Themed Challenges and Hall of Fame

Weekly Themed Solos 1 Epic


Week 3: Merely the Weapon

Forgot to take a screen,so the score is unknown

Week 4: Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds

38:31-The_Doctor46N7(324894pts)

Week 5: Indoctrinated

41:21-The_Doctor46N7(unknown)[v] 10WS

4 words-Glorious Fat Turain Sentinel


Another one without screen

Week 6: Mordus

31:13-The_Doctor46N7(unknown)[v]

Same.This has a potenital for 24-25 min,but played like a derp and got devices on 10 wave.

Week 8: The Shepard Clone's War Part 2 -- CAT6

24:16-The_Doctor46N7(unknown)[v]

Yes,no screen.

Week 9: Does This Unit Have A Soul?

30:12-The_Doctor46N7(365643pts)[v]

Week 10: Rise of the Phoenix

38:46-The_Doctor46N7(327490pts)

This was harder than i thought.Grinded it a bit for objectives.Serioulsy ,a vanaguard with harrier.Wtf?


Week 11: This Hurts You

40:08-The_Doctor46N7(352140pts)[v]

Week 12: From The Shadows of The Villa

47:53-The_Doctor46N7(326330pts)[v]

Week 13: Retake Omega Chronicles, Part 1 - I Am Omega!

25:45-The_Doctor46N7(369703pts)

Week 15: Haestrom, Thermonuclear

31:59-The_Doctor46N7(343305pts)[v]

Week 16: The Gozu District

36:00-The_Doctor46N7(unknown)[v]

Week 17: I Will Destroy You!

56:38-The_Doctor46N7(366548pts)

Week 18: The Savagery of Heshtok

46:38-The_Doctor46N7(338100pts)

hated every second of it and finished like this

Week 19: Retake Omega Chronicles, Part 2 - Jessie, My Love

36:44-The_Doctor46N7(337500pts)[v]

Had a faster run(33 min),but forgot to record and screencap

Week 20: Garrus' Calibrations Part 1 - C-Sec

59:28-The_Doctor46N7(328436pts)

This one was hard as heck.Grinded it 5 days.Lancer is a damn garbage.


Week 21: Monster Mash Special - Blood Rage!

45:05-The_Doctor46N7(368410pts)

Have videos for all of them,but tomorrow i am going on a vacation and had time to upload only these.The rest weeks i did long ago.So time to retire. #sweetretirement

Pretty much, though I wouldn't say I "like" it. More like, I worked hard to create a somewhat automated system to make the updates easier, but it would be difficult and time-consuming to teach a new custodian to use it; as in, more difficult than actually continuing to do it myself now that it exists. And it would feel like my time developing it was wasted if they rather chose to ignore it and do stuff their own way. Sure, it would be better for the people in this thread if the updates were done by someone who's still active, but being active is no guarantee they'll have any more energy for this than us. In fact, I bet they'd either quit within a year, or end up updating as rarely as we do. (Not directed at Al or anyone else in particular, just a general intuition.) It's an incredibly tedious thing that requires a lot of patience and pedantry no matter how you approach it.

Admittedly, it would be a lot less tedious if we did it every couple months instead of twice a year. I've been trying to get an update rolling since two months ago, but this year has been a tiny bit stressful, so it may not happen for a while yet.

In case anyone's interested in what's involved in the HOF maintenance as it's organized at the moment, I wrote a whole series of articles about it, starting with this (but this one is the most relevant).

ah, great. means i don't have to get my act together with the ariake business. good, i still got plenty of time eh.

on a more serious note. it's totally understandable. rl always takes precedence with its stresses and all, people and interests change. just have look at all these retired farts aroun here recently. remember them swearing till blue in their faces to stick around till the curtians fall. and now this. it's shocking. the place is full of dust and tumbleweed nowadays. 

aaanyways, where i was getting again? ah, back on the hofs managment. appreciate and respect the sense of ownership and pride you have, no crtiticism intended. but if there's any assistance we can offer to make you job easier, even without assigning it to completely to anyone else, you can still reach out to us for help with the menial stuff. well, to those of us left around still. i'm for one be happy to help with padding/cross checking your 'feeder' spreadsheets in my teabrakes/evenings if it's any help. the pedantry and tediosness of it all already making my OCD tingle with glee. while can't promise any gorundbreaking throughput chipping away there, still means you won't need to be going back as far, whenever (no pressure) thtat is you get to do the actual update. just a thought.

