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Posted below is a somewhat chronological list of videos highlighting just a small fraction of the events of the last three and a half years in Darkfall Online, and how the game world has changed over time.
Darkfall Online: 5 months of Darkfall Online HD 720p - July 13th, 2009
This video recaps a lot of the large sieges that happened between the massive alliances that arose at the dawn of the game. It also shows off some of the early solo players that made a name for themselves within the first months of the game. These were the days of low-quality armor, single stacks of regs, and massive mana missile battles.
Darkfall - [Superfriends VS Vamesis] - Aradoth Siege - January 24th, 2010
This video shows a massive siege that occured shortly after the NA server opened for character transfers from EU. A year into the game, many players were using high-end gear to give them an edge, magic had become a much more popular choice for playstyle, and clans pulled no punches when it came to defending their territory.
Darkfall - [Zealot VS Thundercats] - Silmiyat AvA Siege - June 1st, 2010
A year and a half into the game, the population had shrunk from the massive numbers that it had reached at launch. The political game became more treacherous than ever, as numbers became a larger and larger factor in fights. Alliance vs Alliance fights were a way for one alliance to prove their prowess over other alliances, without outside interference. Magic had become commonplace and tactics such as "nuke syncing" had become meta.
Darkfall - Mar Shral Siege 18/12/2010 - December 20th, 2010
After two years of Darkfall, the factors that set clans and players apart were becoming more and more apparent. The players at the top were using high-quality gear, select spells, and were being led by talented shot callers who could lead a group through the chaos of combat to a definitive outcome. Magic was so integrated into the game at this point that you had to coordinate almost every form of it to keep the battle organized. "WoF Syncs", "Toxic Dumps", and "Chain Knockups" became everyday lingo, for better or for worse.
Darkfall - Manowar Capture - NA1 - February 14th, 2011
While land-based siege combat was a huge part of Darkfall, it by no means was the extent of it. The first Ship Combat took place within weeks of the launch of the game, and sea battles have been commonplace ever since. Perhaps the most notorious of all ship fights was the day TSL's Manowar fell to the TIA zerg.
Tri Sieged (Elish/Bloodscar/Teneland) - February 22nd, 2012
Three years into the game, it was not uncommon for the battle-hardened veterans of the game to be sieged by sometimes overwhelming numbers of enemies. Some of the most remembered fights for these players are the ones where they managed to win against all odds.
Shmee v Shmee - September 20th, 2012
Today, with Unholy Wars looming in the near future, the game is still alive, and just as dangerous as ever. Those who have fought their way to the top and stayed there for years have quite literally mastered their craft. This list would not be complete without the inclusion of a video of perhaps the best player to ever touch the game, Itwas Luck.
Last but not least, before you shoot the messenger, please note that many of these videos are personal favorites, and do not in any way represent the exclusive history of Darkfall, especially politically. The world is so vast that the only way I could hope to approach explaining it is from a perspective familair to myself. I encourage other Darkfall players to share their own videos of the last three years, as I know there are many, many wonderful videos out there that I haven't included here.
As for Unholy Wars, this girl will be seeing you in the field >.<
Darkfall Unholy Wars
Compilation & tone videos
"Darkfall Memories throughout the Years"
A wonderful collection of memorable moments from EU. Thanks Tupps for bringing this one to our attention!
Pure Comedy gold
I have no idea how WhisperXIII found this, but Rozalla called it right - pure comedy gold. When was the last time you heard someone so invested in whether they lived or died in a battle in an MMORPG?
The Public Service Announcement
Darkfall players also at times have a beautiful sense of irony and class, after all in a game that gives players so much freedom teasing each other into attacking can become an art form.
Darkfall 1.0 PvE videos
Some people ask did Darkfall have pve? The obvious answer is "yes" - indeed it had some of the original big nasty monsters in recent MMOs. Nothing quite compares to the cry of a dragon ... because as Tiggs used to say so long ago, in a game far far away, You should never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well with ketchup.
A video showing the Ice Dragon and the Fire Dragon on Darkfall. Ah Fluffy, how I miss you! Even if you never missed.
Also known as "how not to fight a kraken"!
Thanks Tupps for finding these two gems!
Darkfall 1.0 Naval videos
How about this one for a real trip down memory lane ... from when LoD ruled the seas, and used Ship of the Line / Man'o'War to attack things in sieges. If anyone has a link to footage of them using their MoW in the third siege of Serruk, please link that! I remember fightinhg that thing for the better part of an hour, friggin beast of a ship. Fighting out of that cave with a ship of the line firing in was ... challenging, to say the least!
LoD's big ships clip, SotL bombardment in siege
Seriously looking forward to Unholy Wars, and having the player population again to see big ships built and used to create havoc across Agon. Sure more often than not I was the innocent fisherwoman getting sunk by some random warship that spotted me, but hey it was fun!
