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Thanks for the information! I always wondered this, but never had the patience to try and see where the different sets of symbols max out.
And yeah, I agree a proper TAS should go for the champion rank in light of this new information.
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niamek wrote:
I've rewatched your run of Lunar pool (This one: [1500] NES Lunar Pool "no friction" by Bisqwit in 36:48.36). I wonder if you thought about doing a max friction run during the time the bot did the work.
Did you think about doing a max friction run?
I suppose I did think of it, only to reject the idea very soon thereafter and forget about it completely: A max friction run would probably consist of prodding the billiard balls ahead a few centimeters at time hundreds of times per a board.
But in closer analysis, I think I do see there's a challenge in that: You must actually pocket _something_ every three shots, or you will lose lives (extra cue balls). Hmm...
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What is the appeal of the mystery genre?
I had to Google "mystery genre" to see what you mean. I suppose people like puzzles? Thrill and suspense? To put oneself in the shoes of the person responsible solving the problem, and seeing how they compare?
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Any particular TAS trick you guys have in mind?
So far, this Item-1 trick is the only one that has been explicitly requested, although that is mostly because MM2 is pretty much the only TAS featured on my YouTube channel...
And also I don't think I can cover tricks that require reviewing some assembler code (SRAM & ACE tricks in particular); it just wouldn't be too approachable for viewers. Techniques for games that I have very little experience about (such as OoT) are also off boundaries.
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TheAxeMan wrote:
I was thinking about posting but after reviewing the thread to see everyone else's age I realized I already did. Given how long ago it was I'm not surprised I forgot.
Indeed. It was more than 10 years ago that I posted in this very thread the first time.
Thank you to everyone who consoled me about my cat. I am feeling better now. It was quite an unsettling and bewildering experience to bury your pet, even though it wasn't the first time for me. This was the first pet that I could (and did regularly) call "my cat", as opposed to a cat of the family of my parents. The last time it happened, the cat was older than I was.
Since I don't have a wife, let alone any children, this cat was the closest thing I had to a child. I suddenly became aware of all the various ways that living with a cat had changed my life and affected my daily routines. It will take some time for that hole to heal completely, but the day before and the day after were definitely the worst. I had been saying goodbyes to my cat for many weeks before the fact: each and every morning being prepared to the real possibility that when I get back home from work, the cat might no longer be with the living; this made the aftermath a bit easier for me. Still, having to consciously make the decision to have him euthanized by a vet was a painful one, and being present during the whole procedure; something that may never completely end haunting my thoughts.
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After I had been lurking in the shadows for months, suddenly I discovered that there was a forum on the site, and it sort of happened that I had to register on it. Involvements and stuff.
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I would so much prefer if people could just be people without bringing genders, races, religions, and other attributes into the discussion, requiring special acknowledgement of those traits in matters completely unrelated to them.
Someone posted a picture saying: On the Internet nobody knows you're a cat. I would emphasize this to say: On the Internet nobody cares that you're a cat. It is irrelevant.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I recognize that I probably failed to word my expression in a manner that doesn't come back biting me some day because of an alternative unintentional interpretation.)
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Using EEPROM (flash) chips is a much cheaper route to go by, though.
At least if you don't mind being limited to the mapper chipset of the donor cartridge. I have got a MMC3 Famicom EEPROM cart, for example, with ROM sizes limited to 128 kB each.
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As a well-known classic of video game history: Yes vote.
Did I want to watch this? Yes vote.
Because I like Balloon Fight better: No vote.
Because there is no definite ending: No vote.
Did I enjoy what I saw? Meh vote.
Eh. I'll go with "meh".
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Zarmakuizz wrote:
Any technical details about the reason(s) of this kill screen?
Probably similar as the graphical distortions that happen in Zelda 2, Battle of Olympus, Super Mario Bros. or Excitebike when going faster than the game can render.
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The only "sensitive" information on TASVideos is the non-reversible hashes of users' passwords.
If you have sensitive information in e.g. private messages, you better not have sensitive information in e.g. private messages.
Private messages are kept private only by reasonable efforts. There is no intention of ever making them public, but if "shit happens", then the responsibility with the contents of the private messages is with the users themselves. The same goes for any WIPs that are not publicized, non-public votes/ratings, etc.
