@MarcDingena If nobody else nominates it'll move straight to the election, but there's a couple of other people I think might be in a good position for nomination who haven't yet, so that might still happen.
I'm impressed we went from an election between only 3 people in 2015 to one of 10 already on the third(ish) day this year.
Yeah, our previous elections had 3 nominees (for 2 positions) and 7 nominees (for 3 positions).
But to be fair, the 2015 election was during a period of extended Not Nice and one of the slots had been vacated by a mod who not only stepped down from moderation but retired from the Stack network entirely due to burnout.
Winning that election was kind of like getting promoted because Darth Vader Force-choked your superior.
> Vote for me and I'll give all my avid fans a free shirt! Clarification, that's one shirt for all of you, but we'll work out a sharing schedule. β Bryant Jackson 19 hours ago
Unrelated, Bryant has some very impressive campaigning... hmm...
[sifts through campaign funds to see if he has enough for two shirts.]
@nitsua60 - LOL. I'm not particularly worried. There's a lot of very strong people running for moderator, and I already have a good feel of where I fit. It's my honest opinion that you, Doppel or Korvin would do the job better, and I'm not conceited enough to fail to acknowledge that reality. In other words, the three of you have my full support.
@LinoFrankCiaralli thanks for the words of support. I don't know that any of us would do a better job than you--I'm really of the belief that I'd do a good job, and so would most of the people on the slate. (Some I just don't really have a sense of and one seems like a joke, but maybe that one's sincere?)
@doppelgreener I assume you spent all your funds back-room promoting this snap-election you've got going on over there, just to distract from the Stack-election?
@nitsua60 Actually I spent them on an owlbear and an owlbear trainer who promised they could teach the owlbear to moderate. Turns out they weren't all they claimed they were, and the owlbear ate them and escaped. On the plus side, the insurance money for the sheer amount of property damage inflicted is due to refill the campaign coffers several times over!
@BESW We lost track of that one soon after, so the plan was to recapture that one, or otherwise, capture the first owlbear that ambushed us. That's easier said than done! Three expeditions later, the expedition party returned (largely unconsumed) with the fifth owlbear they'd encountered actually captured.
It would distract people from the Stack-election because they'll pay attention to the snap-election I've got going on over in the back room, as @nitsua60 theorised. (Not that any of this can be proven. It's only allegations! No comment!)
@MarshallTigerus BearOwls: are they anti-owlbears, such that the two colliding mutually destroy each other? Is this a viable owlbear defence strategy? Are bearowls just as dangerous or worse? Can we be sure that bearowls + owlbears do not combine into something even worse than both? Can we reconstitute them into much more manageable bears and owls?
They're wickedly evil sorcerer cats with backwards hands and all of this has no good explanation why it wound up that way. But then, we also have "gorgons" which are goat-demons (in turn forcing actual gorgons to be called "medusas", which is a bit like calling basketball players Michael Jordans), so they're far from the bottom of the absurdity scale.
@Erik Any candidate who is familiar with all ten and can order them properly knows too much about absurd creatures, is probably a wizard, may imminently become responsible for creating the next cousin of the owlbear, and must be exiled immediately for public safety.
@doppelgreener Wizards didn't create owlbears, that's a slanderous rumor that's transcended to "truthiness." Bhaal did it, out of jealousy directed at the Earthmother's chosen: the Unicorn, the Leviathan, and the Pack.
I.e. any candidate who is that familiar is probably Bhaal.
@nitsua60 I can not confirm nor deny that, however, I do like Rakshasa in my campaigns simply because of the 10 minute fits of randomly saying "Rakshasa!" a la Hyenas in Lion King
@MarshallTigerus There's actually a study that shows only having social media for social interaction makes you further alone, but that's outside the scope of my inquiry.
@MarshallTigerus regardless of whether owlbears are people, they are also very prone to separating people from their limbs and/or life, and are worth being treated with suspicion.
"Ice skating, drinks with friends, open-ended tactical simulations of tongue-in-cheek sword and sorcery / sci-fi / anything with a heavy element of improv acting"
I get super bored by modern movies. Things like the Marvel and DC Universes suck me in because there's so much of a world around them, but a good chunk of modern movies don't have that kind of depth
Talk Less Smile More! Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for! Shake hands with him! Charm Her! It's eighteen hundred, ladies, tell your husbands to vote for Burr!
@MarshallTigerus Captain Planet already spoiled what the 5th element was. I just thought the movie was an epic joke, since they stopped a PLANET with the power of the 5 elements.
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