Waldo Cheerio |
"I found you" is all people manage to muster when I am just walking down the street, and who can blame them. After years of toil, seeking me out with the same fervor the 70s attacked the multi-colored cubes that arrived without explanation demanding to be solved, they just run into me on the street. It is unrewarding, and I understand that. All the years you have been looking for me, I can't just walk out and shake your hand and shatter the childhood dreams and unspoken promises of grandeur attained by finding me. But I do need to be found, and I was rather hoping you would know why. As Machiavelli explained himself to "The Prince" (Yes, The The Prince):
Just as those who draw landscapes place themselves
below in the plain to contemplate the nature of the
mountains and of lofty places, and in order to contemplate
the plains place themselves upon high mountains, even so
to understand the nature of the people it needs to be a
prince, and to understand that of princes it needs to be
of the people.
I'm not sure which of us gets to be the mountain, and which the plains, but it will do enough to see and be seen and come away the better for it.
Completed Tasks
Friends
- Lank
- Ben يامين
- Lincøln
- C.M. Gonzalez
- Spidere
- GeneShark Tom
- Adam
- Loki
- Scarlett
- Monotony
- miss understanding
- susy derkins
- Herbie Hatman
- Marshall Electric
- teucer
- Myrna Minx
- Tricia Tanaka
- inquisitive dragonfly
- Haberley Mead
- mkII Robot
- Soren THREEdux
- The Animus
- TEA
- Sparrows Fall
- babe
- Evil Sugar
- Knick Knack Haberdash
- Voo
- Peter Garnett
- Pamda Bhaer
- Rusten Groot
- Amoeba Man
- Brigadier Walrus
- Absurdum
- ⓜoustache ⓔnvy
- lefthandedsnail
- Luai Lashire
- Icarus
- Lord Bojangles Winston-Jones
- Black Coyote
- Nazzo Tinerlen
- Edison Small
- Peter Wiggin
- Amithy Ilexa
- Morte
- Harry Lee
- Grand Mask
- Scooter Vagabond
Tasks Created
Terms
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I hoped the inanity which would drive a person to treat a pair of their own trousers like a home-game of Mythbusters would see some written expression, and that hope was clearly not in vain. Research, zeitgeist, self-deprecation, allusion to self-endangerment by fire and a personalized communion of pyromaniacal spirit behind the task. Be still my rapturous heart.
Fairly often a new player will submit a completion, like this one, which is somehow incomplete. I want to explain what is missing, but SF0 defies explanation and rules, and what I normally say is often encouraging but without substance. I want to try something new here.
I love this game. I found out about it when I was passed a slip of paper with no explanation, and the URL. I figured out what the game had to offer by reading popular pages, known as "praxis", and generally exploring the site. If someone had told me what to do, I'm sure I'd have stopped playing a long time ago.
So here is what we are going to do. I am going to provide you with two links. One of them is to a collection of tasks that are considered to be awesome, and are well-liked by many other players. The other one is an instruction manual one player made to teach other players on his "team" how to get the most votes that they could. This doesn't tell you much about the game itself, or why we do it, just how to present yourself in a fairly well liked way.
Here is a list of tasks to look over, and be amused and inspired by.
Here is an instruction manual on how to make your tasks look like their tasks.
We look kindly on new players, and want you to see if we have anything to offer. This is about the best I can do to encourage that process.
Fairly often a new player will submit a completion, like this one, which is somehow incomplete. I want to explain what is missing, but SF0 defies explanation and rules, and what I normally say is often encouraging but without substance. I want to try something new here.
I love this game. I found out about it when I was passed a slip of paper with no explanation, and the URL. I figured out what the game had to offer by reading popular pages, known as "praxis", and generally exploring the site. If someone had told me what to do, I'm sure I'd have stopped playing a long time ago.
So here is what we are going to do. I am going to provide you with two links. One of them is to a collection of tasks that are considered to be awesome, and are well-liked by many other players. The other one is an instruction manual one player made to teach other players on his "team" how to get the most votes that they could. This doesn't tell you much about the game itself, or why we do it, just how to present yourself in a fairly well liked way.
Here is a list of tasks to look over, and be amused and inspired by.
Here is an instruction manual on how to make your tasks look like their tasks.
We look kindly on new players, and want you to see if we have anything to offer. This is about the best I can do to encourage that process.
I'm really impressed with both the quality of photographs and the presentation. Did you really take all of those? What kind of photography god are you?
I've never been much enamored with this task, as it is difficult to find some awesomely creative or difficult-to-document growings-on. But just the slow and deliberate, even loving documentation here shows that there is a rich inner-life to some tasks, and the end result needn't be startling to belie beauty and value in the praxis itself. Beautiful.