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Out of quote quote for alternate color effect:
This is what you get if you just zap the "glitchy trophy" above to grayscale using ImageMagick's convert utility:
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Sticky wrote:
Edit: Didn't realize there was already a topic/post for this. Sorry.
This is the topic for discussing how the awards look.
arukAdo: I can't say for sure if we'd go for it without having an idea of what we're looking at first.
Perhaps just quickly greyscale the images, and slap them in screenshots of the forum in both background colors and see how they look?
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It's not necessarily about harm, it's about irresponsibility.
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Thinking about this, adding award images added a lot more local requests. Maybe that's the story?
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arukAdo wrote:
Warp wrote:
May I suggest that the award "img" tags had a "title" attribute with the name and year of the award? That way in most browser when you hover the image the browser will show this title.
This is apparently effective, now.
This was effective back when he made the request too.
Probably didn't notice it though due to caching employed.
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Warp wrote:
Nach wrote:
Flygon wrote:
<erokky> Also have alt text on mouse over so we know what the award is
Yeah, if only the alt text actually did that. Don't look at Internet Explorer for standards.
Use the "title" attribute instead. That should work with most browsers.
Yes, I know.
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Flygon wrote:
Nach wrote:
Flygon wrote:
Nach wrote:
Flygon wrote:
The fact images are technically forbidden in signatures is somewhat hypocritical.
They're not actually in the signature.
They're in the space between the persons post and the next post, it seems pretty signature-like to me.
It's meant to seem like a signature. But it's not actually a signature, it's in a post signature block.
Exactly! It seems like a signature! So what it isn't inside the persons actual signature, it's close enough to be pretty much inside it.
The other option I played with earlier was to make it part of the row of message this user buttons, would you prefer that?
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Flygon wrote:
Nach wrote:
Flygon wrote:
The fact images are technically forbidden in signatures is somewhat hypocritical.
They're not actually in the signature.
They're in the space between the persons post and the next post, it seems pretty signature-like to me.
It's meant to seem like a signature. But it's not actually a signature, it's in a post signature block.
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Flygon wrote:
<Fluffygon> I also want an option to actually hide them
<Fluffygon> Every time I see them, I feel more and more imcompetent
<Fluffygon> It's degrading
So you'd prefer we go the everyone is a lose.. ahem... winner route?
Flygon wrote:
The fact images are technically forbidden in signatures is somewhat hypocritical.
They're not actually in the signature.
Flygon wrote:
<erokky> Also have alt text on mouse over so we know what the award is
Yeah, if only the alt text actually did that. Don't look at Internet Explorer for standards.
Flygon wrote:
<erokky> Because Mario in a lab coat means nothing to me
You know it's clickable, right?
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Derakon wrote:
Nach wrote:
If you're reading a page on Wikipedia or some other wiki about a game, add a link to one of our movie pages for the game, and label it something like "Exciting video walkthrough" (which is usually appropriate, if not think of something else appropriate) of the game.
I don't recommend this. It's all too easy on Wikipedia for one of the moderators to get a grudge against some person or group and just start mass-reverting any changes that look like they'd benefit that group.
It's hard to "mass revert" changes which are done by many different people. Also, this isn't limited to Wikipedia.
Derakon wrote:
And you can't fight the moderator cabal; it appears to be composed entirely of people who have way more time than you do.
Indeed. Which is why promoting TASVideos has to be more than just me doing it, everyone has to do it.
Derakon wrote:
There are some situations where adding links could be warranted, though. For example, if there was a discussion of glitches in Mario 64, then linking to the TAS would give a good demonstration. But as a general rule, not every game article needs a link to the corresponding TAS.
As I said above, only use something appropriate.
The fact however is we do provide complete video walkthroughs that an average player can more or less follow for many games.
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Other sites like YouTube provide blocks of code to download on different pages to link or embed their video.
I think we should start doing the same on our movie pages.
The question is, how should it work exactly? Should it display our banner and link? Should it display the game image and link to the movie page? Should it embed some of our text and several links? (discussion page, etc...)
I'm interested in reading your thoughts.
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We'd like some logos for people to use to link to us.
