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Welcome to Mailbag, where every ~~week-like period of time~~ TUESDAY YAYAY you get to write a letter on a given topic and send it to ~~Soap~~ ~~Draino~~ ~~Wally~~ SK and wait eagerly until ~~he finally decides to update with responses to your letters~~ TUESDAY YAYAY.

Good submissions will be rewarded with oats and maybe a badge on the forum, so do use your actual forum name in the name field in the form if you want to actually get credit. Otherwise we'll just assume it's ~~Spat~~ Jagger.

This mailbag will be updated on or near Tuesdays. Yosh! Get writing!

This week's topic is...
2009 is here! What do you see happening to POS in this glorious year?

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THIS WEEK'S TOPIC
POS Contests. Yeah. That's the topic. Write away.

Quote from: Soap on a Rope

As someone who's organized plenty of POS contests, I have to say that I've got rather mixed feelings about them!

The problem with the contests is that participation varies wildly. I think a good contest is a lot harder to come by than we've thought before in the past. Who remembers POS Idol II and its whopping zero entries? That was fun, wasn't it? And for the record, the fanfic and fanart contests were easily the best in our history. I might go so far as to say they're the only ones I'm truly pleased with.

I'll also admit that most of the contests in the site's history have come about as attempts to push activity up a little. If I still thought this worked, you'd better believe we'd have a contest going on right now. Of course, I've tried it so much that I know otherwise now...

I don't know when we'll see another POS contest. I think I'm pretty much out of ideas for them, though, so if you guys see any new ones they probably won't be coming from me. Also remember that your suggestions are welcome! Tell your local POS staff member about any contest idea sightings!

What he said. ~ Soap

What is with that, anyway? POS Idol only requires that you scream into a microphone, yet fanfiction required good humor and about 5-10 minutes of your time depending. The participation on the site changes dramatically and I have no idea if theres any reason for it. Ah well, maybe my 'pos guro fanart' contest will get some entries. ~ SK

Quote from: Spat

I guess Jagger and I could have a contest for "shittiest mailbag fake replies". The prize is complete alienation from the administrative staff and SK continually saying "Shut up, you fucking idiot." I guess that's how life is sometimes. Gotta take the good with the bad sometimes.

I get the feeling you guys are already holding this contest behind our backs... ~ Soap

I get the feeling Spat does this subconciously with anyone who posts worse than him... ~ SK

Quote from: Split

I Contest to this.

Why I Ought-a!!!!!!!

~ Soap

no dont ~ SK

Quote from: JaggerG

I kind of liked the banner contest, although that's because I ~~earned~~ received my only badge to date.

As for future contests, you can do a 10-minute-or-so videofest contest. It's pretty self-explanatory: the contestants each submit a ten minute video of themselves playing a game. They are then graded in ~~five~~ four categories:

Game Choice
Skill (or utter lack thereof)
~~Penis Size~~
Antics (things the character does in the video)
Commentating

So that's my idea. I hope you like it.

EDIT: I figured I should cut it to four categories to give ~~kenny~~ certain people a chance.

Eh, I kind of hate to turn things into contests that are things we'd normally be doing anyway. I guess maybe it motivates people to submit more, but still... ~ Soap

The fact that you 'edited' your entry before even sending it in means you spent way too much time on this post. Get a life. ~ SK

Quote from: Yoshi348

I think the daily pos should try one of those speedrunning contests. The rules are very simple:

Three or four players record themselves playing the game. If at all possible, they all play simultaneously, as they converse via skype. In the end, the videos are edited into quarters of a screen and posted in the forum for everybody to laugh at you. This contest is limited to people that aren't very good at the game for obvious reasons.

Maybe it should be a short game, so you don't have to have your computer converting it for days. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, though.

I would actually like to do something like this. I haven't done anything about a speed run in a while... maybe I'll get back into it someday, who knows. I still need to watch BioSpark's new Fusion run... ~ Soap

The use of "the daily pos" makes me think this was a fakepost. Actually, I now question the legitimency of many of these replies...this is fun. ~ SK

Quote from: Kennyman666

There should be a tournament of grand proportions. It's set up in tiers, and each match pits one person against another in a randomly chosen contest. One day, I might actually get a full list of the contests to be had. Until then, fuck off I still haven't finished.

1. This smells like a fakepost That smells wrong...

2. lol you said tiers
3. I do actually look forward to it beginning, though.
~ Soap

Obsessing over random internet things is very healthy for you! Please continue to do so. ~ SK

Quote from: Klaus the magnificent

You know, I always felt like more contests needed the use of headphones. Headphones make everything better, warm your ears and fuck your grandma! I've always wanted to do that, but no, those fucking HEADPHONES are always there to fuck your granny, and that bitch never puts out unless you give her like half your liver or whatever and even then, the fucking doctors will rape you up your butt while performing the operation!

GRANDMA CANNOT LISTENS ON HEADPHONE!!! ~ Soap

Surround Sound ~ SK

Quote from: Atari

HEY!

