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Talking with some other members, seem like some would be interested in having a main page again, and Teuthida suggested a parody/satirical game news website.

I think it has merit or whatever you want to say, just wanted to see the general level of interest amongst the posters.

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Something to fool around with. Couldn't hurt.

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I think that's actually a pretty good idea.

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I think this should happen.

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It's a good idea. I've wanted to bring back the main page for a long time.

The issue is: 1) getting the FTP access and 2) finding someone who has the time to make the page and update it. I probably don't have time to do either until Juneish, but I could do some work.

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Just do a blog-type thing. Make a wordpress blog and make the domain name forward to it.

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An onion-style game news website sounds hilarious and awesome.

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Originally Posted by Vampyr (Post 263160)

An onion-style game news website sounds hilarious and awesome.

That's what I was picturing it being.

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I like the idea, too. The Onion writers are spot-on. I think GT could be, too.

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It should be open to all the major members of the site :)

Yes, I mean myself.

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So is this going down or what? I like the idea of opening writing up to all major members of the site, btw....

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Good to see there is interest, and really, we have no way to fix it up right now, but I'm all for people writing articles so we can get a feel for everyone's writing style/sense of humor.

If you want and could post them on the forums.

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I don't have a sense of humor...is that gonna be a problem? :ohreilly:

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I think this is a great idea and really want to see it happen. Unfortunately, I don't have time to starting working on it until early June.

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Okay so just trying to gauge some more routes.

What are members willing to contribute to a main/front page?
Teuthida mentioned doing a weekly comic strip.
Typhoid said he would be willing to do like weekly music reviews.

So what else we got? Reviews? Editorials? Satirical articles? Look at release for the week?

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I may be attending the LA Games Conference, so I could collect questions from Forum members, pose them to panelists, and write up their responses.

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Yeah, I'll try review CD's or something in a - let's go with 85% biased way.
In order to shake it up more I'd rather take random suggestions on what to review rather than pick it myself.

That's really all I can think of.

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Originally Posted by Typhoid (Post 264589)

That's really a good idea, let's see what you do with something truly horrible though

Miley Cyrus
http://rapidshare.com/files/355246788/MIL-EY.rar
:D

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If we had a front page I would do something satirical or some shit. Maybe if I can get my PC fixed I could play some retro game each week for the lawls and record the videos and post them up through youtubes. Something like that. I would suggest I could review games, but just don't have the money for that.

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I could do game reviews in my very biased manner. I simply need to tap into my vast hate for everyone and everything, while gently reassuring my readers that they have no taste if they disagree. I've got PC, Wii and 360.

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Here's like the opening paragraph of article working on, still need to find a zinger for it

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Mushroom Kingdom March 9, 2010,

The community of the Mushroom Kingdom today mourns the loss of one of the last true monuments of its prestige history. After nearly 20 years of dedicated service, Dr. Mario Mario is finally forced to close the doors on his clinic in the wake of sweeping healthcare reform.

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If we make a front page, what does everyone think about trying to attract advertisers? That way Neo can stop bleeding money to keep this place open and any extra could be broken up for content contributors. Profit (or potential thereof) is an excellent motive...

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If we could get unobtrusive ads without sound or popups I think it would be good. Though most folks (at least those browsing gaming sites) would have adblock on I think.

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This is a short and simple example, but something just came up with

William Shakespeare's Zombie Romeo and Zombie Juliet

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SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house.

Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse

LADY CAPULET

Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.

Nurse

Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,
I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!
God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!

Enter JULIET

JULIET

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Nurse

Your mother.

JULIET

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LADY CAPULET

This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,
We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;
I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.

Nurse

Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.

LADY CAPULET

She's not fourteen.

Nurse

I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--
And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--
She is not fourteen. How long is it now
To Lammas-tide?

LADY CAPULET

A fortnight and odd days.

Nurse

Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--
Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me: but, as I said,
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--
Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;
My lord and you were then at Mantua:--
Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
To bid me trudge:
And since that time it is eleven years;
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about;
For even the day before, she broke her brow:
And then my husband--God be with his soul!
A' was a merry man--took up the child:
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,
The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;
And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'

LADY CAPULET

Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.

