One? ONE?!?!?!!1! But I wrote two! Now I have to choooooose!
I'm a bit undecided about the announcement policy this year. Last year's pseudopod contest had a lot of announcements in the preceding episodes, which got on my nerves, but this year, it's so absent from the cast that I almost missed the deadline.
Each new announcement up front and then to the back thereafter until there is another new one seems like a reasonable approach.
Quote from: Fenrix on February 17, 2016, 02:50:37 PMEach new announcement up front and then to the back thereafter until there is another new one seems like a reasonable approach. What do you mean "to the back hereafter"? At the end of an episode instead of the beginning?
Quote from: Unblinking on February 17, 2016, 07:07:52 PMQuote from: Fenrix on February 17, 2016, 02:50:37 PMEach new announcement up front and then to the back thereafter until there is another new one seems like a reasonable approach. What do you mean "to the back hereafter"? At the end of an episode instead of the beginning?Yes. Front is hard to skip. Back is easy.
Quote from: Fenrix on February 17, 2016, 07:13:08 PMQuote from: Unblinking on February 17, 2016, 07:07:52 PMQuote from: Fenrix on February 17, 2016, 02:50:37 PMEach new announcement up front and then to the back thereafter until there is another new one seems like a reasonable approach. What do you mean "to the back hereafter"? At the end of an episode instead of the beginning?Yes. Front is hard to skip. Back is easy.Harder if you're driving. I rarely fast forward past anything these days. The level of repetition of the Pseudopod flash fiction contest did get to be much too much. I found myself reciting with the announcement every week as if I were a child reciting lessons by rote in a classroom for a grade, and focusing on the weird way that Graeme emphasized "chips of wood" every time he said it just to give me something to do while I listened to it again. Between the submission period announcements and the voting period announcements multiplied by 3 across the EA casts, it was really quite a lot of repetition.
Graeme did a great reading on those, didn't he? The Lottery one fills my heart with joy.
Quote from: Fenrix on February 17, 2016, 08:04:58 PMGraeme did a great reading on those, didn't he? The Lottery one fills my heart with joy.It filled my heart with joy the first 3 times I heard it.
...or for Pseudopod. One of them made my wife yell "Creepy!"
Quote from: Tango Alpha Delta on January 15, 2016, 01:49:07 PM...or for Pseudopod. One of them made my wife yell "Creepy!"But it's not really horror until she says, "What is wrong with you?"
What's worse is that I'm trying to catch up on old episodes and I'm screaming, "AAAAHHHHHH THE PSEUDOPOD CONTEST IS ALREADY OVER"The good news is the timing is pretty consistent on them and I know exactly how far ahead to skip...