If you don't have a great idea when you learn that it is your turn, don't just make a round that you don't even think is good. Try to think to come up with a good idea for a round, and then if you can't, then make a round that you don't even think is good.
Also you're encouraged to start the round in this format: "You have one post to [what you have one post to do goes here]"
Additionally don't end the round early. Rounds should be at least close to a day long. If you started the round at night, you can't end it tomorrow morning. If you started it in the morning, you shouldn't end it before you go to bed.
Interrounds:
The people running rounds are ideally supposed to judge approximately 24 hours after they start the round, but from now on if they haven't judged after 30 hours (6 hours late) then anyone is allowed to start a round between rounds, like the guess when Livio will start the next round, guess how many dogs shos has, ect.
You're also allowed to do this if the round has been judged within 30 hours, but the next guy hasn't started their round within 12 hours of the other round being judged.
The catch is of course that the round could end at any time, because these rounds last until the current round is judged and the next round begins.
You may judge rounds however you'd like, but at the end of the round there can only be one winner.
These rounds will be marked as ".5"s in the previous rounds and winners
Here are some quotes, taken from old interguild siggy's.
Spoiler:
'canadianstickdeath' said:
'shoes(yes, shoes not shos)' said:
'canadianstickdeath' said:
I'll put this on my list of videos to watch in three months.
to watch in three months, or to put them in your list in three months?
Urge to kill... Rising...
'jellsprout' said:
Oh yes baby, you know how I love that spatula. Give it to me.
Heh, I'm sure this one made you laugh.
'shos' said:
'Acceleron_3000' said:
For the Manual, I want to make an Index page, where you can look up a glitch and see where it's talked about. Of course, we'll have to look at each page individually and pick out all of the information, but it's a good idea. Maybe someone wants to start such a thing? It'll have to be really general and specific too. For example, and excerpt can look like this: [giant post]
Ignoring livio's post, i got an incredible idea.
an Index for the Manual. after it's all done, make an ABC index just like that, so that you can immidiately go wherever you need without the need of searching for it. also, we can link to that place from the CM-4.4 for example(so that you click CM-4.4 and it gets you to the spot).
XDD
'Quirvy' said:
Reject.
This is about the only place where you are allowed to have 1 word posts...
'Isawithappen' said:
Yeah.
'Quirvy' said:
So if he gets taken out this is a possible conversation, sticking to the theory that conversations must be at the youngest person's maturity level:
Fungus: haha. 69.
Quirvy: haha. He said 69.
Jell: 69
Shos: 69
Fungus: hey, shos. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 69. Can you guess what it is?
CSD: 69?
Fungus: Haha! No! It was 69!
I'm too lazy to find one. The point was for you to find me something funny. 3/10
'Quirvy' said:
Hmm... Making someone laugh over the internet is not an easy task, I think. I rarely actually laugh at text over the internet. Sure, I often find posts humorous, but I don't normally actually laugh at them. But this round does give me an opportunity to post this:
So a while ago I was frustrated with my team for not making any progress on the collab, so I sent Isa a top ten list for why our teams sucks:
(keep in mind this was written about a week ago)
Here's ten reasons why my IO team stinks:
1. Have been trying to start our collab for the last week, but have not been able to start our collab.
2. We don't have a NES entry started that I know of yet
3. Bryan hasn't made a new level since March 2nd
4. Nebneb hasn't even shown up
5. Livio can't get hatpc nor cavemaker to work
6. "1 Puzzle - 2 Minutes"
7. We were the third team out of 3
8. The only major discussion we've had in our topic (apart from team name) was about the minecraft entry which doesn't even exist anymore
9. Our speedrun video is "Livio's Favorite Minecraft Projects"
10. Bryan is apparently a vegetable
U mad, bro? I smirked at a few of these, so 6/10
'Isa' said:
Spoiler:
Also,
Spoiler:
I've already read the entire archive of XKCD, so the first one didn't do it for me. And remember, the alt-texts are half the XKCD comics.
The Spider-man one did it for me, though. 8/10
'soccerboy13542' said:
Abe Lincoln once said, "It's hard to tell whether quotes on the Internet are true or not."
