@nihilQWQ great writeup.
I completely agree except the snippet section—yes, mapping contests are about comparing mapping skill, but opening old pdc megasets and having 8+ maps to play was hype as fuck. imo mapping contests should still create complete maps as end products
@Camocratic i do agree theres a concern with ranking ai maps because u are giving people something to generate infinite maps with, but moralizing over people generating ai maps for themselves to play or implying that ai maps cant be fun is something I find very disagreeable
@Camocratic and b) that there is nothing inherently "slop" about AI output just as there is nothing inherently wrong with AI generating code
personally I had a decent time playing this ai generated map https://t.co/jfbCgK6OGL (in description) and think it gaps 75% of ranked
@dm_fragenstein cmon man
making people type paragraphs before they vote will just make it worse
now you don't get people who are mildly engaged, you get only the people who REALLY like or REALLY hate the map when the vote is supposed to gauge a general community opinion
@circlesize i definitely have been frustrated by the hp system but some of the most exciting moments for me when i was new were because of the spikiness of hp
it's not a good indicator of performance but that doesn't necessarily make it "unfair" at low sr (esp. where notelock is a nonissue)
@naku__u accelerationism is not even remotely related to random enshittification
there is no singularity towards which to accelerate unless you believe that a sufficiently terrible map will spontaneously collapse space time and teleport the ranked section to 2014
@yuuhei oh I definitely agree with you in that case! i think a lot of people only map this style for the pp
but in general I think it's ok for people to map "for pp" or for whatever other reason as long as the end result makes a good map, then it's ok to rank
@aaeky_osu@siskfh@dada_38_ sorry twitter didnt let me send message for like ever
anyway, didn't that map also have a bn who nominated it because they thought it was good and a mapper who put effort into it? and didn't it also cause drama between mappers/bns?