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Samprimary
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on: July 06, 2005, 07:01:43 PM

Of media groups and the highest form of flattery:

Check out the rules & guidelines.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/

What I have to ask is why they would call it 'The Escapist'.

The concept of 'escapism' is pseudopsychologically slung about in reference to video game play enough already, why feed it?
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Reply #1 on: July 06, 2005, 07:36:19 PM

Reading through the Themis press release from 6/30/2005 mentions this nugget:

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The company also announced an additional business has been under development since April and will launch on July 12, 2005. Additional details will be disclosed at launch.

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Reply #2 on: July 06, 2005, 08:05:21 PM

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

The main catalyst is the forming of a comic book hero named "The Escapist".
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Reply #3 on: July 06, 2005, 08:06:54 PM

Yes, because Themis is original in every aspect of what they do.  rolleyes
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Reply #4 on: July 06, 2005, 09:29:47 PM


Why are the guidelines .doc files? Morons.
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Reply #5 on: July 07, 2005, 06:18:29 AM

Why are the guidelines .doc files? Morons.

Not in this case they're not, no.  People who jump to conclusions though...

Articles can be either emailed or sent by mail on a PC compatible disk in any of these formats: Word Document (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf) or Plain Text (.txt).

Their guideliens require MS Word or Word-readable submissions, with an obvious preference for MS Word.  If you can't read their guidelines, they probably don't want your stuff. 

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Reply #6 on: July 07, 2005, 07:58:49 AM

And if you can't read .doc files, you have more serious issues than an inability to send submissions.
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Reply #7 on: July 07, 2005, 08:08:36 AM

I'm not feeling the hate here. It's just another online magazine. They do pay for submissions, which is nice and all.

A good idea is a good idea forever.
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Reply #8 on: July 07, 2005, 08:09:39 AM

And if you can't read .doc files, you have more serious issues than an inability to send submissions.

And for people who prefer Microsoft, although it's only a viewer (same concept as PDF).  

Edit for Toast:  I don't either.  It's just another business that will help bring professional focus on the industry, which is something I'd think we all want.  Now that they've moved past the bad move of dealing with a very ugly company, I hope this and some other ideas of theirs pan out.
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Reply #9 on: July 07, 2005, 08:16:25 AM


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Reply #10 on: July 07, 2005, 08:51:57 AM

I don't get it. Why have just the guideline invoked t3h hate?

Nothing in this post represents the views of my current or previous employers.

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Reply #11 on: July 07, 2005, 08:54:46 AM

I don't really have teh hate for this project, I just think it's entirely too funny. I expect plenty of dev-fellatio articles, as well as advertorial on Themis's clients. Oh and some "culture of gaming" articles on a par with G4's shitty hipness.

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Reply #12 on: July 07, 2005, 09:55:38 AM


The point is, publishing .doc files on a web page is stupid. To lazy to click the convert to html button eh?
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Reply #13 on: July 07, 2005, 10:04:22 AM

Not to defend them but have you ever seen the shittastic HTML Word pushes out when you do that? It's like the W3C standard got eaten by Bill Gates, shit onto a plate that was then infused with 17,374 tag attributes just because they could. It turns slim HTML into bloatware of immense relative proportions.

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Reply #14 on: July 07, 2005, 10:05:43 AM

Not to defend them but have you ever seen the shittastic HTML Word pushes out when you do that? It's like the W3C standard got eaten by Bill Gates, shit onto a plate that was then infused with 17,374 tag attributes just because they could. It turns slim HTML into bloatware of immense relative proportions.

Or the other option is PDF which has its own set of problems...
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Reply #15 on: July 07, 2005, 10:09:01 AM

Wow, I'm amazed that y'all can judge a publication without seeing its content.  Psychics, all of ya, I guess.

I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
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Reply #16 on: July 07, 2005, 10:13:59 AM

Wow, I'm amazed that y'all can judge a publication without seeing its content.  Psychics, all of ya, I guess.

Did you have to see MMOG Worlds to know the content?

Would you have to see a copy of a Vanity Fair spinoff? Or Maxim Spinoff?

Take a look at the people involved. Educated guesstimations are reasonably easy here.

We are very interested in seeing the content though.
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Reply #17 on: July 07, 2005, 10:46:20 AM

Wow, I'm amazed that y'all can judge a publication without seeing its content.  Psychics, all of ya, I guess.

Did you have to see MMOG Worlds to know the content?

Would you have to see a copy of a Vanity Fair spinoff? Or Maxim Spinoff?

Take a look at the people involved. Educated guesstimations are reasonably easy here.

We are very interested in seeing the content though.

Meh.  The hate and its odd fusion with self-created highbrow/lowbrow classifications is not strong with me.

I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
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Reply #18 on: July 07, 2005, 10:47:39 AM

The dichotomy I built up in the above post is unintentional.

And sort of creepy.
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Reply #19 on: July 07, 2005, 11:39:46 AM

Wow, I'm amazed that y'all can judge a publication without seeing its content.  Psychics, all of ya, I guess.

I did view the contents. With Open Office. After first unzipping them. Hey, maybe they could have required decoding the files manually in binary.

