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The Inclusion Fellowship
Deadline: June 10, 2017
The Inclusion Fellowship, extension of India Inclusion Summit , is the first-of-its kind fellowship offered to individuals working in the inclusion space. The Inclusion Fellowship supports a cohort of upcoming entrepreneurs, artists, policy makers and anyone working in the disability space to promote inclusion. The fellows will receive seed money upto INR 250,000 and exposure to the inclusion domain network from India Inclusion Summit to support their inclusion project. The fellowship program will involve 3 weeks of learnings + field visits in Delhi and Bangalore which will include meeting with social investors, social entrepreneurs, NGOs in the disability space and culminate with the main event (India Inclusion Summit) at Park Plaza, Bangalore.
Location: Delhi and Bangalore
Stay and local travel will be covered by the IIS team upon selection.
Other perks:
- Volunteering opportunity at IIS event
- Few of the IIS fellows will be offered a seed capital to establish their projects or ventures
- Life-long association with the team and members of India Inclusion Summit community.
Important Dates:
- Application deadline: 10th June 2017
- Selection and interview: 1st July – 30th July 2017
- Results announcement: 1st September 2017


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A star of F&W's Around the World Network, influencer Emily Elyse Miller of Trends on Trends took us on a tour of some of Nashville's best places to eat, drink and shop, including White's Mercantile. Watch the clip to find out why it's a must-stop shop for Nashville provisions.
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Forum Post: Brown Student Lena Sclove Speaks Out After School Lets Her Accused Rapist Return to Campus
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Brown Student Lena Sclove Speaks Out After School Lets Her Accused Rapist Return to Campus
Friday, 02 May 2014 12:04
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
The issue of sexual assault on college campuses has been in the spotlight this week with a White House task force urging schools to take action. The government launched a new informational website, NotAlone.gov, and a public service announcement featuring President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden alongside famous actors. But long before celebrities and senators entered the picture, the battle against sexual assault on college campuses was led by students who have risen up to hold their schools accountable. We are joined by Brown University student Lena Sclove, who says she was raped and strangled in August 2013 by a fellow student. Her alleged rapist was found responsible for four violations of the student conduct code, including "sexual misconduct that involves one or more of the following: penetration, violent physical force or injury." But his penalty effectively amounted to a one-semester suspension. Students say Sclove's case is not unusual as universities across the country have come under fire for mishandling sexual assault cases. More unusual was Sclove's decision to speak out by holding a press conference on Brown's campus last week.
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AMY GOODMAN: The issue of sexual assault on college campuses has been in the spotlight this week. On Tuesday, a White House task force headed by Vice President Joe Biden released a report urging colleges to take action by conducting surveys, promoting bystander intervention and improving their disciplinary systems. Citing studies that show one in five women are sexually assaulted in college, the government launched a new informational website, NotAlone.gov, and a public service announcement featuring President Obama and Vice President Biden alongside famous actors.
BENICIO DEL TORO: We have a big problem, and we need your help.
DULÉ HILL: It's happening on college campuses, at bars, at parties, even in high schools.
STEVE CARELL: It's happening to our sisters and our daughters.
DANIEL CRAIG: Our wives and our friends.
SETH MEYERS: It's called sexual assault, and it has to stop.
DULÉ HILL: We have to stop it. So listen up.
BENICIO DEL TORO: If she doesn't consent or if she can't consent, it's rape, it's assault.
STEVE CARELL: It's a crime. It's wrong.
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: If I saw it happening, I was taught you have to do something about it.
BENICIO DEL TORO: If I saw it happening, I speak up.
DANIEL CRAIG: If I saw it happening, I'd never blame her. I'd help her.
DULÉ HILL: Because I don't want to be a part of the problem.
SETH MEYERS: I want to be a part of the solution.
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: We need all of you to be a part of the solution. This is about respect. It's about responsibility.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: It's up to all of us to put an end to sexual assault. And that starts with you.
DANIEL CRAIG: Because one is too many.
AMY GOODMAN: That was Daniel Craig, Seth Meyers, Benicio Del Toro, Steve Carell and Dulé Hill, with President Obama and Vice President Biden. The PSA will air in movie theaters and on military installations and ships. Meanwhile, Senators Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand are leading an effort for increased funding to address sexual assault at colleges.
Well, long before celebrities and senators entered the picture, the battle against sexual assault on college campuses was led by students who have risen up to hold their schools accountable, sometimes risking sanctions themselves. Students have filed federal complaints at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, Amherst College and Occidental, among scores of others. The number of complaints against colleges related to sexual violence has tripled since tracking began in 2009, with 33 in the first half of this year alone.
Most recently, attention has focused on Brown University, where a student, Lena Sclove, says she was raped and strangled after a party in August 2013. Her alleged rapist, a fellow student, was found responsible for four violations of the student conduct code, including "sexual misconduct that involves one or more of the following: penetration, violent physical force or injury." Sclove says a university panel recommended a two-year suspension, but a dean reduced that to one year. Sclove appealed, seeking a harsher sentence, but was denied. Since her accused attacker remained on campus throughout the hearing and appeal, his one-year suspension effectively became one semester.
The case has caused a nationwide uproar. But students at Brown and elsewhere say Lena Sclove's story is not necessarily unusual. In fact, in her letter denying Sclove's appeal, a Brown University official cited, quote, "the precedent of similar cases." More unusual was Lena Sclove's decision to denounce the university in public. Last week, standing outside Brown's Van Wickle Gates, surrounded by supporters, she described her injuries.
LENA SCLOVE: It turned out I had a cervical spine injury in my neck from being strangled. It's very common for trauma injuries like this to take several months to surface. I could not walk for about two months, from January and February. I was bedridden and was forced to take a medical leave. So I lost my one semester of freedom, and now my next opportunity to come back as a student to matriculate here at Brown is the same semester that the rapist is allowed to come back and matriculate here at Brown. I feel like I should have been thanked by the administration for keeping this campus safe; instead, they kept him safe.
AMY GOODMAN: Lena Sclove, speaking at Brown University on April 22nd. Following the uproar over her case, her accused assailant has decided not to return to Brown in the fall. Lena Sclove joins us now in New York along with Wagatwe Wanjuki, an organizer with the Know Your IX campaign, which helps empower students to file complaints against their schools under Title IX. She's also a contributor at Feministing and a former student at Tufts University, where she filed a complaint in 2008 after two years of alleged rape and abuse by a fellow student, but Tufts did not take action. She was in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for the announcement of the White House report.
Lena and Wagatwe, welcome. Lena, let's begin with your case. And thank you very much for joining us. It's extremely brave to speak out as you are doing. Can you talk about what happened to you?
LENA SCLOVE: Sure. The perpetrator was a friend of mine. We had met at a midyear transfer orientation. He seemed like a nice guy. We spent time together over the summer. And then we had been intimate a couple of times. And I think it's really important to be open about that, because many survivors feel that they can't come forward because not only did they know the person, but maybe they had been intimate or dated the person before. That does not mean that it can't be rape in the future.
