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Comic Book Universe Battles/ElectricFerret/MagneticFox
Bio: Going by many names but remaining the same in spirit since 1998, the CBUB was created to be a more serious alternative to the original hypothetical debate website on the net, Grudge Match. Whereas Grudge Match had an overtly humorous tone and featured polls between mainstream, non-combatant pop culture figures, CBUB exclusively featured characters from action-oriented media, mainly comic books, obviously. Originally, the layout was virtually identical to Grudge Match's: two comedic hosts doing farcical debates, responses sent via email and a short "story" setting up the debate written by the webmaster beforehand. A sub-forum called the Fantasy Powers League, in which internet goers could create their own characters in an original setting, was highly popular. However, in the mid-2000s, there was a huge change in layout. Matches could then be made by users, and win-loss records could be kept in an extremely expansive database of fictional characters that could be featured in hypothetical matches. CBUB was unfortunately closed down in 2013, but the community lived on in the form of the Free Forum site, MagneticFox.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: The CBUB community can generally be characterised by how tightly knit and loyal to the website it is. Combined, the CBUB community has an impressive general knowledge of media and fiction. While debates are taken very seriously, casual fans of comics 'n stuff are generally accepted just as welcomingly as dedicated ones so long as they aren't total dickheads or really whiny.
vs.
ComicVine
Bio: The sister site of the video game news website, GiantBomb, ComicVine is essentially a fairly expansive database of comic book issues and characters. The site covers news relating to the medium, and has an equally expansive forum community. A big feature of the forum is it's hypothetical debate section, which receives huge amounts of attention.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: ComicVine's debate section is basically a casual alternative to this website, where debates about who would win in a fight between Dr. Strange and Harry Potter are not really frowned upon, and with the community being so large, it's diffucult to narrow it down to a single description. They generally still take debates fairly seriously.
vs.
WWWF Grudge Match
Bio: Regarded as the first website of its type, Grudge Match was created back in 1995 when the Internet was still young. Originally ran by two college students named Steve and Brian but later carried on by others, Grudge Match was perhaps got more mainstream attention than any other debate website out there, having gained the attention of celebrities and Wikipedia; the creators even wrote a book about it. It should be noted that the "debates" on Grudge Match were completely farcical and comical in nature, with the responses (which were emailed to the creators) being ranked on the pages based on their funniness. Grudge Match spawned a number of recurring jokes that today would be called lame attempts at manufacturing memes. Grudge Match was cancelled in 2005, but the site still remains to this day. Despite being an old relic that may or may not have jumped the shark, Grudge Match is a veritable goldmine of early Internet comedy.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: Probably the most casual debate website of them all, the web masters were all about the banter, and so were the responders. Very rarely would genuine points be made about characters' power levels and stuff like that, because that wasn't really the point.
vs.
The Screamsheet
Bio: The Screamsheet oddball among debate websites, in that debates featured on the Screamsheet were always started and settled by one guy. Started in 2000, the Screamsheet was a blog that featured numerous hypothetical battles between fictional characters, but the twist was that the guy who ran the site would always settle battles with short stories detailing the fights or contests. Weird character choices such as Particle Man from the They Might Be Giants song of the same name were known to show up. A fair few of the "battles" on the Screamsheet weren't very serious and were more tongue-in-cheek like Grudge Match's.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: The dude who ran the Screamsheet could be fairly funny at times, but often relied on the same recurring jokes such as "Superman always loses unless he's fighting the Sentry" which weren't funny to begin with. Nonetheless, some of his ideas were pretty unique. He occasionally admitted to knowing next to nothing about some of the characters he was writing.
vs.
SaltyBet
Bio: Only a debate website by the most lenient definition, in that the site can inspire some debating, SaltyBet is a fairly new website in which people can bet on (sometimes) randomly generated battles between fighting game characters and characters from all sorts of media in the MUGEN engine. The main difference from all other sites on this page is that people can effectively see the fictional battles go down on the SaltyBet Twitch stream which is up virtually all the time rather than just talk about them. Of course, considering that the characters on SaltyBet are often taken directly from the games they're from, hardly any of them are accurate to the source materials and can get owned by characters that logically should be far less powerful than them. For example, Wonder Man could be soundly beaten by Ken from Street Fighter in SaltyBet. SaltyBet users bet with a fictional currency called "Salty Bucks", but can pay real money to look at a coveted scripture supposedly containing match-up odds for every character in their database.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: SaltyBet doesn't really have a proper community per se, but people on their twitch stream commonly express their admiration for certain characters and repeat memes to justify their betting choices.
Which is the better site? Hmm, I wonder what the answer will be...
Bio: Going by many names but remaining the same in spirit since 1998, the CBUB was created to be a more serious alternative to the original hypothetical debate website on the net, Grudge Match. Whereas Grudge Match had an overtly humorous tone and featured polls between mainstream, non-combatant pop culture figures, CBUB exclusively featured characters from action-oriented media, mainly comic books, obviously. Originally, the layout was virtually identical to Grudge Match's: two comedic hosts doing farcical debates, responses sent via email and a short "story" setting up the debate written by the webmaster beforehand. A sub-forum called the Fantasy Powers League, in which internet goers could create their own characters in an original setting, was highly popular. However, in the mid-2000s, there was a huge change in layout. Matches could then be made by users, and win-loss records could be kept in an extremely expansive database of fictional characters that could be featured in hypothetical matches. CBUB was unfortunately closed down in 2013, but the community lived on in the form of the Free Forum site, MagneticFox.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: The CBUB community can generally be characterised by how tightly knit and loyal to the website it is. Combined, the CBUB community has an impressive general knowledge of media and fiction. While debates are taken very seriously, casual fans of comics 'n stuff are generally accepted just as welcomingly as dedicated ones so long as they aren't total dickheads or really whiny.
vs.
ComicVine
Bio: The sister site of the video game news website, GiantBomb, ComicVine is essentially a fairly expansive database of comic book issues and characters. The site covers news relating to the medium, and has an equally expansive forum community. A big feature of the forum is it's hypothetical debate section, which receives huge amounts of attention.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: ComicVine's debate section is basically a casual alternative to this website, where debates about who would win in a fight between Dr. Strange and Harry Potter are not really frowned upon, and with the community being so large, it's diffucult to narrow it down to a single description. They generally still take debates fairly seriously.
vs.
WWWF Grudge Match
Bio: Regarded as the first website of its type, Grudge Match was created back in 1995 when the Internet was still young. Originally ran by two college students named Steve and Brian but later carried on by others, Grudge Match was perhaps got more mainstream attention than any other debate website out there, having gained the attention of celebrities and Wikipedia; the creators even wrote a book about it. It should be noted that the "debates" on Grudge Match were completely farcical and comical in nature, with the responses (which were emailed to the creators) being ranked on the pages based on their funniness. Grudge Match spawned a number of recurring jokes that today would be called lame attempts at manufacturing memes. Grudge Match was cancelled in 2005, but the site still remains to this day. Despite being an old relic that may or may not have jumped the shark, Grudge Match is a veritable goldmine of early Internet comedy.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: Probably the most casual debate website of them all, the web masters were all about the banter, and so were the responders. Very rarely would genuine points be made about characters' power levels and stuff like that, because that wasn't really the point.
vs.
The Screamsheet
Bio: The Screamsheet oddball among debate websites, in that debates featured on the Screamsheet were always started and settled by one guy. Started in 2000, the Screamsheet was a blog that featured numerous hypothetical battles between fictional characters, but the twist was that the guy who ran the site would always settle battles with short stories detailing the fights or contests. Weird character choices such as Particle Man from the They Might Be Giants song of the same name were known to show up. A fair few of the "battles" on the Screamsheet weren't very serious and were more tongue-in-cheek like Grudge Match's.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: The dude who ran the Screamsheet could be fairly funny at times, but often relied on the same recurring jokes such as "Superman always loses unless he's fighting the Sentry" which weren't funny to begin with. Nonetheless, some of his ideas were pretty unique. He occasionally admitted to knowing next to nothing about some of the characters he was writing.
vs.
SaltyBet
Bio: Only a debate website by the most lenient definition, in that the site can inspire some debating, SaltyBet is a fairly new website in which people can bet on (sometimes) randomly generated battles between fighting game characters and characters from all sorts of media in the MUGEN engine. The main difference from all other sites on this page is that people can effectively see the fictional battles go down on the SaltyBet Twitch stream which is up virtually all the time rather than just talk about them. Of course, considering that the characters on SaltyBet are often taken directly from the games they're from, hardly any of them are accurate to the source materials and can get owned by characters that logically should be far less powerful than them. For example, Wonder Man could be soundly beaten by Ken from Street Fighter in SaltyBet. SaltyBet users bet with a fictional currency called "Salty Bucks", but can pay real money to look at a coveted scripture supposedly containing match-up odds for every character in their database.
Powers, Abilities and Personality: SaltyBet doesn't really have a proper community per se, but people on their twitch stream commonly express their admiration for certain characters and repeat memes to justify their betting choices.
Which is the better site? Hmm, I wonder what the answer will be...