I'm not very artisticly creative, so I'll leave it to hose who are.
Post here some logos you created.We're looking for small buttons, medium buttons, and banners, use your own judgment for exact sizes.
It should say TASVideos, and on those that are large enough, some catchy phrase:
Tool-assisted speedrun movies.
Tool-assisted superplay movies.
Doing the impossible in video games.
Or something along those lines.
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I've noticed that we have many movies from 2005-2008 appearing on Google Video, most of which are not linked to on our movie pages.
Can people look into this and try to get most of them linked?
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Over the past week, I've been noticing how horribly our site has been promoted.
Primarily, even when searching for an exact phrase for one of our published movies, you'd rarely if ever see those movie pages appear in Google search results.
I fixed our site internally so that our movie pages get promoted better. I also added some fixes to try to make our site appear as the source for our movies that end up on YouTube, DailyMotion and elsewhere.
For movies published in the past few days, it is now much easier to find our movie pages in Google. But it will take them quite a while till they recrawl our older pages and register the new significance they've been given in contrast to submission pages or our movies hosted elsewhere.
I've registered with all the major search engines to improve things, but I need your help too.
If you have accounts on YouTube, DailyMotion, Archive.org or elsewhere, please make sure they link to movie pages. If you posted an encode of a submission linking to the submission page, once the movie is published, please update the link to the movie page.
On your pages on these aforementioned sites, please don't link to pages on these other sites, only link to our movie page to serve as a hub to these other places you can see the same video. If the appropriate link doesn't appear on our movie page, please get one of our editors to add it.
If you're doing a search on Google for one of our movies, and you're logged in, you're able to promote and demote links. Try to find the movie page for that movie and promote it to the top. Make sure movie pages appear before submission pages.
When searching in general, be sure to click on our movie page, and try to avoid clicking on YouTube links or similar from Google searches.
If you're reading a page on Wikipedia or some other wiki about a game, add a link to one of our movie pages for the game, and label it something like "Exciting video walkthrough" (which is usually appropriate, if not think of something else appropriate) of the game.
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ZeXr0: Testing to see if this is fixed now.
Edit:
Seems like it is!
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Okay. I didn't understand that from the submission text, but I see what you're saying now.
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moozooh wrote:
Innovation by discovery is different from innovation by application. Pretty much the entirety of the last generation of SM runs falls under the latter. The first version of the glitched any% is, on the other hand, an example of innovation by discovery.
You are indeed correct. However thinking outside the box, and finding ways to apply something simple effectively which hasn't been done before is very important in my book.
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ThMrksman wrote:
Family Feud has already won, there is nothing that comes close.
I agree Family Feud was funny, but I personally think that someone coming up with funny and usually rude lines, as the sole point of humor, pales in comparison to making a well known game do something hilarious, like putting a chair on trial.
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Kirkq wrote:
I'm not sure why you could consider the next generations of Super Metroid runs to be 'Innovative' other than the fact that they found unique ways to be faster, much like many other movies on the site.
I found them both very innovative as far as Super Metroid was concerned.
One for saving during the game, copying the save, corrupting it, and loading the other one.
The other was innovative in that it used charged bombs to fall faster, which while simple, to me was incredibly innovative in terms of TASing Super Metroid.
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We already have an award for humor.
I don't think we should start calling certain types of humor innovative.
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funnyhair: One run was by adelikat, the other by terrotim.
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I'm adding adelikat and error1.
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http://tasvideos.org/1395M.html - PSX "All Stages" Mega Man X5 (USA) in 44:04.43 by Yashar Nasirian (aka. Angerfist) & A.J. (aka. Atma).
http://tasvideos.org/1342M.html - Arcade X-Men vs Street Fighter (Europe) in 11:38.38 by DavidPaz (aka. SDR).
Edit:
Actually I see you said TASer, not TAS.
In that case, Atma, and SDR.
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Derakon wrote:
Do we have a list somewhere of the TASers whose first movies were published this year?
Does that qualify them as a rookie?
What if they were here since 2005 and submitted a new run every week which never got published, yet some of their ideas got integrated into other people's runs?
We have people like Taco and Kriole to think about.
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And here it is with a minor cyan tint:
