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Humor and stuff, including fiction.
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When I blogged for "Chicago Moms" a couple of years back, I wrote about those goofy Cialis bathtubs and that Smilin' Bob guy (from the rather lurid ExtenZe commercials). A MSN editor asked if she could feature me on their MSN portal, which was kinda cool. I wrote articles for Chicago Parent and Tallahassee Woman, too.
Who did the terrific "Van Mom" cartoon?
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"It's Due Tomorrow," on those pesky last-minute school projects.
"A Lucky Mom's One-of-a-Kind Journey," on Asperger's syndrome.
"Trick or Treat, Mr. Goodbar," placed 2nd on the HumorPress website, Aug-Sept. 2006
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Last Day of T-Ball
Well, it had to come sooner than later. Today is the last day of T-Ball for my little ones. I have been the coach for 14, 4-6 year old children who have enlightened my year, driven me crazy at times and made me laugh. The memorable moments will stay with me forever and I hope that I have done right by these children.
I hope they leave this year with a better sense of playing the game of Baseball, and I further hope they continue on in their pursuit of team sports - it will help them grow over the years and give them an invaluable tool to become a better citizen both personally and socially.
It was fun, but now it is at a close. I am sad, but more than that, I am exhausted.
Thanks for the memories!
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Groundhog Day | All About the Holidays
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"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. "----- Bertrand Russell
Seeking a similar soul, to travel the journey of life.
Someone like me, experienced, traveled, professionally achieved, enjoy daily reading and nature, love real conversations, love culture differences, care about other people's well-being and have a good sense of humour. I like people with insight, awareness and compassion, I like people who's independent, well balanced and confident, I don't like people who's insecure, bitter, cynical or arrogant, I'm attracted to people with wisdom or who's on the path seeking the very fact.
I'm a single Chinese woman in early 40s, I'm looking for a life partner around my age.
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There are some movies that had a profound impact on my life as a child. Some, obviously, were negative (Last of the Mohicans at age 6, Rocky Horror in 2nd grade). But here are the best of the positive:
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas
This one's pretty straightforward. At the time I wasn't even too moved by it. I appreciated it more as an adult, I guess. But, as an adult, I still only watch sparingly. For some reason it sticks out. I guess it's a good transitional film for kids growing up.
9. Raggedy Anne and Andy: A Musical Adventure
When I was very young this movie was probably my favorite. It's really, really, weird. The taffy monster is legitimately frightening for little kids. Think Brave Little Toaster with a softer edge, and pirates.
8. Dr. Doolittle
Oh Rex. Honestly, this movie probably is very responsible for a chunk of my ethics. I read all of the Doolittle books (and there are many). I would watch it back to back, delighting in the songs and gentle sentiment of the good doctor.
7. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
This one's pretty hokey. It's by far the best live action thing Disney did. I still know the magic incantations and songs. It was my introduction to blending live action and animation (sucks to Mary and Roger). Only after a couple years did I figure out the plot.
6. Disney's Robin Hood
I wouldn't be surprised if I'd seen this fifty times. It's not too inventive, although it does have a sweet little story, good humor, and nice songs. I had to put it on here for sheer volume of watching. In a very serious way, though, it helped inform my ideas of the middle ages.
5. The NeverEnding Story
On the flip side of things I did not watch this very much – only a couple of times. Its visuals stick with me to this day. The sphinx gate, the turtle mountain, and many others were incredibly hard to shake. As fantasy goes it's great, and sort of touching.
4. Fantasia
This was for me, and probably many people, my first experimental film. A light year away from standard stories like Robin Hood this showed me what animation was capable of, and further what movies were able to do. Bach's Toccata and Fugue sequence will always be seared in my mind.
3. The Dark Crystal
Step off. The Dark Crystal provided my introduction to high fantasy. In a way, obviously, all of these have been high fantasy. But Crystal cleared the way for self-contained worlds like Tolkien and Lewis that I would meet later on.
2. Totoro
Oh man. Not only did this get high status on the 'watch until the VHS dies' list, but it also earns top points for visuals and message. There is nothing conceivably base about Totoro – it is all loving. That said it tackles very adult stuff, through children's eyes. This is often attempted, but nowhere else done so well. Plus, you know, the environment.
