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Posted: 12/15/2009 12:08 AM
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Derakon wrote:
Controllers would work
No they wouldn't as you don't know if it means best TASer for system X or best TAS for system X.
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Posted: 12/14/2009 11:25 PM
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Bezman wrote:
One idea may be to do low res versions of the systems or the controllers themselves.
Does it make sense to say the best TASer for system X gets a controller icon? As opposed to equating him with a great character?
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Posted: 12/14/2009 11:01 PM
Post subject: Re: Award Trophy Image Contest
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Raiscan wrote:
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Best TASer for system X: Caped Mario in gold.
Really? If there's someone with time on their hands to do lots of trophies, wouldn't it be cooler to have a character relative to the system the award is for?
Cooler? Most definitely. Practicality is another matter though. Can we use characters without confusing them for a different category? Should we in some way weigh a system in choosing a particular character? Can we even get a good character for each system? I think the answers to that are: Possibly, Maybe, Probably Not.
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Posted: 12/13/2009 1:38 AM
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That looks better. But what I originally said still stands.
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Posted: 12/13/2009 12:50 AM
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That is sort of what I'm thinking for the lucky image. However I believe they need to look better than that, and ideally they'd all be done by the same person so they all look like they were done by the same person (identical pedestals and stuff).
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Posted: 12/13/2009 12:28 AM
Post subject: Award Trophy Image Contest
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We're looking for someone to create a series of images to use for the awards. However, we're not asking for a lot of your own creativity, but rather to take some existing ideas agreed upon by the staff, and dressing them up nicely. The images should all be 40 pixels wide and 60 pixels tall. Each image described should be on a golden pedestal of equal size, except for the two images described to be on a larger pedestal. Best TAS for system X: Use Bisqwit's Megaman helmet in a "smaller size" in gold. Best overall TAS: Same as above, but larger, with the larger pedestal. Glitch TAS: Mario in gold, with his sprite cut in two with the feet on top of the head. Lucky TAS: Two 6 sided dice at an angle, displaying 4 leaf clovers on each. Funny TAS: Mario in frog suit covered in gold. Innovate TAS: Dr. Mario in gold. Speedy TAS: Sonic in gold. Rookie of the year: Baby Mario on Yoshi in gold. Best TASer for system X: Caped Mario in gold. Best overall TASer: Caped Mario on Yoshi, on a larger pedestal. Those are the 10 images we need. All use smaller pedestal except the best TAS and best TASer. Old images for inspiration: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=105871#105871
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Posted: 12/12/2009 11:36 PM
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I think a place aggregating RSS feeds and various news features could be useful.
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Posted: 12/6/2009 5:49 PM
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At 2:41, could you have shot the door a few frames sooner?
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Posted: 12/6/2009 11:29 AM
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arflech wrote:
IMO shit like that is supposedly typical of distros and that particular issue was merely used to illustrate the issue.
That is correct.
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Posted: 12/6/2009 4:41 AM
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I don't think he wants anyone to think that.
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Posted: 12/5/2009 10:22 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
71 times "Solomon's Key 2 walkthrough"? That's... unusual.
We get many hits for that every month.
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Posted: 12/5/2009 10:18 PM
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That's exactly what came to mind when I first saw it.
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Posted: 12/5/2009 8:46 PM
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Man some distributions are stupid. I can't believe this is going on.
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Posted: 12/5/2009 4:51 PM
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So we got some good news. In the past month, we got >2000 new visitors to tasvideos.org Embedded streaming video seams to be extremely popular. For the ~10 days in November that we had streaming from archive.org functionality, the code to play videos from them was downloaded >2000 times (the browser caches it, so it's only downloaded once, no matter how many videos you watch). For the few days so far in December, it was downloaded more than 700 times. Streaming in general has been used to watch videos in the hundreds of thousands for the short time we've had it. Uncached requests to play a movie from Viddler was >35,000 times. Consider that most requests are cached, and given multiple choices to playback, YouTube is most frequently used.
