Dance of the Title Fairy: Pale Moonlight Edition

[Psyche]

xRECKONERx

->

Passionfruit

Second

Third.

Nominate mina for

mafia scum

2nd

3rd

i wish ppl woudl get this mad about all the unjustly banned boys instead of something dumb like titles.

Amen.

Nominate Tammy for

Ms. Waffles

[Psyche]

Let's talk about kkb. There's so much distinctive about him I wonder why he doesn't have a title.

- fitness
- anime
- his "thing"
- competent skill as mafia

why did i make this post

[Psyche]

man skrew becoming a fairy has changed you

[Psyche]

kaney would be better than kanye but would have the weakness of khan man

[Psyche]

Nominate Tammy for

Ms. Waffles

Still incredibly lame.

YOU'RE

INCREDIBLY LAME

[Psyche]

*pew pew*

[Psyche]

too much strong arm

[Psyche]

wat

[Psyche]

Why?

[Psyche]

Seriously.

[Psyche]

2. Users may discuss and express support for a nomination. If a nomination gets support from five users, I will give my own input (if I haven't already).

[Psyche]

There was just...nothing.

[Psyche]

I'm misunderstanding your point?

Yeah.

[Psyche]

if you guys don't need to explain anything coherently
why ought i?

[Psyche]

sighhh

Does Sleeykrew's post say "I'll give input if I don't like it and have nothing to add"
Or does it say "I'll give input"

[Psyche]

though i guess my problem is more with how no one really talked about it

and the title itself
i mean it's one step away from an inside joke
and more than half of the uses by anyone on the forum with respect to cheerydog come from two people (skrew and n)

but

whatever

see how much i don't care about this thing that doesn't matter?

[Psyche]

or that adding more people to the process will somehow reduce the arguments.

i think it would enhance the arguments and make the titling process all the more entertaining

[Psyche]

but "laissez fairy" is like what every title should be like
except for the fact that it's inappropriate for sk

[Psyche]

Some things benefit from the addition of process. Other things are harmed by it. In this case, title discussion already verges on too-serious rather than fairly lighthearted fun to build community.

In any event, I'm getting tired of seeing policy discussion in this thread rather than title suggestions and discussion about those titles. If you want to make a thread discussing how the Title Fairy should operate, please start a new thread about it.

but skrew said we should give him feedback in this thread here

[Psyche]

COULD ZITO BE THE FABLED KANYE ALT?

[Psyche]

blatant fairy bias

Sure, man. But that's not really a problem.

SKrew has earned the title of Inside Joke Fairy, and it's up to him to use that according to his best judgement. Sure that means titles he likes will get pushed through. But who cares? That's the only reward he gets for his contribution to the site here, and far be it from me to tell him how to abuse that power.

Keep on keeping on, SKrew. We stand united under your reign of awful tyranny.

~Jingle

Sorry, I thought the Title Fairy was about somehow benefiting the community, and not about stroking an arbitrarily selected scummer's ego.

Everyone else can bitch, moan, bribe, threaten, throw hissy fits, etc. It doesn't matter.

How can you be so short-sighted? What's even the point of having this titling process instead of others if everyone else is bitching and moaning over it? Whether anything happening in this and related threads are worthwhile depends almost totally on whether it makes community happier or not.

[Psyche]

Everyone else can bitch, moan, bribe, threaten, throw hissy fits, etc. It doesn't matter.

How can you be so short-sighted? What's even the point of having this titling process instead of others if everyone else is bitching and moaning over it? Whether anything happening in this and related threads are worthwhile depends almost totally on whether it makes community happier or not.

Because we trust in the title fairy.

Also because people who are unhappy that they can't control what's under other people's names aren't worth listening to.

Of course, SK doesnt have to listen to me at all. He can do things your way if he wants.

those aren't answers to my questions at all

[Psyche]

this is worse than i imagined it would be

[Psyche]

though the title is better than the last one

[Psyche]

woo a proper title even though im not sure it's good

[Psyche]

now i have to find something else to be angry about :(

[Psyche]

nth admiral gaylord

[Psyche]

i think it's a little too lighthearted about naval warfare and the honorable americans who give their lives every day to engage in it
but

[Psyche]

is it still the roosters one

[Psyche]

so it is

[Psyche]

wait
it's not his last name?

[Psyche]

like
usernames are what we know people by

[Psyche]

Khan Man was bad. I still don't see Glenn Peck. I could go on. It's really too bad that esurio and I couldn't overcome our differences before.

But

Nominate SleepyKrew for Mafia Scum

[Psyche]

you know what

nth

[Psyche]

well now he has a higher chance of actually doing it

[Psyche]

that is a very lame nom for kanye

[Psyche]

im sure kkb's selfnom would be fantasitc

[Psyche]

we can trust kanye to not choose something terrible

[Psyche]

his error rate is not that high

[Psyche]

free timmothy

3rd

4th

[Psyche]

knew he wasn't committed to liberating timmothy

[Psyche]

it's mediocre

[Psyche]

the title is meh
but kanye likes it so

[Psyche]

it is literally a single transposition

[Psyche]

whyd you delete my post but not theirsss

[Psyche]

who argues to argue

[Psyche]

i say unto you
i spake not to continue the discourse
but rather to finish it

[Psyche]

no didn't you see my last post

[Psyche]

still no

[Psyche]

i dunno man
most good titles are brainstormed in this thread after someone comes to think that a title would be a good idea

[Psyche]

GreyICE - 50 Shades
FakeGod - Seven-Colored Puppeteer
Antihero - al;kdjfal;kj
Aneninen - Very Important Pigeon
kanyeknowsbest - mafi ascum

isn't that just a list of recent titles :x

[Psyche]

If we can't think of a good way of synthesizing a users unique personality on the site, the most likely explanation is that they don't yet deserve a title, not that we should think harder.

are you sure you aren't overstating the cleverness of our base

[Psyche]

If we can't think of a good way of synthesizing a users unique personality on the site, the most likely explanation is that they don't yet deserve a title, not that we should think harder.

are you sure you aren't overstating the cleverness of our base

[Psyche]

it's not an particularly amazing title
but neither is "GD is my Best Man"

[Psyche]

more because of the justification than the style

[Psyche]

psyche was showing his ignorance by trying to throw shade @ my title

im caught

[Psyche]

i didn't really know how good reck's title was until i read those suggestions for shea

[Psyche]

sometimes i say that a title is good

[Psyche]

but that's pretty rare i must admit

[Psyche]

srsly venmar

[Psyche]

i always thought it was crotcheted

[Psyche]

wat

[Psyche]

stop him sk
before he gets to the secret titles

[Psyche]

i don't understand it but i like it probably because of the rhyming
it should probably be denied

[Psyche]

can we have a nice simple two part form where people are forced to justify the titles they nom people for

[Psyche]

when does bro ever throw shade

[Psyche]

i just don't see it
no more than anyone else anyway

[Psyche]

we know what shade means guys

[Psyche]

so the nom is calling bro a passive aggressive dick

[Psyche]

darn it etl

[Psyche]

bro's habit of posting things like his test in the PSA thread is the sole

bad

thing about him
in general he talks about mafia as if he's some sort of paragon and most everyone else is mentally challenged

[Psyche]

i mean
bro is fine, great even
an important and positive figure on this site
but his title could be about something that's awesome or somewhat more neutrally distinctive about him

[Psyche]

oh look my post was misinterpreted
didn't see that coming at all

[Psyche]

I oppose the nomination on the grounds that 1) some of those colors are not part of the rainbow, 2) some colors are repeated more than others, and 3) the soft and the solid colors are strangely segregated.

[Psyche]

the second word is the trans flag but ok.

i was being facetious
FACETIOUS

[Psyche]

shade is being a dick
and yeah i guess that can be fun
but let's not glamorize it

[Psyche]

can confirm that i talk about princeton somewhat more often per post than bro talks about darthmouth
of course i spend all of my time there and he graduated years ago but hey

[Psyche]

I think it's different from being a dick.

Though Dick Brigade made me smile.

what's the difference?
besides shade being more passive aggressive?

[Psyche]

i'm not the only one saying titles are bad

And psyche is flatly wrong about his interpretation of the word shade, but that doesn't surprise me.

Tell me what shade means then. I'm just taking a cue from the others. Someone linked the urban dictionary definition for example.

[Psyche]

Psyche, can you shut up until you actually propose a good title or 3?

can you?

