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No, but "hobby" and "volunteers" don't mean we should be amateur-like. We're the largest TAS community in the world, and most of the best TASes in history are here.
Lower standards might mean worse experience for viewers, worse experience for talented TASers, and harder for judges, too.
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feos wrote:
Tho as I said there's no way to know if someone left due to long waits, but it's a known fact people were leaving (or not joining in the first place) because our standards were too high.
I'd say TASing is not for everyone. For example, I can't publish my article on Times magazine, so should they lower their standards to let me in, or should I admit that I'm not suitable to be an editor?
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It's true that forums everywhere just aren't as popular now as years ago. But our problem is that, the Submission Workbench is piled up, and people mentioning we're losing judges.
If this problem gets worse, more and more talented TASers might be disappointed, some might quietly leave. That's "losing the community".
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feos wrote:
I mentioned 2 factors. When it's easy to reject you lose the community.
I wouldn't think of it as "lose the community". I remember TASVideos has way more active users 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago. But right now, there are way less active users and posts, and people mention that we're losing judges.
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Bigbass wrote:
Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of TASers on this site do not make a fuss about how long their submissions take to be judged.
Maybe they just quietly leave TASVideos. Maybe they're just too polite to complain. Maybe I'm just too straightforward.
I'm on TASVideos nearly 20 years. It wasn't a problem then or 10 years ago, and I was happier submitting my work on TASVideos back then.
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feos wrote:
The problem is having higher standards makes judges' work harder, because more scrutiny is required for every single decision.
Not necessarily. Having higher standards means you can reject movies based on bad game choice, bad goal choice more easily. For example, there are so many unpopular games & hacks right now, that probably no judges are familiar with. This makes a judge's work more difficult.
Or, having separate publication systems, or letting the votes judge, maybe automatically rejecting movies with too few Yes votes in a period of time.
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Noxxa wrote:
We have fewer judges (as Samsara already mentioned, we lost 3 last month), yet we have more submissions (90+ in the workbench right now, 80+ not yet judged), for a wider variety of platforms and games, making them more complicated and time-consuming to judge. Given these points, it's not that hard to see why it can take a long time before submissions get judged. It's not ideal, but that's the reality of the situation, plain and simple.
Yes, Samsara already mentioned that, and I see why now.
But I think maybe TASVideos should seek better solutions, otherwise the line of submission would get longer and longer, and TAS creators like me wouldn't be happy submitting their work on TASVideos.
Like, having high standards, so you don't have to publish so many movies every year. And find ways to make the judges' work easier, so more people would become judges.
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Bigbass wrote:
This is a warning. Stop with your baseless complaints. Your impatience is only causing problems.
It's not "baseless". My complaints is about having to wait over a month for a TAS with no problem or controversy, and that's a FACT.
As a site Moderator, you should do better, instead of being bossy.
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HappyLee, you have not provided any specific reasoning as to why this wait is actually problematic.
Do I really have to "provide a specific reasoning"... As I said, no TASer would like their work being ignored for a long time, or waiting endlessly to get a verdict. At least I don't like waking up every day and check to see any update with my TAS in the submission workbench, and wonder what happened with TASVideos and why the process is so slow.
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Walgrey wrote:
HappyLee wrote:
It's been over a month, and still "new".
And? I also have a submission that's been New for over two months. You don't see me complaining about it.
Probably because your submissions are new Flash games that hasn't been on this site before. But waiting for over two months for the submission still sucks. You have every right to complain about it, but you choose not to, so what can I say, wish you all the best.
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Hey technicality wise wouldn't HappyLee's alias be the last author in the lineup cause he did amendment inputs compared to everyone else?
NO. 99% of the inputs are mine, and I found the new improvement. Please read the submission text.
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I like the "older, much harsher standards". If you don't have high standards, you don't get good publications.
It seems to me, the TASVideos community has lost a lot of influence and active users compared to 10 years ago. The number of submissions increased, but the average quality hasn't.
It's kind of sad to see, because speedrunning seems to have got way more influence over the 10 years, but TASing hasn't.
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It changed from 20 days to over 30 days. What an "improvement".
I don't like waiting in the Submission Workbench forever. No TASers would like that.
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Congrats on finishing it. Huge project, and really technically impressive. Yes vote.
(BTW, the link in the submission text is wrong. It's linked to our SMB "all items" TAS. )
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It's been over a month, and still "new". As an improvement over a published movie, this should be almost automatically accepted and published.
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Hi, adelikat. Great to see you're still around. It's been so many years. :)
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Looking very nice to me. Yes vote. The new 8-1 looks awesome. :D
Question: Why does Bowser have 1 less health bar? I guess it's the difference with game versions?
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Update: This is a 42-frame improvement over our previous release.
On the night we released the TAS, I found an optimization that saves 21 frames in 1-1 and 4-1. It was frustrating to me, as I found it too late, and we ended up spending an entire week redoing 1-1, 4-1, 8-2, 8-3, and the final room of 8-4.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Please help replacing the movie file with this:
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/639044331785938472
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The link in your post is posted in 2021/2022, not 2025/2026.
No, I, myself, didn't miss voting, but there could be some people who did miss voting, and that can alter the end result.
feos wrote:
23:59 UTC on January 15th is probably a typo since some time ago. Polls were created when I woke up on Jan7 and were all set to automatically end in 7 days, as always.
To my understanding, if every voting post clearly says "Voting will be open until, at earliest, 23:59 UTC on January 15th, 2026", then it should be open until at least that time.
If the polls ended early than it supposed to be, who can really trust if the end result is truly accurate?
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Why did the voting end hours sooner than it supposed to?
HappyLee wrote:
It says: "Voting will be open until, at earliest, 23:59 UTC on January 15th, 2026."
Right now it's 19:26 UTC on January 15th, 2026.
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Hmm... Why did the voting ended sooner?
It says: "Voting will be open until, at earliest, 23:59 UTC on January 15th, 2026."
Right now it's 19:26 UTC on January 15th, 2026.
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Challenger wrote:
The new timesavers are very insane! This hack now shows the true potential :)
Also, the new 1-frame improvement to the third 8-4 room might be possible to the original game too?
Thanks. The new 1-frame improvement in 8-4 is for this TAS only. The current SMB TAS should be already optimized.
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Reeve wrote:
Dumb question: For Warpless, in 5-1, is it possible to manipulate the last winged koopa to jump backwards so it can go to the top of the stairs in the right or a position that it can be stomped in a way that you can send his shell to the flagpole so you can use it instead of the Bullet Bill to perform the Full Flagpole Glitch?
Not a dumb question, but I don't think it's possible, because of the length of the stairs. Feel free to test it yourself to see what happens. :)
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Nice TAS. My FullMoon TAS was VERY old, and I never meant for it to be published here all these years. (I still have no idea how it got published.)
Mars608 made a newer FullMoon TAS in 2012:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1bx41167Nr/
It's 07:13.43, 26049 frames. I didn't compare all stages, but judging from the final result, yours is 115 frames faster than Mars608's, so it should be good enough. :)
Edit: With some quick comparison, Mars608's 2012 TAS should be faster than yours in some levels like 1-B. I have no time for this project and I'm not interested in making more comparison. So you might need to learn from Mars608's TAS a bit and combine the efforts.
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Congrats on new X6 TAS finally finished! This must have taken a lot of time and efforts. Yes vote!
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The Rerecord Count is wrong because I updated this TAS with a new emulator version. The real Rerecord Count should be 157614. Can the mods help me replace the movie file with this: https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638950170764812657
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Nice TAS. I voted yes.
My main concern is that this TAS is done with a remake version of this game, not the original version.
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