"Zakon" (I'm being lazy by not using Cyrillic) has the same meaning in Russian as "law" does in English.
This is written in a journalistic style, fitting a magazine format. It'd be cool if we could send this article to some periodical, or spread otherwise (yet it may need corrections). Nature has laws, society has laws as well. They provide necessary boundaries for human actions, with the intention to prevent any undesirable ones, to keep society as healthy as possible. But the stricter these governing principles are, the stronger of a desire to circumvent them arises in the human soul. And then there's the irony that some principles that we live by weren't invented to make life better, but are just the results of prejudices in people's heads; in essence they are mere superstitions. All they do is ban some random act simply for the sake of themselves, they do not aid to make life more interesting (convenient?). (thus means "in this way", "because of this reasoning", etc., never "as a solution") Ideally, one would have to be wise enough to distinguish between these two categories, not to mistake well-devised principles for blind beliefs. One of the major traits of human nature is the will to reach something unreachable, to exceed expectations, to push all possible limits. Humans in which this trait is predominant are always left unsatisfied with what they have.Yet he isn't supposed(by whom?)to be perfect eitherYet they will never be able to reach a level of perfection either. But this restriciton just further strengthens their will to reach it anyway. (in general you use "them" instead of "his" as a gender neutral form, even if you're referring to a single person, f.e. "Whoever I'll run across next, I'm going to ask them for the time") Thus goes their eternal yearning, impossible to satisfy totally, but not the least bit fainter because of this. Sometimes they can't even explain the exact thing they seek, but an inexplicable feeling keeps gnawing at their hearts and forces them to PUSH THE LIMITS. (strange emphasis. In English you'd rather put an emphasis on FORCES) Another category of people are lost in their own set of odd superstitions. They have become too cold and pragmatic, have lost their ability to dream, to imagine their own realities and let them be governed by their very own unique sets of principles. Because they lack the creative input to nourish their lives with, they simply cannot prosper. Unfortunately, as they still have a will to do something extraordinary in their lives, they end up spending their strengths on merely penetrating their own superstitions, so that their beliefs match the rest of society, and then impose their own view of common sense onto others, thinking that by doing that they can set humanity free of its superstitions. These two categories of people, with all their attributes and environments(?)(lumps and bumps?), can be defined as cynics and romantics. But it seems that no one has ever managed to combine characterstics of both categories into something entirely new, something absolutely astonishing.Oh wait...(style) If you think so, think again! There are such people! They are the creators of tool-assisted speedruns. These guys are completely relentless when it comes to overcoming their natural tendencies for laziness and comfort, as well as their insecurities about their technical abilities and creativeness. They display greater levels of patience than any other human being could do, are as calm and collected as a chess master, more ingenious than a film director can be and as analytical as a programmer is. They create video masterpieces, entertaining films with game characters as their protagonists. They take game developers' scenarios and turn them inside out just to see the unexpected, to show how fantastic completely ordinary things can become if you apply some unusual principles, combined with loads of creativity. TASers are like children. They are easily able to accept reality as it is (are children really able to do that?), but don't you even try to prevent them from building their own fantasy world on top of the visible world! Trying to reason with them is just useless, they'll build it anyway! And what if there was somebody who dared to argue that their magical reality is nothing but a lie? That the main goal of a healthy society would be to free them of their overly idealistic fantasies? Then what's the sense of this so called health, if it robs them off the ability to dream, the will to become more than they are supposed to be, the interest to develop themselves further? No, on the contrary, humanity will improve only if it overcomes its imagined limits, starts improving itself in every possible, thinkable way. And the easiest way to do so is to keep improving something in an eternal process of refinement, both in some measurable value by marginal optimization and in subtle shades of brilliance. TASing, while being somewhat of a mixed breed between chess, programming, movie making and acrobatics performance, actually stands above each of them separately, as it requires the lust to exhaust some technically imposed limits (this can be measured by concrete parameters, like completion time) along with the skill of making the movies appealing to an audience (these aspects are way more subtle and harder to compare, e.g. entertainment). Tool-assisted speedrun authors act as both cynics and romantics towards both themselves and the games they run. They think along the lines of: "Nah, game, I know that more is possible within your little world, much more than you can imagine. Let's explore your actual boundaries a bit... Okay, it seems your own creators never expected you'd ever act like this, haha. And all I'm really doing to you is to just provide button presses, which are surely absolutely legal." Simultaneously, they keep saying to themselves: "C'mon, man, I know you really can use your own abilities to perform even crazier exploits in this famous game. Most people have gotten used to the ordinary playing style and don't expect to see anything truly revolutionary anymore, but you remember how you've managed to produce that awesome glitch in your childhood? Now you really can explore it in detail and study how it actually works! Keep on going, man. You can do it!" As we can see, TASing is an art form that takes a huge amount of self-motivation, and that (if successfully practiced) provides totally unexpected results, both within a gaming world and within the human brain, improving mental abilities just as much as one can keep diligent. And let's finish with one beautiful quote from TASVideos' father: "If a child receives a box containing an expensive toy as a birthday present, it's possible that he will enjoy the box more than the toy. This is creativity. We're doing the same for these games. Instead of walking on the paths created for us, we create our own paths, our own legs and so on. And we're not listening to people who say "you can't do that!". Just like children."
In a perfect world, sure. The world's not perfect. Learn to accommodate and abuse the system.
Pic related. It's a rat abusing the system in its little imperfect world.
"It features an intra-cranially self-stimulating rat. The little creature's enraptured frenzy of lever-pressing is eventually followed by death from inanition, self-neglect and immunological collapse."
We're the more advanced species. We have the power to modify the system if we predict that abusing it will lead to nothing good in the end.
Congratulations DarkKobold!
You've made it past the uncanny valley! :DI think someone here liked dubstep?