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Vote for SS!AB in the Semi-Finals

Halfadeckshort — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:58:51 +0000

We’ve made it this far with the power of Nama-ko and the incredible efforts of our great readers! Now we’re up against another tough opponent, and Nama-ko could really use your support once again!

Vote for SS!AB in the Tourney Semi-Finals!

A soliloquy by Hellomotto:

On these fine summer days,
Thy love to blog hath been paid
For thou hast entered th’game
Whence thou join thy blogging name.
‘Gainst all odds, we hath prevailed
Whilst many a blog dare not avail.
Yet now, a behemoth hath appear
Wanting a mollusk’s flesh to tear.
Hark! Hath our luck run short?
Thy tourney we dare not abort
Alas, solely we survive
By uniting, joining forces in th’hive.
I wish now I hath not spoke
But now needy is thy vote.

Vote for SS!AB In The Quarter-Finals

Kabitzin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:00:27 +0000

Sister?!

Vote for Sea Slugs the quarter-finals of the AniBlog Tournament!

We both have authors from the same college, and we both do episodics. However, Aroduc does not have Nama-ko. Support Sea Slugs! and your favorite mascot! Oh yeah, this is the last freebie-chibi from Roslee.

AniBlog Tournament Round 4 Feedback

Kabitzin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:37:53 +0000

First off, I want to thank ALL of our loyal readers who made this win possible; we couldn’t have done it without your tireless support. This round was extremely intense, and Baka-Raptor and SS!AB combined for over 1,000 votes. I’d tell you exactly how many, except the polls never seem to close correctly so I have no idea.

Campaign:

When the contest first started, I quickly saw that Baka-Raptors loyal readers would make this a tough round, so I adjusted our strategy to move away from humor and a call for reader support towards a strategy based on superior volume of posts and anime content. I felt that this would give us our best chance of winning, and the embeddable PollDaddy polls (the only good part about those crappy polls) made it simple for our lazier readers to read a post and then vote for us.

Still, there was no predicting the fierce and persistent fighting spirit of Baka-Raptor’s readers who apparently prefer reading about Baka-Raptor to reading about anime, and were willing to vote a lot of times on various computers. In the end, however, I think our steady approach and diversified audience won out because Baka-Raptor’s readers eventually went to sleep. I want to commend Baka-Raptor on making the match-up extremely exciting and I am in awe of his charisma and ability to get his readers to vote. Leveraging our audience was harder than I expected, and we only pulled out the win at the very end. Furthermore, we campaigned very hard, and every single one of our writers contributed during the 5-day period. Thanks for a memorable match, Baka-Raptor!

Supportive Feedback:

I was happy to see more non-blogger feedback in this round. It warmed the heart to see some really die-hard fans like Clinton supporting our blog on various fronts. The only one that really gave me pause was the guy who accused Baka-Raptor of being Al Queda, which was so ridiculous that I wasn’t quite sure if he was making a Harold and Kumar joke (the comment was deleted anyway).

ZanZan: Epi!!! i love ur worrrrrrks keep up da good works
ZanZan: Just took a look at the blog for once and there is like 10 pages of things trying to denounce Nama-ko & Epi which is unforgivable. Trying to denounce the cutest mascot ever? screw u. Trying to deny me of my great FMA Brotherhood blogger? FCK u. Trying to deny Sea Slugs of their greatnest? SMD.
Touya[EnchantedARM]: One thing I like about seaslugs is that the background is very light, making it easy to pretend I’m actually reading something at work.Baka Raptor made me chuckle with it’s cheap nonsense such as the “Golden Boy vs. Candy Boy” comparison –but sorely lacks anything of any real substance. But what drew my attention to SSAB was Kabitzin’s incredibly logical interpretation of what was going on in the ridiculous ‘White Album’. If I want to see something hilarious, I’ll push my roommate down some stairs. If I want to know what’s going on in my anime, I’ll stick to Seaslugs.
Mystlord: Voted for SS!AB. Reliable, consistent, an overall solid blog. Plus I like their authors. All so fun ^_^
kirimaru: Sea Slugs! wins by design.
Dandos: I can’t stand Baka-Raptor. Just not my style. SS!AB has a better idea of how to be snarky without being annoying.
Fai D Fluorite: And I cant help being awestruck by Epi’s analysis :) I like SSAB for many reasons… The contents are presented in a very clear manner… while its not so as I have observed in others…

Not Quite As Supportive Feedback:

Sometimes those that don’t support you can give you insight on how to make your site better. For instance, I just picked any ole mobile plugin, but a few people mentioned that the mobile version of SS!AB either didn’t show up or could be improved. I did notice that we had very little support from other anime bloggers, which made me a little sad.

kluxorious: That hair was made from the sea slug? What a retard. And if it’s an anime blog, shouldn’t the most popular tag be something that is related to anime, and not just some random stuff?
OBALLER: Sea Slugs are dumb, and thats a dumb mascot.
Zantetsu: If you have to pay someone to have fan art you’re missing the point of what fan art is, true.
fathomlessblue: Love SS!AB, particulary the FMA coverage and Jesus159′s episodic blogging/butchering of K-on!! Great dedication and output all round. Still voted for Baka-Raptor though; his tourney plea had a picture of a dog with bees coming from its mouth… just can’t fight that kind of argument.
Heinsia: Boring moe mascot never gets my vote. I probably would have read your blog more if you used a real sea slug for a mascot (even though I don’t know what it is).
Zwein: I don’t understand how loli sea cucumber could possibly win. They took the ugliest creature of the sea and mixed it with pedophilia. This shit can’t be right.
chikorita157: My only suggestion to Sea Slugs is to get a mobile theme plugin such as WPTouch. As smartphones and mobile devices getting more popular, people want a mobile formatted site, especially with small data caps from cellphone carriers.

