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Hunt-the-Pixel

Gonna break down and add computer games articles. Many will hate this. But that is kind of the point. Not that I want to inconvenience anyone, it is just that there is a widespread prejudice (in the sense of judging something before knowing all the facts), and on WP, systemic bias (with the result of comp games articles being really in an atrocious situation), against video games.

They are violent. They stimulate the acquisitive instinct without giving actual content as a reward. But they do not have to be. This is proven by the rare exceptions. Ultimately, I see vid games as the next incarnation of storytelling in the continuum: Play, film, TV, video games. And it is not coincidence that actors in plays were once looked down on society, whereupon they gradually became famed and respected, whereupon film was looked down upon, etc.

This particular article is a game mechanics article, which means that it discusses games in much the same way that an article about chess moves discusses chess.


Pixelhunting sample (part of blue square)

Hunt-the-pixel (also pixel hunt) is a term used to describe some computer game interfaces involving point and click with a mouse. The term is usually applied to adventure games in which the primary difficulty with some portion of the game lies in finding an object on the screen. In some cases, the required object is quite small, and may be only a few pixels in size. The player may not have any idea what to look for, but often the game cannot progress without finding it. Players often apply the term to any game in which the gameplay is hindered by the frustrating task of determining precisely where on the screen to click. It can be an example of using the deficiencies in the game interface as a challenge, in the same way as treacherous allies and Artificial Stupidity.

An example of pixel hunting appears from The X-Files: The Game, where a vital clue is a bullet exactly 2x2 pixels in size. Other examples can be found in Dark Seed, where the player must locate a small bobby pin lying on the floor of a library, or in Beneath a Steel Sky, where the player must identify and use (without prompting) such tiny items as a 2x2 pixel lump of putty, a thumb-sized metal plate in a poorly lit club, and a barely distinguishable light socket in an abandoned metro tunnel. Pixel hunting is also crucial in Future Wars, where items are not only hard to find and required relatively late in respect to their original location but also, to successfully find an item, the player character has to stand close to its location on the screen. Dreamweb actually incorporates a "magnifying glass" effect with a sighting reticle into its interface to assist the player in locating the many infinitesimal hotspots scattered thickly through its rooms. The problem was endemic in the controversial adventure Limbo of the Lost, which featured minuscule, crucial objects in deep shadow, sometimes off the edge of the screen or obscured by the game's status bar.

Missed objects will not always lead to an unwinnable situation, but sometimes will offer just better alternative approaches to future puzzles, being thus something like Easter eggs.

Some games made by Sierra On-Line, including Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and portions of the Space Quest and King's Quest series, featured interfaces that at times required a hunt-the-pixel approach. One situation in LucasArts's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure, which required the player to locate a particular book among several screens full of book stacks. However, LucasArts games have the advantage of a status line indicating the object the cursor is currently over. Another remedy was to make essential objects flash, or some other method to make the element more visible against the benign background, as is done for example at the beginning of King's Quest VI with Alexander's twinkling insignia ring on the beach. In LucasArt's Sam and Max Hit the Road the cursor will have a red border when above a clickable location. The Simon the Sorcerer series avoided pixel hunting all together, by allowing the player to press F10 at any time to highlight all the hotspots on the current screen.

Pixel-hunting is extremely common in games of the escape the room genre. Players must not only find and click on very small items, but sometimes must also find very small arbitrary, and invisible hotspots in order to trigger a change in point of view. Many authors of on-line Flash point-and-click adventure games have disabled the tab key to prevent players from easily cycling through all the hotspots.

The rendering done for objects added to the environment and the environment itself are almost always different, and this makes it easier to find such objects. In particular, panning the player view camera makes such objects pixilate rapidly. This is an effect noticable in MMORPGs and FPS games also.

See also


Photographers of erotica (male subjects)

Status quo rescidivism of skin-deep values or expansion of the only free and, apart from some drugs, non-fattening pleasure of mankind? I can never decide. Held til AfD close

List of photographers

Male nude taken by Edgar de Evia in the 1970s.


