Come one; come all, into the Forge Hub Site Update Spectacular! Below you will find all sorts of amazing attractions, everything from a brief synopsis on the mysterious Testers Guild to a lengthy rant or two from me. You may even catch yourself lucky enough to run into a broken, beat and scarred penguin on the way! But don’t get too hopeful, this is only an article really, we must stay in reality. And by reality I mean the mystic world that is enveloped within my brain (wrought with elevator music and Swiss cheese.) Mmm, Swiss cheese.
Speaking of all things holy, wasn’t the world supposed to start ending yesterday? I think it was around five-o’clock, but I really couldn’t tell you. You know why I’m so lost on it, correct; because it didn’t happen! That’s right folks, you reading this is your confirmation that the world did not, in fact, begin to end at 5:00 EST on May 21, 2011. We all can agree that the world not ending is a very, very wonderful prospect.
The end is worlding!
…and other mixed metaphors brighten up my day from time to time. I, for example, am a great friend of the phrase ‘It is a mell of a hess!’ That particular one was an unfortunate spelling error on the part of one of the many over-worked writers in the development of the best game of all time. Speaking of unfortunate spelling errors, some guys got promoted and stuff. Darth Vader Human, who has almost certainly never heard someone say that before, got promoted to Loyal. Along with him was this strange, strange man named Erupt. He sounds volcanic!
A Well Oiled Machine
Running in full swing like a well oiled machine, A Review Hub is going and keeping your maps clean!
That one line rap was intended to introduce you to the amazing, totally wonderful Guild that is the Review Hub. The post-submission counterpart to the Tester's Guild, they work on rating, critiquing, and even giving suggestions to help improve every one of your maps. The current leader of the guild, Organite, also wished for me to mention one Tedium for having done an extremely spectacular job this cycle. You can check out his and other reviews below:
Vox Dispono : 5/10 - Organite & Zenixlio
Subliminal : 5.2/10 - Tedium & Robbieagray
Tyrant : 6.2/10 - Tedium & Oli The G
Turbine : 6.8/10 - Tedium & Robbieagray
Hollow Crown : 7.4/10 - PacMonster1 & Virus10110
Cardiac Falls : 6.4/10 - PacMonster1
Infinity Garden : 7/10 - Oli the G
Epic Reference Pt 1
As Black Theorem always says, the early bird catches the worm! And being one of the longest-standing guilds at the hub, the Tester’s Guild can be called early in every sense. We here are proud of the hard work and dedication that they have put into their standing monolith of an accomplishment, and would simply like to recognize it every once in a while. So if you ever see one of those Tester’s Guild Loyal’s running around, go ahead and give ‘em a pat on the back. Then go and try out to join them in the Tester’s Guild main forum.
This is filler text used somewhat for spacing alignment, but primarily for your enjoyment!
Rorak Kuroda
You need to send Whats A Scope? a download link for the most recent version of the Divide.
Also, to everyone else, I challenge you to build an entire map out of only 2x2 banks.
2x2 Bank Challenge Thread
-From your loving Administrator Tz
The White Pit
The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed. The Gunslinger obviously being our first Thank Goodness Its Forge-day Loyal, pinohkio. I’m not quite sure who exactly he was following in my twisted Steven King metaphor-reference-spectacular. Actually, to be honest, I’m not too sure where I was going with this, so I’ll just talk about TGIF. It’s this biweekly Forge Hub community game that is for all of the cool people with friends. You should check it out, and totally offer to host by sending a private message on over to Whats A Scope? with the information contained below.
[HOST'S PARTY NAME]
Host's Gamertag: [HOST'S GAMERTAG]
Start Time: [0:00pm EST]
End Time: [0:00pm EST]
Rules: [PARTY RULES]
Schedule:
[PARTY SCHEDULE]
Also, should you so desire, I have provided below the required information to gain a secret rank similar to pinohkio's... TGIF Loyal!
Host four consecutive TGIFs (that's back to back for a grand total of four TGIFs spanning eight weeks)
Continue a party spans a minimum of two hours
Submit a recap of their TGIF which consists of:
A two paragraph write up
A minimum of two pictures from their TGIF
At least three download links of the maps they've played
Late Tourny Is Late
Speaking of late, there is a second half of this tournament; you probably all forgot about it by now! Its an amazing 2v2 Throwdown. The 2v2 tournament that has its one grand and awesome prize, a few delicious treats to be shared among the winners. I found myself, very recently, the proud new owner of a set of Astros and have nothing but good things to say about them. They may take a few hours to set up, but I can assure you that every second of that time is worth it.
http://www.astrogaming.com/
Speaking of, our friends at Astro Gaming are planning to make this whole tournament experience worth your while! So enter the tournament and win sweet gear from Astro Gaming. Why don't you go drool over their amazing, high quality audio systems?
QOTSA
As I sit here, typing this incredibly short and boring update, I realized something; listening to Shad0w Viper and Black Theorem laugh every thirty seconds or so at Daniel Tosh stand up while writing and sick is not the best way to spend the last few moments of my weekend. So I was quickly inspired to crate the most amazing question for you ever, so amazing that I can't even be bother to try and pretend to figure out what Sarge did last week. Basically put, what do you all enjoy doing over the weekend? Are you a lonely guy who spends hours, disillusioned, sitting in front of a monitor attempting to figure out what to type, knowing that as soon as you make it public hundreds of people will read it and criticize your mothers sexual preferences? Do you go out with friends and come home so drunk you forget to do the fore-mentioned work? Do you pull of some amazing combination of the pair? Whatever it is, you should really just let me know in your comments. The most creative, enjoyable, and thoughtful will be picked for a showcase in the next Site Update.
Long Farewells...
Are totally not my style. Goodbye Forge Hub, until next time!