Well, I think Miyamoto got shafted, but since this isn't a lifetime achievement award, at least he's getting recognition.

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Well, I think Miyamoto got shafted, but since this isn't a lifetime achievement award, at least he's getting recognition.

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I think he got tied up in the "Foreigners voting for foreigners" category. I had never heard of rain before this competition, and I know that his work has not influenced many people in the states, and I think because he did well, even though Time knew he wasn't truly a top influential person, his success not only hurt himself, but spread to others like Miyamoto.

What the heck!?!? Ken Kutaragi isn't on the list! If anyone was more influential it would be Ken, he single handedly destroyed Sony's gaming division and put them 1.2 billion in the red.

Oh, ew. The readers voted Sanjaya as #3. =/

And you wonder why Nintendo tends to not listen to the highly vocal internet crowd when making key business decisions.

How are all these blobs of defective cerebral matter getting on the internet?

This is why I hate polls like this, Sanjaya shouldn't even be in the top 1000.

I don't think the main article's 100 are "ranked" per se.

And that writeup was terrible. Who is this "Fatal1ty" anyway?

He's a "professional" gamer who has won a bunch of FPS tournaments. and even helped design some gaming PC keyboards and stuff. Here's his Wikipedia profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnathan_Wendel.

Wow.. Sidney Crosby took 5th place in the reader's votes - tops for athletes. That's somewhat unexpected.

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NBC's Tina Fey was voted the most influential by TIME Magazine, while readers (probably Korean readers) voted Korean R&B star Rain as the runaway favorite in the online poll.

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"I'm hopeful that competitive video gaming will rightfully be considered a pro sport like any other, and I will spend the rest of my life championing video gaming as an equal to pro football or basketball."

Yeah right. In North America major REAL sports like soccer and rugby aren't even on par with the big four. There's no way videogaming, which is NOT a sport, would get as big. But then poker isn't a real sport either and it somehow has gotten huge. I guess anything can happen.

Anyway congratulations Shiggy. And congrats to Sidney Crosby as well. Having a hockey player as the top ranked athlete is something the NHL could really need to regain credibility in the US.

They aren't ranked.

There are 5 categories placed arbitrarily, each with 20 people.

Miyamoto could have been 12 if the "builders" category was the first one.

It's just 100 influential people.

The poker fad seems to be dying down. I like playing poker, but I never saw the appeal in watching other people play poker (same with darts. I love darts, but watching other people bores the hell out of me).

The issue with Time's 100 list is that it's not right.

Now, I know there are a lot of people who don't like the man (me included), but to not include the "Leader of the Free World" George W. Bush anywhere on the list of most influential people is... well, crazy. I don't mean to turn this thread into a politicial discussion or anything, but dude... Dubya's actions each and every day are going to influence what happens around the world and into the long term future. We'll probably have him to thank for Madam Clinton getting elected next year.

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The issue with Time's 100 list is that it's not right.

Now, I know there are a lot of people who don't like the man (me included), but to not include the "Leader of the Free World" George W. Bush anywhere on the list of most influential people is... well, crazy. I don't mean to turn this thread into a politicial discussion or anything, but dude... Dubya's actions each and every day are going to influence what happens around the world and into the long term future. We'll probably have him to thank for Madam Clinton getting elected next year.

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Here's our list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world.

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'meh. I'd agree with that if the article wasn't about the "most influential people".

You say that "not much has changed" since 9/11... How much has the average person's life changed because Miyamoto helped make a new Zelda game?

You can't pick up a news paper or turn on the news (or, for us younger folks, scan through Google news or such) without reading/seeing a major article/headline/news story about the War in Iraq or something else related to Dubya's actions. This list is a farce and means *nothing*. Put Miyamoto on a list of important people with some real important people and then tell me about it.

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They aren't ranked.

There are 5 categories placed arbitrarily, each with 20 people.

Miyamoto could have been 12 if the "builders" category was the first one.

It's just 100 influential people.

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'meh. I'd agree with that if the article wasn't about the "most influential people".

You say that "not much has changed" since 9/11... How much has the average person's life changed because Miyamoto helped make a new Zelda game?

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Regardless if we "see" the effects of the current President, they're there and they're effecting us every day. How much money has Google and the Telcos spent 'defending' their data from The Bush Administration and their privacy views (or lack of)?

Democratic Control of Congress? Whoppie. Tell that to them, after, with one stroke of the pen, Bush vetoed their attempt to end the war in Iraq - an action directly against every member of Congress that voted for the bill and an action that will have direct consequences on the lives of a large number of troops in both Iraq and Afghanastan (and many troops elsewhere), the friends and families of those troops and those living in Iraq and those fighting against us in Iraq. All this, from one single action from one individual.

Additionally, the actions of this president will have a direct effect on the outcome of the next presidental election (for better or worse).

This list is supposed to be presented by a magazine under the premise that the people listed are the most influential people this year. Not the most liked or most well known or such, simply the "100 Most Influential People". If they want this list to be taken seriously, they should actually include the most influential people - and the President of the United States is one of them. I would accept that it could be debated that he isn't the "most influential", but he's in the top 100 easily.

Am I saying that Miyamoto doesn't deserve to be on the list? Not at all. But if anyone seriously thinks that Miyamoto is more influential than the President... well... wow... I thought I was a Nintendo fanboy.

Wow, this topic has been turned to phail train.

Sorry... I'm not trying to discuss politics, persay... And, personally, I don't care for Dubya or his attempts at running the govenment. I just think the Time list is flawed simply for the fact that the President isn't on the list.