Forum Brawl #4 - Round 1

[ARTHANASIOS]

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ARTH moved a bit quickly on that one. The Super task is meant to be a task that's finished by the end of Brawl. As such, I don't want to move the timeline for it to be useable for an actual forum newsletter. Additionally, it is unlikely that said newsletter would be exactly up to date given the event will be ending mid-month.

If you want to use one as the official newsletter, fine, but I don't think we'll be moving things around in order to make it so.

Ok, that was just my suggestion, I just thought it would be more purposeful.

Nevertheless, as you may observed I'm open for innovations,  thus I encourage Brawlers to add anything innovative to the current Newsletter format or/and change existing sections. Who knows, maybe your idea will become a trend in future Newsletters?

Well, since krzy wanted to have a conversation with the winning team, I thought it was about changing the winning comic's details accordingly in order to turn it into a proper May Newsletter and mid-april to 1st of may was the appropriate time gap to complete that transformation...

[Physsion]

Are there any size restrictions or limitations for the Artist task?

[russianspy1234]

Suggestions for the writers.  Cyanide & Happiness has a random comic generator (assuming those count) here.  (Warning, some of the randomly generated comics are NSFW.)

[Calambar]

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ARTH moved a bit quickly on that one. The Super task is meant to be a task that's finished by the end of Brawl. As such, I don't want to move the timeline for it to be useable for an actual forum newsletter. Additionally, it is unlikely that said newsletter would be exactly up to date given the event will be ending mid-month.

If you want to use one as the official newsletter, fine, but I don't think we'll be moving things around in order to make it so.

Ok, that was just my suggestion, I just thought it would be more purposeful.

Nevertheless, as you may observed I'm open for innovations,  thus I encourage Brawlers to add anything innovative to the current Newsletter format or/and change existing sections. Who knows, maybe your idea will become a trend in future Newsletters?

Well, since krzy wanted to have a conversation with the winning team, I thought it was about changing the winning comic's details accordingly in order to turn it into a proper May Newsletter and mid-april to 1st of may was the appropriate time gap to complete that transformation...

Sorry, but for me this super bonus task is not well-thought-out. Even if this is only for fun, creating Newsletter in mid-month that comes out at the beginning of a month is strange. When I make real NL I know I need to include everything that happened in the previous month. What about this bonus task? What is the period Brawlers must include in their NL? Half a month? Thus I think if the deadline is mid-April, creating May's NL makes less sense than original idea for making April NL... On the other hand, making April NL after the already posted NL would be quite difficult for Brawlers in my opinion. Or easier, depends... Harder if they would like to make something original, easier if they just take what has been already written and rewrite it in a slightly different way...

In my humble opinion the deadline for this task should be the end of March. Of course, I don't want to mess up the whole event, but I just only express my opinion as NL writer. I say it one more time, posting Brawlers' NL as an official one would be the best reward for them, more challenging and motivating.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Spoiler for Hidden:

Spoiler for Hidden:

Spoiler for Hidden:

ARTH moved a bit quickly on that one. The Super task is meant to be a task that's finished by the end of Brawl. As such, I don't want to move the timeline for it to be useable for an actual forum newsletter. Additionally, it is unlikely that said newsletter would be exactly up to date given the event will be ending mid-month.

If you want to use one as the official newsletter, fine, but I don't think we'll be moving things around in order to make it so.

Ok, that was just my suggestion, I just thought it would be more purposeful.

Nevertheless, as you may observed I'm open for innovations,  thus I encourage Brawlers to add anything innovative to the current Newsletter format or/and change existing sections. Who knows, maybe your idea will become a trend in future Newsletters?

Well, since krzy wanted to have a conversation with the winning team, I thought it was about changing the winning comic's details accordingly in order to turn it into a proper May Newsletter and mid-april to 1st of may was the appropriate time gap to complete that transformation...

Sorry, but for me this super bonus task is not well-thought-out. Even if this is only for fun, creating Newsletter in mid-month that comes out at the beginning of a month is strange. When I make real NL I know I need to include everything that happened in the previous month. What about this bonus task? What is the period Brawlers must include in their NL? Half a month? Thus I think if the deadline is mid-April, creating May's NL makes less sense than original idea for making April NL... On the other hand, making April NL after the already posted NL would be quite difficult for Brawlers in my opinion. Or easier, depends... Harder if they would like to make something original, easier if they just take what has been already written and rewrite it in a slightly different way...

In my humble opinion the deadline for this task should be the end of March. Of course, I don't want to mess up the whole event, but I just only express my opinion as NL writer. I say it one more time, posting Brawlers' NL as an official one would be the best reward for them, more challenging and motivating.