So, we had decided that it was over. We weren't interested in moving forward. We were at a party on August 2nd, 2013. Both of us had been drinking. We left the party. And sort of there was definitely flirtation, and at this point it was all consensual, until I was basically pinned against a telephone pole. He had his hand wrapped around my neck. I couldn't breathe, and I couldn't move. And that is the moment it became completely unconsensual. And the rest of the night is the nightmare that keeps reliving in my head.
AMY GOODMAN: You said you were strangled twice, and you were raped.
LENA SCLOVE: Yes, I was—yes, he then got me back to his apartment, saying that he would just get me some water and walk me home. Instead, he proceeded to undress me and rape me, and choke and strangle me during the rape again, a second time.


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One of the biggest trials of running your own private practice is effectively managing your staff. Most times, when physicians work together at a private practice, they approach their specialty from two differing angles. Doctor A may have his implements prepared in X manner while Doctor B may insist on his lead nurse being on standby at all times. In the middle of all these nuances are a staff of caring healthcare professionals – physician assistants, nurses, technicians, medical assistants, and others – who rely upon the direction of a doctor to properly take care of patients. Inconsistencies can sometimes cause the first cracks of stress to form at the foundation of a burgeoning private practice.
At the International Association of Healthcare Professionals, we're able to give you useable advice in how to better manage and treat your healthcare professionals so directions remain consistent, accurate, and most-of-all: reliable. Healthcare is undoubtedly one of the most stress-filled jobs in existence, which is why it is every physician and doctor's goal to not only communicate effectively between each other but also with their staff as well. Effective communication skills, such as task lists, order charts, and verbal commands, can help make sure that your medical staff are all on the same page with you – even when you are swapping out with one of your colleagues.
The IAHCP specializes in forming a network with other healthcare professionals – from doctors to certified nursing assistants – in order to better facilitate a good, nurturing patient environment. And most of all – help keep your sanity intact.
The International Association of Healthcare Professionals understands the stress of running a private practice, which is why we offer a number of services to help work through your difficulties as both a manager and a medical healer. Because there are only so many hours in a week, and each patient requires the utmost attention and care. Thus, maximizing the use of your medical staff through effective communication is a value-added investment on your behalf.
The IAHCP focuses heavily on communication between healthcare professionals and aims to facilitate organizational methodologies that will not only make your job a little bit less stressful but also improve the quality of life for your employees and patients.
Nobody said operating a private practice would be easy and often times, as a career decision, a physician going to private practice can be a brilliant career move. However, even if done correctly, the practice can wind up sucking all the life out of the lead physicians. Patient care steadily drops, quality of service drops, mistakes are more prone to happen. If you own and operate your own private practice, you owe it to yourself to let the International Association of Healthcare Professionals be a resource for you.
If you're curious about what resources the International Association of Healthcare Professionals (www.iahcp.org) has to offer, come by and check out our website. They have a number of informative pieces that may help you reduce the stress inherent to your job and, perhaps, be able to network with other physicians working in their own private practices. You have already given so much of yourself to your job, why not let IAHCP give something back to you?


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House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner who has served 14 years in the House announced today he won't seek re-election this year. This creates an opportunity for a Republican to capture another seat. It is much easier to take an open seat than topple an incumbent. President Barack Obama won the district with 66 percent of the vote in 2012 and Turner won reelection unopposed in the General Elections. In 2014 without Obama on the ticket and more interest in Republican races than Democrat races, Republicans may have a shot at winning this seat. The district covers the areas of Old Hickory, Madison, east Nashville, downtown Nashville and Germantown. To view the district map, follow this link and click "map."
According to the Nashville Scene, at least five Democrats have expressed interest in running for the seat. They are Zak Kelley, Wade Munday, Freddie O'Connell, Anthony Davis, and Kenny Byrd. For more on who these people are follow this link.
Turner has said he is considering a run for mayor in 2015.
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After hitting us with a string of new releases over the past few weeks, including "All Star Break Up" & "Staying Power" to name a couple, MMG rapper Wale decided to come through today and surprise fans with the release of a new 4-song EP called It's Complicated, which will hold us over while we continue to wait for his secretive J. Cole collab we caught a couple months ago to surface.
Looking to highlight one of the early standouts for y'all, here goes the collab with singer Jacquees called "Black Bonnie," which is already trending on Twitter. Slowing things down here, like the entire project, Wale & Jacques address their forever ride or die chicks & reflect on their past relationship issues, among others.
Take a listen and let us know what you think. It's Complicated out now on iTunes.
Quotable Lyrics:
Talk to me different, lets come up together
Fuck your ex nigga, If you fuck me better
Lets go to Neimans, lets go Lennox
Spend a whole check and run a play to get the next one
Lets create the vibe, lets not take our time
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Concerts 2019/20
12th February 2019 Dundee Chamber Music
Beethoven Trio in D Op.70/2 'Ghost'
Turina Piano Trio No.2 in B minor Op.76
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
10th March 2019 Stour Valley Arts and Music Society
Rautio Trio & violist Robin Aswell
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K.478
Mahler Quartet movement in A minor
Brahms – Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Op.25
29th April 2019 Hoylake Chamber Concert Society
Mozart, Divertimento Trio in Bb major, KV254
Beethoven, Piano Trio in D major, Op 70 No 1, Ghost
Bernstein, Piano Trio
Ravel, Piano Trio in a minor
12 May 2019 LCMS Kings Place
Rautio Piano Trio & Robin Ashwell (viola)
6.30pm Kings Place
Beethoven – Piano Trio in D Op.70 No.1 'Ghost'
Ferdinand Hiller – Piano Trio No.6 in C minor
Brahms – Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Op.25
Join the Rautio Piano Trio for a concert of 19th-century German masterworks beginning with Beethoven's famous Ghost Trio and closing with Brahms's G minor Piano Quartet and its exuberant Hungarian-inspired Finale. In between comes a work by Ferdinand Hiller, a pupil of Hummel and a prolific composer who knew many of the famous German musicians of his age.
22 June 2019 Tetbury Goods Shed Arts
4 November 2019 London Bach Society
Prince Albert, Prince Consort:
The Bach Connection
An illustrated celebration of Victoria and Albert's love of music
and the Prince's role in the influential 19th century British Bach revival, given in collaboration with the British-German Association
The Trio will perform a new arrangement by Jan Rautio of JS Bach Passacaglia & Fugue BWV 582, commissioned for this concert.
7.15pm St George's Church Hanover Square, London W1S 1FX
Book tickets: www.bachlive.co.uk or phone: 01883 717372
7th March 2020 Berkhamsted Music Society
Haydn Trio in E flat Hob XV:10
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (arr. for piano trio by Steuermann) Op.4
Beethoven Trio in B flat Op.97 'Archduke'
12th March 2020 Music @ Mansfield Street
Concert in support of the Rautios recording the complete cycle of Beethoven Trios on historical instruments.
April 2020 Recording Beethoven - Resonus Classics
29th May 2020 Bedwyn Music Society
More details and booking info coming soon.
