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General => Site News => Topic started by: Spriggan on December 20, 2003, 05:40:34 AM
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We've only got 1 article on reserve right now. And Fell's on a busniess trip (I guess that's what you'd call it) so he'll be gone a bit more. So if you were procastanateing on submiting something (read me and Entropy) then now would be a good time. Since this week is Christmass we'll probaly only need 2 more, I doubt we'll post somehting the 24th or 25th.
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I have half a dozen I've just been waiting on. I'll get 'em done
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I'd like to post Christmas Eve, but Christmas Day will just be a "Happy Holidays" blurb or something. Maybe a picture of me going down a chimney laden with toys and sugarplums.
By the way, many thanks to Tage and my wife, who posted the articles in my absence.
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*blinks*
Your other half posted a TWG article? Sounds interesting.
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I believe I posted my Review of Distraction, which hasn't been on the front page yet. Coming as soon as I can write them (and I'm not busy for a couple of days, so soon) should be another book review, a video game review, an RPG related non-review article, and (eventually, this one may take a while) a free game to make use of all those old AOL CDs, and the ones you tried burning but ended up as coasters.
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Me and my friends, while doing a bit of very light drinking at my house, once tried to use them as frisbees. Problem is that they shatter when they hit walls and/or people, which is kinda annoying. And throwing a jagged half - a - cd at someone is pushing the boundry of "fun" a bit.
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Me and my firend Steve would throw AOL CD's at each other like throwing stars and we'd try to swat them out of the air with my Katanas. They look realy cool when they shatter into thousands of peices.
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I go out the barbarian way about destroying them/other no longer working CDs. I just take them in my hands, bend, and wait until it breaks. One time some chuncks hit me in the face and cut me someplace on my arm. I forget where though.
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I stick 'em in the mocrowave for about 8-10 seconds. They put on a neat little light show. And I have yet to blow up a microwave oven with one, if you're worried about trying it yourself.
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You guys spend too much energy on it. I just drop them in the wastebasket.
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Really? You destroy AOL CD's? I love those things--I always install them.
ON OTHER PEOPLE'S COMPUTERS!
(Yes, the 'Y' does stand for 'Evil.')
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The 'Y'?
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Heh, the Y. I get it. Thats a good one EUOL.
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Is that your middle initial?
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So I see you've missed the 6th. An article was not posted. I'm sure you have them, just someone forgot is all.
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actually, there is oNE article awaiting, and it's not an RPG one so I can't speak about how usable it is. We NEED more submissions.
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it's a tabletop game review that you wrote SE. I dono what Fell's scedule is like this week, what with the moveing to logan and new job, so maybe we should take this time to ask him if he needs us to post articles in his stead this week?
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See what happens when I don't submit anything?
I've been planning a Book Review and two RPG based article, each about something to consider to make a game a bit more interesting. I've been planning thes efor a while, as well as my CD game. If you're lucky, tomorrow I'll get off my butt and start writing. More likely, they'll be finished sometime around July.
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Really?
OH! yeah
Zendo
cool.
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Thanks to my commute and current computer situation, I'm virtually cut off from the outside world for a while. I delegate to SE and Tage (if they're willing, of course) the job of posting articles. Thanks for your help, and I'll do my best to get back online as quickly as I can.
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I'd love to, but I dont' have access to write blurbs....
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I can take over the article administration for the time being. As a note to all department heads, anytime an article gets approved it leaves a little note for an admin, so (assuming I check the admin page, which I'll start doing) I'll see that you approved an article. If you want to be doubly-sure, just IM me or post a note here in this thread.
I'm posting the last article in our waiting list, so unless we get something else in we won't have any updates.
SE, you didn't put a score on the Zendo review, but it was very favorable so I stuck a "5" on it. Let me know if it should be something different.
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I'll have a flash game for friday or monday depending on how log it takes to debug, but it's a simple program so shouldn't take too long. Also I have to write a review for the StarWars D20 book fell gave me like 2 months ago, and if I feel like it I'll do a FFXI review. But I doubt I'll do the reviews till this weekend.
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yeah, 5 is fine.
Also, with the current drought, even if you see more than one article approved, I'd encourage you to only do a blurb for one of them.
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I'll work something up fairly soon.
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sorry about no article today, guys. I fully intended to write up something quick this morning on one of half a dozen topics. However, continuing the freakiest winter ever, we got 1/8" of snow last night/this morning. Apparently, this 1/8" was a sneaky and deceptive amount of snow with superhuman powers, for it has cause more acciendents than the several inches we got last month all put together. I'm supposed to be in the office at 8, I got here not earlier than 10:45, so you can tell how sucky my morning has been. It does not look like I'll have an article done before 6 or 7 tonight, in which case we'll just post it next week. In the mean time, all of you can feel free to contribute a bunch of articles so we can keep up our track record.
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I just sent something in for Tabletop.
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I just approved an artilce in RPGs on the Babylon 5 RPG, too. Just thought I'd point it out so you'd know to blurb it, Tage.
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Blurbed.
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Btw, I haven't been able to see it, but there's an article waiting we should probably get approved and posted. I have 5 articles ready to write, they'll go up soon (and my last Avalanche Press product is almost ready too). I know Jeffe has some button Men we haven't reviewed yet too. I'll email him about how I'm doing mine and see if he wants to do the same. And Entropy, haven't you been playing DBA Online with that account we got you? Can we get a review out of that?
