vagrant bus ( russian : бродячий автобус , translit . brodyachiy avtobus ) is a 1990 soviet drama film , filmed at the studio lenfilm by the director iosif kheifits .

vagrant bus

singapore - a singaporean man was mistaken for a vagrant when welfare officers picked up several people for loitering in muar , johor .
when at the bus depot , candy edwards from the later vice case
the set up
can be seen purchasing a bus ticket to an unknown location .
if you begin to chase the bus then give up without actually catching it , phelps will still mention the bus driver ' s statement in subsequent interrogations . the case report , however , will state that you ought to have interviewed the bus driver .
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the bus stop at mott st . and beach channel dr . where the man was fatally beaten .
the bus driver who delivered theresa to her death might have liked a chance to testify .
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welfare officers initially thought he was homeless , but investigations showed that he had missed the last bus to malacca .
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during the drive while trying to locate the bus driver , rusty and phelps will initiate dialogue unique to that scene .
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but with the help of ikea and an army of cleaning supplies i was able to get the bus into livable condition .
welfare officers initially thought he was homeless , but investigations showed that he had missed the last bus to malacca . - tnp
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as we know , bus drivers can sometimes be a problem . now , don ' t get me wrong - i rarely have wrong words with bus drivers , mainly because i can ' t understand what they ' re shouting at me , and i recognise that it ' s only the badly - behaved majority that tar the rest with the same brush - but we rather like the novelty of having a friendly encounter with a bus .
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a group of illegal immigrants are brought to stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports , and then runs away .
the man , in his 40s , was found sleeping at a bus terminal along jalan maharani at about 3 . 40am on saturday , the star reported .
one of the
vagrant male suspects
will be at the bar ( richard bates ) . the barkeep will point him out , but bates will try to flee . you ' ll have to chase him on foot as he starts to run .
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a 57 - year - old man was beaten to death by a homeless man as he stood at a bus stop in queens early thursday , police said .
original story 14 / 01 / 2014 : yasumi matsuno , best known as the director of vagrant story and final fantasy tactics , has partnered with mobile developer playdek to launch a kickstarter campaign for a new tactical rpg entitled unsung story : tale of the guardians .
they were found sleeping at various spots , including a bus terminal , pedestrian walkways and inside a shopping mall . some were also seen begging for food during the day .
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at the bus depot , you ' ll get the name of the bus driver from last night . turns out he ' s out driving the 74 route now . the route is now marked on the map . drive the route counterclockwise until you find the bus , then pull it over by blocking the front left of it and talk to the driver , frank zeferelli . he ' ll confirm that the sailor was telling the truth , however it seems that theresa was confused and lost . she was dropped off near a hobo camp .
through some incorrect answers to questions , the player can not learn the bus lead . yet cole will still mention this during the stuart ackerman interrogation seemingly without prior knowledge of it .
rusty : no , no , no ! you should ' ve gone the other way . we ' d have found the bus by now if you ' d gone the other way .
in case you had forgotten , guy’s and st thomas’ nhs trust spent over £10 , 000 of nhs funding in an attempt to prevent ‘floating’ bus stops being built on we . . .
which brings us to unsung story , a game that raised $ 660 , 126 on kickstarter in january of 2014 . it was supposed to be a spiritual successor of sorts to final fantasy tactics , and developer playdek even name - dropped game designer yasumi matsuno , the creator of fft and vagrant story .
the victim was found unconscious with head trauma laying at a bus stop on mott avenue near beach channel drive in far rockaway at around 4 : 30 a . m . , cops said .
in the spirit of waiting for guffman and spinal tap , das bus combines real and staged events alongside archival footage as viewers experience
bus culture
in the
bible belt
metropolis of kansas city . with guest appearances by crime novelist james ellroy and rap star tech n9ne , das bus is a thought provoking romp that will confront everyone ' s attitude about public transportation . you will laugh , you will cry , you will empathize , you will say
no way
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head to the bus depot location next . on the way , cole will have a patrol car pick up lars ; as for bobby ross , dispatch reports that his poker game ended around midnight .
