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Gameplay of World of Warcraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 9 views

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  • Players are also able to customize their character through the use of talents, which are further abilities related to their character class.[9][10]
  • Characters are also able to learn two primary professions from a list of ten. These can be gathering professions, such as mining, herb gathering, or animal skinning. Characters can also choose from crafting professions, such as blacksmithing, leatherworking, or enhancement professions such as enchanting or inscription.
  • As well as banding together to form groups, players can also band together to form guilds. These structures allow players several benefits, such as easier communication and an identifying guild name and tabard. Guild members can also be given access to a central pool of resources known as a guild bank.[13] Guilds can also make use of an in-game calendar, allowing guild members to view scheduled events, and respond to them with whether they can attend or not. This calendar can also be accessed without need to log-in to the game, using the Armory feature.[14]
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  • In common with many MMORPGs, World of Warcraft requires players to pay for a subscription, usually either by credit-card or by buying a card from a retailer to redeem for a pre-determined amount of subscription time.[15]
  • Players can discover 'flight masters' in newly discovered locations and then use those NPCs in order to fly to previously discovered locations in other parts of the world.[19
  • A number of facilities are available to characters when in towns and cities. In each major city characters can access a bank in order to deposit items, such as treasure or crafted items.
  • Although the game world remains reasonably similar from day to day, changes have been made over time. Seasonal events that reflect on real world events such as Halloween (as Hallow's End),[23] Christmas (as Winter Veil), Children's Week,[24] Easter (as Noblegarden) and Midsummer run for a period of a day or two up to several weeks.
  • A large amount of World of Warcraft revolves around questing.
  • inding a difficult to locate object, or delivering an item from one place to another.
  • As well as gaining in-game money, items and experience points, many quests will also increase reputation with a faction.
  • the rate at which characters gain experience from killing monsters was increased, along with reducing the amount of experience required to gain further skills and abilities.
  • Some of the harder challenges in World of Warcraft require players to group together to defeat them.
  • These dungeons allow up to forty players to enter at a time in order to face some of the most difficult challenges.[3
  • As well as being able to complete quests and enter dungeons, players can also fight against other players in the game.
  • These locations act in a similar way to dungeons or instances in that only a set number of characters can enter a single battleground, but additional copies of the battleground can be made to accommodate additional players.[34]
  • Arenas are a further development to player vs player that were added in the Burning Crusade expansion
  • In the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, a new player vs player zone was introduced called Wintergrasp
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Video game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Early games used interactive electronic devices with various display formats. The earliest example is from 1947—a "Cathode ray tube Amusement Device" was filed for a patent on January 25, 1947 by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann, and issued on December 14, 1948 as U.S. Patent 2455992
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      Jessica =D on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is important, you need to know the history of the platforms.
  • In common use a "PC game" refers to a form of media that involves a player interacting with a personal computer connected to a high-resolution video monitor. A "console game" is played on a specialized electronic device that connects to a standard television set or composite video monitor. A "handheld" gaming device is a self contained electronic device that is portable and can be held in a user's hands. "Arcade game" generally refers to a game played on an even more specialized type of electronic device that is typically designed to play only one game and is encased in a special cabinet.
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      Jessica =D on 09 Dec 09
       
      Its important to know the difference of each platform. They arent all the same, and different platforms equals different views.
  • Core games are sometimes considered demanding in their gameplay and typically do not appeal to the casual gamer, but
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      Jessica =D on 09 Dec 09
       
      this quote referenced a different type of gamer, the casual gamer. This qupte is completely true. Most games that come out are "core" games, they require (well most of the time) a lot of effort to complete. Casual gamers usually play games to relax, not to play for the action.
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  • In Australia, the United Kingdom and other PAL regions, generally when compared to the US, PAL gamers pay 40% to 50% more for the same product.
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      Jessica =D on 09 Dec 09
       
