Poll: it was david foster wallace. he was the best writer.

Izekeal
6 13.3%
marmot
5 11.1%
Strangeluv
26 57.8%
real_jamicus
8 17.8%

Status: Voting has ended

45 Total Votes

Poll GW Awards: Best Writer (Read 710 times)

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Maaan, don't you think it's kind of unfair if people voted for me over others because of those top-of-my-head Mog joke stories (I don't even think I wrote the best ones in that thread... Heath did) than actual story fiction or game script work. The joke stories may be funny to some but they're don't really have any literary worth to say that they should even come close to rivaling Izekeal's, Marmot's or Jamicus' work.
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actually strangeluv a home far away was a big factor in my vote.
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The big factor of my vote was Me and Tom Under the Boardwalk, which is REALLY good man.
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actually strangeluv a home far away was a big factor in my vote.
man, really?  i could see voting for strangeluv based on ME AND TOM maybe but i was pretty unimpressed with a home far away's writing/characters
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headphonics.... more like "hooked on fonix" heh
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what does that even mean
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you wouldnt know good writing if it hit you like a brick filled with all da best video game scripts..........

i don't visit the writing forum enough to vote in this topic, but I will sort of agree that A Home Far Away wasn't amazing writing by any means. It was still much better than 99% of RPG's though. It was a simple storyline that wasn't filled with cliches or horrible dialogue or awkward "so, heh..... do you.............. like me??? :-P" characters
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I guess, but it was also uninteresting, bland, and Strangeluv himself acknowledged that his characters were wooden and unengaging.  This isn't good writing!  I haven't read Me and Tom but at least that is a crazy/interesting premise.  idk I wouldn't base my vote on best writer on what was essentially a mediocre fantasy RPG.  This is pretty slim pickings, though; guess the lit forum's a lil too dead to furnish a prime choice of candidates???
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P.S. This shit's over; Strangeluv wins.

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Yeah I pretty much agree, I didn't try very hard and I wouldn't call it amazing at all, though I did... pour my heart out in the second half of the game and try to improve upon, "interestify" and shape out all the characters from the first bland half, so idk?

Me and Tom Under the Boardwalk rules though!
Last Edit: December 15, 2008, 03:09:47 pm by Strangeluv
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