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
Sun. 12:55am - Mudkipz's Kitchen I'll judge when I get a fifth entry
Darvince shows his unwillingness to let the round pass by without sufficient participation. This shows that Darvince is supportive of increasing site activity (in this case, via his round in 'You have one post to...' and also by using his somewhat questionable statement as a catalyst for further site activity.
Sat. 2:01am - yimmy7 this is what happens when i'm tired: whatch out guys!
Sat. 3:14am - Soccer Saturday, 2:01am - yimmy7 this is what happens when i'm tired: whatch out guys! <- was this just to excuse yimmy for everything he's said in the past x amount of time?
Sat. 9:41am - atvelonis My cat has suddenly forgotten about her devious plans for total world domination, now she's looking for somewhere to snooze.
Sat. 9:42am - yimmy7 yes, soccer
Sat. 9:44am - atvelonis @Yimmy: You've used that excuse twice now. Don't stay up so late if you know that's going to happen. Anyways, my cat has found a spot to snooze. Apparently it's alright to take a nap on the staircase.
Yimmy refuses to take responsibility for his own actions by placing blame on him staying up late, which as atvelonis points out is something that the blame of which is still placed on himself.
Atvelonis's cat falling asleep on the stairs instead of plotting is a metaphor for how yimmy should go to bed instead of staying up late doing ill-advised things on the computer.
(just to be clear I don't really know what this exchange was all about. I just wanted to do something that included atvelonis' cat and randomly chose this chunk)
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Spoiler:
'yimmy7' said:
yimmy: clueless beggar who gets ignored
soccer: universe sandbox forum spy
teo, yaya, jebby: people disappointed about EMG dying
jorster's bedroom: person who pretends to be smart but isn't
mudkipz kitchen: mocker
Too localized, but it's a nice summary of what was going on. 6/10
'ilikepop4' said:
The chat box where people chat.
Too simplified and doesn't say anything about it 1/10
Spoiler:
'Yaya' said:
Yimmy and Shos:
Yaya: Get a ******* dictionary. Swearing is not professional.
Jorster, Yimmy, and Darvince: Run on posts.
Atvelonis: Cut the feline purple prose.
Everyone stick to traditional ink colors.
Not being able to reverse the order in which you read quoted chatbox posts is a metaphor for social injustice.
Thesis(s): Humanity has declined. God is dead. Our universe revolves around a cat.
What the hell??? 3/10
Spoiler:
'01110000011011110110' said:
Chat
Quote:
Friday, 1:07am - Mudkipz's Kitchen pm me one of livio's caves
Friday, 1:07am - Mudkipz's Kitchen pm me one of livio's caves
Friday, 1:07am - Mudkipz's Kitchen pm me one of livio's caves
Friday, 1:07am - Mudkipz's Kitchen pm me one of livio's caves
Friday, 12:10am - yimmy7
Thursday, 11:38pm - yimmy7 stop ignoring me i'm not neezles
Thursday, 11:36pm - Soccer binary, if you hadn't posted, yimmy would just not be able to post again
Thursday, 10:53pm - yimmy7 well pm me one of livio's caves, please?
Thursday, 10:50pm - Jorster's Bedroom nobody wants to be nitrogen ice yimmy ))
Thursday, 10:43pm - yimmy7 soccer don't you want to be nice?
Thursday, 10:12pm - yimmy7 you like stories? then pm me 1 of livio's levels
Thursday, 9:53pm - yimmy7 pm me one of livio's levels
Thursday, 9:53pm - yimmy7 pm me one of livio's levels
Thursday, 9:35pm - Mudkipz's Kitchen kip it is illegal to start french map game
Thursday, 9:21pm - yimmy7 pm me one of livio's levels
Thursday, 9:21pm - Mudkipz's Kitchen hey kip, you're good with numbers AND like them, could you do it?
Thursday, 9:16pm - Mudkipz's Kitchen i'll do it when my headache is gone
Thursday, 9:16pm - Mudkipz's Kitchen ugghh I just looked at it and it's numbers that I don't want to calculate
Thursday, 9:12pm - Mudkipz's Kitchen Meh, I'm procrastinating on homework. I might as well do it.
Analysis:
Darvince initiates contact by addressing a non-present member of the chat: mudkipz. This solicitation, described by psychologist Jung, synthesises an atmosphere of existence which contributes to yimmy's desire for livio's level. Freud would have called it an object-biased sexual attraction between yimmy and livio's levels. After this, there is silence for a few minutes. This, however, does not last long. Soon after, Darvince declares that "it is illegal to start french map game", addressing mudkipz. While the initial address started the atmosphere of existance, this second request amplifies it. This stimulates yimmy to reply not once, but twice by repeated in the same line. Jung says this tells us a few things about yimmy: he is either unsure of whether livio has heard him, so he says the same thing twice, or he thinks he is being ignored, so he says the same line twice to provoke a reply. Either way, it appears that this approach is mistaken; if livio has not heard him, repeating the line twice does nto help, and if he is being ignored, repeating the same line twice will just get one... more ignored. At this point, yimmy changes tactics, trading a story for livio's levels and randomly addressing people in desperation. Binary/mudkipz replies with an comment whose subject is irrelevant to the yimmy's desire. Yimmy, who is grasping for straws, tries to deflect it towards his goal. On top of that, soccer replies only to say that if it were not for binary, yimmy would not have been able to post again. The significant part is that soccer directly addressed binary, but not yimmy. This situation is highly reminiscent of Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex -- a child has a sexual desire the posses the parent of the opposite sex in competition with the other parent. In this case, yimmy, a male, wishes to posses binary, a female. However, soccer, representing the father, has seemingly gotten her attention instead. I had previously stated that yimmy may have repeated the same line twice because he felt ignored, and wanted to provoke a response. Although he initially failed, Darvince took notice, was provoked, and replied not twice but four times with the same message that yimmy had replied with. Thus yimmy was successful in not being ignored, but not successful in his goal of getting livio's level.