1. The Mind's Eye series
Back in the early 90's I was enjoying computer animation y'all didn't get for a decade. The Mind's Eye series was incredibly ahead of its time. They were doing stuff in '92 that wasn't mainstream until, say, Moulin Rouge and The Matrix. The short animated pieces were sometimes strung together for a story, and were always put to music, like Fantasia. They were so diverse, visually stunning. Surreal without the uncomfortable connotations that word usually holds.


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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Domino's Pizza, Inc. The recognized world leader in pizza delivery, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 6, 2009. Net income as-reported was up 76.6% versus the prior year, driven by gains on the extinguishment of debt, improved operating margins, lower interest expense and international store growth. Year-to-date, the Company has repurchased approximately $161 million in principal amount of its long-term debt. As of the quarter end, the Company had nearly $49 million of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents. During the third quarter, domestic same store sales were flat while international same store sales grew 2.7%. The quarter also marked the 63rd consecutive quarter of same store sales growth in Domino's international division.
Founded in 1960, Domino's Pizza is the recognized world leader in pizza delivery. Domino's is listed on the NYSE under the symbol "DPZ." Through its primarily locally-owned and operated franchised system, Domino's operates a network of 8,886 franchised and Company-owned stores in the United States and 60 international markets. The Domino's Pizza® brand, named a Megabrand by Advertising Age magazine, had global retail sales of over $5.5 billion in 2008, comprised of nearly $3.1 billion domestically and over $2.4 billion internationally. During the third quarter of 2009, the Domino's Pizza® brand had global retail sales of over $1.2 billion, comprised of over $672 million domestically and over $570 million internationally. Domino's Pizza was named "Chain of the Year" by Pizza Today magazine, the leading publication of the pizza industry. In 2009 Domino's ranked number one in customer satisfaction in a survey of consumers of the U.S. largest limited service restaurants, according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).


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5 prevention programs GOP hopes to target
April 29, 2012
by Kathryn Smith
The fight in Congress over the Prevention and Public Health Fund may rage on for a while longer.
Republicans voted last week to eliminate what they termed as a "slush fund" as a way to prevent a large increase in student loan rates. Democrats disagree and will keep pushing for other student loan pay-fors. The prevention fund already has been hit with a $5 billion cut this year.
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EPA Sends a Message With BP SuspensionTweet
November 28, 2012
The federal contracting community is abuzz today with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that energy company BP P.L.C. and several of its affiliates have been suspended from federal contracting.
The EPA justified its action citing BP's "lack of business integrity" as demonstrated by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. That one incident killed 11 people and caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, for which BP recently pleaded guilty to 14 criminal counts and agreed to pay more than $4.5 billion in penalties. BP still faces civil lawsuits filed by the federal and state governments.
The suspension prevents BP from getting new contracts. It does not affect BP's existing federal contracts, a point BP makes abundantly clear in its public statement today. The suspension will be lifted when BP can show the EPA that it is responsible and meets federal business standards. In the meantime, the Department of Interior has also disqualified BP from winning new leases to drill for oil or gas on federal land.
As POGO General Counsel Scott Amey said today, "The suspension of BP from future government contracts is surprising but welcome." POGO has been closely tracking BP's transgressions for several years on this blog (ever since that memorable "Black Thursday" back in October 2007 when BP racked up 6 misconduct instances in one day) and in our Federal Contractor Misconduct Database. For a long time, we have cynically observed that, as the largest supplier of oil and gas to the U.S. military, BP has become too big to suspend or debar. The press release BP issued two weeks ago to announce the criminal settlement, which stated that the company had "not been advised of the intention of any federal agency to suspend or debar the company," only bolstered our cynicism.
It will be interesting to see how long the suspension remains in place. The last time the EPA took steps to exclude BP from federal contracting—back in 2009—the agency backed off due to pressure from the Pentagon. BP currently has somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 billion in fuel supply contracts with the Department of Defense. According to BP, it has been diligently working on proving its responsibility to the EPA and assures the public that an administrative agreement resolving the suspension will happen "soon."
