XJ's Weekly #61

By kz`Moxx mapper·
As time goes by it seems to get closer and closer to another weekly, here´s the new one.

A big fat one for you guys this week!

Special thanks to our new weeklymembers loopah & JAy

Peace out and read the weekly below.

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09/05/2008 20:55:00

GJ LOOPAH :;D <3

09/05/2008 20:55:00

gj weekly staff :)

09/05/2008 20:57:00

awesome weekly. gj esp loopah for digging up so much dirt and for the interviews :)

09/05/2008 20:58:00

Nice weekly :)<3

09/05/2008 20:58:00

gj :)

09/05/2008 20:59:00

loopah ftw! Nice weekly!

09/05/2008 20:59:00

didnt realy have alot interesting imo. and its afro ninja.. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtIoGQxqQs

09/05/2008 21:06:00

Nice weekly ;D Even though the information wasn't that interesting.

09/05/2008 21:08:00

nice :) <3

09/05/2008 21:08:00

Pretty nice weekly, and I really enjoyed it. Both interviews were good and the kz cup history was interesting, I knew cups started with #jump-cup but didn't know the guys and what happened after that ^^ Good job weekly staff!

09/05/2008 21:09:00

I liked it pretty much. Good Job and welcome to the new weeklymembers loopah & JAy.

09/05/2008 21:13:00

So much to read :D Nice Weekly :)

09/05/2008 21:14:00

in my opinion its not good to write interviews in the weekly but its was smthg new and it seems like many jumpers like it.its always good for the weekly to try out smthg new so good job. maybe such interviews should get a sepertae news post?! all in all it was ok and gz to loopah -->amazing work

09/05/2008 21:16:00

that doesnt mean that it wasnt interesting :P

09/05/2008 21:19:00

nice long weekly...gj crew... old joke, but very funny :D

09/05/2008 21:23:00

gj crew, nice weekly :) nice that there was an interviews ^^

09/05/2008 21:25:00

Nice shit, best weekly so far imo!

09/05/2008 21:26:00

rly GJ!! It was nice to read about the things happened before! Imo in many ways kz had been a lot cooler & funnier then nowaday. =] Today everybody's thinking about lj [and that rly sux :(] However welcome to the new weeklymembers :)

09/05/2008 21:27:00

gj crew interesting weekly i enjoyed the interviews and the history of the cups nice map pf0 and aegget :)

09/05/2008 21:31:00

AEGGET FTW! gj all!

09/05/2008 21:31:00

moxx, you didnt mention Ramen, wasnt he a big part of #jump-cup? ;o

09/05/2008 21:32:00

nice weekly :)

09/05/2008 21:34:00

Pls put the interviews in the article section :)

09/05/2008 21:34:00

gj weekly crew, thats what a weekly shall look like ;)

09/05/2008 21:38:00

Supa you are so cool! I love your demos, I love your style! (Even silver made a comment!) supa for president!

Mentalo
09/05/2008 21:38:00

The weekly always cheers up my firdays! I love to see that finalyy the weekly are getting larger! I also enjoy interviews rly cool! GJ CREW^^

09/05/2008 21:39:00

what's that supposed to mean lol

09/05/2008 21:39:00

ps. Jay you rock! I want more weeklies from you! :) sry for dbpost.

09/05/2008 21:41:00

n1111ce weekly :]

09/05/2008 21:47:00

nice :D

Fact or Fiction
09/05/2008 22:10:00

more weeklies like this !! enjoyed ;) good work ppl.

09/05/2008 22:13:00

Thx for this weekly.

09/05/2008 22:13:00

interesting information about kz cups....also thanks for oldschool demos...gonna watch them :) GJ weekly crew

09/05/2008 22:14:00

nice weekly, but may be you sayd somethink about lj2?

b0lkar
09/05/2008 22:15:00

nice weekly

09/05/2008 22:19:00

nice, wanna see more informations about the kz-history in the weeklys :D

09/05/2008 22:22:00

Nice weekly, the best one imo, btw. thanks for telling the world about KZ-Pictures <3 JAy and loopAh pro's

09/05/2008 22:23:00

Nice weekly. ^^

09/05/2008 22:30:00

nice with the oldschool demos:D gj "weekly-writers":D

09/05/2008 22:53:00

Sorry abaout the joke :P HAd to leave in a hurry, and there was no joke... So i picked one in desperation ;D gj crew

09/05/2008 22:59:00

nice informations and great interviews! gj for this weekly. it was really enjoyable (and thank you for the old school demos!)

