In a follow-up to Foda's post, I wanted to list all the internet memes referenced by the Pork and Beans video from Weezer. However, after a quick search, I found that someone had already done the job (way better than I could do it, too).
So, here's the Pork and Beans video, as well as all the internet memes (popular videos) that are referenced in the clip: http://valleywag.com/392972/weezer-understands-how-to-work-youtube-allude-to-these-24-viral-videos
When I wanted to list them all, I was missing:
One Man Band: I thought it was the introduction to the video.. didn't make the link.
Star Wars Kid: Don't know how I could miss it ... I guess it's referenced by the multiple lightsabers throughout the video?
Crank That Soldier Boy: I never ever watched any Soulja Boy video .. I hate that song. I therefore couldn't have made the link.
K-Fed Popozao: Never seen that one before ...
Shoes the Full Version: I knew I had seen it before but couldn't recall the title at all.
Anyway .. props to Weezer for including 24 internet memes in one awesome video.
"www.break.com" = 0 hits in 2001, 408,000 hits now. The site didn't exist back then.
I googled "google", too. In 2001: 3,780,000. Today: 2,760,000,000.
Anyways, one question is whether this stutter walk is considered a "big glitch" like the walk-through-walls. Would it be used on a new non-glitched any%?
Personally, I think the stutter walk is as big a glitch as teleporting over hot spots. It basically does the same thing, it just can be used more often. Since the teleport-over-hotspot glitch has been used in the any% TAS, I'm assuming that the stutter walk can be used too.
That's my opinion on it.
I'm also really curious: Did you and Halamantariel use macros for moving around the menu to change the RNG? For instance, if you wanted to change the RNG 35 times before selecting Bash, you could have set up a macro that moves the cursor 4 times back to the Bash command. Then you could use the macro 8 times and then manually input the last 3 movements (or even have a separate macro for 3 movements of the cursor). I don't actually know how to program macros at all, so I was just curious if this is possible and/or you two used it.
Simple: Logitech G15 keyboard. It has a lot of macro keys on the left, which can record keyboard presses and play them back. Basically, I have 18 macro keys, which are programmed to use from 2 to 19 RNGs (recorded manually at first). To manipulate something like 35 RNGs, I'd use 19+16 (pressing 2 macro keys).
Oh, by the way, I have the "old" G15, not the new one. The old has the blue backlight and 18 macro keys, while the new one has an orange-ish backlight and 6 macro keys.
Also, if what you want to do is manipulate the first round of the battle, your best bet is to use the B-button "menu" outside of battle right before going into it. The B-button menu uses 1 RNG per frame. Try it out, you'll get to love that little bugger! :)
Obviously a big YES vote from me. The game was anihilated! The times are ridiculously low for all stages and the glitches used are really cool!
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Can't wait for a gold gem run to see the full ending though... Having only 1 gold gem makes the ending quite ... short and boring really. But hey, speed is the key for this run, so it's a good thing!
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Nice. I already knew about it though. I didn't report it because I was the only person to work on this game.
I had recorded it in my current WIP (which I haven't touched in a long time). I wanted to post Part 2 of this WIP on my youtube account after I had beaten Frank and Frankystein, but sadly I haven't done that yet.
Still, it's nice to see someone else found that time saver as well! :)
I have unlimited webspace and unlimited bandwidth, and I will be glad to mirror everything you want (emulators, tools, ...)
Just hook me up with a list of the files that should be mirrored and I'll put them up.
I asked / suggested the same thing, only I have the www.tastools.org website. I'm still waiting for the files so that I can mirror the site completely.
Alternatively, I could set up a separate FTP account for someone that actually has the files, so that he/she chould simply upload the files. Just PM me and I'll set things up.
i don't like laptops because the battery only lasts for a few minutes. if it would last 500 hours, i would consider buying one. i heard that they've made a discovery that will make the battery last for 40 hours or so, but it's still not enough for me. hopefully the oilcompanies will allow free energy machines soon.
It's amusing just how much trolling you succeeded in squeezing into such a short post...
He's right about the battery life discovery thingie though... Link!
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I still don't believe you signed that petition, though.
I did sign that petition. I am signature 192427, which you can see here: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?RRH53888&96501
Anyway... I think our "personal argument" is over now. I've given my point, you gave yours. Both are valid, since it's a matter of opinions only. It was nice arguying though... I just don't want to pollute this thread with personal stuff. I think you will agree with that.
Name at least one movie based on a videogame that didn't suck in some major way, disregarding whatever Boll did.