YOU LOOK LIKE A REAL JERK!

WHATCHA DOIN?

OH NO YOU AIN'T, YOU'RE GONNA PLAY POLE POSITION![/I]

NEW POLE POSITION FROM ATARI!

IT'LL BUST YOUR CRANK AND LEAVE SKID MARKS ON YOUR SOUL!

Is this from an old ad or something? I'd love to see it if so... ~ Soap

Honestly, I might as well make mailbag into 'post junk heap posts here and i'll post/grade them once a week' ~ SK

Quote from: Spat

They should have one where you vote who'd be the most Phish-worthy out of all the people on POS and have the prize be an honorary Phish badge.

You'd have to be the one to hold this contest, Spat. I doubt any of us know as much about Phish as you do! ~ Soap

Spat just wants a contest he can win at, since he can't even win at sucking. ~ SK

Quote from: Harley Quinlan

I assume you guys are having some kind of ego contest going on, and you're clearly all losers. Seriously, come on. Give me a break here.

You have Ben spamming the forums to try to break some large number of forum posts by the end of the year. Jagger takes credit for a bunch of mailbag replies that aren't even funny. Spat is apparently challenging Jagger to a shit-posting battle. SK uploads videos of himself and SABER cybering as he plays video games. YourAverageJoe pretends to leave the site forever to get attention, then continues to reply to mailbag. Cannonfodder calls people on Skype every day because his mom stopped getting babysitters for him.

The Daily POS is an establishment full of shitheads intent on contributing to the amount of fail on the internet. I have half a mind to notify your host and get them to shut you off. Each of you bastards need to get a fucking life, or at the very least, go die in a fire.

Love,

~ Soap

My favorite type of comedy of that of satire. And you just ruined it. Nice job thinking YAJ actually replies to mailbag, btw. ~ SK

Quote from: Kingrick

POS Videofest off. A constant no holds barred videofest of several RPGs. LONG RPGS If you fall asleep you fail and are dumped into a vat of poopie. Last man riffing gets a bucket of chicken!

We need to put together the most boring videos possible if we do this, though. There are people who watched Chrono Trigger all the way through. I think you underestimate the competition. These... are the faces of evil.

~ Soap

If people can still entertain themselves by typing

over and over again, you can be sure that no one would fall asleep here. ~ SK

Quote from: Kingrick56

Have you ever noticed how people always say that things are bad and they would change them if they could but then when they are given the opportunity to do so they don't?

Vote Jesus 08

You can tell by the use of the name "KingRick56" that this is a fakepost. ~ Soap

That and saber blindly told me it was him.

~ SK

Quote from: Krem

"everyone wins"

no ~ Soap

sometimes ~ SK

Quote from: IsaoKronos

cock in yo mouf

no ~ Soap

I missed the part where 'humor' was defined as taking something that was kinda funny the first time and just simply repeating it over and over. ~ SK

Quote from: null

Make another one of those comic contests! I never enter them but I think that they are fun to read! The advantage is that you can make lots of subjects to base the comics on!

Perhaps. The turnout for the last one wasn't so great from what I remember but it could possibly work! ~ Soap

Wait, why are we talking about contests? Isn't that topic about video games? ~ SK

Quote from: Mailbag

Welcome to Mailbag, where every week-like period of time TUESDAY YAYAY you get to write a letter on a given topic and send it to Soap Draino Wally SK and wait eagerly until he finally decides to update with responses to your letters TUESDAY YAYAY.

Good submissions will be rewarded with oats and maybe a badge on the forum, so do use your actual forum name in the name field in the form if you want to actually get credit. Otherwise we'll just assume it's Spat Jagger.

This mailbag will be updated on or near Tuesdays. Yosh! Get writing!

THIS WEEK'S TOPIC
POS Contests. Yeah. That's the topic. Write away.

Your face is a textarea. ~ SK

Your face is a textarea. ~ Soap

Quote from: Static

They'd be nice if people participated.

I'd like to participate if I had the time.

I'd have more time if I wasn't in school.

Obviously the correct answer is to quit school to do POS contests.

Yes. Yes, it is. Or at least put it on hold. ~ Soap

Education is overrated. POS is the 'indie' of life tasks, and the rewards are sweet. Join usssss ~ SK

Quote from: Spat

Hey guys it's me, Spat.

lol it's funny because I'm probably not actually Spat.

It's clearly KarmaPolice fakeposting as Spat! Nice try, buddy, but you'll not get past me! ~ Soap

ERROR: It's actually not funny. Ever. ~ SK

Well, these fakeposts aren't quite so terrible, but it'd be nice to see a few more thrown in that aren't trying to imitate actual POSers. I wonder if we'll ever hear from the Butt Squad again, myself. ~ Soap

Don't give them ideas to ruin, Soap!!! Also: I personally loved the fanfic contest because nearly every entry was a must-read, and so many people participated. I would love to see that much effort put into another contest; hell, maybe a fanfic contest 2...??? ~ SK