Tufi Piyufi

Don't fight it. You know it's for the best...

You know, that would've been the main banner for that contest (as in the one that goes at the top of all contest-related topics) if I hadn't forgotten how short June could be...

No, really. Honest.

Say what?

*says something profane¹*

¹: "Something profane!"

It's not a distinctly separate element: there are, however, some things you need to do to trigger the Tribunal content. First, sleep. If you get attacked, this is a good thing. Kill the assassin before they get to kill you. Loot the corpse as you see fit, then go find a guard. There should be a topic on attackers (and not 'hello I nearly got killed in my sleep good job guys'). They'll direct you to Apelles Matius in Ebonheart. He'll be outside in the main fort area. Ask him about the Dark Brotherhood, and he'll tell you you should go to Mournhold. Also, he will mention that there are no boats going to Mournhold. Fear not! There is a mage who will send you there, and she's even nearby. Go into the Grand Council Chambers, turn right, and hit up the mage in red for some transit. She'll send you to Mournhold.

Proceed as you will.

Have you tried booting up Morrowind itself yet? It falls into the category of games that always run off the original game's disk, regardless of expansions. The play game/plugin selection/etc. bit before you actually run the game itself should be changed, with the Tribunal logo somewhere on there. If not, I'd try installing it one more time, this time paying extra attention to where things go and if they actually wound up in there. If it still doesn't pop up, well... I don't really know what you should try, I'm afraid.

I don't really know what you should say, because that feels like something dependent on the unique aspects of your relationship and the situation, but I can suggest something that you shouldn't do.

Please, if you do talk to him about it, do not speak from on top of a very high horse. At all. I'm not sure there's a faster way to get him to discredit anything you say than by explicitly telling him 'smoking is bad and it kills you you moron'.Don't make it a confrontation. Don't treat him like a child who doesn't know what's good for him. If and when you do talk to him about it, make it a conversation just between the two of you, make sure he's already feeling comfortable and without his guard up, and do not awkwardly segue it into the existing conversation.

I know this might sound just a bit touchy-feely, but believe me, now is not the time to be bringing any sledgehammers into play.

EDIT: o.0 I didn't even mention the site's name...

No, but you did allude to it in a rather obvious way. Honestly, the way you did it, you pretty much said its name right there.

We really don't need discussion of this on here.

Entry locked.

I'm'a thinking I need something Willis, pronto.

Hmmm... Here's a Willis:

 

Willis!

(image drawn and owned by David Willis)

This will do just fine. Many thank yous.

Nothing on being nicer to your minions?

 

Well, you see, the minions have things they have to work on first.

Would posting a new BBCC (yes I used 2 'c's) this month be on that list anywhere?

 

))Z((

Most certainly not. I have no intentions of posting a new contest this month at all.

The reason that blog entry of mine exists in the first place was because 1) too many people were using it as a symbol for breasts (as in 'don't draw the symbol, draw what you actually see', one of the finer suggestions that can be given when someone asks for help with art) and 2) it didn't even look good there. People would break colour schemes and the general flow of their MOCs just to use 'the breast pieces'. This is very bad building. This seemed even more out of place when it was taken into consideration how people would comment on how ill-fitting improper legs, torsos, heads, etc. would be, but ignore woefully out-of-place breasts.

To whittle my commentary down to 'Tufi wants to take away our right to big boobs oh no' isn't an oversimplification: it's wrong. I just want people to do things competently. If that means taking extra time to figure out what would make for large breasts that actually fit a given MOC (and yes, like so many other things, this should be on a MOC-by-MOC basis), then hey, who am I to discourage good building habits? The part of that entry you seem to have overlook is the part where I go over how important it is to find something that fits that MOC.

The same goes for art. Drawing the symbol is just plain laziness ('hm, so breasts are spheres, right? I'll just give her a few of those right up here). If you want to be good at building or drawing a humanoid form, study the most humanoid form we've got. The human body really is nothing to be ashamed of. So, why not study it and put your learnings into practice in your MOCs and art?

What babe?

 

~Tesser

The babe with the power.

What power?

