In Your FACES, Koster and Schubert!

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Scott Jennings| 19 Comments

Broken Toys: award winning since 2006.

Next year: the Nobel Prize for Snark.

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  • Amaranthar

    Congrats Scott.

  • http://www.nerfbat,com/ Ryan “Blackguard” Shwayder

    Koster has too many random posts that I really don’t feel like reading to win. I tend to only read MMO-related entries on any blog, not stuff about music or poetry. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy his blog, but he posts almost as fast as Massively and it’s hard to keep up.

    Schubert was your main competition. You won for two reasons: 1) You changed your theme like 11 times this year, and I like that. 2) Your posts made me laugh. He did nearly edge you out due to his ratio of good design posts vs. other crap, but I determined you had about as many good design posts as him, just a lot more junk in addition.

    Really, there was no scientific process. I visit your site every day, I visit his about every 3 days to a week to see what good stuff he has. Congrats on Gnomey #2.

  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com/ J.

    I’ve concluded that Raph blogs because he has to. He’s like the description of Mass Effect given in the latest Zero Punctuation review, spewing words. Granted, he’s also got a varied list of interests that he’s compelled to write about all the time.

    But I will not question anyone able to liveblog anything. I just can’t think and type that fast. I’m an editor and I don’t know shorthand.

  • http://www.plaguelands.com krones

    I demand a recount.

  • =j

    =j recounts:

    Lum: 1
    krones: 0

    Lum wins!

  • http://www.killtenrats.com Cyndre

    If you were a Blogomerete, we so would have melted your face(s), n00b!

  • http://www.zenofdesign.com Damion S

    Great, now you’re just encouraging him.

  • http://www.raphkoster.com Raph

    I am not sure I am even “an MMO blog” anymore.

  • Scott Jennings

    ALL HAIL THE METAVERSE!

  • http://www.plaguelands.com krones

    Foiled again! haha. I <3 =j

    Raph defected. :\

  • http://www.moorgard.com Moorgard

    Winning an award from Nerfbat is like being voted Most Likely to Marry Your Cousin in high school.

  • http://mythicalblog.com Jeff Freeman

    Winning an award from Nerfbat is like being voted Most Likely to Marry Your Cousin in high school.

    I know, right!

    But once you’re in the running, then not winning is like, “Oh, she’d never marry him!”

    Raph, you’re still an MMO blog.

  • http://www.plaguelands.com krones

    My Cousin is hot. I’d marry one, like my Mormon ancestors did. One cousin wife is never enough.

  • http://www.raphkoster.com Raph

    Heh… my oldest post was actually English lit papers. Maybe it wasn’t ever an MMO blog.

    Whatever. Ryan skips poetry, he has no taste anyway. ;)

  • http://[email protected] Jeff Freeman

    You cannot argue with the Google.

    Or… Well, I guess you could argue with it.

    That might even be an excellent topic for an essay.

    You could post it over on your MMO blog.

  • http://www.killtenrats.com Cyndre

    You don’t argue with Google… google argues YOU!

  • http://www.raphkoster.com/ Raph

    Well, as long as we are not arguing with Google:

    678 linking to http://www.zenofdesign.com
    1,080 linking to http://www.brokentoys.org
    3,260 linking to http://www.raphkoster.com

  • Cine

    Owned!

  • Orrey

    I voted for Jethro Tull ………