So last month I posted HERE and then earlier this week I posted HERE mentioning about a little contest I'm holding for writers over on TCO.
We have our first two submission, from Wakeen "MegaGeese" Kimble & Scott Wilding are both available from:
http://www.teamcanadaonline.net
I had no idea you were doing this, otherwise I would've submitted some of my articles to you. Great reads btw, keep the good job up guys.
sir_shajir said:
I had no idea you were doing this, otherwise I would've submitted some of my articles to you. Great reads btw, keep the good job up guys.
I'm still doing it.
I'm ending the contest once I've gotten my last two 2008 Wrap-up articles written. I'm aiming for January 14th to have my two articles finished.
Voting will be on TCO.
To anyone submitting for the TCO contest, please indicate if you've submitted the same article to Vik. I just want to ensure that's acknowledged when I post the articles. (As demonstrated by the editors notes on both articles so far.)
I'm actually kinda worried mine comes off as too serious and all business, no fun. In short, that it's "tl;dr".
MegaGeese said:
I'm actually kinda worried mine comes off as too serious and all business, no fun. In short, that it's "tl;dr".
IMO - I think UFS needs more of that.
You can have serious discussion of cards and strategy where people actually discuss and grow the game.
The fun and fluff is good, but there's a place for it. There are folks out there who a craving a more serious discussion.
Also, if you want to lighten up your writing, that can be a stylistic thing where you find your niche, but the only way you can achieve it is to write more articles
Antigoth said:
The fun and fluff is good, but there's a place for it.
Where? It's not here on the forums, it's not on any of the fansites either.
the point of playing a game is having fun. so an artical about a game that is not fun has no place, anywhere. and fluff is awesome. (morgan playmat.)
Homme Chapeau said:
Antigoth said:
The fun and fluff is good, but there's a place for it.
Where? It's not here on the forums, it's not on any of the fansites either.
People seemed determined to make these UFS forums a joke. <See: Trane> Look at the Dual Symboling is Awesome thread. As for fan sites, I can't speak for any other UFS fansites other then TCO, because that's the only one I choose to visit. We do have fun there, we just don't treat a discussion forum like a chat room.
If people want "Lulz" go check the Encyclopedia Dramatica
Antigoth said:
Homme Chapeau said:
Antigoth said:
The fun and fluff is good, but there's a place for it.
Where? It's not here on the forums, it's not on any of the fansites either.
People seemed determined to make these UFS forums a joke. Look at the Dual Symboling is Awesome thread. As for fan sites, I can't speak for any other UFS fansites other then TCO, because that's the only one I choose to visit. We do have fun there, we just don't treat a discussion forum like a chat room.
c'mon antigoth, your not a mod anymore so your job isn't to tell forum goers to follow the code of severity. if i am not alowed to have fun on a forum what is the point of posting there?
Its THAT TIME again kids! Its time for a good ole round of "DEFINITION"! (as according to dictionary.com)
Today's word is:
FORUM
1. the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
2. a court or tribunal: the forum of public opinion.
3. an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest.
4. something about a city...
According to dictionary.com we see that there are multiple uses for a forum besides 'having fun'!
That was great everyone! Thanks for playing! See you next time, everywhere people misapply concepts, on "DEFINITION"!
vermillian said:
Its THAT TIME again kids! Its time for a good ole round of "DEFINITION"! (as according to dictionary.com)
Today's word is:
FORUM
1. the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
2. a court or tribunal: the forum of public opinion.
3. an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest.
4. something about a city...
According to dictionary.com we see that there are multiple uses for a forum besides 'having fun'!
That was great everyone! Thanks for playing! See you next time, everywhere people misapply concepts, on "DEFINITION"!
my statement was an opinion, not a fact.
Antigoth said:
People seemed determined to make these UFS forums a joke. <See: Trane> Look at the Dual Symboling is Awesome thread. As for fan sites, I can't speak for any other UFS fansites other then TCO, because that's the only one I choose to visit. We do have fun there, we just don't treat a discussion forum like a chat room.
I've no problem with this. Dual-symboling is awesome was a forum meme that needed to be contained fast (although I might bust it out on occasion sparingly - kinda like I still bust out Happy Lolidays on occasion). It'd have been funnier in the ACTUAL "Dual-Symboling does not make you awesome" thread, in fact and even then that's only once. Or maybe three times to complete the rule of three but whatever. What I DO have a problem with is that anything funny seems to get smacked down hard by the community, and seeing as about 80% of my posts are tongue-in-cheek, jokes or trying-to-be funny photoshops, I do feel personally targeted when such a backlash happens even if I didn't exactly post anything remotely non-serious in the General forum in ages. Irreverent posts, perhaps, but off-topic posts except in threads that weren't going anywhere anyway? Not to my current knowledge (which doesn't extend very far mind you).
I don't control the lame attempts at humour the others post - I do control my own lame attempts, and I don't think I've crossed a line here in wondering where/when exactly can someone be funny. In fact, since the switch, I barely post mostly because I haven't been inspired to actually do some Photoshopping, what with the lack of customizable avatars mostly and somewhat because of said anti-funny movement. So, yeah. It'd be great if we could get some sort of guidelines governing humorous posts so I can at least know where we stand on all this - be it none at all or it's okay sometimes provided the joke's actually good (or gud as some might say). As I said - I'm not the be all end all of forum comedy but since apparently I'm the only one that can form a cohesive post questioning the "anti-funny" sentiment going around, I'm gonna have to raise my sleeves and take the flak.
Just a reminder - I'm not calling for making the forums a complete and utter inside joke - that's the first ticket to losing a lot of potential members. What I am talking about is that comedic posts aren't in conflict with serious posts, and while smacking the bad ones down is a good idea because hey let's face it when I think a non-serious post is an eyesore that means it's gotta be real bad considering the stinkers I've put up in my heyday, why would we want to stifle the creativity of players who can't exactly write long well-thought articles but can put effort in other venues of creativity that maybe a bit less enriching for the game as a whole, but can help both new players and veterans alike relax, have a coke, and share a laugh together.
I'd say "Can't we all just get along?" but coming from me that might be seen as racist and honestly there's way too many french canadians being called racist (HAHA! JOKE THAT ONLY ANTIGOTH MIGHT GET!) in the news for my liking right now so I won't and I'll just say I probably had a point somewhere in there but I lost it around the second sentence of the first paragraph. No it's not a rhetoric effect for you to check it out. And neither is that. Or is that times infinity.
Yeah, exactly. Things don't have to be all serious all the time, but neither should they be all nonsense all the time. The happy medium is the thing we need to find, but so far we've not found it as a forum.
Nor I for my writing; even when we're sitting around playing or eating after a tournament, our playgroup will discuss UFS seriously while still laughing.having a good time doing it. I tend to write the way I think, but I do tend to think in a rather verbose and metaphoric way. But in this particular article, I mostly laid out the facts in a very third-person way, without relating any personal experiences, citing references (like tournament results, that sort of thing), or anything like that. It was very impersonal, and to ME, that often translates as boring to people; it might as well have been written by a robot.
Sigh.
MegaGeese said:
Yeah, exactly. Things don't have to be all serious all the time, but neither should they be all nonsense all the time. The happy medium is the thing we need to find, but so far we've not found it as a forum.
Nor I for my writing; even when we're sitting around playing or eating after a tournament, our playgroup will discuss UFS seriously while still laughing.having a good time doing it. I tend to write the way I think, but I do tend to think in a rather verbose and metaphoric way. But in this particular article, I mostly laid out the facts in a very third-person way, without relating any personal experiences, citing references (like tournament results, that sort of thing), or anything like that. It was very impersonal, and to ME, that often translates as boring to people; it might as well have been written by a robot.
Sigh.
No, but to hear certain posters sometimes, there is no happy medium. There is only the two extremes.
As far as writing goes, well, yes, your piece was dryer than a non-basted turkey (does that work? I DON'T KNOW), but it went above and beyond the kind of information needed so yes it was very good.
Just that I definitely wouldn't read it if I felt under the weather because it definitely isn't accessible. We have a saying around here : "What's this character do? Nnnnyeh too much text Overwhemling Strength."
MegaGeese said:
Yeah, exactly. Things don't have to be all serious all the time, but neither should they be all nonsense all the time. The happy medium is the thing we need to find, but so far we've not found it as a forum.
Nor I for my writing; even when we're sitting around playing or eating after a tournament, our playgroup will discuss UFS seriously while still laughing.having a good time doing it. I tend to write the way I think, but I do tend to think in a rather verbose and metaphoric way. But in this particular article, I mostly laid out the facts in a very third-person way, without relating any personal experiences, citing references (like tournament results, that sort of thing), or anything like that. It was very impersonal, and to ME, that often translates as boring to people; it might as well have been written by a robot.
Sigh.
your article was good, even though i was bashing it. i just think antigoth gets to serious sometimes.
Good feedback is good. I wasn't sure how informal I could be writing a piece that was a job application =/
I tend to write more like your Card of the Day bits on UFSCards, Hat-san.
MegaGeese said:
Good feedback is good. I wasn't sure how informal I could be writing a piece that was a job application =/
I tend to write more like your Card of the Day bits on UFSCards, Hat-san.
For TCO I'm happy for content that I don't have to write. Anything that I'm not comfortable publishing I will take the time to explain why. Ususally the only reason why I won't post something as an article is:
1) It really belongs as a forum post. <I actually had an article once where someone posted 1 line "I need help with my deck.">
2) It's not work safe
3) The spelling and grammar are so poor that I would be ashamed to have it grace the front page of my site.
Just a follow up from on the contest / repost from TCO
****Update 2/1/2009 ****
Ok, so I've finally got the 2008 RDWC article up, and it's a living article at this time. The 2008 Wrap up contest is now closed, and rather then putting it to voting, I'm going to give prizes to BOTH entrants! Could Wakeen & Steve please contact me via PM and provide me their mailing addresses. I'll have their prize - a set of one of each of the Assets of Power, including a Seal of Cessation - in the mail ASAP.
Please note, TCO is always happy to accept articles from other writers.
Keep your eyes peeled, as later on this month there will be a new UFS focused writing contest.
Antigoth said:
Keep your eyes peeled, as later on this month there will be a new UFS focused writing contest.
If I'm not too tapped out and come up with something remotely interesting to write I may end up entering this one.
...I think I just cried tears of blood.
Sweet.