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Houston Thread - No HOBOs and no WHOBOs. What do we do now??????????????????????????????????????????

What side event should i include in my tournaments?

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You're gong to be useless in co-op aren't you?
 
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You're gong to be useless in co-op aren't you?
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usually when i co-op, i like to be a support/healer/status raising type of character. because time and time again in all online games im never healed/supported when i need it so i decided long ago i wanna be that type of player. Is there something like that in MH and are they useful or is this game 99% power based?
 
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Former IGN Employee Admits Review Scores Are Skewed Due to Public Relations


Kinda obvious/well known but still interesting.
http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/c...iew-scores-are-skewed-due-to-public-relations


Let me start off this breaking news report by mentioning that IGN is not the only review site or publication that does this, and it’s actually a rather sad, but common, occurrence across the industry. IGN is mentioned specifically so as to make clear how deep this runs, and how serious of an issue this really is. This is not an indictment against IGN, nor are we any less trust worthy of them for doing this. However, this is a harsh reality of the industry and something we have been fortunate enough to have not run into for ourselves yet.

The story goes as this: IGN, among several other publications, alter review scores, alter editorial pieces, based on who is paying the bills. Essentially in order to continue to get review copies of games, to get certain publishers to advertise on your site, things get altered to appear more favorable for certain games. This is not true of every game reviewed or talked about, and it’s hard to point to any specific examples, but ZI just received exclusive confirmation that this happens all the time.

According to a former IGN employee, who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons:

The truth is that marketing and PR and readers have a major influence on reviews. I can tell you that just about every preview and review you read spouts out a lot of marketing’s message. Journalists don’t get it, see it, realize it, or accept it. But that is the truth

Fact remains that this is something we have all suspected for some time. In fact, we know some sites have literally taken money directly for writing a positive review. In IGN, and other similar site’s defense, they are rarely paid directly for the review itself. Rather, the money, one can assume, is all related to marketing and public relations. The big money makers for any website that posts news. All of our income is produced off of similar methods, where companies come to our ad agency and offer certain amounts of money to display advertising. Naturally, if we talk negatively over and over again about a product it will make them less likely to advertise it to our fan base thus hurting income.

Setting aside our inside source, which even if you have a hard time believing us let me just say that if this was false I would sell this site to any fan for 1$ (that’s how confident I am), this entire story starting initially making rounds today off the words of Rich Stanton on twitter. Rich Stanton is a freelance writer who is known for his work with Future Publishing/PC Gamer. While he is hardly the elite of the elite, it simply adds a lot of weight to the ongoing problem in the industry that many Journalists, and fans, are just afraid to admit to.

IGN responds: http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/c...-marketing-teams-separated-reviews-and-articl
 
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RT said:
Capcom Store has Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for 3DS and WiiU for pre-order.

Wii U version comes with free Classic Controller Pro.

http://shop.capcom.com/store/capcom...=UC7hfQoBAlkAAAxVqMUAAAAx&rests=1351020464120
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For a second there, I thought you meant a Wii U classic controller. I guess a free classic is alright, but its barely worth anything. It might be a big deal if it was a special monster hunter design instead of just a black one.

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Former IGN Employee Admits Review Scores Are Skewed Due to Public Relations


Kinda obvious/well known but still interesting.
http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/c...iew-scores-are-skewed-due-to-public-relations


Let me start off this breaking news report by mentioning that IGN is not the only review site or publication that does this, and it’s actually a rather sad, but common, occurrence across the industry. IGN is mentioned specifically so as to make clear how deep this runs, and how serious of an issue this really is. This is not an indictment against IGN, nor are we any less trust worthy of them for doing this. However, this is a harsh reality of the industry and something we have been fortunate enough to have not run into for ourselves yet.

The story goes as this: IGN, among several other publications, alter review scores, alter editorial pieces, based on who is paying the bills. Essentially in order to continue to get review copies of games, to get certain publishers to advertise on your site, things get altered to appear more favorable for certain games. This is not true of every game reviewed or talked about, and it’s hard to point to any specific examples, but ZI just received exclusive confirmation that this happens all the time.