The EPA deserves to be commended for today's decision. As Scott Amey explained, the BP suspension "sends a message to all government contractors, even large companies, that they will be held accountable if their business practices place taxpayers at risk….This is exactly the strong step the government should take to protect federal agencies, safeguard taxpayers, and establish expectations for responsible contractor behavior."
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Learning is Fun Again with Art Integration
There have numerous studies on how music can affect a person's brain. Science has determined that a human being uses only about 10 percent of their brain; but when that same human being listens to music all sorts of synapses fire and as much as 50 percent of the brain is engaged.
And if that person plays music!
All 100 percent of the brain is engaged!
So why is it that the instant a school board needs to make some changes, instead of eliminating the excess administrative staff, they cut out music, art, and theater?
In this age of Common Core, it is even more important that school children are given an outlet to not only stimulate their imaginations; but also, to help stimulate brain function.
Falls Church, Virginia kindergarten teachers Carol Hunt and Melissa Richardson has found a way to bring the arts into her classroom. She uses theatrical play to teach her wee ones basic math concepts.
As the children become various animals in the jungle, they learn how many steps it takes for each animal to reach the "watering hole". Elementary and kindergarten teaches have long known that small children learn best by play; but in the days of common core, play and imagination are substituted by a convoluted math concept that has everyone baffled…including the teachers.
As arts and music programs are cut from the curriculum, teachers are turning to "art integration" where they fuse the lessons plans into some artistic endeavour. One big complaint with many school aged children is that school is boring and all the teacher wants is for them to memorize information that can be regurgitated on to a test form.
Art integration is a way to make learning fun and interesting. It is also a way to reach some children who have nontraditional ways of learning.
The art/math program used by Hunt and Richardson was developed by The Wolf Trap Institute. And according to a study by the American Institutes for Research the program is working. The study showed that children taught using the art integration program scored better on math tests than the students who were taught math by traditional methods. And the art integration students were further ahead than their traditionally taught peers…by over a month during the school year. Researcher Mengli Song noted that the art integration students had a better grasp on the lessons that were taught.
The art integration program isn't just for kindergarten children. Rogers Heights Elementary School fourth and fifth grades got a science lesson in song when music teacher Ari Stern wrote a song to explain the water cycle. Stern has also used art integration for teaching math and reading.
School Principal Barbara Bottoms made a visit to one of the classrooms at her Rogers Heights Elementary School an was very surprised at what she found; saying, "I expected the students to be interested. But I didn't expect a large group of students working together. I saw them excited about learning, and I saw them excited about learning reading and language arts through music."
Hunt admits that it does take more time to plan the lessons and figure how she can use theatrics to demonstrate her lessons; but Hunt also says that the payoff is worth it. The 17 year teaching veteran says that the art integration program is an excellent method for teaching students whose native tongue is not English.
Rogers Heights teacher Joli Butler admits that using the art integration program has renewed a passion in her for teaching. Speaking on the program she said, "It's allowing me to find those natural connections in music and art and drama and dance. And it's making me enjoy teaching again. It's making me enjoy learning again."
The art integration programs also encourage movement, something else education officials are concerned about with more and more children living sedentary lives at home.
The Prince George County School system currently has 41 schools using the art integration program and is looking to expand the program to all 211 of its school over the next few years.
Art integration is a new program in the school system, but the concept is far from new. Back in the days when Saturday mornings were filled with cartoons like Bugs Bunny, the Pink Panther, Scooby Doo, and the Archies; children were introduced to "Schoolhouse Rock" where cartoons and music was used to offer up a little Saturday morning school lessons in a manner that few children realized was a school lesson.
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Meal PlanningPublished on
You're busy, I know. We're all busy. It's hard to come up with different meals every week while trying to keep the meals healthy as well.
How often have you come in from work, realized you had too much to do to make dinner from scratch? Do you order pizza? Do you get back in the car and drive to pick up take out? (Country folk aren't in a position to have food delivered.)
Why not take a stab at meal planning and meal prepping? Doing so will give you options, quick easy meals to feed your family saving you both time and money.