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leet (not 1337)

Do not use “1337 speak” unless directly quoting text

Their own guidelines fail their guidelines.

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African-American, Asian-American AP Style Guide notes that a hyphen is always used to indicate dual heritage. No hyphen however for French Canadian or Latin American.

Where is the hyphen love for Latin Americans?


Frankly the "style guidelines" are just plain weird.
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Reply #20 on: July 07, 2005, 12:53:22 PM

Why can't someone involved in something that has to do with anything game related form an original thought?

An E-Zine.

Yay.

Stack it on top of the other 234234234234242343 ezines already out there.

It makes a good virtual campfire.

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Reply #21 on: July 07, 2005, 02:30:30 PM

If they want to pay me .25 a word, I'll send them things. Why? Because I have no job.

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Reply #22 on: July 07, 2005, 02:31:32 PM

If they want to pay me .25 a word, I'll send them things. Why? Because I have no job.

Don't be suprised if they don't pay you for months if at all.
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Reply #23 on: July 07, 2005, 02:32:55 PM

If they want to pay me .25 a word, I'll send them things. Why? Because I have no job.

Sending articles to a corporate journal, such as that, for cash, is a contract to shill. I don't care who's running it. These guys just happen to be paying you about half to a third (or even a quarter) of what you'd get in an ACTUAL magazine for a monthly column.

Anyway, didn't you move to the mountains of Tibet?
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Reply #24 on: July 07, 2005, 04:27:25 PM

If they want to pay me .25 a word, I'll send them things. Why? Because I have no job.

I'll pay you .25 a word to shut up.   Why?  Because I also have no job but I want to feel powerful.

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Reply #25 on: July 07, 2005, 06:20:21 PM

If they want to pay me .25 a word, I'll send them things. Why? Because I have no job.

I'll pay you .25 a word to shut up.   Why?  Because I also have no job but I want to feel powerful.

I still love you.

And Schild, it's the mountains of Colorado. It's like Tibet but with more stoners...or maybe less. I've never been there.

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Reply #26 on: July 07, 2005, 08:04:08 PM

And Schild, it's the mountains of Colorado. It's like Tibet but with more stoners...or maybe less. I've never been there.

Probably more. Although we export stoner mountaineers to Tibet via Naropa programs.

Ahh, I love Colorado.
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Reply #27 on: July 08, 2005, 05:01:06 AM

Wow, I'm amazed that y'all can judge a publication without seeing its content.  Psychics, all of ya, I guess.

Did you have to see MMOG Worlds to know the content?

Would you have to see a copy of a Vanity Fair spinoff? Or Maxim Spinoff?

Take a look at the people involved. Educated guesstimations are reasonably easy here.

We are very interested in seeing the content though.

Meh.  The hate and its odd fusion with self-created highbrow/lowbrow classifications is not strong with me.

You really are a Spaceball lawyer, aren't you?

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Reply #28 on: July 08, 2005, 07:54:44 AM

Wow, I'm amazed that y'all can judge a publication without seeing its content.  Psychics, all of ya, I guess.

Did you have to see MMOG Worlds to know the content?

Would you have to see a copy of a Vanity Fair spinoff? Or Maxim Spinoff?

Take a look at the people involved. Educated guesstimations are reasonably easy here.

We are very interested in seeing the content though.

Meh.  The hate and its odd fusion with self-created highbrow/lowbrow classifications is not strong with me.

You really are a Spaceball lawyer, aren't you?

That's what the license says, yep.   evil

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Reply #29 on: July 11, 2005, 07:46:49 PM

If they want to pay me .25 a word, I'll send them things. Why? Because I have no job.

I'll pay you .25 a word to shut up.   Why?  Because I also have no job but I want to feel powerful.

It's taken me a dozen or so times of you posting something this entertaining to get me to notice.  You start with slapping someone hard, then manage to turn it into something personal and quirky about yourself that likely leaves the person you slapped feeling not slapped at all, which is just genius.

Do you do it on purpose, or is it this an unconscious thing?  Also, i'd suggest trying to see if you could sell whitty comebacks to devs so they could post on web forums - they'd get to say what they really want to say, without completely alienating the playerbase.

I don't post here often, or incitefully, but I've got to say you are my favorite f13 poster.
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Reply #30 on: July 11, 2005, 07:50:45 PM

She's everyone's favorite poster. She's our Katamari Damacy.
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Reply #31 on: July 11, 2005, 07:57:52 PM

She's everyone's favorite poster. She's our Katamari Damacy.

That's only because SirBruce, Geldon, and DV don't post here anymore.

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Reply #32 on: July 11, 2005, 09:01:35 PM

She's not my favorite poster, for teh hate is strong with her.

To be on topic, Haemish's entry was funny.

Yeeah.

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Reply #33 on: July 11, 2005, 09:28:35 PM

She's not my favorite poster, for teh hate is strong with her.

To be on topic, Haemish's entry was funny.

Yeeah.

Oh you crazy boy.  You know you love me. 

Oh yes.

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Reply #34 on: July 11, 2005, 10:19:09 PM

Nuh uh, YOU'RE crazy.

Nicotine withdraw, etc etc.

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