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    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    Oh, yeah, make more work for yourself if you want. I'm less familiar with the Marvel storylines, especially earlier ones, but I know you lean more towards Marvel, so I put more Marvel stuff on it.

     

    I was re-reading/finishing Gotham Central a while back. Got the elements of a great procedural, very character-driven, all while being set in Gotham -- would recommend very highly (and it's what I was hoping the Gotham TV show would be based on, alas). Aaaand suddenly here's a Red Skies Crossover, because hey Day of Vengeance and Infinite Crisis is on and we gotta do something about that. So now Captain Marvel is fighting the Spectre, and the Rock of Eternity is blowing up over Gotham, and Gothamites are being possessed by the Seven Deadly Sins, and isn't this what you wanted from a series where the previous issue focused on when it's justified to compel a journalist to reveal their sources? No? Well, good news for you, the events of the crossover are never relevant again for the series. Next issue's all about fruit of the poisoned tree, you'll love it.

     

    I remember Starman being especially bad when it came to stuff like this. At the climax of an issue when -- whoops! -- Godwave just hit and everyone's depowered. Don't worry, we'll just deus ex machina things on the next page and forget this ever happened. At the end of an arc when... hey, didn't we deal with you already? Oh, Neron gave you a power-up. Don't know who Neron is? Too bad! Oh, and Blackest Night is happening, so we gotta have someone fight a Black Lantern.

     

    It's possible to do crossovers/references well, provided authors have time to integrate it with their own storylines. Sandman had an arc where a bunch of people throughout time and space had to wait out a "reality storm", and they passed time by telling stories Canterbury Tales-style. It's something that fits with the rest of Sandman, even if you know nothing of Zero Hour. But usually it's... well, read the TV Tropes link.

     

    As for the events themselves... it varies, but usually it's thumbs-down. Events usually come from corporate down, rather than authors up, and that's not a good recipe. And with one author writing scores of characters means you're going to be disappointed with at least one character's portrayal. I find that the "enormous ensemble cast dealing with Big Thing" itch is better scratched by turning to Elseworlds/What If stories (where the goal is telling an actual story) than main universe events (where the goal is usually changing up the lineup).

     

    Could do a event-by-event dissection, but I'll save that for Dintiradan Ranks Slarty Ranks Everything.

    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    Posted · Edited by Dintiradan

    hey let's rank marvel events with "secret", "war", "infinity", or "vs" in the title

     

    Secret Wars / Secret Wars II

    Infinity Gauntlet / Infinity War / Infinity Crusade

    Civil War

    Secret Invasion

    Avengers vs. X-Men

    Secret Wars

    Civil War II

    Inhumans vs. X-Men

    Secret Empire

     

    dc's simpler, let's just do the ones with "crisis" in the title

     

    Crisis on Infinite Earths

    Zero Hour: Crisis in Time

    Identity Crisis

    Infinite Crisis

    Final Crisis

     

    (you could do the "countdown" ones as well, but then the lines get blurry)

     

    EDIT: i don't want to bias your scoring, so i'll save a rant for later

     

    EDIT 2: oh hey world war hulk qualifies let's throw that one on too

     

    don't feel obliged to rank all of these

    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    6 hours ago, googoogjoob said:

    Approximately 20 million dead, the population of China wouldn't regain its pre-war population level until well into the 20th century, and you still rate it above Wings, pirates, and Clippy.

    Hey, I have to deal with the fact that the thing growing on my face is Canonically The Worst Thing Ever.

    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    Posted · Edited by Dintiradan

    Gilgamesh

    Enkidu

    Utnapishtim

    Inanna/Ishtar

    Humbaba/Huwawa

    Gugalanna

     

    EDIT: Let's have more fun with razor thin differences of theology!

     

    Transubstantiation

    Transignification

    Consubstantiation

    Impanation

    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    My take on "Stuff from the 90s" is that it's mostly a parody of those "only 90s kids remember..." social media posts that invariably revolve around touchstones of consumerism. Other generations get VE-Day, or the moon landing, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, we get... stuff. Hence the repeated "stuff, stuff, let's name stuff".

     

    The other aspect (and this might be more of a stretch) is that 90s kids, having been children during that decade, tend to view it as being peaceful overall. In particular, I find that the younger half of millennials seem to view 9/11 as the original sin, the opening of Pandora's box that let all the evils into our post-Cold War paradise. I guess it's the same way older generations view the 50s as this idyllic era.

     

    I dunno. I like it, though what I liked most about it was the groans it induced every time it popped up on Calref chat.

     

    Also, the high ranking you gave The Ruiner of Campaigns makes me think you've never played with it before.

    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    In Memoriam: dbot (February 22, 2016 to March 5, 2018)

     

    Calvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qysUfuoW1jg)

    Pop Roulette - Stuff from the 90's! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEbRL7-Awr0)

    Flight of the Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk)

    They Might Be Giants - Minimum Wage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOfxS_Qp1g)

    Mozart's The Magic Flute - O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn

    Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Fortune Teller (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5DeIcYD6xE)

    The Deck of Many Things

    Tarot

    ELIZA

    Your favourite anime

    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    "That feeling you get when you're absentmindedly going up stairs and expect there to be one more step and there isn't one."

     

    "That feeling you get when you're absentmindedly going down stairs and expect there to be one more step and there isn't one."

    Slarty Ranks Everything

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    Posted · Edited by Dintiradan

    6 hours ago, Triumph said:

    This thread...LOL.

    i was literally going to post this why must you snipe me so

     

    Anyway, yeah. Let's make it official. "Slarty Ranks Everything". Also "Georg Cantor", "Bertrand Russell", and "the Barber Paradox".

     

    EDIT: Upon rereading I am realizing that you were merely laughing at this thread, rather than submitting "this thread" as an entry. I haven't been getting much sleep lately.

     

    EDIT2: dropjes are amazing

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