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suddenly everyone starts voting no/meh just because one did it, as if they were too afraid to do it before, lol. i also used to think that OoT was a boring game to speedrun because it's so slow, like an RPG. it's hard to make it look impressive.
i don't see the point with an AVI without the cutscenes. if you don't wanna watch them just skip them... you know... move your mouse to the seek bar and click..
Ferret Warlord wrote:
I don't *quite* understand all the commotion surrounding this game)
ocarina of time is the best game ever made. it got 100 out of 100 (graphics, sound, gameplay, everything) in a swedish gaming magazine i read.
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mmbossman wrote:
i) There is no clear consensus on whether it should obsolete Guano's run. I still haven't heard a good reason to, other than "It would take Guano's run off the site"
this run should replace guano's run because the two are too similar to each other. it's like having two of the same runs on the site.
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this is quite a long post, i hope you don't mind bisqwit. otherwise you can move it to the religion thread.
Baxter wrote:
He could speak to every person directly... that would probably clear up a lot of things.
does god not speak to all of us directly through prayer? or are people just talking to themselves? or does it even matter, because the bible says: 'ye are gods'. i think... to follow god just means to follow our heart. moses said that god had written the law in our hearts.
if you study all religions, many things will clear up.
AQwertyZ wrote:
in golden sun: lost age, the earth is flat. that was one of the coolest things in the game, but i don't believe that the earth is flat. what i meant with the statement is just that we shouldn't believe everything we hear. just because we read that we use 100% of our brain doesn't mean it's true (whatever it even means..)
you also shouldn't take everything i say seriously... for example, i posted the videos about ben stein and venomfangx because i think they're funny. i'm still half-serious about the venomfangx and i think he has some good points. materialism can be a depressive philosophy.
Sorry for the rant but I get so annoyed when someone simultaneously denies science and uses a computer that owes its very existence to science.
science is a great thing, but that doesn't mean everything the mainstream science accepts is true (ie. materialism) and everything they reject is false (ie. spiritualism). if you know a lot about science i find it a little strange that you wouldn't accept the possibility that gravity and electro-magnetism are the same since scientists have been trying to unify those forces for quite some time. it'll be interesting to see what the LHC can do about it.
theories don't have to be philosophically correct for us to be able to use them for predicting and inventing things. if gravity is electromagnetism, it changes nothing about the way computers work. and if 'gravity' is ether instead of space curvature, einstein's model of gravity can still make accurate predictions.
evidence is not the same as fact. there is no direct evidence for macroevolution for example, there is just indirect evidence and theories based on assumptions about observations and experiments. same with cosmic evolution (big bang), except that's even more far-fetched.
science constantly evolves and changes. today's theories might be 'fairytales' after 10,000 years. people sometimes say: "science comes closer and closer to the 'truth'. so even if the scientific theories constantly change we still have reason to believe them because they're the best we have so far."
but there is another source of information: the so called 'fairytales'. myths and religions. religion is the 'opposite' of science. while science constantly changes, religion doesn't change so much. and i think the reason they don't change is because they have already reached the goal of science... they have reached absolute truth. well... not exactly, but it sounded cool xD
it's funny because i used to believe in scientific theories when i was an atheist, and i used to laugh at ancient myths as if they were fairytales. but 'through his wounds' i was awakened.
if you're so interested about me and my beliefs and reasoning, check out this page because it reflects my beliefs quite accurately: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/Bisqwit wrote:
I know deep in my heart, that God exists -- this is called circular reasoning,
sometimes, to understand the world we have to use circular reasoning because the world is circular. "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere." -- Voltaire
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Bisqwit wrote:
There are a number of extradimensional shapes in which the universe could be contorted without having edges; the simplest being the hypersphere.
this simple cube is too complicated for my mind so i stick with the good old infinite universe because i don't like math so much because the only equation i know is divide by zero.
moozooh wrote:
The existence of a man-made book as a medium for a god's message sounds like a fundamental flaw by itself.
this sentence fascinates slightly so i can't help but to ask what would be a better medium than a book? personally i think it may be possible that god also used our brain and heart as a medium for his message.
While it's true that the >10% thing was a hoax (should have known but never been bothered to check, my bad),
i used to believe that the earth was round, but then i looked it up somewhere and i found that it was flat.
Superjupi wrote:
The brain's potential can't be measured in terms of percentages, even on a case-by-case basis.
your brain is more intelligent than mine and your avatar is cute because etna is young and i wish she was my girlfriend but she does almost not exist
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ah, i see. but what is lag exactly? is it when the FPS of the game slows down? could avoiding lag also avoid desyncs? then it might be useful in mupen.
