Kevin Standlee (kevin_standlee) wrote,
Kevin Standlee
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Bad for My Blood Pressure

Yet another post about how awful it is the Hugo Awards don't go to the works that I personally like.

With added points for people saying how terrible it is that Americans hold all of the Worldcons (by people who I doubt understand how Worldcon sites are selected) and that it's awful that those horrible smoffers don't roll over and change things to suit ME ME ME.

There are vaguely plausible points here, but they're buried in assumptions that, in my opinion, make it hard to take the rest of the argument seriously. And seriously, you are never going to get any award, from the Hugos to the Nebulas to the Golden Globes to the Oscars, to take the word "Best" out of their category titles just to suit your silly sense of "rightness."
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