PBEM Game: Yarnspinners 2 (Running)

PashaDawg · #1 June 7th, 2005, 06:34 PM

So are we supposed to do yarns for Turn 6?

djo · #2 June 7th, 2005, 07:26 PM

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So are we supposed to do yarns for Turn 6?

Absolutely!

Writewritewrite...

The Panther · #3 June 7th, 2005, 07:40 PM

Well, I am assuming the yarns are done AFTER Turn 6. I am using results from Turn 6 in my narrative, so I can't finish with my prose until after it hosts.

PashaDawg · #4 June 7th, 2005, 11:22 PM

Good point, P-Kat. I shall wait until after the host, but I fear that the narrative is swiftly turning tragic for the good folk of T'ien Ch'i. Good thing this game is about writing and not winning...

Alneyan · #5 June 8th, 2005, 08:51 AM

Don't worry Pasha: my own troops still have trouble figuring out where is the business end of a sword.

And pointlessness galore: I have used the Gender Genie on all our yarns for turn 0 and turn 3, and it appears that we are all males, according to the bot. Sedna and myself are the least males, with a very marginal difference (virtually no difference at all), and Djo's male part doesn't have much of a lead over the female part.

Figuring out the cases where the bot is wrong is left as an exercice for the reader.

djo · #6 June 9th, 2005, 09:16 AM

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And pointlessness galore: I have used the Gender Genie on all our yarns for turn 0 and turn 3, and it appears that we are all males, according to the bot. Sedna and myself are the least males, with a very marginal difference (virtually no difference at all), and Djo's male part doesn't have much of a lead over the female part.

I suppose I like being a well-balanced (male) person.

When a few more yarns are up, I'm thinking of feeding in my (and Sedna's) separate story threads to see how the different POV characters differ.

It might also be interesting to feed an author's posts in and see how much the results differ from the author's fiction.

In the list of words the site tagged as male was "said", which would seem to skew fiction. Also: "is" = male, "was" = female? Fiction is most often written in past tense, but I chose present tense for 1/3 of my work. Makes you wonder.

Alneyan · #7 June 9th, 2005, 09:41 AM

Was is the weakest keyword for female, so it should not have much of an impact, I think. Said is more annoying though...

Still, it's only good for pointless statistics, though the bot appears to be correct 60% of the time. Not bad, but the advertisted result was 80% correct answers.

djo · #8 June 8th, 2005, 08:55 AM

Before, after, details, details...

I intentionally decoupled (or loosely coupled) a lot of my story from the game to make the writing easier, and more interesting to me.

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I fear that the narrative is swiftly turning tragic for the good folk of T'ien Ch'i. Good thing this game is about writing and not winning...

I second that thought, and a big thanks from Vanheim to TC for making us look not so puny. And keep in mind that your neighbor to the N is not a ravening land-grabber like the purple-legionnaire-snake-people.

Sedna · #9 June 8th, 2005, 10:16 PM

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And keep in mind that your neighbor to the N is not a ravening land-grabber like the purple-legionnaire-snake-people.

Yeah, what about them Pythites? Buying up the mercs and expanding like there's no tomorrow...

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Figuring out the cases where the bot is wrong is left as an exercice for the reader.

I'm going to guess that the bot is wrong in it's conclusion that some contributors are neither male nor female.

The_Tauren13 · #10 June 8th, 2005, 08:22 PM

Yes. And I forgot to send gems for yarn writing thus far, so this turn I will do that.