Hello again contestants! :)
I'm going to once again respond to both of you at the same time and leave this message on both of your entries.
First of all. Thank you so much for playing! I loved both of your entries.
And.. There were some things I didn't like so much about both of your entries.
I loved the story did and how detailed she got and how much it relates to what we are doing at the IFC, I felt like.. The worlds are very similar!
Unfortunately I also felt like.. I wanted to hear her talk more about what the game means to her.. Like sharing time with her loveds ones and such, and she did a lil bit.. But I was hoping to read more about what the game means to her in a philosphical sense.
I also was a lil surprised to see numerous appears with no sources.. That alone makes it diffcult for me to vote for this.. I hope you will address that and either add sources or take the images down that you don't have the rights to use. You still have a couple days to edit it.
If you were to use images that don't belong to you, at the least you should include text saying something like.. "For educational purposes only I do not own these images".
In the end I'm trying not to lose sight of this over a few memes, especially when you can just delete them..
But I admit that is a factor.
I also loved entry and the subject she picked as well which is a significant subject in my life I'd like to understand better.
And I feel like I did learn more, I even went and looked up the etymology of the word "forgive" and got a further understanding of the word which was helpful!
However.. Youhavewings listed the water experiments as evidence, which.. Actually were also mentioned in an earlier round on the subject of "water" that won..
But.. I personally think that info is bunk and I've seen it not work for many who have tried, so something doesn't add up.
Also, there's another... The Ho'oponopono stuff.. I looked deep into that and it's very questionable also, there's really no evidence for most of the claims made and if you find the interviews from people who were really there.. They say it was nothing like that at all.
Now I'm not saying it's not good to think positive and forgive people and say those things, but.. The way both of those stories are marketed traditionally are as ways to have almost super human powers by thinking positive and saying certain things, and.. There's just not much science to support it and a lot of science that shows it didn't work for a lot of people.
SO... With all that in light and considered... There are things I like and didn't like about both as I mentioned.
I think the main reasons for my decision are..
Despite what I see as mistakes by both competitors.. IE Posting pictures without sources and posting data that I think has been pretty clearly debunked.
I think.. I felt like I gained more value from youhavewings message.
As I mentioned before.. With magicalmoonlights entry I wanted to hear more about what the game meant to her.. I wanted her to add a further element that I could closer identify with.
I could go read many stories like that around the web, but if she had said.. At the end something like.. "The reason why I love this game so much is it brings our family together and we have a great time and forget even if just for a moment the stresses of the time"... Then I probably would have voted for her.
I voted for youhavewings because I think in light of and in addition to what I just mentioned above about wanting more relatability
I also think that.. Learning more about forgiveness is a really important subject almost everyone can benefit from, and I definitely needed to learn more and I did.
That is the reason why I voted the way I did.
I hope you understand, and it's a close battle right now.. Either of you could still win. My vote is not the decider here.
Good luck to both of you! And please magicalmoonlight address those improperly sourced images before the entry expires and you can no longer edit it?
Thank you! Much love and peace to both of you. <3
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