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Can we institute a "no British people" rule?
Well, there goes my entire cast of characters.... 
So, I guess, judging from the consensus, that the new Guidelines go into effect for the next story (Vanguard #15)? This would probably be the best time to begin enforcing them...
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First we have to rewrite them, I guess. I presented them slightly modified, but nobody seemed to have noticed... 
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I'm sorry, Euro. I should have clarified. I am including the revisions, and I'll rewrite the guidelines to fit them. Specifically, I am talking about the changing of the "one story" to the "three-month" period, as suggested by you. Also, I will adapt guideline #7 from TTT. Danny's pot-out-of-luck, though. Ah' like tha' Brits, Guv'...but I hate trying to write their accent.  Anyone else have any suggestions?
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No more nitpicking.
"Hello, kettle? This is the pot... YOU'RE BLACK!!!"
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And no more over-used, worn-out phrases...  Get some new ones, already!
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And no more over-used, worn-out phrases... Get some new ones, already!
Ditto.
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Aside from the above joking around, I do think we as a group are guilty of being VERY quick to criticize each other's writings and faults and VERY slow to praise each other's writings and strengths. It contributes to negativity between all of us and a lousy "group work ethic" (substitute the word "work" with something more applicable) if that makes any sense. I think we tend to take this stuff a bit too seriously -- and I'm the first to admit that I'm just as guilty as anyone. Perhaps it's somewhat fortunate, then, that I don't have as much time to devote to the boards from now on as I used to have due to having five college courses this semester. I'm forced to treat this as more of a hobby/diversion than I did when I had more free time.
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Danny's pot-out-of-luck, though. Ah' like tha' Brits, Guv'...but I hate trying to write their accent.
I didn't mean no British characters. Just no British posters.
And one tip; not all British people have the h-less cockney accent. There's a variety of British accents, not all as pronounced. Biznotch.
Thing is- I can’t spell or type. I spell so badly my spell check doesn’t even know what I was trying to spell. And I have five Eisners HAHAHAHHA!!
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And one tip; not all British people have the h-less cockney accent. There's a variety of British accents, not all as pronounced. Biznotch.
Which is why I try writing Grissom with a smoother, upper-class tilt, than Z's straight mutt-cockney. But, hey, I see your point, and I don't want to become the next Chris Claremont. Any tips are greatly appreciated.
And I'm liking this new catch-phrase you're trying to work out. I can see your autobiography already....
From Wankers to Biznotch: The Danny Story
You should let Mxy write the forward. Grimm can be your publicity agent. Doc can have you on his talkshow Fuck You All, Stupid Bastards, along with guest-stars TTT-Boy, the legendary Canadian pornstar (known for his 'nipples of doom'), and the PPM-Dictator of Italy, Emperor Guido Sardella.
I, of course, will be the literary critic that complains about the lack of sex during the middle chapters, and wonders what the author's obsession with midget prostitutes is all about.
Of course, then, you'll get the TV movie deal, and the book will sit at #3 on the New York Times Best Sellers List for a solid sixteen weeks (right behind Hitchhiker's Guide to Being an International Asshole: A Six-Step Strategery by former President George W. Bush, Jr., and, of course, Chewy's sordid tell-all I Am Not God, but I Do A Great Impression).
But, Chewy's book will slide to #4 pretty quickly afterwards, with the general consensus that it came too quickly after his Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Life Less Phil-ish, and didn't contain as many scenes of anal-fondling as that great epic. Also, in a bizarre, yet fitting, turn of events, the DNA strand that mapped out George Jr.'s frontal lobe ultimately mistakes itself for vegetable matter, and his brain morphs into a small piece of steamed cabbage. When this has no effect on him whatsoever, the conservative movement beats him to death with copies of his own book, convinced that he must be the great beast of Revelations.
Your book soars to #1, and public opinion sways into your favor. I, on the other hand, become hounded and threatened, due to my scathing review. I go on the run for a few years, while you steadily rise the ladder of fame and fortune. Convinced that the entire population of Earth is wrong, and that I am right, I begin my life's quest in finding a way to topple you from power.
