The Sunday N
by Alex Kurcharski,
featuring Tanner Rogalsky
and Matt Blaylock
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I apologise for the lateness of this one, fellas, but I just ran out of the energy I needed yesterday to finish this up. Hopefully this'll still be a Monday N for most of you!
The Daily Rundown
February 25th to March 3rd
February 25th
It really amazes me that Dave can still come up with the most innovative thwump puzzles, even after making two hundred odd. Congratulations, man.
This Changing Enemies contest is really bringing out some good stuff.
February 28th
Hooray for good newbies!
March 2nd
I'm a bit of a sucker for anything that even resembles spect's 11-4.
Maps of the Week
#1: blue_tetris - Aesolith
#2: lord_day - Shimmy Cry
#3: wynter - Direct Current
#4: romaniac - The Chasers War II
News
Level Packs
And of course, another great one from Dave, super_crunchy!
By Tanner Rogalsky
Due to a little miscommunication between myself and the intended Nterviewee, the mystery has been bumped back a week and has been replaced with this! This being a look into the tiny world of Nterviewed.
It all began with Kablizzy and an article posted on therealn.com. Read it. It's important. It really got me to thinking that maybe it was about time that I actually did something for a community that had offered me so much. I don't remember what inspired the idea, exactly. But I ran it past KinGAleX one night on Vent and he encouraged me to run with it. He even offered to host it on his The Sunday N publication before he knew anything about it besides the premise. It was a huge leap of faith that got my idea off the ground. Well, more or less. I still only had a vague outline of what it was going to look like and no clue who I was going to interview.
This was around the end of December and the thing that weighed most heavily on my mind was the new ownership of NUMA. Namely, maestro and Sweep. And since I was in contact with the former more often than the latter, I decided to see if he was up for a little chat. I'm still surprised to this day that that first interview went down as well as it did. Neither of us really knew what we were doing and yet I'm still really pleased with it.
I tried to model the Nterviewed structure after what I know of real interviews. I'm a pretty big fan of talk radio and my mother is a radio DJ so it wasn't as though I hadn't had enough exposure. Every interview starts with research. I like to ask the interviewee if there is anything they would like to talk about and promote and then I look into the corresponding forum thread and put together a few questions. Otherwise, the N Wiki generally serves as a good jumping off point.
The comes the actual conversation. I prefer to do the interviews via the IRC so as to more closely mimic a real conversation but just PMing the questions serves in a pinch. After that, it's just a matter of copying and pasting the text into a new Google docs file, changing the format, adding some links and sending it to Alex. A VeNterview takes a little more time than that, though. The entire conversation is recorded using Ventrilo and then edited using Audacity.
That's basically it. Your regularly scheduled programming will return next week.