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[QUOTE=Lium;49207987]I was kinda thinking not that sort of stuff. No point giving him a challenge that guarantees a sick day.[/QUOTE] But slightly stale food is not really a challenge, either, imo, especially since 5 days after a sell-by date is usually close enough to show no signs of age. Some good compromises for off foods would be the following: Allow a bowl of cereal to sit in milk in the fridge over night And take an overripe, cut apple, and allow it to sit unsealed in the fridge Let leafy greens wilt

Hey Ben, I've got a new challenge for you. Monkey in a Barrel: Worth 30 points. Get a barrel, get in it, and have a friend roll you off like a hill or a high place, just not somewhere you can die. Bonus 10 points if you try and go barreling in a river afterwords.

[video=youtube;45weCPjfYic]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45weCPjfYic[/video]

Hi Ben I have one for you Get /fit/: 50 points In 1 hour at any grocery store, any time you hear a stranger say the word bread, you must yell out "GET FIT!" and the proceed to do 10 squats. You must do it 10 times to get full points, you'll get half the points for 5.

gonna need a close up pic on those d20, they look pretty red to me.

[QUOTE=SuicideZ;49259169]gonna need a close up pic on those d20, they look pretty red to me.[/QUOTE] I've seen the same exact set at my local game store. They pink dawg

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I love these picture videos, nice change of pace from the others one, and I finally get to find out what some achievements were in detail. What you could do, is you could give us a list of achievements that you didn't record and we could pick some for you to explain.

Potential achievements for Story in Pictures videos: Mystery Flavor: Synthesize the ultimate DumDum lollipop flavor Satisfy Your Gravings: Explore Chessman Park, a former cemetery (Includes the story of The Crying Stopped) Shattered Cats: Accumulate 100 years of bad luck in 5 seconds ... Corn?: Get a souvenir from Nebraska Spirit Guide: The story of me getting hit by a car and biking 40 miles less than 4 months later The Story Writes Itself: A quick summary of the Pathfinder campaign I "wrote" and am running completely unscripted. My players are currently at level 10 and 3 have died thus far. The Dirty Thirty: The full story of the worst achievement to date I could also do one or two akin to a lightning round, where I show a series of past achievements that don't necessarily have a story to them (Like gorilla glue on a nonstick pan and the time we climbed 4 14ers in one day). As long as we're doing a poll, what kinds of videos would you all like to see? It seems recently that everything has been extremely varied, and I want to make sure that I'm putting out content that the large majority enjoys. So more King Pin? Scavcringer Hunt? Blind Souls? Lightning Rounds? Stories in Pictures? Avoid repeats entirely? I really appreciate all feedback, and I want to do whatever I can to release the best videos possible.

[QUOTE=Darkfall;49320103]Potential achievements for Story in Pictures videos: Mystery Flavor: Synthesize the ultimate DumDum lollipop flavor Satisfy Your Gravings: Explore Chessman Park, a former cemetery (Includes the story of The Crying Stopped) Shattered Cats: Accumulate 100 years of bad luck in 5 seconds ... Corn?: Get a souvenir from Nebraska Spirit Guide: The story of me getting hit by a car and biking 40 miles less than 4 months later The Story Writes Itself: A quick summary of the Pathfinder campaign I "wrote" and am running completely unscripted. My players are currently at level 10 and 3 have died thus far. The Dirty Thirty: The full story of the worst achievement to date I could also do one or two akin to a lightning round, where I show a series of past achievements that don't necessarily have a story to them (Like gorilla glue on a nonstick pan and the time we climbed 4 14ers in one day). As long as we're doing a poll, what kinds of videos would you all like to see? It seems recently that everything has been extremely varied, and I want to make sure that I'm putting out content that the large majority enjoys. So more King Pin? Scavcringer Hunt? Blind Souls? Lightning Rounds? Stories in Pictures? Avoid repeats entirely? I really appreciate all feedback, and I want to do whatever I can to release the best videos possible.[/QUOTE] The Dirty Thirty is the one I really want to see, besides that, Spirit Guide, Mystery Flavor, The Story Writes Itself and Shattered Cats would be cool to see. Also lightning rounds would be interesting to see with pictures as it seems the picture videos are around 5-minutes long, so unless you do one with short pictures, it could end up in multiple parts. As for videos, Scavcringer Hunt, Lightning Rounds and Stories in Pictures are the ones I like (and the food ones obviously)

