Critics In the Play Ground Recruitment Thread

[ArlEammon]

11-16-08

According to the Forum rules.. something like an Anti-D&D group is allowed, but an Anti-Gygax group would not. I'm curious as to whether I could form an "Anti-Everything" user group or club.

Anti all fictions.... not literally "against" fiction, but a group where works of fiction are criticized even by loyal fans. There would be special members....
For instance, fans of Star Wars would be Star Wars Specialists, while fans of Star Trek would be Star Trek specialists. (although specialists would include those who have alot of knowledge and dislike about certain subjects as well.)

We might have threads that discuss movies.... etcetera.. Or shows, or video game reviews.... That sort of thing, as well. Maybe even share poetry or art work with eachother.

1-12-09
I have a moderately positive review for recruiting, so I would like to start a membership here.
Please, in order to join The Critics In the Playground, use the following application:
Name:
Title: (What is your club name?)
Job: (What are you best able to criticize?)

[Athaniar]

Club name?

[Haruki-kun]

http://www.funnycatpix.com/_pics/relevant_to_my_interests1.jpg

[Vella_Malachite]

Well, hey, why not?

Name: Vella Malachite
Club Name: ...I'm not sure what to do with this bit...
Specialty: Fantasy novels.

[ArlEammon]

Club name?

Just a nickname

[sktarq]

Name: Tarq it's shorter and easier to pronounce than the full 3 sylable thing
Title: Sultan of Sarcasm
Critic of: Food, Movies, Litrature, Science Papers (as in those published by Nature and/or Science type publications and being drawn on for quotes-need copy of original article for critiques)

[Sneak]

Name: Sneak
Title: Troll in the Playground (:smallwink:)
Job: Pretty much everything, I guess. Food, Films, TV Shows, Novels, Music, Standup Comedy, Comics, Webcomics, Software, Video Games, Mints, Stressballs, Board Games, Headphones/Earbuds.

Ayep.

Should probably narrow that down a bit. :smalltongue:

[KerfuffleMach2]

Name: KerfuffleMach2
Title: The Almighty Fluffy One.
Job: A jack of all trades. I will criticize anything and everything. Or, I'll attempt to, at least.

[Haruki-kun]

Name: Haruki
Title: The Sarcastic Seraphim
Job: Animé/Manga

[Innis Cabal]

Name: Innis Cabal
Title: The New Bourdain
Job: Manga, Music, Food

[13_CBS]

Name: 13_CBS
Title: The Only Silence
Specialties: Classical music performance

[Jokerz]

Name: Jokerz
Title: Snappy snarker
Job: Novels, movies.

[Raiser Blade]

Name: Raiser "the yellow dart" B1ade
Title: See above.
Specialties: Movies, Food, Music, TV shows

[Thanatos 51-50]

http://www.funnycatpix.com/_pics/relevant_to_my_interests1.jpg

Indeed.

So, what, are we gunna get a blogspot for this or something?

Name: Thanatos
NICKname: Death God
Speciality: travel, videogames (Hyperspecialization - Stealth games, WRPGs), People, life in general, the (US) military (Navy).

[Mx.Silver]

So in.

Name: Mr. Silver
Title: The Pedantic Perfectionist
Speciality: Webcomics, Music, Books, Films and TV (both animated and live action), Videogames (mainly RPG and Strategy).

[Athaniar]

Might as well give it a try.

Name: Lord Xavius
Title: (It's hard to come up with one... give me some time)
Job: Not quite sure... fantasy (especially Warcraft) and sci-fi, I guess, especially Star Wars, Star Trek, and perhaps Doctor Who, and maybe even some smaller series. Also, webcomics might be interesting. But nothing technological/scientific, I'm no good at that. Some other things as well, maybe.

[Player_Zero]

I am anti-this thread. Playground is one word.

[ArlEammon]

Uh.. .Ok. :)

So, everyone is approved so far.

[Canadian]

Name: Canadian

Title: Critical Ms.

Specialty: Hypocritical.

[wadledo]

Name: wadledo

Title: The Cynic

Specialty: Classical Literature, Poetry, Modern Fantasy and Sci-fi Literature, People Who Can't Bloody Spell.

[Vuzzmop]

Name: Vuzzmop

Title: The Voice.

Specialty: movies, tv shows or literature. Its all good.

[TheBST]

Name: TheBST
Title: The Contrarian
Job: Books I have not read, music I have not listened to, films I will never see. Specializes in irking purists.

[Thanatos 51-50]

Heh, I went ahead and created a blogger blog entitled "Critics in the Playground" (http://playgroundcritics.blogspot.com/)

I guess that means send me a PM with your blogger account names and I'll set you up as an author/contributor.

If we're going to Criticise, we may as well advertise.

[Haruki-kun]

Heh, I went ahead and created a blogger blog entitled "Critics in the Playground" (http://playgroundcritics.blogspot.com/)

I guess that means send me a PM with your blogger account names and I'll set you up as an author/contributor.

If we're going to Criticise, we may as well advertise.

Joined.

Alright, so... how is this gonna work? We just post whatever we want whenever we want? Or should we set up a few rules here?

[Thanatos 51-50]

Obviously, we're there to Criticise.
When and what to criticise, however, is what I see as your question. Videogame critics are a dime a dozen, I guess we can do that if nothing else.

But, say, when Haruki feels the need to rant on the Mexican University systems, or when I want to review a hotel I went to or something, I'll put it up.

While we're small, we can be pretty informal. If we get alot of playgrounders interested, we can try to organise a bit, I guess.
"Post something every Friday" seems like a good rule of thumb for like, me, at least, You could post on Saturdays or whatever. S'not like we're paying anyone OR making money here, right? A schedule shouldn't really matter that much.

[Haruki-kun]

Obviously, we're there to Criticise.
When and what to criticise, however, is what I see as your question. Videogame critics are a dime a dozen, I guess we can do that if nothing else.

But, say, when Haruki feels the need to rant on the Mexican University systems, or when I want to review a hotel I went to or something, I'll put it up.

While we're small, we can be pretty informal. If we get alot of playgrounders interested, we can try to organise a bit, I guess.
"Post something every Friday" seems like a good rule of thumb for like, me, at least, You could post on Saturdays or whatever. S'not like we're paying anyone OR making money here, right? A schedule shouldn't really matter that much.

Might work, but I personally refuse to post on anything outside my area of expertise. I just think we should probably limit the frequency with which one person can post. There's just too many people here to be able to post any time.

[Athaniar]

If we're not doing this on this site, then I'll probably drop out.

[ArlEammon]

Lets make an OOC thread in the OOC and Finding Players site.

[SilverSheriff]

Name: Black Pants Guy
Title: Sponker of Noggins.
Job: Multiple SciFi/Fantasy series, Roleplaying games, Foods, Work Places, People, anything else worth talking about.