Feel free to judge this as inappropriate question but, i need to ask this NSFW question:
NSFW Q: What is this strange fetish with oversized breasts you have =.= or are you just being silly?
THE DEFINITIVE BATTLE NETWORK VILLAIN POWER RANKINGS (WARNING FOR SPOILERS)
I've decided to disclude SearchMan since he was never really a villain. Still incredibly awesome though. Also I forgot that Serenade is up there with him and StarMan.
Broken Tier
1. StarMan
2. Lord Wily (might seem cliche, but read Epee Em's BN Series LP thread some time, it'll open your eyes to just how amazing he really is)
3. That one infected Mr. Prog in BN1 with the All Your Base line
Top Tier
4. Sean
5. Match
6. Dark
7. Ito
8. Sunayama
9. Blackbeard
High Tier
10. Dave
11. ShadeMan
12. Ivan Chillski
13. Princess Pride
14. Ray
15. BombMan
16. Bass
17. LaserMan
Mid Tier
18. Vic
19. CosmoMan
20. Count Zap
21. Viddy Narcy
22. Anetta
23. Yahoot
24. BlastMan
25. Arashi
Low Tier
26. BurnerMan's Op (Don't remember name)
27. Inukai
28. Gauss
29. Yuika
30. BlizzardMan
31. StoneMan
32. CutMan
Bottom Tier
33. Higsby
34. DrillMan
35. NebulaGrey
36. Madoi
Irrelevant Tier
37. The ~*~Professor~*~
Shit Tier
38. SparkMan's Op
Stupid JerkFuck Tier
9001. CloudMan
9002. BubbleMan
What would you say is the hardest decision you've had to make as staff?
In terms of punishment vs. no punishment or light punishment vs. heavy punishment I'd actually have to say I honestly can't remember ever having to think too hard. I've been staff enough elsewhere to know approximately what I was doing before I even got here, and the overwhelming majority of decisions to be made here, at least to me, have been cut and dry.
But that's not really an entertaining answer, is it? I would have to say that the most difficult position I've taken is not wanting to immediately crucify Miki based on hearsay when it felt like everyone else around me was out for blood. I ended up being the one to get in touch with Gpop in private on a couple of occasions to try to better understand the situation (before he was eventually sent something far more heart-felt and beneficial to his understanding his position by someone else on staff that I won't name out of respect for privacy). This is not to say I didn't think she had done punishment-worthy things, but plenty of people seemed to want to hold disparaging gossip from other sources against her (that might have been true and might have not been true) and I wasn't willing to buy into it as meaningful.
Feel free to judge this as inappropriate question but, i need to ask this NSFW question:
NSFW Q: What is this strange fetish with oversized breasts you have =.= or are you just being silly?
I will answer this by pointing out that I coined the phrase '/d/generate'. If you wish to know more, feel free to ask further and I will answer further, but I think that might be enough for most people.
What's your ideal career path?
I went to college to become a math teacher because I liked math, I like helping people learn math, and it was a slam-dunk career choice at the time. Then Bush 2: Electric Boogaloo happened while I was in college and that last one sorta went completely down the tubes.
What's your current career path? (if different)
I currently work for a company that develops online content for various math textbooks that range from middle school material to collegiate calculus and statistics. It is actually very enjoyable because it's math combined with babby's first programming which really makes it me spending 40 hours a week doing - guess what! - creative problem solving. I think I might actually like this more than teaching because I'm still helping people learn math and I get to do it without dealing with head-in-ass administration, politics or shithead parents. Word to the wise: Unless you get class full of unrestrained assholes, parents are far and away the worst part of teaching. Kids will give you crap a lot but they also know how it really is in school because they spend almost as much time there as you do and they won't really push your buttons if you don't allow those buttons to be pushed. The parents are far worse because you effectively answer to them and they feel far more entitled to everything than their kid does.
Separate stories (first nine touhou games) or serialized (MoF to TD)?
Serialized using the first nine games. MoF and UFO didn't blow me over with their casts and I miss Eiki and Machi. :(
On the other hand... (http://i56.tinypic.com/21orfpd.jpg)
I think this guy asks what do you wish for in a list of three.
