how to vote," said Stefano, placing a red, white and blue AFP door-hanger outside a modest home in Trooper, a commuter town 40 minutes from Philadelphia. "By not endorsing candidates, we'll have greater staying power long after this election."
Instead of telling their Philly-area targets to vote for Mitt Romney, as they all say they'll do, the three women in the minivan pointed potential voters across hotly contested Bucks County toward the bullet points on their handout. "Entitlements: 46 million Americans on food stamps," read one. "Reckless spending: Government is spending $1 trillion more than it takes in," read another.
A few hours into Saturday's get out the vote effort, talk inevitably turned to the Koch brothers, who admit Americans for Prosperity is a recipient of their largesse but won't say how much they've given to the group. Campaign finance records say AFP has spent more than $33.5 million this election cycle. As a tax-exempt nonprofit, it doesn't have to disclose its donors.
Stefano said this last-minute Pennsylvania ground game was entirely paid for by donations at state level — that is, not a dime came from the Kochs, except on joint programs part-funded by the national office. Still, she can't fathom the hatred directed at the billionaire industrialists from the left.
"If my two kids grew up to be America's richest siblings I'd be thrilled," Stefano said. "Why does everyone hate the Koch brothers? Why do we hate success?" She added that she receives reams of hate mail, mostly from liberals, after each Fox TV appearance. She's identified by her affiliation with Americans for Prosperity, and with each passing month, there's greater name recognition for the group, and for their super-rich benefactors.
"I get called a Koch brothers whore all the time," Stefano said. "I always say, 'that's not true. Whores don't pay taxes." She felt so threatened by emailed rants that she's made every effort to ensure personal details like her home address and the names of her children are difficult to trace online. She's met both Charles and David Koch on separate occasions and describes them as decent, polite gentlemen.
"If the Kochs want to cut me a check to go defend freedom, I'll do two things: cash it and kiss them," Stefano said. "And I make no apology for that because I'm a capitalist. I'm grateful for the Koch brothers. Before, I felt like all the money and power was on the other side."
Abram steered the minivan toward AFP's Levittown office, one of seven across Pennsylvania. It's a re-purposed tanning salon at a strip mall, where many of its neighboring stores remain closed. Some of the nearby roads were eerily quiet after Sandy disrupted the supply of gas to stations up and down the east coast. "I want to go out and tell people, 'If President Obama bankrupts coal like he wants to, this is what will happen'," said Stefano.
For now, she won't: she'll carry on encouraging Pennsylvanians to vote without specifically mentioning Obama or Romney. On Saturday, around half of the homes she, Abram and Hunter stopped at were empty, some residents having left to seek electricity and heat elsewhere. Stefano isn't discouraged; she repeated her post-Sandy mantra to homeowners who did open their doors. "The real power comes on Tuesday, November 6th."
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Charles Edward Browning of Powell, Tenn., went home to be with the Lord on January 4, 2013.
Ed was born December 22, 1939 in Wharncliffe to parents Dewey and Tressie Morgan Browning.
He was a faithful Christian who attended Pentecostal churches throughout his life.
Survivors include his son Charles Edward Browning Jr., and daughter Belinda "Lenny" Thompson both of Columbus, grandchildren Jacob, Tameria, Amber, Johnny, Andy, Michael and great-grandchildren Brianna and Zachariah, sisters Virginia Mullen of Columbus Carol Varney of Delbarton, Teresa Garrett of Beckley, and brother James Browning of Hanover.
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PASADENA, Calif. -- Television's Military Channel is changing its mission, and its name.
Discovery Communications said Thursday that the Military Channel will become the American Heroes Channel, beginning in March.
The network, geared mainly toward men and available in some 62 million homes, began operation in 2005 when the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were both active.
Now it wants to expand its mission to encompass documentary-style programming of people meeting challenges of every sort, including rescue missions following Hurricane Katrina and scientists in the space race.
"Why the name change?" asked Kevin Bennett, the network's general manager. "Because heroism transcends the battlefield."
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Canning season has arrived! Clemson Extension Service will be offering food preservation classes again this year. All classes will teach participants how to use current, USDA tested, canning methods to preserve foods. The first class will take place from 10am – 2pm on Saturday, May 25, at Cypress Gardens. The cost is $30. The topic will be "Jams, Jellies and Spreads". Participants will take home a copy of the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving, handouts and items prepared during the class.
Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service is your local resource for research based food preservation information. Some changes have been made to home canning methods over the years to improve the safety of home canned items. Consumers can find current information at www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/.
