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rowan
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Joined: 12 Apr 2004
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Re: CofB's Post-Mortem

A B R wrote:

It ran on for quite awhile, and very well for a newbie who had only heard of ARGs three days before starting his own.

I'm sorry - but just what was the thinking process you had going into this? Because, right now to me it sounds like "Oh, this sounds like a cool idea and I think I could pull one off even though I have absolutely no experience and no one to back me up?"

I've read a lot of "I'm sorry but this game has to come to an end" posts and this is one of the few that actually seems to be bragging about what it did accomplish. A 15 year old PM from Malaysia. No money spent. Quickly throwing a storyline together. I'm sorry, but I fail to see how any of these are positive points. Maybe if the game was an actual success you could say "look at what I had to overcome" but as this wasn't one, you have to look at those as being reasons why.

I wish that I could say that luckily this was targeted just towards the UF community who usually know what they are getting into, but as you (in your own words) harrassed a relative outsider (a journalist whose reputation you obviously didn't think about possibily ruining) I'm not sure that I can. It just shows off how glaringly inexperienced you are.

If this post is coming off harsh, well, it's meant to. Maybe if you had taken the time to research past games (both the successes and the failures) you would have seen that you just didn't have what it takes to pull one off. It's not like this was doomed because of some catastrophic incident that no one could have foreseen and prepared for. It failed for precisely the same reasons as most others have - lack of maturity. With any luck, maybe this experience will stop some other would-be PM from creating a game with nothing more than an idea and a desire to be one of the cool kids. At least that would be a positive that you could claim as your own.

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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:35 pm

neojester12
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Joined: 15 Oct 2005
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Gospeed A B R

Shut it, rowan. when you make a better arg, you let me know.

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:58 pm

Lewis the Second
Decorated

Joined: 23 Jun 2005
Posts: 198

Quote:

a journalist whose reputation you obviously didn't think about possibily ruining

What crap.

Good work A B R, mate. Shame you didn't see it through. There were some gaping holes in the planning and development, which I'm sure you'll see now. Better luck next time.

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:05 pm

ThomasRStevenson
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Joined: 28 Feb 2003
Posts: 53
Location: Wayne State University

Email from BlogDrive.com <notifications@blogdrive.com>

I received the following email today:

Quote:

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:18:15 -0800 (PST)
From: BlogDrive.com <notifications@blogdrive.com>
To: tomSPLATtom.cc.wayne.edu
Subject: To Everyone

The following new entry was posted by Laura/Julia B ( http://laurajulia.blogdrive.com/ )

As you all well know, seeing that the presidential elections are read and watched about the world over, Mom is
President of the United States. Amazingness. I'm sorry for not posting in what, six months.
Julia and I are perfectly fine. We see M...

More:
http://laurajulia.blogdrive.com/

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:20 pm
Last edited by ThomasRStevenson on Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:58 am; edited 1 time in total

ThomasRStevenson
Boot

Joined: 28 Feb 2003
Posts: 53
Location: Wayne State University

Here is the text from http://laurajulia.blogdrive.com/

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Friday, February 03, 2006
To Everyone

As you all well know, seeing that the presidential elections are read and watched about the world over, Mom is President of the United States. Amazingness. I'm sorry for not posting in what, six months.

Julia and I are perfectly fine. We see Mom a lot more often now that she isn't campaigning so much. Andrei's fine. The White House is awesomeness, but we aren't all that comfortable with it. It's an impermanent place, one that forces someone to stay for up to only four years.

I bet everyone's interested in learning what happened to us all since the strange incidents. I've signed confidentiality forms and more, including one watched on and witnessed by a major number of Senators. So I will not dwell on the past, instead think more of the future.

There was a recent flurry of intelligence reports (I'm allowed to read some of them, but really, they are mostly depressing) and they report a significant regrouping of inactive terrorist groups. PresJen (I can't keep on calling her SenJen forever) tells us all ominously that even BCU has been affected. Other organizations that were purported funders or receivers of enemy funds were shunned.

An innocent target, I must watch with disdain, is Broder Research Industries. Michael Broder's company shouldn't be shunned. This country still believes in innocent until proven otherwise, right?

Then Michael Broder should be exonerated.
Posted at 11:02 am by laura_b
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:26 pm

jamesi
Sentient Being

Joined: 25 Sep 2002
Posts: 2195
Location: Canadia

There was another post on February 10, complete with ultra-sekrit binary code comments. Anyone who played the game before interested in getting back into it?

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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:41 am

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