I have returned from the bloody battlefield victorious against mein Uber Archnemsis Toaster VICTORIOUS.
figure 1: Hermitage totally cosplayed as Saya to celebrate this victory, and in honor of COMIC-CON zomg zomg!The final score breakdown (for those who are curious)
Hermitage: 205
Toaster: 195
As you can see, it was a bitter battle until the end. Thanks so much to everyone who participated, it meant a lot to us! Give yourselves a gold star for braving our collective mad scientist wrath to express your (eloquent and insightful) opinions.
I discovered several things in reading the comments on our respective posts. The most important were: 1) People firmly believe in my ability to ruthlessly kick their asses (why thank you!) and 2) People found my analysis to be fairly technical.
Which I thought was hilarious because this work is eleventy billion miles from my area of expertise and I thought I wasn't being technical enough. I immediately began to wonder if this is some mind-warping effect of graduate school, that you start thinking that having bigger, fancier words and more tortuous terminology shows you actually understand the paper. When you know, stating it in plain language is actually a greater demonstration of understanding.
I will, of course, be bunkering down for the inevitable Nordic retaliation from Toaster. This is only the first battle in the eternal war for Nerd Supremacy. But for now I will rest (lightly) on my laurels and claim the title of MOST NEFARIOUS. Thank you for the fun times, Toaster, one can only hope to have an archenemy as evil and fluffy as you are^^.
5 comments:
I may be a Mad, badass, Nordic* bastard, but I am also honorable. There will indeed be more battles ahead, but there will not be any vengeful retaliation. I respect the results and stand by them.
With regards to the paper, I chose the layperson's route of explanation because it was so very technical that I knew I'd lose most readers quickly if I tried to explain each and every one of them. As such, I chose the main themes of their findings and tried to explain the context and relevance more than the ZOMFGDETAILZ!!! Nonetheless, your approach also worked quite well. It had never occurred to me to break it down into subsections like that.
As for Comic-Con, yes, I too wish I was there, although I'd probably be cosplaying as Link instead.
*Why are you obsessed with my Nordic-ness all of a sudden?
Congratulations both on a proud and noble battle! And congrats Hermitage on your win! Please don't kick my ass, I'm a wee Celtic wussypants.
@Toaster: Because it's totally fun to cast you as the enemy from the Icy North. It's like the comic books dude!
@Cath:Thank you and of course I won't kick your ass. Just eternal homage and candies^^. Just kidding.
But how do you reconcile the Icy Northern Nemesis with the fact that he was whelped in the Sweaty South?
@Toaster: Since when was propaganda logical?
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