The Spartan wrote:Yeah, the seventh or eighth season tends to be when it all goes to shit. (Plenty of exceptions, but that's a good, general guideline.)
How can you sustain quality at a reasonable level for the better part of a decade? Though new writers and cast members can be a good thing, replacing their tiring predecessors, and shows like L&O and CSI have the advantage of being loosely based on cop/criminal stuff that can write itself (hence why procedurals have been so common place on US network television).
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:56 pm
by Jung
Oxymoron wrote:I still say : keep the basic premise, write it decently, and it would be an AWESOME story.
TSW is it's full of ideas that sound like they could be cool on paper, like a resistance movement of the damned in Hell led by Julius Caesar, or Heaven as a crumbling corrupt regime with a drug and crime kingpin angel plotting to overthrow God. The trouble is Stuart Slade is apparently incapable of pulling off any of his own concepts decently.
Which I'd guess is prolly a pretty common problem - it's easy to come up with ideas that sound like they could be cool in a one sentence soundbite, but spinning an actual good story out of them takes work and skill.
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:27 am
by Gands
Looks like my friend is bailing on Cancon.
Bummer.
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:32 am
by xon
>:3 wrote:I tried out Windows 8 a while back.
My first exposure to Windows Server 2012 was trying to use it in a windowed RDP session with the system I was connecting from having multipule monitors.
I raged and deleted the VM inside of an hour.
Since then, I've upgraded a bunch of my home lab to use it, but holy fuck is it aggravating to use in non-fullscreen mode.
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:39 am
by Questor
xon wrote:Since then, I've upgraded a bunch of my home lab to use it, but holy fuck is it aggravating to use in non-fullscreen mode.
THIS ^
Although server core is decidedly less annoying.
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:41 pm
by Zablorg
Gands wrote:Looks like my friend is bailing on Cancon.
Bummer.
hey maybe i can be your cancon friend
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:03 pm
by Gands
I'm totally up for that.
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:14 pm
by Zablorg
neat! let me know what stuff you're planning on doing so I can look into it and register for some of them
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:22 pm
by Gands
I'm mostly looking to play the free games (Gettysburg 150, and Race for the Rhein) as well as spending time in the games library. It's easier for me to just turn up and find things to do, many people just buy games, find X friends, and then play them. I'm there from about 8-5 each day as Sam is playing D&D in a campaign.
Also, I'm playing the Trek CCG on Saturday night. If you're interested, a deck can be arranged.
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:23 pm
by Zablorg
make it so
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:52 am
by Phantasee
Zabs
How much cash do I have to provide you to document your experiences at CanCon
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:53 am
by Phantasee
Also Los/whoever can we lock this thread at 100 thanks
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:56 am
by Losonti Tokash
Wait why
Re: The Return of Testing Chat Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:03 am
by Phantasee
Because its a pain in the ass to mod and the longer we delay it the more we will regret it? I was going to do it at 50 and missed it because I didn't post much for a few months