Tasks / (nearly) Pointless
Submit a completion to this task that is barely worth a single point.
Hope for votes.
1 to 100 players
1 points
Level 1
Created by Tøm
33 completed :: 2 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
this task is retired
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Submit a completion (to this task) that is barely worth a single point?
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Submit a completion to (this task that is barely worth a single point?)
Are we aiming for low score on this, or trying for something so epic it will win on votes alone, despite having no guidelines?
I note that in the later case, prophecy has been fulfilled.
When I submitted it, I suppose I thought the first one.
But the second one makes more sense.
If you go with the 1st interpretation, either you submit something that really is barely worth a single point, and you don't get votes because of it; or you submit something totally amazing and clever that's worth a bajillion points, and nobody votes for you because you didn't follow instructions.
Tricky, veeeery tricky.
No more of this task please!!! Might as well make one called "Document Nothing"
Oooooh!
Write a 200 word passage documenting nothing. An exercise in spin doctoring. I like.
Can this task please be retired? It makes me sad to notice new players I've never seen before only because of their completions of this task. This task screams for slackerness. Which is fun, at times. But not when it's used as an excuse to make a half assed completion due to a lack of motivation to task at all. Not that anyone has admitted to this, but I can see how it would be tempting.
aw man, I disagree—am I destined to always be disagreein' with you Vixen? I don't mean to, I swear!—I think this task could be a sweet little jobber to keep the creative juices flowing and refreshed for people hesitating. Like a sorbet course or something.
Also, I have some really big plans for this task fairly soon.
don't sweets come at the end of a meal?
i guess you're fancy and you regularly get them inbetween.....
If we were meant to forever disagree, so be it. And if so, there might come a time in the near future where battle could be inevitable. No hard feelings of course.
However, destiny cannot and should not be avoided.
On another note, it's not the seasoned players (like yourself) that I'm worried about. It's the 16 pointers that have my concern. If the effort level of this task was the first flavor of an everlasting gobstopper, what would compel the chew-ee to upgrade to a more deluxe sweet? Like dark chocolate, for example. I personally LOVE the level 1 tasks because they give the new players (and old) specific direction but can be interpreted in many different ways. But what if a person is hesitating from the start? This task would have no purpose except to possibly douse the fire of their creativity.
Z, I'm as fancy as fancy gets; how do you think I got this enormous in the first place? I've been saying for a while now: after the revolution comes, if anyone sees the dining bill from my last visit to San Francisco, there would be grounds for execution. One shot, right in the back of the head at midnight in the soccer stadium (perhaps they would do it Candlestick--all of us together) to extract the People's will for my many rich meals from Minneapolis to the coasts. But when they do I will carry—into the sweet hereafter—the warm rich taste of a perfectly poached egg bursting naughtily over a deep trough of ragout-in-truffle-port-sauce; the clean icy crunch of fennel over concord granita so cold you misremember established facts about childhood fishing trips up north; the five ways of tasting "tartness" amid skate with brown butter, capers and preserved lemon, each one enough to make you regret not giving more kisses in the hot summer sun winking through the boathouse boards, sand in your toes, the splashing of canoe oars just beyond the creaking door, sweat stinging your eyes shut tight. Fancy like a fox, baby. Sorbet's just the start. I remember my first mid-course sorbet, a single bite of lemon ice served in a frozen dish shaped like a lily, hard on the heels of the richest roasted garlic soup I ever tasted, so rich I couldn't finish, so rich it made me feel like I was on a great precipice, overlooking an entire lake of saltwater the exact temperature of the space between two bodies making love.
What about foxes? You are, my good sir, a spectacular poet. I'm a sucker for imagery thick with metaphor, juicy description and emotive language.
It's orgasmical.
Oh. oh, I'm smart with the words all right, but obviously too dumb to think ahead: honestly never occurred to me that riffing on the old saw "crazy like a fox" would have anything to do with the word "vixen." Cuz, I'm not conscious, apparently. Yes, what about foxes indeed!
I'll take the compliment at face value though, thanks.
And believe me, the language might be okay, but let's not lose sight of the ball. In my opinion Hubert Keller's ragout, that was the orgasmical delight here.
I read that as
clean icy church of fennel.
Praxis
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This is actually uncommonly cool. Here's votes only for you!