About Last Night
Day 1,660, 08:15
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by Christian Doe
First of all, below is sweeta's explanation for the "dual" EPIC nomination in yesterday's election:
"A few minutes after his resignation from EPIC I have nominate him as CP candidate, without asking him why he resigned. After this he explain me a little his option, but the game don't allow to erase the candidate, just to change it. So, then he tell me to choose Christian as candidate."
Trust me, I never intended to run for CP seriously. Work and family already prevent me from even being as active as I want in Congress. It was a lol move, a rather unusual action for me you will agree. My campaign goals included a 4% increase (a reference to the vacation pay at layoff, something I thought I would get some time ago) and the conquest of Cork (which looks like a nasty word, insert Beavis and Butthead laughter sound cue). I never published any campaign article (or any article at all for that matter). I know that was all silly, but I've been tired because of work recently.
When I logged on halfway through the day I realized that many EPIC members were voting for the party and ignoring who should have been our candidate in the first place. I changed my avatar to redirect those votes to Nosyt in the hope of not being remembered as the guy "who ruined Nosyt's election", to quote a friend on IRC. I was planning to change it back as soon as Nosyt gained the lead, but the two candidates remained tied all afternoon and evening. Seeing all the attention the race got and the excitement it generated, I decided to play the game of thrones a little longer. Eventually I changed it around 1:30 AM after my daughter woke me up and couldn't get back to sleep. Nosyt had a one vote lead back then, I decided to let what is left of democracy in this game decide who the winner should be. If my intervention offended anyone, I'm truly sorry about it.
Nosy proved that he could almost win a CP election even without 100+ EPIC votes. Rylde proved that hard work and persistence pay off in the long run. All in all, I think I'm quite happy with the results.
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It's people like u that i respect in this game & make this game fun & entertaining.
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TemujinBC was the only viable candidate. Keep the throne warm for him, will ya?
Coulda been the whiskey...might have been the gin....
Don't worry Christian. All this election proved was that Nosyt wanted to make it so difficult for himself that he couldn't win. Why? Because it was easy to tell from his articles he didn't want to win.
Can't a candidate drop out? I remember I think it was IronToader who did that when he was finishing in 5th
Just proves that the mindless EPIC members have no idea what is going on and vote for the big dumb EPIC logo not realizing that you weren't even running for CP
and you only have 113 of them..... at Noon....
@ chewytaz: Yes, I candidate can drop out. The PP can't remove a nomination, but a nominee can quit the party, and then return to the party. This takes away the nomination, and leaves it empty. However, all this needs to happen before the candidates are locked in at the end of the 2nd of the month.
Looks like I know your party better than you do.
Yeah, it's quite easy to get a candidate off the ballot and have no party endorsement, as Wilhelm pointed out. I think that's what happened to let Wes Lewis win against TemujinBC.
A bit funny that when Nosyt does something to make things equitable and entertaining that EPIC only gets bashed by the detractors even further. It makes me realize where this place is heading.
@Wilhelm: it was right before the day change and in some minutes the candidate were locked. I just wished that Nosyt explain me more about he want to do. I thought it was ok to nominate him (after he won the primaries) and then I realized that it was too late to change something, when he told me about his intention. Also, I apologized everyone about this. Whatever. As Plugson knows better: it's quite easy.
S'okay, sweeta. Last minute changes are always a challenge.
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mm, don't worry about it CD, the only one who can accept any blame for this (though, I for one don't really feel like blaming anyone) is Nosyt, for trying to make things even more difficult for himself 😛
After a month of Rylde and Rolo, EPIC'll be back in the driver's seat.
EPIC'll be back in the driver's seat?
EPIC strikes me as a very crowded bus with nobody in the driver's seat. They all are interested in a ride to wherever the bus is going but there is no destination and there is nobody at the wheel to get the bus moving.
It was all the votes for me that swung the election! 🙂