Blue

VALVe said that they have a system for dealing with this problem.

Yeah, they say that, but they're lying through their teeth...

From what I understand, it works in a brutally practical manner. I don't know the terminology for the system, but it works something akin to "You get merits for coaching and users recommending you, or assisting other players, whereas you get demerits for doing things that get you kicked out of servers, gagged, banned and so on. Users that have lots of demerits will get features taken away and will have to pay money for them to get them back. Like the ability to use text-chat, voice-chat, sprays, crafting, etc." Something along those lines.

How's this?

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Problem, officer?

Okay, so is this intended to be a Party poster, or a Candidiate poster? Because naturally the two will be different.

 

Brain is already storming.

Whichever you think will both win the competition, and curry the favor of the populace.

Most of the maps are custom, and at greatest would have elements copy-pasted from Valve maps.

This appears most prominently in the episode On a Rail.

The map area at 1:50 is taken from d1_town_05 in Half Life 2.

2:15 is taken from d1_canals_05.

2:31 is taken from d1_trainstation_01 and/or 06.

3:10 is taken from d1_canals_01.

Lost Coast was made to demonstrate some new technologies Valve had developed for the engine (namely a new Model system, and High-Dynamic Range Lighting) as well as test out Developer commentary.

Did you know that masked backwards into Nature Trail to Hell by Weird Al has the words "The Devil Eats Cheese Whiz"?

It got Yanni instead of Arvo Part, but hit Sam Bell right on the nose.

It got John Lasseter instead of Brad Bird.

It got Ratchet from Ratchet & Clank instead of Missile Mouse.

Perfectly accurate with Alan Shepard, although it could have just as easily mistook him for Virgil Grissom.

Now that we've got our names

• The Accursed Nation Party - J.C.
  The Bold Blue Party - Blue
  Sons of Norton party - Doom Shepard
  Neo-Rhino Party - alphabetagamma

We need to get the numbers and hit the ground running. Enter the three challenges that the Party Leaders must face (or have their subordinates face, for them). Each challenge is worth points. These points don't actually do anything directly in the final election, they simply state which party is better at what. The three challenges are the Photoshop Challenge, the Review Challenge and the Debate Challenge (in that order).

So today marks the first day in the first challenge, the Photoshop challenge. The objective is to prove your Party's ability in artistic expression, stylistic knowledge, technical knowledge and persuasive ability.

The limits are that the poster must be 400x600 or larger(portrait or landscape) and in the format JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP, and must be submitted before the Monday after next (July 11th), so you have two weeks to make the poster- make it a good one.

The judging will be based upon four criteria:

• a. Originality (How original the poster is in content)
  b. Ingenuity (Cleverness, wit or humor in the poster)
  c. Compellingness (Strength and influence of the message it has towards the party it supports (or against the parties it does not)
  d. Composition (Placement, organization, flow and/or motion of the visual elements of the poster)

Obviously this is also your parties opportunity to make some kind of badass signature or something in order to get the word out on your awesome party. Get the whole forum interested in why your party should be elected.

__________

And so by a panel of judges, we have a winner.

Our panel of external judges consist of a Vanja Lukac, Stefan Klippenstien, "Dean" and two others who wished to remain anonymous.

Awarded with zero points,

The Neo-Rhino Party - Alphabetagamma, submitted by Alphabetagamma

http://www.photoshop.com/products

Alternatively accepted submission

__________

Awarded with one point,

The Accursed Nation Party - J.C., submitted by J.C.

__________

Awarded with three points,

Sons of Norton Party - Doom Shepard, submitted by BTGBullseye

__________

Awarded with five points,

The Bold Blue Party - Blue, submitted by Blue

A pessimist says the glass is half empty.

An optimist says the glass is half full.

An engineer says the glass is twice as large as it needs to be.

Nope.avi

Alinster Hall Organist practicing doesn't fit.

I laugh whenever I think of what sort of ridiculous process it took for them to pass this for an M rating.

Four words:

"Rated M for Money"

Oh child. It's going to be a hack and slash adventurmania!

Be it known that members of the Bold Blue Party will not stab you.

The Rules state that your subordinates are allowed to make them for you.

Me too.

But can we bump it back four hours to 2pm Pacific time? I want to be able to accommodate a friend.

Unless there are no other nominations leading to party creations, Monday will conclude this year's Nominations; no other candidates will be accepted after the 27th. Additionally, that same Monday will begin the first challenge, the Photoshop competition.

"Big Iron" by Marty Robbins.

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day

Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say

No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip

for the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip

It was early in the morning when he rode into the town

He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around

He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip

And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip

big iron on his hip

In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red

Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead

He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four

And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more

One and nineteen more

Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around

Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town

He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead

And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red

After Texas Red

Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red

But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead

Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip

Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip

The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet

It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street

Folks were watching from the windows every-body held their breath

They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death

About to meet his death

There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play

And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today

Texas Red had not cleared leather fore a bullet fairly ripped

And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip

It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round

There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground

Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip

When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip

Big iron on his hip

Good idea: using a barbeque to make ribs.

Did you know that one of the fundamental precepts of Philosophy is the understanding that an object is what that object is?

What TVtropes calls "Shaped like itself" and "Captain Obvious" is part of Classical thinking! Thanks, Aristotle!

WHAT.

Proton torpedos.

Seeing as they're a technology that already exist. They're called torpedos.

Pipe organ or harpsicord?