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Caino, (1902), by Wilhelm von Gloeden

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See also



Henry Sternweiler / Wikipedia:Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt)

WASt translates to Armed Forces Information Office for War Losses (Casualties?) and POWs + Translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/5617/_ich_habe_gedacht_die_spinnen_doch.html&ei=iF8eTeDqB4n0tgOt4PHWAg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3D1946%2BArchivar%2Bder%2BWehrmachtsgeschichte%2B%2522Ich%2Bhabe%2Bgedacht,%2Bdie%2Bspinnen%2Bdoch%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Divns


or use Translate on:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,17311&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=1946+Archivar+der+Wehrmachtsgeschichte+%22Ich+habe+gedacht%2C+die+spinnen+doch&cp=74&qe=MTk0NiBBcmNoaXZhciBkZXIgV2Vocm1hY2h0c2dlc2NoaWNodGUgIkljaCBoYWJlIGdlZGFjaHQsIGRpZSBzcGlubmVuIGRvY2g&qesig=NkFh1qwV_lhCq7TqkTVCHQ&pkc=AFgZ2tkh0Q8B6NVwpL0ry1dpf9uHKXvY_Hn5A9m-FSFvWTszFLM77TyOIXQiYaDhuU9SeZN7HXMXe_zIMsodTBXMeBjkuJlFkQ&pf=p&sclient=psy&site=&source=hp&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=1946+Archivar+der+Wehrmachtsgeschichte+%22Ich+habe+gedacht,+die+spinnen+doch&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=e64ee6e4e8056c32

Henry Sternweiler (born in 1918 or 1919 in Ulm, Germany, died 27 April 2010 in Fairview Park, Ohio) was a United States lieutenant during World War II who is notable for saving millions of military records in Germany after sidestepping an order.[1] [2]

World War II

Sternweiler was drafted into the United States army in 1942 and participated in D-Day plus 1.[1]

Saving the records

Following the war, Sternweiler flew to Germany, leading a team that processed 18 million military records.[3][4] Daily, they sent out 12,000 notices to families seeking closure or information. A few weeks later, he was ordered by the United States to destroy the records - however, he helped stall the situation and eventually the French seized control of the records, saving them.[1]

For his efforts, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on 7 December 2009 by Germany, the nation's highest civilian honor.[1]

Miscellany

He was discharged from the military in 1956 as a major.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cleveland.com obituary
  2. ↑ Archivar der Wehrmachtsgeschichte spiegel.de Template:ger
  3. ↑ http://dd-wast.javabase.de/e_archiv.htm Template:en
  4. ↑ http://dd-wast.javabase.de/e_respon.htm Template:en

Warning: Default sort key "Sternweiler, Henry" overrides earlier default sort key "Hunt-The-Pixel".


Int'l law redlinks on WP

on WP:'List of European Court of Human Rights judgments'. Probably deleted. A. and Others v. the United Kingdom. Very similar in name to two other ECoHR judgements, and for some reason, very little documentation online, so easy to delete. Legal term used: Derogation.

PDF of the entire text: http://www.icj.org/IMG/A_and_others_v_United_Kingdom_-_JUSTICE_intervention.pdf

Relisted AfDs

A good percentage of the AfDs today are relisted ones. I can read two things into this: one, it would seem to be a good thing. Fewer AfDs, perhaps, are being nominated, so there are fewer vultures to hover over things. Or maybe no one is left who bothers with topics they don't have an agenda for. Either way, should end up with fewer deletions. Two, maybe they wacked all the good articles already, and I missed it.

I used to be able to see some kind of thread of a rationale in deletor's arguments. Is it that I am so good at ignoring BS now that it does not affect me any more, or are they just getting stupider? It's not me getting stupider, that's for sure, I can see their motivation, in this case anti-science, specifically anti-psychology and anti-philosophy. I think they are actually stupider, as SYNTH used to be given some reason, or at least it was applied to sources or a specific argument. Now they are just saying synth without any target at all. Even one of the Keep arguments is bogus, as it recommends merging an article about death -anxiety- to one about death -fear-. A list of expert theories in the field is ripped for being "an editor's selection and summary of various theories with no RS to tell us why these are "worth mentioning" or how they relate to one another (or to anything else, for that matter" The title itself says how they related to each other, for god's sake. I just don't see how these people can write in English, if they cannot read it.

AfD

Absolute proof that idiots can nominate things for AfD. The 1st thing nom says it is not notable, when a Google search shows obviously otherwise.
Only thing is: is a stub about some Viet Nam vigilante for AP? A neat story about the triumph of the individual in an age that doesn't care? A triumph for communist encouragement of social involvement or an example of its excessive propaganda-fed zeal? Bit of all of em I think.

Death anxiety

Theories of death anxiety have mainly evolved around the issues of death anxiety and its adjustment. [1] Along with Sigmund Freud’s and Ernest Becker’s works, the following works on death anxiety are worth mentioning:

Sigmund Freud’s work

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) postulated that people express a fear of death, which he called ‘thanatophobia’. However, this was merely a disguise for a deeper source of concern. It was not actually death that people feared, because nobody believes in his or her own death. The unconscious does not deal with the passage of time or with negations. That one's life could and would end simply “does not compute”. Furthermore, that which one does fear cannot be death itself, because one has never died. People who express death-related fears, then, are actually trying to deal with unresolved childhood conflicts that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge and discuss openly [2].

Ernest Becker’s work

Ernest Becker's existential view turned death anxiety theory towards a new dimension. It stated that death anxiety is not only real, but also that it is people's most profound source of concern. He described this anxiety as so intense that it can generate fears and phobias in everyday life. Fears of being alone or in a confined space are some examples of its impact. According to this theory, much of people's daily behavior consists of attempts to deny death and thereby keep their basic anxiety under control [3].

Martin Heidegger’s work

Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher, on the one hand showed death as something conclusively determined, in the sense that it is inevitable for every human being, while on the other hand, it unmasks its indeterminate nature via the truth that one never knows when or how death is going to come. Heidegger does not engage in speculation about whether being after death is possible. He argues that all human existence is embedded in time: past, present, future, and when considering the future, we encounter the notion of death. This then creates Angst. Angst can create a clear understanding in one that death is a possible mode of existence, which Heidegger described as “clearing”. Thus, Angst can lead to a freedom about existence, but only if we can stop denying our mortality (as expressed in Heidegger’s terminology as “stop denying being-for-death”). This, in turn creates space for authenticity, where death becomes an enriching, liberating, rather than frightening, aspect of human experience. Unfortunately, Heidegger, as a philosopher, did not make any suggestions as to how to arrive at this state of awareness [4].

Paul T P Wong’s work

Through the works of Meaning Management Theory [5] Paul T. P. Wong showed human reactions to death as complex, multifaceted and dynamic. His “Death Attitude Profile” identifies three types of death acceptances as Neutral, Approach and Escape acceptances. Apart from acceptances, his work also represents different aspects of the meaning of Death Fear that are rooted in the bases of death anxiety. The ten meanings he propose are finality, uncertainty, annihilation, ultimate loss, life flow disruption, leaving the loved ones, pain and loneliness, prematurity and violence of death, failure of life work completion, and judgment and retribution centered. Most importantly, his Meaning Management Theory itself proposes that 1) Humans are bio-psychosocial-spiritual beings, 2) Human beings are meaning-seeking and meaning making creatures, 3) Two primary motivations for human beings are to survive and to find meaning and reason for survival, 4) Meaning can be found in all situations, and 5) The motivational tendencies of avoidance and approach may complement each other. This theory has a good potential to be utilized in working with people struggling with end-of-life issues.

Mohammad Samir Hossain's work

Mohammad Samir Hossain, a researcher of death attitude [6], postulated Death and Adjustment Hypotheses [7][8]. In 2007, Mohammad Samir Hossain’s book Quest for a New Death: Death and Adjustment Hypotheses, postulated, in two parts, that adjustment to death is hampered by our preconceived misconceptions about the phenomenon of death. The prevailing perception, in fact our predominant one, is that our entire existence absolutely ends with death. According to Hossain’s theory of adjustment, it should be converted to something like ‘death does not cause an absolute end to existence’. If our conceptualization is changed in this way, it might enhance our adjustment to death. But, as per the second part of this theory, this can only be established when our morality attains a certain level, because decay or deterioration in relation to the concept of death, is very much connected to our code of ethics and beliefs [9][10][11].

Other works

Other approaches to death anxiety were introduced in the late twentieth century. Terror management theory is based on a study finding that people who felt better about themselves also reported having less death-related anxiety [12]. Another approach named “regret theory” was proposed in 1996 by Adrian Tomer and Grafton Eliason. It approaches the way in which people evaluate the quality or worth of their lives. The prospect of death is likely to make people more anxious if they feel that they have not accomplished, and cannot accomplish, something good in life.

