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When... not if, when Blizzard finally pulls its head out of its rectum with a resounding, hot-dog smelling pop and introduces its D3 offline mode, I'll consider buying it.
Each month they fail to do so further solidifies my resolve to not give them money.
You hear that Blizzard? I'm holding my money hostage from you! Accede to my demands!
Here's hoping Torchlight 2 blows D3 out of the water.
This is a complicated issue for me personally, and honestly I feel both sides of the debate are both right and wrong.
First, the "whiners". No, I don't think they're whining, in a general sense, but theres two types of people here, theres people talking trash about the game who haven't even played or bought it, saying its garbage or "just bad" etc, and theres people who have and complain about legitimate issues. The game SHOULD have an offline mode, bottom line. It's not that difficult, you just have "offline" characters, and "online" characters, and cannot transfer them over from one to the next. I personally feel that the game is a SHIT load better online and played in public groups or with friends and feel that the online experience is truly where the game shines the brightest, but to only restrict it to online is pretty shameful of Blizzard. Letting players experience both options and choosing after would bring MORE customers.
You know the only reason they do it is because they want every single purchase of D3 to be a potential auction house user, because overtime that's going to make an extreme amount of money, and every "user" counts. Personally, I disagree with this, and they should give us access to both online and offline, and SHOW us WHY we want to play online through example.
Second, there's the people defending Blizzard. The cheating argument isn't a valid argument if you keep offline characters from logging into the game. That way, cheaters can just cheat by themselves if they must, but don't affect ANYTHING online. Also, think about how many customers they have missed out on by only doing online and its pretty astounding actually.
However, its my opinion that if you are reading this and you're still super bitter about the online only policy of D3, then you're missing out on an incredible experience. My friend lives in Thailand and has a very sub-par connection, but we have very little problems skyping and playing together. Even to play it solo is almost tragic and a very shallow experience compared to any-sized group online. The game is AMAZING, and is AMAZING on STEROIDS when played online. The entire experience was designed around it, which can be seen as a evil thing, but the online experience is a gameplay work of art, in my opinion. That said, the lag still need's to get a bit ironed out right now but is more then playable.
Also, I feel like I should say something about the launch too. I understand it wasn't the smoothest launch ever, but I still have to side with Blizzard PARTIALLY here, because the fact they even got it running at all is a technical achievement in its own right. I mean, were talking about a launch to the biggest selling PC game of all time, and servers were up and running an hour after launch. Of course, not perfect, but you have to consider how many people were all trying to cram into at once. The next day was bad, but again, think about HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO GET IN, its astounding the servers didn't explode and set all of Irvine on fire. Regardless of how you feel, technical limitations can only go so far. We have to give Blizzard a partial break here, in my opinion. We waited 11 years for this game, I don't think waiting for one extra day is going to kill anybody. Still that doesn't completely excuse them from it, because the people who just wanted to play it single player, w/o lag, should have been able to.
But again, It's still my opinion that I understand why Blizzard chose to have it online only, and for the most part, I agree with them. I don't think that excuses them from any criticism, because I still think there should have been an offline mode, but really, to me, its not the end of the world, considering its an amazing game, and even MORE amazing played online, which is the only way I would ever want to play this game, and really how it was meant to be played.
Should I? Well I'm not, too busy enjoying D3 to give a shit. How about not telling me what I should be mad at.
It is retarded to have to be online when playing a single player game.
You should only need a connection to play with others or to chat with people. But then chat should be separate from single playing.
It is not your fault if the server kicks you off. It's not fair losing exploration progress.
I rarely take a strong side on internet debates, but anyone who disagrees are fucking idiots.
If you can't see the irony of this, then, stop being what ever you are. L2Brain B4U opinion.
People who refuse to criticise that which they love is what divides fans and fan boys. Its cool if you over look somethings flaws and just enjoy it but denying that they exsist or trying to justify them is dumb, really dumb. I love Naruto but the things as flawed as an octuple amputee Octopus... blah, try saying that 8 times fast.
Diablo's trailers are awesome (no derp, its Blizzard), the monsters look badass and I havn't played a old school over head Fantasy RPG in like... ever! Might give it a go if this gets sorted, wanna bust up some demons as a monk, WOOPAH!
So diablo 3 isn't a single player game.
I am a huge fan of Diablo II.
And I will not buy a game that forces me to be online all of the time, and doesn't even offer a LAN mode.
That's exactly why I played Diablo II to begin with: The ability to play alone OR with friends. Battle.net was just a plus.
Edit: This hits it pretty damn hard on the head:
Just posting to say that I agree on every level, with all arguments presented in the video.
Nothing else needs to be said.
The gay porn and poo made this one of your best episodes to date. Thoroughly appitizing. I was thinking you could make a spin-off series based on these two subjects. Perhaps wear a mankini. Would you like that?
YES! Thank FUCK someone finally said, and so eloquently. Thank FUCK there's discussion and criticism about it. And thank GOD for jim sterling. Maybe he IS a god. Anyone ever thought of that?
I see so many times the infantile justifications on the SWTOR forums, fanboys that bash anyone that doesn't fucking praise the game. "LOLOL gobak 2 WOW!!1" they will say, with their grimy little fingers pounding away at the keyboard. YES, Diablo 3 has some experimental stuff in it. YES, it was bound to have lots of problems. Not a surprise at all that it did have problems really. Should they then be immune to criticism? Fuck no. If the release was shit, people should say "It had a shitty release," by no means does that mean the entire game is shit, it means that the release was shit.
I did not buy the game because of the always online DRM.
And I must admit that I do not feel as much sympathy as I should for my fellow gamers who bought the game for a lot of money and could not play it.
