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Posted: 11/7/2009 4:56 PM
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Warp wrote:
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Warp: At the end of the day it matters what the judges think. Votes and comments are only there to help a judge who isn't sure. If a judge feels it should or shouldn't be published, he has the power to mark the movie appropriately, irregardless of how long its been there.
You make it sound like judges don't really care or appreciate people's comments and votes (and only check them if they have some doubts about the movie). I'm not sure that's exactly what you meant.
I mean that if a judge feels confident he knows the correct decision for a particular run, he doesn't have to wait for votes or comments.
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Posted: 11/7/2009 4:27 PM
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Warp: At the end of the day it matters what the judges think. Votes and comments are only there to help a judge who isn't sure. If a judge feels it should or shouldn't be published, he has the power to mark the movie appropriately, irregardless of how long its been there.
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Posted: 11/6/2009 12:38 AM
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Well, it's new. Chrome doesn't even have an extension manager yet. But surprisingly enough, half the FF extensions I use already exist as Chrome extensions at least in beta form. Give it some time.
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Posted: 11/5/2009 9:40 PM
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alden wrote:
The only thing chrome is missing is plug-ins
What? http://www.chromeextensions.org/
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Posted: 11/5/2009 7:25 PM
Post subject: Watching newer TASVideos' videos in Linux
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As you most probably know, we encode our files into the H.264 video stream format, which generally needs a bit of CPU power to playback. We also recently switched to using the MKV container format instead of AVI which also seems to add more overhead too. I've found many recent videos on this site taxed my CPU a bit much. If you have Intel SpeedStep or similar installed, you'll probably notice when playing one of our newer videos full screen that the CPU will go into full speed mode, and run hotter instead of saving power. If you have an nVidia video card (which is the best supported video card brand for Linux), you can now get video decoding acceleration. For MPlayer, use the parameters "-vc ffh264vdpau -vo vdpau" when watching one of our videos. Other video players updated recently may have similar options. Under Debian based distributions, you'll need to install the "nvidia-libvdpau1" package. Look for a similar package under other distributions. Also, if you happen to be using Debian, you may want to look for updated video playing packages from http://www.debian-multimedia.org
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Posted: 11/5/2009 4:07 PM
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I like Chrome because it uses Webkit instead of Gecko. Gecko is just really bad at standards compliance. Also, see this: http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2008/01/mozilla-is-new-microsoft.html
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Posted: 11/5/2009 1:20 PM
Post subject: October 2009
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Report for October 2009: Total Hits 3557050 Total Files 3261291 Total Pages 1201114 Total Visits 228368 Top Referrers: 1 2571867 72.30% TASVideos 2 921789 25.91% - (Direct Request) 3 31360 0.88% Google 4 4051 0.11% YouTube 5 1879 0.05% translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c 6 1618 0.05% emu-portal.com/ds.html 7 1353 0.04% webchat.freenode.net/ 8 1315 0.04% Yahoo 9 1158 0.03% pic.sogou.com 10 1149 0.03% www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9y3xr/all_of_the_dungeons_in_legend_of_zelda_were/ 11 544 0.02% tieba.baidu.com/f 12 539 0.02% tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodBadBugs 13 486 0.01% Bing 14 402 0.01% tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequenceBreaking 15 399 0.01% d.hatena.ne.jp/GOCHA/20090710/desmume 16 390 0.01% www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php 17 346 0.01% tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UrbanLegendOfZelda 18 339 0.01% www.pj64-emu.com/blog/194-games.html 19 303 0.01% forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php 20 298 0.01% honyaku.yahoofs.jp/url_result 21 284 0.01% www.p2pforum.it/forum/showthread.php 22 278 