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  1. On 6/5/2020 at 11:51 PM, Zero.Two said:

    I have a similar question too: with the current state of Tanki, if I could only buy one of railgun's alterations, which one would you recommend me to get?

    Note: I play as a dictator, and I prefer team battles, mostly CTF and CP. I stay away from DMs. Thanks in advance!

    If your playstyle consists of less activity and mainly camping, then I would suggest Large-Caliber Rounds. If you have a more activity-based playstyle, I would strongly recommend Scout.

  2. Has this ever happened to you?:

    You're wandering the Forum, when suddenly you stumble across a... guide! Intrigued, you read it all thoroughly. Not only do you learn nothing, but now you want to write a guide of your own! Only one problem, though. You don't know how!

     

    I can't help you. But everybody starts somewhere, and this is your start position! Using the Lose™️ tried, tested, trusted, and true methods, I will show you how NOT to make a guide! Let's hop right into it and waste seven minutes of your time!

     

     

     

    STEP ONE: The Title

     

    I know from experience that if your title does not meet about 574 requirements, the helpers will come for your blood. With that knowledge, let's show you how to make the worst title possible!

     

    Let's start with a good title: it uses proper spelling and grammar, clearly tells you the topic, and is eye-catching. It's absolutely atrocious. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to fix it.

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    (The atrocity that is this title. 0/10 title)

     

    Part A: Remove the Topic

     

    If you want to make a good guide, you need to have a title that clearly explains what your guide is about. That is one of the main reasons people will click your guide. You could make it have a misleading topic, for example, say "A Guide for Hunter" when it's about Wasp, but it's better to just remove it completely. After you have done this, your guide title should have dropped in quality a significant amount.

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    (It's getting better... but can still improve. 2/10 title)

     

    Part B: The Capitalization.

     

    If your guide has no capitalization, not only does it make it much harder to notice as it blends in, but even if they find it, it's much more unappealing! Simply look at your title, and if any letters are capitalized, simply change them to lowercase! It makes your title SO much worse. It's amazing!

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    (More improvement, I'm starting to like where this is going. 4/10)

     

    Part C; Names/Adjectives

     

    If you want your title to be as bad as possible, it has to be unappealing. By removing names, you make the reader have less of an idea if your guide is trustworthy or not. For instance, if you see someone such as Person_Random in the title, you'll know they've written guides before, and therefore can be more trusted. If you remove all descriptive words that may help the reader understand what your guide is about, they will not want to click it! So just go through your title once again and remove and names or adjectives.

     

    In this step, also remove words that make it sound more official, such as "the". I'm going to change the word "the" in the title for "my" in this instance, but try to avoid using that word also, as it can be used to seem authoritative or smart.

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    (It's starting to take its final shape. 6/10)

     

    You might be thinking:

    It's already so bad! What do you mean 6/10?! 

     

    Well, my friend, titles can be MUCH, MUCH worse. 

     

    Part D; Symbols, Emojis/Emoticons, and Notes

     

    You've reached a point where your guide title is so unappealing people might just get interested. Our goal now is to make it seem like either we are EXTREMELY uneducated, or we are simply a troller. We're gonna aim for the latter, since uneducated people can be educated, but trollers will never change unwillingly.

     

    So, how does one make a title as simple as "my guide" seem more troll-y? Well, firstly, we must add on to the title with "notes". Some examples of notes are things such as (cool), (check it out!), or the best kind, any form of the infamous (pls approve my piece moderator) note. We're going to use the third one.

     

    After you have a note, you have to add symbols to said note. Usually try to stick to symbols that have at least some sort of correlation, don't just spam random symbols, even if that sounds counter-intuitive. I tend to stick with exclamation marks dotted with the occasional question mark.

     

    Another way to make your title look amazing is with emoticons and emojis. These will show the moderators you are professional and know what you are doing. Any emoji or emoticon works in this scenario, any will get your point across -- you are a professional.

     

    We're nearly at perfection... 8/10

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    Part F AND FINAL PART FOR TITLE: Spelling

     

    Your title is lacking a topic, grammar, and nearly everything appealing about it. The problem is, though, is that the spelling, whilst not properly capitalized, is still correct. We need to fix this. In any way you want, purposefully misspell words and "accidentally" forget to press shift sometimes whilst typing the symbols. After you do this, your title should be beautiful, and you should be ready to move on!

     

    I-It's beautiful. I've been staring at it for five hours now. 11/10

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    Alright, we've finished the title. You now have an absolutely, amazing, beautiful, revolting title. But a guide can't be a guide without any content! So now, we go on to our next step on how not to write a guide.

     

     

    STEP TWO: Content

     

    Instead of showing you how to make the worst content possible, I'm instead going to show you some tips that not only tell you how to make a horrible guide, but allow you to have some writing freedom. 

     

     

    Tip ONE: Fonts

     

    When you're in the editor, you can look on the top and just left of the center, you will see a box with the word "Font" in it and a drop down menu.

     

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    This allows you to change what font you type in, and if you try hard enough, you can get some ABSOLUTELamazing font combinations. One of my favorites is the combination of "Comic Sans MS" and "Courier New". These two fonts are so different, if you try to add them together and sprinkle some other fonts (if you want), it's nearly impossible to type something to look nice.

     

    "When usinWasp, yohave to remember that it has low health."

     

    But you are limited with the fonts provided by the Forum. If you really want to make your guide unreadable, look no further than Google (or whatever search engine you use). The internet has a bunch of fonts that are absolutely absurd, and the best can be found if you look up "cool fonts".  Some of these fonts are so incredibly horrible, it makes me cry with happiness. And with the right fonts, you can make the example above look like a normal sentence.

     

    "₩Ⱨ?n҉  υѕιиɢ աᏗᏕᎮ, ??ㄩ 卄Ꮙꍟ ꓅ꆂ ⱤɆ₥e҉m҉b҉ёя ???ȶ ᎥᏖ ꁝꋬֆ LФա ɦεმlནh."

     

    Look at that. Now imagine a whole PAGE filled with text that looks like that. Isn't it beautiful? It brings a tear to my eye. But that's only what I could do in limited time. I'm willing to bet some of you can create things much worse than that, even with how bad that is.

     


    Tip TWO: Colors

     

    You've probably noticed that gray isn't the only color being used in this. We've used orange and blue too, but there's a large array of colors at your disposal. With the right combinations, you can once again make your guide unreadable.

     

    Wheusing Wasp, you have to remember it has low health.

     

    Now you might notice that you can't read from after the N in "using" to "you". This is because the black text color almost perfectly matches the background, making it effectively invisible. This might seem like a good idea on paper, but if you do this you won't be able to see what you are writing, and that can lead to some mistakes even you don't want in your guide.

     

    Use this to change your text color:

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    Tip THREE: Bold, Italics, Strikethrough, etc.

     

    If you look left of the colors, you'll see a series of buttons, which should look like this: XwXchZL.png

    In order, from left to right, this is what they do.

    Bold: Bolds your text

    Italics: Italicizes your text

    Underline: Underlines your text

    Strikethrough: Puts a strike right through your text

    Subscript: Puts your text as a subscript -- it's smaller and slightly below the normal text

    Superscript: Like subscript, but on the top instead of the bottom

     

    If you combine these text editors in the right way, you have no limits. The combination of strikethrough and alternating sub and superscripts is particularly bad:

     

    When  using  Wasp, yohavtremembeihas low  health.

    Isn't that beautiful? If you add some bold and italic there, it gets even worse. It's amazing what you can do with the text editor, isn't it? But we're not done. I'd say most of these are child's play compared to what is possible with what I'm going to show you next. Brace yourselves, get your eyes ready, and have fun, because we're going to now head over to the formatting.

     

    If you look over on the right side of the editor this time, you will see this: kRdMuft.png

    Using these, you can change where the text appears on the page. For the example sentences, if I want it in the middle, I would click this: 2pgAOud.png    Although the text is by default on the left side on the screen, as you can see in this guide. Using this, you can make your text jump across the screen, and in my opinion, also make it the worst looking yet. I'm not going to say the whole sentence, this time I'm only gonna say "Hi!"

     

    H

    i

    !

     

    Isn't that bad, but also beautiful? Even though I can't see you, I can tell you're getting emotional. I'm also not going to use all of the tips in one sentence, as practically anything I'd say would not only be unreadable even for me, but it would take up too much of the page. There's still a lot more little things that didn't make it into any of the sections, but are too small to have their own section, such as the Quoting mechanism. Feel free to explore those too, if you want, or you can use the tips I've provided here.

     

    That's all the tips for the "Content" section of your guide! Feel free to use, mix, and match these tips however you please to make your guide as horrendous as possible! Because don't forget the Lose™️ motto: "The best guide is a broken guide"! Now let us move on to our final step of our guide.

     

    STEP THREE: Responding

     

    When you finish your guide, you should now submit it by clicking the green button at the bottom of your screen. It should look something like this:

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    Once you click that, your newly "horrendified" guide will be submitted to the AWS helpers for review. If or when they approve it, they might have made some significant changes that make the guide actually look readable. Which is absolutely horrifying. But even though they ruined your perfectly good guide, you shouldn't chew them out in PMs or just in the chat. It only makes you susceptible to a ban, and if you're banned, you can't make more guides! So even if you now hate that certain AWS helper forever for whatever reason, just keep it to yourself.

     

    If people compliment you, at least accept it. Make sure you don't make yourself susceptible to a ban, and take in all the compliments that will be flooding in, and make some more beautiful pieces.

     

    That's all the steps for the guide! You now how to make a perfect guide, and if you follow these Lose™️ tried, tested, trusted, and true methods, you can make your own guide just as horrendous as you could ever dream. Now go out there and make the worst guide possible! 

     

    The Lose™️ foundation does not condone any and all forms of violence towards any AWS helpers, Tanki helpers, and human beings in general. 

    The Lose™️ foundation also does not recommend taking this guide seriously.

     

     

     

    ~Lose

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