Wow! I missed the ceremony for the rite of passage of our little pesty ...

 Congratulations, !    
Especially as you managed it as I told you to. by finishing before some others did  ...

Also you should change the link in your submission for Ariake, to point to the video instead of the picture.

watching that ariake run gave me flashbacks I hoped to never have. this thread still being alive makes me very happy

Over 50 min. Time to retire Doc. Both of you

Tc, tc, tc... Doc, do u not get it? #OldScrubs never #retire.  Takes young ones to do it...

Tales from the Trenches (that we took a year to dig ourselves out of) Platinum

While They Reach the Normandy
33:59 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Recon-naissance
40:13 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

You won't see our backs until we are dead
37:31 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Batarian Nobility, Didn't Know Such a Thing Existed
41:41 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

The unstoppable force
29:41 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Exchange Program
38:20 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Metal Geth Salarian
29:44 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

A Million Ways to Die
31:37 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

A Rite of Passage
29:13 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Non-conventional tactics
24:41 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

(The Illusive) Man's Reach Exceeding His Grasp
20:00 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Snap Inspection
42:40 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

They Won't Know What Hit Them
32:23 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

The Immovable Object
30:40 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

This planet is ours
27:30 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Apology Acknowledged
31:09 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

The Lost Are Still Fighting
32:17 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Snap Inspection, part 2
30:15 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Strange Bedfellows
31:38 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Old School, New School
29:17 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

In the Pitch Black, They Sound as if They Were One Person
35:17 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
40:39 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Great Orbs of Fire
31:37 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Synthetize This!
34:32 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

You Sir, are a blight!
26:10 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Conrad Verner, Ph.D.
32:18 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Big Bang(s)
39:17 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

This Is It, Isn't It?
39:02 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

The Pale Blue Dot
36:06 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

Coda
24:13 - ex-Clusum | Smehur

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In other news, I'm working on a HoF update right now. All runs submitted up to (and including) this post will enter the update; those made after won't. Perhaps hold your horses with submissions for the moment, as the future of the HoFs in their current form is uncertain. More details will accompany the update announcement.

i would say, time to nuke that board

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

I thought I would finish the update during the weekend, but I only processed 200 out of 500 submissions (no exaggeration, that's what happens when the HoFs aren't updated for half a year). Seeing how it might take another week or more, I'm gonna spare you the suspense and just say my piece now.

The nice-looking site Prestacious has been so generously hosting for us is actually a nightmare to work with. He doesn't know this, because he doesn't work with it. I work with it. I tried to negotiate a move to another platform, first when the site was being created, and again in 2018. Pres said no. All of this is old news, though. I always hated the site, but not enough to quit this job - until now.

What changed? Well, Wix (that's the platform the site is built on; like WordPress, but more shit) is going to retire one of the main building blocks of the site (a list-type container) in a few months. After that, the existing lists will remain viewable, but it will no longer be possible to update them with new content.

Something like 70 of the 80 pages that comprise the site use these lists. The challenges themselves, the leaderboards and most of the halls of fame are stored in them. If I can't update them anymore, I can't update the HoFs anymore.

What Wix suggests we do about this extremely shit move is paste the content into another type of container (and pray that they don't retire that too in a few years). But guess what? Pasting the content to another type of container in the case of this particular site is the same as building the damn thing from scratch. And I ain't doing that. I'm done with Wix and honestly, with Pres too. Once I finish the current update, I'm not touching this site again.

I said the future is uncertain instead of saying this thing is outright dead because we could go on - eslewhere. I could create a site of my own and keep the halls of fame there. The thing I have in mind would be much easier to maintain, as it would be displaying stuff from a database, so there'd be no more manual site updates. A few years back I made a partially functional prototype for fun, but eventually abandoned it as it seemed pointless to duplicate the already established Pres's site. I'd be happy to pick it up again, but it might be a long time before I can get it up and running.

Another option, obviously, is that someone else takes over the maintainance of Pres's site, does the copy-paste redesign, and then also does the updates in the future. The new custodian would have to figure out how to do stuff pretty much on their own. I could help initially (by which I mean answering specific questions rather than giving detailed instructions) but wouldn't want to stay involved.

Of course, other ideas are welcome. Let me know what you all think.