Can't people go back to moaning about Mass Effect 3?
Good stuff as usual, Jim.
There's already a ton of replies, but I also think that anyone complaining about the "always online" feature deserves to have the game not work. You knew this was coming ages ago, and yet you bought it anyway. I refuse to buy anything that requires a constant net connection to even enjoy my single player mode.
Good video again. I'm through with people defending ridiculous, and obviously bad practices because their own psychological short comings. It's okay to complain some times people, stop worrying whether someone will call you a whiner or whatever and make your fucking voice heard. Or... use your wallet, that tends to work better with corporations.
Guess what? I'm not angry at all! Ha ha, na na na poo poo!
I really am mature, aren't' I?
I gave this a standing ovation when it ended, but now everyone is just staring at me blankly. I really hope by some miracle Blizzard changes this because I won't buy it unless they do, and I really do want to play it.
Why should they? Mass Effect 3 does not have the shitty always-online requirement for it's SINGLE-PLAYER game! The only thing the internet is used for is to connect to all the other forms of ME3 (iOS and so on) in the COMPLETELY OPTIONAL "Galaxy at War" status meter which is not required to get to the shitty ending so many people have rightfully been making a fuss about!
On the other hand, Diablo III requires you to be constantly online for the game to work, if you go offline you are booted out of the game ENTIRELY! ME3's ending may be the devil but the Diablo III DRM is "worse than the devil if he was a pedophile". (Guess the referance!)
But WoW is an MMO. Arguably THE MMO. Diablo 3 is not. It's got an online multiplayer component in it, I will freely give you. But to say that zoning into a dungeon in WoW is the same as starting a new game in Diablo is silly because it overlooks the fundamental differences between the two games. If I want to play Diablo 3 single player(as I did with Diablo II) then I damned well better be able to do that any time I want because I shouldn't have to worry about server issues. The last thing I want to do is connect to a game ready for a 3 hour grind only to be kicked because the server shut down for some reason.
In short: WoW=MMO= Massive Multiplayer ONLINE
Diablo 3 is a singleplayer game with a multiplayer option. Just like Diablo 1 and 2. We done now? You keep posting your nonsense argument and no matter how many times you post it, it will never become the truth.
Thanks for the heads up on Dragon's Dogma.
OT: Couldn't agree more with you, Jim. Sometimes I feel like you're the only games journalist who still tries to be fair to us peasants.
I complained, they deleted my thread on their forums
Have you even played the game?
Every time you start a quest (click that big red button on the character select screen that says resume game) you are starting a multiplayer game. You can chose to open up the game to the public, to invite specific friends or play alone. This works exactly like the multiplayer mode in Diablo 1 and 2.
You do not have the option to choose a single player mode like you did in Diable 1 and 2. Show me where I can create a character that cannot, under no circumstances, be merged with the multiplayer mode.
It's good to see that someone knows what "entitled" means. There's a lot of gamers that need to realize that buying a game does actually entitle you to something...a game you can play for one.
And Peter Gabriel is a lunatic, but that's why we love him.
And they say Lady Gaga is original.
I did everything I could about the problem by refusing to purchase Diablo 3.
Arguing with other people on the internet on whether or not they should not have or should not buy the game is ultimately pointless. Fact. Another fun fact is you just can't protect people from themselves.
I had to give away another hobby of mine, Warhammer 40K because the company making the game, Games Workshop, hikes prices on a yearly basis and in doing so drives more people out of that hobby while putting a greater financial burden on the players that remain. Stupid people will do stupid things with their money and the more disposable income they have available the stupider those decisions tend to become.
What should be making people angry I think is that assuming gaming industry doesn't collapse under the weight of it's own hubris like it did back in the eighties, people who start playing games now will play games with the expectation that online DRM comes as standard regardless of whether the game has a significant online portion or not. We should really know better, because we know how things should be but those that come after us will suffer the consequences of our utter lack of a backbone.
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Chimp's Vaginal Cyst. Fucking epic.
Thanks Jim, made my week.
God bless you, Jim. And people here complain about you taking Extra Credit's place!
I have some sympathy for the seventeen people who didn't realize what an MMO-style launch does to login servers when a game is extremely popular and what an online only experience they'd be getting. The rest of you are getting what you deserve.
Complaining isn't going to do jack compared to what you could have done by not purchasing or playing their product. There's a reason I'm not attaching a Diablo 3 guest pass to my b.net account, nor would I add the full game if it were given to me. Large companies do not pay heed to idle threats of 'I will never purchase your product again.' Fewer still that run an MMO; there is no more resounding a chorus of empty threats than that which accompanies every crash, restart, patch and maintenance period. Fifty seven billion people have resolved never to play Everquest again, I shudder to think how many have made the same claim about WoW. Conviction is a necessity if you care.
I am happy I watched this. I was on the edge about buying Diablo III and now I have a great way of deciding whether I should or not. I will not buy Diablo III until the always online component is taken out by Blizzard. If that never happens, I will never buy the game, as soon as it does Blizzard can count on a purchase from me. I will also contact Blizzard saying this in hopes that many others will and Blizzard will listen.
I think that's his point. He is saying that if you want a single player experience(I know I do) it HAS to be online. Which is the problem. If you only want to play by yourself, you shouldn't need the internet connection. And you HAVE to be online regardless of if you want to be or not, which is unlike Diablo II. There it was a choice to be online and be subject to lag and servers going down. You could just click and go, and totally ignore battlenet. Not so much in Diablo 3 which irks me to no end.
The problem is not multiplayer exists, so much as single player in a true sense, does not exist because you can't play without being logged into battlenet.