You can use ratings for polls. [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/tick.png[/img]: Mystery Flavor [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/cross.png[/img]: Satisfy Your Gravings [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/funny2.png[/img]: Shattered Cats [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/winner.png[/img]: ... Corn? [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/zing.png[/img]: Spirit Guide [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/information.png[/img]: The Story Writes Itself [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img]: The Dirty Thirty [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/wrench.png[/img]: Lightning Round (Rate on Darkfall's post, not mine)

[QUOTE=Darkfall;49320103]I really appreciate all feedback, and I want to do whatever I can to release the best videos possible.[/QUOTE] This is something of a personal pet peeve, though it's not an uncommon one. Jump cuts. Jump cuts are the 50 dkp minus of anything video related for me. Yours are at least decently done for the most part (no distinctive audio hiccups), but I feel like the videos would just be smoother and more natural feeling if they were done without or with far fewer jumps. The OP "In a Jam" video was refreshing to me because of this. It doesn't feel massively scripted past the intro (even in it there's a feeling of improv), and there aren't jarring jump cuts every three quarters of a second. Yeah, you have a lot of cuts, but almost all of them serve a distinct purpose besides saving a fraction of a second of time. Even something as simple as showing you with the knife for a second before scooping out the jelly conveys a ton of information without needing to show the process of getting the knife. OK, so you can't just say a set of lines 3-4 times and stitch it together to get a workable piece without jump cuts. There are still plenty of ways to obfuscate your use of cuts as long as the audio is consistent. You can hide it by not showing your face and using visual aides. You can space cuts out and say sentances/paragraphs in one cut, etc. You'd have to ask someone who is better versed in film to explain the hows and whys of jump cuts. All I can really tell you is that they are generally considered to be somewhat jarring, and that while sometimes this is a good thing, it is usually not. Beyond that I can only say that I legitimately hate them. As far as content goes, I don't really think you should be looking for a specific formula. The spontaneity and sheer creativity/randomness of it all is what suckers me in, and I feel that this is the case for many of the people here.

Oh shit, it's been a year since this thread was made. [editline]15th December 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Darkfall;46706693]Hello everyone! I'm the guy from the video. Chimitos told me that he had posted that video here, and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for watching and supporting the insanity that is the Darkfall Protocol. To answer your question, CN Half-Elf rogue with a bad habit of reckless abandon where everyone gets hurt but me. The reason I do the achievements is because when I was in High School I felt like my summers were slipping by without me taking advantage of them. I would be asked what I did and end up saying "I dunno... slept?" So I started making goals for myself so I could have stories worth remembering. Then I added points to each goal so that I could evaluate if I had beaten the previous summer (Plus, what gamer hasn't dreamed of real life achievements?). And then it became so much fun that I decided to always have a list going. I'm pretty new to media production so every view really helps, and I really do appreciate it. Thank you all![/QUOTE] Going back to this, you have inspired me to do stuff like this. Do you have any tips for someone who would like to do real life achievements?

[QUOTE=Xonax;49320324]Oh shit, it's been a year since this thread was made. [editline]15th December 2015[/editline] Going back to this, you have inspired me to do stuff like this. Do you have any tips for someone who would like to do real life achievements?[/QUOTE] Probably a good idea to try and set clear boundaries of what you won't do. Then do a couple of wacky things and become known for being a wacky fellow open for suggestions. After that the suggestions/ideas will appear with less effort probably. [QUOTE=Darkfall;49320103]Potential achievements for Story in Pictures videos: As long as we're doing a poll, what kinds of videos would you all like to see? It seems recently that everything has been extremely varied, and I want to make sure that I'm putting out content that the large majority enjoys. So more King Pin? Scavcringer Hunt? Blind Souls? Lightning Rounds? Stories in Pictures? Avoid repeats entirely? I really appreciate all feedback, and I want to do whatever I can to release the best videos possible.[/QUOTE] Well first of all you should make whatever you think would be most fun to make. For me 50% of the enjoyment comes from vicariously enjoying your joy. Almost all of the above you can repeat as long as you add small twists to each repeat challenge. While I quite liked Blind Souls as I am an avid dark souls player it is probably the most out of place video in comparison to the rest of your channel. Silly dark souls challenges you can find on hundreds of other channels and the rest of your content is IRL based. While "follow your core business" is very much a business buzzword it does seem somewhat applicable. But like I said I enjoyed it so if you make more I doubt people will start a rebellion.