What is Meal Planning?
Well before you can prep for a meal you have to plan a meal. Meal planning is as simple as planning out your meals for the coming week (or month). Once you know what you're going to eat you can better plan for it.
Do you remember as a kid that you often had meatloaf on Mondays, spaghetti on Thursdays and chicken on Sunday? Those structured meals were because the cook (most likely your mother) planned and prepped for those meals. These days, your meals don't need to be quite so structured.
Meal planning before your weekly (or bi-weekly) grocery shopping trip will keep costs down because you know ahead of time what you're going to cook and what you need to accomplish that meal. No more running to the store at the last minute. No more ordering pizza or picking up Chinese.
How Many Meals to Plan For
How many meals should you plan for? If you normally grocery shop once a week, then you need to plan for a week's worth of meals. If you shop bi-weekly, then you'll need a fortnight's worth.
You also need to take in mind the time factor. Do you have time after grocery shopping to prep two weeks worth of veggies? (Dicing peppers, slicing onions, precooking beef…)
Funds can also be a factor. Do you have the room in your budget to buy two weeks worth of food at a time?
Do you have room in your refrigerator and freezer for two weeks of prepped food?
I've done a month's worth of pre-packed meals before. This meant a run to the dollar store for aluminum freezer containers, an entire day prepping (scalloped potatoes, au gratin potatoes, meat loaf, Mexican seasoned beef, chicken cubed, shredded… …) and barely had room in my freezer for all those meals!
Most people should start meal planning with just a week's worth. Choose your family's favorite dinner time meals (although don't include extravagant meals like standing rib roast just because it's someone's favorite. This also goes for desserts like cheesecake….think simple at least for the first week.) and write down everything you need to make those dishes. Try to keep it simple, meat loaf, ground beef stroganof, pork chops…
Plan for side dishes such as potatoes or pasta. Plan for veggies and fruits. Remember to include lunches and breakfasts and snacks too.
Start Meal Planning
An easy way to get started on your meal plan is to make a note of what you already have on hand. Do you have items that can be used up in a dish?
Websites such as allrecipes.com can be a big help. At allrecipes.com you can put the ingredient in the search box that you're trying to use up AND it'll give you all the recipes using that particular ingredient. How handy is that?
You should also keep certain basics on hand at all times. When you have flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda you can make all kinds of things. Of course, some recipes will need eggs, or milk or… but there are a world of foods you can make that are flour based. Biscuits, pancakes, crepes, cookies…
Detail Your Meal Plans
What if you plan on using a whole chicken one night for a roast chicken dinner? There will be leftovers. What can you make on day two that will use the leftover chicken? A casserole? Chicken Salad? Chicken and rice? Chicken noodle soup? You can even save the bones and make some nice hearty stock for later use.
After you make a list of meals, make your grocery list by listing everything you need to make all the dishes, minus of course, what you already have in the house.
Don't Be Afraid of Changing Your Plan
Stuff happens. While meal planning is a great way to wrangle in those food expenses cooking does take time. Stuff happens and there will be times when there isn't time to cook dinner. There might be a special celebration to attend, a last minute birthday party…. Just be flexible. Just because you ate elsewhere one day does not mean you can't get right back into your meal plan.
One should always be aware of what's on sale or special at their local supermarket. Is chicken dirt cheap this week but you only planned on one poultry dish this week? If your budget allows, buy some and freeze it for later use. That way you'll have chicken already to go for the next time you want to make a chicken dish.
Meal Prepping vs Meal Planning
Meal planning is planning your meals for a certain time period. Meal prepping is doing something with those ingredients for future use. This might mean you've purchased 6-8 bell peppers. You don't just stick them in the fridge you prep them for the intended meals. You might be cutting the peppers into strips for fajitas, or dicing for incorporating into soups/casseroles.
It also might mean cooking five pounds of ground beef then separating them into five different freezer ziplocks for future use. A pound of precooked hamburger can become tacos (or chili or …) pretty darn fast!
Meal Prepping Tips
• Cook all your meat at once.
• Dice all your veggies at once.
• Label every container so you know when to use it by.
• Note what prepping is being done for leftovers.