15-18 October 2020 Hastings Early Music Festival
2nd December 2020 Kendal Midday Concert Club
Shostakovich Trio No.1 in C minor Op.8
Kurt Weill A selection of pieces from the Threepenny Opera arr. J. Rautio
13th December 2020 Conway Hall
More details and booking info coming soon.
12th February 2021 Tickhill Music Society
More details and booking info coming soon.
14th February 2021 Kings Place London
Programme to include the world premiere of Brian Elias' piano trio. More details and booking info coming soon.
21st February 2021 Kino Teatr
Programme to include the world premiere of Brian Elias' piano trio. More details and booking info coming soon.
17th July 2021 Hay Music
Programme to include the world premiere of Brian Elias' piano trio. More details and booking info coming soon.
Special Projects & Collaborations
'Mozart's Court' A staged concert of arias & chamber music
Delve into Mozart's world in 18th century Vienna. This concert features soprano Kirsty Hopkins (The Sixteen), performing arias from 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' with chamber music from the Rautio Piano Trio. More than a concert, this is an immersive experience, exploring Mozart's life both internal and external as he was on the cusp of his breakthrough as an opera composer.
In two Acts, Mozart's Court, explores the connections between his opera and chamber music. Arias delve into the turbulent love experienced by Mozart's operatic female characters, interspersed with movements for piano trio echoing the compositional style and temperament of the operas.
Premiered in 2018 at Hastings Early Music Festival.
Science & Music with TV Presenter Dallas Campbell at Kings Place London
Rautio Piano Trio Christmas Appearance 2018
Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People, hosted by Robin Ince
Kings Place, London SOLD OUT
These shows have always been about celebrating the best humanity has to offer and our curiosity about the universe around us. We're at a time in human history where positive curiosity has never been in more demand.
Rose D'Or winner Robin Ince hosts the variety night like no other. Science, comedy, music, poetry and many other things that will cause us to overrun…
Tango Concert with dancers from Rojo y Negro Tango @ Kino Teatr
Passion & Fire from Buenos Aires – A concert featuring the Rautio's ongoing collaboration with Rojo y Negro.
Experience the music of Astor Piazzolla and Argentinian Tango as the Rautios join forces with Bianca and Sacha from Rojo y Negro Tango London. This special concert features Tango classics from the Golden Age through to Tango Nuevo and Piazzolla. Beautiful images by Sacha Leech compliment the performance, premiered at the Kino Teatr in St Leonards on Sea, Hastings.
Themed Programmes:
Celebrating Shostakovich at Kings Place
Approaching The Iron Curtain
Rautio Trio play Bernstein, Copland & Shostakovich
Bernstein Piano Trio Op.2
Copland Piano Trio 'Vitebsk'
Shostakovich Piano Trio no.1 in C minor Op.8
Shostakovich Piano Trio no.2 in E minor Op.67
The Rautio Trio performed dramatic 20th century works spanning two decades leading to the end of the Second World War.
Despite the apparent contrast of American and Soviet musical styles, these three composers are linked by several historical, cultural and personal connections and all display influences of Jewish Eastern European musical tradition. A champion of Shostakovich's music in the West, Bernstein's lively trio is an explosion of American post-depression optimism, whilst his mentor, Copland, draws us into a bleaker world with his striking trio based on a Jewish theme. Shostakovich's youthful and exuberant first piano trio is programmed alongside the monumental second trio which plunges us back into the darkness of Stain's USSR.
Cycle of Mozart Piano Trios at Tel Aviv Museum of Arts & St George's Bristol
The Rautio Trio performed the complete cycle of Mozart Trios on fortepiano. They then recorded their critically acclaimed debut disc for Resonus Classics of Mozart Trios .
Part I
Mozart Trios KV 254, KV 496, KV 502
Part II
Mozart Trios KV 548, KV 564, KV 542
Mendelssohn Piano Trios at St George's Bristol & at the Cobbe Collection on historical instruments
From Leipzig to London: Mendelssohn & JC Bach 'London Bach' Piano Trios
These concerts featured both Mendelssohn piano trios and were paired with rarely performed trios by JC Bach.
At the Cobbe Collection, the Trio performed on period instrumnets, using an 1845 Erard piano.
Part I
JC Bach Trio in G Op.2/2 JC Bach Trio in C Op.15/1
Mendelssohn Trio in D minor Op.49
Part II
JC Bach Trio in D Op.2/3 JC Bach Trio in A Op.15/2


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15-17 Jul 2012 | SLA 2012 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO
Traction Software's Jordan Frank will be speaking on Pharma Competitive Intelligence at this year's SLA 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago, Noon 16 July (see session summary below - and slides in Monitoring and Leveraging Social Media Chatter, on the Internet and in the Enterprise).
Pharma Chatter: Capturing and Managing Non-traditional Information for Competitive Advantage
Learn about the unique nature of competitive intelligence in the pharmaceuticals industry and hear how info pros are using it to improve their organizations' competitive advantage.
Craig McHenry, Pfizer Inc.
Lisa Orgren, Septagon Research Group
Heather Bjella, Esq.
Jordan Frank, Traction Software
Monday July 16, 2012 12:00pm - 1:30pm @ Convention Center, Room E264


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SIMON SCOTT with the LEROYS - 'Move It Baby' / 'What Kind Of Woman' (Parlophone R 5164) July 1964
This hard driving beat disc is a recent purchase, I had never even heard it until last month when someone recommended it to me. I have spent some time diggin' on the internet and found an informative page about Simon Scott here.
Simon Scott was Managed by future Bee Gees boss Robert Stigwood and it seems that the latter had big hopes for his star find. Simon had the looks, voice and a forceful beat backing group in The LeRoys to succeed and their first single "Move It Baby" was a terrific debut. It reached the Top #40 in the British Charts but deserved to go so much higher.
Their next 45 "My Baby's Got Soul" flopped badly and Simon Scott drifted back into obscurity.


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The Dragendorff's Reagent is used for the detection of Nitrogenous compounds, alkaloids, antiarrhythmic drugs and surfactants and is also good detector for Phenols.
There are two kinds for preparations, each procedure says preparation of Solution A and Solution B, both are then mixed to use.
1st Method:
Solution A: 1.7 g basic bismuth nitrate in 100 ml water/acetic acid (4:1).
Solution B: 40.0 g potassium iodide in 100 ml of water.
Mix reagents together as follows: 5 ml A + 5 ml B + 20 ml acetic acid + 70 ml water.
Spray plates, orange spots develop. Spots intensify if sprayed later with HCl, or 50% water-phosphoric acid. Good for phenols.
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Solution A: 1.7 g basic bismuth nitrate and 20 g tartaric acid in 80 ml of water.
Solution B: 16 g potassium iodide in 40 ml of water.