But really, I think it's a myth that the only substantive thing one can do in the title discussion thread is to suggest titles and say that they're good ideas. I'm not going to look for reasons to nominate people for things just to balance out the fact that I don't like most recent nominations of people for things.

(I like Fakegod's title!)

[Psyche]

his shade

is

better

[Psyche]

oh i wasn't criticizing him either
talking about ivy status is cool
it's become part of who we are
and most highly engaged members here talk a lot about themselves

[Psyche]

I don't think I'm acting as if titles are objective. And I think I do "get" the title noms after people explain them. But then I might also dislike them. I think the hero that this thread deserves is kkb.

Pedit: It sounded like you were defensive, so I inferred that you thought I was criticizing you.

naw i was throwing shade

Shade is rudeness that is performed for the entertainment of others. The performance aspect is related to the association with drag.

It sounds a lot like when Regina pours a jug of milk on the girl she dislikes so that everyone in the cafeteria can laugh at that girl while admiring Regina for her clever move. All the entertainment adds is that the insult is public and therefore embarrasses.

[Psyche]

i wasn't trying to say that the milk pouring was an act of shade throwing
but trying to say that shade throwing is just as much of a dick move as the milk pouring

(I like the title more than I like Khan Man. :])

[Psyche]

"Dick move" connotes masculine rudeness/directness, which is not the same as shade. You would only make that comparison if you were trying to criticize someone's facility with shade.

I disagree with you but I'll just focus on what's important. I'm saying that throwing shade is a really shitty thing to do. It's being an asshole. It's being mean to other people and doing it for entertainment only makes it worse because the entertainment happens at others' expense. It seems like you're trying to say that BRO is being something a bit more artful than a dick when he casts shade, but more than anything throwing shade is just making other people feel small while making yourself feel bigger. When done repeatedly to the same target, it's bullying. The masculinity and the subtlety of it aren't really essential to the comparison.

[Psyche]

You shouldn't be so afraid of discussion AP. That your ideas might be criticized doesn't mean you're being attacked or that you shouldn't bring them up. To expect - to order - everyone to summarily go with your nom just because you want them to is unrealistic, immature and goes against the spirit of this thread. And that's all I have to say about your issue with me.

[Psyche]

I just don't

like

shade is all. In particular because there's this culture around it that endorses it. And it's sometimes identified as "the gay community".

I think shade occurring in its appropriate context doesn't make people feel small. It makes people feel like they are part of a community.

Now you're just messing with me. Right? Right??

[spoiler=n dear
shade is for throwing, not wearing]

[/spoiler]

Like, do you agree with Marquis that this is a canonical example of throwing shade? Do you think it made noodle lady

feel like part of a community

?

[Psyche]

the gay community

I was hoping to insinuate that the identification with the gay community is not accurate. Though I guess pointing at Regina George doesn't help my case.
I'm against the nomination because throwing shade is a shitty thing to do and we have a history of not giving titles for doing shitty things. And I think Bro is more than that shitty thing he sometimes does!

but yeah im not exactly dodging people who take exceptions rn

[Psyche]

and reck don't forget reck
i am opposing titles specifically because tso, shea and reck also regularly oppose titles

[Psyche]

i think every post ap made in the last page was objectively wrong :]

[Psyche]

just give him the title skrew

[Psyche]

Psyche, I don't get why you think giving Shade is necessarily being a dick. Sure, it has some negative connotations, but I don't get objectively why the title should be off the table. I feel like you're getting offended for Bro.

Shea and TSO put me up to it.

[Psyche]

maybe sleepkrew has been sleeptitling

[Psyche]

SACRILEGE

[Psyche]

how much power do these "List Mods" get

[Psyche]

i'm with etl

[Psyche]

I like the idea, but I don't get why it has to have "scum" in it.

I sort of agree with this. Something like "Comedian" seems a bit easier on the eyes and gets the point across; I mean the fact that chkflip plays mafia isn't exactly a unique thing about him. But Scumedian is okay too i guess.

