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Title: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 10, 2004, 07:30:16 AM: Ok, time for a new thread.

My article is in, I did notice JP's review in the RPG section too waiting to be linked.

And to carry over conversations from the old thread.

MR. P wants to do a bi-monthly article and Outcast is offereing to reveiw something.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 10, 2004, 09:11:18 AM: ok, to clarify, Fell and I discuss something like columns. sometimes in public. Basically, Mr. P, you write good stuff. What's your column about? How often are you promising? and can you get them in a day early, preferably, for a Mon, Tues, or Wed.

Outkast, use this link (http://www.timewastersguide.com/edit.php?page=articles) to submit a review. There's limited free stuff available, and it usually gets given to someone who has already arranged for shipping or who lives in the neighborhood so there are no shipping costs. Which means, living in Australia, you've got a short end of the stick, but there's not really a way around it. But review anything you play. Give us a gaming report. etc. We do want your material.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 10, 2004, 09:18:19 AM: I think Entropy should do a column that's titled "Entropy". Have the first one be a very well written coherent article then have each successor get more and more random and chaotic till it gets to the point where there are no discernable words.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 10, 2004, 09:20:33 AM: So Entropy writes the first one, and I write the last one?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: JP Dogberry on November 10, 2004, 09:54:55 AM: I think Gemm should do a column called "Gemm". It should start out and finish in a way that looks clever and postmodern and selfaware, but is actually just a collection of random made up words.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 10, 2004, 12:10:02 PM: I still like the idea for "MY Word Of The Week." I'm all up for it. Just need some "higher-ups" to "approve" it. "Hah"
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Master Xaio on November 12, 2004, 06:12:11 AM: Thank you very much, Fell and SE. I'll do that.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 12, 2004, 09:54:14 AM: and the question of the week is... do I get EUOLogy this week? Or do I run a movie review today?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on November 12, 2004, 03:00:44 PM: EUOLogy is up.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 13, 2004, 02:17:24 PM: So how many people are actualy planning on doing columns or take a day?

I know Gemm wants to do his word of the week thing, but I don't think there's a way to do that with out codeing something new (though it could just be a blurb that's on the main page), JP has been thinking of doing one and so has Mr. P. What about MR. P and JP alternateing between weeks for their articles and just chooseing the same day?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 13, 2004, 02:48:45 PM: I'd kinda like to know a main theme for a column. Not just a title for it. But once I have those, alternating weekly columns would be good. Like, for Tuesday. Tuesday would be best, I think, for me. it means that I've had a day to look at what i need to fill out the week, but if I had to push something back from Friday it has one less day to wait.

as for the word of the day... We could just do that on the forum and link to it with a blurb. I mean, he could just monitor the forum and post on the "word of the week/day/span of time thread" when someone types the word.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 13, 2004, 02:54:40 PM: ya, I know what you want SE, that's why I posted since I was trying to respark the conversation.

The forum post is a good idea. Maybe we can have Gemm write up how he wants to handle it and we can then go from there.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 13, 2004, 03:00:09 PM: /me cracks the whip. Get to work Gemm!

incidentally, I'm in favor of columns. But if we're going to do a column instead of just a weekly assignment, it needs more than a title. I like columns cuz they give us material.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 13, 2004, 03:11:33 PM: So, how do you want me to do this? As soon as I get up, post a word for the week? E-mail someone the word with definition? Who's got some answers?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on November 13, 2004, 09:45:08 PM: Saint, I just submitted an article for my column, if you choose to accept it.

The column's name is "The Nerdery" and it will focus on the gaming lifestyle. Sometimes it will be about how to improve games, other times it will be talking about some of the recent releases and hubub in teh games industry. Occasionally, it will be about videa games.

I actually think I can pull it off on a weekly basis too. Let me know if you think this is a good idea.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 13, 2004, 10:03:12 PM: Did a quick scan. Looks good so far. If you want to commit to a weekly column, I'll give you Tuesdays
else alternate tuesdays, your call dpending on how often you can do it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on November 13, 2004, 10:21:52 PM: I think I can do weekly. If something big comes up I might have to pull back a bit, but I see no problem with weekly for the next few months.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 13, 2004, 10:37:09 PM: somethign big like a wedding? That's an excuse we'll allow. Until then, I expect to see something on Monday night so I can run it Tuesday
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on November 13, 2004, 10:50:34 PM: Wouldn't the article I just submitted be suitable for that?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 14, 2004, 12:05:44 AM: I think he means every monday.

And Gemm let us know how you want to do it. E-mailing one of us or PM works too. Decide how you want the game to work and let us know.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 14, 2004, 08:44:58 AM: yeah, I mean future mondays. This one will work for this week, yes.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on November 14, 2004, 12:40:07 PM: *rubs fingers together*

Excellent.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 14, 2004, 12:55:59 PM: It is sent. SE, it's in your PMs.

I guess then, that we'll just have a link to a forum thread where people can post what they think the word means then, yes?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 14, 2004, 11:39:43 PM: grrr... why do you peple send me forum PMs? haven't i said like a billion times that i don't CHECK my pms? Send me an email!!!

so the format is that you MAKE UP a word, we post it on the front page, and people are supposed to get what it means. Then YOU, as the sole judge, decide when someone gets close enough?
that's fine with me. So long as you start emailing them to me rather then PM.

What happens when someone gets it? What time limit? what happens if no one gets it in the time limit?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 15, 2004, 12:01:31 AM: They have a 5 days after it's posted to figure it out. When (and if) someone gets it, I'll just throw ya a new word. If no one gets it, then I tell what it is. Simple.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 15, 2004, 07:08:28 AM: so no prizes. Check.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 15, 2004, 07:13:01 AM: Maybe on the fist post Gemm can keep track of running scores, since he can edit his own posts he could do that easly.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 15, 2004, 02:36:22 PM: So yeah, SE. You should run that word today, and it'll go until friday. I'm coming up with some ideas for what people could obtain with a certain amount of points. It may just turn out to be some sort of graphic, but if someone saves enough points, I may end up getting them an extra nice prize for putting up with me and my subconcious.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 15, 2004, 03:04:01 PM: Oh, yeah. Forgot about that. It'll show up in a bit. I'm kinda swamped.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 15, 2004, 03:21:46 PM: That is alright. I am in no worry about the state of my affairs. Except of course about my counties libraries.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Entsuropi on November 15, 2004, 03:37:08 PM: 'Do' is not the correct spelling of 'Due', even in countries lacking in essential letters.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: stacer on November 15, 2004, 03:43:44 PM: I just noticed that, and was just about to fix it, unless someone beats me to it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 15, 2004, 03:57:20 PM: essential. Essential like cinder blocks tied to your ankles are essential when you go swimming.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 16, 2004, 07:49:21 PM: Wow, So what's it like to be able to have a choice between what articles to post SE? This is such a strance occourence.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 16, 2004, 09:08:17 PM: I'm not entirely sure what to do about it.

i know which one I'm running tomorrow, actually. now, don't let the fact that the week was covered on monday stop you from submitting a new article for Thursday. The more we have now, the lazier we can be later
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 16, 2004, 10:05:38 PM: heh, wouldn't think of it. Should have it finished tonight at work.

I've got a ToC item I'm working on too, though it will be an extra item since I'm useing my days to catch up on all the RPG books that we haven't reveiwed yet.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 17, 2004, 07:22:38 AM: my article is in.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 17, 2004, 09:36:57 AM: sweet. The added pressure of NaNoWriMo has actually INCREASED our article output. This is cool.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on November 17, 2004, 11:32:35 AM: I know that effect, anything to keep from working on the current writing project. Even if it is just other writing.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 17, 2004, 11:45:04 AM: heh, amazingly, I've been in credibly focused. I owe several reviews and haven't gotten to them.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on November 19, 2004, 03:32:05 PM: EUOLogy is up!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on November 19, 2004, 08:12:15 PM: I have submitted a review! Let no one speak in its presence.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 19, 2004, 08:51:59 PM: that's a good idea. We'll talk smack about it behind it's back instead.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 22, 2004, 05:26:42 AM: So how are we handeling updates this week, what with the holiday and all?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 22, 2004, 09:06:32 AM: There will definitely be updates M-W, assuming Mr. P is trustworthy, which I assume he is. There will almost certainly be no update on Thursday, as I intend not to pay much attention, but try to finish my NaNo on the holiday. Friday, however, I'm hoping there will be a EUOLogy, though I don't think anyone can blame EUOL for not writing one this week.

I am celebrating national game week friday. A number of people have invitations (none confirmed) to come play games at my house. It occurs to me that I haven't notified Jeffe, but he's invited for certain. Unfortunately, since that will happen ON friday, there will be no report till monday, and then only if interesting stuff happens.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 22, 2004, 09:11:10 AM: If you'd ever check our waiting articles then you'd know Mr. P's is allready in. :P I'll take Wensday then.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 22, 2004, 09:25:45 AM: Ohh, I just had an idea. If you were to run my feature and Dr. P's article on the same day, then you could run a headline like "Here's an article and a feature by someone who's almost a certifiable doctor and the other being almost certifiably insane. Enjoy!"

