Posted: 9/24/2020 9:23 PM
Post subject: TASGiving 2020 - TAS focused charity event benefiting NAMI
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dwangoAC
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I'm excited to announce TASGiving Nov. 27-29! I've always wanted to have an opportunity for the TAS community in general to hold a speedrunning charity marathon event with enough space for TAS content including content that is emulator based. With help from a ton of people in both the TASVideos community as well as the TASBot community I'm happy to announce TASGiving 2020, to run November 27-29 benefiting National Alliance on Mental Illness. I personally hope we can help raise $10k for a much needed cause with this event. You can help show commentary infused traditional speedruns, TAS runs on emulator and live on console, and video game exhibitions in a GDQ-esque Twitch livestream. The focus is on rehearsed commentary - for TASVideos.org content you don't have to be the author as long as you follow our attribution guidelines, so keep an open mind about what can be shown. Want to help in some capacity? Fill out the volunteer form at http://v.TASGiving.org or fill out the submissions form at http://s.TASGiving.org if you'd like to get involved, and feel free to discuss below!
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.
Posted: 9/25/2020 4:28 PM
Post subject: What TAS do you want to see with live commentary?
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dwangoAC
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Hey you! Yes, you, reading this - please take 10 seconds to reply below: What TAS on the site would you be the most excited to show the world when paired with passionate commentary? Have you ever watched a TAS you enjoyed but had no idea what was going on until you read the submission notes? What if you could have heard a well rehearsed explanation drafted by someone familiar with the game and read out loud by someone with a good speaking voice and a good sense of timing? What TAS's would you like to see played back with live commentary, someone excited about this glitch coming up, someone talking about the precise nature of the trick here, the difficulty of getting through this section there, highlighting how if this was a pixel wider it wouldn't be possible to do this incredible thing? There are many techniques we can use to take something prearranged (a TAS movie file) and still make it dramatic, still add suspense. We just need to know what to say. What we hope to show during TASGiving is art in a new light - the TAS's we know and love combined with strong commentary. To do that we're going to need people to (re)write commentary for entertaining runs in text form with an ear for when a commentator should say each section. You don't yourself have to be a polished public speaker, you just have to create something that could be read with passion. We're going to do our best to use commentators who know their game but this might not be possible for every TAS. Can you help write a script, possibly just by adapting your favorite run's submission notes to something that would be manageable to say out loud during the course of the run?
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.
Posted: 9/25/2020 4:47 PM
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Mortal Kombat 2 Playaround http://tasvideos.org/934M.html Also, I don't know what the submission is (or if it was submitted here) the Mario 64 ran on a SNES and TASed within that console. I know you know it Dwango, because it was GDQ.
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Posted: 9/25/2020 4:56 PM
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nymx wrote:
...the Mario 64 ran on a SNES and TASed within that console. I know you know it Dwango, because it was GDQ.
Out of respect for micro500 I will leave that for him to submit should he want to revisit it; he put his heart and soul into that effort and I remain both thankful for his effort and sad I mismanaged it. Of all content we've ever shown, that one is the most bittersweet for me. I'll leave it at that. Mortal Kombat 2 playaround *might* work, although I'd want to put it at the later night hours out of sensitivity for keeping the stream largely PG and we'd need someone to develop a script.
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.
Posted: 9/25/2020 5:06 PM
Post subject: Battletoads 2P Warps
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Battletoads 2P Warps. I could also make commentary for the TAS, although I wouldn't appear on camera.
Posted: 9/25/2020 5:26 PM
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That yoshi tas was awesome. And a good length too. A portrait of ruin Tas would be fun as well.
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Posted: 9/25/2020 6:01 PM
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CoolHandMike wrote:
That yoshi tas was awesome. And a good length too. A portrait of ruin Tas would be fun as well.
Cool, can you post links to the publications / submissions?
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.
Posted: 9/25/2020 6:08 PM
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Yoshis Island 100% http://tasvideos.org/2320M.html Portrait of ruin 1000% http://tasvideos.org/4159M.html
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Posted: 9/27/2020 5:21 PM
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SNES International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (USA) "playaround" in 15:24.38 by Marcokarty. http://tasvideos.org/1438M.html This TAS is magic to entertain! Else, NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA) in 15:44.93 by mamuuuut, lapogne36 & adelikat. http://tasvideos.org/4074M.html Very nice to watch and extremely entertaining!
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Posted: 10/1/2020 3:06 AM
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[4184] Genesis Phantasy Star IV by janus in 1:25:29.44 A comparatively quick JRPG, with truckloads of luck manipulation.