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Google sends email notifications to all Google Groups owners to inform them about some unfortunate changes.
"Starting in January 2011, Groups will no longer allow the creation or editing of welcome messages, files and pages; the content will only be available for viewing and only existing files will be downloadable. If you would like to keep the content currently on the pages and files sections of your group, we highly encourage you to export and migrate it to another product. In February 2011, we will turn off these features, and you will no longer be able to access that content."
Google says that you can create pages using Google Sites and store files by attaching them to Google Sites pages. After creating a site, you can invite the members of your group. "Add the email address for the Google Group (for instance, firstname.lastname@example.com) with which you'd like to share the site, and select the level of access you'd like the members of the group to have."
It's difficult to understand why Google didn't automatically migrate the files and pages to Google Sites. Users could've used these features from the Google Groups interface, even if they were powered by Google Sites.
Google says that the features have been removed "to focus on improving the core functionality of Google Groups -- mailing lists and forum discussions". I don't remember seeing significant improvements from 2006, when Google Groups added the features that are now removed: custom welcome message, pages and files. Since then, Google abandoned almost all its groups and started to use the Help Forum platform. Ironically, even the Google Groups group has been shut down.
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When Guns N' Roses released their 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'Use Your Illusion II' albums in the fall of 1991, large retail chains such as Wal-Mart and K-Mart refused to stock the titles because of the explicit lyrical content featured on tracks such as 'Back Off Bitch' and 'Pretty Tied Up.'
As company executive Robert J. Cope explained to the Los Angeles Times, "Wal-Mart feels that revenue realized from the sales of a record with objectionable lyrics would be more than offset by the discontent it might cause customers for making such product available to children."
Despite the massive loss in sales they faced, the band refused to alter their work by releasing censored versions of the records. In fact, they added their own warning sticker to the albums, suggesting that anyone who doesn't like their words could "f— off and go buy something from the new age section." (Reportedly, and hysterically, the sticker was also later banned from use.)
Although they seemed to have survived the boycott pretty well, with each of the records selling over 7,000,000 copies, seven years later the group (or possibly someone at their record label) decided it would be good to have at least some of the 'Illusion' songs on the shelves of those increasingly omnipresent stores. So on Aug. 25, 1998 the single-disc 'Use Your Illusion' was released, featuring 12 of the most popular — and least objectionable — tracks from the 30 included on the original albums.
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So this is about a 20min discussion/rant about the War Z community (not so much the game itself). Everything I talk about here can be found in the public forum sections and has no actual War Z footage (so this does not break the nda!). Some will agree some wont, that cool bro. Thats one of the awesome things about this world we live on, everyone has a different view of things, so keep that i mind kiddos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkHOwHAxVE0 <--- Watch or why are you here?
I would love to have a debate/discussion about some of the subjects I bring up (key words debate/discussion NOT a argument). Very interested in your thoughts on it all. Im just so worried the WarZ devs are going to listen to the flood of complaints (not even bugs, just complaints) coming in and take them as what the community wants, THEY ARNT! Most (not all) of the intelligent people are not even bothering to post as they dont have the time for the flame war that is bound to come of it.
NEVER base a games design around the low tier of players, it will never work. As I said in my video could you imagine dota/lol/sc2 (whatever competitive game you watch) if they were based off the low tier lol, it would be horrid. (simple example. sc2 shortly after release: 4 gate needs MAJOR nerf, omgz the 4 gate is sooo OPPPPP). Then what happened? The competitive pros slowly (it did take awhile lol) learn ways around 4 gates and how to stop them and got to a point (before nerf) where a 4 gate wasnt even a good viable option anymore in competitive play. Things take time, and things need to be examined by the best before you can say theres something wrong. MANY games went the way of designing there games based on the lower tier of players and where are they now???? Exactly (im sure there are a few good/fun lower tier based games but thats not the point. We are shooting for the top not the bottom)
I myself have fallen into the "rage mode" and started unloading on some of the idiots yesterday. Just relax and let yourself cool down before responding to the idiots or better yet, dont respond at all. As for my "rude" comment I made yesterday sorry, I guess. I stand by what I said but I really should have just bit my lip and said nothing. But yea. Enjoy the video and leave your thoughts below guys. Also as I said remember, everyone's going to have a different view. Dont get mad at them for it K? :o:o:o:o:o:o
**Added because its a good argument on the subject*** Games should reward getting better. Not reward playing like crap over and over and over. People do the same thing and fail multiple times. But instead of trying something new they say its broken and cry about it till "there" way works. getting better should be a goal of players AND game design. Lazy people shouldnt be catered to. I agree you can have a lot of fun if you are bad at something.. Should the rules of soccer or football be changed so you can be better at it? The obv answer is no. So should a game be made easier just because a lot of people are bad at it? no
I expect more dislikes on the video then likes (as due to my whole "most gamers are bad" theory) Meh. My ego is so hurt! :D lolz
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I haven't watched the video yet but your condescending tone and putting yourself on a pedestal is not really going to endear you to people.
