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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.esuhistoryprof.com/Want%20You.jpeg)
YOUR GAMING WORLDS NEEDS YOU
It turns out I have been a cruel and malicious dictator, and fired too many people! This means that there are new vacancies for staff on the website, and we're looking to hire on new people. We're currently accepting applications from pretty much anybody who wants to be staff for the site. You don't need to long-time member of GW, or a premium member, and we really don't care that you're only 13 years old. The only requirements we're looking for are the ability to write decent articles and the drive to help make Gaming World a better place full of hugs and cuddles....
Your role as a staffer couldn't be simpler, all that's required is you write a minimum of one article every week or two about something that would be of interest to the Gaming World community. Whether that be something about homebrew gaming, upcoming tournaments, or a crazy new movie that's coming out that you think we'd be interesting in. There's a HUGE gap for people who want to write about the game making scene at Gaming World (hint: looking at you guys, G&DA/IGD), but we have plenty of people that specialise in music so if music's your area of expertise than bugger off back to last.fm, chump.
If writing for one of the most prestigious websites ever made isn't enough motivation to apply, then maybe this list of perks will convince you:
EXCLUSIVE STAFF PERKS
- Able to write articles and get them instantly published on the front page of Gaming World
- All articles are guaranteed to get more than 8 unique hits*
- Access to the staff-only exclusive club lounge, including snooker tables and tea and coffee making facilities
- The ability to shape the future of both GW6 and Gaming World as a whole
- There's an extremely large chance that the staff now will be staff when GW6 is ready, so if you want to be GW6 staff this is your chance
- Competitive, negotiable salary. Starts at 0 bucks/hour, with an estimated rise of 4000% a year.
- Company car
- BABES (I did not want to do this one however HL forced me to do it and said he would beat me if I didn't)
(http://www.staff.gamingw.net/hl/sex.jpg)
Murex Brandaris with his GamingW 6 babes - just a normal day in staff
If you are interested in writing for GW, then send either myself or HL an application telling us a little about yourself, why you want to be staff and what you want to write about. The application doesn't need to be long, only a few short paragraphs (don't send us a whole CV/resume!). If possible link to any previous written work, or topics/posts you have made that demonstrate your ability to write. We're accepting applications either by PM, as replies in this thread or email, but a PM on the forums is the most preferable option. And just as a friendly reminder, we don't need any more people talking about music!
Disclaimer: I am writing this at 2am. Apologies if nothing makes sense.
*May or may not be true, 8 is a very large number!
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Have you considered bled? I know that he is more than keen and is sending me an article practically every week.
For example: http://www.gamingw.net/view/73626/The+Video+Game+Graveyard+Thrill+Kill
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get the staff color back to normal green and we will talk.
(that will spike applicants 50%)
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dude that guy in the I want you poster has one of the finest specimens of an imperial underhand twist I have ever seen in my life (I am expert on 19th century mustaches)
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Yeah, I'm in the process of honing my article skillz at the moment. My latest one wasn't so great, but the next one or two will hopefully make me IMMINENTLY ELIGIBLE.
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Yeah guys, hire Bled! His stuff has been great.
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i've wanted to do this for a while cos i like to write but no one idea has ever come to me as being so great i just had to send it in even though i wasn't staff. i'm gonna send an application later today though.
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So this is blog and not GW6? I'll express interest when GW6 comes.
Why hiring though? The blog doesn't look like it's in bad shape or anything.
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It's both since the staff who work on the blog will be working on GW6 and there is already GW6-esque stuff to do (articles, resource management if people are interested, talking about GW6).
also yes the blog isn't in a bad bad shape but there is a lot of people who are focused in one or two areas and not a lot of variety, plus some people aren't very very active and I'd like to have a few more, especially since we've been down 3 staffers for some time now.
We have a lot of people dedicated to talking about indie games and music and misc, but not very many people outside that. I'd like to get people are interested in writing stuff about comic books, film style stuff, humor, etc.
