That said, I'm throwing my hat into the ring. I've worked on my high school newspaper for a couple of years (one as an editor for the Entertainment section), so I've got some experience under my belt. I'm not all that proficient in grammar and spell-checking, but since we're typing it up (if this goes through), we have those already.

Even then, that's the Copy Editor's job XP

Also, I agree with krylo; my school paper suffered from low levels of readership because the teacher wouldn't let us run stuff that the students really wanted to see (although I did manage to slip in the occasional video game reviewwhile she wasn't looking). Any piece of journalism should include what the readers want to see within reason.

Suggestion for the publication's name: The NPF Stomp. Oh Yeah.

Yeah, pretty much I read that three-columns-only thing, and I got this sudden image of someone getting one of the columns, and then suddenly acting like they were the biggest goddamn deal on the internet, and entitled to go around being pretty much as much of a puffed-up jerkoff as they like, because they had their very own column for the 8-bit-theatre internet webcomic's online discussion forum's community newspaper.

And then I threw up, for like half an hour.

That alone should disqualify you from all involvement.

And if at all possible, all of decent humanity.

Like, if we had another Australia lying around, where we could just quarantine the undesirables.

That's where your kind would go.

When I read it, I didn't read it as only the same 3 people with columns each week, I read it as a changing 3 people each week. I mean common, we're talking about EACH WEEK! Some of them are gonna give. We're probably gonna rely on alot of freelance for the articles too. Especially once school starts up in the next month or so.

Also, I was thinking we could have an over dramatization of a thread that people found interesting in general (from long ago in the past, to recent history) or a humorous retelling of one of the better mafia games.

Replace "column" with "Super Mod status" and "newspaper" with "forums" and you've got a pretty good description of a certain fifthfiend.

But I digress.

In actuality, working on a high school paper probably isn't worth much, but man, those burritos on deadline nights were good.

Not to mention you'd be envious of the crazy awesome Guitar Hero parties we'd be having. All night long.

On-topic: if this goes through, there should be a section written specifically by Brian. He was the founder of NPF, after all.

A summary of the better fights in the Versus thread could be made to look like a sports result.

In last night's showdown Giant Man beat New Super Mario with a debilating air pull and a vicious slam.
When asked about the outcome Pym stated that he thought it was a good match.
Mario simply commented "It's a me Mario", obviously suffering from some form of concussion.

Your raging envy is the spice on my ambrosia, here at the feast of forum godhood.

Oh man, you guys look like ants from up here!

There is a section written specifically by Brian. It's called the Home Page.

Oh, the things I could say...but I've been banned enough recently. So I'll just say Fifthfiend rocks and be done with it.

Really, I've nothing more to add. Hah, you think I'd put something contrary in secret text, didn't you? Well, you're wrong, sucker!

Well, since we're kind of elucidating upon our willingness to serve, I'll do so:

1.) If there's only going to be a few columns (which isn't necessarily a bad idea) then I'll go ahead and retract my offer to write one and leave that to someone who wants it more.

2.) I offered to be an editor but I'd like to qualify that by saying that I do not want to be any kind of in charge. I've only been 'round here about a month and probably don't have the deft feel of the community someone would need to be making content decisions. However, I'd be ever so happy to be a grammar/spelling nazi.

3.) If we're looking at a PDF format, I've got Photoshop (although plenty of other people here probably do too, but I'm just saying so because I don't know if the GIMP that I hear about can create PDFs) and plenty of pagination experience.

I've been in your place before. It's highly overrated.

But I, too, digress. I've already thrown in my two cents and don't feel like reading this thread anymore, so if anyone knows I exist, drop me a line should ye be interested in a sports column. Or random one-off comics.