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What's the deal with Nail?
Andrey Osadchenko
September 20 2012 10:01PM
Remember a few days ago Nail Yakupov was reported to make his KHL debut this Wednesday? Well, it never happened. The IIHF isn't willing to give a nod to the former Sarnia Sting forward to play for his hometown team. Neftekhimik's GM, Rafik Yakubov, is understandably infuriated with the fact and openly blames OHL club for interfering with the deal.
'KHL registered our contract with Yakupov, but IIHF says that contract like this become legitimate only after a week,' Yakubov told Sport-Express. 'I think Sarnia, Nail's former team, is trying to get in our way. Although, KHL vice-president Vladimir Shalaev told me everything is going to be okay. They don't believe us when we tell them Yakupov has a one-way contract with the Oilers, so he can't be sent down to a farm team. This is what makes this complicated.'
Would you believe Mr. Yakubov if you were the IIHF? No, because why would you? Nail Yakupov was signed by the Oilers to standard entry-level contract, which is a 2-way deal by default. End of story. However, since Yakupov was drafted as a CHL import player he can't play in the AHL and was rightfully sent back to his junior club when the lockout came into being.
Having said this, it is still unclear how the Sting would interfere with the deal. The motive is there, but there's no evidence to back this theory up. The whole ordeal apparently confused Nail himself judging by the following quote.
'I made up my mind right away,' said Yakupov to Business-Online. 'I told [the Oilers] I'd either play in the NHL or KHL. No AHL. Of course, I wanted to play in the NHL, but then lockout happened. However, I also wanted to play in Nizhnekamsk, so I'm happy to have the opportunity.'
Neftekhimik's head-coach Vladimir Golubovich shined some light on when should Nizhnekamsk fans expect to see Yakupov in a blue and black jersey. He also shared what line he is going to be on.
'The kid wants to play badly. Which is good because we just lost two forwards to injuries. Maxim Pestushko and Jan Kolar are going to be sidelined for about two months. Considering this, we will probably put Nail on a line with [Andrei] Subbotin and [Alex] Komaristy. It's a bit early to speak about it, though, as Yakupov is not officially signed yet. We go easy on him. We let him rest from the jetlag. Acclimatization should be treated with gently. The earliest Nail can play is Saturday when Neftekhimik is playing against Traktor at home'. Subbotin is a 39-year-old veteran LW, who won KHL Faith to Hockey Award last season, while Komaristy is 22-year-old center, whom North American fans could remember from WJC'09 in Ottawa. This means Yakupov is likely to play on a third line.
Nevertheless, Nail isn't sure himself when he's finally going to lace'em up.
'I can't say anything for certain at this point,' admitted Yakupov. 'I'm dealing with paperwork. I'm just going to practice here and wait. I know pretty much everybody on the team, including managers and media officer. They welcomed me here very warmly. I'm glad. I know a few guys on Neftekhimik because I played with them on [a junior team] Reaktor – Igor Bortnikov, brothers Stanislav and Yaroslav Alshevsky, Maxim Berezin, Petr Khokhryakov…'.
When asked about Edmonton and Oilers fans, Yakupov said he feels their pain.
'The city is obsessed with hockey,' he said. 'Out there everyone is frustrated with the league and NHLPA because they can't come to an agreement. I know how the fans are out there, I know how they cheer, I know how worried they are that the season hasn't started yet. It's a huge deal for Edmonton. The city doesn't have either a baseball team, nor a football team, nor a basketball team unlike many other cities.'
And this is how we know Nail doesn't follow CFL.
If he did, he'd know the Eskimos are playing the Lions on the same Saturday he may finally play a hockey game. If IIHF would let him do this, he's going to go head-to-head with his line-mate at the latest World Juniors – Evgeny Kuznetsov.
The puck drops at 7am Edmonton time if you're interested.
September 20 2012, 10:16PM
Fist I'm sure he meant soccer
Andrey I love your articles,they provide great insight - brilliant!
September 20 2012, 10:59PM
Based on that last game against the Tiger Cats, would anyone here contradict him?
Maybe he follows the CFL more closely than we know.
So the NHL and PA are tied up in deadlocked negotiations.
The arena deal is stalled because the two sides don't appear to be understanding each other's peculiar dialects.
And Yakupov can't play because the IIHF is having issues with his paperwork.
That's three. I guess we're in the clear now.
September 21 2012, 09:29AM
The one thing that concerns me is that it's the old man doing the bitching.
One of the alleged concerns some of oiler scouts had with Yak was that the father was unbelievably involved in Sarnia.It's perhaps the reason he didn't go back there.
The old man better cut the strings or he will run into problems when Yak gets with the oil.
September 21 2012, 09:38AM
Nail was actually at an Eskimos game, along with the rest of the prospects. They even interviewed him at said game.
September 21 2012, 10:09AM
Maybe the Esks can send a care package Nail's way when he gets back. You know, like a jersey or something with a note saying "Hey, we're the other game in town."
Fist I'm sure he meant soccer
Actually the first 'fist' that made me laugh! Props!
September 21 2012, 10:31AM
The one thing that concerns me is that it's the old man doing the bitching.
One of the alleged concerns some of oiler scouts had with Yak was that the father was unbelievably involved in Sarnia.It's perhaps the reason he didn't go back there.
The old man better cut the strings or he will run into problems when Yak gets with the oil.
I don't think the GM Yakobov is Nail's Dad.
September 21 2012, 11:07AM
There's no relation between Rafik Yakubov and Nail Yakupov. Just a coincidence with names in the region, as far as I know.
I'm not worried about a Lindros-factor here.
September 21 2012, 11:09AM
The old man in this is Larionov who also happens to have a very hot daughter..
Yakupov was just name dropping sports in general, no big deal..
After last week's debacle in Steel City, he is correct in his assessment that Edmonton does not have a football "team". Players and coaches, yes, but an actual team with everyone on the same page, no.
September 21 2012, 07:49PM
Don't like the quote where he told the Oilers what's what in the NHL, KHL or nuthin.
Also, not mad but surprised that he so easily points out that Edmonton is not a big league city.
I am thinking this guy may not be long for here. Hope I'm wrong.
Nail is now listed on his KHL team:
We may be able to see some of the games online
September 21 2012, 11:44PM
He's also said that he feels at home in Edmonton because the smaller sized community (as opposed to many of the American markets) are closer to his hometown.
In the end none of it matters. It will be his actions that will determine the sincerity. My hope is that he can stick around for at least five years and we'll see where we all stand after that.
September 22 2012, 11:16AM
I get the feeling that Yakupov plans on backing up his attitude on the ice,and he seems like a likable young man who isnt swayed by media attention,his decisions are all his own,and if his father helps him find his way through life,who the heck better to be at his side than his own Father??Smart young man IMHO. Once the dogs were cut loose to go play all over heck and gone,what does it matter where Yak or anyone goes really??Provided they follow the rules as they go--Kudos to anyone who can forge their own independant path in these troubled times.There is also this dynamic factor of Yaks old fellows being willing to protect him to the last man---this cannot be overlooked.Like going back to the Hood for safety.There is something there if you think about it.
Just sayin.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Marcus Holman and Jimmy Bitter both tallied career highs for goals and points as they led eighth-ranked North Carolina to a 12-9 come-from-behind victory over Hofstra Saturday afternoon in the ESPNU Warrior Classic at American Legion Memorial Stadium. A crowd of 6,230 fans was on hand as the Tar Heels improved to 9-4 on the season while Hofstra fell to 6-6.
The Tar Heel-Pride matchup was the second game of the doubleheader after Syracuse routed Rutgers 19-6 in the opening game.
Holman had career highs for both points and goals and Bitter recorded career highs for points, goals and assists in a game. Between the two of them, they accounted for nine of UNC's 12 goals and five of the Tar Heels' seven assists.
