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Second of all COPPA has basically never been enforced on non-commercial websites. In fact it has rarely been enforced at all. That's because it's pretty much impossible to enforce except on extremely high-profile websites. You talk about how we're supposed to live "in the real world", but in the real world COPPA is almost null and void.
So we should break a law, because it has rarely been enforced? Just because it hasn't doesn't mean it won't.
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That said, let's talk about it. Supposedly the reason to remove that picture was because a young member probably does not understand privacy and therefore should not be allowed to post pictures of himself. It should be noted here that, even if you take the COPPA law as an example, which is the controversial and rarely enforced US federal law that applies to this exact situation, pictures are part of a so-called "sliding scale" of how likely something constitutes a privacy violation. It is interpreted as stating that pictures of children can be disseminated as long as there is no identifiable information contained in the picture and they are taken at public places. The picture that was posted (I saw it before it got taken down) applies to this perfectly.
Actually, after reading the COPPA law, I'm tempted to remove the information about his location from his profile. (Which, combined with his picture, makes it more identifiable.)
Once again, I disagree with Brushy's reason (to protect Patryk), however, the conclusion is the same (to protect the website from lawsuits, regardless of the 'rarity' of enforcement.)
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So, as far as I'm aware, Brushy did not remove the picture as per any of the laws. Which is good because it would be following the letter of the law for no sane reason, and that's a big no-no. Nach has already issued bans to people referencing fansub trackers and whatnot on IRC, that's harsh enough, we don't need any more paranoia-induced law enforcement.
Actually, after reading the Wikipedia page on COPPA, I feel that we should go further, not less. The idea, (at least, to me), isn't to protect Patryk, that is the job of his parents. The job is to protect the website from lawsuits.
I had this conversation with AngerFist, recently. While American copyright laws do not apply to him, the physical servers that host the website reside in America, and therefore are under the jurisdiction of American laws and courts. I will hole-heartily agree that the current copyright, DMCA, COPPA, and etc laws are ridiculous. However, the purpose of this site is to host entertaining movies of video games... Not to be the martyr against unjust laws. A single lawsuit (just or unjust, winnable or not for any reason would basically be the end of TASVideos.org. (Lets face it, community donations wouldn't scratch the surface of the legal fees).
Thus, we have heavy-handed actions to deal with things we perceive that could cause the end the site. Yes, in fairy tale land we'd stand up for truth and justice... but, this is the real world.
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I didn't realize this game was made by Camelot Software Planning! (Makers of the Shining Series of games). Note, the text font is even identical to Shining Force 1 and 2. Anyway, I was looking into the game. Mashing X appears to be the worst strategy - It appears dependent on when you press X. Also, I think I found the RNG.
Anyway, yeah. I'd like to work with you, be a co-author on this. First and foremost, I could probably easily convert my SF2 text-advance scripts to BtB text-advance scripts.
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I moved it to its own page, for greatness.
http://tasvideos.org/SDATASes.html
Also, promoted Meshuggah to editor, so he can edit the page freely.
Personally, I think bad game choices should have been left in with either rejected submissions or text that says bad game choice.
SDATASes was all I could think of. If someone can think of a better title, let me know.
Meshuggah, please link to that in your first post.
Also, Arc the Lad has a forum thread ;)
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Dada wrote:
Okay, so which moderator removed Patryk1023's picture? Because I'd like to tell him to his face that this is an incredibly dumb thing to do.
Honestly? You think you can protect some guy from the DANGERS OF THE WORLD by removing his picture from an internet site, as if there are millions of pedophiles just waiting to pound on the opportunity to analyze it and determine his location?
Whoever did this must have delusions of grandeur in thinking he can levee any kind of protection whatsoever on a younger member of the forums by preventing him from posting his picture.
Let Patryk1023 decide for himself whether he wants to do that, and if you're really that concerned, tell him to ask his parents for approval.
I'm somewhat on the fence about this. In general, it should be the parents preventing this sort of online activity. In the absence of parental controls, Brushy was doing his best to prevent bad behavior from a minor (US law, minors can't give consent for... anything).
However, a harmless picture is just that. So yeah, Brushy may have been overbearing, but I'd rather the former happen than too loose of moderation.
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PJ_Boy made me think of an interesting physics question.
If you derive acceleration, you get the rate at which your acceleration changes. (You could do this nearly infinite times, until you hit a constant, to which the derivative would be zero).
If you integrate acceleration (m/s^2), you get velocity (m/s), i.e. the summation of your acceleration over an interval.
