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Despite the terrible posts I make I can write well when I need to
it's really very frustrating working for a company and seeing your marketing and corporate presentations going out with horrible grammatical errors (not to mention often terrible design) and not being able to do anything about it
i would absolutely volunteer & help you for free, but i have a shitload of design work right now, so i pretty much have to charge, otherwise i can't pay for food/art supplies
I'll do it for toblerone
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
For a while, we were sending all our press releases out without an editing pass.
This has since changed, but oh my god was it annoying.
No no, I totally understand, that's why I asked about fees, because I understand I'd have to pay
Anyway, I'm talking way in the future, maybe a year or two. And it's not for publication, just for a friend, but I'd still probably get a couple of people to read it over and make sure it reads well.
oh, if it's way in the future then absolutely hit me up
Except I had traveled back in time and was infiltrating a boat or something filled with terrorists.
Only the terrorists had also traveled back in time and they came from 1989 or something.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
Dude, I would totally send chips and, well, the human contact may be hard to manage unless you're in the bay area
the more the merrier!
well one of the reasons I also mentioned the "who is paying" part is that is if it were you, I'd totally do it for free
for people I don't know or acquaintances and stuff it'd probably be about US$0.05 a word, lower if it's a large document, higher if it's needed within 18 hours
I will take you up on that one day. You wont know when, you won't know where. But i will send a message first to give you an idea.
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Too much work to do.
http://atlanticus.tumblr.com/
but what can you do
this sounds way more fun that you probably intended it to sound
I'm a cheap (free) and vicious editor. I also know a guy who's been editing newspapers for awhile, if you want somebody with experience, and he probably wouldn't cost that much if he's interested.
But honestly it may end up being so long I feel like I'll have to at least pay people a token amount otherwise I'll be consumed by guilt
hell the only reason my English is so good (in a technical sense) is because I busted my ass to LEARN the damn language in the first place
I was in ESL for a whole fucking year back when I was in grade 3, that sucked
Sounds about right
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I had one of our editors come in the other day and chat with me for a bit. Asked me if I was interested in an editing job, and I had to say I wasn't. My reason - 'I don't actually know the rules of grammar. I'm like the Potter Stewart of grammar. I couldn't define the rules, but I know when something's wrong.'
I never really did any heavy reading on the actual rules of grammar. I've just read and written enough that I generally know what they are by instinct.
nah it'll probably be pretty fun actually
a hell of a lot better than doing stuff for a job
Actually, almost all my high level electives in college were creative writing courses. Maybe one day I'll get a minor and write a short novel or something.
Which brings me to a geeky story about college.
I once was torn up about a girl and the movie I chose to wallow in grief to, later in the day, was Donnie Darko.
Secret Satan
so? buy a copy of the chicago manual of style and the elements of style and go to town
nobody knows rules off the top of they head, they look it up
and eventually they get that shit memorized
He told me to insert the Life Line card into my anus!
Orik knows what the fuck is up.
My favorite High School English teacher gifted me with the Elements of Style as a graduation gift.
I didn't know how to speak any language until i was almost five and i couldn't read until i was 7 or 8.
My parents must have thought i was retarded. Now i'm the smart one. Except with english there i just kinda grunt and point. point and grunt.
So my mother told me if I learned to tread a particular book she'd buy me an NES.
It worked pretty well.
Secret Satan
Well, part two of that story is that I'm being quietly recruited by another department, except this one is a content creation one and I really want a job with them.
But I didn't really think it was germane to the story I was telling, so I left it out. Basically I was just really proud of the Potter Stewart thing.
I AM WRITING THE SHIT OUT OF THIS ARTICLE
currently having problems keeping it to 800 words (as recommended by the individual who gave me this idea in the first place)
but whatever I'm going to write it out and then shave it back
You're English, though! You're not allowed to admit weakness with the language, it just gives us colonials more ammunition.
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This is basically me.
http://atlanticus.tumblr.com/
I need to get my hands on Elements of Style, though
that's the spirit! you go, girl, he said and then immediately regretted it