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Wal-Mart shares are plunging as the firm reports a 'total disaster' in its February sales. Bloomberg obtained internal emails that note:
"In case you haven't seen a sales report these days, February MTD sales are a total disaster," Jerry Murray, Wal-Mart's vice president of finance and logistics, said in a Feb. 12 e-mail to other executives, referring to month-to-date sales. "The worst start to a month I have seen in my ~7 years with the company.... That points to our competitive landscape, which means everyone is suffering and probably worse than we are"
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"We have to fight against the tougher economic environment to earn a bigger share of a smaller consumer spending pie"
Obviously in WMT speak, "tougher" is what Obama would call "much better and rapidly improving."
Things must not be serious over in Bentonville for this much truth to suddenly hit the tape.
One senior executive summed it up perfectly - "Well, we just had one of those weeks here at Walmart U.S. Where are all the customers? And where's their money?" The company notes the end of the payroll tax cut by Obama and asks "We need to stop the stupid."
How odd: why is WMT focused on such trivial anachronisms as "money": can't it just boost its multiple by promising 2022 sales will be stupendously marvelously humongous. It works for every other hollowed shell of a firm, gutted by Bernanke's central planning.
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This is another Haunt that I kept close tabs on this year. Excellent job both inside and out!
- November 23, 2011 at 10:45 AM
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I met the owner at a Make-n-Take once, cool guy! And a REALLY cool haunt!
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LIMA, Peru – Thanks to a dominant serving and blocking effort, the Trinity Western women's volleyball team, representing Canada, beat Costa Rica 3-0 (25-16, 25-15, 25-18) Wednesday to record its first win of the U-23 Pan American Cup and earn a spot in the quarter-finals.
The Spartans held advantages of 10-2 in service aces and 9-2 in blocks in addition to a margin of 32-19 in kills.
Carly Hamilton (Calgary, Alta.) topped Trinity Western with points, including a match-high nine kills, while Royal Richardson (Rocky Mountain House, Alta.) and Alicia Perrin (Creston, B.C.) each had eight points. Kelci French, who only played in the first set, earned six aces. Setter Lauren Moncks (Standard, Alta.) saw her first action of the tournament and finished with 14 running sets in two sets.
Costa Rica's Mihal Hines finished with nine points, including seven kills, while Vargas Daniela added five kills.
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I've decided to write a bit about creolisation of Penang Hokkien due to intense contact with other languages, namely English, Malay, Cantonese, and Mandarin. These four languages have affected the structure of Penang Hokkien in many different ways. I'm not listing these features as anything one should aspire to using, but rather as a record of what to look out for in the speech of younger people and the younger generation of English- and Mandarin educated. First of all I want to concentrate on some feature that are due to English influence.
1) Borrowed clause heads
These are extremely common in the speech of younger speakers, I've noted a few in an eariler thread. The trend for code switching seems to be "Âng-mô•-thâu kā Hok-kiàn-bóe" (an English head and a Hokkien tail). These are the ones I hear most often.
I mean... (Wá ê ì-sū sī kóng...)
It means... (ì-sū sī kóng...)
I think... (Wá siāuⁿ kóng...)
after that...(hā-liáu...)
after... (...āu; kòe liáu...;
before.... (chá...; ...chêng)
at that time... (há-lê-sî...)
even though... (... pún hó; sui-liân)
2) Creolised syntax
Here's one I've mentioned before, which people commented they found unnatural.
Lú ē khah-êng thàn tioh° há-míh lú ài
You'll be able to get what you want more easily
Where the "há-míh" is used in a similar way to "what" when introducing an English subordinate clause.
Much more common is the use of kā as a preposition before an indirect object or the object of a stative verb, placed after the verb in imitation of English idiom with "with" or "to" or the Bazaar/Baba Malay "sama".
"check kā lú"
check [it] with you
Sék kā Hút-lí
Familiar with the dharma
Kau-in kā hó-giáh-lâng ê kiáⁿ
Get married to a rich man's son
Ū Koan-hè kā wá
Have some relationship to me
Khí-hông kā lâng
to be angry with someone
I ū sái sèng-tē kā wá
He lost his temper with me
I kóng-oā siâng-kā lú
He speaks in a similar way to you
I kiâⁿ-lé kā Hút
He did obeisance to Buddha
Tâu kā lâng
to inform on someone to someone else
m̄ chai kā i
I don't want to know anything more about him! [have anything to do with him]
I tòa kā Tn̂g-lâng saⁿ-nî
He lived with Chinese people for three years
I have also seen kā used in the place of the construction iōng A chò B
sé kā sat-bûn = to wash with soap.