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For businesses offering virtual services such as web development, back offices, accounting services, technical support, creative marketing, engineering and drafting services, effective communication plays a vital role for success. Some of the common virtual communication tools used today are Skype, Zoom, Hangouts, Slack, Fuze and etc. Many thanks to the modern technology for making the live of the people in…Read More »


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The first time I saw the comedian Brett Davis, he was dressed as a cupcake. It was a fairly standard Brooklyn stand-up show until he walked onstage, wearing a glittery pink cap and a skimpy round dress. He sang a cheerful tune that ended with him extending his bare arm and an invitation: "Take a lick."
Then he waited, holding a pause long enough to veer into Harold Pinter territory and beyond. When no one took him up on his offer, he asked again, his tone shifting from sugary to aggressive as he approached a man in the audience and said pointedly: "Come on!"
The man licked him, earning an anxious laugh from the crowd. Then Mr. Davis approached another man, asking for another lick. The mood darkened. What began as a goofy character turned into something menacing as a performer dressed as a sweet snack prowled the audience bullying men to lick him. Who was this guy and what in the world was he doing?
Mr. Davis offered a hint at one point, briefly shifting into the voice of an observational comic and mentioning the now-notorious article about a woman's date with Aziz Ansari. By turning a stand-up set into an unsafe space for men, was he making topical performance art about sexual coercion? Perhaps. But examining his broader output — which includes a weekly cable access show and a deliriously twisted podcast — what's clear is his satirical instincts never entirely overshadow his surrealist ones. There's always some madness to his method.
Mr. Davis, who is around 30, got his performing start as a New Jersey teenager prank-calling Tom Scharpling's "The Best Show" — he pretended to be a rapper named MC Steinberg — and he still owes a debt to the conversational, slow-burn comedy of that influential radio program. His anarchic, unhinged characters are typically marked by a coiled energy that gradually spins out of control.
Mr. Davis died in the first episode of "The Special Without Brett Davis," a low-budget talk show that airs in the former time slot of "The Chris Gethard Show" (where he made cameos as a hothead character named Smith). That allowed him to host the subsequent episodes playing a different wild-eyed character every time, including a nervously enthusiastic Chris Hardwick and a burned-out version of the professional wrestler Ric Flair, constantly yelling "wooooo." (Like Andy Kaufman, who appears to have had an influence on Mr. Davis, he's obsessed with wrestling.)
While he introduces musical performances and guest appearances by comics and journalists who often look a bit at sea interacting with Mr. Davis in character, each episode varies wildly, dominated by high concepts like an alt-right Christmas special or an award show for magicians. The show draws many of the funniest off-kilter performers from New York comedy (Cole Escola, Mary Houlihan, Jo Firestone, Conner O'Malley), and as you might expect from young comics, they're at their most scathing taking shots at the establishment comedy world. But reinventing the hourlong show every week on a shoestring leads to wildly uneven, often amateurish productions, packed full of moments of inspiration that don't last long.
"The Podcast for Laundry," a darkly funny spoof of niche podcasting that doubles as a cracked portrait of a damaged, delusional misanthrope, is a tighter, more distilled example of Mr. Davis's peculiarly assaultive comedy. In every episode, Mr. Davis, or an obnoxious, inept version of himself, talks to a friend in a laundromat about washing clothes. As in "The Special," Mr. Davis delights in hackneyed showbiz talk, catchphrases (he tries hard to make "yaas, honey" a thing) and industry jargon. After asking his guests a question, he often immediately interrupts them, saying, "Hold for bumper," referring to a brief ad that never actually shows up. His segments include "What's Your Terge?" where guests discuss their preferred detergent, and "Bleach, Please," where they talk about something that bothers them about laundry. Each episode is filled with banter gone horribly wrong.
"Podcast for Laundry" is a satire of podcasting, but only in the way that "Larry Sanders" sends up talk shows: T his is its starting place. But where Mr. Davis takes it is characteristically bizarre. Over the last two months, the podcast has seemed less like distinct episodes than chapters in the story of a sociopath. He struggles; alienates friends; moves to Los Angeles, where he can't find work or even a place to stay, while running into trouble with the law. While he can be a brusque jerk, there's pathos to his performance as he becomes increasingly desperate, lashing out at his guests or at various resentments.
His best guests are clued in to this dynamic and play straight men. In a superb performance that evokes her father Chris Elliott's work on "Late Night With David Letterman," Bridey Elliott tries and fails to stage an intervention with Mr. Davis, expressing concern that gradually turns to despair and fear. When she says that it seems as if he hasn't taken a shower in a while, he responds with operatic self-pity.
"I am a monster," he says. "I am the laundry monster. And I'll never be clean."
Mr. Davis has a gift for manufacturing hostility that quickly turns absurd. But what makes him compelling is how committed he is to his performance — never breaking character and persuading you of the reality of whatever extreme emotion he reaches for, no matter how ridiculous the situation. When he confessed his love to a bottle of Tide, it seemed like a silly joke, but it has blossomed into a long arc, a romance that everyone he talks to finds funny, then disturbing.
In a live taping of the podcast on Sunday at Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side, Kevin McDonald, a former member of Kids in the Hall, officiated a wedding between Mr. Davis and his detergent. This ceremony ended characteristically, with a burst of violence that spilled out into the hallway of the theater when a police officer character arrested him, shoving him against the wall.
But first there was the baffling tenderness between a man and his Tide. Mr. Davis gazed at the bottle, caressing it. When he kissed the cap, he lingered, in a way that was halfway between creepy and silly. But clearly this love affair has issues. Looking sheepish, he confessed: "I have looked at other bottles."
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Physical Properties is a topic for Chemistry Lab for the 2018 season. It is expected to be a topic for the 2019 season.
Physical properties can be observed and measured without changing the composition of matter, just as physical changes occur without affecting the chemical composition of matter. Physical properties can range from a wide variety of topics; the event and thus this wiki will focus on only a subset of these topics.
The Materials Science page may also be useful for this topic, but many of the Materials Science topics are focused on the engineering standpoint of physical properties rather than the chemical standpoint.
- 1 Types of Properties
- 2 Density
- 3 Magnetism
- 4 Electrical Resistance
- 5 Elasticity
- 6 Solubility
- 7 Intensive Properties
- 8 Extensive Properties
Types of Properties
Chemical properties of matter describe its ability to undergo various reactions or chemical changes. Chemical properties require experimentation to discover, and are not readily apparent based on a material itself. For example, flammability is a chemical property, which describes how readily a material burns. Corrosivity is another chemical property, describing how readily a material reacts with oxygen and rusts.
Physical properties, meanwhile, can be observed based on a material itself. They do not require a reaction to be tested. Physical properties can further be divided into extensive properties, which depend on the amount of matter in a system, and intensive properties, which depend only on the material itself. For example, mass is an extensive property, while density is intensive.
Density is one of the most commonly tested physical properties. It is fairly simple in nature and can easily be measured, but questions on density can still discuss complex lab procedures. Density is an intensive property.
Density follows the following basic formula:
[math]\rho = \frac{m}{V}[/math]
It is critical to understand conversions between common units of density.
[math]1 g/mL = 1 kg/L = 10^3 kg/m^3[/math]
Specific Volume
The specific volume is closely tied to density.