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I used to want to do this but fuck, writing about things is too much hassle I mean it's not like I can't do as many as most of the current staff (one article every three months... too taxing), but no motivation to write about games these days...
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I used to want to do this but fuck, writing about things is too much hassle I mean it's not like I can't do as many as most of the current staff (one article every three months... too taxing), but no motivation to write about games these days...
You don't have to write about games at all! As I said above (edited while you posted ;) ) comic books, film, humor, science, etc are all applicable subjects as long as they are interesting and written with the audience in mind.
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It's both since the staff who work on the blog will be working on GW6 and there is already GW6-esque stuff to do (articles, resource management if people are interested, talking about GW6).
We'll I'm sure others should be recruited specifically for GW6. I'm sure there are some people out there who just don't have the motivation to write for "lol blog" and would rather wait for the real deal and manage content rather than writing articles.
*cough*
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Seriously though, bring on game posting (as in on an actual GW, not writing posts about games) and I will be all over that in seconds. :cool:
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Well, we don't really want people who aren't going to treat the blog as serious anyways (obviously)! It's definitely useful for gauging staff writing abilities, and preparing for GW6 and getting a work ethic (so to speak) down. The staff needs a structure, and the blog is very useful to build that structure, instead of everyone fumbling around on Day 1 clueless of GW6. It isn't a "lol blog" anymore (esp. with the updates leafo plans on doing sometime :) ), and very few people should be treating it that way now imo. Maybe it isn't some grand official site, but it's still representing who Gaming World is and you should probably be behind it since you are a mod ;). (at least instead of calling it a lol blog :fogetsad: )!
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Updates by leafo? What does he have in the works?
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Updates by leafo? What does he have in the works?
Dunno yet, still have to converse with him about what he is planning on doing and stuff that would be useful but not too time consuming to do. I am mos def going to make sure article submission gets put in tho...
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Well just FYI.. I would like to contribute, but I am not an article writer and it's why I quit before (I was being hounded to come up with something when my mind was blank).
Really, I'd be interested in my old line of work, which was adding games and dealing with the submissions. It was ROUGH WORK because you have to play a lot of really terrible games but in the end it was worth it and it was pretty fun.
But game adding/submissions is not even a factor yet so I'll just wander around like a lost child.
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Well just FYI.. I would like to contribute, but I am not an article writer and it's why I quit before (I was being hounded to come up with something when my mind was blank).
Really, I'd be interested in my old line of work, which was adding games and dealing with the submissions. It was ROUGH WORK because you have to play a lot of really terrible games but in the end it was worth it and it was pretty fun.
But game adding/submissions is not even a factor yet so I'll just wander around like a lost child.
Yeh, it's about the only thing not covered by the blog and I don't think it's anything being focused on since the game db is done by GZ and stuff now.
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Would it be integrated into the site or what?
And also just so you know this as well.. When GW4 or 5 or whatever it was I staffed on was up and running, the amount of games that people submitted was astounding. Literally. I did not know where they were even coming from!
Tons of them were never featured on the forums or, well, anywhere on GW at all. If GZ's thing is going to be the game database or whatever for GW6, make sure it has some exposure and that nameless nobodies can submit games.
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This just applicants for the blog and (Sometime in the future) GW6 staff later on? What about duties on the forums and what not how would they apply to this.. Other then maybe being active?
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This just applicants for the blog and (Sometime in the future) GW6 staff later on? What about duties on the forums and what not how would they apply to this.. Other then maybe being active?
Staff don't really have any duties aside from the ones you already have (being a good member, reporting posts, etc) on the forums, that is mod/gmod/forum admin jobs. Staff is focused on the site only, tho you do have a responsibility to be active in the staff forum and discuss gw6 as much as possible in there while being active and actually doing articles etc.
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well what kind of articles are you guys looking for? what topics do you want people to write about? or what do you not need
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I will do this again if I can keep the colour pink.
