So my bro and I used to play this. And I kinda got tired of the "Guess some multiple choice question about a user and hope you can get it right to ask a similarly mundane question" game. So here are the rules:
1. A player starts (Me) with some generic, Good News sentence (i.e., Free ice cream for everyone!)
2. Another player follows up with some bad news (The ice cream just happens to be lima bean flavored.)
3. No flaming or provoking any flaming
4. No following up your own post.
5. Bold your statement and say whether it's good or bad news (makes it easier for newcomers.)
So that's about it. And I'll start with...
GOOD NEWS:I'm paying all of you 1,000,000 USD!
BAD NEWS : I'm not any richer now, even while my name is : "All of you".
GOOD NEWS : MODPlug Central still is a good place to visit.
Bad News: It's becoming increasingly plagued by spambots.
GOOD NEWS: Rumors tell that Modplug Central may be improved sometime in the future.
BAD NEWS : But as long as LPChip is the coder, it can take up to 10 years :nuts:
Now we're cooking with gas! Try to make these out of control...some of em get really funny ("The spambots can fly and spit acid")
Good News: Those are 10 cat years, which unbeknownst to most people, are only .1425211233 human years.
BAD NEWS: Cats don't care about coding. 8)
GOOD NEWS: ...until their 4th life, where they are the reincarnation of a young Bill Gates and code like fiends.
BAD NEWS:...who will immediately close the source code and make us all pay ridiculous amounts of money to buy MODPlug and all the upgrades.
GOOD NEWS: (atleast for me) LPChip can afford it if that happens... :nuts:
Bad News: LPChip will then be broke, leaving no money to maintain ModPug. In it's newest form, Modplug will only exist for 2 and a half days.
GOOD NEWS: ... but atleast it are 2 more days! :nuts:
BAD NEWS: Viruses will rip apart Modplug once it is online. Songs will be replaced by porn, forum posts will all lead to popups, and the front page will read "This Page Has Been DA-FACED!"
Didn't that last one actually happen?
GOOD NEWS: ... and then you wake up. :P
BAD NEWS: ...and realized you've pissed yourself.
GOOD NEWS: .. but luckelly, that beautifull woman (whoever she is) didn't noticed... :P
ooh...hard (That's what she said!)
Bad News: ...but, she's a bit hormonal, and trashes your place, and slaps yo' face.
GOOD NEWS: You like that sort of thing.
BAD NEWS: But still, it DID hurt LOL :nuts:
GOD NEWS: Your computer and synths escaped the woman's wrath.
God news? lol...
BAD NEWS: Your $13,000 grand piano and your $2.6 Million Stradivarius violin did not.
GOOOD News: But atleast they were insured.
haha... goood news. You guys... :P
BAD NEWS: Apparently, this woman's wrath was considered an "Act of God", and hence, is not covered by your insurance.
GOOD NEWS: You were able to argue to the insurance company that technically it would be an "Act of Goddess" and therefore a valid claim.
BAD NEWS: But the entire claim procedure took more than 3 years before it became valid.
GOOD NEWS: By that time, you were able to get your REAL $2.6M Stradivarius out of the safe, and now you're $2.6 million richer! (USD, of course =P)
BAD NEWS: But your neighbour saw this and out of an act of jealousy, he called the tax department who took 30% of your money.
GOOD NEWS: But due an error in IRS protocols, and the sudden death of evil neighbour, the IRS dropped their claim against you, and refunded all the money, plus interest, as their star witness against you is now six feet under, and they are missing vital information because of their error.
BAAD NEWS: Due to all these problems, you've entered your first mid-life crisis.
Haha, nice guys.
GOOD NEWS: With all the money you've earned, you've purchased a Ferrari, a Porsche, a Corvette, AND a Harley! You got over that fast!
BAD NEWS: But the road taxes are so massive that you pay more than you have and thereby entering your second mid-life crisis.
GOOD NEWS: You sell the Ferarri, Porsche, and the Corvette, take your synths and lucky laptop, and become an underground travelling synth artist whose fame is fueled by your mysteriousness. You travel under the name 'Tarmac Crew' after your fav synth group.
BAD NEWS: But since you're driving a harley, you can't really bring your synth with you as its big massive and too cool to risk getting damaged, so instead you'll have to try luring people to your home.
GOOD NEWS: As it just so happens, you live in Ibiza...soo....
Quote from: "SoundCrafter"
4. No following up your own post.
According to the rules, you can't post 2 statements. Therefor I've deleted ResidentGrey's post. That post contained both a good and bad news statement, which is similar as following up your own post.
Yup, pretty much what I meant. Thanks for the clear-up and if it happens again, you could just edit the post and add a note.g.
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what? oh well, it was funny and it was in one post deliberately for effect not a follow up, just one post. oh well...
hmmmm...
BAD NEWS: Ibiza just got hit by an F5 hurricane.
NOO! You BASTARD!
GOOD NEWS: As it just so happens, I was playing there when it happened and my bumpin basslines drove the hurricane away.
