NA splatfest! Snowman vs Sandcastle

[Flareth]

As a California native, I should be a big fan of all things sunny and beach-related, and think of snowy weather as some sort of nightmare. But it's the exact opposite for me. I can't stand the weather here. All day every day for damn near the whole year, nothing but sweltering heat, never enough shade to make up for it, and any breeze that comes by is just hot wind. It's miserable... and the lack of relief makes it all the worse. (I used to say we had no true seasons, only a wet and dry season, but for the last few years we haven't even had that.)

I don't know if I'm really the cold weather lover I think I am, or if it's just a reaction to putting up with nothing but sun for years on end, but I'd definitely feel at home in a blizzard. I'd just have to remember to stockpile some extra food before things get really hairy... plus there's something about such gloomy days that makes sparks an emotion in me that's somewhere between reflective and hopeful. (Poignant, I think is the word. The opposite of most others, I'd bet.)

So as much as @Award's description is supposed to evoke horror in our minds, to me it sounds like Heaven on Earth. I tell ya what, how's about we trade places when the snow hits next, yeah?

 

[Award]

oh trust me i freaking love it here, though my island isn't exactly beaches and palm trees everywhere. there is a lot though, i think like 15 beaches where you can swim, but it's like a minimum 20-30 minute drive from my house to the nearest beach, but once you get to that part of the island it's pretty much picture perfect Caribbean ;). i'm kinda the opposite. i LOVE gloom weather. live here long enough and you eventually get sick of the sun. it goes from this heavenly source of light and warmth to this infernal ball of burning plasma that constantly rains rays of fiery death. whenever i see dark clouds i get excited because than it'll rain (hopefully that is, rain is really rare these days) and i love it. i'm not much of an outdoor person and love the sound of rain and the cool temperature (though i do hate extreme cold). i've always wanted to experience snow and winter, but never got the chance. i'll probably enjoy it for a month before getting sick of the cold, but i'd probably find a way around it.

And lots of squids in the sea, right? ;)

LOL, I can understand starting to hate the sun. I'm a fain of neither extreme, and being in a place with high heat and humidity drags you down a lot (we get both the bitter cold (but not as cold as Canada) and the brutal heat/humidity (but not as brutal as the Caribbean) so while it doesn't hit the extremes of either it has the unpleasant reality of veering into both types of extremes which is a pretty jarring swing back and forth so you spend the winter in "Canada-lite" and the summer in "Caribbean lite" with only a few weeks that are pleasant between! I'm not a fan of crazy humidity and heatwaves, though if I had to pick just one I'd probably pick that. Snow itself is bad enough, but the refreezing and slippery surfaces get old, the fact that all vegetation dries and shrivels brown or barren, it's just a bunch of...nothing (and ice...lots and lots of ice....) and inaccessible locations. People take for granted, you go outside and go to the mailbox. NOPE...bundle up, check the surfaces, watch every footfall you make, maybe return get salt and put that down on the now re-re-frozen ground, them maybe return again and get a shovel to widen the path a little more.... Just the fact that simple tasks become massive projects in addition to regular life gets old. And that means less Splatoon time,.

And yeah the cold. We only graze the negatives here....some places that go deep into the negatives I don't even know how life is possible. But if you're not used to it? See if you can try the freezer at a meat storage facility. Stand in there for a few hours. It needs to be 0F or colder. It's just....every part of your head just hurts after a while :p

But I certainly understand learning to hate the sun too....been there even at our temps which at worst peak at 102 or so, and that's on the hottest of record setting days. You guys get it worse, no question. :D

As a California native, I should be a big fan of all things sunny and beach-related, and think of snowy weather as some sort of nightmare. But it's the exact opposite for me. I can't stand the weather here. All day every day for damn near the whole year, nothing but sweltering heat, never enough shade to make up for it, and any breeze that comes by is just hot wind. It's miserable... and the lack of relief makes it all the worse. (I used to say we had no true seasons, only a wet and dry season, but for the last few years we haven't even had that.)

