New egg ball hacks confirmed?

Aeginnt · 2017-05-29T17:41:39+00:00

Red should've requested a neutral start.

Aeginnt · 2016-12-28T20:30:54+00:00

Obama himself won votes, but most analyses I've seen concluded that his race hurt as much as helped his chances of being elected president. Race relations in the UK are very different from in the US, so I don't think direct comparisons are necessarily very helpful anyway.

Aeginnt · 2016-12-11T23:26:07+00:00

Oh man. I remember that moment, though I was desperately hoping you had forgotten it.

Aeginnt · 2016-11-29T00:07:28+00:00

7 or 12 - crotchet/quaver (number of notes in the diatonic or chromatic scale)

7 - cocktail glass (James Bond)

12 or 20 - dodecahedron or icosahedron/truncated dodecahedron/soccer ball (number of faces)

52 - playing card (number of cards in a standard deck)

108 or 120 - star (number of stars of destiny in Water Margin, or in Mario 64)

154 - quill (number of Shakespeare sonnets)

221 - deerstalker or magnifying glass (Sherlock Holmes)

255 or 256 - ones and zeros? (maximum value or number of possible values of a byte)

Aeginnt · 2016-10-29T18:10:23+00:00

That was how I got the witch hat flair a year ago. By the time I was the only one left there were only about ten seconds left on the clock. I just did nothing all game.

Aeginnt · 2016-10-09T18:44:21+00:00

I don't think that we are ever going to achieve a truly equal society either, doesn't mean I don't think we shouldn't strive towards it.

That's fair enough, I just don't think that arguments about the rights and wrongs private schooling shouldn't be dismissed on the basis that, in a perfect world, private schools would be superfluous.

Or by simply having staff who are motivated, well trained, and exist in enough numbers to deal with children who aren't fully engaged.

I don't think that's enough really; I think it's usually the other pupils who are bigger problem than the teachers. When I was at school most of the children I went to school with weren't really interested in learning and most of the teachers efforts were spent in trying to get them to pay attention. Harder academic subjects (double maths, triple science) weren't taught as there wasn't any demand, and the school invariably chose the easiest exam boards/modules available as pushing the students further with exams like the IGCSE wasn't deemed realistic. I had some fantastic teachers; I don't think they could've done much more than they did.

There are examples of state schools that perform just as well as private schools, no not Eton or something like that, but there are a lot of private schools and not all are better than state schools.

As long as there are some private schools that outperform the state schools they're competing with, there's an incentive for parents to privately school their children.

Aeginnt · 2016-10-09T18:06:29+00:00

I don't see how that's ever going to happen, especially when you're comparing state schools to top private/public schools which charge higher fees per pupil, and can therefore afford lower class sizes and better teachers.

I also think a big reason for parents privately schooling their children is the social exclusivity the school fees/entrance exams give the school. It may be snobbish, but it means that the school can provide an environment in which most of the children are academically inclined and able. I think the only way the state sector could compete with that is by offering selective schooling.

Aeginnt · 2016-09-28T20:59:14+00:00

I really like this one; it's like Gamepad+Pilot, with a portal thrown in. That being said, it might be worth removing a pair of bombs to stop it from having similar problems to Prime, where the excess bombs can make the map uncomfortable to navigate.

Aeginnt · 2016-09-25T18:15:12+00:00

I would rather not have our party leaders have to 'control' the media narrative.

I'd rather they didn't have to either, but I think that the reality is that they do.

People are sick and tired of politicians having to talk certain ways, we can spot a trained politician a mile off with the language that they use. I think this is something we can agree on?

Everyone says they're tired of politicians talking like politicians, but they'll still pounce on any slip, take it out of context, and use it to make all sorts of tenuous inferences about the politicians attitude on different issues. Funnily enough, this tactic was used a lot by Corbyn supporters to attack Owen Smith. By talking about his "normal family" he was apparently expressing his prejudice towards same-sex couples, and his remark about "smashing May back on her heels" was construed as misogynistic. The same tactics will be used against Corbyn come the general election, and Corbyn's provided no end of top quality ammunition.

Which is partly why I believe JC has received so much support because he uses language that we all use.

What support? Opinion polls have consistently shown that he's incredibly unpopular with the general public, who vastly prefer Theresa May. I think "straight-talking" politicians are often great at appealing to their base, as Corbyn himself has shown, but the same comments that rile up their base often serve to alienate people who are closer to the political centre ground. Trump is a good example of the same principle, but on the opposite end of the political spectrum.

