06-24-2003, 11:33 PM
The Lurker Lounge Proudly Presents a Competition
Based on the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
The Diablo-Lounger D2 Strategy Guide/Fanfiction Contest
Are your words worth less than the pixel they're printed on?
When you post, do you feel a constant need to nit yourself?
Do you ever wish for a D2 guide of the same calibre as Prima's D1 guide?
When you're hit on the head, is there an echo?
If not, what the blazes are you waiting for?
Lower your standards and -- No, lower. Still lower. Keep lowering them. Right there! Perfect!
Prove your worth in a most unintellectual intellectual contest by writing the absolute worst introductory sentence to a fictitious D2 Guide or fanfiction in our very own pseudo-Bulwer-Lytton contest! Make your fellow Loungers spit-take during their morning coffee and win fabulous prizes! Here's how!
The Rules
Write the worst introductory sentence to a D2 guide or D2 fanfiction. Like Bulwer-Lytton, the goal is good writing but utterly atrocious content. Examples from the real contest
On Thread Structure
1) Post your ENTRY in reply to this message. Post only ENTRIES in reply to this message.
2) Replies to entries are permitted. Replies to entries are not considered entries.
3) Please give ENTRY posts a title of some sort.
4) E-mail and Private Message submissions are not accepted.
On ENTRY Content
1) ENTRY length is a mere one sentence.
2) ENTRIES must be either a GUIDE or FANFIC relevant to D2. (Please specify somewhere in your post.)
3) A faux title and author may be submitted to accompany your entry sentence, but they alone will not win.
4) Parodies of existing works (other guides, real novels, etc.) are permitted.
On Other Things
1) Posters may submit multiple entries, to a maximum of 5.
2) Contest ends July 8 or when the thread is closed.
3) The Contest is not an excuse to soil the Lounge. A post that would be moderated under normal circumstances will still be moderated.
On Winning
1) The Mods of the Lounge Table will alone decide the winner.
2) Mods can enter but cannot win.
3) There can be only one.
On the Prize
The Winner receives their very own Lurker Lounge title of their choosing!
Based on the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
The Diablo-Lounger D2 Strategy Guide/Fanfiction Contest
Are your words worth less than the pixel they're printed on?
When you post, do you feel a constant need to nit yourself?
Do you ever wish for a D2 guide of the same calibre as Prima's D1 guide?
When you're hit on the head, is there an echo?
If not, what the blazes are you waiting for?
Lower your standards and -- No, lower. Still lower. Keep lowering them. Right there! Perfect!
Prove your worth in a most unintellectual intellectual contest by writing the absolute worst introductory sentence to a fictitious D2 Guide or fanfiction in our very own pseudo-Bulwer-Lytton contest! Make your fellow Loungers spit-take during their morning coffee and win fabulous prizes! Here's how!
The Rules
Write the worst introductory sentence to a D2 guide or D2 fanfiction. Like Bulwer-Lytton, the goal is good writing but utterly atrocious content. Examples from the real contest
On Thread Structure
1) Post your ENTRY in reply to this message. Post only ENTRIES in reply to this message.
2) Replies to entries are permitted. Replies to entries are not considered entries.
3) Please give ENTRY posts a title of some sort.
4) E-mail and Private Message submissions are not accepted.
On ENTRY Content
1) ENTRY length is a mere one sentence.
2) ENTRIES must be either a GUIDE or FANFIC relevant to D2. (Please specify somewhere in your post.)
3) A faux title and author may be submitted to accompany your entry sentence, but they alone will not win.
4) Parodies of existing works (other guides, real novels, etc.) are permitted.
Quote:(Example)
Towards the end of v1.09, after a storm of cheater-account deletion, during elevenses one morning, a hobo in a USWest Retail channel spammed at full speed, "My precious SoJ missing is, deleted by vile accursed Blizzardses!" --From The Idiot by Frodo Dostoyevsky
On Other Things
1) Posters may submit multiple entries, to a maximum of 5.
2) Contest ends July 8 or when the thread is closed.
3) The Contest is not an excuse to soil the Lounge. A post that would be moderated under normal circumstances will still be moderated.
On Winning
1) The Mods of the Lounge Table will alone decide the winner.
2) Mods can enter but cannot win.
3) There can be only one.
On the Prize
The Winner receives their very own Lurker Lounge title of their choosing!