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7 votes
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Elon Musk confronts a fateful tweet and an ‘excruciating’ year
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Any good text adventures?
I've been starting to play some interactive fiction and I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions for good games. So far I know about Zork and Anchorhead.
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Interest in a weekly or biweekly writing prompt?
One aspect of the Writing Prompts subreddit that frustrated me the most was that the submission that got the most responses was often the one that was submitted first. I found that in order to...
One aspect of the Writing Prompts subreddit that frustrated me the most was that the submission that got the most responses was often the one that was submitted first. I found that in order to ensure that I got feedback and criticism, I often found myself rushing or submitting sloppy work so that I could submit first. Often times I would ignore prompts I liked because other posts had already taken off.
I’d like to try something here that addresses some of those issues. I imagine it working like this:
- The first post would be a number of prompts that participants would choose from to be that week’s prompt.
- After a prompt is chosen, I wouldn’t accept submissions for one/two weeks to give people time to develop their ideas and submissions.
- A new post would be created for submissions for the past week’s prompt and providing a new list of potential prompts for the following week.
- Go to 2...
So long as it is practical, I will read and provide feedback and constructive criticisms for every submission.
I hope this encourages people to develop fledgling ideas as they have the time to let their ideas breathe and they have the promise of feedback at the end of it.
Of course this isn’t meant to replace other casual writing prompts.
Edit:
For those interested a few questions:
- Is one week enough time to write?
- Would it be better for the writing time to include the weekend?
- Would you be okay with certain restrictions like 1,500 words? Is that too many words? Too few?
Edit2:
Okay, I'll try to set this up!
Over the weekend I'll think up some prompts. Here's how I see it rolling out right now. Feel free to suggest other things as it's all fluid right now. I'm open to any and all suggestions.
- Monday, Aug 20, I'll post three or four prompts. I'll leave voting up to participants? Or maybe allow the whole Tildes community to vote on the kind of story or theme they would like to read (hopefully to bring writers more feedback)?
- Tuesday, Aug 21, I'll announce the weekly prompt. Remaining prompts with good support will be carried over to the following week? Remaining prompts with little support will be removed from the pool?
- The following Wednesday, Aug 29, I'll open a thread for the past week's submissions and post a pool of three or four prompts to choose from.
Not sure how voting for prompts will work, I'm thinking of posting the possible prompts in the comments and using Tilde's voting system.
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What do we want as a community?
Just got invited here and looking at the content of the front page, Tildes is basically a "poor-man's version" of reddit right now. That's OK: it's a new community and I imagine a big part of...
Just got invited here and looking at the content of the front page, Tildes is basically a "poor-man's version" of reddit right now. That's OK: it's a new community and I imagine a big part of users are coming here from reddit so they're doing what they're used to doing on social networks, that's only fair.
However, more than that, looking at the groups, they are set up pretty much similarly to reddit's default subs - if not on a 1:1 basis, at least in the general tone: pretty casual, daily life topics, big focus on entertainment media, etc. Maybe again this is, by design catering to the people who are bound to be incoming from reddit, so they can immediately relate to a similar user experience. Good.
So I think it's fair to say that it's proven that Tildes can be "like reddit". It kinda looks like reddit, it kinda feels like reddit. That part of the deal is covered. Now, what can makes us different? I doubt anyone here has no ambition besides being a soft-fork of reddit.
What topics make you tick? What sort of online discussion makes you go "that's the good stuff"? What subjects are you truly passionate about? I'd like to know what the community here is all about, whether the current ~groups represent their interests and passions or not and, hopefully we could come up with some less generic ideas for new ~groups out of the discussion.
EDIT I realize Tildes has a specific policy of "lesser active groups are better than a billion inactive groups" but at this point in time a good selection of groups would really help define the identity and content, not to mention promote quality discussion that actually aligns with people's interests. Hopefully seeing common trends in the replies would allow us to identify a few potential new groups, perhaps.
36 votes -
What Men Want | Official trailer
5 votes -
I don't trust Signal
18 votes -
Homicides in Guatemala. This project explores the challenges and lessons of disaggregating gang-related and drug trafficking-related murders
3 votes -
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one)
13 votes -
People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35
25 votes -
Diablo III Eternal Collection | Announcement video
16 votes -
Bill Gates: not enough people are paying attention to the trend of intangible assets making up more and more of the economy
26 votes -
Studio Trigger Staff Reminisce About Gainax and Look Ahead to Co-Productions
4 votes -
For centuries, alewives dominated the brewing industry
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Black Mirror S1E02 "Fifteen Million Merits" discussion thread
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 2 - Fifteen Million Merits After failing to impress the judges on a singing competition show, a woman must either...