• Prep for multiple meals.
• Combine slow cooker recipe ingredients into one large freezer bag.


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Simply put, zoos create memories. There is nothing more fascinating to children, adolescents, and adults alike than to see a variety of exotic and familiar animals. With visitations to zoos comes multifarious benefits, including revenue and traffic. However, perhaps the most significant benefit is the information it provides. With this information, people are more like to respect the environment and seek a stable and healthy ecosystem.
Therefore, it is only logical to keep this very important component of society around for generations to come.
Zoos take animals out of protected parks in their natural habitat.
Most zoos get their exotic animals not from highrisk zones were they can be poached, but from protected national parks. This means we have an animal leaving a park were it can reproduce and eventually re-enter its natural habitat, to go to a zoo where it offers nothing to its eco-system and global population. Endangerd animals usually can't be rehabilitated into the wild if they've been kept in zoos, it is too much of a drastic change, they'll starve.
Do zoos increase interest and respect in the environment?
I don't see how knowing the lifespan of a norweigan ostrich is going to mke you stop littering. The interest is generated mostly by the diets of the carnivouros cats and other exotics, the sort of information given has nthing to do with a healthy envirnoment.
Are zoos cruel?
Yes, no habitat is ever big enough. Animals need miles of terrain and constant stimulation which zoos don't provide. See pacing tiger syndrome.
Pro's second claim is that zoos do not increase interest and respect for the environment. However, this is purely a personal opinion, which many people would disagree with. The truth is that when people understand that such a wide array of organisms exist, they seek to learn more about them and their environment. Additionally, many zoos have environmental campaigns targeted to a variety of ages.
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Do zoos save species from extinction?
Nope, once an animal is in a zoo it quickly loses its instinct and ability to survive in the wild. Absolutely mundane to put animals in zoos. No species can be saved by zoos, their offspring have no ability to survive in the wild.
Do zoos save the environment?
As con said, it depends on the person. I don't think that a lesson on the lifespan of an ostrich will stop anyone from littering and con hasn't told us why it will. Zoo education teaches about animals, not sustainable living.
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Majority of the students studying accounting, either at initial stages or experienced in accountancy academics, are familiar with two of the most renowned depreciation methods used by entities to calculate depreciation expense for the period are straight-line and declining balance methods.
One of the reason why these methods are so widely used is the fact that these are not only recognized and allowed by different accounting frameworks (accounting standards frameworks) around the world but in many countries taxation and other regulations require entities to strictly use any of these two methods to compute depreciation expense pertaining to an accounting period.
However, with the advancement in the accounting knowledge, many depreciation models and techniques have been developed to achieve accuracy of financial and accounting data so that users of financial statements can reach better economic decisions.
One of such derivation or method to calculate depreciation is declining balance with straight line crossover or simply declining balance with cross-over. In short form it is usually mentioned as DBX or db x sl. It is also known as variable rate declining balance method or variable declining balance method.
Under this method, asset is initially depreciated using declining balance method but after a certain point the depreciation method is switched from declining balance method to straight line method of depreciation computation.
The certain point when depreciation method is changed or switch-over is made or cross-over occurs according to the policies or whenever it is thought to be feasible and it is up to entity's management to determine when such cross over or switch should be made. Two of the common methods to determine the switch over are as follows:
- depreciation expense for the period is calculated using declining balance method is lesser than the depreciation expense that would have been for the same period if the straight line method was used; or in other words
- the value computed by dividing residual book value (also known as carrying value or net book value) over remaining useful life of the asset is greater than the depreciation expense for the period computed using declining balance method.
Although, this method is not named under International Financial Reporting Standards or specifically IAS 16, but IASs do not restrict the use of methods other than those mentioned in the accounting standards.
Declining balance with cross over to straight line method is used in situations where assets initially render higher benefits but later becomes stable. Another technical reason to use this method is that declining balance method has a basic flaw i.e. declining balance method can never diminish the book value to expected residual value. To get the expected residual value using declining balance method you have to make some technical adjustments which may render either unreasonable depreciation expense for the period when compared to benefits gained in the same period. Most often, if declining balance method is used, last year's depreciation is the balancing figure to reduce the book value to expected residual value.
