"Alter Egos"... Pick your favorites!

[digitalpress]

We'll make this as simple as possible.

VOTE.

Vote 1-3 of your favorites, with 1 being your most favorite. You should vote based on how much they made you laugh, how well they stayed in character, and (in my opinion most importantly) how original their idea was.

We'll vote in THIS THREAD for the next 48 hours. On Friday night I'll get together with the mods and with the "public opinion" we'll pick the Gold, Silver and Bronze medalists.

I urge you to NOT give away your identity yet - you should vote and be voted on based on your character. If no one guessed who you were then all the better, that's sure to help your voting! Also please don't vote for yourself. =)

GO GO GO!

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Rock
Guts Man
Random Moogle

I have to give 1-Up a mention for being amusing, and that Jaguar-loving latecomer credit - if that one had shown up earlier, it would've been a hoot. LOL

[Queen Of The Felines]

1 Hiroshi
2 El Suave
3 Nintendo

Kristine

[ubersaurus]

well, since I can't vote for myself, I have to throw my hat off to Stanley, for being very amusing. Disgruntled nintendo characters=own my soul.

Also, hats off toadstool, and dr. robotnik, even if your first name was misspelled ;p

[Dire 51]

I can't vote for myself either, so here's my picks:

1. Stanley
2. Rock
3. Johnny Turbo

[kainemaxwell]

Here's mine:

1. Random Moogle #8
2. Old Man Graves' Ghost
3. El Suave

[Charlie]

I'm having trouble voting. If this had ended after one day, my votes would have been different. However, I think that certain people went to far to the left or right of what their character *should* have acted like. For example, Hiroshi Yamauchi would have gotten my vote for #1 if it had ended after one day. But after a while, instead of shamelessly plugging Nintendo and defending their every action, it came down to inept name calling. It got less and less entertaining as it went on. Hiroshi: Rules Nintendo (and the Video Game Industry in his own mind) with an Iron Fist. Cool. Hiroshi: Calling people names instead of doing what Nintendo always did with their enemies (ignore them and/or threaten them with lawsuits): bad. He went from my #1 pick to not even on my list.

So that being said... I think that it's tough to vote because so many 'characters' degenerated over the week (this thing went about four days too long) so I'm only going to pick the person I think should be the winner. I can't pick my character, although I think I did a pretty good job. So, my pick is:

Old Man Graves' Ghost. Odd choice to be certain but I dug the character. I thought the person playing it stayed very true to the character. And I enjoyed my interactions with that character.

I'll kick the 2nd place vote to Buster's Revenge. Annoying to the tee, but some funny one liners. 3rd Place is Great Mighty Poo, who should have sung about his shit more then he did, but I still thought it was ok.

[Oobgarm]

1. El Suave
2. Buster's Revenge
3. Rock

[Kid Fenris]

1. Stanley
2. Guts Man
3. LarryLaffer

Honorable Mentions: Jag4Ever, Sothy Jr., Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Old Man Graves' Ghost.

[Quazick]

Sothy Jr. LOL

[punkoffgirl]

El Suave
The Great and Mighty Poo
Random Moogle #8

I think that the characters that were not actually video game related in any way should not be considered, anyone want to second it?

[Quazick]

El Suave
The Great and Mighty Poo
Random Moogle #8

I think that the characters that were not actually video game related in any way should not be considered, anyone want to second it?

Meh I don't think that's fair..

Sothy Jr owns them all.

[Charlie]

"I think that the characters that were not actually video game related in any way should not be considered, anyone want to second it?"

I thought it was implied that was the case. Besides, only an idiot would vote for the completely unfunny and unoriginal Sothy Jr. Oh, sorry Quazick.

[Kroogah]

Hiroshi Yamauchi
El Suave
Larry Laffer

[Quazick]

Thanks for the flame..

Anyways if it was in the base rules I didn't bother to read then I suppose I agree.

[Dire 51]

Well, here's what dp wrote in the original rules:

"This alter-ego should be video game related (ex: "Ms. Pac-Man")"

He never specified that it had to be video game related, but I'm inclined to think that it was very strongly encouraged. At any rate, I'm going to have to agree with pog on this.

[Guts Man]

Well, here's what dp wrote in the original rules:

"This alter-ego should be video game related (ex: "Ms. Pac-Man")"

He never specified that it had to be video game related, but I'm inclined to think that it was very strongly encouraged. At any rate, I'm going to have to agree with pog on this.