[math]v = \frac{V}{m} = \rho^{-1}[/math]
However, specific volume is most commonly used in the field of thermodynamics, not in traditional chemistry.
Specific Gravity
The specific gravity, or relative density, compares the density of a substance to the density of a reference. This reference density is typically water at 3.98 degrees C, which is approximately 1 g/mL.
[math]SG = \frac{\rho _{substance}}{\rho _{reference}}[/math]
Thermal Expansion
Substances tend to expand as they are heated. This occurs because increases in thermal energy cause molecules to vibrate more vigorously, increasing the average between molecules. Thermal expansion thus decreases density and increases specific volume. In solids, this expansion is small but certainly not negligible. In liquids, thermal expansion is greater. Finally, in gases, thermal expansion has drastic effects on volume and density.
The density of a gas can be calculated based on the basic relationship between mass and volume. However, is often difficult to measure either of these properties of a gas. Instead, density can be calculated from other, more easily measured properties thanks to the ideal gas law.
The most common form of the ideal gas law, including the effects of temperature and thermal expansion: [math]PV = nRT[/math]
A modified form of the ideal gas law, using specific volume and molar mass: [math]Pv = MRT[/math]
A further modified form of the ideal gas law, utilizing the relationship between specific volume and density: [math]P = \rho MRT[/math]
From these equations, the direct relationship between volume and temperature and the inverse relationship between density and temperature are both apparent. It is important to note that all of these equations are only valid for gases, and should not be used for calculations with solids or liquids.
The density of liquids can be measured directly through the use of a hydrometer. The hydrometer is constructed of a glass tube with a bulb at the end; the bulb is weighted with mercury, lead, or another dense substance. If the hydrometer is placed in a liquid of unknown density, it will float upright at a certain height. At that height, the mass of the hydrometer divided by the volume submerged within the liquid is equivalent to the density of the liquid. The hydrometer will usually contain a calibrated scale, so that this equivalent density or specific gravity can be easily read.
The hydrometer uses Archimedes' Principle of buoyancy. For a solid submerged within a liquid, the solid experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. The solid will reach equilibrium if its own weight is equal to the buoyant force, or in other words if its own density is equal to the density of the fluid.
[math]F_b = V_{solid}*\rho _{liquid}*g[/math]
[math]w = V_{solid}*\rho _{solid}*g[/math]
If weight and buoyant force are equal: [math]\rho _{solid} = \rho _{liquid}[/math]
Since the masses of solids are easily obtained, calculating the density of a solid largely relies on measuring its volume. This volume can be obtained by a number of procedures:
For a regular solid, the important dimensions of the solid can be measured with a ruler or calipers. For example, the volume of a regular cylinder could be calculated from its height and diameter.
For irregular, continuous solids, the volume can be measured by volume displacement.
- A graduated cylinder is partially filled with water.
- The initial volume of the water is measured.
- The solid is carefully placed in the graduated cylinder.
- The final volume of the water and solid is measured.
- The volume of the solid can be calculated from the difference between the initial and final volumes.
Note that this procedure also works for regular solids.
For powdered, granular, or porous solids, a pycnometer is used. The pycnometer is simply a container with a precisely calibrated volume.
- The initial mass of the empty pycnometer is measured.
- A relatively small amount of the solid is placed into the empty pycnometer.
- The mass of the pycnometer and solid is measured.
- The pycnometer is filled with a liquid of known density. Note that the solid must be completely insoluble in the liquid.
- The final mass of the pycnometer, solid, and liquid is measured.
From the results of this procedure, the density can be calculated:
- The mass of the liquid can be calculated from the difference in mass between steps 3 and 5.
- The volume of the liquid can be calculated from the mass and known density.
- The mass of the solid can be calculated from the difference in mass between steps 1 and 3.
- The volume of the solid can be calculated from the difference between the calibrated volume and the volume of the liquid.
- By definition, the density of the solid can be calculated from its mass and volume.
Magnetism is a phenomenon based on the behavior of magnetic fields. It is commonly understood based on attraction and repulsion between traditional magnets, but is actually much more complex. Magnetism is instead the result of the motion of electric charges. From the perspective of physics, magnetism is usually viewed as a result of electric current or the motion of charged particles. However, the focus of magnetism in chemistry will likely be the motion of electrons in atomic orbitals.
Ferromagnetism is the most commonly known form of magnetism. It occurs in a limited number of substances, including iron, nickel, and cobalt. Ferromagnets exhibit long range order where unpaired electrons have parallel spins. However, this long range order is usually limited to small domains of a material. In their natural form, ferromagnetic materials usually are fairly disordered at the macroscopic scale, and magnetic fields from domains cancel out. These domains can be aligned by a small external field.
In general, hysteresis is the tendency of a physical property to have a delayed response to an external force. Hysteresis is notable, however, for its effects in ferromagnetism. Ferromagnets have the tendency to stay magnetized even once an external magnetic field is removed. This allows ferromagnets to produce fairly permanent magnetic fields.
Paramagnetism is also caused by the behavior of unpaired electrons; it occurs in any material with unpaired electron orbitals. In paramagnetism, unpaired electrons align in the presence of a magnetic field. This magnetization occurs in the direction of the applied field, causing attraction. However, paramagnets do not maintain their aligned state, causing them to be much weaker than ferromagnets.
Diamagnetism is caused by the presence of unpaired electron orbitals. It weakly opposes applied magnetic fields. In a material with both unpaired and paired electrons, the attractive force from paramagnetism dominates the repulsive force from diamagnetism.
Antiferromagnetism is another ordered form of magnetism. In antiferromagnetism, neighboring unpaired electrons have opposite spins, known as an antiparallel arrangement. When no external field is applied, this leads to the complete absence of magnetic properties.
The Neel temperature is specific to each antiferromagnetic material. Above this temperature, thermal disorder overcomes antiferromagnetic order, typically causing a material to become paramagnetic.
Ferrimagnetism is another type of magnetism involving a lattice of two opposing magnetic fields. However, in ferrimagnetism, one field is stronger than the other, leading to a net magnetic field. An external field can induce ferrimagnetic behavior in an antiferromagnet.
Electrical Resistance
Even conductive materials naturally resist the flow of electric current. A drop in voltage across a resistor provides a driving force for current. In many ways, this parallels the behavior of fluids, where the change in pressure causes fluid flow.
Ohm's law describes the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance:
[math]V = IR[/math]
Most substances have a constant resistance such that voltage and current are always directly proportional; these materials are described as ohmic.
It is important to note that resistance is actually an extrinsic property, depending on the size and shape of a material as well as the qualities of the material itself. This property can be easily seen through the behavior of resistors in circuits.
For resistors in series, the resistance increases.
[math]R_{total} = R_1 + R_2 + R_3 + R_4[/math]
For resistors in parallel, however, the resistance decreases.
[math]\frac{1}{R_{total}} = \frac{1}{R_1} + \frac{1}{R_2} + \frac{1}{R_3} + \frac{1}{R_4}[/math]
In other words, as the total length of resistors increases, the resistance increases; as the total area of resistors increases, the resistance decreases.
