WHPR[Day 1345]
James S. Brady Press Room
WHPR Day 1345
1: News and Notes.
2: Pump It Up Plan.
3: Just publish the damn thing already.
News and Notes
First off, when the President publishes the kind of awesomesauce he's been churning out, what's a poor SoM to do? Don't miss a single issue of TKC ever. And I smell another great article under construction as we speak, possibly with some results from the report cards you all filled in.
If you still live in California, move. Go to Iowa. In fact, if you are reading this from any occupied territory, it is time to come home. Make contact here if you want assistance funding your journey into the Tall Corn Fields. (Iiiioowaaay, Iiiioowaaay, that's where the tall corn grows.) If you have a link to that song, btw, post it in the comments below. Midi version doesn't count.
Tonight it seems like (cross your fingers) the Wigs have corrected the problem with Media pages not loading. Perhaps it was the tickets that did it... I started sending tickets about it and asking others to do the same. Broken game was broken but seems to be working again.
I've seen more than a few questions circulating about the loss of California. Yes, Serbia is on the march. In this fine piece of journalism, The Libertine formerly known as CRoy predicted that Serbia would attempt a coup of Texas to fulfill an ancient wet dream fantasy that has absolutely no reasonable explanation. He wrote that over a month ago, so kudos. Great White House minds are plotting ways to foil this wicked plan. Meanwhile, Hungary just put down the resistance in TX, Serbia has taken Arizona, which means for the moment that all Serbia needs to do is polka their way through New Mexico and Texas will be handed to them by Hungary. While losing Texas to Serbia just for their personal lulz would hurt, it may end up being less important than continuing to press forward on our otherwise brilliantly executed strategy to press back the Spaniards. Stay tuned to NBS and DoD for the latest battle orders.
Pump It Up
The Pump It Up Plan is the Department of Media's answer to all those cheap gimmicky vote-generating schemes you are too embarrassed to admit you've voted but too damn poor to resist shouting/voting/subscribing. Fool. Do this instead.
WHPR will post a question here. You have 2 days to write up an answer in your newspaper. There are no rules or guidelines as to HOW you should answer the question (for instance perhaps all you decide to do is post a single link to a single photo that perfectly answers the question. On the other hand perhaps you decide to write 6,000 words on the topic and submit that. Either way go nuts).
When you publish your answer to the question, title your article as follows:
[WHPR PIU] your title goes here
The object of Pump It Up is to increase readership, subscriptions, and overall participation in the Media module of eRepublik. So to that end, be sure to read every [WHPR PIU}-labeled article, and if you like the author's answer, vote.
The participant whose [WHPR PIU]-labled article receives the highest vote tally will be awarded with a special Government award that only your Government can award.
In order to participate in Pump It Up, you must:
Publish your answer to the PIU question in your personal newspaper before the end of eRep day 1,347 (the end of Friday night).
Include the tag [WHPR PIU] at the front of your article's title.
Post a link to your article in the comments section of this WHPR.
Final vote tallies will be counted and a winner will be declared on day 1349, Monday August 1 at 4:00 eRep time. (7AM EST Monday August 1).
Pump It Up question #1:
Predict with details and analysis an answer to this question:
What will Plato do next?
Now Pump It Up.
Entries:
1 - Mr. Peanuts
2 - clucas808
3 - Thedillpickl
4 - sjohnfsdsxzzx
5 - John Largo
6 - Mark Valshannar
7 -Kijiman
Respectfully submitted,
Gnilraps
And here's my non-entry: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-whpr-pui-wig-kills-mili-module-1831494/1/20
Comments
Down in the pleasure centre,
hell bent or heaven sent,
listen to the propaganda,
listen to the latest slander.
There's nothing underhand
that she wouldn't understand.
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Pump it up when you don't really need it.
sing it!
[WHPR PIU] Turn into Cyclops and start Pew Pew Pewing people who he doesn't liek
Nice!
Voted...I like the pump it up idea....
Yo, I did it. Check it out.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-whpr-piu-what-will-plato-do-next--1830795/1/20
First article ever ;o
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-whpr-piu-piuq1-what-will-plato-do-next--1830888/1/20
Wow! A contest and I'm not paying for it!!!
inB4somethingsomething
vodado
News from Oz - Popular uprising sees CP DocterDry impeached and replaced with H.Nelson
Voted, nice work.
"CRoy predicted that Serbia would attempt a coup of Texas to fulfill an ancient wet dream fantasy that has absolutely no reasonable explanation."
I suspect those fun-loving and raucous Serbs want to experience the joys of being skewered by a Texas Longhorn stud and will stop at nothing in order not to be denied this pleasure. http://tinyurl.com/4yckguz
PIU - Very neat contest! o/
My goodness Myst, those are LONG horns.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-whpr-piu-your-title-goes-here-1831025/1/20
ME, ME, ME, ME, ME ... did I mention ME!
Well yes eh, all the better to pleasure those aforementioned fun-loving and raucous Serbs with. 😛😛
AND, I'm no longer being flashed by the headless chicken but instead, having a rough time commenting.
When the page refreshes, the comment is invisible, even after several refreshes. Then of course, when I repost, both comments appear.
And then, when I choose the one I want to delete, it deletes the other one. :{
Or maybe I was just experiencing dillpickl interference.....
Pickle radiation has been know to interfere with internet communications. Sorry.
"on our otherwise brilliantly executed strategy to press back the Spaniards."
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/are-you-alive-reg-trade-roscatul--1831263/1/20
Voted
vs
voted
My answer to the question:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-whpr-piu-what-plato-will-do-1831507/1/20
Hands down, this is the best article:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-whpr-piu-what-will-plato-do-next-1-1831522/1/20
Thank you in advance for your votes and subs.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/everybody-afraid--1831530/1/20
These comments are boring as f***, this is the only funny one:
Maegalodonus
Day 1,346, 09:09
" "on our otherwise brilliantly executed strategy to press back the Spaniards."
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"
Yeah Dill, but the contest entries are all pretty funny.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-plato-before-and-after-1831394/1/20 Pleace Vot+Sub+Shaut thx everyone !!
Before reset on Friday night? Checkaroo.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-whpr-piu-inb4reset-1832298/1/20
Tick toc, tick toc.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/davidvernon/2011/07/31/erepublik-meet-the-press-1
Held a radio show today and talked to Cerb and Josh Whitehead
Next show is at 6:00 PM EST at the following link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/davidvernon/2011/08/01/erepublik-meet-the-press-2
Great initiative, we have problems with low participation in the press too... this type of programmight help. But is the question provocative enough to ccreate enough buzz and political discussions?
For example, we could ask;
- Where do you see TERRA two months from now?
- Are babybooms a waste in the end?
- What is the best strategy for using bazookas?
- Are we doomed to resort to gimmicks to get Media Mogul medals?
...
V+S
Ooh, ooh! I can answer this one, "What is the best strategy for using bazookas?", point the end the rocket comes out of away from you!
@cyrano24100, you make a very good observation. But as my post above shows, sometimes Americans just want to have fun. We like to pick on poor Plato and tease him for our amusement. At least that's what I hope Gnilraps was going for with this, as no one wrote a serious thought about where the game is headed.