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I ordered a Sony DSC-HX1 and thinking about ordering a Gorillapod SLR-Zoom, which allows to attach tripod heads. Now I have the following questions:
1. Is there a Nodal Ninja configuration which is lightweight and fits to the Gorillapod SLR-Zoom tripod ? If yes, what parts do I have to order ?
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Highlighted by four home runs in the opening game of the doubleheader, Anderson University baseball dropped both games of the twin bill to Peach Belt Conference opponent UNC Pembroke 14-11 and 3-0 Saturday at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
After the Trojans pounded out 14 hits for 11 runs in the opening matchup, the Braves matched the AU attack with 16 hits for 14 runs. In the second game, the Trojan bats were cold, tallying just four hits for the seven-inning game.
Leading the way offensively was sophomore middle infielder Kyle Bailey with four hits on the day, beginning with a 3-for-4 performance with a home run and three runs scored in the first game. Bailey followed the three-hit game with one of AU's four hits for the second half of the night.
Sophomore transfer Garrett Bernardo joined Bailey as the only other Trojan with hits in both games, beginning with a home run in the first game, followed by a two-hit performance in Game Two. Bernardo's day was headlined by a ninth inning three-run home run for his first round-tripper in the Black and Gold.
Fellow transfer LJ Newman, who started Game 1 behind the plate, also posted his first home run in an Anderson uniform in Game One, as the Greer, S.C. native went 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored to join Bailey as two Trojans with three hits.
Also posting multiple hits for the afternoon was sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper and senior outfielder Josh Hickman as the duo both posted 2-for-5 afternoons in the opening game. The tandem combined for three runs and two RBI for the game.
In Game Two, senior Thomas Goodman tossed six scoreless innings before running into trouble in the seventh inning. Goodman finished the night giving up just three hits and tallying three strikeouts.
UNCP's bottom half of its lineup produced as hitters 6-thru-9 were 12-for-27 (.444) with nine runs scored and 12 RBI. Left fielder Victor Zecca headlined the bunch with three hits, four RBI and two runs scored as his day began with a two-run home run in the top of the second inning.
Goodman's counterpart in Game Two, Garrett Hickman, earned the complete game shutout, going seven innings and giving up just four hits with five strikeouts.
"Pembroke is a good team," Anderson head coach Joe Miller said. "I liked our effort tonight and the way we hit the ball. It always hurts scoring 11 runs and lose, but we'll look for a win tomorrow."
UNC Pembroke's manager, Paul O'Neil earned his 500th victory with the 3-0 win in the second game on the day. O'Neil became one of 41 coaches to claim 500 or more victories at the Division II level.
Anderson returns to Memorial Stadium for the final game of the three-game set with the Braves on Sunday. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.


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6 Famous Geniuses You Won't Believe Were Perverts
#3. Lord Byron Collected Pubic Hair
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Lord Byron was a leading figure of the Romanticism movement in Europe. He is best known for the epic Don Juan, which has become a universal term for an incorrigible lover of women, in addition to being constantly confused with a Johnny Depp movie. When Byron died at the age of 36, the entirety of Britain went into mourning. Also, he kept bears as pets, and that is just tits.
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Plus, he always walked in slow motion in the wind, so he looked ultra sexy.
But Behind Closed Doors ...
We've already discussed Byron's tendency to have sex with absolutely everyone in the entire world, including his half-sister. Today, any self-respecting womanizer would be likely to keep pictures or stalk the Facebook accounts of his various conquests, but back then it was more common to keep a lock of hair, which was a practice Byron totally participated in. However, rather than trim a honeyed curl from the head of one of his beautiful ladies and tie it with a wistful ribbon, Byron preferred to chop a tangled clump of matted wirebrush from her bristling angry pubic mane and stuff it into an envelope like an electric bill. He did this because he was both eccentric (see "pet bears," above) and a goddamned lunatic (see "half-sister sex," above).
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"What really matters is which half of her was my sister."
Byron collected genital beard trimmings from every lover he could and kept them on file at his publishing house, where they remained for more than a hundred years after he died, because they evidently don't clean out their filing cabinets often enough.
#2. A Bunch of Famous Authors Had Foot Fetishes
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If you're into movies at all, you're probably already aware of Quentin Tarantino's notorious foot fetish ...
... but that's just a Hollywood thing, right? People in the movie business dabble in wholesale weirdness. It's not like you'd see the great masters of modern literature jerking off to pictures of painted toenails.
But Behind Closed Doors ...
As it turns out, the list of famous people with foot fetishes reads like an all-star bowling team of great writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Pushkin, and Dostoevsky.
For instance, when he wasn't busy writing Faust, Goethe managed to find a woman named Christiane von Vulpis who shared his interest and would send him pairs of her "danced-out shoes," which is like mailing a guy your dirty underwear, only much more unsettling on a deeper level. Von Vulpis also nicknamed Goethe's penis "Herr Schonfuss," or "Mr. Nicefoot," which we assume indicates that he put toenail polish on his dick and/or kept it bunched up in a wingtip loafer.
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Which explains why he always had a look that said, "They know. I can feel them staring at me. Always staring."
Meanwhile, Victor Hugo indulged his foot fetish in an entire foot-torture scene in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which doubtlessly left him harder than the stone gargoyles in the Disney adaptation:
"I saw your foot, which I would have given an empire to kiss, that foot by which to have been trampled upon would have been to me happiness, I saw it encased in the horrible boot that transforms the limbs of a living being into a bloody mess."
And in Eugene Onegin, Pushkin veers off-topic to deliver a rambling five-stanza ode to the zipper-chaffing boner rays emitted by women's feet:
Diana's breast or Flora's cheek,
Are enchanting, friends, I find!
Yet Terpsichore's foot I'd seek
Far more enchanting, to my mind.
Since, foretelling to my gaze
Pleasure in a thousand ways,
Its subtle beauty lights the fires
Of a swarm of sweet desires.
Such I adore, my dear Elvina,
Beneath the table's damask gloss,
In the springtime on the moss,
In winter, resting on the fender,
Or on the ballroom's gleaming floor,
Or the granite of the shore.
Pushkin literally says he would rather stare at a girl's foot than her breasts or her face, which in addition to many other things is the precise definition of a foot fetish.
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The second they all start doing the moonwalk, it's considered an orgy.
So what we're saying is it would seem that something about being a tradesman of the written word makes people hungry for bunion sex. In fact, if you take a look at Quentin Tarantino's filmography, you'll see that he's a more prolific writer than director, which could explain his trademark predilection as being the product of a predisposed urge that was awoken inside of him after spending so much time in close proximity to Uma Thurman's walnut-crushing gorilla feet.
#1. Charlie Chaplin Held Orgies and Sexually Harassed Women With Pies
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Charlie Chaplin is one of the most instantly recognizable film stars of all time. His face has become so iconic that some people don't even realize he was a real person and not just a generic mascot for black-and-white movies sporting what would eventually become the most unfortunate mustache ever.
Chaplin was a huge star of the silent film era, making several films featuring the Little Tramp character (pictured above), as well as a handful of scathing political satires, including The Great Dictator, which ridiculed the Nazi regime, and Monsieur Verdoux, which at the time was loosely described as an anti-war film but is really just about a guy who marries rich women and murders them to inherit their fortunes. Chaplin's left-wing viewpoints led to him being investigated by the FBI and subsequently exiled from the United States, back when Americans thought deporting people for their political views was in keeping with the spirit of freedom and liberty (luckily, nothing like that happens anymore).
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"Fine, I'll go. But I'm taking this strange child with me."
But Behind Closed Doors ...
Chaplin did his very best to have sex with every single woman he came into contact with who wasn't already related to him. He organized orgies with fellow comic star Fatty Arbuckle, which is something you would assume people would only agree to at gunpoint, because in addition to looking like a portly cherub-faced gremlin, Arbuckle is most famous for being accused of literally raping a woman to death (though was never convicted).
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Fatty, having a good chuckle, reading the court transcripts.
Also, Chaplin was allegedly the first person to implement the "casting couch" method of auditioning new young actresses. This being the silent film era, he would use caption cards to prompt the girls into various actions that would steadily become more and more suggestive until they were eventually just standing there with their clothes off. Chaplin would then do a little mime soft-shoe over to the couch and start groping them in a bizarrely exaggerated fashion, presumably in sepia tones with a jaunty piano accompaniment. He would then stand the still-naked girls against the wall and throw pies at them, bringing a delightfully hilarious end to what was probably the most terrifying experience of their entire lives.
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"You look cold. Why don't you strip down and I'll make you a piecoat."
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動か is the conjugated form of the verb 動く
This is an colloquial way to write 動かないんじゃないか = 動かないのではないか.
That sentence is kinda weird though because it implies that something will start to work if somebody shows that it works. Perhaps he/she was sleepy when they wrote this ;p


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A girl that wants to be a hippy and is quite attractive.
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a very curvy blonde with a nice butt and a great rack.loves to be different and is always funny. she'll play it dumb but very smart. everyone's jealous because shes so beautiful, but watch out, katheryns are crazy,loud, social butterflies!
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Now, the texture of Shiseido eyeshadows is unusual and somewhat foreign to me. They are extremely soft and silky - to touch one literally almost feels like touching a piece of silk fabric. It is very easy to pick up lots of pigment on a brush and it transfers beautifully to the lid and blends like a dream. The only downside to this is that I found the color does not "stick" to my lids quite as well as I would hope, even with primer - lightly rubbing the shadow with a fingertip blends it out like crazy, and rubbing just a little more would remove the shadow almost entirely. But as long as I can carefully keep my hands completely away from my eyes, the lasting power is very good. I think next time I wear this, I will wear it over a slightly thicker and tackier base - something like a Maybelline Color Tattoo - and hope it stays better without my needing to be super-careful.
The colors are absolutely stunning. I would never have thought to piece together the iridescent marigold color with a mauve, but the combination is really spectacular, and the pale beige color works well as a highlight (it is not stark white on me, nor is it too dark for me to use it as a highlight color). I have to say that this is one look that I feel translated better in person than in pictures - looking at the pictures below, I feel sort of "meh," but in person I felt the look was soft and flattering, and one I would wear again.
Please excuse my hair. I don't know what I was thinking, taking pictures with it looking wet and straggly like that! I suppose I was worried about taking any more time and being late to work. :)
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Maybelline Define-a-Brow in Dark Blonde
Anastasia Brow Powder Duo in Ash Blonde/Taupe - I layer this over the Maybelline pencil
Shiseido Beach Grass eyeshadow trio - marigold shade on the lid; mauve shade in the crease, outer corner, and along the lower lash line; beige shade to highlight
MAC Blacktrack eyeliner - to tightline
Hourglass Film Noir mascara
Shiseido Lacquer Rouge in Rubelite (review soon to come) - this looked slightly less pink and more bronze in real life
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I have to apologize for my prolonged posting absence, but things have been getting hectic. And with several trips upcoming, including two jaunts to Vegas (one my bachelor party!!), a pre-wedding party in my hometown St. Louis, a wedding (with still a millions things that need to be done), a minimoon, and various other things happening all in the next couple of months, I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets better.
One thing I still amazingly always find time for, however, is television. Fortunately, it's the summer so the Tivo is rather sparse, but one of my favorite shows – Monk – recently started airing new episodes. Alas, it is the final season for the underappreciated comedic detective series on USA Network, which wins the latest My One Favorite Thing of the Week award. I encourage everyone to check out the last few shows on Friday night 9/8c
The strong character ensemble team is easily the best thing about Monk. Tony Shalhoub has received well-deserved accolades, including a couple of Emmys I believe, for his performance as the title character – the lovable, OCD-afflicted, genius detective Adrian Monk. Monk, who was kicked off the San Francisco police force after suffering from mental illness when his wife was killed in a car bomb, is afraid of just about everything. And somehow Shalhoub has managed to keep all of Monk's numerous tics and neuroses from getting stale and annoying over the years. Along with Hugh Laurie's Gregory House, Shalhoub has created one of the two most memorable TV personalities of the past decade.