By this time, you've fallen into your Pagan-worshipping phase, and have already sacrificed Grimm and Mxy to your gods, because, let's face it, virgins are hard to come by.
Meanwhile, I've made contact with a like-minded recluse that shares my need for your destruction...Kristogar Velo. Unfortunately, it turns out Velo really IS only twelve, and won't share any clue to his personality with others.
At this point, you've already unified almost every continent under Australian rule, and have given the use of the word 'continuity' the penalty of death.
You and Euro have a five-year war over this. In the end, you convince PPM-Dictator Sardella that history is created from singular perspectives, and that there can never be any true continuity in anything. Considering this, Euro promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
Meanwhile, Doc, your long-standing Vice-President, and I have fought many exciting battles with each other, always reaching a stalemate. I finally remove him from the equation by stranding him in a Swedish bordello named 'Large and In-Charge', owned by the former editor-in-chief of the classic smut-mag Tons-O-Fun, Phil Smith.
On the fiftieth-year of your rule, you and I have our final confrontation, where you easily kill me with a boomerang-throwing kangaroo.
It is, only, after my body is cremated, and the ash is free-based by retired-pornstar-turned-billionaire TTT, that you find a nice, comfortable spot in your brain for a .44 Magnum bullet to sit. And, in your last, fleeting moment of thought, you find that you are not suprised that it is the bitter Chewy Walrus that pulled the trigger.
Chewy, of course, proceeds to mutate and transform into the actual beast of Revelations, laying waste to humanity as we know it, and proving once and for all.......
....the devil is always the one you least suspect....
So, given that, maybe you should drop the catchphrase.
Or, don't. Whatever.
I'm bored with you now....
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And one tip; not all British people have the h-less cockney accent. There's a variety of British accents, not all as pronounced. Biznotch.
Which is why I try writing Grissom with a smoother, upper-class tilt, than Z's straight mutt-cockney. But, hey, I see your point, and I don't want to become the next Chris Claremont. Any tips are greatly appreciated.
And I'm liking this new catch-phrase you're trying to work out. I can see your autobiography already....
From Wankers to Biznotch: The Danny Story
You should let Mxy write the forward. Grimm can be your publicity agent. Doc can have you on his talkshow Fuck You All, Stupid Bastards, along with guest-stars TTT-Boy, the legendary Canadian pornstar (known for his 'nipples of doom'), and the PPM-Dictator of Italy, Emperor Guido Sardella.
I, of course, will be the literary critic that complains about the lack of sex during the middle chapters, and wonders what the author's obsession with midget prostitutes is all about.
Of course, then, you'll get the TV movie deal, and the book will sit at #3 on the New York Times Best Sellers List for a solid sixteen weeks (right behind Hitchhiker's Guide to Being an International Asshole: A Six-Step Strategery by former President George W. Bush, Jr., and, of course, Chewy's sordid tell-all I Am Not God, but I Do A Great Impression).
But, Chewy's book will slide to #4 pretty quickly afterwards, with the general consensus that it came too quickly after his Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Life Less Phil-ish, and didn't contain as many scenes of anal-fondling as that great epic. Also, in a bizarre, yet fitting, turn of events, the DNA strand that mapped out George Jr.'s frontal lobe ultimately mistakes itself for vegetable matter, and his brain morphs into a small piece of steamed cabbage. When this has no effect on him whatsoever, the conservative movement beats him to death with copies of his own book, convinced that he must be the great beast of Revelations.
Your book soars to #1, and public opinion sways into your favor. I, on the other hand, become hounded and threatened, due to my scathing review. I go on the run for a few years, while you steadily rise the ladder of fame and fortune. Convinced that the entire population of Earth is wrong, and that I am right, I begin my life's quest in finding a way to topple you from power.
By this time, you've fallen into your Pagan-worshipping phase, and have already sacrificed Grimm and Mxy to your gods, because, let's face it, virgins are hard to come by.