You have basically already said " I am a good gamer, you are not, you are wrong, I am correct ".
Most people that play football (soccer) are "terrible" at it. I play football every week but I am never going to make it pro.
You do have to realise that not everyone that enjoys doing something enjoys it because they are great at it.
I understand where you are coming from with regard to forum whiners though, but companies must realise that those people on the forums whining are a tiny percentage of the player base of any game.
Making a game is very difficult and takes years, you want it to be as balanced as possible, you don't want to cater to the top 1% or the bottom 1% you want to hit some sort of middle ground as that is where most people will be skill wise.
-Alright. I want my 20 fucking mins back.
I listened and for the most part agree with you (in a general sense- I have never played this game).
Heres the thing. People are paying to alpha test this. Obviously the game needs tweaked and adjusted but these players (for the most part) ane not there to test and give valid feedback, but rather are people who payed to "play before everyone else". The communtiy therefore is probably going to be totally counterproductive to alpha/beta testing.
-I disagree with several things you said on principal (regarding the "zombie apocolypse" and how people would begin randomly killing- I think its far more complex than that) but overall...
EDIT: To the post above. Yeah his attitude kind of sucked but its hard to be not condescending and yet truthful about certain facts. Games generally shoot towards the "lowest common denomanater" and there are far more on the average to low spectrum (in anything at all) than at the top end. I would probably suck at a game like this (First person Shooter type) since I am low skilled in these games. I still would be able to have fun with the realization that I am not highly skilled. It isnt offensive... There are games I am very skilled in.
Originally posted by SlickShoes
But as a player do you want "more players" or a "better" game? Eve is a good example of this. They tuned the game to id say about the top 20%. The bottom 80% complaiend and bitched but that didnt matter. The game thrived and is considered one of the best most well balanced and mature communitys out there. You also find a lot more intellegent people in eve due to this.
When games start thinking about "more players" and less about a skilled challenging game it always goes downhil. Simple examples: Cod,WoW,Battlefield. All great games that over time and new released started focusing more on getting players in the game then making the game itself good, and quality wise have suffered for that. Ow but damn this game has x million players, it must be good <--- bad logic, its normally the opisit.
Games should reward getting better. Not reward playing like crap over and over and over. People do the same thing and fail multiple times. But instead of trying something new they say its broken and cry about it till "there" way works. getting better should be a goal of players AND game design. Lazy people shouldnt be catered to. I agree you can have a lot of fun if you are bad at something.. But lets use your own example. should the rules of soccer be changed so you can be better at it? The obv answer is no. So should a game be made easier just because a lot of people are bad at it? no
Originally posted by quickshotz
Keep in mind though, that this is a balancing act which could really go both ways. And at some point (the tipping point) population dwindles and then snowballs to nothing.
All Wolves and no Sheep will equal very bored wolves. In a game like this you are going to attract a ton of assholes and griefers to begin with. Couple this with harsh death penalty and a bottomheavy (shkillwise) playerbase. Sure, they will occasionally score a nice shot or make a good kill but overall they will be hunted and killed- Fodder.
So the game has to find a way to accomodate (or lose) those people in the long run. That gets into more of theory behind what could work without dumbing down the game.
-But never underestimate the importance of the unwashed masses. Without that foundation the whole structure crumbles.
Originally posted by quickshotz
I disagree, CoD has never been great, WoW has never been that great either, Battlefield I have never played so i'll sit that one out.
EVE is a game that I have never bothered to get in to, despite trying a few times, because of the sheer volume of stuff to learn. If I was still at Uni and didnt work full time I would probably love it, equally I am obvisouly less skilled at EVE than you but I don't spend any time on there forums telling them to change the game. I highly doubt that 80% of the playerbase of EVE complained about anything.
Every game has intelligent people, I play WoW with a Doctor and a research scientist, are they dumb because they play a game like WoW in there spare time? Intelligence is not based on what games you fill up your free time with. I used to play with a pharmacist that was the biggest general chat troll the world has ever seen, then you have another guy who didn't even graduate high school but spends his time in game theorycrafting and raid leading on progression raids.
