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If you liked SQIJ, you might also like...

Started by"Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com>
First post2012-02-11 21:09 +0000
Last post2012-02-13 01:17 +0000
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  If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2012-02-11 21:09 +0000
    Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... "Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid> - 2012-02-12 12:10 +0000
      Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... "Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid> - 2012-02-12 12:17 +0000
        Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2012-02-12 13:26 +0000
          Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2012-02-12 14:54 +0000
            Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... Philip Kendall <philip@shadowmagic.org.uk> - 2012-02-23 00:00 +0000
              Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... "Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2012-02-23 19:05 +0000
                Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... Philip Kendall <philip@shadowmagic.org.uk> - 2012-02-23 20:59 +0000
    Re: If you liked SQIJ, you might also like... Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2012-02-13 01:17 +0000

#655 — If you liked SQIJ, you might also like...

From"Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com>
Date2012-02-11 21:09 +0000
SubjectIf you liked SQIJ, you might also like...
Message-ID<4F36D8EE.MD-1.4.17.chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk>
According to Spectrum 2.0 (http://spectrum20.org/games/4793/similar)

| If you liked 'SQIJ!', you might also like...
|
| Chuckie Egg
| Target; Renegade
| Ping Pong
| Gryzor
| Chase H.Q.

Firstly, if you liked SQIJ please kill yourself now.
Secondly, how are any of those games "similar" to SQIJ?

Chris


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#656

From"Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid>
Date2012-02-12 12:10 +0000
Message-ID<op.v9kerkrwdjgvhv@flay.home>
In reply to#655
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:09:02 -0000, Chris Young  
<chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> wrote:

> According to Spectrum 2.0 (http://spectrum20.org/games/4793/similar)
>
> | If you liked 'SQIJ!', you might also like...
> |
> | Chuckie Egg
> | Target; Renegade
> | Ping Pong
> | Gryzor
> | Chase H.Q.
>
> Firstly, if you liked SQIJ please kill yourself now.
> Secondly, how are any of those games "similar" to SQIJ?

Chuckie Egg has a big bird in it.

Eq.

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#657

From"Paul E Collins" <equi+web@cl4.invalid>
Date2012-02-12 12:17 +0000
Message-ID<op.v9ke22bzdjgvhv@flay.home>
In reply to#656
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:10:22 -0000, Paul E Collins <equi+web@cl4.invalid>  
wrote:

>> Firstly, if you liked SQIJ please kill yourself now.
>> Secondly, how are any of those games "similar" to SQIJ?
>
> Chuckie Egg has a big bird in it.

Actually, the listed games all seem to be rather popular ones, so I'd  
assume that the site doesn't have enough data yet to make accurate  
correlations, and just tends to recommend the games that almost everybody  
likes.

Eq.

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#658

Fromspike1@freenet.co.uk
Date2012-02-12 13:26 +0000
Message-ID<e9rk09-buk.ln1@librarian.sky.com>
In reply to#657
And verily, didst Paul E Collins <equi+web@cl4.invalid> hastily babble thusly:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:10:22 -0000, Paul E Collins <equi+web@cl4.invalid>  
> wrote:
> 
>>> Firstly, if you liked SQIJ please kill yourself now.
>>> Secondly, how are any of those games "similar" to SQIJ?
>>
>> Chuckie Egg has a big bird in it.
> 
> Actually, the listed games all seem to be rather popular ones, so I'd  
> assume that the site doesn't have enough data yet to make accurate  
> correlations, and just tends to recommend the games that almost everybody  
> likes.

The test is to look at any other game and see if SQIJ is recommended...
:)
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#659

From"Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com>
Date2012-02-12 14:54 +0000
Message-ID<4F37D2A9.MD-1.4.17.chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk>
In reply to#658
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:26:38 +0000 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC :

> >>> Firstly, if you liked SQIJ please kill yourself now.
> >>> Secondly, how are any of those games "similar" to SQIJ?
> >>
> >> Chuckie Egg has a big bird in it.
> > 
> > Actually, the listed games all seem to be rather popular ones, so I'd  
> > assume that the site doesn't have enough data yet to make accurate  
> > correlations, and just tends to recommend the games that almost everybody  
> > likes.
> 
> The test is to look at any other game and see if SQIJ is recommended...
> :)

I guess not, the site should be recommending highly-rated games.  But,
at the same time, they should still be the same broad genre.  Chuckie
Egg I sort of get, but Chase HQ?!

Chris


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#676

FromPhilip Kendall <philip@shadowmagic.org.uk>
Date2012-02-23 00:00 +0000
Message-ID<4f458196$0$2973$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>
In reply to#659
On 12/02/12 14:54, Chris Young wrote:
>
> I guess not, the site should be recommending highly-rated games.  But,
> at the same time, they should still be the same broad genre.

Nope.

It is attempting to find users who have similar voting patterns to yours 
and then telling you what they like. "Genres" may be an emergent 
behaviour of this algorithm, but it's not built-in.

Cheers,

Phil

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   http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/

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#677

From"Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com>
Date2012-02-23 19:05 +0000
Message-ID<4F468E01.MD-1.4.17.chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk>
In reply to#676
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:33 +0000 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Philip Kendall:

> > I guess not, the site should be recommending highly-rated games.  But,
> > at the same time, they should still be the same broad genre.
> 
> Nope.
> 
> It is attempting to find users who have similar voting patterns to yours 
> and then telling you what they like. "Genres" may be an emergent 
> behaviour of this algorithm, but it's not built-in.

Very clever, thanks.

Chris


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#678

FromPhilip Kendall <philip@shadowmagic.org.uk>
Date2012-02-23 20:59 +0000
Message-ID<4f46a898$0$2491$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>
In reply to#677
On 23/02/12 19:05, Chris Young wrote:
>
>> It is attempting to find users who have similar voting patterns to yours
>> and then telling you what they like. "Genres" may be an emergent
>> behaviour of this algorithm, but it's not built-in.
>
> Very clever, thanks.

In theory, possibly. In practice, there's not enough data to get useful 
predictions out :-(

Cheers,

Phil

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#662

FromDuncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net>
Date2012-02-13 01:17 +0000
Message-ID<20120213011724.41cdf86b@talktalk.net>
In reply to#655
On 11 Feb 2012 21:09:02 +0000
"Chris Young" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> wrote:

> According to Spectrum 2.0 (http://spectrum20.org/games/4793/similar)
> 
> | If you liked 'SQIJ!', you might also like...
> |
> | Chuckie Egg
> | Target; Renegade
> | Ping Pong
> | Gryzor
> | Chase H.Q.
> 
> Firstly, if you liked SQIJ please kill yourself now.
> Secondly, how are any of those games "similar" to SQIJ?

They were all released in the same decade.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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