You can find threads on the forum brimming with displeasure all through the times. Just because everyone was sending their runs over doesn't mean they were in any way subscribed to SDA's deeper philosophy or even aware of or in agreement about what it should be exactly (it was something that evolved over time and in part out of sheer pragmatic reasons).

Elaine Marley's election slogan is laconic but irrefutable: 'When there's only one candidate, there's only one choice.' If you wanted your run up on the Internet somewhere, for a long time for the great majority of games, SDA was it.

There are a lot of constituting factors given here in a haphazard order: So let's address the topic of SDA's waning 'relevance' (hard to find a word more steeped in soggy individualism). And that quality is a function of the run commentary as well. Honestly we're still all about quality on this site so we'd much rather take less incoming runs but all of them passing with flying colors rather than a lot of iffy stuff that hardly punches through the whatever you call the tape suspended at the finish line of some running events. One of the big upsides of having something of a lull in submissions is I've finally managed to pull off writing one of the several articles whose topics keep crossing my mind, which I've decided to call 'Blind Guessing', to liven up the front page.

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