At least I can play skyrim or new vegas anytime i want even with some crahses that can be fixed thanks to the modding community. Diablo III had some of my hopes up and slaughtered them down with the messy release on the servers, hacking into people's accounts to loot others gold/weapons.
Spoiled entitled brats... (not this community, but the masses)
But seriously.... grow the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!1111!!!1!!!1111!!!!1
You are only buying the service, not buying the game. Service is second to your fucking tears.
You are entitled to bitch and complain. But since the world is full of pirate asshats... you have to deal with it.
You only have yourselves to blame 'PC community'. Don't pretend it isn't your fault
Reap what you sow damn it.
*feels great about your plight
Maybe when these things kiss your ass, you may like them more... you
Remember when you judged a game for it being a game? People born in the 80's and 90's have failed us in that regard. It's all about 'you' now, isn't it?
Gaming wouldn't exist, if it was like this back in the day.
*double face palm sigh
There really isn't much to add to what Jim said. Gating single player behind a login screen is inexcusable, end of discussion. I don't give a toss that my computer spends 99% of its time connected to the internet, the act itself is utterly superfluous, and as we have seen, it can render the game completely unplayable. I don't mind additional bells and whistles that require a connection, but the core single player experience should be playable anywhere, anytime without the player having to ask themself "Shit, will I be able to log in?" That's not entitlement, that's how video games have worked for the majority of their fucking existence, and any move away from that is a step backwards. Jim summed it up beautifully - if you let developers/publishers shit in your mouth, they will keep shitting in your mouth. Businesses will always do what they think/know they can get away with, and they will continue to push the envelope in this regard. If you let publishers get away with bullshit like always-online single player, guess what they'll keep doing?
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to unplug my router and play some Diablo 2, because I can.
EDIT: It has just occurred to me that if Battle.net were to suffer a PSN-style meltdown then maybe, just maybe some of the misguided Blizzard apologists will finally begin to understand what Jim is on about.
You know, the thought occurs to me.
You have to be a decently smart person to program a game. You have to be business saavy enough to get backing, coordinate the teams, put the product together and ship it. You have to understand your audience to know exactly what they want in order to give it to them.
To plan all of that out and not understand that there will be at least 80% of your audience who will hate your decision is nigh impossible. Especially since the same amount of people complain about the very subject a number of times.
So why do it? Maybe those odd comments on the rise about being a hacker or a cracking the game is the desired response.
Think about it. Game disturbers now have an iron grip on their product. How many sign ins do you have to play your games? And yes, PSN and Xbox live counts. Are there many games that you play that doesn't involve any type of sign in? They are collecting your data and this and that, all the stuff we heard before to better market to you.. and hey, sometimes to sell your info. But that was discovered and instead of fessing up that it's great business sense to have people limited to the amount of product you wish to give them... they redirected.
They have reasons to do this because they were stolen from. Pirates. They needed more control because of Pirates. Pirates will destroy the gaming world, even if Steam puts up revenue in the billions. That's not enough. Could be more. Pirates... All PC users are pirates, remember? They make us jump through hoops, and now I'm starting to feel the hope is that they do create more pirates so they can say things like this:
'Hey, you. Consumer who paid for our product. do you know other people didn't? We know you paid for our product because of x, y, and z... but you might not in the future. Sounds weird? Well, I need to be sure that you never do what you haven't done before. I need you to sign oaths promising me you won't do this. You'll also have to let us search your computer to make sure you never do it. And you'll have to sign in to us every time to make sure you're not these guys... Even though if you bought it once, you probably wouldn't delete it to install a free one. And even if you did, it wouldn't really effect us because hey, you already gave us money.'
We've seen it before. Bush government was found to wire tap. All of a sudden, we were burdened with plots and threats and terror alert fluctuations... people started to get mad at others questioning what the government was doing to keep us safe. So what if your and my rights are being tampered with. There were attacks. There are people who hate us. Let them into your life so I know you're not a terrorist and I don't have to worry about the attacks.
That's what I equate people who excuse and fight for the game publishers. These are the people who screamed down those who were rightfully appalled that the government has been keeping tabs on you for reasons that were never clear. they willingly give up their civil rights because they were afraid, or have 'nothing to hide'. Yeah, that's right. there's nothing to hide. They were never near any of these acts or events...
Ok, so why are they turning the light to you in the first place? Did Government just see a great oppurtunity to gather info and then have a get out of jail free card? Possibly. Are pirate the Game publishers get out of jail free card? Absolutely.
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There are some films out there that are best kept as mysteries until you're sitting in the theater as the lights go down. Sometimes you need to skip the trailer, ignore clips and plot synopses, and just let the story unfold as it should on the big screen. Park Chan-wook's Stoker is one of these films. It's not about major reveals and big twists, but rather than the movie centers more on characters, filmmaking and the finest details, than a sweeping, broad story.
As a result, it's a challenge to discuss Stoker with any depth without giving too much away, and one that I faced personally when I had the chance to sit down one-on-one with star Matthew Goode to talk about the film back in late January. So now that the film has had its first weekend in limited release, I'd love to share our spoiler-laden conversation with all of you.
Check out our extended conversation below, in which Goode discusses the damaged psychology of Uncle Charlie, his secret obsession, why he hates watching horror films, and how he reflects on Zack Snyder's Watchmen four years later.
FINAL SPOILER WARNING: This is your last chance to not be spoiled about Stoker. Read at your own risk!
So, I've got to say...one of the things that I actually, just kind of to kick things off, one of the things that I really loved about this movie is that it doesn't play in black and white. There's a lot up for kind of viewer interpretation and kind of it doesn't necessarily answer every question. It leaves it up for the audience to understand.