MEN (Kill Cult & LoD) Frigate vs DHW SotL
Big ships did occasionally clash. It is important to remember these things were worth an absolute fortune - more than player cities, at various points in the game. Sinking or taking one was a huge deal.
Admiral Tweedle & the big boys club didn't always have it their way - in the fullness of time, I was part of a newbie heavy fleet of junks and brigantines that trapped and sank his frigate that you see in the video. Battle Saints, the all-Dwarf clan, were also a pivotal part of that battle - Red Sky took in 2 ships, and with the Saints making a fleet of 3, we shadowed the frigate directly into a fight with a veteran's ship, then blasted her to the bottom while she was already heavily engaged. You can see the two Red Sky brigantines shadowing the frigate to limit her movement in this video from NME (one of the two vets ships engaged).
You can see the other ships fleetingly in the background in the second vid - with new player heavy crews, closing to board would have been suicide, so we used our cannons the way they had been designed - at range Very importantly, the vid below was from a player on his first sea trip - engaged in an epic battle.
Oh and just so we're clear, I lost over 50 ships in Darkfall 1.0, including a Barque that lost a 5 vs 1 brawl at one sea tower, although we killed 2 of them to get it down from 7 to 5 first If only I had fraps! Naval combat was plagued with some serious issues, which based on changes already confirmed by Aventurine seem very likely to be completely gone from Unholy Wars. YAAARRRRR!
SotL vs SotL off Ruby (from 2:14 onwards).
If you know what you are looking at, both of these huge ships were undercrewed compared to the peak of Darkfall 1.0, however that they came out to fight anyway deserves credit. Too many of the best ships in the game were made, put in banks, and never used again. But when certain clans had them, they used them - win or die, they made history.
Raft & pirate song
One of the first rafts ... mainly here so if Darkfall vets say "we need the pirate song!" you will know which one everyone means. And yes, there were crews who sang the pirate song before engaging enemy ships. Rafts were the vessel of choice for many explorers and pirates, if you could approach a target ship without getting promptly sunk by cannons. YARRRR.
The Erinthel Siege
We were called in to help the defenders in this siege, which was memorable for the use of dragon cannons vs ships. In the end the attackers were horribly outnumbered, but they fought with tenacity and daring, putting up a real fight to try to take one of the toughest nuts to crack in all of Agon.
Solo pvp videos
There are many wonderful solo pvp videos out there, just go google! To all those who think Darkfall forced grouping, you may enjoy watching a famous piece of Darkfall 1.0's history ...
Valroth's epic Sunthrone raid
I was there, reviving and healing most of the players Valroth killed in this lol.So much fun though.
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkChx07eIoY
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb6wc371WRw
Cavalry action
Yes, Cavalry.
This playstyle effectively died when magic became overpowered, and mounts simply melted before riders could close. Combined with mounts being given wieghts (which were too heavy), and mounted damage being nerfed, cavalry vs cavalry was nearly extinct in late Darkfall 1.0. However that does not mean it wasn't a huge amount of fun!
Old School Cavalry vs Cavalry
Battlehorns in siege
Battlehorns were often used to try to force a heavily defended position, such as assulting up a road or breaking into a defensive line. I was at this battle, which was an epic conflict. When the heavy cavalry came in we were on the broken walls sending volley after volley of magic into the mages and archers on the plains below us. As you can see from the graves later on in this video, many of us didn't manage to fall back to the inner wall in time!
Some heavy cavalry charges were superbly organised, others much more chaotic. I recall riding behind William Wallace, Blue Poo, Meg Odin and the rest to flank an LoD mage army - we used bluetails to circle to thier flank, changed to battlehorns, the healers rebuffed the guys who were in full dragon on battlehorns (I was a healer), and the battlehorns were over the crest of the small hill to slam into the side of the LoD mages, creating utter havoc and killing at least a dozen before they withdrew on foot, their mounts all cut from beneath them. Our main battle line on the highground above then charged en masse, the LoD army having lost its cohesion entirely with the slaughter inflicted by the cavalry. Such action was rarely frapsed, but when used well was utterly devastating.
Charge of the Light Brigade
Charging headlong into cannons and mages didn't always work out so well ...