So very true. Lincoln was a bright man. But it didn't do it for me. 1/10
'Shavey Dave' said:
*Tickle*
Meh. 2/10
'shos' said:
Here are some quotes, taken from old interguild siggy's.
Spoiler:
'canadianstickdeath' said:
'shoes(yes, shoes not shos)' said:
'canadianstickdeath' said:
I'll put this on my list of videos to watch in three months.
to watch in three months, or to put them in your list in three months?
Urge to kill... Rising...
'jellsprout' said:
Oh yes baby, you know how I love that spatula. Give it to me.
Heh, I'm sure this one made you laugh.
'shos' said:
'Acceleron_3000' said:
For the Manual, I want to make an Index page, where you can look up a glitch and see where it's talked about. Of course, we'll have to look at each page individually and pick out all of the information, but it's a good idea. Maybe someone wants to start such a thing? It'll have to be really general and specific too. For example, and excerpt can look like this: [giant post]
Ignoring livio's post, i got an incredible idea.
an Index for the Manual. after it's all done, make an ABC index just like that, so that you can immidiately go wherever you need without the need of searching for it. also, we can link to that place from the CM-4.4 for example(so that you click CM-4.4 and it gets you to the spot).
XDD
'Quirvy' said:
Reject.
This is about the only place where you are allowed to have 1 word posts...
'Isawithappen' said:
Yeah.
'Quirvy' said:
So if he gets taken out this is a possible conversation, sticking to the theory that conversations must be at the youngest person's maturity level:
Fungus: haha. 69.
Quirvy: haha. He said 69.
Jell: 69
Shos: 69
Fungus: hey, shos. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 69. Can you guess what it is?
CSD: 69?
Fungus: Haha! No! It was 69!
You have one post to make the most humorous limerick you can.
General advice - make the different lines 9-9-5-5-9 long, or 8-8-5-5-8 long - the most important thing is that the limerick has a good rhythm to it and that it flows well.
An example of a limerick follows here:
There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was far faster than light
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
There was a man from Quebec,
who put his legs 'round his neck,
his legs became stuck,
so he yelled out DUCKKKK (no bad words here hehe),
now he's an absolute wreck!
'Livio' said:
You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
The itsy-bitsy Quirvy found a secret spot!
Down through the cave and
treasure's all surround!
Down came a bomb and took a life away, so
the itsy-bitsy Quirvy found the spot again!
There was a young boy with a kite
Whose speed was so great - more than light
He went out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
This is very humorous for us, physicists. Note the originality! I suck in this.
Dat rip-off. 0/10
'Quirvy' said:
'shos' said:
There was a young boy with a kite
Whose speed was so great - more than light
He went out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
This is very humorous for us, physicists. Note the originality! I suck in this.
There once was a cheapskate named shos
Who used a poem everyone knows
Isa shot him dead
Put him in a shed
Where he continues to decompose
I like the theme, but the rhythm is a bit lacking. 5/10
'Shavey Dave' said:
There once was a guy called Shavey
His freinds liked to call him Davey
He could jump so high
He could touch the sky
P.S all of this is a lie
I actually laughed a bit at the bottom line. 7/10
'Yuggy' said:
There was once a man with a wife
Who always feared mortal strife
Once he was walking
A man was stalking
And this evil man took his life.
8-7-5-5-8? Uuuh...3/10
'Jazz' said:
So, I decided to write
A poem about this site
But it's midnight here
And my mind is clear
I should go to sleep at night.
Yeah, this is a 7-7-5-5-7.
I like the theme and it flows decently, but only decently. 6/10.
'soccerboy13542' said:
There was a man from Quebec,
who put his legs 'round his neck,
his legs became stuck,
so he yelled out DUCKKKK (no bad words here hehe),
now he's an absolute wreck!
This sounds like you've ripped off a limerick from the Internet 0/10, because even if so, yelling DUCKKKK is just odd.
I would rename earth - The Interguild, and all it's cities after the members, they would each rule over their own city. The worlds currency would be Karma. I would then get around living a nice life on Interguild planet, and help find alien life. Then I would buy a huge doughnut and eat it all. I would make a huge room filled with over-sized sweets, and then let the public play in them. I would not be an evil ruler and people would have a lot of freedom.
First step would be to actually achieve world domination. To do this I would slowly infect all military and government computers and add them to my bot network, but keeping them inactive for as long as possible. Then once I have them all infected, take control of everything before anyone notices a thing. Threaten to nuke all major cities if full control of the world is not given to me.
I will try to remain anonymous for my entire rule so I won't get assassinated.
Now it would be time for a reorganization of the capital. Every income will be government controlled based on the cost and complexity of the job, making sure that everyone will earn what they deserve. Insurances, retirement funds and stocks will also be controlled by the government.
If I have not been assassinated by then, it is time to increase the knowledge of the world. Merge and spread universities to provide one university for every 10 million residents. Put this universities in towns that revolve entirely around them. The only jobs available here are jobs at the university and services for this town, such as supermarkets or plumbers. Have all high schoolers do a test to determine their determination and intelligence and divide all students into three levels of complexity. If a student feels he has scored too low on their test they may take one re-exam a month and if they still aren't satisfied after that they may redo their final high school year.
Each student may only enter a study of their complexity level or lower. If a student finishes a course at their complexity level, they may continue with a study in a similar direction at one higher complexity level.
And finally, all students will be subsided depending on the need and popularity of their study. For example, if there are 3000 psychology students at an university per year yet there is need for only 500 psychologists and psychology researchers per year, these students will get a lower subsidy, but if there are 1000 mathematics students per year, yet there are 1500 mathematicians needed per year then they will get a higher subsidy.
Health care will be my next step. Free health care, obviously. And one major hospital in each university town, as well as additional hospitals for every 500,000 residents.
Next, infrastructure. Ideally every location should be possible to reach with no more than hour of total walking time. While this should be easily accomplished in densely populated areas, such as North-West Europe, this will be almost impossible in large, empty places such as Canada and Australia. One solution would be to encourage people to live in or around major cities, by taxing people that live farther away than 30 minutes from any city with more than 100,000 residents.
Invest heavily in trains and subways while additionally taxing car usage, including hydrogen, biofuel and electric cars. Also change the infrastructure inside cities to encourage the usage of bicycles.
And during all of this I will make social changes. The day I achieve control I will ensure social and legal equality for any human, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion or anything. This includes stuff such as marriage and childcare.
After the infrastructure is completed, I will focus on the poor and homeless. Build homeless shelters where all homeless can sleep and eat and create low-complexity jobs specifically for the homeless and poor. The purpose is of these jobs is not to make them rich again, but to ensure they can live debt-free, take care of their family and give their children a chance to succeed at education and get a decent job.
I will enhance the legal system to have the purpose of protecting society and to give everybody a chance to enter society again. This means that revenge and punishment are not the primary purpose of justice, but to ensure that any dangerous person is taken out of society and given a chance to reform themselves. These ex-convicts are given the same chance as poor and homeless people to enter the job market again.
Once all these reforms will be completed, I will hold referendums in every region of the world. I will give all these regions the option to become independent, to join their previous nation again, to join a larger supernation (such as the EU or something) or to remain under my control. Instead of just forcing people to pick one option and going with the most popular, I will instead let the people put these options in their favored order, and strike away the least popular option until one option has a simple majority.
If any regions have picked to remain under my control, I will continue ruling them. If not, I will simply sit back and watch the world go to chaos again.
If I ruled the world, I would probably spend most of my time ruling the world. I wouldn't really do much with my power, I'd just use it to rule the world and give myself a better life than everyone else. Although, actually I might use my influence to get rid of Maine.
I would rename earth - The Interguild, and all it's cities after the members, they would each rule over their own city. The worlds currency would be Karma. I would then get around living a nice life on Interguild planet, and help find alien life. Then I would buy a huge doughnut and eat it all. I would make a huge room filled with over-sized sweets, and then let the public play in them. I would not be an evil ruler and people would have a lot of freedom.