I don't know if I'm really the cold weather lover I think I am, or if it's just a reaction to putting up with nothing but sun for years on end, but I'd definitely feel at home in a blizzard. I'd just have to remember to stockpile some extra food before things get really hairy... plus there's something about such gloomy days that makes sparks an emotion in me that's somewhere between reflective and hopeful. (Poignant, I think is the word. The opposite of most others, I'd bet.)

So as much as @Award's description is supposed to evoke horror in our minds, to me it sounds like Heaven on Earth. I tell ya what, how's about we trade places when the snow hits next, yeah?

Heck yeah! :)

See, it's like when Mel Torme wrote the Christmas Song during a CA heatwave. It SOUNDS all fun and all when it's hot. Until you actually experience it. A Blizzard? Sure it's fun. Until the power goes out. And it's 7 degrees with 55MPH winds and you have no heat, no food, no hot water. Bathing would almost definitely cause a heart attack, if not frostbite and the indoor temperature is careening toward the freezing point (at which point all plumbing will freeze and will then promptly burst upon thawing.). Then the next morning? You're supposed to shovel the several feet and 1.2 tons or so of snow, and STILL get to work on time. Meanwhile within a few days the weight of snow on the roof combined with melting will cause ice dams which will then start leaking through the roof. Good times!

On the other hand, you have no potable water.....so there's that... :D

Yeah there ARE people that love it. I still can't understand why. :)

 

[モモコ]

As a California native, I should be a big fan of all things sunny and beach-related, and think of snowy weather as some sort of nightmare. But it's the exact opposite for me. I can't stand the weather here. All day every day for damn near the whole year, nothing but sweltering heat, never enough shade to make up for it, and any breeze that comes by is just hot wind. It's miserable... and the lack of relief makes it all the worse. (I used to say we had no true seasons, only a wet and dry season, but for the last few years we haven't even had that.)

I don't know if I'm really the cold weather lover I think I am, or if it's just a reaction to putting up with nothing but sun for years on end, but I'd definitely feel at home in a blizzard. I'd just have to remember to stockpile some extra food before things get really hairy... plus there's something about such gloomy days that makes sparks an emotion in me that's somewhere between reflective and hopeful. (Poignant, I think is the word. The opposite of most others, I'd bet.)

So as much as @Award's description is supposed to evoke horror in our minds, to me it sounds like Heaven on Earth. I tell ya what, how's about we trade places when the snow hits next, yeah?

someone else grew up around sand and heat and hates it

 

[Sparkly Ink]

as much as i prefer snowmans, i think that every child is going to go with snowman due to the frozen ref so i will pick sandcastles...... no one said it had to be at the beach! i will make desert sand castles.

 

[Crystal C]

I'm in a bit of an interesting position mainly because I grew up in a northern beachside town. Meaning that it was really cold and snowy in the winter but also warm and nice during spring and summer. I think that I am going to have to go with sandcastle mainly because after the last winter my town had I am SICK OF THE SNOW!!! lulz c:

 

[MeTaGross]

And lots of squids in the sea, right? ;)

LOL, I can understand starting to hate the sun. I'm a fain of neither extreme, and being in a place with high heat and humidity drags you down a lot (we get both the bitter cold (but not as cold as Canada) and the brutal heat/humidity (but not as brutal as the Caribbean) so while it doesn't hit the extremes of either it has the unpleasant reality of veering into both types of extremes which is a pretty jarring swing back and forth so you spend the winter in "Canada-lite" and the summer in "Caribbean lite" with only a few weeks that are pleasant between! I'm not a fan of crazy humidity and heatwaves, though if I had to pick just one I'd probably pick that. Snow itself is bad enough, but the refreezing and slippery surfaces get old, the fact that all vegetation dries and shrivels brown or barren, it's just a bunch of...nothing (and ice...lots and lots of ice....) and inaccessible locations. People take for granted, you go outside and go to the mailbox. NOPE...bundle up, check the surfaces, watch every footfall you make, maybe return get salt and put that down on the now re-re-frozen ground, them maybe return again and get a shovel to widen the path a little more.... Just the fact that simple tasks become massive projects in addition to regular life gets old. And that means less Splatoon time,.