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in the colourful and variegated background of camden town , miss mary shepherd seems in some respects not unusual . she was a vagrant but a stationary one , resident for the last 15 years of her life a few feet from my front door where there was a paved area – the architect had wishfully called it a patio – just big enough to take a car . or , as it transpired , a van .
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, a double - decker bus converted into a mobile cafe . it serves top coffee and cakes , and hearty german sausages , and is currently doing a season in mile end park every week ( by the art pavilion at the end of ashcroft road ) from thursday to sunday .
the isolated status of refugees in this film harks back to the issue of the representation of space in allamezadeh’s movies . claustrophobic spaces , as a recurrent feature of transnational cinema ( naficy , phobic 211 ) , are present in both films . in a few simple sentences the bus exhibits a closed space and , through the suspicious looks of its travelers , takes on the role of a mobile courtroom . here the function of the claustrophobic space is different from that of a shelter –as opposed to the guests of hotel astoria . throughout the bus sequence there is only one shot taken from the outside . panning camera movements accentuate the limits of this closed space and therefore intimate ali’s entrapment within a network of gazes . the idea of suffocating space is augmented through the analogy of the pigeon and ali , which encourages us to read the bus as a symbolic cage for ali .
after the interview , officer isaac kelly will come up and say that he ' s got news on the hobo . he ' s been sighted and he ' s wanted in connection with two other female assaults . rusty will mention a bus depot that you can check to confirm the sailor ' s story .
on the way to the bus depot , you ' ll get a message about bobby ross ' card game . rusty asked to have lars taraldsen picked up and brought to central , but if you go into the room with the holding cells after interviewing jessop , lars is in the first cell when you walk in .
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anyway , three weeks ago i took the equivalent of three months’ rent and bought an old red bus . it’s a 1969 vw camper van with a hole in the floor and a family of spiders that has more of a right to be here than i do ( sleeping in your car on public land in california is illegal ) .
as i sit in darkness writing this , i’m trying to keep my typing quiet , lest a real inhabitant of the neighborhood i’m parked in should walk by and wonder about the sounds coming from the rusty bus loitering on their block . yes , you understood that correctly : today , i work in a multi - million dollar office complex , and i live in a van .
overall , i’m proud of the way my project turned out . but of course this living situation wouldn’t be possible if i didn’t already have a job that feeds me and allows me to shower and do laundry at work . i also have a network of friends who are ready to step in should a crisis emerge and offer me a temporary bed . and i am a young , white woman , which gives me the immense privilege of pulling up a creepy van and parking it without being harassed . people don’t report me ; neither do they assume i’m a vagrant . they smile and ask if i need anything .
but most importantly , crowdfunding changes the dynamic between consumers and content creators in an unhealthy way . yes , there can be more participation and some sense of
democratization
of the game development process . but i question whether that ' s actually a good thing to begin with . and in the case of unsung story we have what appears to be a very opaque development process that threw the entire point of the original project under the bus .
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and if it ' s sunny you can nip down to the palm tree pub just by the canal here which is also a bit of an east end bike mecca when the weather is fair . many happy hours spent there getting quietly tiddled on the grass before pushing my bike home . thanks for the tip rob ; i hadn ' t spotted this bus cafe . old routemasters becoming eating establishments seems to be quite the thing these days ; there ' s one in brick lane / truman ' s yard and another in soho too . rather there than trying to overtake me on the holborn circus roundabout any day !
this is a very harsh movie about people who immigrate to a modern society with the hope of finding a job and earning money . it tries to focus on the disparities between the cultures . this movie presents the point of view of nine immigrants traveling with a bus from very rural areas of turkey directly to one of most modern societies . they find themselves tricked by a passer who took their money and passport with the promise of finding them a job in sweden . as they arrive to stockholm , being completely foreign to the city and to the culture , having no where to go to and no money to buy food , the only place they can find refuge is their bus , parked in a very central and crowded spot in stockholm during the cold winter time . the fear of being caught by the police forces them to hide in bus during day . and during night the harsh fight for the survival starts . during these nocturnal excursions , we come to see how these rural farmers perceive the everyday night life in the town . the movie presents nicely how socially acceptable aspects of the daily life ( such as alcohol consumption , nudity , sexuality and homosexuality ) , appear as perversions to people who are foreigners . and this is why i think nearly all of the local citizens are pictured unfriendly , pervert , racist , vain , arrogant , cruel and merciless . on the other hand , all the nine victims are presented as naive , rough , nearly completely unintelligent . this is the reason why i think this movie doesn ' t gain a deeper meaning . it stays like cruel story without being completely unfolded in different directions . therefore , even though this movie takes its starting point from the topic of immigration , it doesn ' t really deal with it in a deeper sense . however i think it is a very interesting movie worth to be seen .
