The Gift Of Task by Charlie Fish
October 29th, 2007 6:04 AMI believe that Susy Derkins is currently the strongest up-and-coming HC player. She really seems to get the Crisis. I found her comments in her proof for this task particularly inspirational, and I told her so:
This is one of the best completions I have seen on the praxis this month.
One of the reasons I love SF0 is that heartbeat you get when you're tasking, especially out in public. You're doing something creative and innocent, yet you feel like you must look so suspicious. I think you felt that in spades.
Another reason I love SF0 is that it encourages us to reclaim our streets, our public spaces. Why can't we have fun at work? Why can't we play games in corporate buildings?
"But I guess what gets me down is what this means about how much the spaces are no longer ours, how much the world belongs to the square-minded people and how hard to find are freedom and humor lately."
I have not heard the Humanitarian Crisis put more eloquently. Don't be discouraged, keep following your trajectory of desire, and one day you'll make a security guard smile.
Then it'll all be worth it.
With that said, I thought it was only fair to give her a chance to show off if she ever did make a security guard smile. So I created this task for her as a gift, a thank-you for inspiring me with her completion.
In Susy's words:
Trepidation is the key.
Finding lunatics on the way is a welcome turn of the butterflies in the stomach.
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Really sweet Charlie. I'd vote for the sweetness alone, but its also a great task. I love tasks that are inherently about kindness. You're awesome. You too Susy Momewrath.
This is also my vote for your growth as a player Charlie. You went from Okay Noob to Completely Awesome Veteran way faster and harder than most of us. Nice work. Thanks for keeping it interesting and driven up in here. And for nurturing noobs. Dig.
p.s. eleanor the most is.... the sixth mostest scorer of all time in eqz ! hot damn !
yeah, hot damn. hear that players? some of all y'all are gettin beat by a 5 year old!
Charlie Fish can boast till the cows come home and yet leave us in awe for his unstoppable commitment to the Drive. Is not about daydreaming epic tasks, but about rolling up one`s sleeves and get them done.
Best un-birthday present ever, Charlie, thanks!
Heh, evil S.N.I.D.E. has taken away any hopes I had of staying #1, and all without doing a single task!
SNIDE is not evil. Snide is coming and it will be tremendous, a thing of zenlike mastery.
I actually inclined to think that SNIDE is evil too!
and possibly some evil.
but only the cool kind, not the leper kind.
Lepers aren't evil, they're disadvantaged.
After a sustained period of extreme tasking, during which I have scored an average of around 180 points per task for the last dozen tasks in just over one month, this completion is a small one.
It will not garner many votes or much attention, but those 25 points I have just earned are particularly significant to me. Those 25 points have bumped me into first place.
I am now the highest scoring EquivalenZ player of all time.
And this is just the beginning.
OK, boast over. You can all get back to your tasking now.