[Psyche]

2nd

[Psyche]

there are worse titles

[Psyche]

i'm sure i could find something racist about it if i looked hard

[Psyche]

i don't think that's what would make it hard

[Psyche]

AHH IT BURNS

[Psyche]

its okay to not know or care :]

[Psyche]

nth

who else on this forum has a reputation for being short

[Psyche]

MORE NTHS

[Psyche]

standards are pretentious

[Psyche]

after singer's nom i actually imagined a pretty detailed scenario where i go to my first meet and knock on the door when this figure who's slightly shorter than my own mother just walks past me from behind to open it herself and invites me in; i smile a little and say, "Are you Mina???" and then she closes the door on my face

i go home immediately and never find out if the figure is mina or not

[Psyche]

a murder of crows so dense and populous that it blots out the sun begins to encircle my dorm
besides their cries, i hear a voice, booming and from nowhere, that says only, "SHORT? SHORT?? SHORT????"
gradually its volume rises, eventually totally drowning out the crows' shrieks; my ears feel as if on fire and bleeding
with no light and no hearing and no escape i curl into a small fetal ball and begin a descent into insanity

[Psyche]

but i didn't finish my storyyyy
quilfordddd

[Psyche]

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

INDEFINITE ARTICLES?

[Psyche]

YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO GET RID OF ORANGE IN SHARP CONTRAST???

[Psyche]

but sun tzu is comparatively...cliched?

[Psyche]

i want to forcibly veto the singer nom

[Psyche]

Yes, that's me. Obsessed with being relevant. I did Project 84 because I want you guys to like me.

[Psyche]

with all due respect
i am twenty years old

[Psyche]

it's like the ageist equivalent of the angry woman meme

[Psyche]

i will try to balance my dislike of the nomination with my profound desire to be recognized by people like oversoul

[Psyche]

do you guys even know what curmudgeon means
what the culture around the idea excoriates?

[Psyche]

is there a synonym we can compromise on
i'm okay with being angry
i'm not okay with being old
i don't even like being 20
it feels unnatural

[Psyche]

how about sourpuss id take sourpuss

[Psyche]

wet blanket?

[Psyche]

is there a synonym we can compromise on
i'm okay with being angry
i'm not okay with being old
i don't even like being 20
it feels unnatural

this is the joke psyche... :(

i guess i can appreciate that
in fact, i think i

even can

can even appreciate that i can't appreciate that

[Psyche]

deep down i know
that i deserve to bear a title that i hate
like if the scarlet letter happened but instead of getting an A hester gets a letter she particularly dislikes

[Psyche]

im sensing a little passive aggression in this title nomination process

[Psyche]

Curmudgeon rejected.

I didn't reject it. :/

[Psyche]

I thought I acted very ambivalent

[Psyche]

who would i be if my actions could be taken at face value

[Psyche]

i feel very neutral about this outcome

[Psyche]

don't try to sneakily uppercase that c etl

[Psyche]

it just sounds so threatening when you say that so simply

[Psyche]

I see you as the doe eyed child incessantly trying to get the cake on the counter, just barely reaching it by being close enough to make the parents nervous

you

do

get me

[Psyche]

Titling Procedure:
1. Any user who has been on the site for at least three months can be nominated for a title. Anyone can nominate. Please don't self-nom.
2. Users may discuss and express support for a nomination. If a nomination gets support from five users, I will give my own input (if I haven't already).
3. Once I approve a title, the nominated user gets to decide whether they accept it or not.

yknow,
i've accepted lots of things i was ambivalent about
i've been ambivalent about every single person i've ever dated
i've been ambivalent about the prevailing narrative concerning the jfk assassination
once i was ambivalent about whether i even have thoughts

[Psyche]

if i were sleepykrew i'd resign before being dictated through
this is the treaty of versailles all over again

[Psyche]

it was supposed to draw this distinction between sentiment and acceptance
but it seems that you're in a bad mood :[

[Psyche]

QQ
QQQ
QQ
QQQ

WHO AM I
TO YOU?

[Psyche]

you speak so much truth flameaxe you speak so much truth

[Psyche]

Ugh. Psyche's behavior in this thread is really obnoxious.

i've decided that you guys like me too much

[Psyche]

I'm very sorry. I'm very thankful for the thought, when it was well-meaning, but I just think I'm a little different from the person you guys see when you look at me. One day, we'll all be properly acquainted. But until then, I'm not really part of the community; until then, I don't really deserve a title, no matter how agreeable to you all who have so graciously worked to capture who I am and how I relate to you into a short and pithy phrase. I have a habit of letting myself get out of hand while at the same time not letting other things go. I can never just have reservations or my own opinion; I can't help but feel like there's something I must say. I don't believe this tendency is who I am; rather, it's a vestige of the weird path that I've had to take toward maturity. I just don't think I can let that define me, not yet. My conviction is that eventually there will be a better moment for all of this to happen and that it will be much more positive and less ambivalent. I'm willing to wait for that moment. I hope that you can understand.