It was a needed comeback win for the Tar Heels who for the second time this season rallied from a halftime deficit to gut out a win. When the Tar Heels did that on February 25 against Navy, it was the first time they had rallied from a halftime deficit to win since the next-to-last game of the 2009 season. They've now down it twice in 2011.
Holman finished with five goals and two assists for seven points for UNC while Bitter had four goals and three assists for seven points. Davey Emala had a goal and an assist for the Tar Heels while Chad Tutton and Jimmy Dunster also scored for the Heels.
It was a three-man offensive show in the goals column for the Pride of the Colonial Athletic Association as Lance Yapor had four goals, Mike Malave had three goals and Adrian Sorichetti had two goals and two assists. Mike DeNapoli had two assists and Steve Sterling two assists for Coach Seth Tierney's team.
Joe Breschi's Tar Heels outshot the Pride 41-28 and dominated the ground balls 37-22. Kieran McDonald led the Tar Heels with five ground balls while Marcus Holman, Jimmy Bitter and Mark Staines each had three for UNC. Carolina won 14 of 24 face-offs with R.G. Keenan going 12 for 22 and Frankie Kelly winning both of his draws.
Andrew Gvozden of Hofstra made 14 saves and allowed 12 goals in 58:24 while Steven Rastivo of Carolina finished with six saves while allowing nine goals. UNC committed only 11 turnovers, four below its season average, while Hofstra committed 17 errors.
Holman's five goals exceeded the four he had against Navy and Maryland in his freshman year in 2010 and the four he had against UMBC in 2011. His seven points exceeded the previous career high of six he had against Navy, Dartmouth and Johns Hopkins earlier this season. Bitter's four goals were one more than he had earlier this season against both Mercer and Johns Hopkins. The three assists were also a career best, exceeding the two he had against Mercer, Dartmouth and Maryland and the seven points were three above his previous career high of four against Mercer on February 20.
The Tar Heels jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead on tallies by Bitter and Holman but Hofstra outscored Carolina 5-2 over the last 16 minutes of the first half to take a 5-4 halftime lead. An unassisted goal by Mike Malave with four seconds left in the half gave the Pride their first lead at 5-4.
Three different times in the second half the Pride would extend the lead to a pair of goals, but the Tar Heels always hung around and were poised for a big fourth quarter rally. The Tar Heels outshot the Pride 13-5 in the fourth quarter and won the ground ball battle 12-4 in the final period.
A man up goal by Lance Yapor put Hofstra up 6-4 three minutes into the second half. The Pride had several possessions to extend the lead, but Carolina held strong and a pair of goals by Marcus Holman just 12 seconds apart tied the game up with 6:25 to play in the third quarter. Hofstra came right back with two goals by Yapor, the second a man-up goal, and with 2:16 left in the third quarter Hofstra led 8-6.
The Tar Heels cut into the margin with a Davey Emala goal with 1:26 left in the third quarter. The Tar Heels had a chance to tie to open the fourth quarter but Holman's shot on an extra-man opportunity with 14:42 left was saved by Gvozden. On the other end, Malave answered with an alley-dodge unassisted goal less than a minute later.
That goal, with 13:55 to play, would be Hofstra's last of the game as the Tar Heels began their furious rally with a goal by Holman, assisted by Bitter with 12:48 to play. Just 44 seconds later, Jimmy Dunster scored past Gvozden on outside heat, assisted by Emala, to tie the game at 9-9 with 12:04 to play.
Over the next four minutes, both teams had excellent opportunities to break the tie. The Tar Heels forced a couple of turnovers and then a long possession by the Heels resulted in the eventual game-winning goal. After Thomas Wood's shot was stopped by Gvozden, Holman pounced on the rebound and scored for a 10-9 lead with 7:35 to play.
Rastivo made two saves on the next Hofstra possession, stopping shots by Yapor at 6:22 and Serling at 5:50. With 5:04 to play Sorichetti's outside blast was blocked by UNC midfielder Greg McBride. The Tar Heels cleared the ball and freshman Chad Tutton got loose to score with 3:26 to play. After the next face-off, Steve Serling's shot hit the post, the Tar Heels got possession and then clinched it on an empty-net goal by Bitter with 1:36 to play.
The Tar Heels improved to 39-5 against non-conference teams in Coach Joe Breschi's four-year tenure with the win. Holman's seven points give him 108 for his career as he moves into a tie with David Wingate for 30th place on UNC's all-time scoring chart. He now had 49 points this season on 23 goals and 26 assists.
UNC returns to action next Friday when it plays #1-ranked Virginia in the ACC Tournament semifinals at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. The match starts at 7:30 p.m. Virginia is the #2 seed in the tournament and Carolina the #3 seed.


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Nation Radio - September 8, 2012
September 09 2012 11:46AM
Usually we'd be starting to talk about training camp around this time. Instead, the focus is still the possible lockout, the summer's activities by Canada's NHL teams and advanced stats and how they enhance our enjoyment of the game. We explore these topics and others with guests Harrison Mooney, Terry Jones and more.
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It's the labour day long weekend! While most everyone was out enjoying the long weekend, drinking a beer or watching the kids run around for the last, few, short hours before school starts again, Allan Mitchell was hunched over a desk, calling people enjoying the break, and demanding they talk to him about hockey. A surprisingly large group of helpful experts not only answered the phone but also answered his questions - and here we are.
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As the billionaires ready themselves to lock-out the millionaires over a few percentage points of total revenues, we here at Nation Radio nevertheless resolutely march on with continued hockey coverage. It may be mid-August and we may be talking about the same stuff in November because the powers-that-be are having their white collar slap fight, but what the hell...it's why we're all here right?
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We're in the midst of the interminable mid-August hockey lull, and news is sparse. But neither CBA uncertainty, nor a lack of material can deter Allan Mitchell! On this week's episode of Nation Radio, Allan is joined by the likes of player agent Tom Lynn, Andrey Osadchenko, Nations overlord Kent Wilson and Scott Reynolds of NHLNumbers and Copper and Blue. Allan and his guests breakdown the news of the week, gush about Nail Yakupov's play at the Subway Super Series and, of course, suss out some reasonable expectations for Jordan Eberle.
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Amid the gloomy news about the economy and the Middle East, here are some positive trends that shouldn't be overlooked.
With the election over, it is safe to watch television again. Those interminable attack ads — which sometimes ran back-to-back-to-back-to-back in markets with hotly contested races — have slithered back into the pits from which they emerged.
Not coincidentally, the pointless partisanship so prevalent in recent few years has also eased. With neither Democrats nor Republicans having achieved unfettered power and the next election two years off, a cease-fire of sorts has taken hold in Washington.
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner sound confident they can steer clear of the "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year and then move to reduce the government's debt. After that, they are poised to turn to immigration reform.
Two important issues could get addressed in the opening months of 2013 after one of the most unpleasant elections in recent memory. That would be change for the better.
The causes of the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s are still being debated. Not so much for the Great Recession of 2008-09, triggered by the bursting of a U.S. housing bubble.
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Sales of homes, both new and existing, are rising. The same goes for home prices and sentiment among builders. And what's going down? The unsold inventory of houses is dropping, as are mortgage rates, foreclosures and the number of homeowners underwater on their loans.
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In fact, the United States has seen the crime rate dropping consistently over the last 20 years. In 1992, 758 violent crimes occurred per 100,000 people, according to the FBI. Last year, the latest for which numbers are available, the number was down to 387. Though a second government study of crime showed an increase for 2011, the trend has clearly been down, and down dramatically.
This decline is reflected in polls of voters' concerns. In the 1990s, crime was a leading issue. This year, it barely registered.
The downward trend has mystified and delighted criminologists. Many of their initial theories, including the end of the 1980s' crack cocaine wars, have failed to account for the drop-off. Whatever the explanation, the USA isn't as safe as it could be, but it's safer than it used to be.