I like that too.
But one thing I'm kind of curious about your performance in that sense is when you're approaching the material and approaching the character, do you make your own interpretations of what everything means or are you going to Wentworth Miller and going to Director Park and kind of...
I never met Wentworth. I'd like to talk with him about this, and I thought he would come to Sundance, it would have been… maybe I'll meet him at the premiere. Whenever you read something you have your own interpretation. And I think it was one of those scripts that you can, you know, you can really see the film in your mind's eye a little bit and you can certainly, you know it's been directed by Director Park. You see that adds another layer of sort of macabre visuals into it for you. But we talked about it extensively. It was my kind of rehearsal, because I don't really like getting it up on its feet straight away, especially because normally you rehearse in a hotel room or something, or a place that isn't the set, so certainly it just feels weird taking your rehearsal into somewhere, it's all different. So, I talked extensively with Director Park. He's just a joy to collaborate with really, and through those discussions actually were little bits and ideas that went into the film and you kind of think, it's good for one's own self-respect as an actor. You kind of think, you have good days at the office. And I had a few good days at the office, so it was nice. But then obviously, the film finishes and you go, "I don't know what I'm doing!" I'm plagued with self-doubt! The thing for us, because the film thematically as a whole, is about the idea of bad blood, in a sense. It's about this genetic predisposition in the family blood line to do these...
Monstrous, monstrous things.
...monstrous, naughty things. And obviously there is because obviously the way that the father tries to keep her power in drive, by stopping her from doing worse things by hunting, which is odd, but we get it. We really get it! But so, for me, you have to make your characters have the layers, so it's sort of three dimensional, so it's not... but as you said, which I think is bang on, it lives with you afterward...
I saw it on Tuesday and I'm still coming down.
We explored him fully, but there's less stuff left out. So there's a mystery and we just wanted...there's pivotal scene for me, that was the flashback with Dermott [Mulroney] and you know…cause there's bits of it we see. He's a kind of man-child. It's a coming of age drama for Mia's character and yet at the same time there's this guy who's locked as an eight-year-old, you know, in some senses he's been completely detached. I mean, they're all detached, because we don't really know where it's set or what time it is and that's why it plays as a kind of wonderful, gothic fairy tale, a fucked up fairy tale. But I wanted the childlike innocence to this character who is not innocent in any which way and at the same time he is and then he kind of has his first kiss with Nicole [Kidman]'s character and so that was part of the sort of cycle of the investigation of where he might be as a character, but in this wonderful operatic framework, it allowed us to be hopefully, quite subtle.


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If you want to build a theme park, the safest place to start is by doing a feasibility study. This study will tell you what kind of market your park will draw upon, what kind of attendance you can expect, and therefore how big to make the park. Now, this is sort of a Catch 22, because unless you have some idea of the type and quality level of the attraction you plan to build, you can't really pin down how many people will visit it. But given that you have some general idea of what you want to do, a good feasibility study can narrow down the parameters about what you should plan.
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The money guys will use this feasibility study to help them figure out if you are going to make a buck on the park, or go broke. There are two key factors here: your total attendance per year, and the per capita income you can expect from each guest. A lot of this depends on what kind of attractions you have, and how long you can entertain the guests. At a big theme park, like the Magic Kingdom or Universal Studios, there's more to experience than you can do in one day, so you can charge more for a ticket, and people will spend more on food and merchandise because they stay longer. At a small park, it works the other way.
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Oakland is a district in Pittsburgh east of Downtown. In it are many of the hospitals that serve Pittsburgh and most of the colleges and universities.
Get in
From downtown one takes Forbes Avenue east which is a one-way street that leads directly to Oakland. There are frequent PAT buses as well as this is a heavily travelled route.
Although Oakland is essentially a location for schools and hospitals, there are many things to see and do there. Perhaps the most interesting for visitors is The Carnegie Library and Museums. There are three major sections in a single large building along Forbes Avenue:
There is a concentration of different colleges and universities in Oakland that is perhaps only rivalled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These include, most notably, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, but there are many others, large and small, public and private.
Put some twenty thousand college students in a small urban area and you can be sure you won't go hungry. Or thirsty. If you've outgrown college food and college bars there are also a number of very good restaurants in the area.
There is always The O. The place for some of the best fries in Pittsbugh. All along Craig St. are restuarants ranging from chinese and middle eastern to Subway.
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More importantly, life processes that are inexplicable according to biochemistry have been either ignored or misinterpreted. As a result, medical science has abandoned the central rule of all science, which is revision in light of new data. In many ways medical science has been frozen in time by looking for more and more chemical solutions for problems that are not chemical in origin. As a consequence, the discoveries that have kept physics so vital have not occurred in medicine.
The search for a cancer cure illustrates this tunnel vision. The battle against cancer in 1974 was being waged with $270 million. Today the budget has grown to over $6 billion and, using more and more complex and toxic chemical weapons, we are not winning the war. After so many years and millions of dollars spent for negligible results, it is still assumed that the cure for cancer will be a chemical. On every level, this approach is becoming more and more disastrous.
Conventional medicine has always put the emphasis on crises intervention, and that is where it is most successful. We are the best in the world when battling disease with surgery and drugs. With acute illness, high tech medicine outperforms any alternatives as far as speed of effectiveness.
However, illness in this country has shifted from being predominantly acute to chronic. Degenerative diseases, heart attacks, arteriosclerosis, cancer, stroke, arthritis, hypertension, ulcers, and others, have replaced infectious diseases as our primary health problem.