Racial Wars Charge
The original concept was everyone was going to line up then charge. But the sight of the enemy was just too tempting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3a_Mt4kHI [NOTE: music may not be suitable for younger readers]
More pvp videos (from Peacekeeper & Fly Man (Get Some/The Beard)
[comments below are theirs]
The videos of RipperX and TheMercs:
beta city defense
beta world pvp
world pvp with rupture
world pvp vs Oromea (i think this is still beta but im not sure)
skipping ahead a bit
the first boat
the first warhulk
think this is still the most viewed player made darkfall video
Battle of Legends, Death vs Afghan
DreadOG videos, these are from the days of melee and magic missiles:
From the days of the first boat raids on Dusk, more PvP in these ones
Fighting the Goons vastly outnumbered
From GetSome apparently:
Death raiding Aradoth
Open world pvp on Yssam
There are more out there but im not sure whos youtube accounts have them anymore. I didnt link all the videos from these accounts so if you want more
Originally posted by PsyMike3d
i just found this Darkfall video, its so funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXscO9pV6ec&feature=related
One of the funniest moments I've ever seen in a Darkfall video:
Originally posted by WhisperXIII
Darkfall - [Superfriends VS Vamesis] - Aradoth Siege - January 24th, 2010
This video shows a massive siege that occured shortly after the NA server opened for character transfers from EU. A year into the game, many players were using high-end gear to give them an edge, magic had become a much more popular choice for playstyle, and clans pulled no punches when it came to defending their territory.
Title is wrong on this one thats the Dagnamyr siege where Mcdoogs tried to ninja aradoth but fucked it up and made all our holdings go vulnerable. It was actually a ton of fun even though it never should have happened and we were actually fighting on several fronts across the world at multiple cities. That siege was a ton of fun and we held Dag with less than half our force while the rest of our guys were fighting at mehatil and another city i can't remember anymore, I was at Dag for the duration though. You can see what happens at the end of the vid when our siege force converges at the end. (the vid ends there cause the attackers all died)
DF1 was a great experience and I can't wait to make a few new friends and plenty of new enemies in DF2 see you all on the battlefield.
[MEN (Kill Cult & LoD) Frigate vs DHW SotL]
Big ships did occasionally clash. It is important to remember these things were worth an absolute fortune - more than player cities, at various points in the game. Sinking or taking one was a huge deal.
That moment at 2:27 when the SoTL comes out of the mist and you just know in your gut what is coming next... best feeling in the world XD
Originally posted by WhisperXIIIOriginally posted by PsyMike3d
i just found this Darkfall video, its so funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXscO9pV6ec&feature=related
One of the funniest moments I've ever seen in a Darkfall video:
That vid is pure comedy gold...lol
[Betrayal by Treeboy, may he forever be shunned]
Darkfall also had some famous (well infamous) thefts, backstabbing, feuds and betrayals.
This betrayal below ultimately led to the player who was betrayed leaving Darkfall, but not before the clan that betrayed her was decimated - losing a general and many good players to a new clan who didn't want anything to do with backstabbing friends, losing thier nearby city, and losing all credibility as a potential ally. Forever more they were damned, because their own officers had proven they were in on the scam so plausible deniability was gone. The classic from Fspy "I hope you're not frapsing with the [Ventrillo] sound on".
Very few games have ever had the level of drama that Darkfall 1.0 provided; the only directly equivalant level of drama is found in EVE Online. The difference in Darkfall is that things get personal. In terms of "clean slate" for the game, it is understood that Aventurine has addressed many of the glaringly bad things that occurred in Darkfall 1.0 where at points players did take the freedom that the sandbox offered and go one step too far, attacking the player behind the avatar rather than keeping things in-game. However stronger community standards is expected in no way to stop lying, cheating, espionage, and basically all that scum and villainy stuff being completely legitimate tactics in DF:UW, Aventurine has had the experience in dealing with extremes and is now much better placed to ensure that the game stays as a game.
Without passion, there is no drama. And those are both missing from nearly every MMORPG out there - but wasn't missing from DF 1.0, and certainly isn't expected to be missing from DF:UW.
[Fspy in the bunker]
This one might not make much sense to people who didn't play Darkfall 1.0, where politics were absolutely huge. Empires rose and fell, and the community were always quick to comment.
Interesting... the prequel looked quite cool. Hmm, think ill put Darkfall: UW on my "games-to-watch-list".
Originally posted by timeraider
Interesting... the prequel looked quite cool. Hmm, think ill put Darkfall: UW on my "games-to-watch-list".
Darkfall sported a free trial for a long time. It's likely they will bring it back in DFUW. If you ever do decide to give it a go, get in touch with some experienced players who can show you around the game
Originally posted by timeraider
Interesting... the prequel looked quite cool. Hmm, think ill put Darkfall: UW on my "games-to-watch-list".
If you like PvP MMORPGs then it is definitely worth giving it a go. You may not like it as the game does not try to appeal to everyone but it is so unique that if you do enjoy it you will REALLY love it!