But truthfully, the rest of the Monk cast is just as strong, each of the main actors creating endearing, funny characters who play off of Monk's oddities extremely well. The only other performer you'll probably recognize is Ted Levine, Monk's former boss Captain Leland Stottlemeyer, as he was Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs. He's terrific, gruff and perpetually exasperated with the antics of Monk and his own hilariously inept underling Lieutenant Randy Disher.
But my favorite non-Monk actor is probably Traylor Howard, who plays Monk's assistant Natalie Teeger. She is tough but caring, patient but strong-willed, and she gives as good as she takes. And even more impressively, I honestly first hated her when she came on the show because she replaced a character I thought was awesome, Monk's original assistant Sharona.
Now I don't want to oversell the show. The writing is pretty good, but the plots usually aren't much to speak of, and you'll probably figure out most of the 'mysteries' (many of them taken from recent headlines) long before Monk finally solves the case near the end of the show. I'm sure fans of shows like Columbo and Murder She Wrote will often feel a strong case of deja vu.
But still, it's top-notch entertainment, and I'm sure going to miss Monk and the gang when they disappear from the airwaves for good next month.


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6 Hit Songs You Won't Believe Are Insulting Celebrities
Music tends to be a "names changed to protect the innocent" kind of business. That's why it's so easy to miss that some of the most famous songs in history were written as direct insults to actual people. The following songs take on a whole new meaning once you realize ...
#6. "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" Is About Steven Tyler Hitting on Vince Neil
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We know what you're thinking -- what's insulting about this song? It's Steven Tyler's tender ode to a cross-dressing paramour. Good for him for being so open about it in the notoriously close-minded and forbidding mid-'80s, when such things were still taboo even though every damn dude on MTV looked like a woman.
And that's exactly how the confusion started.
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Tyler was actually the third manliest musician on TV during the '80s.
The story goes that Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were hitting the bars in their pre-sobriety days, so let the meaning of that "Cruising to a bar on the shore" line be a mystery no longer. During their night out, Tyler spotted a beautiful woman and, even though she was facing away from him, fell instantly in love. He was getting all set to lay his swollen-rodent charm on her when she turned around and ... she wasn't a she at all, but famously pretty Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil.
Hanging out with the band after the incident and listening to their limited vocabulary gave Tyler the inspiration he needed to put words to the hook that had been knocking around in his head, which became the familiar "That, that, dude looks like a lady!"
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OK, yeah. We get it.
Neil was so embarrassed about it that he denied the story for years, claiming it was about a night with Tyler at a drag bar, because that's way less embarrassing. He eventually came clean, though, admitting in his autobiography that, yeah, Steven Tyler wanted that ass.
Let us be thankful that the only result of this mix-up was one of Aerosmith's less terrible late-era songs and not one of those sex tapes that Vince Neil used to be so fond of making.
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Incredibly, this is not a screengrab from one of those tapes.
#5. The Only Feel-Good Oasis Song Is About Kurt Cobain's Depression
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Back in the halcyon days of the '90s, when misery was in and hygiene was decidedly out, appropriately named Oasis had one of their first hits with the uncharacteristically positive "Live Forever." It was a refreshing departure from the otherwise angst-ridden airwaves, with lyrics about the joy of living, picking yourself up, finding meaning, and "just want[ing] to fly."
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An urge well-known to most people born in the United Kingdom.
Of course, if you're at all familiar with the bratty, foul-mouthed antics of the fraternal backbone of Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher, you know it's also quite a departure from their usual brand of surliness, so there had to be a catch.
Indeed, Noel had taken an issue with this douchebag who was making quite a name for himself with his dirty, pessimistic little songs -- Kurt Cobain, maybe you've heard of him? In an impressive display of completely misunderstanding what depression is and how it works, Noel decided that Kurt was taking his incredible success and life in general for granted. After all, Noel had less than he did, and he was still happy to wake up every day, so what was this asshole's problem? He wrote the song in 1991 as a way of telling Cobain, "Hey, life is pretty cool, buck the fuck up."
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"How can a man with sweaters so large be so sad?"
Obviously it didn't work, which could be blamed on a few different factors. For one, having a Gallagher brother tell you to stop being so grumpy is like the comic Gallagher telling you to stop being so rough with fruit (or to stop being racist). It's easy to see how someone might blow off a "Do as I say, not as I do" suggestion like that one.
Possibly playing a larger role in the communication breakdown that kept Noel Gallagher's life-saving advice from reaching its intended target (Kurt Cobain's head) was the fact that by the time the song was released it was August 1994, which eagle-eyed readers will note is the year that Kurt's suffocating depression (or wife) finally did him in. Probably would have been better to have just sent him a letter or something.
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If only they'd trained the pigeons living in Liam's hair to drop Prozac.
#4. John Lennon and Paul McCartney Secretly Taunted Each Other on Record
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You might not be aware of it, but after the breakup of the Beatles, the relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney was a teensy bit strained. When Lennon heard a new McCartney song called "Too Many People," in which he reeled off a laundry list of complaints that included "too many people preaching practices," he was primed to overreact a little to what he rightly assessed as a suggestion that maybe he and his wife were a touch overzealous with the enlightened bullshit. And that's exactly what he did with the aptly titled "How Do You Sleep?"
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In reality, both men slept on piles of money so large that they outweighed several island nations.
Lennon kicked McCartney where he knew it would hurt the most: right in the talent. He informed his former songwriting partner that "all you done was yesterday," a sly reference to the classic Beatles hit, and called his new sound "Muzak to my ears," while calling McCartney himself a narcissistic mama's boy who surrounds himself with yes-men. He even goes so far as to pronounce McCartney's solo career DOA, saying "those freaks was right when they said you was dead," referring to the conspiracy theory that McCartney had died and been replaced by a lookalike in the Beatles' heyday. It's as vicious as a hippie is allowed to get without being politely but firmly asked to leave the commune.
