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moke — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:51:09 GMT

Hey guys

I'm fed up of waiting for the right job to come along.. so I've decided to set up my own freelance copywriting business! It's all very exciting! :D

I'm a bit stuck at the mo, as I need to register a domain so I can get my website up and running and I'm struggling to think of a name :D I was considering www.clevercopy.co.uk - but there's a copywriter out there with that name already and I'd like something that's ideally not already taken.

My nickname for a long time has been "Spellictionary", mainly because people always come to me when they want stuff proofread or want to know how to spell something. So a friend suggested I register www.spellictionary.co.uk for my website. I really like it, but I'm worried about people being able to pronounce it/spell it and remember the "brand" as it's a made up word. So... opinions please?! I guess you could say this forms part of my market research :D

Any general comments or suggestions would be much appreciated :)

(on a related note, I'm currently looking to build up my writing portfolio, so if anyone needs any text written for their website/leaflets/similar feel free to PM me and I can churn out some initial freebies!)

Sian & her ghetto bear! Nutters. ;D

BrokenBlossom — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:04:45 GMT

You Tube

You will soon understand the title.
:tongue2:
It plays better if you open it with youtube, but yus.

12 Great video-games with ridiculous premises

Feel_Good_inc. — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:56:24 GMT

Video gamers have consistently demanded one thing from their hobby: entertainment. Beyond that, we don't much care what inane task we're asked to complete. Give us a crystal banana, call it a power-up, and we'll gladly leap over a robot octopus to grab it, even if it means risking a slice of our life pie.
In many cases, it' plausible to assume the designers threw darts at a board covered in nouns and verbs, smoked crack until they forgot what nouns and verbs they picked, then made Warioware. Here are 12 more insane video game premises that prove you don't have to be Tolstoy, or even coherent, to design a hit game.

Super Mario Bros.

The Premise: An Italian plumber travels through a brightly-colored fantasy world collecting coins and mushrooms. He crushes turtles and goombas (essentially brown, waddling monstrosities) to death in order to rescue a princess from a dinosaur who pilots an airship.

What Made It Ridiculous: It was enough that mushrooms made you big and flowers made you shoot fireballs from your hands. By the time they added in a raccoon suit, a mechanical boot, and a dinosaur mount, it was pretty much anything goes. At that point, a mug power-up that gives you a rake that turns you invisible would have fit in fairly easily.

Why We Didn't Care: We were too busy cursing at the screen each time we found out the Princess was in a different goddamned castle.

Mega Man

The Premise: You are a robot built from the ground up for combat by the world' greatest living mind, and yet you are four feet tall and incapable of ducking or using any weapons other than a tiny, slow-moving pellet of energy. You have been tasked with killing other robots, whose powers have themes like "leaves" and "garbage."

What Made It Ridiculous: The fact that blasting an evil robot into oblivion somehow immediately granted you their powers. If that were really the case, I would have killed Tom Cruise long ago.

Why We Didn't Care: He had a robot dog, which is basically the secret dream of every 10-year-old boy in the world.

Sonic the Hedgehog

The Premise: A super-fast anthropomorphized blue hedgehog wearing only sneakers and gloves races through levels collecting rings and breaking open robots to free the cuddly animals trapped inside by an evil, obese doctor.

What Made It Ridiculous: The ever-expanding cast of supporting characters, which included a two-tailed fox, a girl hedgehog who was, as in nature; bright pink, a previously unknown creature known as an echidna who was bright red for some reason, and we're pretty sure at one point a snowboarding spider.

Why We Didn't Care: The only thing cooler than blasting through a level without ever slowing down is stopping to jump into a giant slot machine again and again and again until your level time runs out.

Donkey Kong

The Premise: An Italian garbage man must jump over barrels, climb ladders and girders, and collect hats, parasols, and purses in order to keep a princess from a giant monkey named Donkey.

What Made It Ridiculous: Where does he keep getting all these barrels? Huh?! Is there like a barrel factory up there or something? Because he sure as hell seems to have a lot of these ****ing barrels!

Why We Didn't Care: We got to wield a hammer against a large, hairy authority figure, which helped us work through a few issues.

Guitar Hero

The Premise: As a lover of rock and roll, you get together with your friends to listen to cover versions of great songs and wail away on a Preskool-caliber fake guitar, complete with five brightly colored buttons and flame decals (like on a real guitar).

What Made It Ridiculous: I don't care how good you are at Guitar Hero, you CAN'T PLAY GUITAR. And for that matter, we have to wonder how the hell a band that performs only covers and routinely hits about 80 to 90 percent of the notes in a song gets a glowing review for their five-song set at the Rat Cellar.

