Curiosity

There have been times where I thought of an enjoyable joke, but then stopped myself because it felt like I was "cheating" the system.The posts that I put twenty minutes into gained a couple upvotes, but a meme that took me two seconds to think of and a minute to make received 25 upvotes. It makes me less happy about upvotes, even if I know that I made people smile. I am more proud of most of my theory discussion posts than I am my 15 memes that now make up what seems like a third of my rep. I do confess that, at times, I posted something somewhere because I was sure it would get more upvotes, and I wanted to see the little green number next to my name go up. Eventually, I realized that I really would rather be down at "Full Feruchemist" right now and have rep points for thoughtful posts. I don't want to peruse rep pages and find a ton of jokes. I want to see things that I put work into crafting and actually have some weight to them. It's nice to know that the community enjoys puns and pugs, but I would like to have a community that values formally stated theories and well-crafted opinions just as much or more. Cognizantastic has a good point (overall), and I wouldn't mind a "split" rep system (an equivalent of a "Like" button along with what we already have). However, I understand that this isn't the easiest or most elegant solution. I find myself leaning towards appreciating people and posts with words, rather than with upvotes, since I feel that words have more worth than upvotes nowadays. (e.g., Getting my theory torn apart by Moogle, even if it wasn't very affirming, let me know that someone was responding to me and thinking about what I had to say.)

In Era 1, it's all lowercase. Even in Era 2, Marasi's use of the word is still lowercase.

Shall we start a petition to rename upvotes "jokespren", then?

Do or do not. There is no goat. Fear is the path to the dark goat. This is Writing Excuses! Only fifteen minutes long! Because you're in a goat, and we're not that smart!

I vote Shai onto the team. She'll be the morally ambiguous techie, sort of like a middle-aged Skye. But with glasses, Forging, and extra philosophy.

Alcatraz compares fame to a cheeseburger in book 3. It tastes good going down, but only twenty years later do you realize what it's done to your heart.

Pretty fun webcomic with a sense of the ridiculous.

Hey, is that a cheeseburger for Alcatraz?

Just believe in yourself!

Vasher?

It's relatively old strip, and the details of the cosmere hadn't been worked out as well...

Granted. Welcome back! You can no longer type the letter "e". I wish for a dozen bagels.

I just watched "Blink" today, and I found it to be sad that nearly all of the well known Dr. Who "in-phrases" are isolated within that one episode. (e.g., "The angels have the phone box", "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, stuff", etc.)

You forgot what you got. *inserts Dr. Who fandom*

"Is it bigger than a bread box?" "You have no idea what I'm capable of!" "NOOOOOOOOO!"

Behold, the odd, the lovable, the insane Shard. Thanks for the smile, guys. (I have yet to hear an aggressive chicken. Grumpy perhaps, but not aggressive. But I have heard several sneeze.)

You get solar cooked pork chops. *inserts spoilers*

How does the Banner transform when he's angry? Does it link to his Cognitive aspect? Could Rioters trigger the Hulk? Thor must have some mecha-Feruchemical hammer and be extra Invested. The Flash is obviously a double steel Twinborn with no idea that he can push metal. Naturally, Inhumans are people who have Spiritwebs ready to receive extra Investiture that comes in Mist form. This Investiture is probably untethered to a Shard or Shardworld, since it produces a wide variety effects. X-men probably have a similar effect, but there is a more limited Investing and it is Snapped through tension in a temporal Spiritual Connection.

You get an unbendedalloy exclamation point! *inserts stormwarden glyphs*

You get loudspeakers shouting Realmatic minutiae. (You can sell these to other Sharders for quite a bit... ) *inserts a potato that's pretending to be a rock*

I now dismiss its accumulating tensions looking at neurosis, teaching instead creativity. HWYLTDSET?

Paalm?

Beautifully written poem. Hrathen?