3) Calqued words, and loan translations
For example "Hoan-ná" meaning "a Malay" extended to mean the Malay language both as a spoken language and the subject taught in schools. "Âng-mô·" and "Hok-kiàn"
I ē-hiáu kóng Âng-mô·/Hoan-ná/Hok-kiàn
He speaks English/Malay/Hokkien
I thák Âng-mô·/Hoan-ná/Hok-kiàn
He/she studies English/Malay/Hokkien
Others I notice are:
Chhēng = to wear, for glasses, hats, where non-creolised usage has 戴 tì
Chhit-thô - to play, used for tennis,
Poe - used as a transitive verb, e.g. Poe poe-ki "To fly a plane"
This is a huge subject, and here I have only looked at a few examples of English syntactic influence. The placement of adverbial phrases of time, and the particle pún also deserve more discussion.
As far as the sociolinguistics goes, I notice that most people tend to focus on whether the vocabulary of their Hokkien is free of English and Malay loans (even to the point of seeking out the "real" words for "soap" and "money") rather than on the less obvious calquing and syntactic interference. I should write a whole article about it.
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Discussions on the Hokkien (Minnan) language.
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A good piece of scholarship. I tentatively believe Penang Hokkien went a few steps along yet another path of creolization, namely Siamization. This is not so obvious nowadays b/c there are so few Siamese speakers in Penang-Kedah-Taiping, and nationalization cut off much of the flow of people back and forth from Phuket and Trang. In the "formative years" of Penang Hokkien, the entire coast was a Malay-Siamese contact zone with contact through trade and interlocking settlement. My hunch is that Penang Hokkien "kā" "learned" some of its functions from Siamese กับ. From your examples it's clear that it's also reinforced and expanded itself through a psycho-syntactic association with "WITH".
The Siamization thing is not my theory, BTW. I heard it put forth by a gentleman from Kedah.
The Siamization thing is not my theory, BTW. I heard it put forth by a gentleman from Kedah.
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...this is very funny, but the analogy breaks down immediately when we realize that the heart is a component of a system that is not subject to extension, redesign, or feature creep. (So far at least, who knows what will happen in the age of nanotechnology?)
It's easy to laugh at the idea that encapsulation leads to the possibility that we could replace the heart with a vacuum cleaner or a rooster. But imagine a real-world situation that concerns something almost as dear to many of us, the filesystem.
Most Unix filesystem afficionados are aware that files are based upon a construct known as the inode. (An inode contains all of the relevant information that defines a file with the exception of the file's name.) In order to support the notion of remotely available files through the NFS filesystem, designers had to choose between either modifying the core code in the kernel to make special exceptions for files that are seen in a mounted NFS filesystem, or finding an abstract layer that encompassed all of the things that are common to both types of files.
It would not have been difficult to account for both types of files in the kernel, but then there was this other form of networking that was common in the early days of NFS. A lot of people called this the "sneaker net." People wanted to put floppy disks with PC filesystems into their systems and be able to read them.
So without an abstract representation of the inode concept, there would have had to be changes in the kernel to account for every new filesystem that came along. (So the S5 filesystem, the UFS filesystem, the PCFS filesystem and NFS filesystems were just the beginning of the problem.)
By throwing some plaster around the problem (not a meter thick perhaps, but maybe only a few centimeters), it became possible to support a virtually unlimited number of new filesystem types without much change to the kernel core.
In the end, OO programming is over-hyped, but then so are Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and Barry Bonds. This does not detract from their greatness. On the other hand, you probably wouldn't hire Tiger Woods to clean your carpets. A simple Perl one-liner would be a better choice.
...All the world looks like -well- all the world,
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Here's another batch of PJ fan notes submitted by readers. If you have more, please send them our way. Ed's storytelling on the rooftop at Murphy's, a possible urban legend, and a memorable autograph snub.