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it's a tabletop article. I assumed Tage would have posted it, but I guess he didn't check. I'll approve it and then he can blurb it for tomorrow. You might want to go through and edit it if needs be SE, don't think you want to rely on my skills here.
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editing it shouldn't be too bad - I preview all my stuff in html before I send it to make sure it comes through okay. So it may just be a typo or two, but no glaring, huge errors.
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yeah, admittedly, I only read it quickly, but I didn't change anything.
BTW, i liked the article, Kije
I've already passed the link to a friend who plays Settlers but doesn't visit TWG
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Okay okay, I forgot to check for any newly posted articles. I thought maybe Fell would be back to running things, but I think he's still recovering from an all-nighter at work.
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It's cool
Btw, between SPrig and me, it looks like we've got content covered through the end of next week. But then I'm out of things to work with. Li'l more help guys, thanks.
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Ya I've got fridays article covered. We realy need some stuff for next week people.
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Erk. I still havn't delivered those articles I promised. I'm in a writing slump at the moment...and a reading slump. I'm a bit through the first LOTR book for the first time and havn't touched in in days, depsite enjoying it significantly.
I'll try to get on it for next week. Maybe if I get up in the morning rather than the afternoon I'll feel like writing something.
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Today I'm approving an article on a Pendragon product, Tales of Chivalry and Romance.
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Sprig told me he'd written an artcle (or was going to) for today. I don't know what department though. If it's not there, you cna post the only other spare article we have in RPGs (hasn't been approved yet). It's about Mutants and Masterminds.
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The last article in our waiting list was just posted. Ya'll have the weekend to work on something. :)
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ok, i was unsure of when Fell was going to be back into administrating mode, but I assumed he'd let us know explicitly when he'll be back into it. so I submitted and approved a review on Noble Knights (my last Avalanche product, I need to write and ask them for more). It still needs to be blurbed.
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I'm not sure when Fell will be administering again either, so I blurbed it this morning.
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Ok, I got an article in. It's a Prerelease tactics article for the upcoming Darksteel prerelease tournament, focusing on the Mirrodin side of things. I didn't include the miscellaneous HTML, as I don't have any good programs for adding that stuff. It's in the database, though.
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well, i usually do my coding in notepad. what do you need besides links? I'd say just give me the links for the cards, and I'd do it, but I don't have access to edit non-RPG articles. if I had access, or it was temporarily changed to RPG, I'd add it all in.
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There's some special line you need to get the Autocard Jazz working. Maybe I'll try to do that myself. If I get it working, I'll send it over in RPGs.
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I gave it my best shot (yeah I know I didn't spend much time on it, but I also realized I don't have the Wizards Autocard libraries I'd need to test my work.) and posted it as a submission to RPGs. Try putting it up I guess, but if I doesn't work, please knock it back down, if that's possible. If you can't undo it or test it first, you might want to wait for Tage or Fell to handle it. That autocard code is ugly.
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I'll use the previous samples that Fell has working as my guide.
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ok, i was able to edit it a little. clean it up. Looks good. Do you care which of the articles go first? or should we just have Tage choose?
Tage, just fyi, it won't let me change the dept (presumably because I don't have the rights to edit things from the CCG dept?). So if it will let YOU do that that'd be swell.
Also, either people are submitting articles at an accelerated rate, or it's making duplicates of the prerelease article as I edit them. Every time I hit "save" the "articles waiting" count goes up by one.
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It was making duplicates. I'm not sure why, since it saved 2 of them to the CCG area. Anyway, it looks good, I'll post it tomorrow.
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uhm... you didn't post it.
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Ok Im polishing my review for harp, and plan to work on Villagers and Pitchforks tonight....
I want to do a Travel edition of Settlers of Catan review (bought it at WOTC) but dont know if I should because its essentially the same game as SOC just smaller.
I still have two Cheep Ass games to review, but its hard to review em without players....
anyhoo I should have something submitted by 0830 at the very least.
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Yeah, I don't want to push or anything, but Prerelease Tactics #1 will only be relevant until Friday night, and the second version will need a even more expeditious release.
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Not all of the Autocard links are perfect, but I did those. Thanks for the posting Tage!
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Yes, well, I can see how you *think* it didn't get posted, but as the date clearly shows, it was posted yesterday. And we all know that if it's on the internet, it must be true.
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except for the fact that it wasn't out till this MORNING
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Facts, schmacts. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
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... I ... I have no response to that. Isn't this a GOOD thing? That true things can be proven with facts? And haven't we had this argument before?
just fyi, if Jeffe and I are able to be as productive as we'd like, we have articles covered for next week. But then we're sort of petering out. So... more content (many thanks to Kije and Prometheus for helping us out recently)
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Yes! My writing slump is over. I just submitted an article, and they'll be more coming in the next few days most probably. Consider next week covered, since you know how I submit when I start going into writing mode.
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YeS! this pleases. Good on ya JP.
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And I still have one more for this week at least. Then we'll have Prerelease reports sometime following from Fell and I at least I'm sure.
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that's great, give us a larger diversity in article types.
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Yeah, I know. This is an event though. A spurt of articles on a single topic for a short period of time isn't out of order, I'd think...the only thing different this time is that I'm doing the preparation work as well as a report. I'll be back to other things following that. If nothing else, maybe I'll do an article on that Path of Fate book I read.
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no, I agree. it's good. maybe no one else noticed, but around 2/3 of what has been and will be submitted besides your event articles have been RPG
it'll make a good change of pace.
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Ah. Just couldn't tell from the words in your last post. Twelve point font lacks tone.
