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Yay

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« on: November 06, 2006, 04:05:50 am »
heres somthing to read

http://www.gigafiles.co.uk/files/2154/1337%20pwnage%20mag.pdf

If you want the downloadable pdf version

http://s4.quicksharing.com/v/270549/1337_pwnage_mag.pdf.html


Visit the mags forums if you want to sign up and fill out an aplication to become staff, the mag is always looking for new writers
or visit to give genral feedback

http://1337pwnagemag.proboards49.com

Enjoy

Ksempac

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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2006, 04:30:00 am »
Tell me...The mag has been made by 12 years old ?

- Poorly Done : Everything is put "as is" there is no clear page-setting

- Full of crap : the mod on the forum closed your topic about you being victim of an "unfair admin" so you went to complain in this "mag"...Really you should start growing up.
Since it is in the mag, this show that no one in the team has a clue about what you should and what you shouldn t do when you write something that is going to be published. I guess they are your friends ?

- Uninteresting : The few articles where there is at least the goal to be interesting and inform people (the 2 gametests) are boring.
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Yay

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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2006, 04:36:47 am »
Quote from: "Ksempac"
Tell me...The mag has been made by 12 years old ?

- Poorly Done : Everything is put "as is" there is no clear page-setting

- Full of crap : the mod on the forum closed your topic about you being victim of an "unfair admin" so you went to complain in this "mag"...Really you should start growing up.
Since it is in the mag, this show that no one in the team has a clue about what you should and what you shouldn t do when you write something that is going to be published. I guess they are your friends ?

- Uninteresting : The few articles where there is at least the goal to be interesting and inform people (the 2 gametests) are boring.


-poorly done: please suggest how we can actualy improve this

- Full of crap: its not full of crap... admin abuse is a real thing, no one in the team has a clue???? thats just a rediculously sad and hypocritical comment to make

- uninteresting: Ill see if i can do somthing about that


Btw the mag is always looking for a 1337 gamer to interview.... so if you know any =)

Basilisco

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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2006, 07:48:23 am »
hhhm, nice try to make a (first trem-related) "magazine".

But you should seriously try to get some serious people to help you writing articles and designing.

About the mag itself, it's all pretty ugly :P and the style varies from page to page.. try to make it look like you are reading the same thing from one page to the other.

About the content, hhhm.. again, get some mature people to help you. And don't write about such personal and/or specific cases (nobody really cares)
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To make the next issue try to use a different program, here's a list of desktop publishing software from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_desktop_publishing_software)

Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/) is pretty good, and free.

Yay

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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2006, 08:10:48 am »
Quote from: "Basilisco"
hhhm, nice try to make a (first trem-related) "magazine".

But you should seriously try to get some serious people to help you writing articles and designing.

About the mag itself, it's all pretty ugly :P and the style varies from page to page.. try to make it look like you are reading the same thing from one page to the other.

About the content, hhhm.. again, get some mature people to help you. And don't write about such personal and/or specific cases (nobody really cares)
******************
To make the next issue try to use a different program, here's a list of desktop publishing software from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_desktop_publishing_software)

Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/) is pretty good, and free.


Thanks for that... ill check the program out

Seffylight

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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2006, 10:50:23 am »
Several parts of the "magazine" were taken directly from somewhere else, and only once was anyone credited for any of it. The Savage bit directly from the game's promotional info, the Tremulous bits from the Tremulous Wikipedia article, and the first part of DS review from a review commonly quoted from www.pcmag.com -- not the part that you credited, though. The parts of the "magazine" that weren't plagiarized are lacking both a sense of layout and any sort of command over the language that you're presenting it in. The whole thing was completely devoid of any journalistic feeling -- I'd be ashamed to even see things like this go into editorials.

In short: get an editor to check all your stuff, don't plagiarize (at least cite your sources), and severely rethink your method of putting it together.

You can take this, with an ounce of salt, from an English Education major, and a man that served all four years of high school as his school newspaper's head editor.
Stop it. Seriously.

Yay

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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2006, 11:07:26 am »
Quote from: "Seffylight"
Several parts of the "magazine" were taken directly from somewhere else, and only once was anyone credited for any of it. The Savage bit directly from the game's promotional info, the Tremulous bits from the Tremulous Wikipedia article, and the first part of DS review from a review commonly quoted from www.pcmag.com -- not the part that you credited, though. The parts of the "magazine" that weren't plagiarized are lacking both a sense of layout and any sort of command over the language that you're presenting it in. The whole thing was completely devoid of any journalistic feeling -- I'd be ashamed to even see things like this go into editorials.

In short: get an editor to check all your stuff, don't plagiarize (at least cite your sources), and severely rethink your method of putting it together.

You can take this, with an ounce of salt, from an English Education major, and a man that served all four years of high school as his school newspaper's head editor.


sorry i wasnt aware that the stuff was quoted. >=( ill be seeing my staff bout this