What also might be interesting to watch are the now (outdated) but still great 2 pvp video guides for people to watch that have never played darkfall 1 by DFValroth:
Part 1 https://youtube.com/watch?v=kmAyV75tOLA&feature=plcp
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4lOvl4ybM&feature=plcp
My youtube channel is a source of epic DF videos, I guess >_>
They're all 1+ year old tho
If people are wanting to see a video containing a large number of players in open field combat then this is one to look at. Its a video I made about 1 month after NA1 release, we were all still fresh characters and bearly had any high level magic at all. My character was a crafter only, and had no PVP skills to speak of.
Technically this is just a crafting character standing back and filming an epic fight.
Originally posted by reacaer
My youtube channel is a source of epic DF videos, I guess >_>
They're all 1+ year old tho
Never saw the fight against Lux on forumfall...its actually a pretty good video
Adun, we need the story to be completed! Often simply surviving to fight again another day was a massive achievement, one sadly lost in so many MMOS where once a fight is joined there is no possibility of escape / evasion.
A master archer in action
Some players in Darkfall 1.0 were truely lethal with bow, Adun was one of them. Our clan orders were "if he goes near water, mount up and get away from him". While I am not in this video, some of my friends are, and as the video demonstrates it was a mistake to underestimate a skilled Archer in Df 1.0. With the improved systems, one of the community's greatest hopes is that archers will again be able to hold thier own, which due to changes in magic (some of which are confirmed as being removed from Df:UW) was not the case in the late game in Df 1.0.
Originally posted by reacaer
My youtube channel is a source of epic DF videos, I guess >_>
They're all 1+ year old tho
Easy mode PvP with a godlike character spamming rays with a darkscepter. Post worthy these days?
Originally posted by GreymoorOriginally posted by reacaer
My youtube channel is a source of epic DF videos, I guess >_>
They're all 1+ year old tho
Easy mode PvP with a godlike character spamming rays with a darkscepter. Post worthy these days?
Yes, because it shows how much of a big deal it is that Darkfall : Unholy Wars will not have attack ray spells any more. When people say "this is the same game with a couple new animations and pretty things added" you can point them to such videos and inform them that actually Darkfall 1.0 suffered from some serious design blunders along the way in the life of that game, and then point them to the Q&A on Darkfall's Forums where you can see that Aventurine has stepped up to fix the rubbish like the instant ray spam. This really will be a new game, and promises to be what Darkfall always should have been but never quite was.


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Have you ever kissed a loved one and wished that hot coffee would come pouring out of their mouth and into yours?
Probably not. But one Korean designer wants to simulate that weird fantasy.
As Mashable writes:
Created by designer Jang Woo-Seok, the custom lid gives the illusion that you're drinking piping-hot coffee poured through the lips of another person. And who doesn't want that?
Woo-Seok thought up the design after noticing that existing coffee lids lacked flair of any kind. In an email with Mashable, Woo-Seok explained that while coffee can be obtained every day, you aren't always guaranteed a kiss. This lid aims to solve that problem.
"So I created it for my sexual desire. Just kidding," Woo-Seok added, aware of the design's peculiar nature.
That's not a very funny joke.
Woo-Seok describes it further on his Behance site:
Different from the other coffee lids which have a usual hole to put a straw or to drink directly, Take 'Kiss' Out looks like a human face. Therefore, a coffee drinker experiences a visually funny and emotionally different coffee-drinking when drinking.
Take-out coffee is a symbol of city culture and fashion.
Shape of a lip is a distinctive style, thereby the combination will be fun.
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Units: About 5,000
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Cal High basketball coach 'forced to resign,' implores school board to change policies
Original post made on Dec 3, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, December 1, 2012, 9:41 PM
Comments (16)
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Dec 3, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Greater transparency is essential. I would also like to see third-party oversight to insure greater fairness.
a resident of Downtown
on Dec 3, 2012 at 4:30 pm
To those interested in this story, visit this site:
Web Link
A great document whose time has come...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 3, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Boy, wouldn't it be great if we could get rid of teachers that easily? It would save districts so much money. In a conflict between teachers and parents, the parents should prevail because who knows their children better? Besides, parents aren't in the union, only teachers are.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 3, 2012 at 8:36 pm
@arnie are yoy crazy "in a conflict between a teacher and parent the parwnt must prevail". Blood is thicker than water...a parent will always stick up for their kid, especialky uf they are wrong. Parents arw inw sided and biased. The teacher would be a better chouce to side with.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 3, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Nancy I'm not crazy but thank you for asking but you should learn how to spell. You miss my point. The poor taxpaying parent is at the mercy of our corrupt union-protected teachers. What recourse do parents have when the teacher goes into meetings backed up by a couple of strong-arm union thugs? That gives teachers power, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Hence, the charges the teacher is bringing against the student are almost always lies, and probably instigated by the unions just to prove how powerful they are against defenseless, taxpaying parents. Your right blood is thicker than water. That's why I support the parents. It's time blood stood up to water so that we can stop the flood of unaccountable teacher decisions. It's reached tsunami proportions. You've all been forewarned!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 3, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Let Sarah Palin say it better then I. With unionization comes collectivism. And that's socialist. And what comes after socialism? Communism. And that's what's at steak here. Being American is defending ourselves as parents against the communist teachers and basketball coaches.
