I remember reading this "back in the day." I thought that you were brilliant, had too much spare time, and a touch of insanity.
Some things never change.
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Turn all those hours into days and you have over a month of time invested. That doesn't include all the time spend reading/participating in other resources, such as those discussion threads.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Four discussion threads, five issues of content, a couple hundred hours of in-game testing, 350 hours of simulation time, and about nine hours to write up and proof.
Longer. And the intent of the articles was actually for the reason you read it: less to offer an absolute comparison of the sets (which gets quickly dated with game changes anyway) and more to illustrate the thought process behind the current state of the art in mitigation comparison at the time, which is not too dissimilar from what it is today. |
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Six years later, it seems brilliance tends to be stable, insanity tends to snowball, and free time generally evaporates.
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Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea
I remember reading this "back in the day." I thought that you were brilliant, had too much spare time, and a touch of insanity.
Some things never change. |
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And the intent of the articles was actually for the reason you read it: less to offer an absolute comparison of the sets (which gets quickly dated with game changes anyway) and more to illustrate the thought process behind the current state of the art in mitigation comparison at the time, which is not too dissimilar from what it is today.
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