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Though classical education's modern-day resurgence is still relatively new, its overall history is long, rich, and varied. Standing on the shoulders of this tradition, the last two generations have given us a wealth of ideas for thinking about classical education, and for improving our own lives and minds alongside those of our children. Below are a list of wonderful and engaging books that ACA recommends as essential reading for parents pursuing classical Christian education over the long term. In the spirit of staying ever-engaged for our kids, join me in tasting and re-tasting these delicious feasts. (Publishing blurbs included.)
The Case for Classical Christian Education by Douglas Wilson. In this greatly expanded treatment of a topic he first dealt with in Rediscovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Wilson proposes an alternative to government-operated schools by advocating a return to classical Christian education with its discipline, hard work, and learning geared to a child's developmental stages.
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In Climbing Parnassus, winner of the 2005 Paideia Prize, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. His persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in and of the classical languages constitutes a bracing reminder of the genuine aims of a truly liberal education.
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Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning by Robert Littlejohn and Charles T. Evans. To succeed in the world today, students need an education that equips them to recognize current trends, to be creative and flexible to respond to changing circumstances, to demonstrate sound judgment to work for society's good, and to gain the ability to communicate persuasively.
The Paideia of God by Douglas Wilson. And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). In this passage, Paul requires Christian fathers to provide their children with a "paideia of the Lord." To the ancient world, the boundaries of paideia were much wider than the boundaries of what we understand as education. Far more is involved in paideia than taking the kids to church, having an occasional time of devotions in the home, or even providing the kids with a Christian curriculum. In the ancient world, the paideia was all-encompassing and involved nothing less than the enculturation of the future citizen. He was enculturated when he was instructed in the classroom, but the process was also occurring when he walked along the streets of his city to and from school. The idea of paideia was central to the ancient classical mind, and Paul's instruction here consequently had profound ramifications.


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Aug 26, 2011, 06:55 am
Hi all,
There is a project I had in mind using the At90USB1287, which is a TQFP 64 package. I know that there are breakout boards available, but I am trying to save money, plus I would much rather fab it from scratch. I have a lot of experience through hole soldering, and have done a good amount of SOT and SOIC soldering, but no QFP. I have seen a bunch of different methods on youtube and the interwebs, and I was wondering what those of you with more SMD experience think is the best.
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Aug 26, 2011, 04:18 pm
I do a lot of lqfp soldering by hand. The key? Having some sort of microscope or magnifying glass. I usually try to tack it in place with one pin while holding it in place. Then, you can still wiggle the piece to align it a little more, and tack down the other side.
I usually try to hit each pin individually with a soldering iron, but usually I end up running the soldering iron with a little solder on it across the pins. You will need some flux and definitely some solder wick to clean up any excess solder. Also, a good soldering iron with a clean tip helps a lot.
Good luck! It looks harder than it is!
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Aug 26, 2011, 04:29 pm
I was wondering what those of you with more SMD experience think is the best.
"Best" is a strange term. Best for one person won't be best for someone else.
I generally follow the same method as ilektron.
I have found with good quality solder wick and lots of flux the method of "flooding" the pins with solder, and then "sucking up" what is left does actually work well. However it takes practice. The practice came from trying to solder one pin at a time and messing up along the way.
In addition to some form of magnification, you'll want some good light.
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lots and lots of flux...
I use a water soluble spray flux
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Aug 28, 2011, 11:47 am
The technique I've found most reliable (not necessarily the tidiest) is to pre-tin all the pads so they have a little ridge of solder on each (and flux aplenty). Check no bridges between the pads.
You then tack-solder a couple of leads to get the device in place, then tack solder the rest using an absolute minimum of solder on the iron (freshly tinned but wiped). The point is that the solder already on the pads reflows onto the leads with minimum risk of bridges forming. Inspect with a lens to ensure every lead has bonded to its pad. I've often had problems removing excess solder and bridges so its good not to risk this. Also you can tack-solder several leads at a time by placing the iron's tip across them, which is fairly quick - you usually feel the leads sag down as the solder melts so you can tell its worked (apply a steady downwards pressure).
The downside is that the chips always a little high off the board as it started off resting on top of the ridges - its also tricky to position the chip as it keeps wanting to sit between the ridges and the first couple of tack-soldered joints require a steady hand (or three!).
