[Metal Man]

"On the Changes in Election Tone"

Today, I read a long post. It was by our favorite 'ill' person, who likes to throw out insults, then can't take the heat.

Now I'll be entirely truthful--this is an election, not a playground. It is possible to have fun, but large things are at stake here;

The future is in your hands, voters, and I believe it is in your interest to know when other candidates make mistakes and say the wrong thing. Unlike Yoshi's CM, I have the strength to expose these flaws, and to take whatever is thrown at me.

Why is this important?

Simple. Being President, and a real president, not some fake doorstop like our last two presidents, means to advance NC and to defend it from damage. This means there will be both good and bad times.

The attitude Yoshi's CM has reveals that he was in it to become another doorstop. Using whimsical little comics for each candidate, the vote would be little more than a random number generator.

The end has come for this; for, with Jay around, the President WAS really sort of unimportant, a fun little figurehead. If he was around as much as he was, I'd have no need to be as serious as I have been;

But my plan has been to elevate the president to being a real one; to therefore, improve NC. This kind of president should tie in funny things with serious ones; and indeed, I tried to balance things.

But my opponents took my jabs a little too seriously, and here we are.

As easy as it would be to jump to the conclusion Romplayer would rather have fun and then let NC rot, I will look more to his motives than his logic.

He helped run the last election, which was a playground meant mostly 'for fun.' In fact, it went off perfectly; Churro, after all, is the funniest candidate I've ever seen!

But there was a very unfunny result afterwards. NC died, and now it has been placed in Sean's stewardship. While I trust him, he can't be expected to run NC and all of SMBHQ at the same time. Churro, the empty figurehead, was incapable of serving the people who elected him, and NC as a result has mostly died.

Furthermore, this election was nearly forgotten, and has been late, in fact. Had I not mentioned it a while ago, it may have never occurred. Since Romplayer had de facto dropped it by his inactivity, I let Sean run the formalities and myself run directly; it was actually a strange incident, for I had planned to be the CM for someone else; but he accepted me anyway.

So I and the others have been running the election, and guess what? There's been some funny times, and some unfunny times. We've traded barbs and stuff. But guess what's happened? Thanks to my work (and theirs), the president, regardless of who is elected, has promised to do real things to help NC. It has spurred more interest than any 'funny only' election, and I believe this will continue to benefit NC.

So, no offense, Romplayer, but your old election style would have been a rather inactive affair, climaxing in NC being elected another figurehead, and then NC fading into the mists (sans user-uploaded content.) Your time has come and gone. But that doesn't mean there can't be some funny elections.

Therefore, if elected president, I will establish an NC Senate, for which all manner of wacky politicking can go on, and it can be entirely for 'fun.' Furthermore, Senate or no Senate, it is my honest wish that everyone who has stuck it out this far help NC, regardless of who is elected. It is just my platform that I run to improve NC, rather than having a cheap laugh at its expense.

And if you dislike that, then I hold nothing against you for voting against me. However, your choices are limited in the non-serious, non-helping NC regard. My transformative ideas have effected practically all candidates.

So, however things go... I feel that while the changes may have stung a little to begin with, in the long run we'll all look back at this from our new, active NC and see that it was a necessary change.