Sorry about my non-replying to the last one, though my deletion of the thread made my opinion clear, I guess :D
also, DAMN. I'm really starting to hate it too. >.<
I apologize for like errors in grammar (specifically tenses) but um this is just kind of pointless flavor text so yep. Enjoy if you want.
Spoiler:
After hours of wandering lost in your cold lonesome, you stumble onto a fresh, albeit heavily-trodden, gravel path. You turn to look down it, and you see various signs of life as you look further down this gravel road. You take your first step onto the road, and the sharp gravel stings at first. (Of course you're not wearing shoes! Who needs to be prepared?) The road is choppy, and there are vast sections missing here and there. You have to estimate where the path would take you and guess before you can find where the road picks up again. After hours of trodding along the sharp gravel path, the road finally grows into a fully paved street, and your feet sigh with pleasure. Far in the distance, you can make out mountains, surrounding a city full of noises, confusion, and busy people.
When you reach the end of the road, you find that there are enormous black gates blocking your entry into the city. Two huge men stand at either side, dressed in steel blue garments and towering a good two feet apiece over you. You take a glance at them; the one on the left is wearing sunglasses and a beret... and some enormously obnoxious plaid pants. The other one wears a hooded cloak, with the majority of the hood draped over his face. You can kind of catch what he looks like under the hood, though... it's almost like an amalgamation of Pokémon faces...
The man on the right manages to look down on you while still maintaining his cool, cool styles. "Hey, you," he says, "who are you?" You shrink back, in awe of the man's height. The other man turns his hood towards you and growls out, "Are you here to become a hacker?" The gutteral sound that comes out of his throat seems to echo in space, time, and various other dimensions. You nod, and the man with the cool, cool styles cracks a grin. "Welcome, then," he says, using his enormous hands to lift up the black iron gates in front of the city, "to Emula Town."
You nod graciously and sprint inside, eager to see all that there is to see. The city inside is huge, with various sights and attractions. All around, people are bustling from place to place, but most of the people were congregated around what looked like a fenced garden. You push your way through the people to the garden and you spot a large white sign in the garden, proclaiming "Beginner's Lounge". You're tempted to jump in the garden already, but you hold back, more excited to explore the rest of the city. Towards the left of the Beginner's Lounge is a huge building. "HS" vibrantly adorns the top of the building, recognizing it for what it was. You pull over one of the people randomly walking by, and ask what "HS" is. "Oh, so you must be new here!" the man squeaks. "It's short for the Hacks Showcase building! They say that if you get good enough at hacking," he pauses, glancing over at the Beginner's Lounge, "that you can make it all the way to the top floor: the main section for the Hacks Showcase!" He nods rapidly, obviously excited. "If you can make it into the Hacks Showcase, you'll be known around here by thousands of people! That's what everyone here is trying to work at!" The man continues to nod and grin broader than you could probably imagine. Uncomfortable now, you bid him a deserving "thanks" and approach the HS building. As you reach over to pull open the door, a blue hand appears on your shoulder.
"I don't think you're ready to go in there yet, LUCARIO_MASTER41," a gutteral voice echoes behind you. "You need to have more progress on the hack you want to share." You turn to try to face the hooded steel blue man, but he had already teleported away. But what hack do I want to share? And how do I make it? you think to yourself, bringing out your thinking-man pose. You wander away, thinking constantly of what kind of hack you wanted to do... or how you were supposed to do it in the first place.
Eventually, you find yourself standing in front of an old, beaten down wooden shack. There's a sign hastily hammered on with rusty iron nails; blue paint is roughly splattered across the board, barely legible. It takes a second to read... ROM... Hack...ing? ...101. "ROM Hacking 101", you breathe aloud to yourself.
"WHY YES, HOW MAY I HELP YOU!?" A nerdy-looking kid pops up out of nowhere and beams up at you, pushing his glasses continually up his nose. "This is indeed ROM Hacking 101, where all of life's pleasures can be obtained!" he says enthusiastically. "Well, not all of life's pleasures, but enough of them that it pleases me. My name is Vrai!" He chuckles. "How may I help you today?"
This is the, ahem, recoming of a program I had previously implemented here in PokeCommunity's Emulation section, if any of you were around in June 2009. That one had minimal effect because of its emphasis on a one-on-one tutoring structure. People on both sides (tutors and non-tutors) were simply not actually meeting up and I had no way of overseeing it and controlling how people were tutored. It was also especially difficult because of the mass amount of people that wanted to be tutored. There was an incredibly long waiting list (especially for scripting!) that simply could not be bypassed. I had to close it eventually simply because I could not handle running a program of that magnitude and actually keep it quality and under control for so long.
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-Lecture (Approximately 60 minutes)
--Team Building
---reachzero's Getting Ahead of the Metagame
---Kevin Garrett's Core Breakdown (1-2, 3-5, 6)
---husk's Team Building - The Big Picture
---Philip7086's Fill-in
--Battling Strategy
---Kevin Garrett's Advantage Scale/Game Control
---reachzero's Finding a Path to Victory
---husk's Minimizing the Impact of Luck
---Philip7086's Fill-in
--Problems to Avoid
---reachzero's Evaluating Sets (telling good gimmicks from bad gimmicks)
---husk's Avoiding Chance
---Kevin Garrett's Common Problems ("I make assumptions about enemy sets" and "I am easily intimidated")
---Philip7086's Fill-in
-Questions (Approximately 30 minutes)
--Users will PM Jimbo and Bloo.
--Jimbo and Bloo will select good questions to be asked in public.
--Users asking questions will be given voice one at a time.
--Bloo and the other lecturers will answer the questions and add onto each other's answers.
We're not going to be following a schedule exactly like that, but something very similar in both format and procedures.
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Shorter Version
...it's really not that tl;dr, but oh well.
● a tutoring program, based on the idea of "classes" will be run on IRC
● everyone except people designated to supervise/tutor will be muted while the live sessions are going on so that no interruptions/craziness can go on.
● while tutors are lecturing/whatever, questions can be sent to specified users (not the tutor that's talking) so that good questions can be selected and answered by the tutor later on.
● the live session will only happen once, but a log of the session will be posted on the official thread, and people who missed the session can ask questions pertaining to the session and the things taught there. important: this will not become a mini-simple questions thread. this way, everyone can be taught even if their timezone didn't correspond to when the session was held.
● 3-4 topics/tutors will probably be done at one time; I don't expect the live session to go much longer than 2-3 hours, so that way it will be kept tidy and hopefully will make scheduling when the sessions happen easier.
● tutors will need to be very accomplished at what they're going to tutor; they should know it inside and out, and be able to answer any questions on the subject. even better, I would like for it to be so that they answer most common questions in their lecture or whatever in the first place.
● subjects being taught aren't limited at all; if it's something that can be taught/improved upon, I don't see why it shouldn't be able to be at least suggested for a subject.
● disrespectful-ness by anyone during the session will not be tolerated.
● approval for tutors and how to determine exactly when the sessions will be haven't been determined yet, although I do have some ideas.
● if you visited this thread, please post! I really would like to know what your opinions are and if there is anything I should change as far as how this will work.
● an official thread with exactly how it will work will be posted if this thread gains enough support, so please show me your support and your ideas
css credit to wolflare
wolflare made me some cute css what do you think of it? I'll be putting it for the official thread probably...
Thanks for letting me know, the only problem is, theres been no maps changed and the rule states that screenshots can't be of battlescreens, am I able to submit battlescreens in this case?
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