Since you're the new admin, do you think you could start up Ask Ezlo again? (Makes anxious face)
I think he's only the administrator of the forums, not the rest of the site. I believe you need special powers not available on the forums to put up site content.
Really? Darn!
It'll probably change soon enough, though. I think Jack said that he was going to pass the torch at some point or another.
To the extent of my knowledge, I only have power in the forums right now. Even if I were in charge of Ask Ezlo, I couldn't come close to the wit that Jack put into those responses.
...I probably could....
lol just kidding, nobody could match Jack...We do have people with some dry, witty humor though.
Methinks sir Alpha would be good enough for that.
I think Commodore could a good job, too.
Them teaming up would probably be a good choice. You know, more ideas, and more stuff gets done within a shorter time.
That's assuming if they're both up to it, though.
Quote from: Shikamaru Nara on July 10, 2007, 11:45:28 AM
...I probably could....
lol just kidding, nobody could match Jack...We do have people with some dry, witty humor though.
>_> You. Shika would do a great Ezlo.
What we could do is hold a contest on the forums...I think Alpha is busy enough anyways, although he WOULD be great...
We could just make an Ask Ezlo topic on one of the boards here...
As far as I know, Alpha is going to be quite busy with HA2 to much to be going with Ask Ezlo.
Yes, especially if Jack returns again and puts him in charge of HA2.
So what about a contest then?
That does sound like a good idea, but we would need judges who won't participate, yet still be able to tell who's the best, based on a participant's ability to come up with a witty response to a question.
So should we make a topic for each person who wants the spot and see how they do?
i nominate commadore to be the new ask ezlo person
Should this "commadore" person not step forward, then I think I'll step up and take his place as nominee. My name is quite similar, after all.
I don't expect the job, but I guess I'll take a shot at the Ask Ezlo thing.
must we point out my mispellings COMMODORE?
Apparently BBoy thinks I have a shot, so I guess I may as well try. I love Ezlo anyways.
So then.
I think that we should keep the winner a secret though, So that the Ezlo and Member lives don't interfere and affect judgement.
So what we could do is be given a list of questions, and send our responses to Gamefreak, who can post all the responses (including his) without anyone being able to tell who's who. Then voting can be done on the unnamed contestants, and the winner can use a seperate account to answer the questions.
Probably once a week would be a good answering schedule, so that the questions can build up and the best can be picked to answer instead of having to post for every single one as it comes.
What do you guys think?
Sounds pretty good. I can handle that.
I think it sounds good, too.
Too bad I'm not funny enough to participate. I'll judge, though.
Wait, I don't understand. Why do we need a judging thingy again?
I mean, it's so much easier to make a poll... Which seems to be the general premise.
Yeah, but some of us don't know how funny other people can be. We should start a topic here (or perhaps Forums Games) where we ask questions to a few of the nominees (We'll decide them here) and see how funny they can make it. It should be called "Ask Ezlo Competition" or "Ask Ezlo Off" or something.
Plus, we want to keep who won a secret, and a poll wouldn't do that very well since everyone can see the results.
Quote from: Gamefreak on July 10, 2007, 10:02:48 AM
To the extent of my knowledge, I only have power in the forums right now. Even if I were in charge of Ask Ezlo, I couldn't come close to the wit that Jack put into those responses.
Right. I'm good with advise, but in the humor dept. idk :P
Yeah, we have to take into account that Ezlo wasn't always about being funny. there were a lot of dead serious responses, he just seized the opportunity for funny ones when they came.
True dat ;D
And people often ask ridiculous questions, that he didn't respond to. He only responded to a handful of questions, or so he once said.
That's why I'm saying Gamefreak makes an account for Ask Ezlo, and people can PM the questions to him, and every week or so, he'll respond to his favorites. Or maybe they should be sent to Gamefreak or someone else, who will send them to Ezlo, so that the senders are kept secret and they can use pennames like the original...you know...to prevent insults and fights and such..
I already know mine! ;D
And that makes sense. I think GameFreak would do a splendid job. (I never used the word splendid, and felt the urge to)
The problem is that he probably already gets enough PMs.. :-\Maye make an Ezlo's Mailbox account...I dunno...
Would this work?
That's great. So then, the winner will get the password to that account..
That was me by the way. I made the Ask Ezlo account. Whoever gets the honor of doing the Ask Ezlo answers, will get the password to that account, and can change it to their liking. I like the avatar however.
Here's an Ask Ezlo question that Jack himself sent in to Ezlo.
Jack asks
Dear Ezlo, I descided to let you go free, poor fella. Also, here's 999 rupees...
Psyke Ha-ha
Ezlo replies...
You are a cruel and sexy man, Mr. jack O'Reily.
lol, so yes. So what we should do is compile a few questions (probably five or so to keep it simple) and have anyone who wants to participate copy and paste them into a message, respond to each, and send them to Gamefreak, who will post them in a poll. People will read the posts and vote for who they think was the most helpful and funny Ezlo.
Should we have more than one round? Maybe it would depend on how many people entered...
There should be at least:
1 Tingle question
1 Daphne question
1 rhetorical question(He always makes the best responses)
That's what I think. There should also be some serious questions as well. Such as Zelda relationship questions, or game help.
Okay, so, one Tingle, one Daphne, one Rhetorical, one serious...what about a personal one? Like what he has been doing? Also, didn't he have a hatred for eggplants?
That sounds good. I'm actually browsing through Ask Ezlo right now.
But why would the winner of the poll have to be a secret? It's not like we didn't know that Jack was answering the Ask Ezlos.
Because we don't want Ezlo to be bugged on his other account about not answering someone's question and such, and don't want people to bug them about being Ezlo and what they should have said and blah blah blah...and it won't be as obvious as with Jack.
Dr. Rabies Asks:
Dear Ezlo, what have you been doing with all your free time these days?
Right. So when does this begin, I'll give it a go. :)
So...Gamefreak will need to post five questions, we'll PM the responses, he'll post his response and ours...alright then...
Dear Ezlo, Since it's been so long since you've answered our questions, what have you been doing during your "break"
Dear Ezlo, What, is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Dear Ezlo, Out of all the women in the Legend of Zelda world, which one do you think Link is most likely to become involved with?
Dear Ezlo, During your break, did you run into Tingle? If so, how is he?
Dear Ezlo, Is Daphne still working in your office? If so, how is she?
who can all enter?
Anyone who wants, I'd guess. :)
it sounds fun, but im not funny enough :( maybe i'll try anyways.. just for fun
Yes, just copy and paste those into a message to Gamefreak with your responses.
I felt the same way, but I gave it a go! Go for it, we'd love to have more entries.
I just got an idea, maybe instead of having everybody send their questions to Gamefreak or somebody and then having them forwarded to Ezlo, what if we made a public account that everyone could use, so that if they asked personal stuff nobody would know who it was and Ezlo could give advice without affecting the relationship between members.
... what? Sorry you lost me there. Did you mean to make the account public so that everyone could answer anytime they wanted, like a big wiki?
No. I mean one account, Ask Ezlo, for the answers, and then another account, like Ezlo's Mailbox, where everyone could use it to send Ask Ezlo questions without revealing identity, for those personal ones that are asked sometimes.
And make the password public?
What was wrong with the message system on the Ask Ezlo page itself? That was anonymous as far as I know.
Yes. If things got out of hand and people start spamming or such with it, then we will unfortunately have to lock it or something, but I hope that we will be responsible enough...
I doubt that will happen. Besides, I don't think the mailbox could overflow. Remember Jack's system? He answered 20-30 questions every month. It would be a fairly easy job. :)
but he didn't answer all of them. and I'm sure there are questions people want to ask that they are embarrased about and don't want people to know who was asking it.
Thats why they used a different name for Ask Ezlo. For instance, I was always "ZeldaVeteran" because I have nothing to hide! Occasionally however, is logged as "Not Zeldaveteran" for kicks :P
but they can't do that here because they will be on their profile.
What happened to the original Ask Ezlo page? And where would the answers be posted now? :o
We can't update Ask Ezlo with Jack gone, so we're doing a forum Ask Ezlo. It will be posted in a thread weekly.
So, what, will GameFreak make a new Forum Board for Ask Ezlo, or will it just be under Announcements, or GD?
Uh, I thought we were gonna wait until Jack gives control of the site to somebody else?
For all we know, he won't. If he does, well, then we'll just do that. But while we wait...
why not put it in forum games?
You won't mind if I give it a try, will you?
Not at all, just send me a pm with your answers.
Hey GameFreak, when are you gonna put em up?
Once I'm sure that everybody who wants to apply applies.
Maybe you ought to set a deadline for entries.
Yeah, that would resolve things a bit quicker. The deadline will be next Monday.
Quote from: Dr. Rabies on July 12, 2007, 01:17:50 PM
why not put it in forum games?
this handsome young man's question wasn't answered
I don't know. Probably because it really isn't a game.
I have to agree. I think it deserves its own board :)
I would probably make the Ask Ezlo account a moderator on that board as well.
well, yeah, I thought that was obvious :P
Ezlo would hate to have to bug a mod every time something went wrong.
Yeah, but he could just log into his Gamefreak account and do that.
Even though I created the Ask Ezlo account, I won't interfere in it once the account has been passed on to someone else.
I'll get those results up today in the chatboard.