Consider the following example to understand how declining balance to straight line cross over method is different from straight line and simple declining balance method.
ABC Ltd. bought an asset at the start of an accounting year costing 100,000. Asset has an expected life of 5 years with a residual value of 8,000
Following is the schedule with depreciation expense over five years computed under three different methods:
Note: Under DBX method the crossover is to be made when depreciation as per straight line is higher then depreciation computed under declining balance method in a given period.
Dep = Depreciation
Acc. Dep = Accumulated depreciation
R. Dep. Val = Remaining depreciable value
BV = Book value or carrying value or net book value
In the above table you can observe the following:
- In the last year of declining balance method, depreciation of 32,960 is simply a balancing figure to reduce the book value down to scrap value of 8,000 and is not computed under the formal method which is followed for computing depreciation for first four years under the same method
- Under Declining balance cross to straight line method, cross over is made in second year as depreciation according to straight line method is 18,400 whereas according to declining balance method it is 16,000.
- On switch to straight line method from declining balance method in second year, depreciation is calculated by dividing remaining depreciable value over remaining useful life of the asset.


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A solution for bookstorage in the older house by Philip Lund of Lund Theological Books
Lots of older British houses have chimney breasts in living rooms and bedrooms which look ideal for putting bookshelves in. At first glance it would seem simple to screw a few battens on the facing walls of the alcove and put some shelves across between them. However, anyone who has ever tried drilling into a brick wall knows how difficult it is to put in holes that are exactly at right angles to the surface, and lined up horizontally. Drill bits slip, they encounter hard material, they end up slightly in the wrong place. By the time you have made two holes for every batten, and put in two battens for each shelf, and have got half a dozen or more shelves fitted you will be very lucky to have a set of perfectly positioned horizontal shelves.
And I see lots of home-fitted shelving sagging under the weight of books because the shelves are too thin for the span between the walls.
The following suggestions have been used and modified by me over the years very successfully in most rooms of our house. The basic principle is that you don't screw the shelf battens to the wall, you screw them to a plank you've fixed as an upright to the wall. As putting screws into wood is a lot easier than drilling holes in walls the whole job is quicker and neater. Of course you still have to drill some holes, but not half as many as in the traditional method. Here's an example:
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- Jane Badger said...
That is really impressive. Thanks Philip.
- June 11, 2010 at 4:21 PM
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S2 Games CEO Limits Toxicity in "Strife," Encourages New Players
The Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game genre has evolved significantly since its beginnings as the "Warcraft III" modification known as DOTA (Defense of the Ancients). Using heroes with special powers, two teams go up against one another to destroy their opponent's base of operation through three lanes of a top-down map, each with defensive towers that shoot projectiles at enemy forces that get too close. All the while, each base spawns minions that will mindlessly head down each lane to try and push any advantage possible as heroes duke it out for supremacy.
Since its introduction, the genre has undergone a number of different evolutions and takes on the formula — including the DC Comics-themed, free-to-play "Infinite Crisis," due out later this year — but longtime MOBA developer S2 Games is about to change the direction of the genre with "Strife," the first second-generation MOBA seen by the public. With a showing at PAX Prime 2013, "Strife" debuted, offering a unique take on the genre specifically designed to attract new players and reduce the usual player toxicity. In many ways, S2 Games has taken what it learned from developing "Heroes of Newerth," one of the first official MOBAs to hit the scene, and evolved it into a whole new and fresh experience.
CBR News spoke with S2 Games CEO Marc DeForest about building "Strife" from the ground up, how it improves the genre as a whole, the importance of character design and approachability and why the fact that "Strife" will never reach the 118 hero roster of "Heroes of Newerth" is a very good thing.
CBR News: This is a big moment for the MOBA genre as a whole as "Strife" debuts to the public. What went in to ensuring that this game was a not only worthy successor to "Heroes of Newerth," but a better evolution of the genre as a whole?