there are many people who are forced to live in their cars because they really cannot afford to live in the bay area . i am not technically one of them , and in doing this by choice i am inevitably appropriating their hardships . however , i am also saving hard , trying to pay off my debts , and learning a few invaluable life skills—like carpentry and how to be a fairly competent mechanic—in the process . also , i get to flood social media with updates that basically equate to “ha . told you i’d do it . look at me now . i’m in a bus . you’re going to have to pay up on the $ 5 bet you made that i would never go through with it . ”
she uses an example of a boy that suddenly discovers himself as the subject of the gaze when he is on bus –not dissimilar in set up to ali’s story in a few simple sentences . to describe this case , sobchack writes : “johnson describes how the epidermalizing gaze locks his consciousness out of a body that no longer is his ; its sense and its meaning possessed and devalued by another” ( 54 ) . sobchack attempts to describe how through perceiving to be perceived by an external gaze –even a gaze that belongs to the person’s own reflection in the mirror– one’s relation with his / her own body gets disrupted and that such a disjuncture brings about uneasiness and awkwardness . based on her argument , this external gaze forces its object to see him / herself through “the eyes of the other” ( sobchack 54 ) and turns him into a “victim of vision” ( sobchack 55 ) . she also mentions the balance and gravity of any individual crushed under the weight of the “pathologic gaze” . sobchack then extends this gaze to the function of what she calls the “normative practices” which according to her : “phenomenologically estrange us from our bodies and make us strange and hateful not only to the others , but [ … ] to ourselves” ( sobchack 54 ) .
miss s’s funeral , which in life ( or in death ) was at our lady of hal in arlington road but in the film is at st silas’s at the foot of haverstock hill . we also film miss s at mass , with maggie smith at the communion rail . but not just kneeling . after miss s’s death i had a letter from father cormacrigby , who was 20 years an announcer on radio 3 before leaving the bbc and being ordained a priest in 1985 , when he was sent to live at our lady of hal , miss s’s local church . he told me how , seeing her in the congregation , his heart would sink as he had a bad back and miss s’s exigent ( though not ostentatious ) piety required her virtually to prostrate herself when receiving the host , with the priest thus having to follow her right down in order to post the wafer into her mouth . maggie does this too , on her knees , four or five times without complaint or assistance . she’s a few months younger than me but i couldn’t kneel like this , or if i went down i couldn’t get up again . she does both , and on camera . then she goes into the confessional box to unburden herself for the umpteenth time to the long - suffering priest ( dermot crowley ) , telling him about the motorcyclist she thinks she killed in an accident years ago . he has heard it all before and has absolved her many times . “absolution , my child , is not like the bus pass . it does not run out . ”
in his short movie allamezadeh presents an instance of epidermalizing gaze at work , but to the detriment of any normative process . here ali , the young immigrant is in the process of integration through learning the native language , but his experience on the bus and his awareness of being looked upon as a stranger negate this procedure , as shown through his reluctance to learn dutch . what ali experiences is a fear of being seen and judged . the hostile reaction ali receives is rooted in his situation as a stranger , a stance perceived through his different external physical features . here the term “epidermalizing” finds more resonance : the hostile glance not only perceives the other through the apparent external traits but also reduces him / her to that superficial picture . this superficial apparition serves as a basis for passing a judgment which , as the film clearly states , could be completely unfair . the “epidermalizing gaze” literally hurts its subject ; the bloodstain on ali’s shirt graphically represents the wound inflicted upon him and reinforces the parallel between him and the bird . in depicting this hostile glance , the film goes to the extent of projecting it onto the dog of the beholders , as it initially directs others’ attention to the boy by barking at him . ali’s awkwardness in confrontation with this cruel glance is presented through his inability to speak fluently . speaking is the bodily presentation of the mental process of forging an idea . in ali’s case , his lack of language skills impedes this connection between mind and speech , and by extension between the mind and the body . however his unfortunate experience discourages him from re - establishing this connection through learning language and eventually makes him refrain from recounting the whole story in the class .
