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How mental is the person above you?
Since Im bored,
I want you all to guess what the closest disorder would be for the person above you.
I'll even list all the mental disorders, and define them, so it's easy.
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Acute Stress Disorder: The result of a traumatic event. Causes extreme fear, has intense helplessness and can't handle feelings the right way.
Adjustment Disorder: Basically freaks out over a bad report card, loss of boyfriend/girlfriend, and ect. Can't handle the stress from it.
Anti-Social Personality Disorder:
Lies and cons others for personal pleasure, impulsiveness, irritability and aggressiveness, has reckless disregard for safety of self or others and has lack of remorse.
Anxiety Disorder: Has pathological fear and anxiety. Persistent fear and worry and becomea overly concerned with everyday matters.
Asperger Syndrome:Impairment in social interaction. They approach others, even if awkwardly. Along with not recognizing other peoples feelings or reactions. They may feel a need for privacy or haste to leave and may come across as insensitive.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Has Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. They are easily distracted, miss details, forget things, and frequently switch from one activity to another. Daydream and become easily confused.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Has signs of schizophrenia, has egocentric thinking, autistic withdrawal to fantasies, against which any influence from outside becomes an intolerable disturbance. Is obsessed with details and has social problems.
Autophagia: inflicts pain upon oneself by biting and/or devouring portions of one's body. It is sometimes caused by severe sexual anxiety, sometimes combined with schizophrenia or psychosis.
Avoidant Personality Disorder: Loss and rejection are so painful that these individuals will choose to be lonely rather than risk trying to connect with others.Self-imposed social isolationExtreme shyness or anxiety in social situations, though the person feels a strong desire for close relationships
Severe low self-esteem.
Bibliomania: Involves the collecting or hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged. Other abnormal behaviors involving books include book-eating, compulsive book-stealing and book-burying.
Bipolar Disorder: persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt, anger, isolation, or hopelessness; disturbances in sleep and appetite; fatigue and loss of interest in usually enjoyable activities; problems concentrating; loneliness, self-loathing, apathy or indifference; depersonalization; loss of interest in sexual activity; shyness or social anxiety; irritability, lack of motivation. In severe cases, the individual may become psychotic. These symptoms include delusions or, less commonly, hallucinations, usually unpleasant.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder : Obsessive thoughts about appearance defects
Delusional thoughts and beliefs that they have appearance defects.
Social and family withdrawal, social phobia, loneliness and self-imposed social isolation.
Anxiety; possible panic attacks.
Feeling self-conscious
Strong feelings of shame.
Avoidant personality
Dependent personality: dependence on others, such as a partner, friend or family.
Borderline Personality Disorder: Very sensitive to the way others treat them, reacting strongly to perceived criticism or hurtfulness. Their feelings about others often shift from positive to negative, generally after a disappointment or perceived threat of losing someone. Self-image can also change rapidly from extremely positive to extremely negative.
Brief Psychotic Disorder: Includes delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, or catatonic behavior. The symptoms must not be better accounted for by schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder or mania in bipolar disorder.
Conduct Disorder: The do things that are destructive or troublesome to themselves or others as coping. Every teenager has a coping method; only some of the methods are troublesome or destructive.
Exhibitionism: Loves to flash there naked body to the world, in more ways then one.
Fregoli delusion: Thinks that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. Has a paranoid nature with the delusional person believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise.
Histrionic Personality Disorder : including an excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early adulthood. These individuals are lively, dramatic, vivacious, enthusiastic, and flirtatious.including an excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early adulthood. These individuals are lively, dramatic, vivacious, enthusiastic, and flirtatious.
Hypomania: Individuals in a hypomanic state have a decreased need for sleep, are extremely outgoing and competitive, and have a great deal of energy.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder is a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme expressions of anger, often to the point of uncontrollable rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand.
Kleptomania Is an irresistible urge to steal items of trivial value. People with this disorder are compelled to steal things, generally, but not limited to, objects of little or no significant value, such as pens, paper clips, paper and tape. Some kleptomaniacs may not even be aware that they have committed the theft.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder:Has issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity. Very very self-centered.
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder, or dyssomnia, characterized by an excessive urge to sleep at inappropriate times, such as while at work.
Nightmare disorder, or dream anxiety disorder: During the nightmare, the sleeper may moan and move slightly. The victim is often awakened by these threatening and frightening dreams and can often vividly remember their experience. Upon awakening, the sleeper is unusually alert and oriented within their surroundings, but may have an increased heart rate and symptoms of anxiety, like sweating. They may have trouble falling back to sleep for fear they will experience another nightmare.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder : include excessive, often persistent anger, frequent temper tantrums or angry outbursts, and disregard for authority. Children and adolescents with this disorder often annoy others on purpose, blame others for their mistakes, and are easily annoyed. Parents often observe more rigid and defiant behaviors than in siblings. In addition, these young people may appear resentful of others and when someone does something they don't like they often take revenge on them.
Paranoid Personality Disorder: paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.
Pica an appetite for substances largely non-nutritive (e.g., metal, clay, coal, sand, dirt, soil, feces, chalk, pens and pencils, paper, batteries, spoons, toothbrushes, soap, mucus, latex gloves, ash, gum, lip balm, tacks and other office supplies
Insomnia is most often defined by an individual's report of sleeping difficulties.
Psychosis: means abnormal condition of the mind, "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from psychosis are described as psychotic.may exhibit personality changes and thought disorder. Depending on its severity, this may be accompanied by unusual or bizarre behavior, as well as difficulty with social interaction.
Pyromania in more extreme circumstances can be a impulse control disorder to deliberately start fires to relieve tension or for gratification or relief.
Schizophrenia Disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests with hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
Sorry if the definitions aren't complete or that right. I did most of it accurately
What it would be, is what it wouldn't be, you see?
Has bipolar disorder?
The bipolar disorder description is not very complete. It hardly talks about mania, the other side of the disorder.
Damn, Vega beat me to it.
Insomnia. You could be that mental.
For vega, Borderline personality disorder,
and for plainasusual I'd say Anxiety disorder
btw vega you couldn't be more wrong lmao
What it would be, is what it wouldn't be, you see?
I'll take a crack at it uhh....Anxiety Disorder... ?
Life is full of shit but it's the delicious part that makes it worth it.
He's normal.
What do you have then, NyuBoom? I'm far from borderline. I already told you what I have.
Was it OCD?
Life is full of shit but it's the delicious part that makes it worth it.
Obsessive compulsion disorder? google it :p
What it would be, is what it wouldn't be, you see?
You know, you are partially correct. I do worry about a lot of things, whether it be good or bad. I overlook a lot of matters. Now we are kind of talking psychology, NyuBoom. I am many things combined, and you are correct on one.
I want to say you have Paranoid Personality Disorder.
lol I'd say so too
What it would be, is what it wouldn't be, you see?
bipolar disorder...LOL
☼ ♥ ~Admiration → Devotion → Love~ ♥ ☼
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Heeyy mine's not there...
