Firstly I'm not in court, so I'm not forced to justify neither my design decisions nor my "how i revealed this level in this thread"-decisions to anyone. If I decide to so so nonetheless, this is my act of making a compromise with anyone who's - justifiably - complaining, that I lacked explanations about my actual inspirations from the very beginning in my initial post.
Secondly there's a life we have to live parellely to our presence on SMWC. Without going to much into detail, I'm busy enough there and since I'm quite bad at wording (writing this post takes an eternity already) I usually tend to keep my posts as short as possible. I thought it would be obvious enough that our big Fuzzy was inspired by Lazy's Fuzz-God. I didn't consider though that it has been 3(?) years since VLDCX happened and that SMWC got many new members meanwhile, which wouldn't be aware, that this was an allusion to an incredibly clever level from the past, but which erroneously thought, that this was my original work.
Thirdly I can therefore only express my apologies, that I haven't been more clear from the very beginning. The same could be said about not crediting FT in my post where I revealed the entire level. Using his Swissotel-Invisible-Yoshi was something which came up around mid of August and then got implemented for the 2nd half of the level. And for anyone who asks what the Fuzz-God's pupose has been before this change: He was meant to "guard" a moon puzzle I've never been really satisfied with and therefore at some point this idea got scrapped and I had to look for a new usage.
As said I'm sorry of where this thread eventually lead to. As said this level's main intention wasn't to simply copy 2 interesting past ideas, hoping for a good score, but making a tribute to Lazy's vldcx level by developing its idea in a new setting. As said the idea of using FT's Invisible Yoshi glitch came later, but I know I should have credited that as well.
And I know it doesn't serve as an ultimate proof, posting this here, but I hope these 2 chat extracts from my DMs with Wakana can at least support my statements above that this was mainly meant as a tribute and now as a plagiarism
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extract 1 - stating I'd love to do a level like Lazy's
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extract 2 - me confessing I even expect a lower score for only being a tribute, while underlining my main intention, after the first few comments on this level got upset
Last but not leaat I want to express my incomprehension of how some members of this site can feel so salty about such a thing. I'd perfectly understand if FT or Lazy were upset, that "I stole their level" (and I admire FT how mature he behaved not claiming something like that). You know, it's not about arguing, "this idea has been used by member X in vldc_" you cheater only want a high score by abusing his idea for your own level". As I am explaining myself to Wakana in the latter chat-extract it's about creating a fun entry and giving those, whoever will play this (e. g. raocow or some twitch-streamers, but also any private person) a good and fun experience. Most video game's main intention is being fun to the player - this level is no exception.
And being well aware that there possibly might be several other comments questioning my above statement's again I'll leave my argumentation as it is now. I think I wasted more than an hour writing this and anyone who's still upset and feels like posting any other comments of hatred should ask themself if I - some random, silly SMW hacker who isn't even capable of coming up with own unique ideas - is really worth it to waste your lifetime with?
And really last point I wanna express a big thank you from me and Wakana to anyone who arguin in favor of our entry and to Koopster for doing a good job as a mod, preventing things getting even worse. I know I might not have
that many fans as some other famous hackers have, but I appreciate you and your support a lot!