This relationship leads to a critical property of resistance. While resistance is an extrinsic property, it can be calculated from the intrinsic property of resistivity.
[math]R = \frac{\rho *l}{A}[/math]
Resistivity is constant regardless of the amount of material; it only depends on the temperature.
Conductivity is the inverse of resistivity.
Elasticity is the ability of an object to undergo reversible deformation. When a force is applied to a material, it will deform; elastic materials will return to their original state once the force is removed. This contrasts with plastic deformation, which is permanent. It is important to note that perfect elasticity is only a theoretical concept, and thus all materials experience some plastic deformation.
Young's Modulus
The process of deformation can be measured by two characteristics: stress and strain.
Stress is a measure of force per unit area, which allows the applied force to be compared across different experimental setups. It is measured in units of Pascals, or more typically, MPa and GPa.
[math]\sigma = F/A[/math]
Stress describes the change in length of a material. It can be expressed as a dimensionless quantity or a percentage.
[math]\epsilon = \Delta l/l_0[/math]
Stress and strain are often plotted against each other on a stress-strain curve. This curve demonstrates the the changes in stress as a material expands or contracts. In the elastic region, stress increases linearly with strain. This behavior follows Hooke's Law for a spring, as the force increases linearly with change in length. Young's Modulus is the slope of this region.
[math]E = \sigma /\epsilon[/math]
A higher Young's Modulus means a material resists deformation to a greater extent. Thus, for the purposes of physics or chemistry, a stiffer material has a higher elasticity. Note that this is the direct opposite of the common definition of elasticity.
Solubility is the property of a solute to dissolve in a solvent. For the purpose of this event, this will likely involve a solid solute dissolving into a liquid solvent. A substance is described as miscible if it fully dissolves at any concentration. Meanwhile, if a substance is very poorly soluble, it is often described as insoluble.
A common rule of solubility is "like dissolves like". Substances with similar structures are more likely to be soluble. For example, nonpolar substances are often soluble in hexane, polar substances are often soluble in water, and aromatic substances are often soluble in benzene.
Solubility Rules
While most questions about solubility will be fairly generalized, it is important to know the behavior of common ionic solids in water. The following rules can be used to determine solubility, with earlier rules taking precedence.
- Alkali metal or ammonium (NH4+) salts are soluble.
- Nitrate (NO3-) or acetate (CH3COO-) salts are soluble.
- Chloride, bromide, or iodide salts are soluble.
- Halide salts of silver, lead or mercury are insoluble.
- In general, silver salts are insoluble.
- Sulfate salts are soluble.
- Exceptions: CaSO4, BaSO4, PbSO4, Ag2SO4 and SrSO4.
- Hydroxide (OH-) salts are insoluble.
- Alkaline earth metal hydroxides are slightly soluble.
- Alkali metal or ammonium hydroxides are soluble.
- Inorganic acids are soluble.
- Sulfides of transition metals are insoluble. Also, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, and lead sulfides are insoluble.
- Carbonates, chromates, phosphates, and fluorides are frequently insoluble.
Intensive Properties
As described above, intensive properties do not depend on the amount of a material.
Some basic intensive properties include temperature, pressure, and color.
Other more detailed intensive properties are described below.
Color is the property of a substance when light is reflected by it and is often used to describe substances.
The various types of colors are represented at different wavelengths in the visible light spectrum.
An easy acronym to help remember the order of the colors from longest wavelength to shortest is ROYGBV.
Thermal conductivity is the property of a substance to conduct heat and is measured in watts per meter-kelvin (W/(m·K)) in SI units.
Objects with a high thermal conductivity have a higher rate of heat transfer, and object with a low thermal conductivity have a lower rate of heat transfer. The objects with low conductivity are often used for thermal insulation.
There are two ways to measure conductivity: steady-state and non-steady-state/transient methods. The steady-state method is used when the substance is at a constant temperature; techniques include the divided bar (for rocks samples) and Searle's bar method (for good heat conductors). The transient method is used when the material is experiencing an increase in temperature and can be performed faster than the steady-state methods.
Melting/Boiling Points
Many substances are described by their melting and boiling points. The melting point is the temperature at which a substance undergoes phase changes between liquid and solid. The boiling point, meanwhile, is the temperature at which a substance undergoes phase changes between liquid and gas. As melting point and boiling point are based on temperature, an intensive property, melting and boiling points are also intensive.
Note that melting point and boiling point are measured at a standard pressure of 1 atm, or 103.25 kPa.
This makes melting points and boiling points a fairly simplistic view of phase changes. As viewed on the right, all substances in fact have a much more complex system of phase changes. For most materials, high pressure favors the solid phase, while high temperature favors the gas phase. However, water behaves differently, as ice is lower density than water. High pressure in substances like water favors the liquid phase, instead of the solid phase.
Each line represents an equilibrium, where multiple phases can coexist and where phase transitions occur. This includes the traditional melting points and boiling points. Also, at certain pressures and temperatures, substances are able to sublimate directly from the solid to the gas phase. Some substances, like iodine, do this in standard conditions. Past the critical temperature or critical point, gases and liquids have the same density making them indistinguishable. Finally, at the triple point, the solid, gas, and liquid point of a substance all exist.
All aspects of a phase diagram are intensive properties, not just melting point and boiling points.
Specific Heat Capacity
The specific heat capacity is the amount of energy required to raise a given mass of a substance a given temperature. In the SI system, this is given in J/g*K. Specific heat is based off of heat capacity, but is not mass-sensitive and this is an intensive and not an extensive property. The molar heat capacity is also intensive, but is based on heat capacity per unit amount instead of mass.
Specific heat is often used in calorimetry (See: Chem Lab/Thermodynamics) to calculate heat transfer.
[math]q = m\cdot \Delta T\cdot C_p[/math], where q represents heat flow.
A notable specific heat is that of water, 4.184 J/g*K.
A solution has a concentration, which is defined as the ratio of the amount of solute to the amount of solvent or solution. Concentration measures include: molarity, molality, mole ratio.
Extensive Properties
Extensive properties are affected by the amount of material.
Some basic extensive properties include mass and volume.
Other more detailed extensive properties are described below.
Energy includes:
- Kinetic Energy
- Potential Energy (Gravity, Spring, Electromagnetic, etc.)
- Internal Energy (Thermal, Chemical, Nuclear, etc.)
The total amount of energy in a substance is related proportionally to its mass, so it is an extensive property.
Enthalpy is related to internal energy by the formula H = U + pV. It is related to the total amount of internal energy and work that a gas can do.
Entropy is defined as the total disorder of a substance. It is measured in J/molK. Its symbol is S.
Definitions of entropy include:
- The product of Boltzmann's Constant and the logarithm of the number of equiprobable microstates for a given macrostate.
- The change in entropy equals the reversible change in energy divided by temperature.
Gibbs Free Energy
Gibbs Free Energy is defined in relation to the system: G = H - TS. Gibbs Free Energy is defined in relation to the universe: G = -TS.
Gibbs Free Energy will always decrease for a spontaneous occurrence.
