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Muck Raker

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Fake News
« on: 23 Aug 2017, 11:54 »

I dunno man, I kind of have been drawing a blank recently, in terms of new stuff to write about.

And some of the stuff on the new IGS is... well, it's like what the mainstream media looks like nowadays compared to The Onion, as opposed to what mainstream media looked like compared to the Onion ten years ago.

 :|
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Veiki

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #1 on: 23 Aug 2017, 14:08 »

Must be a tough gig to be a satirist when most roleplayers manage to parody and caricature their own characters and content of their own volition, you mean?
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Syagrius

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #2 on: 23 Aug 2017, 17:08 »

There has been a definite down turn.  But I have little doubt that your skill as a journalist will 'rake' up to something. :D
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Silas Vitalia

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #3 on: 23 Aug 2017, 19:17 »

Get meta with it, just start quoting the most egregious shitposters word for word.

Like literally start a new thread with their topic and just post their shit word for word :)
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Lunarisse Aspenstar

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #4 on: 23 Aug 2017, 22:16 »

Let's talk? I have an idea but you are the gutter press writer!
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Mizhir

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #5 on: 25 Aug 2017, 00:37 »

EVE is truely dead when Gutterpress has to give up

RIP
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Teinyhr

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #6 on: 25 Aug 2017, 16:51 »

EVE is truely dead when Gutterpress has to give up

RIP

Not empty quoting.
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Ché Biko

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #7 on: 26 Aug 2017, 09:40 »

Muck, do you ever just mail players asking what your reporters could find out about them?
Where did you usually get inspiration for articles?
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Muck Raker

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #8 on: 27 Aug 2017, 10:27 »

Must be a tough gig to be a satirist when most roleplayers manage to parody and caricature their own characters and content of their own volition, you mean?

Kind of, yeah.

EVE is truely dead when Gutterpress has to give up

Not giving up just yet, just need things to stimulate ideas.


Where did you usually get inspiration for articles?

real life news sometimes, weird things found in missions/pve, deliberate misinterpretation of bits of lore, and so on.
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Ché Biko

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #9 on: 29 Aug 2017, 14:43 »

This you?
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Muck Raker

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #10 on: 02 Sep 2017, 06:57 »

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Romaniskiis

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #11 on: 03 Sep 2017, 23:15 »

You'll find something along the road. Alternatively, you could take up shitposting like what someone else said. Healthy and original content :)
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Jandice Ymladris

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Re: Fake News
« Reply #12 on: 27 Feb 2018, 16:37 »

I miss gutter press. They were fun & silly news.