Why We Didn't Care: Because we'd already been doing the same thing in our rooms for years, only without fake plastic guitars, computerized judges, or any songs other than Fleetwood Mac' "As Long as You Follow." Also, we'd never had the ability to videotape ourselves getting a perfect score on "Bark at the Moon," upload it to YouTube, and get a million comments admiring us for wasting such a tragically large portion of our short lives.

Mario Party

The Premise: That same plumber from before wants to party with you, and this time the dinosaur and gorilla, rather than eating you and kidnapping the Princess, have agreed to follow the arbitrary rules of a board game in order to determine a victor. The gorilla even put on a tie! It' just like Monopoly, except with more manic mashing of the A button.

What Made It Ridiculous: The realization that you and your friends are readily willing to beat one another mercilessly with N64 controllers based on the outcome of a game where you use a jackhammer to etch Mario' face in cement.

Why We Didn't Care: There' little more satisfying than taking three hours to prove to people you now likely hate that you have what it takes to complete a series of disconnected, mundane tasks and collect more arbitrary tokens of success than they did.

Pokemon

The Premise: You are an unaccompanied minor sent into a world of naturally occurring beasts of every imaginable shape and size that want nothing more than to pick the flesh off your bones. By keeping your pets in tiny, suffocating ball enclosures, you hope to make them mean enough to kill the monsters you will inevitably run into, thereby earning you Boy Scout-style merit badges.

What Made It Ridiculous: When we realized that every Pokemon battle was essentially a Tijuana-style cockfight. This world literally revolves around making animals who have no beef with each other fight over and over again to boost our egos.

Why We Didn't Care: Our theory is that "Gotta catch 'em all!" was shouted at us enough to take root in our collective unconscious. Plus, kids will do anything for badges.

Kirby's Dream Land

The Premise: A cognizant pink balloon floats through Dream Land on the planet Pop Star, inhaling everything in sight like a stoner going through withdrawal. This is in hopes of...well, nothing in particular actually. He just kind of pisses off trees or steals the treasures of an evil penguin king (we assume it's evil, anyway).

What Made It Ridiculous: Absolutely everything. Inhaling a living creature allows you to gain their power, and then spit out stars. The world is apparently made of pink marshmallows. Enemies include disembodied, hovering rabbit and pig heads. It was essentially an acid trip for 10-year-olds.

Why We Didn't Care: You could beat every level by inhaling air and flying over everything, so it was a game that transitioned well into our teen years, when playing high as **** rendered most games far too difficult.

Dr. Mario

The Premise: Remember that Italian plumber/garbage man whose primary experience is in the field of Gorilla Rape Victim Rescuer? Well, he somehow earned a medical degree (it's best not to ask where), and he wants to treat your diseases by throwing every conceivable kind of medication at them until they explode.

What Made It Ridiculous: Blue pills kill blue diseases. Red pills kill red diseases. Yellow pills kill yellow diseases. It' all so simple!

Why We Didn't Care: When else do you get the chance to clog unbelievable amounts of pills into your friend' body without killing them?

Tetris

The Premise: Quick! Bricks are falling! Make them interconnect so they'll disappear! Don't question it; it's all for the good of Mother Russia!

What Made It Ridiculous: Let' face it: most any game made before 1993 was ridiculous. Try and synopsize the gameplay of the most famous games of all time, and you end up sounding like a muttering homeless guy at a train station.

A yellow circle devours pills and fruit in order to kill ghosts.
A mad bomber deposits his deadly payload near combustible bricks, hoping to uncover roller skates, hands, boots, and flames.
Two dinosaurs blow bubbles around cave monsters.
A lone earth ship must stop a fleet of alien invaders using only horizontal movement, a single pellet gun, and the ability to hide behind disintegrating pyramids. Luckily, the aliens are retarded and descend towards Earth a single step at a time.
A sentient marble tries to navigate a treacherous course.
A jouster mounted on a flying ostrich competes with a rival above a lava-filled pit for golden eggs.
A family travels to Oregon.

Okay, so some of them made sense, but you get the idea.

Why We Didn't Care: Two words: High Score. Most games have abandoned the idea, but there was a time when the meaningless encouragement of a string of numbers was enough to keep kids lined up around the block, hoping against hope that they would be the lucky one to input the word "ASS" as their initials.

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Hmmm What colour to dye hair?

Tenjisaurus — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:04:02 GMT

So sorry sorry if this belongs in another forum. i've checked about and i wasn't sure where it belonged. I've been looking about for about 15 minutes cause im scared of posting it in the wrong forum!

