Wow, calcg.org's great scam

Post by **Dwedit** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 4:02 am

1) Get free publicity on ticalc.org by holding a 'contest'
2) Make the subject of the contest the DUMBEST THING IMAGINABLE (wow an RPN calculator)
3) Profit!

Wow, so it's that easy to get free publicity on ticalc.org... Claim to hold a "contest", then switch the contest to an incredibly simple program (number: push, operator: pop twice, push)
I still sent mine in anyway, don't care.

Got no respect for websites which distribute games uploaded by random people who aren't the author. Eric Bauman would be proud.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 4:15 am

Not what I had in mind when Barrett came up with the idea, but nobody had much better ideas. =/

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 4:23 am

Should have asked me. I'm technically staff.

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 4:26 am

Uh-oh, sounds like there is going to be a forum war of some sort happening here... Why did a calculator game website make a calculator game competition?

Post by **Dwedit** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 4:31 am

Okay, maybe my expectations were just far too high, considering I've been in a couple of ACM programming competitions. Now that's some really hard stuff. I can't even do the real problems of that stuff. (They also include a bunch of moroniclly easy problems to sort-of act as tie breakers during the contests).
I stopped doing ACM programming competitions when they forced me to use vi.

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 6:43 am

Forced vi, that's really harsh. But what's ACM?

Post by **kv83** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 10:21 am

strange. i can't reach both ticalc.org and calc.org ... hmmmm

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 3:10 pm

Dwedit wrote: I stopped doing ACM programming competitions when they forced me to use vi.

Eh? You can use xedit, pico, or an emacs clone, too. Or at least you can in my region...

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 6:32 pm

And i thought everyone loved VI ... RPN, you gotta be kidding me.

CalcGames hosts 'RPN' competiton ...

Is anyone considering turning it into a game of some sort?

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Sun 08 Jul, 2007 12:11 am

I really don't agree with this choice for the contest either. I believe that the example contest was better."A physics program...". I mean seriously RPN isn't fun.