Marc DeForest: We use the term "premiere second-generation MOBA" [to describe "Strife."] That sounds like a really fancy marketing term, but it has real meaning. We're the first studio to make a successful — and that's a key word — MOBA, and through the education process and the experience of making that, we asked if we could do a better job starting from the ground up and making a second one. That's what "Strife" is. This is a very important and impactful moment for us in that PAX Prime 2013 is the first time any consumers have had the chance to get their hands on the game.
While playing the game, the word that kept coming up in my mind was "accessibility." In current-gen MOBAs, there's a huge barrier to entry — not because of game complication, but because there's a subculture there that's not always welcoming to new players. What does "Strife" do to help combat that toxicity and bring in new players?
The way that most of the existing genres — our own game ["Heroes of Newerth"] included — deal with hostile communities and toxic player behavior is reactive. What that means is we're going to sit around and wait for you to screw up and maybe we'll perform some analysis as to why you screwed up, why you acted like a jerk, why you were frustrated, why you took it out on your teammate. When that happens and someone tells us about it, we'll deal with you. We realized that's probably not the best approach to do it. Granted, there's a number of sacred cows that exist in those games that you can't touch. We're aware of this. We know there's a number of things we would love to change that could alter that behavior, but the moment we change those, we create a whole different type of toxic community. They're toxic towards us, they're upset at the change.
By having clean-sheet design and spending a lot of time analyzing those things that we can say, "Why do players fight with one another?" From our experience operating "Heroes of Newerth" and from watching our competitor, people fight because there's this preconceived notion of, "You should play the game this way and I want to play this role and play the game this way. If you impede on that whatsoever, or you make my life difficult because of some of the core decisions of the game that can make my experience bad, I'm going to take it out on you."
We deal with that in one major way: you choose your hero prior to entering the matchmaking room. One of the best ways to reduce toxicity is to create fair matches. The fairer the match, the more close it is, the less opportunity there is [for toxicity]. When you're not getting stomped, whether you're the stompee or the stomper, the less likelihood there's going to be for that toxic behavior. We can give you a rating based on how you perform per hero. We can also let you choose which hero you want to play and instead of getting in a fight with your teammates at the pick screen deciding, "Oh, I want to play that type of hero," we created heroes that can be played in a number of ways. Through our external progression systems of crafting and pets, the way that we designed our item system and the hero choices in and of themselves, you don't have to play a hero a specific way. You won't get the best out of a hero by only taking a singular route. By doing so, you lose the opportunity to look at what your opponent is doing and be critical of that and cause hostile inter-team behavior.
Gold-sharing is another thing we've worked on. Just because you're playing support doesn't mean you're the sacrificial lamb of the team and giving everything you could get to somebody else on your team so that they can help you win the game. Being support is more about enabling your team to do better. The way that we do that in the gold-sharing mechanic is if two people are sharing a lane, whether either person last-hits a creep, both people get the same amount of gold. In the event you're in a solo lane, you would get that same half amount of the gold and the other half is split equally amongst the other teammates, including yourself. You would get a piece of that spread amongst other people. Through our testing, that has significantly reduced the inter-team conflict that exists. I could go on and on.
The character design of the game is incredibly strong, which adds to the accessibility of the final product. Whether it's through the art or animation, it feels like players can really identify with these characters in a way they might not have in other MOBAs. What was the approach to design like?
Before I even move into that, you brought up the fact that the game feels very inviting and approachable. There's a science and psychology behind the use of shapes and colors including in the design of your characters that can lend to aggressive behavior and can lend toward passive behavior. We actually became very interested in this and became students of what that means. Everything we've done in this game is intentional, including the fact that somebody like yourself can walk up to the game and go, "This feels very inviting." That's not by accident. It's through hours and hours and hours of studying what this means: the color palette, the shapes, the characters themselves, the map — there've been studies that by looking at puppies, you'll actually be a less angry person. Not that all our characters are puppies, but it's that kind of science that's gone into it.