for a few simple sentences the idea of accent emerges similarily . allamezadeh’s short film also follows the model of kanoon’s pre - revolution children movies in its use of symbolic language . masoud mehrabi in his history of iranian cinema hints to rumours that circulated around the intentions of the royal regime within the centre . according to him some people believed that the ultimate intention was to persuade the dissident intellectual artists to get involved with purely cultural –and so non - political– activities ( 352 ) . even if it was the case , the output of filmmakers proved this policy didn’t always go according to plans , since some filmmakers took the opportunity to convey their opposing voices by undercutting the seemingly harmless images of children movies sponsored by the government itself ! as mehrabi quotes from zarrinkelk , one of the major animators of kanoon , “ in some cases under the guise of children movies , messages were thrown at the grown - ups” ( 356 ) . deploying an array of symbols made this secondary level of address possible ; for example , a number of kanoon movies before the revolution were constructed around a relation between a child and an animal –which in some cases took up a symbolic role . despite the fact that a few simple sentences was made in a free society , allemzadeh used the same symbolic trope to accentuate the situation of his hero . in some respect , the hurt pigeon and its desperate flight in the bus mirrors the defenseless status of misunderstood ali . also worthy of mention is the fact that daar was similarly about the relation between a child and a bird , albeit in opposing poles . so in this case , we are facing a filmmaker in exile who launches the new chapter of his career by resorting to his previous oeuvre . this adaptive strategy is simultaneously conducive to the creation of accent in a way closer to the linguistic definition of the term .
although such a politically charged fear is not the initial problem for the heroine of the film , poori , she does get involved with it along the way . it is worth noting that unlike the examples naficy utilizes to define this second category , in the guests of hotel astoria , the terror originates not merely from the refugees’ country of origin but also from the place they lead their life of liminality . allamezadeh’s movie demonstrates the ill - defined boundary between the discussed categories . naficy believes that movies belonging to both rubrics of “panic” and “transition” tend to follow a classical narrative structure and therefore are not very innovative in terms of style . he also believes that because of the casting of iranian actors and the use of farsi as the main diegetic language , the film addresses a narrower iranian audience , ( an accented cinema 80 ) . of course this idea that the guests of hotel astoria is targeted or limited to an iranian audience can be subject to further debate , but the prominence of farsi among other spoken languages clearly differentiates it from a few simple sentences . this latter title carries more signs from the category naficy dubs as “liminal cinema” ( liminal being something that defies easy categorisation into one category or type ) . we can sense the broader appeal of movies in this category , for based on his definition they are not overly concerned with the ethnic background of the hero . these movies , citing from naficy , concentrate on exhibiting “ . . the life and clash of clusters in exile” ( an accented cinema 76 ) . a few simple sentences conforms to this model inasmuch as the bitter experience of the child stems from his situation as a stranger who could virtually come from any country in the middle east . his nationality is brought up briefly in the bus scene , but does not play a crucial role in the plot ; this more resembles the signature of a director interested in adding a personal touch to the story by pointing to his origins .
