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Not necessarily - you can write as long as you want. You can ramble on forever about the various shortcomings of Babar.

Hehe, Adeel, what a very strange typo on my part!

Ok, we're on!
Please check your respective thread to begin the rumbling.
Oh and you have 24 hours to respond to each other, as per Baron's request. Of course, you can respond as quickly as you want (to make it more exciting for everyone)

Adeel is automatically qualified for next round.

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http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49139.0

SUNNY PENGUIN VERSUS BARON

Let the insulting begin.
The penguin is first out to deliver his post-o-insultativeness!!

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http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49139.0

ICEY VERSUS ERIC

Let the insulting begin.
Icey is first out to deliver his post-o-insultativeness!!

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MIGUEL VERSUS RADIANT

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Miguel is first out to deliver his post-o-insultativeness!!

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CAPTAIN D VERSUS RYAN TIMOTHY

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The captain is first out to deliver his post-o-insultativeness!!

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BABAR VS STUPOT

Let the insulting begin.
Babar is first out to deliver his post-o-insultiveness!!

About me being a teacher etc:

Yeah I absolutely agree that games nowadays are being dumbed down and streamlined just to make sure the player won't have to spend valuable minutes finding out how the game actually works on their own.

Years back I played the vanilla WoW. But when I watched some kids in school play it recently, I realized that so much was changed in this direction that the game appeared to be some kind of easy version of the WoW I had played. They just ran around and XPs somehow just rained over them with zero effort, and acquiring epic weapons was done in a matter of minutes.

I spoke to a friend who had tried Guild wars 2, and he explained that there was basically no easing in going on in terms of game material - all skills and places and monsters and special effects were shoved in the face of the player immediately. Instead you had tutorial stuff going on, explaining everything.

So my conclusion is that these days you can't really present a game slowly to the player, like back when I started playing WoW and I was walking around in a big nice forest on my own for hours and hours with virtually no gear and maybe one or two skills, while learning how to play the bloody game, so instead all the awesomeness has to be presented at once to impress people and get their attention, and in return you have to dumb down every single rule or obstacle lest it gets far too hard to manage.

Long sentence.

And yeah, I guess we teachers don't put funny hats on pupils that answer incorrectly anymore, but that's a slightly different issue - if I respond encouragingly to someone who gave an incorrect answer, I've probably ensured that the child in question dares to try again, instead of forever muting them.

Sure, there's a lot of pampering going on in schools today - you virtually can't fail a student without raising hell everywhere, no matter how lousy they are - but the part where we give constructive feedback to failures is not the problem

Crikey! The past just called.
I'd say this is definitely not worth hassle! Let in rest in peace

This topic has been moved to The Rumpus Room.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49147.0

I'm not sure Rumpus deserves this, but...

Yeah, too easy I guess

Oh, right, my turn!

I will sign up if each round is extended to 24 hours (from the current 10), as I don't have around the clock access to the internet.  Do you really need to be insulted 2.4 times per day?

Fair enough!

Call it what you will, that's not the point here.

Since Monkey persists in writing it "Amerikaan" for some contrived reason and making a deal about how  "America" apparently should only be used to refer to the region during the 18th century, I'd say it's a pretty big point. If it wasn't the point, the thread wouldn't have "Amerikaan" in its title, right? So I say let people address that too.

Oh, yes, absolutely. Solved.
That was pretty tricky but fun. It was funny that we couldn't just google the answer, and it took the combined thinking of several members. One more please! These shouldn't be too hard to construct.

Bridge over river Kwai?

(Hey guys, if you want to do this in a more organized fashion, check this out
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49139.new#new )

[The remarkable insult sword fighting competition!]

The remarkable insult sword fighting competition!*

* No actual swords are involved.

Rules are simple. You sign up here. When the registration process is over, I'll randomly pit duelists against each other. They then trade insults until the time is up, and the others will vote for the winner. Rhyming will render bonus points. Failure to respond within the allocated time will result in walkover.

Phase one, registration
We will let people sign up here for a couple of days before the fights begin.

Phase two, duelling
Using incredibly advanced randomizing algorithms I will assign the pairs, and start up the match-threads, and say who begins.
Rules for insult sword fighting:
* You must reply within 24 hours, or it's a WO. Otherwise this will drag on forever.
* You may never double post.
* You may not edit your post after the remorse-period of a minute (if there's an "edited" message in your post, you're out!)
* You don't have to rhyme, but it's great if you do! Oh and you can't end all your insults with "orange" just to sabotage.
* Unlike MI, our insults can vary in length, and be several lines long. There are no limits here, really.
* All matches last for 5 days.
* This should be a fun competition, so don't go overboard with personal insults. However, you must tolerate a certain amount of mockery, or this won't make sense. So don't join if you're totally super sensitive. For instance, if I joined, I would have to prepare myself to be mocked for being so provokingly awesome.

Phase three, voting
When the first round of duelling is over, I will open a poll for each and every thread, and the general populace will get to vote for a period of two days.

Phase four, round two
While the losers of round 1 will fade away in shame, the winners will be pitted against each others in a second round like a band of rabid hounds... pitted against... another band of rabid hounds. So it's basically phase 1 through 3 all over again. Until there's only one person standing. And that's how we play Insult Sword Fighting.

SIGN UP NOW!

What is that green pus oozing from your crusted, putrid nipples?

Hm, let me guess, it's... Oh wait this wasn't the riddle thread oops never mind me