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[Blaze]

Current Budget is: $18.50

My family has a string of holidays and personal festivities stringing from November all the way through February. So all the joys of festivities stretches through that time period.

So do all the regrets.

There's all sorts of things I'll be doing to get rid of the gift that keeps on giving, but you only need to divert your attention to this thread.

So this is a giveaway thread with a twist. I usually divert $10 of my weekly budget for out-of-meal-snacking. I give that to you, the readers. Well, the portion that survives temptation.

In short, less fat, you get to spend someone else's money, and some poor, hungry game developer gets a step closer to retirement in Belize.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Application Period Rules: (Monday/Tuesday)
* Applications can be made only after I say "Applications are open" or something to that effect. Applications made before then will be ignored.
* To apply, simply name the game, the price, and the venue it is sold from.
* Each person is limited to a single entry per cycle.
* Those who win will be on a three cycle cooldown. Those who were chosen but didn't win have a 1-cycle cooldown.
* Applications are limited to a maximum of 8. If we do not have enough newcomers; applications from those who have 1-cycle cooldowns will be added; winners who are still on their cooldown will be added if there are any remaining slots.
* The limit of any application's price is equal to the amount of money in the budget. For things that support open amounts, there will be a $10 limit.
* Escaped Lunatics cannot apply.

Voting period rules: (Wednesday/Thursday)
* Nominees chosen in the current cycle cannot vote.
* Voting can be done for a player or for a game. If you vote for a game, it is considered a vote for each player who applied for that game.
* Similar to applications, Votes will not be counted until I say votes are open.
* Escaped Lunatics cannot vote.

Omnomicide Rules: (Friday)
* Each application rolls against another; the winner advances in a random elimination until only one remains.
* For each $2 that one application costs more than its opponent, it receives a d1 malus. (Maximum -d10)
* For each vote an application has it receives a +1 bonus after rolling.
* The malus received from cost is limited to $20. Votes are added after this.

All rules are subject to change.

Spoiler: Long version of Rules (click to show/hide)

On a week-to-week basis:

Sunday is the day the snack budget is added to the thread budget.

Monday/Tuesday are the days when I will accept new entries for things to buy.
Application is simple enough, name the game, the price, and the venue to buy it (Steam/Desura/GoG/etc).
We'll limit the number of applications to 8 for now.
I'm removing the $10 limit, the limit is now the amount of money in the thread's budget. The maximum still applies to things that specify open amounts, such as donations.
Remember that you cannot apply for 3 weeks after you've gotten something. Those who didn't win are welcome to try again.
In the interest of fairness, you cannot apply until after I say "applications are open", which will be at a random time. Those who try to apply before applications are open will be ignored.

Wednesday/Thursday are the days you can apply your votes. Note that you cannot vote if you have an active application.

Friday is the mutual consumption round, where I set the RNGoddess to omnomicide your hopes and dreams.

The rules for the mutual consumption round are simple.
Each application rolls a 1d20 against another, the winner advances in simple elimination manner.
For each $2 that an entry has above its opponent, it gets a d1 penalty. So a $5 game vs a $3 game rolls a 1d19 instead.
However, for each vote that a game has, it gets a +1 bonus. So a game with 3 votes rolls a 1d20 and then adds 3 to that.

Friday/Saturday is the day the winner receives his/her prize. Money remaining in budget carries over to the next cycle.

Depending on extenuating circumstances such as sales, the process may be expedited.

Rules are subject to change at any time. Exceptions may be made. Suggestions will be considered.

Spoiler: Warning Disclaimer (click to show/hide)

I've been told that my writing may be considered anything from in bad taste to downright traumatizing.
Please remember that all such writing is not it any way meant to offend. And I apologize if it does.

I cannot be held responsible for what you may feel if you continue to read the thread.

I can't get Paypal to start putting money in the account for some reason, so it'll have to be direct payments through Paypal for now.

Accepted providers from which games can be purchased:
Steam
Desura
Humble Bundle
Bundlestars

Further providers may be added. For the most part, I am willing to work with any site that is both safe and doesn't require me to download anything.

Spoiler: Story Tiem (click to show/hide)

This is a story of a young gamer: Blaze.
: H-Hello.

