Congrats to Deadcode, the battle rages on though. Under 100 shall be done!

Good job nappy nap :U

I was standing on it, you can see that my worm is not at ground level :0

The run I just got was a result of me and Deadcode bouncing ideas off each other, was kind of hard to avoid collaborating when we were both talking about the challenge on mIRC ;O. But yeah he's been working on a TA run, so I got some ideas from that, as well as put some in. He's trying to make that run fairly perfect, it's definitely gonna surprise people :0.

Looks like I have 5 dopplegangers to deal with, it's gonna be a long night. *cocks shotgun*

I just play them when I'm in the mood, which doesn't happen to be every week ;O. Though also I have carpal tunnel now, and it's pretty annoying to attempt any challenge for too long.

Thanks for the votes guys, happy to get recognition despite not playing a lot of singles (except inter). And congrats dt, we really owned this year, a full year of winning playoffs might be the WA accomplishment I'm most proud to have been part of.

Notching can't be banned because it's part of the game, although a future update could certainly remove it. And I already passed a rule saying visual aids aren't allowed.

What's mainly outrageous is how steadfastly and consistently our government lies to us; the incident was not preceded by protests about the anti-Muslim video, as was first claimed. Granted, there has been outrage over that video, and to hell with people who think we should respect their religious dogma at the cost of free speech, but it was demonstrably not the cause in this case. At first I uncritically accepted the original explanation; we should always be skeptical when the only news source is straight from the administration's mouth.

As far as Hillary Clinton's failure, the blame can't be put squarely on her, and I think this issue is nothing more than another partisan distraction, which both sides absolutely love. As a general rule, the more attention the media gives to an issue, the less important it actually is. Take gun control for example, we could easily be focusing on the misguided drug war instead, as legalizing more drugs would curb gang violence dramatically, but instead we focus on a more superficial issue (which needs addressing, but still). And yeah, we really seem to enjoy propping up dictators in the middle east, so that we can later go to war with them.

Nice work Impo, one thing I'd point out is that the speed and trajectory of the worm as it crosses the invisible starting line make a difference. For example, doing the waves method, you don't have quite as good of a start as you do for the spoon method. It would probably make more sense just to track the times from the very start.

What tricks you use also definitely depend on the transitions that are best coming into the pole segments, and going out of them. Scroll skipping rarely gives you a good transition at the end, so most of the time you'd really have to rank it lower than say, waves. And it's worth noting that how well you perform each of the moves can really make a good .2-.5 sec difference. If you take into account consistency, waves is usually going to be the best method, but there are exceptions depending on the measurements of the pole areas.

Yeah, keep streaming some good quality intermediate, I guess it doesn't matter if it's a funner or not, the audience will never know ;0.

Although I'm not able to commit a lot of time, I'm still playing the NNN overall and seasonal playoffs right now, I'll have a match vs FaD possibly Sunday at 20 GMT, and one versus Zolo soon too.

Quote from: qp Magic on January 21, 2013, 10:07 AM
I think I was Pure when I was in your clan Wally.. honestly been too long. Read your "politics display" on the forums.
Socialism/higher taxes and the like are discussed often, but the amount of detailed dialogue intrigued me. I read almost all of it.
This is a very hot topic in the US. I'm a business owner and investor in Washington state, paying extremely
high taxes while making nothing(if not taking losses) And yes, It's confusing.
I personally am surprised to see the differ of opin, between Mablak and Wally and others. Given,
it was about 10 years ago that I had conversations with the two, but I would regard these
individuals to have intellectual authority.  I remember Mablak explaining
the Smashing pumpkins to me following which I purchased 4 albums. And many conversations. Smart kid. and heated debates with Wally when we started a clan with Anubis... so

Nonetheless people really need to get a better scope on why capitalism works. The problem is that people see money as a pie graph. they think that if one person gets wealthy he takes from the pie. but wealth is something that grows. the pie is always changing in size. I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into adulthood. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the wealth. If you plan to start a startup, then whether you realize it or not, you're planning to disprove the Pie Fallacy.

What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around. So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth. Wealth has been getting created and destroyed (but on balance, created) for all of human history.

Suppose you own a beat-up old car. Instead of sitting on your butt next summer, you could spend the time restoring your car to pristine condition. In doing so you create wealth. The world is-- and you specifically are-- one pristine old car the richer. And not just in some metaphorical way. If you sell your car, you'll get more for it.
In restoring your old car you have made yourself richer. You haven't made anyone else poorer. So there is obviously not a fixed pie. And in fact, when you look at it this way, you wonder why anyone would think there was.
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The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones. But with the rise of industrialization there are fewer and fewer craftsmen. One of the biggest remaining groups is computer programmers.
A programmer can sit down in front of a computer and create wealth. A good piece of software is, in itself, a valuable thing. There is no manufacturing to confuse the issue. Those characters you type are a complete, finished product. If someone sat down and wrote a web browser that didn't suck (a fine idea, by the way), the world would be that much richer.

Ryan (myself) fits the category (craftsmen) I build and remodel homes. then I pay taxes for more than the value of the home I created.. so understanding how people that won't just make wealth for themselves seem to think rich people owe them something?.. No f@#!ing way. I don't give the US even a glimmer of hope in the same way I wouldn't give Greece one either.
Debt doesn't work. It's really that simple.
Wally if you're around we should chat. I'm not sure if I'm going to buy worms again :x
(sorry about the rant) for those who are easily offended

Joe, yes its been at least 8 years. I know cuz I broke my WA cd 8 yrs ago
Does our favorite little over-zealous computer gamer Alex still exist?

Hah, what's up Pure? I thought you were one of those wormers who was lost forever! Glad to see WA and its denizens still haunt your memories. I remember the good old days when all that mattered in WA was roping, ahh so much fun back then, I was still learnin' ropes from the greats like yerself. It's awesome that you have your own business, and unfortunate that you're paying more taxes than you should. I'm just making music right now while I'm inbetween jobs, a bit entrepreneurial as well, though who knows if I can ever make a living off of it. I agree with you that money doesn't mean anything in itself, and I'd take what you say further, by replacing 'wealth' with happiness, or well-being, since that's really what makes wealth important in the end:

"What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not happiness. It's just something we use to move happiness around. So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of happiness in the world. You can make more happiness. Happiness has been getting created and destroyed (but on balance, created) for all of human history."

So yeah, wealth, happiness, well-being, none of these are fixed, and we can engender greater levels of each by building a better society, it's not a fixed pie graph. But your argument doesn't imply that wealth, happiness, etc. can't or shouldn't be shared by people. The significance of the huge wealth gap we face today is not the fact that money is so unequal, but the fact that it directly implies that well-being is not being optimized for the majority of society. The point is that many people have the ability to alleviate suffering and increase the well-being of society at little cost to themselves, but fail to do so. Morally inefficient, you might call it. If this could be done voluntarily, and maybe one day it can, we would have no need for taxes, but as it stands, we need them to correct for our shortcomings.

Oi bar, didja tell CS and DC about the roping problems you're getting? For me, the new patch detects space presses about 1 frame more quickly than before, but bar said it was slower for him.

On an unrelated note, why haven't I been able to connect to mIRC for a week!

I wish I could've clicked the stream, 250 people is a great turnout, not sure how you attracted so many, but that's really cool. Ah bar, Balee was working on some WA tutorial videos, I think pretty soon some of those will be out on youtube, would be easy to just load one of those during waiting time.

Prolly fine for me, good job coming back bar/free ;O

This seems like a pretty good idea, lower blast radius would make sense so that accuracy remains important. Luck is a slight downside, we'd have to see how that plays out, and I don't think you need clusters. You might want to try like 3 second turn time to make notching a little more difficult.