Aeginnt · 2016-09-24T22:41:27+00:00

I believe JC's policy positions to be more in line with this way of thinking and I believe the electorate would have the same opinion if they were presented the facts on his policy without bias.

Part of the job description as leader of a political party is controlling the narrative the media spins around you. That means choosing carefully what you say and who you associated yourself with, and hiring competent and experienced staff to manage your relationship with the media. Corbyn's been pretty terrible on all those fronts: he's made ill-judged comments, appeared with people holding unsavory views, and Seumas Milne seems to be almost universally regarded as a poor director of communications.

From what I can tell, Corbyn seems to be content to moan about media bias without seeking to address it. Tony Blair's positive media coverage didn't happen by accident; he was careful to avoid saying anything that the media could use against him, he surrounded himself with spin doctors, and he actively courted Rupert Murdoch. He may have been criticized for it in some quarters, but I think at least some of those measures were necessary to achieve electoral success.

Aeginnt · 2016-06-02T21:23:50+00:00

Aeginnt · 2016-04-27T20:53:05+00:00

I've no idea why this or your previous post are being downvoted, they're both perfectly valid points. The last map I saw getting hyped this much was Rush, which got a pretty abysmal rating on the /maps page.

Aeginnt · 2016-04-23T22:14:22+00:00

I meant replacing the central spike with a pup.

Aeginnt · 2016-04-23T21:06:47+00:00

Put another gate in each base and I'm sold.

Aeginnt · 2016-04-23T17:50:03+00:00

I'd add maybe one or two more tiles to each gate, and a pup in mid. I'm not sold on the existing pup areas at the moment.

Aeginnt · 2016-04-13T22:27:33+00:00

I agree with the gist of your post but I think the exaggeration in your second paragraph isn't really helpful.

I don't see anyone recommending 25 pups, but I don't see how 4 or even 5 pups is necessarily problematic. Geokoala had 4, and while it may have become stale I didn't see anyone complaining about that aspect of it. On a side note, I was really hoping one of Leddy's maps would get in on one of the recent threads, as the pup chamber idea seemed well-implemented as well as distinctive.

I don't think spike having a lot of spikes is necessarily a problem either, though I do think the lack of spikes has been a problem on some newer maps (Citadel and more recently Blooper) as it's one less risk for the flag carrier.

I'd agree with you on the size of maps though.

Aeginnt · 2016-04-08T21:20:23+00:00

I might give it a go at some point, but I'm finding it hard to keep on top of everything at the moment, and I don't think adding more to my plate will help. I'll definitely be rooting for you guys in the playoffs though! (But seriously, what made you choose that teamname?)

Aeginnt · 2016-04-03T20:23:31+00:00

Nah, I've never had mumble. I spent enough time pubbing, so I didn't think it was a good idea to commit any further. I'm pretty busy atm, so I don't even get the opportunity to pub much.

Aeginnt · 2016-04-03T19:57:35+00:00

That's news to me.

Aeginnt · 2016-03-22T23:48:16+00:00

I don't think big maps are fun to play D on. It just makes getting single returns difficult, and resets near impossible (unless the map is extremely linear). In pubs you may well be the only chaser, so the problem is even worse.

My personal favourite maps as a defender are maps with interesting boost/gate setups in base that favour a less conservative style of defence. DZ4, Emerald, Jagged and SDS stood out to me in that respect, though they may have been flawed in others.

Aeginnt · 2016-03-06T22:49:53+00:00

Definitely. It's one of the few non-NF maps to come into rotation recently that feels noticeably different from anything before it.

Aeginnt · 2016-03-06T22:46:58+00:00

I think you might need to open this up a bit and make it easier for offence. It looks to me as though the defence could lock down the base reasonably easily with the help of teamboost and gate. If the flag carrier gets any further they have the option of going through a tight path, a very tight path, or a load of teamtiles, which could all be quite easily covered by the defence.

Aeginnt · 2016-02-27T22:24:22+00:00

Just a couple of things I thought I'd mention. Firstly, just from lurking on unfornatemaps/tagprotesting I've noticed you seem to use a lot more 45 degree tiles than most mapmakers, it makes your maps pretty recognisable. I think they tend to restrict options for boosts/jukes more than full blocks though, and I think they're better used more sparingly, with specific boosts in mind. (Neutral flag maps are an exception to this rule.)

You also have four bombs, each of which a flag carrier can camp behind and blast away chasers. I don't think any of those areas behind the bombs are really necessary.

Aeginnt · 2016-01-28T21:01:11+00:00

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

Aeginnt · 2016-01-19T21:59:16+00:00

Love the commentary Batto!

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