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Parts in spoiler really is a true spoiler. Don't read it if you want to watch the movie yourself. The Adjustment Bureau I liked it. I don't recall the previews, but I've read that they make it sound like this movie is supposed to be as crazy and awesome a movie as inception, which is very definitely not true. The movies pretty much don't even compare. It's mostly just a love story where instead of the typical romance movie problems and solutions they have a sci-fi problem. With that said, I didn't think it was bad at being a romance, though it certainly wasn't near the best I've seen. Watch it if you want a romance with a new twist, but not if you're looking for a cool sci-fi flick. I didn't have any expectations going in. I recalled that the previews made me want to watch it, but don't recall what the previews actually were. About 20 minutes in the movie up to that point was kind of reminding me of Dark City, but then the movie never really went much deeper into the powers of the Adjustment Bureau, who the chairman is, or why the plan can change. And the ending was just ugh horrible. Analogous in satisfactory conclusion-ness to "and then they woke up." There apparently is also a book that this movie inspired, but from what I have read here (contains spoilers) pretty much the only thing they have in common is the bureau's power. I've not read it. Transformers 3 Don't watch it, it sucked. Even the super spectacular OMG GIANT ROBOT BATTLE were pretty lame. Just go re-watch power rangers. X-Men: First Class was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be. No real surprises here. Shallow plot movie with a bunch of superpower guys being super powered. Watch it if you liked the other x-men movies, don't if you didn't. I would watch The Adjustment Bureau again (although not as high priority), with or without someone who hasn't seen it. I would not watch transformers 3 again even with someone who has not seen it, and x-men I would probably only watch again if I plan to watch the whole series again.
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1) It's a great run 1.5) I've not watched it 2) "more branches" "arbitrary goal" is weak, in the (rather large) super metroid community a run of this goal probably has a significant audience 3) we get to put that significant audiences category-since-the-game-came-out category on the front page 4) people come looking for it 5) ad money 6) beer money from google ar·bi·trar·y: Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system. The choice for goal of this run is based on a well established system. I'm tired of people complaining about games that are overrepresented. If the game is fun enough to watch/has a large enough audience, then it can handle many categories. Super metroid is fun to watch for many people, and has a large audience. Don't just say "there's too many categories so this can't be published." Why is the currently published run deserve the limited spot more? Why do you think super metroid can't handle any more spots on the list? Why do you think the spots should be limited at all? The goal is not arbitrary, so if that's your angle then pick a different word.
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Hey Warp, I'm going to assume you're talking about United States in your post since that seems to make sense in the context of this topic. >>discriminating workers and depriving them of basic rights What do you mean here by discriminating? I know what the word means, but don't really see how it fits here. What basic rights are US workers being deprived of? >>there are some states where labor unions are illegal; Which states are these? Google couldn't answer me. >>employers can fire employees at a whim... and there's nothing the employee can do about it Perhaps this varies state by state, but I was under the impression that this was only true for small businesses, and that large corporations had better have a damn good reason to fire you or good luck to them if the fired person files a lawsuit (iow: if the employee does something about it).
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We highly encourage you to make a temporary encode for your submission (link) as this effort will be appreciated by those who cannot playback your movie file are extremely lazy and would rather just click "play" to get 5 minutes enjoyment out of your 3 months effort. Never mind that all they have to do is wait one more day and they'll be able to do that anyway.
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I can't help but think if this game was not called Knight Quest and was instead called <super popular (but also extremely boring) rpg of popularity> the posts would be more going along the lines of "well it's not much to look at, and the music is nothing special, but it does look optimized. It's too bad you couldn't get the shade skip to work. The boss fights are kind of long and boring, but since you're such low level I guess that can't really be helped. Overall it wasn't so bad. Yes vote, and I'll be looking forward to the new game+ run." With that said DarkKobold doubled the number of videos of this game on youtube (by posting two of his own) and there is only one walkthrough on gamefaqs, and there's not even an LP that I know of, so I don't think the site will be losing many potential viewers by not publishing this :p Edit: what happens if Will encounters the overworld hitbox of two monsters at the same time?
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I was not implying that the neutrinos got a little push, I was wondering if the target was moving toward the neutrinos. However, I don't really know anything about physics at all, so meh.
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Did they take into account that the earth is spinning in their calibrations? Is that something that would need to be taken into account? Like, the earth is spinning in the opposite direction of neutrino travel so you get speed of light in direction of neutrino movement + whatever speed the earth is spinning at that radius in some other direction.
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Just go east to the next time zone and you'll get a whole hour! Or maybe it's west. I'm not very good at this.
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United States Socialist Republic.