As fliers head off on one of the busiest travel days of the year, it's comforting to know that domestic air travel has never been safer. It has been nearly four years since a passenger died in a commercial crash and more than a decade since the fatal crash of a large jetliner.
Technological advances have reduced midair collisions and crashes into mountains and other obstacles. Other simple changes, such as better pilot communication and crew members spotting ice on the wings, have also made flying safer.
None of this means that safety watchdogs can rest easy. Collisions on runways are a danger. So are birds striking planes. A flock of geese above New York City crippled the engines of a US Airways jetliner in 2009, and only the heroic Hudson River landing by pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger averted disaster.
Even beyond the Miracle on the Hudson, a quadrennium without a deadly crash marks an age of incredible airline safety.
Two years ago, who would have imagined President Obama would be standing in front of cheering Burmese crowds, warmly clasping the hand of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her Rangoon home? Suu Kyi had been a political prisoner in that house for 15 years.
Her release marked the first step toward democracy by a repressive regime. Other small steps followed — relaxing censorship and releasing more political prisoners. Obama's visit this week, the first to Burma, also known as Myanmar, by a sitting U.S. president, prompted promises of more progress.
Signs of freedom, however fragile, are worth celebrating. Last year, the Arab Spring brought glimmers of democracy to Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, continuing a longer-term global trend. In 1981, just 54 of the world's nations were free, according to Freedom House, an advocacy group that issues reports annually. Last year, the number had grown to 87 — each addition worth a prayer of thanks.


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France 1839 – 1906
Portrait of Madame Cézanne
[Portrait de Madame Cézanne] 1885-90
oil on canvas
canvas 47.0 (h) x 39.0 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Accepted in lieu of tax 1991
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Cézanne painted Hortense Ficquet many times during their long relationship. They met in Paris in 1869, when she was a nineteen-year-old model and he a thirty-year-old aspiring artist. He hid her existence from his disapproving father, despite the birth of their son in 1872. When his father discovered the family in 1876, he cut Cézanne's allowance. The pair married finally in 1886, with parental approval. This small portrait was made around this time, although it appears strangely impersonal, considering the couple's tumultuous personal circumstances. But then, the personality of his subjects concerned Cézanne very little, as he investigated the outer forms rather than the psychological experience of his sitter.
The subject looks into the middle distance, without meeting our gaze. She is presented very close to the viewer, but is restrained both in pose and expression. We see simple forms, an oval face on a cylindrical neck and triangular torso, with a very restricted colour palette. Almost everything is pale or hardly coloured: light pink skin, dark brown hair, light blue dress and background divided strictly between light blue-grey on the right, and a yellow-brown at the left. The sitter's face is slightly tilted. There is no signal of close personal ties, and little expression on her face; indeed hardly any indication of femininity at all. Her hair is parted severely in the centre, and appears almost to be painted on, like a wooden doll.
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Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
- 'Portrait of Mrs Cézanne', website entry, 2006, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, viewed 22 September 2009, www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/portrait-de-madame-cezanne-9881.html?no_cache=1.
- Museum of Modern Art: first loan exhibition, New York, November 1929: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, New York: Museum of Modern Art 1929, p. 20.


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>Off the Beaten Path>Apple is taking over our lives...
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Then, they started making their stuff black (wow... how many black laptops are there on the market... maybe like... all of them...)
On the other hand, i do think that the Apple TV will be a good product. Apple has been trying for a while now to become the center of a media system. Up until now, it was a bit impractical, since you could only watch movies on your computer screen. But with this...
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Laurier celebrates 10th annual Hunsberger Memorial lecture
Feb 26/14| For Immediate Release
Michael W. Pratt, Professor
Lori Chalmers Morrison, Acting Director
WATERLOO Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Psychology department will celebrate its 10th annual Bruce Hunsberger Memorial Lecture by welcoming noted psychologist Louise Chawla as this years guest speaker. Chawla will deliver her lecture entitled, The Ecology of Committed Care for the Natural World on Friday, March 7 from 2:30-4 p.m. in the Bricker Academic Building, room BA 201. A reception will follow in the Science Building, room N2005.
Chawla, an environmental and developmental psychologist from the University of Colorado at Boulder, will discuss what motivates people to protect the natural world. Whether its as small as recycling or as large as organizing a political movement, researchers have long been exploring what significant life events can be the catalysts for people taking environmental action. Chawla will analyze the implications this research has on environmental education and nature centre programming, placing the information in the context of ecological psychology.
Chawla has written extensively on the development of action for the environment as well as child and youth participation in planning and designing sustainable communities. She is the author of In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory and co-author and editor of Growing Up in an Urbanising World.
Lauriers annual Hunsberger Memorial Lecture was created in honour of Bruce Hunsberger, a Laurier professor of psychology from 1974 to 2003. Hunsberger served as the chair of the department for many years and was an influential scholar in the psychology of religion, prejudice and applied social psychology. He was also a recipient of the William James Award from the American Psychological Association.
Over the past 10 years, this annual undergraduate lecture series has provided a way for the Psychology department to honour Bruce Hunsbergers commitment to teaching as well as research with real-world implications, said Michael W. Pratt, a professor of psychology at Laurier. Dr. Chawlas interests and commitments to the critical contemporary issue of protection of and engagement with the natural environment among the next generation make her especially appropriate as a speaker in this series.
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Chapter 15
Absalom conspires against David and gains the support of the people—David flees, and Absalom enters Jerusalem.
1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2 And
3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
5 And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so
7 ¶And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the Lord, in Hebron.
8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at
9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.
10 ¶But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.
12 And Absalom sent for
13 ¶And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us
15 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were
17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
19 ¶Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
24 ¶And lo
25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a
28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
30 ¶And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his
31 ¶And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the
32 ¶And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:
34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
35 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.


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Originally posted by Arakazi
Just gonna add that I am bemused by how people praise the crafting. I find it a tedious grind. Unless you are going to buy from the market, which isn't exact;y recommended you will be spending a lot of time leveling up mining, fishing and whatever. I find the setup fairly good, but I utterly loath the grind. In fact I spent most of the last week trying to level my mining and blacksmithing but I get so bored, I end up doing the washing up....
Uhh the point is to make money; and both crafting and gathering make you lots of it.
I mean, what else would be the point?
It is when these post-WoW folks come into this game and completely miss the meaning of everything you do in-game when you get posts like these.
I don't even look at the exp bar anymore; more than that, I wish I didn't level so bloody fast. I'm just making money, tons of it, and getting higher and higher in the process.
In all fairness it took me ten levels of mining and roughly the same amount of crafting until it started to get really fun. Then again it took me so little time to get to this point, it's not even worth mentioning.
I may have dinged the game a bit more on the SNAFU of a launch, the imbalance in risk vs reward for many activities (crafting leves, FATEs), and especially on the still-persistent ability lag. But all in all I don't majorly disagree with anything.
I think longevity is there to warrant a 10: the people that focus on one class, or focus on FATE leveling or craft leve grinding are going to be disappointed, but by and large the horizontal leveling system works well, there just need to be some tweaks made to balance it out.
Originally posted by DMKano
Originally posted by Hyanmen
If you compare the aesthetics to the MMO genre - not something like The Witcher 2 - 10 is most accurate number. It is the cream of the crop of MMO visuals.
I respectfully disagree. The visual distance is very short - the zones are tiny, the textures are far too low res. Animation sliding/gliding while walking is abundant.
10 is perfection - this is not perfect which is why 9 is more accurate IMO.
There are aspects of other games that are better - AoC for example - visual range and godrays are done better, also much less sliding.
10 would be done better than anything on the market, and FFARR falls a hair short - again 9 IMO.
You may want to consider upgrading your computer. I play on minimum settings to maximize framerate, and it is still the best looking game I have played in a very long time. And one of the only ones where things seem to appear naturally in the distance, not just materialize out of nowhere in a blaze of pixels and rendering.