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well, if you print it, it at least has toneR
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So that's my problem. No printer. Well, anyway, I've gotta finish Prerelease Tactics #2 up tonight. It's no good if people can't peruse it on Friday, and the pool of people we have going to the Prerelease is up to five at least.
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Alright, it's done. Prerelease Tactics #2 has been sent over in three versions, two in HTML (the first just has an extra header I forgot to remove) and one straight out of the word processor just in case that helps for some reason. All three are Autocarded and should be ready to go.
*begins summoning Tage to post his article*
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What, exactly, does the summoning ritual consist of to summon me? More importantly, does it involve offering virgin girls to me?
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Yes. Dead ones. Dead ugly ones, specifically. oh, and Koalas beaten with a stick. I hope this isn't a problem.
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Sadly no virgin girls Tage. At least not my ritual. Thanks anyway, though. ;)
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What's a ritual without beautiful virgins?
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ok, so who's going to write the article on virgin sacrifice?
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Morag
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Ok, there are two articles on hold. Neither are RPG so I don't remember what they're about. I'd run the non-M:tG article if you have a choice about that, since Prometheus will be submitting a report about it soon anyway, and we'll run that in the next day or so.
I managed to finally playtest Age of Mythology (boardgame) over the weekend, and it is MUCH MUCH cooler than I expected. I really enjoyed it, and despite is obvious appeal to players of games like Axis and Allies or video games like Age of Empires or Starcraft, it also had the rapt attention of my wife, who isn't interested in any of the above (the only real exception being Settlers). This one gets a good review, and that will be written tonight, while I'm still very excited about it.
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so uh... was that last article going to go up today?
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I'm going to post that tomorrow, actually. The postings were a little late today because, frankly, I forgot that I was doing them again. Now that I'm back, we should get into a better schedule.
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cool, well, i'm leaving work early today. And hopefully it won't take me hours to make it. That will mean submitting a couple more articles today.
Incidentally, I've tried to get two edits done. I'm pretty sure I can do one of them,but who should I notify about the other one?
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I'm not trying to complain or anything, but was there a reason Forged Dawn has been posted again?
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Posted again? I'm not sure what you mean. It's not on the front page blurbs, and it's not on the top of the list in the CCG page or anything. Is it in there twice? Or what's the problem?
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I dunno. I saw it there this morning on the front page. Perhaps there was some weird error. I'll try to work on my Prerelease report some more tonight.
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When is the FFXI article going to be finished?
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hopefuly today/tonight. I was going to do it last night at work but I didn't feel very well.
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Sooo, umm yeah. You missed putting articles up for thursday and friday. Was there a purpose to that, or was it just intended?
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The purpose behind that was to emphasize the fact that no one is writing or submitting articles, and thus none are getting posted. If you want to see some articles, write something! I'll have one for WEdnesday, but I moved over the weekend and haven't had time to do much else.
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it's telling me that there's an article in the database. Sup with that?
I'll bust something out, it's just been long weeks.
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But I am the horrible at writing reviews! If... ya know, you wanted to, you could quite possibly post my story on TWG. Or something.
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You did an interview with the Nannowrimo guy--why not submit that?
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I volunteered to help him with this earth 2025 thing he's playing.
Like I told Gemm, writing reviews are good practice writing.
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Gemm brings up an interesting point. Did we ever decide if we wanted to start up a 'post your story' sort of feature? The problem I see is that by posting it, you're limiting your chances of ever getting it published. However, if someone's never planning on publishing a particular story, it could be nifty to have some available fiction. I know we had a discussion like this, but I can't remember the results.
Anyway, rain or shine, death or doom, I will post a webcomic review this week! What day do you want it up, Fell?
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There, I submitted the interview. Not sure if I want to post the story I wrote yet. I may want to really rework the sob sometime.
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I'm going to hold off on fiction for now, so don't bother submitting anything yet. For EUOL's webcomic review, let's say...this Friday?
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EUOL, if you do it tomorrow, I don't have to finish either of the three I'm working on.
With the stories:
I was goign to do that, but I put it on hold till we got some more of the TW(i)G setting done. Which, despite silence on the board, is progressing nicely. Kije and I have worked out a lot about religion, and he's nearly done with the write ups for both Bretoran and Silkur. They're longer articles, but we should see some more on that soon.
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I'll post something sometime during the wee hours of this evening/tommorow morning.
I should be able to post one next week too.
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well, any time. I finished Freedom City. ANd I have one close to being done
It'll be nice to close out next week very soon though.
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Okay, it's up. Don't worry--next week, I'll review one that I actually liked.
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Umm we haven't had articles posted the past two days, and there are 2 articles that are ready to be posted. The third is my FFXI review that I keep adding to, there are too many things I'm trying to cover I think. So is there someone that's suposed to be posting these in Fell's stead?
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actually, only one day has been missed. Friday Fell posted a reminder.
I spoke with him yesterday, apparently there's some bad juju at work, so he doesn't want to go to the site from there for now. He told me he'd be waking up early to take care of it today.
My question is, didn't we have 4 articles yesterday? What happened to the last one?
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Sprig, do you want us to post your article? Last I remember it still said "not finished yet."
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I'm still not done yet, but I'm going to finish it once I'm done with this post, I'v only done about 1/3rd of what I want to talk about. Not sure how long it'll take to do though. Probaly an hour or two.
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good. Cuz I totally forgot to write anything last night.
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the article should be done in the next 15-20 minutes. I'm adding a few more things here and there, then spell checking it.
