Yolomania Vol. 4 RELEASED

[rparty89]

gonna be honest dopamine was rushed through, give me a week and it'll 500x better then what's in this pack. Wadatsumi eh, could've been better. Still nice to see wadatsumi doing better then dopamine.

[choof]

Originally Posted by rparty89

gonna be honest dopamine was rushed through, give me a week and it'll 500x better then what's in this pack.

pls dont

[ddrxero64]

wtf is this doing here ryan



p.s. this song is dope, i love the 7/8 time sig

[AutotelicBrown]

lmao

[MinaciousGrace]

lets take a moment to reflect on how bad this pack is so that the mistakes of the past may be repeated in the future anyway

[MooMoo_Cowfreak]

I love this pack. It is chock full of so, so much variety. Yes, it is of highly differing quality, but man there are some of my all time favorites in here. Also some of my least favorites. It ain't perfect but I still love it.

Anyway, Yolomania 5 when?

EDIT: I accidentally a word

[MinaciousGrace]

apex giggle

[Cataclysm-]

thinking yolo 5 will ever happen

[Sidek]

yolomania 5? pff never.

[MooMoo_Cowfreak]

If I make a Yolomania 5 thread and gather judges would that make it happen? I'm being half serious

[Leo137]

yOu OnlY SteP OnCE

[-Tim-]

Originally Posted by MooMoo_Cowfreak

If I make a Yolomania 5 thread and gather judges would that make it happen? I'm being half serious

you'd revive the angry spirit of wafles to take vengeance on us all

[MinaciousGrace]

Originally Posted by MooMoo_Cowfreak

If I make a Yolomania 5 thread and gather judges would that make it happen? I'm being half serious

the fact that you would entertain this, even if only in an entirely sardonic manner, automatically marks you as wholly unqualified for the task

[Dynam0]

am i a loony?

[MinaciousGrace]

Originally Posted by MinaciousGrace

lets take a moment to reflect on how bad this pack is so that the mistakes of the past may be repeated in the future anyway

pursuant to this i'd like to outline what i think because i don't have those thoughts easily referenced anywhere and it's been a long time since i've done a non-shitpost

- Yolo 4 is not an terrible in an absolute sense, it is terrible in a relative sense. Yolo 1 was thoroughly mediocre. Yolo 2/3 were both decent/good standalone releases and each was better than the pack that preceded it. So yolo 4 was a marks a reversal in the trend and even if a fifth pack were expected, a likely inflection point.

- Yolo 4 was terribly executed from concept to development to release. People like to think that setting an arbitrary deadline for pack release and then sticking to it no matter what is somehow good development sense. It's not. You inevitably trade away quality to meet the deadline that you needlessly assigned to yourself. You put tacit (or more overt) pressure on your judges to accept more things with less revision and to accept things that might otherwise have been denied. The pack also required multiple (more than three maybe? I forgot) patches upon release. It's just shitty workmanship under the guise of "organization".

- Which brings me to my next point, which is that Yolo 4 doesn't only have bad or meh files. It's not that bad. Yolo 4 has a couple dozen of great files among the 125 or so other meh or unplayable ones. Pack could have been 1/4th the size and nobody would have noticed. I judge packs on the proportion of files that are good, not on the hard number. I can understand the opposing stance but I don't subscribe to it at all. 25% isn't even that bad in the scheme of all packs ever released, but for a pack that size that was supposed to be the heir to yolo 3?

ok im bored of writing this so i'll dispense with the formality

people sometimes shit on yolo 4 for having a bunch of ossssss meta files and while I think it's not an appropriate place for a bunch of converts to be released (just make another pack???) i think people get a little harsh on that point

maybe they don't and i'm just projecting who knows

anyway if you compare yolo 4 to any old run of the mill pack released by some no name shitter then yes it's great, but if you're doing that you've already failed

also choof was right, yolomania is really just a stupid fucking name, but it's also a stupid fucking name you have no rights to claim and even in a universe where i would applaud any attempt to continue the series, i would still tell you that you have no right doing so

given that wafles shamed himself into exile after releasing a dud of a pack meant to distract everyone from how sml died in a flaming ball of slow burning fire, i question why would ever want a yolo 5 let alone volunteer to start it

[Leo137]

For the amount of submissions, the yolo4 judges did a outstanding job to keep the dates and release at time, even if the process was indeed rushed, i never saw that amount of comitment at judging in another pack tbh

If you compare to recent smoc packs (same scale of files) i can see that yolo4 still had it's merits. And while my favourite is the 3rd one, i cannot blame it for not surpassing it.

Yolo 5 could be possible maybe if skwid + caliber wanted to judge, i don't think wafles would give a shit

[blindreper1179]

Yolomanias were a dumb idea.
Maybe I just don't like wafles, Idk.
Don't have any, won't have any.
Especially with minacious comment.

[MooMoo_Cowfreak]

Okay

[SKG_Scintill]

hey man I like Mitten is Angry and...

[lofty rhino]

Originally Posted by MinaciousGrace

pursuant to this BLHABNLAH TLDRHAHASEMICOLON let alone volunteer to start it

Minty 2 is guna be a total and complete swampfest of a fuckpack
wut do u know about packs

THIS WAS A GOOD PACK