DEBATE: Are Lostwave Searches A Waste Of Time?

Not really unless you don't care for the song or are experiencing burnout. Otherwise it's a hobby and hobbies are supposed to be fun/kill time. Yeah, you might have some people argue it doesn't have as much historical significance like let's say The Burning Library of Alexandria. But end of day people are just hunting for their own personal enjoyment.

Agreed

I don't think so however I can see where a lot of people are coming from. A lot of lostwave cases here recently have turned out to be hoaxes. I wouldn't say it's a waste of time or not worth looking into as it's still lost, but I feel skepticism is important in any lostwave case.

those are the only ones that we know about. there aren't many confirmed hoaxes BC noone is checking the authenticity of lostwaves, not BC there are no hoaxes.

whether it's BC the songs weren't popular enough for the right person to notice, the (now broken) trust that existed within the community, or some other reason entirely, the lostwave community has accidentally created a space where noone is checking for red flags and hoaxes.

if I hadn't of pitched my concerns for smmc, would anyone else have even noticed? or was it only spotted BC the person who made it didn't have the skill needed to create a realistic hoax?

I think the most productive thing the lostwave community could do is go back and look at all the songs in their spreadsheet, and test all of them for hoaxes.

when a speedrun community discovers a cheater who got away with it for years, they usually go back and check all speedruns for that game/category to see if anyone else cheated in a similar way. something similar has to happen for the lostwave community to continue.

Waste My Time is so good. Definitely my favorite out of all of them. It's my most wanted solve purely because I want to know what the heck he's saying.