Noxxa
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Please nominate eligible TASers. Nominations are open until 2021-01-07 23:59 UTC. Voting is open until 2021-01-14 23:59 UTC. Vote for the TASers who, in your opinion, made the greatest TAS content throughout the year. TASer of 2020 candidates: aiqiyou Alyosha CasualPokePlayer Elomavi EZGames69 Lobsterzelda Malleoz Memory Mothrayas mtbRc ThunderAxe31 The winner: EZGames69
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
Samsara
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Nominating EZGames69. Perfect mixture of output, variety, and quality.
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Challenger
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Samsara wrote:
Nominating EZGames69. Perfect mixture of output, variety, and quality.
Seconded
My homepage --Currently not much motived for TASing as before...-- But I'm still working.
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I nominate Lobsterzelda and CasualPokePlayer.
Here, my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/dekutony
Zinfidel
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Obviously has to be EZGames. 21 publications and only one of them is a vault submission.
EZGames69
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Zinfidel wrote:
Obviously has to be EZGames. 21 publications and only one of them is a vault submission.
That's kinda surprising that I only had one Vault this year.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
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EZGames69, Mothrayas, aiqiyou
Noxxa
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EZGames69 not only has more movies than anyone else by a long haul, they are almost all of high quality as well, across a wide variety of different systems with very good diversity.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I also nominate EZGames69. He's the perfect example of getting to the top despite the odds. I also want to nominate Lobsterzelda, Mothrayas, and Memory.
my personal page - my YouTube channel - my GitHub - my Discord: thunderaxe31 <Masterjun> if you look at the "NES" in a weird angle, it actually clearly says "GBA"
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EZGames69, Alyosha, Mothrayas, ThunderAxe31, Malleoz, adelikat, Aglar, and Elomavi,
Planned runs: Marble Madness (Arcade, Genesis J, GG/SMS) Proposed: Ecco the Dolphin (Genesis, GG/SMS, CD: regular, camera freeze) Ecco: The Tides of Time (Genesis, GG/SMS, CD; normal mode) Mario Kart DS (all cups, all missions) In progress: Grand Poo World 3 (all exits hard mode)
EZGames69
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Evan0512 wrote:
adelikat, Aglar,
I would like to object to these two being nominated for TASer of the year. For both of them, they’ve only made one movie this year while the other movie of theirs was an improvement done by someone else, while using their inputs.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
Memory
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EZGames69 wrote:
Evan0512 wrote:
adelikat, Aglar,
I would like to object to these two being nominated for TASer of the year. For both of them, they’ve only made one movie this year while the other movie of theirs was an improvement done by someone else, while using their inputs.
Agreed.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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EZGames69 wrote:
Evan0512 wrote:
adelikat, Aglar,
I would like to object to these two being nominated for TASer of the year. For both of them, they’ve only made one movie this year while the other movie of theirs was an improvement done by someone else, while using their inputs.
Also agreed.
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EZGames69 wrote:
Evan0512 wrote:
adelikat, Aglar,
I would like to object to these two being nominated for TASer of the year. For both of them, they’ve only made one movie this year while the other movie of theirs was an improvement done by someone else, while using their inputs.
I think this objection is reasonable with an asterisk: players are listed here for eligibility because they fit some criteria for this category, so if reasonable objections can be made to nominations, it might also be reasonable to examine the eligibility criteria.
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BrunoVisnadi, homerfunky, RingRush, Allbeert, mtbRc . Also that Mega Man Tas was great so ...Shinryuu, pirohiko, Maru & FinalFighter. These tasers submitted / contributed to my favorite tases of the year.
discord: CoolHandMike#0352
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EZGames69 wrote:
Evan0512 wrote:
adelikat, Aglar,
I would like to object to these two being nominated for TASer of the year. For both of them, they’ve only made one movie this year while the other movie of theirs was an improvement done by someone else, while using their inputs.
I also agree as well
my personal page - my YouTube channel - my GitHub - my Discord: thunderaxe31 <Masterjun> if you look at the "NES" in a weird angle, it actually clearly says "GBA"
EZGames69
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Zinfidel wrote:
EZGames69 wrote:
Evan0512 wrote:
adelikat, Aglar,
I would like to object to these two being nominated for TASer of the year. For both of them, they’ve only made one movie this year while the other movie of theirs was an improvement done by someone else, while using their inputs.