While McCartney has always denied it, it was rumored that he hit back with "Let Me Roll It," whose Lennon-like sound gave listeners suspicion that McCartney was parodying his style. McCartney isn't exactly above such things: The Beatles classic "Helter Skelter" was written after being underwhelmed by the hype surrounding the groundbreaking, eardrum-rupturing sound of the Who, and deciding that he could do it better.
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"I had worse hair than any of them."
Lennon was no stranger to slipping personal attacks into Beatles songs, either: "Baby You're a Rich Man" was a mocking tribute to manager Brian Epstein, and at one point in the song, Lennon slurs "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew" over the chorus, possibly to take the heat off the rumors that he and Epstein had been having an affair. Lover's quarrel or homophobic, anti-Semitic douchebaggery? It doesn't really matter, we already knew Lennon was a huge asshole.


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|10th October 2012, 03:22 AM
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Okay, I have had the beta invite sitting in my email for a while, but have been really busy with Guild Wars 2. So I downloaded and started playing yesterday. And I have this question: Is the game currently only testing limited content, or is this "it" so to speak? Seems like some tutorials, trial matches and such would be pretty handy before jumping straight into the action. All I seem to get is the assault missions in random battlefields as well. Some actual missions would be pretty cool, like assault or defend the convoy, take out an armory etc etc...
It's hard to tell at times with betas, and I really haven't found a lot of info on their site yet, though I will admit I haven't poured through every forum they have....
|10th October 2012, 03:29 AM
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A further question. When you finally buy a mech and outfit it and such, do you have to pay for your repairs and ammunition? Cause so far I suck horribly and this would be an extremely expensive thing..... yet none of the trial mechs really fit the various playstyles I have had over the years in the Battletech/Mechwarrior games.
|10th October 2012, 03:52 AM
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You really need to go spend some time on the MWO boards. Read their dev blogs on what they want to accomplish.
Ignore a lot of the whining posts, just read the developers vision statements. Then visit the comments on what they consider closed beta versus open beta. They are still not to the point where it is considered open.
There will be a small patch today and a much larger one planned for the 16th.
(and no, this isn't it).
As to the last question, yes. The economy has been seeing some adjustments. Paying for repairs isn't too costly right now.
|10th October 2012, 10:08 PM
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Also the trial mechs run HOT really hot, they earn stuff all but they are free to repair, once you get your hands on a custom chassis things will be much easier.
New game modes due next month.
I used to be a Mechwarrior, then I took an Arrow IV to the knee actuator
|11th October 2012, 12:21 AM
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Thanks for the info. The Dev Blogs are definitely a good read. Game was doing really good for me, performance wise until this last patch, then it seems to have taken a bad turn like for a lot of people. Now if I can just get better at hitting my targets...... 50 games, 1 kill, a bazillion deaths.... my damage done tallies seem a lot lower then they should be. I mean, it looks like I hit mechs a bunch in a match, and then at the end it says my damage done was like 40..... still don't understand that....
Also looks like coordinated groups do pretty well. Any active NA players around here?
|11th October 2012, 01:35 AM
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This patch is interesting. My first mission I was seeing frame rates of 14 to 30. Where in the previous version it was in the 60 to 80s. On the next few runs of the same map the fps jumped up to 60. They moved to a new version of cryengine. Wild guess is there was some optimization or texture unpacking that did not occur until after the initial run of a map.
On the developers vision, there are bits and pieces present now and there has been steady work on getting pieces in place. They have the mech lab working pretty well, an initial team matching system, four maps with one needing a little more work, the mech and pilot skills and modules were just recently enabled. Next week is supposed to be a large patch. New mech types, endo-steel and ferro-fibrous armor. Looking forward to it although with the size of the patch I expect there to be some bugs.
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The biggest problems you'll have as a new pilot, particularly in a trial mech, are:
1. Cheesebuilds, ie. fotm (favourite of the month) min/max builds which are designed to take a theme to the nth degree. eg. the gaussapult (K2 variant of the Catapult replaces 2 machine guns with two gauss rifles). The result is an insane level of alpha strike power that can usually tear up assault mechs in no time flat. Other variants are the LRM atlas boat which can constantly spam LRM's without heat concerns, the Jenner with small pulse lasers which, due to lag, are virtually impossible to hit, and the streakcat, another catapult variant which has a bunch of streak launchers which all currently home on CT.
2. Trial builds are typically sourced from the tech manuals and as such are often jack of all/master of none. eg. centurian, 2 mlas, AC10 and LRM5 if memory serves, which ends up being "massive victim unable to do much of anything"
3. Premade teams, usuall a spotter, couple of brawlers and a bunch of high dps missile boats. Fortunately, PGI are changing the way premades work to make them less of an issue but currently lone wolfing is a good way to get murdered a lot.
There is the core of a good game in there, the movement etc just 'feels' right, but tabletop players expecting something akin to that experience are usually in for a rude shock.
Asmodai aka Saviourself aka Stabbitha aka Azshadoria... or Azsh... Azshaz?
|31st October 2012, 01:27 AM
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We had a few new people join our group last night. They asked if it was better to try some of the trial mechs solo or to read a bit and learn.
We always tell them to hop into voice chat and run a few games with us. Just being in the cockpit where we can give them pointers and herd them along is a much better experience than running solo and not knowing enough.
The client UI is still pretty rough. It manages to get a few things done, but a large number of them are non-intuitive.
|31st October 2012, 07:46 AM
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Yeah, haven't had time to try it for a while now, but hopefully will again soon. I seem to have figured out much of it on my own, as a lot of the forum information isn't very clear. The biggest thing that brought me a lot of deaths, was standing there trying to figure out via trial-and-error how to group my weapons. Finally did though, so that's a big help.
A few weeks back when I started trying the game out, I had hopped into TS a few times, but never encountered anyone else.
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Happy days, there's a new Diamond Rings 7-inch on the way. The A-side boasts a new song entitled Something Else—the next banging single off of the forthcoming Special Affections which is due October 25th. The 7-inch is limited to 500 copies and will be out on September 28th. Don't worry, if that's too long to wait for your next Diamond Rings fix, yesterday Stereogum premiered the B-side to said 7-inch, a cover of Milla Jovovich's 1994 hit, The Gentleman Who Fell. It also features Owen Pallett taking care of the piano and string arrangements. Aaand it's available for pre-order from us now, if you want to ensure getting your hands on a freshly pressed copy.
Diamond Rings has also just announced the first wave of tour dates in support of the full length. In addition to his Rifflandia and Pop Montreal festival appearances at the end of the month (and a one off in Seattle), he'll be inaugurating a tour the day the record drops in Canada, with a release show on October 26th in Toronto at the Garrison. Check it out:
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Santa Ana wins Orange Bowl championship
ALISO VIEJO – Santa Ana halfback Moses Sepulona appeared to have been stopped at the Canyon Hills' 10-yard-line on a routine first-down play Sunday. But what he accomplished afterward showed the heart of a champion.
Sepulona broke the tackle and went on to score a 21-yard touchdown in the first overtime to give the Red Monarchs a 26-20 victory over Canyon Hills and the Orange Bowl Junior Pee Wee Division championship at Aliso Niguel High.
"I felt nervous about that one," said Sepulona, who also caught a 48-yard touchdown reception late in the fourth quarter. "I didn't think I'd catch it. My quarterback threw the ball well. I tried my best. When their kid tried to strip the ball, I thought 'I can't let it go right now.'"
Sepulona didn't let it go, and his touchdown helped Santa Ana erase a 20-6 Canyon Hills lead with less than six minutes left in the game. With 1:39 left, Daylen Pedroza ran in a 2-yard touchdown to tie the score at 20-20. Santa Ana went for two points and the victory, but was stopped.
The Red Monarchs and the Cowboys both finished their seasons at 5-6.
"That was too exciting," Santa Ana coach Maurice Dunning said. "I can't speak any more. We were always taught to never give up, no matter what. Our record was 2-6 coming into the playoffs. If you give a team a second chance, they can make the most of it ... this team never gave up on me, look at where we're at right now. We're the champs."
Santa Ana improved vastly in the pass and it worked to perfection on Sunday.
"Earlier this season, the pass never worked for us," Dunning said. "But we kept practicing it, and now they got it down."
Canyon Hills running back Logun Richmond scored on the first play of the game on a 55-yard reverse.
Jared Anasio scored on a 3-yard run with 6:31 left in the second quarter to tie the game at 6-6. Brenden Hammitt reclaimed the lead for the Cowboys by scoring on a 1-yard scoring run with 4:28 left in the third quarter.
Richmond struck again on a 6-0 yard run to give the Cowboys a 20-6 lead. Zion Alefosio rushed for 69 yards for Canyon Hills.
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Hi - absolute stranger to this 'sport' but have a commission to make some 360 pieces. Can someone tell me why, in almost every image I've seen of this device (and I've seen a few in the last few days) the camera is set up for portrait??
I had a vision (as I'm going to be making landscapes) of at least one set-up, where the camera is mounted horizontally.
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School Vouchers
Americans have decided, as a society, to use taxes to finance some or all of the schooling of children regardless of their parents' ability to pay tuition at private schools. This creates a potential conflict with the right of parents to control the education of their children. With certain precautions, that conflict can be addressed by allowing tax dollars to follow the child to whatever school his or her parents choose.
Current funding practices empower bureaucracies
About half of the taxes collected for education flow from taxpayers to federal or state departments of education, and from there to local school districts and finally to public schools and teachers. Local property taxes typically go to local school districts or to state agencies for redistribution to "property poor" school districts. Because of bureaucracy, two of every five tax dollars raised for schools do not even make it to the classroom (Bonsteel and Brodt 2000).
This system concentrates authority in the hands of small groups of largely unelected officials, often far removed from the classroom. Over time, this system has become heavily bureaucratic, wasteful, and resistant to change (Tyack 1974). Funding follows a different set of rules in the private school sector. There, parents pay tuition directly to the educators they choose for their children, so funds automatically follow the child. The freedom to choose motivates parents to study their choices closely and let educators know what kinds of schools they want. Competition for tuition leads educators to modify and improve their offerings, and unnecessary and expensive bureaucracies are not tolerated.
Funding should follow the student
The way public schools are funded can be made to more closely resemble private school funding by requiring that tax dollars follow the student to the school chosen by his or her parents or guardians. Two ways to do this are choice scholarships (or "vouchers") and tuition tax credits.
Under a voucher plan, parents are allowed to choose the schools they consider best for their children and receive tax-funded vouchers or certificates good for tuition (up to some set amount) at participating schools (Walberg and Bast 2003, Hakim et al. 1994, Friedman and Friedman 1980). Schools then compete for students. The worth of the voucher, which schools may participate in the program, and what kinds of regulations should be imposed on participating schools are choices to be made during the school choice program's design process. (See the principles below for specific legislative suggestions.)
The second way is to provide tax relief to parents who pay tuition to private schools or to individuals and corporations who make donations to pay for private school tuition (Olsen and Brouillette 2000, Anderson et al. 1997). Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota have laws that allow taxpayers to get back from their state governments some part of the amount they spend on private school tuition. Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania offer tax credits to corporations and individuals who finance scholarships for children from low-income families.
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Lots of people think an e-book reader would be the perfect gift for someone in their life!
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Another said, "Probably my aunt, sister, probably everybody I know."
But choosing one can be tricky. Barnes and Noble offers two different Nooks, and Amazon has four different Kindles - not to mention readers from makers like Kobo and Sony. And there are tablets that offer electronic books, too.
Paul Reynolds with Consumer Reports says, "You can read e-books on a tablet, but a dedicated e-book reader is lighter, easier to hold in one hand, has a longer battery life and crisper type. All of these will make a difference in hour after hour of reading."
Among its tests, Consumer Reports assesses how fast each reader can turn a page. Some are really fast, while others are slower.
Another test - looking at how easy they are to read in different lighting. The best readers have no trouble with bright light - good for reading outside. If you're going to be reading in the dark, a reader with a built-in light is a real plus.
Paul explains, "While there are other manufacturers, your choice probably boils down to a Nook or a Kindle. Those are the brands with the best combination of performance, price, and features."
At the top of the ratings? The $120 Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight. The page turns are quick, and it has crisp, readable type as well as a built-in light.
For much less, consider the $70 Kindle with Special Offers from Amazon. It also rated excellent for readability. However, the page turns aren't quite as fast.
Consumer Reports says there's something else to factor in when deciding which e-book reader to buy. If someone in your family already has a Kindle or a Nook, it can make sense to get the same kind. That way you can share their library and avoid paying for the same book twice.


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Dr. Aya Jakobovits, from UroGenesys, Inc. in Santa Monica, California, and colleagues assessed the therapeutic efficacy of two different anti-PSCA antibodies in mice bearing human prostate cancer xenografts.
Both antibodies inhibited subcutaneous and orthotopic xenograft tumors in a dose-dependent fashion, the authors state. In addition, with anti-PSCA therapy, established tumor growth was retarded and distant metastatic disease was inhibited, resulting in significantly prolonged survival.
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I like to ask one or two fairly casual questions about current "stuff" in the company. This might be a question about their newest product. Or it might be a question about an emerging market I know they're exploring. Or I might ask if they have a major release of product X coming up.
(I mostly learned this from interviewees asking these types of questions to me.)
I think one reason this works well is because people love to talk about what they're currently working on, or what's new and interesting in their company. It gives them a chance to feel knowledgeable and end the interview on a high note.
Another reason I think it works well is it shows interest on your part in what the company's up to. And, depending on what all went on in the interview, it may give a sense that you did some research into the company beforehand (you did, didn't you?), and have a sort of unique interest in what the company does.
Perhaps more than the above, I think it's good to not drop any "heavy" questions at this stage. My best interviews (giving and taking) have always wrapped up on a relatively light, conversational, friendly note.
My standbys:
Also a good list to consider is the Joel Test:
Some things to help you decide if you really want the job:
As a developer I like to ask "What are some ways an individual on your team can distinguish themselves?" This tells a lot about the culture of the team. I don't want to be the stereotypical code monkey, I want to be able to actively add value to the business.
If it's only about showing your (fake) interest, ask questions about their business, what matters to them.
If you think it's an opportunity for you to interview them back, ask questions about things that matters to you.
I have been giving a great deal of interviews recently, and here are some of the questions I have received from potential candidates.
(not such good ones)
(good ones)
Any questions that show the interviewer that you are seriously considering working and that you are interested/serious in/about your job are good. Have questions ready at your interview and even if they don't ask you, still say: "Do you mind if I ask you some questions about this position/job"
I always ask what the company policies around training and personal development are.
How the answer, or react, to these questions gives you a decent indication of how interested they are in your growth as a developer.
I ask them what they (the interviewer(s)) find interesting and challenging in their work for that company.
The bulk of the interview should have given you an idea what the company does and where they think you fit. If nothing else from the questions they are asking you they should be fishing for a go/no-go as to you fitting in the position they need. If the interview was too generic and doesnt explain what the company does from a technical perspective. Ask. Interview them as they have just interviewed you.
Secondly, work is not all about the technical topics, the day to day work environment, can I take personal calls (from spouse, kids, friends, etc). Dress code. do I get a computer a cube, an office. Can I install my favorite text editor or other programming software, or am I extremely limited only to what the company provides. You spend about half of each work day in that chair or stool or whatever they provide you. Better to know now that you have to have a shaved head and wear a three piece suit every day with no air conditioning and/or heat, get 37 minutes for lunch and are limited to what is available from the snack machine, than to figure this all out after you have committed to the job.
The specific questions to ask in both categories are very specific to you and you wont really figure out what is important (to you) until after you have experienced it. For each job or each office experience you form a list of what you can tolerate and what you cannot. Work from that list.
In any interview, you should also be interviewing the company. To do that well, you should already know something about the company, having researched them before the interview.
So I would ask questions that tie your knowledge of their company to something you would like to know more about. Something like:
"I understand that your company is very involved with community activities, such as [random charity]. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Is it true that you have a policy of [allocating time for individual research]? How has that worked out?
The worst possible is "currently I have no such questions".. just ask any thing that demonstrates your interest in the company or the Job. Ask 2 or 3 such questions so that people feel that you are genuinely interested in joining the company.
An interview is a two-way process - you need to want to work for them as well as them wanting to hire you.
Before you apply to a company (or an agency applies on your behalf), you'd do some research on the company to find out more about them - who they are, what their products are, what market(s) they operate in (including major competitors).
During the interview process (telephone, physical, etc), you'll also be able to assimilate information about their procedures/workflow/methodologies, the tool chains used, working environment plus any other useful info that wasn't on their website.
If, by the end of the interview, there's some important-to-you items they haven't answered in other discussions, this is the time to ask.
Don't end the interview with unfinished questions - some of them may be deal breakers to you - e.g. working hours > 50/week.
Here's a checklist, in no particular order:
What is the staff turnover?
High turnover means there is something wrong with the company. Low turnover means it's probably a good place to work.
This wouldn't have occurred to me to ask until I was talking about previous jobs with a co-worker. He'd worked at a place that had 3 to 4 developers leaving per month. The longest-serving developer had been there for just 2 years. The smart ones left after one or two months in the job.
There's softball stuff I like to ask, eg "Can you tell me about your day to day work", since that's what matters to me.
