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Masterjun wrote:
Also, I absolutely love how a bunch of one-star reviews on amazon are people not being careful with the package and cutting the cord off. I guess that's a thing to be wary about?
My general approach for buying a product is to look at the one-star reviews, then filter out the stupid ones, and see if it seems like a good product. There's a lot of craziness in the one-star reviews.
I know these plastic packages are often difficult to open, but cutting the cord off is a new one for me. Typically, the dumb one-star reviews are like it requires Windows 7+, says so in the requirements, but user is complaining it doesn't work with XP. Or the user says he ordered it with next day shipping, but didn't get it for three days, so one star.
With this here, you see how spaced out many average people are. If you're cutting these packages open, you always do so from the very edge. At least you look to see where the wire might be / feel for it, so you know you're not cutting into anything. Typically I'll make a small cut in the edge, then try to rip the plastic apart from there because you have no idea what you might cut into.
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That looks good, but has the same issue I wrote about for M310?
Q: I hear that the scroll wheel is a bit tough to click down. Was this just one of the mice (bad batch) or is it all of them?
A: Funny. I just wrote my review of this mouse yesterday, and this was my only complaint - but it's a big one. A "bit tough to click down" is an understatement. The wheel click is all but useless, and makes this otherwise great mouse a returnable item for me. I use the wheel click a lot, and this was a great disappointment to me. I had another Logitech mouse prior to this (that over time developed some other odd problems) but the wheel click worked perfectly - so it's certainly something Logitech knows how to do. Not sure what happened with this mouse. I bought two (returned one so far) so it's not just an anomaly...
Other than that, I'd buy this in a heartbeat.
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That looks like a nice trackball mouse. I've used them before and they're okay. Personally though, I prefer the more classic glide the device itself approach, with a laser sight on the bottom.
And yeah, ambidextrous is terrific for when you hurt your hand. It's happens to me often enough, that I despise mice that make it difficult to use with either hand.
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So the primary mouse I was using (a Microsoft optical wheel mouse) suddenly had the wheel die on me, so I need a new mouse.
I have 3 other available mice here as backups / for family members, but I didn't realize what junk they are till I started using them:
Microsoft basic optical mouse 2 - Tiny, too light.
AmazonBasics - Much too tiny, too light.
Logitech M310 - Gliding for some reason seems to be a bit on the rough side, the wheel is junk, doesn't scroll nicely, clicking it is a relatively herculean task when compared to other mice.
Reading some Amazon comments on some potential replacement mice, I'm seeing a bunch of 1-star reviews enumerating all kinds of ridiculous issues. They more or less perfected mouse design some 15 years back, now seems they're doing everything they can to destroy a winning model. I used to always buy Microsoft mice, but I'm reading about how all their new models have bugs, parts of the outside peels off after a few weeks of use, they're too light, some of them don't even have a body...
So anyone know of a good mouse with the following criteria:
Fits large hands nicely, should have a nice size to it.
Has some weight to it, none of this lightweight junk that you can barely tell you're moving it.
Has a body, so you can actually wrap your hand around it.
Has a decent wheel, scrolls nice and smoothly and can click.
Wired, USB.
At least two buttons besides the wheel.
1000 DPI or higher.
No craziness around the sides, dozens of buttons.
Primarily for right hand use, but should be able to be used left handed as well.
Price is $50 or less (really shouldn't be more than $15, but junk these days...)
Good quality, will last several years without issues.
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EZGames69 wrote:
Nach wrote:
Just throwing this out there (which I think I did several pages back)
I tried finding this comment from before and did not find anything.
It was probably in some other thread then.
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EZGames69 wrote:
It should matter because I do not think having PAL alongside NTSC is that interesting if the only difference is the game over glitch not being a thing.
Who told you that's the only difference? Several levels have to be played differently due to a different bug set.
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Does it matter?
It's a similar yet different game which hasn't been TAS'd yet.
If there's no version-exclusive glitches, then both games would essentially be identical TASes.
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. Therefore the TASs will not be identical.
Lobsterzelda wrote:
The only difference would be that one would run at a faster speed and have a 10 second period of doing nothing, while the other would run at a much slower speed but would skip the 10 second period of doing nothing. In my opinion, they aren't different enough to merit publishing a TAS of each version side-by-side.
I don't know why you think the only difference is in stage 11.
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Does it matter?
It's a similar yet different game which hasn't been TAS'd yet.
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As the mechanics between versions are somewhat different, I don't see why we cannot have both published side by side.
There's many differences throughout the game. I just pointed out one of them above.
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Just throwing this out there (which I think I did several pages back):
The E version of Battletoads has different bugs. You don't need to die in stage 11 in 2P, as it works. It'd be interesting to see a TAS with that version.