I laughed. Hard. 10/10
'jazz' said:
Quote:
Sun. 12:55am - Mudkipz's Kitchen I'll judge when I get a fifth entry
Darvince shows his unwillingness to let the round pass by without sufficient participation. This shows that Darvince is supportive of increasing site activity (in this case, via his round in 'You have one post to...' and also by using his somewhat questionable statement as a catalyst for further site activity.
Nice, is a lot longer than what was said, and also has value. 10/10
Spoiler:
'Quirvy' said:
Sat. 2:01am - yimmy7 this is what happens when i'm tired: whatch out guys!
Sat. 3:14am - Soccer Saturday, 2:01am - yimmy7 this is what happens when i'm tired: whatch out guys! <- was this just to excuse yimmy for everything he's said in the past x amount of time?
Sat. 9:41am - atvelonis My cat has suddenly forgotten about her devious plans for total world domination, now she's looking for somewhere to snooze.
Sat. 9:42am - yimmy7 yes, soccer
Sat. 9:44am - atvelonis @Yimmy: You've used that excuse twice now. Don't stay up so late if you know that's going to happen. Anyways, my cat has found a spot to snooze. Apparently it's alright to take a nap on the staircase.
Yimmy refuses to take responsibility for his own actions by placing blame on him staying up late, which as atvelonis points out is something that the blame of which is still placed on himself.
Atvelonis's cat falling asleep on the stairs instead of plotting is a metaphor for how yimmy should go to bed instead of staying up late doing ill-advised things on the computer.
(just to be clear I don't really know what this exchange was all about. I just wanted to do something that included atvelonis' cat and randomly chose this chunk)
I don't like that this is directly addressing the people, as that's not formal writing, but I do like the statement about atvelonis's cat. 7/10
In conclusion, this is the first YHOPT round to get high rates in a while, but anyway, JAZZ OR MUDKIPZ GO
"Time is a circuit, not a line; cybernetics instantiates templexity."
you have one post to find me a particular gif i've spent hour searching for
a man wearing a helmet with horns is adjacent to a large deer/elk/moose. he hits the animal with his first, and a canon comes out of the animal's butt. meanwhile, a crazed looking person riding a reindeer streaks across the sky. the man wearing a helmet slams his fist down on the animal, shooting a projectile out of the canon. the camera pans back to the reindeer guy and we see the missile hitting the reindeer. a mushroom cloud erupts from the resulting explosion.
this gif is from a movie, i have no idea what movie, but it's from a movie
if you can't find it, a funny gif will earn points, but not as much.
also my memory is a bit hazy, so some of the details i described may be off
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the IO: named after the moon of jupiter, you must make a level based off of another level that the judges choose. but this isn't just a lot of parody comps, there will also be another bonus challenge ex. the judges choose CSD's not what you expect 2, and the bonus challenge is to not use any wooden dynamite. sometimes the judges may choose a person and you must try to make a cave with there(sic) style
Clearly, after the IO, in which the interguild hosts an Olympiad in which Interguild members make levels, comes the OI - Olympics Interguild - in which the Olympics host an Interguild in which Olympians like Bolt make levels. The result would clearly be an FR2 level in which running is quicker than driving
Round One: Everyone make the worst possible HatPC cave without it being impossible or ridiculously simple.
Round Two: Do it again.
Round Three: Again.
Whoever gets the lowest average rating wins!
We want to stimulate people to make good levels, not bad ones. 2/10
'soccerboy13542' said:
I have this great idea that will be called the Interguild League.
I don't know, I think it will be quite a failure. 4/10
'yimmy7' said:
the IO: named after the moon of jupiter, you must make a level based off of another level that the judges choose. but this isn't just a lot of parody comps, there will also be another bonus challenge ex. the judges choose CSD's not what you expect 2, and the bonus challenge is to not use any wooden dynamite. sometimes the judges may choose a person and you must try to make a cave with there(sic) style
While I like the idea, it is better for an individual competition than a full tournament. 6/10
'shos' said:
Clearly, after the IO, in which the interguild hosts an Olympiad in which Interguild members make levels, comes the OI - Olympics Interguild - in which the Olympics host an Interguild in which Olympians like Bolt make levels. The result would clearly be an FR2 level in which running is quicker than driving
I'm afraid this will cost too much money. 4/10
'bang_jan' said:
The Interguild world cup. (Due to 2014 having the actual world cup)
8 of the signed up members are chosen at random.
First round they have to make a 16x16 cave and whoever makes it into the top 4 goes into the next round.
Second round those 4 members have to make a 52x52 cave and whoever gets the top 2 goes into the final round.
Final round those 2 members have to make an 88x88 cave and whoever makes the better cave wins the Interguiild World Cup.
Rounds end when everyone makes their cave or after a month, if you don't make an entry, you're instantly disqualified.
While certainly a possibility, I really don't like that 8 members are chosen at random. Everybody who wants to should be able to enter it. 7/10
the package would rip open too easily if you didn't need scissors, and most people have scissors somewhere in their house, so it's no big deal.
what i'd suggest: buy a high quality pair of scissors, keep it in a drawer that is established. make sure that everyone puts the scissors back in that one drawer.
'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.
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It's not about why, It's about why not!
Can you feel your heart burning?
Can you feel the struggle within?
The fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make, you cannot kill me in a way that matters
etc.)
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, Yimmy)
/notanentry 
and also by using his somewhat questionable statement as a catalyst for further site activity. 