 Like Nae mentioned,the original purpose for this Bonus Task was not the creation of a true newsletter in the first place. It does not need to include the winner of every single event or include every single member joined this month. It doesn't even need to use the common Newsletter format (the Brawlers have every right to create a completely new type of Newsletter, with a completely different appearance, with different parts, they may remove the "new forum members" or "tea time with giants" sections if they find it is not needed, they may add extra crosswords and puzzles or whatever etc.etc.).
 Dear krzy, it was your personal suggestion to include the winner newsletter as the true newsletter of May and I agreed because you are the newsletter writer and I thought you know of this stuff better than me. In that case, the newsletter super bonus task is going to just act like it was originally supposed to do and it has absolutely no relation with any original newsletter. Problem solved... 8)

[Calambar]

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Spoiler for Hidden:

ARTH moved a bit quickly on that one. The Super task is meant to be a task that's finished by the end of Brawl. As such, I don't want to move the timeline for it to be useable for an actual forum newsletter. Additionally, it is unlikely that said newsletter would be exactly up to date given the event will be ending mid-month.

If you want to use one as the official newsletter, fine, but I don't think we'll be moving things around in order to make it so.

Ok, that was just my suggestion, I just thought it would be more purposeful.

Nevertheless, as you may observed I'm open for innovations,  thus I encourage Brawlers to add anything innovative to the current Newsletter format or/and change existing sections. Who knows, maybe your idea will become a trend in future Newsletters?

Well, since krzy wanted to have a conversation with the winning team, I thought it was about changing the winning comic's details accordingly in order to turn it into a proper May Newsletter and mid-april to 1st of may was the appropriate time gap to complete that transformation...

Sorry, but for me this super bonus task is not well-thought-out. Even if this is only for fun, creating Newsletter in mid-month that comes out at the beginning of a month is strange. When I make real NL I know I need to include everything that happened in the previous month. What about this bonus task? What is the period Brawlers must include in their NL? Half a month? Thus I think if the deadline is mid-April, creating May's NL makes less sense than original idea for making April NL... On the other hand, making April NL after the already posted NL would be quite difficult for Brawlers in my opinion. Or easier, depends... Harder if they would like to make something original, easier if they just take what has been already written and rewrite it in a slightly different way...

In my humble opinion the deadline for this task should be the end of March. Of course, I don't want to mess up the whole event, but I just only express my opinion as NL writer. I say it one more time, posting Brawlers' NL as an official one would be the best reward for them, more challenging and motivating.

 Like Nae mentioned,the original purpose for this Bonus Task was not the creation of a true newsletter in the first place. It does not need to include the winner of every single event or include every single member joined this month. It doesn't even need to use the common Newsletter format (the Brawlers have every right to create a completely new type of Newsletter, with a completely different appearance, with different parts, they may remove the "new forum members" or "tea time with giants" sections if they find it is not needed, they may add extra crosswords and puzzles or whatever etc.etc.).
 Dear krzy, it was your personal suggestion to include the winner newsletter as the true newsletter of May and I agreed because you are the newsletter writer and I thought you know of this stuff better than me. In that case, the newsletter super bonus task is going to just act like it was originally supposed to do and it has absolutely no relation with any original newsletter. Problem solved... 8)

Fine, you are Brawlmasters, do what you think is right, I expressed my opinion, my conscience is clear

And sorry because I confused you with my first comment:

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Yet, I have some doubts about this Super Bonus task. Namely, what is the actual purpose of this task if the deadline is mid-May? I don't want to say I want to have vacation from my staff job, but I just wonder, wouldn't it be the best reward for the winning team to actually publish their Newsletter in May?

Sorry if this was intentional to make this task after actual Newsletter, but for me it would be more senseful to set the deadline to the end of April and publish their NL or at least we Newsletter Writers could use some of their work.

As jonathan pointed out, I derped, because I was one month ahead somehow, this comment should look like this and this is what I had in mind from the beginning:

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Yet, I have some doubts about this Super Bonus task. Namely, what is the actual purpose of this task if the deadline is mid-May? I don't want to say I want to have vacation from my staff job, but I just wonder, wouldn't it be the best reward for the winning team to actually publish their Newsletter in APRIL?

Sorry if this was intentional to make this task after actual Newsletter, but for me it would be more senseful to set the deadline to the end of MARCH and publish their NL or at least we Newsletter Writers could use some of their work.

Sorry for this confusion. Nevertheless, I won't change my mind about this task

[ARTHANASIOS]

Are there any size restrictions or limitations for the Artist task?

Nope, but keep it at a normal size. Please, do not try something extreme, like 32 x 32 pixels or 32,000 x 32,000 pixels. 8)
Keeping it in-theme is very easy; there are dozens and dozens of different abstract art styles.

[vrt]

Bah, abstract. It'd be so much cooler if you'd have gone with surrealist or impressionist work! :p

[OldTrees]

Bah, abstract. It'd be so much cooler if you'd have gone with surrealist or impressionist work! :p

TIL the difference.
Surrealism sound the most entertaining to view for me personally.
Does Abstract have a lower barrier to entry?

[Naesala]

Bah, abstract. It'd be so much cooler if you'd have gone with surrealist or impressionist work! :p

We'll have more fun stuff later, i didn't want to start things off too difficult.

[Espithel]

For non-writing tasks, are we allowed 1001 or 1002 words? Or a tiny number that jusssst goes over the edge?

[Naesala]

Yes, for non-writer tasks. Beware going TL:DR though.