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Are these supposed to be things I already own, or can I bring things that I don't personally own like a fully fueled harrier jet with an English instruction manual? Or hookers and blow? If it's things I already own, it's still not going to result in the things that are most important to me because for example a family heirloom with no practical purpose is something I would definitely not bring, even though it may be important. If I'm not supposed to bring something (like DarkKobold) that has primary purpose of getting me off the island, that leaves me to survival gear. Computer with internet probably isn't the most useful thing since you have to keep it dry, and you'd be spending most of your time finding food/safe water rather than looking at porn. I think it would be pretty difficult to decide what the two most important items are for survival.
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I think it would be a prerequisite to get permission from the author before we do that
This can be done fairly easily for future runs. Just put an opt in checkbox at the submission page. "Would you like to support tasvideos by allowing your run to generate ad revenue on official tasvideos youtube channels?" >>right now the site has no funding problems I doubt that, and even if it is true I doubt it's steady. >>as soon as keeping up tasvideos gets hard... ... it will be too late for this to matter.
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>>So these hard sentences do nothing. Or there's five million other factors that affect crime rates that you're completely ignoring. PS: if there's no free will then the DA and state don't have a choice in punishing so they must (at least historically, and with no ability to intentionally change things for the future) give harsh sentences! Clearly the only logical conclusion. But if there's no free will logic doesn't matter and pirate_sephiroth can take over this topic!
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Studies also show that believing what mmbossman says will make mmbossman impotent. I believe!
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I finished reading the main storyline for the Malazan series. Overall I thought it was incredibly well done, perhaps the best fantasy series I've read. It's something like 12,000 pages or so, but it didn't really seem to drag on like some do (Wheel of time for example). There are lots of storylines and "main" characters to keep track of though, so if that bothers you then meh. I didn't feel like in this series there were many characters where you could say "this is the good guy, he does good stuff, that is the bad guy and he does bad stuff". They are more dynamic than that. There wasn't really even a good vs evil thing going on, because often neither side of a conflict was clearly more good/evil than the other. One criticism I have seen of the series is the power creep as you go on through the books; the super important mains get like "oh you thought what I did last time was badass, watch this!" over and over etc. I think that's pretty typical of sci-fi and fantasy stuff in general though, so overall if that's the biggest complaint I'd say it did a good job. I'll be looking to get the novellas and novels to read at some point as well. I just started reading Mistborn and it seems pretty decent so far. Will update with more when I finish the trilogy (or book, if it turns out bad). I'm surprised I haven't noted Name of the Wind yet. That was a book that I couldn't put down. All in all though, it's probably pretty typical of the "poor boy goes to magic school" type books. Book two of the trilogy is out now. For those of you who like LoTR, there was a trilogy I read about 1800 pages where book one had the entire plot of the LoTR trilogy, and then books two and three had similar "unlikely hero goes on quest to save the world" stories. One of them had demons from another world invading through a rift and unlikely hero had to go on quest + unite the races to save the world, and the other all I remember is a magical forest. I'll edit back if I remember the name of it, or maybe someone else knows it. I didn't think much of it, but I also didn't think much of LoTR.
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I couldn't get past about the first chapter of the silmarillion.
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-misty isle 2: If you are big mario, you can get the p balloon then get hit and you should be able to keep your (52) speed. I was never able to make this work due to still having to get over the tall pipe at the end. 1 -you've watched all the wips here? so you know to screen scroll in desert world 2 a and run through the floor etc? and fly in water world 2, and the yoshi flight + yoshi wings thing in water world secret. -water world 4: perhaps you can cram yourself through the ceiling here with pswitch and key. it saves you swimming around the corner. 2 -water world castle: there is a p switch in the first room. 3. I don't recall ever testing to see if it was faster to go get that and swim with it than to skip it. In room 2 walljump to hit the coin block instead of jumping off the pswitch block 4 -crystal cavern 2: at the beginning while you fall down press R to scroll the screen. this will let you pound the buzzy beetle for the pswitch sooner so you may not have to slow down and get p speed back up again. 5 -crystal cavern castle: find a way to fall through the floor and fly under the first room. -sky world 4: Don't go inside, fall through the corner at the end. 6 -it might be better to get the shell for pipe world 2 at ice world secret instead of sky, so you can use fireflower on the castle bosses of sky and ice world. This works because you don't need yoshi for pipe world 4. -at pipe world 1b when you dive under the map at the beginning, fall through the corner. -at pipe world 3 you should be able to boost through the ceiling with p switches in the pswitch room. you might need 3 of them because I don't think the timer is long enough to let you finish the level if that's where you stomp the switch. 