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DEAR DESTRUCTOID, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE NUMBER 5
Brilliam | 12:14 PM on 11.26.2008 23 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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eternalplayer2345's Destructoid Blog
I give this a 5.192..........FIGURE THAT OUT!
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
I GIVE THIS BLOG A C+!
Kif 's Destructoid Blog
Well we could stop arguing over that, but it won't happen.
Qraze's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
Five...

Five dollar...

Five dollar foot looooong.
Danshir's Destructoid Blog
Your boring me now...
Neonie's Destructoid Blog
I give this blog a 4.99. WHAT IS IT NOW?
mix's Destructoid Blog
50% is a pass from grade 1-12 so the games that get a 5 just pass as being playable....done
Brilliam's Destructoid Blog
Kif, you odn't understand. I'm saying that the two things being argued over ARE THE SAME THING.

Qraze:


Danshir:

SnakeDude4Life's Destructoid Blog
I find this to be a common cut-and-dried garden-variety plain run-of-the-mill unremarkable post.

Good day SIR!
Brilliam's Destructoid Blog
Well, THAT comment was decidedly MOR.
Danshir's Destructoid Blog
It's truly a LoL experience that you typo'ed in response to our usage of your.
PappaDukes's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
Hey at least it was a typographical error and not a grammatical one! :D
Ascythopicism's Destructoid Blog
@Brilliam's response to Qraze and Danshir:

Your just jealous...
garison's Destructoid Blog
Don't hate on Brilliam.
Aziel13's Destructoid Blog
shit rly
Necros's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
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's Destructoid Blog
Goddammit...I have to make that image even narrower than 400 pixels to fit in c-blog comments?! Son of a bitch.
Brilliam's Destructoid Blog
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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