Notes to the CA Devs re: the battle page ... Love Scoot ;)

[lossmarse]

Just a few postings/suggestions from our Skype room last night while we tried to call an offensive battle using, yes, you guessed it, the dreaded battle list.

[27/10/2010 7:06:48 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers..... your list of guilds to choose from of the battle page is a bad joke. I have choosen to use sandpaper instead of toilet paper because I generally feel better afterword than I do after trying to find anything on your battle list. I am currently pulling off my finger nails and toe nails because it is much more pleasent that spending hours on end looking for a battle. Next I am going to spend a couple of hours trying to stab myself will a dull spoon. I would like to thank you for making some horrible things seem so much better. Hugs.... Scoot

[27/10/2010 7:21:59 PM]
Dear castle age deveopers.... I am now using a power sander instead of sand paper.... and yes.... it is still more pleasent that your battle page.

[27/10/2010 7:32:35 PM]
Dear Castle age developers…. My power sander is running low on extra course sandpaper. I am now experimenting with water boarding and Tean Zu (the ancient Chinese thumb screw torture devise)… and quite surprisingly I find them much more pleasant than your guild battle list. hugs and kisses scoot

[27/10/2010 7:41:58 PM
Dear Castle Age developers…. I was just tied to a chair and forced to watch Bigdog and Turtle do an hour long strip tease to Yani doing renditions of all of Michael Bolton’s greatest hits. I’ll have to be honest. My ears are bleeding and my eyes hurt… and it is sooooooooooo much better than your guild battle page. With love….. scoot

[27/10/2010 7:56:37 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers.... At this point, you might be asking yourself,
'why are holding this 30lb. Cinder block in our hands? You might also ask yourself, 'why does this cinder block have a long piece of string tied to it? And finally, why is the other end of this string tied securely to our (expletive deleated)? And why are we standing at the edge of of a roof about to throw the cinderblock off..... the simple answer is.... it is more fun than your guild battle page..... with love.... scoot

[27/10/2010 8:05:04 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers…. I have now been stuck trying to find a battle for 2 hours…. Still no luck…. I still have the 300 favor points I bought a couple of days ago and have not been able to use them because I have been too busy trying to find a guild battle. I will not be buying more tomorrow because there is no way I will be able to use them because I will probably still be trying to find them a battle. I’m sorry I am not helping with your paycheck this week. Hugs…. scoot

[27/10/2010 8:10:40 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers…. You may be wondering why I am wearing a t-thong that is 6 sizes too small. To be honest…. It feels pretty good after spending all this time one you guild battle page. With my undying love…. scoot

[27/10/2010 8:21:19 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers…. You may be wondering why I am pouring gasoline over myself and looking for matches. It is simple…. I just want to have a more pleasurable experience as I try to call battles off your guild battle page. With my undying loyalty…. Scoot

[27/10/2010 9:03:13 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers…. When you arrive at the office tomorrow could you please send me back my keyboard…. I’m not sure how it flew out of my hands… half way across the world… through the iron fence around your office… through a hedge and through a brink wall next to the door. I was just trying to get a battle off your guild battle page and the next thing I knew it was gone. With my gratitude…. scoot

[27/10/2010 9:10:36 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers…. I accidently said some bad words about you after not being able to call a guild battle for about 3 hours. I would like to apologize if I caused your ears to ring. I would spend more time writing this and spell checking it…. but I need to go to the emergency room after punching a hole through my laptops screen. Hope all is well…. Love…. scoot

[27/10/2010 9:31:31 PM]
Dear Castle Age developers…. my hate for you grows every 10 minutes.... thanks you guild battle page. Hugs.... scoot

If you see a very badly chaffed, crispy guy holding a cinder block please remove the mouse from his hand, or just give him a decent battle page

[mrwebb8825]

LOL

[Black_Knight]

Roflmao..... :d

[Dragonomine]

Ah the sound of laughter in the morning warms my heart.

[Burak]

Was quite good.

[zserg]

I don't find this amusing at all.

[i_am_me]

+10 chars

[Koz]

I don't find this amusing at all.

Killjoy

[zserg]

Killjoy

Idk, description of torture methods and suicides is not my idea of a joke

[Dragonomine]

Well it IS Halloween

[zserg]

Well it IS Halloween

not from where I come from.
We don't celebrate Halloween here

[Dragonomine]

not from where I come from.
We don't celebrate Halloween here

Really? So sad. What do you do on All Hallow's Eve? Anything at all?

[zserg]

It's not sad. It's just a holiday we don't have.

Anyway, lots of people in my country would probably find this amusing. I just don't like this sort of stuff really.

[Defyeler]

Halloween is a strictly American holiday. Its not even a federal holiday, as we still need to work if it falls on a week day.

I live in America, am an American, and I don't celebrate Thanksgiving nor Christmas. I do give thanks for all the holiday sales though

But I do participate in Halloween. I love luring kids into my house to... erm... give them candy... yeah that's it!

[oO☼ﬞ Tricᶄsy-TriӾie ☼ﬞOo]

History
Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".[1] The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".[1] A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced Kلlan Gلi av).


Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games.The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes[2] regarded as the "Celtic New Year".[3]

The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.[4][5] Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames.[6] Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

Another common practice was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.[7][8][9]

Origin of name
The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Up through the early 20th century, the spelling "Hallowe'en" was frequently used, eliding the "v" and shortening the word. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mوssedوg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556