The newly organized Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institute of Health is spearheading the exploration of a wide range of alternative approaches. Many of these efforts are aimed at chronic diseases for which conventional allopathic medicine and biochemical solutions have been least effective. Even insurance companies are beginning to reimburse some alternative modalities, because they help them where they hurt...in their pocketbooks.
Dr. James Gordon, a clinical professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Georgetown Medical School, Director of the Center for Mind-Body Studies in Washington, D.C. and Chairman of the Advisory Council to the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine, stated in an editorial published in the Washington Post that The surgical and pharmacological remedies that modern biomedicine has developed are potent and effective in emergencies, but for most chronic illnesses they are little more than palliative. And all too often, both surgical and pharmacological treatments are used inappropriately, produce significant and deleterious side effects and are overpriced.
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A wild little Italian chiller from the early 60s directed by Mario Bava, The Whip and the Body has ghosts, insanity, aristocratic incest, and the wonderful color and style that's always a trademark of the maestro's horror works.
The frenetic plotline maps out like this: a young Christopher Lee is dashingly handsome as the black sheep of a decaying aristocratic family who reappears at just the wrong time for everyone involved. His younger brother is married to their cousin (who is also Chris's former lover!), but is also having an affair with a young housemaid, whose mother despises Chris for having driven her eldest daughter (the housemaid's sister) to suicide!
Their father, the Count, is an invalid who has disowned Chris, but Chris has vowed to challenge the old man's will and is sure he will win as the firstborn (and thus entitled) son of the count.
After a day or two of whipping his old lover into a frenzy (both figuratively and literally) and irritating his brother and father to no end, Chris is unexpectedly found dead--murdered!--with the very knife the housemaid's daughter used to kill herself! Problem solved, right?
WRONG! Soon the increasingly unhinged former lover is seeing Chris's corpse stalking the castle in the moonlight, and is even subjected to the sado-masochistic whipping of her life and his undeath, which is apparently something they were both into. Is Chris back from the dead, or is something else going on here?
It all leads up to a pretty effective ending, as I recall, but I admit to being hammered when the end credits rolled. :) This is a lesser-known Bava film that shows all his trademark atmospheric use of color and strange plots. The seaside castle setting is used wonderfully, and there is some great 60s Italian eye candy here, though I can't help thinking it would have blown the top off the awesome-meter if Barbara Steele had played Chris's lover instead of the lovely but less mesmerizing Daliah Lavi. Still, there's plenty of creepiness with Chris's corpse on walkabout, and the whipping scene is quite arousing if you're into that--and who isn't, eh? Nice little perverse Italian period chiller. 2.5 thumbs.
Bonus: Chris often cites this as one of his favorite of his many screen roles.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Whip and the Body (1963): or, When a Dead Guy Comes Along, You Must Whip It!
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 9:50 AM
Labels: '60s, Capsule reviews, Christopher Lee, Italian Terrors, Mario Bava, Old Dark House
5 comments:
- Karswell said...
This is a good film. I remember seeing it as a kid under the title "What" on Creature Feature late one Saturday night. I can also remember an Abbott & Costello "Who's on First?" type moment at school the following week when I was trying to ask my friends if they watched WHAT and what they thought. What? Yeah, what? What movie? Exactly. What are you talking about? Right! What? Yes, did you watch it? What? Yes.
- March 22, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
- March 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- Karswell said...
Third base...
- March 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM
- Pearl said...
I have heard that there is an r-rated version of this maravelous film floating around. About fifteen years ago I bought a ragtag VHS copy from Sinister Cinema. Can anybody help me?
- June 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Hi Pearl!
I'm not sure about an alternate version--I admit the copy I had was a public domain "2-for-a-dollar" type I got at a local bargain store. The imdb page (here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057078/) says something about a region 2 PAL release that is "complete," but the included scenes don't sound like they'd push the movie up a rating.
However, FWIW the imdb also lists this as "unrated" in the US and "X" in the UK, originally.
Maybe it'll wind up on the next Bava box set!
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EDGE - Sunlight pierces the ragged gap between two avenues of trees lining the steadily climbing road. Trial Mountain's long back straight is a rare chance to breathe, providing relief after the twists of the track's canyon section, a rock-walled succession of unforgiving hairpins that will punish careless corner-clipping and scanty braking.
No other racing game elicits such poetic rhetoric. It may have fallen out of favour with critics but nothing else, short of getting behind the wheel of a real racing car, captures the spirit of racing as elegantly as the Gran Turismo series.
Gran Turismo 5 is best racing-simulator i've played this gen
yep those standard cars interior wow looks so real.its amazing.and no game can sim better then a pc.
Everytime GT5 boots up, it gives me feelings of anticipation and giddyness that I thought I lost as a gamer,(45 year old gamer since '77). It shows so much automobile love, its an incredible title!


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Breaking News: Usher Has Changed His Name to Üsher
Well, not quite. But Usher made a surprise guest appearance on 'Night News Now,' a hilarious news parody on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.' The R&B crooner played Fallon's new German political correspondent Üsher (pronounced Eww-shur).
Wearing a fabulous blonde wig, Usher explained — in his worst German accent — how President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney can win their electoral campaigns. The answer: a dance-off on the new XBox video game 'Dance Central 3.'
Now, we don't know how well Obama and Romney can do the cabbage patch, but this sounds like a fantastic idea. Whoever can do the 'Crank That' dance better wins the presidency!
All jokes aside, Usher, who could probably out-dance Barry and Rom-Rom blindfolded, begins to demonstrate some winning dance moves for the candidates. First, he shows us the simple "row-your-boat" move. He then follows that with the "get-it-in and "get-it-out" move, which looks like a variation of the Patrick Swayze. Hey! No one puts Baby in a binder, darn it!