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You forgot to mention that if you're not planning on making multiple characters, you can choose "Entry"-level subscription for 12.99 USD a month. That's the same price you would get when purchasing a 3-month "Standard" subscription. Plus this is one of the few games that doesn't convert USD to Euro as $15 to 15€, so I'm paying 10€ a month for FF14 which leaves a possibility of playing an extra MMO (I'm looking at you Wildstar).
Good review all in all. Although they have tuned down the linearity of maps, they're still pretty linear. I know a few people that dislike that in a MMO, but I do understand the need for that kind of map structure (PS3).
I haven't played FF11, so for me characters (art-wise) are amazing.
Originally posted by Nadriell
LOL yall make me laugh ... nothing to do at 50, and the game is easy???? "A Relic Reborn" to get your relic weapon... oh and then once you do all the hard mode primal fights and countless other things you need to complete your relic, Dragon's Coil opens up... 5 tiers of fucking hard as shit...... get your AF+2 just to get it replaced by Allagan armor from Dragon's Coil......
I love when people hit 50 stop leveling and look around like "what the shit do i do now?"
So i will help you out.
1. Start "A Relic Reborn"
2. Grind Praetorium or CM for tomes of Philosophy
3. Get some Darklight gear from Mor Dhona.
3. Continue work on "A Relic Reborn". Kill the Chimera, and gain access to Amdapor Keep
4. Run Amdapor keep to build more tomes of philosophy and also Mythology be sure to cap your 300 for the week as you will need these later.
5. Continue "A relic Reborn" and fight Hydra!
6. Buy more Darklight and some AF+2 some parts are only 485 myth tomes!
7. Beat Ifrit Hard Mode for your relic
8. Beat Garuda Hard Mode for your relic
9 Beat Titan Hard Mode for your relic ( you will need full DL for this, or you're fucked)
10. Unlock your relic and thus unlock the true end game... Dragons Coil here you come.
AND by the time you finish all this jazz, 2.1 will launch the 24 man dungeon "Crystal Tower" will open its doors, you will get player and FC housing, PVP will make its appearance in Wolves Den. and last but not least, my personal favorite.... More Primals, i think Ramuh and Leviathan shall show up, and will be harder then titan.....
SO there you go people, now quit bitchin bout no end game.
What if people aren't interested in that stuff? What if Hard Primal fights and Relic weapons aren't what they play the game for?
Not everyone plays MMORPGs for the same reasons. Not everyone wants the same things or experiences out of them.
There's a lot of people who will immediately throw out challenges/suggestions similar to yours the moment they see someone talking about "not enough content". And they do so without ever asking first if the person they're addressing is even interested in all that stuff in the first place.
Originally posted by TangentPoint
Originally posted by Nadriell
LOL yall make me laugh ... nothing to do at 50, and the game is easy???? "A Relic Reborn" to get your relic weapon... oh and then once you do all the hard mode primal fights and countless other things you need to complete your relic, Dragon's Coil opens up... 5 tiers of fucking hard as shit...... get your AF+2 just to get it replaced by Allagan armor from Dragon's Coil......
I love when people hit 50 stop leveling and look around like "what the shit do i do now?"
So i will help you out.
1. Start "A Relic Reborn"
2. Grind Praetorium or CM for tomes of Philosophy
3. Get some Darklight gear from Mor Dhona.
3. Continue work on "A Relic Reborn". Kill the Chimera, and gain access to Amdapor Keep
4. Run Amdapor keep to build more tomes of philosophy and also Mythology be sure to cap your 300 for the week as you will need these later.
5. Continue "A relic Reborn" and fight Hydra!
6. Buy more Darklight and some AF+2 some parts are only 485 myth tomes!
7. Beat Ifrit Hard Mode for your relic
8. Beat Garuda Hard Mode for your relic
9 Beat Titan Hard Mode for your relic ( you will need full DL for this, or you're fucked)
10. Unlock your relic and thus unlock the true end game... Dragons Coil here you come.
AND by the time you finish all this jazz, 2.1 will launch the 24 man dungeon "Crystal Tower" will open its doors, you will get player and FC housing, PVP will make its appearance in Wolves Den. and last but not least, my personal favorite.... More Primals, i think Ramuh and Leviathan shall show up, and will be harder then titan.....
SO there you go people, now quit bitchin bout no end game.
What if people aren't interested in that stuff? What if Hard Primal fights and Relic weapons aren't what they play the game for?
Not everyone plays MMORPGs for the same reasons. Not everyone wants the same things or experiences out of them.
There's a lot of people who will immediately throw out challenges/suggestions similar to yours the moment they see someone talking about "not enough content". And they do so without ever asking first if the person they're addressing is even interested in all that stuff in the first place.
What if they dont like it? what a question, quit and find a new game. seriously, why bitching all the time, go find a new game then if u dont like it... Every game is different in its way and attracts a different kind of gamers. there are enough players , including me, who do look exactly for that kind of eng-game content. and that is why I am playing it. If i knew there was nothing like this available, why the f*** would I buy the game, and then later on realise, oh snap, this is not my game, lets bitch on mmorpg about it, why did i waste money on it? your own damn fault.
8.4, better than 5.1
The ability lag, ugg i rarely bother to move anymore, why interrupt an action.
The review could have been summed up with.
Best MMO in years.
There are so many ways to level, so much to do, dungeons every step of the way, even has lots of stuff to grind, and i gotta have my grind. Lets not forget the most important factor here, it just launched. It's going to be a sweet ride. Finally an mmo to call home after all these years.
When i play an MMO i look for certain core features that need to be good for me to enjoy it.
- Combat. Lets be honest here, the combat in this game is lacking. Its static and evolves purely around standard rotations. And when you compare it to games which use similar systems it lacks aswell. The combat isnt as good, balanced and responsive as in WOW or Rift or even SWTOR.
- Abbility to build up your character. When i play an MMO one of the things my friends and I enjoy doing is theorycrafting around builds + gear combinations. They basicly removed one of the key elements of an MMO...a talenttree. I have two friends who literally stated: "No talenttree means i whont play it". And to be honest, i dont blame them.
If you watched the GW2 MLG tournament last weekend you wouldve noticed that every engineer (the class i play in GW2) ran a different build. Thats they way it should be. On my engineer i have literally 7-8 different good builds to work with. Each being good in different situations vs different types of NPCs or players.
I want options when playing the class i enjoy the most not "well you can alway play another class". I look for customizability not autopilot casualized crap.
If the rest of the game was perfect (which no game is) that 8.5 would be justified. But its really generic, not that immersive due to the lack of voiceacting/standard animations of mobs /NPCs, unresponsive at times (with my high end PC + vibre net), lacks some really important features (like right click report for goldsellers), etc etc
I would give it a 6.5. and thats a bit too generous probably.
I think this review is part of the trend to give pretty much every single big (MMO) game a high grade. If i check metacitric i see websites like USgamer who give out 5-6 perfect scores per month. Is MMORPG.com the next in the long line of a...kissers that gives grades that are too high to keep publishers and the crowd of rabbid fanboys happy??
Originally posted by Theocritus
If at first you dont succeed, copy as much from WoW as you can the next time.......
Except that they DIDN'T copy from WoW. As a former FFXI player who returns often, i see plenty of the old FFXI in this game, even in the poor chat system that was carried over from 11. You might think it's a clone because it has quests, well FFXI had quests, it's just that they were so obscure and offered so little reward that no did them except to unlock a quest for a job or a job skill. The Fates are much like the Campaigns in FFXI in a later expansion, these years before Rift or most other games were even toying much with the idea of using the concept.
The mobs are nearly carbon copies of the mobs in 11, the spells aren't WoW based spells, they're Final Fantasy based in and rooted solidly in FF lore. And Final Fantasy XI is a year older than WoW, if anything, WoW borrowed from Final Fantasy, and not just eleven.
