Turf Tales News. A note....
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Hello and merry Christmas to my TW friends.
To everyone that has pm'd me a nice Christmas message, capped me, tapped me, or asked about the TTNews, I thought I would give a brief update....
On Saturday night the storm that began in Texas and moved north through the USA, hit southern Ontario with force. The greater Toronto area recieved record setting freezing rain, which accumulated on trees and hydro lines.
Living in a 70 year old Neighbourhood meant a rough night for my wife and I (and the cat, lizard and guinea pigs) as we stayed up all night watching our trees crash to the ground and transformer fires/explosions into the early morning. This continued most of the day on Sunday. It was the scariest experience of my life and I am thankful no one was hurt.
Day 5 without power, but it appears the end is near. As I am sure you can imagine, TW has not been high on the priority list. I haven't capped a turf or done much else since Saturday.
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As for the news - I feel that TTnews has lost some momentum, and to my disappointment several players have expressed distrust and skepticism with the accuracy of the news. Well, I must say that is extremely disappointing to hear. The most common complaint is that the news is self serving and biased.
I will be the first to admit that coverage focuses on some groups more than others. This is a logistics reality. Anyone in an alliance knows that the players they have the most access to are the ones around them. Generally speaking I preferred to write about things I didn't already know but was interested in - that is why so much coverage was given to the rise and fall of twfc. For the first month, TTnews was riding high and stories were easy - almost organic - as the community at large found value in the publication and really made it easy to put issues together. However as time went on, it appears that many no longer wished to participate and I am often declined on request for interviews and commentary.
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We all know TW is a time consuming game. Nothing is fast. Growing a mob takes years, hoping takes hours and coordinating a proper attack or defense can take days and weeks. The news is no different. Many hours have gone into it. If the news has run it's course, then I must reassess if it is time well spent..
Special thanks to those that have contributed: Mad, slacker, mrs VWtech, Brizz, Dj madman, Cracka, Chucky Pancamo. I also have to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has shown support and thanks for the TTnews team's efforts. Some of the games biggest and best known players have also been some of our greatest supporters, providing information, advice and kudos along the way. I won't name names, but thank you for making the project worth while.
And the biggest thanks to those that posted in the thread, letting us know our efforts were worth while
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So. Is it dead? Maybe, maybe not. But for now it is definitely on hold. Perhaps I'll consider a new, shorter, punchier format. Maybe someone will step forward and keep it going with me taking a decreased role. Or perhaps it will fade into the background until it is needed again.
-FAL
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Noooo
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maybe a open forum thread that anyone can post news related to them or their alliance might work better. if you create it and come up with a general template or outline for them to follow, like topic, persons of interest and focus.... maybe each alliance could have their own news person or something.... dunno. i like the idea of news but one person can't handle it all.
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That's sad news, I always look forward to the news.
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About time
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Hoping life gets back to normal for you, your wife, cat, lizard and guinea pigs! Weather could be a bitch. Be safe, stay warm. The news can wait.
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Damn sad to see. Was nice to have a story to read.
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Glad you're okay, fallacy. Just remember, when people criticize your reporting, it generally means you're onto something, and when people refuse to comment, they usually have something to hide. Or maybe they're just a bunch of negative nancies. We all know the Internet has no shortage of those.
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Good work brother. Sad to see TTnews go but it was well worth the read.
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λΙΙuviøη wrote:
Appreciate it bud.Glad you're okay, fallacy. Just remember, when people criticize your reporting, it generally means you're onto something, and when people refuse to comment, they usually have something to hide. Or maybe they're just a bunch of negative nancies. We all know the Internet has no shortage of those.
Fire away smokey, I got nothing to hide or regret.
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⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
You're just mad because there where words in the news you couldn't understand. I guess nick can release a color book for you to keep up.started of as the New york times quickly morphed into "The Onion"
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Nooo!!! I liked reading the news. It kept me more informed than I have been in years, lol. I wasn't in the loop, but I was standing on it rather than being outside it. 😄
I know it takes tons of work. Don't stop just because a few people don't like it. They don't have to read it.
I'm glad you guys are all safe. I hope your power is back on soon. Try & stay warm in the meantime!
