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[Urist Imiknorris]

He's still got the green beard.

[freeformschooler]

and a Chuck Norris avatar.

Speaking of which, I noticed Aqizzar changed his.  Possibly the first time I've ever experienced identity crisis over someone else's identity.  I don't know what else to call it.  One of the most instantly recognizable forum inhabitants (at least to me) and suddenly I can't instantly recognize him anymore.

Oh my-

I just noticed that. That's like if Capntastic changed his avatar or something. Wow!

[Aqizzar]

I've actually been having an identity crisis about my avatar lately.  The year is almost over, and it hasn't been altered yet.  This would be the first time.

2008 - Ben
2009 - Ben's beard turns green.  (Courtesy of Yanlin, P.B.U.H.)
2010 - Ben w/ green beard gains John Lennon glasses.  (Courtesy of Realmfighter I believe.)
2011 - Nothing yet.

Bringing back Doubledown Man for Halloween seemed like good fun.

[Max White]

I know how you feel bro. I haven't made noticeable changes to my sig ever, or have as a joke and changed it back 15 minutes later.

[Bauglir]

SirAaronIII, I recognize you. I hope that makes you happy. Oh, and I'm brewing mead. I hope that that will let you people identify me as that one guy who likes to brew mead and make potentially dangerous contraptions that have no real use other than fun. REMEMBER ME DAMNIT

Oh, hi, Bauglir!  How's everything going?

My day, it just got so much better. Clearly, I have become addicted to attention... Hm. I'm going to go find a way to concentrate attention into liquid form, then ferment it.

[Max White]

My day, it just got so much better. Clearly, I have become addicted to attention... Hm. I'm going to go find a way to concentrate attention into liquid form, then ferment it.

It is commonly called alcohol,and you don't need to ferment it again.

[Pnx]

Ugh, kept getting sidetracked from writing this, so I'm a bit late to the game.

thatwasntthejoke.upsilonmyu

I've spent far too much time trying to figure out what this means, so I'm just going to ask. What does this mean?

Hello, guy who has nearly 2000 posts and yet is still unknown here! Sigh. Anyways, back to my ignored story idea that I'm happy I had. It's about a British loyalist during the american revolution. It would be told from his and his families perspective, and be mainly about his trials during the period, including hiding his loyalty from his fellow citizens. ***!!WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK?!!***

Since you asked so nicely, I think that I have no reason to relate to this story so it does not engage my interest even slightly. If I were particularly interested in the time period I might feel differently. There may be people out there to whom the description is appealing, but to be honest, I don't care, and neither should you.

A good artist can spin crap into gold, and in fact many of the best do. Because turning lead into gold is for amateurs.

If you see a story you want to develop in there go ahead and develop it. I doubt it's going to be as good as you picture it in your head, but with practice it could be. So go practice, come back with something to criticize...
Oh, and ask someone else to criticize it, because I've developed something of a hatred for literature set in that time period... Also I hate criticizing literature.

[Vector]

Usually, I write

"that'sthejoke." + "some sort of file encoding ending."

This time, I got bored so I stated the negation and added some Greek letters that spelled out "um," mostly because the format of the joke was obvious and, well... I was bored =/

[Pnx]

That's obscure, and obtuse... And yet when it's explained it seems fairly funny.

I guess if the rule of thumb for jokes is "don't explain the joke", then the rule for non-jokes is "please explain the non-joke".

But perhaps only if they ask first.

[jc6036]

It was just a spontaneous idea. . . I mean. . . I don't know. I guess it sucks. And I'll really have no reason to write something that nobody will read.  May I ask why you hate literature set in that time period?

[jc6036]

Nothing to see here, move along please. Double post.

[Vector]

That's obscure, and obtuse... And yet when it's explained it seems fairly funny.

I guess if the rule of thumb for jokes is "don't explain the joke", then the rule for non-jokes is "please explain the non-joke".

But perhaps only if they ask first.

Exactly, and it's a fun tributary of the "how do you show people that a message is a message" problem :3

It was just a spontaneous idea. . . I mean. . . I don't know. I guess it sucks. And I'll really have no reason to write something that nobody will read.  May I ask why you hate literature set in that time period?

See, what you have is a setting, but you don't exactly have a premise.  Your story is "someone is hiding and the technology doesn't go above muskets."  Think about watching a TV show about that.  Hours and hours and hours of "someone is hiding?"  Sounds like some sort of weird primetime sport to me, and I'm not so fond of that.

You need to develop more.

[SalmonGod]

I'm guessing because it's always soaked in one-sided political allegory?

[Max White]

"that'sthejoke." + "some sort of file encoding ending."

There should be a .getit file extension. In fact, I shall make it my life work to make a photoshop clone that uses such an extension!

[Vector]

Johnny Tremain wasn't terrible.

"that'sthejoke." + "some sort of file encoding ending."

There should be a .getit file extension. In fact, I shall make it my life work to make a photoshop clone that uses such an extension!

Yes.  That would be a wonderful thing.