FF7 had materia that you could embed in weapons, long before WoW ever came on the scene with their gems. Yes, later Square Enix did include stuff in FF11 that was partially inspired by WoW's instances, but it took some people 40 or more tries to kill the first 3 bosses in the Chains of Promethia expansion, something you rarely see happen in WoW currently.
I really hate it when people come into FF14, see the action bars and declare, "It's a WoW clone" without stating anything to back up their claims, because it's not a WoW clone.
Even the crafting system, the majority of the recipes, the requirement to use crystals, is taken directly from Final Fantasy XI. And when did WoW ever require anyone to use crystals to craft anything? And the gathering, while I may not have had a job just for gathering, I had to go out and gather the same way I do in 14.
As for running out of quests after you hit 50 the first time, the majority of the original Legacy players and many of the newer players have come from FFXI, we're happy to have those quests, yes, but even without them the game is still nowhere near as grindy as 11 was, where it took years to reach 50 and then later on 75, before they added benefits to make leveling faster. Those who love Final Fantasy, the veteran FFXI players, want old school, we just don't want the grind that the old school FFXI had.
As for the subscription service, Square Enix would be stupid to give up their cash cow. Final Fantasy XI is their most successful franchise ever, and even now with declining numbers of players and server mergers, they still have kept it on a subscription plan. Why? In part because their core fans will pay for the experience. I know I have and I've gone back to it more than once to revisit that feel, the way that some of you love to revisit WoW for the same reason. Because it was the mmo that made me fall in love with mmos.
As for the story, most Final Fantasy fans play for the story. If you're not a final fantasy fan and never enjoyed the Final Fantasy games, then this game is likely not for you either, because it will be story heavy. Even FFXI had at times 20 minutes of cutscene after a fight, and while we all joked about how long they were, we all loved the cutscenes too.
As for those who want pvp, well, pvp has never been Square Enix's or Final Fantasy's core objective. It's more like a bit of a side show really, because even tho pvp was later made available in FFXi, no one wanted to pvp. Square Enix's main fan base are not pvp'ers, so if you're looking for a lot of intense pvp, this game is probably not for you.
Overall, in spite of the grind after your first 50, which i don't really mind because it's nowhere as grindy as 11 was, where it took me years to reach level cap, and I stopped at 96 the last time, when level cap is 99. I enjoy the game, I enjoy the atmosphere, and Square Enix isn't interested in being the biggest mmo, they're much more interested in taking care of their core, dedicated audience. And they do have a dedicated audience, they couldn't have kept FFXI afloat this long if they didn't. If you're not among those, well, that's fine, everyone has different tastes.
As for what everyone keeps calling anime style to the characters, I don't see it. The first time I tried WoW, and I played it actively for years, enough to have 11 toons over 80, I hated what I thought were the ugly, cartoony graphics and I missed the more realistic, imo, graphics from FFXI. In fact, that first time I never made it past the trial of WoW, I hated the look so much, and only came back about a year later.
So for those who aren't happy with FFXIV:ARR, that's fine, but please understand, there are those of us who are plenty happy with it, including me and many of my friends from Final Fantasy XI who are playing it across several servers. We love the game and we're going to keep playing it for a good while yet.
People need to keep in mind too, that while WoW was about rushing to the endgame, Final Fantasy mmos are about the journey just as much as getting to endgame and I and my friends love that journey.P.S. And yes I know Square Enix's customer service sucks. All Final Fantasy XI players, present and former, know this sadly lol.
Originally posted by JonnyBigBoss
Longevity a 10? I couldn't even make it past the first month. You grind CM 52 times and then go do a couple other dungeons. A patch isn't coming for another two months.
Oh, and there's really nothing else to do at the moment.
Square Enix has kept FFXI alive for 11 years with less than a million players for a large part of that time. I know for a fact that many of my FFXI friends are now playing FF14, so longevity, yes, because the hardcore Final Fantasy fans will stick with it, while the rest of you fade away, crying, 'WoW clone! WoW clone!" never having played FFXI to have a true and honest comparison to 14 and WoW.
As for grinding, I'm hoping they'll fix that, but tbh, Final Fantasy XI and other old school players are used to grinding, even if the rest of the newer mmo players aren't. One of the biggest complaints longtime FFXI players have had against WoW, in fact, is that it's too easy to level in WoW.
Maybe part of why I love it is because it is a bit grindy, things don't come easy in this game, that makes them all the more satisfying when you do achieve your goal, for me at least. I know beating those majorly 3 first bosses in CoP in FFXI well, nothing in WoW that I ever ran across ever approached the toughness of those fights, or the satisfaction I felt when i beat the bosses with my linkshell aka guildies.
So keep in mind when you complain about grindy, some people enjoy grindy still and miss it. SE wasn't trying to make a new mmo or reinvent the wheel, they were trying to appeal to old school players, many of whom have been playing with SE and FFXi for years. And if a few EQ and other old school players want to join in because they miss the grind, well, we'll welcome them with open arms.
But quite obviously, this game isn't for you if you don't like to grind at all. I should mention tho, after getting 11 toons to 80 and higher in WoW, what is the real difference between grinding mob kills and fates and grinding quests? They're both grinding either way you look at it. It took me 11 toons in WoW to realize this, I was sooo sick of the same quests, over and over and over again, just like I was sooo sick of killing the same mobs hour upon hour in FFXI.
At least in FF14 you get good experience i f you grind Fates, the same couldn't always be said about FFXI.
And the longevity of FFXI shows they put their attention in what they do best, making old school mmos. And those of us who miss the old school mmos, are plenty happy with it.
On the subject of Alts that someone else brought up: II don't believe that's true. If it was, people would have done that in FFXI, but truth was, if people found out you had an alt in FFXI, which I did and leveled too btw, they gave you a look that said, "Are you crazy?" It takes a lot of attention and time and effort to level up a toon in the GC, in the class quests, why level an alt and go to that extra work, when you don't have to. The main use for alts in FFXI, where storage space was scarce, was to store extra equpment. People rarely touched them to level, ever. I was the rarity among my friends because I did level an alt character.
Also consider, SE is likely to add more factions to build reputation with in future expansions and patches, so that adds yet another grind to do twice. They did this n FFXI multiple times.
I agree with some points, but longevity is not a 10 in this game, I don't see this being a long term MMO for most. And just getting more and more classes is not really what I call depth to a game.
Same with the is visuals, 10 ?? ugh please, not that the game is ugly by any means, but it surely is not a 10.
I will say tho, that this game is better then most MMO's that have come out in the last few years. And there is some really great ideas in the game.
Originally posted by Entropy14
I agree with some points, but longevity is not a 10 in this game, I don't see this being a long term MMO for most. And just getting more and more classes is not really what I call depth to a game.
Do you mean popular, with a lot of subscribers or do you mean longevity? Because SE is a privately owned company, even if they have only around 500k subscribers, which is around what they have for FFXI, they will still be fine. It's because they are privately owned that they've been able to keep FFXi as P2P, because they don't have shareholders breathing down there necks if things go wrong. Even the guy who took over the reins has said if 14 keeps only 500k subscribers, they'll consider the overhaul a success.
Please don't confuse longevity with immensely popular, which I fear you are. Not all mmos and mmo makers judge a mmo successful by Blizzard's standards. If SE did that, they would have shut down FFXI years ago, which they didn't.
As for running out of quests, I think you fail to understand how old schoo mmo players leveled, especially those from FFXI. We didn't quest, quests did not normally give experience, and rarely did they give you any useful items, much less gear. We leveled in FFXI by standing in one spot for 5-6-7 sometimes 8 hours while a thief pulled the same mobs as they respawned to the group. For all those hours, we killed the same mobs, over and over and over again. And heaven forbid the puller accidently pulled an add, two mobs, unless you had someone who could sleep the extra mob, meant a complete and total wipe. Total wipes meant experience loss, sometimes the loss of levels.
So do I feel sorry for you when you complain you ran out of quests? No I don't, because I had to level without quests for years. There are other options, it's time you learned to be a bit inventive, like the FFXI players got to be. Example: A Summoner Burn Party in FFXI. Look it up. It's called being constructive with your time, instead of waiting for someone to take your hand and show you how to level outside of quests. And honestly, I get sick of grinding quests just as much as anything else if I do them long enough, so sometimes I like to do something else besides quest in an mmo.
So forigve me if I'm not upset at having Fates that actually give decent experience, without me having to grind to the extent that I did in FFXI. I don't mind running out of quests as much as some do, quests are a grind too tho most people miss that fact. A grind is a grind is a grind, period. All that really matters is tha tI enjoy the game, and I do.
I'm meeting old FFXI for the first time, we're chatting and sharing tales, talking as we group and well I almost never ran into that kind of friendliness, or the willingness to forgive mistakes, like that in WoW. I remember one time someone in SW in WoW asked for buffs, everyone started in on him, "How dare you ask for buffs."
In a FF game, someone asks for a buff and they get it. You run past someone and see they need help and a heal, you stop and heal. The social makeup of the FFXI players has for the most migrated over into FF14, and I'm loving it. People help each other, not expecting any reward. You can't beat that, imo. So yes, I'm enjoying FF14, and I'm sticking with it and my friends from FFXI that I'm playing with, do also.
Whether you all realize it or not, when you joined FFXIV: ARR you joined pretty much an already established social comunity since many players even in 1.0 migrated from FFX, even some entire linkshells made the move (aka guilds in FFXI)I. You are the newcomers, the invaders so to speak and we already set the standards in FFXI and later in FFXIV long before most of you probably showed any real interest in the game at all.
You can't join an already established gaming community and expect it to be just WoW's or your favorite mmo's community. I'm sorry, but you just cannot. That would be like a FFXI player joining WoW and demanding everyone stand in a safe corner and kill the same mobs repeatedly for hours just to level.
I do feel the 8.4 score is fair, because even I can see some flaws in the game, flaws I hope they fix or resolve in the near future. But I do think people need to get a bit realistic, you bought an mmo that the producer has advertised was to be like an old school mmo, and now you're unhappy because it's turned out to be like an old school mmo. Can't please everyone all the time, obviously lol.
Firstly I'd say that it does what it says on the tin. They resurrected xiv as a wow clone ( I know, terrible expression), and that's more or less what it is.
Dungeon->get gear->Harder dungeon, Raid (repeat, repeat, repeat)->better gear.
The job classes are another way of adding skills to your character, giving limited variation to the particular role your are playing - whm, blm, smn etc etc. Not as flexible as Rift, which must take the honours here, but better than some other games.
Stats - potential to give some variation in performance - However, it doesn't work that way. People calculate, list preferential stat build for each class and it soon becomes "if you don't have this build & stats you're not optimum/penalizing yourself....." well worn ground and nothing new here.
So, for those who enjoy the dungeon/raid gear treadmill, its an ideal game. End instances are limited at the moment - but of course they are, it's a new launch. It's to be expected. More will be added, that's how it goes.
For those looking for something different - well......the different crafting skills can offer a diversion, and it's real strength - the story line. Additionally each class/job gets something to talk about every 5 levels, but these are a shadow of the main story which is one of the main strengths of the game, if not the standout feature. - but this strength can also be a weakness.
You finish the main story and it is very well done - then what? The book seems to have shut, put it down and read something else.
SE recognize this and have attempted to continue with the "but they have returned and are stronger" theme. No matter how it's couched it can feel like an addendum, something put on the end, an epilogue if you like. They even had the title screens at the end of the main story - like film credits whilst the audience departs. Was this a wise move, serving to reinforce the impression that it was finished?
Some people will happily manage the transition from a very strong story driven game to a rinse and repeat gear grind. Others may feel that they have completed the most enjoyable part and wait for the next main story line to be introduced before re-subbing.
And - whilst on the subject of the story lines, whether main or class. Of course the difficulty escalates as these progress. But this cannot continue. Increasing difficulties, like any escalating challenge, will see player drop offs. Taken to it's ultimate conclusion, the difficulty would escalate until only a handful of players could succeed with these.
That's ok. For the top level players, there should be top level challenges. But a word of caution. Like in any game there is a spread of players. If the story line introduces what become insurmountable blocks to some players, they will simply leave.
So, have the higher level difficulties. Make these a real challenge - but possibly divorced from the story, which should continue to promote it's main strength - a great piece of story telling, accessible to all players.
The game will have drop off after people finish the current main story. It will be down to SE to introduce a new story line in the near future as involving as the first to re-engage these players. Having the players run the same instances "but harder" as part of the story feels like exactly what it is - you've finished the current story, but we can't really acknowledge that.
"You're either with us or against us"
I'd rate this game 9.1/10, The occasional server lag drops it, Sorry but this is the nicest looking mmo out. Secondly, end-game is pack with stuff to do. This is only a month in and people are having trouble with conquering content. I completed the relic quest and it was the first time in a long time i felt i had acquired something and felt great about it. It wasn't instant gratifaction like 90% of the other mmo's out.
If your having trouble finding something to do, well that's your own fault. SE has laid a golden platter out all you have to do is pick.
So much hate on this thread, What? are these people scared TESO may not be their perfect game? I can tell you now some money will be crossed hands to get them a good rating so don't worry about that you fanboys. I say haters because "ability" lag doesn't exist lol, like i said earlier there is some server lag but it's not constant. Seem too many people want it like wow, or completly different, which isn't true either (look at Darkfall!!) So what is it you guys want exactly? Trust me you'll be waiting awhile for that perfect game...
Anyone who takes any of this with a grain of salt, listen to this, Pick the game up! You won't be dissapointed. If you're a final fantasy 11/14 1.0 player you'll love it. If you're a MMO player looking for something fresh this game is for you.
Originally posted by Lissyl
I think the score is a little low. Not -real- low...but some. I think the Value score throws it off; 3 month content patches is a very good pace, particularly for adding in raids/instances/etc. Any faster and people won't all have time to necessarily enjoy the new content, and any slower and you're in WoW territory. At half the price of any other competing game, there is simply no way that a 7 for value is fair unless you're comparing it to the supposed 'free' and completely overlooking what you need in a 'free' game to match up to what this game is giving you.
I agree 100%.
I really don't get it. What is so special about this game? I found it boring in the extreme with very little that is new and a quest system straight out of the fed-ex playbook. Maybe it's just me but looking at the thread asking if people are going to sub it obviously isn't, with the poll there standing at about 50/50.
As for the review. well reviews are simply the thoughts of one individual but when it gives a perfect 10 and then proceeds to point out failings as it does with the character models I have to question it. If the models are sub-par to the reviewer then that category shouldn't be given a perfect score should it? For me the game as a whole is no more than a 5 for effort but everyone to their own I suppose.


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When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which they had with them, and bowed down to him to the ground. And he inquired about their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?" They said, "Your servant our father is well, he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and made obeisance. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!" Then Joseph made haste, for his heart yearned for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there. Then he washed his face and came out; and controlling himself he said, "Let food be served."
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Skip to comments.On Benghazi, Panetta Says Needed 'Advance Notice' of Surprise Attack for Timely Response
Posted on 11/12/2012 6:43:31 PM PST by kristinn
Here's the TV Pool Report verbatim on Defense Secretary Panetta's comments about Benghazi, spoken today in session with reporters aboard his flight to Perth, Australia:
One of the things that we are doing right now is we are involved in an assessment btwn DOD and the state department to look at the embassies in that region and what additional steps need to be taken in order to ensure the security of our embassies. So we do need to look at how we can A, improve security and 2, be able to effectively respond if there are any threats.
With regards to Benghazi itself, I think this has been pointed out, we moved very quickly to deploy the forces that we thought were important to deal w/ the threats in the region. We deployed those forces as quickly as we could. But the problem w/ Benghazi itself is the events there were happening on rapid pace, that attack was largely over by the time of response.