0.01% www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html 23 226 0.01% gigazine.net/index.php 24 207 0.01% getfirefox.com/ 25 202 0.01% ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ツールアシステッドスピードラン 26 194 0.01% bisqwit.iki.fi/story/gamecodes/ 27 194 0.01% www.excite-webtl.jp/world/english/web/body/ 28 190 0.01% tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SelfImposedChallenge 29 185 0.01% search.conduit.com/Results.aspx 30 178 0.01% dennnet.blog32.fc2.com/blog-entry-72.html Top Searches: 1 3132 14.42% tasvideos 2 1186 5.46% tas videos 3 661 3.04% tasvideo 4 584 2.69% tas video 5 454 2.09% tasvideos.org 6 362 1.67% tas 7 311 1.43% tool assisted speedrun 8 285 1.31% tool assisted speed run 9 207 0.95% super mario bros 10 191 0.88% tas speedrun 11 136 0.63% bisqwit 12 121 0.56% tool assisted 13 90 0.41% tas speed run 14 79 0.36% nes videos 15 70 0.32% tool assisted speed runs 16 70 0.32% tool assisted speedruns 17 62 0.29% nesvideos 18 54 0.25% tool-assisted 19 50 0.23% tas runs 20 49 0.23% nes movies 21 45 0.21% mario bros 22 44 0.20% solomon's key 2 walkthrough 23 43 0.20% tas game 24 39 0.18% snes9x lua 25 37 0.17% tool assisted videos 26 36 0.17% super metroid tricks 27 36 0.17% tas bisqwit 28 36 0.17% tas speed runs 29 35 0.16% contra 3 30 35 0.16% tas tool assisted Top User Agents: 1 2063568 58.01% Mozilla Firefox 2 641525 18.04% Internet Explorer 3 209774 5.90% Opera 4 162382 4.57% Google Chrome 5 63702 1.79% Apple Safari 6 50781 1.43% Google Spider 7 45961 1.29% Generic Gecko Powered 8 25463 0.72% MSN Spider 9 25188 0.71% AdSense Spider 10 21871 0.61% Mozilla SeaMonkey 11 21615 0.61% Baidu Spider 12 20905 0.59% Apple Feed Reader 13 19934 0.56% Sogou Spider 14 17665 0.50% Yahoo Spider 15 13655 0.38% Cuil Spider 16 11036 0.31% Generic Webkit Powered 17 9651 0.27% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.dotnetdotcom.org/, crawler@dotnetdotcom.org) 18 5228 0.15% Yanga WorldSearch Bot v1.1/beta (http://www.yanga.co.uk/) 19 5225 0.15% MLBot (www.metadatalabs.com/mlbot) 20 4888 0.14% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; discobot/1.1; +http://discoveryengine.com/discobot.html) 21 4134 0.12% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;) 22 3925 0.11% Yeti/1.0 (NHN Corp.; http://help.naver.com/robots/) 23 3511 0.10% Links 24 3298 0.09% AppleSyndication/56.1 25 3248 0.09% NewsFire/84 CFNetwork/454.4 Darwin/10.0.0 (i386) (MacBookPro5%2C5) 26 3147 0.09% PHP-SOAP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 27 3085 0.09% Playstation Portable 28 3029 0.09% Soso Spider 29 2826 0.08% rss2email/2.65 +http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/ 30 2678 0.08% Mozilla/4.0
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Posted: 11/1/2009 1:29 PM
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This is getting completely off topic. Post about a particular game what you don't think you'll ever seen done inside it, giving people some ideas to think outside the box. Don't post about how you don't think you'll ever see Miyamoto TAS Tetris.
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Posted: 10/30/2009 11:06 AM
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Kuwaga wrote:
Nach, can you prove that your cap is actually from a game/movie and that it was not drawn in paint or anything? It looks a bit suspicious..
Here's your hints. Open ZSNES v1.51c. Load game. Immediately save PNG. Dither the image and lower amount of colors allowed so black is truly black. Use PNG tools to recompress the image as much as possible. Upload to imageshack, post on forum. There should be nothing suspicious about it.
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Posted: 10/30/2009 11:02 AM
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I personally download files from archive.org with nget.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 11:41 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
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So I beat you both there, and I get <60% in Technology/Computers? Something is fishy.
Find the bug, report it, and get 101% in technology/computers as reward! ;)
Ha!
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Posted: 10/29/2009 10:51 PM
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Fabian wrote:
Nach, for what it's worth you're really being an idiot in this thread.
Thank you. That means a lot to me coming from the expert.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 6:24 PM
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DaTeL237 wrote:
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Well whoever's turn it is they can just post an image like I did, your rules allow for it. So how could we enjoy it?