In that case, hot damn, I'll win for sure!!! Ain't nobody going to mistake me for anything other then a video game character! Guts Man da Man!

[kainemaxwell]

Well, here's what dp wrote in the original rules:

"This alter-ego should be video game related (ex: "Ms. Pac-Man")"

He never specified that it had to be video game related, but I'm inclined to think that it was very strongly encouraged. At any rate, I'm going to have to agree with pog on this.

In that case, hot damn, I'll win for sure!!! Ain't nobody going to mistake me for anything other then a video game character! Guts Man da Man!
They could mistake you for a giant boulder.

[Oobgarm]

I think that the characters that were not actually video game related in any way should not be considered, anyone want to second it?

I agree. I found the likes of Sothy Jr., Shadysmurf, and governator to take some of the novelty out of it. No offense to those guys, though. :)

[dave2236]

#1 Guts man
#2 Stanley
#3 I'll throw a vote out for HULK, even though he's been around for awhile.


No one has figured out who I was yet....muhaha

[NE146]

1. Beat Up Guile :D
2.... I can't think of any others to be quite honest :embarrassed:
3. oh wait! 2600 Pacman :P

[Ace Mcloud]

Well, here's what dp wrote in the original rules:

"This alter-ego should be video game related (ex: "Ms. Pac-Man")"

He never specified that it had to be video game related, but I'm inclined to think that it was very strongly encouraged. At any rate, I'm going to have to agree with pog on this.

Ace Mcloud here,

and Yes, I'm not "actually" Video game related (ie guts man,pac man ..) but
I was involved with video games (when I reveal my true identity, you will understand). I did give hints to back ground in my introduction.
now for my votes:

1. Dr.Robotnik (he stayed tue to his character, and he gave me one hell of a fight)
2. guts man (he also stayed true to his character)
3. Buster's Revenge ( stayed true to his charcater)

Almost everybody made me laugh, most of the first batch died off fast (Like mighty mangor etc..) but most of them stayed for durration even durring the down time durring the slashdot.com thing.
and even if I don't get any votes I did enjoy the forum.

Ace Mcloud
Signing off

[scooterb23]

1. Random Moogle #8
2. Stanley
3. Guts Man

Lots of fun eveyone!! That was tough to keep an alter ego going for so long...

[Shadysmurf]

Us Smurfs are angrey non of you liked us smurfy smurfs :angry:

[Charlie]

Well, here's what dp wrote in the original rules:

"This alter-ego should be video game related (ex: "Ms. Pac-Man")"

He never specified that it had to be video game related, but I'm inclined to think that it was very strongly encouraged. At any rate, I'm going to have to agree with pog on this.

In that case, hot damn, I'll win for sure!!! Ain't nobody going to mistake me for anything other then a video game character! Guts Man da Man!
They could mistake you for a giant boulder.

Or a trash compactor.

Here are the standings. 3 pts for a 1st place vote, 2 pts for a 2nd place vote, and 1 pt for a 3rd place vote. These are totally unofficial.

1. Stanley. 13 pts.
2. El Suave. 11 pts.
3. Guts Man. 10 pts.
4. Random Moogle #8. 8 pts ironicly enough.
5. Tie. Rock. 6 pts.
5. Tie. Hiroshi. 6 pts.
7. Tie. Old Man Graves' Ghost. 5 pts.
7. Tie. Buster's Revenge. 5 pts.
Others recieving points.
3 pts: Great Mighty Poo, Sothy Jr, Beat Up Guile.
2 pts: LarryLaffer, 2600 Pac Man
1 pt: Nintendo, Johnny Turbo, Hulk

I think it's going to be close between the top four vote getters.

[AB Positive]

sadly I can't vote for myself, however:

1) Buster's Revenge - Stayed in character, and seemed to come at just the right time to compliment whatever other people were doing.

2) Rock - I only wish he/she posted more. I truly enjoyed this one and was waiting for some extra stuff...

3) Parappa the Rappa - I really dug the challenge me thread, although I know some people thought he was annoying, I sorta liked it.

-AG

[Darth Vader]

1st Hiroshi
2nd Old Man Graves' Ghost.
3rd El Suave


If riki-oh was a video game character I would have voted him first, but since he has gone missing, I will have to decline from voting for him. (Loved his pants LOL )

Danny

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Am I the only one who missed COW this time around?