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Bisqwit wrote:
I may remember wrong, but I think, TASVideos as a site has participated in activism: Back when I was the person at the helms, I once put a banner to raise awareness regarding some dangerous copyright law proposal thing (I forget the exact details).
Copyright laws are related to the purpose of the site though.
It'd be annoying though if our site started advertising something unrelated to its purpose like Go Shave the Whales or something.
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CoolHandMike wrote:
I think Male, Female, and N/A would be better personally
I made the list, I'll tell you why.
♂ - Obvious.
♀ - Obvious.
Male & Female - I put this in because I know a mutant who has one of these syndromes (from WP):
Humans, as well as some other organisms, can have a rare chromosomal arrangement that is contrary to their phenotypic sex; for example, XX males or XY females (see androgen insensitivity syndrome). Additionally, an abnormal number of sex chromosomes (aneuploidy) may be present, such as Turner's syndrome, in which a single X chromosome is present, and Klinefelter's syndrome, in which two X chromosomes and a Y chromosome are present, XYY syndrome and XXYY syndrome.[4] Other less common chromosomal arrangements include: triple X syndrome, 48, XXXX, and 49, XXXXX.
I'm annoyed when people act like various mutants don't exist. Known mutations go back thousands of years.
Of course not having your mutation recognized on forms is minor compared to finding most clothes don't fit right because it's not designed for your mutation. Or you need one kind of top and another kind of bottom, and it looks really odd.
Genderless - Because we have bots here.
Other - Because some people think they're something else.
Regardless of the list, people can write what anyone wants. I know a few people who have told me they selected what they selected to avoid harassment or to try to score some sympathy points. I'm quite certain several others are lying also.
In any case, choose whatever option you want, or none. I don't care.
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Since some of the levels for them are different, we should probably TAS this game with both.
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Mothrayas put together a terrific list regarding the entire process and everyone's standing at each point. I recommend everyone view and learn who our TASing overlords are: http://tasvideos.org/Mothrayas/Awards/201X/Results.html
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Patashu wrote:
a reasonable mundane explanation.
I find it reasonable to assume that people will vote for their own TAS.
With how few votes we're seeing for awards, a TAS with several authors will probably have some weighting in its favor.
With the amount of active members we have, we should be seeing at least a thousand votes casts (considering you can vote for multiple entries). I hate to say it, but voting on awards doesn't seem to be very popular.
If we say the average amount of votes per person is 3, then less than 60 people voted.
Patashu wrote:
so it's not surprising to me that the most speedran game also has the most widely enjoyed TAS
The most widely enjoyed TASes are on: http://tasvideos.org/Movies-Popular.html
As of this writing, the second most popular movie on the site is in 4th place, the third most popular is in 8th place, and the fourth most popular is in 9th place.
Meanwhile the fifth most popular is in 2nd place, the twelfth most popular is in 7th place, and the fourteenth most popular is in 1st.
There's clearly some disparity between what people rate movies as and what people are voting on. More people should come and vote! If you know people who haven't voted ask them to do so.
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Marcokarty wrote:
I have a question: Can we vote in our own tas?
As long as you truly believe it deserves it, and you only do so once.
Marcokarty wrote:
I think that shouldn't be allowed cause the sm64 tas was done by 15 guys lol and they would obviously vote in their own tas.
That might explain why it won its award and is doing as well as it is doing.
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BrunoVisnadi: You said you had an SRAM bug to look into? Any progress?
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For helping to determine who to vote for, these might be helpful:
A list of each user's movies during 201X: http://tasvideos.org/Mothrayas/Awards/201X/TASerAll.html
You can see in this list who created what.
You might also want to consider each player's player point rankings for the decade:
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One of the main advantages of having a multi-core processor with an obscene amount of cores is that background tasks will not interfere with what you are doing.
Meaning, if Windows Update is going crazy, your virus scanner is scanning mercilessly, and your browsing Chrome1 with many tabs looking up your game details, your BizHawk process will not be hindered at all.
Don't expect emulators to use many threads.
Note 1 - As Chrome's developers get massive amount of cores, expect it to become even more bloated junk that requires multiple cores and gigabytes of RAM to render a single simple web page.
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You're welcome sir.
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fmp wrote:
In the future, it might be a good idea to allow any nominee (or nominator) to suggest a shared ballot before voting even begins, something along the lines of "Well, my only eligible TAS here was co-authored by xxx, so I would like them to share the nomination with me." That makes sense to me, seeing how the movie category wins are shared by every listed author.
In that case if they believe the work put in was equal, if they make such a request, we can probably honor it.
fmp wrote:
In this sort of situation, silence implies consent
Silence does not imply consent.
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That might explain why it won its award and is doing as well as it is doing.