[QUOTE=Xonax;49320324]Oh shit, it's been a year since this thread was made. [editline]15th December 2015[/editline] Going back to this, you have inspired me to do stuff like this. Do you have any tips for someone who would like to do real life achievements?[/QUOTE] It all depends on what you want to get out of the experience. For me, there are basically two different kinds of achievements: The "That Wouldn't Work" variety and the "You Can't Do That" variety. The first kind are fun things like roasting marshmallows on a rake or playing sports with water balloons, there's a challenge but it's more creative than anything else. A vast majority of those kind of achievements end up on my list when I'm talking to friends and one of them says "I wonder if that would work;" it's gotten to the point where I can tell I'm going to receive an achievement before it's even a thought in the other person's mind. If that's what you're after, listen to conversations and pay special attention to any arguments about something you could feasibly test out. You do that long enough and people will start directly giving them to you, I promise. The other kind, the "You Can't Do That" achievements, are the ones that are really memorable, the ones where I actually have to push myself and my limits. The Vile Miles are of course in there, but so are achievements like In A Jam and LND.mp3. Anything where failure can only happen by me giving up are the achievements that last in my mind, because I am so rarely pushed to my limits in every day life, and especially not in those kinds of ways. I wanted to know if I could walk 30 miles; it almost killed me, but now I know I can, and that's something very few people can say. If the real trials are your forte, pick an aspect of yourself you want to find out more about, be it how much physical punishment you can take or if you can eat 4 hamburgers in 10 minutes. By figuring out what you want to get out of hunting for achievements in your own life, not only will it be easier to find achievements to undertake, but it will be significantly easier to get through them. The other advice I have is don't be afraid to fail. I'll be the first to say that the LND.mp3 sounds like garbage, I did the entire song in two days with a $20 microphone and literally no audio editing software. It's a 5/10 at best, and that's once you get past the volume fluctuation at the beginning that for the LIFE of me I couldn't equalize. People were more than happy to tell me "Your flow sucks," and sure, it hurt a little. But if I hadn't taken that shot, I would have learned nothing and gotten nowhere. I learned a hell of a lot about audio channels and volume mixing and even microphone placement, and now that I've started learning how to use Audacity, my next attempt will be better because of it. I failed harder than I ever had on the NF round 1, but as I was blazing across the final infinity of the second round on my bike, I distinctly remember thinking "It was worth blowing it once for the retry to be this incredible." If you're truly going to go out and challenge yourself, either you will fail or you aren't trying hard enough. Embrace failure and then learn from it, because if failure can't stop you, literally nothing can. And now I'll just hop down off my soapbox.

[QUOTE=Darkfall;49320103] Satisfy Your Gravings: Explore Chessman Park, a former cemetery (Includes the story of The Crying Stopped) [/QUOTE] The what I'm intrigued, please elaborate

[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;49322880]The what I'm intrigued, please elaborate[/QUOTE] Chessman Park used to be a cemetery until the city of Denver said "You know what? This is a park now." There are places where you can find obvious graves, and my exploration coincided with another achievement involving abandoned strollers that made the entire experience pretty damn spooky.

