Jail_Bird
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Quote:Me too, but I'm distressed that all of the "Recommendations for DC" threads are gone.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
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My vote: The Prisoner
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Brisco beat Kolchak? Wow.... I really don't know what more to say.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Lazarus
Even longer if you count in cooldown time. A person can re-rate an arc and give the author tickets only, what, every 3-4 days? Even if it increased the total number of rates, that'd still be a long time for a small number of people to try and drive a single arc up to HoF.
I think it's 48 hours, but still more than long enough. -
My votes are:
1. The Prisoner
2. Kolchak: The Night Stalker -
My votes:
1. The Prisoner
2. Kolchak: the Night Stalker
3. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
4. Dollhouse -
My votes:
1. The Prisoner
2. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
3. Firefly
4. Kolchak: the Night Stalker
5. Dollhouse
6. Threshold
7. The Honeymooners
8. Police Squad! -
Quote:What!?!Originally Posted by blood spectre
how can you pick the honeymooners? That show was terrible! Gah.
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1. Kindred the Embraced
2. Flashforward
3. The Prisoner
4. Eerie, Indiana
5. The Dresden Files
6. Dead at 21
7. Brisco County Jr.
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Quote:There were finalists?Originally Posted by Lazarus
What about all those Finalists from the 1st Architect Awards? That pretty much ended up being the silver medal where nobody remembers you at all, especially since there was no special category given or actual promotion for it. There was no point in even announcing them really.
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Quote:I see your point. To be fair GASOTPS (wow!) was made after the official awards and I don't think it qualified to be nominated in any of the PC Awards run since it was created. Wait, just checked and I take that back. It's contact was nominated and won the PC in December. The other two, Best New Author and Short Arcs it did not quailify for nomination.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
"Golden Age" is newer and hasn't received as much attention. It wasn't nominated for player's choice awards, and the official contest, and isn't being recommended left right and center, because not as many people have played it. It's an excellent arc, and if it had been published in the early days of MA it might be in the same boat as "Teen Phalanx," but for the purposes of this discussion all it does it highlight the lowered interest in AE.
A non-challenge DC? Jeez six, seven months, maybe more?Quote:I'd settle for the rate of HoF approaching the rate of DC. Now that I think of it though, when was the last time we got a DC that wasn't the winner or runner-up of an Aeon's challenge? -
Quote:The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society is in the same category in my book. I have recommended it for DC in the new thread along with several other people, but I don't think anyone is monitoring that or they don't have the time to play the arcs listed there. That's another good reason to adjust Hall Of Fame down.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
This. If this isn't a prime example of an arc that belongs in the Hall of Fame I don't know what is.
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Quote:This one gets my vote!Originally Posted by Wrong_Number
- The Miss Jersey Task Force MJ is away from New Jersey for a week and you get to fill in facing all the threats she normally would. Featuring villains like the Toll-Bot 3000, Toxic Waste and others. -
Quote:That's not what he's saying. What DM said is that to write a review of something that you knowingly don't like is rude. For myself, I personnally don't like tv medical shows. So, for me to write a review of a Grey's Anatomy where I describe the show as a turgid snorefest and amend it with the statement that I don't like tv medical dramas would, according to DM, be rude. I don't know that I would consider that rude but, it certainly does pass my definition of trolling.Originally Posted by LaserJesus
So wait, it's exceedingly rude to say that you don't like something?
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Quote:If this were the case, and I have no idea whether it was or not, then I would find it odd that he would choose the one arc of hers on a topic he knows he doesn't like to review.Originally Posted by PoliceWoman
Based on the timing, my conjecture is that he was responding to this request to play some of @Wrong Number's arcs.
...and if Venture had actually done this the rest of your statement would mean something.Quote:Bear in mind that playing through someone's story arc and writing up a detailed critique is actually quite a large time investment. -
Let me kick off this thread by suggesting:
The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society Arc#344596 by @Wrong Number. -
Today is the birthday of one of the Grand Ladies of MA (and my wife), Wrong Number.
For all the effort and work that Wrong Number puts into MA like creating/promoting the MA Arc Finder, the MA Super Team, MA related P.E.R.C. events, her reviews and all the other stuff plus, being a super nice person why not give her a birthday gift of playing one of her arcs? I know it would make her day. Happy Birthday love!