Or something like that.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 22, 2004, 09:53:49 AM: Actualy Gemm I thought your's was supposed to be every monday. Right now the idea is to have one feature a day, then hopefuly that will become one feature and one review a day. Of course that would require are main staff too write an non-review article once a week which I know I'm never going to do...ever.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 22, 2004, 10:11:19 AM: Quote
If you'd ever check our waiting articles then you'd know Mr. P's is allready in. :P I'll take Wensday then.

See, I knew he was trustworthy!

I don't usually check the waiting list till I'm ready to run 'em. *shrug*

Ok, Gemm's counts as a feature, but it's not like, a full feature. Sorta like the cartoon before the film. I always run something else with it. I have Fell's review, Mr P's column, and Ent's review (the last I promised would run today). With Sprig's article, I'm even ready for next week. Once I finish my nano, i'll try to bust out a couple more reviews and we should be seriously ahead. I like it. Keep up the submissions folks!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 22, 2004, 12:05:50 PM: It was just an idea. Nothing need be done. But I like how horriblely crafted that sentence of yours is Sprig. Are, too, and an 'an.' Oh, that is priceless.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 22, 2004, 12:55:41 PM: speaking of your word, gemm, I dont' have it. Because, y'know, you're terrible at following directions and haven't emailed me about it yet. I don't have that IM log, becuase I had problems with my computer last night. I don't remember it. EMAIL it to me so I can post it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 22, 2004, 12:57:33 PM: oh, and articles being posted this afternoon. work busy, and now that it's noon. I'm hungry and I'm wandering off to find tacos for my consumption.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 22, 2004, 03:01:04 PM: I e-mailed it to the e-mail in your profile. [email protected]. Don't complain to me when you should complain to your profile. It's there. I did it this morning.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 22, 2004, 03:03:14 PM: so... after I went ot work then.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 22, 2004, 03:08:41 PM: No, it was probably about 7 am or so.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 22, 2004, 03:16:03 PM: No, it was probably about 7 am or so.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 22, 2004, 03:52:58 PM: yeah, after I left for work.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on November 23, 2004, 01:37:31 AM: I'd like to think I'm trustworthy :)

Here's my promise: I'll never leave you hanging. If I know I'm not going to be able to submit one week, I'll let you know. Probably several days in advance. If it comes to a Monday and you haven't got a submission from me then it probably means it was a submission error if anything.

Never hesitate to send me an email if need be.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 23, 2004, 09:18:51 AM: I didn't really doubt, I was jsut going by memory for what I have. But thanks. Notification is a very helpful thing. You can probably also ask for guest columnists to fill your spot.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 23, 2004, 09:20:47 AM: Ok, since you allready have Fell's review for Wensday I'm not going to do an article this week, but I'll do 2 next week (I hope).
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 23, 2004, 09:28:49 AM: noted. thanks.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on November 23, 2004, 09:36:47 AM: I'll make it even easier for you to know if I'm going too do two, if I have something submitted by Monday morning that means run it when ever and I'll write a second thing for thursday.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 02, 2004, 09:29:32 AM: My article is running a little late, you see...umm..I was at work and these ninjas...no wait, Ninja Monkeys, appeared out of no where and said if I write an article for today they would have to kill me. Naturaly I said "No, I have to write this article people are counting on me, and no Ninjas, monkeys or not, are going to stop me from doing it."

Upon hearing that the ninjas were furious, as the monkey types usealy are, and attacked me. It was 6 against 1 but I managed to hold them off for quite a long time. We eventualy decided that we were evenly matched, so we sat down and played World of Warcraft for the rest of the night. I tell you, those Ninja Monkeys have some mad MMO skills.

Anyway I'll be finisheing up my article once I get home for work, should have it done by 11-12 your time SE.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 02, 2004, 09:47:19 AM: The monkeys will be pleased, though they're going to have to bring your computer and copy of World of Warcraft when they come back.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 02, 2004, 12:38:53 PM: The Ninja Monkeys have been defeated, the article is submitted.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 02, 2004, 12:40:50 PM: /me gets to work.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 13, 2004, 07:18:01 AM: What's the plan for next week and the one after that (ie the last 2 weeks of December)?

Edit: See the E-mail I sent you SE.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 13, 2004, 09:02:36 AM: sorry, haven't checked email in about a day, but so far the plan is just to proceed as normal. between the two articles (yes, I'm counting on material from Sprig for the next two weeks) I have planned and the columns and your thursday days we have enough material to take us to Christmas. We still need material for the last week of December though.

Here's the thing for where I'll be. I'm out of town on both the 17th and the 24th. I'll need EUOL to blurb his own EUOLogy. That's not a problem.

However, I'm also out of town on the 27th and 28th, so I'll need someone to blurb both of those days as well. That's two weeks away though, so it should be easy to anticipate.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 13, 2004, 09:19:02 AM: Well I just sent you the e-mail today (at your twg account since your other one isn't working) and it isn't 100% about this, but talks about it.

I'm fine with doing my normal thursday articles the rest of this month, though you may have to convince EUOL to do someing on the 24th.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 13, 2004, 09:21:05 AM: would you please forward any error you get sending to my other account to the TWG one? Thanks. I'm trying to get the admin to realize something is messed up, but I need the errors to do that.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 13, 2004, 09:38:59 AM: sent
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 13, 2004, 10:25:41 AM: y'know, if we don't have an article on Christmas Eve, that's not a huge deal for me.

BUT! It might be nice if next week the Nerdery was on how to survive Christmas for the gamer.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Lieutenant Kije on December 14, 2004, 12:56:53 PM: I just submitted an article that you can use whenever.

btw: is it helpful if I post here to notify the admins that an article's been submitted? or do you check for submission fairly regularly?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 14, 2004, 01:08:47 PM: I check everytime I need/want to know what's coming down the track. And since I also have to pass through areas where I'll see what's waiting, I also check everytime I post an article. THat is, I see what's available at least once a day.

However, I think it encourages production for people to see that other people are submitting. Plus it's like a sneak preview into what's coming in the future.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on December 14, 2004, 06:34:03 PM: Hey Kije, wanna collaborate on a TWG christmas poem for the 24th? I'm sure we could finish it days before and SE could just post it then.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 15, 2004, 02:13:07 PM: hey, sorry the article was so late. I kept clinging to a lame hope that I would have my review finished. I'm a slacker with a migraine and an angry customer on the phone. What can I say.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 16, 2004, 09:29:12 AM: My article will be in latter today since I finished the book at 4:30 am, which is when I actualy have to start working. Didn't even play WoW tonight (the ninja monkeys were on it, they thought it was cool my Rogue has throwingstars). So look for it around lunchtime SE.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 16, 2004, 09:51:05 AM: my lunchtime or yours? If yours, then I'll probably be on an airplane, and someone else will need to blurb.

ALso, a reminder to EUOL: You need to blurb your own EUOLogy. I'm counting on that for content for tomorrow.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 16, 2004, 11:40:16 AM: I'm hopeing for noon your time, but if I don't get you I can bug Tage or Fell on IM to blurb it. Post here when you leave, if I haven't finished the article yet.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 16, 2004, 01:16:52 PM: K, its in.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on December 17, 2004, 02:55:53 PM: EUOLogy is up!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on December 20, 2004, 05:41:28 PM: Nerdery #6 is in!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on December 23, 2004, 01:04:56 AM: I just submitted The Nerdery #7 and wanted to note that, given the subject manner, it might be wise to post this a little sooner than next Tuesday.

Not that many of the deadlines expire, but it cuts it close.

Your call, of course. Enjoy!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 23, 2004, 09:05:21 AM: I assume I'll know about what you're talking about after I read it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 23, 2004, 09:42:31 AM: btw, Sprig, it's Thursday. You on this? or is there a call for an emergency article today?

and EUOL, are we going to be graced with a column tomorrow? Or are you taking Christmas Eve off? If we do see an article, I'm out of town, so I can't blurb it, so do it yourself again. If we don't, I'd like someone to post the fact that we're taking CHristmas Eve off, just so people know.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: JP Dogberry on December 25, 2004, 06:22:20 AM: Review sitting in RPGs. Merry Christmas!

Ok, I wrote it last week and was too lazy to submit it. I spent TODAY playing Harvest Moon and Half Life 2. And writing Paranoia stuff.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Onion of Death on December 26, 2004, 12:19:28 PM: I'm considering writing an Anarchy Online review. I'll need to play it a bit more before I can really pass judgement on it though.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on December 28, 2004, 08:28:35 PM: Uh... No Nerdery today?

I see it in the section, but no front page headline.

Given the time-specific nature of this one, it may be wise to post it quickly.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 28, 2004, 10:08:50 PM: huh, was wondering why there wasn't an article today. I'll try and get ahold of SE.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on December 29, 2004, 12:47:32 AM: The sooner that gets posted, the better. Some of the sales end REALLY soon.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 29, 2004, 12:54:11 AM: Looks like the earliest I can get it blurbed is tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 29, 2004, 08:59:22 AM: sorry, I didn't get in till last night, and I was way to tired to read the msg board or check admin duties. I took a glance at the front page, but then I went to bed. I'll get on that in the next little bit.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on December 29, 2004, 11:54:17 AM: No problem. It happens, we're knee-deep in the holidays after all.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on December 30, 2004, 06:16:02 AM: Today's is in. Yea for short reveiws on books that realy don't need one!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on December 30, 2004, 04:48:47 PM: My 100 bucks went far... real far, so Im going to do a review of Mongoose Pocket GM's Guide Privateer Presses Monsternomicon Issaries Men of The Sea and Atlas's Ars Magica 5th edition...
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on December 30, 2004, 05:24:30 PM: Mmmm, Ars Magica....
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on December 30, 2004, 09:20:12 PM: yeah its neat, and way smaller than 4e, the books supposed to retail at 35, but a snafu means that a large percentage of the 1st printing went for 25... like mine for instance...
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Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on December 31, 2004, 12:40:00 AM: "Mongoose Pocket GM's Guide Privateer Presses Monsternomicon Issaries Men of The Sea and Atlas's Ars Magica 5th edition"

That right there has to be one of the longest titles for a RPG I've ever seen.
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Post by: Spriggan on December 31, 2004, 03:37:10 AM: You know, not to be rude, but if our regular editors aren't going to be able to post articles then let us know so EUOL or Tage can do it.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 03, 2005, 10:40:50 AM: SE, If you need an article for today go ahead and post mine. I'll do something else for thursday.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 03, 2005, 12:31:35 PM: yeah, I'll get on that. Sorry guys. I'm in a funk for some reason. I'll be a little more active on the articles.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 13, 2005, 07:12:06 AM: I'm working on my article now, but I don't think I'll get it done while I'm at work so expect it a little later, about 10-11am EST.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 13, 2005, 10:37:12 AM: This reivew isn't going anywhere, I'm not likeing anything I've written. I think I'm just too tired or something. I could try to finish it, but I don't think it'll be that good.

I'm thinking you can run one of Fell's extra reviews today and I'll finish this at work tonight (when I can think striaght) and you can run it next monday. So I'll just do 2 articles next week. But if you don't want to do that I'll see what I can do to finish it.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 10:49:29 AM: nah, don't worry. We've got two backups, and more coming from me. You have the week off.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 13, 2005, 10:55:17 AM: thanks. I can post one of the sentices I wrote but the grammer would probaly cause your head explode. Ya, it's realy, realy, bad and dosen't make much sence. And it took me about 10 mintues to write, just couldn't think of how to word it.
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Post by: stacer on January 13, 2005, 10:58:41 AM: Then that helps me out immensely. If there are any grammatical and/or spelling errors in the articles this week, I apologize, but I'm still sick and now I'm on codeine. (Not only did I have a sinus infection, I also had bronchitis.) It has made me loopy and dizzy and it's very hard to concentrate on things that I read. I leave words out and can't spell. So I will try to do a little copyediting when things catch my eye, but for the most part I've just been ignoring it. Sorry.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 11:05:42 AM: Stacer, you do NOT have the week off.
*cracks whip*
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 01:23:50 PM: HEY SE! I just submitted a review of the catwoman DVD by a couple of guys I recruited a week or two ago.

Is there any way you could throw in the appropriate clock icons for the Special Features score?
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 01:26:05 PM: And can I PLEASE be an admin for the movies section!

I want to make it look good! Is that so bad?

TAGE?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 01:38:35 PM: Yeah, I'll add the clocks.

For approval purposes? I thought we'd talked about that before anyway. I'm all for you making them pretty with some admin power. Just make the "moderator only" so they don't show up till we blurb them.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 13, 2005, 01:39:55 PM: Speaking of posting, are we doing an article today? If you use one of mine, I'd prefer the RPG over the book.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 01:41:39 PM: oh, I was just looking over the book one, np. I'll do the RPG one. Sorry, I was slacking off and doing the work I'm paid for between posts.
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Post by: Tage on January 13, 2005, 01:41:47 PM: Skar, you've been an admin for the movies section for ages. Are you talking about getting File Manager access so you can modify the HTML, though? Because that's handled a little differently. In fact, I'm not sure if it even works anymore. Has anyone tried it lately?
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 13, 2005, 01:46:01 PM: I haven't been able to use File Manager for a while, but since I've been out of the admin loop for a year it hasn't been a problem. It would be nice if we could get that back, though.

And SE: I don't want to hear about your "real" job--we don't pay you to work on outside projects.
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 01:52:58 PM: I want to be able to edit the intro page to the movies section and generally fiddle with the look and feel of that section.

I also want to be able to edit a movie review after it's been posted.

What does that take?

In the movie review section I see no admin links. Am I just not looking in the right place?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 01:56:55 PM: editing an article is done via a link at the bottom of the page of the article, or, if it's still in the "recent" list, via the "Edit" link by the title of the article.

I've never had file manager access, far as I know. I've never tried messing with it. Which is a shame because "Star Wars" in the RPG section is spelled wrong (as "Starwars") and that needs to be corrected, but I can't do it.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 01:58:18 PM: Quote
And SE: I don't want to hear about your "real" job--we don't pay you to work on outside projects.

Tell me what you WILL pay me to do and I'll get right on it.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 13, 2005, 01:59:33 PM: Oh, so you want to be paid now? And I suppose you'll want Christmas off--the whole day?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 02:01:01 PM: nah, but if I could have half a day off for Thanksgiving, that'd be generous of you.
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Post by: Tage on January 13, 2005, 02:44:00 PM: Yeah, you should already be able to edit movie reviews, Skar. But changing the page code is something we haven't done since we changed servers.
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 04:46:33 PM: Well, on the actual reviews themselves there is no link that I can see to "edit" the page.

I remembered that I used to have to type .../admin.php instead of index.php as the URL to do editing in the past(two years ago) and now when I do that it gives me the message: "You do not have any administrative rights. Please go back to the main page."

What am I doing wrong?
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 13, 2005, 04:52:37 PM: Are you using the same account, or did you make a new one?
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 05:01:21 PM: Same account. I had to have EUOL look up my password when I got back in country. And he did so. That's the account I sign in with.
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 05:02:04 PM: Perhaps my privileges did not get transferred to the new server?
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Post by: Tage on January 13, 2005, 05:28:33 PM: Or perhaps the PHP string comparator is case-sensitive (this is likely). Try it again.
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 07:08:14 PM: Cool. Without logging in again, I now see all the admin nifties. Thanks.
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Post by: Skar on January 13, 2005, 07:46:22 PM: SE. Incidentally, I want to make it perfectly clear that I'm still planning on you choosing when to post the movie reviews.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 13, 2005, 08:52:11 PM: oh yeah. That's perfect. Just approve the ones you want run, and save them as Mods Only at the bottom. Let me know if something's on a time critical schedule.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 14, 2005, 03:33:30 AM: Quote
I want to be able to edit the intro page to the movies section and generally fiddle with the look and feel of that section.

I also want to be able to edit a movie review after it's been posted.

What does that take?

In the movie review section I see no admin links. Am I just not looking in the right place?

Also it's going to be mute since TWG 4.0 that I'm working on is not going to use the same layout for all the deparments.
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Post by: Tage on January 14, 2005, 12:19:04 PM: Moot. The word is moot.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 14, 2005, 12:21:10 PM: I prefer Mute, since if anyone complains the Ninja monkeys will kill them. Silence is golden in this case.
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Post by: Skar on January 14, 2005, 07:59:32 PM: OK, SE. I approved the review and set it for mods only. Anything else I should do for you?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 14, 2005, 08:00:32 PM: nope, you've done a good job identifying the blurb you want, so we'll just continue with that.
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Post by: EUOL on January 14, 2005, 09:21:28 PM: Hum. I totally forgot about a EUOLogy today. Must be getting old or something.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 17, 2005, 12:05:41 PM: I'm used to seeing hte new Nerdery by now. Mr. P, you still got it covered?
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 17, 2005, 12:21:45 PM: I didn't get anything written over the weekend. Blame WoW. I'll see if I can do a Libris Mortis review by the end of the day.
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Post by: Lieutenant Kije on January 19, 2005, 11:19:30 AM: It looks like the Avalon Hill stuff has been posted twice.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 19, 2005, 11:22:46 AM: No longer. I blurbed it myself right after posting the article, little realizing that the ever-vigilant SE had noticed the posting and was blurbing it at the same time. I deleted mine.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 19, 2005, 02:55:52 PM: heh, sorry about that. Despite dealing with a migraine, I was trying to make good on my promise to get content up every single day.
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Post by: Mr_Pleasington on January 19, 2005, 04:32:18 PM: Quote
I'm used to seeing hte new Nerdery by now. Mr. P, you still got it covered?

Yeah, with my new schedule I'm not usually able to get it done before the weekend. Whenever I put in a ton of links I'll do my best to get it to you pretty early though.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 19, 2005, 04:43:13 PM: links I can fix pretty quick, actually. It's not a big deal. I was just worried because I hadn't heard from you and I was used to seeing it then. As long as you have it in by 8ish easter on tuesday, I've got plenty of time to do what I need to do.
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Post by: Mr_Pleasington on January 19, 2005, 04:45:34 PM: Super Duper Cool.

