SFZero Text Updates by Charlie Fish
December 4th, 2007 1:43 PMI realize that I have not created software in the traditional sense, but this service relies on the software of my brain, which I am making publicly available as a service to you, my beloved SF0 voters.
My Declaration:
I am a revolutionary, not a politician, so I have not participated in most of the discussions surrounding the Revolution. I humbly present my actions and hope that they will speak for themselves.
I feel no anger against the University of Aesthematics, and I have great respect (and plenty of votes) for its taskers. However, as my manifesto has testified since the day I joined SF0, I have acutely felt that EquivalenZ is unfairly overshadowed by the other groups - particularly the University of Aesthematics.
But whining about it will achieve nothing positive at all. I intend to act. So I have set myself an almost impossible challenge.
By the end of the era, I am going to attempt every single pure-EquivalenZ task.
I don't know whether I will succeed - I have a busy month ahead, and that's a lot of tasks - but I will have fun trying. And hopefully, I can put EquivalenZ back on the map.
This time, it's personal.
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Prior tasks:
Objectify a Subject
Attachment Theory
Bathe Electonics
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Mr. Unit: You are going to propose that as a task, right? An Equivalenz-only task?
Charlie: I'm particularly curious what your plan is for Earth Moon Bounce.
Oh golly, that's genius.
I'm not ready to polish my crown or don my laurels yet, Anna, but GAMEPLAY is one of my better brainstorms so far this week, in my always humble opinion! Think about it: a large number of players already have joined that group. Its activities take place largely in the social contract and metagame. There's tons of meta tasks being proposed all the time. All the little tricks and funnies we learn, the inside jokes, the references, these are all riffs on the GAME first, moreso than on the actual PLAY of the game. The bejewelled fingers pointed at the moon, yes?
They're not evil, per se. They're sometimes a little distracting. But basically any tasking, or efforts that take place in a meta space are GAMEPLAY activities. The Gettin Absolutely Meta group ("for Evil" is probably optional. or maybe it's for "Evil" as one says when displaying a "Keep Music Evil" bumper sticker or some such. You know. The good kind of Evil) the Gettin Absolutely Meta group operates in the realm of metaplay. They know the contextual relevance of the word "sockpuppet." They consider it their duty to make wiki entries. (who am I kidding with "They") WE make inside jokes public. We know what pretired and pre-tired mean and how to find them, we know how to send messages to each other there. We make passionate statements about the game as much as we passionately play the game. Shit, We launch revolutions against ourselves. Shit, that is all GAMEPLAY stuff.
So to LP I say this: you go ahead. In my case, it's satisfactory to propose here in the comments, in its rightful place within the metagame. Somebody'll get it done, eventually. Look--some C.E. player from the era after next is already posting completions. Charlie, you're going to have been very busy! Besides I don't want to actually propose it, it won't get approved right now. It's very similar to an old old, somewhat embarrassing pretired task I made back in ImpEx (burnout, fwiw).
For the GAM group I'll put a logo together later. It'll probably just be an lolcat. Or better, an LOLteck. LincLoLn? Lolank? LOLscarpone? LOLa?
That or a stylized drawing of Ian Kizu-Blair in papal garb. One of my friends' sockpuppets will post it in the media folder of a public player. Then I'll link it in the comments of a pretired task. But the url will be in Aramaic, rendered in binary. and white
No. I'll post it in the live chat. You guys know where that is, right?
It'll be fricking awesome.
Forget the moon, I look forward to documentation of Cure female hysteria, whether literal or not.
I'm taking personal offense to a comment by Burn Unit.
SFZero is an almost entirely insular game. The dream that I have where SFZero is a tool to affect the world outside is... a dream.
I have learned that the audience is here.
I received positive response to the last meta-narrative I told. If my sophomore effort is less than entertaining, don't participate.
oh for the love of mike, people. what is it with people the last five days myself included? (select private message recipients, you copy?) jesus hernandez herrera!
look, man, you come in here wavin all this situationist jargon around and if you don't have the wherewithal to go through with it, what am I supposed to do? apologize to every naked figure with a molotov in their hand?