[Captain Wrong]

I'm voting for the Adventure Bat, because whoever this was pulled the wool on me in a B&S thread. :embarrassed:

[IGotTheDot]

Hiroshi Yamauchi
Stanley
Buster

[Charlie]

I can't believe I'm the only person who thought Hiroshi just wasn't funny. It started out as a great idea, but in the end the 'character' was acting childish. I didn't like that angle at all. It went from funny to pathetic.

[scooterb23]

I think it just became hard for everybody by the end to keep it all together. I'd agree that the name calling got silly, that's why I didn't vote for the Hiroshi character...it had gone too far afield IMO, but then again, the whole thing was pretty silly if you think about it :) Great fun all the same :)

[Charlie]

Oh, it doesn't change the fact that I had a good time. I agree, it ran to long and it made it hard to stay in character. Still, I tried to stay in character for what I thought my persona would act like. Did it work? Well, I've got votes!

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I'm almost more eager to find out who these nut cases WERE than I am to learn the outcome of the contest. :P

[AB Positive]

All I know is at least one person will want to inflict bodily harm on me when I reveal who I was. I'm certain of this.

-AG

[ubikuberalles]

1. Buster's Revenge
2. Stanley
3. Amazing Paperboy

Buster was disgusting but he was hilarious!

[kainemaxwell]

I did my best to keep in character also..got harder in the long run but I had a blast though. Glad to see others found me amusing too.

[YoshiM]

1. Stanley
2. Buster's Revenge
3. 1-Up

Stanley just played it to a "T" in regards to a "one hit wonder" now washed up video game hero. This person stayed true to character througout the whole event.

Buster was just wrong, but funny as hell. Also, um, "stuck" true to character but wasn't as good as Stanley.

Figuring out third place was hard. Psycho Fox was a possibility, the Moogle was good (though I'm not familiar with Moogles that much) but 1-Up was was refreshing. Making a character out of a paddle. Heh.

Honorable mention goes to Old Man Grave's Ghost whose obsession with his own urn (that made others jump into the fray to try to do SOMETHING to that urn) gave him points. The Atari Jaguar late comer would have been fun if they popped on earlier as they spun every negative Jaguar comment into a positive PR stance. THAT could have been taken far.

As for the competition I think it went on too long. Something like this should be a weekend maximum so everyone's creative juices were still in high gear.

[digitalpress]

ACK!

To everyone bringing up the over-long contest! Do you remember that we were SLASHDOTTED on Saturday and most people couldn't even get ON on Saturday or Sunday? If I had closed it when I intended the "other group of people" wouldn't have had an opportunity to play!

Just trying to make everyone happy and keep things fair, folks. Please remember that.

[ManekiNeko]

Gah... no votes at all for my character. Will my genius forever go unrecognized?
Anyway, I've got to hand a vote to Larry Laffer... using Old Man Graves' final resting place as a urn-inal was just too hilarious.

JR

[Lost Monkey]

I signed up late, as I didn't have any time available on Friday or over the weekend, but I found that by the time I did start posting, many of the original alter-egos had run out of gas... so I figured I might get some votes! ;)

My vote for #1 is for Buster's Revenge, as uncompromisingly lewd and lascivious as could be without resorting to cheapness (unlike many of the other "alts"). Buster's raps in the "Challange Me" thread went untopped...

I had alot of fun with my alter-ego... so much so, that I am thinking of letting it take over... :D

[Mayhem]

Likewise ManekiNeko... guess nobody loved our other personas :P

[Britboy]

1. Great Mighty Poo
2. Adventure Bat
3. Mr. Nutz


I was unable to participate this time, had family in the hospital over the weekend so I was too busy. Reading all of the alter ego posts was hilarious though, thanks for the laughs guys, I needed 'em! :)

[kainemaxwell]

Kinda sad Grahf didn't stick around, he would have gotten my vote if he stayed longer then a few hours.

Sad how the urn became a depository for many...things though. :roll:

[Dire 51]

Yeah... El Suave's post about how he didn't sanitize the urn before drinking tequila out of it had me laughing my head off. LOL

[kainemaxwell]

Weird thing is I can somehow see Sothy looking like the picture his "son" posted of him during the contest too.

[Oobgarm]

Weird thing is I can somehow see Sothy looking like the picture his "son" posted of him during the contest too.

