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
Karma: 160 Posts: 1642 Gender:Male Location: An antique land pm | email
When you really think about it, you're only going to be alive for another 60 years or so, if you're healthy. 60 revolutions around an unimaginably huge and virtually immortal ball of nuclear detonations in the sky... and then you, as a conscious being, will cease to exist. Doesn't it seem kind of silly? Arbitrary? Pointless? Maybe it is. Maybe our whole existence is a fluke: some heat from sea vents reacting with organic elements at the bottom of the ocean sparked a hardly-living entity, a carbon-made machine, which became us after a few million years. Our creation on this big wet rock we call Earth just sorta... happened, without any particular intent.
So what's the point of it all? Getting an education? Making a thing? Becoming wealthy? Saving a cat? Nothing at all? Dunno. There are a lot of things you can't realistically do in your lifetime, like traveling to Alpha Centauri, or bringing back pogs, or uploading your brain to a computer, but there are also a lot of things you definitely can do, if you put your mind to it. Graduating college, going on a date with that girl, starting a business, getting really good at RuneScape—or even better, having me win this One Post round. Perhaps our lives are irrelevant in the grand scheme of the universe, but down here on Earth they're pretty darn important. Make the best of yours.
'jellsprout' said:
As a kid I always thought tennisballs looked delicious and I liked biting them. I still remember the feel of the fuzz on my teeth and tongue.
Age: 21 Karma: 38 Posts: 850 Location: Clinging to the last whispers of life in my decaying body pm | email
I put a pretty nice song on the what are you listening to right now forum, so I'd recommend you listen to it, if you have listened to it, I'd quite like your opinion
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
Age: 24 Karma: 107 Posts: 2043 Gender:Female Location: The Nuclear Era pm | email
To outlast feverish neezles wanting of all entries, I will post a third entry. You should write "tipping point" somewhere on a piece of paper. Then do whatever the **** you want with it.
"Time is a circuit, not a line; cybernetics instantiates templexity."
Karma: 72 Posts: 1625 Location: Climbing In Your Windows pm | email
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When you really think about it, you're only going to be alive for another 60 years or so, if you're healthy. 60 revolutions around an unimaginably huge and virtually immortal ball of nuclear detonations in the sky... and then you, as a conscious being, will cease to exist. Doesn't it seem kind of silly? Arbitrary? Pointless? Maybe it is. Maybe our whole existence is a fluke: some heat from sea vents reacting with organic elements at the bottom of the ocean sparked a hardly-living entity, a carbon-made machine, which became us after a few million years. Our creation on this big wet rock we call Earth just sorta... happened, without any particular intent.
So what's the point of it all? Getting an education? Making a thing? Becoming wealthy? Saving a cat? Nothing at all? Dunno. There are a lot of things you can't realistically do in your lifetime, like traveling to Alpha Centauri, or bringing back pogs, or uploading your brain to a computer, but there are also a lot of things you definitely can do, if you put your mind to it. Graduating college, going on a date with that girl, starting a business, getting really good at RuneScape—or even better, having me win this One Post round. Perhaps our lives are irrelevant in the grand scheme of the universe, but down here on Earth they're pretty darn important. Make the best of yours.
I'm afraid that this clearly well thought out entry is wasted on me due to reasons I have decided not to disclose at this time. My apologies.
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I put a pretty nice song on the what are you listening to right now forum, so I'd recommend you listen to it, if you have listened to it, I'd quite like your opinion
uggghhh but then I have to click on links and turn on volume. Maybe later, if I'm really bored, though.
But I only knew you wanted me to read the post after I finished reading it! You clearly didn't think this through.
'aych bee' said:
point out that I have entered two entries, including this one
I'm not sure whether to give you the win because when I read over the entries the thought of pointing that out immediately crossed my mind, but once I realized it was a trap I decided not to point it out... Hmmm
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Then I declare both this post and my last one entries.
Yimmy, I'm sorry for what I did in 2013. We can start to rekindle any existing friendliness by starting a PM chat.
woah
I can't say I was holding a grudge and thus there's no need to rekindle existing friendliness, but at the same time I'm very curious about what you have to say (or if this was just a clever ploy to win). Check your PM's.
'Darvince' said:
To outlast feverish neezles wanting of all entries, I will post a third entry. You should write "tipping point" somewhere on a piece of paper. Then do whatever the **** you want with it.
no that's dumb
'krotomo' said:
Read this post
wow good original idea you got me 10/10 no contest gg
Age: 104 Karma: 147 Posts: 1002 Gender:Female Location: you will be first against the wall pm | email
1/256th round time. You have one post to make the best recording of the quote in my signature. You may use any voice you want, or even scream it for all I care. It doesn't even have to be your voice. You can even hire a Gregorian children's choir and get 50 kids to chant it in unison, or ask your friend who sounds exactly like Morgan Freeman to read it out loud. Just BE CREATIVE and make it IMPRESSIVE.
I probably haven't posted in a month, but I find both of these half rounds uninspiring so I'm specifically posting to to let you know that I am not entering into either of these rounds.
