Reminder - Accepting Submissions

Just a reminder that you can still place a submission for February's Carnival of Gamers. Slashdot Games is hosting next month's moving blog event, which features some of the most interesting gaming commentary in the gaming blogosphere. We've discussed the Carnival several times in the past, with the most recent carnival hosted on the blog 'Kill Ten Rats'. If you're interested, send in your link to (carniegrue (at) gmail.com).

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FAQ - I didn't know what the hell this was about

[Eightyford]

What is this Carnival of Gamers you speak of?

The Carnival of Gamers is a bi-weekly monthly gathering of video game bloggers at a central location. The premise behind the Carnival of Gamers is similar to those of other "Blog Carnivals" -- it is a showcase of blogs that are about video games. Some of the participating blogs are almost exclusively about video games while others deal with a wide range of topics, from music and movies to politics and punditry to video game design. The Carnival of Gamers has an open format. Anyone wishing to participate in the Carnival is welcome. While the Carnival is hosted by a different blog each time, its entries are currently unedited and unfiltered. We reserve the right to filter entries in the future, but as it stands now, we accept all entries and present them as-is. This did cause a bit of a furor with the first Carnival but that seems to have settled down now.

What a fun idea!

[larsoncc]

I guess I didn't quite understand what a Blog Carnival was until I read this.

I like the idea!

Time to wrap up some long half-finished articles, I think!

Question - Do you think there is an "age limit" on articles that can be submitted?

Please someone

[cheaphomemadeacid]

SHOOT that word blogosphere, it's killing me...

Re:Please someone

[Stephen Williams]

No kidding. If I ever see "leverage the blogosphere" in a story summary, I fear I may spontaneously combust.

-Stephen

Re:FAQ - I didn't know what the hell this was abou

[Eightyford]

Seriously people. Metamoderators need to pay a little more attention. Flamebait?

Re:What a fun idea! - Parent is not a Troll

[Anonymous Coward]

The link to 'freemoneyfinance' is actually on the page linked to in the original post.

Not Troll

[larsoncc]

The link I provided is from this page: The Carnival of Gamers home page.

My apologies if it looked like a scam site, but really - it's about the article. I just didn't know what this /. post was all about, until I read that post. Looks like I'm not the only one that was confused. When I posted, there were no other comments on the page, so I thought what I was doing was more along the lines of Informative.

Re:Not Troll

[British]

Don't worry, this is Slashdot. Use of of obscure acronyms without any definition to them in stories are 100% common. It is assumed you know linux front to back. I can only imagine it being worse in the Games section.

Gaming Blogs

[L7_]

Gaming blogs are for people that don't actually play the games, and would rather write about them than fire them up and play them.

I'm sure that there are incentives to being a gaming journalist, but I don't know any "journalist" that has stayed up 3 days straight camping for an Everquest drop (just to get spawn jumped) or bought 14 different mice before returning 13 just to see which gets you the most headshots. You know, attributes of real gamers.

People that play World of Therycraft instead of actually raiding. Message board campers that brag about thier FPS skills. They all share commonalities with people that write about games and game design; they arent real.

Re:Gaming Blogs

[mofomojo]

Of course, no body could ever possibly write about something that interests them, right?

Oh no, of course not, such could never ever ever ever fucking happen, right?
Hey, look, I'm writing something pertaining to videogames right now instead of doing a raid of WoW, I guess I'm not a real gamer.

Point made, I'm right your wrong, now shoo, carry your tail between your legs and waddle away.

>:(

Re:Gaming Blogs

[inkless1]

I'm sure that there are incentives to being a gaming journalist, but I don't know any "journalist" that has stayed up 3 days straight camping for an Everquest drop (just to get spawn jumped) or bought 14 different mice before returning 13 just to see which gets you the most headshots. You know, attributes of real gamers.

I don't think that makes you a "real" gamer over other people. I think it just means you have a lot of time on your hands.

The only time I ever got up early at my grandmother's was to play Pitfall on the Atari. Later, it was Adventure.
I once beat a Wing Commander game in three days while studying for finals.
I helped setup a house wide LAN at my old fraternity so that we could play Doom MP without having to go see the light of day.
I helped organize the old Eternal Champion tourneys at my old dorm.
I once had regular meetings to discuss the proper strategy with my BBS allies in Solar Empires.
I played Counter-Strike when it was good.
I still have most home consoles made before the PlayStation enshrined in my living room.
At one time, Super Bowl meant Halo
In fact games that I have wasted literally days in a row on would include: Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake III, Deus Ex, System Shock, System Shock II, Civilization, Zork (all of them), Dungeon Master, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Doom III, OGRE, Wing Commander (most of them), SSI Gold Series (several of them, Wizardry (about half of them), Morrowind, ... and now I'm just tired of remembering them all.
I'm a founding member of the Fireflies ILB wiki and used to be an active contributor to the Unreal wiki
I've mapped the old office where I worked at. For Half-Life. And Unreal Tournament.
I've made more than a couple of mods and won some awards in the latest MSUC.

So.

You really going to sit there and tell me I'm not a real gamer?

Look, I blog on games because it's the only thing game-related I can do at work without getting fired. I'm definately not speaking for the gaming blogosphere, but I don't consider myself a "new games journalist" or a "games journalist" or a "journalist", I'm just someone with a more than mild game addiction who when he isn't playing games, is usually playing around with building them, and when he's not doing that ... writes about them.

It's not that I wouldn't prefer playing games, it's that I have a job.

Re:FAQ - I didn't know what the hell this was abou

[Anonymous Coward]

sigh.. actually, it's not redundant.

1. Post useful, informative, on-topic information. Get Modded flamebait
2. Point out that #1 is not flamebait. Get modded flamebait again.
3. Point out that #2 is not flamebait. Get modded redundant.

Re:FAQ - I didn't know what the hell this was abou

[Eightyford]

Thank you!