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Posted: 10/13/2020 3:23 AM
Post subject: Thanks for the suggestions - we need commentators
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dwangoAC
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Thanks for the run suggestions above. To make any of those happen, we need commentators. We're trying to flesh out the schedule now and we're running out of time to do that. Can anyone volunteer to create commentary and provide live chatter about what's going on? More run suggestions are also welcome. Thanks all!
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.
Posted: 10/13/2020 4:39 AM
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How much time will there be between the schedule releasing and the marathon starting? I'd like to volunteer to do commentary and I'm willing to do several runs, but I want to make sure I have enough time to choose them, research them and write scripts first. Also, two movie recommendations: [3216] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow "all souls" by Fz-Last, klmz & Pike in 17:06.41 [3948] GBA Sonic Advance "Knuckles, No Ultraspindash" by GoddessMaria in 13:14.31 And I would gladly commentate both.
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Posted: 10/18/2020 4:24 AM
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Einhander would be a great candidate too. [1785] PSX Einhänder by sparky in 31:29.93
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Posted: 11/1/2020 3:36 PM
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How are things going for this? Do you still need volunteers. If necessary, I might be able to provide commentary for you. As for suggestions, I believe someone mentioned it earlier, but I really think [3216] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow "all souls" by Fz-Last, klmz & Pike in 17:06.41 is a must. Some other suggestions I have: [2320] SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "100%" by Baxter, Carl_Sagan & NxCy in 1:59:35.12 [2062] N64 Super Mario 64 "70 stars, no Backwards Long Jump" by Jesus, Kaylee, MICKEY_Vis11189, MoltovM, Nahoc, snark, sonicpacker, ToT, CeeSammerZ, coin2884, Eru, Goronem, Mokkori, Nekuran, Nothing693 & pasta in 42:58.52 [4006] NES Mega Man 2 by Shinryuu, aglasscage & finalfighter in 23:44.50 [4244] Genesis Crusader of Centy by Eratyx in 29:10.77 [4212] PSX Tomb Raider by Troye in 51:45.55 Also, it might be cool to have a block dedicated to April Fools submissions.
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Posted: 11/1/2020 5:04 PM
Post subject: Commentators: Please pick runs and submit them for TASGiving
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dwangoAC
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Thanks for asking, arkiandruski! We definitely need volunteers - I've been sniped by family crisis with my mom hospitalized repeatedly and I've been entirely unable to follow up. To that end we're now falling behind on things and I could use some extra help. We currently have plenty of people suggesting content but nearly no commentators stepping up to submit runs at http://s.tas.bot - I think it's time to start using a process where people who are willing to provide commentary on a run submit them using the game submissions form. We're extremely late on this for a variety of reasons mostly related to me and any and all help we can get for content in the event would be appreciated. Thanks!
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.
Posted: 11/13/2020 6:03 PM
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Does anyone know when the schedule for TASGiving will be posted?
Posted: 11/13/2020 8:11 PM
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Lobsterzelda wrote:
Does anyone know when the schedule for TASGiving will be posted?
We have actually been actively working on the schedule at a rapid pace the past few days. The current schedule can be found here. We are working on making it also available on the TASGiving website, which should be updated within the next few days, so please keep an eye there. I'll do my best to keep updates as available as possible to the public. The #tasgiving channel on the TASBot discord is probably the best place to get the latest information, but as we have updates to push out, we are actively doing so.
TASBot Community Lead Moderator TASGiving Organizer TASGiving 2020 Main Thread Want to volunteer for TASGiving (Nov. 27-29, 2020)? Click here!
Posted: 11/26/2020 5:53 AM
Post subject: TASGiving "Norman Rockwell fever dream" promo video
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dwangoAC
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I've been substantially out of commission due to my own mom's mental health condition but I'm pulling things together to do my part to make the first TASGiving as good as we can make it. I can personally say I'm very thankful that this event benefits National Alliance on Mental Illness. TASGiving includes some truly fantastic content from various communities including many runs right here from TASVideos and I'm thrilled to see so much inclusivity and variety. I'm even more thrilled to announce the event will be on the Twitch front page on rotation throughout the weekend. Please help spread the word with this 40 second promo video made by AngelWind that's been described as a Norman Rockwell fever dream which I find an apt phrasing for it: Link to video
I was laid off in May 2023 and became too ill to work this year and could use support via Patreon or onetime donations as work on TASBot Re: and TASBot HD is stalled. I'm dwangoAC, TASVideos Senior Ambassador and BDFL of the TASBot community; when healthy, I post TAS content on YouTube.com/dwangoAC based on livestreams from Twitch.tv/dwangoAC.