 

~Tesser

Power of Voodoo

Who do?

Did you brush your teeth tonight?

People would purposely avoid entering near entries they feared.

 

Adressing this issue, a few of us have stumbled onto the new polling system. I fear it will only be a matter of time before people will start catching on and choosing when they want to enter, knowing who they will be placed with in the polling. Granted, not everyone will have the chance to, given the current system, however some will be able to use it to be placed with other MoC's they think could easily be out-voted by their own entry.

The system will have changed to a much different beast by #47, thanks to a lovely little link from the spirit-minion. Enjoy the knowledge while it lasts.

True, true... and hopefuly I'm not one of the "whiners" you're talking about. I was just saying I wish I wasn't with Arpy. The system is flawed, sure, but what can you do about it? And I supose "arranging" the entries would be worser...

 

Thanks for pointing out these things, it makes me think some.

 

I was very surprised you got the polls up that fast, actually...

 

BtB

Actually, yeah, you were. You took on that tone and everything.

Look at it this way: If you are going to win, your entry will have to go through the best entries in the contest to be the last one standing: there is no way to back into a victory in this contest.

 

 

-KIE

Oh, you're such a radical thinker, Byron. What a crazy idea you have there.

No, no, no, they're arranged differently than the last time.

 

Last time, and the time before that, IIRC, you put entry 1, 11, 21, 31, 41.... in the first poll, and 2, 12, 22, 32, 42..... in the next poll.

 

It's different this time, though, since Roa had entry 112, and I had entry 29. Which means you didn't arrange them the same way.

 

 

~D

The first part is always true. While there's still enough entries to make that system work perfectly, that's what I do.

The problem comes when I wind up with an uneven number of entries, and believe me, no contest yet has ended with x10 pollable entries. It's then a frenzy of moving the extras into preexisting polls that come up a bit short, shuffling numbers a bit so that the last few polls aren't entirely later entries at the very least, freaking out over possibly-lost entries, starting all over again because I won't take any less assurance than the original .txt file...

I've mixed later entries into 'earlier' polls, too. It's nothing new in the least.

Figures Tufi would arrange the entries differently this time.

 

*is ridiculously irritated*

 

 

~D

I used the exact same method I always do. Should I prepare myself to hear a complaint?

As the one who makes these polls, I'm extremely curious as to how you think they should have been made.

Fear not, there shall be plenty of Floyd.

Question: Am I going to have to cut you?

You know what for.

*knife*

Woohoo!

Also, woohoo for not spending an obscene amount on something so tiny, and getting two of the things for that price at that.

Woohoo! Blog party? Blog party.

Fantastic.

Um... if you'll excuse me, I kinda need to get started on some thank-you cards.

*flee*

It seems a little maturity is too much to ask for.

It seems that your previous apology doesn't mean much, or else you wouldn't have posted another entry mocking the new rule. That doesn't really fly here. -Proto: just move on already.

Entry locked.

I'm curious; how does Final Draft differ from your average word processor? Easier formatting, or something?

 

And the best of luck towards your screen-writing.

The script format is some pretty involved stuff. The division of scenes, the descriptive information for each scene and character, and forget everything you ever learned about page numbers. While you could technically do this stuff in the standard word processor, it's really not built for that. A quick glance at some screenshots reveals just how suited Final Draft is for this kind of work.

That said, huzzah to ye for getting your hands on it. You are most certainly a competent writer, which should give you a big advantage over most of the competition. The other best thing you can do is have a finished script. Best of luck in all of this, and stay far, far away from the scarily incompetent. It's really not worth it.

A source of jubilation indeed. You know what must be done now, sir. You've earned it.

*knowing nod*

Yeah, well, your principal lacks a sense of style.

Your group is just nuts. Our crew only really worked on the thing from January to May, and we were done in time for a mid-June handout. Got the later events in, too. Then again, we can't all be graced by the Yearbook Spirits.

This is not a question. Go with the second one.

Also, why wouldn't getting yearbooks last week/day/whatever of school be standard procedure? Sure, the fact your crew is starting work already scares me, but at least it's released at a sane time...