Champions United Rules, Limited Collector's Only Edition

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Taking nothing away from your totally unique thread here, this little coincidence just struck me as humorous.

"I'M THE TARGET! I'M THE TARGET! THE STALKER HAS SHARKS! AP...AP!!"
@Sepultura
‎'You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.'

Oh, usually when folks don't attribute a quote to someone else, it's because it's not a quote.

What show? Is there a show? And did you really just say bleep? Eh well, I didn't even know you were still around. Thanks for following me into a thread though, Showrunnerdoggdigghomie.

With all due respect, one is a Global Channel and the other is a Tournament League. It is .... well.... comparing Apples to Oranges.

I think the point to the humour of this thread is that where BMT is (or was) unnecessarily moderated, the CU Global Channel survives, and strives, without those limitation.

Oh, no doubt. It just seemed like a funny coincidence to me that both happened to be next to each other.

I'll admit that I didn't even know the CU channel still existed. I hadn't heard any mention of it since I returned (either in-game or on the forums), so I just assumed it had fallen out of favor (while some other channels had replaced it as favorites, such as the Trials channel or DGN).

As for its ability to survive under such conditions, I'm not surprised. I see it as a similar argument to the one Apple posed for years when comparing itself to Microsoft. Apple would point at Microsoft's issues with hacking and viruses and say, "Look how much safer our computer is. It never gets viruses," while the tech community would point out that the reason it never got viruses was because nobody gave a crap about Apple and they weren't the big kid in the neighborhood. When I was last here, CU was a fledgling startup borne from the anger of a single moderated SG leader who got mad that he wasn't allowed to be in charge of BMT (a mirror image of what happened with the Hami channel, if I recall correctly). He tried desperately to force his channel to catch on by attacking the rules, leadership, and approach of BMT, and with his SG-mates and a variety of others, it did. However, BMT remained the big kid in the neighborhood, though I can honestly say it doesn't matter to me what channel has what popularity since the point of all of this silliness is for folks to enjoy the game.

The rules that were decided upon for BMT were put in place simply to make the channel as welcoming to as large a segment of the population as possible. For comparison, I also ran Pingu chat, and its rules were far, far, far different, but such an atmosphere is by no means for everyone. Kinda of like how the Pingus' Pass the TO game isn't for everyone, eh Dinah? BMT was designed to be a family-friendly option to help folks with their quests to attain certain badges, monsters, and task forces while also doubling as a helpful landing ground for newer players. CU was built with a different goal in mind, much like Pingu chat, so comparing it to BMT is, as you so appropriately put it, quite like comparing apples to oranges. It never really made sense to me why people compared the two at all, since their reason for existence was quite different.

Now that I've learned that CU is still in existence, I'll happily recommend folks head over there if they are unhappy with the approach and design of BMT.

Currently I'm reading the "God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, so I see this as "Natural Selection". CU is a mutation of the BMT. Only time will tell .....

Not everyone left the channel due to such selfish reasons. Myself being a prime example.

If you really think this is an applicable analogy then you either a) don't understand the book or b) don't understand the channels.

Or maybe even c) both. Who knows?

(d) you don't understand my joke.

Except, I guess it seems odd to me to think of CU as a mutation of BMT. Sure, CU was borne from someone's distaste for BMT, but it was so radically different and served such an entirely different purpose that it would be kind of like saying a fire ant was a mutation of algae. They both have the same origin if you go far enough back, but they don't even share the same ecosystem at this point, so can they really be compared to one another? I mean, should the diet of one be compared to the diet of the other? Should the ecological purpose of the ant be compared to the ecological purpose of the algae? Should their niches be compared?

They have the same basic structure if viewed from afar (both comprised of the same basic elements and molecules, both inhabit the same general ecosystem known as Earth, etc.), but when one takes a moment to truly look at their nature and purpose, is there any reason for them to be compared and one to be declared better than the other? Both seem to excel in their given niche and serve their given purpose quite well. Both seem nigh useless if placed in the other's niche and forced to attempt to serve the other's given purpose (chlorophyll is one thing ants have yet to master, to my knowledge). Sometimes, comparisons are useless even if both objects came from the same source.

As Einstein said, "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

I apologize if I gave the impression that everyone that left BMT for CU did so for a selfish reason. Only the founder of CU left for the reason I stated. After that, many people shifted to CU simply due to its different nature and approach, which is a perfectly valid reason in my mind.

I don't feel the 2 are vastly as disconnected as your stating above. To me it is more like black ants vs. red ants. However, it was still just a joke.

Hm. Interesting. Comparison neither accurate enough to be reasonably considered satire nor absurd enough to be clearly facetious.

Perhaps only funny to Canadians. Defective humour gland? Bears investigation.

You go do that. Take your time.

I know right? It's so, so good :3

That's your opinion.

Some people actually appreciated that the channel was kept game-related.