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Aug 28, 2011, 04:55 pm
I've tried the pre-tinning the pads, and that doesn't work for me. I can never get it in place.
I use a blunt tip @ 660, no-clean flux, and the thinnest solder I can find.
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Aug 28, 2011, 08:10 pm
I use the pre-tinning method then I weight down the IC slightly then reflow the solder with a hot air gun - an Aoyue 852A+ in my case. Afterwards I inspect and touch up with my finest tip iron working under a 20x binocular microscope. 100% success rate so far.
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This week is the run up to Easter, which is definitely one of the best times of the year. It's the start of spring; everything's looking a lot prettier and brighter, and it's another time for some of the best food indulgences! One of my favourites is the hot cross bun.
Supermarket buns all contain milk, and they can lack a lot of flavour. So if you have a bit of spare time before Good Friday, or even some to spare on the day, then why not try making my lactose-free hot cross buns?
They can take a bit of time to make, but it's well worth it! I'd recommend letting them cool overnight, then slicing in half and grilling them for a couple of minutes until crisp and golden for your breakfast the next day – with a good spread of Flora Freedom. They're delicious!
- 630g Strong white flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 4tsp Ground mixed Spice
- 80g Sugar
- 1 Lemon
- 1 Orange
- 7g Sachet of fast-action yeast
- 2 eggs
- 280ml tepid milk – Arla Lactose-free milk
- 50g Dried apricots
- 50g Dried cranberries
- 100g Sultanas
- 2 tbsp Plain Flour
- 1 tbsp water
- Disposable Piping Bag
- 1 tbsp apricot jam
Makes 12 Buns
- Sieve the flour, salt and ground mixed spice into a large glass mixing bowl.
- Add the butter, and rub in with the tips of your fingers.
- Zest the lemon and orange using the finest side of the grater. Add the zest to the bowl, with the sugar and yeast sachet.
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- Take one egg and beat it in a small cup. Add to the large mixing bowl.
- Start to bring all the ingredients together with a wooden spoon. When it becomes too sticky, start to use your hands to form the ingredients into a smooth dough.
- Shape the dough into a ball, and turn out onto a lightly floured surface.
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- Wash and dry the mixing bowl. Add a tsp of oil to the bowl and spread it around using a pastry brush.
- Place the dough in the bowl. Grease one side of Clingfilm with oil, and place over the top of the bowl, forming a tight seal.
- Cover with a tea towel and leave in a warm place (e.g. an airing cupboard, or near a radiator) to rise for one hour.
- Whilst the dough is rising, line two baking trays with baking parchment, and set aside.
- Once well risen, remove the Clingfilm and turn the dough out onto a floured surface.
- Knead for 5-10 minutes.
- Spread the dough out into a large circle, and tip the dried fruit into the centre. Fold the dough over the fruit so that it is completely covered.
- Knead to spread the fruit as evenly as possible.
- Separate into 12 pieces, each approx. 100g-110g. Form these into smooth round balls. Place six balls onto each baking tray, allowing space for them to grow.
- Cover with Clingfilm and place in warm place to rise for a further 40 minutes.
- Whilst the buns rise, start making the paste for the cross. In a small bowl add the flour and water, and mix together until you form a thick pipe-able paste. Spoon the paste into the piping bag, and snip off the end of the bag.
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 6/200o/400
- Once well risen, remove the Clingfilm from the buns. Pipe large crosses across each.
- Using a fork, whisk the second egg in a small cup. Using a pastry brush, brush the egg over each bun.
- Place in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown.
- Warm the apricot jam in the microwave.
- Remove the buns from the oven, and brush with apricot jam whilst still warm.
- Allow the buns to cool. Serve and EAT!


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9 Feb 10 05:22:04 pm
Maybe I am missing something here. My choice of membership to SaleHoo was based on the representation that this is a wholesale supplier site. On taking a sampling of available product from SaleHoo and comparing them to demand and prices currently on ebay it is obvious that there is nearly zero demand for most of these products and for the few that had bidders, the ebay closing prices were below the prices available on SaleHoo.
The only exception was
Corel Wordperfect Office' which sells for 49.99 on SaleHoo and got a high bid of $68.00 on ebay. A lot of work for a whopping $18.00 profit.
In the case of most electronic devices the high bids were far below the stated 'wholesale prices' on SaleHoo, ie; wii Sport Bundlew/ Sports Games fetched $271.00 on ebay after a Wholesale price of $309.99 on SaleHoo. So it would cost me nearly $40.00 to sell this item. A profit of -$40.00.
Is this a wholesale site based on Obamanomics?
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9 Feb 10 10:09:50 pm
Yes, I think you may well be missing a few things unfortunately AB.
This site is a wholesale supplier site, but as with all wholesale, suppliers can't give you a wholesale price until they know what sized volume you will be ordering in, so the price they display is often the worst case scenario.
The idea being, you have to contact them and talk specifics for them to then offer you a supply price based on those specifics.
Second point, there are not just wholesale suppliers here, there are all sorts of suppliers, Drop Shippers, Liquidators and so on.
The third point which you seem to be over looking is that ebay is a Wholesale market place, not retail. Trying to source products from a wholesaler to then sell in a wholesale market place usually isn't the easiest way of making cash.
Kind of like buying from one wholesaler, then going three doors down and trying to resell the product to another wholesaler and expect to make money.
Wholesale purchasing can work on ebay, but if you are looking at the more sought after items, then you are talking about sellers who buy container loads at a time, even wholesalers themselves.
You either need to be buying in the same sort of volume to have any real hope of competing, or you buy in stock where the market isn't quite as cut throat.
You should also consider that there are plenty of selling avenues apart from ebay, I mean market stalls, independent websites and so on, so just because one supplier may not have prices to compete against those from suppliers on ebay, doesn't mean they aren't good to use for other selling platforms.
I'm not that interested in getting involved with US politics, so I'll leave the Obamanomics question to some one else lol
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Hi angel***baby,
fudjj has made most of the important points quite clear for you. Just have a bit to add to it, electronics is actually one of the most competitive markets online. The electronics industry has always run on very low margins from wholesalers to end users and marketplaces like eBay have only tightened the margins even further.
Most electronics sell at the wholesale price or below wholesale on eBay. That's how intense the competition is - its not quite what most people think it is.
Maybe you could shift your focus a little by selling other products, those that most people use on a daily basis, you won't just get a high demand but a lower capital as well.
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What can I sell on ebay australia, that is high demand and popular. non electronic. seems electronic is my field, but very high competition?
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You can try visiting eBay (Australia) Pulse at
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The insertion of directly light sensitive ion channels into normally non-photosensitive retinal neurons is a promising approach for restoring sight to profoundly blind individuals. Retinal degeneration results in the eventual deafferentation of the inner retina and remodeling of microcircuits underlying center-surround receptive field architecture, however ganglion cell somata and dendrites appear to remain intact. Center-surround antagonism is a fundamental property of the visual stream from the retina through the visual cortex. Therefore, we sought to restore center-surround antagonism directly to ganglion cells in a retina lacking photoreceptor input.
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Two directly photosensitive microbial rhodopsins, channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) and halorhodopsin (eNpHR), were genetically targeted differentially to the soma and dendrites in rabbit ganglion cells, creating spatially distinct excitatory and inhibitory subcellular domains. These fluorescently tagged rhodopsins were delivered to intact rabbit retinae via biolistic gene transfer and subcellular localization was evaluated by confocal microscopy. Patterned light stimuli were used to map excitation and inhibition at the soma and dendrites of transfected ganglion cells, as measured by whole-cell patch clamp.
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Robust ChR2-mediated excitatory currents were elicited under 460nm illumination at the soma, while 560nm illumination elicited eNpHR-mediated inhibitory currents at the dendrites. Both currents had a dynamic range of ~2 log units and their relative amplitudes were tunable by modulating the intensities of the two wavelengths of light. Somatic-targeted ChR2 exhibited significantly sharper Gaussian-shaped spatial tuning profiles (HWHM=60µm) when compared to ChR2 expressed throughout the entire membrane (HWHM=400µm). Opposing currents were measured with discrete spatial regions when ChR2 was targeted to the soma and eNpHR was targeted to the dendrites. We are evaluating the neural image generated from populations of these neurons in response to natural scenes through modeling and direct measurement.
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We demonstrate that genetically reconstructed center-surround receptive field function can be implemented directly in ganglion cells by targeting opposing rhodopsins differentially to the soma or dendrites. Imparting direct concentric antagonistic light sensitivity directly to ganglion cells should convey enhanced contrast and edge sensitivity along the visual pathway to higher visual centers and may lead to a future therapy for those that have suffered substantial photoreceptor loss.
