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It was fast and looked optimized, the glitches were fun and it was funny to see the Prince run, jump, double jump, climb, slash, run up walls, slide, roll, and all those other neat things, perfectly. Too bad about some of the delays. Having never played the game, I found the run to be a little repetitive towards the end. Anyway, voting yes.
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nfq wrote:
why does a cactus have thorns? because it wants to live and doesn't want animals to eat it.
Sorry, no.
but the thing that is important to know is that the cactus decided to have thorns before it became physical.
The cactus never "decided" anything. Its ancestors, who happened to be more thorny than its siblings, were more more likely to survive, so more thorn-making genes survived. Please please read something about evolution before you ever speak of it again.
if something has become physical already, it can't change much. according to scientists' theory of evolution, physical bodies changed into many different creatures, but it is not possible.
I don't even know what you're saying here, but whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
we evolve mentally. animals can't do that because they can't think consciously.
No species ever "thinks about" how they are going to evolve. It happens without anyone thinking about it.
no physical devices that we use for tracking time are perfect and naturally they are subject to error when put into different circumstances (gravity, acceleration, etc.)
One question. Do you think scientists are stupid? These experiments have been repeated over and over again, and the results are way beyond error.
An object in motion tends to stop? The four atoms are earth, fire, air, and water?
correct.
durrrrr......
the ancient egyptians knew the cause of the universe and they knew when it was created.
Err, no.
antigravity ark of the covenant, telepathy (that's why they never invented phones, lol) etc.
Ah, so that's how they built the pyramids! Anti-gravity!!!111 :P :P :PPPPPP
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nfq wrote:
If the universe was not created in the distant past, why did God try so hard to make it look like it was.
what i mean is that the universe has existed forever, and god is the one recreating it every day.
If the universe has existed forever, how could it have been replaced every day?
nfq wrote:
the perfect being doesn't have to be created in order to exist, because the perfect being is non-being, non-existence.
I think you just said there is no god. Either that, or I can prove it to you now: Nobody's perfect, therefore god is nobody, therefore god doesn't exist. BAM.
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it means that the definition of god has to be broad because god is big.
No, it means you don't know what you think God is, so you need to cast a net as wide as the universe so no one can start discussing it.
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Fabian wrote:
nfq,
If you believed you could fly, could you jump off a roof and actually fly?
That isn't really a question, is it?
If you believed you would stop being hungry if you ate food, would you eat food?
If you believed 2 + 2 was 4, would you write down that answer on a math test?
If you believed the ground was solid, would you try to walk on it?
If you believed you would go to heaven if you blew yourself up, would you do it?
If you believed you could fly, would you jump off a cliff?
etc.
People have more beliefs than they probably think. Although I think most people who claim to believe in God, don't really have the same level of belief as described above. Maybe some do, but in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, there has to be some doubt.
nfq wrote:
(...) i said that i don't believe in any religion... One doesn't have to believe in a religion to believe in gOd. discussion consists of two opposing sides. if they are not balanced, one side will win and the discussion will end. so i have to defend god so that the discussion will not die.
without the two opposing forces, there would be no electricity, attraction, love, discussion, between things...
Since God has no definition, it's really pointless to discuss it at all unless we discuss a specific definition of God. Do you have any definition of the God you believe in? Or at least a vague description? Otherwise, it's pointless to even try.
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Wyster wrote:
So to summarize, in a game where the wr's suck or there are no competition at all the standards for acceptable TAS'es are alot lower than on high competition games.
It might work like that in practice, but ideally it should not be the case.
So poeple like me who TAS one of the most competed games ever have to work alot harder on a TAS then poeple making a run for [insert game with 0 competition], and even though my run is better than those the other still get accepted because the competition is lower.
No. You are expected to make the most perfect movie possible, no matter what game it is. The difference is that if there is a WR, we know that that time can at least be matched. So, a TAS is naturally expected to match or exceed those times. A sloppy TAS is not supposed to be accepted, although if there are no WRs, it would be more difficult to see whether it is sloppy or not.
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This run is very nice. I hate to be a critic, but here are some things I noticed. All of them are minor, though some less minor than others.
At 00:57, did you bump into the side of the platform and lose a frame or two? I'm sure it's unavoidable, but thought I'd mention it anyway.
I assume the jumping at the beginning of most levels is to skip some dialogue, good job.