09/05/2008 23:03:00

Wow, best weekly ever!

09/05/2008 23:18:00

Yeah, very nice weekly. Enjoyed it! Nice demos, as well!

09/05/2008 23:23:00

faithful reader !!!

09/05/2008 23:50:00

nice =)

09/05/2008 23:52:00

This weekly was pretty nice. But I think that people have come to think that the longer the weekly is, the better it is. That is not true. You can't make a weekly better just by loading it with irrelevant information about cup history and interviews. The cup history could go in the KZ history thread in the forum, and the interviews have a section in "Articles". You have to face it guys, if there is no news, the weekly is not going to be good. We have repeatedly seen over the past few weeks that there is, in fact, not enough news anymore for a "weekly". I think that as people have suggested, a "monthly" would make more sense. There are many reasons why this would be better than a weekly: -More news, obviously. The more news, the better. The way the news is delivered is also important. -People would have more time to write the weekly, and *hopefully* be able to write it in good English. (Frankly, people who don't have good English shouldn't be writing these. Or at least, if they don't have good English, they should write the basis of the weekly and pass it off to an editor who will perfect the English. I've done it for omilo before, even though it was a little pointless, because omilo's English is pretty good.) -If a monthly is done, perhaps not ONE person has to write the whole thing. Divide up the "monthly" into sections, and have one crew member do one or two sections. Throughout the month, that person can focus just on that aspect of the community. This way not only will there be more news, but it will also be of a higher quality. I could add more reasons, but I think you guys get the point. So anyway, my suggestions are: -Change the weekly into a monthly. -Have one person write one or two specific sections of the weekly (for example, TinTin writes about maps this month). -Have one or two people with very good English edit the monthlies so that not only the English is proper, but that there is a sense of unity in the way the monthly is written. -If people want, have the option of subscribing to receive the monthly by e-mail (this would be a nifty little feature). -Try to be professional - don't put random words in bold, don't include links to pictures (make thumbnails or something, and then to make it larger be able to click on it), etc. -Clearly separate the weekly into sections, don't just make the transition with half a sentence in between. That way people who might not be interested in the maps, for example, can skip it. -Demos of the month section could be a little more extensive. Instead of just listing your personal favorite demo of the month, include some sort of explanation and description. I point you back to the audio commentary for demos that was suggested a while back. This is still applicable, if you ask me. I have more suggestions, and I could come up with more. However, I don't think that it's right to put up a "half-assed" interview just in order to make the weekly larger. If an interview is done, it should be done right. If history of kz is covered, consider making a section of the website dedicated to this (a great idea by the way!). Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against this weekly personally, but I think that the weeklies have been quickly declining in quality. PLEASE DON'T SKIP THIS POST JUST BECAUSE IT IS LONG. I hope you seriously consider what I wrote here. By the way, was there a question missing in the interview? Something like "Do your family or friends know that you play kz"?

09/05/2008 23:53:00

nice joke :D

10/05/2008 00:13:00

Gj boys. Ugliest map? Gigablock :D :D

10/05/2008 00:16:00

very nice weekly :)

10/05/2008 00:27:00

Good job again team ^^

10/05/2008 00:38:00

Gj all esp loopah and jay ;D

10/05/2008 00:42:00

cool weekly gj <3 :)

10/05/2008 00:50:00

I have two questions: 1. Why is everyone too lazy to read my post? I actually take time away from my weekend to help this, well, in-need-of-help community and everyone ignores what I have to say. 2. Why is everyone named after VIP's? lol..

10/05/2008 01:07:00

gj

10/05/2008 01:20:00

fine

10/05/2008 02:13:00

Testing.

10/05/2008 02:17:00

i read your post s1gh, and its not a bad idea, but noone pays thos guys to make this things, so whatever they do, its fine n_n btw, awesome weekly this time :D

10/05/2008 02:40:00

Obviously no one pays them, but that's completely beside the point. It's clear they want to make their community successful, and let's face it, right now that's not the case (at least with these weeklies). A monthly would not be more work, even less, especially if they listen to my suggestions and divide up the work. Thanks for actually reading it though Thedy, I appreciate it.

10/05/2008 03:05:00

i really liked the sugestions s1gh gave and i hope that people responsable for the crew read it and see what are the possibilities of making this happen. Ah, and about making a section of the website dedicated to the KZ History and stuff, i totally agree with that, i think it already had to be done a long time ago.

