For the Motherland!

A Year In Review, 2012!

Like always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.

January:
The Winner: Bad Joke Thread!
The reason it got so many comments: BAD. JOKE. THREAD.

February:
The Winner: A musical poll!
The reason it got so many comments: Arguments of what is The Saddest Song Ever.

Honorable Mention: My favourite Mass Effect 3 spoiler: "The final boss battle of ME3 is against the zombies of all the squad members who died in the first two games. If none of them died, you have to beat the Illusive Man at Rock Band instead."

March:
The Winner: Single-Sentence Review of The Hunger Games
The reason it got so many comments: "The Running Man, for tweens"

April:
The Winner: "What kind of fire melts stone?"
The reason it got so many comments: A Game Of Thrones showed the ruins of Harrenhal, and they were pretty.

May:
The Winner: Anyone out there in readerland watching the TV A Game Of Thrones, without having read the books?
The reason it got so many comments: Reader feedback, nerd discussion, pop culture. UH, YEAH. Around here's that's a comment factory.

June:
The Winner: "I am done tryling to please bullies."
The reason it got so many comments: Rape Culture discussions can get long, fast, especially when the original widely-spread otherwise-excellent comic uses "men" when it means "straight cis men" and this gets pointed out. The comment count would be even higher had bijziend not tried to memory-hole the evidence of her derailment attempt when she flounced.

July:
The Winner: under what circumstances is a marriage PROHIBITED?
The reason it got so many comments: An interesting list!

Honorable Mention: "Browser add-ons"
The reason it got so many comments: A collection of people's favourite browser mods. Useful for linkage! Also contains quotables, like jerril's "Adblock Plus will make you feel like you fell into a new internet, where everything loads faster and isn't being carried around by a horde of clowns screaming for your attention."

August:
The Winner: Novels where the villains win!
The reason it got so many comments: Ohgod. Book arguments, including not just lists but arguments over definitions of "novels", "villains", and "win".

September:
The Winner: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
The reason it got so many comments: The dudes who made Planescape, Fallout 1 + 2 + New Vegas, and Arcanum had a kickstarter for their new game.

Honorable Mention: Schadenfreude, explained in exactly 1000 words.
Just go look at it. Seriously.

October:
The Winner: Iconic, classic villains who are so associated with their ongoing property that they show up at or near the top of every Rogues Gallery, but didn't exist until LONG after the original property was well established. GO.
The reason it got so many comments: Uh. I think a lot of this year's list can be summed up as "long discussions of nerdy stuff". And I'm okay with that?


November:
The Winner: It's that time of year again!
The reason it got so many comments: A problem with no solution, that's kinda brainmelty.

Honourable Mention: I accidentally a kitten. Nobody tell my wife, okay?"
Related: Do you know how hard it is to take a good picture of a fluffy solid-black cat without her turning into a dark lump on the background? Sheesh.

December:
The Winner: What are the minimum requirements for "a literature education" in modern English
The reason it got so many comments: I hear lots of people around here like arguing about books.


The Odometer:
16,972 Journal Entries (952 this year)
109,944 comments received, 31,161 comments posted