However, questions that indicate and understanding of the business, its current issues, or issues the interviewer cares about work very well.
I ask about the build/deploy process. I also make it a point to ask the tech guy. This gives me many insights into the company culture and the developer skill level and maturity. Stuff that tells the tale:
I draw tons of conclusions from answers to the above. And I love it how everybody shares as many juicy details as possible since, superficially, that looks like a tech question to ask.
To find some good answers here, you might ask yourself
Usualy a Human Resource person is asking that question to see wether you are prepared for the interview or not. So in this scenario you should ask something about
For technical persons there are two options: maybe they ask just because they run out of questions by there own or they really want to found out something about our expertice. As a regular interviewer myself I can tell you that it's not the answers that tell you someting about the know-how of a person but the questions do...
So for technical questions you should try to ask something that is related to the job you are after.
If it is the very end of the interview, a classic question is "what are our next steps?" You want to know whether to expect another interview or if they're going straight to a decision, and also roughly when. This is the note on which the conversation ends, so save it for last.
Before that, don't worry too much about questions that "show you care" and "are eager". As an interviewer, I make note of many things, but what I was asked is rarely specifically important. Ask what you want to know. If you really have no questions, say "I had a number of things I wanted to find out about, but you've covered all of them, thank you!" and then ask what the next steps are if you feel the interview is wrapping up. (Don't ask it if 10 minutes into a one hour interview you are asked "but before I go into detail on that, is there anything you wanted to ask?")
I like to ask, "What is the biggest challenge you are currently facing?"
This question serves multiple purposes.
If you don't have legitimate questions before you walk in, and I mean questions that you honestly came up with yourself, not asked for on the Internet because you don't want to look like a chump, then you haven't done a good enough job researching the company and positions.
These are aside from technical questions which have been already given...
General questions
The company
I usually ask more about the problem domain, who are the current clients/buyers of the product, financial situation of the company (esp. important if it's small), plans for future development of the product, etc. Also important factors are whether there's cantina, whether I get to work from home occasionally, working hours (flexible or fixed), release schedules, overtime, etc. Everything that can affect the overall quality of my life.
I've been in this business for over 10 years now, in different roles, and I've found out that the people you work with are AT LEAST, if not more, as important as the project/technologies you work on. So ask also whom you will be working with and who will be your leader. When it comes to judging people who have interviewed you, trust your intuition. Did you feel that they were hiding something during the interview, were they evasive, or were they open about things?
If the position is pre-existing then you can ask (but don't expect an answer most of the time):
I always ask if they can show me their work area.
At least one place I interviewed, I was subsequently offered the job, would have accepted, but ultimateley declined, was because of the office space.
It was ridiculous hot, sun shining in, no blinds, really cramped workspaces.
Now, maybe the blinds were getting replaced the next day or something, but it really put me off.
Here is a couple of my favorites:
I haven't interviewed lately, but a couple of questions I am sure I would now ask are: Do you practice test driven development? If not: Do your developers write automated tests for your code?
Then I would probably get more details such as the types of automated testing they do and the tools they use.
I would generally ask about project plans, and then perhaps more specifically what they have planned for me, i.e. what they are actually recruiting me to do, whether there is anything specific new or exciting I will be working on, or whether I am just filling in a head-count or replacing someone who is leaving so I can fix their legacy code / bugs.
In reality I am not sure whether this section is part of the selection process for them or part of it for me if I get more than one offer, although if I am already in a job and considering moving, it certainly is important for me to know that I am moving somewhere better than where I am now for a career perspective.
I keep a list with all those things I experience during my work which I would like to not encounter again at a new work environment. The list is getting larger and larger.
If you are good then you might end up with more than one offer and then you want to know where the actual differences are.
If you are feeling brave, ask "Why shouldnt i work here?" No place is perfect, and if you know beforehand what the bad buts of a job are, then you are more likely to last.
I haven't seen this one yet, but I always ask what the companies 3 year plan is. Every company should have a good idea of what they want to achieve in 3 years, if they don't then they're just not serious enough for me to really want to get involved with.


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I've heard that Diablo III requires a persistent internet connection even in solo play. Does anyone have any sources to this effect?
Yes. This is a necessary consequence of Diablo 3's online cash auction system. All your stuff has to be stored on the server to prevent 'fraud'.
As you can see, the official system requirements include a broadband connection.
On further investigation, there appears to have been a rumour at some point that Diablo III will feature an "offline" mode, but this information is a year old, and Blizzard's system requirements seem to contradict it.
(from http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=27800569797&sid=3000)
A more recent and presumably up to date FAQ on the Diablo III wiki appears to agree that there will be no offline play.
Right down the bottom is an unqualified "Internet connection required". There's no "for multiplayer games" or "for some game modes".
Just in case you're one of those people who are living in hope that Blizzard will relent, and add an offline mode just before (or just after) release, here's my best guess:
Diablo3 is online-only only in all forms, from the ground up. It's not an action-RPG that Blizzard has bolted an online-only requirement on. It's more like WoW stripped down to instances-only gameplay, where the loot generation, combat mechanics and probably even mob AI is all handled server-side.
Not only does this allow them to leverage their dev's experience with WoW as well as soak up surplus server capacity, it makes Diablo3 incredibly difficult to pirate. Blizzard is betting that those upsides beat the downside of annoying a good percentage of their customers. I suspect, sadly, that they'll win that bet.
I've no doubt that eventually someone will reverse-engineer a fake backend that will allow offline (and unlicensed) play that rivals the real thing, but it won't be any time soon.
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The title alone would probably result in a chanting "NO!" as a popular answer, but please let me elaborate.
We have a table of Something:s. Each Something can hold 1-5 Items. In the table there's a column which displays how many Items each Something has. This column consists of a cell for each row containing a link-styled label saying 1, 2, 3... depending on how many Items it has. If the user hovers the cell, a tooltip will appear displaying a text with the Id:s of the Items contained in this Something.
