Geek_Boy

I didn't vote for my own arc and if I had, my math says I would have taken second place in my category. I just thought that anachrodragon's arc fit the description better than my own did. No gaming the system or anything else. I know I'm not being accused of it, but I wanted to point out that it shouldn't be assumed that someone will always vote for themselves. If there hadn't been a second place option, I still woudn't have voted for myself.

Personally, I don't like the two votes per category system and think fewer nominees would do us some good. It would mean more time spent getting the nominations ironed out, but would make it a lot more likely we would all have time to run all the arcs in a given category.

Any way you slice it, I'm glad this happened and Bubbawheat is awesome for taking the time to put it together. Congrats to everyone nominated!

More hilarious anonymous negative rep:

"The fact that men consistently deny sexism is something that is frequently discussed in women's studies courses. Perhaps you need to broaden *your* understanding. You're also engaging in exactly the behavior described in the rep you quoted."

So because I called someone out for something sexist (which got me the original -rep) and pointed out the absurdity of women being the only judges of what is sexist and what isn't (-rep number two), I'm denying sexism?

Good grief. I'm the guy who refuses to buy anything Barbie related for my nieces because I'm uncomfortable with the imagery the franchise represents, but someone on the internet who isn't brave enough to actually discuss this in the open thinks I'm sexist!

I'm sorry, but if you think that because someone has a y chromosome they are incapable of seeing that something is blatanlty sexist you're being . . . well, to be polite I'll say myopic. Since I know there are plenty of women who want to argue things like "porn is art and the women are being empowered, not victimized, objectified and marginalized," just because someone with two x chromosomes says it isn't sexist doesn't make it so.

If I have a black friend tell me it's okay to wear a white hood and carry a burning cross through downtown Detroit at midnight because they don't happen to think that it's racist imagery, do you think I can get by with it? I mean, since I'm white I have no ability to judge for myself and as long as one black person thinks it isn't racist then it isn't, right? Same logic as assuming that because some woman somewhere doesn't think something is sexist, I'm too dumb and white and male to have an opinion on the matter.

I love negative rep that makes no sense like this. Taking it to PM's with whoever this is would be a good time too, but the negative rep is like a Chrismas present. I just click that User CP button every so often and get the most wonderful surprises. I really dislike my job and love having the distraction every so often. Please. Keep it up.

My prediction for my next -rep? Someone will say something anti-semitic and after I point it out I'll be called a Nazi because I don't know anything about anti-semitism since I'm not Jewish.

This is probably the recent Dev's Choice that I've heard the most good things about. I'll have to give this one a try.

What's this? Venture has another oddball opinion and won't listen to reason? Why I never!

This is the guy who argued that time travel could never be used well in any story and used a quote of me saying I had read his review threads as "proof" that I hadn't read his review threads.

Stay classy, Venture. These boards wouldn't be the same without the unique entertainment you provide.

I think this is a fantastic addition and will use it to not only round out custom groups (because more variety in the models that players see [even if there's no variation in the powers the individual mobs have] is always a good thing) and fill in some of the text I had to edit out on a few of my arcs. At least one is probably only around 60% and will never need to be more than that, but Speeding Through Time and Comics 101 are right at 99.something% and can use all the extra wiggle room I can get.

I don't necessarily see me using all 200 KB, but it always seemed to me like 110 KB was my sweet spot, so having even just a little extra room will be great.

This slew of posts with people getting pleasant surprises in their inboxes makes me smile. I like to think that this is what any rewards event is all about. Thanks again for putting this together, bubba!

Whoever left me this gem: "If men were the final authority on what's sexist against women, then nothing would ever be considered sexist unless it hurt a man's feelings. Yes, women are better judges of what's sexist against us than men."

Thank you so much for brightening my day with your hilariously narrow worldview. Go take a womens' studies course or read Female Chauvinist Pigs. Your views of what feminism and sexism are need broadened.

For me, this is what neg rep is all about. People who are too cowardly to actually discuss something (usually because they don't know what they're talking about) trying to troll others. I get to read these little nuggets they usually wouldn't have the gall to try and pass off in an actual conversation. It's a fun game within a game within a game.

Neg rep doesn't hurt you and pos rep doesn't do anything for you, either. They are meaningless green and red dots on an internet forum that could be completely wiped when you wake up tomorrow morning. They hold less meaning than ant farts on a windy day. If you spend more than three seconds of your entire life worrying about your rep on these forums, then you need to re-prioritize.