The final step, which Usher calls the "passing move" is when both candidates must make a promise to dance from 9 until "Drei" (that's "three" in German). Danke, Usher!
We don't think President Obama or Mitt Romney will heed Usher's advice. But it should give them a chuckle or two. As for Üsher's new gig, don't quit your day job.


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Tibetan burns himself to death in China: reports
A Tibetan man burnt himself to death in protest against Chinese rule, reports and Western rights groups said Thursday, bringing the total to have set themselves on fire to at least 101.
US-based Radio Free Asia said the man, Lobsang Namgyal, who it described as a former monk from the Kirti monastery, self-immolated last week near a police station in Aba prefecture, a Tibetan area of Sichuan province in southern China.
"He ran toward the police station, calling out slogans with his body on fire, and died at the scene," it cited exiled Tibetan monks as saying. "Police then cremated his remains and handed them over to his family."
The 37-year-old was one of a family of four brothers and four sisters and was detained and harassed last year by police, it cited the exiles as saying.
The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet described him as a monk and said he was "known as a serious and exceptional scholar". The first Tibetan to set himself on fire was also from Kirti monastery, it added.
Many Tibetans in China accuse the government of religious repression and eroding their culture, as the country's majority Han ethnic group increasingly moves into historically Tibetan areas.
The report takes the number of ethnic Tibetans to have set themselves on fire since 2009 to 101, after an exile turned himself into a ball of fire on Wednesday in front of the Boudhanath Stupa, a Buddhist monument in Kathmandu. At least 84 have died, tallies show.
Stephanie Brigden, director of the London-based campaign group Free Tibet, said: "This grim milestone should be a source of shame to the Chinese authorities who are responsible and to the world leaders who have yet to show any leadership in response to the ongoing crisis in Tibet.
"China employs brutal repression, propaganda and bribery to no avail: protest and resistance will continue as long as the Tibetan people are denied their freedom."
Beijing rejects criticism of its rule, saying Tibetans enjoy religious freedom and pointing to huge ongoing investment it says has brought modernisation and a better standard of living to Tibet.
Authorities have sought to crack down on the gruesome protests by arresting those it accuses of inciting them and prosecuting them for murder, and have embarked on a major publicity drive on the issue in recent weeks.
Beijing routinely accuses the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and his "clique" of inciting such acts to push a separatist agenda.
The Dalai Lama, who says he is not seeking Tibetan independence but greater autonomy, fled his homeland in 1959 after a failed uprising. He has since based himself in the Indian hill town of Dharamshala.
RFA also said that a Tibetan woman had set herself on fire in Beijing in September after officials in Sichuan province refused to allow her to keep her ancestral home, adding that she had not previously been included in lists of Tibetan self-immolators.


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Robin Williams to play "Mrs. Doubtfire" again?
Robin Williams could be set to reprise his role as 'Mrs. Doubtfire'.
The 62-year-old actor and Chris Columbus, who directed the original 1993 hit comedy, are both attached to a sequel with the script being penned by 'Elf' writer David Berenbaum, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Williams starred as a struggling actor and recently divorced father of three in 'Mrs. Doubtfire', who, in order to spend more time with his children, posed as a Scottish nanny named Euphegenia Doubtfire.
The film was a huge success, earning $219 million domestically and $222 million internationally, with Williams also winning a Golden Globe for best actor in a musical/comedy while 'Mrs. Doubtfire' itself won the Golden Globe award for best comedy/musical.
Although the idea of a sequel has been discussed since 2001, when Bonnie Hunt was enlisted to pen a script, Columbus and Williams never felt any of the drafts by Hunt or other writers were strong enough.
However, the project is said to have become active again earlier this year when Berenbaum became involved.
Columbus is currently in pre-production on his latest movie 'Pixels' starring Adam Sandler, while Williams will be appearing in 'The Angriest Man in Brooklyn' next month and is the star of the series 'The Crazy Ones'.


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The Durango Heralds March 2 and 5 contrail articles not only misidentified the trail, but reveals how the government denies its convert operations.
My family has watched these chemtrails not contrails being formed in multiple designs and shapes throughout the Animas Valley and Durango sky over the last 13 years.
A normal jet contrail is basically water crystals that quickly dissipate within a short distance behind the aircraft. Chemical trails chemtrails remain in the sky for many hours as they spread out, eventually covering the entire sky, unless wind disturbs the trails, giving them a feathered cloud appearance. Sometimes, the chemtrail will appear to have bubbles hanging from it described as a pearl necklace, or as if the trail is leaking. Most of the time, the chemicals in these lingering trails give off rainbow colors on the edge, or in a cloud ball of bright light. Approximately two weeks after heavy spraying, the people in these areas come down with unimaginable various physical illnesses.
The March incident was not 15 miles west as the article indicates. From the valley, we watched the jet as it became visible over the east mountains, made its circle and disappeared over the west mountains certainly not west of here.
Besides the Durango area, we have documented an alarming increase in chemtrail spraying throughout America during our extensive travels. For more than 20 years, we have researched and studied the phenomenon, starting at seminars in Denver.
As far back as the late 1940s, the United States government sprayed parts of eastern Canada without the countrys knowledge or consent. This unauthorized chemtrail spraying came close to starting a war between the United States and Canada.
An excellent source covering detailed facts about this subject is right here in Bodo Industrial Park. Call 259-4100 for a copy of Poison from the Sky: The Contrails Crisis, found in the January 2000 issue of The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor.
It is time the American people stand up to the government and force it to take responsibility for the biochemical attacks being committed against its citizens.