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
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That's Limmy's Show done. Six episodes all finished. Thanks a lot for watching, if you did so. It's been good fun seeing people's reactions to it, both online and in person.
Of the notable folk who went out of their way to comment on it Graham Linehan, Robert Popper, Grace Dent, Pearl of Pearl and the Puppets and bizarrely Joan Burnie all loved it. Unfortunately Tam Cowan and John Smeaton didn't. Can't win them all.
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Really enjoyed the show man and you were great in it! Did you contribute ideas to the show?
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Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it.
No, it was all down to Brian.
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you had lots of air time, much more per episode than the pilot. alot of folk will recognize you now.
i thought it was a good series, i didnt like some of the surreal stuff, but every episode had at least one big laugh and a few good chuckles. it stands out from anything i can remember in scottish comedy. it reminded me of alexi sayle's stuff, from the 80's. good work big man.
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Grammar- translation method is the method of teaching foreign language such as Latin and Greek.
History • Was known as Prussian Method in USA • Was known as Classical Method in Western World. • Changed to Grammar- Translation Method in the 19th century. • The main objective of the method is to help students learn foreign language to be proficient in it and to appreciate it.
Characteristics • Rules of grammar and applying it in translation passages to other language is the focus of learning. • Direct translation is the medium to learn the vocabulary in the foreign language that the students are learning. • An example of the words taught: The house = la casa
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Techniques • Translation of a literary passage Figurative versus literal meaning • Reading comprehension questions Questions provided about the information in the text to make inferences and to relate to experience. • Cognates Recognizing sound patterns between languages English: Father Latin: Pater
Techniques • Fill in the blanks Completing sentences with words that are missing • Words in sentences Students make up sentences by using the targeted language vocabulary that they have learn.
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Disadvantages • Does not improve the communicative skills of the targeted language for the speaker or the learner. • The learner have no intention to go beyond the analogies, translations and exercises of the targeted language grammar which is the application of the language in speaking.
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The support and donations are coming at us like wild fire. Some shirts and car stickers have been donated. The monetary donations are still coming strong and I'm dying to know what everyone has raised so far but I want to wait until the end so you all have to wait too......We've got tons of soda tabs....although I found out it takes a whole lot more than I thought to make 1 pound.... a coffee can full.... holy crap!!! And the word is getting out there. I've uploaded the flier to a few local news channels and I just wrote in to the local paper. So hopefully we get some feed back from them. I have a bunch more local businesses to talk to and hopefully I get some donations from them. This is such a good cause.....I wish I had realized what the Shriners did for people before I needed them to help my little girl....I would have started this years ago. I'm just so happy people are willing to help. Thank you everyone who has or is continuing to help us with this wonderful cause.
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I just watched a fascinating game of GO where the world champion Lee Sedol defeated the Google DeepMind program for the first time.
DeepMind admitting the defeat.
After losing three games the self learning human Lee Sedol has finally beaten the DeepMind machine. It is really fascinating to see humans with self learning capabilities can by themselves learn to outsmart machines.
Not knowing the game of GO, it seems to me it is an ideal board game for computers to play, the basic rules seems simple to turn into algorithms, it is the humongous possible moves that seems to be the challenge. To store data and calculate next move it should just be a matter of capacity. But it is probably trickier than I think. The DeepMind seems to be faster than Lee Sedol who needed one minute slots extra time for the entire end game. I like to see statistics on think time for the players as the game progressed. Actually I like to see stats on everything from these games. And it would be really interesting if DeepMind could explain the reasoning behind every move.
I have written some posts on my thoughts of AI. I do not believe much on the imminent machine takeover, the so called singularity. We have not figured out what human intelligence is, we have come a long way but we are nowhere near of a full description of our intelligence. It may not be necessary to understand our own brain to create a smarter machine brain, but I think it would help if we know ourselves first. The singularity is still 20 years in future, and I predict it will be so for a while.Nevertheless it is not a small feat for a machine playing GO 3-1 against human. Now I like to see a machine take on something considerable harder, beat human in a game of StarCraft.
