The cull cometh.....
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Or maybe your higher ups "forgot" to tell you they will be replacing you with self-aware AI that evolved in the voting server to deal with...The reason we finish by Halloween is so they can run Season 10 after Thanksgiving and season 10 will have completely different rules!I can squash this theory officially. More big contests in a row would be very D:
Nah, Chris is like The Major with her own cohorts of virtual Tachikomas.
The cull has happened! One item is no longer present. But only one. Everything else is still there.
Whenever you click the "both items are equally good/bad" button Paizo's fleet of orbiting satellites performs laser-based brain surgery on you from orbit: subtly lobotomizing the parts of the brain that makes good designers.
They also kick your best friend in the balls.
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Every so many votes, Paizo goes and inserts a random formatting error into the item submitted by the last person to have posted in the snark thread. This is why you can sometimes find new errors in items you could have sworn were fine last time you saw them. They call this the karma program and use it to teach humility to the snarkiest of us.
The reason we finish by Halloween is so they can run Season 10 after Thanksgiving and season 10 will have completely different rules!I can squash this theory officially. More big contests in a row would be very D:
Sure uh huh......just like they government told me officially that they had no interest in monitoring my activities. They just expect me believe the building being built next really needs the phone company van there every day.
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-There are secret achievements above even Champion Voter that require superhuman endurance and dedication to obtain.
-Paizo has raised the remain of Dr. B.F. Skinner from the dead, and now as a lich he continues his research into better ways of conditioning us to vote. He plans on using his finding to create a way to enslave us all to his undead will.
-The reason Paizo will not give you warning of upcoming culls, or tell you when your item has been culled, is because they are taking money from big pharmaceutical conglomerates hoping to increase their sales in anti-anxiety medication.
There is a secret support group that consistently up-votes one "joke" item so it will reach the top 32. That item is no joke, though! It's hard necessity!
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-There are secret achievements above even Champion Voter that require superhuman endurance and dedication to obtain.
I can confirm there is one, but not saying what it its...
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There is a link between the word-analysis software prowling the forums and the cull clock. Each time the former sees the word cull (or any related word), the latter stops its countdown for an entire hour :-(
Also typing Cull three times in a row restarts the clock at the beginning of its dreaded cycle :-P
- Paizo has raised the remain of Dr. B.F. Skinner from the dead, and now as a lich he continues his research into better ways of conditioning us to vote. He plans on using his finding to create a way to enslave us all to his undead will.
Big Protean is in cahoots with Paizo! Paizo wrapped the Skinner lich in copper and bolted him to an armature, and when the proteans perform non-conditioned responses, the undead commutator spins up in his grave powering the Web servers. Wake up sheeple!*
We of the Slaadi Resistance have made some successes in disrupting the proteans methodically-planned randomness, but our numbers are dwindling as they catch the brave rebel slaadi and imprison them behind the Dread IP Wall of Stagnation. You can help by fostering a wee baby larva soldier or three until they quickly row into strong self-sufficient warriors of Chaos! Fight back, be a SupahStah Host!
* The 0HD sheeple player character race will be available in the upcoming Bestiary 5, but the entry is only visible after consuming massive amounts of caffeine and snorting the aroma from the book binding.
Stealth Cull was a game, intentionally played with the fragile hopes and dreams of we mortals, by distant and cruel gods!
-The reason we finish by Halloween is so they can run Season 10 after Thanksgiving and season 10 will have completely different rules!I can confirm that we won't run Season 10 until sometime after Thanksgiving...
TEASE!
-the contest is actually to select the next hero to be plane shifted into a real life Golarion world in an attempt to drive back the Worldwound.
-our votes don't actually get counted and the staff just sit back and watch us play out their cruel games, like a weird version of candy crush.
-we are all just figments of Cthulhu's dream and none of this is real...
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-The reason we finish by Halloween is so they can run Season 10 after Thanksgiving and season 10 will have completely different rules!I can confirm that we won't run Season 10 until sometime after Thanksgiving...