And yeah the cold. We only graze the negatives here....some places that go deep into the negatives I don't even know how life is possible. But if you're not used to it? See if you can try the freezer at a meat storage facility. Stand in there for a few hours. It needs to be 0F or colder. It's just....every part of your head just hurts after a while :p

But I certainly understand learning to hate the sun too....been there even at our temps which at worst peak at 102 or so, and that's on the hottest of record setting days. You guys get it worse, no question. :D



Heck yeah! :)

See, it's like when Mel Torme wrote the Christmas Song during a CA heatwave. It SOUNDS all fun and all when it's hot. Until you actually experience it. A Blizzard? Sure it's fun. Until the power goes out. And it's 7 degrees with 55MPH winds and you have no heat, no food, no hot water. Bathing would almost definitely cause a heart attack, if not frostbite and the indoor temperature is careening toward the freezing point (at which point all plumbing will freeze and will then promptly burst upon thawing.). Then the next morning? You're supposed to shovel the several feet and 1.2 tons or so of snow, and STILL get to work on time. Meanwhile within a few days the weight of snow on the roof combined with melting will cause ice dams which will then start leaking through the roof. Good times!

On the other hand, you have no potable water.....so there's that... :D

Yeah there ARE people that love it. I still can't understand why. :)

Do you live in the midwest? I live in Nebraska and I remember that until around 2 years ago winter was lots of snow and temperatures below 0°F, but then summer was humid and over 100°F, with tornadoes. Still have to go with snowman though, despite not having real snow for 2 years.

 

[Joseph Staleknight]

So, uh, guys? Bad news. I'm not gonna be able to make this Splatfest because I did something very bad.

Still going to give Team Sandcastles my support, though!

 

[モモコ]

Spoiler: the only worthwhile Olaf that is related to powers over winter in some capacity

Hey look! Another Advance Wars reference by your local Advance Wars fangirl.

Even though the sandstorm weather effect was introduced in Dual Strike, there was no CO made around it until Days of Ruin/Dark Conflict and that CO was the general weather CO specialist anyway who also had the power over rain and snow

i did not completely get it till now (because I have not played that game) but that is cool! he has the same name as olaf in frozen

So, uh, guys? Bad news. I'm not gonna be able to make this Splatfest because I did something very bad.

Still going to give Team Sandcastles my support, though!

I feel sorry for you and all(well maybe, i want snowman to win>XD) but I still do not understand how people can rage that much from a video game. The most I ever done was mutter damn lag or pound my controller on the bed (not hard but is is on bed) after a loss that we shouldn't have but even those I have not done in a while.

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

I once shook my Wiimote so hard out of anger from Donkey Kong Country Returns that the waggle stopped working. At least I have a 200% file in that game.

 

[LupusFreak]

I'm just sitting here in Oregon like, "All we get is rain."

The more I think about it, I think I might actually prefer building a snowman over a sandcastle. I love the cold weather, it's so fresh and crisp. Sand is just annoying, and gets everywhere. Plus, it's always cloudy here, so our beaches are damp and dreary most of the year. I mostly chose it for the dialogue, because Marie's retort was exactly how I felt.

One thing I hate though is we live on a hill, so it's kinda hard to build a snowman on a slanted yard. And whenever I tried at our last house, the snow would get too heavy as I rolled it and sink into the mud, so I'd have a slightly brown snowman. Small snowmen are cute, though.

 

[Flareth]

Damnit @モモコ, you've got me there. Well played, ma'am.

 

[Award]

Do you live in the midwest? I live in Nebraska and I remember that until around 2 years ago winter was lots of snow and temperatures below 0°F, but then summer was humid and over 100°F, with tornadoes. Still have to go with snowman though, despite not having real snow for 2 years.

