LOL, Oh my God Matt, you're seeing my comments through the wrong prescription.
I never said you cheated 'cause you didn't cheat. It's really lame that you can say stuff jokingly or in a less than serious way but I can't.
If you'll recall, I didn't "start taking shots at you when I started to lose".

I started taking shots at you when I began to read your posts that weren't dealing with politics (I agree with most of your thoughts on politics), specifically when you said the ******ed thing about the Beatles, which Erz referenced in the title of our match.
I never once said you "cheated", 'cause you didn't. You won!
The only reason I even posted my last post yesterday was because I hate people who vocally enjoy winning and then when they're not winning they just act like they don't care anymore and disappear...like all the Christians I've debated who are super-mouthy and confident and then when I destroy their point, they disappear instead of saying "wh00ps, I suck."
I didn't want people to think I was doing that so I explained that the reason I don't care about the Death Matches anymore is not because I was losing to a *****y-weasel (I have lost to *****ier weasels) or because I was losing at all (of course I've lost before,
'cause I've never gone all the way and I was happy to lose to the likes of DOG LIPS, etc.), but because when it started out, regardless of the name "
Hype Death Match", I knew everyone who was voting, because it was Community people who knew about it and were voting.
I'm not interested in last ditch attempts at appealing to total strangers. To me that would be the definition of "taking it too seriously", lol.
I don't go anywhere else but Community, so of COURSE it's going to be more fun for me when it's all people I know involved, 'cause it's not like the Olympics where a Spaniard can meet a Samoan for the first time and fairly compete in the same sport. It's based on your history of posting. (I never saw it before as a competition based on how prolific a poster you are, or how broad your comicbook interests are, but instead on the quality of your posts, and I have always hated, for instance, people who say a movie "sucks" when they haven't even seen it.)
Then it has some kind of meaning which makes it more fun, like, "OMG, Darthphere, you b****. I can't believe you didn't vote for me!

" instead of "Oh no. "Forever is over" didn't vote for me!" Duh
But, after the match started, Erz took a poll to see if it should be Community Battles, or Hype-wide, and most people wanted Hype-wide, at which point I said, "Whelp, I can't compete anymore if it's Hype-wide, 'cause I literally don't/won't post anywhere but Community. *shrug*"
It all seems pretty obvious and reasonable to me, lol *shrug*
We don't know eachother that well, so you probably don't remember that I always speak with a grandiose Dr. Doom-like tone in the Death Matches.
I didn't actually go home last night howling at the red sky about how "empty, cold and lonely" your victory is, lol
chill, mama...and