This is a great level dood. If you wouldn't mind, could I do a Let's Play of it? Also, it took me for-freaking-ever to find all of your secrets. But it was fun in the end. 

PS: Where does everyone get those nifty long-bar things in their signatures?

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the level. And I'd be fine with you doing an LP of it.

As for the signature bars, try googling them - there are a number of programs online designed for making them. I usually use one of them to make mine. :3

Glad to know you guys are paying attention to that sort of thing.

Isn't that kinda selfish

It's just an opinion, no need to bash me for it.

because its agreed that "more activity = better forum".

Plenty's been said on this already, but I'll just point out that 4chan is an excellent example of how quantity does not imply quality.

As for the n00b thing and posting stupid things; give them a break, everybody was one once (I'm probably in the minority when I say I don't mind n00bs that much, though).

Please don't put words in my mouth. I was saying that young players (generally those in the 6-14 age range) often favor random discussion, and that off-topic boards provide this. The problem occurs when you find certain people who only seem to post in off-topic board threads, effectively turning the forum into an all-purpose chat one. There are enough places for that without us drawing in users who will only check one board that has nothing to do with the rest of the forum. Yes, some of them may check other boards as well, but I don't think they'll be checking them all, and when they're done talking in them they'll simply default back to the off-topic board.

This brings up another point: Adding an off-topic board is by no means guaranteed to attract more users. It may keep them here (and as I said above, the way it does that may invite other problems), but there is nothing to suggest that adding an off-topic board will cause an influx of members. It's not like people join normally forums specifically to chat in the off-topic board, after all; they usually join them to talk about the thing(s) the forum is centered around, and only after that do they head to the off-topic board.

yeah, I admit I was kinda looking at a biased point of view, but to be honest I don't know why anyone would want a quiet, slow forum, and otherwise low-activity forum...

Personally, I prefer the community the way it is now. It's sleepy and laid back, and I come to this forum when I want to relax and not have to deal with internet morons on other, more active forums.

I like how you said you couldn't imagine why anyone would prefer a low-activity forum right after you replied to a post where I explained why I would.

... and it appears to have morphed into a purple emoticon while we weren't looking 

Of course. Sand turtles are masters of camouflage. It's your fault for spooking it by trying to give it to Miss Paula!

Mina?

The real problem with multiple ways of taking on problems is that they usually have to be put there by the game designers. Therefore, if a game designer didn't think of using something to solve a certain problem a certain way, you often won't be able to do it, although of course there are a multitude of exceptions.

Emergent gameplay, a method of giving multiple methods to solve a problem, seems to be becoming more prevalent, though. I've seen a lot of multiplayer games like Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead that either have players set up the challenges themselves or randomize them so they're always different.

But it seems that one caveat of using emergent gameplay to create problems with multiple solutions is that sometimes there's no solution. Maybe there isn't a good way to take out that sentry. Maybe you can't dodge that Charger. Maybe your only choice is of how you want to lose. But then again, that's realistic. You're never guaranteed that a problem has a solution in life, and the idea that maybe you're going up against something you really can't beat gives a much greater sense of accomplishment when you do beat it.