Nurse

Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'
And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;
A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:
'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'

JULIET

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Nurse

Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:
An I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish.

LADY CAPULET

Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme
I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,
How stands your disposition to be married?

JULIET

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Nurse

An honour! were not I thine only nurse,
I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.

LADY CAPULET

Well, think of marriage now; younger than you,
Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
Are made already mothers: by my count,
I was your mother much upon these years
That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:
The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.

Nurse

A man, young lady! lady, such a man
As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.

LADY CAPULET

Verona's summer hath not such a flower.

Nurse

Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.

LADY CAPULET

What say you? can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast;
Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
Examine every married lineament,
And see how one another lends content
And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Find written in the margent of his eyes.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him, only lacks a cover:
The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
For fair without the fair within to hide:
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;
So shall you share all that he doth possess,
By having him, making yourself no less.

Nurse

No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men.

LADY CAPULET

Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?

JULIET

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Enter a Servant

Servant

Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you
called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in
the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must
hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.

LADY CAPULET

We follow thee.

Exit Servant
Juliet, the county stays.

Nurse

Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.

Exeunt

SCENE IV. A street.

Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others

ROMEO

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BENVOLIO

The date is out of such prolixity:
We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,
Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,
Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;
Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke
After the prompter, for our entrance:
But let them measure us by what they will;
We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
And soar with them above a common bound.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
Too great oppression for a tender thing.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Give me a case to put my visage in:
A visor for a visor! what care I
What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.

BENVOLIO

Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in,
But every man betake him to his legs.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:
If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire
Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st
Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!

ROMEO
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MERCUTIO

I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

Why, may one ask?

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

And so did I.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

That dreamers often lie.

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider's web,
The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,
Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not so big as a round little worm
Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,
O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,
Then dreams, he of another benefice:
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the night,
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she--

ROMEO

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MERCUTIO

True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.

BENVOLIO

This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves;
Supper is done, and we shall come too late.

ROMEO

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BENVOLIO

Strike, drum.

Exeunt

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Originally Posted by BreakABone (Post 265614)

This is a short and simple example, but something just came up with

William Shakespeare's Zombie Romeo and Zombie Juliet

GT Podcast worthy. Whatever happened to that?

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I believe it basically turned into an hour of insulting Babs.

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Originally Posted by Teuthida (Post 266118)

I believe it basically turned into an hour of insulting Babs.

What's wrong with that? You can't stop the inevitable, and it was oh-so-enjoyable.

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Sure it's fun for everyone who already knows Babs (though found it mean rather than funny) but you gotta work your way up to that for new listeners.

Speaking of a show based around making fun of someone, been listening to the Ricky Gervais radio show and podcast. Hilarious stuff.

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Originally Posted by Teuthida (Post 266121)

The Ricky Gervais show is GENIUS. I was going to make a thread but I'm a lazy ass.

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I have no idea what's going on with the main page, but in the interim I have set-up a Wordpress account for the site.

And well, there's that. So if anyone wants to take the ball in setting it up and the likes (Also going to need to get some information from Neo to integrate it) just shoot me a PM

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Okay making moves to have a template of the page to show within the next 2 weeks or so.

So want to see where interest level exists for content providers.

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Would be kind of cool to have it so that any one of us could add an article at any time. Yea, nay? Maybe not, since that would be like the forum but slightly different.

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Originally Posted by manasecret (Post 268314)

Would be kind of cool to have it so that any one of us could add an article at any time. Yea, nay? Maybe not, since that would be like the forum but slightly different.

I'm open for everyone providing articles, I'm not 100% sure I want everyone on the site with direct access to post it.

Just so we don't end up with like 50 articles that are similar or like slightly different worded news post. Or 10 reviews on the same movie.

I mean willing to try new things so everyone is heard.

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I don't think the articles should be 'freely' posted, or else it is just like a forum on a front page.

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Since we now have www.nerdsontherocks.com I'm probably going to set up a Wordpress blog. I can set up the admin account to only have accounts created when the admin does so it will be easy to create set contributors. Also, I'm gonna have the RSS feed moved to nerdsontherocks.com instead of my own personal domain, so the updates for when the podcast is added is put on the front page.

And of couse it will have a link to the forums from there as well.