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I am absolute, legitimately and grievously, 100% upset...
...That this wasn't obviously a bit.
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
Octopath Traveler - MY BLADE IS UNBENDING
Seemed to come out at the same points for Coin Return and all of the variants for 50% share between Coin Return and variants.
So it didn't seem like the variants did any vote spoiling here.
Yeah, I believe Dibbit ran through the numbers and from what we can tell CR won by almost any metric possible, and was also basically the least objectionable choice as well, so we were all confident in calling it a ballgame. If anything had been hinky or overly close or messy, we'd have looked into ways to resolve that (up to and including a runoff vote if needed), but luckily it just wasn't close enough to have to cross that bridge. And we learned some valuable lessons for polling for next time around.
For nostalgia reasons one of the badges should be a broken April Fool's Badge.
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i'd laugh so hard if the 2025 one actually works
Bad Pennies.
Ok, so I know I said I was going to take a break, but to say there wasn't anything hinky and it wasn't overly close is just too much for me not to say something.
- The OP of the post explaining the vote pretty clearly described the vote as generic Ranked Choice.
- As you can easily see from reading the rest of that thread, most people were confused and voted as if each rank should be assigned to a choice.
- People could revote to update their ranking, but no additional announcement was made clarifying how the vote worked or that you could update your vote.
- With 5 different choices, and subsequently 5 ranks, the difference between a first ranking and second ranking is 20%.
- There's less than a 3% difference between Coin Return and Post Arcadia points wise, but we can't see what the actual ranking results are.
- There were two options that kept the PA acronym, guaranteeing some level of split from people that wanted to keep that familiarity.
It honestly seems like it was designed from the get go to favor Coin Return, whether intentional or not.
But since I also seem to be the only person actually upset at the results, I'll just have to learn to live with it.
I was also thinking of the alternative meaning of "something unwanted that keeps turning up." (Tongue in cheek, obviously)
Canadian Looneys that won't work in US arcades.
Even with that though if the majority of people wanted to keep that familiarity they would have had more first and second place votes for Post Arcade, and Post Arcadia. Even if 100% of the people who wanted Post Arcade had Post Arcadia as the second choice it would take a huge portion of the remaining vote to just really hate Coin Return in a way the numbers make seem unlikely. If we are looking at those who wanted to keep the familiarity vs those that wanted distance it is also clear that the majority wanted distance.
I am not trying to invalidate the pain felt here. It sucks we are in this position, and sucks we have to change the name. I wish we could have done this community building while not having to do the less helpful parts. I just want to make sure we are looking at all of the data here to see what has happened to hopefully prevent a bike shedding moment.
i roughed out some quick riffs I had last night on the existing concept
I was going to suggest we be called Loonies because that's the Canadian $1 coin, and describes us p well.
Oh no worries, and to be clear this was like just a few thoughts I wanted to get out before bed last night. There is a lot that can be explored with just the initial idea and even other concept spaces to mess around with.
Washers. (pretending to belong in a coin slot)
(also then people may assume we don't stink??)
Bad Pennies is hitting me as a Silly Goose replacement.
Post Arcade was a bit bland and really only had preserving the acronym going for it, in which case we might as well be the Puzzling Armadillo.
So by process of elimination, Coin Return wins.
Oh, are they bringing Splinter Cell back?
Anyway, Coin Return t’weren’t my first choice, but the graphics work on it is rapidly changing my mind. Good job, y’all.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
I like the general direction of the ones on the left, though none of them are lighting my world on fire.
The abbreviated forms on the right, though, are all s-tier. Super solid. (I would say the coin slot should be to the left of the letters, because that's how I've always seen it in arcades.)
Legos are cool, MOCs are cool, check me out on Rebrickable!
Shit, we should be 'Puzzling Armadillo'
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
Octopath Traveler - MY BLADE IS UNBENDING
I'd also like to add, fwiw - that while I dig a bunch of these designs, I really love the colors of the v1 logo more?
I tried a few colors but the black/red is hard to beat
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin