Hey, it's Thursday. Time flies when you're not awake.

Hey, so I just had a brilliant idea. System Wars is like politics, we're arguing about stupid ****, taking sides unnecessarily, and most of us are really just advertising our blimp-sized egos. So why don't we take the next step? Electing ourselves a president, a ruler, an unnecessary leader. The biggest ego, the (far from) last word on the useless **** and bickering.

What would a leader do? Represent the opinion of SW. Make decisions on things like the Uncharted Gamerankings round up or down issue. Sit around being a figurehead. I don't know, use your imagination.

We have the issues. Symbol of success - system sales or game library? How important is price, attach rates, cost-to-value, online play, multimedia, reliability, etc? Switch to Gamerankings or no? Multiplats = worth anything? Handhelds - should they be judged as consoles or as handhelds? Console Wars or System Wars? System Wars or Fanboy Wars?

We have the sides. The sheep, who support system sales as the symbol of success, and are against horsepower and high prices leading our System Wars.

The lemmings, who support the game library as the symbol of success, and emphasize the importance of attach rates, cost-to-value, and online play.

The cows, who argue for the importance of reliability and multimedia functions.

The hermits, the minor party whosupport their platform's full inclusion, and are against price as a factor.

We have the smaller groups who the candidates will have to cater to as well.

The pro-fanboys, who want a leader who supports equal rights for fanboys, and supports Fanboy Wars.

The anti-fanboys, who want the opposite of the pro-fanboys.

The purists, who want the elimination of review scores holding relevance, and support the return of a true debate community.

We have the candidates. There's plenty of people who are capable and willing to lead. I'm not sure if I would vote for anyone I have in my head right now, but you certainly would. :P

But wait - Tsug, this reeks of what Casey tried to do with SW not too long ago, establishing order and basically filling the position you describe here! WTF? You say.

Well, what Casey tried to do felt forced upon us suddenly, and it tried to be too absolute. If games won, any and all talk about sales would be void. Obviously who we would elect wouldn't have that kind of power, and it would feel much more like a community decision.

So who's with me? Let's give some System Warrior a useless figurehead seat! It'll be fun! Huh?

Well, I thought it was a good idea. :evil: