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# I too support
your cause! Bring back the old B3ta when it was a good place to be.
(ToMeToYou is bumming a Unicorn on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:00, archived)
# yeah
this compo is shit. b3ta isn't as good as it used to be. all the noobs r ruining it. it was much better 2years, 4months and 18days ago. see you next week. etc
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:10, archived)
# "YOU WEREN'T THERE, MAN! YOU WEREN'T THERE!"
;)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:11, archived)
# You
have prolly been here long enough to actually remember when it was all fields, and thereby have the right to complain.
I just wish I wasn't such a johnny-come-lately bandwagon-jumper.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:15, archived)
# I'm not really complaining as much as it appears to be
I'm just getting my jollies from the fact most compos seem to be hit and miss.

The problem with all compos is either they are too tough and out of the skill range of those who don't have access to and knowledge of all the latest apps or they are too easy and anybody can do a 10 second shop for the competition. Repetativeness is boring, that's why we all hate doing repetative tasks. This compo has all the hallmarks of being repetative as we have seen.

Now the space hopper suggestion was good and within the skill level of most b3tas who can draw, photograph, video, 'shop, or paintmash such delights. The compo is really to give us something to aim for - this isn't really a good challenge in that respects - so I'm aiming more for parody of the challenge than meeting it's objectives.

I've nothing against noobs - we all started out as noobs and we will always have fresh noobs coming into the fold - it's when people pick up the bad elements of trollism that noobs can be irritating and such.

Becky
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:23, archived)
# It doesn't matter what Fraser chooses as the compo at the end of the day,
it's gonna piss some people off. I have nothing against the Space Hopper suggestion at all, but how is that different to making an image look more rude by omitting something? Yes, you may only technically have to shop a black box onto it or pixellate it, but you still need to find something amusing to do it with.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:27, archived)
# That's the problem people are really not meeting this challenge full on
and we are seeing endless streams of photos with black squares on them without any thought being put into it. There has been to really great entries so far to this challenge - but what this challenge will do is push good postings off the board in less than a minute. As for the SpaceHopper it's more than just sticking a SpaceHopper onto a photo, that wouldn't be funny and mostly pointless - the entries for that rogue challenge have been more inspired than this challenge.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:32, archived)
# But it's back to the people posting them, isn't it.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:33, archived)
# gosh
ok.
At least you made a funny gif for your complain.
As I said, you've been here ages so have a right to complain (not that you were that much) it's more the people who haven't really been here that long whining about the good old days that pisses me off.
But thanks for taking the time to clarify :)
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:29, archived)
# back in the day...
b3ta challenges were real-world things, like 'chew the bark from a tree', or 'hit your friend over the head with a rock, and post a picture of the result'
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:32, archived)
# Damn fine suggestions they were too :D
I still miss Kittens and Vikins!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:34, archived)
# Fuck sake Maiden!
Vikings and Kittens are so 2003!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:35, archived)
# I know I'm so like last half decade!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:39, archived)
# i think b3ta should be broken down like this
/board
/compo
/talk
/links
/pics_of_cats_saying_funny_things
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:52, archived)
# Can I Haz Cheezeburger - haha
That pretty much sums it up - although to some degree if the Compo was on it's own channel /board would become almost redundant *shrugs* so I'm not really complaining. Although the possibility of a /Photos and Art board would be nice.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:57, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
But talking seriously for a moment, I actually do really like real world challenges, as they include everyone. Also, they make a nice change from the same old shopping malarkey.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:35, archived)
# I was. I was lurking.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:15, archived)
# ^a member for 7 months and 23 days
Hmmm, What the fuck have I started here then.
I may be a lurker, so what, but at least I do contribute (in my own shitty little way) to the /board.
(ToMeToYou is bumming a Unicorn on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 1:00, archived)
# yeah
I know I only unlurked recently. But I still don't see how you qualify to moan about how it's not as good as it used to be, etc...
imho, b3ta is much better when people aren't whining about the compo and how much better it was in the fucking steam age. 2 years ago.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 1:07, archived)
# Moaning?
I just thought at the time, what you posted was a rejection of the compo.
(ToMeToYou is bumming a Unicorn on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 1:17, archived)
# You've lost me now.
what did I post that made you think that?
Was it my (sarcastic) reply to you saying 'bring back the old b3ta'?
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 1:23, archived)
# spacehoppers
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 0:39, archived)