Meanwhile, I've made contact with a like-minded recluse that shares my need for your destruction...Kristogar Velo. Unfortunately, it turns out Velo really IS only twelve, and won't share any clue to his personality with others.
At this point, you've already unified almost every continent under Australian rule, and have given the use of the word 'continuity' the penalty of death.
You and Euro have a five-year war over this. In the end, you convince PPM-Dictator Sardella that history is created from singular perspectives, and that there can never be any true continuity in anything. Considering this, Euro promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
Meanwhile, Doc, your long-standing Vice-President, and I have fought many exciting battles with each other, always reaching a stalemate. I finally remove him from the equation by stranding him in a Swedish bordello named 'Large and In-Charge', owned by the former editor-in-chief of the classic smut-mag Tons-O-Fun, Phil Smith.
On the fiftieth-year of your rule, you and I have our final confrontation, where you easily kill me with a boomerang-throwing kangaroo.
It is, only, after my body is cremated, and the ash is free-based by retired-pornstar-turned-billionaire TTT, that you find a nice, comfortable spot in your brain for a .44 Magnum bullet to sit. And, in your last, fleeting moment of thought, you find that you are not suprised that it is the bitter Chewy Walrus that pulled the trigger.
Chewy, of course, proceeds to mutate and transform into the actual beast of Revelations, laying waste to humanity as we know it, and proving once and for all.......
....the devil is always the one you least suspect....
So, given that, maybe you should drop the catchphrase.
Or, don't. Whatever.
I'm bored with you now....
All the while Gooz slept through everything...
Have you ever looked into a mirror and wondered if behind it was another world, the same... but totally different?- Reflection (2002) UTOPIAN PRODUCTIONS
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All the while Gooz slept through everything...
Dude, isn't it obvious?
I'm warning you about your future!
Now, go beat the hell out of Danny....
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Meanwhile, Doc, your long-standing Vice-President, and I have fought many exciting battles with each other, always reaching a stalemate. I finally remove him from the equation by stranding him in a Swedish bordello named 'Large and In-Charge', owned by the former editor-in-chief of the classic smut-mag Tons-O-Fun, Phil Smith.
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Dude, isn't it obvious?
I'm warning you about your future!
Now, go beat the hell out of Danny....
But that could catalyze everything!!!!
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everything is getting their balls cut off?
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everything is getting their balls cut off?
Marshall took my balls from me. . .
said I wouldn't need them at this rate.
Halle Bopp's comin soon, you see.
Tonight we're knocking on Heaven's Gate
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...Pro thinks too much.
Are my words too big?
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But that could catalyze everything!!!!
.....Sears catalog did what, now?
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everything is getting their balls cut off?
If you really loved me, you wouldn't ask why!
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So, Pro, post the rewritten rules and let's vote!
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I cant be arsed reading all these posts but what I will say is this all gives me less reason to post,the moment rules start being applied it stops being fun!
Its a sad day indeed when The MBL becomes a business!
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I cant be arsed reading all these posts but what I will say is this all gives me less reason to post,the moment rules start being applied it stops being fun!
Its a sad day indeed when The MBL becomes a business!
I don't like it when you post what I had already been thinking. And you've been doing it way too often lately.
And that's terrible.
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The fact is that there is a big mistake behind the Hero Revolution Universe, and it's the use, at some point, of the MBL acronym (sp.).
The HR is derivative of TOMB, and has the similar rules of THAT fiction.
The MBL died long ago, not because had rules, but because basically nobody, aside a few desperate aficionados like I-Man, Gooz, TTT, me and a very few others, were writing it.
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Euro's right. The HR/Vanguard stuff is not the MBL, and it shouldn't be. The guidelines proposed are similar to the ones used in TOMB, and were put forward in an effort to deal with the things that were taking the fun away from the stories. A lot of us here who are actively writing in the stories are tired of all the infighting, and want to make things easier, not only for ourselves, but for any new (or old) posters who want to join in.
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Just closing up this thread, as the discussion has moved over to the Ethics and Guidelines thread. The rest of the usual bullshit can continue in the talk threads...
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