a resident of Charter Oaks
on Dec 4, 2012 at 9:06 am
My basketball coach was a communist?
a resident of Amador Estates
on Dec 4, 2012 at 9:10 am
Arnie is a tough guy
a resident of Birdland
on Dec 4, 2012 at 1:57 pm
If no one ever listened to the parents..well tell that to Penn State. I don't know who is right or wrong here but I do know I have witnessed coaches speaking to boys on these teams so disgracfully during practices when no parents were around to witness. When I was a kid, my coach was my inspiration. Sadly a lot of teachers get these coaching jobs because they need the extra money. This story seems like something isn't right here. I don't think the entire story is being told.
a resident of Downtown
on Dec 4, 2012 at 6:28 pm
I'm taking the story at face value. 99% of all parental gripes about coaches can be traced back to playing time...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 4, 2012 at 10:05 pm
When you kid's teacher or coach is a communist, it's kind of hard to think his bad grades or lack of playing time isn't the result of destinked political bias. We know these liberals (communists in sheepskins) all have an agenda. If that involves making some freedom-loving kids the scapegoat, that's just part of the agenda. There isn't much difference between sitting on the end of the bench after being shamed by a coach who puts the communist team over the individual and being sent away to a Gulag. Kobe Bryant was lucky enough to escape this because he didn't go to college. All of this collective communist takeoverism will be preceded by a tsunami of epic proportions.
a resident of Gatewood
on Dec 6, 2012 at 9:54 am
I can't believe all of the negativity about teacher's unions. After being a teacher
for 30 years I am totally in favor of the union. My thought for those of you who
think that teachers are out to get your children volunteer for a day in a few classrooms.
Sit back and observe the children and teachers. Make sure to ask a couple of teachers
about how much time they spend each week planning and preparing for their students.
Also, ask them how much time they spend at home correcting, recording grades, developing
curriculum for their students. Arrive early to see how many teachers are at school
working long before the first bell and long after the closing bell.
Teachers and Coaches are there because they want to teach their students. Take a look
at their salaries. They definitely are not there to get rich. Most teachers and coaches
have a real desire to work hard with your children to help them develop better skills.
As most teachers are women union representation has been necessary to protect
the teacher. Both teachers and coaches spend many extra hours preparing for your
children. This time is never paid for.
I find the many references to communism disrespectful and disgusting to say the
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on Dec 6, 2012 at 10:07 am
mooseturd is a registered user.
Jan, Your post is off the point.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 6, 2012 at 10:16 am
Hey Jan, you forgot to cite Mao's Little Red Book and Marx's Communist Manifestoed. Because behind all that fluff about teaching for peanuts stands a very powerful union that has financed communist subversive operations like Acorn which stole the election for Obama in 2008 and 2012. The thought of letting you and your ilk teach my kids is enough to make me gag. What is it with you people? Your a perfect example of why parents should have the right to get teachers fired.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 6, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Arnie, I am about as libertarian as you can get, but even I have to say that you are way off base. Just as Teachers are not always wrong, parents are not always right. As a long time youth coach, classroom volunteer and general observer I agree with the sentiment that 98% of these issues come down to playing time. Parents with an unrealistic opiniom of their child's ability, in anything, are not rational. I don't have a problem with the teacher, or their union standing up for themselves. This would be a good use of the teacher's union dues.
The union is not the problem. The problem is the legislature and legal system that allowed the union power pendulum to swing so far to the left. However, the solution is not to swing back an equally absured distance to the right.
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Warning: The following post is only partially in English. Beware of acronyms and technical descriptions.
I received the following comment about Personal Ancestral File (PAF)"
PAF has a user interface that could well serve as a model for more recent ones.
Except for sourcing PAF data entry is intuitive.
PAF has a place for everything most genealogists want to record and the exceptions can go into the notes. Its all the program most need or want.
PAF is well documented and good support is available on-line and with various usergroups.
PAF and AQ both run nearly flawlessly on Wine under most Linux distributions. Admittedly Wine's version of IE leaves something to be desired! The Linux program of choice is Gramps which IMO is WAY too convoluted - after all it was designed by committee! That's why I've written about PAF on Wine and I'd write more except that "Full Circle" is after all a Linux rag.
My personal work is on AQ running on Wine under Linux Mint 16. I keep a copy of the DB on my iPad via GEDCOM and a copy directly on AQ on Windows 7 on my netbook. Why AQ? I really like the Individual tab's view of all the information in the DB and I do realize that PAF's days are numbered.A few translations are in order. AQ is Ancestral Quest from Incline Software. Wine is described as follows on the WineHQ.org website:
Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.OK, got that? The next is Linux. Here is the definition from Linux.com:
Linux is, in simplest terms, an operating system. It is the software on a computer that enables applications and the computer operator to access the devices on the computer to perform desired functions. The operating system (OS) relays instructions from an application to, for instance, the computer's processor. The processor performs the instructed task, then sends the results back to the application via the operating system.Linux Mint 16 comes from Linuxmint.com described as follows:
Explained in these terms, Linux is very similar to other operating systems, such as Windows and OS X.
The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.Oh dear, why did I start this translation stuff, this explanation has even more stuff to translate! Let's just say that Debian and Ubuntu are also free, opensource operating systems. Now back to the original comment and more translations.
Started in 2006, Linux Mint is now the 4th most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Canonical's Ubuntu.
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PAF has a place for everything most genealogists want to record and the exceptions can go into the notes. Its all the program most need or want.I know people who feel that way about their 1956 Chevrolet cars also. If that were true then there would have been no need to develop any further programs and we would all be using PAF on our Apple IIs and IBM PCs as we drove to RootsTech in our Fords and Chevys instead of our Subarus and Toyotas.
I long ago realized that there is absolutely nothing I can say or do that will make all those hundreds of thousands of PAF users move to a newer system. In addition, PAF will now never die. It is now immortal and immune to the vicissitudes of mortal life. I was waiting for it to start to be venerated and I suppose that time has come. PAF is dead. Long Live PAF!


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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Face-Lift 531
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A Thief's Honour
1. Infamous cat burglar, Kitty 'Meaow' Felinski, vows to make amends for her life's misdeeds by returning all her stolen treasures. Donning her leathers and clutching her swag bag, she heads for the Louvre. But can she still swing it at the age of 77?
2. Czaretta Zigellva is on trial for her life. Her crime? Deflowering a young man, who happened to be the son of Dragbah's crime lord. Can she convince the judge she's blameless--without resorting to seduction?
3. Allan Smithee is an Internet plagiarist, his crimes too minor to attract attention--until he hacks into the British MI6 cryptography mainframe and copies a top secret encoded message. Now he must contend with counterintelligence operatives disguised as grammarians, a librarian with Nazi sympathies, and the vagaries of British spelling while trying to crack the code.
4. Master cat burglar Danny DeWilted can sneak into anyone's bedroom undetected and purloin whatever takes his fancy. But slipping into the boudoir of the hefty Eve Lavavoom to steal her pearls might prove a fatal mistake. Will his honour be tested by the pulchritudinous Eve? Or by her shotgun-wielding father?
5. "I wouldn't dream of keeping it," Nigel Codswallop declares as he flings back all the stolen swag from his burglaries. After all, that's what Catch and Release is all about.
6. After twenty years in prison, a master thief gets out and takes a job as a police adviser. When his daughter is kidnapped by someone who wants him to pull an impossible heist, he must risk his future--and his honour--to keep her alive.
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Dear Evil Editor
Jenn was a master thief, unstoppable, uncatchable, until [he was stopped and caught.] a friend betrayed him. Now, after twenty years hard labour, Jenn wants revenge.
However, that former friend, Roland, is now a powerful lord who is not adverse [averse] to getting rid of people who annoy him, including a broken down ex-thief. [You've been in prison twenty years. You finally get out and someone you've never wronged wants you dead because you annoy him? If someone who hasn't seen me in twenty years still finds me so annoying he's willing to kill me, I'm resolving to stop ice chewing, knuckle cracking, and toenail clipping in public.] Jenn bides his time, rebuilding a life for himself by becoming a police advisor, [Jenn's job interview with the Police Human Resources Manager:
PHRM: Tell me about your recent job history.
Jenn: I've been working in laundry and license plate manufacture for 20 years.]
which brings him into Roland's social circle. [A powerful lord socializes with the cops?] It also brings him into contact with a young lord, who wants Jenn to help him with a burglary. Jenn agrees, believing it's the best way to keep his new friend out of trouble,
[Young lord: Life as a young lord isn't exciting enough. I've decided to become a criminal.
Jenn: If you get caught you'll spend 20 years at hard labor.
Young lord: But if I don't get caught, I'll possess someone else's property.
Jenn: Mind if I tag along?]
but their break-in attempt goes wrong, and Jenn finds himself facing trial for burglary and maybe murder.
[You're under arrest for burglary and maybe murder.
Maybe murder?
Depending on if that guy on the floor is sleeping with his eyes open or dead.]
He fingers the real culprit, Roland, [How does Jenn know Roland is involved?] who retaliates by abducting Jenn's daughter. Roland is a reasonable man though, he'll let her go, if Jenn does a little job for him -- break into impenetrable Haven, the one place that defied Jenn when he was young and able [and unstoppable except by Haven].