I got to meet Eddie Vedder, and yes, he's cool. I bartend at Murphy's Bleachers across from Wrigley Field in Chicago. As most people know, Eddie is a huge cubs fan and sings the 7th inning stretch on occasion. He usually comes over to Murphy's for a few beers after he sings, and on this particular occasion I got to hang with him on our rooftop for a couple hours. I won't disclose everything we discussed, but he did tell an awesome story involving him, a Bob Dole mask, hash, Johnny Depp, and Hunter S. Thompson in a room at the Ritz Carlton in NYC. Let your imagination run wild. He stayed as long as he could (about 2 cases of beer) and on the way downstairs we thought it would be funny to notify Eddie that it was open mic night at Murphy's. We thought he'd just laugh and get on his tour bus. Nope, dude gets onstage and plays "keep on rockin' in the free world" by Neil Young. Indeed we will Eddie, indeed we will.
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"No, You Want It Back"
Back in 98 at the height of their Ticketmaster feud, PJ did the "Voters for Choice" concert in Washington DC.
To get tickets, you had to send a postcard. or several hundred, if you were a bored college kid with time on his hands and a shit-ton of stamps. Lo and behold, a buddy and I scored two tix.
The deal was, you had to be at Constitution hall at some ungodly hour of the morning, with a photo ID to claim your tickets. No problem there.
Get into the show later, and the kid sitting next to me is about 10, and beaming that she got to see this show. So i asked what kind of photo ID a 10 year old shows. Her father laughs, and says she brought an old report card and he vouched for her. Seemed resonable to me. Halfway through Neil Young's set, security comes up to the girl and tells her she forgot her report card at the desk this morning. Initially, she's nonplussed. 'Its an old report card, no big deal.' The security guard tells her—'no. i think you want it back' and shoves it in her hand.
Intrigued, i watched her open the envelope. Eddie had written a note in there, congratulating her on such an excellent report card and stressing the importance of an education. I have no way to verify if the note was legit, but it seems a long way to go for a joke by a security guard — kirk
"The Night Was Already Legendary And The Show Hadn't Even Started"
I saw Pearl Jam on the Yield/Live on Two Legs tour, I believe in 1998, with my best friend, his little brother, and our dads. It was at what was then called Starlake Ampitheater outside Pittsburgh. As mere middle schoolers, we knew nothing of concepts like pregaming or hotboxing before shows, and so punctuality was the one and only goal. Thus we were inside the venue before the opening act even started. As we walked around looking for corndogs and the like, we saw a tiny, tiny man who I think was wearing a knit cap and who we could SWEAR was the Pearl Jam frontman. Our dads' first instinct was that it was some impostor fucking with drunk people.
But we kids wouldn't accept that, so we made our entire posse slowly follow the man, until our dads confirmed it was most definitely Eddie Vedder. He was just strolling around solo getting a lay of the land at the venue, apparently. Or searching for a corndog. Who the fuck knows.
Our fathers looked on as we three kids approached Vedder. I used to wonder why they stayed back, but I now know how strange it can be approaching/fawning over a celeb when you're a fully developed adult human. Anyway, we struck up a conversation and professed our love the only way modern pubescent males know how: by using the words awesome and like (interjection) far too often. After asking for his autograph, Vedder rebuffed. But before the dejection could even be expressed through our faces, he said he'd sign something for the little brother, since he was just a kid. The night was already legendary for us and the show hadn't even started.
If I recall correctly, that night PJ made an impromptu change to their set list to play a song that someone requested by way of writing it on a shirt and tossing it on stage. Side note: I still have my shirt from the concert - red, with yellow birds on the front, and the tour stops in tiny yellow print on the back. The armpits pretty much have the texture of construction paper at this point.
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Political science professor Lane Crothers, who blogs as the very popular "Politicalprof" on Tumblr, explains why the GOP will probably be with us for the forseeable future!
[W]hatever the coalition of the moment, the "Democratic" and "Republican" parties have survived by evolving to adapt to the political realities of the moment. So, then, is this process of adaptation likely to stop? Are both (or one) of the Democratic and Republican parties likely to stop evolving to adapt to contemporary political realities? Clearly, if either party is likely to freeze in place today it's the Republican Party. Republicans seem to be struggling to figure out how to offer a program that will appeal to today's voters and today's problems. But there's nothing particularly new about parties struggling to make such changes. It's a process, and always has been.
So if a third party rises, it seems to me that it will have to be a party that builds off Republican voters but offers some new take on an issue that the Republicans AND the Democrats haven't offered. And I don't really see an issue that can serve this end. So will we have a meaningful third party in the near future?
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Diamond cut is perhaps
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finish of any diamond are what determine its ability to handle
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As shown in the images
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and travels to the pavilion where it reflects from one side to the
other before reflecting back out of the diamond through the table
and to the observer's eye. This light is the brilliance we
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In a poorly cut diamond,
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In my game, I have this piece of code:
I used some ghetto-style debugging. This game library does not have a debug build, so I cannot step-through. What I did was have it write to a text file every couple lines to narrow it down (not shown obviously). It errors out right before the SpawnEnemy call.Code:if (Game::EnemiesToSpawn.empty()) { Game::isSpawned = false; level.setCurrentLevel(level.getCurrentLevel() + 1); } else { SpawnEnemy(Game::EnemiesToSpawn.top(), enemy_Knight); Game::EnemiesToSpawn.pop(); }
It does not even get to the first line of the actually SpawnEnemy function. Enemy_Knight is simply an integer enumerator. EnemiesToSpawn is a stack of ints. There is nothing else it could be except for the stack.
What's weird is I will get an access violation error RANDOMLY. It's always on this line, but it occurs anywhere from 2-10 minutes of game play. I don't get why it does this - what exactly would cause an error like this? I would think it would maybe occur if the stack is empty when I tried to top() it, but the if statement is clear and straightforward - that can't be the case.


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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want perfection. Mortgage lenders want relief. Technology could help both sides get what they want.
The government-sponsored enterprises are increasingly pushing lenders to deliver loans without any defects—which can range from missing documents to misrepresented assets. Lenders complain that a zero-defect standard is unrealistic and are pushing back, asking Fannie and Freddie to lighten up on the requests to buy back problem loans.
The solution to this impasse may lie in the GSEs' growing acceptance of alternative ways to verify data, such as electronic bank statements. Though still a ways off, some experts say, the digital verification of five bedrock elements of mortgage lending—credit, income, assets, employment and identify—could go a long way toward helping lenders more accurately determine a borrower's ability to repay their mortgages.
In this scenario, a loan would be considered "perfect" if delivered to the GSEs with ironclad data, including borrowers' income and assets that could be immediately verified and updated in real time by a financial institution. With more reliable data, the GSEs would have greater confidence that borrowers would not default. In return, lenders would receive a juicy carrot: fewer buyback requests.
"The idea is that certain types of factual data accepted by the GSEs, after a certain period of time, will not be used to force a repurchase," says Jim Deitch, a former banker and CEO of Teraverde Management Advisors, a Lancaster, Pa., financial services advisory firm.
To be sure, moving toward digital verification to create the perfect loan is a long-term process that is complicated by GSE reform; with the companies' future up in the air, it's hard to embark on long-term projects. Even so, mortgage lenders are jockeying for ways to reduce buybacks, and vendors are offering up technologies that could give mortgage investors like the GSEs more confidence in loan data.
Neither Fannie nor Freddie would discuss any specific initiatives or pilot projects underway. "We've been focused on loan quality for years and it's an important undertaking on a lot of fronts," said Fannie spokesman Andrew Wilson.
Brad German, Freddie's spokesman, said: "Loan quality has been a major focus and finding ways to give lenders greater certainty in the loans they sell us can help them continue to perfect the manufacturing process."
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ability-to-repay rule, which went into effect in January, requires that lenders verify a borrower's ability to repay their mortgage using eight underwriting factors including documenting a borrower's assets and debts. A borrower must have a debt-to-income ratio of less than 43% for the loan to be considered a "qualified mortgage," which is considered an ultra-safe mortgage that gives the originator relief from legal liability.
While lenders use many sources to verify the information in a loan application, from credit bureaus to the Internal Revenue Service to the Social Security Administration, verifying a borrower's assets in real time has been particularly hard to nail down.
When consumers apply for loans, they usually fax or scan and upload bank statements to a lender. Lenders then complete a 1006 form to verify the cash deposits a borrower lists on their loan application. But data from bank statements often have to be reverified several times before a loan closes, a costly and time-consuming process for lenders and borrowers alike.
"Electronic verification of assets is difficult," says Tim Rood, a former Fannie executive, who is now the chairman and co-founder of the Washington-based consulting firm Collingwood Group. "A lender won't be able to say, 'let me verify that this borrower has $25,000 in their savings or checking account.'"
