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WASHINGTON — A top official of the Internal Revenue Service — who played "Star Trek's" Mr. Spock in an agency-funded spoof of the popular TV show — apologized Thursday for not being more careful with taxpayers' money as beleaguered IRS officials endured a fresh grilling from a congressional committee.
"I think now that we should have been paying closer watch to our expenditures and the expenses," a contrite Faris Fink, the commissioner of the agency's Small Business and Self-Employed Division, said of the video, which was produced for an agency conference in Anaheim, Calif.
"I don't think the conference itself was wrong because of the time that we were in at the Internal Revenue Service. Thirty percent of our managers in small business were brand new."
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was incredulous. "Did you ever sit there and say to yourself, 'Well, maybe this isn't right and if somebody sees this, the taxpayers are not going to like this?' " he asked.
"Absolutely, sir," Fink replied.
The hearing was the latest in a series that began last month after disclosures that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. Over the past week, new reports have indicated that the IRS spent $49 million on conferences from fiscal 2010 to 2012, roughly the same period involved in the targeting. While the two controversies have no apparent link, they've been tied together politically to cast the IRS as an out-of-control agency.
Lawmakers from both major political parties spent Thursday railing against various IRS practices as new acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel tried to assuage them.
"I understand the enormity of the moment and the enormity of the challenge," he said. Werfel placed two IRS employees on administrative leave Wednesday for taking free food and gifts, a violation of government ethics rules.
At one point Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pressed Werfel hard on whether liberal groups also had been subjected to intense IRS scrutiny. McClatchy found this week that no liberal or nonpartisan group has come forward to charge that it was unfairly targeted. Werfel, who continues to review IRS practices, wouldn't speculate.
Werfel and Fink set a calmer tone at this hearing than at those of the past, which featured people who were top officials during the targeting era. Cummings praised Fink for his willingness to express regret, while Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the committee's chairman, had kind words for Werfel. "Your two predecessors," Issa said, "Not so good."
The lawmakers' outrage Thursday was directed at the conference spending, particularly the Anaheim meeting of the Small Business and Self-Employed Division.
Treasury Inspector General Russell George detailed how the conference appeared to cost about $4.1 million. "We could not validate the accuracy," he added. "IRS did not have effective controls to track and report those costs."
"To find out that not only does the IRS take your money, not give you proper answers and then, when it comes to tens of millions of dollars, use it in a way that is at best maliciously self-indulgent … is unthinkable for any agency," Issa said. "But when it's the IRS and they give to their own employees benefits, such as local employees in Anaheim, and then fail to file W-2s for that income, the IRS effectively was guilty of tax evasion."
"The money that was spent on that, that's my money," Cummings added. "The lady who got the early bus this morning, that's her money."


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In the series finale, a shocking death prompts Will and Mac to reminisce about the newsroom's past and ponder ACN's uncertain future. Meanwhile, Maggie gets an interview for a field producer in Washington, D.C.; Leona offers advice to Pruit; and Neal's digital site it shut down for repairs.moreless
Will's jailed for contempt, but still won't give up the name of Neal's government source; Charlie goes along with Pruit's order to cater to younger viewers by sending Don to investigate a sexual-abuse case at an elite college; Sloan objects to a new digital site; Jim and Maggie are stranded in a Russian airport, but try to book seats on a plane bound for Cuba so they can interview a noteworthy passenger.moreless
Will refuses to reveal the source of stolen government documents even though he could go to jail for contempt. Meanwhile, Sloan and Mac search for a last-minute buyer for ACN when Charlie's had it with Lucas; and Hallie's new job puts a strain on her relationship with Jim.moreless
Will is in for a surprise at the White House Correspondents' Dinner; Leona and Reese scramble to raise money to halt Blair and Randy's takeover; Charlie shares ideas with an ACN suitor; Maggie's scoop on the EPA gets air time on "News Night"; Sloan and Don try to keep their romance a secret from a new HR executive.moreless
In the 3rd-season opener, it is April 2013, and the aftermath of the Genoa disaster means the News Night team treats a breaking story cautiously – a strategy that could benefit the show in the long run, or ruin the trust of their remaining viewers. Meanwhile, an anonymous source contacts Neal about stolen government documents that may be related to overseas riots, Sloan looks into a possible takeover, and Maggie subs for Elliot following the Boston Marathon bombings.moreless
As Election 2012 coverage is put to bed, Reese must make a decision that affects Charlie, Will and all the senior staff of News Night, Don looks at his legal alternatives with Rebecca, and Will and Charlie have simultaneous epiphanies. Elsewhere, Neal asks Hallie's assistance finding a gift for Mac, Jim tries to make amends in his personal life and urges Maggie to do the same, and Sloan finds out who purchased her book.moreless
News Night presses on with covering Election 2012, as Leona has refused to accept anybody's resignation. The pressure is on, though, because Charlie expects an error-free broadcast and Jim worries he has made an election call too early. Meanwhile, debate goes on over whether to wait until after the polls close to run a story surrounding a tight Senate race, Mac asks Neal to fix a Wikipedia page, and Sloan discovers a fraud perpetrated in her name.moreless
Will receives some bad news about his father. Jim gives Maggie some advice.
Maggie relives her trip to Africa. Will humiliates an OWS protestor during a live interview.