7 -you don't need yoshi in pipe world 4. you can fall through the pipe just fine without him. -pipe castle i really want there to be a way to clip through the floor and go to key immediately, but i can't figure anything out. 8 <- here the pswitch (near the top of screen) is from just to the left. you might be able to boost yourself through those blocks with it since it can go through them. if jumping high enough is a problem then use one of those bouncing koopa guys to help. would let you skip trip to get the vine. -just realized, if you do 2) in my above post, you can bring a shell with you in reserve box for the yoshi wings in sky star world. -secret star world the key above spawn can be turned into yoshi wings with the pswitch. getting yoshi past back door star world probably requires luigi though (starting at reznor fortress save). -big boo world 3 also luigi yoshi 9. Perhaps this combined with secret star world would make getting luigi worth it, but probably not. Only if you can skip boos tower I would guess. -boos tower on the 84th floor 10. If you use the cape and a shell you can get two of them to boost through the floor near the blue switch, or maybe you can do some voodoo magic to duplicate it to the side and get the blue switch right there. I think that's all i've got other than stuff like when moving left try to be in the floor when running which you know to do more than me anyway. There was a caveat to something I was saying here, but I don't remember what. I've not timed/tested/verified/etc anything here. For those of you yammering on about luigi being worthless 1) you're probably right 2) but this isn't smw and 3) obviously you wouldn't take him for all 120 exits for 120 map transitions. save and exit at an appropriate place, get two player for luigi yoshi magic, give mario a game over once you have completed all your luigi yoshi magic. I think it's still unlikely that 2 player could be faster, but I do think it's worth looking into. >>The logic that most people apply to it ... Which is really stupid Yeah, we've been doing this a while. Even :DK knows that luigi won't do in smw. btw, on a completely unrelated, L+R jump down to bowser.
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I'm sorry, who are you again?
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Hi PangaeaPanga, glad to see someone working on this! I've got a few ideas that are probably useless and will take you hours to test. 1) When you complete water world secret, don't drop yoshi. Instead take him with you to the water world star warp and go up to star world. complete (at least) the first loop up to going into big boo world + misty star world and get to big boo secret. get the cloud. finish your loop (desert star world) and go back to the main map, use cloud on crystal cavern 5 instead of yoshi spring glitch. In my real time super laggy test of unoptimizedness the crystal cavern 5 was 950 frames quicker or so iirc. So that saves you the some time in level, some map moves/backtracking in crystal cavern, entering crystal cavern secret, and anything you might be able to figure out how to make a level skip out of the message block in star world/big boo world, not having yoshi in desert star world. It costs you some extra moves at water world, star world, two star warps, using yoshi in sunken ship, and may or may not cost you a time through big boo secret, depending on (3)). 2) Same as above, except instead going to star world at water, go at sky and use the cloud in igloo secret exit. also depends on map moves etc + (3)) 3) Before you just get a key for bowser star world b because that's what the current runs do (I only say this b/c there's a good chance I would have done it without thinking), time getting the real by flying through the floor then back up after massive lava hill. The main reason it was faster to use key from big boo secret for this was because they would have had to ride the raft to get to the key because of massive lava hill. If it's faster to get the real key than to use extra map moves for the big boo secret one, it could affect whether cloud is feasible in 1) and 2). 4) You can bring yoshi into boos tower. You can have a spring in the item box. You can get above the level in the beginning with yoshi spring glitch. The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to get in the other side. I've tried tossing the spring off the far right ledge and smashing myself into the wall pipe world 4 style, but was never successful at it. Could be worth looking into. The tricky part is getting a spring and a yoshi to boos tower. If you can't make it the conventional way (going through the levels, forcing yourself through impossibly)........ luigi :DDDDD just reset at your last save before going to star world and start your game back in 2player. edit: There's other things I didn't mention because they've been talked about before or "obvious" or whatever, but aren't pie in the sky stuff like i mentioned above. Do you want me to exhaustively list all the improvements I know/think might work?
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>>particularly their reasons for having malinterest in TASVideos. probably the same reason you don't visit their site. everything is english here.
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Hi can you die in top secret area?thanks! Also yoshi's house!
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That run is absolutely sick! here is part 2 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12583066 :O~~~ wtfwtfwtf i wonder how does he fall forever like that>?
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"That's life, dude." + explanation of abuses adequately covers my concerns in this topic. If you do decide to have some way to encourage voters to also be posters, the way already mentioned seems easy but probably not terribly effective. Perhaps you could have two buttons. A submit vote button, and a submit vote and make reply button. Ultimately though, if the judges don't see this sort of thing as being useful, then I wouldn't bother, and there is no guarantee that it will help anyway. I think I'm done here, thanks for reading + commenting.
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But Deign didn't actually vote no.
I don't think this changes anything about the point I was trying to make in that paragraph. Certainly my bit immediately following that about if I had cast the vote I was strongly tempted to still applies. I don't think we should go so far as to force people to leave a comment because I think it would ultimately be detrimental to the judging process for the less voted on runs, resulting in even fewer votes to guide the judge, and probably not many more comments.
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