At 9:35, could you save a few frames by landing the bee slightly earlier, therefore cutting the corner more closely?
At 10:55, could you have jumped into the bar thing instead of waiting for it to come down, saving a few frames?
At 11:10 and 11:15, could enemy spawning/movement be manipulated better?
At 15:10, when jumping down, wouldn't it be faster to go to the right of the lower platform instead of turning left, and then back again?
At 22:54, I had the thought that it might be faster to not fly up at the start and rather go under the first purple platform instead of over it, then you could go down the left side of the platform with the snail on it instead of on the right. Could potentially save maybe a dozen frames of backtracking if it would work. But maybe not.
Anyway, I like this run and vote yes. Nicely done.
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The only thing that come to mind is,
Q. What do you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest?
A. Stand up.
Also, here's something I shamelessly copied from some random stupid blog:
+15°C / 59°F
This is as warm as it gets in Iceland, so we'll start here.
People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves.
The Icelanders are out in the sun, getting a tan.
+10°C / 50°F
The French are trying in vain to start their central heating.
The Icelanders plant flowers in their gardens.
+5°C / 41°F
Italian cars won't start.
The Icelanders are cruising in Saab cabriolets.
0°C / 32°F
Distilled water freezes.
The water in Hvítá river gets a little thicker.
-5°C / 23°F
People in California almost freeze to death.
The Icelanders have their final barbecue before winter.
-10°C / 14°F
The Brits start the heat in their houses.
The Icelanders start using long sleeves.
-20°C / -4°F
The Aussies flee from Mallorca.
The Icelanders end their Midsummer celebrations. Autumn is here.
-30°C / -22°F
People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth.
The Icelanders start drying their laundry indoors.
-40°C / -40°F
Paris start cracking in the cold.
The Icelanders stand in line at the hotdog stands.
-50°C / -58°F
Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole.
The Icelanders navy postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.
-60°C / -76°F
Mývatn freezes.
The Icelanders rent a movie and stay indoors.
-70°C / -94°F
Santa moves south.
The Icelanders get frustrated since they can't store their Brennivín outdoors.
The Icelanders navy goes out on winter survival training.
-183°C / -297.4°F
Microbes in food don't survive.
The Icelandic cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.
-273°C / -459.4°F
ALL atom-based movement halts.
The Icelanders start saying "it's cold outside today."
-300°C / -508°F
Hell freezes over,
Iceland wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Like sgrunt said, one of the basic principles of making a TAS is that it does not matter at all what method you use to make your TAS. The *only* thing that matters is that you end up with a valid input file. That's it. So feel freee to use whatever enhancements you can think of. That's what we do here.
Also recommended is: Have fun and enjoy what you're doing!
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I downloaded the newest demo from http://cavestory.ravenworks.ca/ (This, to be exact.) I tried loading it in DeSmuME 0.7.2. Well, it does something alright. The lower screen works, and you can click those icons to load the areas featured in the demo. But the top screen is all scrambled and the sound is really scrambled. So even if the NDS port was fully done now, it wouldn't be playable on this emulator at this time. It's promising, though. Of course, DeSmuME does not have any TAS features built in, so that is also a problem, though I have faith that one of our awesome coders will work on that too. :)
I think the author should just release the freaking source code already. Then every coder on Earth would immediately port this game to every device ever made. Including DS.
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I'm sorry. I did not intend to sound mean or discouraging. Yes, it is true that it is very hard to make a proper 2-player TAS, especially for a SNES game what with 4 more buttons than NES for each controller. However, if the game is actually ideally suitable for a 2-player run, and you made a 1-player run, the run would not reach its full potential, right? You could of course still make it and share it with others and enjoy it a lot.
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VANDAL wrote:
I've rewatched the run with this plugin (an updated version of Rice's plugin) and for the most part, I think, I did not see any visual anomalies (there may have been a couple of places but I'm not sure). But because I'm not familiar with Goldeneye, I really can't be sure of myself. Would anyone whose familiar on how Goldeneye should be rendered care to try this plugin out and see if things render correctly?
I found this plugin on emutalk. There's a lot more interesting things/projects going on there that may be useful so I suggest checking them out.