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ok its done. I'm not that happy with the end part of the review, but I don't feel like spending another hour reworking it.
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Awesome. I shall read and post.
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I got 3 reivews comming sometime.
FFX-2
BG:Dark Alliance 2
Destiega
the problem is two of these are console RPGs and will take me quite a while to finish. I'm doing Destiega becasue even though it's been out for 8 months here, it was just announced it's comming out soon in Europe. BGL Dark Alliance 2 I should have ready for next week sometime. Me and Steve are planning an all night Fraiday gamenight this week just to play this game. And I promise it'll be better then the FFXI review, wich I aboslutely hate the last half of.
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I thought the FFXI review was pretty good, though I won't argue with the intent of doing a better one. There's always room for jello.
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I liked Bug's review. Why isn't he on the forum?
However, I'm also noting we're out of articles in the back end. Good time to submit 'em if you've been thinking of it folks.
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well I have no rpg books to review, nor do I have any VGs that I could get a review for any time soon. I might have a BG: DA2 review sometime in the next 2 weeks, same with FFX-2. I need to get time to finish them.
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FYI, Nicadymus and I have both submitted articles, and after some HTML, they should be ready to go. Let me know if I should approve one so someone can blurb it.
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I think you should go ahead and approve one and we'll get it blurbed.
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ok, the Star Wars Galactic Campaign Guide has been approved.
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we've only got on article for this week so far, the other 2 need to be worked on and only one of the authors has replyed that they're willing to do such. So the 3rd one will be deleated.
If you've got something to review or a rant/article/editoral please feel free to write it up.
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Yeah, I'll finish my Eva Series reviews soon. Eventually, anyway. Then I'llg et around to the rets of the stuff I was planning since about six months ago...
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I've got a webcomic review I'll probably post sometime this week. If I do, I'll do it in the wee hours, so that you can hold off whatever you were going to post for another day if you want.
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I have a number of reviews to write up. a M&M adventure, two Pendragon supplements (I think), two B5 supplements (an adventure and a season 2 episode guide), and the worst novel I have read in a long time. Imagine my pain when yesterday I discovered I had been sent YET ANOTHER D&D novel. I"m glad I farmed one out to Jeffe and one to Stacer. Too much pain for one man to deal with alone.
Oh, and I promise Zach Stroum I'd review Shaw Island. I wrote one once, but then he fixed most of my initial complaints-- at least the worst ones, rendering my review inaccurate before it even appeared.
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yeah Im enthuesed.... er no I cant even muster the energy to be enthused.
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hey, at least what you got is most likely to be the best of the batch. YOu don't reprint something that doesn't sell.
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yeah but I havent read the Drangonlance crud since I was in its taget audience ... ie 12. I never really liked it.
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the original series is better than that.
You didn't HAVE to take it, y'know...
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but it was free!
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ah, yes. Like so much crap, it was free. And I'm glad to be rid of it. Reminds me of the old Phil Harris song "The Thing," which, if you haven't heard, you should.
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I demand you send it to my email account! :D
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Holy carpacium Batman! Am I doing what I think I'm doing? Why no, I am!
Yeah. Well, I've received my copy of TMBGs newest EP release, and have decided to write a review of it! Woot. And it's almost finished. This is kind of fun like.
EDIT: Submitted!
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Someone going to post an article today? If so, and I dare say, you should post my CD review. huzzah
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I have yet to look at your article, Gemm, and I thank you for submitting it, but be forewarned: if it is a fanboy "I love TMBG" article, I'm not likely to post it. If it's not, expect it to go up on Thursday.
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You'd probably expect that from me, but alas! It isn't. I had SE go over it for me last night. So I think its in the due-edness of goodliness.
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I'd say it's good enough. Of course it's a good review, in terms of, he likes it. But I made him actually talk about WHY songs are good on it, and the art.
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So, is it to your standings Fell?
/me holds breath until he gets a response.
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Fell, I'll handle Friday--unless you have something else you want to put up.
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The four current submissions for RPG reviews have awarded 4 clocks. Lots of useful stuff with noticable but overcomable flaws, I guess.
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Go ahead and take Friday, EUOL, though I'll probably post something as well. I promised Palladium that we'd review their newest Dimension Book this week.
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So is it going up Fell? Is it?
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Sorry, Gemm. I'll send you an email.
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Err... what preytell does that bode? I know it's not that great, but I also know it is a lot better than my first. :P
And then he puts me in my place. Ok Fell. I'll look around and see what I can mosey on up.
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so... tired... of reviewing... published adventures....
fortunately I'm almost done. Got one for M&M and two for Pendgraon (Pendragon has very few non-adventure supplements, and even those have adventures in them). I also have the B5 season 2 guide, two novels, and Crooks! left
then I have to start knocking on publisher doors again.
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Yeah adventures suck to review... core books are so much more fun because well they're meatier and they dont usually tell a story....
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FYI, fell, all the articles in the RPG section are ready to go. Though with Coming of Shadows you may want to tone down my first paragraph. I thought about it and felt it was the way it should be, but you're the boss.
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Thanks. It's good to see we have a nice backlog to work with.
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with my new habit of skipping lunch and writing a review during that time, I'm almost done with all my stuff. I have, I think, 3 reviews left to do. Then a book I have to read to review. Time to start sending out more queries
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I don't know why, but I'm in the mood for reading and reveiwing RPG books. What do we have laying around that I can grab from someone that hasn't been reveiwed?
