Post by Bice on Jul 24, 2014 3:56:05 GMT -5
It's been a long time since I've put forth the effort to extending a helping hand towards Speed-Fighting; since I'm still convinced it won't ever be restored. But at 1:16 AM in the morning, after events that'd undergone yesterday - I feel I've salvaged a breakthrough in one of the infamous problems that's corroded Speed-Fighting still to this day: Yogi/Doyalism.
For Eden's Era and all of our styles such as Tech-Two, S-styles and so forth... it isn't necessarily the mechanics that're flawed. We have to look closer to an issue which is more intimate, and not as simplistic. Doyalism in of itself is a tool to mathematically and mechanically outdo your opponent; it used to be methodical, but now it's just a standardized expectation of how everyone should engage in fighting. It leaves room for virtually zero creativity, or writing to grow within. This breeds competition, but an unhealthy kind and for the wrong reasons.
It isn't so much a factor of the mechanics that inspires the user to degrade their posting for a more probable win percentage, but the people. How do we disconnect personal corrosion from an already perfect style? Well, it's much more difficult to try and change a person, so you have to alter the requirements for legal posting. How can we imbue imagination, creativity, and art back into fighting WITHOUT losing to someone who's a simple nitwit that can cluster together disorderly writing which rides on the borderline of being legal?
You don't change the styles we already have here, and you don't change the mechanics - that isn't the issue (of course some debatable things exist which we just have to learn to be more lenient with.) It's not the people we have to change.
It's the word minimum, and I don't mean change it from 10 to 20, or 20 to 30. I mean the idea of having a "word minimum." It should become a character minimum instead. Of course, you'd need a computer to count the amount of characters being written, unless the chat had a monotype font and there is a margin indicating a certain number of characters. Even Prettz thought of writing a script which echoes how many characters were typed after they post.
To bring clarity to anyone who reads this on as to why a character minimum would suffice over a word minimum, allow me to breed some examples. Let's assume the character minimum for a post is 100.
-The thrust of his blade against her soft flesh felled her upon contact.-
This is a nice post, simplistic: not bad. But it comes out at 73 characters, brackets included.
; Zig-zagged a jagged edge broadsword to the vulnerable gullet of her adversary, Juan.
This post provides more specification, and seems more sophisticated. And it comes out to 105 characters.
The stunning thing about both of these posts, is they both consist of thirteen words (Yes, for those of you unaware, a hyphenated term is still considered one word.) A distinction you could make between these two posts is that the second one involves the user incorporating terms with more characters involved. This shouldn't imply you'd have to warp your diction to only long words, that wouldn't make sense. No matter what as a typist, you're suppose to type accordingly to what you're comfortable with. What realization should be extracted from this demonstration is - with abiding by a character minimum, no longer can someone be punished for their choice of words. As always, it'll be easier to type smaller words, which isn't so much an issue in a character minimum scenario.
It seems more fair to impose a character limit as opposed to a word limit, because words have variable length, whereas all characters have the same length, namely, 1. This can eradicate the cost of using terms like 'absquatulate' or 'conflagration' from the equation as bad word choice for a fight. Nowadays, an optimal choice for typing a post is like "; she shot to his side with her hand out to his jaw." Clearly, that's an abomination.
Alas, unfortunately, there is no easy way to implement this into a chat. An even larger dismay for us all is... this is the wrong day and age to aim for a restoration when there's little interest posed to this matter to begin with. Installing a movement for this type of thing is nearly impossible, especially considering our only resource for fighting nowadays is Xat; where their philosophies butt heads with our own.
Anyway, this was Violet, Wendigo, Wijnstokrassen, Xanthic, Violaceous Death, Mimic, Blymosunt, Yssith, et cetera. I hope people take the chance to read this, certainly so if you're a speed-fighter, or were. Just to consider how badly we may of fucked up on not foreboding this as a possible salvation.
For Eden's Era and all of our styles such as Tech-Two, S-styles and so forth... it isn't necessarily the mechanics that're flawed. We have to look closer to an issue which is more intimate, and not as simplistic. Doyalism in of itself is a tool to mathematically and mechanically outdo your opponent; it used to be methodical, but now it's just a standardized expectation of how everyone should engage in fighting. It leaves room for virtually zero creativity, or writing to grow within. This breeds competition, but an unhealthy kind and for the wrong reasons.
It isn't so much a factor of the mechanics that inspires the user to degrade their posting for a more probable win percentage, but the people. How do we disconnect personal corrosion from an already perfect style? Well, it's much more difficult to try and change a person, so you have to alter the requirements for legal posting. How can we imbue imagination, creativity, and art back into fighting WITHOUT losing to someone who's a simple nitwit that can cluster together disorderly writing which rides on the borderline of being legal?
You don't change the styles we already have here, and you don't change the mechanics - that isn't the issue (of course some debatable things exist which we just have to learn to be more lenient with.) It's not the people we have to change.
It's the word minimum, and I don't mean change it from 10 to 20, or 20 to 30. I mean the idea of having a "word minimum." It should become a character minimum instead. Of course, you'd need a computer to count the amount of characters being written, unless the chat had a monotype font and there is a margin indicating a certain number of characters. Even Prettz thought of writing a script which echoes how many characters were typed after they post.
To bring clarity to anyone who reads this on as to why a character minimum would suffice over a word minimum, allow me to breed some examples. Let's assume the character minimum for a post is 100.
-The thrust of his blade against her soft flesh felled her upon contact.-
This is a nice post, simplistic: not bad. But it comes out at 73 characters, brackets included.
; Zig-zagged a jagged edge broadsword to the vulnerable gullet of her adversary, Juan.
This post provides more specification, and seems more sophisticated. And it comes out to 105 characters.
The stunning thing about both of these posts, is they both consist of thirteen words (Yes, for those of you unaware, a hyphenated term is still considered one word.) A distinction you could make between these two posts is that the second one involves the user incorporating terms with more characters involved. This shouldn't imply you'd have to warp your diction to only long words, that wouldn't make sense. No matter what as a typist, you're suppose to type accordingly to what you're comfortable with. What realization should be extracted from this demonstration is - with abiding by a character minimum, no longer can someone be punished for their choice of words. As always, it'll be easier to type smaller words, which isn't so much an issue in a character minimum scenario.
It seems more fair to impose a character limit as opposed to a word limit, because words have variable length, whereas all characters have the same length, namely, 1. This can eradicate the cost of using terms like 'absquatulate' or 'conflagration' from the equation as bad word choice for a fight. Nowadays, an optimal choice for typing a post is like "; she shot to his side with her hand out to his jaw." Clearly, that's an abomination.
Alas, unfortunately, there is no easy way to implement this into a chat. An even larger dismay for us all is... this is the wrong day and age to aim for a restoration when there's little interest posed to this matter to begin with. Installing a movement for this type of thing is nearly impossible, especially considering our only resource for fighting nowadays is Xat; where their philosophies butt heads with our own.
Anyway, this was Violet, Wendigo, Wijnstokrassen, Xanthic, Violaceous Death, Mimic, Blymosunt, Yssith, et cetera. I hope people take the chance to read this, certainly so if you're a speed-fighter, or were. Just to consider how badly we may of fucked up on not foreboding this as a possible salvation.