Now I just need to think of a topic for #11...
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 21, 2005, 10:16:33 AM: are we getting a EUOLogy today?
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Post by: Prometheus on January 21, 2005, 12:39:34 PM: I just sent in a new Prerelease Tactics for the tournament tomorrow, so that's ready to be posted. Unfortunately the rumors sites aren't doing so well this time around, and so the information I had to work off of is incomplete at best, but I can continue updating it in a thread.
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Post by: Skar on January 21, 2005, 01:39:37 PM: The brothers Gibb said they'd be sending me a review of the Sky Captain DVD over the weekend. JFYI.
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Post by: EUOL on January 21, 2005, 02:32:05 PM: Skar: Awesome!

SE: EUOLogy is up. Something a little different this week; sorry if I rambled too much.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 21, 2005, 07:11:14 PM: Review of Libris Mortis is up, use it when you need it.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 23, 2005, 07:44:31 PM: I've posted a battle report for Pirates of the Spanish Main, complete with pictures. The pictures, I might add, are quite ugly, but at least it's a step in the right direction. This was a game between Lovebasket and I, and we're working on another that should be better, assuming we've learned from our mistakes.

Anyway, work your magic with the pictures and post this whenever you like...The sooner the better, since I want to keep on WizKids good side, but it's going to be html-intensive so I understand if it takes a while to get it presentable.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 23, 2005, 09:49:43 PM: I'll do it this week. Perhaps even tomorrow, depending on how crazy work is.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 24, 2005, 12:42:55 AM: You weren't kidding about the picture quality. Anyway, I've actualy have 2 methods planned out for things like this, though I've never gotten around to makeing writeing up an article.

The first is a Flash program that lets you swtich between pictures with the text below. The second is an HTML page that loads new pictures and text in as you click on links. The third is an actual complicated Flash program that actual move figures and such (much like Wizards miniature demos).

I don't mind placeing this article into one of those formats, the first one will be the easiest. The second is easy, but requires another place to save all the HTML pages, the third will take the most time.

The biggest problem with doing more fancy articles is that they usealy require a place to store things, and since we don't have FTP to TWG anymore it requires more and more off site hosting which we're allready relying on a lot.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 24, 2005, 04:29:04 AM: I would rather just have a page of text with pictures on it. Anything more seems like complication just for the sake of being flashy.

And yes, offsite storage is a problem.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 24, 2005, 04:52:11 AM: I wouldn't say wanting to have something besides plain text and pictures is "flashy", I think it would look more professional. And frankly we have a horrible, 3rd grashish look to our articles when we use pictures.
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Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on January 24, 2005, 04:54:33 AM: I hate to agree with Spriggan, cause we argue all the time (and that conflict makes for drama :) ) but he's right. Our pages have needed some sprucing up in the picture dept...
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Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on January 24, 2005, 05:42:26 AM: Just to clarify in case it was taken the wrong way... Spriggans right. I think his idea is a good one.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 24, 2005, 05:54:31 AM: The biggest problem is the limits of the site as it was coded. I know it doesen't do much for any of us for me to say that, nor my position, but what we do now is just a work around. However, I would like to come up with a better workaround until TWG 4.0.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on January 26, 2005, 02:13:42 PM: SE: I just threw a review into approved for Mods only. So, if you work your magic we should be able to have something to put on the front page today.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 26, 2005, 02:21:51 PM: sorry about article lateness. It looks like I'm online, but other than the occassional post, I'm harried here at work. I WILL get something up (probably the movie, since the other I have is from Fell and we've done one from him this week) today, but I gotta get a couple monkeys off my back.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 27, 2005, 10:54:53 AM: Spriglet, you got today covered? or am I running this other book review?
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Post by: Spriggan on January 27, 2005, 11:14:02 AM: Na I've got you coverd, I just need to think of what to write :)
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Post by: JP Dogberry on January 27, 2005, 11:24:23 AM: Can I call him Spriglet too?
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Post by: Spriggan on January 27, 2005, 11:25:49 AM: no
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Post by: JP Dogberry on January 27, 2005, 11:47:28 AM: Sping then?

Spriggle?

Spring Onion?

Sprigging?

Rigging?

Sprigadilylily?

Sprigaloo?

El Spriggo?

Sprigmeister?

Spriggy?

Sprigeru Miyamoto?

The Sprigster?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 27, 2005, 11:52:27 AM: Sprig into action!

Sprig... of Holly!

Sprigmint!

Spriggly

Sprigadelic

Sprigaholic

Spriggan of Doom

Student of Spriggan

Mordenkeinan's Slimy Sprigan

Bigby's Spriggan Hand

Spriggan's Bigby Hand.
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Post by: Skar on January 27, 2005, 12:33:03 PM: Son of a Spriggan idiot!
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Post by: Spriggan on January 27, 2005, 01:33:20 PM: Wow someone forgot to take their medication today.

Anyway my review is in.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 27, 2005, 01:51:51 PM: posted. By the way, if the byline bothers you, I'll change it. I was just joking around.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 28, 2005, 10:23:10 AM: EUOLogy?
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Post by: EUOL on January 28, 2005, 09:21:01 PM: Dang. Forgot again. Had a temple sealing assignment this morning.

This whole "Work and School once a week" thing has my schedule all messed up. Weekdays kind of become a blur. Anyway, let me work on one now; we can post it late. (I actually have a really good idea for this one.)
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 29, 2005, 03:29:44 PM: CRAPPERS! I totally forgot to cover it too. Less than one month in and I broke my resolution. That sucks.
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Post by: Skar on January 29, 2005, 06:12:44 PM: sorry man.
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Post by: Skar on January 29, 2005, 06:31:31 PM: Well, I just put up an article, not a review, by Patrick gibbs about the Oscars. I apparently forgot to classify it as a Movie article because I can't see it now. So when you find it and put it up, remember to reclassify it as a movie, eh?

Thanks
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 29, 2005, 08:21:57 PM: I just reclassified it in case you wanted to edit it.

BTW< I had material, it's not anyone's fault but my own. I even ahd time, I just flaked.
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Post by: EUOL on January 29, 2005, 09:19:10 PM: Eh, I flaked too. I tell you what, I'll make a resolution to do my EUOLogies on Sunday or Monday of every week. That way, you know if you have one or not, and you can post it on time. If I don't get anything to you by Thursday afternoon, then you can assume I'm not doing one, and can plan to cover. It's unfair of me to post things on Friday afternoon and expect everyone to wait to see if we have an update or not.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 30, 2005, 07:59:37 AM: that would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by: Mr_Pleasington on January 31, 2005, 03:44:29 AM: The Nerdery is running a bit behind this week, but will meet the deadline of Mon. night submission (doesn't that sound naughty?).

Just didn't want you to worry.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 31, 2005, 09:13:51 AM: worry is now under control :D
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Post by: Spriggan on January 31, 2005, 09:37:03 AM: Not mine....

*Runs out of the room screaming.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on January 31, 2005, 11:05:53 AM: I'm hoping to get two reviews to you today, plus you already have one of mine in there, so we'll have a nice backlog of laurels to rest on.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 31, 2005, 11:17:22 AM: I was thinking I would get a few done tonight too, but then I realized I have class tomorrow and I really want to do more studying before then. So I will probably not write tonight. Maybe on Wednesday.

But yeah, if we get the columns in, and Sprig does his Thursday, then we're covered for two weeks if Fell gets two more in. Still, the bigger the backlog, the easier we all rest.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on January 31, 2005, 11:38:45 AM: Quote
I just reclassified it in case you wanted to edit it.

Looks good to me. Post it whenever you want.
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Post by: Skar on January 31, 2005, 11:46:40 AM: OK. I just clicked the movie link on the home page. And I looked for an obvious way to edit the header text on that page, being the movie editor and all. I did not find one.

I want to edit it. It's blandness aside, there are three mispelled words in the two sentences. How do I get the appropriate rights/permissions to do so? And I don't want to edit it just once, I want to be able to tweak it and change it completely whenever I want to.

Who can help me?
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Post by: Spriggan on January 31, 2005, 11:48:42 AM: Header text? care to be more specific.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on January 31, 2005, 11:50:38 AM: Welcome to the movie section of the Time-Waster's Guide. Weither its Documentaries , Anime or realy bad sequals there all here.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 31, 2005, 11:53:15 AM: you cannot, nor will you be able to, none of us have the ability to edit anything but EUOL and Tage it's been like that for about a year. We decided a while ago not to make the pages different (the RPG page is that way because we've never bothered to change it back) and the new version of TWG will be the same.

You might be able to convince EUOL or Tage to fix the spelling and change some of the text around but I cannot speak for them as to if they'll do that for you.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on January 31, 2005, 12:09:11 PM: Why will the new version of TWG be that way as well? Surely it's reasonable that a section editor be able to edit the contents of his section? Even if it's just being able to open the html/php file and edit the text from there. I don't need a form to edit that section. Just access.
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Post by: Spriggan on January 31, 2005, 12:16:22 PM: Well for one thing I feel that the deparment pages should all be the same in look and design, and the intro text probaly wont be there (there's no reason to describe what the sections are since it's pretty obvious). Frankly there should be no reason for a deparment editor to want or have to edit the look of the page nor should there be anything on there that would need to be edited.

