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My old eyes thank you for this.  Great job everyone.

This is really helpful.

Damn, this one's elaborate. Nice job!

All contributors be sure to post so I can commend you too.

that's me, fresh

I also did some stuff.

Absolute superb job as always! Great work happening over there in the press office :D

This is fantastic! A really entertaining read :D

Nicely done Milton! Was not expecting to wake up this morning and see a new edition of the gazette. Your productivity is truly inhuman. Also excellent job by the puzzles team and Gazette collaborators, the newspaper is really well done.

I really enjoyed the puzzles and art by Fresh, the crypto quote which I’m assuming is by tcat, and the 3 interviews. MHD also made her own art for her interview, which is next level! This edition had some of the best interviews, I always wanted to know more about Anthraxus, since aside from his helpful reviews, his nice demeanor, the burning skull, and his tendency to make complicated and cool games with lots of scripting, I didn’t know much about him.

I also didn't know Milton was among the first to figure out that there was a secret santa ninja, I thought the ninja and mystic arranged this from the start, so it was cool to know how it came about.



It was also cool seeing how Mizal initially found the site and how in 2016, it was largely populated by warrior cats and spam games. I’m glad that know we seem to have a pretty strong community regularly churning out interesting and well made games.

The WC ban was a little before that, it and the ensuing furry exodus took some time but did signal the beginnings of improvement and a general shift towards "we'd like the community to be a little more serious about writing now and not make threads solely dedicated to meowing at each other".

Although the mods were still having to play Whack-A-Mole with the cat games for YEARS.

2016 is regarded as the upswing year though mostly because of the removal of Pedo Mod Kiel and his army of sock puppets and androgynous sycophants with twinky anime avatars, and the rise of Endmaster of course. Only had limited space of course and I was already typing too many words for that question. (I don't think I hit the right tone with the second section either, might have come off as more negative than intended, and anyway not aimed at any of the real ones who would be reading this. But having waited till the last minute to turn that in as usual there wasn't time to rework it, whoops.)

Some of the other admins would be the ones to consult on the lore leading up to that era though. Besides End who is truly the Ancient One, Sent, Malk, and MHD all comprise the "joined around 2014 when they were around 14" crew and were the ones with boots on the ground among the furry hordes while I was just sort of scornfully glancing in from time to time. (There are others too who still keep in touch, but their site activity has dwindled.. there's a couple of them in particular it's been a real shame to lose.)

That makes sense, I need to check the History again, I think Endmaster also added dates for reference.

I didn't know that MHD, Malk, and Sent were all 14 in 2014. Huh! I was 12 at that time, so I could have been part of that cohort had I discovered the site that early. My exposure to fantasy was still Percy Jackson, HP, redwall, this weird little series by Hunger games author Suzanne Collins called "Gregor the overlander"(it's pretty awesome!), Tale of Desperaux and a few other random books. I probably wouldn't have been ready to read something like Eternal.

I don't think your second section was too negative, I think it made sense. You do a ton around here, with upkeep, encouragement, and noob corralling, not to mention all the behind the scenes work I probably have no idea about. I totally get what you mean, I can't even imagine how many DMs you must have piled up in your inbox from noobs complaining about the language here. You're definitely stretched thin, and it's hard to focus on everything all at once. That too, with eye strain in the midst of it. But we're all really grateful for everything you do around here, and little Johnny will just have to accept that he needs to work on his forum etiquette on his own. I'm really excited to see your contest entry, as I'm sure many other people are as well. Is it going to be sci-fi like Agent of Order? Love and dating like Inseparable? Or fantasy like Jack the bean counter? Only time will tell.

I definitely can't take full credit for the secret secret santa. When I first received a message from Milton, I was confused until I discovered what was happening, at which point I decided that I might as well make a guessing game out of this anonymous gifter.

Of course, there's no guarantee that this message isn't a ploy to add more chaos and confusion to the mix, who knows.