Bigger list (mine's there): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mental_disorders_as_defined_by_the_DSM_and_ICD
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Travel Guide of St. Lucia for: Coco Palm ResortGros Islet, Gros Islet Quarter, St. Lucia
St Lucia Summary
- 80 to 90 degrees Farenheit (27 to 32 degrees Celsius) beach weather, year-round
- Gorgeous mountainous terrain
- Whale watching off Vigie Cove
- Excellent scuba diving near Anse Chastanet
- Windsurfing at Anse de Sables Bay (challenging) and Cas en Bas beach at Gros Islet (easier)
- Mineral baths at Sulphur Springs Volcano Park, near Soufriere
- Artisan carvings, silk-screen textiles, and batik clothing at the markets of Castries and Soufriere
- Creole cuisine (green figs, salt fish, curries, and fresh seafood) and abundant fresh fruit (mangoes, papayas, and coconuts)
- Potable tap water, though bottled water is recommended
- Few restaurants or shops for tourists outside the resorts
- Long, bumpy, hour-long taxi rides to some resorts; driving along the winding, narrow, poorly maintained roadways can be nerve-wracking
- Virtually no public transportation (mostly unmetered taxis available)
- Hurricane season June through November
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Roberto Mancini praised the performance of Carlos Tevez after Manchester City's 4-0 FA Cup victory over Leeds but called for his strikers to start scoring goals more regularly.
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text: ================================================ Fallout: New Vegas (PC): Unarmed/Melee Character Guide, by Erik Fasterius email@example.com Copyright 2010 Erik Fasterius ================================================ --------------------- 0.0 TABLE OF CONTENTS --------------------- 1.0 INTRODUCTION Just the basics of this guide, who I am, and so on... 2.0 UNARMED OR MELEE? They're actually quite different! 3.0 TACTICS General outlines on how to fight in close quarters. 3.1 Using Your Weapons 3.2 Armour 3.3 Leveling and Difficult Opposition 4.0 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Two styles demand two different arrays of attributes. 5.0 SKILLS This is where the builds don't differ much at all. 4.1 Essential skills 4.2 Useful skills 6.0 TRAITS Actually very helpful, at least most of the time! 7.0 PERKS So many too choose from, but which are actually worth it? 6.1 Common Perks 6.2 Unarmed Perks 6.3 Melee Perks 6.4 Perks to stay away from 8.0 WEAPONS Again, a plethora to choose from! 7.1 Fist weapons 7.2 Melee weapons 9.0 TWO SAMPLE BUILDS One for Unarmed, one for Melee - just to get you started. 10.0 CREDITS, VERSION HISTORY, ETC Last but not least... 10.1 Credit Where Credit Is Due 10.2 Version History 10.3 Who's allowed to use this guide ---------------- 1.0 INTRODUCTION ---------------- Hey there, and welcome to the guide! I'm Erik, just some guy from Sweden who happen to enjoy making the occassional guide for GameFAQs. It's always these "character building" guides, since that's one aspect of gaming I've always immensily enjoyed. Tinkering with stats, experimenting with different feats and perks, it's almost as much fun as experiencing a good storyline! This guide is about playing an Unarmed or Melee type of character for the game Fallout: New Vegas. I've tried to compile all I've learned playing the game, but keep in mind that just because I've written it down it doesn't mean everything is infallible. If you find a mistake concerning an aspect of the build, or maybe you feel that you have a better solution, feel free to send me an email about it! You can find my adress at the top of this page. I've written this guide with the mindset that it is just that, a GUIDE. Not a set-in-stone way of building your character. It's meant to highlight some of the thinking in creating this type of character, what you can choose from to get the most out of it, but it's also meant to help you to make your own, unique build. Keep this in mind! To find a section you're looking for, just press Ctrl + F, type in the text you want to find (the name of a section, for example) and your browser will find it for you - no need to scroll through the entire thing! This guide is written with the hardest difficulty in mind, but it's equally viable in the lower ones as well. Hardcore mode doesn't really increase the difficulty as much as the tediousness (or realism, if you prefer) of the experience, so you can more or less have it on whatever you want. (A little more detail on this later in the guide.) If you liked the guide, feel it needs some changes or just want to give me some constructive criticism, just send me an email about it! With all that done, let's get on with it! --------------------- 2.0 UNARMED OR MELEE? --------------------- If you've looked at the perks available in New Vegas (and Fallout 3 as well, for that matter) you can easily be misled in believing that unarmed and melee go hand in hand (pun intended!), and while that may be true to a certain extent, if you really want the most out of your character in regards to fighting prowess you really need to choose one or the other. Here's why: 1) Crits: Fist weapons work really, well with critical hits. Most have a decent critical multiplier (how often you crit) and quite a few have a very good critical damage (how much damage is added), some an amount equal to or even MORE than the base damage! Sneak is very good with unarmed for this reason. Melee weapons, on the other hand, are not as good with criticals. The critical damage is more often than not lower than on an equivelant fist weapon, and quite a few melee weapons can't even crit to begin with! ("Oh, Baby!" and the Chainsaw, to name two) 2) VATS: Whenever if go inside VATS and hit something, that hit will get a flat addition of 5% critical chance. This is good for unarmed for the above mentioned reasons. Most melee weapons still have a special attack that you can use inside VATS. Some weapons even have special attack work outside of VATS! This all means that VATS is something unarmed should aim to use ALL THE TIME, while melee builds only need it in moderate doses. Unarmed should get VATS-centered perks, but melee could do without them, and focus on other perks instead. These are the two BIG differences. These, however, lead to much smaller (but more numerous) differences down the road: attributes, perks, weapons, etc. What you need to decide on is what type of character you want to play: a sneaky, crit-happy unarmed character or an immense powerhouse with melee weapons. These are generalizations, as there are exceptions, but they hold true for most of the weapons in the game. ----------- 3.0 TACTICS ----------- Before we go into more details about the builds themselves, let's touch on some basic tactics for close quarters combat. While just rushing into the fray, hacking and slashing away at everything that moves will work great a lot of the time, some enemies require some additional thought to take down effectively. 3.1 Using Your Weapons ---------------------- You're not the only one who (might) have a high Damage Threshold, quite a few of the enemies you'll encounter in the game are also heavily armoured! This means that you might not be able to get through their DT using your favourite knife or fist weapon, because it does too little damage. Here's where the distinction between damage (DAM) and damage-per-second (DPS) must be made. Damage is how much damage your weapon does in one of its hits. DPS takes the weapon's attack speed into account as well. This means that a high DPS but low DAM weapon won't be able to get through your enemies' DT. You might actually have to switch to a weapon with lower DPS! Even if it has lower listed DPS, it'll actually do more effective DPS to targets with high DT, since more damage gets through to it. You should always keep at least one weapon of each kind: one generic "low-DT" weapon with as high DPS as you can find, and one "high-DT" weapon simply to get through as much DT as you can. Sometimes those two types are the same weapon, though, and that's just swell! 