Welcome back freestylers. We have an ongoing series by Sully about the issues over moderation, another scum insider, and Dukasaur talks about Canada, European fancies, and the wild days of his youth.
As always, if you would like to write for the freestyle section or have any good article ideas, please send me a PM.
You Stay Classy, CC.
safariguy5 Freestyle Executive The Scum Insider by safariguy5 show
The Scum Insider Newbie Help Mafia Information , Mafia and You , and Rules and Terms of Mafia .What is "Mafia"? Mafia News Mafia Callouts Replacement Thread to see what games are in need of reserves/replacements.viewforum.php?f=213 Advanced Roles and Strategy by safariguy5 The Day Vigilante What is It? Example Day kill Bob How to Play this Role Town , although Third Party versions also do exist. This role requires the player to be very careful to not let gut decisions and personal feelings influence a questionable day kill. Often, for balance issues, this is a one-shot role.
Community Report: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly by Victor Sullivan and Viceroy63 show
Good - games, forums, participation level of usersTeeGeeDiscussions Moderator
Good: Meeting new teammates and opponents who are awesome people. I'm here for the game!chapcrapTournament Director
Good: The continued growth of the clan community, even in the wake of overall user declineThe VoiceEntertainment Contributor
The Good: Maps, maps and more maps. I love the variety available. And while there may be some that aren't "aesthetically pleasing", the more the merrier as far as I'm personally concerned. The Tournament Organizers are absolutely also within this category, as they breathe new life into the site for those that find even the enormous map variety to go stale. Frankly, lackattack owes whatever success this site has directly to these two groups of people. I am also going to include the moderators here. As often as I have disagreed with the moderators, I do tend to believe they're trying to do a good job and that they do actually care about the site. I do appreciate their volunteer efforts.WoodruffCommunity Member
The Good: We had a wave of excellent maps come through, such as Eurasia. I'm also very happy that my own map, Dark Continent has just entered Beta testing. The Bison KingCommunity Member
Bad, the dice. They were better about 2 years ago than they are now. Go back to the old dice.notyou2Community Member
Viceroy63Entertainment Contributor
show: Interrogation of Dukasaur
Hey Dukasaur! Q. How old are, you, and what to you do for an living? Wow, starting right off the hop with the personal stuff! Well, I have the right to refuse to answer, but I'm here to get closer to the community, not further away, so I'll answer. Q. Are you from the Czech Republic? I've (WorldCup4James) been there many times Yes, I was born in Prague, and I've been back a few times for visits as well. Q. Do you watch The Office? If so, did you see them shoot any clips when at Niagara Falls? No, sorry, I almost never watch anything on the major networks. When I do watch TV its usually specialty channels. Q. You joined on 20 November 2010 and by 1 December 2010 you had joined up with DoomYoshi in Hank44's Soccer's Democrat vs Republican Survivior tournament. Now DoomYoshi joined just before you, on 16 November 2010. Both you and Doom's very first ever game is a five player off-beat map. Doom lost his Montreal game and you won your Ancient Greece game. Altogether you've played 267 games against Doom you are frequently on the same team whether they be dubs, trips or quads. Both of you are Sergeant's First Class! You are both from Canada. This is getting really spooky! If I (thehippo8) dug further would I find you use the same ISP address? I assume you are brothers? What happened in November 2010 to get you both to join? Lol, first of all, drop the "Sergeants" shit. I'm usually an officer; you just happened to get me on the tail end of a long losing streak. You, Corporal Hippo, may call me "Sir" when you accuse me of being a multi... Q. You joined the newsletter on 28 December 2010. That was quick! What drew you to the newsletter? How did you get there so quickly? What keeps you there? When I join something, I usually jump in with both feet; no half-measures. Once I joined CC, it was a certainty that I would be volunteering in some way. The newsletter seemed like a natural fit because I've written newsletters before. Q. Ginger or Maryanne? Oh, Maryanne, by a long shot! Give me a real girl over a silicon-and-peroxide doll any time. Q. thehippo8 wrote: You joined on 20 November 2010 and by 1 December 2010 you had joined up with DoomYoshi in
Hank44's Soccer's Democrat vs Republican Survivior tournament. Now DoomYoshi joined just before you, on 16 November 2010. Both you and Doom's very first ever game is a five player off-beat map. Doom lost his
Montreal game and you won your
Ancient Greece game. Altogether you've played 267 games against Doom you are frequently on the same team whether they be dubs, trips or quads. Both of you are Sergeant's First Class! You are both from Canada. This is getting really spooky! If I dug further would I find you use the same ISP address? I assume you are brothers? What happened in November 2010 to get you both to join?
You join the newsletter on 28 December 2010. That was quick! What drew you to the newsletter? How did you get there so quickly? What keeps you there?
Yes. It's good to know that amateur multi-hunter Corps is alive and well, though... Q. What makes you face palm the most when newbies form their first tournament? Excessive ambition. People biting off more than they can chew. very often they have excellent ideas, but they just don't have the experience to realize how difficult and time-consuming those ideas will be to put into action. Q. Why the name dukasaur? My friends in high school thought I was too bossy. I think I was just being a good leader, but you know how it is. One man's great leader is another man's dictator. So they called me the Iron Duke, after Bismark. Sometimes also the Grand Duke and similar things. Q. What was it that drew you to be a reporter on tournaments? I love tournaments, I enjoy writing. Simple. Q. Always love your tournaments...any sneak peeks on what you will be doing for future tournaments? With the History of Nuclear War series and the Best of 2011 I think I've found a formula I love. First of all I have to finish those two series, but after that I think you can expect a whole lot more using that same formula with 9 rounds of "first one out" followed by a grand finale in Terminator. Q. Is the show Ice Road Truckers pretty much a scene-for-scene accurate depiction of your life? My wife tells me if I ever volunteer to drive the ice roads, she will kill me before the ice does... Q. Is it true that you will melt when you've been thrown with coloured eggs repeatedly? I'm not sure if this is a question about one of my biggest CC successes, or one of my biggest CC failures.Chap's Easter: Assassin Robin Style , a tournament I won by a huge margin, 5 games out of 6, on one of my favourite maps (the limited-edition Easter Egg map.)DKs Easter Quads , the only tournament I've ever had to cancel for lack of popular interest. Q. Which map has territories which share names with songs written by Marty Robbins, Jimmy Webb and Dido? Well, Marty Robbins was a dead giveaway. Obviously El Paso is on the Texas map. I must admit that I'd never heard of Jimmy Webb and Dido and had to Google them... Q. If you don't know, how do you face yourself every day? Google is my friend. Q. Also, you have been accused of being a "Team CC apologist". Have you always been such a square? Why don't you stick it to the man like the cool people? Are there any team cc decisions/policies/actions that you disagree with or are you completely up Andy's backside? Lol, square? Me, who was considered "too radical" in the Libertarian Party? Q. Can you express some fondness toward Andy's backside? Let us praise Andy's Backside, O Lord,... Q. Does this question make my (Victor Sullivan) butt look big? Compared to Andy's Backside, your butt is positively microscopic. Submicroscopic. In fact, it is so small that it makes me question quantum theory. Q. Why the Avatar "Dukasaur?" Q. What's the story behind that? Duplicate question. Scroll up. Q. Why has the Newsletter waited so long to interview you? I'm relatively new here. Q. What is your favourite food? Egads, the list of foods I love is so long I'd be hard pressed to pick just one favourite. Q. What is your favourite thing about Canada's government? Its basic integrity. I often disagree with our government, but one thing I have to say is that the level of corruption is incredibly low. I've travelled a lot of the world and studied even more, and the more I know the more grateful I am that I live in a country where I don't have to pay a bribe to every bureaucrat I encounter. You don't realize how rare that is, and how important that is, until you start looking around the rest of the world. Q. About Canada? Gotta come back to the first point above. Living in a country with such a low level of corruption is an incredible gift. I had to say it again. Q. About the USA? A lot of the same things as Canada. A lot of natural beauty. Somewhat more corruption, but still low compared to the rest of the world. A tolerable population density.solved , not tolerated, and they set about solving them. Q. What's your favourite tourist attraction in each of these countries? In both cases they would be the Rocky Mountains, something that Canada and the U.S. share. I couldn't pick just one spot. You just drive through the Rockies in any direction and you will find sights that take your breath away, and no matter how spectacular one view is, later you will see one even more spectacular. Q. Ever been to the CN Tower? Yes, including dancing when the Top of the World was a disco at the top! Q. Do you like curling? Let me set my alarm clock... Q. Wish you were in Alberta, hunting Dukasaurs? Love Alberta. Q. How do you feel about mass extinction events, like the KT event? They blow my mind. Such massive transformations. It's so unfair that I don't have a time machine! Q. How does it feel to have a hippo stalking you? Everybody needs a friend... Q. Are you worried that you might end up with an extended absence like Sully? Last summer was the closest, I think. I was doing a brutal job, working like 100 hours a week. I came close to having to give up my