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-- Biden was clearly referring to something akin to the Chinese Spy Plane crisis that Bush faced within his first six months. -- |
Biden was explicit. |
It's a really stupid and untestable prediction, because there are international incidents on an almost daily basis, many of which can be inflated to be the issue that Biden claims to have predicted in October 2008. |
I found the follow-on to be most audacious. Whatever a Democratic administration does is "right," especially if it's unpopular. Lemmings. |
Wow. Wow. Wow. It is a long article but it is required reading. Found a footnote to this as well. |
One of the incidents during Obama's primary campaign that was strange was totally explained: when Obama was pressing an audience to vote early in the North Carolina primary. It was a bizzare mash of speechifying and hand gestures-he was using the hypnotic techniques described in the paper. |
M. Simon |
Obama is not black. |
He is a racially insecure white man. |
LOL M.Simon |
Angie Smith |
McCain should hit hard and heavy on the tax cuts issue. On January 1, 2011, the tax rate increases for everyone, including the left-wing, illuminati tax and spend liberals when President Bush's tax cuts expire. |
They are going to sell Israel to Iran as a gesture of good will... |
Obama's brain |
Sell, sell, thAT'S PART OF THE fRENGI CODE OF BUSINESS ETHICS. Rerm,ember the profit part. And Obama is a Frengi not a Muslim. |
That last sentence was the wittiest thing I've read all week! :D |
... And I read A LOT. |
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Most natural language processing researchers highlight the benefits of interlingua-based systems in multilingual settings. In this scenario, Role and Reference Grammar can contribute to build a cross-language semantic representation of the input text in terms of its logical structure. Our goal is to describe the variou... |
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Posted by: seanmalstrom | June 22, 2016 |
Email: Good Feels About BoW “WOW!” |
Hey Master Malstrom, |
First off, I just wanted to point out that Zelda is not Dark Souls. If it is, then Shovel Knight is also the true spiritual successor to Zelda 2. It’s not. Easier games can often be better games, as seen with Mega Man 1 vs. 2. Heck, Zelda 1 ain’t too hard once you know the secrets of the map. If BOW has varied, challen... |
The emailer who was at E3 cited my main concern, that the enemies might be too few and far between. Of what we’ve seen, though, there’s little reason to think all the enemies we do encounter will be pushovers. I understand keeping expectations to the dirt, but it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy what we see. |
Now I’m a bit positive about this game for several reasons: |
1. The game looks fun! |
2. You’re positive. You’re usually on the pulse of good games well before they come out. |
3. Skyward Sword’s marketplace failure. When Nintendo fails, watch out, they might bring their A-game next time. |
4. New blood. There are a lot of new, young Nintendo employees working on this game, and Aonuma has implemented their ideas. Also, 100 employees from Monolith Soft are also helping out, which makes sense of how Nintendo could jump from Skyward Sword linear and small to Xenoblade Chronicles open and huge. |
5. Nintendo is changing Zelda traditions away from Puzzelda towards Classic Zelda. Aonuma has mentioned, “breaking traditions,” and he went into some detail on what that meant. In the past, “breaking tradition,” meant taking the GOOD parts of a Zelda and subverting it into Puzzelda. The sword in Skyward Sword is a text... |
Today, Aonuma saying “breaking tradition” means making the game open-world and changing a lot of rules that make no sense for good game design. Not having a jump button makes sense in 2D Zelda, but in 3D Zelda the lack of a jump button is the root behind a lot of the environment’s linearity. In past 3D Zeldas, they had... |
6. The Guardians are the new version of Octoroks. Aonuma thought making a giant slimy land-octopus would be “gross” so he made them machines haha. But whatever, the menacing cold-killer look of Guardians is SWEET! |
7. The words “Zelda” and “Puzzles” are no longer used as if they were synonymous. Everyone’s going on and on about the WORLD, not “puzzles.” Case in point, here’s an article I drew from for this email. It is Aonuma talking with Time about Zelda BoW “WOW!”, and he does not say the word “puzzle” even once!: |
Thanks for blogging, |
The Fortunate* Reader |
*P.S. Fortunate in the sense I was fortunate to find your glorious little blog years ago. Not only has it been exceedingly interesting to read, but a bit of your life advice has helped me out. |
There is so much E3 information that I missed that Aonuma interview. It’s hilarious that Aonuma sees Breath of the Wild as ‘destroying Zelda traditions’ while I see it as restoring Zelda traditions. |
It is also interesting that while Breath of the Wild is about the ‘nature’ and surviving in the world, there seems to be much futuristic technology. Did Classic Zelda have futuristic technology? |
Look! It is a Hover Horse! While I am not as familiar with the 3d Zeldas, Zelda 2 has tons of futuristic technology. |
The Doom Knockers seem like robots that throw… something that wasn’t made in a barn. |
The Blue Fokka still scare me to this day. What the hell are they? They jump all over, shoot lasers with their swords, and are a PAIN IN THE ASS. They seem futuristic. Hell, the entire Final Palace seems futuristic. |
Here is what I like with BoW “WOW!” so far… |
1. Open World in that Link does whatever he wants. |
2. An actual rich overworld out there. |
3. Physics in the world. |
4. Interaction with the world. |
5. Combat means you have to jump around, dodge, and is intense. |
6. Can wander somewhere outside your league and get easily killed. I think this was lost in LTTP but was present in Zelda 1 and 2. |
7. Futuristic technology. I like this. |
