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LB Text Battle Formatting
What are your opinions on the LB Text battle formatting?
When we created the original system, the intent was for each line of text to represent a break in the rhyme, the same way lyrics are formatted on lyric websites:
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At a thousand degree Celsius I make MCs melt
Fuck my record label I appear courtesy of myself
Let me explain how I maintain thresholds to pain
I walk across the Sun barefoot looking for shade
How the system is being used today is by filling the text box until the system registers a line break (which is set at a specific number of characters), and continuing to fill the text box. I don't think there is anything wrong with this, but I think it makes text battles hard to read because it is not clear where the lines connect and rhyme.
I think a possible solution is to let you write a line as long as you want, but you have to press enter to go to the next line (and change the way the system registers a new line). Then we can format and display the text in an easier format like lyric sites.
Open to ideas and curious if other people think the text battles are hard to read?
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LB Text Battle Formatting
What are your opinions on the LB Text battle formatting?
When we created the original system, the intent was for each line of text to represent a break in the rhyme, the same way lyrics are formatted on lyric websites:
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At a thousand degree Celsius I make MCs melt
Fuck my record label I appear courtesy of myself
Let me explain how I maintain thresholds to pain
I walk across the Sun barefoot looking for shade
How the system is being used today is by filling the text box until the system registers a line break (which is set at a specific number of characters), and continuing to fill the text box. I don't think there is anything wrong with this, but I think it makes text battles hard to read because it is not clear where the lines connect and rhyme.
I think a possible solution is to let you write a line as long as you want, but you have to press enter to go to the next line (and change the way the system registers a new line). Then we can format and display the text in an easier format like lyric sites.
Open to ideas and curious if other people think the text battles are hard to read?
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For example https://www.letsbeef.com/battle_deta...n=tb&id=505582 borrowing @ Lockhart verse as an example
Current formatting:
Concept tourney: You thought that 1st PLACE WAS GIFT WRAPPED but we saw when it came to consoles and GAMES? YA SHIT LAGGED! Then when ya battled me? I had ya FACE GET BITCH-SLAPPED we knew ya average-verse would 'crash 'n burn' cause you could barely 'BRACE FOR IMPACT'! Ya girl said my game's on point, her box is THROBBIN WHEN I HIT THE DOOR. She's lovin-that-dick, so I 'let her blow on it, then I shove-it-back-in' like we had PROBLEMS WITH THE 64! And in ya battle with Relentless all ya RHYMING IS AWKWARD, BRO. Funny how 'voices of reason' said being that Microsoft GUY IS AN AWFUL JOKE! Try smarting off? You'll get throat punched til you CRY 'N THEN START TO CHOKE since you lack the vocal range to win? It's only RIGHT THAT YA 'WATCH YA TONE'! So 'use your brain, you don't wanna go that route', see if I'm PULLING UP AND SQUEEZING LARKS? You'll be like a 'Wide Receiver at Harvard' how you'll 'catch some BULLETS JUST FOR BEING SMART'! His pad's had so much trash he shouldn't keep? I'm conVINCED THAT THIS FAG's A HOARDER, he wouldn't drop 'fire over mine's in this field' as a MILITANT BLASTIN MORTARS! That's why he needs Microsoft Sam: He's not GETTIN HIS RAPS IN ORDER, but we saw how 'MS couldn't help him follow a flow' as some CRIMINALS AT THE BORDER! AC's.
New formatting:
Concept tourney: You thought that 1st PLACE WAS GIFT WRAPPED
but we saw when it came to consoles and GAMES? YA SHIT LAGGED!
Then when ya battled me? I had ya FACE GET BITCH-SLAPPED
we knew ya average-verse would 'crash 'n burn' cause you could barely 'BRACE FOR IMPACT'!
Ya girl said my game's on point, her box is THROBBIN WHEN I HIT THE DOOR.
She's lovin-that-dick, so I 'let her blow on it, then I shove-it-back-in' like we had PROBLEMS WITH THE 64!
And in ya battle with Relentless all ya RHYMING IS AWKWARD, BRO.
Funny how 'voices of reason' said being that Microsoft GUY IS AN AWFUL JOKE!
Try smarting off? You'll get throat punched til you CRY 'N THEN START TO CHOKE
since you lack the vocal range to win? It's only RIGHT THAT YA 'WATCH YA TONE'!
So 'use your brain, you don't wanna go that route', see if I'm PULLING UP AND SQUEEZING LARKS?
You'll be like a 'Wide Receiver at Harvard' how you'll 'catch some BULLETS JUST FOR BEING SMART'!
His pad's had so much trash he shouldn't keep? I'm conVINCED THAT THIS FAG's A HOARDER,
he wouldn't drop 'fire over mine's in this field' as a MILITANT BLASTIN MORTARS!
That's why he needs Microsoft Sam: He's not GETTIN HIS RAPS IN ORDER,
but we saw how 'MS couldn't help him follow a flow' as some CRIMINALS AT THE BORDER!
AC's.
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For example https://www.letsbeef.com/battle_deta...n=tb&id=505582 borrowing @ Lockhart verse as an example
Current formatting:
Concept tourney: You thought that 1st PLACE WAS GIFT WRAPPED but we saw when it came to consoles and GAMES? YA SHIT LAGGED! Then when ya battled me? I had ya FACE GET BITCH-SLAPPED we knew ya average-verse would 'crash 'n burn' cause you could barely 'BRACE FOR IMPACT'! Ya girl said my game's on point, her box is THROBBIN WHEN I HIT THE DOOR. She's lovin-that-dick, so I 'let her blow on it, then I shove-it-back-in' like we had PROBLEMS WITH THE 64! And in ya battle with Relentless all ya RHYMING IS AWKWARD, BRO. Funny how 'voices of reason' said being that Microsoft GUY IS AN AWFUL JOKE! Try smarting off? You'll get throat punched til you CRY 'N THEN START TO CHOKE since you lack the vocal range to win? It's only RIGHT THAT YA 'WATCH YA TONE'! So 'use your brain, you don't wanna go that route', see if I'm PULLING UP AND SQUEEZING LARKS? You'll be like a 'Wide Receiver at Harvard' how you'll 'catch some BULLETS JUST FOR BEING SMART'! His pad's had so much trash he shouldn't keep? I'm conVINCED THAT THIS FAG's A HOARDER, he wouldn't drop 'fire over mine's in this field' as a MILITANT BLASTIN MORTARS! That's why he needs Microsoft Sam: He's not GETTIN HIS RAPS IN ORDER, but we saw how 'MS couldn't help him follow a flow' as some CRIMINALS AT THE BORDER! AC's.
New formatting:
Concept tourney: You thought that 1st PLACE WAS GIFT WRAPPED
but we saw when it came to consoles and GAMES? YA SHIT LAGGED!
Then when ya battled me? I had ya FACE GET BITCH-SLAPPED
we knew ya average-verse would 'crash 'n burn' cause you could barely 'BRACE FOR IMPACT'!
Ya girl said my game's on point, her box is THROBBIN WHEN I HIT THE DOOR.
She's lovin-that-dick, so I 'let her blow on it, then I shove-it-back-in' like we had PROBLEMS WITH THE 64!
And in ya battle with Relentless all ya RHYMING IS AWKWARD, BRO.
Funny how 'voices of reason' said being that Microsoft GUY IS AN AWFUL JOKE!
Try smarting off? You'll get throat punched til you CRY 'N THEN START TO CHOKE
since you lack the vocal range to win? It's only RIGHT THAT YA 'WATCH YA TONE'!
So 'use your brain, you don't wanna go that route', see if I'm PULLING UP AND SQUEEZING LARKS?
You'll be like a 'Wide Receiver at Harvard' how you'll 'catch some BULLETS JUST FOR BEING SMART'!
His pad's had so much trash he shouldn't keep? I'm conVINCED THAT THIS FAG's A HOARDER,
he wouldn't drop 'fire over mine's in this field' as a MILITANT BLASTIN MORTARS!
That's why he needs Microsoft Sam: He's not GETTIN HIS RAPS IN ORDER,
but we saw how 'MS couldn't help him follow a flow' as some CRIMINALS AT THE BORDER!
AC's.
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I agree with the new format..that’s more my style
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I agree with the new format..that’s more my style
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I agree with this as well @X would make it waaaay easier to read text battles.
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I agree with this as well @X would make it waaaay easier to read text battles.
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In my opinion, the full-line formatting style makes the reading experience flow better and makes non-standard rhyme schemes sound more natural. On the other hand, it's got to be a barrier to entry for a lot of newbies.
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In my opinion, the full-line formatting style makes the reading experience flow better and makes non-standard rhyme schemes sound more natural. On the other hand, it's got to be a barrier to entry for a lot of newbies.
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I prefer the current style. Filling the box.
Besides rhymes are more intricate now. The new style would make it harder to do your inner multies or to ride two multi sets at once.
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I prefer the current style. Filling the box.
Besides rhymes are more intricate now. The new style would make it harder to do your inner multies or to ride two multi sets at once.
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prefer the box fill style..if someone wants to format their bars in the forum style, at least they can do it if they want to.. I like this better.. better story telling and flow..and its what separates us from forum based battle sites
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prefer the box fill style..if someone wants to format their bars in the forum style, at least they can do it if they want to.. I like this better.. better story telling and flow..and its what separates us from forum based battle sites
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Let tha people do it how they wanna do it, i'm a "fill tha box" kinda guy
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Let tha people do it how they wanna do it, i'm a "fill tha box" kinda guy
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prefer the box fill style..if someone wants to format their bars in the forum style, at least they can do it if they want to.. I like this better.. better story telling and flow..and its what separates us from forum based battle sites
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Interesting thanks for all the feedback
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Originally Posted by Malishus
prefer the box fill style..if someone wants to format their bars in the forum style, at least they can do it if they want to.. I like this better.. better story telling and flow..and its what separates us from forum based battle sites
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Interesting thanks for all the feedback
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i prefer filling the box. the go to method to signify the end of a bar on GM was / or //. the other format looks like some basic bitch shit and i think it leads to a more basic style than LB has made for itself. I write that way (one rhyme per line aka the forum format) when I write for audio / tracks so that should say something.
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i prefer filling the box. the go to method to signify the end of a bar on GM was / or //. the other format looks like some basic bitch shit and i think it leads to a more basic style than LB has made for itself. I write that way (one rhyme per line aka the forum format) when I write for audio / tracks so that should say something.
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