Batch reviews' vocabulary

[MarioNintendo]

In the recent batch review, there are some words that left me clueless, such as:

- (jump)Jacks;
- Minijacks;
- PR;
- Layers;
- FMO, FSO, FGO;
- Etc.

What do they refer to?

[buizel8888]

For Men Only
For Solords only
For Gays only

[buizel8888]

also jacking is what you do with your hand and your lower regions

[Xiaounlimited]

etc stands for et cetera c:

[AsphyxZero]

FFR is like an onion, it has layers.

[AlexDest]

PR = Penetrating Rape

[t-rogdor]

Jumpjacks:
Jumping while masturbating

Minijacks:
It's a pretty good cereal

PR:
Personal Record. Maybe you should submit a screenshot with your submission!

Layers:
Onions have layers, Ogres have layers! Your file needs to smell more like an onion.

FMO: For Morons Only
FSO: Solo files. FFR doesn't have this, so ignore it.
FGO: It means your file is rejected.

ETC is not a stepmania turn though.

[bmah]

The FFR Picture Dictionary

The above link provides terminology to a lot of patterns you see in simfiles.

PR = pitch relevency. Imagine playing an instrument. Arrows should follow a pattern according to how they sound in the relative sense of musical pitch.

Layers = combining multiple patterns into one, which almost always mean that you're incorporating multiple instruments/sources simultaneously when stepping.

FMO/FGO = For Masters Only/For Gurus Only. Terminology that pertains to the difficulties of certain songs on FFR. Numerically, FMOs are rated as an 11/13 in difficulty and FGOs are rated as a 12/13 in difficulty.

[Detrimentalist]

Originally Posted by MarioNintendo

- (jump)Jacks; I believe this is an exercise routine.
- Minijacks; I think this is a type of midget.
- PR; Pretentious Retards
- Layers; It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.
- FMO, FSO, FGO; For Masturbators Only, For Stoners Only, For Gaylords Only
- Etc.: What's an etc.?

I hope I answered your questions on these terms which are essential to making a good simfile.

[buizel8888]

Originally Posted by Detrimentalist

I hope I answered your questions on these terms which are essential to making a good simfile.

who are you again?

[Sarahate]

Yeah, it's very hard to get used to those terms especially if you don't go on the forums much or play the game online. You might wanna go here if you want to know the terms for every kinds of patterns in the game. Also, if you want to know possibly every single kinds of terms ever mentioned in the game then you might wanna go here but i warn you, it's a LONG read!

[dore]

Originally Posted by MarioNintendo

In the recent batch review, there are some words that left me clueless, such as:

- (jump)Jacks;
- Minijacks;
- PR;
- Layers;
- FMO, FSO, FGO;
- Etc.

What do they refer to?

for a real answer (I'll demonstrate with 1234 corresponding to the arrows):
jacks - when you have one note over and over, like 11111, jumpjacks are jacks using jumps (2 arrows at a time)
minijacks - when you have the same note repeated once, like 11223344
PR - pitch relevancy - where you correspond the patterns to the pitch of the notes, like if you have an ascending scale, using 1234
layering - stepping multiple things at the same time which usually ends up in jumps and hands
FMO etc - For Masters Only etc, the difficulties in FFR
etc - et cetera, that's not an FFR term, that's latin

[MarioNintendo]

Originally Posted by bmah

The FFR Picture Dictionary

The above link provides terminology to a lot of patterns you see in simfiles.

PR = pitch relevency. Imagine playing an instrument. Arrows should follow a pattern according to how they sound in the relative sense of musical pitch.

Layers = combining multiple patterns into one, which almost always mean that you're incorporating multiple instruments/sources simultaneously when stepping.

FMO/FGO = For Masters Only/For Gurus Only. Terminology that pertains to the difficulties of certain songs on FFR. Numerically, FMOs are rated as an 11/13 in difficulty and FGOs are rated as a 12/13 in difficulty.

Wow, I didn't know my thread would cause such an outburst in a few minutes for such simple questions.

Thanks for the link.

@ The rest of you:

I knew you would kid about the "etc" part... I should've thought longer when making this post not to get you confused. :P Thwomps!

[bmah]

Yeah, you should lurk more in the forums.

lurk moar - it's good

[MarioNintendo]

Originally Posted by bmah

Yeah, you should lurk more in the forums.

lurk moar - it's good

But talking to you guys is so much more awesome!...

Shouldn't they should come up with an official advertisement for lurking, don't you think? I personally believe people would buy it.

Anyway, I'mma lurk more next time and stop earning you guys some easy +1 posts for once.

[AsphyxZero]

Originally Posted by MarioNintendo

Anyway, I'mma lurk more next time and stop earning you guys some easy +1 posts for once.

+1, thanks dawg

[t-rogdor]

POST

[buizel8888]

This thread makes allot of sense guys

[dragonmegaXX]

Originally Posted by buizel8888

This thread makes allot of sense guys

FFFFF

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by MarioNintendo

In the recent batch review, there are some words that left me clueless, such as:

- (jump)Jacks;
- Minijacks;
- PR;
- Layers;
- FMO, FSO, FGO;
- Etc.

What do they refer to?

jacking is consecutive notes on the same column. thus minijacks are small lengths of such jacks (normally 2 or 3, sometimes 4) and jumpjacks contain jumps during the jack
PR stands for pitch relevance, which is where you consciously and intelligently pick patterns or specific columns according to specific pitches or progressions of pitches. typical examples are: going left = descending, going right = ascending, same column = same pitch, but it's a bit of an artform for anything that uses more than four pitches
layers is where you place down arrows for one instrument, then arrows for the next instrument and so on, thus forming jumps when they 'collide'.
-FMO is for masters only, or difficulty 11/12. FGO is 12/12. dunno what FSO is