Your welcome to bring this to disccussion in the TWG 4.0 board (since this thread realy isn't the place for such a discussion). Currently I'm only working on the new main page system so it will be a month or 2 until I get to the deparment pages and I'm not 100% set on any deparment page style or form as of yet.
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Post by: stacer on January 31, 2005, 01:49:51 PM: Oh my, yeah, that spelling needs to be fixed. I've never looked at the department pages before, for some reason.

And speaking of spelling/copyediting issues, I really haven't been looking at anything for several weeks. Sorry. I'll try to take care of things in a more timely manner now that I'm feeling a bit better and life is going back to normal.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on January 31, 2005, 06:17:33 PM: First one's in, I'll try to get the other one done by 5.
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Post by: EUOL on January 31, 2005, 07:41:37 PM: Hum. I can probably change that if you want, Skar. What would you like the intro text to say?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 01, 2005, 08:53:57 AM: not that I'm Skar, but we should probably start by using the English language correctly.

"Welcome to the movie section of the Time-Waster's Guide. Whether it's documentaries, anime or really bad sequels, they're all here."

There were at least 3 spelling errors and two punctuation errors in that before I corrected it. And the second sentence is still really awkward.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on February 02, 2005, 05:59:25 PM: See, I find those sentences to be okay placeholders, but I don't really like that second one. Would one of you editorial types come up with something better, so I can change it once and have it read well?

EDIT
Okay, I couldn't take it any more. Changed to what SE posted. Skar, if you want something else, I'll change it to that after you post.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 02, 2005, 06:34:43 PM: Welcome to the Movies section of the Time Waster's Guide.

We've got articles and reviews on everything and anything that involves moving pictures and puts you into a light trance. Anime, TV, Documentaries, Box Office Hits...and films you never heard of.

We're always looking for new films. Good ones to watch. Or bad ones to avoid like a plague-ridden grizzlybear. If you have a strong opinion on a moving picture, write a review and <link to submit articles page>submit it</link>. Our editors will review it and maybe you'll get to see your name headlined on the site.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 02, 2005, 06:35:56 PM: Sorry it took so long to get back to this thread. I'm usually at work when I check the site and this thread seems to get cycled off the ten most recent posts board more often than I can check it.

Thanks in advance EUOL!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 02, 2005, 06:51:53 PM: Oh, and if it could be in the big empty space above where the header text is now, that would be great.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Entsuropi on February 02, 2005, 11:25:06 PM: It looks awkward to have the word review twice. Try making the second one 'our editors will examine' or 'contemplate its placement within the firmament of the stars' perhaps.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 12:09:17 AM: Good call. replace the second "review" with "examine" please. Thanks.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on February 03, 2005, 12:13:09 AM: hmm your photo appears to be blocked.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 02:13:06 AM: You mean my avatar? I have more trouble with my avatar...
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 02:13:28 AM: I can see it though. ?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on February 03, 2005, 02:15:09 AM: I see it too.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: MsFish on February 03, 2005, 02:18:29 AM: Me three. Maybe Jeffe is blind. ;D
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on February 03, 2005, 02:29:33 AM: or my firewall is saying... "bad skar... bad!"
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on February 03, 2005, 08:14:07 AM: Skar,

Changes made. Want to check me for typos?

I haven't inputted the formatting changes yet, as I wanted to bring up the topic in general. It looks like all of the pages except the rpg section have that same empty blank spot that Skar wanted removed. The RPG section has a picture there. I assume that was what we were intending for all of the pages?

I realize that we're working on the next version of the TWG, but is there a quick fix we could do to get rid of the empty space now?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2005, 08:30:43 AM: Not without redoing the whole page layout, it's a table issue. But, as you'll notice from the Movies page,the spance will all ways be the same height as the sort links take up. Personaly I like the blank spaces better then haveing everything cramed into as small as a space as possible and help they eye see the seperate parts of the page since it's all text. That's why I left them there in the first place.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2005, 09:24:13 AM: Umm..my article will be a bit late today. I didn't get it finished at work and I want Fell to once over it before it goes live. I'm going a Clix stragety article on the feat cards and want to make sure I got all the uses right so that's why I want Fell to doubble check.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 03, 2005, 09:25:40 AM: k. I'll wait for it then.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2005, 09:29:23 AM: I dono, maybe it'll be better just to have him blurb it when he's done. Though I'll let him decide.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 03, 2005, 09:37:45 AM: I'm fine with that. I'll just wait on it, so I don't have to scramble for something else (not that I don't have a store right now)
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on February 03, 2005, 10:03:43 AM: Rain or shine, I'll have something up by the end of the day. I planned to do it on Monday, but I've been feeling pretty sick all week. Even canceled my trip to Idaho because of it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 03, 2005, 11:19:01 AM: And when someone cancels a trip to Idaho, you know the situation must be serious.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 11:26:15 AM: Quote
Not without redoing the whole page layout, it's a table issue. But, as you'll notice from the Movies page,the spance will all ways be the same height as the sort links take up. Personaly I like the blank spaces better then haveing everything cramed into as small as a space as possible and help they eye see the seperate parts of the page since it's all text. That's why I left them there in the first place.

How can you have a picture there(RPG page) but not text?

Not to be insulting but...to be insulting ;) Claiming to like awkward (asymmetrical) swathes of blank space sounds suspiciously like a cop-out.

EUOL: Thanks, looks great. You rock.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2005, 11:31:41 AM: Well you could move the text up in the table, but the whitespace would then be in the middle of the page. I was asked if there was a way to remove the whitespace itself and that's what I answered.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 11:44:46 AM: Why wouldn't the section that starts with "Recent Articles" just flow to the top of its cell if you put the "Welcome" text in the cell that is blank space now?

What would force there to be new whitespace in the middle of the page?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2005, 11:54:48 AM: because the way the table is set up there's allwayse going to be whitespace.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 12:39:35 PM: Care to be more specific? That defies my experience with tables. I'm just curious what changed with table structure that forces one to have whitespace.

In a word: How?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 12:46:21 PM: I just sent you an HTML file (along with the style sheet) that fixes the whitespace problem.

Why wouldn't it work on the site?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 03, 2005, 12:56:11 PM: I don't know the details of the site, Skar, but I can attest to you that a great deal of proper HTML code doesn't render the way it should when it's in the TWG style sheets. Tables, headers, and so forth have had issues.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2005, 12:56:46 PM: Becasue for the last time I don't want to change it. I said I could get rid of the white space if I reworked the table, which I don't want to do. Not becsaue I want to annoy you or want to argue astethics in webdesign, but becasue I don't want to spend the time doing it! Try reading ALL the words in peoples posts before endlessing ranting about something. If you can get EUOL to change the HTML and PHP then fine, I don't care, but I'm not doing it which is what I've been saying all along.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 03, 2005, 01:20:13 PM: Dude. Relax.

I changed no HTML or PHP in the example I sent you. I put enough text in the top cell to fill it out as much as the Quick Links in the one to the right. And put the remainder in the next one down, where it is now.(same as having a picture up there in the RPG page and header text where it is now in Movies)

EUOL asked if the white-space could be fixed. You said it couldn't without reworking the tables(perhaps YOU should try reading all the words in your own posts). That's not true, you just didn't want to do it.

Things like this are why I wanted access to the source files for my department. It would take about thirty seconds to eliminate the ugly white-space you pretended to like but you're not willing.

Give me a break here.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 03, 2005, 01:49:54 PM: article is edited and approved, I'll post it in a bit, I have to run.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 03, 2005, 02:03:48 PM: I got it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on February 04, 2005, 01:41:09 AM: Someone should review the Warcraft manga when it comes out...

(Not me, because my name appears in it.)
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on February 04, 2005, 06:23:28 AM: Okay, new EUOLogy is up.

And...well, it's a doozy. About three times my normal length, with numerous references to webcomics culture. Hopefully, the guys at PA don't see it, otherwise we might end up Wanged. (Tage, didn't you say that one day you'd like to see if our server could handle something like that....)
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 04, 2005, 09:17:56 AM: and you expect me not to find an excuse to tell them about it?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 08, 2005, 07:17:17 AM: Ok a version of my article is in, I haven't formatted it besides paragraphs nor have I done an intro. I'll finish those up latter. I put in in early so Fell has time to look it over and add his comments.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 08, 2005, 08:55:13 AM: cool.

Fell, you have two days.

/me starts the timer.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 08, 2005, 02:14:22 PM: Time!

I even added the <strong> tags and the links to WizKids. I feel so fulfilled for the day...time for a nap.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 08, 2005, 02:18:48 PM: Impressive, most impressive.