I never said that more players = good game, you just brought that one up yourself.
I have already stated in other threads here that if DayZ had 50 players I would still play it, if the game has enough players to function then it's still worth playing. I know lots of people hate that game and hate any game with permadeath in it or any form of permadeath.
Originally posted by quickshotz
You didn't understand what I said, I agree with you that game devs should not listen to forum whiners for game balance, hardcore pro player whiners or noob idiot whiners, neither.
Im not saying more people is bad. Im saying we dont need as much as people think. Eve survives with last I checked about 400k-500k players in a world of games with 1-10 million players. Just because your population is lower doesnt make it a bad game nor does it nessicarly effect gameplay.
You can be bad, thats not the problem. Its the bad players who dont want to get better! If your willing to learn and adapt then your really not a bad player, your just new and learning the game. Im talking about the winners that want the game catered to them and refuse to learn to play better
Originally posted by quickshotz
But eve subsides because it isnt combat centric. There is so much to keep a player of a variety of playstyles in thhe World from crafting and Politics to mercantile and banking to PVP and actual wars between corporations.
Again, I have not played this but my impression is that this is basic FPS persistent universe game with zombies- I mean, thats a very cool thing- VERY cool. But does it have the depth of a game like Eve (or is that in the plans?) because if NOT you will need a much larger player base to make this work and be populated enough down the road when the "newness" wears off. If you basicly log in, gather loot, survive and kill its going to get old quick for those who are not very skilled at the FPS combat- This, in turn would really negativly impact this type of game far mopre than a game like Eve.
Originally posted by SaintPhilip
So lets bring that depth into the game instead of fighting for players off the bat. And catering to the "average" person. Depth first please
Originally posted by quickshotz
I agree and it would be awesome if some deep crafting/economic/non combat tools were added- But absent of that actually happening there has to be give and take between a "Hardcore" attitude and the "masses".
-I again state that I have not played this game so everything I am stating is pure conjecture.
Assuming this is very harcore and the game "owned" by a few elites and PKers- With the death = lockout (unless you pay) and limited toons, this game will sink fastert han the Titanic unless something is added for those "masses" to do except be cannon fodder.
-Not listening to the masses is true- But the same must be said of the (much smaller base of) elite players. Too many games which are "Hardcore" will not give an inch to accomodate other playstyles or give other player types som ething to do- and they usually have dead servers quite quickly.
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Can't get enough of these games. Sandbox 4tw :D
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Damn...They really have hit those numbers????
And "sandbox" gameplay? Can you share or still under NDA? I wasnt rwally aware this was a sandbox but that certainly peaks my interest...
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Havent played it myself yet, but I will say i completely agree with the OP in regards to rewarding being bad, etc.
One of you mentioned playing football / soccer and not being very good. But does that stop you from having fun? You say you play, so I would assume youre still enjoying it and didnt run off the field and "ragequit" because youre not the best and probably got your ass kicked a few times. Youre not getting paid to do it I assume, and yeah there are of course the benefits to playing like staying in shape, but you could be doing something else to stay in shape. Arent you playing because you enjoy it?
But when it comes to games, not just MMOs, the masses have this mindset of "if I dont instantly get reward, even if i sucked, this game is no fun".
I just dont get that mindset at all. I find a challenge, and then being rewarded for overcoming it, a hell of a lot more fun than going through things in easy mode and getting the same useless token rewards as everyone else because it makes them feel good about themselves.
Maybe part of my mindset comes from FPS, which I was into before I got big into MMOs. I wasnt rewarded with crap after every round if I was a poor player. I had to practice and learn the game and how to outsmart my opponents. My reward was seeing my name moving up the rankings lists until I took over the #1 spots in several games. I took over the #1 spot in Team Survival Kills / #2 in the entire game in Rainbow SIx with approx 38000 kills (when I left, I had the spots before that) and in GR2 #1 overall kills with approx 80k kills, #1 rank in 2/3 modes, and #1 kills in all modes within a few months of starting each game, not because I sucked and was being handed easy mode rewards constantly. I didnt need that crap to tell me I was getting better. I knew I was getting better by my consistently winning even while running intentionally lopsided teams in the enemy's favor, and by moving up those leaderboards.
