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Dear Susy,
This is probably a good time to come clean. I'm afraid what JJason says is true. It has been an adventure, attempting to task and comment as other people.
Take Burn Unit, for example. The comments are easy, but to really sell the character you need a face before the camera. Every month or so I borrow the neighbor's kids and drive over to the group home to film a task. Uncle Jonny doesn't understand what it's all about, but that's nothing new. He has always loved children, and he enjoys the opportunity to "act smart" in front of the camera. I think it reminds him of the old days, when we were teenagers and I used to prepare scripts for him to read in school. Our teachers never caught on. If it weren't for that silent alarm in the bank and those pesky expert witnesses, I doubt anyone would have found out about our little partnership. These days, the stakes are much lower, but successful deception can thrill just the same.
Love,
Inky
You must have joined the game after they stopped giving a free Ben to everyone who reaches level 5. Lowteck had eight of them for a while, but I hear all except one have been damaged beyond repair. You can see how roughly he treats them.
I keep mine chained up out back by the garden. He's been trained to scare away rabbits. But also, he is handy if you need a collaborator or a translator on short notice.
I need a tee shirt that says
I Don't Understand Your Moral Outrage
I need one like, today
I was just certain it was an actual set of actual demands. I especially thought the line about delivering the head of a 1,970-years-dead preacher from the outskirts of Jerusalem completely attainable and therefore an entirely serious insistence by its author. I assumed the tone of the event was totally realistic.
As senator, I'm going to go on the record as opposed to any task that includes the phrase "get AIDS." Cause you know one of these crazy fuckers will do it.
I am the oldest serving senator. As such, and for other innumerable reasons, I am by far the MOST CORRUPT. And therefore my vote is Utterly for sale. Can you promise me you'll leave the points and votes system alone until AFTER you make the system change? Can you secure the votes of any of the founding Three BEFORE you get my vote? Can you promise to uphold safe data practices and preserve the large quantity of personal information that has been held in our accounts? Can you fix my goddamn upload/email function? I got tasks I've been working on but I can't put in anything lately!
I will reach out with more of my absurd and selfish demands soon. Excelsior!
In fact, I'd argue that—adjusting to vote strangeness and low task volume aside—this era is very much in line with other eras of the game. It's very common to have low level tasks which focus on getting people in the habit of
1) self-consciousness,
2) attentive documentation (and/or creative documentation)
3) not making it particularly onerous to do either of those things by setting an expectation of required epic-ness out the gate.
Here's a list for your consideration:
ImpEx
Restroom-Photography
Zizek
Buy drinks
Glasnost
Take notes
compile footage
pants observation
object annotation
signs
Insatiability
leave clues
rephotography
rhyming pix
All of these are early-in-the-era tasks (I include a couple I created because I'm fucking vain) which get people to think about doing things intentionally for the game. This is a lot harder than we might expect—think about all the times Rubin tells people to get away from the fucking computer; he's right!
Just to get people limbered up and doing things self consciously is a big deal. Doing it modestly is a great gesture, very inclusive. It also puts us on equal footing—n00bs and graybeards alike.
Yeah, you can do Everyday Life with massive epicness, and when you do that, this community will reward you with votes and accolades (assuming we have any to give! haw ah haw haw!) But should we likewise punish people who do it this way?
Plus, shit man, miniature temple of heaven!
For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the latest emoticon innovations, Bryce's comment should be translated as "you are being mooned by three gnomes."
As penance, I suggest - neigh, demand - that Ms. Lake eat an escargot on camera and resubmit this proof. There's nothing this community enjoys as much as bad praxis made right.
A canned one would do just fine.
Or a live one. I'm not picky.
Even a chicken nugget carved into the shape of a snail and stuffed into a shell would do, especially if you animated it to music and sang "don't eat me" in a wee tiny snail voice.
i'm insulted by public interaction with members