Event 2: Gaming Caption Contest ~ Discussion

[Oranjui]

This is a discussion thread. Talk/ask questions about the contest here, and vote for your favourite submissions from the other thread.

If you're looking instead to submit your captions, please refer to the Submissions thread.

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Contest Information n junk

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(a bunch of the stuff here is copied from the main thread in the RO subforum, pasted here for convenience)



Participants: This event is a team event, meaning the whole team enters this event. As a whole. Wholly. Everyone participates.

About: The Gaming Caption Contest is a game created by MessengerOfDreams back in 2009. The goal of the game is to give an appropriate and preferably funny caption to each of the 7 given screenshots.

Here, for the sake of the Runolympics, we'll use the following system to decide who the winner is: for each screenshot, Doram and Star king will rank the team captions from favourite to least favourite. The winner of the event will be the team with the most winning captions. In case of a tie, we'll look at the number of second place captions, and if that's a tie too, the third place captions and so on. It is similar to the process used in the real life Olympics to determinate the overall winner of the Olympics.

Images:

open me!: show

(click on a screenshot to enlarge it)

=== SCREENSHOT 1: Super Mario 64 ===


=== SCREENSHOT 2: The Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword ===


=== SCREENSHOT 3: Portal 2 ===


=== SCREENSHOT 4: Sonic Lost World (Zelda DLC) ===


=== SCREENSHOT 5: Minecraft ===


=== SCREENSHOT 6: Pokkén Tournament ===


=== SCREENSHOT 7: Super Mario 64 (Corrupted) ===

Rules:

• One caption per team for each picture (in the final submission list; we'll be voting on/discussing this as we go).
• However, there is no minimum or maximum length for your captions. It could be a one-letter caption, a dialog or a whole backstory. Your choice.
• The caption can describe what happens before, during or after the picture. Once again, your choice.
• Swearing in the captions is okay, but try to avoid gore and sexual content.
• A team can skip pictures if they are out of ideas.

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Posting Guidelines

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Post any general comments or questions about the contest in this thread. Also, please tell us in this thread whose captions you want to see in our team's final list (but don't post any of your caption ideas here; go to the other thread). If you're not looking to discuss the contest itself and instead want to submit your captions for it, see the Submissions thread.



You have until the 25th of July, 11:59pm PST to submit your team captions!

[Oranjui]

We have about a day and a quarter left to figure out our captions. We should probably get to work.

[Worldsixthocean]

How about "I wonder what this red button do" for third pic

I have lack of idea.

[ChaosYoshi]

I threw whatever came to my head in a draft. If you want, I can post what I have in the submissions topic, though they're not all that good to begin with.

[Oranjui]

It doesn't matter all that much. You can always continue to revise your ideas. We have just over a day left for this, so the more ideas, the better, no matter how good/bad said ideas are. Chances are we're going to get more good ones if we just start posting now than if we wait until the last minute perfecting just a few ideas.

[Oranjui]

So far, personally, I'm satisfied with ven's with the exception of #4 for which I think raz's is better. But we still haven't heard from the rest of you guys. Just post, even if you think they're bad. We have just over 12 hours left.

[Raz]

An hour and 29 minutes, since Ven and I are the only ones seemingly alive, we might be forced to make the final decisions.


(if EVERYONE somehow forgets, then our choices are

1) The new Dentist mario game gets up close and personal with it's patients.
2) Link suddenly regrets voting yes on Bill 42, which authorizes the use of force to collect interest on loans.
3) If pushing the button gives you a million dollars, but at the cost of a random robot's life somewhere to the left of you, would you do it? Yes. For science. You monster.
4) It's dangerous to go fast alone..
5) Transmute wheat seeds into creeper seeds, they said. Infinite gunpowder, they said. It'll be a blast, they said. They weren't wrong.
6) Matched with the opponent of legendary strength, Pikachu contemplates Suicune-cide to preserve his Trainer's honor.
7) Maybe he's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline.

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[Worldsixthocean]

I just submit mine
Just in time be4 the deadline reached (well 33 minutes)
And its 2:26PM in my region

[Oranjui]

Sorry, that was bad timing for me to decide to correct my sleep schedule. Good job captioning team.