Turning off the rep system isn't worth the time the mods would have to take to do it. Finding the couple of morons who are dumb enough to break forum rules with them (and remember: just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they're breaking any rules) isn't exactly time consuming, so let us have our fun.

Some of my favorite things I've ever read on these forums have been -rep comments I've gotten. Being told that I shouldn't resort to insults on posts where people are calling me names and I'm trying to be civil, having someone say that only women can decide what is and isn't sexist (I'm giong to try that with some of my black and gay friends and see if I can guess what they'll find offensive), and other such tomfoolery has absolutely made my day when I've read them.

And if your thread is at a 1 star with lots of votes, it's because a lot of people didn't like it. You can only vote for a thread once (unless you're changing your rating). Trust me. I've tried.

What's that!? Venture won't listen to fact!? WHAT A SHOCK!!!!!

Here, Venture. Let me give you an entire internet that proves you wrong. Your views on the average comics buyer haven't been right for longer than I've been alive. Since I'm 31, that's really sad.

When you're not being blatantly myopic, you're being purposely obtuse. The Silver Age was the end of the "comics are just for kids" age. I used Gwen Stacy as my ending for the Silver Age because, well, basically everyone says that the Silver Age ended when she died. You want to read that as "someone died, so I think they're more mature" when I never even intimated anything remotely similar to that viewpoint. The subject matter isn't what caused them to start being bought by more adults and fewer children, it was the other way around.

From the Bronze Age on, the demographics for the average comic book reader skewed older and older. This isn't opinion or suspicion or anything but truth. If you think otherwise, then you must have never been to a comic book shop or convention. I mean, other than on the nights when they're running Pokemon tournaments in the back. I know that's the only time I see anyone who isn't thinning a bit on top in there.

The fact that you completely and totally ignored my comments about underground comics is entirely predictable and typical.

I'll do you one better:

Comics stopped being "for kids" when Gwen Stacy's neck snapped. At that exact moment the Silver Age ended and any perception of comic books being cheap, disposable entertainment for children stopped being valid.

About the same time you also had the underground movement really getting into it's stride, further muddying that vision of the medium.

I'm not comparing the average issue of Green Lantern to War and Peace or anything, but kiddie fare it aint (and hasn't been for longer than the average poster on this forum has been alive).

I know I didn't do myself any favors voting myself second place, but I like anacrhrodragon's better and it won't hurt my feelings to lose. Especially if it's to an arc that I think exemplifies the category in question better than mine does.

A lot of people seem to think that we're still in the 1960's when it comes to comics. The audience has gotten progressively older over the last 50 years to the point that you rarely see kids with a comic in their hand nowadays. They've been sold almost exclusively in specialty shops for around 20 years now. How many kids spend a lot of time in non-chain specialty shops of any kind?

To say that sexism in comics is forgivable because it's written for adolescents requires sticking your head in the sand on several counts.

I would absolutely love an explanation, too. Especially since at least one of the arcs (I haven't played all of them) breaks rules that are in the "How to make dev's choice" thread. I'm just not sure how that works.

It depends what your goals are, Two Flower. If you're trying to create something you enjoy and aren't concerned with how it's received, then more power to you. At least one of my arcs is completely and totally written that way and I feel it's a perfectly valid thing to do.

If you're trying to thrust it into the "mainstream," then you need to take other peoples' opinions into account. The general audience is going to expect x, y, and z and you're going to have a really hard time being taken seriously if you don't acknowledge that. I'm sure you and I can both point out some artists from all sorts of media that have defied that, but they're the exception, not the rule.

Most of the nominees that I've played have been good at least with one winner being one of my favorite arcs and one being the most poorly constructed, over-wrought and generally eye-rolling arcs that I've played (at least partially because the idea was good and it was the execution that tied it up out back and killed it).

I sort of sit back and go, "Yeah, okay, sure, WHAT!? Are you kidding me!?"

I'm going to be sure that all of my arcs from now on have over-emoting female characters who use sexist imagery to tell stories that should have been good. Also, I'm going to assume the people playing my arc are stupid and hold their hands because no one is capable of putting 2 and 2 together without being hinted that it's 4 at least 30 times.

Or I guess I could try to be awesome like Blight, but since I have joked with Witch_Engine that our villain groups (created at roughly the same time and independent of each other) are virtually identical. Maybe I should have submitted for that category . . .

Best use of Mechanics

First place - The Next War on Drugs #245042 @arachnodragon
Second place - Speeding Through Time # 51728 @Geek_Boy

That's right: I couldn't help but vote for my own, but I actually think anarchrodragon's arc does neater things than mine does.

Awesome to be nominated, though! Thanks, judges!