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Such a very weird thing to complain about. Of course it's a good thing movies are published swiftly when it's obvious no one is going to object to it being accepted. I just can't think of any reasonable counter arguments.
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mushroom wrote:
I just redid the level, and I was able to get past the chargin' chuck in realtime by spin jumping on his "edge" and then riding him until he dies. I did it a couple of times to make sure it wasn't some insane fluke.
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Yeah I find that weird and surprising. Still though it's good to hear it's actually doable. Maybe it's easier/possible when not playing with a keyboard or something.
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I think it's even more stupid than the original. As far as I've been able to tell, there's literally no way to finish the first level without tool assistance, since you need to press a button for exactly one frame. I think the concept of making a game like this and require cheating is just kinda stupid.
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It's by no means a simple trick to get. Like someone suggested, a high speed makes it easier to succeed, otherwise it just comes down to timing and a bit of luck. My only advice is to use frame advance and catch air on every possible (reasonable) frame, and try it in a few different situations if it doesn't work the first time. All the attempts in the smv looked a little off to me, timing wise, so just keep trying with frame advance and try out every possibility.
Also, I suggest using this link to upload smv's. It's great and awesome and everyone uses it because it rocks:
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php
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If you play back a movie (preferably in frame advance like you say) and you make a savestate somewhere, and you load that savestate, if you're not in read only-mode, you will overwrite the ending of that smv and record from where you made the savestate.
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When I want to change something in a level, I just rerecord from that point on to the end of the level. That is, I create a savestate from where I want to change something, and I load the smv (make sure to uncheck the read only-box) and load the savestate, and it'll start recording from that point on again.
Hexediting is difficult stuff, I've never hexedited anything because I don't know how to do it. I'd stay away from that if I were you.
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mmbossman wrote:
Fabian;
I know you are a rather successful poker player, but how successful? Do you make your entire living off playing, or do you have a normal job and use it for extra income? How old were you when you started playing, and how old when you started winning consistently? Biggest one day win and loss?
And if you have one piece of advice for an off and on aspiring player such as myself, what would it be?
I've made my entire living off of poker for the last 4 years. I haven't had a normal job during this time, or before this time, in fact :) I started playing just before I turned 17, as I entered my senior year of high school. At first, me and my buddy just read poker books and played with each other, we never played online or anything since we were both underage we had trouble getting started. We both loved poker though and we talked about it a lot, every day (we went to school together).
This was early September, then in December of that year my buddy turned 18 so we deposited $60ish bucks and started playing online. This was before we had found some of the excellent online poker resources that exist (the 2+2 forums), and we had little to no idea of what proper bankroll management meant. We both did pretty well in the games we were supposed to be playing (full ring limit hold'em), but after a few months I started trying out some NL and MTT's, and I lost the $200 or so that I had online.
Then in March, we decided to switch poker site to the most popular, US based, one, and focus solely on the game we knew best, limit hold'em. I started out playing on my buddy's account (I would still not turn 18 for another 6 months), and after I won $50 on his account I transferred it to my own, so I literally built up my poker bankroll from nothing. We did very well here, and by mid-May we were able to cash out about $2,500 each, which as 17/18 year olds with no significant money to speak of, felt pretty damn good. We were playing a lot in the summer after graduation, taking shots at higher limits quite aggressively, at least I did. By the end of summer I was playing $15/$30, and I guess from there my story is nothing special. At this point I still loved poker and was looking forward to playing every time I sat down, but after a few months of 15/30, even though I was a solid winner, I started losing interest, and ever since then I've had trouble getting enough hands/hours in.
Ok I guess I got carried away there. To sum up, I started playing when I was 16, I started playing online a few months later, after I lost the initial deposit I redeposited once and was winning consistently from day one.
As for my biggest winning and losing days, my best day is about 16k and my worst day is, I think, -14kish. They both happened within days of each other in the late spring of '06, when I was taking shots at very high stakes limit games.
