Grueberfest 07: Picture Postcard (1227 hits)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (View user info) at 2007-10-05 01:01:16 EDT
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Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2008-08-12 12:22:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was deeply disturbing.
Submitted by supadupapupa (user info) at 2007-10-31 03:48:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Disturbing, well presented, frightening, excellent
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-08 21:58:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Forgive my lack of geek-itude, but what the heck is TTLY?
totally? Hmm, that seems about right.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-08 16:34:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
LIEK SRSLY YA RLY I DOO TTLY
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-08 16:23:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You. Need. Help.
SRSLY.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-08 14:04:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond.htm
Submitted by ColchesterDr (user info) at 2007-10-07 13:17:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by TheGoat (user info) at 2007-10-06 20:45:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-10-06 17:58:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
:D
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-10-06 17:48:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
this was awesome. Too bad scourge forfeited.
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2007-10-06 00:02:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
cool
Submitted by pookiesmaster (user info) at 2007-10-05 17:06:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Schlongy blows this was awesome!
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2007-10-05 15:32:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
stories like this make me sad
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2007-10-05 14:44:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Well I thought this was a GREAT way to present the ideas in the story (which have been done a lot around here). Good stuff.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-05 13:00:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
SOX
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2007-10-05 12:42:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
kid
fucking SOX tonight.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-05 12:32:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I think including nine additional images would have been unnecessary given that most of the readers probably wouldn't care enough to make the undertaking valuable. Doing so would make the presentation complete, yes, but it would also make it twice as long. It's hard enough to get people to keep reading and moving down the page as is without running the risk of boring them.
I had considered having the killer create his own postcards and use photographs taken of the victim that matched the descriptions on the back. However there would be no way the USPS would deliver such material, and having him enclose them in a FedEx envelope or something would take far too much set-up and explanation for a post of this sort. I could certainly see the images being valuable in that case, though.
Postcards force you to make a choice. You can only look at one side or the other, and you have to make a decision which face you want when sticking one up to your fridge or office wall. I made the decision to show everyone the back. I'm sorry I couldn't have shown you more of the Montana landscape.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-05 12:23:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought this was a fun idea.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-05 12:21:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-10-05 11:51:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
You don't think a picture with each card could have been poignant, or ironic, or sadistic, or any other of a thousand adjectives?
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2007-10-05 11:16:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
You lost a point for posting past the deadline.
I would have waited if I could have, but the only time I had to write was a few days ago.
Rules are rules.
That being said, I liked this.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:54:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:52:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Whatever, posting late is totally my thing now. I've made it fashionable in the same way that FDR made polio all the rage.
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*spits out drink*
Damn it, you made me choke on my Coke with that witty line. *laughs*
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:52:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Whatever, posting late is totally my thing now. I've made it fashionable in the same way that FDR made polio all the rage.
In other news, I opted out of my bye out of the kindness of my heart to let Drogo and scourge participate. And how do they reward me? By not even showing up to play.
Lesson: Always take the bye.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:46:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:34:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I don't mind Uniter. If he cares enough to actually write words in a review I'm always happy to care enough to write back and explain my decisions.
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True, but in this case I perceived his (her?) feedback as purely fececious sarcasm, not really anything constructive to help you improve this post.
Which was totally ace, even if it was a little past deadline. You did a good job with the title.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:44:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Original.
I also was laughing because I imagined the postal carrier walking along a street reading them.
And freaking out.
Submitted by Badlands (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:41:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Really creative idea. And nicely executed.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:34:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I don't mind Uniter. If he cares enough to actually write words in a review I'm always happy to care enough to write back and explain my decisions.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:29:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Now that's some real fucking horror right there.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:26:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Don't mind TheUnitard. Some things are better left to the imagination.
Personally, I can SO envision a lighthouse with crashing waves on the back of these cards - given the postmark, anyhow.
This was very "Silence of the Lambs"ish. Good job.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:24:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HIP HIP HOORAY
IT'S WEASEL STOMPING DAY
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-10-05 09:21:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-10-05 02:42:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
If you're going to take the title literally, WHERE'S THE PICTURES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POSTCARD?
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Do you think that people would really be more receptive to this post if the other sides of the postcards were provided? It's hard enough to get people to scroll down a lot as is - doubling the side of the image to provide simple photographs would probably bore some people. We all know what to expect from postcards. They're forgettable, benign and pedestrian. They're safe. That's why I liked this idea, because when you flip over some 5x7 piece of card stock with a landscape or burst of color on the front you're expecting something trite from a friend or relation.
Besides better to let people make up their own minds as to what's on front, no?
A little imagination never hurt anyone.
If it'll satisfy your needs, however, just try to picture the following up there.
You can even pick and choose the sequence yourself.
http://raibledesigns.com/repository/images/postcard-montana_sm.jpg
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-montana/BigSkyMontanaPostcard.jpg
http://www.libraryman.com/images/gates%20on%20my%20mind.jpg
http://rvtravel.com/blog/chuck/uploaded_images/fish-710280.jpg
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/postcards-pictures-of/ID-IdahoGreetings.jpg
http://www.thepostcard.com/walt/state/wy/wy.gif
http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/collecting/bin/images/262140.jpg
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2007-10-05 08:58:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
wow Postsecret has gotten a lot darker since the last time I was here.
Submitted by SGRPUSS (user info) at 2007-10-05 08:24:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Disturbing, but good
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-10-05 08:18:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-10-05 02:06:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
interesting format, trite subject, even more trite in its execution.
youll get everyone sucking your cock, but this is pretty ordinary, aside from the manner in which its been presented.
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I think that getting points for interesting format is not a bad thing.
It's not entirely simple to be original, particularly in a genre like horror which is over-represented because of society's collective morbid fascination with the macabre, so my opinion is that bringing anything new to the playing field is worthy of at least a measly +2.
Add to that the fact that the text is sound, in reference to technique, and capable of making me feel something; frustration, anger, sorrow, and you have something which is worth the plus twos it gets.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-10-05 05:20:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Now that was pretty cool
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-05 04:37:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Everything you do is solid gold.
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2007-10-05 03:06:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-10-05 02:42:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
If you're going to take the title literally, WHERE'S THE PICTURES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POSTCARD?
If the kid's name was feety, that would have been a plus fucking two.
Your title for the next round is:
-2ABORT
Submitted by DeMoNiC (user info) at 2007-10-05 02:20:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sychopathic, horrific...erm...terrific?
Anywho that shit was good and it disturbed me - +2
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-10-05 02:12:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
TODAY IS CUTTING DAY!!!
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-10-05 02:06:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
interesting format, trite subject, even more trite in its execution.
youll get everyone sucking your cock, but this is pretty ordinary, aside from the manner in which its been presented.
Submitted by beer-turtle (user info) at 2007-10-05 01:28:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Dude...
I like the creative format. You really got inside a psychopaths head well.
Especially demented: the grisly touch near the end... "I know he would want me to keep them".
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-10-05 01:18:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
What the fuck does this even mean?
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-10-05 01:09:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
this was my least favourite of the titles i provided. you did something nice with it. but alas, you posted this past the time established as the deadline. i'd call that a forfeit.
:(
ps, i forfeit too.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-10-05 01:06:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
CUTTING DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??MOG???????????????
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-10-05 01:05:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
JESUS
FUCKING
CHRIST
Jailbait just left and now I'm scared and I'm late for bed.
THANKS A LOT, ASSHOLE
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-10-05 01:04:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like how the guy sounded.