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New SMWC contest thingy: the 9th Door: the series.

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Should the people re-release these levels as a "SMWC Hard Levels Collection"? Would that make this better? I wonder.
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S.N.N. wrote:Universities have this thing called a "bell curve", in which if the average for an entire class is below a certain percentage, it is bumped up.
I wish some of my teachers actually used that. It would made me pass a couple of courses (Theoretical Chemistry, I hate you!!)
Haha, at least in the first semester, our exam in TC was rigged so that everyone would pass. They simply declared the one problem that noone could solve as bonus.

After all, nobody in his right mind chooses TC anyway (it still interested me), so they want to keep anyone who sits in the lecture...isn't it like that where you studied?

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But why do we care about the ranking so much? Isn't it more important how good each individual work is?
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I once got a 105% on a test thanks to the bell curve! :P

One of the things I wonder about with regards to the difficulty curve and entries that don't compare well next to each other like they way they ended up, is if that's also a reflection of the romhacking "scene" and its preference towards more challenging hacks. I mean, in addition to the whole "Judging takes place over multiple days and aren't played in the same order that raocow's playing them" thing. Sort of like some people are just kind of desensitized to challenge 'cause they see every crappy hack that's hard for the sake of being hard, in a sense.
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Anyone else feel like raocow's been set up by SMWC.net? It's like these low ranking ones are intended to drive him mad...
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This contest was not made with the intention of this it LP'd by anyone (though many opt to do it anyway, such as TomPhanto) nor did SNN rank entries- or at least the low-scoring ones- with the intention of seeing raocow "rage" or his inevitable fanboys come in like yes-men that SNN would've known about.
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I really can't feel sorry for raocow here. As he raged the one thing that kept coming to mind was "He's inflicting this on himself." There are many ways to make this more bearable and probably a better LP, but he's refused them. Hence, his fault.
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I would respond to that, but I'll wait until tomorrow's video.
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My advice to all parties: deal with it
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Argumentable wrote:My advice to all parties: deal with it
^ This. I don't understand why people can't just respect raocow's choices... If he chooses not to use tools then respect that decision.
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Test Pilot Monkey wrote:It's like farting. In the right context (at home alone) it's OK; in others (in a job interview) it's disrespectful.
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Giygas60659 wrote:
Argumentable wrote:My advice to all parties: deal with it
^ This. I don't understand why people can't just respect raocow's choices... If he chooses not to use tools then respect that decision.
But he did use tools. Several times.
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a0n0o0m0a0l0y wrote:
Giygas60659 wrote:
Argumentable wrote:My advice to all parties: deal with it
^ This. I don't understand why people can't just respect raocow's choices... If he chooses not to use tools then respect that decision.
But he did use tools. Several times.
Well duh, the level was getting pretty ridiculous. Didn't you hear him at the en- aw nevermind. :|
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It will all get better soon... it will all get better soon... it will all get better soooon.
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This LP is karma for the Freedomn breather episode, because that was just too darn enjoyable and easy. :mrgreen:
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a0n0o0m0a0l0y wrote:But he did use tools. Several times.
Took him quite a long time to resort to them though. My patience would have run out far quicker.
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Onyx3173 wrote:
a0n0o0m0a0l0y wrote:But he did use tools. Several times.
Took him quite a long time to resort to them though. My patience would have run out far quicker.
Better, I think, to have a better trigger for them then "I hate everything right now." Perhaps a time-limit-per-level before using tools? Subject himself to pain for ten minutes before just finishing it?
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Today's level was TOTALLY cribbed from an existing hack the guy had. A custom boss, really?

Please tell me I'm right.
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Today's level was kinda nice visually.
And yeah, the assumption that this level was actually made for this contest seems about right to me.

Furthermore, the usage of vanilla resources in a non-vanilla context like map16 editing is now declared as caramel.
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Well, designing a level like that in a single day must have been pretty hard.

Which I think is the main reason why there are so many levels that feel out of place- a good amount of people panicked and simply took a level they had already made and submitted it. So, of course, they are going to have a lot of chocolate and a lot of precission jumping and a ridiculous length. You can't add all that to a level and test it in such a short amount of time.

Of course, the whole point of the contest was precisely asking for small, simple things, so the hackers could show their creativity in other ways than adding custom bosses. Oh well.
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MrDeePay wrote:This contest was not made with the intention of this it LP'd by anyone
MrDeePay: Since you have set yourself up as the unofficial Public Relations Representative of SMWC...was any level in this contest intended to be played at all? Or was this contest just an attempt by SMWCentral to refine the skills of all romhackers involved so that they could then produce better romhacks in the future (similar to writing excerises that are intended to help people write better)?
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Well if it's a 24 hour contest, then it's not much of a help when normally you're expected to take your time to produce a quality work.
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Servant wrote:was any level in this contest intended to be played at all? Or was this contest just an attempt by SMWCentral to refine the skills of all romhackers involved so that they could then produce better romhacks in the future (similar to writing excerises that are intended to help people write better)?
I would imagine it was done for fun - something to get people on the forum involved. It's for the same reason The Spriter's Resource has sprite competitions and Mario Fangames Galaxy has minigame competitions.
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Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Tomorrow's video. It bucked the trend! I think we're officially past 'that' hurdle.

Instead we get a mixture of peeps who WILDLY misunderstood the contest, and some people who actually DID get it but did a hilariously mediocre job at it.
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