Nice additions to Taunt too, never thought of useing it as an imcompacitate.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 09, 2005, 02:46:16 PM: I traded days with you sprig. I have too much going on today, a subject I'd rant about but I haven't time at the moment.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on February 11, 2005, 03:24:29 PM: I've had a couple false starts on a EUOLogy, and none of them stuck with me. I don't know that I'm going to have anything. We'll see what I can bang out after I get back from Idaho.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 11, 2005, 03:36:14 PM: Quote
I tell you what, I'll make a resolution to do my EUOLogies on Sunday or Monday of every week.... If I don't get anything to you by Thursday afternoon, then you can assume I'm not doing one, and can plan to cover.

since I didn't have one at 12:45 today, I went ahead and ran something else.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 11, 2005, 05:21:13 PM: Beyond the Supernatural review is in. Use it at your leisure (and yes, Sprig, I'm going to get you a copy. This weekend. I promise).
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on February 15, 2005, 01:29:07 AM: Hey all,

Just like to note that I'll be taking a break from The Nerdery for two weeks as my schedule just piled up out of nowhere.

Some of my friends have mentioned doing a guest spot so I'll hit them up about it and let you all know.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Eagle Prince on February 15, 2005, 05:29:33 AM: 42 was mentioning something to me about writing some adventure modules for various RPGs. So I was wondering if people were still planning on that, cause that is the type of article I'd actually be interested in helping out with.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 15, 2005, 05:38:36 AM: Yes, we've been discussing it in the staff section of the site. You're welcome to join one of the current groups, there are 2, or start your own. Here's where we are right now:

Things are only in the planning stages, but it looks like SE and 42 might be doing a Mutants & Masterminds series set during the Civil War and I'm thinking of doing a BTS2 series, maybe with Fell if he wants, set around the early 1900's. Right now there's no straight out D20/D&D adventures planned becasue none of the people currently in the dicussion want to do one.

Good thing about these is that they're great filler and backup articles. So we can do as many as we want, or can get done. I'm thinking haveing everyone work on what they want then once one is almost done run it, then run the next one that's done and so on. 'Course that assumes the adventures only run a few weeks (4-6 weeks), also there's no reason not to do one shot adventures.

I was also thinking of doing PDF formats for complete adentures. Thoughwe'll actualy have to see how well this goes for that. I'd also like to actualy make them look nice with art.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Eagle Prince on February 15, 2005, 05:45:34 AM: I could do some dnd adventures with some kind of overall plot arc to them.

Or I could do one-shot adventures. Either way, I don't think one or the other would take any more effort than the other.

I was talking to 42 about setting, but after giving it some more thought I don't see any reason why they couldn't just be general enough for any dnd setting. I could probably even give some suggestions for how to put them into the main settings, like Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and Greyhawk.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 15, 2005, 05:48:30 AM: Ya, what ever you want to do Eagle, they can be as long as you want, and run (Ie how many weeks) as long too. What I written above is only what the individual groups were wanting to do, an actual site policy on adventures isn't in place yet.

Let us know what you decide on, and if you need any help.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 15, 2005, 08:36:59 AM: yeah, I forgot to email 42 about that last night, but that's what I was thinking.

There's also the TW(i)G project (http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=twig) which is a little behind, but we could use descriptions of cities in the Free Cities or the Free Colonies -- if you're looking for something to write.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 17, 2005, 07:40:31 AM: ok, my article is in. I'm going to go back and add links and more formatting later this morning. Also there are a few sentences that probaly could use some help.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 17, 2005, 05:51:20 PM: I've got another review in, and I'll try to have Races of Stone in by Monday.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on February 18, 2005, 06:52:56 AM: How about a con report instead of a EUOLogy this week? It's up and posted. Maybe I'll be proactive and do one tomorrow too!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 18, 2005, 08:35:41 AM: EUOL
Proactive
Author

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you're absolutely...right!

Also, have you noticed that EUOL hasn't updated the EUOLogies on his own site?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: JP Dogberry on February 19, 2005, 04:45:54 AM: Review sitting in whereever I decided to put it, because it fits nowhere, or I can't remember where we were putting these things. Whoever finds it, can run it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 21, 2005, 09:56:21 AM: Hey, JP, about the article, I haven't edited it yet, but I see you asking for a boxout. I can't do that, but I can do some formatting to make it look like a what I did with Kije's Silkur (http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=686). Is that what you want? I'll run it on Wednesday if that's good enough. And I don't have anything for next week, for for back up this week, so feel free to submit that other article any time. Hopefully I'll get my others in soon, but I can't count on that.

Oh, and Fell, can I get a clock score on that Rifter review?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 21, 2005, 10:02:44 AM: I can add a box out really easly. Would take me about 5 mintues.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 21, 2005, 10:04:35 AM: Do you see the article in question?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 21, 2005, 11:02:10 AM: Ok it's done (sorry it took so long, posted that right as I was getting ready to leave work). It's easy to chage if you don't like the positioning.Just move the <div> tags to where you want the boxout to start.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 21, 2005, 11:30:44 AM: Clocks added. Sorry. Also, I will be doing a poll today.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 22, 2005, 11:25:42 AM: I ran Jam's Illuminati review a day sooner than I expected because I forgot that Mr. P was on hiatus, and I'll find it much more likely to bust out something by tomorrow than I will sometime today.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: stacer on February 22, 2005, 11:39:33 AM: If you haven't noticed, I haven't been copyediting in a while. I was sick for so long, and then I've been barely surviving in my program, what with these paper presentations I've been trying to prepare on top of regular work. Now I'm starting a part-time job tomorrow on top of all of it, and I need to "plan my time" better, to quote my not-very-nice YA teacher. Yeah. Whatever. At any rate, I'm not going to be very much for the next few months, and I'd already been letting the copyediting slide for a while. Sorry.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 22, 2005, 06:44:40 PM: Fell, Tage, SE, EUOL, whoever. I just got a call from Wodell Iltis (a movie promotion company) asking me why I wasn't coming to any of their screenings.

I told them I hadn't received any screening notices and they said they had been sending them to "[email protected]"

I told them we must be having server side problems, so sorry.

How do I get email sent to "[email protected]" to forward to an account I own?

Edit:Fell, you and I have discussed this before. Have I forgotten to do something? Is there a link somewhere that allows me to edit the forwarding address for [email protected]?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: SE at School on February 22, 2005, 07:05:26 PM: that's a Tage issue. Just FYI.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 22, 2005, 07:16:45 PM: I see. Tage?

Anyone who knows Tage?

Anyone who has any contact information for Tage?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 23, 2005, 11:51:49 AM: I'll let him know as soon as he comes in.

edit: it should be fixed.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 23, 2005, 03:18:56 PM: Thanks...er how could it be fixed when I haven't said where I want it to forward to?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 23, 2005, 04:49:02 PM: Heh, we got a great article submission while I was writing today's review.

But substitute "blatant and stupid" for "great" and either "spam" or "advertisement" for "article." It was contentless and not even relevant to our normal content. It has been blasted to the nth dimension.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on February 23, 2005, 04:52:31 PM: I assumed you wanted it sent to your sonici email. If you don't, email me and give me the correct details.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 23, 2005, 06:45:47 PM: Roger: Email Away!
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: JP Dogberry on February 23, 2005, 11:11:32 PM: Why'd you blast it? I'd like to have read it for a laugh.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 24, 2005, 09:29:01 AM: hum...I just remembered it's Thursday, so my article will be a little late since I haven't even started yet.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 24, 2005, 09:45:51 AM: heh, no worries there. Note that I didn't put up yesterday's till almost 4pm. Just get it to me in the next 7 hours or so and that'll be fine.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 25, 2005, 09:56:35 AM: Uhm... so I gues this didn't happen? Btw, I have to pack up my office today, so writing an article will be hard. If someone were to bust something out that'd be great, since EUOL hasn't delivered.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 25, 2005, 12:06:14 PM: I'll have a review in for you in about ten minutes.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on February 25, 2005, 12:11:16 PM: It's in.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 25, 2005, 12:12:13 PM: sweet. Thanks. My office is mostly packed up, but I still have a lot of files to back up and voice mail to answer. I'll probably be done by 2ish, but I don't want to have to sweat it.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on February 25, 2005, 01:00:02 PM: ok, SE that blurb borked the main page. Remeber to close your table tags please.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 01, 2005, 01:11:35 PM: Does the news count as an article for today? Or do I need to spend my lunch editing Jam's review?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 01, 2005, 01:19:44 PM: Usually we don't count news as a post, but if Jam's review is huge and hard to edit I suppose we can leave it for tomorrow. If make a forum thread and link it to the newspost, I'll call that good for today.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 01, 2005, 01:49:03 PM: YOU can always edit it...

making a thread in order to cut down the insanity
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 01, 2005, 02:19:11 PM: I thought about that, but I don't really have time to edit it today either. Besides, I'm behind by about five D&D books right now. I need to write reviews.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 01, 2005, 02:43:52 PM: What do you think I should be doing with my "free" time (HA! Because, y'know, between studying for certifications and working I have tons of that)? I have three reviews to write and a book to read. Unless you're reviewing Complete Adventurer, in which case I'll set that aside for long term reading.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 01, 2005, 04:43:43 PM: I think Complete Adventurer should be your next review. I'm working on Races of Stone.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 01, 2005, 04:52:32 PM: I haven't read it. My next review is *probably* the latest complete Drizzt series.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Mr_Pleasington on March 03, 2005, 12:00:20 AM: Saint,

My hiatus from the Nerdery hasn't help the inspiration as I imagined. I'm tapped out.