We Need Your Help!

Kabitzin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:47:40 +0000

This contest is super-close, and we’d like all of our loyal readers to please vote for Sea Slugs and spread the word to friends to vote as well! The contest ends tomorrow morning, please help!

Vote for SS!AB In Round 4

Kabitzin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:30:10 +0000

I suspect cheating...

Vote for us in Round 4 of the AniBlog Tournament!

Summary:

Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face!

When you visit Baka-Raptor’s site, the first thing that strikes you is how poor his range of expression is. Look at that image above. Compared to Nama-ko’s incredible expressiveness, Baka-Raptor looks like Laura Bush. Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! You’d think someone injected his entire face with Botox or something.

And if you think his facial skills are bad, you should check his counting skills. They’re worse than Scamp’s. Examine Baka-Raptor’s archive list in the bottom right and you’ll notice that he cannot count down past 2008. He literally does not know what number comes next. Naturally he just lumps all previous years into “Baka-Raptor: Prehistoric” and hopes that his readers share his poor eyesight. Oh, I’m on to you Baka-Raptor. I know.

Reaction:

Hopped up out tha bed / Turned ma swag on / Took a look in tha mirror said wassup / Yeeeeea I'm gettin money (ohh)

Now I know you probably skipped the whole summary section and think that Baka-Raptor is a real OG, but don’t be fooled. Pimpin’ ain’t that difficult. The truth is that Baka-Raptor dresses the way he does because the only clothes he could afford were on sale September 1 at the Halloween clearance sale. It was probably on sale September 1, 2008 because any earlier and Baka-Raptor wouldn’t have been able to read the date on the flyer (back when he could see).

Don’t be fooled into thinking dinosaurs are awesome. Dinosaurs are only good for one thing, and that’s absorbing meteors. So do the right thing and vote for Sea Slugs! Anime Blog to advance to the Quarterfinals. If you don’t, you will immediately go bald, just like Baka-Raptor.

Epi’s Thoughts

I just thought I’d add in a few more reasons why Baka-Raptor sucks:

	SS!AB	Baka-Raptor	Judgement	Winner!
Eyes	12	0	The Eyes have it… (I crack myself up).	SS!AB
Arms	6 pairs of manly man arms	Girly Raptor arms, can barely open a door.	12 thumbs up for…	SS!AB
Treating your staff well	Writers get free nama-ko doujin with every post over 1000 hits	Extra cast member Titus dies every video	Titus was excluded the last time, at the same time we have me mucking things up	Toss up
Fashion sense	Nama-Ko	Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macoroni	From Wikipedia: As a term Doodle first appeared in the early seventeenth century,[4] and is thought to derive from the Low German dudel or dödel, meaning “fool” or “simpleton”. The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became contemporary slang for foppishness.[5] The implication of the verse was therefore probably that the Yankees were so unsophisticated that they thought simply sticking a feather in a cap would make them the height of fashion.[6]	SS!AB
Cosplay ability	We’re willing to dress up as Nama-Ko	He’s not willing to dress up as a Raptor	Paddling the school canoe? That deserves a paddling.	SS!AB
Lesbian content	Kabi-tan’s wife? Meet Nama-ko	Girly raptor right arm? Meet Baka-Raptor’s naughty bits	Not enough hentai to power girly raptor right arm before his eyes give out	SS!AB

Totals:

SS!AB – 5
Baka-Raptor – 0
Tie – 1

Winner – Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

AniBlog Tournament Round 3 Feedback

Kabitzin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:04:07 +0000

Apparently our campaigning was so fierce, Scamp tapped out 2 days early. Nama-ko is collecting fanart in lieu of 5calps.

Badges of honor

Scamp: Nama-ko has chips in her hair.
Sorrow-kun: The other one is almost a coin toss, but the good work of Halfadeckshort swayed my vote towards Sea Slugs.
Zzeroparticle: SS gives out consistent updates and their writing team is pretty solid and dedicated.
Fat Nakago: Sea Slugs, based on age, reputation, experience, like Roy Halladay and Kobe Bryant, Sea Slugs will get the calls in their favour.
Josh: I also like how the text is nice and big and easy to read on Sea Slugs. The one thing I’ll add is that I still don’t really like the white links at the top on Sea Slugs, and when I was rolling over them, some of them I think have a sub-nav link which I almost missed because they just kind of pop out of nowhere.
Josh: Sea Slug’s episode reviews are generally well written and detailed thoughts about what happened in the episode, and what they think it means for the future of the series, and they all tended to be a pretty interesting read, and they also tend to be rather snarky while they’re at it (especially in the image captions).
Josh: The Cart Driver was a pretty formidable opponent, as to be expected as it’s won two matches already, but I think Sea Slugs just does the good stuff a bit better.

NEED MORE FEEDBACK! Also, need more fanart. Baka-Raptor is our next opponent. I look forward to SS!AB supplanting Hanners’ Anime Blog and Paper Flower as the worst blog ever.