given the fact that both films have been out of the film festival circuit for about two decades , i will spend a few lines delineating their respective plots . the story of a few simple sentences is structured upon the unfortunate experience of a refugee boy whose noble intentions for saving a wounded pigeon are misinterpreted by a group of dutch bus passengers . set across a much broader span of space , the guests of hotel astoria follows the story of an iranian couple among other residents of a cheap hotel in turkey who all have fled their home country to seek refuge in a western country . the couple’s initial plan to move to the netherlands –where the man’s brother lives– fails as their visa application is rejected . in the meantime , poori –the woman– gets involved in an amorous relationship with mohseni , another resident of the hotel who , unbeknownst to her , is a leftist activist . following the advice of mohseni’s friend , poori and her husband obtain a visa for cuba , which allows them to enter the netherlands as the transit point . but the dutch officials , suspicious about their connection with the leftist groups , reject their plea for asylum and return them back to turkey . things get more complicated when the turkish police who have already arrested mohseni learn of his intimate relation with poori . poori gets herself and her husband karimnia released by complying with the accusation of the indecent proposal of giving pleasure to the turkish police officer . as the probable result of her one night stand with mohseni , poori discovers she is pregnant . she is then fooled by a word of mouth that leads her to believe that giving birth to a child in the united states entitles the mother to apply for residency . she goes to the united states to deliver her child , but then realizes the falsity of the information . crestfallen , she eventually loses her life during the delivery . her child however paves the way for karimnia’s entry into the states , even though he is unaware of his wife’s death .
allamezadeh started his filmmaking career by making films for children in the 1970s . at least two of his “children movies” were produced by the institute for the intellectual development of children and young adults ( kanoon - e parvareshe fekri - e koodakan va nojavanan ) , a highly reputed centre for producing cultural products for children and young adults under both royal and islamic regimes . as a governmental organization , it was inaugurated in 1969 in order to produce books and films for a young audience , and experienced a “rapid and steady growth” to become one of the “major producers of film for children” ( sadr 229 ) . working there sounded appealing to the filmmakers affiliated with the new wave of iranian cinema , as its products , to borrow hamid reza sadr’s words , “depart quite radically from the conventions and production values of the studio system of 1960s and 1970s” ( 229 ) . allamezadeh earned his reputation through one of his movies for kanoon , daar ( reza allamezadeh , 1973 ) , which was circulated in various festivals , including gijon film festival where it was awarded a prize . more than ten years later , it was exactly in the same venue that allamezdeh met the dutch producers of his first movie in exile . learning about his background , the dutch producers invited him to furnish them with a subject , and allemezadeh’s contribution was a few simple sentences , the idea of which was conceived through linking two separate images he witnessed in two different places ; a boy boarding a bus in turkey with a pigeon hidden under his jacket , and a pigeon that freed itself from a dog’s mouth in spain . but the influence of the past is not limited to the story behind the production . the story and structure of the film strikes a powerful resemblance to the traditions of filmmaking in kanoon . sadr mentions the common stylistic features of movies made in kanoon as such : “ . . more naturalistic photography , closer to documentary than to studio made fiction film…location shooting and the use of available light” ( 229 ) . it takes little effort to notice that many of these features are applicable to a few simple sentence .
about a year ago , i was having lunch with a friend when i made a throwaway comment : “have you seen the rent in san francisco ? if i get a job in the bay area , i’ll totally live in a van . ”
this summer , after receiving a job offer in silicon valley , i went on craigslist and began sifting through housing listings : “verrrrrryyy cheap bedroom ; ) , ” “great deal on rent ! ” a single room with a shared bathroom ? two thousand per month on the low - end . a small studio apartment , you ask ? if your startup wasn’t recently bought for seven figures , forget about it .
i perked up after finding a listing for $ 1 , 000 per month . now this could work . clicking through to the details section however revealed the offer was for a single bunk in a room with eight people , a set - up referred to as a “hacker house” by an ( evil ) marketing genius .
even if i was to spend the huge majority of my salary on rent , i knew i would likely still be in a grim living situation , resenting every penny i handed over that could have gone towards paying back my student loans . and as a software engineer , i’m one of the lucky ones ! imagine those who aren’t lucky enough to be on the tech payroll .
from certain angles , it even passes for a tiny , $ 1 , 000 - per - month bedroom .
to these insufferable comments my friends reply that it is $ 5 well spent .
you can follow katharine’s efforts at becoming a classic car mechanic at blog . thinkkappi . com . we welcome your comments at ideas @ urltoken .
“the thing that nobody knows about our perfect family is that my husband is a monster . ”
emergency responders rushed the man , whose identity was not immediately released , to st . john’s university hospital where he died about 40 minutes later .
a woman who called 911 told police that the man was standing when deanthony horten , 34 , walked up to him and punched him in the face , knocking him to the ground , sources said .
horten continued to punch and kick the victim before a pair of good samaritans held and scuffled with horten until police arrived , sources said .
cops nabbed horten at mott avenue and central avenue . he was taken to st . john’s university hospital with a laceration to his forehead , which he got while he was being held down by the good samaritans , according to sources .
horten was charged with second - degree murder and first - degree robbery , cops said .
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update 14 / 02 / 2014 : the unsung story : tale of the guardians kickstarter was successful .
overnight it pushed through its $ 600 , 000 target . playdek thanked backers in an update .
fun fact : matsuno wrote the story for platinum games ' wii brawler madworld .
set in the fantasy world of rasfalia , unsung story will cover the full breadth of a 77 year war told from various viewpoints in flashback . each character will star in an episode consisting of several stages . some of these episodes will cover a year of someone ' s life , while others will span over the course of more than a decade . often you ' ll be fighting against forces you were previously tasked with protecting as another character .
combat will be turn - based on a 3d map with a fully controllable camera , and units will be sorted by profession with different class types within each profession . for example , there ' s a polearm knight pioneer and a war mage clergy . one ' s got pikes , halberds and scythes while the other ' s got short swords , daggers and slings . it shouldn ' t be hard to guess which is which .
the first 200k backers to pledge $ 20 will reserve a pc , mac , ios or android copy of unsung story upon its estimated july 2015 release . or you could donate $ 50 and get digital versions of its strategy guide , soundtrack , and poster to boot .
so far unsung story has raised $ 69 , 054 towards its $ 600k goal , which is pretty good when one considers it just launched today . the kickstarter campaign will end on 14th february .
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i used to write a lot about promising kickstarter campaigns for video games . crowdfunding represented a new way of doing business for indie game developers , and a new way for consumers to support games they wanted to play . in some ways , it ' s done just that . we ' ve gotten some neat top - down rpgs like wasteland 2 and pillars of eternity .
at the same time , however , we ' ve seen tons of new problems emerge . major corporate publishers almost immediately began using kickstarter to defer some costs and test the waters of public interest . look no further than the $ 6 . 3 million raised for shenmue 3 . that game is also being funded by sony - - - only now , sony can spend a much smaller sum on the game ' s development . is this really what we had in mind as consumers and enthusiasts ? it ' s more than a little disturbing to see consumers take on so much of the risk and early funding of these types of projects .
thanks to layoffs and other unfortunate financial circumstances at the company . fine . delays happen . what’s more alarming is that playdek seems to have switched focus on
to make it more of a multiplayer game , and that their new development timeline is all about player vs . player combat rather than the narrative - heavy single - player game that the kickstarter initially promised .
this is one of several reasons why i have never personally backed any crowdfunding project . if i ' m going to invest money , i ' ll invest traditionally . if i ' m going to buy a product , i ' ll wait until it releases . and if i ' m going to support a game , i don ' t feel comfortable also writing about it .
of course , fans are unhappy - - - but shouldn ' t we know by now that kickstarter and crowdfunding more broadly is nothing more than a huge crapshoot , especially if there ' s very little of the final product on display at the time of backing ? it ' s one thing if a developer comes with game in hand , nearly finished , and crowdfunds the publication costs . that ' s a reasonable - - - and safe - - - bet for everyone . but to fund the majority of a game on donations ? i ' m only surprised there haven ' t been more disasters at this point .
the failed yogventures kickstarter which netted over $ 500 , 000 on kickstarter in 2012 and has nothing to show for it beyond a cancellation in 2014 . the only winners in that debacle were kickstarter ( which still gets its fee ) and whoever ended up getting paid . backers - - - a fun word for consumers who don ' t actually get a product when they pay and are promised
rewards
instead - - - were left high and dry .
neal stephenson ' s kickstarter for
clang
- - - a swordfighting game that used motion controls - - - faced a similar fate . backers received their rewards but the prototype , according to stephenson himself ,
wasn’t very fun to play .
it took just north of half a million in backer money to come to that conclusion .
even the much - praised , much - hyped ouya - - - an android - based gaming console - - - which raised over $ 8 million ended up being a monumental disappointment , and of course backers never saw a penny from the company ' s acquisition by razer recently . because backers aren ' t investors and crowdfunding isn ' t the same thing as investing in a start - up or project .
even success stories like the oculus rift only really serve to show how corporations have taken over the crowdfunding scene . facebook bought that company and its vr headset for $ 2 billion . certainly the kickstarter hype helped spur that acquisition , but there ' s something a bit unsettling about the entire process . it ' s all risk and very little reward .
ultimately , people are going to part with their money and there ' s very little i or anyone else can do to stop them . i ' d just urge backers on kickstarter or on other crowdfunding sites to do their homework . don ' t back something that ' s all promises , and beware of inflated resumes . a crowdfunding campaign should have tons of information , reasonable stretch goals , and a clear and sober timeframe and budget . the majority of the work on a video game should already be done and campaigns should come to backers with lots of the actual game to show off , not just concept art and a snazzy pitch . talk is cheap , and concept art isn ' t much more expensive .
be diligent , gamers . even some projects with all the best intentions in the world fall through thanks to a poor business plan or any number of other unforeseen problems .
and don ' t count on getting your money back . as schreier reports , playdek - - - like many other kickstarter campaigns that have gone awry - - - won ' t be offering refunds . that ' s within their legal rights , even if it is a shameful way to run a business .
you can see the original kickstarter campaign for unsung story here , and read the latest update - - - the first since may - - - here . for more check out schreier ' s article on kotaku .
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muar welfare department officer nazri hussin said the singaporean then told them he wanted to go to merlimau , malacca .
we asked our officers to send him to merlimau aswe did not want him to sleep at the terminal ,
mrnazri added .
the singaporean was among five men - aged 40 to 60 - picked up during the operation by muar authorities to round up homeless people .
it ' s sad to see them living and sleeping on the streets ,
said mr nazri , adding that his department would send them to a shelter while welfare officers checked on their backgrounds .
earlier , the welfare team also checked a park at taman aman , near jalan abdul rahman , following complaints that young girls were sleeping there atnight .
the welfare officers , helped by the local neighbourhood watch group , found a 17 - year - old girl and four boys there at about 1 . 30am .
two of the boys ran away , but the other two boys and the girl were cornered .
when questioned , the girl claimed she was waiting for a friend , while the boys said they merely wanted to hang out at the park .
the girl was sent home and warned that she would be sent to a shelter if she was found loitering in the park again .
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the white shoe slaying is a homicide case in l . a . noire .
james jessop - us navy able seaman seen with victim on night of murder .
this case involves a lot of driving that you have to do yourself . cumulative damage ( $ 3 , 000 + ) from reckless driving is one of the most common causes for not obtaining a 5 star rating on this case . drive slowly and carefully .
detectives cole phelps and rusty galloway are briefed about a murder that occurred on signal hill during a heavy rainstorm over los angeles . the two head over to the crime scene and check in with officer andy brown , who has secured the scene , before meeting with the l . a . county coroner , malcolm carruthers , and ray pinker from tech services . unfortunately , the heavy rain washed away most of the evidence . carruthers tells phelps and galloway that the murder is similar to the others : blunt head trauma and strangling , however , there were no messages on the body and the victim was clothed .
if cole does not examine the laundry label on the victim , he will have to make a call to r & i and ask for
missing white females over the last forty eight hours .
the dispatcher will return three names and their home addresses .
before leaving , officer enrique gonzales will bring catherine barton to the crime scene , as she thinks she can help with the investigation .
use the nearby gamewell to get the laundry services address as well as a large hobo camp address . go to the laundry service .


the princess and the plumber is a 1930 american pre-code comedy film directed by alexander korda and written by howard j. green .

the film stars charles farrell , maureen o'sullivan , h. b. warner , joseph cawthorn , bert roach and lucien prival .

the film was released on december 21 , 1930 , by fox film corporation .

