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    I'm (pretty much) done here...

    in Competitions

    Posted

    After djp thought about it, he's moved the Competitions forum under Workspace where it's not merely a sublisting and should remain visible. The arrangement will be kept like this, but hopefully this solves some of the visibility problems caused when this was a subforum under Community.

    As long as we can keep current competitions on the GenDisc forum, this isn't an issue - I don't care where the repository ends up.

    However, if this is where current competitions must go, then it's over and done here...if DJP thinks that visibility will be better as a Workspace forum he's out of his mind - it's now INVISIBLE to the casual forumgoer.

    Kentucky Fried Cruelty (aka SMB Peta version)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    My personal politics don't necessarily align with PETA, since I love me a good piece of meat several times a day, but I'm the kind of guy that wouldn't mind if they had their way as long as the protests ended and Boca Burgers were still around. I don't go to fast food restaurants for more reasons than just the stuff you read in Fast Food Nation, so I hope I'm helping their correctly-aimed but way-too-strongly-sought cause.

    That being said, isn't it in poor taste to be, ahem, "flaunting" Pamela Anderson like that?

    Kremlin Fried Chicken is better though.

    SPOILERS: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    All in all it was good.

    But, I really wish that the ending wasn't so weak, and the Epilogue wasn't so "Smack my face on the desk" stupid.

    They spent a whole lot of time sitting in the tent not doing anything.

    And the body count was a tad high, with little reason.

    Anyone made a list of the people who died? I lost track.

    Hrm.

    Incomplete, probably, and from another source, with some additions:

    -Charity Burbage

    -Hedwig

    -Mad-Eye Moody

    -Bathilda Bagshot

    -Dobby

    -Pettigrew

    -Gregovitch

    -Grindelwald (?)

    -Lupin

    -Tonks

    -Colin Creevey

    -Fred Weasley

    -Crabbe

    -Snape

    -Voldemort

    -The muggle family of five (pg 439)

    -The goblins Voldemort kills in Gringotts

    -Ted Tonks

    -Dirk Cresswell

    -Gornuk

    -Scrimgeour

    I'm (pretty much) done here...

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Too much of one thing and you're never gonna kepe the momentum up, Coop speaks the truth.

    Thats like expecting everyone to make a "This is whatever month" sig every month. Only a commited few would be bothered. It does make me wonder how the DoD is still going though, althouth that has a huge following.

    DoD has 10 competitions, two of which go for two months instead of the requisite one. Maybe THAT'S what we really need to do - extend the deadlines for July, August, December, and January.

    This helps put things into perspective... It's true: I don't enter my regular competitions like FAC every month (although I still have a serious interest) and I took a break from the fighting game tournament (and am slightly losing interest in that even now). The fact that they run every month is nice but I don't obligate myself to join every month because either I can't or don't want to. In fact sometimes the competitions are outright boring when you're against the same set of people, or the same people win every month. That's why fresh folk are nice to have around here.

    I wonder if putting competitions into 2-month or even 3-month cycles would work better? Maybe a 1-month break between competitions would be good, or maybe just randomly starting up competitions at different times. Although, that last one I feel would be best served as a last resort.

    You're right, usually we'd be sending kamoh off with a "hey, screw off if you don't like it" but this is something we can all sympathize with, because this section of the forum--these competitions--they're founded upon the hard work we all do to keep them alive. It's a pain in the ass that they've become neglected when some of us put in 100%, or can even be bothered to put in any of our free time whether it's the tiniest bit or not. In the General forum, people seemed to have fun watching the competitions. I remember watching the FAC each month before I started entering my own works. I remember other people who didn't or couldn't contribute talking in the thread (even myself) complimenting people on their hard work, giving them critiques on their works in progress, and things like that. I wish I could keep sharing the joy of active participation with everyone, but being in the Competitions forum makes it hard to share that work when honestly most of what I see in some of these threads is "wow I had no idea this forum even existed" or "oh so this is where the competitions moved to." Contributions for the FAC seriously dropped from like a rock bottom of 10 or more entries a month with a diverse variety of people each month, to the same people contributing 6-8 entries tops. You can just guess when this change started happening.

    -Nick

    I want to remind everyone that the forum was LOOOOOONG time coming. My first reaction WAS what happened - that everything would drop off - but after a while I believed that this separate forum could be a good thing...I was informed of the impending change sometime in September 2005 by GrayLightning. It came a good 16 months later.

    I'm (pretty much) done here...

    in Competitions

    Posted

    I give a darn, but the only problem is I don't enter anything. I contribute to the problem. I either don't feel like entering (May), haven't had the time (June), or can't physically enter the competition this time around (I'm not going to be at home.) Poor excusesI know. D: Well except June cause of freaking exams.

    I apologize for contributing to the problem though. I opened up Photoshop a few days ago to get a start on something, anything, and hope it'll be tangible before FAC's deadline. I even TRIED in June but the work was too rough to actually submit because I didn't have the time (exams). I could even show you privately exactly how crap quality it was Atma. :P

    Maybe we just need to take action. I remember in a FAC thread like last month or something , someone (friendlyHunter I believe) had an elaborate post made out to try and support the competitions board, but everyone was too chicken to do it, even me. In the end I offered but got no response, not even from you Atma, so I just left it alone.

    We need to do something because this board just goes away ignored and I think that's the real problem. When we were in the regular board set we got a lot of entries, so what changed other than moving here honestly?

    We can sit here complaining in a lonely corner of the interwebs or we can actually TRY and push for some kinda change not to sound ridiculous or anything. But let's face it this place just keeps getting lonelier and the spirit of these competitions is part of what keeps me on OCR. Problem is that I can't feel arsed to contribute 100% to the competitions anymore if the competition is always the same dedicated people and that number keeps getting smaller.

    -Nick

    Defect to other website shall we?

    For the motherland!

    *Insert Zangief Here*

    I'm (pretty much) done here...

    in Competitions

    Posted

    This is NOT meant as a rip on anyone, especially not DJP, TO, judges, management, whatever. This is just me talking to myself aloud so that all of you can understand where I'm coming from.

    I've been thinking a lot about what I do online and where I've come and what I'm doing. At some point in their lives, everyone has to grow up. In my mind, it's always been that OCR is a place for adolescents and young adults, and at some point you just have to leave and grow up...This might be my time. I've been part of this community for 3.5 years now, and it wouldn't have been nearly that long had I not latched onto these competitions and done work in keeping them going. I come to OCR now to check on my tournaments, and that's about it.

    I had a busy last semester. Pep Band, increased radio station duties, hanging out with my friends, my large commitment to my girlfriend, schoolwork, working at my job, and playing football on weekends. Add to that the chess, emulation, and fighting tournament standings and I was a fucking rock.

    But now, the chess league died. Emulation and Fighting barely get anyone to join, and people aren't playing their matches. It's like I'm the only one making a commitment to this whole subforum, and it's not like I'm not ABLE to do it (of course I have the time for it), I just see NO POINT in continuing to beat a dead horse.

    Mew will take back the emulation tournament whenever he elects to, which is either August or September. I will run the current one until it's done and then probably go hands-off in terms of running the thing. I hope this one continues to be fun cause I love Mario Battle, but I hate having to recruit to make a tournament out of it.

    Arek has learned how to do the standings for his fighting game tournament, so nobody's really needed me to do anything for a while now.

    Chess is dead and those of you in the OCRCL can find competition elsewhere. This may have stemmed from the realignment in January. At least, I'm pretty sure that's where the OCRCL died. Those of you that might say "you changed the rules way too much," look at the Emu and Fighting tournaments. We haven't changed the rules for that since a long time ago, it's mostly the same format, and numbers are still declining.

    ---

    I'm tired of being the only one that's really all that interested in these tournaments. Therefore, I'm done.

    NEW TOURNAMENT: Super Mario All-Stars BATTLE GAME

    in Competitions

    Posted

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    SUPER MARIO ALL-STARS

    BATTLE GAME

    TOURNAMENT

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    The Sonic 2 tournament SUCKED! You guys didn't play any games, even when I was asking for matches all over the place. The deadline is over and I've decided to cancel that one and unilaterally choose the next tournament. Mike231 approved it, so it's actually not completely unilateral, but still, I wanted to do something exciting and hilarious and Mario Battle Game is it. We'll have some modified rules for this one, but it'll still make sense.

    ONE

    TO JOIN THE TOURNAMENT, post a reply in this thread CONTAINING YOUR AIM SCREEN NAME. If you don't have one, GET ONE!

    Then make a buddy group with all these people in it!

    TWO

    Get this stuff:

    ZSNES 1.42: http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zsnes/zsnesw142.zip

    HAMACHI 1.0.2.2: http://www.hamachi.cc

    THE ROM: Contact me on AIM (metzgerism).

    AND JOIN A HAMACHI GROUP THAT I WILL LIST LATER.

    THREE

    Play THREE MATCHES (best 5/9) of Mario Battle Game against every opponent, and report the scores in THIS thread.

    The top FOUR players with the most wins will advance to the bracket round (losses, vs. tied, strength of wins are tiebreakers).

    Deadline for matches is FRIDAY, JULY 27th (my lady's birthday so don't be surprised if it's a little late) @ 9:00pm Pacific Time!

    FOUR

    The top 4 players will play in a bracket, best THREE out of FIVE matches.

    Byah! This ends a week after it begins. WINNER WINS. AND PICKS NEXT.

    I'm having a party!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You are Probably Invited to My Party!

    Dear friend, aquantence, or relatively estranged person who is, for reasons lost to the fog of MySpace friend requests long gone-by, receiving this message,

    Me and Ivy are moving out of our old place in Bed Stuy and into a new one in Williamsburg, where our indy cred is sure to skyrocket; to commemorate this upcoming occasion, we're throwing an all-expenses-paid, booze-bash at our soon-to-be old place and you, dear reader, stand a very good chance of being someone I would like to invite!

    The party will begin at 5:00 in Friday July 7th and go until everyone leaves, but we can't make any noise after 10:30 for fear of our diligently civic-minded neighbors informing the police that our raucous merry-making is in violation of one of their most championed codes (the code in question being, of course, that of noise ordinance).

    If you'd like to come, please send an email to shael.riley@gmail.com or a private message to me through MySpace and I'll give you the address, or remind you why I don't like you. If you already know the address, good on you!

    We have tons of booze and food, so please consider coming empty-handed, but if you'd like to bring something despite my requesting you not, bring a nice tequila, or case of Corona; I've been feeling too sober and not nearly faux mexican enough as of late.

    Your friend of estranged virtual space cohabitator,

    -Shael Brendan Riley

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    charlimit

    ORCL - Double Elimination Chess Tournament - July 2007

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Registration - Ends Friday, July 6th @ 11:59pm EDT

    Post your AIM screen name in this thread by the above deadline to join the tournament.

    Format - Double-Elimination

    Each contest will be one game. If the game is a draw, switch colors and replay.

    10/15 clocks, undo turn is prohibited (unless in case of a finger slip).

    The tournament will end 3 weeks after the registration deadline.

    The winner is the player who wins the finale OR has the best +/- record.

    Bracket

    Will be posted later.

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    OCR Chess Tournament - June 2007

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Damn, I forgot about this...I'm going to be out for the whole weekend for VGL though, so no chess till Monday night for me.

    Alright, makes sense for you guys.

    I'm going to start a double elimination tournament now, but it'll have a registration phase.

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