Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1324 - CBX Winners Announced GameFAQs Contests

Advokaiser posted...

Big Bob posted...

I hate the fact that SB is even entertaining the idea that the moon landing didn't happen.

I'm actually pretty worried that a whopping 70% of people are 100% sure that 1969's moon landing was real, honestly speaking.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't moon travels be way more common in this day and age?

I'm actually pretty worried that a whopping 70% of people are 100% sure the Holocaust was real, honestly speaking.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't there be way less Jews if the Nazis really did kill them all?

I'm actually pretty worried that a whopping 70% of people are 100% sure the Earth is round, honestly speaking.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't we be falling off the Earth if it wasn't flat?

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't we be falling off the Earth if it wasn't flat?

Um, is that not what gravity prevents, or am I missing something?

Now seriously, look for Mythbusters's episode on the moon landing. They debunked every paradox about it you may have heard, and a few others.

MetalmindStats posted...

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't we be falling off the Earth if it wasn't flat?

Um, is that not what gravity prevents, or am I missing something?

That's an actual argument I've heard.

Don't ask me to debate it, that was a joke.

Okay, my bad. It's sometimes difficult for me to detect humor on the internet.

MetalmindStats posted...

Okay, my bad. It's sometimes difficult for me to detect humor on the internet.

I think it's hard for everyone, lol

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Now seriously, look for Mythbusters's episode on the moon landing. They debunked every paradox about it you may have heard, and a few others.

Yes, that was pretty much my point. It has been debunked in the past.

The Holocaust has not quite been debunked, though.

Advokaiser posted...

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Now seriously, look for Mythbusters's episode on the moon landing. They debunked every paradox about it you may have heard, and a few others.

Yes, that was pretty much my point. It has been debunked in the past.

The Holocaust has not quite been debunked, though.

No, that's not pretty much your point.

The Mythbusters episode analyses every reason the moon landing deniers give to deny it, and proves why each of them doesn't make sense. Therefore proving the Moon Landing did happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPj60sy9Cfw

I didn't find the whole episode on Youtube though, just this part.

Advokaiser posted...

The Holocaust has not quite been debunked, though.

Also the usage of the word "quite" in this sentence worries me.

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Advokaiser posted...

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't moon travels be way more common in this day and age?

Yeah the entire space race was a flexing of technological prowess and culturally important at the time.

But I've hears there's very little reason beyond basic research to be there. Compared to Mars for example.

pjbasis posted...

Yeah the entire space race was a flexing of technological prowess and culturally important at the time.

I don't understand this sentence...

Are you saying people were way more hyped for aliens back in the day and therefore tried to build spacecraft to research them (honest question)?

I think Americans were enamoured by rapid technology growth and I mean getting to the Moon is pretty incredible do you realize that?

And beating the russians was definitely on the to do list for gov. Plus I'm sure there's a lot of overlap between rockets to space and weapons.

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Advokaiser posted...

The Holocaust has not quite been debunked, though.

Also the usage of the word "quite" in this sentence worries me.

Look man he's working on it

pjbasis posted...

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Advokaiser posted...

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The Holocaust has not quite been debunked, though.

Also the usage of the word "quite" in this sentence worries me.

Look man he's working on it

It's worrisome for me to outright deny the death of 6 million jews when it still hasn't proven to be false.

I don't get why you'd worry the other way around. (?)

Advokaiser posted...

pjbasis posted...

Yeah the entire space race was a flexing of technological prowess and culturally important at the time.

I don't understand this sentence...

Are you saying people were way more hyped for aliens back in the day and therefore tried to build spacecraft to research them (honest question)?

USA did space research to prove their superiority to Soviet Union

Soviet Union did space research to prove their superiority to USA.

Once Cold War ended, there was little reason to invest billions of dollars in expensive space travel.

We really need a contest.

ZeldaTPLink posted...

USA did space research to prove their superiority to Soviet Union

Soviet Union did space research to prove their superiority to USA.

Once Cold War ended, there was little reason to invest billions of dollars in expensive space travel.

Ah, makes sense.

swirIdude posted...

We really need a contest.

Who needs contests when we can discuss our favorite ice cream flavors?

Oh yeah, I can now fully appreciate Kuja losing to Master Hand now that I've finished Final Fantasy IX for the first time.

...Haaaa. Hahahaha.

Shaped like a glove...

Room 237 was interesting. Did the Myth Busters touch on that by chance?

swirIdude posted...

We really need a contest.

I'm okay with waiting until 2020 so that all of 2019's games are out first. I would loooooove another Game of the Decade.

UItimaterializer posted...

swirIdude posted...

We really need a contest.

I'm okay with waiting until 2020 so that all of 2019's games are out first. I would loooooove another Game of the Decade.

It would be perfect

So....

