Lurker > red sox 777

CT 1st, RBY 2nd, SMB3 3rd, SSBM 4th, OOT 5th, SM64 6th, SMW 7th, PW 8th is what I was thinking.

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Never ever. If Melee holds on here, I'm voting it.......probably #4 next week.

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For this topic, God can be whatever you imagine him to be. There'll be another topic, "Are you a Christian?" after this one.

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You've been to a selection of very high quality states (sans Florida), so it's natural that you might think Oregon bad based on that, but I assure you, there are far far worse states.

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So if Melee beats Mario 64, how many of us are willing to put it back in the top 5?

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Cave Story (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference)
#18 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Nintendo Objections Conference)
Dynasty Warriors 4 (Metroid Eater Conference)
#25 Final Fantasy VII (Fanservice Conference)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Smash Trigger Conference)
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference)
MVP Baseball 2005 (Metroid Eater Conference)
#24 Mega Man 2 (Zelda Overload Conference)
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Metroid Eater Conference)
No More Heroes (Tanooki Blitzball Conference)
Earthbound (Games of the Decades Conference)
Skies of Arcadia (Tanooki Blitzball Conference)
#12 Super Smash Bros. Melee (Fanservice Conference)

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Time for Brawl to get what's coming to it!

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Almost all the strong games are Nintendo! See what this tournament would be without Chrono Trigger!

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Looks like CT and RBY are tied one vote behind SM64 right now. Why didn't I vote OOT number 2 like I did the last 2 weeks?

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1. Chrono Trigger
2. Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
3. Super Mario 64
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5. Super Mario Bros. 3
6. Super Mario World
7. Super Smash Bros. Melee
8. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
9. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
10. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
11. Resident Evil 4
12. Super Metroid
13. Paper Mario
14. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations
15. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
16. Metroid Prime
17. Final Fantasy X
18. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
19. Metal Gear Solid
20. Final Fantasy IX
21. Super Mario Galaxy 2
22. Super Mario Galaxy
23. Final Fantasy VII
24. Final Fantasy VI
25. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

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Ugh Brawl and TP in the finals, that would signal that it's about time to leave this board. I think we need another round of OOT vs. FFVII, and Link vs. Cloud, for the site contests. In fact, why not have an all Nintendo/Square contest? That way we can throw out all the boring (read: non-Nintendo/Square) characters.

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The haterbase isn't even loud. There's just lukewarm love for those games among a lot of people. Long live the silent majority.

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SOTN gets another unwinnable match. This is 3 top 10 games it's faced in 7 matches!

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Metroid Eater Conference)
#6 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Metroid Eater Conference)
#7 Super Mario Bros. 3 (Tanooki Blitzball Conference)
Elite Beat Agents (Nintendo Objections Conference)
Assassin's Creed II (Patriot Time Portals Conference)
Donkey Kong Country (Zelda Overload Conference)
#10 Super Metroid (Nintendo Objections Conference)
Crash Bandicoot: Warped (Metroid Eater Conference)
#20 Super Mario Galaxy (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference)
#9 Resident Evil 4 (Smackdown Hotel Conference)
Team Fortress 2 (Brawl for Broke Conference)
Suikoden III (Fanservice Conference)
Grim Fandango (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference)
Burnout 3: Takedown (Smash Trigger Conference)

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Agree, seeing the world in black and white is a bad viewpoint. But I think the jedi see the world in black and white, not the sith.

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Muffin sees the world in black and white. There's us, and there's them. If you're not with us, then you're against us, and if you don't agree with "us" then you must be against us.

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Words can acquire new meanings.

Communism = Everything that is wrong in the world.

Communist = Someone who supports Communism.

As George Bush said in 2000: "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and China's conversion to capitalism in everything but name, communism had to take on a new meaning or else become irrelevant. And we can't just retire a word that had represented the national enemy for 50 years that easily!

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That's true too. I'm not saying it isn't, just that statement is factually not terribly controversial or absurd.

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But you're far less likely to die from lynch mob in early 20th century America than from disease/lack of medical care/lion/etc in a Stone Age community in Africa (I'm assuming that by "jungle" he meant a Stone Age community and not a more advanced civilization). It's not just about the way you die, you also have perhaps double the life expectancy. How much would you give to live twice as long?

I'll admit I don't have much first hand knowledge of what most black people would actually choose.

I mean, it was a bad comparison because it didn't have any bearing on the question. Of course 20th century America has a higher standard of living than Stone Age Africa. We don't need capitalism to explain that.

