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#Summle hard #8: 5/5 = = = = =

Is "hard mode" based on difficulty judged by a solver? It feels like something that would more easily differentiate the modes would be adding extra numbers instead of 6 for all modes.

^ seems like it would get spaghetti fast - multiplication's already not easy to visualize and something like 12^6 which involves two numbers that are 'low' by the game's standards, becomes a ridiculously high number. I mean might as well add some other operations if you'll do that right?

Nice, thank you. That's a nice feature that I didn't know about.

Well hello. I was in the middle of making a game with a very similar premise lol, apparently a few of those are around, but I do think the Countdown gameplay of 6 numbers is 'too difficult', you can't make poor guesses and still win like in Wordle.

How does the "app" feature work? Was it easy to make (given a static site)?

I kinda like when "hard mode" makes you have to come up with a possible word even if it seems impossible to think of one, which can be a satisfying puzzle, not having the restriction makes it easy to think "okay screw it, I'm going to spend a guess to search for letters".

I just ublock-element the "this site has cookies" notification, lol

As in "you have an audience for your content already". This is more relevant on other platforms than reddit is, although you can get famous as a 'reddit-specific' user I think it's more difficult.

I strongly believe "if you're already famous" part is the most disgusting part of self-promotion policies (in general, not with these examples), because popular creators get at least 10+ people that will post their content as a link for karma, and then people starting out get none of that benefit, and starting out is the most difficult phase.

If everything/everyone adopted a no-self-promotion policy no product could get any popularity. I think the rule is often instated for reasons really involving low-quality content and spam (but with more exterior objectivity), but it hurts the already-disadvantaged in the process. The only good thing that may come from it is having to focus on features and benefits of the product more since you can't just dump the link to the product, but again already-famous people/companies don't have to deal with that.

Are there previews or short videos with this?

Pshh... Unfortunately things aren't that consistent or that would have been pointed out much earlier. C to C# and C to D are both considered 'steps' (see 'stepwise motion'). That is to say, "half" and "whole" are treated like two different types of steps in traditional theory. (that and "whole" is a much less useful fundamental unit as I said before)

I realized when reading your response that you use "tone" for "whole tone". So from my perspective you're overloading "tone", which could mean semitone, whole tone, or scale degree tone, to only mean two half-steps, but to me, it's like your perspective that in the article the word "step" is overloaded to mean one half-step. I think it is more useful, if you were to define fundamental unit of pitch as one half-step, since there are of course many intervals that you cannot describe with just a number of whole-tones. It's one syllable and corresponds to one note = 1, instead of the notion of "half" and then you have to explain how the difference between E and F is '1 half', I think it is a mess.

And - I personally analyze music in semitones, not scale degrees. I find it much more useful. Even though that's not considered "standard" there are some things even standard theory has to use chromatic language to describe, like the tritone (you could get into "#4 or b5" but that would require a lot more than just saying 6 semitones).

Funny that the first post sticks out from the rest (a digital project vs. the physical ones). Notably it's more 3x3 a lot of the time. I wonder if the creator also felt like they had to make use of all the 3 pixels of horizontal space for some of these characters. The lowercase "l" is what I'd be using for a "1", with my lowercase "l" being 2 pixels wide, for instance.

"Step" refers to an interval gap of "half step" or "whole step". In a way, I could see this as a "specific meaning", but since it refers to a group of intervals and not a single one, I would be quite open to a definition where '1 step' is always '1 half step', since both 'semitone' and 'half step' imply a less useful fundamental value of 2 half steps, even though music that involves only whole steps is quite dissonant and uncommon (the whole tone scale).

Your entire hypothetical dialogue is confusing as well, since your hypothetical person isn't using correct words either. The situation where C + 6 of something = B is with scale degrees (C moved 6 scale degrees up is B). And then you say "I currently mean tones", when 6 "tones" has the exact same grouping problem you are criticizing (because 'whole tone' and 'semitone' have the exact same meaning as 'whole step' and 'half step', only now 'scale tone' is in the group too). This artificially lengthens the example.

"The tritone of this note is 6 steps up" "Gotcha, so the tritone of C is B" "No, that's scale degrees, by 'step' I mean 'half step'." "Oh, so it's F# then." Done.