I watched with the above plugin, and the only graphic errors I noticed were (yes, I realize at least some of these were probably discussed before):
*Trees on surface look wrong (but solid, so they don't screw everything up)
*The ocean on Frigate looks like a green void (not really a big deal and it doesn't mess anything else up)
*Some minor lighting/fog issues on surface 2, doors and windows appear fully solid while the rest of the house is clouded a little by fog/darkness. Same thing with the radar dish, helicopter and enemies and probably all non-static objects. Not something that will ruin the movie. Actually, I think this might be an issue in other levels as well (Archives for example) but it's the most pronounced in Surface 2.
*The ground outside buildings in Depot(?) is really really messed up. See for yourself in this screenshot.(~330kb) However, this error doesn't mess anything else up so it's not all bad.
The movie desynced in the train level, so I couldn't watch any more.
I'd say it's a pretty good plugin for this game, maybe the best choice, it's unfortunate that the Depot level stick out like that.
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Mushflop?
Okay, how about mushflobian?
Faboom?
Or even fabroom?
Comical Pirate?
Comical flopirate?
Comical flopiratoom?
Comical flopiratoom Pirate?
bleh.
Yes, I only used usernames who have posted in this tread. I'm, lazy that way.
Edit: I only considered what was pronouncable, nothing else. Sorry about that, I don't really follow who knows who and who works with whom around here.
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nfq wrote:
Really, give me a robust, honest, and logical argument for believing in god, and I promise I will think about it.
Instead of arguments I give you 2 proofs:
Proof #1. you are god, therefore god exists.
Proof #2. we can't explain things, therefore god is the only thing left that can explain them. For example: why is there something instead of nothing? Answer: god made it.
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I just played through Portal, and it is amazingly good, although tragically short. Although, that game is more of a "FPTAOTP" (First Person Teleport All Over The Place) game.
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nfq wrote:
It's no more insane than atheists who reject God because it doesn't make sense, and they're not interested in reading about it so that they would understand. However, I don't believe that any words could make me believe in evolution, just like they couldn't make you believe in God.
When I was an atheist I used to believe in Darwin's evolution and I couldn't understand how someone could believe in God.
Are you implying I don't know anything about god? Because I do. I do for example know all the main arguments for the existence of god, and as I have found out, all of them are refuted by relatively simple deductions and Occam's razor . Sometimes, I hear new arguments, but then I find out they are thinly disguised variations on the old ones. Really, give me a robust, honest, and logical argument for believing in god, and I promise I will think about it.
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nfq wrote:
The same way that atheists know that god doesn't exist. I know enough about it. I believe in evolution, but not the one science believes in because it doesn't make sense to me.
Okay... so, you believe in evolution, but ... you don't believe in evolution? That's confusing.
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What makes sense to me is that we were androgynous spirits who became jellyblobs who divided by division like cells. After dividing for a long time we divided into two genders made of meat (because of mind's separation). God, life or consciousness decided which form it wanted to become/design. My theory also explains why creatures used to be so big (dinosaurs). Because spirits don't weigh much so they can be big without gravity affecting them.
Okay, so you dismiss decades of scientific inquiry, thousands of papers written by experts in their field, who have made it their life's work to study their chosen field of science. You reject it all because it doesn't make sense, and you're too lazy to read about it so that you can make sense of it? Instead you just make up your own hypothesis that contradicts everything currently known to man? Sheeis.
If you understood god, you would believe in it, and if I understood darwin-evolution, I would believe in it.
Do you care at all about what is true and what is fantasy?
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Warp wrote:
What bothers me is that when people who strongly oppose religion are presented with the ethical question of why they are being so rude and insulting and why they don't respect other people who have done nothing to them, in the vast majority of the cases the answer is the same old "but religious people insult me" or the like, as if it was some kind of valid justification for them to be insulting too. They don't seem to see that this answer to the question is completely flawed. They don't seem to understand that they are doing exactly what they reproach other people of doing, and thus they are not any better. The answer is thus hypocrisy.
There are jerks on both sides. There are jerks who are atheists who mock other people for their beliefs, and there are theists who mock atheists and other theists for their beliefs. I personally (and I only speak for myself) try not to criticize the people themselves, but rather their religion. You do know that some people believe in an evil intergalactic alien overlord. Jesus walking on water is just as outlandish, although not as funny. You see, religion is a great source of absurd humor. But people are people and one should not insult them personally