[Psyche]

Psyche doesn't shit on other title suggestions when hes too distracted by getting nommed for troll titles.

You probably haven't noticed, but ever since our discussion earlier I've been toning down my criticism of and standards for title noms.

No, Psyche is just a troll.

Oversoul's description was a little more perceptive.

pedit: if you're going to skim through a post and then reply to it, at least skim through the whole thing

[Psyche]

nth the mos nom

[Psyche]

Let's not rush this.

[Psyche]

maybe zor's posts should be red when he's handing down a red decree

[Psyche]

yes
yes yes yes
yes

[Psyche]

i was saying yes to phallacy's avatar
and to phalluses more generally

[Psyche]

i wouldn't aggressively criticize the idea of that title

[Psyche]

it's very chamber tbh

[Psyche]

that's just not accurate wg

[Psyche]

still no

[Psyche]

let's have an argument about whether or not the mind can in principle be described coherently and comprehensively using only the language of biology

[Psyche]

if you have a problem with me
let's fight

[Psyche]

who teaches their kangaskhan

headbutt

?

[Psyche]

and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever

[Psyche]

please at least capitalize the k please

[Psyche]

The 2015s are organizing :lol:

[Psyche]

yay passive fairy

[Psyche]

Can I motion for extending the period to six months.
Not that I think any title nom should be retroactively denied.

[Psyche]

it's how it used to be

[Psyche]

oh no anything but that

[Psyche]

take the hint

[Psyche]

no

[Psyche]

and get a life

[Psyche]

Not giving Mina a generic short joke.

[Psyche]

i appreciate you tso

[Psyche]

i think people have given up on this thread as an institution

[Psyche]

have you read the art of war, tso

[Psyche]

maybe the thread should just be closed

[Psyche]

can we please have that ban on nominations without explanations

[Psyche]

I kind of think that if something needs a post explaining it it's probably not a very good title anyway?

i just don't agree with that
titles tend to be a little subtle by design, after all

[Psyche]

mathemakitten also characterizes a lot of what plot's about, too, though
it's not a bad nom at all
though wgeurts's was

[Psyche]

hmmmmmmm
i'll

nth

it

[Psyche]

it's only bad in your opinion

[Psyche]

nth

[Psyche]

can we please have that ban on nominations without explanations

[Psyche]

it's so weird that there is activity in this thread

[Psyche]

oh it's a backronym
i like that line of thinking

[Psyche]

i knew that one day i'd be exposed

[Psyche]

what about my team mafia banner

[Psyche]

maybe i deserve a bad title did you think of that

[Psyche]

how unhappy would you guys be if i said i don't get it

[Psyche]

oh that really is the thing

[Psyche]

can i be the blue blur

[Psyche]

just

regrets the necro

[Psyche]

"lulz"

[Psyche]

anti-nom

[Psyche]

I'm so sad that Psyche won't accept SaDOS as his title.

Psyche has had so many good noms that I don't try anymore.

skrew rejects most of them

[Psyche]

also
what??
which ones?

[Psyche]

the day sleepykrew did his job

[Psyche]

shouldn't a title about prolific punning have a pun in it

[Psyche]

the word "pundit" seems to have promise

[Psyche]

NTH

END THE FAMINE

[Psyche]

nifty

u mean "thrilling" ur adjective should be "thrilling"

[Psyche]

how is that even possible

[Psyche]

u said radja was cool

[Psyche]

Didn't I tell you that? lol

The closest someone got to saying that was Cheet describing the games as episodic, which I *very reasonably* interpreted to mean that one game served as a sequel to the next in the same fashion as series games of the past.

gosh skrew ur so uptight

[Psyche]

Drinking out loud doesn't seem very unique or original?

yeah we already have at least one person with a title based on the same justification

[Psyche]

no no it's like degrassi: the next generation

[Psyche]

i am drake

[Psyche]

persistently appalled

[Psyche]

i dont take title noms seriously unless they're at least a little good

[Psyche]

no that's ridiculous