I am #13, Bitches!!!!

Steve Dunn | June 7, 2007
Yeah, that's right. Start a blog, review a movie, next thing you know you're THE MAN. #13 and on the rise!

Yes, I started this discussion to boost my standing even further.

OK, I should probably get some work done now.

Lori Lancaster | June 7, 2007
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Steve Dunn | June 7, 2007
Yeah, sorry for the offensive thread title. Scott, feel free to delete if it's inappropriate for the site. I was all giddy with accomplishment and it kinda just slipped out.

But let my indiscretion not distract us from what is truly important. I am #13, thus an official member of the League of Thirteen with all its attendant privileges. It's a big day for me. I am registered at Target and Home Depot.

Lori Lancaster | June 7, 2007
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Aaron Shurtleff | June 7, 2007
Ha! You are no longer registered at Target! I have used up all of my miniscule power! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh, and:

"The views and opinions expressed in this post in no way necessarily reflect the opnions of Target Corporation or any of its executives or employees, other than Aaron Shurtleff."

But if they knew Steve Dunn, I am confident they would agree with me! :P

Scott Hardie | June 10, 2007
I knew creating that Userrank system would lead to this.

Amy Austin | June 12, 2007
And Einstein should have had a clue, too... but he didn't.

"Gee, Brain... whaddaya wanna' do tonight???"

"The same thing we do every night, Pinky... try to take over TC!"

Scott Hardie | June 13, 2007
Remember that Far Side that was drawn like Jeopardy!, and God had racked up $2 million, and Einstein had $2 million, and that average guy in the middle had $0, and he complained that his buzzer wasn't working? Some days, my buzzer isn't working either.

Erik Bates | June 13, 2007
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Kris Weberg | June 13, 2007
Luckily, I'm #1 in my own personal ranking system. I haven't looked at the way the site does it.

Steve Dunn | June 14, 2007
I am #7 in my personal ranking system. Kris, you're #12.

Aaron Shurtleff | June 15, 2007
Personal ranking systems? Sounds vaguely subjective! :)

Amy Austin | June 19, 2007
Wow. Sounds vaguely diggish to me... (And yet, part of me is just begging to ask my rank -- oh, you clever observer of human nature, you, Steve... ;-D)

Lori Lancaster | June 19, 2007
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Steve Dunn | June 19, 2007
I believe Amy was asking her rank in my personal ranking system.

Unfortunately that information is protected by copyright laws, a contractual prohibition against the disclosure of trade secrets, and HIPAA. I was able to disclose my own ranking because it is my own, and Kris's because of the Kris Weberg Unconfidentiality Act of 2005 (KWUA) whereby information about Kris was declared by Congress to be non-confidential. (As I recall the measure was passed along party lines as an amendment to the USA PATRIOT Act, shortly after some of his more inflammatory anti-capitalist postings). Let me know if you need his medical records or credit card numbers, and remember, you're either with us or you're with the terrorists.

Lori Lancaster | June 19, 2007
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Aaron Shurtleff | June 19, 2007
Kris Clones will make you JUMP JUMP!!

I should be beaten for that, but I couldn't stop myself! :P

Amy Austin | June 19, 2007
HAHAHAHAHAHA -- y'all crack me up.

Scott Hardie | June 20, 2007
I thought Steve was making this up, until I turned on Fox News Channel and saw live coverage of the ceremony where Kris's boyhood bullies were being given congressional medals for their act of patriotism for once flying his underpants from the school flagpole. I don't know which was more of a giveaway that it was FNC, the headline Liberal Pantywaist's Pantywaist Liberated or setting the footage of those knickers flapping in the breeze to "America the Beautiful."

Amy Austin | June 20, 2007
I think I may have to change my own knickers now, because you're killing me. ;-D

Steve Dunn | January 16, 2009
OK, so I just noticed that the site can show me every goo I ever guessed correctly and every discussion I've ever participated in on TC. Whoa.

So I saw that I started this discussion, and I had to take a stroll down memory lane.

Which made me laugh, and in turn caused me to notice I've slipped down to #16. Below Aaron Shurtleff, even! I can only assume my lack of recent participation and repeated beat-downs in Rock Block are counting against me. (Seriously, Steve West challenges me approximately 40 times as often as anyone else - do you know what that can do to a guy's record? Yes, I know, I can challenge other people, but let there be no confusion: I am fundamentally lazy).

RB suggestion: have the site auto-generate concerts, maybe one per day per player. Random themes, random rules, random players. If both players agree to play, they play it out. It would solve my problem of being too lazy to start concerts, and it would probably encourage everyone to try playing different combinations of rules outside the comfort zone of habit.

Steve West | January 16, 2009
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the rankings are based on number of wins irresepective of losses. And if you would get your lazy ass in gear, I wouldn't challenge you so much. Carry on. Seriously, I try to spread the challenges around and not specifically choose any one individual too much more than others but I do have a few preferential opponents.

Aaron Shurtleff | January 16, 2009
Golly. Steve West regularly pounds me in Rock Block, and it hasn't killed me yet... :P

Steve Dunn | January 16, 2009
Steve, I'm glad you challenge me - otherwise there would be long stretches in which I wouldn't play. Please don't stop. I was complaining about everyone else. Note the extraordinary hypocrisy - I don't challenge people, but I want them to challenge me. That's me in a nutshell. Well, part of me, anyway.

Steve West | January 16, 2009
I didn't take any offense at all. And I'm not letting you off the hook.

Scott Hardie | January 17, 2009
Steve, you also started Rock Block after the other players, so they have a head start. You will catch up quickly; userrank is designed to raise quickly for people just starting out and slowly for old-timers. That's how I know Steve West is going to overtake me soon by writing only a few more movie reviews. Curse this ranking system.

I may or may not do the randomly generated concert thing just like you describe, but I do plan to have a tournament soon which may have some randomness to the selection. And on my shortlist of changes to the site is a simplified start-a-concert form. Ideally I'd like to get it down to one form like Heaven & Hell, but with javascript that helps you narrow down your card options, like if it's a level 5 concert then you can only select R1s. Then you'll have no excuse.

Scott Hardie | January 17, 2009
Also, happy birthday! Apparently I lied the other day when I said it was your fifth anniversary of joining the site, since I had my math wrong; today is. In my five years of knowing you, I have been introduced to the pleasures of Koyaanisqatsi, Vampire Weekend, the Penguin, Drunk Dick Cheney, rooting for the former #8, and knowing what your free time is worth. Your friendship has been worth a lot more to me, but those are the first few things that come to mind. Thanks for being a friend to me, and to goo.tc. Too bad about the fried green tomatoes.

Amy Austin | January 17, 2009
Happy Birthday from the second-laziest RB player, Steve! ;-)

Steve West | January 17, 2009
Oh! Birthday! So sorry not to wish you the happiest one you can have. Now I do.