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I don't have any at the moment, but I'll keep you in mind if anything shows up.
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Well I purchesed the last 3 PFRPG books I didn't own (well bought one and had to order the other 2) and bought a dragonlance sourse book yesterday. So I should, time permitting, have 2-3 articles up next week. Sad thing is, I got all 3 Palladium books for only about $10 more then what I paid for the D20 book.
Also while I was there I browsed through a lot of the d20 books there and wrote down about another 10 companies. Once I get contact info I'll e-mail the list to Fell and SE so you can see if there's any you want to contact.
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Someone review Doom Striders please.
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Bastion wasn't on my list. I'll add that Entropy.
Edit: Ok I sent the list out to both SE and Fell. Let me know if either of you didn't get it.
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I assume you sent it to my home address. I'll check it out when I have a moment.
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I sent it, to thelemur address and I just got a mail saying that there was an error with that address.
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yeah, just noticed this. send it to me at work.
ehlerse at hunterlab dot com
and at home to
zoboo at thelemur dot net
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I sent it to your work address probaly around when you posted this. Your theLemur address was sending them back to me. Let me know if you didn't get the original and Fell's reply.
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K, we have not reserved articles in our stash. Unless Fell or SE has something we're going to new articles peoples! I'm working on a review for next week, not sure if I can have it done by Monday since I'm still reading the book.
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I got BESM D20 Stingy Gamers Edition, and 50 fathoms for Pinnacle.
So I guess I'll do them....
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I have a book review going up on monday. But yes, other than that, there is NO backlog anymore. Need articles.
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sounds good, I've been wanting to know how good 50 fanthoms was.
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Am I allowed to review stuff? I want to do a review of the game UFO: Aftermath. I'd love to finally do something for this place.
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Sure ya are.... Just submit it on the main page
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ANyone can submit a review. Just remember that submitting a review doesn't mean we'll actually run it. If you wish to write a review, your chances of seeing us post the review increase if you do the following things:
1) write clearly and make valid points. Seriously. The more I have to edit just to make it legible, the more I'll either delete or recommend it be deleted. I know some of us have attrocious grammar and spelling on the board, but when we submit an article, we do a lot better. It does NOT have to be perfect, just clear.
2) read a lot of previous reviews to get a feel for what sorts of things to talk about and how to structure it. EUOL has come up with some formats for books and web comics, and if you do those, it's best to use those formats exactly.
3) review the TWG submission guidelines (http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=530). Make sure you understand them and follow them.
4) use the Submit and Article page (http://www.timewastersguide.com/edit.php?page=articles) to submit it. That's the best way to make sure we both see it and remember its around. If you have special instructions, include them there and make them obvious so we notice them. Please do HTML formatting if you know it so that we have less work to do.
If you do all those things, and the review is clearly more than just a fan rant, then it'll probably get posted.
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Hey, SE, I'm still working on reading that book you sent me, but for when I'm done, can you point me to EUOL's guidelines for books--or rather, is there a formal one like the guidelines? I'll look at the book reviews themselves again to be sure, but I was just wondering if there were a page like the guidelines for books, since books aren't specifically mentioned.
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Also note that if there are things that need to be changed that I'll contact you via e-mail (since it's a VG reveiw) and suggest what would need to be changed. Oh, and please, please don't just copy another review. We got that a few weeks ago. It has to be your writting, you can post quotes from other places, just not other reveiws (unless its from our site).
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I am still clueless about the HTML. Do I absolutely need to include it?
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no, but you should put in <p> every time you want to create a paragraph,... unlike me. :)
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the most basic HTML is to put a <P> at the beginning of each paragraph. IF that's the oNLY formatting you do, it's still wonderful. HTML formatting isn't REQUIRED. it's just nice. If you have special formatting needs and you don't know the code, we may work with you. It depends on how much work it would be.
As for book reviews, there's not a list of them anywhere. I would just look at the list of reviews (http://www.timewastersguide.com/Books/sortarticles.php?sortby=title&type=1) and copy the sections headings. "rating" and "genre" don't have a definitive list, just write what genre is most prominant. Not everyone uses the format, it's just a very good one that EUOL came up with and I think does a bang up job of covering the main bits.
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Yeah, I'm familiar with how you guys have been splitting up the book reviews at the end with those categories, and I think that's good. I just didn't know if there was a guideline somewhere. Thanks--I'll be sure to refer to the reviews when I write.
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Uh oh. I just submitted it, and I mistakenly put the <p> at the bottom of each paragraph. Should I resubmit it?
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go ahead and resubmit it just to make the ED's job easier....
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Ok, I made a few mistakes anways.
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Can i ask for review copies of...
A/state RPG (made by http://www.contestedground.co.uk/, a scottish publisher.
Doom Striders (bastion press).
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Doomstriders is on our list to ask for. I'll see to it that the other one gets added. Not sure how SE and Fell want to handle sending things to you, they may just have the scottish one sent to your address, or have you contact them. Let them talk it out, then get back to you.
Edit: Onion, I like the reveiw, as long as SE or Fell dosen't have a problem with it (which I doubt they will) it'll get posted. Also there's 2 submissoins of the article saved, is there any difference between the two? Or was that just an accident?
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Uh oh. I just submitted it, and I mistakenly put the <p> at the bottom of each paragraph. Should I resubmit it?
that's why he submitted two. i'll figure out which one he wants us to use, since he said he corrected some errors too.
