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Content Creation on Tengaged? Sep 23, 2008: With the dawning of an economy (See Grayson's brilliant report) comes a whole host of new questions on the future of Tengaged.
One of them is what ways could be expanded to make money? Looking to 'Second Life' I thought of two ways, one is paying real money to get fake Tengaged money (Alongside the current ways of course), this would be a brilliant way for Randomize to make money from the site without advertising, but chances are it wouldn't be very popular and it would annoy lots of people if after working a month to get into rookies someone could chuck a few pounds at the PC and get full access to whatever they want.
Another is 'Content Creation'. People have made so much in Second Life from it, so is it possible to be implemented here? Who knows. After all it would be interested to be able to create outfits for our avatars (But it might look a mess, maybe Randomize and other admin types could moderate what gets uploaded- quality control).
People could make stores on their profiles to sell their wares.
Is it a good idea?
Is it even possible?
You can probably guessed from the questions I haven't thought that much into it! So what? I'm an idea man just not an in depth idea man! LOL
What do you think?; Points: 29 7 comments
OMG Friends! Tell me if you've added me! Sep 21, 2008: I've just found that I have 16 reciprocal friends of my 16 friends (Yay) but 29 people have me as a friend and I can't believe I've been added by people and not added back
I feel really rude and sorry if you've taken it as an insult, I haven't meant it to be, usually I forget to add people altogether!
If you have added me as a friend and I haven't added you back please tell me, I'm super sorry!
I feel really bad, post here please so I can add you back or mail me.; Points: 0 5 comments
2 Truths and a Lie Sep 21, 2008: Hey all,
if you're in a game and want to get more posts or get to know your housemates better there is an amazing game you can play with the other HMs
Its called 2 Truths and a Lie, and its super fun and good to play over a game like this. You say 3 things, and 2 are true but the third is a lie about yourself and we have to guess which is a lie. It can be really fun and interesting.
In one of my games with Tess we discovered she had a pet* dragon through this game! (Okay she doesn't but we thought that was a truth XD We were tired!)
If you want to have a risk aspect to it you can say the people who get it wrong get negged, but I don't play that way

*It's actually her fiance LOL; Points: 0 1 comments
Game 7127 Yearbook! :P Sep 14, 2008: So game 7127 is coming to an end and it’s been a fun one for sure. It’s been really active and we’ve really had a mad time, a few arguments, but what game doesn’t have a few?
We’ve played word association and Two truths and a lie (You don’t need arcade games to have fun people!) and soon it’s all going to end, but there will be more games and hopefully we’ll meet again :D
So we decided after TwoTonTyler mentioned his yearbook to compile one of our own, and here’s the titles we gave to everyone.
The questionable title for ‘Most likely to get evicted first from Big Brother’ went to JackHeyes who was somewhat unsurprisingly evicted from our game… first. No one really got to know him well, but I suppose that’s what happens when you’re out first. 
‘Taken too early’ went to djbaltazar who everyone decided they missed, and we were pretty sad to see him go so early in 9th place.
ThomasCorbo’s reaction to getting put up for eviction earned him the title of ‘Most sensitive’ while 6th place Brody, who caused a bit of controversy with his begging to stay in, earned the title of ‘Most Unique Avatar’
Tess who came in 7th was ‘Most innocent’ and everyone wanted her back in! Understandably of course, she rocks!
That leaves the finalists, tasha75, the last girl standing got ‘Most popular girl’ for being the only girl in the final and because she is so well liked. There was a bit of an argument over what Tyler should get, mostly between him and Dan who hadn’t been the best of friends through the game! But in the end it was him who gained ‘Biggest Fighter!’ for surviving so many arguments and evictions! I, AndyShields, got ‘Best person to talk to’ which rocks :D
Grayson received the honor of being ‘Best Player’ and Daniel was ‘Best Comedian’ for his wicked sense of humour.
So… To recap :P
Daniel- Best Comedian
ME!- Best Person to talk to
Djbaltazar- Taken Too early
Jackheyes- Most Likely to be First Evictee in Big Brother
ThomasCorbo- Most Sensitive
Tess11- Most Innocent (And the one we all want back!)
Tasha75- Most popular girl
TwoTonTyler- Strongest Fighter
Brody- Most Unique Avatar
Grayson- Best Player

And so we are all about to graduate  *Is sad*; Points: 8 7 comments
Rant Alert! Stop the negativity! Look for the positives! Sep 13, 2008: The people on this site are getting too much, they really are. Let me start by saying this, the games are fun, there are plenty of people who rocks here and Randomize has done an amazing job of creating this site and making it fun and entertaining. I don’t have any gripes with the people behind the site, or the site itself because frankly it’s great and I don’t have a problem with it.
I certainly wouldn’t have the audacity to complain that I’m leaving because there isn’t a new game or there aren’t mini-games because to be honest if I wanted to leave the site I would and I wouldn’t make a blog telling everyone that its because ‘this site sux’.
Why?
Because it doesn’t- YOU do. If you can’t entertain yourself for the few hours you’re on a day through the medium of text then you really should leave. No one wants to be in a game with people who get bored by conversation; it’s what this site is about! If you want to shoot aliens, feel free to leave and shoot aliens, but it isn’t a part of this game, and it never will be. Sorry to shatter your dreams, but it wouldn’t work at all! So to recap, if you can’t hold a conversation without needing to shoot things then you really shouldn’t be here.
Now on to the ‘celebrities’ whose name you see bandied about everywhere. I’m going to blame Bubblyangel for this little trend, although she’s the least offensive of the lot. It was tolerable when she was the only one, her notoriety was achieved through being a bit of a bitch and then having people go insane over the fact she backstabbed them or double crossed them, at least as far as I could tell. At the time I first played a game with her she was like the site’s own personal Satan, now by comparison to the recent attention seekers she almost lives up to her name! I guess the original is always the best, recent attention whores have been grating to say the least and so glaringly obvious with it.
The main ways people go about being ‘celebrities’ on this site is making blogs that they know will offend people and in some cases making comments that will incite people when the replies start to dry up. In the end they usually start doing pointless ‘bumps’ and counting up with the amount of comments. But it’s a worrying trend how common this is.
Look at the top 20 blogs, try to find some positivity, its almost all negative! Most of it is from attention seekers, like that SMORG bloke who pretends to be Big Brother characters and is in number one with ‘Gameplayers’, in number 3 is Summerlynn who likes to pretend she’s Jesus, but after causing a bit too much controversy she censored herself. In fact Summerlynn takes three places on the list with her blogs, claiming to be Jesus, the Queen and claiming others are evil bigots. In number 5 is a whole log of threats to stab people and kill their family from what I can only describe as a clearly disturbed individual.
Sad thing is it lasts such a short time, this perceived fame, Bubblyangel’s subtle bitching has faded to nothingness after the emergence of Summerlynn and her delusions, and she in turn has lost the ‘public interest’ with the dawning of a bunch of psychos who plan on knifing you. But they’ll be forgotten about soon too and probably to someone even more unhinged.
I’m starting to worry that with mentions of made up ‘tabloids’ and ‘fame’ that people genuinely think they’re in an actual Big Brother with OK mag and Hello banging down the door to buy the rights to their made up stories.
From some of the posts on the top 20 everyone on Tengaged is a bigoted, homophobic, liar. If someone has offended you that much that you feel they have broken the rules then tell the powers in charge of the site, don’t make a blog about them. Nothing will get done that way, it just ends up making YOU look as bad as the others, and that isn’t how to go about that kind of thing. If you’ve been double crossed by someone and want to warn people, PM the people in the new game and tell them that so-and-so is not to be trusted, don’t draw attention to yourself on such a grand stage- once again stuff will be dragged up, not necessarily true, and will make you look bad.
Staying on the subject of blogs, what about all these… Who is the most hated on Tengaged? Who is the most two faced on Tengaged? Who is the biggest noob? Etc. Why are they all so negative? Why are they so common?
How about making some nice blogs that aren’t slagging people off. Ask a nice question, like who is your favourite person on Tengaged? Or who is the smartest person on Tengaged? And delete any comments that are being needlessly nasty and attention seeking. Make a blog about the people in your last game and how much you appreciate them being there for you.
Spread a little positivity!
(And I appreciate the irony of this negative blog, but sometimes you have to be a bit bad to bring about change)
And I have just typed way too much- I need to get a hobby :P
I try to be a nice, positive person but sometimes you just need to vent and I hope this helps other people look on the bright side and learn to focus on the good side of this site!
Smile :D; Points: 0 14 comments
7086... Wedding... Hilariously Scary Sep 9, 2008: So Summerlynn has gone all bunny boiler on Punx and is forcing him into a marriage to her. LOL
It's funny, you need to read through it, you'll laugh.
Poor punx though!; Points: 0 11 comments

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