ok but when are you going to mail me money and wear rollerblades for 24 hours

[QUOTE=Darkfall;49322756]It all depends on what you want to get out of the experience. For me, there are basically two different kinds of achievements: The "That Wouldn't Work" variety and the "You Can't Do That" variety. The first kind are fun things like roasting marshmallows on a rake or playing sports with water balloons, there's a challenge but it's more creative than anything else. A vast majority of those kind of achievements end up on my list when I'm talking to friends and one of them says "I wonder if that would work;" it's gotten to the point where I can tell I'm going to receive an achievement before it's even a thought in the other person's mind. If that's what you're after, listen to conversations and pay special attention to any arguments about something you could feasibly test out. You do that long enough and people will start directly giving them to you, I promise. The other kind, the "You Can't Do That" achievements, are the ones that are really memorable, the ones where I actually have to push myself and my limits. The Vile Miles are of course in there, but so are achievements like In A Jam and LND.mp3. Anything where failure can only happen by me giving up are the achievements that last in my mind, because I am so rarely pushed to my limits in every day life, and especially not in those kinds of ways. I wanted to know if I could walk 30 miles; it almost killed me, but now I know I can, and that's something very few people can say. If the real trials are your forte, pick an aspect of yourself you want to find out more about, be it how much physical punishment you can take or if you can eat 4 hamburgers in 10 minutes. By figuring out what you want to get out of hunting for achievements in your own life, not only will it be easier to find achievements to undertake, but it will be significantly easier to get through them. The other advice I have is don't be afraid to fail. I'll be the first to say that the LND.mp3 sounds like garbage, I did the entire song in two days with a $20 microphone and literally no audio editing software. It's a 5/10 at best, and that's once you get past the volume fluctuation at the beginning that for the LIFE of me I couldn't equalize. People were more than happy to tell me "Your flow sucks," and sure, it hurt a little. But if I hadn't taken that shot, I would have learned nothing and gotten nowhere. I learned a hell of a lot about audio channels and volume mixing and even microphone placement, and now that I've started learning how to use Audacity, my next attempt will be better because of it. I failed harder than I ever had on the NF round 1, but as I was blazing across the final infinity of the second round on my bike, I distinctly remember thinking "It was worth blowing it once for the retry to be this incredible." If you're truly going to go out and challenge yourself, either you will fail or you aren't trying hard enough. Embrace failure and then learn from it, because if failure can't stop you, literally nothing can. And now I'll just hop down off my soapbox.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the advice, the "That Wouldn't Work" variety is something I already do, but without the achievements in mind so that should be easy. The "You Can't Do That" is something I would like to try myself. After Christmas I will start doing these.

I got an idea for an achievement you should do. "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" What if you ate an entire months worth of apples in one day? Doesn't matter if you cook, bake, smash, peel, blend, or whatever the apples, as long as it's 30-31 (depending on the month, 29 if leap year) apples. The amount of points? Well 1 per apple, I think that is reasonable, no one goes home empty handed, of course it will be hard to calculate how many apples you have consumed if you blended them or something, so instead of doing 1 per apples if you mixed them up or blended them, you base it off quarters. Also speaking of points, when you first started, how did you measure the points?

24 hours to finish 30 apples sounds really funny.

[QUOTE=The Aussie;49329066]24 hours to finish 30 apples sounds really funny.[/QUOTE] Doesn't sound too hard though... does it?

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;49329564]Doesn't sound too hard though... does it?[/QUOTE] Hmm perhaps make it so that he cannot eat them all in 1 type of dish? For example say you aren't allowed to use more then 5 apples per dish. That way he has to make a ton of apple recipes. For an extra 20 points I would recommend adding that you may not repeatedly use the same method of cooking either. AKA you can only use the oven once, you can only eat a raw apple once. Maybe if you severely limit dish sizes or add enough apples to the challenge he would eventually be forced to BBQ/deepfry apples.