online presence, but somehow I squeeked through. Q. What do you like most about playing in tournaments? The feeling that there's a goal you're moving towards. Non-tournament games are just an endless continuum; you never know how close you are to the beginning or the end. But in tournaments you have a reference point. Q. I understand you are a bitter and twisted biochemical genius planning to destroy all life on this planet. Do you have a target date or are you just taking it easy, waiting for the right moment? I've mellowed so much with age. There was a target date, but I've forgotten it... Q. Are you a Czech bounced for Not Sufficient Fun? That joke was already old when they used it in the first season of Saturday Night Live... Q. If it walks like a Duk and quacks like a Duk can it get a tournament organized like a Duk? Accept no substitutes! There is no Dukasaur but the real Dukasaur! Q. Do you believe we appreciate all you have done, are doing and will do? I hope so, but sometimes I wonder. Q. What is your take on the tournament world? What's good? What could stand to be improved? I wish this question had come sooner. I probably would have written 50 paragraphs, but we're getting to the end and I'm getting tired. Q. Let's say I'm a newbie and I'm looking to join a tournament. What advice would you give me? Start small. Don't launch complicated tourneys until you've finished a couple simple ones. But once you've done a few simple ones, don't get stuck in a rut. Start experimenting with new ideas and stay fresh and creative. Q. How has being the Tournament Executive of the Newsletter changed your perspective on tournaments and the tournament realm? I had no idea how big it is. When I sent my application to jricart , I said I wanted to interview "every tournament winner." Q. If you were a tyrant, fully in charge, no questions asked, what would you ban? Questions with inadequate parameters. In charge of what? The dispatch? All of CC? The Internet in general? The country? The whole world? The universe? Q. Larry46 wrote: Ginger or Maryanne?
If both is an option, I'll take both. Q. How does it feel to have a pinkish mod color? There's other colours I like better, but hey, it's not a big issue. Q. Monkey or Turtle? Monkeys engage in projectile defecation. Turtles are fairly clean. Case closed. Q. Which CC members do you dream about most often? Lol, I actually did have a dream about a CC member not too long ago. And no, it wasn't THAT kind of dream. And I won't tell you who either, but in my dream another TO and I came up with a plan to rule the world's economy based on a system of Escalating spoils. Q. When you dream about sully, what is the content of the dream? I'm running the boat to Hades. Sully shows up and tries to pay me with Monopoly money. I cackle hysterically and row away. Q. When do you get the most enjoyment from writing about tournaments? When I get an interview with someone who actually wants to talk and put their point across, as opposed to mechanistically answering my questions. Q. I (vodean) know your secret. But I think CC ought to hear it from you. Start talking. Yes, I really did have my first sexual encounter with a Sandinista rebel. Q. Why choose the name "Dukasaur" ? Third instance of same question. Scroll up. Q. What's your favourite clan? Okay, I've never been in a clan, so my only point of reference is who has the coolest people. Q. How many maps have you made? Do you have any neat ideas that you would love to see come through the Forge? Historical ideas? A lot of great ideas, but I'm so graphically inept I fear I might never make a map on CC. Q. What's your favourite thing to do in the snow? Dispatch plows! Lots and lots of plows! And sander and salters, oh my! Stop global warming. Give me back the days of three-foot snowstorms! Q. In the summer? Do you prefer heat or lack of heat? My favourite times are the moderate times. Early May, late September. The times when I can go on the trails and watch the natural world, and neither freeze nor bake in the process. Q. What's your take on Evolution? I am its ultimate result. Now that I'm here, there might no longer be a reason for evolution to continue. Q. What is your favourite political ideology? Political Party in Canada? Canadian Prime Minister (throughout Canada's brief history of self-Parliamentary rule)? I used to be a Libertarian activist, and although I've parted ways with the libertarian movement, it is still closer to my ideals than any other party. Q. How about favourite President of the United States? Jimmy Carter. The only honest man to enter the White House in the last 100 years. Q. Your favourite European nation? Czechoslovakia, of course. Bavaria a close second (an independent Bavaria, not under the thumb of those northern heathens.) I love Catalonia. I love pretty much all of Europe. Q. Your least favourite nation? Hard to say. There isn't any nation I really hate. I could say something positive about any of them. Q. What nation would you most wish to travel to? Least wish to see? I very much want to see Australia and New Zealand. Q. What are your top five favourite board/card games to play (offline)? I used to love all the Avalon Hill games. Thanks for your time!
