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http://i.imgur.com/YO4rQ.png
This is before I made the corners smoother. After that, it looks like this, lol: http://i.imgur.com/4HZca.png
It has thousands of faces and lines and looks very messy... I only wanted to make the corners smoother, but to do that I had to subdivide the whole memory card 3 times. There is probably some better way, but I couldn't figure it out. It sucked because it also made the program run very slowly, because there's so many faces.
Awesome, looks very realistic. Shame the contacts didn't export, so it's just a hollow case :P The shockwave thing is better than youtube for 3D, I need to learn how to do that some time.
It might also be trivial if I watch enough youtube tutorials.
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Looks good, but the objects don't seem to represent anyting familiar. Did you make these screws also? Those are awesome, I have no idea how I could make a screw.
Didn't you like the memory card I made? It took forever to make.
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Have any of you tried to make some 3D things? I made this memory card in order to practice using Blender 3D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJFe_-gI5k
It's only the second 3D object I've made. I chose to do a memory card because it's pretty simple, almost just a rectangle. It didn't turn out perfect, but I'm happy with it anyway, and I learned a lot of things, like the fact that I should NOT use the messed up cutting tool. You can do pretty cool things with these 3D programs if you learn to use them. Blender 3D seems pretty damn hard to use though.
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In Pilotwings 64 you can go 3000 "km/h", using a glitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spW5QmGWqyI
I wonder how fast that is in pixels per frame though... I wonder if we need some other way of measuring speed in 3D games.
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I guess the lag from warping in cinema might cause major lag, which can lose time. Wouldn't it be a good idea to use the method that is fastest (ie. without warp) though?
The m64 files you gave desync for me, at the beginning of Silo, a little after the first door warp, you get stuck on a guard. Have you checked that this run syncs from the beginning? Could be just me though, but I had all the plugins and everything right, and it synced all the way until that point.
I'm studying too, but it's a lot of self-study, so we don't do a lot. I might have to do some TASing during "classtime", so that I don't get bored :P TASing is a good way to consume time.
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From the first page
Only 24 px/f? I thought knuckles speeded up indefinitely when in glide mode, if no obstacle is encountered, and thus disproving the theory of relativity by going faster than the speed of light...
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Hilarious, here's some of my favorite parts (italized texts are quotes from tasvideos and the normal text is the response to that):
lol, "art of conning"
From what I read, he was annoyed because he used to make speedruns using emulators, and since TAS tools were created such emulator videos wouldn't qualify as proof anymore. He's obviously joking/trolling a bit, with Hitler and all that, but he's also serious at the same time, he's just exaggerating a bit to get his point across.
He says that TAS emulators are video editing programs. I'm not sure if it's entirely wrong, it might depend a little of what definition of "video" we have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video
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It can be fixed easily by pasting it on notepad and using the replace feature. I wonder what causes those question marks anyway...
The links don't work anymore, did they remove them from the archive?
Yeah, maybe TASes are "fake video edits"... fake, in the sense that they actually aren't video edits, they are input edits :P
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Yeah, it's probably the level that has most competition. It's good to have something to compare to.
None :P I did this pretty fast... only an hour or so. But with games that desync much, I only TAS for maybe 15 seconds at a time, and then see if it syncs, and then continue.
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Killing isn't immoral for animals because they don't know that it's wrong. It's wrong for humans because we know that it causes suffering. Right and wrong (morality) have almost the same meaning as the words pleasure and pain, in case you're wondering what I mean.
How immoral it is to kill depends essentially on the inherent consciousness of the creature that we kill. Animals are conscious of feelings and can feel pain, so it's wrong to kill them. Humans are conscious of even more things, like thoughts, so it's even more wrong to kill humans.
I don't think there's anything wrong with eating carrots/plants though, because they aren't conscious of feelings like pain.
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That's what I read in science articles. It's true that burning or boiling food kills bacteria, but the problem is that it also kills most of the nutrients.
I don't want to, because raw food doesn't taste good, because I'm used to eat toxic food, so I rather get poisoned and die from this toxic food than eat healthy raw food. There are some people who eat only raw food though. I don't think they eat meat. That might be dangerous. Eating meat is immoral anyway.
Today, the toxics generated from burning are not enough. In order to sell more, food producers put all kinds of additives into food, most of which are dangerous and/or addictive, which create further problems and increase diseases.
Most food poisoning is caused by human nature. But some day when we are enough scientifically advanced, we will be able to eat toxic food and prevent the diseases, and still live hundreds of years.
In the past, people lived hundreds of years because they lived in harmony with nature. In the future we will also probably live hundreds of years, because of our technology and science.
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I sense a scientific fact.
If we ate natural food we wouldn't need to brush our teeth, but ever since we started to burn our food we haven't eaten natural food, which is why we have caries. Many diseases like the many forms of cancer are the result of us burning food, which destroys the nutrients in the food and creates toxic chemicals that we then consume. Our bodies have evolved to eat the food that exists in nature, the raw food that animals eat. Our bodies haven't evolved to eat burned food, so we get problems like caries and diseases.
I would. Raw food contains natural brushes that clean our teeth, like if we eat an apple, the skin sometimes gets stuck between teeth and acts like a dental floss. Thin and flexible tree branches when broken also contain stuff that protects our teeth, better than a toothbrush, which is made of plastic. Tooth paste also contains fluoride which decreases IQ. Source
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Yeah, brushing teeth before breakfast sounds illogical (doesn't mean it is, though), because when you eat breakfast, your teeth get unclean, so you have to brush them again...
But what if I don't eat breakfast? I only drink a half glass of juice, should I brush my teeth?
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Yeah, that was pretty long, heh... I read almost the whole thread but I started to TL;DR after reaching half way in your post. But I was tired after reading everything before that.
In one way, it was fun when people weren't as aware of what a TAS is, because it created more discussion and mystery around it, like with Morimoto's Mario 3 TAS.
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I haven't really seen speedrunners saying that TASes are cheat, but I see youtube comments on TASes sometimes that say they are cheat.
Would you or someone else know where to find discussions of these old flamewars about TASes being cheating? I remember there was a pretty good one somewhere on SDA forum. Flamewars are always interesting to read :P
The same thing happens when we visit old places in real life, so I guess it works for places on the internet too.
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Yeah, dunno... I think because the framerate is worse, it should make the times worse. I at least managed to get better times more easily when using lookdown on my 23, but somehow you get insane times without it.
Lol, I guess so... but the cinema+16:9 is like 3 times the size/width of full screen, so I thought it might cause a lot of timeloss.
Yes, I think it can save 1 second, the path seems to be shorter.
Btw, I added a trainshot to the DLTK depot I made earlier and improved the time by 1 second (54). I won't post a vid of that though, it's not a big improvement/difference... I was gonna make a vid where I TASed that live to show how I TAS, but the recording screwed up :P >_<
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ROFL, I managed to do the warp in 4:3, so the cinema and 16:9 was actually no use at all :P It only took 5 minute to do also, I think I'm getting the hang of this. I just align myself approximately where I was in my previous videos and make the warp... when it doesn't go through, I load the state and turn the analog stick one degree at a time to the right until it warps.
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I haven't tried in cinema. I don't like to waste energy on inconsistent things unless I do a TAS. I might try a little though... and in the default 4:3 too.
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Oh that's annoying :/ but weren't you aiming mostly for entertainment, so 1:06 would still be as awesome as 1:05, because the slower pauses aren't noticeable. But at least now you know to be more careful with the pauses in the future.