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Was always a good read. I never felt it was biased. Fuck the haters
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ZRAYGO wrote:
THISWas always a good read. I never felt it was biased. Fuck the haters
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And sorry to hear about your situation. Glad an end is in sight and your family is ok.
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I have always enjoyed the news. I am sure it is a lot of work. Thanks for the effort and I hope itcan continue soon. 👍🐢
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⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
Indefrent? Way to make a point you make the flames proud.Baptist469 wrote:
I felt indefrent about it. Doubt Nick cared also. No coloring book for either of us amigo.😂⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
You're just mad because there where words in the news you couldn't understand. I guess nick can release a color book for you to keep up.started of as the New york times quickly morphed into "The Onion"
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Baptist469 wrote:
Indifferent? Maybe that's what he was going for?⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
Indefrent? Way to make a point you make the flames proud.Baptist469 wrote:
I felt indefrent about it. Doubt Nick cared also. No coloring book for either of us amigo.😂⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
You're just mad because there where words in the news you couldn't understand. I guess nick can release a color book for you to keep up.started of as the New york times quickly morphed into "The Onion"
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⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
Keep batting a 1.000 huh?Baptist469 wrote:
yawn 😴😴😴..gossip queens are mad err where⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
Indefrent? Way to make a point you make the flames proud.Baptist469 wrote:
I felt indefrent about it. Doubt Nick cared also. No coloring book for either of us amigo.😂⌖🔥ཧ़ཀंེབ།༨ཛყ🔥⌖ wrote:
You're just mad because there where words in the news you couldn't understand. I guess nick can release a color book for you to keep up.started of as the New york times quickly morphed into "The Onion"
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ZRAYGO wrote:
👍👍👍👍👍Was always a good read. I never felt it was biased. Fuck the haters
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glad you're all ok. if this is the end then thank you all for all the hard work. i know im not the only one who looked for ttn every week.
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and if you think he was biased print your own news. personally i dont think it was
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༺☠ᏩɌ༏M༏Ɲ∆L☠༻ wrote:
ZRAYGO wrote:
THISWas always a good read. I never felt it was biased. Fuck the haters
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Glad to hear you and your family are safe and well.
Totally understand the workload in putting together the TTN is quite a commitment.
Sorry to hear a couple of naysayers have put a bit of a downer on this for you.
Just wanted to say many thanks for your effort. I much enjoyed reading the TTN, and thought the quality was very high and consistent considering the circumstances.
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ᎷᎪᏟᏦᎷᎬᏟᎻ ᎪᎠᎠ ᏦᎷ wrote:
༺☠ᏩɌ༏M༏Ɲ∆L☠༻ wrote:
ZRAYGO wrote:
THISWas always a good read. I never felt it was biased. Fuck the haters
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₭íƖʛɵяȩ🐟Ƭяøϋʈ wrote:
100%ᎷᎪᏟᏦᎷᎬᏟᎻ ᎪᎠᎠ ᏦᎷ wrote:
༺☠ᏩɌ༏M༏Ɲ∆L☠༻ wrote:
ZRAYGO wrote:
THISWas always a good read. I never felt it was biased. Fuck the haters
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ZRAYGO wrote:
Was always a good read. I never felt it was biased. Fuck the haters
Better yet, name some haters.
Glad you're safe.
While the threads lasted on the front page for a week / 10 days, the value of the record here in GD for years is far more valuable.
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Fal, first and foremost I'm glad you and yours are safe. Sorry to hear about TTNews' future. This has been attempted in the past and usually not executed a quarter as well as you have done it. You guys did an amazing job with the platform you had to work from (forum posting limits, character limits, etc.). As for being biased and self-serving... these are probably the same folks that call CNN and FOX neutral and unbiased when they are just the media arms of the political pukes. News is biased and slanted, there is no such thing as unbiased in news anymore. All news is slanted toward whatever contacts you have or can make in the course of investigating a story. You and your crew have showed far less of a slant than anyone in the past and been more than fair to all parties involved in your stories. I hope when all is sorted out you find a way to make a comeback, TTN will be missed in GD.
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