The thing about <P> tags is if they're at the end of the paragraph, the final appearance of the page isn't going to change at all. Only the order of the tags will matter, so it would take a second tag to change the effect of the <P> tag to startign a new paragraphs. Hard returns has NO effect on document formatting, only tags. ANyway, I'll check it out probably later today.
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*Onion begins doing a happy Author dance.*
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then shouldn't onion have snoopy for an avatar instead of charlie brown...
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I dunno. You have to think, with all his wishy-washiness, somewhere along the line he must be doing some kind of dance.
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Who is this BuG person and how can we get hold of him? We need to talk to him about his review.
Onion, since I"m lazy and yours is one of the two I've read so far, and Fell doesn't seem to be around, I'm running your review today.
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I'll contact him SE. He's done a few reveiws for us before. I haven't read the reveiw as of yet. What's your main grief with it?
And I should note I've got his E-mail and have talked to him before.
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Mostly I didn't see any real content in it. "Here's a story, controls are average, here's some pics" was the whole review. I'm not looking forward to editing it either, although I can get over it.
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Nice article Onion.
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Thanks. I think it does the game justice.
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I've done my deuty with 3 articles submitted this week. I'll have some more next week, probaly 2.
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Erm, that blurb for todays article is realy worded strange.
And it should be "an" not "and"
Maybe putting "world" behind dragonlance will help.
Edit: never mind I changed it. You also had the blurb in the Video game setion not the RPG.
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huh.. i uh... I'll just shut up now.
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Sorry about that. I noticed it was linked to the VG deparment by accident and since that's my area I moved the blurb to the RPG deparment. Since I was allready editing it I went a head and made some changes. If you don't care for them you're welcome to change them again.
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nah, it's all good. I just don't have an excuse for how I massively screwed that up.
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you got my 50 fathoms article right?
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yes. Incidentally, if you submitted it via the site, you don't have to ask, it's there and we'll tell you if we won't run it. We have 4 articles in queue, they can't all be published the first couple days after they show up.
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oh its just that a the day after I submitted it you said there were only two. (with onions) and Ive had a few articles sent to the site that have been lost, so I was just checking.
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actually, I dont' remember what I said, but I meant I had only READ two of them. There were still two others too. but it's cool it's there. I figured I'd space out authors as well as department.
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I figured, its just on the HD at USCG and I cant get to it untill next week,.
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well, it's on the main page. I uh.. simply flaked about posting it earlier today. But still, it's about 3 hours earlier than Fell would have gotten to it :)
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Yea my reveiw is up. I was actauly surprised how good that was for being an indy film. Which I'm glad is happening in the anime industry becasue it's gotten realy stale and most of the stuff it makes are crap.
I should have another RPG reveiw submitted some time early next week.
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I don't think I'll have that RPG reveiw submitted till Wensday at the earliest, could be on thursday though. But I will get it done no later then Thursday so you can use it this week.
Next week I'll have one done for the expaneded Psionics handbook.
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yes, well, I'm running a book review of my own for tomorrow, but other than that the only review we have in storage is the one I don't want to run without making changes that Sprig said he was going to contact. So, good time to submit folks.
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I'll be submitting a book review by Wed.
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Well I hope you all appreciate my sacrifice, I just spent 3+hours finishing up a RPG book I was reading. Now I just have to write the reveiw (which I am in no mood to do right now).
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Yay for me! My first TWG review is now submitted!
Okay, so the book review is still in the works, but I did submit a movie review. And the movie isn't even out in theaters yet--I got to go to a sneak preview. Let me know if it's incoherent, because toward the end of writing it I found myself a little sleepy and I think I might have sent it prematurely. But if it looks good to you, I'll leave it as is.
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I'll look at it this morning.
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hum, according to rottentomatoes the star is Jonathan Gries, not Jon Heder. Also Efren Ramirez isn;t even listed as a cast member. Yet IMDB has it listed as Stacer said. And the offical site is no help at all.
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I won't change what stacer says then. IMDB tends to be updated by the company or people seeing the cast list. It's my first reference for details. RT is first for opinions.
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It's a good review Stacer, I'll probably run it next week, since we've done a lot of movies lately and not a table-top (which I have in storage here).
Incidentally, you don't need to add the "reviewed by" line. The program does that automatically.
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I got the cast list off IMDB, but it sounded familiar from what I saw in the credits.
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I missed the John's name that is listed on RT in IMDB's listing. RT didn't list the star since he's not allready known (RT lists them by how famous they are sometimes).
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out of articles guys. Get 'em in. I have a few to write, but uh.. they aren't written yet.
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I've got one to write (RPG) but the book is more of an addition to another RPG book which I'm reading now. I feel that my review on the book I've allready read might change after I read this other one. Though I probaly could quickly do a Psionic handbook 3.5 review. I don't work today or tomorrow so I'll try and get something done each day if I can. But now that 42's got most of the graphics done for EUOL's site most my time is going to be spent on that this week.
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I've got two or three in the works, but this week has been busy, so I won't be getting them in till the weekend. I'm concentrating on the book review for WWII day.
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I see some more WWII articles in there, but remember folks, we've got today, tomorrow, and all those other non-theme days left to do. Need more content. I'm throwing together a review of Fluxx (other option is the Mongoose Modern Pocket Guide, but we've had a lot of RPG this week).
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I'll have two RPG reveiws for next week, pretty sure I finish the book I'm reading this week.
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I was concentrating on getting the WWII article done. Today I'm focusing on the Dragonlance book you sent me a couple weeks ago, will hopefully get it to you tonight or tomorrow.