Q more troops?
The fact is, we had them deployed to the key areas that we needed to have them move from. And you know, we have so many bases in the area, obviously siganella was one of those bases, but Roda as well as other bases in the region. The fundamental fact is this: in order for us to be able to move quickly we have to have some advance notice that something is going to happen and in this case we didnt have that. When we were informed the attack was already happening, and to be able to respond quickly when an attack is already going on, just make it very difficult to be able to move as quickly as we would have wanted to.
Benghazigate Ping.
So, in order to be able to respond 'quickly' to an enemy attack, they have to holler "ready or not, here we come" first? The incompetence rampant in the Obama administration, from the top down, defies description.
Pinhead Penetta. What an idiot.
This idiotic statement clearly disqualifies Paneta from having anything to do with the military - especially the position of SecDef. Shameful.
What an idiot. Further proof that America is on a downward spiral. Clueless hack.
Sorry to say this but our Government (many branches) have been and are lying to the public about Benghazi! So this is what we have come to...
Probably has happened before but was not so obvious as this and never uncovered. The worst is that most of America is so stupid that they will believe anything coming from our grand "leaders". Go get'em "Kim-so-Obama".
So fortunate for Pinhedda that Al Queda always pulls its punches.
Double BUMP!
With the greatest, most highly trained and technologically superior military on the planet all it would have taken early on was a simple "GO" and there would have been AQ shit guts and feathers everywhere.
Yes, I can CLEARLY see why Colin Powell would endorse this administration.
So, the rebellion in Libya has been going on for almost 2 years and has been a full fledged war zone. What more "advanced notice" do these idiots need? Panetta has confirmed he is as worthless as I always thought he was.
>> On Benghazi, Panetta Says Needed 'Advance Notice' of Surprise Attack for Timely Response
12-7-1941, 9-11-2001, 9-11-2012...
BS, Panetta.
Arbeit macht frei!
If only I had advance notice of pending major stock market declines, I could keep from losing lots of money!
Or, if only I had advance notice of a pending fatal accident, I could save myself!
The list is endless when you live in la-la land as libtards do.
That is grotesque and surreal enough to suit this situation.
Fact One:
1) Only the POTUS can authorize a CBA (cross border authority) command for a rescue mission in a foreign nation.
Plus Fact Two:
2) No rescue mission was attempted.
Equals Fact Three:
3) 0bama turned his back on 41 State Dept. and CIA employees refusing to issue a CBA command and went to bed so he could go to Las Vegas the next day.
What did he think was happening when they blew up one of the walls of the mission in June? Why did the British move out? What constitutes advance notice?
Maybe the president could have authorized some air power.
assessment = cover up
If Panchetta is one of the "best and brightest" as advertised. This Country is in deep, deep sh*t
This clown would have a tough time pouring pee out of his boot (with directions written on the heel).
"The fundamental fact is this: in order for us to be able to move quickly we have to have some advance notice that something is going to happen and in this case we didnt have that."
The Condoleezza Rice Defense
... and that of so many failures in charge, throughout history. There has to be some "medal" that is awarded every quarter at each military academy, to the cadet or midshipman who utters in class, "If I'd only known the time and the place."
That award, should be henceforth called Panetta's Fig Leaf Cluster.
The Panetta Doctrine: Otherwise known as the Stupidest Bull s@#t you ever heard!
A first for FR, LOL. Wondering what the comment would have been?
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Skip to comments.Carbongate (Obama's EPA Cover-up)
Posted on 06/26/2009 6:07:35 PM PDT by WhiteCastle
Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill? This was supposed to be the most transparent administration ever. Yet as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the Waxman-Markey bill, the largest tax increase in U.S. history on 100% of Americans, an attempt was made to suppress a study shredding supporters' arguments.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
Do you really think science or logic has anything to do with this?
Just as a certain predecessor administration touted that it was going to be the most ethical administration ever.
Would anyone like the 98 page document from the EPA? I found it yesterday on another website. It does dismiss AGW, so we are in effect being lied to by the EPA.
This is hugh.
I sent the entire document to Fox news this am and never heard anything about it. Seems to me they aren't doing there jobs either.
It's dated March 16th.
It is now June 26th.
Obama was keeping it hidden.
If China were any more powerful (for example, if it had anti-missile shields), how long would any smart investor want hold onto US currency? Considering how competitive China is, and how much it would like to be the world's #1, why wouldn't they dump the US dollar? Probably because this would start an immediate war with Beijing being nuked and the global media machine blaming the Chinese. I'm no fan of Communism, but selling US debt to foreigners means that we have foreign masters (that's wrong). Intimidating investors is equally wrong. Is it any wonder that nuclear blackmail by bellicose nations and global crime syndicates will come back to haunt us?
The supposed tax money raised from anti-global warming laws will go straight to the pockets of politicians. There won't be a "green" economy. Rather, our highways will have the same result as that of Cubans keeping their 1950s American made autos running. The difference is that we're more likely to be driving Toyota's and Honda's instead of any Detroit-made crap on wheels.
A warm world is a scary world for tyrants because a warm world produces more food. Tyrants don't want people to be well fed and in control of their own appetites and wills. Tyrants want the price of food to rise astronomically because this will enslave the populous to the tyrant's will and whims.
Expect the DNC to swindle all farmland next.
Many theorists and theologists equate Emperor Nero to the horrors of the beast in Revelations. Is it any wonder that the similarities of today's tyranny mirrors the horrors warned in Revelations? We might think that evil follows the Greek tragedy of Pandora's box—a gateway opened between hell and earth where evil is released to do harm. By a different examination, Revelations shows how evil cannot operate outside the box. Thus, by their fruit we shall know who the wicked are. The fruit Americans (and the rest of the world) will be eating is starvation: Rev. Chapter 6, Verse 6, Footnote 6 (NAB)
As difficult as the reality is concerning this very real possibility, one has to ask why an entire nation has turned to such a disastrous mindset. Why are we slitting our economic and industrial jugular? Why the hell did we vote for these devils in the flesh?
The answer is too simple, yet it explains our human weakness thoroughly: because we want to get high, get laid, and have a slave do the hard work while we parasite off the weak.
The DNC has catered to this human weakness very effectively and the media/propaganda machine is its willing servant. America has fallen to the same politics given to the world by both the Soviets and the Nazis.
The report was recycled skeptical talking points. It was worthless as a contribution and right to be rejected. It was written by a couple of economists copying material from a skeptical Web site. Great stuff.
Sorry, one of the authors was an economist. The other author was an environmental scientist posted in the National Center for Environmental Economics. Mea culpa.
If only the press were as hard hitting with TOTUS as they are now with Michael Jackson's cardiologist!
I'm pretty sure you are refering to Pelosi saying she was going to have the most ethical Congress ever.....
How is this news now?
-your friends in the MSM
This has been suppressed, though long known, and it is one of the items mentioned in other articles concerning this EPA, agenda driven policy making so-called "coverup". It is not just a talking point, as you put it...
The models didn't properly take this factor into account, which is part of the why the computer models are quite wrong. Otherwise, why exactly have we been cooling a bit, worldwide, for a while now? Oh, but they ignore that SET OF FACTS, also. Which are not just recycled, needed to be rejected "talking points".
But don't let that stop you. Cherry pick what you want science to say & mean. You'll never be lonely, doing it that-a-ways...
I thought there was supposed to be seperation of Church and state?
The green movement has become absolutely religious. Their Pagan form of worship to the gods of nature and their tributes to their apostles like Gore have made them lose all objectivity to the matter of climate change or whatever issue they say is ailing the planet.
The Unconstitutional behavior of making us all subscribe to this cult is what is in play and what people saw play out in the House today.
Get Mother Nature out of our government she has no place there.
Do you really think science or logic has anything to do with this?
