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[SIZE="1"]Which fate is his master? Which path will he choose? [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgO3ZCzVcNY"]Success[/URL] or disaster? To win or... to [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavAnxFdQlI"]lose[/URL]? Guardian. He's a hero to the [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDI2yOyx9eo"]end[/URL]. His code to [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37s8erAQS5k"]mend[/URL] and defend. When evil stands to conquer all, his only hope- a [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNzgmgyBw64"]Firewall[/URL]![/SIZE]
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That is my current signature which I quite very much love. :eager: I had been planning to link each key word or phrase- success, disaster, fate, master, path will he choose, etc.- to a Reboot clip or episode that correlated with it. Unfortunately, I ran out of room.

Sadfais. :c

So this blog exists as a place for me to stick all of the links I couldn't fit in, along with the word or phrase they were suppose to go with. And along with the line or lines that made me choose that clip.

Happyfais! c:

Path will he choose: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZ90QGDbI4]YouTube - ReBoot v3.2.3.3 (best quality)[/url][INDENT]"I am number one! I am the driving force in your life! I AM hatred! I drive you on... and consume you. [...] I am number one. I care for no one. [...] I am number one. The original. [...] But you hate me, you must! Look at what you've become."[/INDENT]Disaster: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-1jheJd1M]YouTube - ReBoot v3.2.1.3 (best quality)[/url][INDENT]"Wise one? What will happen to us if they fail?"
"Oh, the eternal deletion, the end of all things, the cut that can never be undone. But don't worry, things will be fine. I'm sure of it..."[/INDENT]Guardian: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_la5WjJpYKY]YouTube - ReBoot v2.10.1 (best quality)[/url][INDENT]"Due to the current crisis we're all facing, I am invoking emergency code 9510. Enzo, gimme your icon."
"Ok."
"Command line, icon. Download Guardian protocal, version 1.0. Enzo Matrix, there is a huge responsibility in taking the Guardian badge of office. Do you accept?"
"Yes sir!"
"By the power vested in me, I give you a field commision... as Guardian. First level."[/INDENT]Hero: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fj4kdfcR9M]YouTube - ReBoot v3.3.4.3 (best quality)[/url][INDENT]"... You're right. There is no other way. Everyone get back! *glitch makes some noises* You sure? *noises* Thank you, old friend. Glitch- download! [...] We are now one Let's go home."[/INDENT]Evil: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tWsaxxkSYI]YouTube - ReBoot season 3.1 "To Mend and Defend" opening (best quality)[/url][INDENT]"I come from the net. Infecting systems, peoples, and cities. To this place. Megaframe. My domain. My format: Virus. To corrupt and conquer."[/INDENT]Conquer: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWC5rykgvw]YouTube - ReBoot v3.4.1.1 (best quality)[/url][INDENT]"By the code..."
"No..."
"But... Dot..."
"Don't worry, she's a Matrix, she'll survive. You did. I... I know she'll have found a way to do the same."[/INDENT]
I'm still trying to track down some links for a few of them. Namely, "Defend," "Fate," "Master," and "Win." This shall be updated when I find them.

[CENTER][COLOR="DarkRed"][FONT="Palatino Linotype"]First things first:
I haven't been on in a while... Yup. Been busy roleplaying lol Fun. xD
But yeah--the rps are actually interesting.

Anyway, at the moment I'm in Digital Music class...
And the period before, I was in gym. And my friend Vic and I were talking about next year's classes for us.

And we're doing practically everything together (that's good!)

We're doing band and chorus together (although I don't know if we'll be in the same period for band....)
We'll be doing fencing together, we might be doing FBLA together, if I have the time (Future Business Leaders of America) and we're obviously doing marching band, Fall Revue, the Musical and all that together.

Maybe next year won't be so bad xD[/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER]

[SIZE="1"]This is something that has been bothering me for a while now, at least since this most recent cycle of Project Mene began.

When Donna started this contest, she made it out of fun to see what other users would do in an ongoing elimination-based avatar contest. The goal was to create a set amount of challenges and recruit ten contestants to play them out until one was the winner. Donna made it three seasons before she had to give up the contest because she didn't have the time and didn't really want to host anymore. This is my sixth cycle and I'm feeling that number seven might be my last, both because I'm questing and can't afford the prize anymore, and because I'm tired. I have plans coming up in the next year, and whether or not I want to host it, facing the facts I'm starting school as a full time student in January, hopefully with a full time job as well and I don't know if I'll have the time to dedicate to the contest except for during breaks and I don't want that.

There's a lot that goes into hosting a contest as big as this. Its not just a small, "everyone make an outfit based on this and we'll pick a winner" kind of thing. You need to come up with a theme, come up with anywhere from 5-8 challenges to fit into that theme, hold an application period to choose judges and contestants and then on top of that have to say no to people because you've had too many applicants. You have to set and enforce deadlines, put time into hosting the entries, compiling the scores of the judges and coming up with your own scores. Its just a really long process and its hard to keep up, especially when you've been doing it so long.

I've been thinking that maybe taking a break will help me out. When the current cycle is over and we begin looking for new contestants and judges for cycle 10, it could very well be the last cycle I host and I want your feedback on that issue.

Spoons:

What is your opinion on me closing the contest for good?

What is your opinion on me choosing a new host for the contest?

Would you guys be okay with it if I chose to take a few months off from hosting the contest for my first semester of school until I can figure out if I'm able to continue both?

For the above question, should there be a temporary host if I choose that option?

What do you think would help make the contest easier for me to manage it in the long run?

How many cycles do you think is a reasonable amount to host before retiring from it?

Would you rather that I just closed the contest for good and not let it be picked up by someone else if I chose to quit, or would picking a new host be a good idea?

What would you look for in the new host?

[B]New Questions![/B]

[I]I have some new questions for you guys, based on your current feedback and stuff. And I want to thank you guys for the input. Its helpful.[/I]

As has been suggested, a new/temporary host has been in high demand rather than my permanent closing of the contest. If I were to choose a new/temp host, would any of you be willing to host it in my absense? Requirements would be that you've been a judge and a contestant so that you understand both sides, are able to come up with new challenges and cycle themes, have at least 5-10 hours a week to dedicate to PM, are able to come up with an adequate prize for the cycle, can enforce rules and deadlines, etc.

In regards to if I were to choose a temp host while I took a break, how trustworthy are you? I don't want to have to create a new thread just because I'm taking a break off for a cycle and I want to know that I can trust whomever I pick with my account information so they can update in my absense.

How would you take on a new cycle? What would you do for a theme/prize/changes?

What would you guys say to mini-contests in between cycles? A free-for-all so that everyone can enter for a chance at a prize, just like a regular avatar contest?

Project Mene Mule - This will be a ways off if I decide to keep going with the contest a while longer, but as of right now a PM mule is not in the works. I do agree that in the long run, it would be more appropriate that a mule be created, but as I already have two mules (my own personal mule, and a mule for the iClone event), it is up to the new host who will take over after I do to get permission from a staff member to create or buy a mule account to use for this thread. Is that reasonable?

Would you guys like to see the mule be allowed to use my pre-existing written materials for the new thread, or should anything be rewritten? I need to know so that I can get permission from an AA to copy/paste without any consequences.

Do you guys think that I should make any changes to the contest as a whole, in regards to rules or challenges, or just how it's run to make it better?

Are there any rules that you currently disagree with?

[I]More questions to come as I get more feedback.[/I][/SIZE]

I am truely very sad a person right now, I've lost my husband who is trying violently now to claim he's going to take my daughters away from me. Punishing me......for his crimes. I lost the one and only person who stood with me through everything....I have no one left....nothing left. I lost everything dear to me....and now my online comfort the place I called my exscape point is now causing me to lose faith in its leaders. I do not know what or who to believe anymore.......Both sides seem wrong, but then both sides seem to have valid points too.

I finally had enough.....my husband is a cheating lying son of a bitch and I finally had enough and kicked him out. But now I feel rather alone......its weird that the house is so quiet and its going to remain that way.....but it feels.....so lonely....