The Daily WTF Wants Writers...Again!
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The contest seems barely advertised outside the forums
I forgot about this. Last time there was a front-page article about it.
Anyway - come on, guys, show us what you've got if you're reading this.
I made a submission but didn't post it publicly, didn't want to get involved with all the e-peen measuring. Just not my style. But I suppose I'll go ahead and post it.
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No, that's Discourse time.
No, discourse gives you a time. But I think relativity or something makes the declaration useless for most practical purposes.
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No, discourse gives you a time. But I think reality or something makes the declaration useless for most practical purposes.
FTFY
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I made a submission but didn't post it publicly, didn't want to get involved with all the e-peen measuring.
"Yep, sure it's 16 inches. No, I'm not going to show you - that would be bragging."
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Remy:
TDWTF time, which is, "We're not going to say, because we honestly don't know."
No, that's Discourse time.
No, discourse time is "We're going to make something up because we honestly don't know"
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50% of the posts come from 11 people.
and what a busy 50% we are!
i really should slow down a bit. 1k eligible posts in a month is pushing it a bit.
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Not everyone who wrote a submission has announced it to the rest of the forum. My guess is there are many more submissions than any of us would expect.
Truthfully, we did not receive a lot of submissions as compared to last time, but the tricky part is that every one of them have been quality. I sent a reply to acknowledge a receipt. I have read every one and I can say that I have in my mind the 2 - 3 individuals whom I feel have made the cut.
However, I want to be fair to those who don't check the forums every day and also, I had a personal request from one submitter to wait to give them time. Since there could be more, I'm waiting until the end of this week.
P.S. The sucky part about my day job is that I can't lurk here all day, though I'd love to. If any of you have a concern, reach out to me personally (fristname.lastname@gmail) and we can discuss.
P.P.S. I'm championing @apapadimoulis behind the scenes to register thedailywtf.xxx and make @blakeyrat the sole contributor of a different kind of Perversions of Information Technology based on his submission.
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Surely @algorythmics is the ideal champion of that particular home? @blakeyrat is, frankly, an amateur by comparison.
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So we will finally get the uncensored version of Toying Around back?
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P.P.S. I'm championing @apapadimoulis behind the scenes to register thedailywtf.xxx and make @blakeyrat the sole contributor of a different kind of Perversions of Information Technology based on his submission.
i'd read it, but not at work!
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I'm perfectly happy to write for both pages - if you want a submission for the latter, let me know, it will not take me long to write one up
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Yeah, that one I will happily leave for you. But I can and will write up normal perversions. Time I stopped doubting myself. I can do this, it's just hard in my hard. Impossibly, ridiculously hard, but I am after all the guy who enjoys being told things aren't possible only to do them anyway.
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My favorite from the comments:
@Kensey said:2011-02-01 10:10
At a long-ago job with an online game company (now defunct), we had a small group that handled sound effects. For one game they needed the sound of splashing liquid. They tried just recording somebody splashing a hand in a pan of water in one of the audio-equipped conference rooms with the good microphones. Nope, not quite right -- the mic didn't pick it up well. So they tried covering the mic in an unlubed prophylactic and swishing it directly in the water. Nope, still too "thin"-sounding. So they got hold of a couple quarts of motor oil and put that in the pan, then swished the covered mic in it. That was just right.
What with all the brainstorming and swishing and trips to the store, it was late, so they figured they'd just leave the stuff there and clean it up next AM. The next morning they arrived, dutifully headed to the conference room... and saw the executive team in the middle of an early-morning videoconference meeting with the handlers from the parent company, everyone studiously not looking at the pan or the rubber-covered, oil-coated microphone in the middle of the table.
The CEO had a great many questions for them after the meeting.Edit: An asideโฆ
It would've been nice if there was an anchor to href for thisโฆ I'd'a just linked it.
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note to self make a submission.
make it involve kitsune (or at least a fennec fox) intead of a cat.
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it's just hard in my hard. Impossibly, ridiculously hard
thedailywtf.xxx is waiting for you.
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No, Discourse time is "We actually know, but we're going to pretend that we don't because CLEAN UI."
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Discourse time
Depends on what Dicsourse time you're talking about. There's 2 possibilities:
- The time of the post - that matches your definition
- The time before which you can like things again. That is closer to Remy's definition (or needs a new definition - because either the dicsodevs don't know and fudged the "wait X hours to do that action again" dialogue, or they do know how the likes reset works and just don't care that X hours is almost always completely wrong).
