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anyone want to do some thankless work for gamasutra?

 
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exodus



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:03 pm    Post subject: anyone want to do some thankless work for gamasutra?    Reply with quote

basically it's transcribing - toups is doing a few now.
we have a ball load of interviews done by me and others, which need transcribing from audio files. It pays a robust $1/minute of audio, which is sometimes good with mine because I have a tendency to stall and say dumb things.

Anyway, it's thankless in that you don't get credit, but if you're super poor and type fast, this can be useful. My interviews range from 30-45 minutes, and will probably take you about an hour or hour and a half to do each, were I to guess. They are of varying difficulty in terms of how well you can hear, how much background noise there is, or how fast peeps speak.

You can post in here with expression of interest or PM me something, and we'll take it from there.

THANKS DOODS

bye byes
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psiga
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:56 pm        Reply with quote

Hell, I'll volunteer. I have a side project that I'd like to fund, so this'd be good.
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Felix
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:17 pm        Reply with quote

i'd be happy to give at least one a shot.
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Panoptic



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:20 pm        Reply with quote

I've got some free time to throw at it. Consider me interested.

Also, I just now noticed the caption in your avatar.
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internisus
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:37 pm        Reply with quote

Felix wrote:
i'd be happy to give at least one a shot.


Same. I'm not sure what this will be like, but I dig Gamasutra to the point where it might be very good to be involved with them, and this sounds like fun and easy work to me. I'd definitely like to have a try. I already work from home, so my schedule is adaptable to their needs and such.

By the way, Brandon, the latest issue of that game developer mag has lots of cool stuff in it.

Man. I am thinking about this now, and $1/minute of audio, since I am a good typist, well that could be pretty amazing if there is steady work with this. Yeah, I am very interested.
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exodus



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:42 pm        Reply with quote

felix and panoptic, please send your email address!

I grabbed internisus' from the thingie there.

And thanks for the praise on the mag! We try!
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Focus



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:44 pm        Reply with quote

I would be happy to contribute. Well, not happy. I wouldn't mind. If I like doing it, I suppose I'd be up for more.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:54 pm        Reply with quote

What is the time limit?

I'd be up for say one hour. Maybe another hour after that, but I don't want to promise more than one since this may take more time in real life than it does in my head.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:58 pm        Reply with quote

I would like to participate.
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exodus



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:31 am        Reply with quote

everybody give emails plz

and showka - there's no time limit!

and it is tough work.
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psiga
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:33 am        Reply with quote

Unless this is wildly different from what I think it'll be, I shall take as much work as they want to give me. A headphone-toting grammar-Nazi with absolutely nothing better to do; how could I pass this up?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:36 am        Reply with quote

Transcribing interviews (or, well, one really really long interview) is how I learned to touch type!

Also, pick me! I need money ever so much.

jason.y.min at gmaildotcom
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:37 am        Reply with quote

its rrriiight there.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:56 am        Reply with quote

yah focus I got yours.

and jaihson, I adds.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:00 am        Reply with quote

Capt. Dongle at your service, sir!
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:21 am        Reply with quote

email!
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:06 am        Reply with quote

damn it. my computer needs to get here so i can help. if there's still work to be done later next week i can help.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:18 am        Reply with quote

I'd really like the money, but I'm not so sure I'd be all that good at this.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:51 am        Reply with quote

Brandon why does insert credit not link select button on the front page?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:24 am        Reply with quote

negativedge wrote:
I'd really like the money

Have either of us had even one legitimate job since we got here?

My first post is all like ~la la side project~ but I would honestly adore the chance to do this every day. My schedule is wide open, this is stuff that I am genuinely interested in doing, and everybody in my family is giving me the "get a job" look. Gimme gimme!
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:48 am        Reply with quote

Felix wrote:
i'd be happy to give at least one a shot.


Same here, Brandon. If you've got any left at this point, that is.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:31 am        Reply with quote

I'd be down for this. What's the deadline?

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:35 am        Reply with quote

Rud13 wrote:
Brandon why does insert credit not link select button on the front page?


108's mediocre website does.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:15 am        Reply with quote

psiga wrote:
negativedge wrote:
I'd really like the money

Have either of us had even one legitimate job since we got here?


Yeah, I had one at one point. Got fired for taking three hour long breaks and transporting co-workers around the store in boxes.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:40 am        Reply with quote

negativedge wrote:
psiga wrote:
negativedge wrote:
I'd really like the money

Have either of us had even one legitimate job since we got here?


Yeah, I had one at one point. Got fired for taking three hour long breaks and transporting co-workers around the store in boxes.

I had a one-off gig filing papers for a Therapist who worked a block from my house. She gave me the keys, and I could come in during the dead of night if I felt like it. But that was like $160, total, and maybe four years ago. Shit.
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exodus



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:03 am        Reply with quote

Rud13 wrote:
Brandon why does insert credit not link select button on the front page?


same reason I don't post every day...too busy/traveling/tired/working on multiple projects.

thanks everybody - you're all gonna get a group email where simon (gamasutra/game developer's publisher) will ask you to transcribe a bit of something - it'll give you a taste of what it's like, and us a taste of how you do. So that's that!

And there'll be plenty of this to do so long as I keep doing interviews. And I'm going to Tokyo for TGS tomorrow, so...
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:15 am        Reply with quote

Are the interviews and such interesting?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:27 am        Reply with quote

slipstream wrote:
Are the interviews and such interesting?

No. Yes. No.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:12 am        Reply with quote

I can do one or two of these
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:58 pm        Reply with quote

exodus wrote:
email!


How careless of me! I suppose I've already made a bad impression!

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:13 pm        Reply with quote

Suppose I'm a bit late to this, but I'm up for it, too! My email would be cdrouin - at - wpi - dot - edu.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:44 pm        Reply with quote

Cool, a sample transcript job as a test is the equivalent to how I got my current proofreading gig. I guess that's standard. I'm so up for this; it would be a great addition to my work-at-home portfolio.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:40 pm        Reply with quote

oligophagy at gmail dot com, if I'm not too late.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:31 pm        Reply with quote

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