10/05/2008 05:00:00

nice weekly! can someone make a interview of brain?

10/05/2008 05:36:00

BTW i didn't write the weekly, i dono why moxx said that thing in the beginning but w/e. The grammar should have been fixed i agree, i think it was kinda posted to fast, i did not even get the change to proof read all of loopahs work, not saying that the info is bad, but your right.. it could be put into different words that would of made more sense in English, we do need to work on that part of it. anyways.. thanks sigh for a response, we are really taking it seriously and are going to try and work out a few things.

10/05/2008 06:49:00

Okay JAy, I hope you make the right decision. If you need any more suggestions or ideas for the weekly/monthly, just tell me. I'm sure other people might have suggestions too.

10/05/2008 07:01:00

haha ugliest map gigablock :) gj

10/05/2008 09:36:00

the oldschool demos were teh bomb :)

10/05/2008 09:40:00

nice weekly :D

10/05/2008 09:41:00

nice weekly thank god no more retarted policeman jotw.... he sucked

10/05/2008 10:01:00

mm strafersheaven i remember the old times :D

10/05/2008 10:48:00

haha joke :D:D

10/05/2008 10:55:00

w0w..very very nice!!!

10/05/2008 12:00:00

weekly <3

10/05/2008 12:56:00

nice (:

10/05/2008 14:27:00

tottaly agree with s1gh but this was not a bad weekly compared with the last 2 ones , i mean there are so improovements, so keep it that way jay and loopah

10/05/2008 14:54:00

I liked this weekly. :) And for gods sake, don't stop writing weeklies, they're awesome!

10/05/2008 14:58:00

weeklies ftw !

10/05/2008 15:08:00

n1

10/05/2008 15:12:00

s1gh, I did read your post.... We're getting absolutly nothing for this, so just be happy someone is doing something. And im sorry if the grammar sucks this week, I had to translate everything, because it was in swedish. And i didn't have much help this week (no offence crew) so I had to do almost eveything on my own. And I did that in my spare time... And in my spare time, I dont have time to sit infront of the computer all the time. And dividing up the weeklies in sections... that just bullshit... Then every1 in the crew have to look for specific information. And that wouldn't be alot of fun, neither easy....

10/05/2008 15:17:00

one of the best weekly's in a very long time =) GJ XJ loopah <3

10/05/2008 15:25:00

gr8 weekly! nice ;]

10/05/2008 17:00:00

Actually loopah, I didn't have too much problems with the grammar on this weekly. It wasn't 100% perfect, but it was better than most of them. The weeklies have almost never had great grammar, it's just that most people don't care or don't notice. The grammar points were not directed specifically to this weekly. About the "being happy someone is doing something", do you really think that if I didn't care, I would waste 10 minutes of my life writing that huge response? I already wrote to Thedy (who basically said the same thing) that the guys who run this website and write the weeklies want this community to thrive. If that's not why the write it - if they write it just so that people would see their name on the main page - then they shouldn't write it. I'm not saying that's you, but you have to understand that the whole point of having weeklies is to satisfy the community. Satisfy them with news, rumors, and whatnot. At this point I think that the weeklies are not doing their job (I'm not satisfied at least), and even if this weekly was better than usual, it doesn't mean next week won't be bad. How can you say focusing on one section is more work? That's ridiculous. You JUST said that you had a ton of work translating everything to English. It's not like in one month you need to just stare at your screen and look for information, it's exactly the opposite. One month is a long time, you can spread out the amount of work you need to do. And if it bores you, choose a section that's interesting to you, or a section that you think you'd be able to contribute to the most. If you hate map news, then just don't choose that. Choose to write a description of the best demo of the month. Let me just make this clear, my comment was not directed solely to this weekly. It was directed to almost all of the recent weeklies, which INCLUDE this one.

10/05/2008 17:42:00

why do you guys care about the grammar so much? I almost never have trouble reading something in news post, but if I do, then i can easily take 5 seconds and figuer it out

10/05/2008 18:05:00

I don't even understand why you (loopah) are in the weekly crew, if you say you haven't got time for sitting at the comp. And just because you guys don't get payed, you shouldn't excuse yourself with that either, 'cause if you are in the weekly crew, you should be doing it 'cause you think it is fun to collect information, and if you like writing in English, and of course you're good at both and/or other things. I didn't think the grammar was so bad this week, though. I actually really liked this weekly .. The only stuff I find somewhat pointless is the demos of the week. As s1gh suggested, you should write [b]why[/b] they are the demos of the week, and tell something about them. Who cares what you guys choose as "demos of the week", if they are just standing there like that without any reason. Other than that, it doesn't quite belong to the "weekly" which is meant to be "news" ..