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/847-who-is-your-favorite-final-fantasy-vi-character

Is there a reason why we never got Shadow or Sabin in a character battle?

Well, people tried to get Shadow in in the early days, but it never materialized.

At this point if you missed the 2013 contest (and existed before then, obviously) then you are almost certain to be fodder. So there hasn't been any big push to get them in in recent years.

Also, FFVI being an ensemble cast doesn't help in terms of standing out enough to get people to nominate you. (And the one character who does is Kefka, who is possibly taking nominations from them.)

Mac Arrowny posted...

Advokaiser posted...

Big Bob posted...

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I hate the fact that SB is even entertaining the idea that the moon landing didn't happen.

I'm actually pretty worried that a whopping 70% of people are 100% sure that 1969's moon landing was real, honestly speaking.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't moon travels be way more common in this day and age?

I'm actually pretty worried that a whopping 70% of people are 100% sure the Holocaust was real, honestly speaking.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't there be way less Jews if the Nazis really did kill them all?

I get that this was tongue-in-cheek (I'm pretty sure, at least), but for people who may not know, this is actually a really bad point.

There are *still* fewer Jews alive today on Earth than there were in 1940. It's been almost 80 years, and the world's Jewish population is almost at the threshold it was before the Holocaust.

swirIdude posted...

At this point if you missed the 2013 contest (and existed before then, obviously) then you are almost certain to be fodder. So there hasn't been any big push to get them in in recent years.

Also, FFVI being an ensemble cast doesn't help in terms of standing out enough to get people to nominate you. (And the one character who does is Kefka, who is possibly taking nominations from them.)

Quite frankly if you didn't exist before then you're probably fodder.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

swirIdude posted...

At this point if you missed the 2013 contest (and existed before then, obviously) then you are almost certain to be fodder. So there hasn't been any big push to get them in in recent years.

Also, FFVI being an ensemble cast doesn't help in terms of standing out enough to get people to nominate you. (And the one character who does is Kefka, who is possibly taking nominations from them.)

Quite frankly if you didn't exist before then you're probably fodder.

Linkle

I seriously doubt Linkle would do remotely well. Isn't she kind of forgotten now?

Saria, Nabooru, or Malon would probably do better than her.

TheOneAboveAll posted...

Mac Arrowny posted...

Advokaiser posted...

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Big Bob posted...

I hate the fact that SB is even entertaining the idea that the moon landing didn't happen.

I'm actually pretty worried that a whopping 70% of people are 100% sure that 1969's moon landing was real, honestly speaking.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't moon travels be way more common in this day and age?

I'm actually pretty worried that a whopping 70% of people are 100% sure the Holocaust was real, honestly speaking.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but wouldn't there be way less Jews if the Nazis really did kill them all?

I get that this was tongue-in-cheek (I'm pretty sure, at least), but for people who may not know, this is actually a really bad point.

There are *still* fewer Jews alive today on Earth than there were in 1940. It's been almost 80 years, and the world's Jewish population is almost at the threshold it was before the Holocaust.

It wasn't meant to be a serious point. Sorry.

Well, 2B wasn't exactly fodder last contest...

We finally got an age poll after skipping all of 2018 without getting a single age poll:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7690-

How much older are we this time Luster?

I'm 27 and I'm still below the median site age. Wow.

Ngamer64 posted...

How much older are we this time Luster?

Luster after every poll is rerun

https://media.giphy.com/media/SZbFekMCHl9Yc/giphy.gif

Looks like the average date of birth probably crawled backwards another few months or so

Oh wow.

I remembered me being clearly below the average, but I don't remember a gap so big. Maybe I was really 5-6 years below the average a few years, but ~10 years is quite the gap if you ask me.

I've finally hit an age mark where I don't feel "small" compared to everyone and I'm comfortable with it.

Ngamer64 posted...

How much older are we this time Luster?

I'll report this info once today's poll goes final.

AxemRedRanger posted...

Looks like the average date of birth probably crawled backwards another few months or so

It went backwards by about 4 months compared to the previous age poll in 2017.

It just occurred to me that I may have been calculating average age completely wrong. With the options that cover a specific age range such as 29-32, I would always use 30.5 as a median value when calculating average age. That may have been the wrong approach here since 29-32 covers a period of 4 years (age 29, 30, 31, and 32), so the correct median age would be 31 for the 29-32 age group. Those who currently 32 would have to vote for 29-32 even if they are just one day away from turning 33 at the time the poll was being ran.

If I were to change the way I calculate average age based on this discovery I made, it would have to be retroactively applied to the average age calculations of the previous age polls. This would also affect average date of birth calculations as well. I'm still unsure if I want to stick with the already established method of calculating average age or go with the newer method, which would actually increase average age by about 0.5.

