Everything, Ranked
I am the leading authority on what is good and what sucks. I'll try to enlighten my readers, but it might take some time before I annotate everything. Track my progress here.
All measurements are scientific and therefore indisputable1. A simple algorithm is applied:
- Everything is a Thing
- Some things are a kind of other thing
- You only need four stars
- Star ratings are consistent; a thing can't be worse than another thing if it has more stars
- If A is a better thing than B, and A and B are also another kind of thing, then A is also a better other kind of thing than B2
This is all pretty dumb.
The Categories
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Actually, I firmly believe that you only need four stars. But it's fun to stack rank little things (e.g. mainline Final Fantasy games). What would be really dumb would be trying to stack rank all video games. Even dumber: stack ranking apples vs. oranges. And what would be really dumb would be trying to rank everything. You'd like, have to write code to do this and keep things consistent, or something. Why would anyone do that? ↩
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There's probably a mathematical term for this relationship. Probaly something like well-ordered but I'm not certain. Maybe if I was still in university and had ambition I'd research this more; these days I couldn't even finish the Wikipedia article without getting bored. ↩