Street-ster Eggs by Mikey Wiesepape
January 30th, 2011 10:42 PM
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Alrighty kiddo, if you had actually gone to where this "street" would be in real life, I'd give you five and a favorite, but you didn't complete the damn task. FLAG again. Seriously! I come looking at my two favorite tasks and I find this nonsense!
Alrighty kiddo, you're acting like a complete asshat now.
It is certainly not like you have had any questionable or lacking tasks in the past, but I don't recall anyone criticizing you by TYPING FLAG IN CAPS REPEATEDLY.
Seriously! I come looking for a supportive community for new players and I find this nonsense!
Hey there Ødin. Toynbee crashed because one of the people involved with it left the game to go to medical school, But, you're right. As your namesake might remark, an eye for an eye.
I come here and I find a dying game that's more internet than task right now, and I'd like to change that. The thing about this praxis in particular, though, is that it touches on an idiomatic and bizarre "street" that, while not technically impossible, is so absurd that it most certainly counts. I've known about this one for years, and I got really really hopeful when I saw the first part of the image.
My real problem with this task, Mikey, is that you didn't do any work. You probably knew about this quirk in the system before and simply put a screencap. You did not complete the second part. If you'd gone on a road trip to Seattle and walked into the water, or if you'd put up signs with "Visit Magnificent Japan" with the phony directions on them, or if you'd asked one of us to send you a water bottle with the contents of the pacific ocean for you to carry around for a day, I'd definitely have voted 5, and very much looked forward to your subsequent tasks. Playing the game based on loopholes in the wording of tasks, instead of what's awesome isn't worth it. Being mediocre and then hiding behind "open interpretation," when the only thing about the interpretation is its lack of work and creativity just strikes me as not worth doing, or watching.
Just remember. Do the task. Do it as well as you can, because you have it in you and you might as well. This game is about creativity. Good luck.
I would just like to point out that in the way the task is worded it does not actually say that hanging out there for a day would be the requirements, it is just recomended. In no place in the challene does it say, "You must visit that place and hang out for a day." If you want to be really stingy, let me pull out one of my baby pictures (I was born in Hawaii) and update my proof with one of me floating in the Pacific Ocean.
But, yes I can understand your emotions towards my proof, did I follow the task to a tee? No, not at all, I may have been a little unconventional in my approach. Is anyone dead or dying because of it? No, not unless you throw such a fit that your heart gives out and you enter cardiac arrest.
The thing is that once these tasks are givenand then the guidelines are put out, it's open for interpretation, just like my other proof that you didn't like. It stated create a counterfiet artifact, if they wanted something other than what I provided, then the task would have had a parameter that kept me from doing exactly what I did.
I think JBryce is simply trying to push you towards being a better tasker. He's not being very nice about it, but I think he wants you to be better. Think of it that way.
I see that you are trying to think out of the box here, and I love it. I think (and I can't speak for Bryce here, but he may feel the same) that if you had printed out that card and laminated it and then used it in a game with other live humans, I wouldn't be defending you or Bryce here, I'd be voting. I'm not sure if going to the place on Lake Union where it tells you to begin kayaking would have made everybody happy here, or even if it's feasible for you for where you live, but some effort outside of copy-and-pasting would have been nice.
This game is supposed to be played away from your keyboard, out in the real world. So the closer you get to that, the better. Generally, if you look at a task and you think "Oh! That's easy! I could do that from my keyboard in five minutes!" then maybe you should rethink the task and find a way that will be more fun for us to read. Perhaps find every instance on Google Maps that has something funny like that, I don't know. The key thing is to make sure we are entertained reading your praxis. You had fun doing it (or at least we hope you did), so we should be able to get a sense of what you felt doing it.
Now get out there and do something impressive for your next task. Something that will make both Bryce and I vote for you.
i'm not voting because this doesn't have very much to do with the task. But i'm not flagging because i like this and i think it's realllllllly funny. IT made me smile, so thank you