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Alizabeth Vea
Demon-War-Lords Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.12.19 05:37:00 -
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I am giving away one hundred million ISK to the one capsuleer that can answer this question the best: why should I give you one hundred million ISK?
You can use any criteria that you wish to answer this question. The only rule is that your responses must be well written. Remember, you are making a declarative statement in answer of a question. The worst thing you can do is fail to answer the question asked.
This contest will last until 2359 21.21 YC114.
Bonus: Ten million to the first person that explains why "I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . ." is a bad opening line. A Guide to Good Posting:-áhttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=182980&find=unread I have a jar on my desk. -áIt is a magickal jar that I use to collect pubby tears, but no matter how many tears are collected, it is never full enough for me. |
Salena Ashera
13
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Posted - 2012.12.19 05:40:00 -
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"I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . ." is a bad opening line because it isn't a true declarative statement, instead it's very open ended and weakly presented. A declaration should be strong and convinced. .Stillwater. |
Salena Ashera
13
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Posted - 2012.12.19 05:44:00 -
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I deserve 100,000,000 ISK so that I can spend it on fully outfitting a Cynanbal and taking it on a roam to deep low-sec in order to die in a brilliant blaze of light and heat taking as many intruders into Fua with me as possible. I also deserve 100,000,000 due to my lack in poor thread making. .Stillwater. |
Vikarion
Yulai Syndicate
70
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Posted - 2012.12.19 06:07:00 -
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You should give me 100 million ISK because I have absolutely no need of it, and thus, will spend it entirely on boosters. |
Aquila Shadow
Templis Dragonaors
21
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Posted - 2012.12.19 06:38:00 -
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Salena Ashera wrote:I deserve 100,000,000 ISK so that I can spend it on fully outfitting a Cynanbal and taking it on a roam to deep low-sec in order to die in a brilliant blaze of light and heat taking as many intruders into Fua with me as possible. I also deserve 100,000,000 due to my lack in poor thread making.
If you can buy and fit a Cynabal for 100 million isk i will give you a medal. -á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á "Let Vigilance Be Your Sword" |
Atlas Zao-tsu
University of Caille Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2012.12.19 06:45:00 -
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You should give the isk to me. I'm a hard worker who will use it to benefit both myself and my community. That sort of money is enough for me to take advantage of opportunities I can't afford on my current income, being new to the pod, and would give me a host of options I am currently denied. I would also be grateful, and perhaps compose some sort of commemorative poem, or at least tell my friends how cool you are. |
Korsavius
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
35
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Posted - 2012.12.19 07:17:00 -
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I deserve 100 million ISK for no particular reason, although I would certainly be more inclined to take a read through your guide on "proper posting etiquette" if I received it. |
Aodha Khan
Coreli Corporation Corelum Syndicate
20
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Posted - 2012.12.19 12:34:00 -
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I deserve 100 million ISK because ..... I'm sexy and I know it! _____________________________________________________ Power is not something that is granted - it is something to be taken. |
Derek Quaid
Discreet Bounties
50
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Posted - 2012.12.19 14:51:00 -
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You should give me one hundred million ISK because I'm about to dazzle you with my understanding of your motive, the return on your investment, and my dashing good looks. I'll throw in a threat, too! Read on, gorgeous.
I know you are disappointed with the quality of communication you see here at the Intergalactic Summit. You want your generous offer to draw out the most articulate among us to share some magnificent prose and add a little color to an otherwise dreary IGS experience. Your wish is granted: I'm here. I can't speak much for the rest of the rabble, of course, as you'll likely see a great deal of blathering from the usual troglodytes who can barely offer more than a grunt and a fart to communicate.
I noticed you are offering a grant, not a prize. That intrigues me. A grant is typically a patronage for some project or research that requires funding, not a gift in exchange for something already done. This post, therefore, is undeserving in and of itself. The grant should fund something of interest. I did some research on your career as a pilot, and it seems you like seeing other pilots explode. To that end, I will use your grant to place bounties on some of the losers in this very thread. Given CONCORD's payout rate, your grant will fund approximately five hundred million ISK in destruction. That's a return that any astute Caldari businessperson can appreciate.
Now, I promised you a threat. You should give me the grant because failing to do so will result in a one hundred million ISK bounty on your own head. Revisiting the previous math, that means you will eventually lose about five times that amount to clear the bounty, plus you'll have spent the grant money. Your total loss: six hundred million ISK.