Len McDermitt


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Before you create a partnership between two clusters, you must configure Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software for secure communication between the two clusters. The configuration must be reciprocal. For example, you must configure the cluster cluster-paris to trust the cluster cluster-newyork, and you must also configure the cluster cluster-newyork to trust the cluster cluster-paris.
Ensure that the following conditions are met:
The cluster on which you want to create the partnership is running.
The geoadm start command has already been run on this cluster and the partner cluster. For more information about using the geoadm start command, see Enabling the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Infrastructure.
The cluster name of the partner cluster is known.
The host information of the partner cluster is defined in the local hosts file. The local cluster needs to know how to reach the partner cluster by name.
Become superuser on a cluster node.
Import the public keys from the remote cluster to the local cluster.
Run the following command on one node of the local cluster to import the keys from the remote cluster to one node of the cluster.
# geops add-trust -c remotecluster
Specifies the logical hostname of the cluster with which to form a partnership. The logical hostname is used by Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software and maps to the name of the remote partner cluster. For example, a remote partner cluster name might resemble the following:
When you use this option with the add-trust or remote-trust subcommand, the option specifies the alias where the public keys on the remote cluster are stored. An alias for certificates on the remote cluster has the following pattern:
Keys and only keys that belong to the remote cluster should have their alias match this pattern.
For more information about the geops command, refer to the geops(1M) man page.
Repeat the preceding steps on a node of the remote partner cluster.
Verify trust from one node of each cluster.
# geops verify-trust -c remotecluster
Configure and join the partnership. See Chapter 5, Administering Cluster Partnerships, in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.
To remove a partnership between two clusters, see How to Remove Trust Between Two Clusters in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.


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2011-12: Enters his senior year coming off a solid junior campaign after returning from an ACL injury ... is looking to reestablish himself as a key cog in the Spartan rotation ... has continued to work very hard both on his game and his body ... is a relentless worker that has put in tremendous time in the weight room and on the court ... has a great work ethic that will enable him to become a front court force for the Spartans ... is a player that is strong in the paint, especially defensively ... is a good post defender that is also an outstanding defensive rebounder ... will be an important part of the Spartan front court rotation as a senior.
2010-11: Played in and started all 26 games for the Spartans in the frontcourt ... averaged 4.0 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 22.4 minutes per game ... shot 42.7% from the floor and 53.7% from the free throw line ... tallied a season-high 10 points in the January 12 win over Hood ... reached the scoring column in all but two games during the year while he pulled down at least one rebound in every game during the year ... grabbed a season-high eight rebounds in the January 29 contest at Hood ...
2009-10: Missed the season due to an injury.
2008-09: Played in all 26 games, earning a start in 12 of those contests ... averaged 19.3 minutes, 5.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game ... shot 50%?from the floor for the year while he converted 66.7% of his free throw attempts ... established a career-high of 15 points in the February 18 win over Gallaudet as he went 6-for-8 from the floor and 3-for-4 from the free throw line ... established a career-high with 13 rebounds in the December 6 game against Stevenson ... scored in double figures three times with all three times coming in the last eight games of the year ... recorded a double-double on January 28 against Hood with 10 points and 12 rebounds ... handed out 21 assists, blocked two shots and recorded 15 steals during the year ... shot over 50%?from the floor in 14 games ... went 18-for-26 from the floor over the final six games of the year.
2007-08: Finished the year playing in 13 games as he came off the bench in all his appearances ... finished the season averaging 0.8 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 3.8 minutes per game ... had his best game of the year on January 4 against Eastern as he had a season-high six points on 3-of-5 shooting in six minutes of action while he also pulled down three rebounds ... he pulled down three rebounds twice to establish his season-high.
Personal: Is the son of Gerald and Ruth Pawlyk ... born on July 25, 1989 ... is a Business major ... played for Dan Haughney at Tulpehocken High School.
2010-11 Spartan Season Statistics
2010-11 Spartan Career Statistics


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Struggling Fisher Cats defeated againStaff Report
April 19. 2014 8:05PM
Base hits didn't come easy for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats during Saturday's 3-2 Eastern League loss to the Binghamton Mets at NYSED Stadium.
The Fisher Cats were held to four hits in the game, and saw their record fall to 5-9.
It was a 2-2 game until the bottom of the eighth, when Binghamton shortstop Matt Reynolds scored on a Matt Clark single to give the Mets a lead they wouldn't relinquish. Reynolds had four hits in the victory, which improved Binghamton's record to 9-5.
The Fisher Cats had the game-tying run on base in the ninth, but Chase Bradford was able to collect his third save of the season.
Binghamton starter Rainy Lara allowed two hits and one run in six innings, but Josh Church picked up the win for pitching two innings of relief.
Jack Murphy's solo home run in the seventh was the offensive highlight for the Fisher Cats. The home run, Murphy's first of the season, made it a 2-2 game. Murphy had two of New Hampshire's four hits.New Hampshire reliever Richard Bleier took the loss. Bleier allowed one run on three hits in 2 2/3 innings.
Deck McGuire started on the mound for the Fisher Cats. He held Binghamton to two runs on six hits in five innings. He struck out five and walked one.


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Get the latest from TODAY
You know which colleges rank highly for academics and status. But what about the most beautiful campus? Or the most robust financial aid?
Here are the Princeton Review's top five picks in the categories that make college years the best years in life. Find the full lists in their new book, "The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition," out now.
Best athletic facilities:
1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
2. University of Maryland — College Park, College Park, Md.
3. United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
4. Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind.
