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XBLA: SSF2THDR, Zuma, Pac-Man CE
DS: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
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My modestly-sized SNES game collection is as follows: F-Zero, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, Mega Man X, Mega Man 7, Chrono Trigger, NHL 97, NHLPA Hockey '93, Stunt Race FX, Adventures of Dr. Franken, Super Game Boy, Gunforce, Secret of Mana, Super Mario All-Stars, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, UN Squadron. I like it.

I've also got an Atari 2600, a PS1, a PS2, an Xbox 360, and a gaming-quality PC (finally).

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DEAR DESTRUCTOID, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE NUMBER 5
Brilliam \| 12:14 PM on 11.26.2008	24 comments

Hey, it's Brilliam. Remember me? I used to write a bunch of stuff. Recently I've been writing for my own blog on my own website, brilli.am/writes, but that's not what I am here to talk about today. I wanna talk about something that came up in response to Dexter345's fabulous post about the scores given by Dtoid's reviewers. Truly a fasinating post; read it if you haven't already. However:

I am here to talk about two words: mediocre and average.

me�di�o�cre
Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality.

av�er�age
Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

CAN WE PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT WHETHER A 5 MEANS MEDIOCRE OR AVERAGE? I mean, seriously, people. Do you know what mediocre means? IT DOESN'T MEAN BAD, JESUS! BAD MEANS BAD!

I apologize if this has already been brought up. I heard the question on Podtoid this morning as to whether 5 means mediocre and average, which disappointed me, and was further disappointed when they ACTUALLY TRIED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. C'mon! It means both! Theym eans the same thing! There's a reason that "medium" and "mediocre" sound similar! Soylent Green is people! KEYSER SOZE!

Etymologically yours (also, entomologically yours),

Brilliam "Thunderbug" McThrilliam

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22 comments | showing # 1 to 22

eternalplayer2345

I give this a 5.192..........FIGURE THAT OUT!

MrSadistic

I GIVE THIS BLOG A C+!

Kif

Well we could stop arguing over that, but it won't happen.

Qraze

5 means to me to get it if your a fan. like ATHF:zombie ninja pro-am, the game sucked but as a fan i loved it and supported it.only get it if your a fan btw.

TheDreadHawk

Five...

Five dollar...

Five dollar foot looooong.

Alexradl

Danshir

Your boring me now...

Neonie

I give this blog a 4.99. WHAT IS IT NOW?

mix

50% is a pass from grade 1-12 so the games that get a 5 just pass as being playable....done

Brilliam

Kif, you odn't understand. I'm saying that the two things being argued over ARE THE SAME THING.

Qraze:

Danshir:

SnakeDude4Life

I find this to be a common cut-and-dried garden-variety plain run-of-the-mill unremarkable post.

Good day SIR!

Brilliam

Well, THAT comment was decidedly MOR.

Danshir

It's truly a LoL experience that you typo'ed in response to our usage of your.

PappaDukes

ha, i LOVE the .png explaining the contraction "you are". I have no idea how people still can't understand the difference between "your" and "you're". I think I learned that in 5th grade? That is about as aggravating as when people spell DEFINITELY with an A (DEFINATLY!? Are you fucking kidding me??)

Anyways, as far as your post goes, I understand where you are coming from, wholeheartedly. 5 is average, mediocre, ordinary, fair, etc. They're (see what I did there!?) synonyms, get over it people.

Brilliam

Hey at least it was a typographical error and not a grammatical one! :D

Ascythopicism

@Brilliam's response to Qraze and Danshir:

Your just jealous...

garison

Don't hate on Brilliam.

Aziel13

shit rly

Bob Muir

For what it's worth, I'd prefer not to play a mediocre game anyways, since there are so many above average games I'd rather play.

GrayFox

Isn't there a slight difference though?

'Mediocre' is qualitative, whereas 'average' is comparative. So if you have 10 games which are all varying degrees of 'good', the 'average' game in that set would still be of 'good' quality, not 'mediocre'.

Samit Sarkar

Goddammit...I have to make that image even narrower than 400 pixels to fit in c-blog comments?! Son of a bitch.

Brilliam

Credit to Samit for the image, I forgot to say!

Grayfox: The thing is, if the ten-point scale is working properly, average and mediocre ARE the same thing. They'd both theoretically be 5.5. If you had ten games that were all varying degrees of 'good,' you either need a larger sample size, or you need to re-ealuate your opinion of "good" so that mediocre BECOMES the average.

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