Will continues his task to become civil by revealing truths to Nina Howard. Jim is getting frustrated on the campaign trail.
A tip on a story that may cripple the network becomes more real. Mackenzie and Sloan still push Will to cover drones. Maggie gets the assignment she wanted, but loses her roommate as a friend and Neal is arrested on Wall Street.moreless
Will answers questions from the corporate lawyer in relation to a wrongful termination suit and gives an account of a journalistic disaster that, except for an extraordinary confluence of events, would never have happened.moreless
In the Season 1 finale, Mac is agitated by a possibly devastating announcement from gossip columnist Nina Howard. Meanwhile, Sloan ponders a new job opportunity; Neal's Internet alias could avert a catastrophe; and Will, Mac and Charlie confront Leona and Reese during a volatile lunch meeting.moreless
The power outage clarifies Mac's thoughts about the way they're going about achieving their goal for the debate. Neal poses as an internet troll, baiting Sloan's fans with inaccurate posts. Charlie asks Jim to vet his NSA source. Lisa's interview with Will about Casey Anthony goes horribly wrong, and the staff's sample mock debate for the Republican Party's representatives does not go as planned.moreless
The ratings for News Night make a huge decline after its decision not to cover a pair of headline making stories, and Will and Mac must find a way to bring enough viewers back to justify the network's quest to air a Republican debate. Meanwhile, Will considers writers for an all-access profile; Sloan is upset by the lack of coverage of a financial story; and Charlie learns a National Security Agency whistle-blower's identity.moreless
While the staff celebrates at their one-year anniversary party, Charlie gets an anonymous tip about an upcoming televised speech by the president. This prompts the News Night staff to switch gears and focus on possible reasons for the speech.moreless
Sloan subs for Elliot and takes over the ten o'clock show dealing with the Japanese nuclear crisis following the March 2011 earthquake, but her harsh tone may ruin her credibility. Meanwhile, Will sees a therapist to try and fix his insomnia.moreless
Two uprisings occur simultaneously and the news crew does their best to report on both equally. First, the ousting of President Mubarak in Egypt, then unrest in Wisconsin in response to the governor's call for budget cuts.moreless
Maggie gets pressure from Don to set Jim up with her roommate, while Neal gives his Bigfoot theories to anyone willing to listen. After a confrontation with a gossip columnist on New Year's Eve, Will becomes fodder for the tabloids, threatening the integrity of the news investigation.moreless
Will catches the eye of network executives and Atlantis World Media CEO Leona Lansing when he apologies on-air for his dishonest and inaccurate coverage before the November 2010 midterm elections.
With Mac taking full control of the show, she attempts to launch version 2.0 of the nightly news. While she battles to get an on-air economist to help host the segment, Charlie says no to Reese and Will's secret meetings. Also, Maggie miscues during the broadcast causing problems for Will.moreless
After his breakdown, Will McAvoy, the most popular news anchor in the U.S., returns to work to find out things have massively changed. Most of his staff have left the show and his boss has hired a brilliant new executive producer, MacKenzie MacHale, his ex-girlfriend. MacKenzie comes in with one mission - change the show from a pandering, ratings driven news program to a truth driven, ethical and fair news report reminiscent of the original news programs. First up, the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.moreless

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Lens of Truth writes "Welcome back for another exciting Heads Up! Lately The Internet has been filled with speculation on the speed and power of Nintendo's Wii U CPU. And without Nintendo releasing the official CPU stats most of the speculation out there is "he said she said". Honestly, all that really matters is how does the Wii U perform when playing these games."
Interesting. The Wii U had a slightly lower FPS overall, but zero screen tearing.
I understand that this is CoD and it's an old engine. But nice to know that you can at least throw something at the Wii U that isn't optimized for it (since it's built on the 360 platform) and it still puts out respectable numbers.
Will be nice to see a side by side comparison of a game where the developer actually takes the time to optimize it for the internal workings of the Wii U. Perhaps a game like Aliens will show more.
But not bad for a first effort.
Considering the Wii U just entered the scene and developers obviously haven't had much dev time with the console compared to PS3 and Xbox, it's doing quite well...
looking forward to playing this ont he wiiU with no screen tear.. hmmmm
It's close all round, but cod needs some cpu juice. Wii does not have enough.


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Pittsburgh, PA – The Chicago Cubs placed pitcher Scott Baker on the 60-day disabled list as the club finalized its roster ahead of Monday's season opener against the Pirates.
Baker is still recovering from Tommy John surgery which cost him the entire 2012 season. The 31-year-old went 8-6 with a 3.14 earned run average in 23 games (21 starts) with the Twins in 2011.
Chicago also placed pitcher Matt Garza (left lat strain) and infielders Ian Stewart (left quad strain) and Darwin Barney (left knee laceration) on the 15- day DL. Stewart's move is retroactive to March 22, while Barney's move in retroactive to this past Sunday.
Garza, the 29-year-old right-hander, was 5-7 with a 3.91 ERA in 18 starts for the Cubs a season ago.
Stewart finished with a .201 average, five homers and 17 RBI in 55 games, while Barney hit .254 with seven homers and 44 RBI over 156 games with Chicago in 2012.
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'The Dark Knight Rises' Guest Review: A Flawed but Pleasing Victory Lap
Orphaned billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) suits up as Batman to bring rough justice to the streets of Gotham and drown out the cries of his soul, dressed in an iconic high-tech suit that's made him a pop-culture legend. The seemingly contradictory challenges of that suit nicely echo the seemingly contradictory needs of these three films helmed by Christopher Nolan, beginning with Batman Begins in 2005. The costume has to be flexible enough for Wayne to move and grapple, but it also it has to be convincingly strong and enduringly tough enough to make you think that Wayne would not, in fact, be slain within five minutes of Batman's first battle against gun-carrying crooks.
So too do Nolan's Bat films likewise have to be flexible, to incorporate mind-blowing spectacle and deft archetypal spins on a classic cast made of jut-jawed heroes, good citizens and preening psychopaths. They also have to at least seem rigidly set somewhere within both the laws of physics and the audience's suspension of disbelief, more Michael Mann than Stan Lee. In a world of high-tech digital advances and phantom 3D CGI images light as air, Nolan uses big IMAX cameras to capture very large (mostly) real things on old-school film, and at the same time does so in the service of a featherweight fiction with almost (barring the occasional flash from Mr. Caine or Mr. Freeman) no hint of a smile.
The other fact is that The Dark Knight Rises will now and forever be judged against the series' second installment, The Dark Knight, and will be found wanting. Put aside the grim reality that Heath Ledger passed after principal photography. The less brutal note is that these films are genre films, and thus much improved (or, more firmly, made) by a good bad guy. The Dark Knight had two of them, Ledger and Aaron Eckhart, helping that film play out as a shadowy cover version of The Man who Shot Liberty Valance by way of Heat, a story about the rule of force and the rule of law and their mutual enemy, chaos. Tom Hardy has brawny shoulders and a broader brogue as Bane, a mask-wearing mercenary who commits himself to both destroying Batman and Gotham alike; it's nothing like, or as good, as Ledger's capering showman-terrorist. And Aaron Eckhart's reform-to-revenge American schizo Harvey "Two-Face" Dent was far more interesting than this film's new player, Anne Hathaway's silky, skillful cat burglar Selina Kyle. Hathaway is game as glammy grifter Kyle, but the character lacks the grimly ironic arc of Eckhart's Dent; these stories often work best as clumsy tragedies, Macbeth in oven mitts, and Ledger and Eckhart's work made for exactly that. The Dark Knight Rises is less thematically interesting, less structurally compact and less energetically propelled than The Dark Knight, a comparison that is less a slight than a simple statement of fact.
The story, as ever, is by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer; the script, by Nolan and his brother Jonathan. There's a lot of bother about Bruce Wayne being a recluse and Gotham being better; Dent died eight years ago, and Batman took the wrongful wrap for that death and murders Dent committed to better keep the fragile state of safety alive. As you may have noted, The Dark Knight hovers, in both plot and theme, throughout The Dark Knight Rises like a restless ghost or, less politely, the thin hot aroma of burnt, over-done popcorn. There are also a few scenes that contort themselves even more back-breakingly to reference Batman Begins, the film that kicked off Nolan's series of well-liked moneymakers with Bale. The enthusiastic refer to Nolan's storytelling choices and visual motifs in these films as iconic American filmmaking; less charitably, Nolan's storytelling choices and visual motifs in these films can also be summed up as Batman by way of Bond, with a dark black suit and deep blue balls. That swipe isn't just at Nolan's generally sexless blockbusters (though Bats does get a little action between the action this time around) but, also, at how Nolan himself seems to hold the comic book elements of the material at arm's length. Note that Hathaway's Kyle is never, out loud, called 'Catwoman'; as Devin Faraci of Badass Digest has sagely noted before, there's a cheerless and restrained feel to Nolan's take on material that started as gaudy four-color children's entertainment, almost tangibly like Nolan is somehow ashamed of making a movie based on a comic book.
This last film in Nolan's trilogy falls over itself to dot several t's and cross several i's on the way to the finale, and I meant what I said; the plot is impossibly convoluted from the outset, and hardly improves. Patriarch cop Inspector Gordon (Gary Oldman) and defiant young rebel rookie John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) serve as our heroic common men in an American city rendered, in an oddly reactionary plotline, an American Stalingrad by Hardy's Bane, a madman speaking (through a muffling face-mask) the rhetoric of revolutionaries. There's some corporate intrigue up among the one percent, too, with Marion Cotilliard as Wayne's could-be savior and other sundry smoothie bad guys. There's also a curious third-act dip while Gotham is seized for over 90 days and Bruce Wayne is far, far away slowly crafting a redemption montage.
The film closes off Nolan's films with as nice a visual farewell a director's given a franchise since the perfect-circle end Paul Greengrass gave the Bourne films. But The Dark Knight wasn't a hall-of-fame, game-changing home run; The Dark Knight Rises feels like a hustle-filled but ultimately cursory trot around the bases, a pleasing but slightly wheezy victory lap as we raise the Bat-jersey, as Nolan tailored it, to the rafters of the pop-culture arena.
Will other directors try to put Wayne on the big screen again? Probably as certainly as the sun will someday rise (or, more bluntly, as certainly as Warner Bros. stock will someday dip). But for now, I come not to bury The Dark Knight Rises but to lightly, passingly praise it, at the very least as big American filmmaking of the kind that makes ripples as it goes by. If we must have these corporate visions of a heroic idea, you could do worse than Nolan's broad-shouldered, blue-tinged crime-fiction as escapism, shot on film with, more often than not, real objects and real actors. Nolan's success, graded over three films and on a curve, is such that he now has a "legacy," and even now blogs talk of reboots and sequels and about what will happen to Batman in the absence of Nolan. I for one hope that Warner Bros. announces their next Bat-project ASAP, if only to keep the Internet from imploding.
I also look forward to what Nolan -- free from servitude to a key property in the WB stable -- will do next far more avidly than I do any what-if Bat-plans. Add up the profits from Nolan's films and you know we'll be back with Bruce Wayne again soon, because there's definitely money, and possibly magic, to be made here again, which is why you should get ready for another round of this nonsense in about five years, and 10 or less after that again. (If I seem overly-concerned with the future of a franchise Nolan seems to be done with, trust me, so is The Dark Knight Rises.) To paraphrase Raimi's Spider-Man, this is Nolan's gift; this is his curse. The Dark Knight Rises may not be the greatest comic book movie of all time, and yet we'll buy more than enough tickets to guarantee this is what all summer blockbuster moviegoing will aspire to look like -- and for that matter, aspire to period -- for a long, long while.
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Matt and me (Tracie) today. Since it's just an hour, informal conversation and some calls, I'm sure.
Also, just to let you know there's now an unofficial fan page for a virtual after show dinner, but it's also running during the show if you want to stop by it:
Days when I'm not cohosting, and not at the dinner in Austin, I do go and show support there. Just letting others know it's out there as well.


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ABERDEEN moved level on points with Clydesdale Bank Premier League leaders Celtic after an impressive 4-1 victory over hosts St Mirren.
The Dons showed their clinical side as they punished the home team on the counter-attack and the three points takes them alongside Celtic and Hibernian, with both playing tomorrow.
Johnny Hayes fired a low shot beyond Craig Samson to open the scoring after 10 minutes and the in-form Niall McGinn doubled the visitors' lead on the stroke of half-time, ending a lightning-fast counter by slamming the ball high into the net.
Chris Clark drilled a low shot past Samson with four minutes remaining to put the game beyond Saints before late strikes from Mark Reynolds and Steven Thompson rounded out the scoring.
It was the home side that enjoyed the brighter start, Gary Teale taking on Andrew Considine before swinging over a dangerous cross that Sam Parkin headed over.
Aberdeen broke the deadlock after 10 minutes with their first opportunity of the match.
Hayes' cross was blocked by David van Zanten but he reacted brilliantly when the ball rebounded back to him to fire home.
The hosts responded when Thompson connected with Teale's pinpoint free-kick, only to be denied by a wonderful stop by Jamie Langfield, who pushed the ball onto the crossbar.
Teale was causing Considine plenty of problems and he again beat the Dons defender before flighting over a good delivery that Thompson headed just wide of the post after 20 minutes.
The home side continued to search for a way back into the match and despite forcing a number of corners in quick succession, they were unable to profit.
Aberdeen responded at the other end when Josh Magennis' fizzing effort was parried round the post by Samson.
Moments before half-time Aberdeen doubled their lead with an excellent counter-attack.
Ryan Fraser raced through on goal before laying off to McGinn, who lashed the ball past Samson from a tight angle.
St Mirren continued to look for a way back into the game as the second half began and Thompson should have done better after linking with Kenny McLean at the edge of the penalty area.
The visitors remained a constant threat on the counter and Hayes drove a shot just wide before Samson brilliantly saved from Fraser after Marc McAusland carelessly conceded possession on the edge of his own penalty box.
McAusland brought out a wonderful save from Langfield after 83 minutes, but the home side were still finding chances at a premium.
Aberdeen wrapped up the game with four minutes remaining when Scott Vernon rolled the ball to Clark, who blasted the ball low beyond Samson from close range.
Things got even worse for the hosts one minute later as Reynolds burst out of defence to fire a shot into the top corner.
Thompson ended a flurry of three goals in two minutes when he grabbed a late consolation, but it did little to ease the pain for Saints, who have now lost five successive matches in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.


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SANDY, Utah — Real Salt Lake seem to relish demolishing the LA Galaxy.
So they were all smiles on Saturday night as they sent a chilling message to the rest of the league by rolling over the 2010 Western Conference champions in a 4-1 win.
READ: LA @ RSL Postgame Notes
Argentine playmaker Javier Morales led the way with two goals, one from the spot and one a screamer from outside the box. Andy Williams and Paulo Jr. also scored for the home side.
Juan Pablo Ángel notched his first goal for the Galaxy, a late consolation for a side that has never won at Rio Tinto Stadium.
WATCH: Juan Pablo Ángel strikes for his first Galaxy goal
A record crowd of 20,507 were on hand on a very cold evening, but the home side warmed them up early on.
RSL took the lead in just the 2nd minute through Williams. A cross from Paulo Jr. skipped past Fabian Espindola but found its way to Williams on the far post. The Jamaican one-timed it past Galaxy goalkeeper Josh Saunders.
The Galaxy nearly drew level a couple of minutes later, when a David Beckham freekick ricocheted and dipped toward the upper corner. Instead, it clanged off of the woodwork and the loose ball was eventually controlled by RSL keeper Nick Rimando.
