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treacle_well August 17 2006, 00:15:45 UTC
It sounds catchier without the "and" and a semi-colon instead of comma makes it sound stodgy.

Good ad.

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treacle_well August 17 2006, 00:16:38 UTC
Um, a semi-colon would make it sound stodgy--meaning I approve of the comma use.

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radtea August 17 2006, 13:28:24 UTC
It needs a period.

"Lie to your friends. Then eat them."

You want the full stop after the first clause to maximize the impact of the second. It isn't quite grammatical ("then eat them" is not a sentence) but it's catchier.

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treacle_well August 18 2006, 12:07:15 UTC
Eh, maybe. Full stop works, but sounds more serious. A shorter implied pause is more flip--and I prefer that tone for this. But that could be just me.

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The comma seems strange. kyroraz August 17 2006, 00:18:08 UTC
As a person who has been criticized, of course, for using commas too much, it just seems to read very strangely ...

Lie to your friends -- then eat them.

Well maybe. I'm not sure how those two textual pauses are different, but one feels good, the other doesn't.

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ruthling August 17 2006, 00:34:01 UTC
is there a one-page e-mailable description of the volity stuff that I can post or send to friends? I have a couple of groups who might want to play, or even make, but need a better intro than I can give them.

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prog August 17 2006, 00:42:09 UTC
What do you think of the copy at http://volity.net/about.html ?

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ruthling August 17 2006, 01:04:23 UTC
that's very nifty, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. Something simpler and more player-directed. More like here's what and how in one page.

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radiotelescope August 17 2006, 03:51:58 UTC
Player-centric... the *really* short version is "Play board and card games on-line! Free! Go to volity.net and download our application."

I'm sure there is an intermediate-sized version, but I'm not sure what it is.

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hauntmeister August 17 2006, 00:35:36 UTC
Hey, that link isn't clickable!

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prog August 17 2006, 00:39:42 UTC
It is if you actually Google for "werewolf".

But, er, don't click that link, because it'll cost us like a nickel if you do. :) I'd rather spend the nickels on people who actually have never heard of Volity before. (It just takes you to http://volity.net anyway.)

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gemini6ice August 17 2006, 02:17:36 UTC
then I would suggest "Lie to your friends-then eat them."

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