Brute Force Competition 2022

[DarthMol]

Post for 14-20 Nov

Forever Skies

During a recent Next Fest on Steam I played the demo for upcoming first-person post-apocalyptic survival game Forever Skies and was really impressed by it. I loved the concept of building an airship and floating through islands in the sky. The game also had some interesting concepts, such as the disease/cure system. In many ways the game reminds me of Subnautica (despite being the opposite of underwater). It turns out, a great deal of others were also suitably impressed with the ga…

[DarthMol]

I can understand, you’ve been a champ to run this for so many years @Solitude

[GregRedd]

Your efforts at managing Brute Force are hugely appreciated Soli. But I get the hesitation to do it anymore. It must be a huge time sink. I struggle to find the time to keep up with the Dirt Rally league stuff, and most of that is done for me by the system.

I have had a lot of thoughts about the competition going forward and will pitch them to the collective in a while. Once we’ve finished up this years event and I have a moment to get my scattered thoughts a little more organised.

[Beo]

Just use Notion AI to do it all for you

[Solitude]

Haha I doubt the AI can do that. Ideally I should just write a program to do the stuff but ain’t nobody got time for that.

[Wyvern]

Just remember I am also willing to help sort it out

[Solitude]

24 October - 30 October
@GregRedd - 2
@czc - 1
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 2
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer -

31 October - 6 November
@GregRedd - 2
@czc - 1
@DarthMol - 1
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer -

7 November - 13 November
@GregRedd - 2
@czc - 1
@DarthMol - 1
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer -

14 November - 20 November
@GregRedd - 1
@czc - 1
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 1

Standings
@GregRedd - 114
@czc - 83
@DarthMol - 65
@Wyvern - 51
@Beo - 46
@DieGrootHammer - 11

So just this last week to go.

[GregRedd]

Week of 21 - 27 November

Topic Post

MEW Side Hustles

* Been racking my brain all week for a final topic to post for this years’ Brute Force comp - ideally one with a community focus to it. The (humble) realisation that I will be getting some cash at the end of the competition triggered this post. I worked hard to get all those articles and posts done to earn that prize. I’m going to give a fair portion of those winnings back via my Secret Santa gift, and the rest will help cover some of my other gifts this year. [Side-Hustle_Invest-Blue-1280x67…

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And BFC22 is…

[Solitude]

Nicely done everyone! Especially you @GregRedd ! Champion of champions!

I will do this last week’s counting this afternoon.

[DarthMol]

Post for 21-27 Nov

Black Friday Vumatel Deals

A number of ISP’s are offering some really good deals on their Vumatel products. A friend in the know says that Vumatel is trying to gain back some market share - I guess Openserve or LTE options have started to make a dent. At the end of the day it’s the customers who win. There are three products being offered at discounted rates: 100Mbs/100Mbs Uncapped 200Mbs/200Mbs Uncapped 500Mbs/200Mbs Uncapped The participating ISP’s each have their takes on the pricing but here’s Cool Ideas options f…

[Wyvern]

/bows to the Master that is @GregRedd !

You did so well !

[Beo]

[czc]

Congratulations everyone. It was a long year and once again @GregRedd shone through with consistency.

[DieGrootHammer]

@DieGrootHammer

You know what I just realised…

Last year @GregRedd endeavoured to write a massive piece on the “Day of the Year”, and succeeded splendidly. And he did that every single day of the year, 365 days in a row. So, while I myself am still in the race, I want to place a R100 bet on @GregRedd winning this. I know it’s early days, which means the odds should be high and the return on the bet just as high

I would like to just highlight that I called the outcome many moons ago! Congrats to everyone on this. My contribution has been dismal this year I know.

[GregRedd]

[Solitude]

Sorry, will do it after tomorrow morning’s meeting.

[Solitude]

21 November - 27 November
@GregRedd - 2
@czc - 1
@DarthMol - 2
@Beo - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

Final Standings
@GregRedd - 116
@czc - 84
@DarthMol - 67
@Wyvern - 52
@Beo - 47
@DieGrootHammer - 11

Congrats to @GregRedd who was just amazing this year. And thanks to everyone who participated!

Total Prize Money: R1 520

1st: 60% - @GregRedd = R912
2nd: 30% - @czc = R456
3rd: 10% - @DarthMol = R152

To the sponsors:
Sponsors
@czc R240
@DarthMol R200
@GregRedd R240
@Wyvern R240
(@Solitude has R40 of the above people already)
@Solitude - R200
@DieGrootHammer - R200
@SIGSTART - R200

I have a portion of some of your money already.

I will send my bank details to all the sponsors with details tomorrow afternoon.

@GregRedd and @czc you can send me your bank details. @DarthMol unfortunately your winnings basically just mean that you won’t be sponsoring anything. I will just make sure tomorrow. I had a busy day and my brain is all mushy.

Once again, thanks to all of you!

[DarthMol]

I think it works out to R8 that I need to send you

Congrats @GregRedd a well deserved win. Well done @czc a solid 2nd place, great consistency!

[GregRedd]

Fantastic! Well done all And huge thank you again to @Solitude for wrangling the points and keeping track of everything through the year (and years!) Will PM you bank account info over the weekend.

I’m still thinking about ideas for how we could run the BFC next year and will get those up in the next week or two. In the meantime though, just because we are no longer competing doesn’t mean we can’t still have the odd article or topic added over the holidays. I’m not going away and will have more than enough time to edit any new articles.

Thanks again everyone!

[Wyvern]

COngrats @GregRedd You are the king!