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it ' s about a sad princess and a kindly plumber who fall in love . on christmas eve , the princess ' s sink gets clogged up , so she calls the plumber to fix them . unbeknownst to the plumber , the pipes are magical and he is visited by the faerie peas ( who like to eat strawberry cheese ) and the sugar plumber fairy of christmas . sometime afterwards , she gets captured by the monkey king and the plumber has to save her from the king ' s clutches . the plumber faces the monkey king in a plunger duel and the sugar plumber fairy turned the wicked building inspector into a newt , thereby declaring the castle inhabitable and reducing the need for flood insurance . ir ends with both the princess and the plumber confessing their love to each other .
the musical
the princess and the plumber
may be a spoof on nintendo ' s mario series , as it ' s about a plumber saving a princess from a giant animal ( in this case , monkey , which also makes it a double reference since mario dealt with a giant monkey before ) .
the princess and the plumber was a musical written by cavis and millward . cavis wrote it because he felt like everyone in london needed to learn about love . it was meant to be the first musical to feature electric lights on the scenery and actors , but was scrapped because of a fire hazard in the theater .
louise , the unsophisticated princess of daritzia , goes vacationing in the mountains of switzerland with albert bowers , a rich young american bachelor , and the baron von kemper . at a mountain cabin , the baron tries to force his attentions on the young princess but is thwarted by the intervention of albert . seeking revenge , the baron spreads the rumor that the princess has been compromised by albert , supported by the fact that albert sprains his ankle and keeps louise out overnight . her father demands an immediate marriage , to which the couple consent , having fallen in love .
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the 80s and 90s of gaming era was largely dominated by the well - known character mario , the plumber who departed on a journey to save princess peach every time the game started . well now , this prominent gaming character is no more a plumber by profession according to his newly updated official japanese language profile which is confirmed by nintendo . for the lovers of the game mario , this shouldn’t be much of revelation as a fan would know , mario did everything from killing turtles to grabbing coins but never has he ever been seen plumbing pipes . some might ask the question , he went down the pipes , isn’t that a part of the plumbing process ? well yeah but the latest update in his character doesn’t justify climbing down pipes as being a plumber .
in this comedy , a plumbing magnate ' s son , who has started on the bottom rung of his father ' s business , is hired to fix the pipes in an old european castle . the castle is being let by a destitute prince and his daughter . in order to restore his fortune and prestige , the prince wants her daughter to marry a man of his choosing , but unfortunately , the princess has fallen head - over - heels for the castle plumber .
mario’s name was previously penned down as “jumpman” according to shigeru miyamoto . back then he wasn’t a plumber , but a carpenter as the 1981s donkey kong game was designed keeping in mind a construction site and it was the most suited job to assign the leading character .
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it was mentioned on a trivia question in larry - boy and the rumor weed .
as stated by miyamoto in usa today , with the 1983s mario bros , another character luigi was cast and while most of the gameplay was set underground inside the tunnels , no better profession than a plumber suited mario . the overall scenario fits his profession but as the game is changing with new features and alterations , mario needed a profession suited for everything , so now he is a multitasker , with skills apt for every profession .
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when a brave princess vows to rescue her kidnapped sister , she finds an unlikely and reluctant ally - a stocky bald plumber named gus ! joined by a magical monster , a giant caterpillar and a host of weird and wacky characters , our heroes face peril at every turn . will good triumph over evil ? or is this one of those stories without a happy ending ? ( geez , i hope not ! i hate those kind of stories ! ) please note : this video is for viewing by children and families , therefore comments have been disabled .
farrell is the son of the head of a huge plumbing concern , working his way up from the bottom , who is hired to fix the pipes in a european castle which is being rented by an impoverished prince and his daughter o ' sullivan . the prince wants her to marry someone of his choice , but she ' s determined to wed farrell , and ultimately gets things her own way . farrell . . . read more
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all around sporty , whether it’s tennis or baseball , soccer or car racing , he [ mario ] does everything cool . as a matter of fact , he also seems to have worked as a plumber a long time ago…
the ' hot chick ' of bitf . she ' s a child . yeah .
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he even played a doctor in a 1990 action puzzle game produced by gunpei yokoi and designed by takahiro harada .
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a derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty . unfortunately , she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run - down castle .
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