Oh fuck! DeepMind's AlphaGo program won the last match so 4-1 to the machine against the self learning human brain. I had hoped for a second human victory. Still AI is in it's infancy machines are still far from human intellectual capacity. GO is just a deterministic board game, with simple rules. It is the multitude of possible moves that makes it hard for human. And that also makes it hard for human to study and learn from AlphaGo how to beat the program. Which by the way is an interesting idea, self learning humans learn by study machines how to outsmart them. I still put my two cents on humans.


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Bust a Move for Democracy
George just felt at home in Georgia, dassit and dassall.
Bush was greeted by the Western-leaning President Saakashvili of Georgia and taken on a tour of Tbilisi, the capital. Music and dance groups performed for the two men.
As Bush was leaving the performance, he took onlookers by surprise -- including those from his home country -- when he started dancing briefly.
Hands on his hips, he shook side to side for a few seconds, then took a few steps, turned around and did it again.
First lady Laura Bush seemed caught off guard as well, first clapping along then pointing to her husband and gently touching his back.
After waving to the watching crowd, Bush began to step into a car. Only putting his feet in, the president stood on the car's floor, raised his hands above his head and waved them back and forth to the music as he grinned widely.Despite the playful atmosphere, Bush's arrival in Georgia -- from Moscow -- carried great political significance.


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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Where Did Twenty-Four Years Go?!
Twenty-four years ago today, Himself and I were married. Say what? I look in the mirror and wonder where that young woman disappeared to. When did my grandmother replace her?
Since that fateful eve, I have given birth to a son, welcomed a granddaughter, buried two grandmothers (one of whom was my best friend)and a father-in-law. Buildings have come down and wars have been fought. We moved into a house and have nearly lost it to the economy and our own fiscal foolishness.
Good things and bad have come our way and gone from our hands; many tears have fallen and many laughs have been guffawed. We have survived an autism diagnosis and watched our grandbaby triumph and fail.
There were times I thought we wouldn't make it; kindness and cruelty have come from my lips with, it seems, not enough of the former. Still, we stick around.
About my grandmother looking back at me from the mirror: she was my best friend, a woman I wanted to emulate. If I am going to age to reflect anyone, I am glad it is she, whom I still miss every day.
Happy anniversary, Himself. Let's try a little harder.
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Congratulations & many more blessings to you both *hugs*ReplyDelete
Congratulations to you and your Hubby, Gail. I hope this day will be very "Special" for the both of you.ReplyDelete
Beautiful, reflective post.
Hugs, Dianne :) Now I am off to work!
Happy Annivesary.ReplyDelete
Yes, looking in the mirror, can be quite a shock for me too. lol
Have a good week
Happy anniversary to a lovely couple. God bless both of you!ReplyDelete
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If you're interested in this kind of thing, you can see yours truly on C-SPAN 2 next Sunday, June 1st at 7pm Eastern. (It will also air at 9am Eastern that morning, but I know you'll be in church then. Right?)
I'll be interviewing my good friend Jerry Newcombe about his new book (which he wrote with the late D. James Kennedy) called How Would Jesus Vote?
(Unfortunately, on short notice, they weren't able to come up with a controversial title for the book, so they went with this one instead.)
If you're not able to watch it, I'm sure there will probably be repeated re-airings for insomniacs at 3:12am every second Wednesday of the month for the forseeable future. I'm told that these times are "subject to change," which they already have at least once. I'll keep you posted.
Hey, c'mon. You knew you were going to be watching C-SPAN 2 anyway. Why miss it?


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Well I can't say for certain. The way the game is designed I don't actually know what is going to happen in the future, which keeps it interesting for me. But on the first turn, if Darla had been chosen, she would have replaced Angel as the vampire who had a soul.
Well, there is a couple of reasons for this. 1: It fits the genre. A few other people have written stories like this and sex is a goal that powers up the character 2: As a strategy game there has to be some strategic reason to consider the sex option. As an adult game, I want to make that reason important to push scenes 3: Point batteries is not the only option. Girls can provide benefits as friends or party members. It didn't come up much in the last one, though it could have, though I push the potential a bit more in the next version.
It's random (though in story the opponent assigns points). The opponent assigns points to three decks: monsters, social, and magic. Each of the decks provides various problems for the players. At the start of the game I'll weight the random assignment based on what type of opponent/game I want it to be. I actually had a multiplayer version of this sketched out at one point, but being if the villain plays well he makes the game less sexy and it would add a lot of other things that could go wrong, I decided to just go with a random system.