You're just asking to get it in the skull, aren't you? LOL

[Reverend JagDiesel]

Though he wasnt around much:
1. Pick Axe Pete (who was that anyway)
The others:
2. The Poo
3. Random Moogle (i guess)

[Arcade Antics]

Besides, only an idiot would vote for the completely unfunny and unoriginal Sothy Jr. Oh, sorry Quazick.

Was this post really necessary? We're not in the Battlezone here. No need to bash other posters or alter egos, please stick to voting for your favorites.

[Brisco]

#1: Hiroshi
#2: Old Man Graves' Ghost
#3: Mr. Nutz

[ubersaurus]

All I know is the next contest will be mine, I've already got a persona all thought up ;)

[Kid Fenris]

I'm almost more eager to find out who these nut cases WERE than I am to learn the outcome of the contest. :P

Same here. I'd rather see a contest in which we try to guess who was who, with prizes awarded for the most correct conjectures.

Is it just me, or are some people taking this contest a little too seriously? I mean, I didn't create a handful of alter egos just so I could win prizes; I did it so I could screw around, recklessly post stupid crap, and perhaps even make some people laugh. And I'd like to think that the rest of the posters were also in it primarily for fun. This popularity contest is just a semi-amusing addendum.

[Oobgarm]

Is it just me, or are some people taking this contest a little too seriously? I mean, I didn't create a handful of alter egos just so I could win prizes; I did it so I could screw around, recklessly post stupid crap, and perhaps even make some people laugh. And I'd like to think that the rest of the posters were also in it primarily for fun. This popularity contest is just a semi-amusing addendum.

Yes, sir. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, or until someone overanalyzes something that doesn't need to be analyzed in the first place.

I was there for fun, and that's what I had.

[YoshiM]

ACK!

To everyone bringing up the over-long contest! Do you remember that we were SLASHDOTTED on Saturday and most people couldn't even get ON on Saturday or Sunday? If I had closed it when I intended the "other group of people" wouldn't have had an opportunity to play!

Just trying to make everyone happy and keep things fair, folks. Please remember that.

True, true. I suppose it just seemed longer than it actually was. I think the Slashdotting took the wind out of people's sails. I know I had some good stuff cookin' Saturday or Sunday and couldn't get it onto the forums.

[Bratwurst]

This popularity contest is just a semi-amusing addendum.

Seconded!

[dave2236]

Yeah, my character died off on the first day. Icouldn't get on an Saturday at all and was gone all day Sunday and school Monday.


But I had fun, great times fellas. I also would like to play a guess who game.

[Charlie]

Yeah, I would like to play a guessing game too... not just the "try and guess" type of thing from the thread. Make a list of all the alter egos and everyone has to guess who is who.

Fun fact about Hiroshi: When I first heard about the contest, I was going to go as Howard Lincolin but after I saw Hiroshi I was like "Damn, not original enough."

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

The ideal thing to do then would've been to go as Abraham Lincoln then.

"Kirk! Help me! Kirk!"

By the way, Charles, that avatar is just wrong...what is that? LOL LOL

[hezeuschrist]

I should have shown up as Jesus.

[kainemaxwell]

I was thinking of doing Ramsus orginally and run around saying that I'm trash.

[hezeuschrist]

I was thinking of doing Ramsus orginally and run around saying that I'm trash.

I don't think many people would have got it. Seems to me the overwhelming majority of the patrons here never liked the game.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Is it just me, or are some people taking this contest a little too seriously? I mean, I didn't create a handful of alter egos just so I could win prizes; I did it so I could screw around, recklessly post stupid crap, and perhaps even make some people laugh.
Maybe next time - or hell, this time - there should be a responsibility to go with the "office" of being the winner, like having to continue making at least one appearance a week as that character - and to stay in character for that stuff. LOL That would be amusing, and you'd really have to think about what makes that character tick to keep it going. Post-contest appearances would be limited to OT, BZ, and maybe the Pub if the "winner" (really more of an elected [goofball] official at this point!) is qualified to gain access to that area.

[Queen Of The Felines]

[Is it just me, or are some people taking this contest a little too seriously?