I think The Nerdery will have to go into hiatus for an undisclosed time...until I find further inspiration. If this puts you in a bad position for Tuesday, I think I can eek out at least one more, but it'll be tough.

Let me know, I'm happy to do it if it makes your job easier, but this will be the last one for some time, I'm afraid.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on March 03, 2005, 01:17:02 AM: Well of course it make his job easier, but you shouldn't write something you don't want to just for that. Heck if I cared about makeing SE's job easier I'd do more then one article a week. Letting us know a week ahead of time is helpful so we can plan.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on March 03, 2005, 07:16:43 AM: My article is in, and I'll be editing it off and on over the next hour or so. I think you'll like the look since I've added a bit to make it not look so drull though it's nothing amazeing but it might be if done by AMAZO the juggler (sorry inside joke).

Also Mr. P is letting my take a crack at the Nerdery for a few weeks.

update: Ok everything should be ready to go.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 03, 2005, 09:20:32 AM: Isn't Amazo a robot?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on March 03, 2005, 09:21:50 AM: Well the wealking version of AMAZO is. But the Juggling, circus performer AMAZO is 10 times cooler.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on March 03, 2005, 06:35:16 PM: SE-
I just looked at IMDB and realized that "The Pacifier" opens tomorrow. I saw that at a screening and will be writing a review tonight. So...if you can post that review tomorrow it would be good.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 03, 2005, 09:54:17 PM: How about we tell Fell to do it, since he's ignoring my general "If it's not done by this time, you gotta do it" position.

Fell, I've not been posting. I'm having trouble getting to it until I'm in my groove. Please to be blurbing stuffs.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Skar on March 04, 2005, 03:11:44 AM: OK. The Pacifier review is in. Sorry it's so short. It's late and it sucked.

It needs to go up tomorrow if at all possible.

thanks
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 04, 2005, 11:44:08 AM: It's up. I can do this kind of stuff in the mornings, but afternoons are impossible.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 04, 2005, 12:30:02 PM: Ok, well, I'm wondering if this is going to be something I'm just going to have to dedicate my lunch to. I'm not seeing time to do anything but check posts and respond any other time of day with the new job. (I actually WORK here, y'know). Reading and editing articles is right out.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 04, 2005, 12:47:33 PM: If we want to put me back in charge of blurbing and posting, I can do that now that I don't work in my old hellhole. SE could stay in charge of scheduling the articles (making sure we have stuff to post, etc.), and I could edit and blurb them. Would that work?
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 04, 2005, 01:30:48 PM: That'd be ideal for me, at least for a while. I'll look at the articles, read them, and put them on schedule, which I'll post in the admin blurb, and I'll try to remind EUOL about his Friday obligation. I think I'm going to be this way until summer, when I will (hopefully) have my certs and be moved.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 04, 2005, 01:35:16 PM: Sounds good to me. When I get on in the morning, I'll look in the To Do blurb for what I need to post that day.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on March 04, 2005, 03:10:23 PM: I have a EUOLogy ready. Actually, I had it ready last night, but my internet was out all morning. I'll go ahead and post it. You guys want me to blurb it myself? Since the only thing we have had in the last few days is that Pacifier review, it might be good to put this up today too.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: Spriggan on March 04, 2005, 03:18:39 PM: Yes to all.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 04, 2005, 03:29:02 PM: Yes, I do.
Title: Re: Call for Articles Redux
Post by: EUOL on March 04, 2005, 03:30:48 PM: Done.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 04, 2005, 04:21:40 PM: And done well.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 08, 2005, 09:03:58 AM: There will be a nerdery today, I kinda forgot to do it over the weekend but I've been working on it this morning. It might need some editing, I'm not good at ranting sometimes so my thoughts may wander too much in this. I'm not sure when I'll be done but who should I bug about makeing sure this gets a read through?
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Post by: Spriggan on March 08, 2005, 11:36:08 AM: K, it's in with all it's glourious rantings.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 08, 2005, 11:38:38 AM: I'll get on it.
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Post by: Lieutenant Kije on March 08, 2005, 02:06:22 PM: I just submitted something that might be appropriate for the Nerdery should Mr. P ever need a sub again. Or you can post it on its own (if you should choose to post it.) Or whatever. It's pretty basic stuff.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 08, 2005, 02:30:01 PM: I may schedule that for next tuesday then. We're looking good for this week, assuming we get a EUOLogy (which I can't assume much anymore).
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Post by: Spriggan on March 08, 2005, 08:53:42 PM: I plan on haveing something next week too.

As for Kije's article, when working on the Nerderys I started to write GM advice and decided I didn't like this for Nerdery. I feel the Nerdery should be general advice about gameing and rants about things dealing with it as well. I would think a GM advice coloum would be a good way to go with Kije's article. I've been working on some stuff and was planning on asking Nicadyams to help me on it for a few articles (since he's a great campaign building GM). Add this to the adventures that both Eagel Prince and 42 are working on and we could really start makeing TWG a resource center as well.
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Post by: 42 on March 08, 2005, 09:00:44 PM: I sent off, to SE, the rough of my adventure today. Course, it is rough, but hopefully it will be presentable by next week.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 08, 2005, 09:03:39 PM: EP said his was mostly done, and just needed to get a map drawn. Which I told him I could do sometime. I think we should set up a designated layout format for all our adventures too. Though I trust 42's, SE's and EP's knowledge on RPG adventure layouts over mine.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 09, 2005, 01:34:18 AM: I talked to Nicadymas today and we're going to start working on out campaign builder series sometime in the next week or so, though the fist article probaly won't appear till the end of the month or even next month. It looks like it'll be fairly sizeable and could easly run for several months.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 09, 2005, 09:03:46 AM: I haven't read kije's but I don't think that the occassional GM advice for the Nerdery is a bad thing. I think Mr. P has the final say on that though. Unless we have someone dedicated to giving us a GM advice column every week, I'd rather not start one.
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Post by: Lieutenant Kije on March 09, 2005, 11:43:18 AM: Much like the games themselves, my comments are as much for players as they are for GMs.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 10, 2005, 01:33:40 AM: Those were just my thoughts on the subject that's all. I don't care if it gets run as a Nerdery since it is MR. P's thing.

I don't know if Nicadymas' and my article series will eventualy turn into a weekly GM article, though that might be nice.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on March 11, 2005, 07:58:28 AM: Big, Massive, thirteen page, three days to write article sitting in CCG.

I hope you're happy.

It's Friday night, and now I'm going to go and get tanked.

From a Teacup.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 11, 2005, 08:47:39 AM: THIRTEEN pages? are you being literal. Now I'm scared to check the admin box.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 11, 2005, 08:54:31 AM: ya, it's huge SE, so Huge that looking at it will cause your PC to become 10 times heavier and crush your knees.

I think we could probaly break it up into multiple articles since it's a review of a set and lists many cards the way EUOL's old Magic articles worked.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 11, 2005, 09:15:25 AM: Can we break it into factions or colors or something like EUOL's were?
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Post by: Spriggan on March 11, 2005, 09:23:11 AM: I'm not that familiar with the game, but from the looks of it you could. Though I only browsed it. Also, JP, you might have hit the max for our articles since they can only be a certain size. So check, when you can, if the last paragraph is:

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Voice of the Unnameable – Sir Arthur Broome’s Alter-Ego, this is a very weird Midrange/Utility character with an odd, but powerful and expensive ability. It’s very Purists, but I’m not entirely sure how practical it would be.

It apprears to have done so, but I wanted to make sure.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on March 11, 2005, 09:25:47 AM: Voice of the Unamable is the last card I reviewed, yeah.

You can probably split it into factions if you want. Just shove all the Unaligned together, or put Tech with Jammers, Chi with Hand, and Magic with Purists. Whatever you want. It's thirteen pages of goodness, so if you want to run it as eight articles it's cool, and I don't have to write anything more for at least eight days.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 11, 2005, 09:26:59 AM: Spoken like a true Time Waster.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on March 11, 2005, 09:33:43 AM: Oh, and also it doesn't list MANY of the cards, it lists EVERY card. Yahuh. And another thing, my Shadowfist review didn't get a discusssion thread.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 11, 2005, 09:43:42 AM: ya Fell has been bad at createing forum threads, he hasn't done if for several.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 11, 2005, 09:58:04 AM: I've been retro adding bylines to the blurbs, too.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 11, 2005, 11:24:24 AM: I thought that was the only one I'd missed.
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Post by: Skar on March 14, 2005, 05:59:15 PM: Hey! I just put up a review for the "The Incredibles" DVD by our friends P&P Gibbs.

