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Posted: 10/24/2009 7:53 AM

Post subject: TASing and your social life

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Randil

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I'm sorry for the somewhat confusing title of this topic, but I couldn't come up with anything short and catchy that explains what I mean. For a lot of us here at TASVideos, TASing is quite a big interest, one in which we invest many hours every week in, in terms of watching TASes, making TASes, posting in the forum, etc. What I'm wondering is how much of your interest in TASing you share with your friends and family? Do you discuss the latest submitted TASes with your brother? Do you invite your friends over to watch the new Mega Man 2 TAS? Do you talk about your current TASing project with your co-workers during the coffee break? Or is TASing something you keep for yourself? For me, TASing is mostly something I keep for myself. Some of my friends, my girlfriend and my brother know I'm TASing, but of all of them, only my best friend has an interest in them, and we sometimes watch a TAS together. But for me, TASing is kinda like my "happy place", when I TAS or watch TASes, I relax and often let my thoughts wander away, and therefor I often prefer to do it alone. How about the rest of you?

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Posted: 10/24/2009 11:23 AM

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Ferret_Warlord

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You may know my brother already posts here, so I don't need to go on that angle. As for anyone else, I bring it up only if they ask what hobbies I have and I think they'd understand it without thinking I'm too weird, but I don't talk about it much.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 11:26 AM

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andymac

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Who's your brother. Anyway, I generally don't talk about it. Simply because it's not an interesting enough conversation topic.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 11:29 AM

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Ferret_Warlord

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andymac wrote:

Who's your brother.

Shadowbyrn. He doesn't post here as much as I do.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 12:09 PM

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Flygon

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Location: Australia, Victoria

I don't really talk about it much. My friends like TAS's but I doubt they'll ever make one (I'm the closest in my group that has come to actually bothering making one =|).

Posted: 10/24/2009 12:31 PM

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DaTeL237

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One friend is *slightly* interested in the concept of TASes but doesn't watch any (only maybe of zelda OoT... his favorite all time game) My brother knows I create and watch TASes but is in no way involved or interested

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Posted: 10/24/2009 2:28 PM

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Captain_Forehead

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All my friends know I'm tasing, and strangely, they have interests of ME tasing. My brothers think that tasing is like stealing a game, but for the most part, they enjoy watching tases.

Posted: 10/24/2009 3:38 PM

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Cpadolf

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All of my closets friends know that I make TASes, and a few of them find find the concept pretty interesting (though mostly they are puzzled over how I can find it fun to actually do). I don't really know anyone else who watches a lot of TASes though, and I rarely talk about it with someone. The only time I might bring it up is if I know someone really likes a game that has an impressive TAS, like "hey, you know Chrono Trigger can be beating in less than 30 minutes", which is also almost the only time I might watch a TAS with someone else (the only other time would be if someone was curious to see some of my work, which happens).

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Posted: 10/24/2009 3:41 PM

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andymac

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That happened to me. Some guy came up to me and said "Hey, did you know that you can beat super mario 64 in 5 minutes?" I didn't want to ruin his moment so I said "Whoa, really!"

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Posted: 10/24/2009 3:44 PM

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theenglishman

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My mother of all people not only knows that I TAS, but seems genuinely interested in the concept even if she knows next to nothing about the process. I had to explain it to her with the old "speedrunning is a sport, TASing is an art" argument and she eventually understood. My mother even sent the YouTube upload of my Sands of Time run to her friends, with a vague explanation as to what it was. Apparently they were impressed :) Some of my other close friends (yes, I actually have those) know that I TAS and on occasion ask how I'm doing with any particular project. I've had a few of my friends hooked on watching TAS's, though just not making them.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 4:02 PM

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nesrocks

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I have never personally met anyone interested in TASing. Maybe if I lived in Finland it'd be more likely. All my gamer friends (new console or retro gamers), think it is the biggest waste of time ever, a certificate of "Loser" and that sort of thing.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 5:36 PM

Post subject: Re: TASing and your social life

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Kirkq

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Randil wrote:

Do you invite your friends over to watch the new Mega Man 2 TAS?

Essentially. I actually have about 3 friends I keep updated with choice material. 5 of us actually watched Bloobiebla's Ocarina of Time all temples run on a widescreen TV last year.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 5:43 PM

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Noxxa

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FODA wrote:

I have never personally met anyone interested in TASing. Maybe if I lived in Finland it'd be more likely. All my gamer friends (new console or retro gamers), think it is the biggest waste of time ever, a certificate of "Loser" and that sort of thing.

Same here, the only person who knows about me TASing is my brother, who basically shares your friends' opinion.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 5:59 PM

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MUGG

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I rarely talk about it, given that many people that I've met are prejudiced against me (sadly) and think of me as a video game nerd with no real life if they find me playing Kirby for 5 minutes, since they apparently never experienced video gaming in any way. The rest isn't interested or doesn't understand.

