Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150129143201/@comment-4189499-20150130224524

Several points:
 * 1) No offence, but "Very-Insanely Hard" really is not a very good name at all for a difficulty between "very" and "insanely hard". First off, it looks as if you're saying that it's "Very Insanely Hard", as in more than just "Insanely hard", and secondly that stacking of adjectives just sounds wrong. I will still say that "Extremely hard" is better as, put it this way:
 * 2) * Hard = Hard
 * 3) * Very hard = really hard
 * 4) * Extremely hard = really really hard
 * 5) * Insanely hard = This is just ridiculous. How on Galifrey am I meant to finish this?!
 * 6) "Extremely" does mean "to a great extent", but that's the exact meaning we want it to convey.  I think it should be a votable difficulty, but make the comparison levels for "Extremely" and "Insanely" different, so many of the earlier "insanely" levels will drop down to "extremely" because there are new, harder standards in place for "insanely".  It's a way of maintaining the "purity" of "Insanely hard" as the top level, if you will, without overloading on "Very hard" levels as the game gets harder as it progresses.
 * 7) On the subject of "Somewhat": "but to my surprise Thesaurus.com shows a synonym entry of "considerably"".  Nope, it doesn't. "Considerably" is an antonym for "Somewhat", meaning it has the opposite meaning. "Somewhat" definitely means that the subject is only partly whatever the adjective is.  "Slightly" does mean the same, but it suggests a smaller part.  "Slightly hard" to me sounds like it could describe what we currently call "Considerably easy" levels, because they do have a little bit of hard in them; it's just not enough hard to overcome their easiness in our scoring system.  "Somewhat" could never be confused like that because of the way it implies a greater amount of whatever the adjective is (easy/hard/confusing/whatever). "A little" just doesn't sound right.  Not the right level of language, if you know what I mean.  "A little hard" and "Somewhat hard" is the difference between "Really hard" and "Very hard". They technically mean the same thing, but the former of each pair is at a lower level of language and therefore just doesn't sound right in the context.

Oh yeah, and as Wildoneshelper said, CzechOut could be asked to use his bot to change all the other uses of "Considerably". Or, y'know, if the bug in the bot installation software is fixed before then, I could give it a shot... :)