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I got my Prerelease review article in on time to both put it inside a week after the event and also for the old Friday-is-CCG designation, but it was not posted. RAARRRR! Feel my wrath! >:(
Seriously though, whenever is fine. I'm happy to let stacer take a turn.
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well, see, we haven't had designated days in a long time.
Also, when I viewed yours, it didn't have any formatting, so that was going to take work. so I put it off.
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If you know of a good way to get the formatting in other than by-hand ect I'll give it a go. WordPerfect just doesn't do a good job, though, and by-hand is annoying. I'd rather code in Java than HTML any day.
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i usually write basic formatting as I go. Just a <P> at the beginning of each paragraph is a huge help, and you can use copy/paste for that.
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I've got an old version of dreamweaver (leagal) laying around here somewhere. I think it's from 2001 so it should work on your pc SE. Haveing a WISIWYG could save you some time.
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I have Dreamweaver at home, though I still end up doing most code by hand, just beacuse, well, I'm a code luddite, I guess.
The real problem is that I do most of the editing at work, wehre I dont' have a WYSWYG.
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I can't copy paste <P> as I go...I've got that beastie Autocard code in my cut/paste file. :P
Overall, yes, it does come down to laziness. Maybe I'll try to work out a solution for next time.
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MORE MORE MORE!
I know of at least 2 books/games out there that need review. I'm out of articles. Unless you want another d20 defense, gimme articles. I know I have several to get done, but I don't want to do the rest of the week.
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I won't be getting you the book review anytime in the next day or so. MAYBE by the end of the week. You're in luck that I brought it to work with me, so it can be my lunchtime reading. I actually meant to read it over the weekend and got sidetracked with a library book. Perhaps I'll review the library book--it's a really interesting fictionalized account of the Plague in a 17th century English village.
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AAAAAAAAAAAChew!
just kidding,... I think I could do a Space 1889 review and a little War review.
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I have the next of my Eva reviews I kept promising to get down sitting on my desktop. I'll submit it today.
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I reviewed the D&D map folio, but I can't find the file. It must be at work.
After that, I was thinking of maybe another Heroclix strategy article, or maybe take it step further and do a Heroclix pipe dream article--all the characters from CrossGen and DC Elseworlds and whatnot that I wish they'd make, and how I would stat them.
I'd like to do a TWIG article about the RPG system sometime soon, but that will require a bit of work (and consultation/review with others).
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Fell, I'm always available for TW(i)G discussion. If you do it by email, send it to me at home AND work and you get a faster response
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Well, the Eva Article is waiting in Movies, and another article for Friday is waiting in the other section.
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I've got 2 palladium books that I need to do reveiws on, I've read them (finshed over a week ago) but I just haveing wrote them yet. Also I've been meaning to write an article on May's TWG game day's heroclix game.
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I have no article for today, for the first time in many many moons. I may bust something out at lunch, but work is kickin my butt, so nothing before then. If someone has something, anything close to ready for submission, please to be putting it into the system. Thank you, that is all.
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I'll have an RPG article submitted by noon. Wither that's your time or my time is not certian.
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Well the article is in and only 15 minutes late! Hope it's good enough.
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I'll check on it in a minute
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No article for today? what's up SE, you should have posted something.
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1) there has to be something to post for me to post something
2) I spent most of the morning finding out I have exemia (I actually have no idea how that's spelled, it's a non-contagious skin rash that results in severe itching on my legs that generally manifests while suffering from allergies: in my case, hayfever -- so it's nothing terrible or disabling, though it's annoying to no end, and it did fill up a morning)
3) work currently has me occupied Between this and the previous point, I had no time to post anything myself.
4) you got an article and a brand spanking new poll yesterday, that'll have to do.
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SE, I have eczema as well. An easier way to spell it is "dermatitis," which is the same thing. I've had it since I was about 2, and it acts up both when I'm having allergic reactions and when I'm really stressed. It's really dry skin that gets raw and inflamed. It's horrible.
But they are lately coming out with some good meds for it. Though I must say I still prefer the old meds my doctor in high school prescribed, as the new ones have side effects of *burning* and *itching*. Hello? Isn't that what they're supposed to be curing?
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lol, I love modern medication.
my doctor gave me some stuff that foams up. but it doesn't foam.
Also, it's really hard to use topical stuff on the backs of my knees. I'd rather have a steroid pill.
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Careful of steroids, though. They do funny things to your immune system. I had to use a topical steroid cream on my eyes when I went to BYU (you might recall my face looking like a burn victim's at times?), and now I have permanent dark circles because it thinned the skin.
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well, the doctor told me to use it sparingly, and to only put it on the actual rash, not the surrounding skin. But this stuff doesn't rub in, and it runs, so it's really hard.
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ok, here's the deal sparky.
I have one article for this week. That's it. I'm trying to get a few done, but I need more.
Also, I'm going on vacation next saturday and I'll be gone for the whole next week. so someone else is going to have to post content and try and squeeze it out of you folks. It'd be nice if we had a few articles before I left
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I'll try and get you a book or eva review tomorrow. I should be able to, depending on what happens with this RPG I'm supposed to be playing.
I'll be leaving for a week next week too. I will be upset if I come back and find flame wars all over the forum. Or someone starting a cool thread without me being able to join in.
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I've got several articles that i've been meaning to do but just haven't felt like it. I could probaly provide content for every day next week. Also don't forget that the 28th is the theme day so that should help out for when you get back from vacation.
