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GoddessMaria is back as a judge!
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lapogne36 wrote:
The two previous TASes of this game which served as the main reference also used Paragon mode.
Links?
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I'm interested in exploring this because the rules regarding cheats aren't entirely clear-cut and it is notably mentioned to not be strict. If this run had worse reception, I wouldn't be considering it at all.
The explanation of the rule says the goal is playing on the hardest difficulty, which this movie seems to directly contradict.
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Link to videohttp://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/64700486797598600
Turns out even my previous tests can be called sloppy, because this technique is faster than even hitting every corner. Every time you need to travel in a 90 degree angle, the best strat is moving diagonally by alternating each direction you need to travel, for 4 frames. This makes optimizing this game tedious at a first glance, but actually quite fun, because there's a TON of different turns that need to be solved in various ways.
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All things considered, sound borderline, but leans towards acceptable imo.
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That one looks even less varied than the previous suggestion.
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Does this game require/involve any non-trivial routing?
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Can't replay on 5.0, the movie ends almost immediately.
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Turning is a HUGE deal in this game. You want to bump every possible corner that's in your way, because it makes you move diagonally for a bit. I saved ~200 frames on the first 10k frames of your movie by bumping corners harder.
Link to videohttp://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/64568652445548068
With regular turns, you want the first frame that puts you on a new grid tile. If your turns match the grid, you get no position changes. If you turn too early, your position gets auto-corrected and pulls you back to fit into the previous tile. If you turn optimally, you will be pulled forward on the new tile, with a bit of diagonal movement.
Link to videohttp://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/64590099561445513
I did a couple more damage boosts than you, because I was mostly testing the turns, but yes, there's a ton of health that's not being used on damage boosting all over the place.
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If there's no ending in the game:
http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#GamesWithoutClearEnding
Overall, after having watched a bit of Slalom gameplay, I don't expect Moons feedback. So doing straight any% is your best bet, and then depending on the rating, probably some Moons-only branch.
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If the entire image does not have a unifying concept, I think spreading the text around is better than having it in one place where it fits the conceptual background.
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Nach wrote:
You're thinking about this wrong. Since many of the U version glitches do not exist in the E version, you cannot make use of them and will have to use others.
"Others" need to be discovered first.
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Is this still in the works?
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If that mode is available from the beginning, it's acceptable. If it needs an existing save file, it can only be accepted to Moons and needs to get good feedback. Since it's meant to be teaching the player, I guess it is available from the start, but just mentioning this for clarity.
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TASVideoAgent wrote:
This file ends the inputs before the submitted movie, but still finishes the game
Is this a replacement request?
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With Zool, the game itself isn't trivial, so TASes of it are not trivial to research and make, even if one iteration of record-beating ends up with times similar to a human speedrun.
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If game title and sub-title are both several words long, we collapse them into something like tinytoonadventureswsc.
Adding the system name to the game name is rarely needed and is only done to prevent collision with existing movies that have the same game name but are done on a different system.
Finally, Archive uploading should only happen if the movie is already accepted.
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I'd prefer treating every particular aspect, political or religious, on its own.
For example, I think the only way to successfully preach whatever religion one represents, is by displaying what it means in regular life, with one's own lifestyle. Until that lifestyle is there, preaching will cause scorn (think Nietzsche) or blindly following the word, just because someone's religious feeling so happened to find supernatural meaning in that word. What exactly it means to preach with your lifestyle may be really hard to describe, but the common understanding would be "this person is so wise that I don't remember anyone quite like them, and all their words have neat real-life applications and obviously improve the situations we're dealing with, daily". If one is a saint and feels like preaching, infinite amount of patience and tact is required to inspire people indirectly (start by doing the legwork for them). Only then they may come up with formal religious questions such a person could give direct answers to.
Politics is much much simpler, because there are some approaches to daily life that make it better simply because the overall awareness has increased, and more minds have been struggling to solve it, each one from their own POV. In problems society is directly facing, the more people participate in brainstorming, the better. They don't even have to all be wise! Dealing with some routine directly, one will have both the common idea about it and some unique perspective. By having the freedom to unite and discuss some problematic subject, they will also invent ways to improve that communication, naturally developing improvements to the actual problem eventually. Lack of open discussion may lead to lack of awareness, and to not solving the problem.
What I wouldn't want to see in submissions is blunt declaration of some stance that doesn't directly make life better, and is at the same time really strict, and irrelevant to TASing. That would be declaration for the sake of declaring, preaching with just the word alone instead of how you approach things. Yet that doesn't mean we need a new rule that bans such declarations, because that description is super vague.
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