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And both are 'Discotime'.
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So, @mark_bowytz any idea when people are going to hear back?
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So, @mark_bowytz any idea when people are going to hear back?
Since there could be more, I'm waiting until the end of this week.
I was counting on some feedback beforehand, but oh well, let's give them folks some time.
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@mark_bowytz said:
Since there could be more, I'm waiting until the end of this week.
I was counting on some feedback beforehand, but oh well, let's give them folks some time.
I somehow missed that in passing, thought it was going to be sooner, but that's all good. Everyone deserves a fair shot
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@Maciejasjmj said:
I was counting on some feedback beforehand, but oh well, let's give them folks some time.
I somehow missed that in passing, thought it was going to be sooner, but that's all good. Everyone deserves a fair shot
Especially @algorythmics and @blakeyrat
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@Arantor said:
I somehow missed that in passing, thought it was going to be sooner, but that's all good. Everyone deserves a fair shot
Especially @algorythmics and @blakeyrat
Candidates for thedailywtf.xxx, yes.
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Growing up in the 80s still means that 90% is slacking. It's just that the other 90% is hard workโฆ
Johni Patino..!!
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I am curious to know who will get in this round. Fairly sure I didn't make the cut, but I think we all knew that anyway.
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Can we incorporate terninaries? (Okay, okay, I'll stop.)
okay ? "okay" : "I'll stop."
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I can announce "not me"
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i didn't make the cut either. I got distracted and didn't actually submit an entry....
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It was really tough to pick the ones that made the cut. Moreover, it was even MORE difficult (personally) to decline on entries from the site's greatest champions. In the end, it all came down to treating this like "business".
I truly appreciate the contributions and the door is still open (those who sent in something know what I mean from my response email).
Also, I will never NOT accept a new writer submission or solicitation for writing feedback.
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Moreover, it was even MORE difficult (personally) to decline on entries from the site's greatest champions.
I'd also be heartbroken if I had to decline to post Blakey's submission.
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hmm...
//TODO: Write a TdWTF writer submission before starting NaNoWriMo
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//TODO: Write a TdWTF writer submission before starting NaNoWriMo
Why not combine the two?
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because
Living in the Network
is a little too personal and not WTFY enough to be on the front page of TDWTF?
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It was a dark and stormy night. Hanzo crept like a ninja through the yard of the compound where the president's daughter was being held. Inside the dimly light compound her capturers were placing a print out on a wooden table in order to take a picture of it to email to their boss, Bert Glanstron. But Hanzo wasn't here to find the presidents daughter. No, he was an a more important mission: to find the person that wrote the code for the software that ran a small, state-run retirement community in Spain.
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it's not a real hanzo story if boomerang kunai aren't involved.
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@PJH, is this still ongoing, or can it be unpinned?
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Feel free to unpin it yourself, for yourself.
It'll gradually go down the list. For you.
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That's Discointuitive, and at the same time nice.
Filed under: I feel a minor bout of Stockholm Syndrome comming up
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It's actually one of the better ideas. Newcomers still see it pinned, old timers forget about it...
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It's actually one of the better ideas.
Agreed. I wouldn't have even considered that I could click the pin on a globally pinned topic though.
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I wouldn't have even considered that I could click the pin on a globally pinned topic though.
QFT.
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I may have already done that but I have no idea.
Is "downward pin" pinned or unpinned? The alternative appears to be "diagonal pin". Not sure if I just toggled it off or back on, due to this quality UI.
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This button makes more sense:
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But I don't see that button on my screen. So that is not useful to me. God knows what screen it renders on.
Anyway turns out I already had unpinned it.
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Huh? I see it just above "Tracking" at the bottom of the thread.
Wait, is this another bullshit Trust Level thing?
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Oh. I was looking at the GIANT PIN at the top of the screen. The buttons at the bottom weren't scrolled into view.
I wonder who they usability tested this with, Baboo-- Haha, I can't even finish that joke... usability testing? On a open source product? Hahahah!
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Wait, is this another bullshit Trust Level thing?
No, you can click on the pin in the topic list. Apparently. Since it's black just like all the other content and it makes sense that it's a link. Apparently.
Edit: Oh, also in the topic title? Yeah, that's cool... IF YOU MADE IT FUCKING BLUE! OR DREW A SQUARE AROUND IT! OR SOMETHING!
*takes a big breath*
Ok, I feel better now.
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