Four Laws of Thermodynamics
Not exactly physical properties, but relates the concepts described above.
0. Thermal equilibrium is an equivalence relation.
That Is: All systems are in thermal equilibrium with themselves. If a system is in thermal equilibrium with another, the latter system is in the thermal equilibrium with the first. If two systems are in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are in thermal equilibrium with each other.
Note: The last statement is the official statement of the Zeroth Law. Other statements are unstated assumptions.
1. Energy is conserved.
That Is: If a substance gains a certain amount of energy, the universe loses that amount of energy, and vice versa.
2. Entropy can never decrease.
That Is: The universe tends toward the state with the most disorder. The law involving Gibbs Free Energy is a corollary of this law.
3. A perfect crystal at absolute zero has no entropy.
That Is: Low thermal motion and ordered arrangement are the two fundamental components of entropic order.
Heat Capacity
Heat capacity is the ratio of energy added to temperature increased. It is the extensive property equivalent of specific heat.


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Same here. Everyone of his games look like a movie, especially when you've got Willem Dafoe, but it lacks any good qualities to draw you in. Even a bad movie like Street Fighter has something (I.E. Raul Julia's over-the-top performance) but David Cage's games only have the foul smelling taint of a bad auteur who is too much in love with himself, his "talent", and his obsession with better graphics.
I'm quite glad this game isn't very good with all the pretentiousness that was attached to the making of it.
I kinda feel the same whenever a Hollywood name is expected to be the only selling point to a game. It's all "stand back you useful amateurs and let us show you what can be done by people who know how stories should REALLY be told"... though I do like Ellen Page.
Despite Ellen Page I am still just a rat in a cage. Priceless.
All right I'm just gonna come right out and say it. With the exception of all the controversy around the Last of Us and this game, I have no fraking idea who the fuck Ellen Page is. Can someone please tell me what the big broo ha ha is? How come so many people love her and how come so many people here hate her?
Also there's a lot of David Cage hatred going on in here. I know there was that whole Emotions Emotions Emotions thing, but what did he do to get people to hate him THIS much? I thought the general conscientious was that Heavy Rain was decent at the very least. Even Yahtzee liked it.
Actually ten years ago Valve was bragging about the facial animations in Half Life 2.
Looks like nobody plays videogames for emotions anymore. Just for the shooting.
Is Beyond: Two Souls disappointing in its gameplay? Oh yes, VERY disappointing.
Is Beyond: Two Souls satisfying in its story and emotions it can convey? Oh yes, VERY much so.
People play stuff like Japanese visual novels all the time, and what we have here is - a much, much, muuuch higher budget visual novel, with a more serious plot.
I absolutely loved Heavy Rain because it had excellent characters and atmosphere. I didn't even care the gameplay was so very simple. I like Beyond: Two Souls a lot, but it does feel less effective in its narration than Heavy rain was.
Hey, people loved Dragon's Lair, and still do, since they keep re-releasing it. And Dragon's Lair gameplay sucks. But it's a game with a very high quality and an excellent artistic value and.... gameplay or not, it's very entertaining.
Heck, people play mmorpg and those things have a much worse gameplay than David Cage's games, and they don't even have a compelling story or excellent graphics attached to it.
In short: I understand the shortcomings of David Cage's videogames, and I realize they're not even quite videogames. But I still prefer to play Beyond: Two Souls than yet another generic shooter.
She's a pretty famous actress. Depending on what kind of movies you are into, you'd probably recognize her most from either Juno or Inception. People probably hate her because they view her as overrated or because of The Last of Us controversy, but I'd hardly consider her a horrible actress, just not a particularly memorable one for any good or bad reason.
OT: Maybe it is due to my hatred of David Cage and his attitude, but I don't think I've laughed at a Zero Punctuation episode this hard in a while.
The demo did not impress me, at least with Heavy Rain I could move somewhat more, with the choices having more impact on the derivative plot than here. Maybe when its cheaper but I tend not to spend over £10 on a film let alone £40...
Then there was Two Worlds II, which was a real title.
I haven't played this game or any David cage game so my opinion is kind of useless, but to me it seems like he really wants to explore the potential of video game storytelling and get away from the traditional skill based challenges that dominate games, but he just isn't skilled enough to pull it off and his games end up failing as both a game and movie.
That said, I haven't played the game, but I don't really want to.
Not my cup of tea, and a lot of the criticisms of the game have turned me off to it.
That said, if ya like it, that's okay.
Funny show today Yahtzee. :D
Agreed, but that's likely because that game actually had real gameplay.
Conversely, I wanted my money back after "Ellen Page Variety Hour." It's a novelty worth a bargain bin purchase of $20-$30, and nothing more. Granted, I would like to see where the stories goes from the end (per the "epilogue"), but not at $60.
I always say that I would take a good storyline over good gameplay. However, that is assuming the storytelling isn't disjointed, and there's substantial gameplay to speak of.
I do like the game, yet I'm still disappointed. Heck, Dragon's Lair had more gameplay than this, and it was one giant QTE.
that is not what Sarkeesian asked for. have you even seen her videos?! she also never said only good games have female protagonists. and quite frankly i imagine she would have a problem with using rape as a cheap way to make us feel sympathy for the protagonist (and rightfully so).
Has Sarkessian ever talked about gameplay mechanics? Better stories maybe, but "better stories" isn't "all story no gameplay". If Sarkessian said everything that angry guys said she said, she would have a ton more videos.
Oh the smashing pumpkins reference made my day.
If you ask me, female protagonist = must be feminist = must be what Sarkeesian wanted!!
What a stupid way of thinking. :/
Hey, which makes me think, here's another thing Beyond did right:
1) making you feel the life of a 12 years old girl
2) making you feel the life of a rebellious teenager
3) making you feel the miracle of birth
All of these are 10000000x more difficult to pull out than "making you feel the life of a super space marine".
And all of these are 10000000x more controversial than GTA5. GTA5 controversial? They're just giving dumb teens the mindless "edgy" carnage they asked. Now, Beyond: Two Souls is a really controversial game, because it takes enormous guts to make a game in which you live a day in the life of a little girl. Oh, THAT is controversy, my dear, not any hot coffee mod.
This game seriously disappointed me. It's not especially bad it's just that the story is stupidly simple, not especially deep, and not particularly well written. It's a bunch of crying and hushed whispers about super serious business. Seriously, the crying got old really fast. Because Jodie always cries and always suffers, I'm not sure when I'm supposed to feel bad for her, so I decided to just not feel bad for her. It was just boring.
I just wish I could hear that things Aiden decided to say; "Hey, so I possessed that guy and murdered those two cops like you asked me to. I wasn't sure what to do with the guy after that so I just had him shoot himself.. so ya know, three families are now without fathers."
The first thing I remember Page being in was the Movie Juno.
As for why people hate David Cage?
Well, yes there is the "Emotions" thing, but I have also heard he's got a VERY big ego.
One story I heard from Jim was when Cage was suppose to have an interview with Destructoid but they couldn't put it up because Cage just spent an hour complaining about how Jim gave Heavy Rain a 7 out of 10.
