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Congrats Tigers. Now I can be satisfied with whoever wins the world series.

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Try nearly the entire native population of the western hemisphere.

You're mistaking conquest for capitalism.

How about any and all (eastern) Indians who opposed British exploitation of their natural resources.

Same here. What does this have to do with capitalism? It's just conquest, which is not an economic philosophy.

How about the millions of African slaves who powered the early industrial revolution and the growth of sugar.

They didn't sell themselves into slavery, so again, not a product of capitalism. Other people forced them into slavery.

How about the Civil War that was certainly fought over two opposing capitalistic agendas(wage labor vs. slave labor).

You do both sides injustice with that statement. It's just so substantively wrong that I'm not sure where to start with this.

How about the native populations of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Ok, this one may be right. They wanted Communism, but we didn't want them to have it. But still, this is more about general war/geopolitics than economic theory.

How about the victims of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear attacks.

What? This has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism.

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Cloud
FFVII
Sephiroth
L-Block

So 3 out of 4. And L-Block type events put a lot of fear into us Zelda fans, so I'm not sure it matters that much that it was the product of a massive bandwagon.

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It really isn't. Link/Zelda have lost 4 out of 13 contests. That's almost a third.

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Because Sephiroth >>> Ganondorf, and Cloud/Seph is a better rivalry. It's pretty close to start, without Skyward Sword anyway.

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Double play.

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Crono/Lavos current percentage on Gordon/Breen: 63.78%
Tifa's percentage on Gordon (2010): 61.96%
Samus's percentage on Gordon (2008 R3 4-way): 66.16%
Vincent's percentage on Gordon (2008 R3 4-way): 63.03%
Vincent's percentage on Gordon (2008 R2 4-way): 62.05%

Assuming Lavos and Breen don't impact the match, Crono gets 52.39% on Tifa, 51.01%/52.28% on Vincent, and 46.71% on Samus. That's pretty good, especially as Vincent was stronger in 2008 than he is now.

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November 20 eh? Well that may throw a wrench in these Cloud/Sephiroth plans.....

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Anyways, I'd say to really think about whether you want a super urban environment before moving to NYC. I hated it, and with NYC, there's much less escape from it than with other cities. The metropolitan area is so large that it's quite difficult to get outside of it if you need to escape. In other cities like Boston, Seattle, or LA, you can go from the city center to relatively thinly populated suburbs in literally 10 minutes on the highway. You cannot do that in New York. Especially if you don't have a car, and you probably won't want one since it'd be excess baggage.

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Staten Island actually feels suburban/exurban. It's probably the closest place to NYC with that feel. But geographically it should be part of New Jersey, and it's not easy to get anywhere from there.

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You'll have a lot less space than in Tennessee. For the same actual quality of living, you can expect to pay far far more, and in many cases, it may not be possible at all (you simply can't get decent single family homes around NYC without a long long commute).

From cost of living calculators, Manhattan is about 25% more expensive than the other most expensive places to live in America (Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.), though the outer boroughs aren't as bad.

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It was a sunday, so there was no ASV. We started right in the middle of the day vote.

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There's bad with the day vote, and then there's bad enough that Crono will go up against you with the ASV. IIRC, Crono's only won the day vote twice in his entire contest career: against super frontloaded Snake in the 2008 final and Magus in 2004.

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Crono is holding up really well with the ASV. Maybe casual voters are less likely to consider rivalry considerations?

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Crono is over 57%, so he actually gained on Leon over the course of the night. He'll probably lose his standard 1% with the ASV soon, but an Ulti-style blowout is good enough considering the presence of Lavos here.

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Bingo. Kind of like me being forced to be happy every time the Yankees did something right down the stretch because I needed the Rays to lose games.

That's not really the same, because those games were meaningless for the Yankees. But good luck to Cliff Lee- you know, no player is obligated to play for the Yankees even if they offer him absurd amounts of money. You don't have a right to buy players.

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There are lots of CT fans who don't like Frog or Magus that much. This is clear from how much stronger Crono is than those two. It's not a slam dunk among fans who are voting based on rivalries, though Frog/Magus should have an advantage there. But they need a large advantage among those voters to win the match.

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He should be fine soon, I think this is right when Starcraft usually falls off a cliff.

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Just Lynx as Serge. He's so much better of a villain in Serge's body.

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The Miguel fight is one of the best scenes in video games.

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After watching some Chrono Cross videos, it's brought back memories and I've decided that Serge/Lynx is in fact an excellent rivalry.

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In which case it could have chosen any one of thousands of other routes. So why this one?

I mean, Serge/Lynx is a pretty good rivalry too. But Serge/FATE is an all-time top tier rivalry.

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The game gives a pretty clear reason why!

But in the grander scheme of things, why would the universe go down this route?

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The funny part was KCF voting it in the top 25 and anyone talking about it as a real contender.