If you integrate velocity (m/s), you get distance traveled (m).
If you were to integrate distance... you'd get (m * s). Perhaps I'm just too far out of physics... but that doesn't seem like it would have any meaning.
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030 4-byte unsigned long: string length of author name
Are you sure about this? Why did I get 512 with short strings?
That has been changed, all strings are now 512 to avoid having to mess with the entire header if you change author name. I will update the spec.
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Sonikkustar wrote:
I dont want to upload pics yet, but ill just mention that people say I look like a cerial rapist.
cereal rapist?
NOOO NOT THE CAP'N!
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janus wrote:
I guess I'm nostalgic :P. Seriously, it's still working well. I guess I will wait for it to be outdated (like Znes 1.43).
uh, actually, it is pretty crappy. Just give PSXjin a try, you might be impressed.
Also, have you considered getting help? Lua scripts and such?
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janus wrote:
https://rapidshare.com/files/458194351/movie.pxm
first wip of this game. Battles seem avoidable up to a certain point (they happen on specific squares), and escape/critical hits/defend seem manipulable in certain ways
Why are you using PCSX for this? Since you are starting new, why not use PSXjin?
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Sonikkustar wrote:
Now that PS2 rerecording is quickly on its way, I was wondering who would do these games.
It is?
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janus, I've noticed you don't seem to talk much about how you do luck manipulation. Do you use lua scripts? Do everything by hand? How does the RNG in the BOF series work?
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Depends on how long the final movie would be, I think. Seeing as it is basically an autoscroller, it can get boring, but if you continue to warp... maybe?
If it ended up 4-6 minutes, I could see people enjoying it.
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janus wrote:
You give it meh because you don't want to watch it? That's a weird reason
so you would give a meh to Final Fantasy 7-8, which will probably be as long?
to others : don't be fooled by the duration. You can watch it under 2 hours by fast-forwarding dialogues and slowing it down during fights
Janus: Once somebody posts it on Youtube, I suggest you use the #t=0m00s to link people to the important fights. That is what I plan to do with Final Fantasy 8.
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Arc the Lad is a strategy RPG for the Playstation. Amazingly, it manages to be much more simplistic than its 16bit predecessors. However, it is easy and fun to manipulate.
Link to video
here are the first 3 battles, it is about 6 minutes faster at this point, than the 4 segment speedrun at SDA.
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I just dumped this table from the RNG - the First Number is the RNG position, and the next 4 are the Crisis Levels, along with the result. Note, this changes if Selphie gains a level.
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McBAIN wrote:
exileut wrote:
DarkKobold wrote:
I am getting irritated with Final Fantasy 8, and I was curious what this game would look like TAS'd, so here is a quick test run of the first two Dark Tide Orc Levels.
:(
I too think it would be a shame if you quit your FF8 run!
On the other hand, i would also enjoy seeing more of WC2, though still less than a FF8 run.
Don't worry, I'm still working on FF8. I just need something interim when I get frustrated.
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Patashu wrote:
Why is that the final fantasy games continue to use such primitive RNGs? As recent as FF8 it was just a sequence of 256 bytes. ?_?
My guess is that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.' They probably have the same group of programmers from game to game. Additionally, When you are playing 'normally', you don't really notice that the RNG only has 256 states.
But yeah, it seems pretty simplistic.
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goldfish wrote:
It's true. Really, my only reason for voting NO was my deep-rooted hatred of ... islands. Fuck islands.
Francis? Is that you?
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I'm curious to see this list. Granted, SDA doesn't tend to care about game quality, and any game (short of "you have to cut the rope") is allowed to have a speedrun, as long as it is well played (i.e. obviously planned and practiced.)
For example, Legendary Axe for the Turbografx was decided it would make a poor TAS, but recently, a speedrun was published.
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Mister Epic wrote:
Seriously, I can't wait to see adelikat's answer to this movie. Just to see who won the "civil war".
Looking at it as a win for either side is kinda the wrong way. It isn't 'us vs. them', its differing opinions on what is best for the site. Really, both sides want the best for tasvideos, it is just a disagreement of which is a 'better' run.
A slower run with better camera angles?
or
A faster run with questionable camera angles?
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Nach wrote:
The motherboard is about 1.5 years old, not sure why you're assuming anything here. There is no serial port.
I guess I figured PS2 port + dos = old. Hence why I called it an assumption.
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I did a bit of testing and research, and it appears the RNG is completely sequential for both these games. Unfortunately, it seems like a TAS would, at best, match a RTS, given that there is little to no variability.
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