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yes, i've heard of that before. some day it will probably be possible to grow a baby inside some kind of artificial womb too, then you don't need a woman either, you just need cells or something. talk about a boring way to reproduce though... but i guess it's good news for gays and those who naturally can't have their own babies.
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what is a lag counter? i've never seen that in an emulator before. i don't get it, it's just a bunch of numbers that randomly go up. how is it useful, how can i use it to my advantage?
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bkDJ wrote:
thaw?
"thaw"?! oh, you americanos use a different word for melt if we talking about ice that melts? in swedish and finnish we just use the word melt for everything that melts.
Flip wrote:
The problem with the current any% run is that it skips too much of the game, so there goes all the fun.
i think the "any%" might be more interesting than this. it's fun to see how fast the game can actually be beaten.
But then trying to define such a run will cause even more problems.
you could call it a "fun" run. you do everything that is fun, cool and interesting, like defeating dark link.
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once i also wanted to do a TAS of this game, but i've lost track of all the glitches like shadow early, cute angles, infinite sword flipping, bombchu warping, backwards hover boosting etc. when i watched this run i thought it started desyncing when you entered shadow early because i didn't know wtf you were doing.
a few funny moments in the run:
-blind/deaf guards at zelda's castle
-everybody in town has turned into zombies *link just sidehops past them like it was nothing special*
-in phantom ganon, did you just backflip and hit ganon while in the air?
-the forest medallion is a swastica
Satyrium wrote:
Ice Cavern
ice cavern is so betaish, because it doesn't even melt zora's domain. i heard there was supposed to be an ice medallion in the game but then they realized that ice is almost the same as water so they thought it was unnecessary.
n_slash_a wrote:
any%
any% category is pretty weird. can you choose any percent you want? like 59% or even 100%.
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i figured out why it crashed, it had nothing to do with the emulator, i just forgot that i had to change something in the cdrom plugin. i'm such a computer noob.
does this emulator have general save and load slots that save and load the current slot?
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mmbossman wrote:
My wedding is coming up next July, and doesn't have anything gaming related in it, and the only geek content is me. I can't say I really care though, I've always thought of games as just something to play, not something to build a mini-culture around.
i've always considered games and computers to be my whole life, not just a pastime. honestly though... girls are our whole life, because if there were no girls, there would be no life on earth.
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Bloobiebla wrote:
The Ice Cavern and BotW aren't considered dungeons because of the reasons stated by Satyrium.
i would consider them to be minidungeons. they're not true dungeons because they don't have a boss, but they both have important items that you (normally) need to complete the game.
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Raiscan wrote:
I'm a bit behind on duksandfish, but I'm trying things a little different. Here's a teaser of what I'm trying:
i don't like cel shade so much, it makes the graphics look worse than they already are IMO. i'd rather see it encoded with the hi-res pack, even though it's probably incomplete.
Tompa wrote:
The download is soon done so I can at last watch this run, yay.
if you use VLC you don't have to wait for it to download, you can watch it while it downloads. it may not work with newer VLC versions.
Duksandfish wrote:
*cries* Anyway.. it's like mupens fault...
yes, but i wonder how the real encoders like bisqwit and DesyncEd (or whatever his name was) can get the audio to sync.
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ElectroSpecter wrote:
- FF8. Though it would somewhat hurt to not really see some of the story, there's no need to level up. And you could probably beat the game by playing cards or something.
that would be the longest tas ever. at least 8h. ff7 would be almost as long though... at least 7h.
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Derakon wrote:
Because consoles aren't computers.
according to the FAQ they are: "Video game consoles are computers."
somewhere it also says that computers are calculators. i think that's interesting, and funny.
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An interesting movie for TASers to see might be Next: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435705/
Using his clairvoyant abilities the guy in the movie is able to manipulate luck kinda like save states.
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Neophos wrote:
Gender? Why does this matter?
Yeah, I was wondering that too. Everybody knows there are no girls on the internet, so what's the point?
Seriously though, the reason it matters is because it's the most interesting question on this poll. I don't know about you, but I kinda like girls, so I'm not so interested to hear what a guy has to say..
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Warp wrote:
The GameCube was not bad itself in this regard, with 21 million units sold, but once again completely overshadowed by its competitor.
The problem with Nintendo is that they aim for babies as their target audience. Especially the Gamecube. I mean, who still wants to play with cubes when they're 20?