Now granted, a lot of games dont have good leaderboards like that, but the principle is the same. I dont encounter something difficult and go whining to the devs that something is unfair and they need to nerf it or Im going to quit, etc. I keep trying it over and over again using various methods until I figure out how to get around that obstacle. Even if the rewards arent worth the time & effort, I still find myself going out of my way to purposely take on things that people claim are difficult, just so I can say I did it.
The giant in Nageling or whatever that village is in GW2 for example. I always so people complaining about him being so hard and how he is OP and its stupid and not worth doing, he neds to be nerfed, whine after endless whine. So when I had the chance one day running through there and nobody else was around I took him on solo. It was a bitch, and took me about 15-20 minutes to finally bring him down, but I did it. I got the same crappy gold and xp rewards as I would have gotten if there had been 20 people there with me taking him down, but that didnt matter to me.
If War Z is the type of gae that rewards players for getting better, not for continuing to be lazy and learn from their mistakes, I really hope they stick to it and let the crybabies who cant stand any sort of challenge go elsewhere.
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Its not an actual sandbox in the true sense of the word, like with any sort of world building, etc. Its just sandboxy in that you can kind of go where you want, do what you want, as long as you can handle it. Its kind of like Darkfall. Youre free to go anywhere, use any equipment, etc. But you cant actually build houses or otherwise impact the world like you can in a real sandbox.
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For me WARZ was far the worst game of 2012.
Seriosly guys, stay away from this game.
IF you want to buy it,watch an actual ingame video,check the list of bugs
and be prepared for payin' for something ( i can't call it a game ) that you will
uninstall after 10 minutes.
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"Kill me, my man kills you, that's how you lose."
Now that the game is in more of a relatively playable state it is kind of fun. I can enjoy 30minutes to an hour here and there.
I stock piled food/water/medical supplied. I also found many melee weapons, found a few guns and ammo.
I started off thinking I will not kill players.. that quickly changed. Because you cannot tell the name of the person who tyou are standing by, without them talking and doing some action like jumping to say they are friendly. You really have to expect everyone to attempt to kill you. Because of this I created 3 characters that I strictly kill anything and everything.
The gameplay has made it obvious it is a kill or be killed world.
With that said... you understand that you can enjoy the game for a good bit. It is definitely not a game I would play hours on end nor everyday... I definitely won't think about playing it while I am not playing it either.
"I see they watchin' me and takin' notes on my moves, Run up on me it's all I want I ain't got nothin' to lose."
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Originally posted by kaiser3282
But you cant actually build houses or otherwise impact the world like you can in a real sandbox.
not yet. its coming. :D gonna be sorta like mindcraft. the "strongholds" will be instanced but still will be a lot of fun.
to anyone intersted in the game u can get a lot of info here
so dont beat around the bush if your wanting to get in on this one cheap. like dayz, price will go up and stay there. supply and demand curve is simply too good.
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Originally posted by SlickShoes
Bingo, there's a reason certain recreational activities such as golf or bowling have handicap systems in place, it's done to try and make the game a little more fair to those who are less skilled (and always will be less skilled) and keep they happy enough to keep playing/paying.
Professional sports make no such allowances, but then again, MMO's aren't pro sports so should tailor their design to the more recreational playerbase, even if it removes some of the challenge for the very skilled.
Wouldn't it be great if the more you won in PVP the weaker your character got? That would be fair now I think......
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
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FYI - The signal isn't devil Worship. Ronnie James Dio, a rock star in the late 70's and early 80's made it up. Simply put, Ronnie James Dio called the hand gesture "Darkness". Now, you have to understand that Ronnie James Dio is agnostic himself. He doesn't believe in the devil, and also speaks out against institutionalized religion. I see nothing wrong with the rock hand gesture, especially as used in the video. It was clearly a response to get mindless Christian fundamentals into a blood frenzy.
I watched a number of these utubes from athiests and noticed the hellfire doctrine came up repeatedly. I don't think these people hate God, they hate the idea that God would burn and torment people forever for no other reason than they didn't believe in Him. IMO of course.
I am sorry to say, for those whom say the "intentions" of the "atheists" are good. You say watch the entire video and you will see their good intentions?One only has to go to the beginning to see the intentions. (have you seen the end without going to the beginning? )
(or what would you think if a donkey was speaking that there is no God?) You would say it had an unclean spirit in it. (at least I think you would)
No, I wouldn't agree. I rather the donkey do it. As I said, where we have spirits denying Christ, we have a spiritual battle. Jesus is Lord, the spirits know this, even the unclean ones, so where there is a human being battling Christ, it is a spirit battling, with no good intentions.
omgosh you guys, athiests are donkeys and what was Gary A as a former agnostic, a monkey or something? I am very dissappointed, you guys need to get out more, rub sholders with people that dont believe in a God and you will find most of them are not much different than you are. They live, they love, they laugh, they cry.kept
Tis all good. Sometimes it takes a the lowiest of animals to have God speak through, an athiest challenging a Christian who cannot defend their irrational God, would be no different than a donkey doing it, would you agree?