[QUOTE=Xonax;49328051]I got an idea for an achievement you should do. "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" What if you ate an entire months worth of apples in one day? Doesn't matter if you cook, bake, smash, peel, blend, or whatever the apples, as long as it's 30-31 (depending on the month, 29 if leap year) apples. The amount of points? Well 1 per apple, I think that is reasonable, no one goes home empty handed, of course it will be hard to calculate how many apples you have consumed if you blended them or something, so instead of doing 1 per apples if you mixed them up or blended them, you base it off quarters. Also speaking of points, when you first started, how did you measure the points?[/QUOTE] So here's the problems with achievements like this: What you are basically asking me to do is eat ten pounds of apples in one day. There's only so much that I can do with that; I'll probably core them, blend them, get through half and either call it, throw up, and fail, or keep going and end up in approximately the same place as the time I drank an entire Double Gulp of Arizona Iced Tea in ten minutes (I've been down this road and it does not end well). Either way, it's basically just a test of my endurance and willingness to subject myself to diarrhea. Now Murky42's suggestion ('Sup Murk, what's your deal with fruit?) changes it from a test of endurance to one of creativity, from "How many apples can you eat?" to "How many ways can you eat apples?" So I see this and in my mind the challenge becomes one point awarded for each preparation (Fried apples, raw apples, baked apples, boiled apples, I bet I can find a way to dehydrate an apple in 24 hours...) with a bonus if I can hit one style for each day of the month. That way it's a real challenge and I'll be pretty much guaranteed to learn something from it. Those are the challenges I go for, the ones that actually help me grow as opposed to trying to break me. As for the points, they weren't even a thing until year 3, the Midnight Contract. The first list was a bunch of nonsensical easy goals, the second was slightly more challenging and has some pictures but no points, the third is where I got serious and started cataloging them. They were initially a measurement against myself, I got 1130 points for the Midnight Contract and 1265 for the Roster of Dusk, ergo I had a better summer. I would have people read my list and assign values they considered to be fair and would then make the average the point value. Then the entire structure of the list changed and now the points are more a reference point than anything and I'm the one who decides what they're worth. I judge how difficult something will be, how much time it will take, risk and reward potential, and then go with my gut and slap a number on. I don't keep track of them, but the points definitely carry weight; completing the first 500 point achievement really felt like it was a new tier. Plus, points make the list way easier to explain and add to the pseudo-fiction element that I love about my life. I could say that Blade in America might be coming up and it's going to be a nightmare, but that's meaningless without the qualifier that it's my second 500 point achievement.

I'll be honest, I actually like Murk's suggestion more than mine. I do see your point though. Also regarding the points, thanks for the advice.

The First Ever Be the first normal person to ever review Cosmic Disclosure, a widely watched series of ongoing interviews with a whistleblower. In order to get this achievement, the review must be done after watching all the released interview material. Every hundred views will award you one point. Points shall be rounded down to the nearest ten, with the exception of the first point. Additionally, you will be able to enjoy the unique pleasure of having been truly first at something.

You know what, here's a challenge for you; The weekest challenge: Think of something that you've always wanted to do, or thought about doing, which there's competitions in. Preferably something that doesn't require expensive equipment. Sign yourself up for one of the smaller competitions you can find - maximum of a thousand people in case you go for something like a code jam or hacking competition. You have the week before the competition to prepare, train, read up on the skills needed, etc. When the competition is over your points will be 1000 divided by the place you ended up times two, and then rounded to the closest number that's evenly divisible by five. So a first place will net you a comfortable 500 points, while ending up sixth will only get you 85.

Learn a song of your choice by ear. 1min of it, to be exact. On an instrument you've never played. extra if it's an instrument not featured in the song. The song must be a "real song" AKA something you'd actually pop into your mp3 player and listen to, not something exceedingly simple like Hot Cross Buns. Achievements: Do something actually resembling the song: 10 points (Awarded when played to someone familiar with the song recognizes it) Instrument tuned by ear correctly: 5 points Get 10 notes in a row correct and on key: 3 points Get 3 chords correct: 3 points On tempo: 3 points Use an exotic instrument (very different than any featured in the song): 1.5x multiplier.

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;49447442][video=youtube;5DNljTQSJKI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DNljTQSJKI[/video][/QUOTE] The end of that video actually gave me an idea: Stick 'em in a Stew - 30 points Go into a store to the food section and put a blindfold on. Find 10 random food items. Once you get home you must find a way to make a stew out of them. Then, you have eat an entire bowl of that stew. Bonus 20 points if you have enough left over and you find a different way to prepare and then eat them. If anyone else actually has a better way to select the 10 random items please suggest it because what I suggested wasn't all that great.

Bake a cake. But do everything using a grabber: [thumb]https://www.allardycehealthcare.co.uk/images/products/originals/1339580340HandyGrabberRangeHR005.png[/thumb]