3.2 Armour ---------- There are two schools of thought here, on whether to use light or heavy armour. See, even with a very high agility (which governs your movespeed) a heavy armour will still hinder your movements quite a bit. The tradeoff is that you'll get much higher DT yourself. If you wear light armour you'll be able to close the distance to your targets much faster, but you'll take more damage. The question is whether you prefer being more tank-like, wearing heavy armour and slowly plowing through your enemies while taking as little damage as you possibly can or if you prefer to be quick and nimble while more vulnerable. Since you'll be a melee artist in some fashion or the other, the question of how you close the distance to your enemies is not a trivial one. Being slower will increase the time it takes for your to get to your enemies initially, but ALSO make it harder to catch up to fleeing or enemies trying to reposition themselves somewhere else. Both options have their advantages and disadvantages. In the end it's all up to you and what play-style you prefer, as each options is more or less equal. You can try out both of them, but there perks that work better with one of the setups than the other. Try out both, see which one you like best! 3.3 Leveling and Difficult Opposition ------------------------------------- While enemies in New Vegas scale to your level, it doesn't mean that you can go everything in the game at level 1. Leveling means you both increase your skills and gain more perks. Raising skills is a purely numerical increase while perks actually give you more abilities. While some perks, such as Toughness (more on specific perks later) just give a flat increase in some stat or attribute, other perks give you new tricks up your sleeve (Super Slam, for example). This means that leveling gives you more than just bigger number. And bigger numbers are never a bad thing, but a good complement of new abilities (or BETTER abilities you already possess) is also something to aim for. So when you try to run to Vault 34 at too low a level, while the enemies will be scaled to it, it doesn't mean you'll be able to take the whole thing on! You might need to come back later, at a higher level, where you'll have a bigger arsenal of both numbers and abilities. What I'm trying to say is that there's no need to try to tackle every single quest and area you happen to come across on your trip through the Wasteland on your first try if it feels too difficult for you. Just come back later! You'll more often than not find that something you could barely survive at a low level is somehow transformed into a cake-walk at a higher level. ------------------- 4.0 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. ------------------- This is the first thing you'll get to choose when making a new character, and so we'll start here as well. You can find example builds at the end of the guide with attribute arrays you can modify yourself if you're not happy with them. Strength and Endurance ---------------------- are the two common attributes for both builds, as they help each of them in their own way. Strength increases both the Melee Weapons skill and the unarmed base damage of your character, while Endurance increases the Unarmed skill, overall health and the number of implants you can get. Both of these should therefore be high, regardless of build. Perception ---------- This is vital for Unarmed builds, simply because you need at least 6 to be able to take the Better Criticals perk at level 16. A good starting value would be 5, and eventually adding the implant for a total of 6. Melee-oriented characters need not bother. Charisma -------- Well, it's *mostly* useless in New Vegas. See, Speech (the skill) can be increased with just skill points just fine, even with just 1 in charisma, Barter is only moderately useful and your companions will still be just fine with low charisma. This is why Charisma is the dump-stat for quite alot of builds out there, including these. Intelligence ------------ Intelligence has lost alot of its edge since Fallout 3, it's no longer the must- have it used to be. While a high intelligence doesn't hurt, being slightly dumber in New Vegas doesn't hurt you as much as you'd think, you just have to be a bit more careful with your skill points. This is where we put all our remaining points after we're done with the essentials. (Try to always have at least 4 points here, so you can get the Educated perk at level 4.) Agility ------- Agility increases Sneak, your running speed and your Action Points in VATS, so it's clearly needed for Unarmed characters. An eventual total of 10 wouldn't be misplaced. Melee characters can still enjoy the faster speed, though. Luck ---- Here's the biggest difference in the two builds. Since Unarmed characters will want as high chance of critical hits as possible, they'll want a high luck, preferably 10 after implants. Melee characters can keep it at 1 without losing too much. Of course, they CAN still crit, and it'll lower their chance to do so when they can, but the points can probably be better spent at the other attributes for a better overall effect. ---------- 5.0 SKILLS ---------- As some of the best perks for both the Unarmed and Melee character require high skill in both areas, this section is the one least differentiated between the two builds. Regardless, there are some differences, both in allocation and in choices. 5.1 Essential Skills -------------------- Unarmed and Melee. To a (very small) varying degree, though. If you're a melee character, you'll still need 90 in Unarmed for the Slayer perk, for example. Unarmed characters only need 80 in melee weapons, though, as the Ninja perk only asks for that much. Sneak is also essential for Unarmed characters. You'll need at least 80 for Ninja, but you might even go so far as 100, if you really want to be able to sneak past whatever your heart desires. 5.2 Useful Skills ----------------- It's temptning to just write "the rest", but some are more useful than others. Lockpick and Science, for example, since they help you getting through those pesky locked doors and hacking terminals. Speech is actually quite useful in New Vegas, so consider taking that. Explosives also comes to mind, especially for melee characters, as they tend to have more perks free to spend than unarmed characters do in addition to already having bad crits. A nice flavour skills to have, I always find it enjoyable to watch my enemies blown intro smithereens, regardless of game! If you're playing on Hardcore, Survival is a very good skill to have. Medicine as well (though that can help on normal mode as well). The Repair skill never hurts, either! In essence, the only skills you really should stay clear of are the other weapon skills; Guns and Energy Weapons. ---------- 6.0 TRAITS ---------- There are a few that perfectly suits our character builds, and some are useful for both. You CAN create a character without any traits at all, but why would you want to? While they give you some kind of weakness, that weakness is usually more or less easily overcome, especially when you factor in their benefitial effects! Built To Destroy - An excellent choice for Unarmed characters, as more crits never is a bad thing! The faster decay does hurt at times, and you'll have to repair more often. Good Natured - A decent pick for both builds, it mostly affects how you'll play in the early game - come late game it'll be the same. You could argue that you'll "gain" skill points by taking this trait, and I wouldn't disagree, but it depends on how useful you think the skills are and how much you're going to be using them. Heavy Handed - A must-have for melee characters! Your crits suck anyway, why not make your normal hits hit harder? Kamikaze - Can be useful for unarmed characters, if you know you're going to be using VATS ALOT. Small Frame - I love this trait, simply because the attributes are so good in New Vegas. Legs more easily crippled? Meh, I'll live. --------- 7.0 PERKS --------- There are quite a lot of perks in New Vegas, a bunch of which are new and some carried over from Fallout 3, though they changed a fair few of them. They also halved the amount of perks you get per level (one every second level instead of a 1:1 ratio), although we do get to level 30 instead. What you'll be looking for in perks is different for melee and unarmed; perks are probably the biggest differentiators between the two. Melee builds do have more leeway with which perks they can afford to take, since they don't need all those VATS and crit-perks that Unarmed characters need. Keep this in mind when building your character. If you want to play around a bit, melee is perhaps the way to go, because of this. It is, for example, very hard to do an unarmed build that includes explosives and still retain most of it's killing power. A melee build can do this relatively easy. You could even go for some sniping perks, to gain some long-ranged capabilities! (Perks are listed with their required level in (brackets) and the [requirements] below their name. Note that Ninja and Stonewall are currently bugged and does not work as described. Whether you want to abuse or ignore them because of this is up to you. Hopefully they'll patch this, but you never know...) 7.1 Common Perks ---------------- These are the perks that either are good for both builds or more of a general purpose usefulness that fits everywhere. Intense Training (2) - As there aren't a whole lot of good perks at level 2, IT is always a good choice. The anti-male/female perks have their uses, but getting another attribute a little higher is often better, in my opinion. Anti-male/female (2) - Includes the Black Widow/Confirmed Bachelor/etc perks. As good a pick as any at this level, you'll get 10% more damage to the same/opposite sex. While it only applies to humans it's still moderately useful. Plus, you sometimes get some alternate conversation options! Educated (4) - Two more skill points per level, at a level where you [INT 4] still haven't got all that many good perks to choose from? Yes, please! Comprehension (4) - It's not as good as in Fallout 3, but still very good. [INT 4] You'll get another skill point from reading skill books and it doubles the bonus from magazines. Travel Light (4) - If you like wearing light armours instead of big and [Survival 45] bulky ones, this perk might be for you. If you're going to aim for speed, why not go all the way? Bloody Mess (6) - It's gory, and +5% to all damage is never wrong. Toughness (6) - Gives you +3 to your Damage Threshold (DT). If you feel [END 5] you need more protection or simply haven't got another good perk at a given level, Toughness is always a good choice. Super Slam (8) - A life-saver at times! It's basicly a big stun that'll [Melee 45, STR 6] help you in either continuing to pummel your target into a pulp or some measure of crowd control. A very nice addition to any close quarters combatants arsenal! Stonewall (8) - Somewhat useful, seeing as you'll be in close quarters [STR 6, END 6] with your enemies all the time. Only if you have the perks to spare, though. (Note: this is currently bugged and does not work as described, you actually get +5 DT vs ALL as long as you use melee/unarmed weapons instead of just vs. melee/unarmed!) Life Giver (12) - A good way to increase your health. Very good as a perk [END 6] for levels you feel lacks any other good choice. Piercing Strike (12) - A must-have for both builds! Negate 15 of your targets' [Unarmed 70] Damage Threshold? Yummy... Unstoppable Force (12)- Somewhat useful, it's just that enemies aren't blocking [Melee 90, STR 7] very often, depending on the situation. Might be worth a perk, if you feel you can spare them. Jury Rigging (14) - Saves a lot of trouble, repairing your weapons with the [Repair 90] specific item needed. This perk will help you in just picking stuff up and repairing your equipment with whatever it was lying around. Purifier (14) - As it works on some of the more difficult encounters in the game, it's a decent choice. Dealing with Deathclaws can be a bitch, especially for a close-quarters combat character! Slayer (24) - More attack speed? 30%? That's just fine! A must-have. [Unarmed 90, AGI 7] 7.2 Unarmed Perks ----------------- These are perks that are good for an unarmed character, but not for a melee character. Finesse (10) - Another 5% critchance? Yes, please! Math Wrath (10) - VATS, VATS, VATS. You'll notice that alot of the perks [Science 70] listed here are to do with VATS, since unarmed works so well with that. None of them are must-haves, but very useful, this one included. Silent Running (12) - Sure, you COULD continue moving slow as a snail when [Sneak 50, AGI 6] you want to sneak properly, but this feat saves you both a lot of time and frustration. I know I couldn't live without it anymore! Action Boy (16) - If you like VATS (and you should, being unarmed!), this [AGI 6] is an excellent perk. Better Criticals (16) - THE reason you have 6 Perception, you'll get another [PER 6, LCK 6] 50% damage on your crits, this is a must-have for unarmed characters! Paralyzing Palm (18) - 30 second stun? Like. Even though the description says [Unarmed 70] you need to be completely unarmed it works just fine with fist weapons. Grim Reaper's Sprint (20) - While it's been nerfed from being an instant-win perk in Fallout 3 to merely very good New Vegas, it is still just that - very good. Now you have to actually be a bit more tactical with your use of VATS, not just aim and shoot everything that moves. Ninja (20) - It's a bit weird that you don't actually have to have [Melee 80, Sneak 80] unarmed skill for this, but there you have it. It's a must-have for unarmed builds, as another 15% crit- chance is simply too good to pass up on. (Note: this is currently bugged, and only gives you a 15% increase on your critchance, and not a flat +15%!) Nerves of Steel (26) - Might be overkill at this point, but if you really like [AGI 7] VATS combat this might be for you. 7.3 Melee Perks --------------- Perks that work well with a melee build, but not unarmed. As you can see, these are quite a lot fewer than for unarmed, and they're not even mandatory, mostly if you like explosives! You can play around with perks alot more with melee than with unarmed because of this. Heave, Ho! (2) - If you like explosions. [Explosives 30, STR 5] Demolition Expert (6) - Your explosives pack more of a punch now. There are [Explosives 50] three ranks of this perk, each at 20% more damage. Cowboy (8) - A good perk if you like to use knives, hatches and/or [Gun 45, Melee 45] dynamite. 25% more damage is nothing to be sneezed at, and even if none of the "best" weapons are in this category, his perk greatly increases their viability! Pyromaniac (12) - OK choice for melee, if you like to use the Shishkebab. [Explosives 60] Increases the damage of all fire-based weapons. Splash Damage (12) - Increases the radius of your explosions by 25%, which [Explosives 70] is very nice, if you like to use them. 7.4 Perks to stay away from --------------------------- These are perks that are bad, in one way or the other. Some are more obviously lesser perks, while some requires some deeper thought to decipher. I haven't included ALL of the other perks, obviously, but only those that I thought you might think are good. Swift Learner (2) - While this is level 2, there still are better perks [INT 4] than this. Don't worry, you'll get high enough level without this! Here And Now (10) - You'll get enough levels, don't worry about it, and taking this perks is a perk wasted. Adamantium Skeleton (14) - How often do your limbs become crippled, even with the Small Frame trait? Not all that often. 50% less damage might sound nice, but it's really not that good. There are plenty of Doctor's Bags out there, even for Hardcore mode. Tag! (16) - Would have been good at lower levels, now it'd just be a waste of a perk. ----------- 8.0 WEAPONS ----------- There are a plethora of weapons out in the desert, but some are better than the rest. I've listed some of them here, and where to find them. Remember, though, that just because there are weapons that are "best" it doesn't necessarily mean that other weapons are BAD, just not as good! 8.1 Fist Weapons ---------------- Ballistic Fist - Easily the best unarmed weapon in the game, both in VATS and outside of it. You can find this weapon either from Blake (he's at the Crimson Caravan Company) or from Torres (Hidden Valley Bunker). Pushy - While not as excellent as the Ballistic Fist, Pushy is still very good. You can find it on a dead Jackal gang member inside the Ruby Hill Mine. Mantis Gauntlet - The only unarmed weapon with a x3 critical multiplier, meaning that as long as you get above 33% critchange (which is not hard at all) you'll ALWAYS crit! It also ignores your enemies' DT, similar to the Deathclaw Gauntlet in Fallout 3. It's a rare find, but vendors at either the Hoover Dam, Crimson Caravan Camp or the Great Khan weapons dealers sometimes have them. 8.2 Melee Weapons ----------------- Oh, Baby! - This is a unique Super Sledge, and boy does it pack a punch! The most powerful generic melee weapon, hands down, although it requires a maxed out melee skill. It can be found in the Charleston Cave (which is north of Jacobstown) on a dead nightkin. Knock-Knock - A unique variant of the fire axe, almost as good as the Oh, Baby!, if you prefer a bladed weapon instead of smashing things to a pulp. It can be found in Camp Searchlight's fire station, in one of the bathroom stalls. Chainsaw - A staple weapon of generic FPSs, New Vegas sure is nice to give us this weapon! No crits AT ALL, but very reliable damage. Does more damage in VATS, which is odd enough, so it might not be ideal, but still very nice. It can be found in Vault 3, the Legion's blacksmith or Veteran Legionaries (random). Shishkebab - Ah, the burning sword. In itself it's merely good, but with the Pyromaniac perk it becomes truly deadly, even rivaling the Oh, Baby! as the best melee weapon in the game! You CAN use poisons on it, even though it's on fire, and it'll stack with the immolation damage. It can be bought from the NCR Supply Officer (Hoover Dam), the Great Khan armorer or from Mick & Ralph's at Freeside. --------------------- 9.0 TWO SAMPLE BUILDS --------------------- I hope you'll try to put together your own build, but if you're starved for ideas or just want something to start on, here are two builds: (Attributes in [brackets] are the final values, after traits, implants and Intense Trainings. Perks in [brackets] are "optional", you can easily replace them with something else more to your liking. Well, everything is optional, but it IS an example build, after all!) Unarmed Melee ------- ----- Attributes: ----------- 8 [9] STR 9 [10] 5 [6] PER 3* 7 [8] END 9 [10] 1 CHA 1* 4 [5] INT 9 [10] 7 [9] AGI 8 [10] 8 [10] LCK 1* *whichever you feel is most important Traits: ------- Small Frame Heavy Handed Built To Destroy Small Frame Perks: ------ [Intense Training (LCK)] 2 [Confirmed Bachelor] Educated 4 Educated [Toughness] 6 [Toughness] Super Slam 8 Super Slam Finesse 10 [Toughness II] Piercing Strike 12 Piercing Strike Silent Running 14 [Pyromaniac] Better Criticals 16 [Purifier] Paralyzing Palm 18 [Jury Rigging] Grim Reaper's Sprint 20 [Lifegiver] Ninja 22 [Bloody Mess] Slayer 24 Slayer [Purifier] 26 [Stonewall] [Action Boy/Life Giver] 28 [Unstoppable Force] [Toughness II] 30 [Lady Killer] --------------------------------- 10.0 CREDITS, VERSION HISTORY, ETC --------------------------------- And that's it, the end of the guide! I hope you've found it useful and that you learned something new. 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I found nursing in a stretch wrap (like a moby to be the easiest thing in the world and ir basically acted as a cover. You could try it. I did not have kids who would nurse under anything.