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I've had the flu for several days now, and haven't been up to writing a review. I did finish Weasel's Luck yesterday, however, so when I feel up to it, I'll submit.
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Ok so I'm working 5 days straight this week so I'm going to do one article a day starting tomorrow (ie I don't work tonight) I can either just keep all of those for next week or we can have some of them for this week and some for next. Also SE, I can get Tage to post articles next week, he's very good about doing it if you IM him each day with wich article to post.
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k, good.
Now, there'll be a number already "approved," incidentally. In fact, I'll try to make sure that everything we have is edited and approved for Mod only viewing, so that they just need to be blurbed and set to viewable by all.
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/me shall take over the forum next week
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No article for today? There's one waiting for approvial.
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we're editing that. I haven't heard from the author on the revision. when I get a moment, like more than 2 minutes between calls, I'll do what I can.
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school's out and I now have much more free time, so I could start writing articles. Are you looking for articles on anything specific or may I just write about whatever I want...?
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game/movie/entertainment related stuff. reviews are good. But so are other articles, game reports, etc.
stuff like we've published before
just know, I dont' instantly publish anything I see. If it's not up to snuff but shows potential though, we'll ask for re-writing.
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Oh, I understand that. I was just wondering if I should review, ya know, actual stuff or if reviewing sites and online games would do or what. I mean, I am not partial to either I was just wondering what you prefered. I think I will throw something together sometime soon for you.
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Free entertainment venues are fine for reviews. just mark them "Tower of Cheapness" when you submit the review. For that matter, be sure to be familiar with these two pages:
article submission form (http://www.timewastersguide.com/edit.php?page=articles)
review guidelines (http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=530)
Any HTML you can put in there, esp just <P> tags at the beginning of each paragraph, would be very helpful.
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sounds great, I'll try to have SOMETHING done by next week, I am not that great of a tasker in the summer, but I will do whatever I can.
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k, I submitted a Heroclix article for tomorrow. I still need to add some HTML to it but for the most part it's done. I'll add the rest of the code tonight at work, but now I'm takeing a nap before I head off there.
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All right that article is good to go.
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SE, are you going to be able to post tomorrows articles?
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I plan on posting staff picks tomorrow. unless, of course, I'm confused and TOMORROW is CP day. I thought that was next friday though.
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AAAAAARGH!
They blocked the email that I forwarded to myself that had all the staff picks in it. I don't know how soon it'll go up, since I don't have it to assemble here at work.
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ok, no problem. JP submitted two reviews. PRobably both were supposed to be for CP day, but I hijacked one, and we can back reference it if we want. I'll do staff picks tonight. Which means you have till about 5:30pm eastern if you want to submit still. I was really surprised Gemm, for example, didn't submit something about TMBG albums.
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Na, the Eva reveiw was for this week (or next) I was talking to him a few days ago about it. I cannot remember what the other is (I'm too lazy to look while I'm typeing this) but I doubt its for the theme day since that's not till after you get back from Utah.
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The other is a book.
One CP article is sitting on my desktop. The next will come either tomorrow, or a day late or such. (When I come back from Coffs).
Ok, put it this way. It's Friday night. I leave Sunday, and I'm not back until Saturday night. If I'm able, I'll give some more stuff then, but It might be too late, and I doubt I'll have net access while I'm there. hmm.. And the book I wanted to re-read and review is down there.
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Is the book for CP day? Or is it something that I can post next week?
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The book isn't CP at all. Use it whenever you want. The book i want to review for CP day I'd need to re-read, and my copy is six hours away.
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well, ya scurvy bilgerats. I got yer staff picks done. I'm goin to bed. Wake up in under 3 hours though, then drive to Baltimore. Ugh. I'm a masochist. I'll see ya in a week.
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EUOL's responsible for todays articles, I've allready let him know which ones.
Does anyone else have any they were planning for this week? If you do let me know. I've got two for this week allready (both RPG articles). I'd like a non-RPG article for wensday.
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I've been meaning to write up a Magic decklist again, or I could do a Ragnarok Online article now that I'm done with that. Pestering me about it while I'm at home should increase percentage chances of results dramatically.
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is someone working on a non-RPG review for tomorrow? We aslo need one for friday. I've got today and thrurday covered with RPG reviews. I have no problem doing something for both wensday and friday I just need to know if I need to.
I'd also just like to note that I think that todays article has my favorite line I've ever written in an article here. Once EUOL posts the forum link see if you all can guess which one it is.
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I finished Weasel's Luck, so I can do the review for it, but I don't think I'll get it done for tomorrow. I can have it for Friday.
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that would be great Stacer. Also when you have time todays article is in the waiting to be approved section. I'm going to love haveing someone to worry about grammer and puncuation for me.
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It's proofed, except that I didn't know if it should be Baalgor or Baaglor. I'm pretty sure it's Baalgor, but wanted to check with you.
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Yep, Baalgor is the name. Thanks Stacer.
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So I've submitted my review, but I was hoping someone else could look at it before it got posted to all. I'm wondering if I'm giving away a little too much on Galen's characterization. Feedback?
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I don't think you're giveing away too much, but I haven't read the book.
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I think it's ready to post then. :) Since SE's gone, do I need to ask someone else to, or now that I have mod access do I do it myself?
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no mods can't post it on the main page eventhough you can approve something. Don't worry about it, I'll ask Tage to take care of it.
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Galen?
Thats a character from a Robin Hobb book!
/me perks up
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We seriously need some article loveing this week people. Do we have anything planed?