The DVD comes out tomorrow so it should be able to go up today if you want.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 14, 2005, 07:47:09 PM: Hey SE, read my blurb in the admin section (especially the last part), and let me know which direcetion you want to take with tomorrow's article.
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Post by: Spriggan on March 15, 2005, 06:57:15 AM: Nerdery is in, might want to doubble check the boxout since I typed all that outside Word.
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Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on March 15, 2005, 04:06:01 PM: A current poll results article is in. You can run that whenever.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 15, 2005, 05:07:49 PM: I have run it now.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 16, 2005, 01:46:30 PM: Incredibles DVD is up. I can't get the image to work, though, Skar, so I'm guessing that imdb has disallowed cross-linking. If you want to download the image and stick it up on another server (I don't know how to get stuff up on ours anymore, but SE might have some space) then we can add it back in to the blurb.
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 02:10:43 PM: Gotcha. Perhaps I'll start an account on photobucket or something and link from there. What's the copyright issue on something like that? Any idea?
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 16, 2005, 02:25:13 PM: You're using their image to advertise their product, so they can't really complain. That's why they made the image in the first place.
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 02:31:36 PM: Do we already have a TWG photobucket account?
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 03:04:53 PM: We do now.

I've emailed you the login info
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 16, 2005, 03:05:49 PM: IMDB probably just doesn't want anyone using their bandwidth when there's no one viewing any of their content (or advertising). I've always moved them to my server. GIve me a couple days, I'll set up a photo-library like I did for Stacer and give the pass to all TWG admins. then we'll have free, unlimited space for pics.
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 03:08:00 PM: Oh, and there's a new review in, viewable by Admins only. The Ring Two, opens this Friday.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 16, 2005, 03:16:26 PM: do we want to use Photobucket? 25MB isn't much. ANd we've have more direct control with something on my server. thoughts?
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 03:21:52 PM: Good point about the 25 meg limit. I assumed there'd be a limit but I didn't realize it was quite that small.

How vulnerable is you server to crashing? Are we talking about your desktop machine at home?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 16, 2005, 03:24:44 PM: it's a server I have through sphera (which would be funny, since Verio and Sphera are pretty mcuh business rivals, and we'd have resources on both). Which means the reliability is at least as reliable as the one TWG is on. I can set up shell, FTP accounts and email for anyone who want it too. I was going to make it it's own domain at twg.dosoc.com.

We don't want to do anything on my desktop. Even email has been giving it trouble lately :)
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 04:33:43 PM: That sounds like a better option. Could such a thing have functionality like photobucket? GUI and all that?

Just curious. FTP is fine, it's just, doing this stuff from work, speed and ease is paramount.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 16, 2005, 04:42:09 PM: yeah, check out the one I set up for Stacy (http://saintehlers.com/Stacer/gallery/). We can dink with the colors and a number of other settings if'n we want.

One of the other cool things about that setup is that (supposedly, i've not tested it) you can upload a zip file full of graphics and it will unzip and drop them into a gallery page.

btw, you can use ftp from your IE window (and I'm betting firefox and most other browsers also have the capability by using ftp.domain.com instead of www.
The login is under the file menu in IE, but you'll be prompted for login for any domain that doesn't have anonymous login capability too.
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 04:49:11 PM: That looks great.

You needn't spend any sweat on the colors for the gallery pages either, since the colors will have zero effect on the display within twg.
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 04:50:02 PM: I like SmartFTP, personally.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 16, 2005, 05:16:44 PM: Yeah, i use Smart at home too. But when I'm at work and want to throw something up, like my new avatar, I just plug in the address to IE. It's not fun to use for real work, but if it's just one file/folder, it's easy.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 16, 2005, 05:19:50 PM: btw, skar, can you see the admin only blurb on the main page?
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Post by: Skar on March 16, 2005, 05:25:23 PM: I can see it but I can't edit it.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 18, 2005, 12:04:14 PM: I made the movie blurbs look prettier
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Post by: Lieutenant Kije on March 18, 2005, 12:27:05 PM: Sprig: did you get the intro edit I emailed you for the Nerdery stuff I submitted? I emailed it to your TWG address.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 18, 2005, 12:39:49 PM: Kije, he told me he'd gotten it and it will be edited into the article by tuesday. We'll probably use it as the next Nerdery article.
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Post by: Skar on March 18, 2005, 12:45:52 PM: Quote
I made the movie blurbs look prettier

Forgive me. You are the final word on the front page but I must disagree. I like the text not sitting on top of the pics but I liked the pics much better when they were full size.

Now it's hard to even read the titles on them. White space bedurned.
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Post by: Lieutenant Kije on March 18, 2005, 12:46:42 PM: So is Mister P gone indefinitely?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 18, 2005, 01:14:43 PM: I don't think reading the titles on the pics is necessary, seeing as that title shows up in the blurb and/or the blurb title. It's much more satisfactory to have text/graphics that balance.

Mr. P said that he's burned out. Today I started toying with just having TWG in general take over the Nerdery, so whoever wants to write that style and speak to that sort of concern can take up the reigns. That's sort of what's going on anyway.
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Post by: Skar on March 18, 2005, 01:45:40 PM: I wasn't saying that reading the titles was necessary. I was using the titles as an example of why the pics are ugly.

I think they look terrible so small. I am of the opinion that the page as a whole looks better if the pics aren't cramped, balance aside.

As I said, you're the man in charge of the front page,you do it how you want. I just wanted my opinion to be clear.

'Nuff said. I won't say anything else about it unless you ask.
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Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on March 18, 2005, 01:52:15 PM: I'll be getting an N-Gage sometime in April, so I'll have that Nerdery then.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 18, 2005, 02:06:30 PM: The N-Gage isn't really a Nerdery topic. We'd like some kind of article about it, though.
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Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on March 18, 2005, 02:27:45 PM: Yeah yeah. But aside, the poll result article is in.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 18, 2005, 03:13:10 PM: Is Gemm the official poll guy now? I mean, I'm cool with that. I just want to know.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on March 18, 2005, 04:13:53 PM: It's not official, but given how busy I've been lately, and how Poll Results lend themselves to his writing style, I've started shoveling it off onto him when I don't have time. It may become permanent if I grow too complacent to start doing it myself again.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 18, 2005, 04:47:19 PM: cool. I have one in mind if you need a hookup ever. But I think it might be good to shovel it off on to Gemm long-term. Call it division of labor, delegation, or whatever.
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Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on March 21, 2005, 02:04:42 AM: Ok, honestly I have no idea where this poll came from or whoever wrote it had in mind. This one makes me feel empaphatic towards Entropy.
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Post by: Entsuropi on March 21, 2005, 07:19:22 AM: What?
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Post by: Lieutenant Kije on March 21, 2005, 01:05:50 PM: I just submitted yet another Heroclix strategy article.
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Post by: Entsuropi on March 22, 2005, 10:05:53 PM: Since when did we stop posting the 'article by' line in the blurbs?
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Post by: Spriggan on March 23, 2005, 02:32:13 AM: about a year ago.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 23, 2005, 08:49:33 AM: actually we stopped doing it when Fell started blurbing. It'll come back, I promise. If I notice, I add it back in.
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Post by: stacer on March 25, 2005, 01:41:28 AM: ICFA report is about half done. As in, first draft written, but it's too late at night to know whether it makes sense or not. SE, I can email it to you first thing in the morning for you to look over if you need content tomorrow, but it would need another pair of eyes. If not, I'll edit it myself tomorrow night or Saturday and get it to you for next week.
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Post by: EUOL on March 25, 2005, 04:50:39 AM: I posted something. SE, you get to decide if it's a EUOLogy, a review, or just an editorial. I can't quite decide....

Oh, and I've got a poll I could do if you guys ever need it.
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Post by: 42 on March 25, 2005, 05:13:13 AM: Also, SE, have you had a chance to look at the stuff I sent you? Just giving you a reminder.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 25, 2005, 09:07:01 AM: 42, I am reminded, unfortunately, I had a hard drive die. I haven't lost data, just functionality, I'll be up and running again this weekend.

Stacer, the easiest thing is to submit it, then I can look at it wherever I am.

EUOL, I'll take a look. It's been a while since we've had stuff from you.
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Post by: stacer on March 25, 2005, 09:41:32 AM: SE, I submitted it, but just for you to look at it. It's all over the place and needs some work, but I just can't look at it myself right now. Let me know if you have suggestions.
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Post by: stacer on March 31, 2005, 10:44:39 AM: SE, you read my report yet? I honestly haven't had time to get back to it yet, but I might today. Let me know what you think.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 31, 2005, 11:30:37 AM: I've talked about looking at it. Does that count?
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Post by: stacer on April 01, 2005, 10:08:30 PM: I completely forgot to submit the book review I did for class a while back. It's now submitted, use if you like. Because it's realism, the specific criticisms format didn't really fit--I think I said everything I wanted to say in the body of it.
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Post by: 42 on April 07, 2005, 12:16:33 PM: So SE, this is you weekly reminder that some of us have sent you stuff we would like you to look at.

Actually, if you are too busy, is there someone else I could send my little write-up to for editing?
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Post by: stacer on April 07, 2005, 12:22:58 PM: I'd also like to know what someone thinks of my con report. I haven't had a chance to go back to it, but I need some feedback.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on April 10, 2005, 04:03:20 AM: This thread is getting long. Lock.