5punk articles

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 20th, 2009, 18:00

Groovy. Wonder if there's one for WP too. I'm itching to start writing these things, as I expect are one or two others. Unfortunately I don't have the technical gumption to set it up, and that bothers me. Anything I can do to speed the process up let me know.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » April 20th, 2009, 18:03

Best thing we can do in the meantime is writing articles. Content is king!

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 20th, 2009, 18:09

I could write something about best geeky pet or something, maybe.

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 20th, 2009, 18:49

Dooooo eeeeeeet Meeeeeister Jayy!

Right then, time to start churning out crap Illustrative and insightful articles.

I'll do that one about my game addictions first.

Bindun but hows about desert islands disc kind of thing? I guess we (me if they're in entertainment, Lat don't do nuffin

) could clean up and update the threads and invite anyone to add/make changes to their selection?

punkchuck · Post by **punkchuck** » April 21st, 2009, 10:47

I couldn't really contribute anything about games... :/ Afraid I am way less ejumucated than y'all on that. I could write a geeks guide to girls (married single dating whatever) article tho haha.. . All my friends are guys and I always seem to be dishing out that sort of advice to them although girls can enjoy it too, so if anyone is interested, I would be more than happy to write about that. Won't be offended if it doesn't really fit tho

I promise..

If you are going to make it a whole new website or section just for articles, almost sounds like it will be more like a 5punk mag -5punk.co.uk/magazine. You could even have comics (@Grimmie

)

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 21st, 2009, 11:16

punkchuck wrote:I couldn't really contribute anything about games... :/ Afraid I am way less ejumucated than y'all on that. I could write a geeks guide to girls (married single dating whatever) article tho haha.. . All my friends are guys and I always seem to be dishing out that sort of advice to them although girls can enjoy it too, so if anyone is interested, I would be more than happy to write about that. Won't be offended if it doesn't really fit tho I promise..

DO IT.

We also need a gamer's guide to non-gamer girl wrangling.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » April 21st, 2009, 11:27

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:DO IT.

Berk beat me to it

What he said. Alot.

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 21st, 2009, 11:33

punkchuck wrote:If you are going to make it a whole new website or section just for articles, almost sounds like it will be more like a 5punk mag -5punk.co.uk/magazine. You could even have comics (@Grimmie )

Yep, that's pretty much what I envisaged, albeit a very small magazine that only released articles once a week or two. Articles don't have to be about gaming, I think the site has progressed beyond that, and a Grim-comic would be ace (or indeed any other of our talented bastards, like Stoat, Shada and Mikkyo).

As an aside, a female perspective is something the internet in general seems to lack, especially coming from a gaming background such as 5punk has. This alone would make for an interesting turn on what will undoubtedly be mainly male-penned articles.

Post by **Grimmie** » April 21st, 2009, 11:39

I wouldnt mind making a little comic once or twice a week if someone else took the other weeks.
Could even put the whole thing together as a downloadable PDF if it's successful.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 21st, 2009, 11:42

I'm really liking the sound of this.
RPS, you've got a competitor coming!

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 21st, 2009, 11:42

Did you mean once or twice a month? I can't see articles being much more frequent considering 5punk's inherent lack of motivation.

Post by **Grimmie** » April 21st, 2009, 11:51

Yes, I meant once or twice a month.
I also mean once or twice a week.

You could have 50 pages of comics and 1 page of articles.

Post by **Roman Totale** » April 21st, 2009, 12:16

Maybe you could combine horses with punkchuck and do a comic of her article.

Edit: another idea. We could get a list of people who don't mind trying their hand at drawing for a laugh, and suggest comic ideas for them. I can't draw for shit, but if we took it in organised turns we could create a monster of a comic. It would have to be organised turns though, otherwise it would probably be the same people over again.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » April 21st, 2009, 12:39

And RO-BO editorial pieces!

Post by **Roman Totale** » April 21st, 2009, 12:54

mrbobbins wrote:And RO-BO editorial pieces!

Every word filtered to RO-BO

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » April 21st, 2009, 13:02

Roman Totale wrote:Maybe you could combine horses with punkchuck and do a comic of her article.

Edit: another idea. We could get a list of people who don't mind trying their hand at drawing for a laugh, and suggest comic ideas for them. I can't draw for shit, but if we took it in organised turns we could create a monster of a comic. It would have to be organised turns though, otherwise it would probably be the same people over again.

I like the sound of this.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » April 21st, 2009, 13:20

Roman Totale wrote:
Every word filtered to RO-BO

That sent me thinking on a worrying tangent, I imagined a Being John Malkovich head-entering type scenario but with RO-BO instead.

I had to stop before my brain fried itself.

cubedweller · Post by **cubedweller** » April 21st, 2009, 15:52

Happy to contribute a "Geeks guide to travel" column. I travel. A lot (100,000 miles last year.) Things like how reservations systems work, playing them for the best deals, best travel gadgets, best hotel rewards programs, getting upgrades, etc etc

punkchuck · Post by **punkchuck** » April 21st, 2009, 16:00

Dude does know travel

Yay

Sounds good. Happy to take any questions to answer or topics for my article..I'm pretty blunt so you can be too.

Roman Totale wrote:
Edit: another idea. We could get a list of people who don't mind trying their hand at drawing for a laugh, and suggest comic ideas for them. I can't draw for shit, but if we took it in organised turns we could create a monster of a comic. It would have to be organised turns though, otherwise it would probably be the same people over again.

That sounds like an awesome idea. Don't know if you meant new ideas each week or having one person start with the cartoon plot and each person sort of continues the story after that? Either would be funny..

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 21st, 2009, 16:04

Roman Totale wrote:Edit: another idea. We could get a list of people who don't mind trying their hand at drawing for a laugh, and suggest comic ideas for them. I can't draw for shit, but if we took it in organised turns we could create a monster of a comic. It would have to be organised turns though, otherwise it would probably be the same people over again.

Give Grimmie and Shada a seperate category otherwise quality will be inconsistent