Theme events

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

if you combined the egos of me and Entropy, I think that the result could probably crush Cthulu in much the same way the Cthulu crushes humans.

[JP Dogberry]

Ok. Entropy has one in.  I wanted to add a second opinion to that at the bottom, so I submitted my paragragh in the books section. Should be easy to find, paste into Entropies review, and delete the submitted one. (I would have done it myself, but it wouldn't let me.)

I also have my two in: the CD in other and the Comic in books.

I'd also recommend adding in a link to my old reviews of Distraction and Neuromancer, both in Books.

[Spriggan]

Sounds good, SE can just post those when he gets the chance.


So what should July's theme be?  We do have a contest starting soon wich is the HARP core rule book.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'll do what I want. (yeah, yeah, I'll do it on lunch, which is still 10am in Utah, so soon enough. I'm playing catch up from my week of being gone).

We could have a contest for making up a cool acronym for an RPG. For examples, there's:
TWERPS (The World's Easiest Role Playing System)
GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System)
TW(i)G (Time Waster's (insert vowel sound here) Guide)
and of course, HARP itself.

Eh, just my first thought. Take it or leave it.

[Entsuropi]

We already have the contest saint. Thats my job. We just need a theme for the month.

[Spriggan]

Ya, the contest is pretty dang funny too, it involves Gnomes.

[stacer]

Entropy's article is copyedited. One question: for our ratings, should we consistently go with the American system, or should we just let each author's country's ratings system work for their articles? Case in point: Ent's rating is a 15, which I believe would translate to PG-13.

Also, that brings up spelling differences, too. Do you want me to correct Ent and JP's spelling to American English spelling, to be consistent across the site? I've hesitated to do this, because their spelling (when correct, of course  ) gives the sense of their nationality as reviewers. Thoughts?

[Entsuropi]

Nein!

A rating of 15 means you have to be 15 or older to see it. Parent or no parent. Legal requirement.

And I think we should maintain the country specific spellings. Our nationality can have an affect on how we review things. Plus, it's absolutely correct over here.

Incidentially, how many errors did i have?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

uhm.... as for standardizing English, i'm not sure I have an opinion. I say leave it, as long as it's internally consistant.
As for ratings, I think we should do American ratings. We can look those up on Amazon if nothing else, to be sure what the US rating was. It's my impression (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if the impression is incorrect) that because so many movies made in the US get wide circulation elsewhere that most non-Americans have a feel for what those ratings mean already.

[stacer]

Incidentially, how many errors did i have?

Incidentally, I didn't happen to be counting.  Let's just say it was a good thing I looked at it. It was mainly spelling and capitalization, a couple readability issues where I changed a preposition or broke the paragraphs in two. Nothing out of the ordinary.

[Spriggan]

I'm begininning to wonder how we went for about 3 years without her fixing our mistakes.

[House of Mustard]

Bordgames.  That's how we've done things for the last three years.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

look, to beat the pun into the ground, at least they weren't bored games. Or worse yet, Boring games.

[Spriggan]

Humm, we should have a boreing game section or theme day.  I'm sure we could come up with a long list of games we wouldn't recomend.

[JP Dogberry]

Change my spelling to American and I will just deck you. I need my (cyber)punk rock style credability to amintain here.

I have no opinion on rating systems, but I beleive your R is 15, while mine is 18. In other words, I just give a number.

Edit: feel free to fix my spelling of "Maintain" though.