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How long have you been a staff?
Since the very end of the second build. Which was...2008? 2009? TSO would know.
Are you also a staff in other forums?
I have been, but this is pretty much the only one now.
How do you view life as? Explain why
My take on life is that it doesn't need a reason, it is the reason.
What's your best crowning moment of awesome?
Either the bullet-dodge backflip at the very end of Stage 5 in my Scarlet Symphony LP or the "urameshiya" pun I made in the PoIR IRC channel to dethrone Punmaster Kogasa and end their reign of terror over that community.
Where do you see yourself ten years from now?
Honestly? I wouldn't mind doing what I'm doing now. It's enjoyable work at a good pay rate, and having it ten years from now would be pretty awesome job security. Dunno if I'll still be in this fandom, though.
What's the one defining moment in your life that cemented your current sense of identity?
When we were playing a game of hide-and-seek at summer camp at the local middle school (I was back in elementary, if that, at this point) and I got locked inside the pitch black gym closet by myself for about five minutes. It was a sufficiently traumatizing experience that, ever since then, I've taken fewer risks in all capacities.
(I later learned that the counselor I spent at least three minutes screaming for actually heard me and left me in there anyway. What a cunt.)
What did you think I was going to ask you?
Since you're a political guy, I'd expect a question about Mitt Romney with the expectation/hope that I would choke to death on my own rage froth from just thinking about the man for more than half a second.
Willing to put your name behind GBA and MotK's gaming servers? We've got potential for pulling transcultural exchange. Just the other day, we found out that the Chinese DotS community came across our wiki. Their reaction was 'These guys have a more up to date wiki than us!?!'.
I'm not sure what this would entail since I can basically promise you I will never use those servers myself (I don't enjoy online gaming very much), but you have my full support in your endeavours as long as you don't start breaking site rules or generally being unpleasant. (This includes not showering for weeks on end.)
I never actually beat MMBN4, as I got bored halfway (possibly earlier, actually?) into the game. Is the rest of it really as terrible as everybody says?
Depends on how far you got. But yes. The TL job is terrible, the scenarios are monotonous, there are a grand total of three real dungeons (only one of which has an actual boss fight at the end), most of the special Navis either have obscenely high HP or fucking obnoxious gimmicks (SPARKMAN) and you have to play the game all the way through no less than three times to actually have a chance of seeing everything.
Roll is the only thing that redeems Red Sun. Blue Moon has no such savior.
On a related note, is the original MMBN worth playing? I never actually got around to trying it.
Yes, for the same reason EoSD is worth playing. The lack of polish is obvious with the later releases in the series, but roots are important, k. Also Sal is cute and you'd only get to see her otherwise in BN4 Blue Moon.
Why the Higsby hate? Also, did you intentionally not count Mr. Mach? (Mr. Mach as in Blastman's operator, not Match.)
Higsby as a villain was a combination of laughable and forgettable. As a protag he's fine. For me he was just kinda there until BN5 Colonel where he became amusing.
I left off Mach because I don't consider him a villain due to his motives. He was a man of honor victimized by extremely unfortunate circumstances.
How did MotK Mafia evolve from its original state (which I have heard negative things about) to having a fairly reasonable playerbase (even if everyone still gets flak during like every postgame)? I'm curious about this, since I go to a specific other forum where people recently started playing Mafia but are all at a significantly low/derpy level skill-wise, and this has made me interested in how Mafia playerbases improve over time.
Same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Sometimes I do still question if we've really made significant progress, though.
It's not really a question, but it's nice to know you like math, get to use it in your job, and have a job that sounds, well, pretty darn nifty. I'm sure it's got it's downsides as well, but... It's encouraging. :)
Thanks!
Where am I? WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE?!
It's an illusion, Michael.
... :derp: I have no idea what this is, mind elaborating?
There is a board on 4chan called /d/. It's the Hentai/Alternative board, and the /d/ likely comes from "deviant". Don't go there. I will not be held responsible if you fail to heed this warning.