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Posted: 12/5/2009 4:10 PM
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Report for November 2009: Total Hits 4123461 Total Files 3746666 Total Pages 1405367 Total Visits 245430 Top Referrers: 1 3104509 75.29% TASVideos 2 944823 22.91% - (Direct Request) 3 33728 0.82% Google 4 8021 0.19% YouTube 5 4369 0.11% emu-portal.com/ds.html 6 1908 0.05% translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c 7 1538 0.04% Yahoo 8 1200 0.03% forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php 9 1037 0.03% www.1up.com/do/blogEntry 10 1026 0.02% webchat.freenode.net/ 11 548 0.01% tieba.baidu.com/f 12 517 0.01% tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodBadBugs 13 515 0.01% www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php 14 415 0.01% Bing 15 383 0.01% tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequenceBreaking 16 373 0.01% www.1up.com/1upblogs/3/1ups_retro_gaming_blog 17 369 0.01% www.pj64-emu.com/blog/194-games.html 18 368 0.01% www.p2pforum.it/forum/showthread.php 19 341 0.01% tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UrbanLegendOfZelda 20 292 0.01% ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ツールアシステッドスピードラン 21 284 0.01% honyaku.yahoofs.jp/url_result 22 271 0.01% forums.sonicretro.org/index.php 23 214 0.01% [Removed by request of referrer owner] 24 204 0.00% sgst.sakura.ne.jp/tas/view.php 25 193 0.00% en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool-assisted_speedrun 26 192 0.00% www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html 27 191 0.00% dennnet.blog32.fc2.com/blog-entry-72.html 28 186 0.00% en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_ 29 182 0.00% forum.pj64-emu.com/showthread.php 30 176 0.00% d.hatena.ne.jp/GOCHA/20090710/desmume Top Searches: 1 3641 15.48% tasvideos 2 1360 5.78% tas videos 3 789 3.36% tas video 4 694 2.95% tasvideo 5 610 2.59% tasvideos.org 6 462 1.96% tas 7 296 1.26% tool assisted speedrun 8 295 1.25% tool assisted speed run 9 293 1.25% tas speedrun 10 169 0.72% super mario bros 11 157 0.67% tool assisted 12 132 0.56% bisqwit 13 94 0.40% tas speed run 14 80 0.34% tool-assisted 15 71 0.30% solomon's key 2 walkthrough 16 71 0.30% tool assisted speedruns 17 63 0.27% tas speed runs 18 61 0.26% tool assisted speed runs 19 60 0.26% tas runs 20 58 0.25% nes videos 21 48 0.20% nes movies 22 47 0.20% nesvideos 23 47 0.20% tas tool 24 42 0.18% tas bisqwit 25 40 0.17% mario bros 26 40 0.17% tas speedruns 27 39 0.17% speed runs 28 36 0.15% tasvideo.org 29 34 0.14% super mario tricks 30 33 0.14% super mario world tricks Top User Agents: 1 2387491 57.90% Mozilla Firefox 2 771762 18.72% Internet Explorer 3 257352 6.24% Opera 4 196129 4.76% Google Chrome 5 67464 1.64% Apple Safari 6 52545 1.27% AdSense Spider 7 42550 1.03% Generic Gecko Powered 8 34847 0.85% Mozilla SeaMonkey 9 31086 0.75% Yahoo Spider 10 24389 0.59% MSN Spider 11 22001 0.53% Apple Feed Reader 12 19919 0.48% Google Spider 13 19321 0.47% Generic Webkit Powered 14 18815 0.46% Baidu Spider 15 15452 0.37% Sogou Spider 16 12995 0.32% Cuil Spider 17 11292 0.27% Playstation Portable 18 6817 0.17% Links 19 6181 0.15% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;) 20 5770 0.14% DoCoMo/2.0 P900i(c100;TB;W24H11) (compatible; ichiro/mobile goo; +http://help.goo.ne.jp/help/article/1142/) 21 5684 0.14% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.dotnetdotcom.org/, crawler@dotnetdotcom.org) 22 4571 0.11% MLBot (www.metadatalabs.com/mlbot) 23 4279 0.10% PHP-SOAP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 24 3632 0.09% Mozilla/4.0 25 3506 0.09% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Steeler/3.5; http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~crawler/) 26 2915 0.07% Playstation 27 2744 0.07% AppleSyndication/56.1 28 2656 0.06% Yeti/1.0 (NHN Corp.; http://help.naver.com/robots/) 29 2503 0.06% rss2email/2.65 +http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/ 30 2286 0.06% Camino
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Posted: 12/2/2009 11:15 PM
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moozooh wrote:
I believe you need to keep rereading that sentence until you get it right.
I don't see anything changing by what else he wrote there. He's confusing the domain name with the site name. We were NESVideos, now We're TASVideos.
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Posted: 12/2/2009 11:03 PM
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moozooh wrote:
And where does he say he thinks that?
LazyKenny wrote:
The site still held it's bisqwit name and it wouldn't be until Nintendo 64 TASing that the site would get renamed to TASVideos
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Posted: 12/2/2009 10:53 PM
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A shame he thinks Bisqwit was the name of the site, and not the name of the guy who created the site and has existed long before TASVideos, and still has his own unrelated things even after.
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Posted: 11/28/2009 8:10 PM
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Wait, so we're going with the assumption that the creator god and the manager god are the same?
That was the premise of the question.
The student asked: "Do you believe the creator manages the world as best as possible?", to which the master responded in the affirmative.
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Posted: 11/27/2009 9:32 AM
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Flygon wrote:
If the published encode is already an MP4, can I suggest streaming that one instead? Sure, unless it is an encode with a huge post 512 bitrate, the video won't improve much, but I like my 44100Hz audio.
I did that at first when I was testing, but I noticed that some of our MP4 encodes weren't understood by flash properly. So I always tell it to take Archive.org's MP4 encodes, which always work in flash.
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Posted: 11/27/2009 9:21 AM
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Thanks. :)
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Posted: 11/26/2009 10:34 PM
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Kuwaga wrote:
Sounds like it was the fault of the designers of the GUI version, not the idea of GUI versions itself.
Very true. And it's quite sad, but there's now roughly 10 different GUIs to perform the same functions as the command line version, and they all have ridiculous design issues.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 7:01 PM
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Warp wrote:
The days of command-line apt-get are long gone
I don't know about that. I found every GUI based apt-get to be annoying. With apt-get, I can ask it to upgrade my software, and I can see all the packages about to be upgraded on a single screen, and quickly spot if there's something I don't want upgraded. The GUI versions on the other hand, while they allow me to easily click on one for more information instead of using another command, to read an upgrade list, I feel like I have to keep scrolling for an eternity.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:32 PM
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This may sound silly, but why use the sword on Agahnim when you had the shovel?
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Posted: 11/25/2009 11:54 PM
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Maybe I should have said "possible".
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