Blaze has an quite an extensive extended family. A good deal of their birthdays, anniversaries, and general excuses to party all coincide towards the ends of a year. As a member of the head family, Blaze shares the responsibility of providing holiday fare.

: I was chosen to oversee the creation of all deserts. Work aside, it was quite fun planning for all the events.

However, at the end of all the festivities. Blaze now has a problem.

: Father explicitely asked for me to take this role so I couldn't exactly refuse...
A rather SIZEABLE problem.

: Father's favorite deserts include things like tarts, napoleans, creme brule, flan, croissants, danishes. Mother herself has a particular liking of homemade ice cream and bean paste products...
A problem of SUBSTANTIAL proportions.

: We can't exactly skimp or replace certain ingredients when creating products of this nature. Mother and Father absolutely detest the usage of things such as artificial sweeteners and shortening. Mother preaches testing one's creations is the only surefire method of ensuring quality...
You could say it's a LARGE problem.

: I inherited my mother's small build, like my sisters. The weather hasn't been very good lately so...

FAT

: Waaah! I'm sorry for being fat!

So a few measures need to be taken due to these unfortunate circumstances. One of those circumstances is the usage of the weekly $10 snack budget.

: As thanks for all those giveaways that I have participated in; I have decided to give back to the Bay12 Community.

Instead of people who are really needy.

: I'm sorry for being oblivious to the suffering of the world!

There's no excuse for being STUPID and FAT
FAT FAT FATTY-FAT FAT-FAT

This character is an Author Avatar. Your job will be to encourage NO SNACKING.

Observe:

"Say, you're looking real pretty today!"

: Oh! Well I put extra effort today into...

"PRETTY FAT!"

: Waah! I'm sorry for being fat!

Since snacks purchased will reduce the amount added to the pool; You are encouraged to berate, insult, and/or otherwise degrade Blaze for any weakness of will.
: Whaaaaat?!?!
Because no one cares about FAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
FATTY

[Blaze]

King of Dragon Pass goes Sinistar.
Type:Rider goes to Vector.
Thief:Gold goes to Uber pye.
Running With Rifles goes to Sheb. Done.
Sudeki goes to BFEL
Toady and Sami get a token donation of $10 each to snack on their choice of Lutefisk, Salmiak, or Plump Helmet Men. Done.

[Sirus]

I am simultaneously confused and intrigued. Please tell me more.

[Korbac]

YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG!

[freeformschooler]

This is hilarious.

[choppy]

what?....

[Korbac]

Do we buy you snacks? Do you buy us snacks? Do the people of Belize recommend you snacks? Does a japanese super - duper high school nurse manage to survive the ordeal of mutual snacking!?

[freeformschooler]

Okay, so basically, Blaze will swallow the world and blot out the sun with her fat if we do not stop it in time. Her solution: come up with something to buy using her weekly "snack diet." This can be either a gift for the suggester or for the OP (?)

[Sinlessmoon]

Ptw.

[Blaze]

: I was certain the function of this thread was fairly straight forward. May I ask which portions confuse you?
Or may you're just too stupid to explain properly.
: I'm sorry for being stupid and unintelligible and not having proper thread-sense!

And no game spoilers please.

The core is not trying to buy snacks at all. That money goes to you, for purchasing games that you might want.
After all, Other Games, is the basis of this forum thread, and snacks have nothing to do with it.

[choppy]

I think we are supposed to try and help choose healthy snacks (I almost wrote snakes) for blaze to eat. and then whatever is left over is being given away. I could be wrong.

[Sirus]

...right now I'm mostly wondering if Blaze made those mugshots by herself, because if so that's really damn cool.

[Sinlessmoon]

...right now I'm mostly wondering if Blaze made those mugshots by herself, because if so that's really damn cool.

[choppy]

...right now I'm mostly wondering if Blaze made those mugshots by herself, because if so that's really damn cool.

plus I am very confused, should this be in the forum games and roleplaying board?

the thing that confuses me the most is what are we trying to do as far as a goal of some sort?

[Nighthawk]

Weak to kawaii. Cannot berate. Am sorry.