But to be perfectly honest if I were in that situation I would just avoid my inlaws. If they think their completely irrational feelings are more important than my baby's health and happiness then they don't need to be around my baby. Seriously. I would also by whacking my DH upside the head.


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you crazy hot weather loving woman! it was NINETY here yesterday...the air is already on. UGH.
- May 11, 2011 at 9:19 AM
- KristiMcMurry said...
87 in your house?! I WOULD DIE!!! I love summer, but I can't handle it being hot in the house. I kicked mine on when it got up to 75 inside :) I wish I was more like you though, so I could save a little money! haha.
By the way, freakin LOVE those shorts. You find the best patterns.
- May 11, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Kristin said...
your very pretty there. its a bit cold here in ny and windy as always.
- May 11, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- islabell said...
you are so lucky to have the heat lady. I grew up in a desert and from there moved to scotland and now san francisco, so i've been pining over predictable warm weather.
I love your shorts they have a crazy african print to them...reminds me of home.
ha! Maybe i'm just homesick
- May 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- myedit said...
An AC competition... you are too much! Matt turned off the heat because spring might be here and I made him turn it back on yesterday because it was brrrrrr chilly at 64...
- May 11, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Victoria / Justice Pirate said...
honestly, I can see a little how you look like brooke shields when she was younger!!! You have that same type of skin tone and hair color she has and your face does slightly resemble her!
- May 12, 2011 at 11:31 AM
*sigh* i miss you, darlin'. don't always get a chance to visit you on your blog, but i think about you often. what are you doing on july 24th? can i convince you to come out to california to attend my baby shower? ;) wishful thinking...i know.
take care, amanda. xoxo
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Elaine, my lovely wife of 58 years, passed away peacefully last Tuesday. Yesterday we laid her to rest on top of a knoll in Lansing's big, old, beautiful Evergreen Cemetery.
Tomorrow we will resume Charlie's odyssey.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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I'm so sorry to hear of your loss, Jim.
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Call: a contract in which the buyer pays a premium for the right but not the obligation to buy the stock (usually 100 shares) at the exercise (or strike) price anytime until the expiration of the contact. (Calls are so named because the call buyer can "call" the stock from the option seller at the exercise price.)
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The enemy was very small but it was everywhere. World peace, medical advancement, iTunes — all would eventually be threatened.
Half a century ago, as a rapidly changing world sought increasingly smaller mechanical and electrical components and more sanitary hospital conditions, one of the biggest obstacles to progress was air, and the dust and germs it contains.
Stray particles a few microns wide could compromise the integrity of a circuit board of a nuclear weapon. Unchecked bacteria could quickly infect a patient after a seemingly successful operation. Microprocessors, not yet in existence, would have been destroyed by dust. After all, an average cubic foot of air contained three million microscopic particles, and even the best efforts at vacuuming and wiping down a high-tech work space could only reduce the rate to one million.
Then, in 1962, Willis Whitfield invented the clean room.
"People said he was a fraud," recalled Gilbert V. Herrera, the director of microsystems science and technology at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. "But he turned out to be right."
Mr. Whitfield, who worked at Sandia from 1954 to 1984, died on Nov. 12 in Albuquerque. He was 92. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Belva, said.Continue reading the main story
His clean rooms blew air in from the ceiling and sucked it out from the floor. Filters scrubbed the air before it entered the room. Gravity helped particles exit. It might not seem like a complicated concept, but no one had tried it before. The process could completely replace the air in the room 10 times a minute.
Particle detectors in Mr. Whitfield's clean rooms started showing numbers so low — a thousand times lower than other methods — that some people did not believe the readings, or Mr. Whitfield. He was questioned so much that he began understating the efficiency of his method to keep from shocking people.
"I think Whitfield's wrong," a scientist from Bell Labs finally said at a conference where Mr. Whitfield spoke. "It's actually 10 times better than he's saying."
Willis James Whitfield was born in Rosedale, Okla., on Dec. 6, 1919. In addition to his wife, his survivors include his sons, James and Joe; a sister, Amy Blackburn; and a brother, Lawrence.
Mr. Whitfield became fascinated with electronics as a young man and received a two-year degree in the field after high school. He served in the Navy late in World War II, working with experimental electronic systems for aircraft. In 1952, he received a bachelor's degree in physics and math from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Tex.
By 1954 he was working at Sandia, which was involved in making parts for nuclear weapons and at the time was overseen by the Atomic Energy Commission. Mr. Whitfield's duties soon included contamination control. By 1960, he had established his basic idea for the clean room.
"I thought about dust particles," Mr. Whitfield told Time magazine in 1962. "Where are these rascals generated? Where do they go?"
The clean room was patented through Sandia, and the government shared it freely among manufacturers, hospitals and other industries.
Mr. Whitfield's original clean room was only about six feet high, built as a small, self-contained unit. Some modern electronic devices, including the iPhone, are now built in China in huge clean rooms in structures that are more than a million square feet. Workers wear protective clothing, and other anticontamination methods have been added, but they still depend on Mr. Whitfield's approach to suck up dust.
"Relative to these electronics, the particles are just massive boulders that would short out all of your electronics and make them not work," Mr. Herrera said. "The core technology, just the cleaning part, hasn't really changed a lot."
Mrs. Whitfield said she was often been asked if her husband was a particularly fastidious man, and she always noted that he tended not to put his shoes away. He did live in a tidy house, though, and colleagues say he never tired of getting out a flashlight and shining it sideways across his coffee table to illuminate the prevalence of tiny dust particles that most people never notice.Continue reading the main story


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Carcinogens: Meat vs. Vegetables
Clip: Clinical researcher & author Dr. Neal Barnard and farmer Joel Salatin, debate the dangers of carcinogens in meat products and the benefits of B12 supplements.