Brent Chandler, the founder and CEO of FormFree Holdings, an Athens, Ga., company that provides mortgage lenders with real-time connections into borrowers' bank accounts from 15,000 financial institutions, says that electronic verification would streamline mortgage lending and the collection of documents while weeding out borrowers who try to game the system.
"If the GSEs can go directly to the source and remove people from the process, they mitigate fraud and have 100% quality data," says Chandler. "If a loan gets to the GSEs with 100% quality of data, they can remove the reps and warrants sooner."
(Lenders are required to make "representations and warranties" for conventional loans acquired by Fannie and Freddie and any breaches of underwriting and eligibility standards can result in a forced buyback of the loan.)
Since 2010, Fannie and Freddie have embarked on a wide-ranging effort at the behest of their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to flag defective loans and assess whether mortgage lenders have serious problems in their origination processes. The focus on loan quality was designed to reduce the substantial losses borne by Fannie and Freddie, and hence taxpayers, from poor underwriting and lax documentation that fueled the financial crisis.
The effort led the GSEs on Jan. 1 to start electronically validating each and every one of the loans they purchase to make sure they meet guidelines, rather than doing so only for loans that default. The GSEs also agreed to relieve lenders of the repurchase liability for loans after just three years if the borrower made consecutive on-time payments for the entire period and the loan met their guidelines.
Now the GSEs are looking to conduct a more targeted sampling of the riskiest loans submitted by lenders rather than a random sampling, as they do now.
"It's like finding your keys in the ocean," Rood says. "Fannie would rather do more QC on the 5% of loans that they identify as having risk."
Digital verification of a borrower's assets could potentially reduce that risk and also provide more accurate documentation of a borrower's ability to repay a loan. It's also part of a broader effort to get all the data in a loan file verified before a loan closes.
"If there was electronic validation of a bank statement, you could get the data sent to a Fannie portal," says Deitch.
He cited as precedents the GSEs' work with the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization, known as MISMO, to create standardized data definitions, and the required submission of electronic appraisal reports.
"If you look at where MISMO and Fannie are going with the uniform data delivery and collateral valuation pieces, they are likely to extend it to other things," says Deitch.
Some borrowers would prefer not to have their assets and income verified in real time, says Chandler, because they may be artificially inflating their bank statements temporarily to obtain a loan.
"If you want to get the perfect loan, you have to understand the ability to repay and the borrower's cash flow," he says.


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This is the most dangerous time for our planet - Stephen Hawking
An interesting article where Stephen Hawking comments on the current state of the world : https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...net-inequality
I hope this topic will not degrade into a heated debate, else I will have to close the thread
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
Well, someone needs to respond to this! We should have a poll for it (that's a less controversial way to do it) and the question would be: "Will humanity exterminate itself within the next 50 years, or not?"
My vote: it's an absolute certainty.
I was not that excited about Hawkings "A brief history of time" - I'm a fan of popular physics, but more on the order of Heinz R. Pagel's "symmetry" and Joao Magueijo's "Faster than light" - but I tended to agree with much of the article.
He's really just reiterating the concern of Enrico Fermi in the thought vein of Enrico's "The Great Filter" - which is that at some point, technology becomes both too powerful to be used responsibly, and too easy to obtain and to replicate, and thus it destroys the civilization that created it (with the help of members of the unlucky life form (which in our case, woud be humans)). The answer to the Fermi Paradox explains why we've never been contacted by alien life forms, in spite of (Fermi's) calculations that would otherwise make such a contact reasonably certain.
Synopsis: Lifeforms always extinguish themselves when a certain threshold is reached wherein the technology starts to increase at a very steep (exponential) rate. It is around this time that far-travel by that civilization would be possible, or at least communications would be, but the window of time, within which the civilization exists, is too short, and such a civilization vanishes before its window is coincident with another's.
So, Fermi, here's a +1 for ya!
An interesting theory, but too simplistic and based on assumptions.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
If you read him, and his theories and his rationale speaking for the existence of (probably) many "come and gone" civilizations (over the billions of years) - it's plausible. Obviously all theory. Bright guy though.