I like it but I'm not sure about giant food... 6/10
'Silver' said:
Stop mass killings
How? Too short 2/10
'jellsprout' said:
First step would be to actually achieve world domination. To do this I would slowly infect all military and government computers and add them to my bot network, but keeping them inactive for as long as possible. Then once I have them all infected, take control of everything before anyone notices a thing. Threaten to nuke all major cities if full control of the world is not given to me.
I will try to remain anonymous for my entire rule so I won't get assassinated.
Now it would be time for a reorganization of the capital. Every income will be government controlled based on the cost and complexity of the job, making sure that everyone will earn what they deserve. Insurances, retirement funds and stocks will also be controlled by the government.
If I have not been assassinated by then, it is time to increase the knowledge of the world. Merge and spread universities to provide one university for every 10 million residents. Put this universities in towns that revolve entirely around them. The only jobs available here are jobs at the university and services for this town, such as supermarkets or plumbers. Have all high schoolers do a test to determine their determination and intelligence and divide all students into three levels of complexity. If a student feels he has scored too low on their test they may take one re-exam a month and if they still aren't satisfied after that they may redo their final high school year.
Each student may only enter a study of their complexity level or lower. If a student finishes a course at their complexity level, they may continue with a study in a similar direction at one higher complexity level.
And finally, all students will be subsided depending on the need and popularity of their study. For example, if there are 3000 psychology students at an university per year yet there is need for only 500 psychologists and psychology researchers per year, these students will get a lower subsidy, but if there are 1000 mathematics students per year, yet there are 1500 mathematicians needed per year then they will get a higher subsidy.
Health care will be my next step. Free health care, obviously. And one major hospital in each university town, as well as additional hospitals for every 500,000 residents.
Next, infrastructure. Ideally every location should be possible to reach with no more than hour of total walking time. While this should be easily accomplished in densely populated areas, such as North-West Europe, this will be almost impossible in large, empty places such as Canada and Australia. One solution would be to encourage people to live in or around major cities, by taxing people that live farther away than 30 minutes from any city with more than 100,000 residents.
Invest heavily in trains and subways while additionally taxing car usage, including hydrogen, biofuel and electric cars. Also change the infrastructure inside cities to encourage the usage of bicycles.
And during all of this I will make social changes. The day I achieve control I will ensure social and legal equality for any human, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion or anything. This includes stuff such as marriage and childcare.
After the infrastructure is completed, I will focus on the poor and homeless. Build homeless shelters where all homeless can sleep and eat and create low-complexity jobs specifically for the homeless and poor. The purpose is of these jobs is not to make them rich again, but to ensure they can live debt-free, take care of their family and give their children a chance to succeed at education and get a decent job.
I will enhance the legal system to have the purpose of protecting society and to give everybody a chance to enter society again. This means that revenge and punishment are not the primary purpose of justice, but to ensure that any dangerous person is taken out of society and given a chance to reform themselves. These ex-convicts are given the same chance as poor and homeless people to enter the job market again.
Once all these reforms will be completed, I will hold referendums in every region of the world. I will give all these regions the option to become independent, to join their previous nation again, to join a larger supernation (such as the EU or something) or to remain under my control. Instead of just forcing people to pick one option and going with the most popular, I will instead let the people put these options in their favored order, and strike away the least popular option until one option has a simple majority.
If any regions have picked to remain under my control, I will continue ruling them. If not, I will simply sit back and watch the world go to chaos again.
Clever, but very dull 5/10
'DeathBunni X' said:
I would give supreme rule to all the midgets in the world.
Again too short 3/10
'Jazz' said:
I would rule the universe.
What is it with being short?! 2/10
'Quirvy' said:
If I ruled the world, I would probably spend most of my time ruling the world. I wouldn't really do much with my power, I'd just use it to rule the world and give myself a better life than everyone else. Although, actually I might use my influence to get rid of Maine.
Better... 5/10
'Thomas' said:
I would get rid of McDonalds so Quirvy can go to Cuba.
etc.)
)
0/10, because even if so, yelling DUCKKKK is just odd.