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I don't like Lynx though. Of all things he could be......why a cat-human? It just pales in comparison to the awesome Serge/FATE rivalry.

Fate has no forgiveness for those who dare to defy it.

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I've actually never played MVP Baseball and only support it because KCF made it funny.

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Yes, noticeably easier.

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What do you mean? FATE is definitely a real rival, and a lot better than Lavos. Serge's real rival is of course lower case fate, and FATE is the physical embodiment of fate.

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SM: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the US Communist Party, or any other Communist Party?

JS: No.

SM: Are you now or have you ever been a member of any socialist party that disguises its true communist nature by using the weaker term socialist?

JS: No.

SM: Do you support communist policies?

JS: No.

SM: But you support government health care.

JS: Well, I think-

SM: Do you support Obamacare, yes or no?

JS: Yes, and-

SM: Then YOU ARE A COMMUNIST.

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Serge/FATE is better, IMO.

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That sounds a lot better. But I guess either way, Crono/anyone will get my vote.

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The last rule is stupid and unfair, because Smuffin would be substantively arguing that his opponent is a Communist.

And he'd do pretty well without that rule, by calling everything Jon Stewart said Communist propaganda.

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MPFC, so it's possible I wasn't getting the whole picture. It wasn't the arguments for him winning that made me angry though, but his character concept itself as described by people in the topic.

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Snake/Liquid would flatten all of them, except maybe Red/Blue if it catches the full power of RBY.

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Hard matches. I'd take Crono/Lavos in all of them of course, but if you're looking for something more objective......

Dante/Vergil vs. Crono/Lavos

I think Crono has this pretty safely. Dante/Vergil just aren't that strong, and the rivalry, while good, doesn't feel like it's going to add that many votes.

Sora/Riku vs. Crono/Lavos

Great day/night swings here, but I'd guess Crono beats Sora by enough that adding in Riku and Lavos isn't enough to swing this one. Maybe before last year, but KH looked really bad.

Ryu/Ken vs. Crono/Lavos

I'd be very nervous on this one. Ryu/Ken is iconic, and a better rivalry. Ken probably beats Lavos 1v1 too. Probably would lean towards Ryu/Ken if not for fanboyism actually.

Red/Blue vs. Crono/Lavos

Last year showed Red isn't strong, but this match feels like a proxy for RBY vs. CT, which is not a proxy I want. It might fit The Pokemon Craze vs. The Traditional Majority on Gamefaqs a bit better though, in which case CT is safe.

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I think one reason it offends me so much is that it reminds of some atheists who use similar methods to deny the existence of God.

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Having magic resistance simply because you don't believe in it. Requiring someone to prove that magic exists in order for it to work, and using doublethink methods to stop it. Worst concept ever.

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56.37% at the 1 hour mark. Calling the match.

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Battler's character causes revulsion to every fiber of my being (well that's exaggerating a bit). His ability is incredibly, amazingly, stupid.

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The nomination system on this one was so spotty that I think it's pretty fair to let vote-ins account for a large part of the field. You were forced to only nominate one rival for a character, which leads to serious disadvantages for characters with multiple possible rivals. Since each character can only appear once, that's a bad system. Knowing that Crono can only appear once, I would have nominated Crono/Magus and Crono/Lavos at least.

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55.38% 45 minutes in. Normally that would be enough, but with such low votals in a 12-way the variance should be higher, so let's give it a few more updates.

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Crono/Lavos

I'd sink as low as voting for Crono/Sonic if I had to! Maybe even Crono/Battler.........ugh, I might not be able to stomach that one.

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Carnegie understood that money is worthless unless spent. It's just paper if you don't spend it.

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Oh yeah, how could I forget that one?

Crono is falsely accused of crimes he didn't commit, and sentenced to death.

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Magus also shares a lot of similarities with Mohammed: ruler of the city of Medina, circa 600 AD, called The Prophet, fought Guardia, which is obviously based on Medieval Europe.

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It does match remarkably well though:

Crono receives gifts from 3 wise men from a kingdom with strong Persian influences on its design named Melchior, Belthasar, and Gaspar.
Crono sacrifices himself and is brought back to life.
Crono casts Luminaire, which is basically Holy, but more awesome. He also casts Life.
Crono does not have a father on earth.
Crono changes the destiny of mankind.
Crono has no character flaws.

Lavos controls human evolution and advancement.
Lavos is the enemy of mankind.
Lavos gets Zeal to falsely worship him.
etc

The biggest difference here is that the Entity/Crono are not omnipotent. Indeed they're evenly matched with Lavos.

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Basically:

Lavos represents Satan.
Crono represents Jesus.

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Mario/Crono > Cloud/Sephiroth you'd best believe it!

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If only..........

Mario/Crono would have been perfect. (And screw Mario/Sonic too if it stood in the way!)

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CT Spoilers

Magus acknowledges Crono in the game, definitely. Magus is the one who tells the party they might be able to bring Crono back to life.

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