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Donkey Kong vs. Donkey Kong

Rallies are bad when they help things I dislike and are good when they help things I like.

L-Block was funny as a one-off thing and it was kinda cool to see its natural strength change based on that performance. I'm fine with the Undertale rally because the fanbase was actually pretty cool about it, they were just passionate for the game and weren't really mean-spirited about it. It was fucking awesome watching Vivi of all characters get rallied to beat Mario. And of course Pokemon wrecking stuff is always hilarious to me.

The Draven stuff was very mean-spirited on the other hand, which took a bit of fun out of his meteoric rise, though Link/Draven/Shepard is still a god damn all-time classic for the insanity and drama it had. Likewise, I didn't really like Melee > CT mostly because it was the best CT looked in ages and it was probably the one chance it had to actually give OoT a good fight, but again, the actual match between the two was a fun one itself.

I don't think it's an either/or situation. You can like some rallies and dislike others. At the end of the day it's a dumb little popularity contest that only weird nerds like us are really passionate about. The people who voted for L-Block, Draven, and Undertale probably don't even remember them winning these contests like we still do.

At the end of the day, it's all moot because we're all going to die and our planet and history will be absorbed by the sun, and thus future civilizations will never get to witness the time Kuja lost to a giant hand, and in a way that's both depressing and comforting.

Hey!

Honestly the most most surprising thing is that I've had this account since 2009 considering how many accounts I've had banned before then.

God knows how much I disagree with this forum and the people here in so many aspects, yet I can still agree with everyone here that it's fun as hell to watch the contests unfold with all of you, as we're the only one who really enjoy just how crazy and fun these things can be.

God knows I've bitched about this forum, very numerous times, for years and years, but here I am, twenty fucking years later, still excited about the thought of yet another popularity contest of an increasingly-niche web site.

I also love all the weird shit that we'd root for as people who were invested in GameFAQs Contest Statistics. Like how everyone both celebrated Chester making it into a contest, both as an icon of a character developed by a fellow Board 8er, and also a character who would easily be the weakest entrant in the history of the contests

A lot of us are fucking weirdos, but god damn was it fun to be a weirdo here.

All the upsets own, even the ones against the characters I like. All the rallies own, even the ones against the characters I like. Because there are upsets and rallies that benefited characters and games I liked too, so it all evens out.

Like, I never would've believed there'd be a day where fucking Vivi, who I feel is one of the best-written characters of all time, would be able to upset god damn Mario, but it fucking happened.

I don't think a creative team is allowed to be creative in Activision-Blizzard.

Actually the craziest thing is that after twenty years I'm still excited to see another popularity contest happen on the fucking GameFAQs polls.

There's so much history to them at this point, and things change so much constantly that there's still an air of unpredictability to them. Like, who knew Zelda would go on such a tear in a contest? Or that after fifteen years we'd finally get closure on Cloud/Mario?

I also love all the insane character rivalries that occurred thanks to these contests.

Where else on the fucking internet where you see one of the most intense and treasured rivalries be between Mario and fucking Crono?

I'm pretty sure GameFAQs contests were one of the few things to make me give a shit about midnight and then kept me up for the next hour to track trends to see if my favorite characters could create/maintain an upset.

I can't remember the last time I stayed up past midnight in the past few years.

I think the most shocking thing is that after twenty years I still have the mind to post here (even though I didn't really post here until 2003, but I did lurk in 2002).

Diversity is the guy from Three Dog Nights splitting his dick open in two from fucking too much. Lets him bang two groupies at once!

I'm doing great, honestly. I haven't really posted here much since the last contest, but I'm a home-owner, I'm a Something Awful moderator for the third time, and overall life is chill and relaxing with no real drama. My life is boring, but I'm certainly not complaining.

My best contest result was 2013 where I actually did a fuckload of analysis from previous contests and nailed some predictions like Pikachu kicking ass and Charizard being a fraud, and I still came in tied for second in the Guru and was nowhere close to a prize. Oh well, I'll take it.

I remember losing internet access for awhile and then finding out Weighted Companion Cube beat Tidus and I actually got on the Top 50 leaderboard for the first time.

I remember going to my high school's library and finding out Mario barely beat out Crono in the 2003 contest.

Twenty Fucking Years of this shit.

Twenty God Damn Years.

Hello.

Bobby Kotick is an analytical tool.

My dick is a diversity tool, I'll put it into anything.

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