We also found — and again, these are lessons learned from "Heroes of Newerth" — there needs to be a specific attachment made to heroes. How do you do that? That's more of us being students — there's a science to that. There are some rulesets you can follow and big successful companies like Disney and Pixar follow this ruleset. This ruleset is available to anybody. What's funny is how many people don't go pursue the knowledge and get it. We did with this game. We asked, "What does it take to make a memorable character?" I'm not going to really arm my competition with that information, but it exists. It's important to remember that everything's deliberate, everything's intentional and we've applied that to everything, including our character design and the lore of the game. What is this game? Who are these people? Why should I care about them? The way they look, the way they act, their effects, their colors, their backstory — everything about it makes you drawn and attached to the character.
MOBAs have continued to rise in popularity with a number of choices for what to play. "Strife" is free-to-play — as are many other MOBAs — what sets your free-to-play system apart and what have you done to keep players from paying to break the game? Furthermore, how has the massive amounts of competition affected your development process?
There's a certain level of philosophy that exists within developers as to acceptable levels of what contributing money means to a game. I think we can stand very proudly behind the practices we participated in for "Heroes of Newerth." "Heroes of Newerth" has 118 playable heroes. You sign up for a free-to-play account, you get them all for free. If you're going to spend money, you want to know what you're going to touch, you're going to touch systems that aren't going to make you better than someone who just plays the game. That philosophy is also found within "Strife."
One of the key monetization systems we have in the game is cosmetics. One of the ways we've approached it differently than we have in "HoN" and some of our competition — and yes, we do look at our competition, but our competition doesn't alter the goals we're trying to achieve. Understanding what other people are doing and taking time to be students of the genre and see what they're doing and how the community reacts to things makes you a better developer. While it may sound nice and rosy to say, "We have specific goals, we don't look at our competition," the fact of the matter is you should pay attention to what they're doing, because I want to learn from the successes and mistakes you make, so that I don't make the same mistakes and maybe I can figure out why the things that you've done are successful.
We do allow in our monetization for players to use real money to speed up the progress of some of our external progression systems in the form of pets and crafting, but never in a way we feel we cross a line into paying for power.
As "Strife" continues to evolve, much like "Heroes of Newerth," how far forward is S2 looking in the game's evolution? What are the factors that help it to progress from its current roster to the 118 heroes of "Heroes of Newerth?"
We will never achieve the vast roster that "HoN" has. In fact, that's a very disciplined goal that we have for the project. When a genre evolves and matures, we've watched other genres — I don't want to say die — be put on life support, following a very specific path of what we like to call "me-too-isms" and "one-upping." What that means is, "I'm going to do that, too. I don't know why. They did it, so I'm going to do it too, but I'm going to add something to it."
If you do that over and over and over again as a genre matures, what are you stuck with? You're stuck with unnecessary complexities and following the guy before you, even if you don't know why you're following the guy before you. I don't like to guarantee much, because I don't want it to come back and bite me, but I have no problem saying we won't have 118 heroes in "Strife." Do you know why? It's not necessary to have 118 heroes. "HoN" has 118 heroes, and I'm not saying it's wrong that "HoN" is a product or other competitors have a significantly large pool of heroes, but we feel we can achieve the type of diversity and replayability and depth in "Strife" without having that amount of characters.
How we plan to progress the game is — there's trend-balanced designing, which as a community, you may notice your community not by the numbers, but through the way that they play, constantly do similar strategies. What we want to make sure people understand is that there are other strategies, multiple ways to play the game, multiple ways to win the game. We'll use that type of balancing.
Nobody's perfect. We're not going to come out of the gate with the most balanced game — and in fact, I would argue that the most balanced game might not be the most fun game. Having imbalances and trying to figure out what those may be where there are so many different components is part of the fun. That's part of the evolution of what "Strife" is. Adding pets, adding items, adding heroes — we're going to launch this game with a limited hero pool. We're very confident in that. This reveal at PAX has done nothing but substantiate and validate the fact that most of our competition — ourselves included with "Heroes of Newerth" — has way too many heroes. The way that information is even digestible — it's almost impossible. As long as we keep things in small chunks of digestible format, we can create a game that — even if it's been around for a couple of years — new players can step in and play it. It's not over-burdensome and we can continue to grow the population.
You should always have the opportunity to play this game with the people you want to play it with. We consider it a social experience for them to be able to get into it and perform well so that you can have a good time with them.
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