It will be an ongoing series. My plan had been to do either a different player or cooperative play at the start of each game. rkimmelerre was so helpful with getting everything together that I've offered him a second play through. It won't be based on whether a player loses or not. I've created a new 'game file' for playing and am currently working out the bugs/improving and changing mechanics. If you want to give it a test send me an email at email@example.com.
For those interested, here are the other 'game turns' from the story. I stopped posting them here for a few reasons. First, other than G3ae I wasn't sure if anyone was looking at them. Second, as the game progressed there became more and more things that I just told Rkimmeleree not to do. For example, I never coded in the Veruca werewolf later in the game because we both knew he wasn't going to waste turns on her. Likewise I never coded how Angel would work. Third, when I started off the project I thought there might be multiple people replying and I could either have a different person playing Xander every turn or some kind of consensus decision, however given how helpful Rkimmeleree was I wasn't going to take the choosing away from him. However, if you'd like to compare the choices Rkimmeleree made to what you would do, you are welcome to have a look. You can only do a turn at a time because of programming issues that would take too long to explain. I hope in the future to have a version that can be played from beginning to end. Turn 4: https://mega.nz/#!i0ZhwApZ!uKPVmmLG2OLgxjqrPZKeiMjmC5zY32ejo9AkrtQP9d4 Turn 5: https://mega.nz/#!Sl5ngJbT!tnNcxRvnbUqZtPlJO6gxg4XkfCFGhQYkfRrLGn_bMow Turn 6: https://mega.nz/#!bggkzCRY!xRvkNFHPDA6RBfMg7EmttTpSFENNHIwmXNY88cGZ8As Turn 7: https://mega.nz/#!rpYwnJZR!yuQtbWscvBeyXAN9R1ZptBeLaEocBiqL4S_lSsdsk9Q Turn 8: https://mega.nz/#!DsJyHZzT!EletdFwN42ZEE6h8DdAvpLrfzAZ5qaOZeVptz4wPmjw Turn 9: https://mega.nz/#!qswDjSLB!0YGaAWyEGR1oMkeu6sXcyA-8U-NLUKSInD_I5fOpUp8 Turn 10: https://mega.nz/#!n9Bw3YTL!3tjcRAMTc9iIJZEeMwK9yuUyTk_mXOq2tbQg_3utPAw
It's not a problem, its just not reflective of the turn that rkimmelerre has been doing where his resources are more limited. If you want to use the testing mode just to see what all the options are, then its fine, if you want to do it to see the different possibilities/choices for how the story might move forward, you'd have to click the image at the bottom.
Hello G3ae, it sounds like that play was done in testing mode (which gives a lot of points to make anything possible), but thank you for giving it a try.
Here is story turn 2, along with the turn file for anyone interested. I'm also including turn 3, though this might not be the actual turn 3 used as I'm going to ask rkimmelerre to make some balance checks. Turn 2: https://mega.nz/#!ao4DlAxQ!z9lSdFXMN-71pGJXiYMvt1UkinTKLhUMv2HMqMbVV3I Turn 3: https://mega.nz/#!3xZ0jRrT!4UD1sfjMdWXblZNBKaGBD_365T-_o3US5BK6Xvy-kms
I'm going to keep the update short because I'm not sure if anyone is following along other than rkimmelerre at this point, and he gets plenty of updates via email. If people are actually following this, please let me know and I'll be happy to give more information about what is going on. Basics: We did the setup turn, then turn 1, then in my process of updating the game I made enough changes that we did turn 1 again, then we partially redid turn 0. I still have stuff to put into the game, but I don't think any of it will alter prior turns again. I'm including a mega link to the newer versions of turn 0 and turn 1 for those interested in seeing the choices that could have been made. The instructions page is way out of date. It is something I'll update if more people start looking at the game file. Things do not sink up perfectly in terms of choices/points cost, etc. That's a process of the going back and forth, but it is much more minor than I expected at this point of the design. Setup Turn: https://mega.nz/#!3tgnDLYS!-biqp4BariQFvFt8hme6nB_aN2pZvcqmlQzx502-PQE Turn 1: https://mega.nz/#!mpJE0DQI!vYRRpqx-Exr7Qt8TikK-Mmizztilla3s6fSfgJLngbM Here is also the rough draft of the story parts. I am considering how much length I am going to be given to scenes (both sex and non-sex). Currently I'm trying to keep it slim to encourage more of the overall story to get told. The in game parts are longer because of the providing of stats and information. I welcome feedback on the writing and/or the game design.