      If its in the same language, why such a price difference?
  • The NPD Group tracks computer and video game sales in the United States. It reported in 2004 that: Console and portable software sales: $6.2 billion, up 8% from 2003[41] Console and portable hardware and accessory sales: $3.7 billion, down 35% from 2003[41] PC game sales: $1.1 billion, down 15% from 2006[42]
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      Jessica =D on 09 Dec 09
       
      I wonder why in the US there doesnt seem to be the same interest in PC games, as there is in East Asia. o_O
  • A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.
    • Jessica =D
      Jessica =D on 10 Dec 09
       
      Basically video games are games that when in use, show visuals.
  • exergames
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      Jessica =D on 10 Dec 09
       
      Exercise+Gaming = Exergaming. Brilliant. -_-
  • Cheats usually make the game easier by providing an unlimited amount of some resource; for example weapons, health, or ammunitio
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      Jessica =D on 10 Dec 09
       
      Cheaters never prosper. Usually if there is an achievement, if you use a cheat code, you lose the chance to gain that achievement.
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Mapping Main Street » A Collaborative Documentary Media Project - 2 views

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  • Jessica =D on 25 Nov 09
     
    What I noticed most about, "Steam Buns 'R Us", was that it was most like a music video than it was a report. That was just to make fun of my friends, I really did enjoy it though. It was really informative and it did bring together the whole history of steam buns together and showed how it connects to our culture now. They did a lot of research on steam buns, and you would think the whole report would be bland, but it was actually very entertaining. Alexis, Hawa and Melissa did a very good job in connecting steam buns to the rest of the world. When Melissa started talking about the history of how steam buns were made how they were "representation of human heads", I got thoroughly creeped out. No one wants to think about human heads when they are eating, especially if those heads were used to be items of sacrifice. It's good that they decided to make a food that would represent a human head instead of sacrificing real human heads. Another part that I loved was when they actually made it themselves. They spoke about the whole experience, and it was like you were actually there~ They spoke about how steam buns were like "world peace wrapped up in a bun" that was really hilarious. But if you think about it, it makes sense. This podcast was a really fun and informative one, please continue the great work!
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AmericanHeritage.com / The 50 Biggest Changes in the Last 50 Years - 1 views

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  • To be sure, in 1954 computers were already making inroads into American business, especially in areas where data processing was very intense, such as banking and insurance. But they were huge and hugely expensive, kept in special air-conditioned rooms and tended by men in white coats. Very few Americans had ever actually seen one. Today about the only way for an American not to see one every day would be to stay in bed with the lights off.
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      Jessica =D on 22 Oct 09
       
      So funny, yet so true. o_O
  • In 1954 American exports totaled less than $14 billion, or 3.7 percent of GDP. In 2001 exports amounted to $729 billion, or 7.2 percent of GDP.
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      Jessica =D on 22 Oct 09
       
      Wow.
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Still Meddling After All These Years by Sheldon Richman - 0 views

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diigo America Latin America richman meddling

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    American presidents have long regarded Latin America as their 'backyard.' The Monroe Doctrine warned the European powers to stay out -- by what right? -- and since then American chief executives have deemed it entirely proper to intervene when things did not go as they liked.
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50 trippy years of space trips | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - 0 views

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    NASA | In October of 1957, the Soviet Union started the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik. Since then, a lot of spacecraft have wended their way through the solar s
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In Ariz. Town, Main Street Is A Border Crossing : NPR - 0 views

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  • HOSALIN: This my other home right here.
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      Jessica =D on 22 Sep 09
       
      This quote makes a lot of sense. Anyone who spends the majority of time in a certain are (like students in school) consider that place to be their second home. But with these peoples hours, it may even be their first homes. o_O
  • Tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross every day.
    • Jessica =D
      Jessica =D on 22 Sep 09
       
      ZOMG. That's a lot of people! =O!
  • You can see buses from there to here. No cars. Morning, coffee.
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      Jessica =D on 22 Sep 09
       
      Dang, that's weird. In NY you cant cross a street without finding a couple of cars in the street.
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