Hitman, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider (1 and 2). You can say what you want, my opinion about these movies will stay the same: they were awesome. There's also a Max Payne movie coming out in october of this year which I'm really anticipating. Not sure if it'll be good or not.
They CAN make good movies out of video games.
How many movies based on computer games are there, and how many of them have actually been good? In the vast majority of cases game movies have been complete trash and put the game in shame, and most fans prefer to pretend that the movie doesn't even exist.
That impression is mostly due to Uwe Boll. Here's his IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/
You can see all the movies he's made, and all of them completely sucked. Since most of them are video games, and they sucked, most people think that "All video game movies suck". Now, I haven't seen them all, obviously, so I don't know the percentage of "movies that suck" vs "movies that don't suck" for video games, but I'm pretty sure that it isn't as bad as we think it is.
I blame Uwe Boll for everything. He should be stopped. I signed the petition to Stop Uwe Boll.
Wow... it's so sad that it was an April Fool's joke. That movie would have been awesome! (With more budget to get a better Ganon costume/mask/makeup, at least)
On a related note, why isn't there a real Zelda movie yet? That is one hell of a good video game series, and I think it deserves a movie or two or three. Except if Uwe Boll has anything to do with it. Then it would suck.
Apparently they won't be. There are 3.5 minutes left in the 3rd period and it's now 3-1 for Detroit.
EDIT: 1.5 minutes left, it's now 3-2 after a PP goal from Pittsburgh. It's not over yet!
EDIT2: 45.8 seconds left. No change. Still 3-2.
EDIT3: Nope. They lost.
Predictions were not accurate, but Detroit still won. You got that part right.
I'm also curious as to why people post .smvs all the time instead of recording it to .avi and uploading it somewhere so it becomes easier to watch.
1. SMVs are small, AVIs are huge.
2. Encoding to AVI is more complicated than you might think it is.
3. Bandwidth isn't free.
Seriously though, (not that the above wasn't serious..) playing back SMVs is not that complicated. You just need the right ROM, the right emulator, and the movie file. For the emulator, I suggest you get this one (if you don't have it already): http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6471
That guy has the same name, and is only 3 years older than me. He also happens to live really close to where I live (He's in Louiseville, about 50 minutes drive away). Link: Bottom of the page, click on Olivier Bellemare.
The rest of the search results for images of "Olivier Bellemare" are mostly images from tasvideos.
Halamantariel is a name I came up with while I was working on an Ultima Online server. Me and a couple of buddies wanted to create a free (French) UO server for our friends to enjoy, and possibly expand in the future. They already had cool nicknames, and all I had was "Post-IT", which is the first nickname I got myself.
I got "Post-IT" when I first joined IRC, which is about 10 years ago (I'm 22 now). It asked me for a nickname, but I didn't have any, so I looked around on my desk to find something, and there were some post-its. Yeah. That stupid/simple/dumb.
So anyway, I didn't want to keep "Post-IT" for an MMORPG game. It just doesn't sound good and it doesn't look "professionnal" in that domain either, as I was the almighty admin there. I therefore had to come up with something. Now here's how I got the weird Halamantariel name.
I wanted my admin character to be represented by an Elf in-game, and I wanted the name to sound a little "angelic". In French -- and in my beliefs --, angels exist and have names. All of their names end with either "-ah" or "-el". Some of them end with "-iel", and that's what I wanted for my character name.
As for "Halamantar", I think I found that in some elven language things... What I did was look at some elven language reference on the Internet, and then tried to come up with something that sounded similar to those other words, and finally end that word with "iel".
So yeah ... quite a complicated story, most of you probably don't care, but hey, if you don't, why are you still reading huh? That's what this thread is for.
Summary of this post if you're too lazy to read it all: I came up with Halamantariel based on elven language and angelic names. It was the name of my character on my first French Ultima Online server (I was an admin). That nickname has been with me ever since. I think it's been 7 or 8 years since I first used the nickname.
I decided to create a mood-variant avatar for myself. I obviously picked the images from the Ctrl+Alt+Del online comic. Here they are:
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Not that anyone cares... but I felt like sharing.
That guy has the same name, and is only 3 years older than me. He also happens to live really close to where I live (He's in Louiseville, about 50 minutes drive away). Link: Bottom of the page, click on Olivier Bellemare.
The rest of the search results for images of "Olivier Bellemare" are mostly images from tasvideos.
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Not that anyone cares... but I felt like sharing.