[POLL] WHY YOU NO NOMINATE FOR 2015 MISAOS YET, RMN?

The Misaos are monumentally silly but this community goes way out of its way to make sure no one ever respects us or takes us seriously.

I can't think of a time the misaos resulted in anything but complaining, but apparently it's very important to our community even though no one seems to like them.

I like them. :(

I like them too. Obviously enough to spend a couple hours to compile a list of notable games for a thread so people can discuss their favourite games of the year. Because honestly people could benefit from playing more games. While they're not making them themselves. I think the Misaos should be about congratulating each other for what we've done, for supporting each other and discussing how the year's gone in games, encouraging each other to make more games and hopefully gaining something from all this. I think it all depends on your attitude and how seriously you take a bunch of imaginary trophies that are supposed to instill more joy than grief. It should be an opportunity to discuss what you liked in the year, what you didn't like, and foster a positive sense of community to others for their games by incentivizing them with love and imaginary prizes of gold and silver. Instead it's coming up with all the reasons why something shouldn't exist, when it's actually supposed to be a celebratory, jubilant occasion giving people the due they deserve for blessing us with cute games. If your game doesn't get nominated, it doesn't matter, it's just an award. You can live without it, right? Doesn't mean they're a bunch of tripe, right? Have fun with it.

I'm in it for the makerscore. And babes.

Time to play some.

bahleted

We have caught people trying to cheat the misaos before.

Honestly, I quite like the Misaos (although choosing to permanently drop anchor here right as last year's one concluded probably had something to do with it.) It certainly provides an insight into the psyche of RMN's visitors that year, if nothing else.

Then, fact that "Tumblr" nominees often win is in many ways a good thing, as it keeps us from becoming too insular. In a way, the question might well be not "why the masses of Tumblr et. al. ignore our games?", but "Why we ignore them?". I mean, HOME had been the frontrunner in several categories last year (before ultimately ceding ground to Oneshot like everything else), and it continues to get attention nowadays. Yet, not a single one of its reviews was written by an established user on here, as far as I remember, and I found that quite strange (I suppose I should get on it myself...some day.)

Lastly, the idea of replacing Misaos with something like a top reviewer committee sound nice in theory, but would be too early for now. Not only is actually organising for people to play that many games too difficult at the moment, but I just don't think it'll look good for us to be replacing a popular vote like that when there's still almost a thousand unreviewed games on here, including plenty of complete ones that were added throughout this year, only to be promptly forgotten about afterwards.

I might sound idealistic here, but I think that the right day for a Misao Committee would be the day when the number of "(Completed?) games with a download without a review" reaches zero, and not a moment sooner. Even then, we might wish to keep the original Misao with its silly name for those needing it, and have the Committee as a parallel, "Critic's Choice" event.

P.S.

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"Gender and Race Topic (It’s hard not to get involved or look away.)"

Hm, that's the first time I'm hearing about it, and I'm still managing to look away so.... skills, I guess?

bahleted

I don't think being social on the forum necessarily means you get a lot of attention for your games. It means you get more attention, but the guy who made Blank Dream has never set foot in the forums and his game is freakishly popular. Sure, it helps to be active in the forum so people can notice you, and I think it's a good thing to have mutual support, but I wouldn't consider it a necessity. Sometimes you can get more done when you're not busy being distracted by people.