Friday, November 16, 2007

We demand 4% more

I'm a regular poster on The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack forum. A few months ago, Jay and Colleen (of Metrobuzz fame) switched karma points. I helped start the motion to exalt Colleen to 10,000 karma points, and it was achieved about a month and a half later. Now hardly anyone posts in our party thread, so in light of the writers guild strike, myself, James, and Nick started a strike against exalting Colleen until our demands are met. The demands include
  1. More Colleen. Actually we would like a 4% increase of Colleen time, giving our thread 8% Colleen.
  2. More Jay and Coll spats This includes them posting silly fighting words late at night.
  3. Calls A common courtesy call to individual threaders to wish them goodnight.
  4. Metrobuzz 1% of the profits from the hit podcast
  5. Follow through with the threats And stab Jay with that knife! Place the footage in the next Metrobuzz vidcast.
Okay, so obviously most of those are just for laughs. Nick, James and I just want our Colleen time back. We used to have weekly 'parties' where we would just talk about whatever, and I think we three miss it as we were the biggest participators in the exalting and partying.

The only problem I have been having with the strike is the banner that Jay made against me. It hurt my feelings for a second, but James and Nick were like "It's just a joke Dani, Jay doesn't think that." I just felt like mine was the most personal attack and I still don't think it's funny. The banner against Nick says he tortures pandas, James got a tattoo from children in a sweatshop, and mine is a picture of myself and one of the witches in Macbeth and it says I'm proud for making her bleed. Then it says that Jay is scared of me =(. It's just supposed to be a joke so I'm trying not to feel bad about it anymore.

We have two teams in this strike: Management (which includes Colleen, Jay and John) and the Union (which is everyone else!). I made the first banner yesterday with a picture of Colleen holding up a peace sign and wrote "STRIKE: Do not exalt Colleen. Just say no! Click here to exalt James, Nick or Dani instead. " Then James and Nick added my banner too so we are unified, therefore we are the Union. After management changed their banners to personal joke attacks, I made us a second banner with a picture of Jay, John and Colleen. It states "Don't side with management. The Union is always here for you. What has management done for you? They abandon their thread for days at a time. STRIKE until we get our 4% increase."

The strike will continue until all demands are met, or compromised.