To add insult to injury, I'm going to judge all of your fractional rounds.
'aych bee' said:
flashmarsh is dead so half-round time:
you have one post to tell me the worst thing you ever did
This is a good simple idea that could be a successful round, except some people might be too ashamed to say what the actual worst thing they did was. I would have recommended "What's the worst thing you've seen someone do?" instead. Still good, tho 8/10
'Bang Jan' said:
Quarter-round time!
You have one post to tell me what the worst song you have ever heard is
Simple, low effort. At the end of the day you really just need something people are gonna be willing to respond to, so this is pretty good, but it won't produce much interesting content. 6/10
'buboy24' said:
Since no one is initiating a round, I'll start the one-eighth round.
You have one post to give me the most unique block that you can imagine to be included in HATPC. State the functions as well.
This isn't a bad idea, but I don't like the "most unique" qualifier. Like I can come up with any garbage idea and as long as it's more unique than the other ideas, I should win, right? I propose the random-youtube-video-block, where upon breaking it, a completely random youtube video begins playing the cave background, with sound, and if you don't finish the level by the time the video ends, you die.
Anyways 6/10
'Yimmy' said:
hey guys remember this game?
1/16th round!!!
you have one post to convince me to do something
This is very nice and simple, really what the one post topic needs. It doesn't require any effort to enter into, and is very open ended. We need more of these rounds. 9/10
'aych bee' said:
1/256th round time. You have one post to make the best recording of the quote in my signature. You may use any voice you want, or even scream it for all I care. It doesn't even have to be your voice. You can even hire a Gregorian children's choir and get 50 kids to chant it in unison, or ask your friend who sounds exactly like Morgan Freeman to read it out loud. Just BE CREATIVE and make it IMPRESSIVE.
This is the worst idea for anything I have ever heard. 0/10.
And I'm not even going to address the fact that you
'shos' said:
1/512th round time!
Post the best thing you can find about LLAMAS. Here's an example: link
I don't want to have to do research or google stuff to make an entry to a round. Also, who makes an example entry for their own round? What if I was going to do that, and you just stole my entry? Give me my entry back, you fiend! 2/10
Age: 104 Karma: 147 Posts: 1002 Gender:Female Location: you will be first against the wall pm | email
You have one post to make the best recording of the quote in my signature. You may use any voice you want, or even scream it for all I care. It doesn't even have to be your voice. You can even hire a Gregorian children's choir and get 50 kids to chant it in unison, or ask your friend who sounds exactly like Morgan Freeman to read it out loud. Just BE CREATIVE and make it IMPRESSIVE.
Karma: 72 Posts: 1625 Location: Climbing In Your Windows pm | email
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You have one post to make the best recording of the quote in my signature. You may use any voice you want, or even scream it for all I care. It doesn't even have to be your voice. You can even hire a Gregorian children's choir and get 50 kids to chant it in unison, or ask your friend who sounds exactly like Morgan Freeman to read it out loud. Just BE CREATIVE and make it IMPRESSIVE.
man i really walked into that one didn't i
It is a terrible idea, but I don't want the victor to just copy paste a previous post because that feels lame... I could use the loophole that you didn't come up with this idea during the round, but that also feels lame. ahh, whatever 8/10
'Quirvy' said:
"We should make a topic where each post is just a number and we all count up to 5000"
and yet they usually make it up into the thousands!! It is dumb, and yet everybody has the desire to cooperate in this single goal. I'd say since it usually survives for a couple weeks it's not the worst idea. 7/10
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You'd love /r/counting, Quirvy. I think they've almost reached two million by now.
As for the worst idea: perhaps start another war with the Emus. They always seem to win over in the end.
It's a bad idea, but I can think of many ways to make it worse such as declaring a war on an endangered species, or a species that's actually quite helpful to society, such as cows. 5/10
'krotomo' said:
You have one post to give me your SSN. Be creative!
Honestly, I feel like one person would come up with a really great joke and it would all be worth it in the end. if you were actually trying to get people to give you their ssn then yes, that has no chance of ever working 5/10
Age: 104 Karma: 147 Posts: 1002 Gender:Female Location: you will be first against the wall pm | email
You have one post to write an outline for an Interguild-themed romance novel. You must provide a (bare) minimum of four sentences, following the structure of Freytag's pyramid and including at least one well-developed conflict with a fitting resolution. The scenario must feature at least three characters of your choice.
eta: the original diagram was too complex. i have substituted it with a simpler version. however, you will likely receive a bonus to your score if you use base your submission on the original one.
Karma: 72 Posts: 1625 Location: Climbing In Your Windows pm | email
aych bee your rounds take too much effort
in a small town in arizona called interguild (probably some pointless backstory to the name) there are literally no women resulting in everybody strongle considering living anywhere else but then
then a girl comes
chaos ensues
then thomas hijacks the story and it becomes an action-adventure novel
then they banish thomas to never bother them again
(also the girl moves away because the town sucks)
etc.)
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, Yimmy)