The only one of those I've seen was Inception it seems. Can't say I cared one bit for the pile of sophmoric blather so it's a bit of a blur to me, aside from Edith Piaf. Even Nolans inane movies can't ruin Edith Piaf. Was Ellen Page that girl who was like some sort of wizard kid the Leonardo found at some school?
I'm really put off by Ellen Page being in this game the way she is. I don't mind her in films and I wouldn't care about a voice over but just putting a celebrity in like this just strikes me as creepy and kinda egotistical. LA Noire did something similar but the character was still clearly Cole Phelps and not that dude out of Mad Men. For me this is a bit like making a cartoon of yourself and then voicing it. It might work for a comedy but a serious story? Why?
From what little I saw of a friend playing this game, the writing was horrible.
It wasn't that bad at first, but then it got to the birthday party and I just had to roll my eyes because of how stupid it was. Kids can be horrible little monsters yeah, but that was just silly. "Show us your super murder ghost powers!" followed shortly by "A book!? BUUUURN HEEEEER!".
Not to mention how stereotypically over the top the kids were acting before that. It was like a cheesy 80's sitcom where the writers have no idea how to write teenagers properly.
The drama feels so forced that it's cringe worthy. It's like someone keeps running up to you and screaming "FEEL SOMETHING" into your ear.
Has it ever occurred to you that, you know, the characters were INTENDED to be stereotypical?
Despite Ellen Page I'm still just a David Beige?
Whether it was intentional or not, it was still beyond cringeworthy. Like I said in the edit of my post, it felt like I was watching a bad 80's sitcom where the writers didn't know how to write kids. It was so forced to the point of comedy.
Yahtzee, you charismatic stallion, this is your funniest review yet! The name changes, the riffs on David Cage, and summing up what I thought would be wrong about the thing I hesitate to call a "game". I had a bad feeling about it back in E3 2012, the one with all those trailers for games that revealed something between "jack squat" and "bugger all" about their content. I got the same idea from The Last of Us, trying to be the "Oscar-bait" of video games. I know Yahtzee's a major proponent of games as art, but Cage seems to be all about this:
Now it's a competition to see who's the creepier game auteur yammering on about EEEEMOOTIOOOOOOOOOOOOONS: Cage or Peter Molyneaux (I have no idea how to spell that).
Passing the controller around and making fun of the game is how I both co-oped AND enjoyed Heavy Rain.
Something being intentional=/=something being good.
There's nothing wrong with admitting that something you like might have a few problems.
It feels like David Cage has become the Video Game Equivalent of M. Night Shyamalan, so it's only a matter of Time before he makes "The Happening" of Video games and the world rejoices at the unintentional comedy.
OT: I don't think I will ever pick up the game now. With everything everybody has said, plus the demo I played, Yahtzee has sort of solidified it for me. I know naysayers will come out of the woodwork to defend Cage's game, but honestly, with Indigo Prophecy, he at least had something resembling artistic control, and it wasn't that bad, despite what many people say about it.
Heavy Rain is where the relationship soured the more I played it, but it was fun for what I played.
Beyond: Two Souls, sadly, feels like it sort of supports what many say of the film industry: It's not the special effects budget you have (read: Emotions your characters can give off), it's the story.
What we need now is somebody who can utilize the tech, something I think Cage has proven well enough, and give way to a better scriptwriter, before Cage embarrasses himself further.
I don't mind bad reviews but why do they all go on and on about David Cage as if he and he alone made the game. It just shows bias to be honest. If you don't like Cage, don't review his shit. Easy.
@the people who watched gameplay videos
Don't be stupid. It's not that type of game.
@the people that have actually played the game
You're right, it's not as bad as the people that hate David Cage make it out to be.
Lastly, TWD has the same amount of not actual gameplay gameplay and everyone eats that shit up. Perhaps I'm the only one that could give a shit about the girl or what everyone else raves about but the game is just not that good. *everyone notices or didn't notices this comment*
Beyond: Two Souls 2: Some Souls we Found in the Hedge: Electric Boogaloo?
If that ain't colon cancer I don't know what is.
On a just barely related note, I would love it if Yahtzee ended up with the game being "such utter colon semi-colon pound sign exclamation mark...see, I just verbally censored the word 'shite'".
You're preaching to the choir, man. ;)
If you read just a few posts above (look up, in this same thread!), I just pointed out I think the gameplay of Beyond is very poor, and the game is pretty much a visual novel with a much muuch higher budget.
I still think there was nothing wrong with that scene and the way it was presented. In fact, it was one of my favorite parts: simple, immediate, archetypal, and effective. Made me almost wish the story went for a Carrie retelling.
Can't you just ignore what other people said? And if you can't, then are you just intentionally ignoring the high scores the game got together with the low scores?
I really wish people could decide for themselves. When the first reviews I saw of Beyond were negative (5/10), my intention to play the game didn't change in the slightest. When the other reviews i saw were positive (5/10), my intention to play the game didn't change in the slightest.
GTA5 got amazing perfect scores, and I think that game is crap. Because I made my own decision, no matter what other might tell me.
So, what is wrong with me, I wonder. Why don't I get influenced by scores and group-mind like everyone else. :/
So we can all agree the game is bad and sony just lost sh*tload of money by paying this small boy they call Ellen and the rest of the cast, not mentioning all that expensive motion-capture. I think David Cage may soon lose his job :) Well at least it is going to be emotional!
I did not know about that. I mean, seriously, that's serial killer behaviour.
I was on the fence for a while about buying this game. But when I saw a brief clip of naked rendered Ellen Page on Youtube I was like: nope! I couldn't believe he hyped the game up for having such a "famous actress" only to reduce her to just another one of his sexy fan-wank renders. Now we know why he truly wants all those polygons.
His portrayal of women is absolutely appalling; naive at best and downright disgusting at worst. It's more akin to the daydreaming machinations of a young teenager's perverted mind. The fact that he based his entire game around nothing more than images of an actress he didn't even know says a lot about the game and the way his mind works.
I like how we're just making stuff up about Sarkeesian now.
"Look, AS is entitled to her opinion that all buildings over 5 stories should be painted bright red, I just don't think that it would be financially feasible. Not to mention it would be a bit of an eyesore."
I thought Matt and Pat from Two Best Friends play made that up, Holy shit!
Anyway, I came thinking it'd be a typical Dahvid Cahge emohtians "game" and lo and behold! I was proven right!
I haven't played GTA 5 and I'm not really eager to play it, and I only own a PS3. By not playing this game, I'm only disappointing myself, I realize that. I may still pick it up one day (I was being hyperbolic), but I'm not willing to play it for the price it is at now, not when the demo left me quite dissatisfied with what the full game could potentially be.
Addressing your point on thinking for myself: A lot of my favorite games, and even some movies, are the ones nobody really cares for. I do think for myself, I'm just saying when the majority and I agree (for whatever my opinion is worth based on the demo I played), That doesn't make me want to pick up that game to try to assume they are just wrong.
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