I wonder how many who voted for this really believe in this BS.
It's not about global warming, it is about CONTROL.
Poppin' a cap [and trade] in Americas ass...
Everyone should read this article on Goldman Sachs from Rolling stones magazine. I could not post it on main because it is via a blog, and you have to go there to read it. It turns out that Goldman stands to make a mint off from cap and trade according to the article. Makes sense too.
I just want to scream.
Its like seeing a train wreck, you can see it comin and there isn't a DAMN thing you can do about it.
Maybe I am mixing things up. WHat were the Clintons' claims?
ping and ding
"The report was recycled skeptical talking points. It was worthless as a contribution and right to be rejected. It was written by a couple of economists copying material from a skeptical Web site. Great stuff."
Quite a few of those points, if not all, are correct. Which do you dispute?
The fact is the Earth is cooling, and rather rapidly over the last few years. I'm also of the view, based on the best science regarding solar cycles, that the cooling trend will likely continue, as mentioned, until 2030 or so.
The global warming alarmists are simply in the position of having their lovely theories demolished by pesky reality. Good thing natural variability turned the way it did, or we'd be really screwed...on the other hand, I think there'll be quite an unfortunate backlash against science as the end result. The backlash should really be against ignorant politicians who aren't educated enough to make good policy based on science.
It's incredible how Zero and the Dems say that this will cost the average American "a postage stamp a day." That's about $15/month—or about the amount in "stimulus" in the form of lowered tax withholding, which was touted as a wonderful thing (by Dims). Did you hear anyone in the MSM decry that as "only about a postage stamp a day"? Didn't think so. And if Zero and the Dems say $15/month for cap-in-the-@ss-and-trade, you can bet they're off by at least a factor of 10.
By the way, I don't mean to excuse scientific corruption. In cases where science data was altered, or results faked, there should be criminal prosecution.
I'm not making any claims about Hansen, GISS, and the surface temperature record, but the irregularities there are highly suspicious and should be THOROUGHLY investigated!
I'd like anyone to explain why they aren't using any urban heat island corrections, for instance. There are widely reported siting and equipment problems with many "climate stations" as well.
Up until 2007, the IPCC was still engaged in the debate but then broke sharply away from entertaining any contradictory findings thinking they had made a convincing argument with already agreed supporters in various areas for regulatory controls and great cooperation among member nations.
Since then the supporting science itself has seen a recycling of most of that work in the form of metastudies all of which have served to rachet up the "call to action" while ignoring the skeptics or, even worse castigating them as irrational "deniers."
It seems the whole effort now has devolved to a massive marketing process whereby anyone who fails to climb aboard will forever miss the train.
Anyone who seriously doubts the idealism and evangelistic fervor of the current state of affairs is turning a blind eye. As we stand idly by while this wholesale "skepticide" continues, we may need to suffer in silence as dissent is likely to be the next target of an overweening new world order of things.
Reference bump! ;-)
I used to run articles on my website PROVING that man is NOT responsible for past climate change, that the world has been COOLING for over a decade now, that carbon does NOT cause a climb in temperatures, that infact carbon numbers rise only AFTER temps rise- noth hte other way around- that these rises in temps ARE cyclical, that they follow sun solar events- when htere's more sun spots, we grow warmer, when less, we grow colder- but ya know what? It's all fallign on deaf ears because htis administration- and hte dems, could care less abotu hte science- could care less about FACTS, and coudl care less about how cap and trade is goign to ruin us- they smell $$ and NOTHING is goign to stop them from gettign to it- not hte law, not hte constitution, not hte science, nor hte FACTS!
They will NEVER be intellectually honest enough to admit this is a scam of gigantic proportions- We the people WILL suffer for hteir insatiable greed and lust for power!
[[It seems the whole effort now has devolved to a massive marketing process whereby anyone who fails to climb aboard will forever miss the train.]]
Thast is precisely right! The IPCC was made up of a mere 60 or so 'scientists', many of whom later recoutned how htey were pressured to report findings contrasry to what hte actual science indicated, and hwo have since recanted their eirlier statments on global warming.
I posted many many reports from Marc Morano, Sen Inhoffe's former aid, that show reams and reams of scientific evidence proving man is not to blame, but it is all falling on deaf ears- I finally wrote to Sen Inhoffe about hte FACT that this issue is NOT abotu hte science anymore, and that it has become, as you say- finacially expedient to sign onto it regardless of hte facts, but NEVER got a response- most likely because he KNOWS that no matter how loud we squeel, the govenrment is NOT goign to stop SCAMMING us because there simply is so much $$ involved in 'fixing' the problem that we are NOT responsible for, and hte govenrment KNOWS that peopel are so guillible, and feel such self-loathing, that htey will do anythign to 'atone' for our uspposed enviro-sins.
not to mention dropping 300 more pages of legislation on the table at 3 am the day of the vote that could not be read by anyone.
So they took a 1,500 page document that had blank pages left in it to be filled in later and voted it in without even having seen or even possibly known about 1/5 of it!
The largest financial bill to ever hit the house and these IDIOTS just went along with it!
Every last one of them who voted for it should be tared and feathered. Talk about being lead around by the nose.
What is the title of the next book?
The Audacity of Congress?
The Audacity of Representatives?
If I had time, I'd dispute all of them, but since I don't, read this instead, which does it for me:
The fact is the Earth is cooling, and rather rapidly over the last few years.
Ridiculous. It's just interannual variability. The last two years have been influenced by a strong La Nina. We may have an El Nino this year. If so, that tune will change in a hurry.
Im also of the view, based on the best science regarding solar cycles, that the cooling trend will likely continue, as mentioned, until 2030 or so.
It'd be nice if you were right. You're probably not right.
The global warming alarmists are simply in the position of having their lovely theories demolished by pesky reality.
Pesky reality is going to bite us back hard.
... based on the best science regarding solar cycles, that the cooling trend will likely continue, as mentioned, until 2030 or so....
This is exactly the reason that they want Cap/Trade. They can claim, over the coming years, that their incredible foresight and wisdom saved us. Therefore, attempting to gain credibility of having a clue about anything (which they only know re-election and stealing my money).
I absolutely hate these detestable bastards.
"time to lock and load"
"If I had time, I'd dispute all of them, but since I don't, read this instead, which does it for me:
There are sources of directly measured data that are indicative. The JASON satellite sea level measurements, and the ARGO buoy ocean heat content measurements are two.
Both of them show a nice, consistent cooling trend since 2002.
Then there's the global sea ice extent, which is right at the baseline at the moment, after dipping quite a bit in 2007.
"Ridiculous. It's just interannual variability. The last two years have been influenced by a strong La Nina. We may have an El Nino this year. If so, that tune will change in a hurry."
Last two years? The warmest year on record was 1998! If things are warming, how can that be?
In truth, you're not giving the solar cycle the weight it deserves. Read about the Dalton and Maunder minimums. And what of the Medieval Warm Period? Ancient SUVs? The current solar minimum is a hundred year level event, and it's not over yet.
Humans contribute less than .2% (that's .002 of the total) of greenhouse gasses. That's in the noise, and no excuse for trillions spent and our future hosed. Global warming is a scam and a sham. I hope the right people are held to account someday. It may be a painful reckoning.
I would like to read the 98 page document, please.
"It was written by a couple of economists copying material from a skeptical Web site."
Just another followup on this, but the "economist" of the pair also has a Caltech physics degree. Hardly a lightweight.
"They can claim, over the coming years, that their incredible foresight and wisdom saved us."
Nope. Everyone involved knows that the total effect of this multi-trillion dollar bill is a .2 degree drop in 2100 (maybe).
Any kind of drop in temperature over the next couple decades is completely unexpected by the global warming community, and such a drop will torpedo their theory. Really, the current drop in temperatures since 1998 should be enough to cancel any global warming based policy, in a sane world.
Instead, 0bama is in power.
Oh wait here it is
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