I think this objection is reasonable with an asterisk: players are listed here for eligibility because they fit some criteria for this category, so if reasonable objections can be made to nominations, it might also be reasonable to examine the eligibility criteria.
Only on a case by case basis I think it would make sense to apply. Like image if someone were to submit only one TAS that just happens to be of an extremely high quality, do we not allow their nomination because of only one movie? That’s one case it shouldn’t apply to. Where as the movies made by these two authors (not to throw them off the bus) aren’t exactly notable where they would stand out over all the other eligible nominations.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
Noxxa
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Zinfidel wrote:
EZGames69 wrote:
Evan0512 wrote:
adelikat, Aglar,
I would like to object to these two being nominated for TASer of the year. For both of them, they’ve only made one movie this year while the other movie of theirs was an improvement done by someone else, while using their inputs.
I think this objection is reasonable with an asterisk: players are listed here for eligibility because they fit some criteria for this category, so if reasonable objections can be made to nominations, it might also be reasonable to examine the eligibility criteria.
The only criteria to be in the eligibility list is to have a published TAS in the year. That does not mean that everybody is equally viable for the award - if it were, then we wouldn't have a need for nominations at all. Now, nominations normally are not examined that thoroughly (besides fitting the basic eligibility criteria), but when people make nominations that quite clearly are not up to par compared to the rest, it does nothing but add bloat to the polls. That's why nominations can be vetoed (as long as it does not come down to merely difference in taste). Following the consensus that seems to be built in this thread, adelikat and Aglar will not be included on the poll, on grounds of their respective outputs simply not matching up to other nominees.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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CoolHandMike wrote:
BrunoVisnadi, homerfunky, RingRush, Allbeert, mtbRc . Also that Mega Man Tas was great so ...Shinryuu, pirohiko, Maru & FinalFighter. These tasers submitted / contributed to my favorite tases of the year.
I'm personally opposed to Maru because of how he negatively contributed to TASing this year. He contributed gatekeeping which is something the TASing community does not need.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
Noxxa
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Based on precedent effectively set by the opinions on the nominations for adelikat and Aglar, I will also be excluding other nominees that only have 1 movie to their name for this award. It seems quite clear that contributing more than just a single good movie is regarded significantly higher for the purpose of this award, which is how I believe this award should function as well.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
CoolHandMike
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Mothrayas wrote:
Based on precedent effectively set by the opinions on the nominations for adelikat and Aglar, I will also be excluding other nominees that only have 1 movie to their name for this award. It seems quite clear that contributing more than just a single good movie is regarded significantly higher for the purpose of this award, which is how I believe this award should function as well.
How underhanded to tack on rules that invalidate people's nominations on the last day of the last hour of nominations!
discord: CoolHandMike#0352
Noxxa
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CoolHandMike wrote:
Mothrayas wrote:
Based on precedent effectively set by the opinions on the nominations for adelikat and Aglar, I will also be excluding other nominees that only have 1 movie to their name for this award. It seems quite clear that contributing more than just a single good movie is regarded significantly higher for the purpose of this award, which is how I believe this award should function as well.
How underhanded to tack on rules that invalidate people's nominations on the last day of the last hour of nominations!
Sorry about that - it's a consequence of objections raised to nominations that were made on the last few hours of the last day of nominations. It was not exactly something I anticipated for, and with how soon nominations are due to close it was needed to come up with something quickly. For future years I will try to resolve these sorts of issues in the nomination process ahead of time.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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It's not really underhanded given those people have absolutely 0 chance of winning, it just makes the award process less annoying.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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If you guys want to prevent conflict, how about you let your users decide on who’s worthy of this award through voting. At least for this year since it was a last minute request.
EZGames69
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CoolHandMike wrote:
How underhanded to tack on rules that invalidate people's nominations on the last day of the last hour of nominations!
I mean, this literally cannot be helped if the nominations were also on the last day.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing