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In an interview taped for broadcast Sunday on CBS' 60 Minutes, President Obama said it is "possible" that the unemployment could go down to 8 percent by Election Day. Take a look.
The "8 percent" barrier has taken on magical properties since Obama economic team said early in 2009 that the stimulus bill would take unemployment below it. At 8 percent, the rate would still be about 3 points higher than the average under George W. Bush
The stimulus didn't lower the unemployment rate, which rose instead to nearly 10 percent. By last month it had made its way down to 8.6 percent, but job creation still isn't occurring at a pace that will bring it much lower.

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The panel (top photo, l.-r.): Celeste Ng, Marie Benedict, Robin Sloan, and Eleanor Henderson. Photos by William NeumannIn The Second Time Around, moderated by Prepub Alert editor Barbara Hoffert, five authors opened by discussing the ups and downs of writing a second novel. Marie Benedict, author of Carnegie's Maid (Sourcebooks, Jan. 2018), relayed her love of her hometown library, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and the inspiration for her novel about a maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie. For Benedict, the difficult part about writing a second novel was leaving characters behind. Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere (Penguin Pr., Sept.), shared a Pittsburgh connection. She grew up there as well as Shaker Heights, OH, where her second novel is set; it depicts social and racial tensions in a progressive suburb. Ng likened writing a second novel to having a second child, saying, "What's hard and scary is that you've done it before." Agreeing with the parenting metaphor, Eleanor Henderson, author of The Twelve-Mile Straight (Ecco, Sept.), said she felt five percent more confident this time around. Her novel, based in the Jim Crow South, examines racial violence and the South's complicated class structure, featuring share croppers and train hoppers among other memorable characters. "The benefit and the curse is that you know more," stated Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists (Putnam, Jan. 2018), which centers on four extremely different siblings each seeking his or her own fate. The parenting metaphor was carried throughout the panel, as Ng discussed how her book raised questions about what makes a good parent. Benjamin talked about her interest in what happened to her book's four siblings regardless of how they were influenced by a fortuneteller they visited when young. A recurring theme in the discussion was the "freedom of uncertainty," a phrase from Benjamin's novel, which Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough (MCD: Farrar, Sept.), elaborated upon when describing his latest. Sloan's book has a high-tech backdrop (techies revel in that uncertainty) while immersing readers in the world of baking, with a touch of magic owing to a sourdough starter with its own personality. Let's hope for third books soon!
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Barbarella (comics)
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Barbarella le Semble-Lune (1977), published by Pierre Horay; cover art by Jean-Claude Forest
|Character information
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|Jean-Claude Forest
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|Full name
|Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) V Magazine, Evergreen Review and Heavy Metal and a set of graphic novels.
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|1962 – 1964
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|Jean-Claude Forest
|Jean-Claude Forest
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|The series has been reprinted, at least in part, in English.
Barbarella is a fictional heroine in a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest.
Jean-Claude Forest created the character of Barbarella for serialization in the French V Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Éric Losfeld published these strips as a stand-alone book, titled Barbarella. The book caused a scandal and became known as the first "adult" (pornographic) comic-book, though its eroticism was slight and the American erotic comic-books known as "Tijuana bibles" had long predated it. For her creator, the character embodied the modern, emancipated woman in the era of sexual liberation, and as a result, this literary work has come to be associated with the mid-twentieth-century sexual revolution.
Barbarella was relaunched as an ongoing series by American publisher Dynamite Entertainment in December 2017.[1]
- Barbarella: A young woman who travels from planet to planet and has numerous adventures, often involving sex. The aliens she meets often seduce her, and she also experiments with a "machine excessive" or "orgasmatron". Roger Vadim directed a 1968 film adaptation that starred Jane Fonda.
- Duran: A one-eyed old man who helps Barbarella.
- Pygar: A blind 'angel' guided by Barbarella, he is the last of the ornithanthropes (bird-men).
- La Reine noire (The Black Queen): A villainess who reigns in the town of Sogo, surrounded by a maze, on the planet Lythion.
- Lio: A brown-haired teenage girl saved by Barbarella who must save the town governed by her father in Les Colères du mange-minutes. (The chanteuse Lio drew her stage name from this character.)
- Mado: sex worker fembot whose "breakdown" Barbarella repairs.
- Narval: An "aiguiote" (aquatic man) who comes from Citerne IV to complete his scientific research in Les Colères du mange-minutes.
- L'artiste: A self-portrait of Jean-Claude Forest. Named Browningwell in Semble Lune, he and Barbarella have a child together.
- Barbarella (originally serialized in V Magazine, 1962; book by Eric Losfeld, 1964)
- Les Colères du Mange-Minutes [The Wrath of the Minute Eater] (Kesselring, 1974)
- Le Semble-Lune [The False Moon] (Horay, 1977, ISBN 2-7058-0045-X)
- Le Miroir aux Tempêtes [The Storm Mirror] (Albin Michel, 1982) (art by Daniel Billon, ISBN 2-226-01441-1)[2]
The stories have been reprinted by Dargaud and Les Humanoïdes Associés.
Barbarella also guest-stars in Mystérieuse, Matin, Midi et Soir [Mysterious, Morning, Noon And Evening] (originally serialized in Pif, 1971; book edition by Serg, 1972)
Barbarella was translated into English by Richard Seaver and published in the Evergreen Review (#37-39, 1965–1966) and Heavy Metal (vol. 1 #11 through vol. 2 #3, 1978).
In popular culture[edit]
1980s pop band Duran Duran takes its name from a character in the 1968 film Barbarella: Barbarella's mission in the film is to find a scientist named Durand Durand (pronounced "Duran Duran").[3]
- A Barbarella film adaptation was made in 1968. Several remakes were considered with Bridget Fonda, Drew Barrymore, Sherilyn Fenn and Rose McGowan, the most recent of which was abandoned in 2009.
- A Barbarella musical based on the film was produced in 2004.
- A Barbarella TV series is in development with writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, and Martha De Laurentiis, widow of the film's producer Dino De Laurentiis, are all involved.[4] In May 2013, Refn said to Vulture that they're still writing and are going back to the original comics. As of May 2013, no one has been cast for the series yet.[5]
- Written by Mike Carey[6] with Art by Kenan Yarar, a new Barbarella Comic Series[7] has been released by Dynamite Entertainment [8] as of December 2017, in conjunction with Barbarella's 55th anniversary! Jean-Marc Lofficier - longtime custodian of the Barbarella brand - joins Carey as supervisor on the project.
- ^ [Page at publisher's website https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026335301011]
- ^ Page at Bedetheque.com
- ^ Akbar, Arifa (2 December 2012). "Barbarella, the queen of cult sci-fi, is reborn for the 21st century". Irish Independent. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Andreeva, Niellie (29 January 2013). "James Bond Writers Neal Purvis And Robert Wade To Pen Gaumont's 'Barbarella' Series". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ^ Yuan, Jada (24 May 2014). "Only God Forgives Director Nicolas Winding Refn on Getting Booed at Cannes". Vulture.com. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ^ https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/news.html?showNews=DFN10041643644. Missing or empty
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- Favari, Pietro (1996), Le nuvole parlanti: un secolo di fumetti tra arte e mass media.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Barbarella at the Grand Comics Database
- Barbarella at the Comic Book DB
- Barbarella at Bedetheque (in French)
- Barbarella (Dargaud) at Bedetheque (in French)
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- Erotic comics
- Science fiction comics
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- French comic strips
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- Literature related to the sexual revolution
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- 1964 comics debuts
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It's all coming to an end on "The Office," but not without some more awkward situations in "A.A.R.M.," the penultimate episode.
Angela (Angela Kinsey) and her son have moved in with Oscar (Oscar Nunez) -- yes, it's perfectly fine if you hear "The Odd Couple" theme song in your head at this point -- and Oscar is finding irony in the situation: Now Angela is living in his closet.
Read NBC's official description of the episode below.
JIM HOLDS TRYOUTS FOR THE ASSISTANT TO THE ASSISTANT TO THE REGIONAL MANAGER -- As the office readies for the premiere of the documentary that night, Jim (John Krasinski) convinces Dwight (Rainn Wilson), who is planning to propose to Esther (Nora Kirkpatrick), that he needs an Assistant to the Assistant Regional Manager, and holds tryouts to find the best candidate. Angela (Angela Kinsey) brings her baby to work after her daycare turns her away. Meanwhile, Andy (Ed Helms) attends auditions for "The Next Great A Cappella Sensation."
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In this recorded webinar, Professor Ulf Gyllensten from Uppsala University presents a large-scale study where 92 protein biomarkers are analyzed in 1,005 healthy individuals from a unique population using an Olink panel focused on oncology. This study reveals that genetics and lifestyle factors are strong influencers of protein levels in the bloodstream and suggests the establishment of personalized cut off values. Personally normalized plasma protein profiles can open up new possibilities of assessing protein biomarkers for prediction, prognosis or targeting different diseases.


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With their newest, largest iPhone now on shelves, Apple could soon face the newest, largest fine in the ongoing battle between corporate accountants and government lawyers over international tax avoidance strategies.
A European Commission investigation into the complex, legal system of companies in Ireland and elsewhere that Apple uses to avoid tens of billions of dollars in taxes is wrapping up this week, and the company could face "a record fine of as much as several billions of euros," the Financial Times reports. Tax experts told Reuters that they expect the Commission to force the Irish government to change its tax laws rather than attempting to claw back funds from the American technology giant, however.
Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12 percent on paper, but investigators allege that Apple worked out a deal with the country to pay just a 2 percent rate. If the European investigators decide that that deal amounts to "state aid" from Ireland to Apple, they could punish one or both parties.
Apple's tax strategy has been an open secret for over a year following a Senate investigation into its corporate structures. The company set up three affiliates headquartered in Ireland and routed most of its global revenue to those companies, which pay royalties to the original, U.S.-based Apple, Inc. The tech titan pays American taxes on that royalty income, but shelters the vast majority of its profits in the Irish corporations.
This kind of corporate offshoring of profits to duck U.S. taxes is common. In one recent example, heavy machinery company Caterpillar paid accountants from PriceWaterhouseCoopers more than $55 million to set up a Swiss company that would hold much of Caterpillar's revenue, saving the manufacturer $2.4 billion over the ensuing decade.
There is usually a third structure involved in these legal, thrifty tax schemes. The traditional method is for the Irish subsidiary company that receives revenues earned by the American company to turn around and redistribute that revenue to another country with even more favorable tax laws, such as Luxembourg, the Netherlands, or island nations in the Caribbean. This multi-layered tactic even has a cute nickname in tax law circles — the "Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich" — and Apple is credited as being a pioneer of the technique.
But the scheme that the European Commission and U.S. Senate investigators have keyed on in the past two years is even stranger than the standard tactic of routing profits to a third country. Apple's tax lawyers have decided that technically, for tax purposes, its Irish subsidiaries don't exist anywhere at all. It has deemed the companies "to have no tax jurisdiction at all," allowing them to pay near-zero percent tax rates on the income they gather. (Ireland's government says it put a stop to this Shrödinger's Corporation statelessness problem last fall, but the traditional shell game style of tax avoidance remains legal.)
Like other rich American corporations looking to stiff the I.R.S., Apple is hoarding vast amounts of untaxed cash offshore. The company has a reported $102 billion parked outside the reach of the U.S. tax system. A relative handful of American companies are holding a total of about $2 trillion offshore.
This has led some lawmakers, including former President Bill Clinton, to call for a "repatriation holiday" during which companies could bring their money home without having to pay back taxes. But when such holidays have been tried in the past, they have been disasters for the American public. A 2004 repatriation holiday shielded $300 billion in corporate cash from taxes, cost the government money on balance over the ensuing years, and produced big payoffs to wealthy shareholders rather than renewed investment in job creation by the business that took advantage of the holiday. The companies actually laid off thousands of workers in the years after the holiday, and the economy saw no boost.
Solutions that serve the public interest are tougher to come by. Everyone agrees that these schemes are technically legal in most cases, and that the driving cause of elaborate tax avoidance charades is an international race to the bottom where small countries undercut the business tax rates of their neighbors in order to lure Apple and its ilk.
Over the past few years, Ireland learned the hard way that becoming a tax haven does not ensure jobs, broad prosperity, or a resilient economy. But incentives remain for countries to kowtow to corporate tax departments, and constructing a new incentive structure will require a deep reappraisal from public policymakers throughout the developed world.


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I did it. 50,000 words in 29 days. The story is not finished, but I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow. But I got the 50,000 words (including a retype of 15,000 of them lol). It's not a great American novel. It's not a great novel in any language, but it's mine.
If I had not eaten all the pie while writing the last 30,000 words of the novel I would declare tomorrow "pie-for-breakfast" day. Hmmm … Mike is home tomorrow morning, wonder if he would fry up some Twinkies in my honor? (Yep. Right after he shaves his legs and changes his name to Marion.)
Oh well. If you have pie in your house, declare it Amy-wrote-a-novel-day and eat it for breakfast, with lots and lots of whipped cream! Ice cream for lunch.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 215326
Installer crashed whike refrshing after update
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:48 EST
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:188.8.131.52) Gecko/20061107 Fedora/18.104.22.168-1.fc6 Firefox/220.127.116.11
Description of problem:
crashes while refreshing after update
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-extender 1.2.0
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1.select packages for update
3.click ok
Actual Results:
crashes with message "probably a bug" - report ...
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Component: yumex
Version: 1.2.0
Summary: TB596a04ec yumexUtils.py:758:get_child_path_row:TypeError: could not co
nvert sorted_path to a GtkTreePath
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py", line 143, in new_
row = self.curView.get_child_path_row( path )
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py", line 758, in get_
filterpath = self.model.convert_path_to_child_path( path )
TypeError: could not convert sorted_path to a GtkTreePath
Local variables in innermost frame:
path: None
self: <yumex.yumexUtils.pkgView instance at 0x8ec39ec>
Try this prereleas to see if it fixes the issue.
*** Bug 216329 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 219963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 219354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This should be fixed in yumex 1.2.1
As far as I'm concerned (as reporter of the duplicate bug #219963), I haven't
seen this again since updating to 1.2.1.
(In reply to comment #6)
> As far as I'm concerned (as reporter of the duplicate bug #219963), I haven't
> seen this again since updating to 1.2.1.
Sounds good, thanks for the feedback.


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Barry, my big brother, is darting around the house checking himself in mirrors. He swears he's getting different reflections. I tell him he'll always look like my dumb brother. He says he has the mumps and that I probably have them too. They're highly contagious. He claims that if one person in the family gets them, then almost everyone gets them too. I'm not sure where all this mump talk came from.
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:10:05PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, dean gaudet wrote: > > > > I don't care if mod_include buffers 200 Megs, as long as it is > > > constantly doing something with the data. If we have a 200 Meg file > > > that has no SSI tags in it, but we can get all 200 Meg at one time, > > > then we shouldn't have any problem just scanning through the entire > > > 200 Megs very quickly. Worst case, we do what Brian suggested, and > > > just check the bucket length once we have finished processing all of > > > the data in that bucket. The buffering only becomes a real problem > > > when we sit waiting for data from a CGI or some other slow content > > > generator. > > > > when you say "buffers 200 Megs" up there do you mean it's mmap()d? > > > > (i think that some of the page freeing decisions in linux are based on > > whether a page is currently mapped or not, and a 200MB file could cause a > > bit of memory shortage...) > > It is possible for us to be talking about 200MB MMAP bucket here, yes. > > But that won't ever happen in the typical case. Some module (eg > mod_file_cache) would have to have explicitly set up that 200MB MMAP > bucket. > > When you read a file bucket and it automatically MMAPs the file, it places > an upper bound on file size for mmaping at 16MB. Files bigger than that > will be read onto the heap 8KB at a time (one 8KB hunk per heap bucket). > In that case, mod_include will look at those 8KB heap buckets until it > reaches one that puts it over its buffering threshold, then it will flush > the data it's already examined down the filter chain. I'm sorry if I'm completely uninformed here, but I've been thinking of this for the last day or so and I don't quite understand why we wouldn't incrementally mmap() and then munmap() different segments of the file as we walk through it (at least for mod_include). Wouldn't that save at least one copy of the data, not to mention the free-list management overhead we incur from malloc()ing/free()ing all those 8K buckets? -aaron
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This review is based on roughly ten hours of game play, and will therefore have very little in the way of spoilers, but I will spoil something right from the get go; this is not a glowing review. If you have played the game to its conclusion and feel that my opinions are less valid due to only playing the start of the game, I'm going to have to side with Charlie Brooker on this one. If a TV show (in his case Dollhouse) doesn't grab you in the first three episode, it's failed. Saying that you should stick with it because it gets better later is so much poo; why would a TV show punish us by making us watch three hours of tripe before getting to the gooey center of loveliness?
This was very much how i felt about this game. A little background on it first I think. It's based on the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski, as was the first PC only installment, and I have heard some very positive reviews of both books, and they have made it onto my pile of stuff to be read. Said pile is in fact an entire book case full of stuff, but it's on there nonetheless.
In the game itself, you play the eponymous Witcher – named Geralt of Rivia – who is basically this big scary dude with scars, who has a couple of close combat weapons, some spells, some bombs, can cast runes and lay traps, throw knives at dudes, mixes potions to drink or rub on things and also exists in world where the NPCs have never seen a Hong-Kong action movie. because of this they don't have the 'run up and attack once at a time' mentality most RPG gamers are used to (I'm looking at you Assassin's Creed). For this reason they all to decide to attack on mass, which is much more effective and a bit more scary. So far so awesome, and I have to say I loved all the cool stuff you could do in combat to tip the odds in your favour, especially because if you don't do them, the odds are stacked so high against you, death is inevitable.
Plot wise, from what I saw, is nothing too inspiring when considered from outside the game, but when playing it, makes for some damned fine writing. Kings and bastards, with traitors all around, and only the Witcher – whom no one seems to like in the slightest – being one of the few guys trying to right the wrongs of the world. As I say, doesn't seem like much, but the details are in there and once you get into it, the rewards are some killer writing hooks.
I can hear my readers scratching their heads in puzzlement right now, since this seems like a much more positive review than they were led to expect. 'There must have been something that made him take the disc out and go back to playing Skyrim', I imagine you all saying, a quizzical look making you all appear even more attractive than you already are, if such a thing is possible. The best way for me to get across my dislike of this game is to imagine it as an old fashioned pen and paper RPG ('old fashioned'? the kind of gaming I still do on a weekly basis).
This game is run by a GM with a near legendary reputation for running games. The world he has woven for you is beautiful, every tree he describes is fixed in your senses as a sight to behold. His NPCs are better rounded than some of the actual player characters, each with their own personality and full of insightful things to talk about, just as you walk past them! When he runs combat, it's a joy. A challenge every time, with so many options, but all of them used so intuitively, they seem like the most natural things in the world. Added to that a genuine feeling of consequences if the combat doesn't go your way. It's quick, but immersive, and even the NPCs act like they're playing to the same system as you, not just going through predefined moves set out in a GM's handbook. As mentioned above the plot is wonderful, such a simple idea made wonderful through subtle twists and turns of characterization and larger social ideas. Why then, did I not stick with it?
Because the GM is a dick. harsh, I know, but by giving an example re-imagined as an interaction between the player essaying the character of Geralt and his douch-tastic GM, as the trail of some bandits leads them to a sinister hideout;
GM: You're told that they hangout at a graveyard to the east of the village.
Player: Cool, is there a graveyard on my map?
GM: No.
Player: Oh. Well I guess I just walk out the village heading east then.
GM: You have no compass.
Player: Oh, but I think I can figure out looking at the few landmark son the map, and just head out until I find out.
GM: Good thinking. You follow the path you think is the right one, and keep walking for half an hour, eventually ending up in a swamp.
(there was about twenty random encounters on the way to this point)
Player: OK, is there a swamp on my map?
GM: No.
Player: I guess I'll head back and try a different path then, they did say the graveyard was only just outside the village.
GM: It takes about forty minutes to get back to the village. You get lost twice and twenty bandits attack you.
Player: For fuc… OK, can I just ask someone for directions?
GM: Of course you can, they tell you it's to the east.
Now, imagine over two hours of this kind of thing, and I eventually give up and go online, finding dozens of people who had the same problem, but that you can actually see the gate of the graveyard from inside the village, but have no way of telling that it is actually a graveyard.
There were a dozen such problems like this I encountered playing through the second quest I found (something about a troll), far too many to bore you with here, but all of them left me feeling like the game was run by the douchiest of GMs in the world. I know that games shouldn't pander to players too much, but it should go without saying that the character will know things that the players doesn't, and a half decent GM will take this into account when running a game.
So yes, I stopped playing. I have since shared this concept of GMing dickery with people who loved the game, and stuck with it through the opening tripe. Every one of them has not only agreed with me – they were also pen and paper gamers too, to be fair- but have given me other examples of this kind of dickishness running throughout the game.
If you disagree (and I bet there's a lot of you who will), please post underneath that I'm wrong, and why – you may even change my mind, but you're going to have to try hard). On the other hand, if you have had the same reaction to me, please share your crappy GMing stories, they're great fun to hear.
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There's also the ripped off names factor, any good GM knows that if you steal a character from another medium you change the names as it so rarely works to try and use someone else's work in your games. Geralt of Riva is a character in David Eddings 'Mallorean' series, Geralt of Rivia is a very minor change and while the character is in no way connected it shows poor research on the part of the author…
The tendency in this game to have the very best equipment in Act 1 available for manufacture only after the start of Act 2, by which time better stuff is available which makes all of the work you did to get the components seem totally futile…
GM "if you complete this really involved quest you can have the materials to make some really cool armour"
Player "okay, sounds cool, I'm in"
Months of questing later…
Player "yay, I've finally been able to make the coolest armour ever"
GM "you walk through the bazaar on the way to the next big chapter of plot, someone's selling 25 suits of the 'incredibly rare' armour that you just made an some stuff that's even better"
Player "wtf?!?"
"ripped off names factor" is a nonsense, as first Witcher story was published in 1986, one year before Malloreon series.
I had almost EXACTLY the same startup experience of The Witcher 2 (xbox 360) – having sat through some immensely well written dialogues and cut scenes. You're not wrong in your assessment of this game Shorty but I hope what you've written is right about the books… they're going to be added to my "shelves-of-stuff-to-read".
I haven't brought myself around to playing it again, instead resorting to the pulp hack and slash of Diablo3.
Most of my RPG hits come from LRP these days, time for tabletop sessions being a rare commodity (one tmnt session in the last 18 months *sob*). By its nature, LRP can be either very linear OR very "open world" – sometimes both. I've found tabletop to be more of the latter – especially with a good GM.
The opening section of the Witcher 2 reminded me of a WFRP session I took part in back in the days before HUGS. I was in the second year of college – University a whole year away. Only one other HUGS type will recall those sessions in Slaithwaite but I can't remember if "Hoppy" (as he was then) was in on this one.
I shouldn't be too harsh on the GM. He's the person who hooked me into Palladium's systems. The other person (who was responsible for an earlier immersion into D&D and MERP) had recently joined this session, he was my good friend Morelenmir.
The GM (who was always the GM, never really enjoyed letting anybody else GM) had fawned over Morelenmir for almost a year – seeing him as some kind of cultural Adonis at whose alter he should lay laurels, accolades and fruit. Lacking the ability (or suitable grocers) our GM had persuaded Morelenmir to join the game.
It was a return to WFRP after something of a Hiatus. We'd played a lot of Palladium games over the last couple of years but our GM had wanted to wow Morelenmir with his creativity and skill – so he'd chosen a return to Warhammer. Bearing in mind that Morelenmir and I saw WFRP as tedious ripoff of Moorcock at best and at worst the Terry Brooks of fantasy RPGs, at the time; this was not the GM's best choice of strategies – still you work with what you know and back then there was less choice than now.
Driven by his desire to impress Morelenmir, the GM spent far more time than normal setting the scene and quickly hurried us out of the obligatory "You all meet in the Tavern and get hired for a job" style intro. (Overused and not as good as my favourite "The noise from the explosion dies down, there are only the five of you left standing" intro). Never mind that we haven't had chance for introductions and chit chat, we can do that on the road.
Roleplayed chit chat is cut short frequently with newly crafted descriptions of the changing scenery and random encounters – to show our new party member that the GM can indeed handle random Wolf encounters. As I recall it, Morelnemir is playing a herbalist – a shock to our GM, who is more used to munchkin min/maxed characters (we were teenagers, it was forgiveable then – ish). And, much to the GM's frustration, progress along this linear path was held up with searches for herbs whilst the rest of the party bickered or helped.
Cut through some more dialogue, more searches for herbs cut short and we hit a key plot hook. Undead, in a graveyard, near the building we're heading to – to kill some Necromancer or something (Think a 5 hour retelling of Drachenfels without the hot vampire chick or Jack Yeovil). It's a tough fight but we make it into the building, where Morelenmir and I – now fully reverted to Armaitus and Morelenmir style dungeon crawling – start working our way room to room.
The first room off the entrance hall is a library, again, beautifully described by the GM – who takes our description to the obviously false book case in the room.
"Books, pah! Boring, I'm going to check another room" says I.
"Well I'm going to look for a kitchen to brew up these herbs, we might need them later." says Morelemir.
The rest of the party wanted to look around too, furthering their own character archetypes.
"There's a book case that appears to be ajar, you think it might be a door to a secret passage." Says the GM.
"What's on the other side of the entrance hall? Past the dead skeletons we just killed".
"What? No other doors. OK, I've checked my inventory and I have a cooking pot and water. Is there a fireplace I can set up a fire to brew these herbs?"
"No. There are just shelves of books, one of which looks like it is open to a secret passageway."
"Oh. No other rooms. Any steps up or down in the main hallway?"
"Not much of a manor house this. Maybe thy're hidden by illusions, can anyone in the party detect illusions?"
"There are no illusions, just a hallway and a library."
The GM is quite angry now and the players are reacting against the anger – as they sometimes do.
Other players start exploring everywhere EXCEPT the secret passageway as the GM drops more and more clues to its relevance. Noises, chants and odours come out of the doorway as the player party start to gather books and wood together to make a small fire in the room, by which our new herbalist friend can make us potions to aid in the coming battle – it is obvious to our characters that we will have to fight something in that passageway and potions might help.
As a last straw the GM tells the herbalist that he does not know what the herbs are and that he doesn't think he can make a potion. The herbalist replies by looking for books on herbalism to help identify this local flora.
Exacerbated the GM denies him. "No! You cannot look for books on herbalism, there are no books on herbalism! You must all go into the secret passage and fight the necromancer that waits for you in the next room!"
Needless to say, the session was all but ended by this outburst and Morelenmir rarely joined us after that.
I think the GM tried having the party attacked but whether he'd just decided we'd gone into the room or the necromancer came to us I can't remember. In fact, with 20 years thrown onto the memory, some of the session is likely disjointed… I can't even remember what I was playing… probably a munchkin min/maxed Dwarf Warrior.
Once I'd got to University, most roleplay sessions died off until I met the HUGS crowd Morelenmir and I played Rolemaster but I donb't think I played with that GM again. Last I heard he had written his own roleplaying system but hadn't playtested it outside 2 or 3 people – then he started talking about football and I moved on.
Witcher 2 reminded me of that. Zero player free will.
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We had a smooth and productive first week back. It was so good to see our Wildcats and they got right into the swing of learning right away!
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