Altogether, you stand to gain four hundred million ISK and avoid losing six hundred million ISK (including wasting the grant on some fool). You get one billion ISK in net value from me, and I'll even throw in a date so you can admire my shrewdness up close and personal--an invaluable bonus. Your choice is clear. You should give me one hundred million ISK because it simply makes the best financial sense and because your greedy Caldari heart is nearly bursting with excitement from reading this. CEO, Discreet Bounties In-game Channel: Discreet Bounties |
Jev North
Anshar Incorporated
114
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Posted - 2012.12.19 14:58:00 -
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Alternatively, she may pick someone else just to see that smug expression collapse. |
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Anslo
The Scope Gallente Federation
735
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Posted - 2012.12.19 15:05:00 -
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You should give it to me because...why not?
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Halete
Alexylva Paradox
482
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Posted - 2012.12.19 15:07:00 -
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Sweetheart, there's no difference to the value of loss to somebody with or without a value on their head. As a matter of fact, most ship-losses would happen irregardless of a person's bounty status!
Shocking, I know. Run along now, sweetie. Trading chains for shackles, I am free. |
Derek Quaid
Discreet Bounties
50
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Posted - 2012.12.19 15:21:00 -
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Halete wrote:Derek sweetheart, there's no difference to the value of loss to somebody with or without a value on their head. As a matter of fact, most ship-losses would happen irregardless of a person's bounty status!
Shocking, I know. Run along now, sweetie. While bounties may currently be merely an incidental reward for combat that would occur anyway, I have full confidence in the development of a professional class of bounty hunters that will do the damage solely to collect the prize. Your short-sightedness is matched only by your obnoxious condescension. CEO, Discreet Bounties In-game Channel: Discreet Bounties |
Silas Vitalia
Nobilta Nera JIHADASQUAD
474
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Posted - 2012.12.19 15:45:00 -
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I will return the entire amount to you in the form of a CONCORD bounty. Something to spice up your life on those long trips through the cluster.
Sabik now, Sabik forever |
Halete
Alexylva Paradox
484
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Posted - 2012.12.19 16:20:00 -
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Derek Quaid wrote: While bounties may currently be merely an incidental reward for combat that would occur anyway, I have full confidence in the development of a professional class of bounty hunters that will do the damage solely to collect the prize. Your short-sightedness is matched only by your obnoxious condescension.
Careful not to get caught on the tangled webs that you weave as you back-pedal, Derek. We're talking about the present and, additionally, the point still stands that a 100M 'grant' given to yourself would not be the most economically sensible option for Vea, which defeats the premise of your post.
But continue posturing, oh you grandiose beast. I am sure that your 100M, divided among the posters in this thread, will turn the heads of all intergalactic bounty hunters.
Actually - no. Remove your head from your rear. You may be able to waft that potent musk of yours around any cheap baseliner ***** as you please but you'll find that up here we tend to have more dignity than to swoon for the likes of you.
Perhaps you'd be better off putting that 100M bounty on myself instead of our pretty Vea here, see how meaningful your business really is.
Trading chains for shackles, I am free. |
Anslo
The Scope Gallente Federation
735
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Posted - 2012.12.19 19:37:00 -
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Halete wrote:Derek Quaid wrote: While bounties may currently be merely an incidental reward for combat that would occur anyway, I have full confidence in the development of a professional class of bounty hunters that will do the damage solely to collect the prize. Your short-sightedness is matched only by your obnoxious condescension.
Careful not to get caught on the tangled webs that you weave as you back-pedal, Derek. We're talking about the present and, additionally, the point still stands that a 100M 'grant' given to yourself would not be the most economically sensible option for Vea, which defeats the premise of your post. But continue posturing, oh you grandiose beast. I am sure that your 100M, divided among the posters in this thread, will turn the heads of all intergalactic bounty hunters. Actually - no. Remove your head from your rear. You may be able to waft that potent musk of yours around any cheap baseliner ***** as you please but you'll find that up here we tend to have more dignity than to swoon for the likes of you. Perhaps you'd be better off putting that 100M bounty on myself instead of our pretty Vea here, see how meaningful your business really is.
Guess all that anger management training sort of failed with this onset of maximum *****. Oh well.
As for grandiose, you're a fine ******* one to talk. If you thought that way, you wouldn't have even responded. But know, you gotta stroke your own ego and position yourself as some lofty individual. And then you top it all off with a nice typical jab to baseliner "commoners" to finish?