10/05/2008 18:08:00

nice weekly GJ <--faithful reader here

10/05/2008 18:15:00

Is it just me or did s1gh just take everything I've been saying for the last three weeklys and expand on it? Lol. Anyway, s1gh just to point it out to you... The weeklys don't have to be just about news. Yeah its good to have incite on the week to week going ons, but you don't need it. Secondly this weekly was really good compared to how it has been going. So don't complain because loopah and j4y have done a fantastic job orchestrating the last two and I hope they keep going on this role. I love the idea of weekly interviews, its a great idea and who ever innovated that is a freaking god. Great work guys keep it up!

10/05/2008 18:38:00

Fire please don't take what I said and twist the connotation of it. I never complained. I was just making suggestions, because honestly, I disagree with you. I think the last weekly was written really well, and I think this one was okay too. That's not the point right now. The point is that there is not enough happening in one week to have this weekly thing anymore. It's not special anymore. Maybe in a month, people will be able to gather enough information to make it interesting. And no, interviews and history of kz seem very out of place in a weekly. There's no flow. If an interview is done, make it more than 10 questions. There can be an announcement about it in the weekly/monthly, but if it is actually an interview worth reading it should deserve it's own post on the main page. Right now almost everything on the main page is new demos and weeklies. Think of it this way: You don't have a school newspaper come out every week, right? That's because every author that works on his own article wants to perfect it. They choose a topic, and research it. Then they take their time: they want their article to be written correctly, accurately, and most importantly - they want to have something interesting to write about. Those people don't get paid for their work, right? They write in their newspaper because they want to invest in their community, and because they want people to have fun reading their article, maybe even learn something new.

10/05/2008 19:20:00

Nice weekly!

10/05/2008 19:54:00

This weekly was so aswome. there should be parts of kz history in every weekly :D and maybe an interview with a new jumper every time :)))

10/05/2008 21:51:00

s1gh makes some very good points, s1gh i will contact you soon. I wana talk to you some more about these "issues".

11/05/2008 00:19:00

do what s1gh says!

11/05/2008 00:45:00

Sure JAy, you can send me a message on hamachi if you'd like, we're both on omilo's network. Thanks penGuiN^^.

11/05/2008 01:29:00

I agree 95% with s1gh. In a weekly, there's few new things, but in a monthly there would certainly be many new things, but some of the things would most likely 'get old' (ie. someone's demo beaten). Therefore, in a weekly, they could use ALL of their information, in a monthly, only a PART of their information.

11/05/2008 04:16:00

You make a good point about things getting old Flibo, but all the weekly does anyway is reiterate what people already know. brian beat mountez, everyone knew that in the demo release already, the weekly might have just said it again. But in a monthly, hopefully it won't just be "gj brian", there will be a description, etc. Thanks for the response though, I'm happy that more than 3 people read my comment.

11/05/2008 07:11:00

yeah np, i agree with a lot of what your changing, maybe the whole structure of the weekly needs to be changed? i dono but we'll talk about it s1gh

11/05/2008 07:38:00

I said I agreed with you by saying you took my idea an expanded on it you fuck tart. Jesus learn how to read and then good look at some forum post about it and then go read the past weeklys about it. JESUS. Fucking kids I swear. RAWR. SOCCER JAM MAKES ME ANGRY.

11/05/2008 10:38:00

very good weekly....gj !

11/05/2008 14:25:00

Nice! :)

11/05/2008 16:06:00

s1gh, to me it sounded like it was pointed directly to this weekly... And puppetz^, I said i didnt have alot of time THIS week... I've had my final exams and im going out (end of school) in less then 3 weeks... s1gh, sure, a couple of your ideas is great, but some of them are not so great. I just dont see how it could work out. JAy, "we'll talk abaout it" I havent heard a word...

11/05/2008 17:59:00

a little comment.

11/05/2008 18:45:00

@Fire - The maturity of your post astounds me. "So don't complain because loopah..." @loopah - It might have sounded like that, but this is the third time I say that it was not directed ONLY to this weekly. Also, at least point out which ideas you think are great and which you think are not, and why. And JAy only made a typo, lol...

11/05/2008 23:51:00

gg

17/05/2008 02:51:00

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