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In concordance with the recent release of the Star Campaign for TMUF, we continue the statistical medal post that has nothing to do with bragging. That would be sad.

United Forever
Race: 588/588 medals (Accomplished by 357 out of 233 371 players)
Platform: 63/63 medals (Statistics not available)
Stunts: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 240 out of 131 470 players)
Puzzle: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 352 out of 104 324 players)

Nations Forever
Race: 260/260 medals (Accomplished by 840 out of 4 025 705 players)

Star Track
Race: 588/588 medals (Accomplished by 21 out of 16 777 players)

Total: 1667/1667 medals.

It's been a year since the last post, and the only difference from my side here is the star track campaign, which, with its lack of annoyingly hard maps was more of a fun challenge after stuff like PlatformE and BayC3. The hardest in the pack is probably *CoastD5 at any rate.

Interesting trends
1. Doubling in Nations Forever (campaign) players (the free version rose from 2 to 4 million players in one year)
2. Roughly a doubling in United Forever players (130 to 230 thousand players counting the ones trying the major campaign for instance)
3. Comparing the amount of new players and the amount of people completing each campaign, we see that pretty much the same proportion of people complete it. I.e. when you buy the game - or download the free version - does not significantly influence the probability of you completing any of the campaigns. Either that or a lot of people grind at the same campaign for years.

That's this year's TM post. It's still a good game - even though point 1 probably is why the first attempt to connect to the master server always seems to fail these days - and I am still alive. Back to work.

oh, and the new forced replay camera sucks, byebye what's left of competitive WR hunting

In concordance with the new norm, weeks and weeks have once again passed before I have uttered anything substantial on the intarblag. I had grown used to the infrequency in the presence of internet and all its wonders, but while stuck in the cycle of broadband bureaucracy waiting once again to get that sweet injection, there is too much monotony. My life has been in a constant alternation between coding and trackmania, with only the novelty of new headphones and soundcard to dull the perpetually recurring thoughts. That sounds worse than it is. Coming from the old wreck of a computer in Norway TM actually feels amazing. I’ve got a new chair (Thorbjørn from IKEA) and a desk (black) enabling that deliciously ergonomic south parkian gaming style seen by the antagonist in the WoW episode; leaned back and with outstretched arms. But what mostly has kept my spirits up throughout this ludicrous stone age scenario has been my website project. 300 lines of javascript is a good weekend [linkview.js]. I tell you, if you program, always keep a copy of your API documentation in pdf form - or what you are more likely to find, a copy of the API documentation slightly rewritten by some whack pretending to be original and charges 30 pounds for it - it will save your life.

At any rate, I have been speedrunning TM platform and accumulating a good thousand last.fm stats on Machinae Supremacy whilst doing so. This is what takes its toll. My mind firstly conjured up this elaborate scenario with me in the car, then this even more disturbing serious e-sport scenario where I was the star. That marked the time to stop.

By that time I had 1/3 of all the world records on Platform. Now, weeks later, continuing this interrupted stream of consciousness, I find myself offline again. Presumably only for a few hours this time, but in the presence of Murphy I cannot be certain.

! After another few months, somehow, incomprehensibly, I find this document on my disk. Yes. This post, in some sense, took three months to write. Better break the cycle now.

tldr: virgin sucks and this post summarizing what i am playing in the downtimes would not have existed if they did not suck.

Doesn't get much closer than this.

Is a piece of shit. Or, word records that never were. It's not like stunts world records are a direct consequence of skilful replication, so what's the point? You have to be lucky, so by limiting scores inputs, you are decreasing the quality of the final output. Additionally, as idiot cheaters plague the leaderboards now, there are only a question of time before smart ones alter their decent scores almost imperceptibly to slightly better ones. It's all going down. Anyway, here are some records that I would have had. My brother, Thhethssmuz, currently climbing Norway's ladder, has more.

StuntA4_clux_(499).Replay.Gbx - Ninety seven points better than my best official, forty better than the current world record! Edit: make that twenty.
StuntA5_clux_(479).Replay.Gbx - Five points better than my currently held world record.
StuntB2_clux_(233).Replay.Gbx - Only slightly better than my official world record, but I got it about a thousand coppers before my official run.
StuntB5_clux_(845).Replay.Gbx - Beaten my successor recently with 764. Still got this unofficial. Snuck in an extra master corkscrew at the you know where. It's tragically beautiful.