QuoteTis all good. Sometimes it takes a the lowiest of animals to have God speak through, an athiest challenging a Christian who cannot defend their irrational God, would be no different than a donkey doing it, would you agree?yeah, but go back and read, you said the lowest of animals, and so your point was athiests are the lowest of humansthat my friend is really ugly to me and how most of the wonderful christians that come to 'save' them treat them too and then they wonder why there is so much anger? kept
I cannot say I dissagree with this. But I am not sure why this applies... These people are not attempting to debunk Jesus. They are debunking 1) That Kirk and Ray did not have any scientific evidence and 2) That God is going to send people to eternal torture. I don't see this as Anti-Christ at all... I see that as the facts... God isn't going to eternally torture anyone, and Kirk and Ray did NOT have any scientific data... So, tell, where does the bolded part you wrote about really apply?
Uhhm... That depends. Do you recall in the OT when God said he would send a lying spirit? Don't you find that interesting? Can you explain what that is and was?
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Tour to support new rule involving long puttersBy DOUG FERGUSON
The Associated Press | July 02,2013
Keegan Bradley grips his club as he leaves the ball short for par on the 18th green during the third round of the Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Irving, Texas. Bradley bogeyed the hole but leads the field heading into the final round at 13-under par. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The PGA Tour said Monday it would follow a new rule that bans the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, asking instead Monday for a temporary reprieve for those who play the game for fun.
The announcement Monday after a PGA Tour board meeting is the final piece of confirmation from a major golf organization for Rule 14-1b, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2016 when the next Rules of Golf is published. The rule makes it illegal for players to attach the end of the club to their body when making a stroke.
Adam Scott used a long putter held against his chest when he won the Masters. Ernie Els (British Open) and Webb Simpson (U.S. Open) used a belly putter last year. Keegan Bradley in the 2011 PGA Championship was the first major champion with a belly putter.
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association proposed the new rule Nov. 28 and allowed for a three-month comment period. It formally adopted the rule May 21.
Finchem said in February the tour was opposed to the new rule because there were no data to suggest an advantage and no overriding reason to go down that road. The tours opinion was shaped by a players-only meeting earlier that month.
In making its decision, the policy board recognized that there are still varying opinions among our membership, but ultimately concluded that while it is an important issue, a ban on anchored strokes would not fundamentally affect a strong presentation of our competitions or the overall success of the PGA Tour, Finchem said in a statement.
The board also was of the opinion that having a single set of rules ... applicable to all professional competitions worldwide was desirable and would avoid confusion.
The decision to go along was not a surprise. The common ground by all sides was the importance of golf being played under one fundamental set of rules, as has been the case for hundreds of years.
The wrinkle that came out of the tours meeting was asking the R&A and USGA to give amateurs more time to adjust away from the anchored stroke. PGA of America president Ted Bishop was among those concerned that banning the stroke used for long putters would force too many people to quit the game out of frustration, at a time when golf is worried about decreasing participation.
The policy board continues to believe that extending the time period the ban would go into effect for amateurs would be beneficial for golf participation and the overall health of the game, Finchem said.
Finchem cited the USGA changing the groove configuration for irons in 2008. It was effective for elite play in 2010, but does not apply to recreational play until 2014.
But the decision on grooves was an equipment issue. Anchoring is a change in the actual rules of golf. For the USGA and R&A, which set the rules for the 600-year-old game, to allow amateurs more time to use anchored strokes would be created two sets of rules.
The PGA of America also said it would follow the new rule, while expressing concern about amateurs.
We continue to feel strongly that the amateur player needs a longer period of adjustment to this rule, Bishop said.
Neither Finchem nor Bishop recommended a date for amateurs.
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The Shabbos before Shavuos is called Black Sabbath or "Shabbos Shvartze" in Juedisch-Deutsch as it markes the Crusader destruction of Kehillas SH'UM in Germany's Rhine Valley. (These are the cities known as Speyer, Worms and Mainz). Av Harachamim, the Sabbath prayer for the martyrs, was written for that Shabbos and was also extended to Shabbos Chazon which is before Tisha B'Av