I'm not wrong about this. That comment was funny and I stand by it. They weren't even directed at you boyo. If you're capable of seeing the forest and the trees now and again you must be able to imagine that the inclusion of this Revolution in my little outburst was, in point of fact, unplanned and in the moment. I wasn't even thinking about you when I started the post, much less the paragraph (someone call Carly and get us some clouds for the coffee up in here, yes? please?) No, sweet cheeks, it was square at Chucky Pescata (and, as with most meta comments that include styled html of any kind, Spar. hi babe!)
For maximum irony, feature this: The commentses over in all y'alls task, the ones where Kat got all upons? Where I apologized anyway because despite all the bad press I get to eat every morning at six rain or shine I'm not a complete dickweed? Those ones weren't even directed at her—they were aimed squarely at taunting you for the lack of discipline in your gaggle of soldiers.
Smack talking is one of the finest damn traditions in gaming. Our highfalutin gamey-game-game here appears to be shockingly illiterate in this stuff. Gawd am I the only person here whose ever even been/talked to gamer nerds, or for that matter jocks? I don't play a lot of Madden anymore, right? But these bon mots don't hold a candle to the shit talk I've had heaped on my head in games.
Pardon me while I enjoy a little cake and eat it too for a moment but I thought you were fighting a war here, babe. A) it's not fair to assume this was "about you" B) though it eventually got around to mentioning you it's not fair to be all "I'm fighting a revolution" and then all "I'm wounded because Burn Unit shut down his internal editorial staff and got ramblin." Dirty snooker, Mayor McStache. Drrrrrty. You kiss your mother with that mouth?
Finally, for shame. Despite my best efforts to have a family, job, school, and scattering a masters thesis-worth of improv in the comments boxes of a intarnet site, and some serious-nunya-stress, I keep the faith up in here with the dream of the outside world. We've no doubt enjoyed the deep lovin you share in the metaspace, but I still got an eye on the meat-a too. So...
As I've said to other friends in the past, when I have ideas that don't catch on, I defend them strong for a little while, and then drop them if no one is interested in moving things along. This latest is of that species.
Oh, hey, everyone gets a piece of the burn unit humble pie this week, though I admit this one is small and ...mealy...it nonetheless contains the word "sorry." To wit:
Sorry, I don't have it in me right now to apologize for having an idea and riffing it out a ways.
If it has legs, it'll run. If it doesn't, I'll flog it for a little while and give up. At that point, either upon a swift and merciful death or after a bunch of other people have risen up with torches and pitchforks (or actually really intense messages), I'll drop it. At that time I'll almost certainly also have a real apology to say. If the spark is there and a good fire rises, there won't be a need for one, it'll be obvious even to any detractors. Selah.
at least I didn't use the c word.
That's enough, Jon. If you have beef with me, you have my standard email address, and we can discuss this outside of SFØ.
Dax
Susy --
I don't expect Earth Moon Bounce to be the most amusing potential completion; Cure Female Hysteria seems likely to beat it, as you suggest. However, unless he takes a cheap cop-out approach, EMB is *hard*. (Failure to prove someone received your transmission counts as a cop-out, IMHO.)
I am not an amateur radio operator, but as I understand it, even for someone with significant experience and good equipment it's a decidedly non-trivial challenge. For someone without it... (Charlie, you wouldn't happen to be a ham operator, would you?)
So while I don't expect it to be the most entertaining completion of the set, it's the one I'm most intrigued by.
Levitating Potato, I wasn´t trying to bellitle such a feat, I´ll be drooling at moon bouncing as much as anyone else...
whenever that happened...
We´ll likely see those 3730 points pale, however, after CF cleans his task board
May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse!
note to potentially evil players,
Gettin' Absolutely Meta for Evil Purposes, Lazy Ass Yobs [GAMEPLAY]
Group Task #1
Break Charlie Fish's Brain
Write, submit, and have approved ten new Equivalenz-only tasks at least five days before Insatiability.
75 points suggested.