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ok here are my things:

guild meet ups in the virtual hollywood etc place are boring as hell. i mean honestly. if you have a low attention span like me, you can easily click away from the window and forget you are even there. the chat system isalso retarded and clunky. AND. what are you even going to do? sit around and chat? about what, that you cant already talk about in the guild?

so i propose, and this is something i brought up in the very beginning but no one wanted to give me the friggin time of day and listen: guild movie nights. one of the guild members has a movie that they play over livestream, and the rest of the guild watches and chats with each other in the livestream chatroom.

we can also use the livestreams to do guild game nights, where one guild member basically "let's plays" a game and everyone watches. or we can do guild wide art jams, for members of the guild who are artistically gifted. again, you can do that over livestream too, so that other guild members can watch and chat.

AND. we can have skype calls and a guild skype chat. the possibilities are really endless!

also. you dont have to talk about gaia 24/7 guys. i mean i know you guys are all gcders and all, and im really....really happy for you all that you're all proud of that fact. but please talk about other things in the chats. please. the old guild skype chat got boring fast because all that was really ever discussed was like......new gaia items and some s**t. talk about things that interest you! be more outgoing in your speech!

i am pretty much confident that if you do everything i mentioned, plus adding more members, would make this guild a more jumpin and fun place to be, but it;s up to you guys to actually listen to me this time.

i would have suggested VJ, if it didnt have the completely abysmal chat system like the rest of the site does. i suggested livestream because it's way simpler, and more streamlined and modernized than an unused, forgotten section of gaia. and, and im not sure if vj is still used this way but this is what i remember, with livestream we're not tied down to watching a video that's already hosted on an external site.

with livestream (or ustream or justin.tv or whatever streaming site you guys are comfortable with) you can stream from videos on your hard drive, or DVDs/blu-rays, as well as stream games and otehr things. pretty much, you see whatever the streamer does on theor computer so if they do something entertaining, it'll be fun.

and with the art thing, i was thinking a mix of open canvas with hamachi. everyone who wants to draw connects through the hamachi server, then connects via open canvas. then one person streams while everyone draws, and those who just want to watch via livestream.

i know like....you want to keep most of the party things on gaia and i dont blame you. we're using gaia after all. but like i think if we keep it to JUST gaia we are limiting ourselves a whole bunch. after a while everything here gets boring fast, and there are other, more professional up to date things we all can do on the internet as a group to help keep this guild fun.

I do a "Fail Movie Night" sometimes. Maybe I can do more of those? ^^

for a livestream to actually get anyone to actually come into them, you need to advertise. doing so in the guild with just a thread is kind of counter productive because...the guild is dead ahahha. in order for it to work, you gotta place a link in an announcement. everyone looks at guild announcements!

also calling a movie a fail movie isnt going to get many watchers! play it off as ironic. say the movie is amazing. it makes the experience a lot funnier and laid back.

I have wanted to organise film nights and themed meetups and competition meetups such as avi contests and s**t. I'm not a VC so I'd have to go through someone else to advertise them. And I'm in the future so that doesn't help...

I love the idea of films. I dunno how to use livestream but I'll learn.

I miss the art jams, I stopped doing them because I had a show on, but they were fun and really challenged me to actually pick up the pencils again and draw s**t.

I still like the towns visits... but yeah... it's no fun when no one else likes them. I do agree we should expand to more than just the usual onsite activities.

I would love to do film nights in which we dress the part for the film, that'd interest me greatly! Kinda like rocky horror where people theme dress.

livestream isnt something everyone downloads though! you can watch through a website, and only the person who streams downloas the webcasting program. so it's essentially just like VJ, except with a much better chat system and stuff.

and we may be a guild based on gaia, but the way i see it is that we're all bros. and bros dont just stay in one spot and stagnate. we can retain that we are gaians in other places (i wont though that s**t's embarrassing lmfao) but mainly i just want to do stuff as a group of friends, not a group of gaians. and as gaia stands now when it comes to group activities and stuff you can do in real time with other people, it's really lacking and really boring.

but idk that's just the way i see it! the reason why i proposed livestream sessions in the first place was so we werent tethered down by the outdated gaia features and stuff. and we can do so much more as a guild in other places than as a guild stuck on gaia.

I was just about to say that. Seriously, we talk constantly on Skype.

But people leave after a while D: