Cadillac for admin 2008

[SilverClock]

Cadillac would be much too lenient on me, and I deserve to be punished.

[SageClock]

Still working on the Clocktopia/InternetCult thing, but I don't expect it'll really get off the ground until we get the gallery full of stuff and people wanting to contribute to it.

I wish you guys the best of luck with it, seriously, as it would be nice to get different views out there of what the Crew should be focusing on. I'm starting to feel this site is getting too monolithic myself, but I really don't have the time to invest in alternatives right now as there's way too many projects on my plate (also, I think a lot of you guys might not be too fond of it, so I'd have to put it on a separate domain until it was proven to work better, like you guys are pursuing).

I'll find time for the Movie Archive, but I don't think I could code a whole new site with a focus on creative activities and minimizing reliance on forums, at least not yet.

Maybe I should try to draw up some of my ideas though, so that someone with the coding skills and more time than I do can look into it and possibly incorporate some of the ideas into their site.

[SilverClock]

I wish you guys the best of luck with it, seriously, as it would be nice to get different views out there of what the Crew should be focusing on. I'm starting to feel this site is getting too monolithic myself, but I really don't have the time to invest in alternatives right now as there's way too many projects on my plate (also, I think a lot of you guys might not be too fond of it, so I'd have to put it on a separate domain until it was proven to work better, like you guys are pursuing). I'll find time for the Movie Archive, but I don't think I could code a whole new site with a focus on creative activities and minimizing reliance on forums, at least not yet. Maybe I should try to draw up some of my ideas though, so that someone with the coding skills and more time than I do can look into it and possibly incorporate some of the ideas into their site.

.....zZZ

[DWARFINATORclock]

DigitalLemon for admin.

[skeletal]

Ermmmm I'm just gonna have to come out and embarass myself by asking what the internetcult thing is all about and what drama has gone on? I'll attempt to excuse myself by saying I've been away for a looooooong time.

[coalclock]

Why is it every admin we have here has "too much on" or is too busy also 80% of the mods here are shit and don't ban faggots on sight!

[SilverClock]

I'd have Tremclad and Golden for those jobs. Not that I wouldn't watch with anxious eyes.

Golden would be too distracted with kitty cats.

[SageClock]

.....zZZ

Heh, cute. Although here's everything on my plate right now:

• I'm really trying to get the first draft of one of my novels finished finally, and a copy printed with Lulu before a friend goes overseas for a couple months next month so she has the time to check it out and give me some solid feedback on it. By doing this I'll also figure out how Lulu works enough that I can probably pursue making a Clock Crew story compilation through Lulu as well. This has been my main focus for the past few weeks.
• Proximity HD needs to be made, somehow. I have to put a LOT of time into adding the things I want to add, and fleshing it out into a full game and not a free demo. I might even have to develop the game myself, which basically means a year of intense work by itself, pretty much. Subtasks for this include: leaning how to use 3D modeling tools, learning how to program in 3D, learning how to do network programming, reworking the game so it can incorporate all the requirements needed for an XBLA game, reworking the engine so it can support localization to multiple languages besides English. None of these tasks is a simple or easy affair.
• At the same time, I really want to make a board game version of Proximity, that takes a lot of lessons I'm learning from studying chess to make the game a solid and deep strategy game to give it a new ruleset and design that keeps its core gameplay while still making it a feasible board game. This will require a lot of playtesting and design work, and I would also like to make a PC version of it with multiplayer and ratings like in chess. There's a PC framework developer that wants to work with me in a partnership on this (or any game, really), and wants me to make something for them as soon as possible, which if I pursue it means no free time for awhile! But maybe some good money down the road.
• I need to learn as much as I can about the ins and outs of development for PSP, PS3, Wii, WiiWare, and XBOX 360 so I can be prepared for when we finally start doing internal development at our company and I start managing a team, so I don't look like an idiot to people that are hired under me with more experience in development than I do. This includes Certification Requirements, tools available for development and how they work (and there are tons of tools), low level hardware information, and what Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo like and prefer to see on their platforms. I should also try to learn everything I skipped/didn't get covered in college (scripting languages, statistics, algorithms, design patterns, best coding practices/standards that should be used by our company, etc.... also very time consuming).
• I also need to come up with as many game concepts as I can that my company would want to pursue so we can have some solid concepts that might make us a lot of money and get me my internal development team so I can start working on games at work and delegate the duties I don't want to bother with.
• My brother wants to rebuild the Omnipen writing community we started 10 years ago and I'd love to pursue that, especially considering how shitty the competition is and how dumbed down social news sites are getting. We'd like to see some quality amateur literature to keep us busy at work, not blogspam and goofy videos, so I've got to sit down and design this for him at some point.
• The Clock Crew Movie Guide - shouldn't be a huge deal since it's an easy project and something to take my mind off the usual "games games games" and "writing writing writing" mindset.
• I'd really like to get 2-3 of the games I've had half finished in Flash released, finally.
• I'd really like to make a cross-platform (Flash and XNA and/or C++) game framework that would allow me to make games more quickly for both platforms, and maybe actually get some game ideas out there. I actually don't WANT to do this, as it would take too long, and would rather somebody did this for me, or made a simple framework I could make my own framework on top of more quickly, as I really don't have the time for this, but I might have to if I ever want to get games out in a decent rate again.
• I've also started dating again. I'm not sure if it's good timing due to everything else I'm trying to do at the same time, but I've been putting it off for years as it is and I kinda need to get back in for my own sanity and so I don't become completely useless in that world. This also requires a significant time investment, especially when trying to develop and explore relationships with someone.

So yeah, I'm just sitting on my ass and sleeping all day, just like everyone else here. The Clock Crew movie guide is something we could definitely use, so I'm willing to put time into it. But adding a new feature to an already bloated BBS? I don't think it's worth it.

[BobbyClock]

You're such a bitch, Sage, meeeow

[SilverClock]

Heh, cute. Although here's everything on my plate right now:

*LIST*

So yeah, I'm just sitting on my ass and sleeping all day, just like everyone else here. The Clock Crew movie guide is something we could definitely use, so I'm willing to put time into it. But adding a new feature to an already bloated BBS? I don't think it's worth it.

   

[UnknownClock]

clock admin election

better start kissing some babies cadillac

[SilverClock]

clock admin election

better start kissing some babies cadillac

Or at least some kitty cats.

[AlbinoClock]

I appreciate that you and Leek are both absurdly busy, but that means the two of you need to grow up and learn to share responsibility. All I ever hear is "oh no security risk" and "nobody knows how to do it", well both of those reasons are bullshit. Security risks mean nothing if you take regular backups and FTP access is limited. As to doing it, it's really, really easy.

I'm not saying make Caddy an admin, but you've got to admin somebody. What about Soup or Slurpee or Munglai or ZombieLincoln? We have a lot of members that are trustworthy, intelligent, and have the time to actually admin the site. As things are now, I know this sounds a bit harsh, but I'd honestly rather have BitClock. Sure he was impossible to talk to and liked to sabotage the site, but at least he had time for us.

[AlbinoClock]

I'm a responsible and intelligent individual, AlbinoClock.

Yeah but you'd never get along with the current staff. It would cause more drama than it'd reduce.

[AlbinoClock]

It'd probably lead to some interesting arguments between you and Grey.

[SageClock]

I completely understand that I'm dropping the ball a bit on administrative duties, and is why I have been weighing the possibility of me stepping down lately so I wouldn't be looked to as the guy that needs to fix everything. Really the main reason I became admin in the first place was so I had the freedom to do the things I wanted to do on the CC site like organize the writing contests, experiment with adding my games to the arcade (back in the day) and help the staff distribute awards and do name changes since I was willing to do it when the other staff didn't seem to.

NOT have a vision and lead the Crew to a bigger and brighter tomorrow, especially when we there's no way I can get you guys to agree on anything and I don't have access to anything important. I did have a vision, but you guys made it clear that you don't like it, so I'm not pressing it. But you guys don't have a clear direction either, and you're expecting me and Leek to come up with something everyone is going to like, and I've been mulling it over, and I can't come up with anything.

But at the same time I don't really see the need to step down, as it's incredibly convenient having the ability to change minor things on the forums when it's requested to or being able to administrate the contests I create. Plus I enjoy having a voice in the staff, and if I stepped down that would put all the responsibility, blame, and decisions on one person's shoulders, pretty much, and do you guys really want that?

As for new admins, I might be willing to promote someone if someone spoke up saying they actually WANTED the job, and could tell me what they would do with the extra power AND the Clock populace wouldn't pitch a fit if I picked one person over another, but 1). No one's volunteered, except jokingly, (or in Cadillac case, he showed himself to be someone that's hard to trust beforehand), and 2). All this drama that's been going on lately I think has made people even less likely to WANT the job, because a ton of pressure would be on them to fix everything and make peace around here and somehow get two classes of people with very different points of view on the CC to agree on pretty much anything.

[SageClock]

I disagree. I have gotten along fine with the staff before. I am confident that we could reach certain middle grounds and come up with various solutions to various problems within the Clock Crew.

There's nothing stopping you from discussing your middle-ground ideas with us now, you know. You don't HAVE to be on the staff to do that.

[DWARFINATORclock]

sage is lazy

[SageClock]

sage is lazy

And this cannot be iterated enough; in addition to everything I said before, I am ALSO lazy on top of that, which is something I struggle with constantly. :P

[DigitalLemonClock]

i'm not really sure what difference an administrative postition and the abitlity to sticky threads will make in changing anything

if you have ideas let's hear em