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Never expected something like this to come out of VVVVVV.  The visuals in particular stood out to me, especially the ingenious use of transparency for the Modern Exhibit's spikes.  At first I thought it might be gotoroom spam à la Overdose.

I must say that I found "Do Not Attempt to Adjust the Picture" (15,4) to be on the difficult side, not helped by having "Think Fast" right after it with no checkpoint.

Also, the music in the Sculpture Exhibit reminded me a bit of "Dangerous Curves" by King Crimson.  That's not at all a bad thing, though!  I'm listening to The Power to Believe as I write this.

[Van Beethoven]

Van Beethoven, if we're going with a Van-something theme?

[Vanadis]

Vanadis, another name for the Norse god Freyja, and the namesake of the element vanadium (₂₃V).

I've found one problem already.  Going down from "Wrap Away!" (room 20,18; not to be confused with "Warp Away!") results in an out-of-bounds glitch, requiring the player to press "R".  This normally wouldn't be so bad, but in this case... well, you said it yourself in the level's description.

People are also talking about tile colour 6 in lab tileset, and they re saying its the flashing colours from the final level...

Not strictly correct.  It actually gives you the rainbow background from "Anomaly" and "Purest Unobtainium".

This is fascinating!  Definitely something I'll keep in mind if I make another level.  (I don't think I have a fourth 20×20 map in me anyway.)

I'm just curious.  My late father got one in 1995 because he needed it to run Sibelius (yup, the sheet music processor).  I don't really need it any more, because Sibelius has long since moved to Windows, but nonetheless I'm happy that it still works.  I can still clear TwinWorld (quite a difficult and substantial platformer) in one sitting.

This one's... just... bizarre.  I don't know whether this is the best or worst level I've played in a while.

All I can say for sure is that the first section, the one with a lot of moving platforms and a long conveyor, was at least an interesting idea.

There are some confusingly, disconcertingly good ideas here.

There's also extreme frustration, boredom and... a... SWASTIKA.  That's a bit much, isn't it?

[167. A terminal that can only be activated in free-fall,]

167. A terminal that can only be activated in free-fall, requiring frame-perfect precision to proceed.  That's assuming it's possible at all.  I'll update this post afterwards.

depends on what you mean by "free-fall"

your x and y speed have to be within a certain, small threshold to be able to activate terminals

in the case of my "annoying terminal" level, the 1 frame you can activate the terminal has viridian on the hyperspeed platform as well

Okay, just pulled it off successfully.  Even so, it would indeed be annoying to come across that challenge in a normal level, so:
169. A terminal that can only be activated within a window of 1 frame, especially if it also requires extremely precise positioning.

[167. A terminal that can only be activated in free-fall,]

167. A terminal that can only be activated in free-fall, especially if required to proceed.  Turns out it's impossible, and the level I'm thinking of has a different solution.

Ah!  Forgot to update that.

In all fairness, the single tiles in "Isosceles" looked like a simple oversight to me.  It's easily done when using the Lab tileset sans Direct Mode.

You can use a flag to make the dialogue in "A Flash of Blinding Light" only happen once:

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flash
music(10)
ifflag(42,donothing)
flag(42,on)
iftrinkets(0,flashdialogue)

And in script "flashdialogue":

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sad
reply(1)
Gah! What the-
happy

Also, I wonder where "The Insidious Tunnel" might have come from?

There's an element of distractionware that I'm confused about.
Under your name it says "Crewmate", "Captain", "Professor", "Doctor", etc.
What does that mean, and how do I change it?

Your "rank" here advances when you have made a certain number of posts.  I think "Captain" requires 200.

It is a thoroughly flawed system as many people with "Captain" rank have achieved it by favouring quantity over quality.

There are two ways.

1. You can edit your level with a text editor.  Near the end of the file, you will find a series of lines that look like this:

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<edLevelClass tileset="3" tilecol="3" platx1="0" platy1="0" platx2="320" platy2="240" platv="4" enemyx1="0" enemyy1="0" enemyx2="320" enemyy2="240" enemytype="2" directmode="1" warpdir="1">The Traffic Lights Turn Blue Tomorrow</edLevelClass>
Each of these corresponds to one room of your level. 
In the above example, this is a blue room using the Warp Zone tileset (tileset="3" tilecol="3").  The Polar Dimension uses this tileset, too.  Change the value of tilecol to "6" for each room you want to have the grey warp background.

2. Or you can use Ved.