5. The Ohio State University — Columbus, Columbus, Ohio
Best campus food:
1. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
2. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
3. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
4. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
5. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
Best career services:
1. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
2. Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
3. Pennsylvania State University — University Park, University Park, Pa.
4. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
5. Barnard College, New York, N.Y.
Best health services:
1. University of California — Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.
2. Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.
3. United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
4. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
5. Pennsylvania State University — University Park, University Park, Pa.
Best professors:
1. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
2. Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif.
3. Reed College, Portland, Ore.
4. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Mass.
5. Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
Dorms like palaces:
1. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
2. Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Md.
3. Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
4. Bennington College, Bennington, Vt.
5. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo.
Great financial aid:
1. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
2. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
3. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
4. Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
5. New College of Florida, Sarasota, Fla.
Happiest students:
1. Rice University, Houston, Texas
2. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C.
3. Brown University, Providence, R.I.
4. Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
5. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Most beautiful campus:
1. Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fla.
2. Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Ore.
3. University of California — Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif.
4. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
5. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Top party schools:
1. Ohio University — Athens, Athens, Ohio
2. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
3. University of Mississippi, University, Miss.
4. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
5. University of California — Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Top stone-cold sober schools:
1. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
2. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
3. Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.
4. United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn.
5. United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.


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10 Apps to Make Your Trip to Los Angeles More Heavenly
When the bone-chilling winds howl and the snowfall persists without end in sight, it's easy to begin daydreaming about a holiday to somewhere warmer. Now is a pleasant (and more affordable) time to visit Los Angeles, a city where winter means low 70 degree weather with evenings warmer than my daytime temperatures. But with its massive sprawl and distinctively different neighborhoods, cracking the City of Angels can be tough for a first time visitor. But it's never been easier when loaded up with apps on your smartphone to help you navigate LA's freeway arteries, discover her best eateries, and experience the sights and sounds beyond the typical...
Getting Around & Accommodations
Hotel Tonight
Sometimes travel plans fall through and you find yourself without accommodations. Or perhaps you've come to LA or any other city on a whim without making plans. If this situation happens to you, Hotel Tonight could come in handy. The app offers last minute hotel room options at affordable rates, with a wide range of accomodations. The easy to navigate interface makes finding a place to stay in dire situations as cool as the breeze off the Pacific. Free
Also available for Android
City Maps & Shopping Guide
Los Angeles Way
Who doesn't want to experience a little of LA and Hollywood's glitz and glamor while visiting the first time? If shopping is on your wishlist, Los Angeles Way can direct you to LA's hottest boutiques and haute couture fashion, providing directions, maps, and transportation information to LA's most desirable shopping districts. Free
Also available for iOS
Tourist Attractions
ArtConcierge Los Angeles
With the stunning hilltop Getty Museum, MOCA, LACMA, UCLA Hammer, and countless smaller galleries abound in neighborhoods like Culver City and Downtown, there is plenty for the culturally inclined to enjoy while in LA. ArtConcierge has a finger on the pulse of LAs art scene, detailing the latest gallery exhibits, art fairs, and special events happening now. I especially like how easy it is to tag galleries and events so you know when and where you need to be before you even take off. Free
Wine and Dine:
Looking for a fine dining experience while in LA, but don't want to rack up roaming fees while trying to nail a reservation on a busy evening? Savored, in partnership with OpenTable and Zagat, will not only save a table for you at a wide array of five star restaurants, but offers discounts for using their service. Free
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Free Wifi Finder
Staying connected while on a vacation can be an expensive endeavor. While some hotels offer free wireless connection, you don't want to be stuck with a massive phone bill upon returning from a holiday. Free Wifi Finder is an offline wi-fi database to help you find hotspots throughout the city so you can message friends, send pictures, tweet, upload Instagrams, or update Facebook. Free
Also available for Android - Equivalent for Windows Phone
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eujin wrote:I'll take a stab at this one.
Continuity is important, but it's also important why you support a team. If your only reason is that they are the local team and they move to the other end of the country then that goes away. If you live on the other side of the world though, that might be less important. If you support them because your dad supported them, and your dad supported them while they were in another city, then maybe you carry on. Or if your third cousin still plays left-back. If you support them because of the way they are run, stick with the same manager for twenty years policy or their no-catholics, only players from the Basque country values, then there's probably some room to move about. If Rangers move to a new stadium in Coatbridge, most of their fans in Northern Ireland could probably live with that, because sectarianism transcends south Glasgow. If the club moves with you to a new place because Stalin has booted you all out then probably you start supporting them more. It probably matters a lot what your friends think. If they're all outraged, it's harder to keep going, whatever their reasons are.
There are also a bunch of reasons why you might give up supporting a team even if they don't move. We almost saw this with the Gyeongnam boys giving up on their team because they started fixing matches and running the club into the ground.
Don't disagree with any of this but it doesn't really go to the question about club identity. You can support who you like for whatever reason you like and I don't really buy into this snobbery of real fans and not real fans.
The Ansan boys have supported about four different clubs now but the team they suppprted moved and was replaced. What is the continuation there? Which one would an Ansan Otto stick with? Seems like he should move to support Asan. But that would seem a bit odd.


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Colts take S Boyett from Oregon
April 27, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis has selected Oregon safety John Boyett in the 6th round of the NFL draft.
The 5-foot-9, 204 pound Boyett is the first Colts pick outside the offensive or defensive line.
The 192 overall pick Saturday spent three full seasons with the Ducks and appeared in just one game during his senior season after having season-ending surgery to repair injuries to the knee.
Indy selected defensive end Bjoern Werner, offensive linemen Hugh Thornton and Khaled Holmes, and defensive tackle Montori Hughes with their first four picks.
The Colts also had the 24th and 48th picks in the seventh round.