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I know some actually counting on this
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If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." --Linus Torvald
There is no doubt in my mind that we are in a "time period" , that could be called "the most dangerous time". Or times, some people are calling it "The Last Days" , End times,..etc. It is something that even as a child, I found not only a disturbing thought, but just like we are born, and grow, become old, and die,..everything has it's cycles, this not only includes humans, but planets, starts etc,....however I don't think anybody can predict exactly how much time we have, I don't think "humanity" will completely exterminate their selves, as a human maybe I should say "ourselves", self extermination, suicide, etc, goes completely against my most basic instincts. So one needs to separate their self, from the others, and this is possible, there are ways to escape, but I suspect it will be , or is a very few that will find the means to escape.
As for "alien" contact, or intervention, well if a ex human, came from some where light years from here, we certainly might think it is a "alien", or call it a alien.
"Humanity" as we know it, maybe is just a stage, my thoughts are it is the first stage, like a unborn baby, still in the womb. Then when it is born, that still is a very early stage, and so on.
I don't know, it is all mostly a mystery to us,.... I do think at different times, in the history of mankind,
our "ancestors", and even the One creator, have and do make attempts to contact some of us, and try to show us how to survive, or escape the pending doom. More then just "think" I am convinced of that.
There are many books on the subject,.. one that I read years ago (over 40 years ago) , I found very interesting, The Morning of the Magicians
There are some other books, I would like to suggest, but don't want to go "religious",...then there also
is the histories of some of The People, on this planet,..particularly the "Hopi", they have recorded and kept accounts of the planet being destroyed on more then one occasion,..and "The People" survive, humanity is
a broad term, but I am convinced that there will all ways be some humans, or humanity, then a small portion
of humanity eventually goes on to the the next stage, and new humans will continue to ne born.
When this planet no longer supports that, there will be a few on another , new planet, and the cycle will repeat it's self.
I don't think anyone, any human can completely grasp all the mysteries of the universe and cosmos.
Any way, it is all to "cosmic" for me, and writing this made my sleepy,... so for now that is
all .
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I wonder to what extent the apocalyptarian aspects of a culture are driven by people entering the middle-age phase of their life where rapid growth stops and maintenance and decline begins?
A couple of other links along the same lines of the OP article:
I saw a program last night where the speaker, some retired official form a previous Administration, stated we were more at risk now for nuclear war than during the Cold War.
The Russians have plans to wipe the US out in the event they would lose such a war, like nuking Yellowstone and setting off the SuperVolcano, or superweapons detonated of the Pacific coast that would create a tsunami hundreds of feet high.
They have set off the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever detonated at some 56 kilotonne and supposedly have the Satan bomb that is even more powerful.
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Everyone is Nicolas Cage
November 05, 2011, 08:05:50 PM »
Alright, so this whole idea has been brewing in my mind for some time, and it's actually reached the point where it may be playtested. I plan on doing this with my regular group first, and once I've done that, write things up and post it here for general review.
The premise of the game: Everyone is Nicolas Cage.
The whole goal is to have a game which:
a: Has 0 prep-time, and can be run only if you know the rules
b: Can have everything resolved during a 3-4 hour session.
First things first: Why Nicolas Cage?
Two things: First of all, Nicolas Cage can be everything. Secondly, this game tries to emulate the whole "Action Movie Star" genre, and Nic Cage was a pretty obvious choice, since he can both be part of typical action movies (like Con Air and Face/Off) as well as more untypical dramatic movies (like City of Angels and Adaptation). The whole goal of the game is that it SHOULD be able to accomodate all kinds of movies with an iconic main character; Needless to say, it could easily be converted to a game where everyone is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Anyways, these are the mechanics: At the beginning of the game, each player thinks of one thing that Nicolas Cage IS; Like, a player could say "Nic Cage is a Firefighter", "Nic Cage is a Crimeboss" or "Nic Cage's Hair is a bird", and makes it his Core Concept. Generally, after everyone has chosen a Core Concept, Nic will have three or four core concepts. They should then be coupled together like: "Nicolas Cage is a Firefighter Crimeboss, and his Hair is a Bird"
Then, each player chooses three "Traits" of their Concept, and assigns one of a d8, d10 or a d12 to it, as well as a card rank (wait, did i mention that the core mechanic is Poker-based?. This could be "Smooth Talker", "Good with Guns" or "Hair blowing in the wind" or whatever. This, like, totally becomes important later. Then, each player administers 11 points across 4 "Resources": Power, Smarts, Cool and Care, depending on what you think your Core Concept is most relevant to. For example, a character sheet could look like this:
Core Concept: Private Detective
Smoker d10, Ace
Comfortable d8, 8
Incredibly Aware d12, Jack
Power: 1
Smarts: 5
Cool: 4
Care: 1
As you can see, this part of the Nicolas Cage character is mostly smart and cool; It cannot participate in conflicts regarding Power and Care without substantial consequences.