Here is a list of her arcs I cut and pasted from her .sig:
2220 Trademark Infringement Save Paragon City from being sued out of existence!
84420 Death to Disco! 2009 AE Awards Nominee Best Original Story
2019 Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! Solve a beloved kids TV hosts disappearance.
259920 In Poor Taste 2009 Player's Choice Winner Best Comedy
344596 The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society - Drama, 5th Column, WW2 -
My nomination for best new arc:
#346904
Against the WickerWork Khan!
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I want to say I'm surprised that anyone noticed the cryptic reference for my thread title. It was meant to add a little levity to the thread as I am a fan of Swift's dark sense of humor. However, I am completely serious about the farm situation. I don't know whether the devs have truly reversed their opinion on the issue or whether they no longer have the motivation to shut down the farms, but the end result is the same in that it sends the message that they are currently ok with current level of farming in MA. To be honest, I genuinely don't care what the non-story tag name is, I just want one to exist so I can avoid the content.
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Since it seems that farms are now accepted by the devs as a legitimate uses of MA, given the prevalence of them now, I would like to make the following request. I would very much appreciate a Farm tag added to the list of mission descriptions. That would make it easier for those of us who are not interested in this use of MA, as well as those who are, to make better use of the system.
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Quote:While I am glad that you enjoyed the arc and am flattered by the nomination, I am unfortunately most likely ineligable for the nomination because I, in fact, have four published arcs.Originally Posted by ArrowRose
I'd like to nominate @Jail.Bird, author of The New Paragon Society Reborn (arc id 355351), for "Best Unknown Author". At this time he has 2 arcs with a total of 19 plays.
355351 - The New Paragon Society Reborn
356773 - The New Paragon Society Reborn - Conclusion
115846 - The Spider and the Fox
81318 - Old Dog, New Trick
What is confusing is that the last arc is published on my second account (the first version of K 10 is on this account on Justice, hence the arc appearing there). Thank you for the nomination, however. It is very much appreciated. -
What you are all not getting is that knocking an arc from 5 stars basically condemns the arc to never being played again. The irony of this is that we are left with a large percentage of five star arcs that are ticket farming missions (one of them was actually bold enough to announce it in their briefing dialogue). So, as the system stands at the moment, rating an arc less than five stars is basically saying it is worse than a farm.
How I rate arcs is something I developed awhile back based on my concern over this happening. I pretty much rate everything that makes an attempt at telling a story 5 stars.
This is by far the largest percentage of ratings that I hand out. My second largest rating, as a result of the farms becoming so commonplace in the 5 star ratings, is to one star the arc and report it as a farm. The last two ratings I hand out are 1 star, literally for an arc I would never like to see played again or no rating for obvious works in progress. To date, I can still count on two hands the number of story arcs I have given a 1 star to. -
My votes for the Best Custom Characters are:
2) Wrong Number's The Firecracker Kid
3) Fem Fury's Erica Lashion, aka Escalation -
Quote:No, she has never said that. Her argument consistently has been that this is not even close to a reasonable example of it. This, as you have admitted yourself, was the most reasonable solution under the circumstances to force a surrender. As such, it falls far short of the criteria of being evil for the greater good.Originally Posted by StratoNexus
Is your argument simply that there cannot be "evil" for the greater good?
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My votes for Best Custom Group are:
1) Wrong Number's The Wannabes
2) Bubbawheat's Matchstick Women
3) Poptarts Ninja's Space Ape Armada
Clave Dark 5's WickerWork gets an honorable mention as my valueless fourth place vote. I loved the whole idea and the tie-in to the CoH canon.
I also wanted to comment on Laser Jesus's Freedom Militia as I thought the arc was great in that it is pretty much the first time I genuinely felt like a comic book villain. As strong as some of the CoV content is, the devs could definitely learn a lot from playing this arc. The reason I didn't vote the Freedom Militia is that there bios fall into the standard trap of "my powers = my bio". Sorry, but that really turns me off.
My character vote will be following soon but, I just wanted to comment on rule five (the you don't get a first place vote if you're nominated thing). Had I known that this would be the rule going into this process I would have insisted that K 10's nomination be pulled as I feel that no nomination is worth me losing three points of voting power.