However, the label (which I have made look like a link) is not clickable (of course the user may click, but nothing will happen). The reason for making it look like a link is to attract the user to it, making the label communicate that "Hey, I have something here". The user will hover it, perhaps try and click it, and the tooltip will appear.
I'm not really sure how else to communicate the affordace for a tooltip.
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New members taken into the club were Abby, Emileah and Dylan Newburn.
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We believe it was Frank Capra who said, and we're paraphrasing here, "If you want to film someone looking genuinely terrified, you have to scare the shit out of them. If you want your actors to cry, make them sad. And above all else, never tell them what's going on."
Directors have been taking those wise words to heart ever since. After all, why trust your actors' "training" or "decades of acting experience" when you can just subject them to actual trauma and turn on the camera? That's how we got scenes like ...
#5. The Chest-Burster Scene from Alien
Previously on Alien, an astronaut was face-raped by an alien. It was tough going, but he recovers, until in the middle of a meal he starts convulsing like a doll being shaken by an invisible giant toddler. The crew is just about to give him space CPR when suddenly, a penis-headed alien punches through his chest and everyone is spattered with an eruption of blood and organs.
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"Yeah, I'm looking forward to many more long days of shooting."
Prior to shooting, the actors had all been removed from the set except for alien-pregnant John Hurt, who was hooked up to an elaborate device that involved a spring-loaded cavity filled with rancid pigs' organs, multiple hoses to pump stage blood and the puppet for the alien itself, all crammed into a false chest that was bolted to the table. Hurt was placed underneath, creating the illusion that his neck really was attached to the body cavity.
So the rest of the cast showed up on set knowing only that the script for this particular scene read, "The thing emerges." That's it. And the only thing the cast was told about the "thing" was that "its head will move and it will have teeth."
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Her scream of disbelief and subsequent desperate, hysterical sobbing was all completely unrehearsed. She actually passed out before the scene was finished and they had to complete it the next day. Yaphet Kotto had to retire to his room and get his blood pressure down or he might have had a heart attack.
Because this is a horror movie, so one way or another, the black dude is going to die.
If that sounds like the grossest prank any director has ever pulled on his cast, we think we can top it ...
#4. The Exorcist: The Vomit Scene
The Exorcist was another landmark film in the horror genre. In place of cheesy heroes, you had a pair of relatable middle-aged men, and the "monster" was nothing more than a bedridden girl. All of this made audiences in 1973 absolutely shit their pants.
Its iconic scene starts with Father Karras interviewing young Regan to determine whether or not her possession is psychological or demonic in nature. When she brings up his dead wife, he tries to stump her by asking for his wife's maiden name. Backed into a corner, she projectile vomits on him. This instantly wins any argument.
The shock you see there is quite real. Now, obviously the actor knew there was going to be vomit -- it's hard to miss the hoses hooked up to the actress. So if you're director William Friedkin, how do you get a genuine reaction out of actor Jason Miller?
Why, tell him that the spray is supposed to hit in the chest! Then, at the last moment, have the hidden pump mechanism secretly recalibrated so that the puke hits him square in the face.
Jason Miller soldiered through the scene, covered in tepid pea soup, and finished it in one take, spending the rest of the day furiously pissed off.
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An impossibly complicated setup for a Nickelodeon-level payoff.
In The Fear of God, a documentary on the making of The Exorcist, we learn that Friedkin pulled shit like this quite a lot. During the exorcism scene, he actually refrigerated the sets so the shivering and frozen breath would be more realistic. He kept several loaded guns around and would fire them off at random intervals to keep the actors on edge, though whether they were anxious about the sudden noise or concerned that Friedkin was one remark away from plunging into shoelace-eating jackfuck lunacy is unclear.
"If this scene needs one more reshoot, I'll trade this camera in for a Kalashnikov."
When Regan's mother was to be yanked back in a harness, Friedkin led her to believe that it would be a very gentle tug. Then he caught her off guard and had it set to fling her backward at maximum strength. This actually resulted in a broken coccyx and permanent spinal problems for actress Ellen Burstyn. But the look on her face was totally worth it!
#3. Willy Wonka Delighting, Horrifying Children
The interesting thing about Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is that the "keep the actors in the dark" approach wasn't really limited to a specific scene -- the kids essentially went through the entire production without ever being fully briefed on what was going to happen at any given moment.
For example, in the very first scene with Willy Wonka, that was actually the first time any of the kids had met Gene Wilder.
The gag where he pretends to be gimped, loses his cane and tragically falls to the ground? According to the DVD commentary, the kids experienced it firsthand. This was actually Wilder's idea, thinking it would make the kids more at ease with him. Because nothing puts children at ease like watching a crippled man fall.
Likewise, much of the film involves capturing the wide-eyed wonder of the children as they take in each new area of the fantastic chocolate factory. So, the kids weren't shown any of the lavish sets or props until the cameras were rolling -- what you see in the finished movie are completely genuine reactions from children having stepped onto a set the size of a football field made entirely of candy.
Lead-based candy, but nevertheless.
In retrospect, it seems pretty obvious that the candy was all inflatable plastic, and the "chocolate river" looks like an unflushed rec center toilet. But for a few glorious seconds, those giant candy mushrooms and gumball ferns were real.
If this sounds like a sweet, harmless version of what the Alien and Exorcist crews did to their casts, don't worry -- the kids got to experience their moment of horror, too. We're talking about the infamous boat ride of nightmares through the tunnel of brain-eating insanity, where an epileptic horror light show flashes on the screen while Wonka screams acid-baked poetry at the children.
The kids knew their lines and that they were going to have smoke and lights flashed at them, but there wasn't one word in the script about Willy Wonka's mind-boggling verse where he screams that they're all going to die:
We swear there's a point in that scene where everybody kind of stops acting and just stares, like they thought Wilder had just shown up to the set stoned and having forgotten that he was an actor in a movie.
"Uh ... is that man about to pull out his dick?"