“We’ve secretly replaced Jeff Lindsey with 1980s coked out Stephen King. Let’s See if anyone notices!”
That is the only explanation I can give for the swift and brutal shift in tone and setting of the novel. Jesus. I hope the Television Series does not use this at all.
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Posted by David
After saying they would challenge many delegates at the Texas County Conventions, Hillary’s campaign does just that. At what point will people key into the fact that they are stealing whole chapters from the republican’s election play book?
From the dairist, we learn that the Clinton campaign was taking the shotgun approach to challenging delegates, by issuing challenges to as many delegate’s credentials as possible in the hopes that a few would fail. None of the people who were challenge received any kind of word on why they were challenged, just that they were challenged. And I have yet to receive a report of any clinton delegates being challenged. Surprise there.
What’s next Hil? Phone jamming the Obama campaign’s attempt to call voters?
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Posted by David
In reference to this:
Wisconsin authorities will consider filing charges in the case of an 11-year-old girl who died on Easter Sunday of complications from diabetes that went untreated because police say her parents’ obscure religious beliefs do not allow medical intervention.
John asks:
The question, I suppose, is where do you draw the line in a free society in regards to this sort of thing?
Once it endangers the life of another. The same thing we do with crazy people.
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Posted by David
In the serious game discussion side of the web, there has been a bit of a bruhaha over an editorial saying that game developer do not need writers. As one would expect there has been a shit ton of responses.
Rightfully so, because the author of the piece shows a complete lack of understanding of just what is writing. He says that a writer works in a straight line from a to b and that (somehow) makes him less abled than a designer.
Which is completely laughable. Writers work out of order all the time. Neil Gaiman talks about going back in his books once they are in the editing process and adding whole new chapters. I will write chapters out of order if I am currently experiencing a block to help get back into writing. And this is just talking about prose. I’ve never worked on a game, but I would assume it is the same way. Having to write a whole new set of scenes because the head designer decided he wanted to add this spunky girl character after you’ve just gotten near the final version of the script.
To be honest, writing for video games requires a very different skillset from prose writing that requires a different skill set from comic writing which is different from tv screenplays which is different from screenplays.
I will admit that writing is not the most important part of a game. That is obviously gameplay. But a good writer can elevate any game to a higher plateau. Even a sandbox game.
Where do you think all of those immersion elements come from? Most of them were the idea of some writer.
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Posted by David
If you can’t win by the rules change the rules.
I have no idea why Hillary and her campaign seem dead set to win the nomination no matter the cost and I don’t care. They need to join the reality based community.
I am tired of this whole “Do anything, say anything” to win strateg and the republican moving goal post approach to politics. I am not a naive person who wishes for some partisan-ship free era that never existed, I just want some sanity and reason brought back to the national discourse.
Of course when the national discourse is being funded by people like this, maybe I should just give up hope.
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Posted by David
Huh. Almost makes me care about Chinese Democracy. Almost.
*Except Slash and Buckethead.
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One of the things that Burning Crusade did right that every other MMO other needs to copy is quest progression.
I’m not talking about a good spread of quests in each zone to cover the appropriate levels. I am referring to quests leading from one quest hub to another. In Burning Crusade you will get 4-5 quests in the first place you get to in the zone. Most of these quests will be completed in the same general area and 1 or two of those will lead you to another small quest hub with 4-5 quests of its own. Finishing all of those quests will net you another quest to go to yet another hub. And finally you will get a quest to go to the next zone where the steps will repeat.
That type of design just makes it feel like you are always moving forward and seeing new content while leveling, and it gives you a good idea of where you should be going for your level. If you first go to Outland and you don’t have a quest to go the Blade’s Edge Mountain, you should probably not be there.
This also allows you to tell better stories with the quests, since players will all be progressing down the line. Unless they decide to just grind through mobs.
What I find most amusing about Quest Progression is when you go back to Azeroth and level an alt through vanilla WoW content. It shows a huge difference. In Duskwood you get all of the quests in Darkshire and then you make huge cirlces around the zone filling the quests out with tons of traveling, watching the scenery go by. Then you move on to the new content in Duskwallow Marsh and you go from quest node to quest node and bam you gain levels in about an hour and a half of playing.
Of course then you wish they would redesign of the old world to match the new quest construction.
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Posted by David
I guess what Kurtz is trying to do is make fun of all the people who bash PVP and its current storyline, but it isn’t a funny caricature and it isn’t even insulting either. Its just there. All I can do is just scratch my head and wonder what the point of it is. Not that this isn’t the first time it has happened with PVP. And I doubt it will be the last. It just leaves me scratching my head.
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Posted by David
“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” Mr. Carville said, referring to Holy Week.
This quote has made my day. Every time I start feeling a little sad about things, I just read this quote and it makes me chuckle. It is just so stupid and infantile. Seriously, irony? Come on.
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Posted by David
I love when a politicians words get fact checked. And they are found to be lies. I wonder if this will make it out into the mainstream press?
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Posted by David