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Um, of all the things he said, that was one of the least controversial. The test for which is better is pretty simple: ask people which they would choose. Very few people are going to choose the African "jungle."

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If you were to make a graph showing the average human standard of living and also plot the overall value and respect for property rights, I'm guessing they'd be practically the same line, a steady trend uphill until around the 1920s when the progressives came in and absolutely wrecked everything. Perhaps you believe those two things are totally unrelated and its all a massive coincidence. I do not.

For standard of living, it would be a line trending very very slowly uphill until around 1800, with major setbacks (standard of living in the Roman Empire was better than it was for hundreds of years afterwards), and then rapidly and steadily uphill after 1800. No, it did not stop its ferocious uphill climb after the 1930s.

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Not much love for Harvard in this thread!

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I voted for MVP Baseball just because of your ranking it at 25!

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Let's go FFVI. Time to end Mario's reign of dominance!

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Board 8 is not attaching very much value to prestige, I see.

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Let's assume that it would all be borrowed money. If you were just starting college, how much more money would you pay to go to Harvard, or a peer school like Yale and Stanford, over:

1. Elite schools like Columbia, Dartmouth, and Chicago
2. Very good public schools like Berkeley, UCLA, and Virginia
3. Good private schools like NYU and Boston College
4. Less prestigious local state schools, or less prestigious private schools.
5. Schools with bad reputations for academics.
6. Community college.
7. No college.

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Only when someone won't share with them.

But ask them to share with someone else, and you'll get a different story!

Actually, my experience has been that most children do not complain that others won't share with them. They complain that their parents won't buy them the things the other child's parents bought. Children are generally aware of the property rights of the other child; but they feel they deserve the same, so they demand it from their parents.

Children also protest that it's not fair when they are forced to share with others. And they are quite right in that scenario.

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I don't really want a new FFP, I just want the 2003 FFP to be finished. It's 3 matches away......talk about a cliffhanger ending.

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If it's not a top 25 or so school, taking 200k+ in loans really is a bad investment. Of course you should by all means try to get a degree in a way that puts you in less debt.

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We really need to stop forcing children to "share" things in kindergarten/elementary school. I'm not sure that it's natural though.....it could also be learned very very early on from our culture, which is very much about ownership.

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For Snake/Batman, I'm not saying that you can use "he'll think of something" as a blanket argument, just that you need to believe that he could find something (and a route to victory exists) that you're not seeing.

Actually, MPFC is badly named. "Most Powerful Fictional Character" on its face implies who could win in a fight, not who will win in a fight.

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I would prefer a contest more focused on power, actually (since it's true that so many of the powerful characters are terribly written). For someone like Snake, though, it's totally legitimate to argue: he would think of something. Snake is supposed to be smarter than most of us are, he's supposed to be able to think of things that most of us can't.

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If a game faces only weak games, then I have to continue giving a lot of weight to my preseason estimation of that game's strength.

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But it's so much more fun making risky picks that go against the board consensus than picking the board consensus! Memo to self: don't make any picks more than 6 points off the consensus next contest.

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Oracle > Guru, yes.

The only problem with the Oracle is that it rewards consistency more than anything else. It's a better to make 10 decent picks than 9 great picks and 1 terrible pick.

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49. solarshadow's Contest Stats and Discussion: I've been a part of a few subgroups on B8, and the stats topic has been one of the most unfriendly of the lot. I've never been the best with stats, and I remember people (especially the 'legendary' creativename) flat-out insulting me when I asked noobish questions. That obviously doesn't reflect on everyone: a lot of the regulars are quite welcoming, but I got severely turned off by that experience. Apart from that, it seems like the stats topic is prone to overexaggeration (see people calling a match within the first 15 minutes) and heavy reliance on numbers (see the entire 'lol xstats' meme). It deserves a fair bit of credit for being probably the longest-running, most successful thing in B8 history.

I'm sorry to hear that we were unfriendly. I think the topic is usually quite nice outside of debates like Mario/Samus and Melee/Brawl, where the debates were centered on "common sense" instead of stats and past contest results. The nice thing about numbers is that no one is going to proclaim a match obvious based on the numbers unless it truly is obvious, whereas with "common sense," people will disagree and mock the other side as stupid for missing something they claim was patently obvious.

I think the overexaggeration/calling matches early thing is a bit of a joke now, or at least I hope it is. Then again, now that I think about it.....probably it's not for half the people posting in the topic.

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How is creativename's poll updater so low? That's like, the most useful Board 8 project ever.

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