I thought maybe I wouldn't have to actually say so.... but you just nailed it.... others CAN'T enjoy it if you post a 'cap' like that.... so don't? Are you going to come up with another within-the-rules-but-still-ruins-the-game example now?
I can if I have to. Remember this is TASVideos.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 5:40 PM
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fsvgm777 wrote:
I'll try with Super Mario Bros.
Nope. Should I give a hint?
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Posted: 10/29/2009 5:37 PM
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moozooh wrote:
Nach, Go back whence you came, trouble this thread no more.
Nooooooooooooooooooo! *Nach gets cranky and considers abusing his powers.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 5:34 PM
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Wockes wrote:
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I'm wondering how people here are getting such high scores in technology/computers. Are you saying you write code in ADA and FORTRAN all the time?
I told it that I never heard of it and still got 70%
FODA wrote:
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I'm wondering how people here are getting such high scores in technology/computers. Are you saying you write code in ADA and FORTRAN all the time?
I'm not sure, I said that I used BASiC and C, but never heard of ADA and I don't know what that microchip is. Still got 60~%
So I beat you both there, and I get <60% in Technology/Computers? Something is fishy.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 5:30 PM
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FODA wrote:
Nach's movie is 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY OR Kill Bill 2
No, no, and no.
DaTeL237 wrote:
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PS. You may want to clarify the rules a bit.
1 cap at a time... so this time honorableJay is next to post a cap ps. It's just a game and (I hope) you don't need rock solid rules to enjoy it
Well whoever's turn it is they can just post an image like I did, your rules allow for it. So how could we enjoy it?
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Posted: 10/29/2009 4:42 PM
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alden wrote:
Hey, that's also pulp fiction!
Nope. Also, I don't even know what pulp fiction is.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 4:37 PM
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3. Cap must be from a movie or game (no music-videos and whatnot)
Done.
5. Try not to, but if really nessecary one could obscure part of a caption to avoid it being really easy (e.g. cut out the main character/actor)... if so, make it clear which parts are edited
Not necessary.
note: try not to leave any hints in the name, tags, etc of an image
Done.
note 2: making it harder is more fun by having a hard caption of a well-known game rather than simply using some obscure B-movie/game that no-one knows.
Piece of cake. Good luck. PS. You may want to clarify the rules a bit.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 4:27 PM
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I'm wondering how people here are getting such high scores in technology/computers. Are you saying you write code in ADA and FORTRAN all the time?
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Posted: 10/29/2009 12:08 PM
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So I went to go look at the test. 4 of the questions, none of the multiple choice options were really an option for me. The test didn't let me leave them blank either. So I just went back and filled those 4 randomly. In all honesty, I think my Sci-Fi/Comic thing should be lower, and my Technology Computer one higher. But whatever.
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Posted: 10/28/2009 10:55 PM
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Wow, the IRC notice to this thread caught my attention, thanks ShinyDoofy. So they made a 3rd Super Mario Bros? When was this? I thought picking up POWs and Vegetables was as good as it gets.
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Posted: 10/27/2009 4:39 PM
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Aqfaq wrote:
Any game - Press all controller buttons simultaneously to save time!
That's not exactly something you see... And for certain systems/games that actually resets the game. We see games that reset the game to save time.
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Posted: 10/27/2009 4:38 PM
Post subject: Mainstream Media Coverage
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I want to keep a list of places where we're mentioned in mainstream media, be it TV, film, magazine, newspapers, and things like that. Things which aren't necessarily gaming related is even better. So far, for a non gaming related source, I found this: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1528811/20060417/index.jhtml
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Posted: 10/27/2009 12:20 PM
Post subject: Things you don't think you'll ever see in a TAS
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When we first start watching TASs, and understanding how and why they were made there were a couple things we never thought we'd see, such as dying in a game, which is used in some runs as a shortcut. For particular games, we didn't think a certain technique or item would ever be employed, as it takes too much time, but then someone comes along and finds a way to use it to save time. Lets create a list of techniques/items we don't think we'll ever see being used in a TAS for a popular game, and will be genuinely shocked if someone finds a way to use it effectively. 1) Super Mario Bros. 3 - Using an anchor 2) Super Mario Bros 2 Japan/The Lost Levels - Backwards warp
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