Cheesecake wrote:
Yes, while most people wont notice/care about the unusual difficulty name, is some "obscure" meaning really so bad? I think the uniqueness of it adds some charm to the set, and what if you have, say, a difficulty name in japanese for some japanese song. I have no idea what the name means, I have no idea what the song is about, unless I decide to look into it and I don't see a problem with that.
Of course, uniqueness & charm to the map is good.
The main point is, when I look at this difficulty naming and find out why you named it that way using logic, I'd conclude that it's a forced pun diffname.
Example: If WubWoofWolf would map the song 'Wolf in my heart' and call it 'WubWoof's Wolf' it would all make sense. It's a pun AND the song is obviously about wolves.
If Hikaru would map the song 'We won't be alone' and call it 'Hikaru's Rose Extra' makes sense. It's a pun AND ... that's all ..
The connection with Rose Extra - this Feint song isn't obvious enough compared to how obvious the fact is that it's a pun diffname
You see the difference between Japanese songs/diffs of which you don't know the name is that:
You know that you don't know what it is about.However for this case. People instantly see it's a pun, and won't bother to think/dig deeper at all
They don't know that they don't know what it is about / (They think they already do: "It's a pun AND ... that's all ..")
An "obscure" meaning only works when there is no predominant meme/pun that goes with it.
Cheesecake wrote:
I think some trust can be put into the ranking process that such things are ok.
You are free to think that
If you go for meme/pun in ranked section, at least have it make sense / be a creative one. "Hikaru's Rose Extra" is not unique and charming.
This stuff wouldn't be a bother at all if the mapper was called Hikaru instead of Hikaru Rose. Hikaru's Extra / Hikaru Rose's Extra / Hikaru Rose (or just something complete different that fits comparable to Fort's Together) Any of these won't have that problem.