I can confirm that we probably won't run Season 10 until sometime after Hogswatch...
-The reason we finish by Halloween is so they can run Season 10 after Thanksgiving and season 10 will have completely different rules!I can confirm that we won't run Season 10 until sometime after Thanksgiving...
Technically we are some time after Thanksgiving now. Last year's one.
-There are secret achievements above even Champion Voter that require superhuman endurance and dedication to obtain.I can confirm there is one, but not saying what it its...
SHHHHHHH!!!
Do you really want to be responsible...
<.<
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...for letting out?!?
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- All but one of the top 32 are actually paid actors.
- Each year a Russian troll farm is hired by a rival to fill the contest with hundreds of terrible items, only to be twarted by people like Thomas LaBlanc, Frank Gori, Anthony Adam, and many other elite contestants.
- The voting process is actually a deep psychological test into subliminal messaging and planted memories.
- I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.
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I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.
The first two items are used to decide how your votes count. If you pick the worse item (as determined by Owen K. C. Stevens) all your votes actually count for the opposite item.
Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
A bag of devouring gets 10% of the items
They don't let you into the contest if they don't like you
The NSA uses the contest to search for the filigree serial graffiti artist
chocholate will increase your chances of winning
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I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.The first two items are used to decide how your votes count. If you pick the worse item (as determined by Owen K. C. Stevens) all your votes actually count for the opposite item.Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
This what happens when I don't get my nap.
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I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.The first two items are used to decide how your votes count. If you pick the worse item (as determined by Owen K. C. Stevens) all your votes actually count for the opposite item.Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
Batman, obviously.
(oh and me much bad at spelling sorry)
-Past top 8's write the good joke items knowing they won't win but will give some people pause and there's a secret board somewhere where they laugh at our snark and praise threads.
Hey! How come I wasn't invited? ;_;
RPG Superstar is not meant to cultivate creative talent so much as it is to cultivate efficient editors and developers.
I know people are joking, but I feel the need to point out that while I have done some freelance editing for Paizo (and hope to keep doing so!), that was under an application entirely separate from RPG Superstar. :p
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Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
This what happens when I don't get my nap.
Batman, obviously.
(oh and me much bad at spelling sorry)
No worries folks, the smiley was there for a reason. Heck, I have a pewter flask that a friend who had known me for YEARS had engraved and gave to me for my birthday that says "Owen K. C. Stevens."
So, I'm used to it. :)
Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
This what happens when I don't get my nap.Batman, obviously.
(oh and me much bad at spelling sorry)
No worries folks, the smiley was there for a reason. Heck, I have a pewter flask that a friend who had known me for YEARS had engraved and gave to me for my birthday that says "Owen K. C. Stevens."
So, I'm used to it. :)
And there was me thinking he was your arch nemesis. After all, you are more Joker than Batman! ;P
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I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.The first two items are used to decide how your votes count. If you pick the worse item (as determined by Owen K. C. Stevens) all your votes actually count for the opposite item.Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
He is the Moriarty to your Holmes, the Joker to your Batman.
He is your subtly altered shadow from the mirror world of misspelling realities.
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The third Cull was actually the fourth Cull. The actual third Cull happened and no one remembers it, not even the Paizo staff.
The Culls represent the cycle of the worlds in the Mayan cosmology. We are in the fourth world where the new gods of item design are showering us with wonders. The third world ended in water, submerged by a deluge of sea-inspired puns.
The sixth Cull marks the end of reality as we know it. Our world will merge with the RPGSS to make a dark contemporary mix of fantasy and technology where all the previous RPGSS creations are quite real.
The third Cull was actually the fourth Cull. The actual third Cull happened and no one remembers it, not even the Paizo staff.
The Culls represent the cycle of the worlds in the Mayan cosmology. We are in the fourth world where the new gods of item design are showering us with wonders. The third world ended in water, submerged by a deluge of sea-inspired puns.