According to a former IGN employee, who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons:

The truth is that marketing and PR and readers have a major influence on reviews. I can tell you that just about every preview and review you read spouts out a lot of marketing’s message. Journalists don’t get it, see it, realize it, or accept it. But that is the truth

Fact remains that this is something we have all suspected for some time. In fact, we know some sites have literally taken money directly for writing a positive review. In IGN, and other similar site’s defense, they are rarely paid directly for the review itself. Rather, the money, one can assume, is all related to marketing and public relations. The big money makers for any website that posts news. All of our income is produced off of similar methods, where companies come to our ad agency and offer certain amounts of money to display advertising. Naturally, if we talk negatively over and over again about a product it will make them less likely to advertise it to our fan base thus hurting income.

Setting aside our inside source, which even if you have a hard time believing us let me just say that if this was false I would sell this site to any fan for 1$ (that’s how confident I am), this entire story starting initially making rounds today off the words of Rich Stanton on twitter. Rich Stanton is a freelance writer who is known for his work with Future Publishing/PC Gamer. While he is hardly the elite of the elite, it simply adds a lot of weight to the ongoing problem in the industry that many Journalists, and fans, are just afraid to admit to.

IGN responds: http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/c...-marketing-teams-separated-reviews-and-articl
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Anyone who would buy a game based on the score a site gave deserves to be lied to anyway. The same sites that criticize nintendo for being rehashed nonsense and "more of the same" give stunning 9.5 zomgsogood scores to COD2010/11/12/13.
 
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Does anybody have RE6/ps3 and would let me borrow it? i would only need it for like 3 days
 
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*opens LueLinks*

*clicks "history" tag*

*sees awesome thread*


















LueLinks said:
Is Obama a genetically engineered Alien/Human Hybrid?


I was reading some other articles online concerning Obama's Head Scars. And he appears to have scars on both sides of his head per articles here:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374212/Obamas-scar-head-sparks-conspiracy-theories.html
http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/obamas-nasty-scar/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-begs-question--President-brain-surgery.html


And it got me thinking. So I started looking a little closer at Obama's body and limbs in photographs. And I zoomed in on a couple of them and like a bolt of lightening it hit me. It looked like Obama's palm print is exactly the same on both hands. And I thought, no human has exactly the same palm print on both hands. But it appears as though Obama does from these photos. And you can see one picture has Obama's wedding ring on and the other he does not to prove it is NOT the same hand.






And not ONLY is it the same palm print, but it appears to be in the shape of a lightening bolt. Now how weird is that? So now I'm left scratching my head wondering if Obama really is a genetically engineered Alien/Human Hybrid.

You judge for yourself. Find pics of both of Obama's hands and do your own analysis.
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or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfSANfVf4-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfSANfVf4-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfSANfVf4-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfSANfVf4-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfSANfVf4-E
 
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By the nine divines! What did you just say about me, you little skeeverbutt? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the College of Winterhold, and I've been know to cast one hell of a fireball, and I have over 300 confirmed summons. I am trained in daedric warfare and I'm the swords master of the entire Imperial forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will make you beg to Akatosh as I bend you over like a common whelp, mark my words, on my oath as the Dovahkiin. You think you can come into my mind though this magic device and insult me? Think again,scum. As we speak I have every assassin and thief across all of Tamriel looking for your initial position so you better prepare for the storm atronach, you drauger. The storm atronach that wipes out the pathetic little husk you call your life. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my dragon shouts! Not only am I extensively trained in archery and horseback riding, but I have access to the entire congregation of the thieves guild, dark brotherhood, Mages college, and untold hordes of deadric warriors, and I will use every one of them to banish you to the plane of oblivion.. If only you could have had the clairvoyance to see what divine retribution your little "clever" runes were about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your tongue you dark skin. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you god**** idiot. I will become the embodiment of Mehrunes Dagon, and open a portal to oblivion the likes of which you have never seen. You're ****ing dead, milk-drinker.
 
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Especially when you are in one.

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