These are the exceptions to my bad luck:
StuntD2_clux_(699).Replay.Gbx - Personal best on like the sixth run. Still world record after months and months. But then I still only get meagre forty thousand skill points for it so what's the point.
StuntB1_clux_(422).Replay.Gbx - Lucky personal best on official run. Massive world record.

First in Norway's skillpoints rankig in TMUF. Only took five stunt world records..



Now to continue coding.

Let me just state the obvious. If you consider yourself a gamer, you have a reasonable degree of perfectionism in your spine. Or somewhere. TrackMania is a game worth perfecting (if you have only seen Stadium tournaments, wait till you see Bay ones), and the stunts gameplay mode, which is really a free styling side-quest of the main game, is as well, but it does not at all have the same level of amazement present in race mode. I have all the medals, 80k ladder points, and ranked fourth in Norway in skill points, but these are not reflections of stratospheric racing skill.

Stunts is my preoccupation at the moment as it is the part of the game that I can compete at a world level without a joystick. It might not be the most popular gametype, but three world records there have earned me enough skill points to get to fourth in Norway. Ladder points is achieved just by playing enough as on average I have only beat two thirds of my opponents online. Kaboom, the highest ranked race record holder by comparison, has a wins to losses ratio of twenty five to one.

The problem with race is that the skid system favours people who has the ability to partly hold left/right, i.e. not tapping your keyboard like an idiot three times per second to merely beat most people. If you still do, and think that eventually you will be amazing, you are wrong. If you are among that tiny percentage of players that are dedicated enough to generate this veneer of racing accomplishments that I have, get yourself an analog controller now and thank me later. I will at least get one soon. The day I see gamers do things that seem ridiculous and know that I won't be able to replicate it with enough practice is the day I consider myself too old to compete.

Also, no players are responding to my ingame boob page that is accessible for virtual money. I forgot that introverted nerds are either emotionally dulled or have no intention of wasting even virtual money on carnal pleasures. I don't like to say that I underestimated you gamers, but every flock has a retard sheep. I will find you.

recalcitrance is my name

Another Trackmania post. But as long as things like this happens, they will continue. This is the obliterated scoreboard for StuntB1 after a ridiculous master aerial and master alley oop.



Now that is a skill points bonus. I would have gone straight onto that ladder below with just that. Download the score below if you would want to circumvent the 5 copper download thing or not have to wait until it pops up.

Edit: Updated photo with theme compatible one. Skill points have increased by 70k just for no reason.

StuntB1_clux(422).Replay.Gbx

Another one for the sequence of Trackmania posts (1, 2, 3, ... ). Boasting is in order for this one simply because yesterday morning, I was not on that list. Though TrackMania takes a while to realise it can't count, so I should be down a few places by tomorrow. At least unicode makes your nick stand out.

In more interesting news, I might have also gotten entangled into an underground ring of cyber thugs that sell porn for in game currency via TrackMania's in game browser.

Yes. While other players are making maps, skins and stuff that takes up a whole load of time, I'm advertising a pair of boobs to people who may not care about virtual money. It might be exploitation of the thirteen year old male demographic, but I'll be damned if it doesn't work!

сlบҳ whispers: 'seeboobshere'

I.e. TrackMania United Forever, in case you have been living under an internet rock for the last year, or equivalently; in case you have a life. I have not, so I have destroyed it. All medals on the four united campaigns, all medals on the nations campaign, and a reasonable skill points ranking. Here are some statistics for you to laugh about. They make me proud, but me instinct tells me you probably won't idolize me for this.



United Forever
Race: 588/588 medals (Accomplished by 185 out of 130 672 players)
Platform: 63/63 medals (Statistics not available)
Stunts: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 100 out of 61 488 players)
Puzzle: 84/84 medals (Accomplished by 183 out of 52 219 players)

Nations Forever
Race: 260/260 medals (Accomplished by 440 out of 2 078 389 players)

Total: 1079/1079 medals. Win.

You?d expect that this would earn you something more than a note relaying these statistics, but it is still damn satisfying. Oh, and you know Nations Forever is free, right? Go download.

Hardest maps: BayC3, PlatformE , StuntD1, PuzzleB2, E05-Endurance, each from one of the listed campaigns above, respectively. If you can do them, you can do them all - if you somehow think 1079 medals is too much...

say it!

I'm the first Norwegian to hit 10,000 ladder points in Nations!