Seriously, **** off.
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Andreus Ixiris
Mixed Metaphor
1276
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Posted - 2012.12.19 20:24:00 -
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I will use the money I give you to please myself, and the reason you should give it to me is that I am entirely, unabashedly honest about that.
I'm not going to use the money for any grand and noble cause, unless that's what strikes my fancy. I'm not going to invest it in some potentially lucrative venture, unless that seems like a good idea at the time. I'm not going to spend it on extending my pilot's liscence, unless that's what I want to do. I have absolutely no concern whatsoever about what you think I should do with the money, because once you give it to me, that's no longer my problem, and I absolutely refuse to lower myself to pretending any different just to get a hundred million ISK. Make absolutely no mistake - no matter what I might tell you I'll do with your money is rendered completely irrelevant the moment you give it to me, because it's not me spending your money, it's me spending my money.
Give me your hundred million ISK, and you will have lost a hundred million ISK, but I am the only person from whom you will get the satisfaction of knowing that by the very nature of this proposal, I literally cannot deceive you as to what purpose I'll put it to. Mane 614
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Alizabeth Vea
Demon-War-Lords Fatal Ascension
35
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Posted - 2012.12.19 20:35:00 -
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Salena Ashera wrote:"I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . ." is a bad opening line because it isn't a true declarative statement, instead it's very open ended and weakly presented. A declaration should be strong and convinced.
Wrong. There is one very specific thing about this line that, if changed, would make it a very good opening line.
A Guide to Good Posting:-áhttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=182980&find=unread I have a jar on my desk. -áIt is a magickal jar that I use to collect pubby tears, but no matter how many tears are collected, it is never full enough for me. |
Derek Quaid
Discreet Bounties
51
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Posted - 2012.12.19 20:38:00 -
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Alizabeth Vea wrote:Salena Ashera wrote:"I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . ." is a bad opening line because it isn't a true declarative statement, instead it's very open ended and weakly presented. A declaration should be strong and convinced. Wrong. There is one very specific thing about this line that, if changed, would make it a very good opening line. The question at hand isn't why the recipient should receive the ISK, but rather why you should give the ISK. The appropriate opening statement is "You should give me one hundred million ISK because . . ."
That will be 10 million ISK, please. CEO, Discreet Bounties In-game Channel: Discreet Bounties |
Alizabeth Vea
Demon-War-Lords Fatal Ascension
35
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Posted - 2012.12.19 20:40:00 -
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Derek Quaid wrote:Alizabeth Vea wrote:Salena Ashera wrote:"I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . ." is a bad opening line because it isn't a true declarative statement, instead it's very open ended and weakly presented. A declaration should be strong and convinced. Wrong. There is one very specific thing about this line that, if changed, would make it a very good opening line. The question at hand isn't why the recipient should receive the ISK, but rather why you should give the ISK. The appropriate opening statement is "You should give me one hundred million ISK because . . ." That will be 10 million ISK, please.
Nice try, but no. A Guide to Good Posting:-áhttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=182980&find=unread I have a jar on my desk. -áIt is a magickal jar that I use to collect pubby tears, but no matter how many tears are collected, it is never full enough for me. |
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Norrin Ellis
Venture Racing
128
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Posted - 2012.12.19 20:56:00 -
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The ISK would look lovely on the pile with the rest of my ISK. Please give it to me. CEO, Venture Racing Retired Senior Banker, EVE Online Hold'Em |
Halete
Alexylva Paradox
485
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Posted - 2012.12.19 21:25:00 -
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Anslo wrote: Guess all that anger management training sort of failed with this onset of maximum *****. Oh well.
As for grandiose, you're a fine ******* one to talk. If you thought that way, you wouldn't have even responded. But know, you gotta stroke your own ego and position yourself as some lofty individual. And then you top it all off with a nice typical jab to baseliner "commoners" to finish?
Seriously, **** off.
Responding to an insult given publicly is ego-stroking? I think you misunderstand the so-called 'baseliner jab' too - look twice. I think that your personal dislike of me is clouding your vision.
As for my 'anger'; I'm perfectly fine. I act only purposefully. I'm getting help from somebody. Trading chains for shackles, I am free. |
Katrina Oniseki
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
938
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Posted - 2012.12.19 23:36:00 -
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Anslo wrote: Guess all that anger management training sort of failed with this onset of maximum *****. Oh well.
