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The Cactuar Rating System

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I was having a pleasant afternoon discussion with Dr. Peepee about Cactuar from several angles. We quickly came to a mutual agreement that Cactuar is the King of Jank and from there we noticed a gaping hole in our communications: we do not currently have a way to measure strategies, concepts, or ideas of questionable quality/content. Fortunately, I have designed a system to circumvent this flaw, and I present to you, my humble readers, the Cactuar Rating System.

Rating by Cactuars is easy. You take Cactuar as an instance and set him = 1. From there, you judge the other idea, and then compare it in terms of Cactuars as a multiplier. Some examples:

-Niko's idea of Falco's forward tilt beating Marth is about 3.7 Cactuars.
-Falcon's downthrow tech chase regrab on Fox on FD is about 1.7 Cactuars.
-DK's powershield is about 6.3 Cactuars.
-Cactuar himself is exactly 2.4 Cactuars. This might seem like a mathematical anomoly, but the Cactuar Rating system only takes Cactuars as an instance, whereas Cactuar himself is a constant whole.
-Jigglypuff dittos have a minimum of 4 Cactuars and can increase from there.

The reasons behind this change are two-fold:

1. It gives players a means to rate the quality of an idea when presented to them. With this rating system in place, we the players can quickly and easily understand one another with a common medium. A Cactuars rating approaching 0 represents soundness and security of quality, while any rating approaching a Cactuar rating of 8 represents a purely "jank" idea.
2. Cactuar can never effectively name search again.

With proper exposure to the community, I hope this term becomes a community standard. Share your thoughts or ideas freely.
 
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How many Cactuars is Peach's not required skill to play?

How do I word this?

How many Cactuars is Peach's lack of skill required to play as?

No, I don't think that's grammatically correct still

How many Cactuars is Peach doesn't require any skill to play as?
 

RaphaelRobo

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The idea of rating everything in Cactuars is either 0 or 8 Cactuars, I'm not sure which.
 

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I want to sticky this so badly xD

I'm totally going to do this from now on hahaha
 

Habefiet

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Can you give a concrete examples of what constitutes a 0 and what constitutes an 8? I mean. I have some decent ideas of what would produce no Cactuars, but I'm having a hard time imagining something considered so utterly jank as to be effectively insurmountable. FFA All Ice Climbers on Icicle Mountain with Bob-Ombs on Very High in Lightning Mode?
 

JOS.fm

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i told MT this idea

you're chaingrabbing me as marth, i'm falco. when I di away far behind you, you immediately grab in front of you, giving me a sense of security into your false grab and roll in, then you just grab in the EXACT SAME way again to get my roll.

that's like 50 cactuars right there
 
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You have failed to tell us how cactuar measures an idea. The higher the
number the more crazy of an idea it is? Then,
has the offical measurement symbol is 0 cactuars.
 

Tee ay eye

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as hilarious as this is, i still don't understand how the unit works. what exactly is one cactuar equal to? can you list a few things that are approximate to one cactuar?

is the cactuar scale linear or logarithmic?
 

LLDL

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If I had a Cactuar for every brain you don't have; I'd have 1 Cactuar.

 

Beat!

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Smashboards as a whole is about 6.8 Cactuars.

Complaining about Falco is 7-7.5 Cactuars if you play a top/high/mid tier, and 7.6-8.0 Cactuars if you play a low tier.
 

odinNJ

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Smashboards as a whole is about 6.8 Cactuars.

Complaining about Falco is 7-7.5 Cactuars if you play a top/high/mid tier, and 7.6-8.0 Cactuars if you play a low tier.
This post is approximately 5 cactuars.
 

Cactuar

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This measurement system is both classy and effective, yet janky in its implementation and usage.

Super approved.
 

Kal

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That phone icon indicates an increase in Cactuars, as does editing your post to remove it. Normally, grammatically correct posts indicate a low Cactuar-rating, but in this case it is the opposite of what should occur with a phone-post, so the Cactuar-rating just goes up.

Above post is a 7.9.
 

Jockmaster

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This. Someone should make a graphing calculator app for it as well.

EDIT: Was 8 Cactuars intended to be the maximum? Or can it go up to infinite?
I believe it was said that 8 cactuars is near maximum jankiness. Hence why high numbers on this scale (5 and higher) should be used more conservatively. Especially considering Jiggs dittos can be as low as 4

:phone:
 

Fregadero

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A score of 7.5 Cactuars or higher should be seen as a reason to report a post.

:phone:
 

odinNJ

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the real question is how stupid is a post that is " i " cactuars
 
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