Do Plants Have a Face?
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Clip: Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary and farmer and author Joel Salatin, discuss the assumption that because one dresses an animal, they can not love the animal.
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According to a 2009 poll, around 1% of American adults reported eating no animal products. In 2011 that number rose to 2.5%--more than double, but still dwarfed by the 48% who reported eating meat, fish or poultry at all of their meals. In this country, most of us are blessed with an abundance of food and food choices. So taking into account our health, the environment and ethical concerns, which diet is best? Are we or aren't we meant to be carnivores?
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M.D. Neal Barnard
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Chris Masterjohn
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- A meat-free, plant-based, whole foods diet, low in fat and high in fiber, can have immense health benefits, controlling diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, kidney failure, obesity, and other life-threatening ailments.
- The majority of meat today is produced on inhumane, industrialized factory farms. And just as it is unthinkable to kill one's dog or cat, the slaughter of farm animals—sentient beings, capable of suffering, happiness, sadness, and intellect—is not ethical.
- Farm animal production, one of the leading causes of global warming, has disastrous effects on the environment, including waste, water pollution and shortages, dead zones, deforestation, and soil degradation.
- The most environmentally friendly, ethically responsible, and healthy diet is a not a meat-free one, but rather a locally sourced, sustainably produced one. It is not meat consumption that must end; it is agribusiness's factory production of foods.
- The meat, bones, skin, and organ meats of healthy animals provide a balance of nutrients necessary for optimal physical and mental health.
- Meat is only unhealthy when it is produced in factory farms where animals are unnaturally fed grains and hormones, infested with bacteria, and pumped with antibiotics.
- Animal husbandry is critical to sustainable agriculture, which depends on the balanced, regenerative ecological cycle between humans, the land, vegetation, and animals.
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1. Re: Specs variences between apps?John Waller Mar 7, 2012 4:45 PM (in response to revdave)
You're trying to translate between two completely different media: web and print.
You cannot necessarily translate fonts to the web 100%. Depends on exactly how you're coding them.
Can you show us the exact code?
points are a print unit of measurement. The web measures in px or em or %.
2. Re: Specs variences between apps?revdave Apr 6, 2012 3:25 PM (in response to John Waller)
Thanks - that helps - the designer created psd in points - but it was for the web - so that was my issue... I will have them change to NON-points...
3. Re: Specs variences between apps?Nancy OShea Apr 6, 2012 3:47 PM (in response to revdave)
I will have them change to NON-points...
And web safe fonts, too.
Working with graphic designers who have no direct web design experience makes your job twice as hard. I usually charge extra for the pain & suffering.
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4. Re: Specs variences between apps?John Waller Apr 6, 2012 4:08 PM (in response to Nancy OShea)
Nancy O. wrote:
And web safe fonts, too.
Nancy: Do you still restrict websites to those vanilla font choices given the plethora of web font choices springing up via Google and others lately?
5. Re: Specs variences between apps?Nancy OShea Apr 7, 2012 1:43 PM (in response to John Waller)
Nancy: Do you still restrict websites to those vanilla font choices given the plethora of web font choices springing up via Google and others lately?
Yes, John, I do. To be honest, custom web fonts are not all they're cracked up to be. They don't look anything like the fonts I typically use in print design. Finding acceptable substitutes can be an awful chore.
Adobe TypeKit is a good resource but you need a license to use it. Most of my clients are not interested in paying fees to use custom web fonts.
Google Web Fonts (free) are not reliable. To support custom fonts in all devices, you need 4 versions: TTF, EOT, WOFF & SVG. Google doesn't provide all versions for all their fonts. I'd rather use nothing at all than @import a font that looks like crap in half the browsers.
Font-Squirrel (converted and self-hosted) has too many legal ambiguities. You can't copyright a font. Instead, fonts are protected by intellectual property laws in the same way software is protected. The font owner (at their discretion) maintains reproduction & re-distribution rights. This is where it gets tricky. Even if you somehow lock-down your custom fonts to prevent people from getting them off your server, you could still be in legal trouble for converting fonts in the first place. Check your font license very carefully. If you're not sure, don't use it.
Related link:
Lawsuit alleges Rick Santorum's web site used stolen fonts
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2011/08_-_August/Santorum_site_using_s tolen_font,_suit_says/
In the grand scheme of things, plain vanilla web-safe fonts aren't so bad.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists


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Follow Friday - As I have only been at this blogging business for a few days, I know that I have not even begun to scratch the surface of the blogs that are out there. That being the case, there have been a three bloggers who have left me comments of encouragement so as a shout-out to them I wish to make you acquainted with their blogs - if you are not already.
CMPointer - Family Stories
Heather Rojo - Nutfield Genealogy
Mary - Mary's Musings
Thank you all for your kind words.
Follow-Up Friday - I find that I need to Follow-Up on yesterday's post "A Child of Many Sires". I realize that while I listed the first sixteen surnames I will be blogging about, I forgot to list the places I am doing research in. So, here goes:
Davis - Florida, Mississippi, Georgia and North Carolina
McDougal - Florida, Georgia
Pelt (Van Pelt) - Florida, North Carolina, New York, The Netherlands
Taylor - Florida, South Carolina
Brock - Florida, Georgia
White - Florida, Georgia
Newsom - Florida, Alabama, South Carolina
Pippin - Florida, North Carolina, Maryland
Cahoon - Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Utah. Scotland
Spencer - Massachusetts, Illinois, Utah
Johanson - Denmark
Nielson - Denmark, Utah
Manwill - Maine, Illinois, Utah
McLellan - South Carolina, Tennesee, Illinois, Utah
Keele - Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia, England
Boulton - Utah, England
"If I want my children and grandchildren to know those who still live in my memory, then I must build the bridge between them. I alone am the link to the generations that stand on either side of me. It is my responsibility to knit their hearts together through love and respect, even though they may never have known each other personally. My grandchildren will have no knowledge of their family's history if I do nothing to preserve it for them. That which I do not in some way record will be lost at my death, and that which I do not pass on to my posterity, they will never have." ~ Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander, Ensign, May 1999, pages 83-84~
Friday, August 27, 2010
Follow Friday - and Follow-Up Friday
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thanks for the mention and the link back to my blog. appreciate it!ReplyDelete
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Welcome to the Geneabloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.ReplyDelete
May you keep sharing your ancestor stories!
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I have started working on my car for the new year.
My current plan is to start with the interior and work my way around the car until it is finished.
My first step is to strip the car of its interior components and fix the little things and do a good power cleaning.
My second step is to replace the Speakers, and Radio.
My third step is to paint the accessories such as inserts and covers and stuff.
The fourth step would be reassembling and addressing any further issues I run into.
My questions are as follows, what do people generally do to there interior? I was also thinking of light weight stuff, like seats, what aftermarket seats work well in our cars (5th-Gen)?
Other thoughts, I will be going with a Kenwood audio build for my sound system.
Being that my interior is of the blue variety what color would accent it well? I was thinking of going black or possibly silver.
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After attending Il Fornaio's Tuesday Night Tasting of Italian food and wine from the Basilicata region, I still had Italy on the brain. I pulled out my Italy: The Beautiful Cookbook, vaguely recalling a Sicilian swordfish recipe. When I read it again, I knew it would pair well with the broccoli and a few roasted fingerling potatoes.
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|2006-11-08, 00:14
|Link #61
Join Date: Nov 2006
Pardon for my noobishness
I don't understand softsubs.
I need MKV right? It's in the CCP and I got that but nothing happens. I got AceMegaCodecs pack PRO too. Does those 2 contradict each other? I use MPC. How do I fix softsub so I can see the subtitles?
Thanks in advance.
|2006-11-08, 03:12
|Link #62
Join Date: Nov 2006
Fixed my problem of substitles showing but they are in norwegian. How do I fix it to make it to english sub? The description of the torrent says "english/norwegian" subtitles. The norwegian sub is the only language that came up.
Thanks in advance
|2006-11-08, 03:47
|Link #63
Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
There should be an icon in the system tray for your media splitter. (Probably either a green arrow or a white box with markings.) Right click on that icon and choose your subtitles.
|2006-11-10, 05:08
|Link #64
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Would anybody have any clue what might be the problem? I've gotten Media Splitter, CCCP, and all that other jazz, even the 10 buck AVC Core thing, and my MKV files are still being laggy as can be, they're h264 super large resolution to boot (which I hear is usually half the problem for non-tricked out computers). I uninstalled Direct and Splitter and a handful of other things, including CCCP, then I just went from scratch and installed CCCP. Unfortunately, after all of this, now, instead of just lag and freezing video, I have all that and desyncing audio.
I tried rebooting my computer, and I ended up with Zoomplayer and MPC both lagging up on me still, however Divx pulled through for me surprisingly enough, and all that was lagging for me was the opening, probably due to the fancy scroll effects and such they had on the intro, however... I'm just curious as to what might solve my problem? Is there a way to tell my video player of choice, like... tell it to go "Hey, I'm gonna play MKV with this special AVC Core codec" or does it all automatically take care of this stuff? I'm pretty much a complete noob when it comes to the super technical aspects of codecs for video & audio.
Edit: AHA! I fiddled around and I guess the issue was I didn't turn off the CCCP 264 settings, and I assume they were conflicting with my super 10 dollar version or something. Now even my intro works! I have no clue how Divx snuck by the errors my other players were having though. Even though MKV seems cool, it seems completely pointless and problematic in other ways.
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|2006-11-10, 16:16
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 35
What file are you attempting to play and what are the specs on your computer? If you are watching 720p H.264 videos (or dear gods even 1080p) and your computer is too slow it won't matter at all. You just will not be able to watch the high resolution videos. Also whether the file is in MKV/MP4 will have no bearings on whether your computer will be able to play the file, it is just too slow. Be smart and just download the low res versions.
|2006-11-11, 00:08
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I think it was a 1080p, yeah... crazy stuff, but that's all I could find torrents available in unfortunately. Anyhow, it's all fixed and good for now thanks to 10 bucks spent.
PS. Why would you delete anime you've watched and downloaded? That's what DVD-R's were invented for.
|2006-12-11, 19:45
|Link #70
Senior Member
Hey, I really have no idea what I'm doing here, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've downloaded the cccp, I've tried vlc, zoom, bs player, wmp, divx, and tcmp, but still I can't get .mkvs, specifically the gg Code Geass subs, to work right.
On most of the players I'm just having skipping/lagging issues. On BS it plays fairly well, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to put the subtitles on.
Let me know if I need to give more info...
|2006-12-11, 22:08
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Also, what kind of system are you running, hard- and software-wise?
|2006-12-12, 20:55
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Founder, Sprocket Hole
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Fresno or Sacramento, CA
Age: 50
|2006-12-12, 21:11
|Link #74
In exile
Join Date: May 2006
Location: There! Not there! There!
Age: 30
sperry: Download the insurgent here: http://www.cccp-project.net/download.php?type=cccpi
Once you have it, open it and go to Tools --> Test Render. Pick an mkv file that is giving you trouble. (Any mkv if it's all of them)
Then click OK after it's done.
Then go to File --> Save log.
Save the log and open it, then paste the entire contents of it on the forum in spoiler tags.
|2006-12-12, 21:28
|Link #75
Senior Member
Alright, here's the test render log... thing. Really wish I had any idea what it meant.
Edit: Wait, now I do have the green arrow thing which I assume is the VSFilter. It says it's "DirectVobSub"... it just appeared out of nowehere. Wierd. Anyway, I'm not quite sure what to do with it...
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|2006-12-12, 22:05
|Link #76
Founder, Sprocket Hole
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Fresno or Sacramento, CA
Age: 50
However, I see one, maybe two, issues that jump right out at me.
Trust me, a Pentium III is too slow to seriously play H.264 with any release of ffdshow. I run a Pentium III 933 with an NVidia GeForce MX4000 for screening XviD and DVD material and I periodically try running it with H.264 material and various builds of ffdshow along with CoreAVC just for grins and giggles. In fact, I wouldn't even consider running much more than Windows 2000 on such a machine.
Also, your video card is very old, though it's a classic. I don't know how well the R128Pros will stand up to what these newer decoders want in terms of rendering (especially for subtitles). Jury's out on the card, but since I have an R128Pro-based card myself, I can at least test this theory. It does work with a Matrox Millennium G450 I have, also an oldie but goodie, so I don't see why softsubs shouldn't work.
|2006-12-12, 22:32
|Link #77
Senior Member
Ok, so, I'm not exactly sure what I should be looking for in VS Filter... I tried the "open" button, but the .mkv files didn't show up... are they even what I should be looking for to open?
do I need to play the file first and then do something with VSfilter?
Yeah... figured that it might just be too old and fucked up... piece of crap...
but, so if for whatever reason this VSfilter thing doesnt work, are you saying that really my only option is to upgrade the video card? eh, not worth it then, I'm only gonna have this computer for a couple more months anyway, so I don't really see the point then... I'll just have to wait it out.
|2006-12-12, 22:54
|Link #78
In exile
Join Date: May 2006
Location: There! Not there! There!
Age: 30
Anyway, Sperry go into your Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs
Look for something called Ogg Directshow Filters. Remove that.
If you can't find it in the Add/Remove Programs, go into CCCP Insurgent and unregister Ogg Splitter. That should remove all the OggDS filters.
After that try playing the video in MPC or Zoomplayer that came with your CCCP installation.
For subtitles look for the Haali Media Splitter icon at the bottom. (white box)
Right click that and look for any subtitle streams in there. They will start with an S: before them. Set the subtitle stream you want and it should render.
Lastly as IJ mentioned your CPU is rather old. There's a very high chance that you won't be able to play it without any lag. CoreAVC might be able to render it without trouble but that costs 10 bucks... >_>
|2006-12-12, 23:44
|Link #79
Founder, Sprocket Hole
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Fresno or Sacramento, CA
Age: 50
I don't think it's as simple as its being "just images" as you make it out to be. Go read the Wikipedia article on DirectShow for some details, notably the Video Renderer vs. VMR7 vs. VMR9 section.
EDIT: I just tried it on my old Rage Fury Pro (VIVO card using the Rage 128 Pro with 32MB of RAM) on my newest screening rig, a Pentium 4, which is what I've been using for H.264. It works. Though I will stand by what I said that putting subtitles on-screen is not entirely a simple task, at least in terms of the API. There's no real standardized way cross-platform. If the article above is to be believed, VMR7, which appears to be the "orthodox" way of doing it, is only available on XP (I use Windows 2000). VMR9 does work on just about any DirectX9-capable version of Windows, but it uses Direct3D in order to achieve this, which, to me, is a sub-optimal way of doing things.
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|2006-12-13, 00:22
|Link #80
Founder, Sprocket Hole
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Fresno or Sacramento, CA
Age: 50
Needless to say, CoreCodec has lost me as a paying customer.
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Weddings & Love
What did I do for my own wedding?
For my own wedding, I ended up picking the photographer with the warmest brightest smile. I knew the day would be epic, enormous in my life and that the closest people to us would be there. It was daunting to think about throwing a stranger into that mix and hoping that they would not only capture it, but bring their own joy and light to the process.
I always think about this when I'm hired for a wedding. Not only do I want to take the best shots possible of everyone in a short amount of time, I want to do this with a calm, warm manner that allows each person to relax and feel taken care of.
In my galleries, you'll see that I've done many wedding styles, such as...
• Classic / Black and White
• Non-traditional
• Multi-cultural
• Romantic
My focus is not on the style that I want to shoot; my focus is on you and your vision of who you are and who you are becoming at this pivotal moment of your lives.


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The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola are a means of opening oneself to the work of God in ones life. Ignatius, a Basque nobleman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries underwent a powerful spiritual conversion in his late twenties. Recovering from a battle wound over the course of many months, Ignatius spent hours contemplating his lifes purpose and the compelling examples set by saints such as Dominic and Francis. He determined to leave the life of privilege to which he had become accustomed, and commended himself and all of his energies to serving God. Ignatius desire was to help souls and he engaged in spiritual conversation with almost anyone he met. The experience of his own conversion led Ignatius to share what he learned with others and, eventually, refine his personal prayer journal into what we now call the Spiritual Exercises.
When we speak of Ignatius receiving the Exercises from God, what we really mean is that he paid close attention to the way in which God led him, like a patient teacher, to growing faith and freedom. In reflecting on and writing about his spiritual journey, Ignatius became convinced that his experiences were to be shared for the good others -- and that, in fact, particular practices of prayer, imagination, and self- abnegation would lead others along a similar spiritual road toward God and a deep sense of joy. Over nearly five centuries, these same Exercises (i.e., guidance and instruction to retreat directors for helping another person make a spiritual retreat) have been passed down, person to person, in a chain of faith that has affected the lives of countless women and men.
There is a pattern to the Spiritual Exercises, consisting of four essential movements or weeks, each with its own spiritual gifts (Ignatius called them graces) and challenges. Ignatius originally conceptualized the retreat as a one-month experience, so these weeks were merely approximations of time, always to be adapted by the director. These are not rigid stages for a retreatant to follow. Rather, they represent a map for identifying ones spiritual place and progress. The movements marking each Week are, essentially:
First Week Self-awareness
Second Week Self-giving
Third Week Self-sacrifice
Fourth Week Self-understanding
Typically, the Spiritual Exercises are given individually to a retreatant in one of three forms: (1) the traditional, 30-day retreat, (2) an abbreviated 8-day retreat, or (3) a retreat in daily life (also referred to as a nineteenth annotation retreat, in which the retreatant does not remove him or herself from the duties of daily living, but instead meets weekly with a director and incorporates the prayer of the Exercises into daily practice. In addition to these common forms, other adaptations have been developed over the centuries, including weekend retreats, couples retreats, and group retreats of many kinds. Often these adaptations constitute an introductory experience of the Spiritual Exercises, and may be followed, at some later time, by one of the three traditional forms.
Directors of the Spiritual Exercises are men and women, religious, married, or single. The spirituality is very much in-the-world and appealing to many kinds of people. Ignatius wrote the Spiritual Exercises as a Catholic, and the rich, imaginative approach to prayer is reflective of Catholic sacramental tradition. There are also many Christians of other denominations who find the retreat and it spirituality accessible and life-giving. Whether the Spiritual Exercises are an appropriate method of prayer for non-Christians is a point of considerable debate, since they are inarguably Christological (i.e., centered on an experiential understanding of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus). Perhaps a more fruitful question is whether the human elements of the four weeks radical honesty in light of a loving God, the desire to serve with generosity, a willingness to suffer for the good, and an acknowledgement of divine accompaniment in community may be shared and explored with non-Christians in other ways.
Deriving from the Spiritual Exercises is what is known as Ignatian Spirituality, which is commonly understood to mean the ways in which we incorporate the priorities and worldview of the Spiritual Exercises into our way of living. Thus an awareness of key themes from the retreat, particularly spiritual freedom and discernment, becomes part of our consciousness and affects our decisions. Among the most central practices of Ignatian spirituality is the Examination of Consciousness or Examen. This daily prayer period, during which we express gratitude to God, reflect on the experiences of our day and Gods activity in them, and ask for light in the future is the bread and butter of Ignatian spirituality. The practice was so essential to Ignatius of Loyola that he charged his fellow Jesuits with praying the Examen twice each day.
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Is there a normal male out there who was not a Three Stooges fan?
I admit to watching the zany antics of Moe, Curly and Larry at Saturday matinees when I was a kid and on my black and white TV when I should have been studying for those college exams. Joyce, like many females, hated the Stooges and wouldn't even go to the movie.
While I did tire of the nose-tweaking, eye gouging and sledge hammer hitting after a while, the movie did bring back some fond memories.
Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), Curly (Will Sasso) and Larry (Sean Hayes) are the Three Stooges, looking and acting much like the originals. Rhode Island's own Farrelly Brothers have concocted a three-part movie that actually has a storyline interspersed among the constant chatter, puns, slaps, head-banging and flying through the air.
The movie is broken into three half-hour segments, the average length of the original shorts. The first is titled "More Orphan Than Not." Three babies, made up to look like the stooges, are dumped at an orphanage run by nuns. They are then played by three actors at the age of 10, getting into all kinds of trouble. Rhode Islander Robert Capron plays Curly. Jane Lynch, Jennifer Hudson and Larry David play the nuns. David is particularly funny as the one nun who has a vendetta for the three troublemakers.
It is a cute setup for part two, "Bananas Split," where the Stooges are grown men doing maintenance work at the orphanage, which sets the scenes for lots of physical humor involving ladders, church bells, sledgehammers, etc. Amazingly, after 25 years pass, the stooges are older and the nuns haven't aged a day.
"In No Moe Mr. Nice Guy," the Stooges are on the street trying to raise $830,000 to save the orphanage. Their attempts to raise money are wacky and hysterical. There's a long scene in a hospital that will remind you of their outlandish humor and another at an anniversary party where they wreck everything and everybody in sight.
As always, the Three Stooges prevail and come out the heroes. To repeat, if you loved the originals, you will love the movie.
I didn't think Bobby and Peter Farrelly could make a PG movie, but they have, and the kids will love it. Wisely, the brothers appear on screen at the end to warn children to "not try this at home." They show the rubber hammers, with sound effects added, and explain how the two fingers in the eyes actually hit the forehead.
If you sit through the long credits (I'm the only one who did), you'll get a few minutes of the trio dancing around and acting stupid. Don't bother.
Rated PG, with nothing to worry about except some perfectly timed slapstick humor.