The game had opened up at a furious pace, pushed by RSL's attack, and in just the 9th minute they made it pay off. Paulo Jr. ran onto a ball over the top and was knocked down by an the onrushing Saunders. The referee pointed to the spot and Morales converted.
WATCH: LA @ RSL Match Highlights
Salt Lake tripled their lead in the 41st minute when Morales corralled a throw in from Chris Wingert from the left side. Sprinting toward the inside, Morales sizzled a shot into the far side netting, giving RSL a commanding lead heading into the break.
An unfortunate defensive miscue by the Galaxy iced the game in the 68th minute. A seemingly harmless outlet pass to Espindola bounced past two LA defenders, and Espindola was able to rush into open space down the left side. His cross to the far post found Paulo Jr., who had only to redirect the ball into goal.
The absence of Landon Donovan, who was on international duty, left the Galaxy in the hands of Ángel and midfielder David Beckham. The two connected in the 80th minute as Ángel knocked in a Beckham cross amid a great deal of congestion in the RSL area.
It was not enough. RSL had the three points in the bag and assumed first place in the West.
Scoring Summary:
RSL -- Andy Williams 1 (Paulo Araujo Jr. 1, Javier Morales 2) 2
RSL -- Javier Morales 1 (penalty kick) 10
RSL -- Javier Morales 2 (Chris Wingert 1) 41
RSL -- Paulo Araujo Jr. 1 (Fabian Espindola 1) 68
LA -- Juan Pablo Angel 1 (David Beckham 1) 80
LA Galaxy -- Josh Saunders, Sean Franklin, A.J. DeLaGarza, Leonardo, Todd Dunivant, David Beckham (Bryan Jordan 88), Chris Birchall, Juninho, Michael Stephens (Paolo Cardozo 58), Juan Pablo Angel, Chad Barrett (Miguel Lopez 46).
Real Salt Lake -- Nick Rimando, Robbie Russell (Tony Beltran 63), Jamison Olave, Nat Borchers, Chris Wingert, Andy Williams (Collen Warner 69), Kyle Beckerman, Javier Morales, Ned Grabavoy, Paulo Araujo Jr. (Luis Gil 77), Fabian Espindola.
Misconduct Summary:
LA -- Josh Saunders (caution; Reckless Foul) 9
LA -- David Beckham (caution; Verbal Distraction) 54
LA -- Miguel Lopez (caution; Tactical Foul) 54
LA -- Leonardo (caution; Reckless Foul) 74
Referee: Jair Marrufo
Referee's Assistants: Anthony Vasoli, Matthew Kreitzer
4th Official: Jose Carlos Rivero
Time of Game: 1:50
Attendance: 20,507
Weather: Cloudy-and-47-degrees


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|View Poll Results: /What do you think of Anti-Magic?
|It's the most overpowered ability ever!
|It's the most useless ability ever!
|It's just a so-so ability.
|What's Anti-Magic?
|Voters: 25. You may not vote on this poll
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|2012-04-10, 06:38
|Link #1
神の金槌 (ユダ=マーテル)
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
[Poll]What do you think of Anti-Magic?
Lately, there's an upsurge of stories with Anti-Magic leads since Gakuen Alice (or probably even earlier than that), one of the most prominent probably is To Aru Majutsu No Index.
The question: How does anyone here perceive Anti-Magic:
a) The most overpowered ability ever;
b) The suckiest ability ever;
c) Just a so-so ability; or
d) You don't probably know what Anti-Magic is.
My arguments for Anti-Magic:
Spoiler for What's Anti-Magic?:
Spoiler for It's just a so-so ability:
Spoiler for It's the most useless superpower ever:
Spoiler for It's the most broken superpower ever:
So, guys, what are you waiting for? Vote Now!
|2012-04-10, 07:11
|Link #2
Part-Time TTK & Master
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Iwakawa base and Chaldea
Age: 38
Judging from what I have seen in Nanohaverse, it just became an excuse to not come up with intelligent tactics, when you have raised the power level too high and too fast.
|2012-04-10, 07:20
|Link #3
reading #hikaributts
Join Date: Feb 2009
I would say that it is situational at best.
You can beat out people who over relies on their powers or don't have a normal weakness due their supernatural defences, but it's not usefull against people who don't use them and are physically stronger than you or if they have something in which your cancelling power does not work (for example technology: a gun or people who uses their powers to enhance themselves like superspeed or super strength).
|2012-04-10, 07:27
|Link #4
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 27
Bias poll is bias.
Anti-magic is a trope just like any other. It can be used cleverly and contribute significantly to a character or plot (e.g. Ryougi Shiki or Kamijou Touma or the Equalists in Legend of Korra) and/or can be used as a complete plot device that allows the character to win in the end purely through winging it (e.g. Kamijou Touma, and a certain ending in FSN).
|2012-04-10, 07:32
|Link #5
神の金槌 (ユダ=マーテル)
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
^ Wha? I guess I didn't explain the argument against Anti-Magic very well. So are you saying that Anti-Magic is a common ability, then? Then vote, please. I just want to know what other people think of Anti-Magic.
|2012-04-10, 07:47
|Link #6
Senior Member
I'm fine with anti-magic as long as its effect is to weaken rather than to totally nullify.
It's kind of like the difference between Magic vs. Superman and Kryptonite vs. Superman (Superman is extra-vulnerable to magic but it's not an instant win over him like kryptonite often is).
Unfortunately, my (little) experience with anti-magic in anime (and anime-related mediums) is that it's usually used like kryptonite in anime. In which case, yes, it often comes across as an over-powered and cheap plot device.
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I believe Anti-Magic isn't really anything new, but I just thought shows with Anti-Magic spawned like mushrooms over the past decade since Gakuen Alice. But then again, these may probably not be as common as I thought.
But yes, I do also believe that Anti-Magic is the ultimate Plot Armor. Only Chuck Norris can beat it. It makes for ridiculously easy and annoying cop-outs when done wrong, but it can be more interesting than most superpower stories (except probably those with Badass Normal leads) when done correctly.
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I think it's easily a cheap and poorly designed element that can't be put into any story without causing ridiculous loopholes like 'why doesn't _____ just solve everyone's problem with his/her anti-magic powers". They can be cohesively incorporated but it's very plot specific.
It's like asking why can't the eagles in LotR drop the ring in the volcano at the beginning.
The creators are aware of that. So for the majority of the anime, characters neglect/forget its existence or its uses. Which makes me cringe because it's so forced and incoherent.
I'm here-on no longer talking about anti-magic, but generally overpowered abilities that override everything else that has so far been introduced in an anime.
Exceptions on the top of my head:
- Alucard from Hellsing. His immortality is overpowered, but he abuses it. And there's never a point in time where the power user acts like he doesn't have immortality. The entire story revolves on how unstoppable he is. He's consistent throughout.
- Ryougi Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai. Her ability extends to erasing everything, including reality/existance. Completely overpowered but the story never put her into a position where she needs to consider it. All she considers is not being a murderer for the sake of that dude. (insignificant generic character whose name I can't remember)
- Amber from Darker than Black. Her ability to reverse time and the side effect. Any severe jeopardizing effect to using anti-magic or abilities that override everything else can remove that imbalance that's ruining the story.
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Depends, really.
In a world where magic and anti-magic, and maybe even Dispel spells, exist for a long time and practitioners of each has adapted ways against the other, it's actually a perfectly viable ability to have.
In a world dominated by magic, the presence of anti-magic as an OCP that the magic-using protagonists struggle to overcome is meh. It's doubly irritating when the writer also give them extra resistance and/or survivability against non-magical attacks, and supremely infuriating with regeneration added to the mix, creating a blatant Mary Sue/Villain Sue.
It's also annoying when the anti-magic not only cancels the spell, but also all the environmental effects and collateral damage. For example, anti-magic that not only killed a fireball spell but also inexplicably and conveniently put of the fire instantaneously before it can damage its target. Also extra annoying when their magic-using enemies keep insisting on direct attacks instead of getting creative with their powers like using telekinesis to throw hard objects or collapse the building where their target lives or sink the ship they're in...basically anything beside futilely firing magic directly at the anti-magic source.
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Hahaha, THANK GOD they didn't make Touma Kamijou physically invulnerable (just a body made of iron, though).
That said, anyone else thinks that TAMNI and ZnT are the only shows that used the Anti-Magic trope correctly?
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But it's really not that rare of a power.
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- For the above case, I find AM cancelling the surrounding magic annoying, because that means his allies cannot use magic as well.
- In some cases, the AM character is inherently physically strong and/or learns martial arts and/or undergoes Special Weapons and Tactics training to compensate for his lack of ability to use the universe magic. This also helps against foes who do not depend on the universe magic to fight. Touma and Asuna are good examples.
- In other cases, AM should be a very rare spell that there are very specific factors that determine which characters get AM or not. Only the descendants of the four noble families of Halkeginia can become Void mages. Touma is the only IB bearer shown in Index, but there are hints that somebody else bore it before him.
- Additional abilities that come along with AM are fine, too. The only additional ability allowed is Power Copying unless it is balanced with something debilitating. Louise has Explosion and Teleportation spells along with her Dispel magic.
- And lastly, in general, if AM turns out to be overpowered by in-universe standards, it has to be balanced with enough tactical unfeasibility to make it useful only when it's a job for Aquaman: Ridiculously long casting times, inability to touch magical objects without serious consequences or inability to make them work, or it works only when the wielder is under extreme circumstances (like when his life is in danger or when he's in dire need of protecting his friends.
What I like about Anti-Magic is that in an adventuring party setting, its wielder can act as the Meat Shield while his allies rain down destruction from the heavens on their foes.
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Eh, afraid I can't answer the question since we have differing views on a 'correct' example (for me, Touma counts under "Also extra annoying when their magic-using enemies keep insisting on direct attacks instead of getting creative with their powers like using telekinesis to throw hard objects or collapse the building where their target lives or sink the ship they're in...basically anything beside futilely firing magic directly at the anti-magic source" TL|DR, he only thrives because his enemies always hold the idiot ball)
|2012-04-10, 11:06
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Well, yeah, it's rather annoying to see mages keeping on casting the same spells despite knowing that it will not work no matter what. At least they should have been smart enough to use their magic to indirectly hurt the AM wielder.
I think that's why I prefer Dispel than passive Anti-Magic. But yeah, mages still insist on casting their spells despite knowing they can be dispelled. Oh well.
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Broken poll - see Haak for explanation
Basically, its a "debuff" like many games have written into their mechanics .... so whether its a piece of crap or a nice tactical tool really depends on how it is implemented and whether it is used just to get around poorly written situations. So it really is dependent on the details (which is the missing option).
|2012-04-10, 14:25
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In cases like Index, where it's a sole plot device so that the hero may stand a chance against overpowering opponents leading to moments of sheer GAR from outlasting and outwitting your enemies, it's not bad if they find a way to bring some variety. Despite his trump card, he is fairly vulnerable.
In cases like Nanoha StrikerS where it's just to nerf the main characters (and interestingly, this nerf was to replace another nerf which initially made people happy but had a net gain of 0. ) so you can hope to give your thrift store villains a chance at credibility, it's terrible. Of course, compared to its usage in the following manga, it's a masterpiece. It's the equivalent of activating cheat codes to reduce your enemy's stats.
It's similar to any "dampening field" or "disabler" in sci-fi
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"I'll dial my senior forces down to 7 so we don't accidentally win before the series is over"... <facepalm>
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Gustav Klimt (Austrian, Vienna 1862 - 1918 Vienna)
Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1897
Signed lower left: GUSTAV/KLIMT
Pastel on paper
20 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (51.1 x 27.7 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1958
In Portrait of a Lady, Klimt employs black pastel with sparing red highlights to shroud the sitter in mystery. As in his later Symbolist oil portraits of the women of Viennese society, Klimt excels in suggesting the "smoldering fire" under the elegant, cool façade of a grand-bourgeoise.
Between 1896 and 1898 Klimt created numerous portrait drawings.1 Apart from a handful of three-quarter views and an even smaller number of frontal portraits, most of these drawings depict the sitter in profile, as in the Oberlin drawing. These drawings were not connected with any specific oil portraits, and Klimt clearly considered them to be independent works of art. In March of 1898 he exhibited the Oberlin drawing in the first Vienna Secession exhibition and published it in the avant-garde journal Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring), an organ of the Art Nouveau movement.2 Klimt might have considered as models the pastel portraits of Franz von Stuck (1863-1928), which were shown at the exhibition of the Munich Secession in Vienna and published in the journals Jugend and Pan.
Oberlin's Portrait of a Lady exemplifies Klimt's finely detailed use of black pastel crayon to achieve a rich tonal range, from the lightest values for the face and hands to the soft deep blacks of the hair and dress. The background, carefully hatched in greys of different values, provides only the barest indication of the surrounding interior. The restricted, planar space and the monochromatic color scheme suggest the influence of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose portrait of his mother (1872; Louvre) has been claimed as a major influence on Klimt's oil portraits of the late 1890s, and certainly had an impact on his drawings as well.3
Although Strobl compares the Oberlin drawing to Klimt's drawn allegory of Tragedy of 1897,4 better comparisons can be found in his Lady at the Fireplace of 1897-98 in Vienna and the Pale Face of 1907-8 in Norman, Oklahoma.5 Both paintings show seated women and are much closer in style and mood to the Oberlin drawing.
Klimt's portraits of women were usually commissioned by the sitters' husbands or fathers. Often dressed in expensive, one-of-a-kind gowns designed by Klimt's friend, Emilie Flöge, for the Wiener Werkstatten, the sitters were depicted against intricately patterned backgrounds in a style which removed them from reality and elevated them to an aesthetic plane similar to that created in contemporary portraits by Sargent, Whistler, and Anders Zorn. These portraits do not convey psychological insight but represent well-bred, haughty, yet enchanting upper-class women who seem trapped and immobilized by layers of decoration.6
While the model in the Oberlin drawing, raven-haired and swathed in black, already conveys the "mystery" of woman--a pervasive theme in Klimt's oeuvre--the work cannot be considered an example of Klimt's mature style. In 1897 Klimt was beginning to turn towards Symbolism. He had just founded and become president of the Vienna Secession, and was receiving critical attention, mixed with protests, for his Symbolist paintings, such as Schubert am Klavier and the allegory of Philosophy(both destroyed during World War II).
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The first of seven children, Gustav Klimt was born on 14 July 1862 in Vienna. In 1876 he entered the newly founded Kunstgewerbeschule (School for Applied Arts), where he studied painting with Ferdinand Laufberger and Victor Julius Berger. In 1879 Gustav Klimt, his brother Ernst Klimt (1864-1892), and Franz von Matsch (1861-1942), founded the Künstlercompagnie, an artists' co-op that produced numerous historicizing, decorative wall paintings in public buildings. When in 1894 the co-op received the commission to decorate the lobby of the University of Vienna with allegorical paintings of the different faculties, Klimt began to go his own way stylistically with innovative designs for his paintings of Philosophy(1899-1907), Medicine (1900-1901), and Law (never completed; all three destroyed during World War II).
Klimt left the artists' co-op in 1897, when he became president of the newly founded Vienna Secession. He exhibited Philosophy at the seventh Secession exhibition in 1900; Medicine at the tenth exhibition in 1901, where its depiction of a naked and pregnant woman met with much protest; and all three, along with his great Beethoven Frieze(now installed in the Vienna Secession building) in the Klimt retrospective exhibition of 1903. This same year Klimt made a trip to Ravenna, where he saw the Early Christian mosaics of San Apollinare in Classe, which inspired the highly decorated backgrounds and clothing of his "golden style."
As the Secession became increasingly fractious, Klimt and other practitioners of Art Nouveau abandoned the group to organize their own Kunstschau in 1905. Klimt exhibited less frequently and returned to the subjects of his earlier work, landscapes and portraits of upper-middle-class Viennese women, from which he earned his living. He also produced many drawings and paintings inspired by highly active erotic sensibilities. Klimt's relationships with women were unusual. Living with his mother, and after her death, with his two unmarried sisters all his life, he had so many affairs with his models that fourteen paternity suits were filed against his estate after his death. His closest friend was Emilie Flöge, whom he never married, but with whom he maintained a life long faithful platonic relationship. Klimt died on 6 February 1918, three weeks after suffering a stroke.
General References
Nebehay, Christian M. Gustav Klimt: Eine Dokumentation. Vienna, 1969.
Comini, Alessandra. Gustav Klimt. London, 1975.
Dobai, Johannes, and Sergio Coradeschi. L'Opera completa di Klimt. Milan, 1978.
Stoss, Toni, and Christoph Oswald. Gustav Klimt. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1992.
Frodl, Gerbert. Gustav Klimt. Cologne and London, 1992.
Nebehay, Christian M. Gustav Klimt: From Drawing to Painting. London, 1994.
Partsch, Susanna. Gustav Klimt: Maler der Frauen. Munich, 1994.
Fliedel, Gottfried. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918): The World in Female Form. Cologne, 1994.
Brandstätter, Christian. Gustav Klimt und die Frauen. Vienna, 1994.
Private collection, Vienna
With Galerie St. Etienne, New York (1950), from whom purchased in July 1958
Vienna, 1898. 1. Secessions-Ausstellung. 26 March - 15 June. Cat. no. 199.
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, 1950. Austrian Art of the Nineteenth Century. Cat. no. 12.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1960. Art Nouveau. 6 June - 6 September (also shown at Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Baltimore Museum of Art). Cat. no. 150.
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, 1964. Wien um 1900. 5 June - 30 August. Cat. no. 148.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1966. Treasures from the Allen Memorial Art Museum. 21 July - 11 September. No cat.
"Gustav Klimt." Ver Sacrum(March 1898), ill. p. 5.
Hevesi, L. Acht Jahre Secession: März 1897 - Juni 1905. Vienna, 1906, p. 16.
The American-German Review(August-September 1959), ill. p. 5.
Selz, Peter, et al. Art Nouveau: Art and Design at the Turn of the Century. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, ill. no. 150.
Jacobus, John M. "Art Nouveau in New York." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 690 (September 1960), p. 395.
Novotny, Fritz, and Johannes Dobai. Gustav Klimt. Salzburg, 1967, ill. no. 82.
Nebehay, Christian, ed. Gustav Klimt: Dokumentation. Vienna, 1969, p. 147, fig. 213.
Nebehay, Christian. "Gustav Klimt als Buchillustrator für die Zeitschrift Ver Sacrum." Festschrift Josef Stummvoll. Edited by Josef Mayerhöfer and Walter Ritzer. Vol. 2. Vienna, 1970, p. 723, no. 41.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1976, p. 28, fig. 3.
Strobl, Alice. Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen 1878-1903. Vol. 1. Salzburg, 1980, p. 126, cat. no. 392.
Technical Data
There is a mended vertical tear on the bottom margin and a small tear on the right margin. The paper, of poor quality, has become discolored and embrittled due to improper mounting and inherent acidity.
1. These are catalogued and illustrated in Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, 1878-1903 (Salzburg, 1980), cat. nos. 374-408.
2. Ver Sacrum(March 1898), p. 5.
3. Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, 1878-1903(Salzburg, 1980), p. 123.
4. Second series of "Allegories and Emblems," black crayon and wash heightened with gold and white, 41.9 x 30.8 cm, Vienna, Historisches Museum, inv. 25007; reproduced in Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen, 1878-1903 (Salzburg, 1980), p. 116, no. 340.
5. Oil on canvas, 41 x 66 cm, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Belvedere, inv. D84; oil on canvas, 80 x 49 cm, The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman; reproduced in Johannes Dobai and Sergio Coradeschi, L'Opera completa di Klimt (Milan, 1978), cat. nos. 68 and 142, respectively.
6. Frank Littlefield, Klimt(London, 1990), pp. 131-73.


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I have one thing to ask. I know that there is something like drawing distance in OpenGL but is that enough when creating a large game maps?
I mean I would like to make a huge game environment but of course make it somehow playable . For example render only the part around the camera or split the level to some renderable areas and render only the parts which are near or something.
I don't know how moder games handle this, I remember only some old mechanisms form the old ones but what is the best approach for a large map rendering? I have programmed only a small levels where I rendered normally everything at once so far.
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Your wedding is news, but it loses its value if it doesn't appear shortly after the marriage. Wedding forms delayed
more than three months are subject to condensation. Please enclose a black and white photo with this form, or have
the photographer send it to the office as soon as possible.
Please include the first name of all married women.
Telephone number to call for more information:
Ceremony (include names, relationship to couple and addresses)
Bride's education:
Groom's education:
Description of the bride's gown/flowers
Include a photo (optional):
* JPEG images only.