So, before the game actually starts, the GM distributes his own points in three acts according to how difficult he wants things to be: Each player gets 11 points to play with, so if you have four players, the GM should adjust according to 44 points; 30 will be pretty easy, 40 will be OK, 50 will be quite a challenge and 60 will be against implausible odds. After deciding how difficult he wants the game to be, he places the points across three acts; like, if we say that we have a point-allocation of 40 (an OK challenge) he could place it like this: 1st act: 11 points, 2nd act: 8 points, 3rd act: 21 points. This would be a fairly standard venture: An intense first act, a calm second act, and a very great challenge towards the end.
The GM then allocates the points in the first act, a lot like how the players do, in four resources:
-Weaken (Anti-Power)
-Confuse (Anti-Smarts)
-Humiliate (Anti-Cool)
-Harden (Anti-Care)
He doesn't allocate the resources to the second act before he has used his 1st act resources. He uses his resources like this:
The GM goes like: "Ok, in the first act the major problem is this guy who wants to blow things up, so he has:"
Weaken: 6
Confuse: 2
Humiliate: 1
Harden: 2
And then he launches conflict whenever they fit. For example:
"This bad guy wants to blow you all the fuck up"
And then he deals out 5 cards to each player and himself. That's the first step of a conflict.
Then he looks at the cards, judges them (according to poker rankings, I assume you know them) and wages some of his own resources. Like, if he has an OK hand, he could wager 3 Weaken.
Then it's the players' time to wager, trying to hit the same amount that the GM just wagered; So the optimal would pretty much be that 3 players wagered 1 of their Power, and the last wagered nothing. This will rarely be the case:
If the players together wager more than the GM, the GM gets to remove their wagers; Thus, if two players each wagered 3 Power, he could remove 3 as he sees fit, reducing the total amount wagered to the total he wagered himself.
If, however, the players wager LESS than the GM (like, if one player wagers 1 and the others wager 0) the GM gets to add wagers to the players; so if they have a bad hand, he can essentially force them to wager things, until the resource number is balanced on each part of the field.
Then, after the wagers have been equalized on both sides of the field, it's time to reveal Hands. The GM reveals his hand first, so everyone gets to see how it is. Then the player with the lowest wager reveals; If his hand is worse than the GM's, he takes a "wound" (I'm not really sure what to call this): He rolls a six-sided dice, adds his Wager, and looks at the following table:
1-3: Cool. It isn't pleasant, but Nic doesn't really care that much. The GM takes away 1 from one of your resources.
4-6: Ouch. The equivalent to spraining something so much that it hurts. Not cool man. The GM takes away 2 from one of your resources.
7-10: Fuck. This is a pretty severe blow, and it sets Nic back severely. The GM takes away 3 from one of your resources.
11+: This triggers Mega-Acting. This is serious business, and the GM takes away 4 from one of your resources. Additionally, the player should have enough free space to move into the middle of the room and act as wildly as possible.
If your hand is better than your GM the outcome is pretty similar, except you reverse the result: You roll a six-sided dice as usual, but instead of the GM taking away your resources you add them to a resource of your choice yourself. Mega-Acting works as normal, if you roll an 11+. Simple eh?
Now, each Core Concept has got three traits, each assigned to a specific card, and it works this way: In your hand, if you've got a trait where you've assigned the card, when you reveal you roll the dice you assigned to the trait instead of the six-sided dice, and incororate it into the result. This works both ways; It can both augment a "wound" roll and a "boon" roll. So you can both be like "Nic's augmented robot-eyes totally fry these aliens" and "Nic tries to use his robot eyes, but they use a mirror to reflect his strength upon them" or shit like that.
As it happens, I am currently a VERY drunk person. The following weeks I'll try to explore this clusterfuck I've thought up with my players, but you're free to try out things and tell me EVERYTHING you think is a bad idea (Really, do this, because I've never actually made a functional game before, so the more you riff, the more I learn)
Peace out.