The sixth Cull marks the end of reality as we know it. Our world will merge with the RPGSS to make a dark contemporary mix of fantasy and technology where all the previous RPGSS creations are quite real.
What the smurfing smurfity smurf? :P
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Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
This what happens when I don't get my nap.Batman, obviously.
(oh and me much bad at spelling sorry)
No worries folks, the smiley was there for a reason. Heck, I have a pewter flask that a friend who had known me for YEARS had engraved and gave to me for my birthday that says "Owen K. C. Stevens."
So, I'm used to it. :)
I thought about making an alias of your alter ego, but concluded that it would almost assured be deleted as being too close to your actual name.
This leaves me to humbly request that you make an alias with your misspelled name and play him like your evil twin. I only ask because this would be both hilarious and bad ass.
It would also remove the temptation from me to risk drawing the ire of the Gninja or Chris Lambertz again.
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I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.The first two items are used to decide how your votes count. If you pick the worse item (as determined by Owen K. C. Stevens) all your votes actually count for the opposite item.Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
Since we're all chiming in, I'll put $5 on "Head of Catering for the Death Star."
Since we're all chiming in, I'll put $5 on "Head of Catering for the Death Star."I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.The first two items are used to decide how your votes count. If you pick the worse item (as determined by Owen K. C. Stevens) all your votes actually count for the opposite item.Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
Are you sure?
... I had heard that all of the Paizo staff are Ewoks and Gungans!
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Since we're all chiming in, I'll put $5 on "Head of Catering for the Death Star."I'm not saying that Own K. C. Stevens is Batman. I am just saying that no one has ever seen them in the same room together.The first two items are used to decide how your votes count. If you pick the worse item (as determined by Owen K. C. Stevens) all your votes actually count for the opposite item.Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
Are you sure?
... I had heard that all of the Paizo staff are Ewoks and Gungans!
I must say, you have guts. Courting death like this ;-P
I have died so many times in this competition (8 in fact) that Season 9 holds no fear for me now >.<
Grin.
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The top 32 must fight to the death, Hunger Games-style.
This one is true, after PaizoCon, no one ever saw Chris or Kalervo again. Brian went missing after GenCon. whistles innocently
Fascinating!
Who the heck is Owen K. C. Stevens?:D
This what happens when I don't get my nap.Batman, obviously.
(oh and me much bad at spelling sorry)
No worries folks, the smiley was there for a reason. Heck, I have a pewter flask that a friend who had known me for YEARS had engraved and gave to me for my birthday that says "Owen K. C. Stevens."
So, I'm used to it. :)
I thought about making an alias of your alter ego, but concluded that it would almost assured be deleted as being too close to your actual name.
This leaves me to humbly request that you make an alias with your misspelled name and play him like your evil twin. I only ask because this would be both hilarious and bad ass.
It would also remove the temptation from me to risk drawing the ire of the Gninja or Chris Lambertz again.
Why that's a terrible idea!
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Lol, and the TV program strikes again... My name is always misquoted, I reckon Pugsley and Wednesday are working in cahoots against me :)
At least you didnt make it double d in the surname, but you might notice, there is no trailing "s" either :P
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Being in the chat room we have found that often times the same item pairing is presented to multiple people simultaneously.
What if the computer isn't testing the items we put in. What if the computer is judging our skills as a designer based on our preferences for good or bad items?
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Since we're all chiming in, I'll put $5 on "Head of Catering for the Death Star."
I've been to the Death Star canteen & I get this reference Steve.
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The top 32 must fight to the death, Hunger Games-style.This one is true, after PaizoCon, no one ever saw Chris or Kalervo again. Brian went missing after GenCon. whistles innocently
Uh-oh, better put my highlander katana in the trunk of my car...
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Uh-oh, better put my highlander katana in the trunk of my car...The top 32 must fight to the death, Hunger Games-style.This one is true, after PaizoCon, no one ever saw Chris or Kalervo again. Brian went missing after GenCon. whistles innocently
Inside your trenchcoat is the proper way. Much closer at hand ;-)