I think the way you’ve been doing it might make sense in general because ages for individuals don’t round up; someone one day away from turning 33 isn’t 33; they’re 32.

If we’re using the average age to also calculate the average date of birth though, then yeah, the implied decimals after someone’s age matter and shouldn’t be truncated and so 31 would be better as the average of 29-32 than 30.5.

Yeah, I use the average age (once calculated) to then calculate the average date of birth. It works by taking the average age and multiplying that by 365 (days in a year). I don't factor in Leap Year when doing these calculations, but it can certainly be adjusted for. If you wanted to adjust for Leap Year, you'd multiply the average age by 365.25 instead (0.25 because of the extra day every 4 years).

Going off the old method of calculating average age, our latest age poll had an average age of 32.04. Multiplying this by 365 gives you 11694.60, which can be rounded up (or down if the decimal part is less than 0.5). Finally, you take the date of our latest age poll (8/15/2019) and subtract 11695 days from that date. This operation can be performed easily in Microsoft Excel, but it also works in Google Docs as well. The final result of subtracting 11695 days from 8/15/2019 is 8/8/1987.

I might decide to adopt the new method of calculating average age, so this current average date of birth is subject to change later on.

Luster is too darn modest to link his hard data so I'll do it for him.

https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/GameFAQs_Average_Age

We were 17 in 2000, finally cracked 20 in late 2007, stopped attracting any new users in 2010 and have essentially been aging in real time since then. Hit 25 in late 2013, passed 30 in early 2018, and now we're 32.

SB might need to stop running this poll in a couple years- we're about to age out of the demographic advertisers want to target.

I was bored at work and redid all the calculations for average age and average date of birth myself using the proposed more accurate method:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1khrDwtBulqTOdT_Pcvyz7jvijaBjDj4ku3-l6DaPre4/edit?usp=sharing

Results might differ very slightly from what Luster would get because of certain assumptions made; see Notes section for details.

AxemRedRanger posted...

Results might differ very slightly from what Luster would get because of certain assumptions made; see Notes section for details.

I did my own calculations using the new method to revise the average age for every age poll we've had so far. In my calculations, I use the following assumptions for the average age in the Under/Over age groups:

Before 2006:

Under 7 - 6.5
Under 9 - 8
Under 10 - 8.5
Under 13 - 10.5

After 2006:

Under 9 - 9
Under 10 - 9
Under 13 / 12 or under - 11
Over 40 - 45
Over 45 / 46 or older - 51

Unlike AxemRedRanger, I chose to use 45 as the average age for the Over 40 option instead of his choice of 46. This is because the Over 40 option appeared in age polls during a time when the Over 40 age group made up a far smaller percentage of the site than it does right now, so it was not as likely that we had a lot of extreme outliers (people over 60) affecting the average age of the entire Over 40 age group. With Over 45, I had previously used 50 in my older calculations, but I chose to revise this to 51 as this age group is a growing segment of the GameFAQs userbase. In the 2003 age poll, I chose to handle the poll mistake with the 31-35 and 35-40 age groups by assigning average ages of 33.25 and 38.25 respectively, which is nearly identical to how AxemRedRanger handled this.

I treated the Under 9 / 10 option separately depending on when the age poll happened. When the Under 9 option returned as an option beginning with the 2012 age poll, it was receiving a much higher percentage of votes than the Under 9 option had gotten prior to 2006.

Starting with the 2012 age poll, the Under 9 option received the following percentage of votes - 0.82%, 0.87%, 0.75%, 0.82%, 0.87%, 0.64%

This is notably higher than what the Under 9 option got prior to 2006 (0.49%, 0.53%, 0.59%) despite the site's average age being way older after 2006. Joke voting is suggested to be the main reason for Under 9 getting an even higher percentage of votes in the more recent age polls, with possibly more than half of the votes for Under 9 being joke votes coming from people who are much older than 9. Evidence for joke voting is supported by 12 and under getting a lower percentage (0.42%) in the most recent age poll compared to Under 9's average percentage (0.80%) in the age polls from 2012 to 2017. To adjust for the effect of joke votes for Under 9, I set the average age at 9 for that option in the age polls after 2006. To a lesser extent, I think Under 10 may have been affected by joke votes in the age polls from 2007 to 2011.

Good news gang!

LadyVyxx posted...

No real details sadly...

SBAllen posted...

LadyVyxx posted...

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Allen will we get a Game of the Decade 2 contest late this year / early next year ?!?!

Or any new contest in the foreseeable future?

@SBAllen

Next contest is under discussion but I can't really share any deets yet.

I am still among the 26% of the site that has a working copy of Goldeneye. I don't think I have possession of a working N64 controller though.

If Game of the Decade 2 is the next contest I'm gonna be in serious trouble regarding my Guru pick.