8. Apocalyptic feeling. I never thought about this feeling with Zelda 1 and 2, but I suppose it was there. I just associated it with ‘Zelda’. LTTP, while a great game, seemed too ‘happy’ and ‘cheery’ to me but we all loved the Dark World. We cannot feel like a hero unless we deal with evil. You cannot have ‘evil’ if ... |
If I was a young programmer on the Zelda team, I would tell Aonuma-san that “These bosses that just sit in a room at the end of the dungeon… why does it have to be like this? Why don’t the bosses roam? How about bosses that roam the outside world? MMORPGs have some of these. You cannot defeat them unless you get someth... |
I cannot wait to play this game. I am only cautious because I have been let down so many times by Aonuma. |
I think the most important thing, out of all, is how you can interact with the world. Guys, this is huge. Interaction with the game world is very, very hard to do, but it is so very rewarding. |
In this Bill Trinen video, the other guys throw in Half Life 2 and other games about interacting. When I think of a game of interaction, I think of Ultima VII. I would say Ultima VII is the flagship of an interactive open world. I still play that game to this day, shocking to think how it came out before the freaking S... |
Minecraft is also very much about interaction, but it is all block based. I do not find Minecraft that immersive. I am hoping Zelda BoW “WOW!” is immersive. It is hard to judge from just the plateau. |
Come to think of it, my original playing experiences of Zelda I, II, and LTTP was about the interaction. In Zelda 1, we were trying to burn every bush and bomb every dungeon wall. Repetitious today, but consider gaming back then. In Zelda 2, I would try to turn myself into a fairy and fly to places I should, attack wal... |
Aonuma: “OK Malstrom. You are playing Breath of the Wild. It is time for you to get the item and go to the first dungeon. Go on now. Go, go!” |
Screw that! I want to hop about for half an hour chopping down these trees. |
Old Aonuma would say: “Outrageous! How dare you defy my direction. You must stop what you are doing RIGHT NOW and go to the dungeon.” |
New Aonuma would say: “Do whatever you want. The game is about YOU having fun, not about ME having fun.” |
Well, I would hope Aonuma would say that today. |
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New Lightning Tech Could Help Hurricane Tracking & Preparation |
Lightning kills an average of 67 people per year, but tallying how it strikes from thousands of miles away may be the key to measuring the strength of hurricanes before they get close to land. |
Tallying lightning strikes from thousands of miles away may be the key to measuring the strength of hurricanes before they get close to land. "There have been big advances in predicting where hurricanes will go," says Kirt Squires, the co-author of a recent paper studying lightning patterns in hurricanes. "But ways to ... |
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Currently, the only way to get real-time information on wind speed inside the eye wall is to send in an airplane. But stronger winds produce more lightning, so measuring the frequency of lightning is a good way to track the strength of a hurricane, Squires says. Very low frequency radio signatures of strikes can be pic... |
The reason high winds cause lightning has to do with the way ice and hail move inside the eye wall. As the frozen water particles rise and fall, they lose electrons, which collect at the bottom of a cloud, producing a negative charge that causes lightning. Squires and University of Hawaii researchers report similar pat... |
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In-Cloud Lightning Detector: During common storms, bolts that do not reach the ground are far more frequent and precede ground strikes by minutes. Ground sensors receive the telltale signals of these "in cloud" strikes on unused, very high frequency television bands. |
When: Weather measurement company Vaisala is conducting a multiyear research program to combine this method with existing radar. |
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When: National Weather Service officials say a two-year upgrade of its existing radar systems to use dual pole will start in late 2009. |
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(November 10 – Oahu – Hotel Firefly 49th Floor – From a camera recording the proceedings.) |
They were within a hotel room that was far from being the nicest in Oahu. They knew of other high class hotels suited for VIPs and facilities with suites that normal people did not even know existed, but those places could possibly have been marked by dangerous elements. |
“Why are you still running that thing?” |
That displeased voice belonged to a woman named Roseline Krackhart. She was the president’s aide. She was in her early thirties and had an atmosphere that made her seem extremely well suited to being a tutor (in more ways than one). However, she had once broken a reporter’s nose on national television when he had asked... |
Her general behavior was also evident in how well her suit that was custom-made by a supporting menswear company suited her. |
“It is my duty to record all conversations while we are on the job,” replied a secretary holding a video camera. |
“I see. Thanks.” |
Roseline lay down across a three-person couch and grabbed a business magazine. The featured article was about the one hundred most important people who kept America running. She glanced through articles on Flack Kateman the car king, Olay Blueshake the media queen, Douglas Hardbell the rock star, and others before narr... |
“…The president’s name not being on the list of people who keep America running is indeed a problem.” |
“Ma’am, how about we get down to the main issue at hand?” |
“I always end up putting off things that I know are just going to depress me.” |
Roseline tossed aside the business magazine while sprawled out on the couch. |
She then looked over toward one wall. |
“General, have you found the president?” |
“N-no, but we are currently searching for him with everything we have.” |
“It’s that hard even for the Marines?” |
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