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checks date of Google doc

2018? Sweet Jesus.

Ahem! Back in 2018, I opened a nomination topic for ranking user-nominated "finishing moves" from across all media. I then, in typical trdl fashion, watched all 65 of these things, ranked them, started writeups, and... fucked off, I guess? I don't even remember.

However, this time I will right what once went wrong! Especially since the hard part's already done for me. I'm going to be using my original rankings as in the document I found, but I'll provide commentary if my tastes have changed since then.

The criteria:

All finishing moves have been given a rating from 1 to 10 across the following three categories:

Aesthetics: How cool does it look? How much spectacle does the move evoke, or what does it express? This doesn't mean it has to be complex, but if it's simple, the simplicity needs to carry weight; similarly, complexity for complexity's sake is not looked kindly upon.

Dominance: A finishing move is the punctuation on the end of a sentence, and it should damn well feel like it. How does the move convey the user's domination over the recipient?

Damn: There are some qualities of a good finisher that are intangible. This is the catch-all for them: specifically, how likely is the move to make me say "Damn!" once it's over?

In the event of a tie, the higher score in "Damn" is ranked higher.

Not going to shoot for a number of posts per day since we all know how whimsical I'll be on that, but damn it, this is getting done.

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