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode
Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 2 - Fifteen Million Merits
After failing to impress the judges on a singing competition show, a woman must either perform degrading acts or return to a slave-like existence.
Warning: this thread contains spoilers about this episode! If you haven't seen it yet, please watch it and come back to this thread later.
You can talk about past episodes, but please don't discuss future episodes in this thread!
If you don't know what to say, here are some questions to get the discussion started:
- How does the title relate to the episode itself?
- Are there any similarities between real life events and the episode?
- Are there any references or easter eggs in the episode, such as references to past episodes?
21 votes -
StackExchange's new Code of Conduct
21 votes -
Andrew Weatherall - Blue Bullet
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Concatenated tags - how do they work?
I have a question about the technicalities of tagging, now that this ability is going to be spread around. I don't understand how concatenated tags work. I've seen occasional instances of tags...
I have a question about the technicalities of tagging, now that this ability is going to be spread around. I don't understand how concatenated tags work. I've seen occasional instances of tags that look like "abc.xyz", and I've seen technical discussions about tags like this, but I've never really been clear about what this does. What does a tag like "abc.xyz" mean? How does it work?
7 votes -
‘Watchmen’: HBO officially orders Damon Lindelof’s adaptation to series, sets 2019 release and cast list
11 votes -
Silent Planet - Share the Body (2018)
5 votes -
Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy with James Flynn
3 votes -
Make a statement about yourself, run it through Google translate 1 or more times and translate back into English. Post the final result.
Example: I enjoy eating a bowl of cereal after everybody goes to sleep. (English to Albanian. Albanian to Chinese. Chinese to English.) “After all, I like to eat a bowl of cereal after going to...
Example:
I enjoy eating a bowl of cereal after everybody goes to sleep.
(English to Albanian. Albanian to Chinese. Chinese to English.)
“After all, I like to eat a bowl of cereal after going to sleep”(I stole this from /r/threadgames, by the way. Apologies for my lack of creativity.)
23 votes -
Two French rivers disappear underground in large cracks and sinkholes
8 votes -
Low-income Canadians spend 9% of annual income on communications services: CRTC
8 votes -
The world's first floating farm making waves in Rotterdam
4 votes -
Mets’ 24-4 win over Phillies was comically historic
8 votes -
Religion and Education Around the World
7 votes -
underscores - skin purifying treatment (2018)
2 votes -
The grand old tradition of gaming at the library
6 votes -
What are your favourite podcasts?
I've been listening to a lot of podcasts recently. What are some of your favourites that you can recommend?
45 votes -
Dinosaur wars: Scientists behaving badly
7 votes -
Ajit Pai knew DDoS claim was false in January, says he couldn’t tell Congress
32 votes -
The $289 million verdict against Monsanto is scientifically outrageous
12 votes -
Pentagon says it's postponing US President Donald Trump's military parade
29 votes -
How SQLite Is Tested
9 votes -
Most CRA auditors polled say Canada's tax system is skewed to protect the wealthy
8 votes -
US DEA wants more marijuana grown and fewer opioids produced in 2019. Really.
8 votes -
Is there a gamedev community here?
I'm curious to find out if there are others here who are either amateur or professional game developers.
30 votes -
Dude, she’s (exactly twenty-five percent) out of your league
8 votes -
The AI of Doom (2016)
5 votes -
FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen
18 votes -
India monsoon floods 'kill 164' in Kerala
8 votes -
One Piece Chapter 914: Okobore, the town of leftovers
6 votes -
Shannon Shaw — Bring Her The Mirror (2018)
3 votes -
This burrito includes an arbitration clause
8 votes -
Your favorite manga?
Figured since we had a favorite anime thread, we could have one for manga as well. Talk about your favorite one or two or however many you want!
9 votes -
North Ayrshire Council offers free menstrual products
4 votes -
Reports of the death of mayonnaise have been greatly exaggerated
7 votes -
Swiping down to reload when on mobile?
Would be really handy to have this gesture when browsing on a phone. My (many?) browsers don't have a visible reload button and clicking the logo brings you back to the main page.
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How would I go about getting notifications for this site on mobile?
Is the functionality for that built in yet?
6 votes