At 6/19/12 05:18 AM, Coop wrote:At 6/18/12 09:11 AM, DiMono wrote:Tell that to someone who has reached the age of 101. Happy birthday, Grandma. We're not going to celebrate until you reach 105, because you've had so many birthdays, after all, you old cunt.At 6/18/12 04:08 AM, Coop wrote:Not artificial vs natural, artificial vs actual. The ranks are hard and fast milestones that you can pursue, and while you're doing that, every 1,000 increment is a big deal because it gets you closer to the next rank. Once you pass the last of them, the 1,000 increments don't mean anything other than having gotten another 1,000. Yes they're round numbers, but they get less and less important/impressive the more times you get them.At 6/17/12 11:21 AM, DiMono wrote: As for the 106,000 vs top 2,000 argument, I think once you pass the Supreme Commander stage there isn't really a whole lot of point in celebrating every 1,000 B/P, because all the milestones you're working towards at that point are artificial.It's hard to see how the ranks themselves are natural :P At least 1,000 increments are round numbers and they take weeks to reach.
The relevant difference here is that most people don't live past 80, so every year past that is an achievement, and more impressive than the last. When it comes to B/P, as long as you don't stop doing it, there is no theoretical upper bound as to how many you can get. 101 years old is relevant because the odds are you won't reach 102; everybody in here knows that anyone who reaches 101,000 B/P is going to get to 105,000.
To analogize, a week is a nice round amount of time, but after a while you stop using them to count someone's age, because saying I'm 1,687 weeks old would be stupid.And yet, we congratulate people for reaching 1,111, 2,222 and 3,333 DAYS on Newgrounds. Ergo, your argument is invalid.
I disagree. Each of those represents a little over 3 years, which is a fantastic amount of time that doesn't come around very often. But once you reach 1000 days, you stop celebrating every hundred.
The real question is whether there comes a point at which we should move away from increments of 5,000, and only celebrate increments of 10,000.Fine. Have it your way. Only congratulate me for every 5,000 or 10,000 B/P. I will still post my achievements in here, because I still believe them to be achievements.
They are achievements; they're just not ones worth celebrating :P
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