That's how I view it anyway; as an ex-administrator.
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Nice movie. I had no memory that the turtles and the gas balls actually looked different in the PAL version.
Too bad the POW block was not used in this movie.
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It is rather long, and I'm not sure I have the patience to watch it all, but at least in the beginning (more than 5 minutes anyway) it is quite interesting yet simple. Good job. Also I chuckled at the player's name considering this game.
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Scepheo wrote:
but I feel that false idolatry requires a certain amount of belief.
I like the way you are basically saying "it's not idolatry if you don't believe that there's an actual God you are putting behind". Loophole thinking...
Would this be fine? One's god is what ever one dedicates most of their life to.
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Arc wrote:
Well, I spent the last two weeks making a Let's Play for The Battle of Olympus. (Not a TAS.)
I collect 100% of the items, and I utilize a sequence break that is supposed to be impossible.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9E0dOSdv4ko-AbYakV3OMKI7M_9lDqu
The videos aren't monetized. I just want to share my Let's Play here because I spent so many hours attempting to create high-quality, entertaining videos, and I want people to watch them.
Thanks Arc! Nice to hear of you after a long while. You were one of this site's first users, registering on the forums even before Nach.
Will watch your let's play of course.
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Aqfaq wrote:
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Sports is kind of modern day idolatry...
Could you elaborate? Does this apply to speedrunning and Go too? Isn't pretty much every aspect of human culture "kind of" idolatry?
Well, true, you could make that stretch, but I was mostly referring to its origins in Greece where the worship of (naked) body was prevalent, culminating in the Olympics (which also were performed naked). [1][2]
Today, sports is a worldwide phenomenon where people make their life's arrangements with sports events in mind; they have to stay up late, sometimes even take vacation, just to observe some particular sports match. They pay huge sums for tickets, and they are more passionate about the results of a big name match (say, Ice Hockey championships) than they are of the politics in their home land. Some even go as far as to ostracize the supporters of a competing team or treating them as traitors or enemies -- this is pretty rare though.
In religious terms, anything that takes an disproportionally elevated place in a person's life is an idol, a false god. To quote the Gospel according to Matthew / Mattityahu, "where your treasure is, there will your heart be also". This is in a context where Yeshua makes a stark comparison between accumulating treasures upon earth, where one night can be all that is needed for of your treasure losing all its value, and accumulating treasures in heaven, where "the moth and rust do not corrupt it".
This all roots back down to Deuteronomy 5:7-10, which says "You shall have none other gods before me. You shall not make yourself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: You shall not bow down yourself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments."
The definition of what counts as an "idol" or "other god" vary, but I subscribe to the view that anything that comes before God (as described by Bible) is an idol. There are plenty of articles on that topic in the Internet. [3]
As such, it is indeed possible that any aspect of human culture can become an idol. It is also entirely possible that it does not become an idol for a person, even if it is that for a majority.
So, in my view, sports has the clearest makings of idolatry that there can be. It occupies a priority spot of the life of a majority, as well as of the media. Millions of people flock after sports, whether by travelling, or through telemedia. For the people sportsing, it occupies an unquestionable number one spot of their own life, going over nearly everything else. And its historic roots are in idolatry. But sports itself is not idolatry. It is the phenomenon and the role it plays in a person's life that is the defining point.
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scrimpeh wrote:
Bisqwit, your predictions for the world cup?
I don't even know who are playing.
Sports is kind of modern day idolatry... Which makes sense, considering where the origins of sports phenomenon is (Greek, Hellenism).
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niamek wrote:
I've discovered that you've done a disassembly of Megaman. I'm curious! I'd like to know what extent is your knowledge about megaman. :)
Is it close to like Fusoya with Super Mario World... Or Giangurgolo with Super Mario RPG?
Probably not up to the level of knowledge of Fusoya re: SMW. I do not know about this Giangurgolo guy. But I probably do know or have the resources to acquire the knowledge about most that there is to know about that game. Some little details, like most of the code in bank 6, is rather uncharted. And I can't remember why the split-screen phenomenon happens after a certain glitch state.
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I liked it. The struggle to execute some complex actions simultaneously in different games was very clearly seen. And it managed to beat the games almost the same time.