Turn 1 is kind of ready to go. There is a much higher chance that there are bugs present in this version than the last one and its possible I've made it way to easy or hard (though I doubt that will be evident for a few turns). If there is anyone playing along other than rkimmelerre, please let me know. A lot of details about the game have been communicated via email messages. I am also posting the story that will go up with turn zero. This is a rough draft. I may modify portions of the story before I actually put it up on the site. Some of the setup is just a rehash of the original story. The file is a little to large for the attachment rules, so here is a link to it being stored on mega. Hopefully I did the upload correctly. https://mega.nz/#!KhJTAY4I!Qk7gJXpBGNqLvOU1y1qMZa60-_Trzq3nmpSfONmoTRg
Good news: I have my first version of what Buffy: The Great Perverted Game would look like. Bad news: It's not complete, but I'm going with it for this "setup turn" unless people find it unusable. Game design is a process that starts off simple and then becomes increasingly difficult as you try to figure out how to piece everything together. There's quite a few additional things I would like to add to this at the moment, but they wouldn't change the appearance much and I'm planning to modify the engine after this turn. For rkimmelerre or anyone else interested in being the player: download the attached file (it's just an html (webpage) file, don't worry it doesn't require any other software), open it, play through, and you'll eventually get to an "end turn" that will give you instructions on what to copy and paste to send to me (either post it here or send it to the email address given in the file). Also, and this is optional, include what you think Xander's motivations were for making the choices he did. If you do that it might give me a clearer picture on what to type in the story, but like I said that's optional. There are some sections of the game that are currently listed as 'work in process'. I'm labeling this turn 0 for things that happen 'before the game'. There will be no negative effects on the game between this turn and the next. There shouldn't be any 'works in process' after this turn because there will be much less to program per turn. Golden Rule: I can retcon or change any choices made (both this turn or in the future). I don't want to do this and hope I get through the whole story without doing it being I'm the one giving the choices, but I have to state this as there is a possibility I will so badly mess something up that if I went with it then the story would be destroyed. This is just a warning that I don't plan to use, and if I do it is my fault, but better to state it now than later. Sex setup: This turn requires the player to set the sex options that the world will abide by. If too many are chosen I might have to cut them down. I'm not sure what "too many" would be as some are more difficult to implement than others. I may also add others if I think they will be something I will want to write. If you have an option you'd like implemented, feel free to suggest it, but whether I use i it or not will be dependent on my preferences (all option currently in are things I'm fine writing). I realize the description here, and in the posts above, may not have adequately explained what I was going for with this project of player input choices/me write them. Hopefully having the file will make it clearer. Bugs: I don't think there are any bugs that would dead-end the program at the moment. If you find any, please let me know. Buffy the Great Game Turn 0.html
Just want to update on the current status. I'm still very much working on this, its just taking a little longer to get together than I hoped. The issue primarily has to do with figuring out the numbers and programming. Because the theoretical goal is a self-contained game, I want/need to program in responses. As an example: if the player wanted to hunt vampires, and I rated that as a difficult action for 200 points, but the player first improved their skills, then the program has to spit back what it now costs with reduced numbers. That first took a while to figure out exactly what I wanted it to look like and then second actually getting it in. I'm currently working on that second part. In the future I will probably/inevitably treat this a little more like a tabletop rpg where I lay out the possible actions and difficulties based upon prior player action and then leave the decision making to the player(s). However, I want to at least get the look of a game at the start. It will be very far from an actual game, but I want a picture of the ultimate direction.
Rkimmeleree: thanks for your reply. If no one else comments or emails me (email@example.com) I'll be happy to have you as the player. I am giving it a few days as I recreate the structure of the game. One idea that has occurred to me since my initial post is that there could be different people who take the role of Xander in making choices per turn, instead of one person for the entire story. So even if you start as the player that doesn't lock you in. Yes and no. Basically I have four options (at least that I have thought of since I started writing this post). I start over and just put a note in the current story, "Hey, sorry, this plot got convoluted, story rebegins again at..." Just skip to the end of the story with "And then a lot of stuff happened and then..." because I know what the final part was supposed to be that explained why Xander would play multiple times A silly end that causes the system to restart. This could be Xander clicking the wrong button, a computer problem, etc. A sexy end were Xander just goes crazy and starts buying all the sex options he can. This wouldn't even be remotely keeping with the plot (as Xander has approached his decisions very seriously), but might be the most 'enjoyable' ending for the reader. Also, I never really explained why Xander would be playing multiple times/this being split between multiple stories (I mean my personal, not plot). There are two factors. The first is that I think the first couple sexual encounters are the best in the story. This is personal opinion and I'm not saying it applies to everyone, but when I read stories that have sex scenes were it is like the fourteenth orgy a character has been it, it becomes a bit stale. Thus I want to have some restarts so that the sex scenes might not be new to the Xander playing the game, but new to Xander the character. The second reason is more practical. I knew/know that I'm going to put in design elements that aren't going to work. I thought I would get through seven or eight turns of writing before this became evident, not three. Each time the story 'resets' there will likely be some modifications to the structure of the game as I see better ways to make it work. This gets into a larger plot element that I haven't reached a firm decision on: can characters within the game world die. Currently I'm leaning toward 'no' as it adds in a layer of complexity. Plot wise your ideas make perfect sense, they just don't really have a rule structure I could follow. Other than the intro, I'm planning on randomizing the plot quite a bit. In this story I knew the game would draw Willow as the party member with Buffy and Fred as unaligned to start. I'm not sure if I'll put the same characters in to start, whether I'll have different characters, if I'll randomiz it, or if I'll make a system that allows the reader to choose.. Also, even if it was the same options the reader could make different choices than I did and befriend Buffy right from the start. Ah, I probably wasn't clear enough because this isn't what I meant to convey. Let me try to clarify. In the story, for example, Xander meets Buffy and has the options of sex, flirt, friendly, normal, or embarrassing. Now I, as the author, always knew Xander was going to choose friendly because that's what the plan was. However I had to think of what else he could have chosen, what it would have cost, even though it was not going to happen. In what I am going towards I would write out the options and their costs and allow the reader to choose (I don't have a plan ahead of time, it is up to the reader at each step to provide directions). Then I would continue the story off of those choices. So the story will have what you are talking about, actually more so because all the options are actual possibilities. In the new version if there is an option available and the reader chooses it, then that is how I will continue the story. Hopefully I have cleared up what I mean.
The Great Perverted Game
Archer posted a topic in Threesome/MoresomeThis post is about my story The Great Perverted Game, why it got held up, how I want to go forward, and I how I would like others to be involved in that. Despite the recent update, I think the story unfortunately may be dead. I would like to continue the idea of the story (universe in which Xander is making decisions about what to do in a game and then living out those results), but to do that I think I'm going to have to start a fresh story. Starting fresh is not a horrible option because the plan all along (self-spoiler) was for Xander to have to play the game multiple times to actually 'win'. There are three problems that held up/have stopped the story: 1: I got pulled away from writing for a time and when I came back I forgot how I planned to get from the A to Z in the plot. I know how the story is supposed to end, but I can't remember what was supposed to happen between what I have written and how I get there. 2: It was overly complicated. While I doubt I'd ever be able to actually turn the story into a playable game, I liked the idea that it might at least be possible to do so. I put way too many possible actions in for this to be something that could happen. Part of the start over will be making a better structure. 3: A lot of what I was writing was unnecessary. In the story I would give Xander multiple options, though as the author I knew which one he was going to take. This may have been interesting to the reader ("I wonder what would have happened if he had approached Buffy in the beginning instead of on the second turn"), but it got boring for me to come up with possibilities that I knew wouldn't be used. I still enjoy the idea and want to move forward with it. I saw that Devil Duck had a post for the Shards of Reality story to get user input for what will happen next. I think that is a great idea and how I want to pursue the story. Instead of me making the decisions and writing the characters, I will put up the possible options and allow a reader(s) to make the choices. This leaves me with two options though. I could either have the choices made by the general group (based on forum posts) or I could have another person act as the 'player'. I'm leaning toward option 2, but would need someone to come in for that role (hopefully an author, but that isn't essential). So that's the update, I'd like to hear people's thoughts and whether they think the above idea would work out. If anyone would like to volunteer to be the player, please let me know.