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Sorry for disappearing on you guys. I had exams and stuff and I was way behind so I had to do some heavy last weeks reading. Anyway, a little update on my activity from now on.

- I've been keeping up with my writing schedule, but the timeline I'm working on is turning out to be longer than I expected, so I probably won't start translating until early January.

- I've read the first half of the last episode in the first season of Nostos. I intend to finish that before I read any newer stuff. Sorry flash, metal shadow has to wait.

I'll have a lot of time though, so I don't think it will take me that long.

Welcome back waZ. A huge apology for not welcoming you back sooner! I've been neglecting my duties here, so my apologies to all. :( Next year I hope to come back with avengeance. Sorry Mojo for asking you to post stuff, then not reading it! Will get to it ASAP. It has also usurped Metal Shadow as a priority for me...poor Metal Shadow. :P

Oh, and am I forgetting something?

Yes!

Happy Christmas! :D

I'm desperately searching for the Super Police 3, but I can't find the thread anywhere. WaZ, if you'd please?iloveflash

I posted all the super police volumes in one thread.

This one. 

If you mean number 3 after volume 1 and 2 has been merged into one, then I haven't started writing it, and won't for a while. 

Wazzup peeps!sandyqbg

Ohmagawd it's Sandy!

[QUOTE="sandyqbg"]Wazzup peeps!Foolz3h

Ohmagawd it's Sandy!

Will try to drop in whenever possible. Working 12+ hours a day gives time for little else. After a long time, started a little writing.

Weird, I don't think so. From any particular thread? Also I'm still using the old board links I think.

Even though no one uses the Prestige system anymore, I've still been thinking of ways to help those of us who mainly critique works--such as barbariser--earn PP. One possible method of doing this just struck me!

Basically, the person being critiqued awards the points. They give the critic a score (on a scale of 1 to 4, the same scale as works) in their own member portfolio, right underneath where they tally their scores for their works, then the critic will just tally up the number of posts of constructive crit he gave that person, multiply it by the critee's score, and voila, the critic has PP. The critic then posts their scores in the prestige thread, listed as: "Name of Work" (score)

Just throwing this thought out there. You know, we should probably start our own forum someday. Off of Gamespot I mean. This place simply isn't dying. :P

I thought one already got a certain amount for commenting constructively on pieces?

This place is impossible to kill it would seem...at least since I showed up. :P Did you know that an off-site...site...was in Sparky's plans? I'm not sure if he ever made it due to his cloak and dagger nature, but he had big plans for it.

The most helpful thing for anyone to do would be recruitment. I keep putting it off. Basically just inviting random reviewers from the top 10 games at the time seems to help a lot, even once a month.

iloveflash

Everything you just said was copy/pasted from my past posts. Everything. That is plaigarism, sir. I love it.

Sparky did mention that before, in a TWJ interview if I remember correctly. But that was years ago. If he hasn't done anything yet, he probably never will. Therefore it is up to us, Lord Fuhrer, to engineer this off-site...si--experience.

Recruitment will probably be the biggest issue on a new forum because the pool of good writers here on GameSpot would be non-existent. We'd basically be playing the search-engine and traffic game like any other website out there. Which sounds like work.

BUT!

I think TWL will be something very different and unique if it becomes its own forum -- and maybe even bigger and better than it is now. How many places do you know, online or offline, where young, strapping lads from all over the globe (even Aussies) with a common interest in gaming can get together and read and critique each other's works? Sparky hit the nail in the head: only TWL.

I'll look into some of those free forum templates.

I thought one already got a certain amount for commenting constructively on pieces?

This place is impossible to kill it would seem...at least since I showed up. :P Did you know that an off-site...site...was in Sparky's plans? I'm not sure if he ever made it due to his cloak and dagger nature, but he had big plans for it.

The most helpful thing for anyone to do would be recruitment. I keep putting it off. Basically just inviting random reviewers from the top 10 games at the time seems to help a lot, even once a month.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6413315/?skipmc=1

Uh oh? Did anyone else hear about this? 

I got immediately exhausted reading that. I've had plans stewing for the past month or so to move this board offsite, but it's been difficult finding a [good] forum hosting service to migrate to. A Facebook group is currently the only thing I can think of that would work. If everyone's willing to do that in the meantime, I'll set one up right now. Something on Twitter too.

It's a real shame GS is getting rid of unions, because TWL is quite literally the only reason I still come to this site. But I guess that places us in that quarter of one percent group the article mentioned. Shame shame shame.

And look at that, all the content we've posted over the years might be gone and irretrievable in a heartbeat. This bites. :(

The best forum service I've found are these guys: http://xenforo.com/

But they cost money.

Plus, there's some technologies I wanted to implement on the new forum that would require a degree of customization not offered in most of these services...

Chances are I might just make a Free Forum or Wikia for the union to migrate to for an indefinite time period. I'll send out a union PM to all members about it soon. What are everyone's respective thoughts?

Edit: I might as well list the main ones I've been looking at: Lefora and Vanilla. I have no idea what either of them can do but they sure look pretty.

Yeah, I kind of like you guys :P. I'd be down for a migration.

I remember back in the day I was part of a group of kids who were getting too old to be on another teen-oriented forum (it was YTV.com) so we broke away and started our own underground community on phbb. This was when all posts were moderated for personal info or external sites, so we had to talk in code to broadcast the message lol.

It is done.

Foolz3h, please drop a PM to all union members. Or any other officer, please do that. I'm 6am and I'm tired.

but hooray.

I was just about to post a topic about this and what to do. Great iniative, Flash and Sharpie. Will send out the PM soon.

This really sucks. TWL longevity has been pretty damn impressive. It took GS killing off unions to kill it. :(

Dropping this here in case anyone stops by; TWL is now on the Write Now Wiki: writenow.wikia.com