If Jenn refuses, he loses his daughter. If he tries, he could lose his freedom, his new friends, and everything he has worked to regain. [He could have lost all that for helping the young lord commit burglary, but he wasn't deterred.] And either way, his enemy benefits, unless Jenn can find [a way] to turn the situation to his own benefit.
A Thief's Honour is a Fantasy novel, complete at 100,000 words. Thank you for the taking the time to consider this. I look forward to hearing from you.
Why didn't Roland just abduct Jenn's daughter in the first place, instead of setting up the robbery?
It seems there should be something in your plot description to show what makes this a fantasy. Is there a character with magical powers? A fantastical creature? Something about your setting that isn't normal?
It doesn't seem reasonable that after 20 years of hard labor a guy who has gotten his life on track and is obsessed with revenge, would risk his future and his revenge to assist in a burglary that he doesn't care about. What are they trying to steal?
22 comments:
- Anonymous said...
A brief interlude:
My partner: [notices the webpage I'm reading] Why is that man burning a book?
Me: That's Evil Editor. He burns manuscripts with his eyeballs.
My partner: Oh. You haven't sent him any of YOUR manuscripts, have you?
Me: No, because the full edit on the Brenda Novak auction is up to thirty-nine hundred bucks.
[There followed a discussion about whether or not several months' worth of rent money could be used for this purpose. Homelessness in a rainy climate, alas, trumps editing.]
Anyway! This reminded me of, erm, Ursula K. LeGuin's (?) snipe about fantasy dialogue that could be rendered into non-fantasy dialogue by changing the place names. The only thing that even remotely pointed to 'fantasy' here is the fact that a few people are lords, and given that you're using British spelling it's much easier to assume that you're referring to a couple of toffs. And that also makes it easier to believe that a master thief was a friend of a guy who becomes a lord - clearly they had adjoining rooms at The House.
Also, sadly, you give me no reason to care about whether this guy succeeds, goes back to prison, becomes a lord himself, etc.
- Yank in Scotland
- Anonymous said...
Oh, there are *two* possible fantasy elements, the second being 'Haven' - but then I assumed it was some codename for a James Bond-type place.
- Yank in Scotland
- EB said...
While I'm aware of the eponymous song, it seems these fantasy novels are populated by entirely too many Rolands.
- Anonymous said...
"Scott From Oregon" should change his handle to "Scott in Yankland".
- none said...
Maybe you should look around Scotland a little more while you're there. Everyone in Britain uses British spelling, "toff" or noff.
- writtenwyrdd said...
I read that this was a fantasy genre novel at the end and that completely blew the query for me. One rule of fantasy writing is if it could be written without the fantasy elements, then don't write it as fantasy. So I recommend that you revise the letter to show the fantasy elements. And they should have something to do with the plot and its complications. (hint)
Show the logic to the actions like EE says and make us care about Jenn and his problems.
- fairyhedgehog said...
Someone has got to write GTP #3. It sounds very Jasper Fforde, only better.
I love the idea of an Internet plagiarist as petty criminal. I love the counterintelligence ops disguised as librarians. Heck, I love the whole of the second sentence.
- Anonymous said...
Buffysquirrel - I've marked hundreds of essays; I'm familiar with the concept of British English - much of it a lot less grammatical than this example. :)
- YiS
- Wes said...
Author, EE and WW give good advice.
- none said...
It was Le Guin, in an essay called "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" (1973), reprinted in "The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction" (1979). She transposes Fantasy dialogue into a White House setting.
She also writes:
"Nobody who says 'I told you so', has been, or ever will be, a hero."
- Xenith said...
It seems there should be something in your plot description to show what makes this a fantasy. Is there a character with magical powers? A fantastical creature? Something about your setting that isn't normal?
No. I was playing with one of the fantasy tropes, so... The fantasy elements are rather light on though.
It doesn't seem reasonable that after 20 years of hard labor a guy who has gotten his life on track and is obsessed with revenge, would risk his future and his revenge to assist in a burglary that he doesn't care about.
I tried leaving this out of the query, but then it didn't make sense. "Assist" in this case meaning showing him how to make it look like an outside job, which J doesn't see as being a risk to his himself.
You're right though, the whole story is fundamentally flawed :(
- Xenith said...
given that you're using British spelling it's much easier to assume that you're referring to a couple of toffs
Rather assuming it might be because I use them all the time? Makes sense to me. Really.
- none said...
It's not that bad, Xen. But you haven't read "Twilight", so you wouldn't know how bad something can really be.
- Sarah Laurenson said...
I was curious about Jenn's daughter. If she's young, how did he get a daughter while in prison? If she's older, does she care if Jenn exists since he was in prison?
This query does seem to have some issues getting the real story across. I get that Jenn is pissed about being betrayed. That his betrayer doesn't want complications in his life and is willing to permanently remove them.
It strikes me as Les Miserables with a twist. The trick is making the twist more interesting than Les Miserable.
- talpianna said...
I know about a dozen people named Jenn, and all of them are actually Jennifers (except for one Gennita), so you lost me at the beginning by making it a guy's name.
The character running across "lords" all the time suggested a fantasy setting; but I couldn't reconcile this with "police." I don't think I've ever read a fantasy set in an alternate world in which law enforcement was referred to as "police." They are usually the City Guard, the Wardens of the Peace, or some such.
- writtenwyrdd said...
I also thought #3 should be written and thought of Jasper Fforde.
- Phoenix Sullivan said...
Why is it fantasy, you ask, EE?
Something about your setting that isn't normal?
It doesn't seem reasonable that after 20 years of hard labor a guy who has gotten his life on track and is obsessed with revenge, would risk his future and his revenge to assist in a burglary that he doesn't care about.
I believe you've answered your own question.
Xenith, how much of the novel have you written? It may yet be workable with a few tweaks. Give Jenn and Roland some juicy backstory. Maybe Roland hung his friend out to dry because he was having an affair with Jenn's wife/mistress and maybe Jenn's daughter is really Roland's child. But she doesn't know it and she loves Jenn like the bio dad she thinks he is and has visited him in jail weekly and Roland is loathe to kill Jenn because of her relationship with him. But Roland knows Jenn is pissed at him and has to get him out of the picture somehow so that's why he arranges the "kidnapping" and sets Jenn up for a fall.
Maybe Jenn is bi (I mean, he WAS in prison for 20 years), and is all flattered that a young lord only a couple of years older than his daughter would actually dote on him and it's been 20 years and he's not at all thinking clearly so when the young lord seduces him into helping with the robbery, he really does think they can pull it off.
Or something like that.
But yeah, you may want to make it Chicago in the 20s rather than fantasy.
- Whirlochre said...
The plot seems workable — with recommended tweaks — but I'm not very hopeful. It's a very pedestrian query and I can't see why this story is a fantasy at all. If your book has magical oomph, it's impossible to tell from this. I need to know why this isn't just a burglary romp set in Monte Carlo. And I need zing.
- Bonnie said...
Most of the plot and motivation problems are fixable, but the whole story left me cold. Jenn comes across as unlikeable, which I could live with, and stupid, which I can't. I'm also rather turned off by the aspect that the only female character is a pawn of the men (a.k.a. the "Disposable Female" trope). I don't know whether these are problems in the underlying story or only in the query.
If the query accurately reflects the story, you may want to look into finding a crit circle to help you find the heart of the story and get it into shape.
- Anonymous said...
Rats! Sarah beat me to my comment: this sounds like Les Miserables.
- Anonymous said...
I took it that Yank in Scotland meant that the British English meant this was set in the UK and therefore the Lords could have been ordinary Lords today, not that the author was a toff, as evidenced the use of British English. I believe it was simply an extension of the "what about this is fantasy" discussion.
--Yank in England
- batgirl said...
There is fantasy that has no magic - Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint and Privilege of the Sword, for instance. But that usually depends on a thoroughly-imagined alternate world (and please, no, fantasy worlds do not have to be permanently in the middle ages, please!) which hasn't been presented in this query.
I could accept this as a fantasy novel, but I'd want to know more about the world it's set in. Two sentences about that would make a huge difference in how I saw Jenn's story.
But I'm not an agent, so who the heck cares?


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Salisbury was unable to complete the comeback, with its final goal coming from Fitzgerald at the 6:52 mark of the fourth.
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Spice-roasted Chickpeas
2 tsp. (10 mL) oil
1 tsp. (5 mL) red pepper flakes
1 tsp. (5 mL) ground cumin
1/8 tsp. (0.5 mL) salt
1 can (19 oz./540 mL) chickpeas, rinsed and drained
Combine oil, red pepper flakes, cumin and salt in a bowl. Add chickpeas and toss until coated. Spread chickpea mixture in a parchment-paper-lined rimmed baking sheet. Bake at 425 F (220 C), stirring occasionally, for 45 to 50 minutes or until chickpeas are crunchy. Cool, then store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 1 month. Makes about 1 1/2 cups (375 mL).
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2 tbsp. (25 mL) olive oil
1 cup (250 mL) finely chopped onion
1 cup (250 mL) finely chopped celery
1/2 cup (125 mL) finely chopped carrot
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tsp. (10 mL) cumin
1 can (28 oz./796 mL) diced tomatoes
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1/2 cup (125 mL) water
1 tbsp. (15 mL) tomato paste
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