Board 8 > The Zen Contest Highlights 2: a hate in time

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ZenOfThunder
04/27/20 8:44:04 AM
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Do you ever wonder how long a decade is? Why we don't split this contest up by genre? Why there are only 4 games in the entire bracket and why is one of them Monster Hunter World? WHERE'S MINECRAFT?

Welcome to your personal hell. Join me as we travel through the depths of Reddit (and sometimes other sites!) to find failed rallies, moderately successful rallies, and, most importantly, r/futanari rallies.

Oh, and I still post things from the Discord and the Board itself. Help me do that! I can't be everywhere at once. I'm "essential" so I am working until I die.

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(Previous topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78404509)

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hylianknight3
04/27/20 8:45:54 AM
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A+ Zentro

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ZenOfThunder
04/27/20 8:56:21 AM
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Reposting this from the end of the last topic to get this one started off right

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hylianknight3
04/27/20 8:57:00 AM
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DS_1700 did nothing wrong.

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Whiskey_Nick
04/27/20 8:58:47 AM
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I still hate gamers

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Safer_777
04/27/20 9:00:53 AM
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Hentai!

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Lightning Strikes
04/27/20 9:02:02 AM
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ZenOfThunder posted...


Reposting this from the end of the last topic to get this one started off right

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Kira_Amaya
04/27/20 9:05:43 AM
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Lightning Strikes posted...
escaletedquickly.jpg
that guy frequents various drug related subreddits such as r/weed, r/heroin and r/benzodiazepines so yeah he's probably a bit unstable.

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Arti
04/27/20 9:11:21 AM
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Whiskey_Nick posted...
I still hate gamers


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LeonhartFour
04/27/20 10:07:19 AM
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hylianknight3
04/27/20 10:29:14 AM
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hylianknight3
04/27/20 10:45:15 AM
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hylianknight3
04/27/20 10:56:47 AM
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I am always on pins and needles waiting to see who wins the GOTY Award for Best Children's Game.

Also, trash garbage is far and away my favorite type of garbage.

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ZenOfThunder
04/27/20 10:56:59 AM
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LeonhartFour posted...
The quest for dead last in the X-Stats!

For Division 1: Breath of the Wild needs at least 74.08% on Dragon Quest XI for Trails in the Sky SC to finish last for the division; otherwise, it's What Remains of Edith Finch

For Division 2: Resident Evil 2 needs at least 65.45% on Mass Effect 2 for Fortnite to finish last; otherwise, it's INSIDE

For Division 3: Super Mario Odyssey needs at least 53.14% on Smash Ultimate for Dota 2 to finish last; otherwise it's Mortal Kombat 11

For Division 4: Persona 4 Golden needs at least 52.97% on Xenoblade for Splatoon 2 to finish last; otherwise, it's Baba Is You

For Division 5: The Witcher 3 needs at least 66.68% on God of War for The Talos Principle to finish last; otherwise it's Return of the Obra Dinn

For Division 6: Persona 5 needs at least 59.50% on Portal 2 for Dying Light to finish last; otherwise it's Slay the Spire

For Division 7: Dark Souls needs at least 60.91% on The Last of Us for Crusader Kings II to finish last; otherwise it's The Witness

For Division 8 (at the moment): Skyrim needs at least 55.65% on Pokemon for Night in the Woods to finish last; otherwise it's Subnautica


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Lightning Strikes
04/27/20 11:02:30 AM
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Hm I see "meme game" now just means "game other people like that I don't".

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swirIdude
04/27/20 11:11:56 AM
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"unpopularity contest".

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ZenOfThunder
04/27/20 1:09:15 PM
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ZenOfThunder
04/27/20 4:42:00 PM
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XIII_rocks
04/27/20 5:50:31 PM
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It's so weird to still see people dismissing Nintendo stuff as "the dumb kiddie game" unironically. I kinda naively thought people moved on from that.

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swirIdude
04/27/20 5:51:03 PM
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XIII_rocks posted...
It's so weird to still see people dismissing Nintendo stuff as "the dumb kiddie game" unironically. I kinda naively thought people moved on from that.

This board is vastly different than the rest of the site.

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XIII_rocks
04/27/20 6:47:43 PM
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swirIdude posted...
This board is vastly different than the rest of the site.

Oh yeah I'm very aware
Just that specifically. It's such a like mid-00s criticism

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ZenOfThunder
04/28/20 11:41:32 AM
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ZenOfThunder
04/28/20 11:42:46 AM
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KamikazePotato posted...
Fun with numbers:

If you set Three Houses = Red Dead Redemption 2015 and assume that Xenoblade didn't SFF it, 2020 Xenoblade gets about 61% on 2015 Xenoblade.

Assuming a constant MGS5, 2020 Dark Souls gets about 59% on 2015 Dark Souls.

If you account for the rally and assume Bloodborne gets about 55% on Awakening this year, then 2020 Bloodborne gets about 58.5% on 2015 Bloodborne.

The Last of Us, despite poor Round 1/2 showings, did slightly better against Arkham City than 2015 projections, implying it hasn't dropped in strength.


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ZenOfThunder
04/28/20 2:08:56 PM
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transience posted...
who wants votals? bet you didn't see Fallout NV/Dark Souls 3 being the highest votal match so far.



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hylianknight3
04/28/20 3:10:22 PM
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SecretSquirrel, please come collect your brother!

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ZeldaTPLink
04/28/20 3:13:28 PM
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Someone ask this man what the ridiculous results are, I think the joke is incomplete if we don't know.
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_SecretSquirrel
04/28/20 3:45:18 PM
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hylianknight3 posted...


SecretSquirrel, please come collect your brother!
I'm an only child.

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hylianknight3
04/29/20 8:35:55 AM
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My main takeaway from this topic is that users on the Switch board are incredibly thirsty!





