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| Confessions of A BOD-aholic for life | Laser
|  |  | I accidentally got Home Sweet Home with under 100 tries, and I still somehow have Bronze. Mike's gold time is 4 seconds better, so there were extra tricks that no one noticed.
He had gold when I took it, and got so upset that he started to send me messages asking if we were still "on the same side." He had both of us draw up lists of levels that we would never go for, and that the other person could. (I could post those lists if anyone cares).
The only other level like that might be Human Insides where I thought that the gold time was a second faster than it actually was, so I kept going for it even though I didn't need to.
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| Improving the global ranking calculation | Vega
|  | | Mike Flips - I noticed my typo earlier. 31 should be 21 > > > 21x3=63
You raise a decent point about the difficulty of certain levels versus others regardless of how many players there are. Normally, more players means tighter rankings which makes moving up very difficult. But in some cases I can see why that may not be fair. Perhaps a flat rate BP scale would be better no matter what level it is.
As for Oliver losing a gold to someone, I see nothing wrong with that. I am not trying to devise a system that favors anyone. It doesn?t matter who loses what gold. Because they will only lose that gold if someone else earns it. And if so then yes Oliver would drop 12.5 points. There is not an ounce of unfairness in that situation. That?s ranking. That?s the whole idea. Is Oliver a talented BODer that has proven his talent? Absolutely! Nobody intelligent would question that, but Oliver isn?t the God of BOD so why are bringing up how would he would feel if he lost 12.5 points. And it also doesn?t matter if he has spare points to lose because he has earned them. That has nothing to do with anything at all. That?s what I meant earlier about you making these strange circumstantial references about certain individual players and the whole ?what about how they would feel? mentality. If someone wants to keep their rank they will need to earn it to stay at the top. I am not concerned at all about people losing their positions. The only reason I keep making reference to Cirenco and DK is because they dominate this game right now and their ranking doesn?t reflect that. I would say that you (Mike Flips) are the next closest on their tail as far as widespread excellent play.
Every person playing this game is aiming for one universal thing when trying to improve their ranking ? that is to improve their time. It doesn?t matter if they want to get Gold or 20th. So since not one single player is looking to worsen their time, the weight and the prize MUST be heavily tilted toward the best possible time. If this is not the case, the goal becomes a paradox because players will accidentally figure out that they can score higher altogether by not scoring as high on each level. The most challenging part of this game is passing the very top ranks. So players who rank #10 on everything and often aviod the most challenging aspect of BOD are being ranked as some of the best of the best in the TTC. Just as PMD mentioned in an ealier post, getting a gold takes far more time & effort than getting #20 on 5 different levels. Nobody knows the price of gold in BOD better than I do. I may not have the most golds but I certainly have some of the most difficult. That?s why to me my BP idea for gold doesn?t seem outrageous. What?s the current prize for a gold > > 100 points. What?s the current prize for #20 on 5 levels > > approx 400 points. Hmmmmm something doesn?t seem quite right here. Players begin to realize that they can spread out their time through mass levels and obtain a better rank for their time by not playing to their best on each level. This causes players like me, Tabs, Cirenco, DK and many others who ?go for the gold? to be penalized for the type of play that is normally rewarded. There is never a problem with heavy weight at the top of the ranking scale. In fact some sports and games don?t recognize anything beyond bronze. Because nobody cares about who can be #37. We all wanna know who?s the ?best of the best?. Not ?who?s the most consistent pretty good player?. But if you want BOD to be a socialistic game where all players are supposed to feel good about their rank even if they are not the best, then I guess that will be up to Sz and everyone involved in this discussion that will determine the final decision of how the game will be ranked. Please understand that I am not trying to be a jerk I promise. But you are definitely missing a very basic and fundamental understanding of the purpose of a competition. If the reward is skewed toward mass mediocre play, that is exactly what most people will choose because it?s easier. As for me, I go for the gold every time!
I guarantee this is the last long post for me as I am growing quite weary of this topic and I feel that there is nothing left for me to say. I am going to revert back to short and sweet posts now and just go for the gold 
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| Politics | Xuzz
|  | | Pickle, about global warming:
Please answer the questions i put in there for you. Do they make sense?
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That was the factcheck's mission. To REDUCE LIES in politics. And they end up with over 3 times as much on the McCain side. Why? Because he actually would win an election than save this country.
And you said that he told less lies  ....I challenge you to find 10 places where Obama has outright lied to the american people. I don't think you can (but if you do i will be sure to find at least 3 times as many).
Oil Drilling:
OK, I get that you don't care about earth because Jesus will save you before it dies. I'm not Christian, but isn't there some thing in Christianity where you are supposed to protect the earth?
VP Pick:
Senators make laws. Senators know what is happening in the world. Senators know what the Bush administraton policies are. Palin doesn't. She is governer of a state with barely a Million people in it. Even Chicago ALONE has more than that, let alone any whole states!
Palin is hiding from the press -- McCain is SCARED that HIS pick for VP would ruin his campaign. She almost already did! The only time when she can speak to the press, they only let the press keep what the WANT to the press to have her saying.
"...despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin won’t submit to a formal interview anytime soon. She may take some questions from local news entities in Alaska, but until she’s ready — and until she’s comfortable — which might not be for a long while — the media will have to wait..."
Why isn't she ready? If she is supposedly ready to be Vice president, how come she can't even speak to the press. How is she supposed to reason with foreign diplomats when she can't even talk to the press in her own country without a big fear of messing things up? I would really like to hear an answer to that...
Iraq:
It isn't saddam hussain that was attacking us, it was Osama Bin Laden. And he is STILL attacking is while we are losing in Iraq. The war in Afganistan is going badly, nobody cares, but it is where the main threat to the American people is. C'mon -- even you can understand in your pickle shaped brain that we only invaded Iraq because Bush wanted to. there were no "weapons of mass destruction", all we ended up doing is fighting over nothing and wasting billions and billions of dollars on a pointless war. Think of if we hadn't invaded Iraq. our goverment wouldn't be so far in debt, we would have over 4000 americans still alive, COUNTLESS iraqi's still alive (but you don't care about them, you think its their fault they died because they are Muslims ), and the only reason we went there is because Bush wanted to finish up what his Daddy started. BTW, we had a SURPLUS when the republicans took ofice, and look where we are now in goverment debt.
Please answer my questions about Global Warming from my first post. Then answer the rest of my questions. Just answer them. Not that hard. Most are yes or no questions.
I hope that even the MOST stupid of 16yr olds can figure that out ...
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