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[TheOperator]

[Lithp]

[TheOperator]

[ButtPirate]

[Smoking_Gnu]

[Dacad]

If you're talking about Lovecraft's style of climactic endings, that did happen. Entry 86 was the scene where Cthulhu actually appeared. Entry 87 was the protagonist noting that he's probably going to be killed by the cult.

It's a shame that the movie Prometheus exists. I think del Torro was going to try and make a movie out of Mountains of Madness, but Prometheus had the same story without the amazing writing.

[The Spirit of Christmas]

[TheJoker]

YT likes aren't always the best way to gauge reaction, but it's true that Unforum is far less representative of the general audience than it likes to think. One need only wander into any other forum's MH thread to see questions we'd consider mind-numbingly stupid like "Wait who's Jessica" being asked. (In other words, we pay far more attention to this than the rest of the viewing base, and it's plausible that we also react differently.)

From what I've seen:

-Something Awful seems to have a mixed reaction. There are quite a few positive reactions but also some very negative ones.

-Reddit (which I'm pretty sure is probably one of the bigger MH communities aside from Unforum) is relatively positive. Not exclusively positive, but I think more positive than here.

Entirely possible that Tumblr and Twitter have also shown more positive reactions. And keep in mind that the poll was kinda amibiguously worded- "Operational" isn't necessarily *not* positive.

[Lithp]

I stand by my puns.

Anyway, I don't recommend counting that category as positive or negative. It basically denotes a mixed response.

Per YouTube, I think I can count on 1 hand the amount of times that I've seen a like ratio that wasn't overwhelmingly positive. You have to have a pretty dedicated grudge just to go find videos to dislike, let alone get people doing it in numbers to offset the fans.

I, for one, do not believe that I have ever clicked "like" or "dislike" on YouTube.

[TheJoker]

Oh your puns were funny. The problem is that they also left a little too much room for interpretations- I agree that Operational should be neutral, but it's possible that some people who viewed the ending positively picked it because they felt Unbelievable was *too* positive. Also, while this does undermine my earlier point a little, I feel like some people would similarly pick Operational over Forgettable simply because the connotations of "forgettable" are too negative. And besides, even for those of you who hated the ending, I imagine that only further ensures you'll not forget it- it was memorable, whether in a good way or a bad.

[Lithp]

Thank you.

Actually, it was sort of my intention that everyone who didn't either hate or love it choose that option. I wanted to basically force people to pick a side. I do see what you're saying, & maybe it would have been better to do the classic "Love-Like-Neutral-Dislike-Hate," but I think if I had done that, there would still be questions about the format, just different ones.

There was 1 person who specifically noted that they didn't consider the ending literally forgettable, but they voted that because I said that basically means "hated it." I think that checking the OP is probably what most people would have done when faced with poll options that didn't really make sense. Either that or assuming that it went from top/good to bottom/bad.

Ironically, I voted "Operational," but I have a feeling that I literally will probably forget the ending. Entry 87 doesn't seem that memorable to me.

Rambling aside, yeah, I definitely want to second that it's not perfect. Ideally, I should really find polls on other websites, & compare them all.

[TheJoker]

Yeah, I got what you were trying to do, but I'm not sure it worked since you didn't explicitly spell out that the options were "like-neutral-dislike" and not everyone probably read the whole first post.

[Lithp]

I'm not sure if we mean "neutral" in the same sense. When I read "neutral," I tend to regard it as either having no opinion or liking/disliking in equal measure. I was going for more "mixed," but I think I actually used the term "passable," which is a slight positive skew. If memory serves, my rationale was that you can consider an ending amazing or simply good enough, but if you don't consider it good enough, wouldn't that be synonymous with dislike by definition?

[adaminator1]

New podcast is out.

[TheOperator]

I could easily see my memory of the ending of MH becoming foggy over time after not watching it for a while. It wasn't memorably bad like say the ending of The Room, in many ways it was just... really underwhelming and bland. Oh, a third of this entry is just going to be slow shots of Tim walking around and smoking. Obviously this entry will have zero answers as always. Oh Jessica's back. Somehow. And her fate is ambiguous again, cool. Really the only memorable thing about the entry is just suddenly springing Jessica on the viewer with no explanation as if that's a good twist.