I've heard of tales of this place called "midwest" and I think I would have been chained in a padded cell long, long ago had I lived there :) It's everything I hate about the weather in the east, except worse. :p Until the past few years getting below 0F was a once every 15 years kind of thing but is now "normal'. Before the past few years staying below freezing for a month or two continuously was a very rare thing, and now (except this year) it's been "normal" - though the problem here is buildings aren't built for it like they are in the midwest. You guys have different roofing and insulation standards and everything. Here (at least older buildings) they throw some plywood, stick some plastic on it and you're good to go - it doesn't endure continuous freezing so well. And it doesn't endure big snow so well. Also tornados were a very rare occurance, but the past few years I get endless warnings for tornadoes. We've basically picked up the midwests weather. Except yeah you're in the northwest midwest where you're getting that nice california warmth :D Illinois and such have been getting Canadian winters while we get Illinois winters. Yuck. (I still don't understand how Canada is habitable :p ) It's like everything shifted east. We get your winters, and you get CA's - but Canada shoved down over the Great Lakes. Gotta admit, if I never, ever, EVER saw freezing temps again, I'd be quite happy. :) It just causes too many problems!

 

[Lonely_Dolphin]

Not really interested in building either, so I'm going with Snowman cause Callie and Blue Ink! I'm curious to see how the new matchmaking will work and how it changes things if at all.

 

[Award]

Not really interested in building either, so I'm going with Snowman cause Callie and Blue Ink! I'm curious to see how the new matchmaking will work and how it changes things if at all.

A dolphin that likes SNOW? ;)

What I find interesting is that it's based on your rank now. At least the starting point is. I think it basically means good players can't just rek some noobs for an hour and get their snails :) They have to earn them with battles of similar rank. Keeping the better players on both teams playing longer might help balance things out. Though it still won't go as long a way as introducing rewards for actually playing longer and winning more. It's also humorous that splatfests now take the colossal joke that is the rank letter seriously. :p Might be a good practice session for ranked now though! Sadly I'll be gone half the day so I won't get to fully experience it as I otherwise would....I'm hoping I can still get to royalty in time!

 

[SquiliamTentacles]

Pretty excited for the new matchmaking system, it almost feels like squads for turf war. Having closer battles will obviously be fun, though I am a bit worried about how long it will take between matches, especially for the higher ranks. It will be nice that the higher "power" players get more experience, it actually motivates people to do better will likely make it a bit easier to get to Royalty (unless you have a bad losing streak.)

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

A dolphin that likes SNOW? ;)

Well being beached is one of a dolphin's greatest fears. And I am sure snowy and icy regions provide food for the larger dolphins (orcas) such as penguins and seals.

 

[Lonely_Dolphin]

A dolphin that likes SNOW? ;)

What I find interesting is that it's based on your rank now. At least the starting point is. I think it basically means good players can't just rek some noobs for an hour and get their snails :) They have to earn them with battles of similar rank. Keeping the better players on both teams playing longer might help balance things out. Though it still won't go as long a way as introducing rewards for actually playing longer and winning more. It's also humorous that splatfests now take the colossal joke that is the rank letter seriously. :p Might be a good practice session for ranked now though! Sadly I'll be gone half the day so I won't get to fully experience it as I otherwise would....I'm hoping I can still get to royalty in time!

I like many things, what's strange about that? :L

I liked how turf wars were generally more casual so I could use whatever weapon I felt like and still win more often than not, but now I might have to tryhard all the time to maintain the same ratio. Meh, I'm still gonna try using stuff like the H-3 hehe.

 

[Kausus]

I picked Snowman since I've actually never seen or been in snow, being a Florida native. I love the beach but sandcastles have never been fun to make for me and I always got sand in places there ought not be any sand... And I'd prefer being in the cold rather than the heat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Flareth]

I voted sandcastles because I get to see girls wearing bikinis. That's hot.

Goddamnit why didn't I think of that... (I know, I know, I'm not a pig, that's why, but still...)

 

[chubbypickle]

i don't really need snails so i use the splatfest opportunity to get more abilities on gear without worrying about my rank dropping