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Posted: 10/24/2009 7:58 PM

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alden

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I will usually tell people about it if I know they are interested in old video games, and have shown some TASs to people if they sound interested... no one I know is even slightly as obsessed about them as I am though :) I think the most awkward description I ever made was to my father, where I had to start as basic as possible ("You know Nintendo? You can actually create computer programs that will read the data from a game and let you play it! And then slow it down! and speed it back up!")

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Posted: 10/24/2009 11:02 PM

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Sonikkustar

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Many people don't know I TAS. I told my neighbor about TASing because I posted some TASes on my Youtube channel and he was curious about how I did them. It's probably better that I don't tell anyone because I suck at TASing so bad. Although I suck, it is still enjoyable to do them because they can be fun to do & be like a puzzle to solve.

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Posted: 10/25/2009 12:06 AM

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Blublu

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Most of my friends aren't really interested in this stuff. They are aware of it, but mostly don't watch TASes and don't follow up on developments. I did show the latest (I think it still is) Mega Man 2 TAS and they were completely BLOWN AWAY by it. (don't worry, I made sure they understood how it was made). My brother and his friends are aware, but not really that much into it. My mom is very untechnical and are barely aware that there are even such things as emulators, or what they do. She would find it strange how it's possible to play NES games on a PC. My dad is more technical, but doesn't really have a clue about emulators either, I think. I did an essay on TASing for my English class a few years ago. The teacher said it was "quite technical". :P

Posted: 10/25/2009 5:29 AM

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pirate_sephiroth

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FODA wrote:

I have never personally met anyone interested in TASing. Maybe if I lived in Finland it'd be more likely. All my gamer friends (new console or retro gamers), think it is the biggest waste of time ever, a certificate of "Loser" and that sort of thing.

hahah yeah... that could happen when they only find out it's tool assisted AFTER watching the run. They're like "OMG!!11! that's gotta be the greatest player ever" and then you go "LOL it's done with slowdown and savesates" and then they "... then I don't really see anything interesting... thanks for wasting my time." Could happen also in other setup: Imagine you see someone spending hours working on the computer, and then after some research you discover that the guy is making a "TAS" of "Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion". I wouldn't blame you when you FACEPALM.

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Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.

Posted: 10/25/2009 5:36 AM

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nesrocks

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pirate_sephiroth wrote:

hahah yeah... that could happen when they only find out it's tool assisted AFTER watching the run. They're like "OMG!!11! that's gotta be the greatest player ever" and then you go "LOL it's done with slowdown and savesates" and then they "... then I don't really see anything interesting... thanks for wasting my time." Could happen also in other setup: Imagine you see someone spending hours working on the computer, and then after some research you discover that the guy is making a "TAS" of "Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion". I wouldn't blame you when you FACEPALM.

The point here seems to be the the word "working". That's exactly how they see it, I see it as "playing". Well, ok, when I was doing SM64 it did feel like work. When there needs to be "motivation" it becomes work.

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Posted: 10/25/2009 7:33 AM

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mz

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pirate_sephiroth wrote:

Imagine you see someone spending hours working on the computer, and then after some research you discover that the guy is making a "TAS" of "Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion". I wouldn't blame you when you FACEPALM.

Me: "All these months I've been making a movie frame by frame of an old game I played in my childhood about Mickey Mouse." Girl: "Oh, you're so cute." (True story.)

You're just fucking stupid, everyone hates you, sorry to tell you the truth. no one likes you, you're someone pretentious and TASes only to be on speed game, but don't have any hope, you won't get there.

Posted: 10/25/2009 8:15 AM

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pirate_sephiroth

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mz wrote:

Me: "All these months I've been making a movie frame by frame of an old game I played in my childhood about Mickey Mouse." Girl: "Oh, you're so cute." (True story.)

GO mz!

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Bisqwit wrote:

Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.

Posted: 10/25/2009 11:56 AM

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SwordlessLink

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A few of my friends know that I TAS and about my YouTube channel and have watched videos from it in front of me IRL, telling me how awesome they were. It was a weird but nice experience.

Posted: 10/25/2009 3:43 PM

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Nicos

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i kinda introduced some of my friends to TAS with the SMB64 0 star runs, i'm like " hey ever saw mario doin' some ninja stuff ?" but they're almost all "casuals gamers" so they do "wow" but then they don't want to know more... i like also to justify that i like tases for the technical stuff like " you see, this guy can do this because he manipuled the memory to make this enemy do this...." it **usualy** get the "good" developers raise a eyebrow in interest..

Posted: 10/26/2009 7:03 AM

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Ferret_Warlord

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Oh yes, I forgot until now... A roommate of mine watched me in one of my attempts to TAS the fight with Sardius in Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts. He seemed interested but otherwise didn't care too much.

A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me.