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Pretty much my view on simfiles
« on: August 22, 2008, 05:35:30 AM »
Snares says:
OH MY GOD
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AFTER 2 YEARS
vladgd says:
ESPECIALLY when the man posts naked pictures of him

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ITG REBIRTH IS FINALLY RELEASED
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AND NO ONE GIVES A SHIT!
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wut
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and people still have drama over it
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omg my chart has an arrow that was up but it should've been left THIS PACK IS AN ABOMINATION OF MANKIND
vladgd says:
splain
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itg drama
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thats pretty much it
vladgd says:
isn't itg dead?
Snares says:
itg rebirth was a pack started after konami took over roxor
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and it looked good and all at the start
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and just like 99% of everything on the ineternet
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it was abandoned
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then revived
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then abandoned
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then revived again
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then drama ensued over songs and charts
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then abandoned
vladgd says:
i want my goddamn itg2 cs
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then HEY GUESS WERE RELEASIN THIS SHIT
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out of nowhere
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kinda like itg3
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except itg3 was just (name removed) or someone bitching everytime something from itg3 was leaked and HE WOULD HAVE TO START ALL HIS CHARTS OVER
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because stepmania chart=work of art
vladgd says:
srsly
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i understand being proud of making a good and popular file but
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people who take it seriously enough to the point where they're like
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IM NOT RELEASING THIS DUE TO PERSONAL PROBLEMS
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BUT ILL KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT TO MAKE YOU JEALOUS
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need to reevaluate their life
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if a simfile is your life thats pretty sad
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NO SIMFILE NO LIFE
vladgd says:
give him vagina
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i never got that either

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what is so personal about a simfile
vladgd says:
arrows man
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ARROWS
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well my blood fell somewhere on the 112th arrow
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and my lover dumped me at 500 combo
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i just cant experience all that emotional upset again
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thats deep
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fuck im gonna like
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post this at s.net
« Last Edit: August 22, 2008, 05:46:54 AM by Milk Chan »

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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2008, 04:43:27 PM »
The way I see it, chartmakers today (a in, after a0 imploded and people like Glove started making files) are way too obsessed with making things hard, and needlessly adding in tripples and quads because "zomg, it fits with the music". Sure, I love accurate charts, but when you have sections that are pretty much just a bunch of triples with a double thrown in once in a while, that's just not really fun any more, it's more like total abuse. It's taken the elitism that arch had about stepfiles that much further, by deciding anything that doesn't contain at least 10 annoyingly placed triples isn't a decent stepfile any more.
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2008, 02:00:32 AM »
The way I see it, chartmakers today (a in, after a0 imploded and people like Glove started making files) are way too obsessed with making things hard, and needlessly adding in tripples and quads because "zomg, it fits with the music". Sure, I love accurate charts, but when you have sections that are pretty much just a bunch of triples with a double thrown in once in a while, that's just not really fun any more, it's more like total abuse. It's taken the elitism that arch had about stepfiles that much further, by deciding anything that doesn't contain at least 10 annoyingly placed triples isn't a decent stepfile any more.

Indeed.

ITG kind of did the same thing to the pad simfile world as well.  It got to the point where I didn't want to play my own simfiles because they were too damn hard (and I didn't try half as hard for difficulty as some of the people out there).

I kind of went back to writing DDR-style charts as of late.  They're just more fun to play.  Even the I Love (Orange Things) chart that I did for Mungyodance 3 (due out extremely soon!  woo!) is fun (it's a 10-11ish) because I didn't go out of my way to follow every-fucking-thing.
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2008, 02:05:25 AM »
Yeah, whenever I make ITG charts I try not to go above mid-range 12, though most of my charts end up as 11's.

Also, V^2ex = pure, undiluted bullshit.

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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2008, 02:47:49 AM »
So does this make Chik Habit, RAN and Battlewalk not fun, or make me elitist?
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2008, 03:19:07 AM »
So does this make Chik Habit, RAN and Battlewalk not fun, or make me elitist?

Depends on what the individual's view on "fun."

I think Bobbias is referring more to the obsession with following everything and making charts hard.  I imagine that there are some people out there who will bitch and moan about files if they have a tiny inaccuracy (in which case they'd probably have a field day with Guitar Hero III!).
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2008, 04:13:35 AM »
I love songs like Chick Habit, I love IDM files, because they give you a chance to make a hard file that doesn't require you to layer 3 million sounds to make a file that has boatloads of triples. IDM has so much rhythm and variation in the rhythm that it tends to make fun, but difficult songs. However, when you get someone taking a metal song and making pretty much every kick into a jump, and then adding extra notes to follow the lead guitar, resulting in hold+jumps and triples all over the place, it's getting a little extreme.

I still love playing stuff like Air, and such.
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2008, 08:55:28 PM »
I stopped making sims because of all this shit.. I agree that a person's definition of 'fun' is if they can do it and get SDG/P on it. If they can't AA it, it's a piece of shit. Personally, I used to make files that I could beat myself. Then I saw that a lot of people were better at SM than me, so I made a bit more difficult files. I found that it was hard to make files that I couldn't do myself, because I had to idea how the steps would feel to someone a bit more fluent than I. 

So when a0 went down and s.net went up, I just stopped making them because I felt that his forums were more about SM/filemaking and s.net is more about keeping our little community of DDR/gamers alive, and more intelligent topics. Not to be a negative nancy but it was also hard to keep up with the popularity of certain sim makers, mine and others would get overlooked.
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2008, 09:01:31 PM »
i remember people masturbating over everything that toph made.  while most of his stuff was good, they weren't the best sims ever made.

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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2008, 09:24:30 PM »
I remember trying to revive myself as an author on ODI a couple of months ago, but no one even bothered with Lawn Wake II because it was by the flashbulb and I was called a "Stepmania fossil." So I decided, "Fuck them, fuck releases, fuck the Stepmania community."

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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2008, 03:47:37 AM »
I think we need to get a s.net member exclusive s.net stepfile megapack going (using soings that you haven't stepped before) :P
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2008, 12:06:27 PM »
Ooh.  Yay.

Do it.  :3
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2008, 05:19:52 PM »
Sounds fun, i just need to purchase a shitty old usb/ps2 keyboard because the wireless one won't cut it for SM at all.  I'll start browsing muzie if you're all up to it.
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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2008, 05:32:17 PM »
I should see if I can force myself to actually complete a simfile, lol.
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Re: Pretty much my view on simfiles
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2008, 01:47:44 AM »
I'm in.

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