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November 06, 2011, 06:05:10 AM »
Right, I should probably elaborate on the whole set-up of the game, since so far I've only really handled how you resolve what I call a "Sequence"
Firstly, you have to prepare what movie you want to do. There are 5 things that need to be determined; Genre, Style, Setting, Antagonist and Goal. The distinction between Genre and Style is that the former is very broad and encompasses things like Action, Horror and Comedy, for example, whereas the latter is more specific; It could be romantic comedy, children's comedy or black comedy.
So, first you gather 4 of your friends and yourself around the table, and everyone takes a piece of paper and write what genre they want to do, put it in a bowl and pick one randomly. You do this for each of the things that need to be determined, except the player who already had his suggestion picked, doesn't get to contribute again.
Then people make their characters, and the GM allocates the points across three acts. Once done, the GM describes the opening scene and starts the first sequence. I should probably clarify some things about them that I didn't do in the first post (and the first post is horrible, I don't know what I was thinking)
-A dealt hand is an entire sequence, and the conflict should be resolved by the end; remember, even if Nic only has poor hands, he doesn't waste ALL his resources; he just uses more than neccessary
-You can use non-appropriate resources in a sequence, but it's risky. For example, if you have a sequence where Nic tries to score the barmaid (and the GM wagers Harden) Care is the appropriate resource, but you could also wager Power, and Nic tries to win her over with his rugged manly strength. But whenever you do this and your hand is worse than the GM's, your wager is effectively doubled for the purpose of the wound roll.
It is important that you start with a sequence, because you'll need it to distribute the non-sequence roles to the players. After each sequence the one who rolled the highest result (no matter whether it had a positive or negative effect) gets to play Nic during the next non-sequence part. Once Nic has been determined, the roles are distributed like this going left: Nic --> Other main character(s) --> Environment --> Minor characters --> Nic. The GM always plays the antagonist
And then you pretty much just play to see what happens. If Nic runs out of resources (once a Core Concept is out of resources, that concept is out of sequences) before the antagonist/GM, we have a Downer Ending. If he comes out with resources to spare, we have a Feel-Good Ending.
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November 15, 2011, 06:56:20 PM »
I was hoping someone else would reply, but my honest opinion is that this is one of the worst game ideas I've heard. I'm not a Nicolas Cage fan, as I think he has one emote for everything-- but I put that aside and continued reading. The further I got, the worse I felt.
1. Everyone is X may work if the game's assumed play supports it
2. The trait system you described reminds me of Dog's free form, but without the guidance in choosing. In DitV, I know what kind of character I am and what stories I'll face. I don't get either of that from yours-- I have no idea how Nic's hair is a bird could possibly work.
3. The mechanics actually make me grimace. You seems to be using poker hands, but no draws or side board cards, or anything that would work with betting. The forced bet and no fold option is odd when coupled with poker. The dice added to certain cards is very wonky as written, but maybe could be saved with some more thought.
4. I don't know what your game is about-- what's the player motivation? What kind of narrative can I expect, and how does it want to pull this off compared to other games.
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December 21, 2011, 12:15:25 PM »
Hello. I registered to reply to this thread, though I would have registered anyway eventually.
This is a great game idea. With the right people, this would make for amazing beer & pretzels one-shots. In a fantasy setting: Nic Cage is a wizard who is divorced and his ex hates him and he is trying to reconcile with his kids, Nic Cage is a traveling merchant who is not selling enough to get by and looking for his lost daughter, and Nic Cage is a warrior who has a very, very important mission that everyone seems to be screwing up for him (and an evil wizard switched his face with someone else's).
Each Nic Cage needs some mission that is really important to him and only him, but that can't be resolved in the near future. You kind of address this in your clarification.
Also I really like the poker mechanic idea, as that is something that is really easy to grasp and everyone can understand it without too much fuss. I think it does need something to mitigate the straight luck factor of being dealt a hand of five cards.
Actually this game idea makes me want to get drunk and play poker while talking like Nicolas Cage.
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- I'd like to leave here someday. But like the snowflakes trapped inside a snowglobe, I wasn't going anywhere.
- After you die, nothing you ever owned matters, and everything you ever did does. You can't sell what you did to your family at a garage sale.
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- We got a little plant. I water it every day. Just to keep it alive. Maybe I shouldn't think just because it's still breathing, that it wants to live.
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- I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness -- not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
- "Look Up, Hannah", the final speech in The Great Dictator, the last film Gus watches in his theatre. (Video and full transcript of Chaplin's speech at AmericanRhetoric)
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