07-21-10 – These Foolish Games

Ahhhh. I remember the days when we had themes like, “Red. Take a photo with some red in it.” 🙂

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Well, I do want inclusivity, but not to the point of strip poker, etc. Will stick with the ‘amended’ theme description, then. Rubik: In. Spin-the-bottle: Out. I’ll await Elsinore’s input on the amendum wording, however. Must. Sleep. Now. I’ll check at dusk for updates.

So a shot of a football team jumping through a sprinkler while solving a Rubik’s Cube is ok?

i just shot one of the “games” i want to use and it says it’s a puzzle. that ok?

it’s similar to rubic’s cube in that you have to solve the puzzle by assembling a bunch of oddly shaped parts into a fixed shape.

Under the definition I gave orionid (and further, under the broadened TD), I think that’s fine.

So a shot of a football team jumping through a sprinkler while solving a Rubik’s Cube is ok?

Only if, while doing so, they’re trying not to get wet. 😉

Well, I do want inclusivity, but not to the point of strip poker, etc. Will stick with the ‘amended’ theme description, then. Rubik: In. Spin-the-bottle: Out. I’ll await Elsinore’s input on the amendum wording, however. Must. Sleep. Now. I’ll check at dusk for updates.

Wait, so strip poker is out?

Well there go MY entries this week 😥

I’m waiting for my boss to leave for one of mine…. =D

ravnostic: Honestly, I think your amended description is a little tl; dr. It kind of made my head spin, and given how the more casual folks don’t tend to read theme descriptions very carefully, I think they’ll just not bother. I kind of liked U-Man’s suggestion as it was fairly short and concise.

One random thought I’ve had recently is that I think (unfortunately, as the case may be) we need to pay more attention to our theme titles and consider ways to make them as indicative of the theme description as possible. I love our creative titles, but it just seems like casual folks see the title/headline, make an assumption of what kind of photos are required based on it, and post whatever. On the one hand, it makes my job easy when someone clearly didn’t read the description and posted something obviously off-theme, but on the other hand, it’s kind of annoying (not that it’s any more or less annoying than it was a year or three ago–we’ve always had those types). So maybe it’s not worth it to change what we do based on the behavior of casual folks. Dunno, I’m rambling.

I know it’s too long, and I agree. I tried to keep it short but indicative of the theme. It started out a lot longer, though. Feel free to edit it how you see fit.

Personally, given I ‘loosened’ up, perhaps just ‘Show us family and friendly gaming scenes, people not required, major sports not allowed’, and just see what happens.

Too many stipulations=headache. The only thing I’d really dq is either the sports (the big ones–it’s not rocket science what I was going for there), and scenes not family orientated. Hell, let Kestrana have her bottle and Leica strip, for that matter.

At this point, with all the quibbles, I’m for K.I.S,S. So this why people don’t submit many themes…they might get picked and have to defend themselves!!
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