References

  1. ↑ Mohammad Samir Hossain and Peter Gilbert. 2010.Concepts of Death: A key to our adjustment. Illness, Crisis and Loss, Vol 18. No 1
  2. ↑ Freud, S. (1953). "Thoughts for the time of war and death," In: Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol 4. Translated and Edited by Strachey J. London, Hogarth
  3. ↑ Becker, E. (1973) The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press
  4. ↑ Heidegger, M., (1962) Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper & Row
  5. ↑ , Wong, P. T. P. (2000) Meaning in life and meaning in death in successful aging. In A. Tomer (Ed.), Death attitudes and the older adults: Theories, concepts and applications (pp. 23-35). Philadelphia, PA: Bruner-Routledge
  6. ↑ http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a923472682~db=all~jumptype=rss
  7. ↑ Mohammad Samir Hossain, MBBS, Ph.D.Introducing Death and Adjustment Hypotheses. Journal of Loss and Trauma.Volume 15, Issue 4 July 2010 , pages 370 - 375
  8. ↑ Karen Meyers, 2009, The truth about death and dying, page 106, 2nd Edition, Infobase Publishing
  9. ↑ http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078883601/680442/Additional_Lifespan_Development_Topics.pdf
  10. ↑ Mohammad Samir Hossain and Peter Gilbert. 2010.Concepts of Death: A key to our adjustment. Illness, Crisis and Loss, Vol 18. No 1
  11. ↑ http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Hossain%20Facing%20the%20Finality.pdf
  12. ↑ Solomon, S., Greenberg, J. and Pyszczynski, T. (1991). In M.P. Zanna (Ed.). ed.. Advances in experimental social psychology. 24. Academic Press. pp. 93–159.

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Agree with merge to Powers of arrest; if not done, or not done correctly, merge it all to here.

United Kingdom

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The following persons all have various powers of arrest within England & Wales in various capacities:

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Allegations of Israeli espionage operation 2000–2001

(this one will probably make it thru AfD. It is most interesting as an example of the hyperreaction of law enforcement, in this case the DEA) in post-Pentagon Attacks US)

Allegations of an Israeli espionage operation involving young people posing as art students appeared in United States news outlets from the summer of 2000. Salon.com said "agents of the DEA, ATF, Air Force, Secret Service, FBI, and U.S. Marshals Service documented some 130 separate incidents of 'art student' encounters" across the United States.[1][2] The 'art students' went door to door, claiming to be from institutions such as the University of Jerusalem or the (nonexistent) Bazala Academy,[3] and selling their work to raise money for art supplies or tuition fees.[4][5][6]

This was a version of the international Art student scam, a confidence trick in which the art works being offered are actually cheap, mass-produced paintings or prints.[7][8][9][10][11]

It was alleged that the Israelis had visited facilities and private homes of staff members of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and that the DEA suspected a possible espionage operation. Both the DEA[12][13] and the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive[14] released reports about the suspicious behavior of supposed Israeli art students. The 60-page DEA report stated that the 'art students' entered secure areas of government buildings and several military bases, including two with stealth aircraft and other secret operations, and took photographs.[15] The internal DEA report was leaked to the media in 2001.[2] Several dozen Israelis in their twenties, including supposed art students, were deported for undertaking paid work not allowed by their visas.[16]

On March 6, 2002, the Washington Post reported that the United States Department of Justice described the allegations of spying as an "urban myth and the 60-page DEA document as possibly the work of a single disgruntled employee.[17][18] Salon said the memo was a compilation of field reports by dozens of named agents and officials from DEA offices and government facilities across the United States. The report included names, driver's license numbers, passport numbers and in some cases the Israeli military identification numbers of the 'students'. Military service is compulsory in Israel; however, some of the 'students' were still on active duty and "many of the students, the DEA report noted, had backgrounds in Israeli military intelligence and/or electronics surveillance; one was the son of a two-star Israeli general, and another had served as a bodyguard to the head of the Israeli army."[1]

Five days after the Post article appeared, on March 11, the investigative magazine of The Washington Times, INSIght on the News quoted a senior Justice Department official as saying "We think there is something quite sinister here but are unable at this time to put our finger on it."[1][15]

Israel referred to the allegations as "nonsense." Haaretz treated the spying allegations as inconclusive and noted with regards to the Post article, "Even this report was not enough to finally kill off the affair."[2]

It was also speculated that the 'art students' were connected to Israeli organised crime and the Ecstasy trade in the United States. A DEA official suggested that they were engaged in surveillance on the DEA.[1][17] A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Washington said that Israel had cooperated with the US on the Ecstasy case and although denying the spying claim said "That's not to say that there isn't any organized crime involving Israeli citizens."[15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Christopher, ({{{year}}}). "The Israeli "art student" mystery," Salon.com, {{{volume}}}, .
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Guttman, Nathan (May 7, 2002). "Spies, or students? Were the Israelis just trying to sell their paintings, or agents in a massive espionage ring?". Haaretz. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/spies-or-students-1.45243. </li>
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  4. ↑ "Scam art ripples Peninsula 'Students' up-sell cheap, mass-produced works door-to-door". Peace Arch News (The (White Rock, British Columbia, Canada)): p. 1. Tuesday, August 10, 2004. ""An Israeli art scam with suggested links to espionage and fundamentalist fundraisers may have turned up on the Semiahmoo Peninsula. At least half a dozen locals-probably more-were likely duped by the hoax, which has for years puzzled North American authorities. Young Israelis posing as art students travel door-to-door hocking mass-produced art as their own. The works are worth little, but still sell for hundreds of dollars to naive customers."" </li>
  5. ↑ Wilton, Suzanne, "Art-sales-scam ringleaders ordered to leave Canada", Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C.: Aug 7, 2004. pg. A.8.
  6. ↑ "Information On An Israeli Art Scam". Komo News. August 30, 2006. http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4007381.html. </li>
  7. ↑ Moyes, Sarah; Michelle Robinson (5 March 2010). "Warning on art scam". East And Bays Courier. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/east-bays-courier/3403169/Warning-on-art-scam. Retrieved 29 July 2010. </li>
  8. ↑ "Foreign students caught up in fake art scam". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. April 18, 2008. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/18/2220627.htm. </li>
  9. ↑ Gandia, Renato (August 19, 2009). ""Israeli art scam" preying on people's kindness". Calgary Sun. http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2009/08/19/10523156.html. </li>
  10. ↑ "Oil painting scam hits the Border". Border Mail. April 22, 2009. http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/local/news/general/oil-painting-scam-hits-the-border/1494344.aspx. </li>
  11. ↑ Dye, Stuart (February 4, 2004). "Brush with law reveals art scam". NZ Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3547311.
    Coulter, Narelle (January 18, 2006). "Door slammed on ‘original’ art scam". Star News Group. http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/8437.
    Feek, Belinda (January 19, 2010). "Warnings out over art scam". Waikato Times. http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/waikato-times/mi_8054/is_20100119/warnings-art-scam/ai_n48688542/?tag=content;col1. </li>
  12. ↑ Fenton, Ben (March 7, 2002). "Telegraph.co.uk: US arrests 200 young Israelis in spying investigation". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1387069/US-arrests-200-young-Israelis-in-spying-investigation.html. Retrieved April 25, 2010. </li>
  13. ↑ Sunday Herald (UK) via Internet Archive: Were they part of a massive spy ring which shadowed the 9/11 hijackers and knew that al-Qaeda planned a devastating terrorist attack on the USA?. Archived from source 2006-04-23.
  14. ↑ Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive: Suspicious Visitors to Federal Facilities (archived at Internet Archive. Archived from source 2007-01-24.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Rodriguez, Paul M. (1 April 2002). "Intelligence agents or art students? The DEA and Justice Department believe there was something sinister behind unusual visits Israeli 'art students' paid to employees of law-enforcement agencies". Insight on the News. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_12_18/ai_84396672. Retrieved 29 July 2010. </li>
  16. ↑ "Israeli student 'spy ring' revealed". London: The Guardian. March 6, 2002. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2002/mar/06/internationaleducationnews.highereducation. Retrieved March 6, 2010. </li>
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 McGraw, Seamus. "Espionage Ruled Out in Case of Bad Art". The Forward. http://www.forward.com/articles/5250/. </li>
  18. ↑ Mintz, John; Dan Eggen (March 7, 2002). "U.S. officials dismiss report of Israeli spies". Seattle Times. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020307&slug=notspies07. Retrieved October 18, 2008. </li> </ol>

Where's Wal..Mohammed Nasim article?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2010_December_22#Mohammed_Nasim_.28Guantanamo_captive_849.29 multiple articles in one AfD, plus another afd for a single name the same day

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