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hylianknight3
04/29/20 8:43:04 AM
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But not everyone is feeling it:




More votes!




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hylianknight3
04/29/20 8:46:53 AM
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I din't know HGSS is the most overarted game, but what does Boobtubenoob have to say about it?



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hylianknight3
04/29/20 9:13:59 AM
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At last somebody points out that there is an awful lot of angst on the Switch board over a poll without a Switch game in it!








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BlAcK TuRtLe
04/29/20 9:17:33 AM
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I must say, reddit's complete inability to comprehend a simple single elimination bracket system, and their insistence that all decades have to be based on arbitrarily starting in the year 1AD has been the highlight of the contest.

What is it about that site that makes the users such pedantic assholes?

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hylianknight3
04/29/20 9:35:30 AM
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I will never forget when BGE Champion Cory in the House carved a swath of salty buttdevastation across this board and buttliquidated the last restaints of my bracket. It was almost as bad as a leddit raid!




Before this contest loses all credibility, Allen needs to investigate the multiple accounts and what not!

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hylianknight3
04/29/20 9:36:41 AM
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Final thoughts:



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charmander6000
04/29/20 10:04:22 AM
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I always found it weird that outsiders think most of these results are a "GameFAQs only" thing. Outside of a few close matches flipping the only major differences I see are games like Fortnite or Dota 2 having strength (and even then it depends on the site) and Uncharted 4 defeating Mario Kart 8.

The biggest difference would be Division 4 with Persona 4 losing to Red Dead Redemption and Overwatch defeating Xenoblade and Three Houses.

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ZeldaTPLink
04/29/20 10:10:28 AM
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charmander6000 posted...
I always found it weird that outsiders think most of these results are a "GameFAQs only" thing. Outside of a few close matches flipping the only major differences I see are games like Fortnite or Dota 2 having strength (and even then it depends on the site) and Uncharted 4 defeating Mario Kart 8.

The biggest difference would be Division 4 with Persona 4 losing to Red Dead Redemption and Overwatch defeating Xenoblade and Three Houses.

A lot of people attack GameFAQs for not representing the "universal" gaming opinion but truth is that whatever community they belong to probably doesn't represent it either.

The only way to make a contest where the global opinion was represented would be to have samples from every gaming community out there, and also from gamers who don't go to the internet to talk about them.

I assume Animal Crossing would be winning the contest in that case.

That's also why rallies are a poor way to "punish gameFAQs for being niche", because it just replaces one niche for another.
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NFUN
04/29/20 10:51:02 AM
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hylianknight3 posted...
Final thoughts:

how did that guy dive deep enough to mention AR Tonelico but not Kiseki? smh

unless he played in Japanese in 2006 I guess

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hylianknight3
04/29/20 9:28:28 PM
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Fanboys conspiring means the shoe is in!

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ZenOfThunder
04/30/20 5:18:03 PM
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ZenOfThunder posted...
I did the fanfiction with @Ashethan a few times, it was... bad

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3128374/1/GameFAQs-Fall-Contest-2006-Fanfiction
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5785522/1/Visio-Vestri-Character-Battle-VIII-Fanfiction
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3729820/1/GameFAQs-CBVI-Arx-Veneficus-Oraculum
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9381612/1/Character-Battle-IX-Labyrinth-of-the-Nine

I think I was like 15-18 when I wrote my bits and it shows, I refuse to look past the summaries, you guys feel free to read and enjoy


ZenOfThunder posted...
as a disclaimer we did NOT write the fanfiction where Tommy Vercetti has Master Chief reprogram KOS-MOS to turn her into his sex slave


some reading during the break

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XIII_rocks
04/30/20 5:51:04 PM
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@ZenOfThunder Why does that ring a bell? Is that the one where half of the words were replaced with "*CENSORED*"? I'm having the weirdest flashback.

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Ashethan
04/30/20 11:00:06 PM
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E-gads! All my terrible fanfiction! Fun to write, horrifying to read!

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ZenOfThunder
05/04/20 1:21:51 PM
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bump for contests

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hylianknight3
05/04/20 4:15:43 PM
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ZenOfThunder
05/04/20 6:02:22 PM
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why do people say "knowing gfaqs" on gamefaqs

you are also gamefaqs

do you truly know yourself

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hylianknight3
05/05/20 9:35:27 AM
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Nice upvote percentage, but...


"(but with one of the remaining games instead)"

why does every gaming subreddit actually prefer some other game




its happening dot gif

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ZenOfThunder
05/05/20 11:51:39 AM
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thank you for covering trivia master @hylianknight3 , I have been really behind at work because i had to take off two half days for some allergy doctor appts

turns out i am allergic to every single tree so if anyone here is trying to kill me just give me a face full of birch

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ZenOfThunder
05/05/20 3:48:02 PM
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Ngamer64 posted...
I realize it's Cinco and a cute day to run this, but I'm against inside-Contest-time polls that potentially give away results of live entrants.

That has me feeling more safe about Witcher, as I think it would take a fellow JRPG to sap much strength away from Persona. Ultimately though a result like this makes me wonder...

What the FLIP happened to Tropical Freeze yo?!


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MetalmindStats
05/05/20 8:08:23 PM
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Sadly, I forgot to screenshot yesterday's pictures. Hopefully someone else has such an image.

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hylianknight3
05/06/20 10:38:33 AM
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ZenOfThunder posted...
thank you for covering trivia master @hylianknight3 , I have been really behind at work because i had to take off two half days for some allergy doctor appts

turns out i am allergic to every single tree so if anyone here is trying to kill me just give me a face full of birch

youre welcome smarty pantys @ZenOfThunder it is easy for me to get into the role because i too require constant validation and attention

think of how much attention i could get if i just took your place , here take this:



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