My advice to you or people in your situation, is to think long and hard before deciding you want to become a good poker player. It's not for everyone, and most people who try won't succeed. It's also not a great game to just have as a hobby, in my opinion poker is only good if you play a lot and really aspire to be great, or if you stay away altogether. I can elaborate on this if necessary, but the short explanation is that as a recreational player, you're going to be pretty mediocre, and the competition today is so much stronger than even two years ago, that you're probably going to lose money playing. Just pick up backgammon or knitting instead, you know? There are much cheaper hobbies out there than poker.
Given that you do want to get better and are prepared to work hard for it etc, my best advice is to read a lot of strategy posts in poker forums, to post a lot yourself in strategy forums, and to join a training site. There are some very good ones out there, I would recommend Cardrunners.com, where I also have contributed a few instructional videos. I'm not recommending them just because I'm part of their team, I do think it's still the best resource even though they've got a lot of competition in the last 6 months. I could elaborate on why I think CR is better than other training sites too if you'd like.
Ok so basically, the short version of that advice is just to think a lot about poker. One mistake I see in many mediocre players' thought processes is they're too focused on an easy answer or an easy fix for a particular problem. They're more concerned with "how?" instead of "why?", if you will. The reasoning is everything though, and by taking the easy way out and just accepting something as fact because someone told you is only going to hurt them in the long run because they don't really understand what they're doing, which will catch up to them eventually.
Hope that answered your questions ok, otherwise let me know.
Oh and guys,
As much as I love attention (what's up comicalflop), when I made this thread I wasn't really expecting to answer more than a few questions about me. The focus that I had in mind was on questions about you guys. Just a heads up.
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The best you can really hope to do even with insanely good timing is 1/5, since there are 5 different values your speed can assume after you let go of ->, and only one of them is the fastest speed. I doubt 20% is realistic for anyone even with lots of practice.
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Xkeeper wrote:
To me, it doesn't matter either way. Nobody gives a shit about my opinion, nor have they ever.
I just throw it out there in case, by some strange chance, somebody's actually interested in it.
The main problem here: I don't care.
You're making up stuff to rationalize to yourself why it's ok that nobody likes you. Don't you understand how obvious this is to anyone who reads this exchange?
Of course you care about being taken seriously and being part of a community (not necessarily this particular community), at least a little bit, at least sometimes, etc. If you seriously think otherwise (and I don't think you do), you're lying to yourself.
Take a look at the bolded part and consider what the reason for this is. Hint: I've given the answer 3 or 4 times already.
If you stopped behaving like a social retard and started adding value to your posts and all that, people would eventually forget how you used to behave and take you seriously/respect you/etc. I know you'd prefer this situation to what you have going on right now, so consider this advice seriously.
Edit: It's almost never too late to change, seriously.
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Xkeeper wrote:
Most of the time I attempt to be serious, I get disregarded anyway.
So, in light of that, I gave up on the whole "be serious all the time and maybe get somewhere" and am instead persuing the alternate route where I don't give a shit about how I get seen and just post what I think.
I can be serious when I need to be, but then I also just allow myself to be an utter asshole at other times. This is one of those times it started serious, then after arguing started, turned into being an asshole.
See this is my entire point. Yes sometimes you attempt to be serious, but no one cares (or "takes you seriously") because you're an idiot douchebag. This is why you're hurting yourself when you're being an idiot douchebag.
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Xkeeper wrote:
If nobody took me seriously in the first place, it isn't "hurting oneself" becuase nobody will take you seriously.
It's like trying to kill somebody that's already dead.
It hurts you if you want to be taken seriously, even a little bit.
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Probably my favorite game as a kid.
I don't think it's very suited for a TAS or speedrun, then again that's true for a lot of games. I bet it would be a lot of fun to make though if you're into the puzzle/luck manipulation type TASes. I certainly think it should and would be published if a good run of it was submitted.
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I play the piano, pretty casual but it's one of the few things I truly enjoy doing. I wish I was focusing a bit more on it actually, I'd love to improve more than I currently am.
