Vivi22's Ramblings of a Slightly Annoyed Man 1

[Slothy]

I like your events Vivi.

Glad to hear it. The census obviously is a popular one though I won't take much credit for that since WK started it and did a lot of the heavy lifting on most of them. I want to revisit the gaming competition in the future, but I think it needs some reworking. There's been an obvious issue maintaining interest with participants, which in turn makes it difficult for me to maintain my interest in running it.

I'll have to make a feedback thread sometime to get thoughts on what worked and what didn't. Obviously my inconsistent scheduling was an issue that needs fixing, and maybe I'll need to turn to the events committee in the future for help running it when it doesn't work for me, but I feel like finding games everyone was interested in playing was difficult too. And of course, just keeping people's interest in something requiring such a high degree of participation for an entire year may have been too lofty a goal. Maybe it should just be a quarterly thing or something.

Twitter

I want to point out that until Freya mentioned that this event was announced on Facebook and Twitter that I had no idea EOFF had any presence on either site.

Also, I like you better when you aren't pretending to be smarter than everyone else.

Pretty sure I only really do that for the census, though things need to change after we actually finish this one. Like I've said before, but which I don't think I've conveyed well enough, maintaining that persona is mentally draining and I think it's honestly run its course. I honestly have to put myself in that bitter and hateful frame of mind to get there and it usually leaves me feeling drained and even depressed on occasion. I haven't even been able to keep it up this time, so it's definitely not going to rear it's head for quite a while after this census. I guess I wouldn't make a good actor if the census gets to me.

[Del Murder]

An event that requires you to do something or own something outside of this site will have its challenges. I stopped playing the game competition during Doom and Starcraft because I simply do not own those games.

[Slothy]

I figured that was the largest sticking point. Going for emulated or free to play titles certainly seems to be the way to go, though it can be hard to get multiplayer in then, and I think it's good to have multiplayer games mixed in. Starcraft had a surprisingly good turn out considering the ownership requirement. I suppose it helped that it's one of the most popular RTS titles of all time though. I'll definitely be looking into other options for next time.

[Jiro]

The easier to emulate titles are the ones I need.