[Draft]King Con

[Drasnia]

Title: King Con

Validity: Must allow video games

Description: Your geeky Technology Minister ambushed you on your way to the water cooler to talk about a recent scandal in the video gaming community. It seems "Codger Todd", a player famous for holding the highest scores ever by a human in multiple arcade games including Hack-Man and Millipede, has been found to have faked all of his top scores.

Option: "Even famous United Federation filmmaker Mitchell Shore made a movie about Todd!" Your Technology Minister exclaims while adjusting his glasses. "This is, like, the definition of fraud. He profited off of his lies and deceptions for years. His whole career is based on having gotten those high scores. He and other cheats like him should be prosecuted like any other fraudster would be."
Effect: middle school students who cheat on their tests are tried as adults

Option: During family dinner that night, your cousin who's an avid video game fan, hears of your conversation about Codger Todd. "He's proven he's capable of achieving those scores, so I don't think we should be - y'know - arresting him just because he can't prove that he actually got it. We've all cheated on tests and stuff sometime during our lives. Or at least I did. Live and let live, man. Pass the garlic bread, would ya?"
Effect: video gamers spin tall tales of how big the digital fish they caught actually was

Option: "This just goes to show that video games are a menace to society," argues @@RANDOMNAME@@, author of "Video Games Are No Laughing Matter," the following day. "Arcades are a breeding ground for crime and bad behavior and home consoles create antisocial behavior. Indeed, it's high time we got rid of this electronic menace for good. Ban video games now. Think of the children."
Effect: Students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games.

Inspired heavily from the two recent cases of Todd Rogers and Billy Mitchell.

[Jutsa]

Nice issue draft, Drasnia! Nice to see another go at the video games policy.

Gotta say, though, that option 2 feels very do-nothingy when it could do more.
Could you hypothetically try and make it out like they never actually cheated and try and clear their name,
or something along those lines?

[Ransium]

Option: "Even famous United Federation filmmaker Mitchell Shore made a movie about Todd!" Your Technology Minister exclaims while adjusting his glasses. "This is, like, the definition of fraud. He profited off of his lies and deceptions for years. His whole career is based on having gotten those high scores. He and other cheats like him should be prosecuted like any other fraudster would be."
Effect: middle school students who cheat on their tests are tried as adults

Why is making Shore from the UF a needed detail? Can you think of a funnier thing to happen in the dialogue tag beside glasses adjustment? I don't really see how the effect is a logical extension of the option.

Option: During family dinner that night, your cousin who's an avid video game fan, hears of your conversation about Codger Todd. "He's proven he's capable of achieving those scores, so I don't think we should be - y'know - arresting him just because he can't prove that he actually got it. We've all cheated on tests and stuff sometime during our lives. Or at least I did. Live and let live, man. Pass the garlic bread, would ya?"
Effect: video gamers spin tall tales of how big the digital fish they caught actually was

You seem to be spending a lot of time in this issue describing... well time, and I'm not really sure why. I don't really see the benefit humor or otherwise of spreading these options out so far temporally and spending so much time describing each setting. Either use setting to more humorous effects or drop and spend more time injecting humor in otherwise.

Option: "This just goes to show that video games are a menace to society," argues @@RANDOMNAME@@, author of "Video Games Are No Laughing Matter," the following day. "Arcades are a breeding ground for crime and bad behavior and home consoles create antisocial behavior. Indeed, it's high time we got rid of this electronic menace for good. Ban video games now. Think of the children."
Effect: Students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games.

You've been gone far too long that effect line is capitalized and ends in a period. Sedge use to have an issue in his folder making fun of the cliches we see too often in issues and the line "Think of the children." was definitely in it. I think you can think of a funnier and more original way of writing a video game ban. The effect line is both dull and just describes what's happening, I think part of the problem is the generic nature of this option.