BAD NEWS: But even though the hurricane was blowed back from Ibiza, the cold-front collided with the hot-front which caused for a change in the windflow, with as result, that the hurricane was slingshotted back to Ibiza.
GOOD NEWS: We all don't live there!
BAD NEWS: Except me and Tarmac Crew. As a result, the music world has lost two excellent musicians.
GOOD NEWS: There's more space for new talents now!
BAD NEWS: But you've died before they actually reached a level of good sounding music
GOOD NEWS: Timbaland died aswell when hearing those guys practising.
BAD NEWS: Timbaland managed to steal your music and backdrop it against a gaudy female pop star's singing while making millions off what would be your song, all while experiencing no legal ramifications in the process.
Curse that ##BEEEEEP##!
GOOD NEWS:The song he chose, unfortunately (for him), contained a mix of certain frequencies which caused the unfortunate listener to shit themselves.
:P
Edit by Mod: Please do not curse like that. Its rather rude.
@SoundCrafter: uh, thats good news? :o
BAD NEWS: Timbaland is not the only theft. There's also Jay lurking around :)
To mod: My bad. I assumed it was ok in the cases of Timbaland and spambots. Apparently it's just the latter.
To LP: Yeah, cuz now anyone who listens to Timbaland gets a fresh dose of the shlitz.
To JoJo:
GOOD NEWS: I haven't heard of Jay, so he must not exist. :P
BAD NEWS: Jay is another Hurricane.
GOOD NEWS: My home is hurricane-safe :P
BAD NEWS: It's not Jay Mewes safe.
GOOD NEWS: Noone has posted for a long time any News. So Saga Musix will do it.
BAD NEWS: Saga Musix Did it
GOOD NEWS: The forums are active just because of this thread!
BAD NEWS: I've tricked all of you into wasting precious music-making time!
GOOD NEWS: Huh? I am able to do multitasking! I can read the forums and compose 3 tracks at the same time!
why do I always write the good news...? :D
BAD NEWS: YOU'VE GOT AIDS
GOOD NEWS: The AIDS you have is the old diet supplement, not the gengineered disease.
BAD NEWS: but still, its AIDS.
GOOD NEWS: Throw it in the recycle bin (or /dev/null), that helps!
BAD NEWS:"Cannot delete file AIDS: Access is denied"
GOOD NEWS: It was just the read-only flag. I disabled it now.
BAD NEWS: File was indeed deleted, but magically appeared on next boot..
GOOD NEWS: Your Anti-Rootkit dealie took care of the AIDS.
BAD NEWS: There was no post in thread for many months now!
GOOD NEWS: There is now! :nuts:
Bad news: But the posts are inane, and thus everyone who reads them feels compelled to reply with similar inanity (is that a word?), resulting in a prolonged series of inane good news/bad news pairs and accompanying comments that eventually drive you out of your mind and force you to spend the rest of your life dancing naked through the streets of Helsinki screaming "I am the fairy queen! I am the fairy queen!"
GOOD NEWS: Everyone likes the fairy queen there and so they don't bring you to court!
BAD NEWS: Countries with world domination on their agendas are not among those who like the fairy queen and announce the fairy queen is harbouring weapons of minor annoyance and vow to rid the world of this evil and in no way exploit the fairy queens resources, no matter how contrary it looks.
Good news: Convinced by the inanity of the MPC forums, and due to the freakish alignment of seven and a half toads in Lake Monger, Western Australia, you become the fairy queen, and, with your magical naked-fairy-in-Helsinki powers magic away countries with world domination on their agendas, replacing them with the world of the teletubbies, thus sparing yourself from being ridded (now that's definitely wrong).
Guys, let atleast follow the rules, otherwise its just spamming...
That means: please base your news on the previous one.
hm, so do u want us to go back to residentgrey's post or continue anyway now we've ruined it for u lp (sorry.. :cry: )
You can continue the last news post, but the point of just posting news with all kinds of stuff is pointless imho.
Bad news: Due to being a naked fairy in Helsinki in January, you've got yourself a nasty sunburn and a nastier case of frostbite!
Good news: Your frostbite/sunburn combination becomes an instant hit, making you the fashion model for millions of naked fairies all over Helsinki.
Bad news: There's just one problem with there being millions of naked fairies in Helsinki: no quality control.
Good news: Jojo introduced the NFQC (Naked Faries Quality Control) so now we can decide which may stay and which not!
Bad News: But this leaves many of the Naked Fairies in Helsinki who have been rejected angry and spiteful to Jojo. They're coming to hunt him down... naked.
Good News: Scotty beams him on to the Enterprise
Bad News: Scotty was too to slow and cut the beamer connection too late...
Good news: the second attempt was highly successful
Bad News:
The Enterprise is no longer doing the work of the Federation. But is under the influence of the organization that controls the naked fairies. Hearing news about your fashion style they turn you into a mindless drone doing sexy but cheesy commercials for fairies worldwide. Resulting in a boring life on the Enterprise.
Good News: But Data still does!
Bad News: Data still does, but Data is and has always been a mindless drone... and he's definitely not sexy. This is the only reason why the naked fairy guys weren't interested in manipulating him!
I do not watch much Star Trek, so here we go.
Good news: Chex Quest 1 and 2 are fairly easy games!
Bad News: Easy games are mostly boring games!
Good news: Chex Quest 3 is much harder than the other two!
Bad News: Someone found out that there is a Virus in this game!
Good News: But the virus is really a computer-enhancing super-system (called, coincidentally, Linux), so you find that everything runs more stably, quickly, efficiently, securely, and prettily.
Bad News: Some of your favourite applications refuse to start now!
btw, some other bad news: your avatar is a little bit tooooo big :P
Good News: But there are better ones that run! And you get to play with a recipe management program called "Gourmet" which delights your gf!
(also, I've fixed my avatar. ::))
Bad News: Linux development has just ceased when the Fairies appeared!
Good News: But I can still keep coding in PHP, adding better functionality to my compo engine. :)
Bad News: Even with your PHP skills, you can't fix that error i just explored in OpenMPT :(
Good news: But I haven't used samples in MPT for well over a year now, so it doesn't really bother me!
Bad news: But you have to use those (as well as instruments on some occasions) to mix songs together!
Good News: The errors has already been fixed! (i guess....)
What errors?
QuoteBad News: Even with your PHP skills, you can't fix that error i just explored in OpenMPT
Bad News:
RWP forgot to post Bad News!
Good news: it doesn't matter!
Bad news: I was unsure as to what errors were being referenced (and still am). It appears that Mr. Interesting Language changed his name (I do not want to use what his name was because of the language, but, hey, that is probably just me.) BTW, is my signature a tad bit better now that the picture's size has been scaled a little?
Good News: I can make a banner for you if you like.
Good News for realz (in regards to gourmet): You melted her heart with your mad-leet Legasse skillz.
Bad News: Banners = ads = annoying Perhaps I am missing the mark a little (like not understanding who is being talked to there, or just being weird like I do/am).
Good News: Later on tonight, I will (theoretically) have finished the first draft of my thesis! Without ads! ::)
Bad news: But it will be just a first draft!
Good News: But the draft will lead him to something!
Bad News: He may forget what he wants to write by the time he gets on to doing it or may forget while in the process of writing it!
Been there before.
Good News: I installed a package for LaTeX that allows me to use highlighting, and I have yellow TODO lines scattered around the document, telling me what to write where. :)
Bad News: The version of LaTEX installed WINDOWS printer drivers by mistake!
Good news: Good moment to move to Ubuntu
Bad News: But Ubuntu doesn't support OpenMPT natively!
Good news: But OpenMPT isn't required to write the thesis anyway
Bad News: But I like Fedora more than Ubuntu!
I am not sure what kind of good news would go with that one. Linux will not run properly on my computer, so I am sticking with Windows [Vista]. I am not sure how Ubuntu's screen reader operates anyway. VoiceOver (Mac OS' screen reader) is pretty much just that, a SCREEN READER! I am not sure exactly how that would help someone who is blind! It does not appear to be improved in Leopard either! Those cats, they eat you whole! At least Microsoft gives you a nice view of your neighborhood! :lol: At least from XP to Vista is an accessibility improvement. Tiger to Leopard is a color change and that is about it.
Good news: But it doesn't matter that you like Fedora over Ubuntu anyway, cus that won't help you with your Thesis in any way.
Bad News: My soundcard doesn't work in any flavour of Linux right now, so whenever I start up my Java program that I wrote for my thesis, I have to wait a few minutes for it to realise that it can't hook through to a soundcard. So I run it under Windows. :(
Good news: It sounds like it works in Windows. Have you tried Mac OS? The newest version of that is Mr. Spotty 10.5 (That is 10½ BTW for those of you who speak mixed number as opposed decimals). I wonder what kind of cat Apple will tame and train to eat people whole next. Perhaps they will start moving to dogs starting with gray wolves!
Bad News: This threads has been inactive for quite a long time, so we still don't know if barry's soundcard works in Linux now!
Good news: at least i got inspiration now, i haven't done much for about 2 months.
Bad News: But aliens from outer space will visit you and keep you from turning your inspiration into new tracks!
Good news that i have my trustworthy pump-action with me all the time. :D
Bad News: You still spend too much time on this thread to be able to compose something.
Good news: that i'm beyong time and can memorize for good anything that comes to my mind, for later usage. =)
Bad news: The knowledge could potentially be applied in the wrong ways.
Good News: this thread is totally irrelevant.
Bad news: It still won't die.
GOOD NEWS: Summer is on its way!
BAD NEWS: Summer is on its way! It's the time of unbearable heat, migraine headache and it's the time for those nasty little creatures with more than four legs...ugh! :wink:
Good news: TheEagle can leave for the summer and go somewhere cooler and with less insects (which have six legs) and arachnids (which have eight legs). Of course, he may use the argument of "What about centipedes and millipedes?" In the case of centipedes, you could simply stick with playing the game. :lol: In the case of millipedes though, I am not sure about that one.
*LOL*
Bad News: nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!