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This holiday season while you count your blessings, remember that your admin-given commendations are one of them. Sometimes they're truly deserved, sometimes they're just a gift for being funny, or because of blatant favoritism.

But do you know who lies awake alone on a cold night, and doesn't have any commendations? That's right, the Wardens. (Lol.) Somehow in our land of plenty, where commendations seem free for the taking, a veritable caste system has arisen, and you know how CYStians feel about countries with caste systems.

This holiday season, you can help out these disadvantaged CYStians, who are like you in every way, except for the fact that God made them Wardens. (Lol.)

For every 1000 points donated, we can come together as a community, combine our resources and buy a pity comm for a deserving Warden. (The 1000 doesn't have to fully come from one person, just donate what you can spare and it'll be tracked in a pool.)

Now you may ask, what makes a deserving Warden? Well it has to be one in the top ten list by the end of the year, because I mean, the bar is not high, wtf have the rest of you been doing all this time? Lol.

The qualifying Wardens can choose to share the comms equally, or compete for them, but since we're dealing with Enterpride, Petros, and Chris here I already know what the answer will be. Therefore whoever does best in the New Year's contest will gain the entire prize.

And if none of them have a qualifying entry? Then lol, guess people will learn better than to try and help an Order that won't help themselves again.

And I will make the first donation of 500 points.

I'll donate 10 points! 

What a trooper, thanks Random Noob. I hope others take heart from your generosity.

Well... I'm trying to get points not lose them but whatever. I'll donate 7. Specificaly that because it'll even me out to 300. I'm also not willing to risk many points from what I've seen of people's ability to get in an entry here.

When even the tiny gullible child has no faith in the Wardens lmao

What is this nonsense? I always assumed CYStia is a righteus meritocracy. I will not sacrifice my hard earned points to make some good-for-nothing's feel better about their laziness.

Bah humbug!

Lol.

I like this idea. I'll donate 2000 points, buying 2 comms for the wardens.

Milton, Clay, Chris, Enter, Petros, Stargirl, Ace, I feel like we've got some pretty cool CYStians in the running for this prize. I like it!

Best of luck to y'all!

Also, I just realized some of the CYStians mentioned are not in the top ten, and thus, wouldn't be in the running for the prize.

Is it possible for some of their story games to get commended, so they can jump up the ranks?

Storygames by Wardens not in the top ten that seem Comm-worthy(but it's up to the discretion of the mods)

1. Bird in a cage by Ace

2. Of Dreams and Daemons

3. Duke of Agincourt

RK just sacrificed ALL his points to you pathetic losers, wow.

I still got 69(lol)

Why would he do this? I'm suspicious

Observe how he immediately tried to get Milton boosted into the running. When in doubt, always assume Gayzette cronyism.

I see... I see

I'll take Duke of Agincourt under consideration.

Yay! There's definitely no inter-gazette nepotism going on here.

Have I mentioned by the way that I need $2000 for a new laptop?

Thanks for the recommendation RK :]

Unfortunately, I only have like a sixth of the commendations required to qualify. I doubt I can make myself eligible for this.

As for the point donation thing, I'd be willing to donate some points provided one of the eligible contestants is actually willing to confirm that they'll participate in the new year's contest.

Looks like you need 100 commendations in less than two months, which means you could do one of the following:

• Get 100 posts commended
• Write 50 feature-worthy comments
• Publish two 29k storygames
• Publish a 100k storygame

However, my best advice would be to combine these techniques, e.g. finishing a 29k storygame (which, if I remember the calculation correctly, was the optimal number which gives you 54 comms), reviewing 20 games (another 40 comms), and creating 6 funny/ helpful/ artistic posts. Now doesn't that sound feasible?

Also, as a plan b, I'm sure if you get within the top ten before the contest ends, which gives you a few more months, you could potentially qualify for stealing the commendation prize pot.

Damn.. I actually didn't know getting a story game featured gave so many comms. Maybe it isn't as hopeless as I thought. :D

Guess I'd better get to work on producing something feature worthy. I might as well end the year swinging.

Why write a featured comment when you can post a couple of sentences agreeing with Mystic?

That wouldn't work 99 more times, unfortunately. I did double-check some recent commendations first to make sure ironic comms still occurred and this wasn't an abuse of my power.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Oh by the way, Mystic is pretty cool

All those points for 2 comms? Congrats, you've saved a Warden the trouble of writing a featured comment or creating two funny posts!

(Unless I've misunderstood and it means two storygames would get commended, in which case that is a very different scenario)

But the Wardens are incapable of helping themselves.

I could potentially consider giving out 1 comm per 500 points, but originally I thought that would actually make it too easy given the number of surplus points floating around and the fact anyone can pitch in over the next month and a half. I hadn't quite expected anyone to throw their whole pot in though.

I think I'll refund RK half those points though just for extreme wholesomeness.

Obviously I'm not offering to commend storygames lol, they'd have to produce storygames worth commending first now wouldn't they?

I'll hold off on donations until I see any actual effort, then. I wonder if this allows a Warden to buy comms for themselves using points (or if they even would).

They can add to the pool, but they still need to get themselves in the top ten and then step over their unmoving neighbors in the contest.

I'd like to donate 270 points to RK, because he overpaid me and seems to be... Throwing his points at the Wardens. Hm. Well, they've made it clear they don't want it. Except Enter. I will donate one singular point to Enter specifically, because he said he'd take them.

That's really nice of you, Liminal! Honestly that's really cool. But you don't have to, I'm totally fine with giving away points! Still, it really means a lot for you to say that.

And your donation to Enter as well, very generous!

I wonder what the total is. I think if we added them all up, we'd be in the neighborhood of 3000 points.

     You definitely deserve the points you're giving away and that Liminal is giving you, have you stopped and took a moment to realize how nice of a hot dog you are? (don't take that the wrong way) And those are hard earned points anyway. You even have a story game, something that a shockingly large portion of CYStians don't have.

Aw thanks, Avo! That's really nice of you!

I hope to have 1 more storygame by December 1st, my Edutainment contest entry.

Best of luck with Shifter! I can't wait to see it in December, it should be quite cool and science-y!

     Thanks, but I don't think I did too good with it and I would implement more of an education factor but I don't know all too much in the field I was trying to do. My idea was too ambitious, and it's probably going to reflect in the result.

     Also I think you're nicer, all things considered.

Don't beat yourself up Avo. Focus on getting it in. You'd be surprised how many people mess up and don't submit anything. By submitting, you'd already be above many competitors. I bet you'll be happy with the results, by the end. Just focus on doing the best you can!

I'm not beating myself up. This is a common issue for me, I plan to do more than I can.

I'll beat you up :)

"Um..."

*sounds of a door being locked*

Man, that's certainly a sound I hear pretty often

"Really? What about this?"

I look up a frog sound on google. *Riiiiiiiiiibit*

Sorry, I don't ERP with children because I am an upstanding member of society

erp? And I wouldn't exactly describe you as upstanding...

I am standing up. And ERP is something best explained to you by a trusted adult. Socrates taught me that corrupting the youth makes you kill yourself

Are you sure you aren't sitting down? That's what a person in their right mind does when using a computer.

I don't have a computer. Just a phone and stolen chromebook

Standing desks are a thing... can't confirm whether people who use them are in their right minds or not though.

I would never use them at home, but they're pretty chill at work. Just so you can hop in the booth, write up a quick report, and be out again dealing with the next shitstorm without even having to overcome the mental barrier that is standing up from a comfy chair.

standing desk?

 I don't use it very often, but I do have a desk that can be raised if I want to. Not exactly the same, but it's pretty close, and it can be useful if I'm tired of sitting for some reason.

Only the bad noobs have frog sounds emitting from them around here, you better make sure Harper isn't lurking nearby.

???

I just came up with a random sound... you prefer kangaroos?

Also, congrats on submitting your story to the thunderdome!

I better keep working on mine. I can't wait to see what you wrote. Best of luck!

She told you? Ah well, doesn't hurt. Thanks, I just did because I genuinely just am not good enough at finding flaws to see my room for improvement which must be there.

It seems to be around 2887 points in the pool currently? A lot of people have said that they were donating points to specific members; I have no idea if those are being added to the pool or what. I didn't count those in my total.

Can't say as I approve of this as the Wardens should be pulling themselves out of the mud by their own bootstraps, but I'm sure this will all fall on deaf ears.

I'll give 149 of my points but I think it would be more effective if the Wardens tried to earn Commendations themselves by writing decent story games, writing commendable reviews or doing the forum post thing. If only there was some writing competition taking place right now that they could join and try to turn out a good Edutainment story for :)

And it's really nice that RK has randomly bankrupted himself points-wise on their behalf but we need to stop giving him opportunities to do stuff like this :D If he ever went to donate blood I can see him trying to insist that they take all of it.

As a representative of the Wardens, I find this post to be an offensive act comparable to only the worst of atrocities in recorded history. Though commendations are few, we are a proud people. Some of our members don't contribute as much, but there are those in our community that are striving hard to lift up our good name from derogatory, hateful and spineless declarations like these.

Keep your points. They are not ours. We do not accept them.

I stand with Milton on this one. Fuck all y'all

I'll donate 60 points, but only if they all go to Milton. By way of gratitude for the Gazette.

Oh and 2 points for Petros, to even out my number.

All joking aside, thank you to CYS for the points for the Gazette. I don't do it for the points, but I'm glad that people are enjoying the newsletter :)

You Wardens would've spent all the points on drugs anyway

So you're saying you want Enter to win again?

I'm sure he has no problem with that.

This feels like when you're at a grocery store or Taco Bell or something and they ask, "Do you want to round up?" I think I did it once or twice, and then I noticed they don't even specify a charity and are just asking you to overpay.

>>but there are those in our community that are striving hard

Care to name a few?

This motherfucker speaks for himself. He ain't even in the top 10 lol.

I do not mind the extra comms if people are happy enough to give them. Free shit is free shit after all.

Yeah that's a good point, it's less a bold statement on bootstraps and more just removing any pressure on himself to get into the top 10 in the timeframe the way Clayfinger's trying to do. Smh.

Those who are not in the top 10 also dodge any expectation of performing well in the contest.

I did say I'd donate points if someone can confirm that they are around to receive them, so I shall donate 200 of my points. I am still gonna try and make myself eligible for the prize though. :]

If you can write two commendable 15k storygames you can do it.

Writing is the one weird trick the Wardens never figured out, they're heavily weighted that way for a reason.

Sindriv being smugly proud of his 700 comms only works when compared to the rest of you.

Looking at the Warden leaderboard, I've come to a realization: I barely know who any of these people even are.

https://chooseyourstory.com/Member/?Username=applegirl

This one hasn't logged in since 2015, must be why!

Anyway, they get nothing from me.

Speaking of top ten, no matter what you think of Sindri, he is still among the top ten commended individuals. So even if you're not a warden, you can use this as motivation to climb the commendation leaderboard!
 

Rank	Member	Commendations	Order
1	EndMaster	2142	Marauder
2	Will	1448	Architect
3	Ninjapitka	1155	Marauder
4	Ogre	1104	Architect
5	Steve	1098	Sage
6	Mizal	1062	Sage
7	Mystic	1032	Architect
8	BerkaZerka	977	Sage
9	Bill	778	Architect
10	SindriV	731	Warden

The Marauders are winning because they have End, the only person with over 2k commendations, and Ninja, who writes a lot. Of all the orders, there are the most Architects among the top ten (not propaganda or anything). We lucked out having by Will and Ogre who have an insane number of storygames. As for the Sages, two of their top members have not been around for a while, leaving Mizal to carry the torch. And yeah, there's only one Warden on the leaderboard.

Now, if you excuse me, I have to write. It looks like publishing another 100k storygame (or even a 90k one) could put me in fourth place.

Sages used to be in first place at one time.

There, I contributed to the Sage Donation Drive by commending Wildblue's post about not wanting help the Wardens.

What killed us was the adjustment to let older games be commended.

That should've always been in place anyway. JJJ was making up dumb rules as usual as far as that was concerned and a great injustice was finally corrected.

Did End used to be a Sage and switched to Marauders to end Sages' overwhelming dominance of the leaderboard or did I imagine that? :)

You're on drugs, sorry.

The only changes that happened were us figuring out a way to commend older games (For some reason JJJ had disabled that, but iirc someone discovered a workaround, I think BZ?)

And there was later a readjustment to give longer games more commendations. Both of these obviously worked out really well in End's favor.

Ah right, another acid flashback then :) Being able to commend older games is definitely a big help.

My having even slightly more than Mystic proves the system is broken.

I think the system is fine, since you have had an account for much longer, wrote 11 storygames and contributed lots of helpful posts to the site. Meanwhile I just showed up roughly 6 years ago and spammed 100k stories every now and then. Besides it'll only take about a hundred comms surpass you, which I would feel bad about doing if not for the fact that this ranking likely wouldn't matter to anyone else but me.