[Drasnia]

Option: "Even famous United Federation filmmaker Mitchell Shore made a movie about Todd!" Your Technology Minister exclaims while adjusting his glasses. "This is, like, the definition of fraud. He profited off of his lies and deceptions for years. His whole career is based on having gotten those high scores. He and other cheats like him should be prosecuted like any other fraudster would be."
Effect: middle school students who cheat on their tests are tried as adults

Why is making Shore from the UF a needed detail? Can you think of a funnier thing to happen in the dialogue tag beside glasses adjustment? I don't really see how the effect is a logical extension of the option.

The reason for Shore being from the UF was two-fold: it strengthened the reference so it was easier to understand and it would make sure it danced around any potential policy problems that might (but admittedly probably wouldn't) from him potentially being from @@NAME@@.

I'll think of a better action and effect line.

Option: During family dinner that night, your cousin who's an avid video game fan, hears of your conversation about Codger Todd. "He's proven he's capable of achieving those scores, so I don't think we should be - y'know - arresting him just because he can't prove that he actually got it. We've all cheated on tests and stuff sometime during our lives. Or at least I did. Live and let live, man. Pass the garlic bread, would ya?"
Effect: video gamers spin tall tales of how big the digital fish they caught actually was

You seem to be spending a lot of time in this issue describing... well time, and I'm not really sure why. I don't really see the benefit humor or otherwise of spreading these options out so far temporally and spending so much time describing each setting. Either use setting to more humorous effects or drop and spend more time injecting humor in otherwise.

You're probably right about the whole time thing. I wanted to make the issue have more of a narrative flow between options, kind of like the transitions and in-betweens you'd find in things like documentaries. It's obviously not a concept I've done a good job communicating to the reader. In retrospect, it really would need to be framed as Shore making the documentary and is pressing @@LEADER@@ for a response instead of the Minister.

Option: "This just goes to show that video games are a menace to society," argues @@RANDOMNAME@@, author of "Video Games Are No Laughing Matter," the following day. "Arcades are a breeding ground for crime and bad behavior and home consoles create antisocial behavior. Indeed, it's high time we got rid of this electronic menace for good. Ban video games now. Think of the children."
Effect: Students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games.

You've been gone far too long that effect line is capitalized and ends in a period. Sedge use to have an issue in his folder making fun of the cliches we see too often in issues and the line "Think of the children." was definitely in it. I think you can think of a funnier and more original way of writing a video game ban. The effect line is both dull and just describes what's happening, I think part of the problem is the generic nature of this option.

[/quote]The joke was that I reused an existing effect line (which is why I did I terrible job (read: couldn't be arsed to) reformat it. I'll replace the "think of the children" line with something more humorous.

[Palos Heights]

I love this title.

[Australian rePublic]

How do you cheat in those? Anyway, RE: TITLE, King Kong is a movie. Did you mean "Donkey Con"

[Chan Island]

How do you cheat in those? Anyway, RE: TITLE, King Kong is a movie. Did you mean "Donkey Con"

I'm sure there must be a King Kong video game.

[Australian rePublic]

How do you cheat in those? Anyway, RE: TITLE, King Kong is a movie. Did you mean "Donkey Con"

I'm sure there must be a King Kong video game.

Either way, Donkey Kong is known more as a game, whilst King Kong is known more as a movie. It'd make a better joke...

[Drasnia]

I'm sure there must be a King Kong video game.

Either way, Donkey Kong is known more as a game, whilst King Kong is known more as a movie. It'd make a better joke...

It's a direct reference to a documentary about Billy Mitchell before it came to light he was cheating. So the title is a reference to King Kong but you have to take several steps before you can get there.

How do you cheat in those?

Not going to get into detail, but they were friends with several "referees" at Twin Galaxies that would verify their records without any proof or proof that was falsified. For example in Billy Mitchell's case, all of his top runs are proven to be run on an emulator when the category was for real arcade machines. There's a separate category for emulator runs too. The suspicion in Billy's case is that he used computer tools (like rewinding a few seconds when he died) to make his run easier.