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Posted: 1/4/2013 6:00 PM

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feos wrote:

Haha, aren't you sure we HAD a perfect candidate this year?

Ah, sorry for not understanding your intent right away. Btw, I suppose you are referring to the pokemon TAS that injects arbitrary code and runs it? I agree that it should definitely deserve the award for innovation.

Posted: 1/4/2013 8:20 AM

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feos wrote:

Nice job with not returning this nomination. Thanks, it's awesome.

I honestly cannot say if that's sarcasm or serious.

Posted: 1/2/2013 10:20 PM

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OmegaWatcher wrote:

I disagree so much. This kind of thinking is astonishing backwards for a site that values so much being the newest thing.

There's nothing for the site to gain from publishing this particular TAS. Instead, there's quite some reputation to lose. It's not about censorship. It's about being practical. (That's what "pragmatic" means.)

one more thing: I read a couple of times that the site's objective is making some kind of art. how about acting like artists, not like soccer moms?

There's a rather big difference between artistic nudity and outright explicit porn.

Posted: 1/1/2013 11:30 PM

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Sir VG wrote:

Lyra is actually a set of quintuplets, didn't you know that? :P

Attack of the Lyra clones! Now, that would make an interesting episode! (Wait, they already did that with Pinkie. Oh well...)

Posted: 1/1/2013 11:27 PM

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I honestly don't understand why this was originally rejected. I found it more interesting than many accepted movies (before the current system.)

Posted: 1/1/2013 11:01 PM

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I haven't noticed it before, but sometimes the artists resort to slight laziness when making crowd scenes, by simply duplicating ponies as-is, with no modification. For example, check this and this. (Especially egregious is that Lyra and Bon Bon seem to have either clones or twin sisters in Ponyville.)

Posted: 1/1/2013 10:18 PM

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I'm going to watch this when I have the time, but this goal sounds like it causes lots and lots of similar gameplay and random wandering around (to search for inconsequential and plot-irrelevant objects and level up characters beyond what's necessary to complete the game). I feel bad criticizing this though, because I'm certain that a vast amount of time and work was spent doing this. I'm just worrying that this might end up being too boring to watch in full...

Posted: 1/1/2013 1:10 PM

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I voted no for pragmatic reasons. I'm fully aware of the hypocrisy in gross violence in fiction being acceptable but explicit sexual acts being offensive, but from a pragmatic point of view we don't need the controversy, especially since this is a really small niche, and this game isn't even official.

Posted: 12/31/2012 5:46 PM

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andypanther wrote:

Seriously, the content shouldn't be a reason to reject this. If Mortal Kombat can be published, this also can.

Violence is ok, porn isn't, because it offends people's sensibilities. Besides, if we accept this, where's the limit?

Posted: 12/31/2012 5:44 PM

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Agh... enough of these ugly G3 ponies. When will we see a G4 pony game TASed?

Posted: 12/31/2012 5:40 PM

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Dooty wrote:

Without the glitch, we would have to grab one more stone to blow a mine which the invisible Elum can simply walk over, it saves about 60 frames.

Fair enough, but the glitch is used twice.

Posted: 12/30/2012 6:18 PM

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I don't think there's grounds to publish this until the goal of precisely 20000 points has a rational reason behind it.

Posted: 12/30/2012 10:55 AM

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antd wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeQP8INOxHs I updated my post with the correct movie/video

It would be recommended if both the title and the description of that video said that it's tool-assisted. Now neither one does, potentially causing confusion and negative criticism. We shouldn't be passing tool-assisted speedruns as regular ones even by inadvertent omission. Btw, there's probably something wrong with the emulation because there are brighter squares around campfires that I don't think should be there. Btw2: Is the ghost elum glitch really necessary? Does it make the run faster? Because it's annoying and unfunny, and only makes things confusing to watch. IMO if it's not necessary, it should be avoided.

Posted: 12/28/2012 7:19 PM

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hegyak wrote:

In this day and age of Terabyte hard drives and gigabyte flash drives, are we really up in arms over a few bytes here?

850 megabytes in the previous example is a bit more than just "a few bytes". (How long does it take with your internet connection to download 850MB?)

Posted: 12/28/2012 4:46 PM

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Compressing an individual savestate may lead to some space advantage, but my point was that since each savestate probably contains a lot of the same data as most other savestates (especially the ones close in time), the maximum compression would be achieved by compressing all the savestates as one single block. If the entire movie file can be compressed, then this isn't a problem (eg. this is very easy to achieve with zlib), but if the keypresses ought to be uncompressed for easy editability, then it might become more problematic.

Posted: 12/28/2012 4:40 PM

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If a savestate takes some kilobytes of space, and in a typical TAS the author makes thousands of savestates, that would make a rather big file. Several tens of megabytes at least, I'd estimate. Of course the vast majority of those savestates will consist mostly of repeated data (because the data probably doesn't change much between savestates.) The file would either have to be compressed, or the emulator would have to store only the changes between savestates (which could become complicated as the author jumps back and forth in the run...)

Posted: 12/28/2012 9:38 AM

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Goes to show that even autotune doesn't always help making a good song.

Posted: 12/27/2012 5:26 PM

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For the record, I still oppose the wording I mentioned earlier. I think the joke is too tenuous, too easy to misinterpret, and not all that funny even if you get it.

Posted: 12/25/2012 5:27 PM

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There was such a thick south Missouri accent in this episode that at times I had trouble understanding what was being said. (As you might guess, I'm not a native English speaker so thick accents can sometimes make it a bit difficult to understand.)

Posted: 12/25/2012 11:55 AM

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Creating or using another account to circumvent a ban is usually grounds for a more severe suspension, so if this was the case, I would quite careful if I were jwinslow/pj.

Posted: 12/22/2012 12:18 PM

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Dubstep and ponies do not mix!

Posted: 12/21/2012 11:25 PM

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MUGG wrote:

That's why I dissociate myself from the word "brony" as best as I can. If you call yourself a brony, you have to expect having unjustified shit thrown at you.

Brony pride FTW!