I'm not allowed to win anything so I played along just to be annoying. :)

Btw, between Bratwurst, Dave, and Charlie's avatars, I think my modem just exploded. :P

Kristine

[Bratwurst]

Btw, between Bratwurst, Dave, and Charlie's avatars, I think my modem just exploded. :P

A heartfelt apology to the remaining modem users of the world. It's only 16k though, compared to 40k and 88k respectively. I think for what it does I get alot of mileage. :D

[kainemaxwell]

Btw, between Bratwurst, Dave, and Charlie's avatars, I think my modem just exploded. :P

Kristine
Yours and mine too.

[Charlie]

Oh come on, mine isn't that big. Look on the bright side, it was either this one or an animated Survivor gift. I decided to go for shock factor.

"By the way, Charles, that avatar is just wrong...what is that?"

My current avatar is Jun from Big Brother 4. Since entering the BB house in July, she's put on almost 40 lbs because she never stops eatting. She's got a million excuses: She's quiting smoking, she's nervous, etc. But the fact is she ate at least eight Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwichs in a row. And now that she's the head of the household, she'll put on more weight. By winning Head of House this week, she will be presenting an award tonight at the MTV Music Video awards, so keep an eye out for her. She'll be the presenter that eats the enevelope. And then the host.

"I'm not allowed to win anything so I played along just to be annoying."

AH HA! I FIGURED OUT WHO YOU ARE! YOU ARE NONE OTHER THEN SOTHY JR! Whoo, smart I am.

[kainemaxwell]

Charlie now that we know the history behind that avatar, it's even more disturbing. LOL

[Dire 51]

Same here. I'd rather see a contest in which we try to guess who was who, with prizes awarded for the most correct conjectures.

Is it just me, or are some people taking this contest a little too seriously? I mean, I didn't create a handful of alter egos just so I could win prizes; I did it so I could screw around, recklessly post stupid crap, and perhaps even make some people laugh. And I'd like to think that the rest of the posters were also in it primarily for fun. This popularity contest is just a semi-amusing addendum.

I like the "guess who" contest idea myself. No one has been able to guess who I was yet.

And yeah, even though I knew about the prizes and all that, I was just in there to have fun myself, rather than seriously compete. Hell, I'm thinking about doing it on my own forum for a laugh.

[Charlie]

I wasn't trying to win anything either (and it doesn't look like I'm going to). I did have fun with the character though... I'm sure nobody will figure out who I was, even though I *thought* they would. Oh well, I can't wait for the unmasking.

[kainemaxwell]

I had alot of fun with this contest also. I hope the unmasking is before I got into NYC tommorrow too. What's the point standings thus far anyway? And no one guessed right for me yet either.

[ManekiNeko]

Oh come on, mine isn't that big. Look on the bright side, it was either this one or an animated Survivor gift. I decided to go for shock factor.

"By the way, Charles, that avatar is just wrong...what is that?"

My current avatar is Jun from Big Brother 4. Since entering the BB house in July, she's put on almost 40 lbs because she never stops eatting. She's got a million excuses: She's quiting smoking, she's nervous, etc. But the fact is she ate at least eight Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwichs in a row.

That's all well and good, but that doesn't explain why two thirds of the objects she's eating in your avatar are phallic. @_@

JR

[IGotTheDot]

Oh come on, mine isn't that big. Look on the bright side, it was either this one or an animated Survivor gift. I decided to go for shock factor.

"By the way, Charles, that avatar is just wrong...what is that?"

My current avatar is Jun from Big Brother 4. Since entering the BB house in July, she's put on almost 40 lbs because she never stops eatting. She's got a million excuses: She's quiting smoking, she's nervous, etc. But the fact is she ate at least eight Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwichs in a row.

That's all well and good, but that doesn't explain why two thirds of the objects she's eating in your avatar are phallic. @_@

JR

And 1/3rd is a pussycat.

[kainemaxwell]

My current avatar is Jun from Big Brother 4. Since entering the BB house in July, she's put on almost 40 lbs because she never stops eatting. She's got a million excuses: She's quiting smoking, she's nervous, etc. But the fact is she ate at least eight Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwichs in a row.

Doesn't explain why she's eating out a cat though... X_x

[le geek]

Well I had fun the first day, and will be curious if people guess who I was. :)

I have to vote for
1) Advbat: the Buying and Selling post was hilarious
2) SwitchBOX: Great Idea
3) Amazing Paperboy: good character to work off of - lots of material

Cheers,
Ben

[Chunky]

Hiroshi Yamauchi
Rock
Nintendo

in that order.


but i have to say...maybe cuz i'm drunk but Sothy Jr. was great, and the song was just on the money perfect char.