[THE GOVERNMENT] YOU SHALL BE ENTERTAINED

Day 2,150, 07:19 Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom by Sir Humphrey Appleby
-UK Ministry of Entertainment-

GOOD AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN,

After a full 5 minutes work, I managed to find the crucial line in Boh’s manifesto that sums up my obligations in this term’s Reichministry of Entertainment: “- more state run community based initiatives, such as games, quizzes and the like.”

Thus, with this revolutionary new policy in action, I bring you your state run community based initiatives, among which are:-


A Minecraft version of Risk

Our resident Guru BaskB has uploaded a realistic map of Europe in a minecraft world, in which a number of us have claimed various countries to colonise in a giant game of Risk (for example, I’ve taken Norway). It is a beautiful map and has a few quirky differences from the default settings of minecraft, however with war only a week away I expect most of it will be going towards an arms race with a nice bit of rampant imperialism. Feel free to join us during our grace period and build up your capital in peace 🙂. Click this link to the relevant thread with all the details on it.


Bribe the Admin sweepstake

We will be accepting sweepstakes on the minimum amount of credit needed to bribe an eRep admin. When we have a sufficient number of bets, an unsuspecting newbie will be tasked with sending an ingame support message querying the amount; and, pending on the number of years it takes to get a response, we will award a prize with a monthly interest of 1% to the closest bet.


Another Pub Quiz

People seem to still like the occasional pub quiz, so we’ll be having a few more over the next few weeks with specific topics in each. After say 3 or 4 topic’d quizzes we’ll have a grand finale bumper one on election day :3.


Haxball tournament

I’m not sure if we’d be able to get an international tournament going but we can certainly try a national one. Given that haxball has a range of different games you can play (the most obvious of which is football) I think we’ll just have set times for these and then decide what we’ll play according to who’s turned up.


National Newspaper Association

Whether it’s a sonnet for our invasion of Norway or a striking declaration of our distaste for our Irish and French neighbours, we’d like more literature in our media and will happily encourage more people to pick up the pen with the reintroduction of the National Newspaper Association. With awards for writing styles and some cash on the side, hopefully more people can get involved in the media module 🙂.


Making it easier for you to host your own events!

State run community based initiatives aside, we’d like to make it easier for you to host your own events and get it publicised within the greater community. If you want to hold your own chess tournament or reading/debating society, then feel free to get in touch and we’ll happily help you with the organisation or just have it posted in our articles 🙂.

Much obliged for reading this far, some more updates out either late evening tomorrow or the day after :3.

Yours,


Brigadier-General Dame Humphrey Appleby
UK Entertainment Corps


Forum discussion thread here


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