There's something I don't like about theme.nxmi, and that is that some aspects (e.g. lemming sprites) would be desirable to choose on a per-pack basis, but others (e.g. one-way-wall colors) are desirable to choose on a per-style basis (on the other hand, allowing the theme to specify these is convenient). This sounds option would exacerbate the problem, but I think it would be sufficient to allow packs to provide a theme.nxmi that overrides anything provided by the theme.nxmi specified by the level. This would allow a pack to specify a set of lemming sprites and, if this suggestion passes, custom sounds, without needing variant themes for every single combination of one-way-wall colors and custom lemming/sounds the pack wants to use.

If the vortex can be locked at all, lem limits just like regular exits makes sense - if you think about it, a lem limit exit is basically like a locked exit, but instead of unlocking after a condition is met, it locks after a condition is met.

Due to the variety of skills making it hard to find a dedicated hotkey for each of them, I would likely use this option if it were implemented.

While we're currently under the impression that the Slider and the Laserer/Blaster will be the final new skills, there's no guarantee that we won't re-evaluate this decision to stop adding new skills in the future. I feel that if we do not create a proper rule for exiting behavior, this situation will only continue to get worse. I want to be able to look at a skill/state and determine from first principles whether or not it's likely to be able to exit, as opposed to the current situation of "Some skills can exit, some can't, but for each skill you could make some arguments as to why the trigger area should affect it and some arguments as to why it shouldn't, so the only way to figure out if it can exit or not is to try it and then memorize the result." This is needless complexity.

I grant that the existing special case for floaters/gliders weakens this argument, in that if we already have two states with a weird special-case rule for exiting, it's not a huge leap to go from that to one more; but conversely, that strengthens the argument for taking that special case out. If newcomers discover "A, B and C can exit, while X, Y and Z cannot", then they have no way of knowing whether the special case will or will not apply to P, Q and R. Trying to solve puzzles without knowing the rules is a surefire recipe for frustration.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is something that can be fixed without content breakage. I don't think that necessarily means we shouldn't address it, though.

I'd also like to add something that I think is a flaw in how we do these debates: we love talking about content breakage, but we rarely delve deeper than "some content will break." How much content, and what would be required to fix it? I'd be much more concerned about changes that completely break level concepts as opposed to inconveniences where the main correction difficulty is just in identifying the broken content.

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I also think that allowing the jumper in the exit is likely to detract more than it is to add, and I will use the same reasoning I used for the spearer and the grenader. Levels where you just park your cursor in [spot] and then click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click like a hundred times are not fun to play. If I wanted a button masher I would play a different game. The grenader and spearer saw a ton of this usage, which IMO is even less interesting than "here's a giant gap and a bunch of builders, you know what to do." The jumper-into-the-exit also encourages this while not offering anything that can't already be done using the skills Icho describes.

It would be a pretty large breaking change, but I think the inconsistencies introduced by the floater/glider cases and oh noers are very weird (certainly, the sort of thing I was alluding to when I said "Some of them can and some of them can't, but there isn't really that much consistent logic between them so you just have to memorize them") and are worth reconsidering.

If I had to propose a specific rule, I would say that the exit should be usable by walkers and any state that can be cancelled by assigning a walker, and unusable by all others.

1. 1st 100% level.

2. I like pepperoni on pizza and it's also common

3. Hershey's was the first bar-shaped candy I thought of. Didn't really account for international popularity; I'm not sure I've ever seen a Mars bar and I'm not sure if they're actually available locally (I've heard of them, however), although now that I say this I'll probably start seeing them everywhere.

4. I thought about Redux, but ultimately decided to go with the Intro pack instead. Clearly, this was a mistake.

5. First one I thought of. I haven't really participated in the Rectangles game and haven't been following its progress, so I didn't think of it.

6. Figured it would be either Homer or Bart. 50/50 guess, got lucky.

7. Apple, for similar reasoning as geoo. Plus, Apple has a lot of brand recognition that many Android manufacturers don't - Samsung's probably the only one that comes close; Google has similar brand recognition to Apple, but while the Pixel line exists, their phones aren't really what the company is known for.

8. Figured it would be either keyboard or mouse. 50/50 guess, got lucky.

9. Pizza tastes good and is also popular.

10. Arbitrary choice. Had to use Wikipedia for a bit of help.

11. Mercury is small, and because of distance and/or proximity to the sun, people aren't really as interested in exploring it as they are Mars, so I figured people might not think of it first.
12. Provided 2 answers: At least according to Wikipedia, Zealandia is a "sunken continent". But I (correctly) figured this answer had a high probability of getting rejected, so I provided South America as a backup answer, since it doesn't really have as many influential nations as Europe/Asia/North America, and of the remaining continents, Africa gets a lot of attention, and Antarctica seemed too obvious a choice. Probably lots of other people had similar enough logic that this didn't really work out.

13. I remembered Tame/Crazy/Havoc off the top of my head, so I decided not to go with any of those. Unlucky 50/50 guess between Wild and Wicked.

14. I checked the list of US Presidents on Wikipedia, and found Martin van Buren, who I don't think I've ever heard of before. Even the Wikipedia article had a quote describing him as one of the most forgettable presidents.

15. I was hoping people would forget about Northern Ireland since it's not attached by land to the rest of it. Looks like everyone else had the same idea.

16. I thought answering this question would be too risky, since I figured the probability of choosing an answer worth negative points was higher than the probability of a positive or zero scoring answer.

17. I didn't really feel like spending much time on this one since I figured I'd be unlikely to get a correct answer anyway, and there wasn't any penalty for getting it wrong, so I didn't actually check the specifics of how the points were tabulated. If I had done so I would have realized such a high score wasn't actually possible, but since I didn't check the specifics I was unaware of the fact that the maximum possible score for any particular question was 1.

I don't use high-res mode, so I wanted to see how stuff like slopes and destruction masks are currently handled. Here is a screenshot of high-res mode with a miner tunnel and some sloped terrain pieces present, using the built in upscaling functionality.

The miner tunnel appears particularly blocky, probably still matching the physics pixels exactly. However, this isn't entirely consistent with how the slopes are drawn - you can see a few areas on the sand and on the decorative slope pieces where the pixels shown don't align perfectly with the physics pixels, though I believe in all these instances it's a corner missing out of a low-res pixel.



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