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well what kind of articles are you guys looking for? what topics do you want people to write about? or what do you not need
You can write about anything but preferably do not focus (can still write the occasional article tho) on music or indie games. You can still write about those two but we already have like, 3 staffers who do that stuff each and got it covered (though this is changeable depending on what you'd be doing in music. idk you could come up with something cool and new to talk about music wise that hasn't been done yet I guess). Anything else if you think people on GW would be interested in reading it is completely okay.
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DO NOT attempt to join the GW staff. Anyone who applies will be Banned. Repeat, anyone who applies will be BANNED
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hey mark... looks like you applied *bans*
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hey sarevok what happened to your admin?
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I like to write things. If you can get over the fact that I am a giant douchebag (and I mean a truly massive one) then maybe I could be a new staff.
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hey mark... looks like you applied *bans*
You'll pay for this. See if you don't pay for this.
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I like to write things. If you can get over the fact that I am a giant douchebag (and I mean a truly massive one) then maybe I could be a new staff.
I can vouch for this statement.
What happened to the old writing staff?
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What happened to the old writing staff?
It turns out I have been a cruel and malicious dictator, and fired too many people!
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That's just piques my curiosity!
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Hey don't you guys have a RMN magazine to work on anyway? :gwa:
Thanks for organizing this stuff HL where we would be without ya?
It's pretty poo to hear people saying lol blog when some of us put alot of effort into our articles!
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What happened to the old writing staff?
Mog has his period and I quit cause I had exams to concentrate on, but like I said - at the moment I do fuck all recently so consider that a re-application.
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Hey don't you guys have a RMN magazine to work on anyway? :gwa:
Thanks for organizing this stuff HL where we would be without ya?
It's pretty poo to hear people saying lol blog when some of us put alot of effort into our articles!
wha...what about me
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I write articles on atheism and religion, but I'm not sure if that would be appropriate for this site. If it isn't, I can still write articles on storytelling, character development, etc.
I was staff about four years ago, so I'm sure my stuff is on the server somewhere.
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You can't hire Xanqui, he is woodwork. The last time he posted was to say HEY GUYS JUST SOME PICS FROM THE GW MEET *posts pictures of xanqui by himself.*
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I write articles on atheism and religion, but I'm not sure if that would be appropriate for this site. If it isn't, I can still write articles on storytelling, character development, etc.
I was staff about four years ago, so I'm sure my stuff is on the server somewhere.
wait what, we can write about that stuff?
SARE MUST I REAPPLY? Because I did not fill in my Résumé to the fullest of my potential!
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You can't hire fatty because he wr
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You can't hire fatty because he wr
:D
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You can't hire Xanqui, he is woodwork. The last time he posted was to say HEY GUYS JUST SOME PICS FROM THE GW MEET *posts pictures of xanqui by himself.*
Hey man, that was like the one actually cool thing I've ever done.
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I am quite interested and may send you an application. My focus is keen on Art, thus Graphic arts and Resources forums would be getting some coverage from my articles.
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i... i applied *blushes*
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yeah, i did that with interviews. did 3 in one day and let it span across a month or something.
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this looks interesting i'd be interested
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hire me I like all the perks (sex) that comes with the jobs and I will write interesting artivcles about S.T.Al>k.Er. and gaming trends and looks at games from a K-angle (that is the kaworu angle for those who are out of TUne). GONME COUNT is a vital featutyre that GW needs :(
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Hey man, that was like the one actually cool thing I've ever done.
ahaha yeah most people thought it was a dumb topic for some reason but i thought it was very funny
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Hey man, that was like the one actually cool thing I've ever done.
I know man it was hilarious.
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Would it help my chances if I were to start, you know, campaigning?
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Nop.
I told you what you have to do..........
Anyways, we'll be going over applications and hope to get back to all the current people who applied within the next 3 Valve Business Days.
That basically means we got like 6 months so see you then!!
EDIT:
To clarify you can still send in apps.
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and looks at games from a K-angle (that is the kaworu angle for those who are out of TUne).
i was hoping for a second there it was Ketamine-angle
so you'd do ketamine and play a game and then do more ketamine and write a review of your experience playing that game on ket while still on ket
that'd make one hell of an article
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drugs are boring
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whoah im so high right now lol the colors are so crazy here let me take some more ket whoah the colors are even more crazy right now lol god im so high. ok so basically i think...*takes some more ket* whoah those colors man....
A++
:sly:
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I'd love to get into something like this. I've been watching GW for a few years, even if my account doesn't say so, I lost the original account I had. I've posted my first finished game here and I think it's just dandy.
More so, I'd love to help code the main site. I can guarantee, given assets like images and such since I'm not good with color theory, even with my busy schedule I could have a finished game submition site in around a month of time. Even if you didn't feel comfortable giving me an ftp or something, which I wouldn't expect, I could make one on another host and just send you the packaged deal with database installation instructions.
I'd just be excited to get the main page back up honestly.
If anyone reads this and is interested, just send me a PM or Aim me at "Heckmanrules". I'm in class for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, then working on my project for another 3-10 hours a day, but hell, if I can help in any way to get game submitions back up... I will do it.
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oo this looks cool
i may send an application within the next few days because i have quite a few things i'd like to write about!
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you need to be high to tolerate some of the games floating around here...
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Pleased to say we now have 3 new staffers: Carius, Roman, and Aurabolt.
Feel free to keep sending in DA APPZ though, though understand a lot of bases are covered we will still take people if they can bring something different/new.
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eck!
Pressure!
Too much pressure!
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Hi everybody. I hope to do the best I can in writing reviews as possible. I'm currently on Hero's Realm, but thanks to this position, I will be able to do a lot more in terms of that as well. Hope to see your game soon!
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hire me I like all the perks (sex) that comes with the jobs and I will write interesting artivcles about S.T.Al>k.Er. and gaming trends and looks at games from a K-angle (that is the kaworu angle for those who are out of TUne). GONME COUNT is a vital featutyre that GW needs :(
I can't wait to read about the K-Angle and reward your articles with sex XD
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Wait...
So we get sex too? :)
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Wait...
So we get sex too? :)
The sex perk kind of died off when Faust left. What's the point now?
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The sex perk kind of died off when Faust left. What's the point now?
we need to hire on a passaround fuckbuddy. for the motherland..!
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Well, whenever we get status, I'll be ready...^_^
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You guys should probably contact an admin because I already got my status.
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favoritism
I PMed HL but yeah I guess it would be smarter to cut out the middle man...
I'll summon Mateui again...
EDIT: Done and Done
Thanks Mateui!
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Again feel free to keep sending in apps.
Also yes Carius, it generally isn't wise to ask me to do something, just ask an admin. I can't make people mods of the forum or give them access because SMF is stupid like that.
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I'd apply but over the years I've come to realize I share virtually no interests with 99% of the community's population.
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I'd apply but over the years I've come to realize I share virtually no interests with 99% of the community's population.
let me point you in the right direction then (http://chadzboyz.com/)
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Aurabolt I am going to PM you about something so do not be alarmed!
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hahaha leafo you scum i clicked that
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I'm thinking about doing an article on the MERCHANT MARINES, SAILING, POPULAR SAILOR HANGOUTS, MY UNION (the largest Mariner union in the united states), and Seamanship in general.
I've learned alot of interesting stuff about seamanship since I made that "[ask] a sailor" topic and I think it might be a fairly entertaining read.
But I'm not going to bother doing all the research and stuff unless there is an interest in it.
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Hi everybody. I hope to do the best I can in writing reviews as possible. I'm currently on Hero's Realm, but thanks to this position, I will be able to do a lot more in terms of that as well. Hope to see your game soon!
tres exciting!