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JXQ wrote:
Why not change the front page to say "List Bisqwit's recommended movies"?
I don't want me to be advertised (at least not on this site), because I'm not really special.
That said, I apologize for neglecting this thread for some time.
In any case, I'll remove the stars temporarily (as in, indefinitely until something different comes up), as they have not been verified for some time and there may be discrepancies in them that I am not able to off-hand justify.
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We are not in a particular need of video / audio recording software; you have misunderstood the point.
Go here and educate yourself on the topic :)
http://tasvideos.org/Glossary.html#ToolAssistedSpeedrunTas
Now locking this off-topic thread.
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We have to do with what we can have.
Unless you have an idea of some radically new concept, the curve of non-obsoleting movies will indefinitely decrease as the number of remaining TAS-worthy games grows shorter.
Obsoleting movies are not a bad thing in my opinion. The games which were obsoleted, are as good now as they were when the previous movie was made.
That, and the new movies provide something new worth watching. New art, new strategies, new numbers.
As for new audience, they don't care whether it's the 11th revision of the same game's TAS or the first one (because they haven't seen any earlier ones). They want an entertaining movie, and they will have it.
Xkeeper wrote:
This doesn't seem to indicate that new consoles help that much. SMS is a notable exception, but judging from "new" consoles like N64...
How about snes9x and Gens?
N64 had indeed quite little impact: There aren't still many TASed games for it, and those projects tend to take a long time.
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DarkKobold wrote:
To solve the question of 'what happened', it may be interesting to see the derivative of this graph, and determine when actual changes occurred.
Hooya.
Weekly:
Disclaimer: The granularity for these graphs is not necessarily a calendar month / week. The units are 30 days and 7 days, but not anchored at any particular calendar position.
Anyway, to me it seems like everything is fine :)
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In February 2008
3322491 total hits
49148537 total kB files
98257 total unique sites
4773 average hits per hour
52.50% ratio of Mozilla family hits
35.83% ratio of IE family hits (18.81% MSIE 7, 14.71% MSIE 6, 0.23% MSIE 5)
4.89% ratio of Opera family hits
[Edit: updated total hits]
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In January 2008
3369547 total hits
51677188 total kB files
104977 total unique sites
4528 average hits per hour
54.86% ratio of Mozilla family hits
33.75% ratio of IE family hits (18.18% MSIE 7, 15.00% MSIE 6, 0.16% MSIE 5)
4.73% ratio of Opera family hits
0.19% ratio of Konqueror family hits
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Zurreco wrote:
Right, but you're missing the point here. Tool-assistance will not be far off once proper emulation is possible, but that emulation itself is quite far off. We are barely perfecting emulation for consoles that are 4 generations old: last generation consoles are nowhere near being finished (except DS emulation, which is coming along very well).
Exactly -- however, there is one important factor:
-- The main audience of emulators expects the emulators to provide a realtime (i.e. fluent) playing experience for the games that work on that emulator. An emulator being slow and laggy is not acceptable.
-- Whereas when making TASes, it does not matter how slowly the emulator runs; because the run will be created slowly anyway. The actual visual recording, i.e. the AVI, will play at normal speed regardless of the speed of the emulator that created it relative to its host system.
This means that even when there is theoretically enough knowledge to make a fully TASable emulator, such emulator won't probably yet appear, because most emulator design is guided primarily by gamers' wishes; they want emulator to work fast and fluently, and if that is impossible to fulfill, such emulator won't exist.
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Kuwaga wrote:
The zoo is called Tiergarten Schönbrunn and that place near it is the Schloss Schönbrunn. It's the oldest still existent zoo in the world, but you probably know that already.
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Cpadolf wrote:
That's no moon, It's a misplaced PM!
I agree.
As shown from above (Chris), this discussion is doing more harm than it is doing good, by shaping the attitudes of newbies against persons, which is especially what we do not want here.
If you have personal problems with someone, take it with PM and do not spam the public forums with it.
Especially as this thread has nothing to do with Saturn in particular.
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mr_roberts_z wrote:
I think the most obvious/important question now is...how did the airplane staff react to you snapping pictures of the interior of the plane?
Also, what camera did you use?
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zggzdydp wrote:
No, no... it's not true. China is not a country like that, we welcome everyone whether they come from and their religion faith is.
I'm sure the people do, but ― Not to start a debate here, but you probably know that China censors the news around there. It is not surprising if you don't hear about bad things done by the officials there.
A few news sources here: 12345
(With luck, some of them might not be censored. I hear BBC news is censored. Mirror here.)
A similar thing happens even in countries considered "free": For example, watch to a newscast on a USA television channel (such as CNN), and it's all* about Bush and Iraq and how they're fighting against terrorism and evil etc.; propaganda that enforces the support towards the country.
To get objective information, you need to look what others tell about it; preferably ones who are not affiliated, to avoid bias in any direction.
*) Not literally "all", but in a striking proportion.
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DemonStrate wrote:
My full speedrun is online now!<...>
Enjoy!
You have clearly been thinking with portals.
Cue applause. It was enjoyable.
And I seem to make this sound entirely sarcastic, when I really did enjoy it a lot :P
I need to watch this movie in frame advance. I can't follow you sometimes.
GLaDOS didn't even know what hit her! No deadly neurotoxin, either.
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superjupi wrote:
I never really considered applying the slowdown method to other games until years later when the first tool-assisted videos started popping up.
Yes, similar was my first TAS experience ― I played Mega Man II on Nesticle, slowed the game down a lot so as to do impressive maneuvers around the quick lasers in the Q stage. And I too, didn't consider using it for something else. (Oops, off-topic alert.)
Weekly:
Disclaimer: The granularity for these graphs is not necessarily a calendar month / week. The units are 30 days and 7 days, but not anchored at any particular calendar position.
Anyway, to me it seems like everything is fine :)
