#pollrunner musings

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Primarily knowing Jonathan Bailey as the English voice of G'raha Tia gets funnier and funnier the more successful he becomes.

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Confession time: I do vote in the polls here, but not until there are enough votes that my vote would not affect the results in any meaningful way

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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I think if I do the closet key bracket next-next I'm not going to run any of my own closet keys because I literally could not bear to see them lose and they absolutely would lose

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So now that all of the round one polls are in and propaganda for everyone is pouring in, what are your thoughts on characters and polls?

some of the polls are definitely not matched well. it's really hard to make matchups with super popular characters. the # of votes the laois vs. william james moriarty poll has is crazyy i'm sorry he got matched with tumblrs current blorbo needless to say i thought it would be more even than it is turning out to be

and also, in the last tournament i ran, sometimes a character will get lots of submissions but not actually do well in the bracket. so when trying to make a balanced first round you can't really use that as indication of how well a character will do. and a lot of times i am also shooting in the dark when i don't know a character or fandom at all. given the number of warrior cats and wings of fire submissions, for example, i thought i'd be hearing way more from those quarters, but those polls have been pretty quiet.

also one of my favorite characters of all times is getting crushed in a not even exciting way so :') rip to that particular participant

also just a heads up i might be a bit late coming out with the next round of polls cause this coming week is literally my finals week so (i clearly planned this very well)

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Sage is a great job to play when you want to think about the big questions, like "what the hell does this button do?" "Why are none of these symbols remotely indicative of the abilities or their effects?" "Who the fuck thought this design was a good idea?" and "Why can't Square make a shield healer that's actually possible to learn and comprehensible to play?"

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Going back to my very first Final Fantasy and being a little cheeky

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I for one am very excited for the vacation expansion. I'm sure we'll get to just chill out with our friends and nothing will go wrong.

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Fordola and Lyse should be at the club.

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I swear I reblogged this here on purpose

AITA for this disagreement with some of my friends/colleagues?

So I(40s F) used to work in local level government. I quit to pursue other career opportunities because of burnout, but they asked me to stay on in an official-unofficial advisory capacity, and I'm still pretty close with the current office holders, particularly the current occupant of my former office (A, 30s X). Their boyfriend (H, 30s M), who also works there, isn't fond of me but more or less tolerates me when they're around, which is okay enough. Both their job and my current one necessitate a lot of travel, so it's not often an issue.

Things run pretty smoothly, overall, and I do think the entire city council has the people's best interests at heart. However, recently a natural disaster devastated our area and caused a lot of disagreement over how best to deal with it, and frankly the proposal that was eventually put forward was an awful one that would return a privileged few (about 25% of the population, after estimating numbers) to a semblance of normalcy while neglecting the other 75%. Neither A nor I are willing to back the group's play on this one, for what I feel are obvious reasons. A has gone completely no contact with all of us and I don't even know where they are right now, which aside from worrying me a lot, also hurt my position in the discussion since I officially hold no office anymore.

So I took pretty decisive action to stop them, and now three of our original council (H, plus other members E and L) are extremely pissed off at me and are trying to rally the rest to oppose me, while making some extremely shortsighted and harmful moves in the process that will hurt a lot of people. They don't seem to care, however. It's like they consider the majority lesser human beings and only care about that privileged 25%. I don't think I did everything right, but I did my best. We have to let go of the past and make the best of what we have now, for everyone's sake. No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk.

AITA for sundering reality into fourteen reflections to stop my coworkers? Or should they have accepted that their paradise is gone, and ceded the reflections to their new fragmented, imperfect inhabitants?

What are these acronyms?

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Reblogged that Laika post to the wrong blog, but I'm gonna leave it up in honor of the goodest dog

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The thing about getting a degree in library science when you also play Critically Acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV is that you catch yourself repeatedly talking to the mammets in the library in Sharlayan desperately trying to figure out how their classification system works.

Please Square put this in a book somewhere I need to know

Edited to add that I need to know how Ishgard does it too. You can't tell me those isolationist snobs haven't developed their own system. Probably named it after some saint or another.

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Glad to see people are enjoying the job trainer polls so far.

To address a couple of comments I've seen: don't worry, the pre-level 30 class trainers will get their time in the sun

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Take heart, my friend. We're almost there

God 4am EST canNOT get here fast enough

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Comments on the Fordola poll make me feel like I should just say

1) all the propaganda is coming from submissions on the original forms (with one exception that'll show up later; no I'm not telling you which one)

2) I am aware of the War Crimes

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Would you believe that I didn't realize I was doing the Fandaniel Punch or Hug right after the Hermes one until just now

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So... anyone else learn that they've been pronouncing Igeyorhm wrong this whole time?