{"author_link":"\/users\/grahhhhhhhhh","author_name":"grahhhhhhhhh","author_uid":"grahhhhhhhhh","comments":[],"epoch":1543548971,"event":"LD43","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":126674,"likes":12,"metadata":{"p_key":"122698","p_author":"grahhhhhhhhh","p_authorkey":"1015690","p_urlkey":"338762","p_title":"Dissapointed","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD43","p_time":"1543548971","p_likes":"12","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1015690","us_name":"grahhhhhhhhh","us_username":"grahhhhhhhhh","event_start":"1543536000","event_key":"71","event_name":"LD 43"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD43","removed_author":false},"_superparent":120415,"_trust":1,"author":15690,"body":"Sorry to be a bummer less than a day before the jam launch, but this straw poll has been bothering me all day.  I'm not a great programmer, artist, or gifted in any other way... one of my jams, I broke top 100 for humor and I brag to anyone willing to listen.  Some categories I do slightly better than 50 percentile, some I do worse.  I'm middle of the road, so I don't even care that a select few people are trying to preemptively prepare for the jam 1-2 days early, getting a \"leg up on me\".\n\nIn the U.S., about half of the States have a law that you can't take a photo of how you voted in an election.  Even Justin Timberlake was fined for doing so, the fear is it's a way to provide evidence to someone who's bought your vote.  While that's obviously not the case here, I think the point is the same, and that is that the event holds a certain integrity, and some people are trying to bring it down.\n\nI know there's other ways to get prepared ahead of time, such as designing a game for every theme in the final round, but somehow this poll, which isn't even statistically significant, has really gotten to me.  I wouldn't appreciate being a bad runner and having 5% of the other marathon runners starting a mile ahead though it wouldn't have much of an impact on me, and I also don't appreciate people trying to work around the intention of the jam.","comments":9,"comments-timestamp":"2018-11-30T09:38:20Z","created":"2018-11-30T03:25:53Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":126674,"love":12,"love-timestamp":"2018-11-30T11:44:11Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-11-30T11:44:11Z","name":"Dissapointed","node-timestamp":"2018-11-30T03:36:11Z","parent":126673,"parents":[1,5,9,120415,126673],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/$126673\/dissapointed","published":"2018-11-30T03:36:11Z","scope":"public","slug":"dissapointed","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":368583},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"126674","n_urlkey":"338762","n_parent":"126673","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/$126673\/dissapointed","n_slug":"dissapointed","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"15690","n_created":"1543548353","n_modified":"1543578251","n_version":"368583","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/$126673\/dissapointed","text":"Sorry to be a bummer less than a day before the jam launch, but this straw poll has been bothering me all day.  I'm not a great programmer, artist, or gifted in any other way... one of my jams, I broke top 100 for humor and I brag to anyone willing to listen.  Some categories I do slightly better than 50 percentile, some I do worse.  I'm middle of the road, so I don't even care that a select few people are trying to preemptively prepare for the jam 1-2 days early, getting a \"leg up on me\".\n\nIn the U.S., about half of the States have a law that you can't take a photo of how you voted in an election.  Even Justin Timberlake was fined for doing so, the fear is it's a way to provide evidence to someone who's bought your vote.  While that's obviously not the case here, I think the point is the same, and that is that the event holds a certain integrity, and some people are trying to bring it down.\n\nI know there's other ways to get prepared ahead of time, such as designing a game for every theme in the final round, but somehow this poll, which isn't even statistically significant, has really gotten to me.  I wouldn't appreciate being a bad runner and having 5% of the other marathon runners starting a mile ahead though it wouldn't have much of an impact on me, and I also don't appreciate people trying to work around the intention of the jam.","title":"Dissapointed","wayback_source":[]}