Wait. You mean, even you don't know who the secret ninja is either? This conspiracy is getting crazier by the minute, even high command is waiting for the reveal. I'm excited for tomorrow, I can't wait for the holiday highwayman to hang up their shroud and reveal their identity for the world.

I know who they are now, I just didn't know when the first few unassigned gifts were posted. Though it would actually be more fun if I didn't know but that'll be too difficult from an organisation perspective.

Oh ok, I misinterpreted what you said. got it. It would be really fun, but I can understand how crazy that would get since you need to keep track of who gifted who, and which ones are the actual gifts.

Since these are only once a month, if they keep up this quality level I probably will start moving them to the News page.

That would be awesome! We would be honored :)

Really great stuff, right there!

Another great episode! This feels like a real newspaper, with several entertaining interviews, an update of recent events, and lots of interesting segments. And there's MHD art too! I found the line 'AI generated text is prefect in regards to spelling and most grammar' amusing, wonder if that's intentional. 

Also, happy belated birthday to Malk and Avery, and happy early birthday to Ninja and Sherb!

man, multiple people looked at that too.  I wish I could say it was intentional.

I'm kind of interested in ideas for non traditional CYOA structures, like MHD brought up in her interviews. Seems like something worth a brainstorming session anyway. And maybe that would be a good basis for a contest someday.

Ominous foreshadowing!

This is lovely! Wonderful job :~)

Really nice work.

Here's some additional reading for the discerning fans of the Gazette: Breezy summons Mizal.

The argument I mentioned having with Breezy. Back in those less fun days, bigger and more exciting threads all got deleted by the Bad Mods, so folks had to be quick on the draw with the Way Back Machine to rescue these things. That was most of it anyway unless there were some posts later that I missed. But sadly the additional threads that Brennon made defending Breezy (where she had to sort of awkwardly ask him to please stop and where another alt claimed to be his mother) were lost to time.

Breezy was unharmed by this, and continued for some time, defending the children and posting short stories about graphic sodomy and rape where they could see them. Eventually though it ended as a sad tale: some IRL drama detailed in her blog and on another forum forced her to get a job at Walmart to retain custody of her children, and as has been the case with others, this crushing burden of part time employment turned the dreams of writing into ashes. :(

Brennon was later banned for sexting over PMs with another minor.

That thread was way longer than I remember it.

The sheer volume and density of cringe in this archive has killed me. I'm dead now. :(
Seriously, like every other person in that thread makes me want to throw up and then feed all their points to Sentinel Penguin. Site culture has come a long way since then.

Patar was 3iguy who was also Triclops in the Discord for a short period. (Most known as the guy that really really liked Survivor.) He's always been like that, but he had brain problems.

MasonJarGuzzi was 13 or 14 and a legendary retard.

He was also the traitor who ran and told Kiel that a "hate club" was made about him after you invited him into the IRC.

Granted that sort of had a positive outcome since it ignited the powder keg that resulted in Kiel and Seth's departure.

I mean I sort of get it. I've been known to hold grudges against people for the most minor of slights for even longer. I think I didn't hold a grudge for as long mainly because it ended up being a positive in the long run.

Plus, I always thought Mason sucked before he did his traitor thing so it was more of one of those "Well I told you he sucked, why the hell did you invite him in the first place?" things, so I got to be right which balanced things out slightly.

Sort of like how I kept telling everyone that Suranna sucked, but everyone was on her side and weirdly white knighting her (Except Petros) until she fucked up so many times that people finally saw I was right all along.

At which point, I was vindicated and I could go about not minding her while everyone else thought she sucked.

True. But at least Susanna didn't report to a pedo. 
 

Which reminds me: considering Mason's age at the time... I wonder if there was something going on between him and Kiel.

EDIT: "Breezy and Mizal should obviously settle this by wrestling in a tub of Jello while dressed in bikinis." -EndMaster
 

Further proof that EndMaster has always had the best ideas for this site.