Player Photograph by JJason Recognition
September 21st, 2008 12:00 AMOne year ago today, Jane McGonigal posted on her blog about a game called SF0.
The next day I signed up.
And tommorow, I'll have been playing SF0 for one year now.
I can say, with no doubt in my mind, that SF0 is the best thing to have happened to me in the last year. Nothing else even comes close. The people I have met, the wonder I have seen, the things I have done, the things I have learned, the things I have seen. And I am a different person for it. A better person, even. Braver, smarter, and happier.
I would like to thank Sam, Sean, and Ian, for making this game. I'd like to thank MN0: Dark Aardvark, Burn Unit, Ink Tea, Star5, OliverX, and everybody else. I'd like to thank Rongo Rongo and Dax. I'd like to thank everyone who's praxis have inspired me. Hell, I'd like to thank everybody.
It's been a weird fucking year.
I have every reason to believe the next ones going to be even weirder.
Can't wait.
12 vote(s)
lara black
5
help im a bear
5
Not Here No More
5
Myrna Minx
5
GYØ Ben
5
meredithian
5
done
5
Jellybean of Thark
5
Tac Haberdash
5
susy derkins
5
Lincøln
5
zer0gee
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i also think this third image is hilarious and the best of all present. i am voting specifically for the monocle and the light dusting of snow on hat and gloves, old chap :)
Thank you. That actually means a lot to me - for a while there I was thinking that I was the only one who found it that funny.
where is jjason and what have you done with him you mustachioed freak
I appear to have been vote spammed by herbs and spices. Most irregular.
Unless, of course, these are actually fine gentlemen with similar names who appreciate my unique style of tasking and not automata at all. In which case, thank you.
I don't think so though.
Yeah a lot of your stuff seems to be affected. And so far you're the only one.
To be exact, Gingko, Cayenne, Ginseng, and Coriandor have voted for all of my Insatiability tasks and no other tasks. I anticipate that Tumeric may soon follow suit.
You know what this calls for?
Banning these outrageous sockpuppets
More collaborations with JJason!
But seriously, what?
Hey, you're only collaborating with me for my access to the herb and spices vote!
But seriously, I figure it's the return of whatever sinister forces were behind the suzybots and the probots.
Hmm... I wasn't aware that Alpha was a spice.
Edit: Curses! If Calyx also turns out to be a bot I'll be left tantalizingly close to level 8, but not there. Curse you bots! Can't I taste godhood, if only for a moment?
They misspelled Turmeric. That's how you can tell they're evil robots. Humans can taste.
Hey, you're only collaborating with me for my access to the herb and spices vote!
Incorrect.
When you're a senator, the correct term is "herb and spices constituency".
Calyx totally fits the pattern; it's a part of a plant.
And yes, it's supposed to be turmeric. Also ginkgo.
you are not the only one. these spices are voting for all of my praxis.
Well now everything is back to normal, like a sitcom after 30 minutes. Thanks hard working folks of SSI!
vote, but only because I now expect to see a nested Equivalenz-HC-UoA-BART-Biome-CE-SNIDE-Generic player photo from you.
He'll have to complete an EquivalenZ task first. And one from SNIDE.
I'll see what I can do. The Doktor is right though.
You may feel free to eat those words.
I am of the opinion that SF0 shenanigans must not mess with the workings of the game, or else they are not inherently different from the spicebots. And any praxis which results ought to be flagged.
Sure it is. Which means it's up to the users to decide what modes of play are worth rewarding and what modes are to be deemed not cool.
As one of those users, I've made the decision that I don't like people hijacking my account in non-humorous ways.
I AM GOING TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH THIS HAMMER JJASON SO HELP ME GOD
THAT'S IT.
THIS
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OH SHIT DONT BREAK MY DICE JJASON DONT BREAK MY DICE
Hammer? Dice? Speculum? Macalester Orientation 2006? See kids, this is what happens when you let browsers remember passwords on shared computers. I suspect.
I will note, for the record, that Mr. Asserdash changed his player name all by himself.
Dammit, Dok! I was tricking everyone!
I wrote something. ^ ^ ^
You should read it
You rock.
And I love your time travel gifs.
Vote for your SF0 birthday - sorry I missed it!
T. confuciusi, your proto-feathers imply intriguing possibilities about the entirety of Dinosauria.
You do not frighten me. You are an ornithischian.
Take one down, pass it around, 97 luftjjasons on the wall?
Shit! Now there are twenty-three of him!
For those of you who do not know, Teucer is referring to a curious ritual that I perform every year on my birthday. On that day I travel to a house in the middle of the city, where I meet with myself on all of my previous birthdays. There I perform a short "state of the JJason" address where I explain to them how my past year has gone and my goals for the future year. Then there is an extended question and answer period where I am interrogated by past versions of myself about the validity of my goals. This year I must say that my twelfth birthday’s critics were particularly pointed and, therefore, particularly helpful.
Once the talk has been finished, we break for the traditional meal of toast with cheese sauce, rice, and coconut, followed of course by cake. Then my previous birthdays put on a short play. This year they did a very nice version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Much better than Titus Andronicus last year, I will say.
That’s the end of the ritual portions of the evening and we usually then relax by dressing up in elaborate masks and the costumes of 18th century admirals, go to Teucer’s house, and throw various things that happen to be lieing around at his windows while loudly chanting. Afterwords I am bid my past selves goodnight and make my way home. I find this ritual leaves me refreshed and ready to face my next year.
I always enjoy a good play on words and meanings.