As for grandiose, you're a fine ******* one to talk. If you thought that way, you wouldn't have even responded. But know, you gotta stroke your own ego and position yourself as some lofty individual. And then you top it all off with a nice typical jab to baseliner "commoners" to finish?
Seriously, **** off.
When censorship asterisks punctuate every paragraph of your post, it's time to sit back and do something else for a while.
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Alizabeth Vea
Demon-War-Lords Fatal Ascension
35
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Posted - 2012.12.19 23:49:00 -
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Ah, Oniseki, when I saw that you had uploaded something, it got my hopes up. Sadly, you were merely commenting on another person's upload. However, since it was to point out their failings, I am only half as much disappointed as I would be. A Guide to Good Posting:-áhttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=182980&find=unread I have a jar on my desk. -áIt is a magickal jar that I use to collect pubby tears, but no matter how many tears are collected, it is never full enough for me. |
Cal Stantson
Spiritus Draconis Sicarius Draconis
5
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Posted - 2012.12.19 23:58:00 -
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100mil can't buy much in the way of ships or modules, but it can be used to create a lot of hilarity.
I promise that if I am given the money, I will spend it entirely on Cynosural Field Generators, Liquid Ozone, and Bantams. I will follow cruiser gangs in lowsec for long enough to make them suspicious and then, when they are aggressed on a gate, I will land in the middle of them, light a cyno and type "SURPRISE TITAN BRIDGE!" in local. My ship will only last a few seconds, but in that time they will poop themselves and then realise that it was all for no reason.
That panic will be because of your 100 million ISK. That chaos will be your gift.
That is why you should give me the money. |
Che Biko
Humanitarian Communists
141
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Posted - 2012.12.20 00:11:00 -
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Alizabeth Vea wrote: Ten million to the first person that explains why "I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . .(insert reason here)" is a poorly written opening line. It does not matter what I think, what matters is what you think.
You think you should give me the grant because none of the contenders can come up with an adequate reason why they should get it, and I will return the grant to you so you can find a better way to spend the money. As a bonus, you'll learn that you can trust me to some extend. Contraband Smuggling: Player Assisted Customs |
Alizabeth Vea
Demon-War-Lords Fatal Ascension
35
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Posted - 2012.12.20 00:15:00 -
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Che Biko wrote:Alizabeth Vea wrote: Ten million to the first person that explains why "I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . .(insert reason here)" is a poorly written opening line. It does not matter what I think, what matters is what you think.
I'm going to give a hint here, since everyone so far has been wrong. The line is written poorly. Why?
A Guide to Good Posting:-áhttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=182980&find=unread I have a jar on my desk. -áIt is a magickal jar that I use to collect pubby tears, but no matter how many tears are collected, it is never full enough for me. |
Che Biko
Humanitarian Communists
141
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Posted - 2012.12.20 00:35:00 -
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Alizabeth Vea wrote:Alizabeth Vea wrote: Ten million to the first person that explains why "I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . .(insert reason here)" is a poorly written opening line. I'm going to give a hint here, since everyone so far has been wrong. The line is written poorly. Why? Wordliness: "one hundred million ISK" could be replaced with "grant". Contraband Smuggling: Player Assisted Customs |
Sepherim
Imperial Shipment Amarr Empire
28
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Posted - 2012.12.20 00:56:00 -
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I don't want the money, nor do I believe anyone would deserve it for posting here. If you are so full of it, give it to something meaningful, instead of wasting it on pod pilots who have no problem in gaining it. Afterall, pilots should earn what they get with their means, and this is no honest way of earning such an amount. Yes, I know, I got a stick up my arse and all that, I get it.
As for why the phrase is wrong, out of interest on the subject, I would say it is wrong because of a double subjectivity: "I should get" is clearly a personal opinion, and "I think" is the same, thus both phrases put together are redundant. Sepherim Catillah; Ex-Imperial Navy Officer |
Alizabeth Vea
Demon-War-Lords Fatal Ascension
35
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Posted - 2012.12.20 01:08:00 -
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Sepherim wrote: As for why the phrase is wrong, out of interest on the subject, I would say it is wrong because of a double subjectivity: "I should get" is clearly a personal opinion, and "I think" is the same, thus both phrases put together are redundant.
Finally! You literary knowledge fills me with joy. A Guide to Good Posting:-áhttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=182980&find=unread I have a jar on my desk. -áIt is a magickal jar that I use to collect pubby tears, but no matter how many tears are collected, it is never full enough for me. |
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