I need a change! This is my current hair, but i dunno whether to go blue or the rainbow colours in my Avatar?

If i went blue it would be the dark blue in this pic:

dunno if it would be too dark though...

It's my 18th today :D

xbeckyx — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:32:03 GMT

WHOOT!
Finally I'm legal to do all the fun things in life ;)

Just had eggy bread!

Rawrk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:52:10 GMT

We have made eggy bread for the first time this morning! (Well, my mum did, I just sat and didn't break anything.)

It's really quite tasty. I also didn't realise thats what french toast is, eggy bread. Weird.

Anyone else had eggy bread before? I'm not sure I like it D;

What happened to the ryl soap?

no reason — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:29:24 GMT

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Stereotypes

makedamnsure — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:02:46 GMT

I was watching St Trinians 2 last night (it was my little step sisters birthday) and it really annoyed me.

I know its only meant to be a bit of fun and not taken too seriously but at the start they introduce all the different social groups in the school, and its so stereotypical and annoying and actually a bit racist as well.

See here for pictures: http://www.sttriniansmovie.co.uk/content.html#/tribes

The Chavs "Rude Girls" - all either black or mixed race. Can't speak "propa". All quite stupid.

"Posh Totty" - pretty blonde airheads. Lots of money, not much brains.

The Geeks - Either fat, ugly or Asian.

Emo's - well, there is only one emo, typical emo fringe etc. Hobbies include grave robbing, because obvioulsy that is so emo :-/

Eco Warriers - all totally uncool, mad hair, passionate about climate change and bascially ignored or laughed at through whole film.

Am I only bitter about this because I am quite clearly an eco warrier, emo geek?

Boredom! D:

LoveableXLoser — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:41:49 GMT

Some one! Entertain me! I are bored! And sad! Everyone knows how to play guitar but me! :(
But seriously. Talk to me. I'll love you forever. :)

Ami James. (Miami Ink)

-Choley — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:27:02 GMT

Yeah, I met him. Be jealous.

That's me on the left and my mum on the right. Ignore her. She was a crazed nut when she saw it was him.

L'shanah tovah!

Amaryllis — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:33:10 GMT

So, tonight is the beginning of Rosh Hashana!

So, what is anyone doing to celebrate? I'm going to be keeping it fairly light, since I'll be mostly alone and just dipping apples and making challah.

Anyone else?

(L'shanah tovah means essentially 'happy new year')

For more information on Rosh Hoshana click here and for even more click here as well.

An unopened packet of cheese

disappear — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:52:19 GMT

I'm having some pasta, and have an unopened packet of cheese in my fridge. It says its best before is June 29th. Dare I eat it?

A 160FT BUNGEE JUMP?!?!

Detour. Derail — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:56:15 GMT

As some of you know...my nana isnt very well at the minute....she has cancer...so to raise funds for all the hard work that Christies Cancer Hospital do, I have decided to do a sponsored bungee jump!!

Its not til November but I am trying to find support and sponsors!!
I am covering the cost of the jump myself so the hospital get the full amount that I can raise.

I was just wondering if anyone would like to sponsor me at all?
Or give emotional support haha!!!!
I have a group on Facebook so feel free to add me and join the group!!
Thanks guys!!!

Username.

GoldDust. — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:52:48 GMT

Just letting you know,
Its TaintedSmiles.

:-)

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Mods, please could you leave this open, so that i can delete it in about 5 days so no one can search my old username and link it to my new one?

Thanks.

Ambs

Caption Contest Format Change. YOU judge the winners.

Feel_Good_inc. — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:24:49 GMT

I came up with this only this morning.
I have decided to implement a new way to judge the caption contests, one that allows YOU to judge the winners.

Contests will now run from Sunday to Friday. On Friday's they will close and the top ten funniest captions will be chosen. These will be chosen by me, however any recomendations from you e.g. The classic

Quote:

^ LOL This One FTW

Which people often write.

Will be taken into account and help with my judging.

Once the top ten, or less depending how many entries there have been, have been chosen a voting thread will be created. You will get to look over the entries and decide which one you like the best.
You will have from Friday evening until Sunday morning to vote on your favourite.

Those three that receive the most votes will be the top three winners and will be announced when the new contest is launched on Sunday.

If you like this idea I will implement it immediately on the currently running contest. Which means it will end Friday and the chance of voting starts then. So get your imaginations firing and caption that picture.:-)

:laugh:I like the idea of this new format because, based on others recommendations and votes, I get the chance to win too:laugh: